Re: xargs

2007-08-02 Thread David Landgren
Nicholas Clark wrote: $ echo | xargs uname vs $ echo | xargs uname Linux What purpose does the latter serve? EMWTK, David

Re: CUPS

2007-01-22 Thread David Landgren
Timothy Knox wrote: [...] Some of you have already guessed what comes next, but for the rest, I'll tell you: There is no way I could find anywhere in the wonderful web-based UI to set the LogLevel to debug. Why not, CUPS? Why not, you chuckle-headed steaming pile of electronic offal, WHY NOT?

Re: Stupid packages

2007-01-22 Thread David Landgren
Jon Nangle wrote: No, I don't have /sbin in my path. Bite me. Yeah, I thought we weren't supposed to, that was the whole point.

Re: mtr

2007-01-12 Thread David Landgren
Peter da Silva wrote: [...] Does hates-software extend to hates-people-who-make-software-hateful? Oh yes, in the pantheon of hate, they deserve to be put up on a pedestal. And then shot.

Re: Bogofilter hates hates-software

2006-12-31 Thread David Landgren
Tia Marie wrote: Yes you. All of you; from A. Pagaltzis to Yoz Grahame it hates you soo much it wants to keep me from seeing your spamful hatred. bogofilter doesn't have the concept of whitelists? How hateful. -- hope still, a little resistance always maybe stubborn tiny lights vs.

Re: Regexps (was Re: Invalid Operating System)

2006-12-18 Thread David Landgren
Nicholas Clark did write: On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 07:16:52PM +0100, demerphq wrote: [...] To me using the ancient regexp syntax that emacs uses is about as sensible as it would be to provide all the config and help pages in 15th century English. Oh. So that's what info pages are! I never

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-17 Thread David Landgren
A. Pagaltzis wrote: * Michael Leuchtenburg mich...@slashhome.org [2006-12-16 19:05]: What is this, loves-perl? Release your anger, your hate! Yes, well. In another subthread, Abigail accused me of defending Perl when all I did was ask Peter for clarification about his gripes; *this* part of

Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken.

2006-10-25 Thread David Landgren
Dave Hodgkinson wrote: On 20 Oct 2006, at 18:27, Jeremy Stephens wrote: Aaron J. Grier wrote: it raises the question, but doesn't beg it. http://begthequestion.info/ I know this is a little bit off topic and a little late (as I have some time and am reading threads that I've left unread

Re: Windows: where everything is harder than it needs to be. And also broken.

2006-10-25 Thread David Landgren
David Landgren wrote: Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] A stickler. /me goes over to register fewernotless.info I tried to register spelldefinitewithaneyoustupidfucker.info, but it was *snort* I meant spelldefinitewithani of course. Definately. already taken. David -- Much

Re: Start - Shut Down - Log Out

2006-07-12 Thread David Landgren
Phil Pennock wrote: On 2006-07-12 at 11:00 +0200, Hakim Cassimally wrote: [...] I could never quite work out where these names were registered (they're not in PATH, but are the short names which respond to start progname in command line, I rifled through the registry a couple of times to try

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-28 Thread David Landgren
Juerd wrote: -\? is 4 keystrokes, with all keys but the - in a nice place. On QWERTY, it would be even worse: all keys would be awkwardly placed. And on a French azerty keyboard layout, the \ needs a right-alt to get it. Of course, the azerty layout is hateful in many other ways too. David