Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-06-13 Thread David Cantrell
cost > > of moving to them is too high? > I don't know. I'm still waiting for someone to show me one. My first impressions of Go are good, but that means it's off-topic. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Aluminum makes a nice hat. All paranoids wi

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 05:15:56AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2012-05-14, at 07:51, David Cantrell wrote: > > For extra excitement, perl has this nifty feature where you can index > > from the end of an array using negative numbers: > > @array = ('ant&

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-14 Thread David Cantrell
ySQL > * But be not consistent about this default > * MySQL viml: " String comparisons normally honor the local setting of Vim's ignorecase option, but any string comparator can also be explicitly marked as case-sensitive (by appending a #) or case-insensitive (by appending

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-14 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, May 13, 2012 at 04:58:49PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote: > On 2012.5.13 3:41 PM, David Cantrell wrote: > > Perl used to have this. It was called #include. It's a damned shame > > that -P got killed off. Removing it was hateful. > Let's run one languag

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-14 Thread David Cantrell
eir begging letters falls through my front door. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig You know you're getting old when you fancy the teenager's parent and ignore the teenager -- Paul M in uknot

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-14 Thread David Cantrell
t to upload images. Their "solution" to this was to send us some C source which was "untested, because we don't have a compiler in the UK". -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist THIS IS THE LANGUAGE POLICE PUT DOWN YOUR THESAURUS STEP AWAY FROM THE CLICHE

Re: Stupid Language Designer Tricks

2012-05-13 Thread David Cantrell
this. It was called #include. It's a damned shame that -P got killed off. Removing it was hateful. -- David Cantrell | even more awesome than a panda-fur coat Sobol's Law of Telecom Utilities: Telcos are malicious; cablecos are simply clueless.

Re: Firefox 12 stability

2012-05-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, May 04, 2012 at 04:58:35PM +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > I would ask if you would be upset at this if the releases were identical > except they were called 4.6 thru 4.11??? I woiuld be even more upset at that, because 4.11 < 4.6. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programm

Re: Outlook J

2011-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
and those who aren't using Our Wonderful Software". ITYM "because of those nasty disabled people". The likes of Microsoft don't care about people who use other software. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist All children should be aptitude-tested at an early age a

Re: Apple Keyboard Rates #1

2011-02-01 Thread David Cantrell
e greatly appreciated offlist. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire Graecum est; non legitur

Re: Code review every commit (was Re: GNU diff)

2011-01-28 Thread David Cantrell
ious, functionally identical > code base? ok($class->can("refactored_method"), "pointless test to satisfy the beaurocracy"); -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" " In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. " --Blair P. Houghton

Re: Subversion Lifetime Achievement Award (was Re: GNU diff)

2011-01-28 Thread David Cantrell
like RCS, it prevents multiple people from working on a file at the same time. Perhaps this is a case where RCS's hatefulness is a Good Thing. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information I remember when computers were frustrating because they did exactly what you told

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2011-01-07 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 04:50:52PM +, Peter Corlett wrote: > On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 04:45:27PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Windows I remember being able to bring up any menu I felt like, and to > > explore all the available menu options, using the keybaord. > You

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2011-01-06 Thread David Cantrell
quot; and "move this window", and then cursor keys to navigate around. This is obviously too complicated for Apple. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Just because it is possible to do this sort of thing in the English language doesn't mean it should be done

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2011-01-06 Thread David Cantrell
> Or simply that when Gnome and KDE were getting started the Mac wasn't > regarded as a credible general-purpose machine in the way it is now with > OSX. Pre OS X 10.2 Mac OS was "nice hardware, nice device driver support, shame you don't have an OS". -- David

Re: Microsoft Exchange and timezones

2011-01-05 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 09:44:55AM -0800, Joshua Rodman wrote: > On Wed, Jan 05, 2011 at 12:04:00PM +0000, David Cantrell wrote: > > A real fix would be to either: > > * spit out the right time zone abbreviation (for the pedants in the > > audience, I'd like to

Microsoft Exchange and timezones

2011-01-05 Thread David Cantrell
o difficult ... * not say the timezone name at all, just the list of cities, so something like "14:00 (Dublin/Edinburgh/Lisbon/London timezone)" -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups

Re: GMail can edit the subject (was: Re: gmail is terrible)

