2008/12/30 Peter da Silva :
> And you can't even make it do the work in a custom directory without
> changing a magic dotfile in your home directory. So if you want to make an
> automated RPM build process that's running on a shared build server, you
> can't do it when anyone else is using the thin
2008/5/6 Bruce Richardson :
> > Basically, I wanted to do something like this :
> >
> > if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.0.0.0", "255.0.0.0")) {
> >return "my office's proxy settings";
> > }
> > return "DIRECT";
> >
> > But the function myIpAddress() always returns "127.0.0.1". HOW USEFUL
So I was writing a neat proxy.pac to put on my laptop so it could
adjust what web proxy to use depending on my location.
Basically, I wanted to do something like this :
if (isInNet(myIpAddress(), "10.0.0.0", "255.0.0.0")) {
return "my office's proxy settings";
}
return "DIRECT";
But the funct
On 31/03/2008, Peter da Silva wrote:
> So are "install" and "INSTALL" the same file? What about "ınstall"
> and "İNSTALL"? Does it matter what locale you're in? How about german
> "ß" and "SS"?
>
> Character set hate. It's the new black.
Not mentioning the fact that the uppercase version of "i
On 02/01/2008, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
> I think. Now, the question is, and I really mean "the question" because I
> don't
> know the answer: what does reinterpret_cast do? I think it's supposed to be
> for
> "reinterpreting the bits of x having type A as if it really had the type B",
> but
> I'm
On 13/11/2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> The header says it all
Indeed. While we're at it, here's what my rss reader fed me this morning:
http://udrepper.livejournal.com/19395.html
Some good libtool hate by the glibc maintainer.
On 02/11/2007, sabrina downard wrote:
> > zsh is a whole new category of hate, as far as I'm concerned.
>
> zsh is the weirdest shell I've ever used. That hasn't stopped me from
> adopting it as my login shell, but it keeps giving me occasions to say
> "what the fuck? that shouldn't have worked."
On 31/10/2007, Paul Orrock wrote:
> > However, after upgrade, I've had a bad surprise. Every time you now
> > receive a mail, you have a bloody huge notification zone taking almost
> > half of your screen saying that has received
> > several mails from .
> > That's disturbing. However I quickly
On 30/10/2007, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> On 29/10/07 22:25 demerphq wrote:
> > On 10/29/07, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
> >> Just a guss: maybe the hatefulness is better directed at certain Linux
> >> distributions that do not yet make Thunderbird 2.0 available?
> >
> > Like Ubuntu?
> >
> > Hate.
>
On 13/09/2007, Peter da Silva wrote:
> On Sep 13, 2007, at 4:32, Rafael Garcia-Suarez wrote:
> > You never get tired of hating CVS.
>
> I don't know what you broke, but you had to have broken something to
> get that result.
>
> What did you actually break, and is it
You never get tired of hating CVS.
$ cvs up
cvs update: move away Foo/Bar.pm; it is in the way
C Foo/Bar.pm
okay.
$ rm Foo/Bar.pm
$ cvs up
U Foo/Bar.pm
File restored.
You'd think cvs would know about it now, right?
Let's redo a cvs up just to be sure.
$ cvs up
cvs update: move away Foo/Bar.pm;
On 01/06/07, Nicholas Clark wrote:
When I have a line selected in the DOM inspector, and I *drag* the scrollbar,
what do you think I want to do?
The DOM inspector is so hateful and useless that it would be a good
thing to axe it off.
Firebug is much nicer. (but that's off-topic)
On 04/02/07, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> Removing packages (369):
> gnome-python2-gnomeprint rpm
> gnome-python2-gnomevfs rpm-libs
> gnome-python2-gtksourceviewrpm-python
> gnome-vfs2 smart
> gnome-vfs2-smb
On 16/01/07, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Why, probably to read a .gnurmrc in which one can in LISP-like
language define the ANSI terminal color codes to show a particular
error message in?
