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

2011-02-06 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
anyway. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

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

2011-01-29 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
of it manages to help us create other software. Which also sucks. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: GNU diff

2011-01-27 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
-- but that doesn't mean Git is without its flaws. Marco -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: GNU diff

2011-01-27 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
to a repository from which others have pulled). I guess that makes git horrible too, in a way, but if you have to/want to keep using git, you'll just adjust your workflow and move on. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2011-01-06 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
-F2. You can rebind it elsewhere if you wish. TIL Thanks! -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2010-12-28 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Dec 28, 2010, at 5:03 PM, Darrell Fuhriman wrote: I can't imagine how many unnecessary miles I've had to move my hand to get to my mouse over those same decades. Masterful. *golf clap* -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2010-12-21 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
*. That said: X11 as above with its nonsense middle click crap is so very very hateful. I know: I just started working with a guy who uses his middle mouse button on Windows ... and it's a scroll wheel, to boot. I'm not even sure which circle of ergonomic hell that's in. -- Marco Von Ballmoos

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2010-12-21 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Your filter - was Re: We Hates we.hates-software.com

2010-01-06 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 11:42 AM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Peter Pentchev writes: Now why would lynx, links, *and* w3m all choke and display an empty page for http://lart.ca/software/gurgitate-mail/ - I wonder if they just don't quite grok XHTML, The page is served with

Re: CLICK THE GOD DAMNED STAR

2009-05-30 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On May 29, 2009, at 10:42 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote: Marco Von Ballmoos wrote: I don't think it's fair to call them dumb. And besides, they did eventually fix the problem. Clicking the star is not intuitive; putting a white star on a light blue background even less so. You're right

Re: CLICK THE GOD DAMNED STAR

2009-05-29 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
star on a light blue background even less so. snip If everybody does it wrong, then the interface is broken. +1 -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: bastard son of Finder

2009-03-20 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
and Command keys, but WTH) - Drag-to-open works from TextMate to Opera and from Preview to Opera or Safari. Do you think they teach this at the Genius Bar classes? -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: metacity, compiz, and the year of the Linux Desktop

2009-02-17 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
, one that has less hope of being true than almost any other. Even if you could theoretically configure more settings, the coöperative multi-tasking wouldn't let you actually get to them, so the benefit was nullified. ;-) -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore

Re: Windows download/unzip programs...

2008-10-03 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
to try again, in the vain hope that I'll actually be able to have server-side filtering again someday. Not going back to procmail, though. No way, no how. Although it did actually kind of work, now that I think about it... Must. purge. impure. thoughts. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com

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

2008-09-23 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
libertarians often make). In short, [snip] people are a bad idea. Fixed that for you. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: perforce

2008-09-16 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
, really. You'd think adding an always clobber flag for files wouldn't be so hard. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Apples and Apples: iPod vs. OS 9

2008-08-27 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
: It is not totally unreasonable to expect that an incompatible USB peripheral is not going to totally wedge [an operating system that is better than dimly aware of USB]. That's better. I don't think that OS9 passes muster. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites

Re: HP Photosmart Studio (and co-conspirators)

2008-08-27 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
accomplishing the tasks that it advertises, though in at times quite circuitous ways not necessarily unrelated to (A). -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: HP Photosmart Studio (and co-conspirators)

2008-08-27 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Aug 27, 2008, at 21:11, Chris Devers wrote: On Wed, 27 Aug 2008, Marco Von Ballmoos wrote: Un. In. Stall. It. Sounds good to me. But what's the way to import scans from the device then? My advice holds for the case where you have to either (A) give up on your dream of scanning

Re: Opera

2008-06-15 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Jun 14, 2008, at 16:23, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-06-14, at 00:47, Marco Von Ballmoos wrote: On Jun 13, 2008, at 23:47, Peter da Silva wrote: After reading the last rant on this subject I assumed that Opera would have an obvous way to move toolbars around. But... no, I don't see

Re: Opera

2008-06-14 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
the shortcut menu is obvious or not. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Java's anonymous inner classes

2008-04-10 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
in the unimplementable and to-be-ignored line with multiple inheritance. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Java's anonymous inner classes

2008-04-09 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
in a link up-post, there are ways of getting around the provability problems as well. That's all I'm saying. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Java's anonymous inner classes

2008-04-09 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Apr 9, 2008, at 13:51, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:36:21PM +0200, Marco Von Ballmoos wrote: Consider this: a GothMusic is-a ModernMusic is-a Music Music defines a few methods, including getmood() which throws an exception if you haven't already setmood

Re: Java's anonymous inner classes

2008-04-07 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Apr 5, 2008, at 23:25, Aristotle Pagaltzis wrote: * Marco Von Ballmoos mvonbal...@gmail.com [2008-04-05 00:10]: C#'s generics are better, but still forbid covariance Have to, to ensure type safety. Have to is a bit strong. Willing to accept the restriction on expressiveness in exchange

Re: Java's anonymous inner classes

2008-04-05 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
is a royal pain-in-the-ass more often than the language designers clearly thought it would be. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Java's anonymous inner classes

2008-04-05 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Apr 5, 2008, at 01:22, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2008-04-04, at 16:59, Marco Von Ballmoos wrote: http://earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1436 Is this all part of the generic hate created by the decision to avoid late binding at all costs, or is there some other source of hate here

Re: configuration hate

2008-03-10 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
and has a checker. Setting up ModJK with Apache and Tomcat, on the other hand, is the opposite of loads of fun. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Mailer Error Messages

2007-11-01 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
On Nov 1, 2007, at 05:24, David King wrote: I used to think that running my own MX was neat. Now I am starting to think that this is the realm of wizards. Can mere mortals use the internet without ceaselessly battling with asshats? The fight is all gone out of me. Amen. -- Marco Von

Re: Dear Perforce: fuck you.

2007-09-12 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
to realize), probably no one can fix it. Ever. Probably the metadata can't be saved or restored, but the files are in RCS format and gzipped. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Chromeless popups (was: Reason 3.14159x10^8 to hate firefox)

2006-10-20 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
. Opera has a thin bar along the top of all chromeless windows that returns the address bar and navigation buttons; this is for all platforms. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.

Re: Finder

2006-07-19 Thread Marco Von Ballmoos
initiated the connection. *snip* I would pay money for an updated Cocoa implementation of the NeXT file manager on OS X. As would I. As would pretty much any Mac user. -- Marco Von Ballmoos http://earthli.com - Home of the earthli WebCore; PHP web sites made simple.