Re: glib causes bloat

2006-04-13 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:12:19 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi jhietani...@gmail.com wrote: H.Merijn Brand wrote: I just want a 64bit ethereal on HP-UX ethereal needs glib and gtk+ those need pango and atk so far so good. Understandable and OK. No, it's not, since they are the first few

Re: glib causes bloat

2006-04-25 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 17:36:41 +0200, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: On Thu, 13 Apr 2006 18:12:19 +0300, Jarkko Hietaniemi jhietani...@gmail.com wrote: H.Merijn Brand wrote: I just want a 64bit ethereal on HP-UX ethereal needs glib and gtk+ those need pango and atk

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-25 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 25 May 2006 12:11:09 -0500, David Champion d...@uchicago.edu wrote: * On 2006.05.25, in 20060525184438.0926f...@pc09, * H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: Huh? I've been using UNIX since 1982. Long enough? I started with System III, and then got cought in a job

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-25 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:04:02 -0700, jrod...@hate.spamportal.net wrote: On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 06:44:38PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Thu, 25 May 2006 11:30:20 -0500, David Champion d...@uchicago.edu wrote: * On 2006.05.25, in 20060525181940.6a7da...@pc09, * H.Merijn Brand

Re: A simple hate today.

2006-05-25 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 25 May 2006 21:12:39 +0200, Juerd ju...@convolution.nl wrote: H.Merijn Brand skribis 2006-05-25 18:19 (+0200): IMHO it should be either -? or --help, and -help could be acceptable -? is silly. In most shells, it's a glob match, and is passed to the program only if it didn't match

Re: the Criminally Ungood Printing System

2006-07-03 Thread H.Merijn Brand
easy. I also have to change the paper setting in CUPS' asinine web interface to match. WHY? SO FULL OF HATE Bucketsful of it! -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0

Re: M$ Excel

2006-09-12 Thread H.Merijn Brand
I do, and quite a bit of sympathy as it must hurt /so/ much more when it is your work abusing your eyes daily... Worse IMHO, is customers/people/boneheads that have switched to html-only mail, just so they can force this font upon us, as they like it so much. -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam

Re: Eclipse

2006-10-30 Thread H.Merijn Brand
there are no beyond-ASCII characters in the body. -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux

Re: Eclipse

2006-10-30 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:31:25 +0100, A. Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2006-10-30 08:35]: I just did. Please flame me in Unicode, so it will be amusing :) 爟! Hmm. character byte UTF-32 encoded as glyph name 2652 2652 00721F E7 88 9F

Re: Eclipse

2006-10-30 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:14:38 +0100, A. Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2006-10-30 15:00]: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:31:25 +0100, A. Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2006-10-30 08:35]: I just did. Please flame me

Re: Eclipse

2006-10-30 Thread H.Merijn Brand
ǻɳɗ Ḽṻĉḯƌẚ Ćơṅṡṑĺė ȁṙê ɠṏöḍ ĕƞȯȕĝḧ ƒôŕ ɱė. -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0, AIX 4.3 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux

Re: Eclipse

2006-10-30 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 14:40:33 +0100, A. Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2006-10-30 08:35]: The iso-10646 set covers enough utf-8 for my daily needs and for xtemm's and other normal applications, the font -misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--14-130-75-75-c-70

Re: USB keys to the gate of madness

2006-10-28 Thread H.Merijn Brand
but FAT or FAT32. What someone else puts on them is a different ball of tentacles. Formatting it reiserfs or ext3 is a start to make data `encrypted' for Windows users :) -- H.Merijn BrandAmsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-10 Thread H.Merijn Brand
or $TMPDIR ot $TMP or $TMP_LOCATION or @^%*^TJHGJHFKUWTRO*@^T#*kbeui!y...@ey! P.S. I agree that (t)csh is absolutely NOT suitable for scripting in shell scripts, which gives the sh/ksh/bash/zsh/psh/... fans a pro for their choice -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 09:45:13 -0600, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote: On Dec 11, 2006, at 8:53 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote: Perl has all the advantages of any Unix tool (sh, csh, awk, sed, sort, ...) but lacks any of their shortcomings and flaws. But I might be biased. If having

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
than its fair share of crap design decisions. That is just in the eye of the beholder. Where I see beauty, you see crap, and probably vice versa. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 16:59:57 +, Martin Ebourne li...@ebourne.me.uk wrote: H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: As long as it takes? How would you think Dutch/Polish/French/Russian/... would like to beat you back with all the `English' verbs in their script that uses variable

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-17 Thread H.Merijn Brand
-paste the statement and run in SQL :) And it reads nice too -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0 10.1, AIX 4.3 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-17 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Sun, 17 Dec 2006 12:42:41 +, Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org wrote: On 17/12/06, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: my $sth = $dbh-prepare (qq; select foo, bar from baz where duh = ?; ); Now you can cut-n-paste the statement and run in SQL