2010-10-25 Thread David Cantrell
quot; link right below the cc: text box. I used it to > change the subject of this message. Yes, and in so doing you started a new thread instead of sending your message as a proper reply. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist You know you're getting old when you fancy the teenager's parent and ignore the teenager -- Paul M in uknot

Re: Google Chrome bookmarks

2010-09-10 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 08:51:47AM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > (Even with the bit where you have to put the domain in > backwards.) For old-sk00l JANET compatibility? -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence Never attribute to malice that which can be explai

Re: XML

2010-05-02 Thread David Cantrell
ng in the list and will thus be reading all of the traffic? > Some people like this behaviour. If you don't, set a Reply-to: header on > your posts to the list. Hands up who thinks sending two copies of the same message to someone is anything other than retarded. Anyone? -- David Cantr

Re: XML

2010-04-29 Thread David Cantrell
hey're too lazy > to check what addresses they're spamming, and it'll all just break again. For people like that, that nice Mr. Raymond invented guns. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Erudite is when you make a classical allusion to a feather. Kinky is when you use the whole chicken.

Re: XML

2010-04-29 Thread David Cantrell
problem. > Funnily enough, that's what *I* had to resort to when dealing with SOAP at a > FTSE250 company too. Last time I had to use SOAP, the libraries in use at either end couldn't handle some data structures we needed. The solution? CSV, uuencoded, as a blob in SOAP. -- David

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:40:10PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 09:35:35PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 05:19:27PM +, j...@jameslaver.com wrote: > >> "we know better than you how you should use our software, and

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
n any other way and not even tell > you about some of the 'features' we've embedded in it" It's unfortunate that all the competitors are even worse. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" There's no problem so complex that it can't be solved by killing everyone even remotely associated with it

iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread David Cantrell
is no way that I can see of turning off this wonderful feature. -- David Cantrell | Official London Perl Mongers Bad Influence You are so cynical. And by "cynical", of course, I mean "correct". -- Kurt Starsinic

Re: versions

2009-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Nov 03, 2009 at 01:35:40PM -0500, Adam Atlas wrote: > On 3 Nov 2009, at 12:58, David Cantrell wrote: > >Holding up anything proprietary to Apple, especially from the Dark > >Ages before they had an operating system, as an example, is a FAIL. > When didn't Apple h

Re: versions

2009-11-04 Thread David Cantrell
a FAIL. -- David Cantrell | Bourgeois reactionary pig Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house. -- Robert A Heinlein

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 04:23:05PM +0200, Abigail wrote: > On Tue, Oct 20, 2009 at 01:42:09PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 05:32:13PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: > > > On 2009-10-16, at 09:06, H.Merijn Brand wrote: > > > >But where is th

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-20 Thread David Cantrell
likes to be sorted under v, the other under Whatever. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "topless karaoke murders" In this episode, R2 and Luke weld the doors shut on their X-Wing, and Chewbacca discovers that his Ewok girlfriend is really just a Womble with its nose chopped off.

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-15 Thread David Cantrell
he circumstances you expect to contact him. eg, "to whom should a letter be addressed" (for me, that's "Mr. Cantrell"); "to whom should the envelope be addressed" (Mr. David Cantrell); "what should we call you on the phone", and so on. I suppose it'

Re: gnome terminal

2009-09-15 Thread David Cantrell
ead and dealt with in the right order. God knows what Gnome is doing to break that. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" "IMO, the primary historical significance of Unix is that it marks the time in computer history where CPUs became so cheap

Re: Linux

2009-09-09 Thread David Cantrell
why some people pipe things like that through dd with > a different output blocksize; I'd often wondered that. > Though I'm sure that comes with its very own hate. To start with, you no longer have seperate data and STDOUT streams so -v becomes useless. And OMG YOU WASTED A PID!!!l1!

Re: a three course hate meal

2009-08-18 Thread David Cantrell
is hates-software, not helping-users! (and thanks) -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Repent through spending

Re: a three course hate meal

2009-08-18 Thread David Cantrell
given the hint that the number of > its version that I tested is 8. Opera? [runs away] -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world It wouldn't hurt to think like a serial killer every so often. Purely for purposes of prevention, of course.

