On Sunday 20 September 2015 22:20:36 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:46:35 +0200, Paul Klos wrote:
> > >It's main use is for dealing with would be pedants ;-)
> >
> > Since we're being pedantic, that would be "Its main use" in this case ☺
>
> There's no escape from that one :(
>
>
On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:34:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can
> > > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that
> > > they are human-readable.
> >
> > Well I can read UUIDs, they are hex gibberish but
On Saturday 19 September 2015 21:11:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can
> > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that
> > they are human-readable.
>
> Well I can read
On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:45:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > One of the OED definitions of readable is "interesting or pleasant to
> > read". I stand by my original statement, argumentative pedants
> > notwithstanding. :P
>
> I agree with you. It's Alan I called a pedant for trying to split
On Sunday 20 September 2015 10:19:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:34:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > > Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can
> > > > change it to match the old one. That big advantage of labels is that
> > > > they are
On 20/09/2015 14:45, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Sunday 20 September 2015 10:19:14 Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 09:34:57 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> Strictly speaking, you don't have to do that with UUIDs as you can
> change it to match the old one. That big advantage of
On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 22:46:35 +0200, Paul Klos wrote:
> >It's main use is for dealing with would be pedants ;-)
>
> Since we're being pedantic, that would be "Its main use" in this case ☺
There's no escape from that one :(
That could jeopardise my membership of The Apostrophe Protection
On 20/09/2015 18:40, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 13:45:18 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote:
>
>>> One of the OED definitions of readable is "interesting or pleasant to
>>> read". I stand by my original statement, argumentative pedants
>>> notwithstanding. :P
>>
>> I agree with you.
On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 19:10:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > I have a proper printed OED, all 1800 pages of it.
>
> If you don't have it in the morning anymore, it's because I broken into
> you house and stole it.
>
> You lucky bugger you. I've wanted such a dictionary for years
I picked it
Neil Bothwick schreef op 20 september 2015 18:40:05 CEST
>
> [snip]
>
>I have a proper printed OED, all 1800 pages of it. It's a few years old
>so doesn't include words like selfie or twerking, but I get by with it.
>It's main use is for dealing with would be pedants ;-)
On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to
> > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up
> > having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use
On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Daniel Frey wrote:
>
> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to
> fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason,
On Sat, 19 Sep 2015 21:58:29 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > That's like saying you can read French because you know the letters
> > even if you know nothing of the language :P
>
> Ah, but UUIDs have no intrinsic semantic meaning, they are just huge
> chunks of guaranteed-unique text. Much
Dale wrote:
> Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> >> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> >>
> >> Daniel Frey wrote:
> >>
> >> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> > Daniel Frey wrote:
> >
> > > I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to
> > > fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up
>
Daniel Frey wrote:
> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to
> fight udev changing sda to sdf for no damn good reason, wound up
> having to use UUIDs (which I've never had to use before.)
Because I'm a lazy guy, I'm using labels instead of UUIDs.
On 19 September 2015 20:11:31 BST, Alan McKinnon
wrote:
> On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
> >
> > Daniel Frey wrote:
> >
> > I actually forgot I posted this, was
On 09/19/2015 12:44 PM, Dale wrote:
>>
>>
>
>
> Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue
> what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the home
> partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully
> confuse someone I guess. :/ With
Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 09/19/2015 12:44 PM, Dale wrote:
>>>
>>
>> Plus if the label is say usr, var, home or something, you have a clue
>> what it is used for. Odds are, the one with the label home is the home
>> partition. Then again, someone could mix them up to purposefully
>> confuse
Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Frey wrote:
>>
>> I actually forgot I posted this, was rather sleepy. I also had to
>> fight udev changing sda to
On 19/09/2015 21:17, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On 19 September 2015 20:11:31 BST, Alan McKinnon
> wrote:
>
> On 19/09/2015 20:59, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> On 19 September 2015 19:55:45 BST, waben...@gmail.com wrote:
>
> Daniel Frey
I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this
occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and
figured I should warn others.
As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support.
Those of us stuck with older remotes (or in my case I use irexec to do
other
On Saturday 19 Sep 2015 07:41:22 Daniel Frey wrote:
> I've been updating all of my frontends recently (I only do this
> occasionally) and discovered a major flaw with media-video/mpv and
> figured I should warn others.
>
> As of version 0.9.0 mpv has removed all lirc support.
>
> Those of us
On 09/19/2015 01:22 AM, Mick wrote:
> You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a local
> overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and dependencies
> move out of kilter. Since this is not a production workstation or public
> facing server, you can leave
On 09/19/2015 01:22 AM, Mick wrote:
> You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a local
> overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and dependencies
> move out of kilter. Since this is not a production workstation or public
> facing server, you can leave
On 19 September 2015 16:35:20 BST, Daniel Frey wrote:
> On 09/19/2015 01:22 AM, Mick wrote:
> > You can head off to the attic and copy the <=0.9.0 version into a
> local
> > overlay, but eventually things would break as various libs and
> dependencies
> > move out of kilter.
On 09/19/2015 09:28 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
>
> Have you looked at evrouter? It allow you to run commands on evdev events.
No I'd never heard of that before. It could very well be when I set this
up years ago it was just very unstable back then.
Thanks for the tip, I'll look into that.
Dan
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