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-18 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 18 Dec 2006 12:26:14 +, Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org wrote: On 17/12/06, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: 1. It is not the same, as now the semi-colon is included in the statement OH NOES TEH SEMI COLON!!1 So take it out. I would note that in the code

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
stupid mistakes when they keep switching between the two. Inherent at being a sysadmin. Even if in-house policy means you have to write scripts in strict bourne shell, there is always third party software that comes with any other shell/script language you didn't know yet. -- H.Merijn Brand

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-10 Thread H.Merijn Brand
work (TM) and takes the one found first in $PATH Ohh, such idylle -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0 10.1, AIX 4.3 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http

Re: Invalid Operating System

2006-12-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
different choices than SuSE. AIX was shipped with more and worse and outdated crap than HP-UX. Solaris is shipping its utilities more conservative than Linux. These OS decisions also make *you* decide what OS you prefer to run your development on. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http

Re: Viewers without a reload command

2006-12-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
perusing at page 342. Meanwhile I restarted the generation in the background so I can check if my fix worked. Get it? -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0 10.1, AIX 4.3 5.2

Re: Viewers without a reload command

2006-12-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:45:38 +0100, Abigail abig...@abigail.be wrote: On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:40:41PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Mon, 11 Dec 2006 15:29:33 +0100, A. Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * Robert Rothenberg rob...@gmail.com [2006-12-11 14:45]: How f***ing hard

Re: OT [no hate]: entering Unicode chars (was: Gnome's Character Map)

2006-12-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
you `Compose' file to include letter combo's you can remember. Now just hope your application uses the Compose, and is not (statically) built around some dark old Qt or gtk+ lib that doesn't read it -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2

Re: OT [no hate]: entering Unicode chars (was: Gnome's Character Map)

2006-12-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 14:30:06 +, Aaron Crane hate...@aaroncrane.co.uk wrote: H.Merijn Brand writes: On 15/12/06, Aaron Crane hate...@aaroncrane.co.uk wrote: hold Control+Shift+U while you type the Unicode codepoint I cannot hold down that key combo and also type a codepoint! Sorry, I

Re: OT [no hate]: entering Unicode chars (was: Gnome's Character Map)

2006-12-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Fri, 15 Dec 2006 15:31:46 +0100, Rafael Garcia-Suarez rgarciasua...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/12/06, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl 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

Re: We know what you need, and we'll push it down your throat.

2006-12-22 Thread H.Merijn Brand
, but to impose wrong layouts ... well maybe perl6 *is* learning from python and cobol -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0 10.1, AIX 4.3 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org

Speedtouch network?

2006-12-22 Thread H.Merijn Brand
went fine, but in all configuration settings, there is no place to fucking set the network to 10.3.3.x. Isn't a router something to *enable* communications? Back in the box. I'll buy a Draytek Vigor 2910VG or something that works -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http

Re: mtr

2007-01-12 Thread H.Merijn Brand
, some people hate us too, for the decisions we made in the software we distribute ... I'm not suicidal (yet) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0 10.1, AIX 4.3 5.2

Re: Possibly PuTTY, possibly something else. It's still hate.

2007-01-24 Thread H.Merijn Brand
an alarm thingy, it's visible. Which is a Very Bad Thing. Worse than Modal Dialogs are Modal dialogs that snatch focus and disappear automatically after a timeout without returning focus to where it was before they stole it. Hate! -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http

Re: cygwin (was: Excessively grandiose product names)

2007-01-24 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:02:22 -0600, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote: On Jan 24, 2007, at 10:05 AM, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 09:42:00 -0600, Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com wrote: I think you can still get SFU 3.5 from Microsoft. Just install the Interix

Re: The most hateful thing is the world is ...

2007-04-03 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 14:10:45 +0100, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: Hmm, the subject made me want to post something non-software related, but that would be OffTopic and probably inappropriate to use in a follow-up on this mail ... -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers

Re: ZIP Code: Please enter a valid ZIP Code.

2007-04-22 Thread H.Merijn Brand
them. Most Europeans also think every has both a first and a last name. Try to fill in an American form with H.Merijn Brand. Most will complain that that name is invalid, ad they expect Whoever X. Brand instead. End most of Non-American nations do NOT have a state! Don't make us choose one

Re: vim, and the configuration thereof

2007-05-21 Thread H.Merijn Brand
interminis info is so useless, that it is automatically deleted after installation of any GNU^Wutility that generates it and installs it. Even if you print out info pages, it is still unreadable -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2

Re: vim, and the configuration thereof

2007-05-21 Thread H.Merijn Brand
, there have been numerous times in the recent month that I typed 'ex -v' just to NOT get into some vi clone like gvim or vim. And hate to the (Linux) distro's that also replace ex with some vim clone! Long live vim. Long live elvis. Elvis isn't dead, he lives! % alias emacs=vi -- H.Merijn Brand