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

2009-07-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 06:34:16PM +0100, Martin Ebourne wrote: > Hah, it can, but being gnome it would rather you didn't. > > You need to gconf-editor it. > /apps/metacity/general/raise_on_click I kiss you! -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist 23.5 degrees of

Gnome focus-follows-mouse

2009-07-07 Thread David Cantrell
;t suck so hard. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice The Law of Daves: in any gathering of technical people, the number of Daves will be greater than the number of women.

Re: screen Re-Attach Options

2009-04-30 Thread David Cantrell
knows what it > >> does. :P > > -U is only necessary if your locale settings are wrong, it respects > > LC_CTYPE. > Locales have only one setting: wrong. This includes if they are unset. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Wow, my first sigquoting! I feel so special now! -- Dan Sugalski

Re: More Sun Love

2009-03-26 Thread David Cantrell
works". Then a month later point Netapp's beancounting computer phones home to your filer and tells it to fail, and it's all your fault. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Vegetarian: n: a person who, due to malnutrition caused by poor lifestyle cho

Re: bastard son of Finder (was Re: MDI)

2009-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
gs to prefill the location. > > > Gosh. This is a 20 year old hate. And I think I've never aired it here. > Yes, I hated it until I broke the habit of a lifetime and read the manual. > It's a dead handy feature. The manual? What manual? OS X doesn't come

Re: bastard son of Finder (was Re: MDI)

2009-03-20 Thread David Cantrell
em will discourage me from fiddling with it and breaking it. Mutter grumble broken Mac Mini under my TV grumble OS reinstall mutter. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Suffer the little children to come unto me, as their buying habits are most easily influenced. -- Marketroid Jesus

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread David Cantrell
for not doing my job!) and why low-volume spammers like it. -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic Never attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity -- Hanlon's Razor Stupidity maintained long enough is a form of malice -- Richard Bos's corollary

Re: Apple Mail "security"

2009-03-03 Thread David Cantrell
u're assuming that users will understand what the hell they're doing. How touchingly naive. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Feature: an incorrectly implemented bug

Re: Windows and NFS

2009-02-19 Thread David Cantrell
The server half of it works reasonably well - better than NFS and SMB in my experience. However, it's a very noisy protocol and is slw over a WAN. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age Languages for which ISO-Latin-$n is not necessary, #1 in a series: Latin

Re: Ligatures (Caps Lock)

2009-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
gt; This problem sounds like it can be solved by throwing a dictionary at > it. A context-sensitive dictionary that can Do The Right Thing with "you can't globally turn the two letters oe into the single letter oe (which I can't type but the computer should correct for me, oh wait, it

Re: International World Domination via preferences (was Re: Caps Lock (gedit))

2009-01-11 Thread David Cantrell
to sleep properly. The screensaver kicks in fine, then a few minutes later the screen's backlight turns off - but then a few seconds later comes back on. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Hail Caesar! Those about to vi ^[ you!

Re: Caps Lock (gedit)

2009-01-10 Thread David Cantrell
be almost entirely random - some keys give a greek letter, some a scandiwegian thing, some give symbols. I'm sure this was useful to someone. Once. Twenty five years ago. But it should be configurable. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraordinaire You can't spell AWESOME without ME!

Re: Caps Lock (gedit)

2009-01-09 Thread David Cantrell
ault in my new MBP. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive Fashion label: n: a liferaft for personalities which lack intrinsic buoyancy

Re: Linux hates (was Re: alias rm "rm -i")

2009-01-05 Thread David Cantrell
ing. No, it doesn't imply any comparison at all. This was brought to you by hates-poor-use-of-langu...@whatever. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club"

Re: not quite a hate: is there an archive?

2009-01-05 Thread David Cantrell
ttered over several large files and I'd rather not bother. But if you ask *very* nicely I can give it a go. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation

Re: threading support in mail software (was: Reply-To munging (was: Auto Cue))

2008-10-31 Thread David Cantrell
at commie free software gets it wrong, but look, if you use Exchange [salesman does rigged demo] it will magically work". -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Lesbian bigots try to put finger in linguistic dyke: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7376919.stm

Re: Reply-To munging (was: Auto Cue)

2008-10-30 Thread David Cantrell
On Thu, Oct 30, 2008 at 08:20:09AM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: > Blah blah blah blah blah Arguments About Reply-To Munging Considered BORING AS FUCK. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell sc

Re: Lurking within MT

2008-10-17 Thread David Cantrell
no hate. It's not like any sane person is ever going to "use MoveableType" and so get affected by it. Just about the only thing that's hateful is that the MT gang obviously don't do code coverage tests because they didn't remove this dead code. And hands up everyo

Re: Windows download/unzip programs...

