Re: perl and line endings...

://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2007-11/msg9.html Those are almost a year old, which gives hope :) -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy sa

Re: perl and line endings...

, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl 1;

Re: perl and line endings...

Abigail skribis 2008-10-10 22:07 (+0200): On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:23:26PM +0200, Juerd Waalboer wrote: Joshua Juran skribis 2008-10-10 11:32 (-0700): Constructions like [A-Za-z] are non-portable to EBCDIC, since the alphabetic code points are non-contiguous. Well, that's not true

Re: perl and line endings...

. Nice catch :) -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl 1;

Re: Please provide a valid email address

! Unfortunately, MSN would not allow me to create an account with this address, so for MSN Messenger I created __...@juerd.nl Guess what - I've received spam on __...@juerd.nl, but none on ##...@juerd.nl so far. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker

Ubuntu's ristretto

Apparently Ubuntu likes to open TIFF files that I download with a program called Ristretto. Fine, but why the heck would you show me pages in an application that cannot PRINT them? Environmental considerations perhaps? :D -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd

Re: Software that keeps stealing focus.

to INSTALL them now. Look at me, INSTALLING! Whoo! Oh, that's a nice password you have there. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl

Re: Software that keeps stealing focus.

Ilmari Vacklin skribis 2008-01-22 13:37 (+0200): This is reportedly a bug in Metacity, not in update-manager: I'm not using Metacity, though. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT

Software that keeps stealing focus.

that awful resetting to full window maximization that you like to do every other week. -- Met hatelijke groet, Yours hatefully, Pikajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl

Re: Software that keeps stealing focus.

Peter da Silva skribis 2008-01-20 8:46 (-0600): The most hateful thing is that some of Apple's own damn software does the same hateful thing. Apple has little to do with my hate and I'd like to keep it that way. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer

Re: Perl version.pm

entry: version 20080113- No bugs, no fixes. Version bump to please your PHB. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl

Re: Perl version.pm

Aristotle Pagaltzis skribis 2008-01-13 18:15 (+0100): And veryone who uses a package manager of some sort will *really*, REALLY love you for that. There's always something to hate. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http

Re: Perl version.pm

you handle parallel stable/dev/etc. branches? Oh, that's easy: stable releases are done on even days, while development releases are done on odd days =) -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution

Re: Debian Bash Command-Not-Found Extension

to the mechanism. Have you considered sending them a note? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl

Re: Web based applications wedded to MySQL (SugarCRM, I'm looking at you!)

, Juerd Waalboer: Perl hacker ##...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig Convolution: ICT solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl

Re: regex end-of-word

Peter da Silva skribis 2007-11-02 18:53 (-0500): On 02-Nov-2007, at 18:48, Juerd Waalboer wrote: Peter da Silva skribis 2007-11-02 18:29 (-0500): Perl regexps are a third style. Oh, with Perl 6, a forth too! Forth regexps? s/\forth\/fourth/ s/[[::]]forth[[::]]/fourth/ s/\bforth\b/fourth/ s

Re: inrainbows.com

Peter da Silva skribis 2007-10-11 8:49 (-0500): ...uh. Their website has links in Esperanto. WELCOME TO 1899! Eĉ ankoraŭ nun ĝi paroliĝas :) Dit kan mijn kamer niet zijn, ik adem geen ammoniak. Uitermate boeiend :) -- Met vriendelijke groet, Kind regards, Korajn salutojn, Juerd

Re: Creating an account on a website - going round in circles.....

address you used? I use site-example@juerd.nl, where example.com is the domain of the login page. Works very well, and lets me delete individual addresses easily. an account tied to an email address is hateful. Why? -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http

Re: [offlist] Re: vim, and the configuration thereof

A. Pagaltzis skribis 2007-05-18 23:43 (+0200): Can I get a copy of your vimrc? :) sure, attached. Thanks, this'll be helpful for building my own. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig convolution: ict solutions and consultancy sa

Re: Invisio

Peter da Silva skribis 2007-01-16 7:13 (-0600): Another trick I've done is to set up a fake postscript printer that just saves the PS to a file, and then use ghostscript to turn it into something more normal. http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/

Re: Invisio

Yossi Kreinin skribis 2007-01-16 16:42 (+0200): http://www.pdfforge.org/products/pdfcreator/ But I want a PNG image, so I'm back at square 1. Options, PNG. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig convolution: ict solutions and consultancy

Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

for you. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig convolution: ict solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl Ik vertrouw stemcomputers niet. Zie http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/.

Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

Peter da Silva skribis 2006-12-22 10:22 (-0600): - subroutines can not be used without () Many languages have that. I personally like to code without. Maybe I'm influenced too much by BASIC, Perl and Ruby. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig

Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

, but it should be in the core, and be *very* easily switched to default. Ah, like defined-or (//) is in Perl 5 now? I almost forgot how much you hate to patch your perl :) -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig convolution: ict solutions

Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

a dramatic steps and is outright hostile towards those not coding according to the standards set by the cabal. HATE. HATE. HATE. :) -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig convolution: ict solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl Ik

Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

of Perl 6 which you hate is that inserting some whitespace where there wasn't any changes its meaning -- and -b will still show that! Indeed, wherever whitespace is allowed, you may use as much as you like. That is, if it's horizontal whitespace... -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker

Re: Invalid Operating System

form. Etcetera. Hating Visual Basic is like hating any Microsoft product. Way too simple, way too easy. Predictable and boring. :) -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig convolution: ict solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl Ik

Re: Gnome's Character Map

/ l «æþàéöûñ€¢£¥łđð» -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig convolution: ict solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl Ik vertrouw stemcomputers niet. Zie http://www.wijvertrouwenstemcomputersniet.nl/.

Re: Undelete hatred

a simple program to do that under some sort of open source license. -u Try to undelete the specified file. dosfsck tries to allocate a chain of contiguous unallocated clusters beginning with the start cluster of the undeleted file. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju

Re: yum and its stupid config files

a proportional font for the compose mail box. Ahh! Right, the historical proportional font screwup. See? Hateful software once again. -- korajn salutojn, juerd waalboer: perl hacker ju...@juerd.nl http://juerd.nl/sig convolution: ict solutions and consultancy sa...@convolution.nl Ik vertrouw

Re: Hating it already

, so this cannot work. Migrating e-mail to another application again is not an option, we like Thunderbird. Oh, and: We were unable to open this addressbook. Please check that the path /home/juerd/.evolution/addressbook/local/system exists and that you have permission to access it. Very nice: I

Re: Hating it already

Juerd skribis 2006-08-22 16:21 (+0200): kbarcode looks promising. Database management built-in! It needs some QT database drivers. So let's try SQLite: KCrash: Application 'kbarcode' crashing... Okay. I'll install mysql, then. With all its dependencies, this will take 10 minutes

Re: Hating it already

maintenance of his computer. Defragging is not my thing. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html

Re: tabs in source code

Robert G. Werner skribis 2006-06-19 16:51 (-0700): Anyone for VIM vs. Emacs next? There's no need. Everyone on this list already knows that VIM is infinitely better. :) Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl

Re: Windows for teletubbies

Ricardo SIGNES skribis 2006-06-15 18:28 (-0400): Me, I hate top-posting. Full quoting here. Oddball attributions. :) Lack of sig. Thinking ALL information (such as vertical whitespace) still matters. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl

Re: sendmail, user catchalls, and other MTA hate

then. How hateful does your software have to be? Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html

Re: A simple hate today.

Bill Page skribis 2006-05-29 3:35 (+0930): -\? is 4 keystrokes, all in annoying places. (Dvorak does - a little better than QWERTY.) you sicken me Ahhh, the satisfaction... :) Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http

Re: A simple hate today.

* send error help to STDERR, and exit with non-null That's great. I like software that behaves like that. sub usage ($) (...) Sounds sane? Apart from the prototype, yep. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl

Re: A simple hate today.

and 5.7.3 :) So that's about 60 programs that do support -?, against over 1200 that do not. Sanity wins! For me, -h never has meant help, nor do I expect *any* command or util to show me help on -h Many, many more programs have -h bound to help, compared to those that support -?. Juerd -- http

Re: A simple hate today.

for --help makes sense. I ask for help: just give it. I'll give you help info, but only because you're feeding me something I don't understand. Not because I think ? looks like help. It looks more like huh?, but that isn't something I'd shout when drowning. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl

Re: Gtk+ keyboard layout handling

is so important to them. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html

Re: calc: C-style arbitrary precision calculator

of abritrary are unaligned. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html

Re: emacs

is huffmanized, even those features you never use! Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html

Re: emacs

://savannah.gnu.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs/emacs/emacs/etc/NEWS.diff?r1=1.1183r2=1.1184 So, M-g still doesn't do the obvious thing, but at least M-g M-g does. But the much more often feature still has more keystrokes than the feature you use once every few years. Juerd -- http://convolution.nl

Re: Steve Jobs doesn't care about brown people

A. Pagaltzis skribis 2005-11-06 21:47 (+0100): Your mailer is not a whole lot better if it says unknown-8bit when what you're sending is ISO-8859-1 or some similar encoding. A funny thing, though, is that his mailer is a newer version of your mailer. Be prepared. Juerd -- http

Re: du

helpfully gives you the du output for the current directory, which happens to include Mail. I hope you don't have root access... (rm -r .*) Juerd -- http://convolution.nl/maak_juerd_blij.html http://convolution.nl/make_juerd_happy.html http://convolution.nl/gajigu_juerd_n.html