On May 26, 2010, at 10:48 PM, ron minnich wrote:
Don't change your use of symlinks. I meant more as a global thing: see
Korn's paper Symlinks are a botch.
Can I beg a specific title or reference? My efforts with google turned up
primarily references to your original post (and a former US
I'm vaguely affiliated with MIT still via their student computing group (SIPB).
We've looked into convention/event support at MIT before, and the bottom
line is that such things really need a professor or department head as a
sponsor.
*Chad
On May 13, 2010, at 11:16 AM, EBo wrote:
Clearly, this calls for an XML-based configuration file, setting the
environment of each program at startup by patching gnulibc.
I didn't have the energy to make a forced acronym for `bloat', so let's just
assume I did and that I suggested the configuration files live in /etc/bloat,
ok?
*Chad
On Mar 22, 2010, at 9:09 AM, David Leimbach wrote:
It's fun to look back and see what people thought was going to be the
programming model we're being faced with though.
When linux was first released, I remember people being surprised that GNU
(which was still claiming to be working on at
When linux was first released, I remember people being surprised that GNU
(which was still claiming to be working on at least two kernels) had
*competition*. I also remember when the core linux hackers thought that
386BSD was going to `win' (in the end-days of ``all the world's a VAX'',
Have you read ``The Text Editor Sam'', by Rob Pike?
(http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/sam/)
A quick re-skim (especially around page 22) or so suggests that you'd want to
look at the code for sam -r, and that you'll want to dig into the Rasp data
structure, but (contrary to my
Emacs is great for writing Lisp. Now, if only I could find the correct
.emacs invocation to make the tab key insert a tab character in C
mode, rather than a bunch of spaces the way His Holy Lunacy RMS
desires. If I wanted spaces instead of tabs, I'd type them!
OT for the list, but this is
On Jul 9, 2009, at 3:02 AM, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
; hget http://google.gr/
!doctype htmlhtmlheadmeta http-equiv=content-type
content=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-7
i'm pretty sure that ISO-8859-7 != utf-8.
I guess that's server-side mucking about based on user-agent not
reporting
I believe that Cweb/Ctangle were `engineering tradeoffs' -- i.e.
concessions to the large number of people who didn't care about the
theory or the practice of programming and just wanted to use TeX
(mostly AMSTeX) on whatever new system their math/physics department
happened to buy that