2008-10-03 Thread David Cantrell
t; that I need to.] You can fix that bug thus: :0 fHw * ^to_brokenl...@stupiddomain | formail -i "Reply-To: brokenl...@stupiddomain" -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information More people are driven insane through religious hysteria than by drinking alcohol.-- W C Fields

Re: PHP (Kill. All. Hippies^W Database people)

2008-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 04:43:55AM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: > [1] SourceForge has now broken my CVS use in addition to my project > Web uploads, and will be the subject of a future hate. Oh god, what have they done? Mine *appears* to be working but now I'm scared. -- Dav

Re: Windows download/unzip programs...

2008-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
n being that some software authors are still stupid enough to use multiple forks per file. Therefore their files will break unless every single piece of software involved between them uploading it to a server and me installing it talks Moronic Fork Language. -- David Cantrell | Nth greates

Re: Hating Groups of People (was Re: Genius or idiot savant?)

2008-09-24 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 12:39:40AM -0400, num...@deathwyrm.com wrote: > Yes. Yes they are. Unfortunately the only alternative we currently have > is machines programmed by people, and as this list exists to show, they > sure aren't an improvement. I say we let the monkeys take ov

mutt, SMTP and dots

2008-09-09 Thread David Cantrell
When I write an email containing a line that consists of just a single dot, I'd appreciate if mutt would do something Clever before submitting it to the MTA. I shall now demonstrate the problem by removing my sig from this email with one keystroke instead of three. For added confusion, it will st

Re: Apples and Apples: iPod vs. OS 9

2008-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
ory. Provided that you're running OS X 10.1 or later. 10.0 was unstable as hell. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Blessed are the pessimists, for they test their backups

Re: Apples and Apples: iPod vs. OS 9

2008-08-27 Thread David Cantrell
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 02:03:23AM -0700, Joshua Juran wrote: > The OS 9 Finder, however, is a pretty cool app, as we all know from > using the OS X Finder. We do? I think they're both shit. Explorer.exe from Windows 95 was better. -- David Cantrell | Cake Smuggler Extraord

Re: Mutt, was Re: "iTunes is unable to browse album covers on this computer"

2008-08-25 Thread David Cantrell
to one that someone felt compelled to throw in to the mix just because there's somehow something wrong with reusing a pre-existing one. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Deck of Cards: $1.29. "101 Solitaire Variations" book: $6.59. Cheap r

Re: Open Office (was Re: Hating broken mailers!)

2008-07-07 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 10:00:26PM +0200, Ann Barcomb wrote: > Why could you possibly think that I want to write a sentence like > "He cast the network into the sea?!?" Because it seems like a very sensible thing to do with most networks? I'll be over there --> in ha

Re: Hating broken mailers!

2008-07-05 Thread David Cantrell
done is lots of plain text). Conclusion: HTML mail is always the wrong choice. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" One person can change the world, but most of the time they shouldn't -- Marge Simpson

Re: Firefox 401 festival

2008-04-30 Thread David Cantrell
a database? Really? And that stops a web page from > being visible? You don't have to stop Orrible to back it up anyway. -- header FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLFrom =~ /david.cantrell/i describe FROM_DAVID_CANTRELLMessage is from David Cantrell scoreFROM_DAVID_CANTRELL15.72 # This figure from experimentation

Re: Java's anonymous inner classes

2008-04-09 Thread David Cantrell
cation) and also supplies its own version of getmood (which always returns "suicidal") and setmood (which throws an exception unless you tell it to be suicidal). GothMusic and ModernMusic are not interchangeable. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age If I could read only one

Re: krashing krap

2008-04-02 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 07:01:06PM -0400, num...@deathwyrm.com wrote: > David Cantrell wrote: > >Filename character limits are also perfectly sensible. Unix, for > >example, doesn't let you use / or NUL in filenames, and for all > >practical purposes you shouldn't

Re: krashing krap

2008-04-01 Thread David Cantrell
t number of other characters either - \'"()*;?& and so on. Unix will let you shoot yourself in the foot with those, of course. It'll let you shoot your admin in the foot too by, eg, putting a space in a filename that one of his scripts later barfs over. -- David Cantrell | Godless