I see that you're beginning to get the touch of it. A bit more, you'll
become a fine Linux zealot. Get New U
On 22/12/06, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote:
The only way I've found to get sane behavior in the shell is
LC_COLLATE=C which forces your ranges such as [A-Z] to match, you know,
A to Z, instead of whatever horrible buggy inexcusable behavior you get
with most locales.
That is so horrible. E
On 21/12/06, Robert Rothenberg wrote:
There there is having to enter passwords with the graphical keyboard that
uses javascript: the security value of that is debatable, but the interface
is hateful.
Especially when you have some kind of CPU-hungry flash animation
keeping being displayed by fir
On 19/12/06, Yossi Kreinin wrote:
>
>>I'm a programmer. My program created a big file. Give me the
>>POWER to *DELETE* *MY* *FILE*!!
>
>
> On Windows, you'd be told the file is busy and it wouldn't be
> deleted. How is that giving you the POWER to DELETE. YOUR. FILE?
>
At least Windows fans are
On 15/12/06, H.Merijn Brand wrote:
> > Until you upgrade to a newer version; it recently changed to "hold
> > Control+Shift+U while you type the Unicode codepoint".
I cannot hold down that key combo and also type a codepoint! The keys are way
to far apart to type that with one hand and leave th
On 07/11/06, Chris Cantrall wrote:
What the frell? ... Oh my Dear and Fluffy Lord, the font in Gmail's
cute little text box is variable-width. And when it's all
copy'n'pasted to notepad, the carets for both versions line up under
"urR". Time to beat at Gmail until it displays only fixed widt
On 23/10/06, Timothy Knox wrote:
Now you want to do dependency analysis, to include everything that is required,
which seems fscking stupid to me. After all, I chose everything. By definition,
that should need no analysis.
Unfortunately, that's not true. There might be conflicts between some
o
On 23/06/06, imacat wrote:
1. Sys-V init scripts are for the boot process to start and stop.
2. Whoever run init scripts is acting as the boot process.
3. You told the boot process to skip it.
=> It is skipped.
That's precisely what's hateful: a superfluous configuration file tha
On 23/06/06, Paul Orrock wrote:
> $ sudo /etc/init.d/apache2 start
> Not starting apache2 - edit /etc/default/apache2 and change NO_START to
> be 0.
You're using the init (boot start up) system to try and start it as though it were being
booted via init.d and it's rightly telling you "You've
On 05/06/06, Earle Martin wrote:
Apparently debian-archive-keyring is now supposed to be a pre-req for apt:
http://lists.debian.org/deity/2006/01/msg00136.html
Well, but so, why apt didn't upgrade itself, pulling it that new
dependency as a side-effect? Some other hateful behaviour?
On 06/04/06, Jarkko Hietaniemi wrote:
Strictly speaking, "ps f" -> foliage is not a UNIX thing, it's a demon
spawn of Unix, err, a Linux thing. In traditional and/or standard
UNIXes "f" is for "full" listing.
You mean the hateful GNU ps that attemps to mimic every ps(1) syntax
out there? The
And now, some hate for developers. Sorry in advance for our
non-C-fluent readers.
Somewhere in the rpm library headers, up to version 4.4.4, you have
this nice typedef:
typedef void * (*rpmCallbackFunction)
(/*...@null@*/ const void * h,
const rpmCallbackType what,
On 10/19/05, Earle Martin wrote:
Which reminds me. Some people do "quoted" text ``like this''. Which is one
of the most moronic things in the world. It crops up a lot in UNIX-type
system documentation, which says a lot.
And in pod2html output. I have a vim macro specially designed to fix those
On 10/13/05, Peter da Silva wrote:
On Oct 13, 2005, at 8:48 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Peter da Silva [2005-10-13 13:10]:
>> On Oct 13, 2005, at 1:47 AM, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
>>> Markdown (yes, yes, I'm cheerleading) has a simple solution:
>>> anything indentend as a code block is literal. Peri
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