On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:28:23PM +, Roger Burton West wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 03:13:41PM +, Smylers wrote:
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> >How on earth can anybody think this hateful behaviour is the right thing
> >to do?!
>
> If you were using Outlook, it wouldn't look wrong. You should be using
> Outlo
On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 09:35:57PM +0200, Gert Doering wrote:
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> Programmers should be forced to use their own software.
>
> That tends to make it much more usable very quicky...
Unless they get so highly attuned to it that nothing it does surprises
them any more, all those major changes in b
On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 01:52:22PM +0100, b...@cpan.org wrote:
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> How about a civilization 1000 years from now finding a bunch of
> hard drives or CD-Rom full of documents in the binary format of your
> choice?
They'd find junk. The plastic used to bond CD's isn't nearly as
long-lived as papyru
It was remarkably like something I'd expect to see here. Thorough,
explicit, and clearly well-informed about just exactly how and why and
for how long ("6 minutes"!) each particular object of the writer's
righteous hatred sucks. The usual points off for easy targets, but
not every soft lob is so
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 12:45:02PM -0600, sabrina downard wrote:
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> ITYM \.
My (and Sabrina's) local (US) National Public Radio station regularly
airs announcements directing the listener to visit some URL, "[whatever]
backslash [whatever]". I have thus far managed to restrain myself from
confi
On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 12:56:49AM +0100, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Michael Jinks [2007-11-02 00:30]:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:03:20PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> >
> > Since I learned how to make -exec do my bidding, I think I can
> > count on one hand the
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 04:03:20PM -0700, Michael G Schwern wrote:
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> $ find . -print0 -name '*.txt' | xargs -0 rm
I hates xargs. It has its place I guess, but this ain't it, and souping
up GNU find to (try to, sometimes) feed nice path names to xargs seems
only to have made GNU find that
On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:32:13AM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote:
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> The amount of stupid hateful wetware around the whole subject of
> encryption is, of course, amazing.
And lots of it spends much of its workday wrapped in black robes. I
could easily imagine a course of events thus:
- Moron
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 06:40:55PM +0200, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
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> Maybe I should start a business dipping $10 cables in $2 shiny
> paint and selling them for $300...
Oh, I think you need to set your sights higher than that.
I'm currently looking at a price sheet from AudioQuest.com which lists
t
On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 01:57:57PM +1300, Rob Scovell wrote:
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> (Well not quite -- I waited until 10.2). I hates having to geek about
> to do things like burn CDs ...
>
>
nah, gnome doesn't help really.
-j (gnomophile, LiGnUx twerp, desperately missing the OSX laptop i
gave up when i switche
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