Re: krashing krap

2008-03-31 Thread David Cantrell
Windows and VMS for reasons that I really don't want to Hate them for - while they made the right choice in being case-insensitive, they made the wrong choice in being incompatible. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information If I could read only one thing it wo

Re: krashing krap

2008-03-31 Thread David Cantrell
gly and only barely usable. xterm scrollbars, anyone? Of course, it's still wrong that in Windows (and X11) the code for drawing a widget is in a library that gets linked into the *application* instead of merely being a service made available by the terminal. I'm always puzzled

Re: Firefox, we're not going steady...

2008-03-12 Thread David Cantrell
own. Not only shouldn't they, they shouldn't be *able* to. -- David Cantrell | top google result for "internet beard fetish club" I apologize if I offended you personally, I intended to do it professionally. -- Steve Champeon, on the nanog list

Re: configuration hate

2008-03-11 Thread David Cantrell
damned > useful documentation of any software product I've used I beg to differ. While I agree that it's complete and comprehensive, it is largely impenetrable unless you already have a good idea about how to drive exim. The O'Reilly book for exim 3 suffers from this bug too IIRC. N

Re: configuration hate

2008-03-11 Thread David Cantrell
config file as xml. Sometimes I think that XML would be preferable to the half-XMLish hatefulness that is httpd.conf. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Feature: an incorrectly implemented bug

Re: So much hate, spread across so much software, it's incredible

2008-03-01 Thread David Cantrell
> Could it ever have compiled on any out of the box Unix variant ever? > Did something he happened to once use have just the right level of sloppiness > in libc to allow it to work? He actually uses libc? I thought he didn't trust it. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer

Re: head and tail

2008-02-25 Thread David Cantrell
7; ...", > Ah yes, like "bla | grep blabla | awk 'print $NF'" instead of "bla | > awk '/blabla/ { print $NF }", for example. It is your duty as a citizen-unit to fork() at every opportunity. If you don't then you run the risk that your PIDs will fa

Re: Adobe Updater

2008-02-11 Thread David Cantrell
can probably get at the online version here and consequently demolish my selective quoting :-) http://dictionary.oed.com/cgi/lclogin -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information I don't do .INI, .BAT, or .SYS files. I don't assign apps to files. I don't conf

Re: Software that keeps stealing focus.

2008-01-21 Thread David Cantrell
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 06:56:11PM +0100, Ann Barcomb wrote: > It's so easy to hate OpenOffice, because they made it work and look > like Microsoft Office, only slower. They did such a bad job of working and looking like MS Office that I prefer to use MS Office. -- David Cant

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-18 Thread David Cantrell
rect this error. Oh GOOD sigmonster! -- David Cantrell | London Perl Mongers Deputy Chief Heretic " In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's ... programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt. " --Blair P. Houghton

bzip2. Not very portable.

2008-01-17 Thread David Cantrell
Makefile assumes that CC is gcc. The code assumes that int is 32 bits and short is 16 bits. This is quite hateful. -- David Cantrell | http://www.cantrell.org.uk/david Arbeit macht Alkoholiker

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:15:23PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-01-15, at 10:03, David Cantrell wrote: > >Then stop calling them version NUMBERS. > >While you, and other people, continue to do so, then people will > >assume that "hey, it's a number&quo

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-16 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:54:27AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-01-15, at 10:26, David Cantrell wrote: > >I thought I'd already explained that the difference between 1.02 and > >1.03 is a bug fix. > So 1.02 is 1.0.2? No, it's 1.02. These days I eschew compl

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:02:11AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-01-15, at 08:13, David Cantrell wrote: > >What bug was fixed I have no idea. I have only a hazy recollection of > >what features it has, and certainly couldn't have told you off the top > >of my h

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread David Cantrell
ot;new" and "subclass" from Object. In perl, you inherit "isa" and "can" from UNIVERSAL. Stuff that's in UNIVERSAL is universal in the sense that every object has 'em, cos everything ultimately inherits from the same class. Of course, I'm quite hap

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:38:09AM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > * David Cantrell [2008-01-14 16:45]: > > On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 06:39:17PM +0100, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: > > > * Michael G Schwern [2008-01-13 17:50]: > > > > What does 1.5.4 vs 1.5.2 rea

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-14 Thread David Cantrell
eg) Tie::STDOUT has had some stuff fixed since 1.02. I'd have to look at the change log to see what I fixed, just like I would if they were versions 20070828 and 20060705. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:19:34AM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-01-08, at 08:18, David Cantrell wrote: > >On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:25:29PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > >>There's a difference between "open systems" and "open source". >

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
#x27;t create a *file* with that name and add it to the repository. Not without dicking about in the repository's innards by hand. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world You may now start misinterpreting what I just wrote, and attacking that misinterpretation.

