Re: Learn Technical Writing from Unix Man in 10 Days

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Mackenzie
me of what? If you click on the "help", you get taken to a search box, not proper docs. Typing "name" into the search box isn't useful. And so it goes on. CUPS is an Apple product. > more records of careless dead link: [ ] -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Is Programing Art or Science?

2012-04-03 Thread Alan Mackenzie
ary. When people talk about, for example, the art of painting water colours, they mean the techniques of mixing paints, depicting objects on paper, etc. They are not referring to the artistic value of the painting painted. > yours humbly, > > Xah -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Ger

Re: compute the double square...... :(

2011-01-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
(m + 2) / 2 ways. E.g. 5^4 = 625 = 625 + 0 = 576 + 49 = 400 + 225. (vi) and so on. It's all in the factorisation! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Building Python-2.6.4 on G/L: can't build in _ssl support.

2010-03-06 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Would somebody please give me a tip to get this sorted out? Thanks! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Ban Xah Lee

2009-03-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
That's wonderful, almost on a par with Sir Robert Armstrong's "being economical with the truth". :-) > Also, thanks to many supporters over the past years. Hey, you're not going away, are you? > Xah -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: license preamble template

2006-03-09 Thread Alan Mackenzie
t mean? It's legally dubious, and wouldn't inspire any confidence whatsoever. Responsibility is shown by actions and results, not promises. [ ] >Xah -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa"), remove half of them (leaving, say, "a"). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: EOL created by .write or .encode

2005-04-10 Thread Alan Mackenzie
khead was probably RMS (Richard Stallman, he of the Free Software Foundation), and he's been fucked so many times that once more wouldn't achieve anything at all. ;-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany) Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; to decode, wherever there is a repeated letter (like "aa