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
em a database" magic. > > You know what that would look like? MySQL. Oh, yeah, for sure, because > people don't want their file storage telling them that they can't delete > or rename a file for whatever reason. This very stupidity doesn't prevent people fro

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
se, they're probably only supported in the next version so that's OK. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice You can't spell "slaughter" without "laughter"

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 08:25:29PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-01-07, at 18:01, David Cantrell wrote: > >If it's MS-ware, then I know in advance that I needn't bother > >looking at > >it. If it claims to be open but isn't, then I might actually

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread David Cantrell
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 05:27:43PM -0600, Peter da Silva wrote: > On 2008-01-07, at 16:45, David Cantrell wrote: > >Peter da Silva wrote: > >>I'm beginning to hate the people who are writing open source code > >>based on a proprietary system (and don't get me

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-07 Thread David Cantrell
ource code based on open systems like C and Unix but which only work on particular platforms. Yes, you "all the world's a Linux box smeared in GNU excrement" people, I'm thinking of you. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information Languages for which ISO-La

Reasons to hate Module::Build

2007-12-27 Thread David Cantrell
CPAN is up to date (1.9205). Module::Build is up to date (0.2808). This module require Module::Build to install itself. Install Module::Build from CPAN [y] -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Age What a lovely day! Now watch me spoil it for you.

Re: Yet another online banking hate

2007-12-17 Thread David Cantrell
or that it cannot process the > payment, with no explanation why. > It works if I enter "00" in the p field. Until very recently I could tell Barclays that I wanted to make a payment on, eg, 3/1/2008. Now I have to pay on 03/01/2008. -- David Cantrell | Hero of the Information Ag

Re: Banking web sites

2007-12-09 Thread David Cantrell
ith that such obvious incompetents would implement SecurID correctly to be most touching. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Languages for which ISO-Latin-$n is not necessary, #1 in a series: Latin

Re: find . -print0 -name 'foo' | xargs rm

2007-11-02 Thread David Cantrell
getopt shit -print could be -p -r -i -n -t. -- David Cantrell | Godless Liberal Elitist

Re: find . -print0 -name 'foo' | xargs rm

2007-11-02 Thread David Cantrell
giving a load of options instead of a sequence of instructions. That it's a mini-language becomes obvious when you find that there's AND, OR and NOT operators, (bracketing) for precedence, and so on. -- David Cantrell | A machine for turning tea into grumpiness Godliness is next to Englishness

Re: Autoconf and so forth

2007-10-17 Thread David Cantrell
ted more m4, which generated zone files. I might have got some of that in the wrong order, but the slithery tentacular nature of it is apparent I'm sure. But I won't tell you those horror stories, because I'm nice. -- David Cantrell | Minister for Arbitrary Justice I hate baby se

Re: inrainbows.com

2007-10-11 Thread David Cantrell
ur sister at this time. Have you tried ebay? -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world For every vengeance, there is an equal and opposite revengeance. -- Cartoon Law X

Re: RsyncX

2007-10-01 Thread David Cantrell
o, so > rsyncX shipped it's own binary that did. Apparently, the version that ships with it now still doesn't. It's unreliable as hell, according to people on the rsnapshot-discuss list. Being unreliable is even worse than just not supporting it IMO. -- David Cantrell

Re: wifi hotspots with logons

2007-08-20 Thread David Cantrell
es that anything not a 200 is a 404 :-) -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information What profiteth a man, if he win a flame war, yet lose his cool?

Re: Evince Blocking Sound

2007-08-16 Thread David Cantrell
was is hateful. Close, but no cigar. What really is spectacularly hateful is that the latest and greatest (and most expensive, of course) version of Acrobat can infest documents with sounds and even video. -- David Cantrell | Reality Engineer, Ministry of Information There once a a tramp with &

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