Re: vim, and the configuration thereof

2007-05-22 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 21 May 2007 18:42:14 +0100, Tony Finch d...@dotat.at wrote: On Mon, 21 May 2007, H.Merijn Brand wrote: So untrue. Following up on Abigail's hate, there have been numerous times in the recent month that I typed 'ex -v' just to NOT get into some vi clone like gvim or vim

Internet Banking

2007-05-20 Thread H.Merijn Brand
morons available in IT world? E.g. why would an *electronic* system reject a payment in the future because it was not set on a working day? Why reset all data you have entered and decide to pay from another account? I guess there is no end in ranting about Internet banking. -- H.Merijn Brand

Re: Excel CSV files with long strings of digits

2007-06-01 Thread H.Merijn Brand
the csv from the file menu, and 3. open M$-Excel and go to Data-Import-FromFile and choose the CSV file. Compare the results. That was so much hate that I wrote csv2xls. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20

Re: Excel CSV files with long strings of digits

2007-06-01 Thread H.Merijn Brand
managed to *never* do the-right-thing (TM) \Anton. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.9.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.0 10.2, AIX 4.3 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http

Re: Restart now, or restart in two minutes?

2007-08-29 Thread H.Merijn Brand
. Very very friendly if you are typing a mail or using putty or some other useful text entry application and didn't look at the screen, but at the keyboard when that fucking dialog comes up. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8

Re: inrainbows.com

2007-10-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
score list on Radio Paradise, Radiohead scores an avarage of 1.05405405405405, which only Coldplay, Simple Minds, Starsaylor and U2 can beat. http://www.radioparadise.com/content.php?name=Membersfile=userinfoshowdata=ratelowu=22794 -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http

Re: inrainbows.com

2007-10-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 11 Oct 2007 10:35:22 +0100, Earle Martin hates-softw...@downlode.org wrote: On 11/10/2007, H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl wrote: In my score list on Radio Paradise, Radiohead scores an avarage of 1.05405405405405, which only Coldplay, Simple Minds, Starsaylor and U2 can beat

Re: Don't fancify my man pages!

2007-11-19 Thread H.Merijn Brand
default for such basic tools (don't paste that option, it might contain UTF8 :p) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.1 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org

Re: Banking web sites

2007-12-10 Thread H.Merijn Brand
... They DON'T hash our passwords, rather, store them plaintext/obscured. Is that the only hate you can think of? I presume they *accept* 8, but only *use* the first 8 characters: much more frightening And long passwords eat DB space. Scary concept for a bank. -- H.Merijn Brand

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
more liberties with SQL than any of the other More liberties is less portability Less portability is more hate databases I can think of. Which is really quite hateful most of the time. Nothing beats Oracle (yet) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
are really quite naïve. MySQL pushes that sort of hate to the 11th dimension. It considers the date -00-00 *both* NULL *and* NOT NULL... *at the same time*. It's a quantum stuporposition. H! Yeah! I have to include that in my DBD hate talk. Thanks! -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
I'd rate slightly more hateful, since it's another entry towards any auto-insert fields running out of numbers. But it probably depends on the situation. And delete won't work if it is a referenced record, where update would. This is just screaming for cursing users. More hate -- H.Merijn Brand

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 10:39:45 +, Jonathan Stowe j...@gellyfish.com wrote: On Tue, 2008-01-08 at 11:21 +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 04:43:51 -0500, num...@deathwyrm.com wrote: Philip Newton wrote: It even lets you mix the two with REPLACE INTO, which will do

Re: SQL syntax

2008-01-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
with the hidden files system attributes that windows uses? I have faint deja-vu feelings and remembrance that SysInternals had a utility for it to `fix' it. Lots of links for this here: http://www.mcse.ms/message1927853.htm -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using

Re: my(sql) setup agony

2008-01-10 Thread H.Merijn Brand
? -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.1 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/http://www.test-smoke.org

Re: my(sql) setup agony

2008-01-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:11:38 +, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 10:03:46PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Thu, 10 Jan 2008 15:13:23 -0500, Gerry Lawrence gwlp...@gmail.com wrote: Try oracle. No really. I didn't know how much I loved Mysql until I

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
. Or the bug is a fix to what 99% of the users think was a bug and 1% uses in production code as a useful feature. Even test-cases can be broken. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-13 Thread H.Merijn Brand
to me. They just saw that it was nothing but bug fixes. You can't resolve that difference of visibility and expectations between author and user, so I'm leaving the game. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-14 Thread H.Merijn Brand
-1.16-0.1 or whatever strange inconsistencies. For those that use Cygwin, have you ever counted the mouse-clicks you need to make a healthy update? HATE! -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
? Those are the projects I don't even *try* to fix for my own OS -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.1 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http

Re: Perl version.pm

2008-01-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
-- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.1 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/http://www.test-smoke.org

Re: pdftotext

2008-01-28 Thread H.Merijn Brand
, which doesn't work on pipes. Luckily pdftotext doesn't seem to partake of that particular hatefulness. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.1 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin

Re: pdftotext

2008-01-28 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:46:21 +, Patrick Quinn-Graham pf...@mac.com wrote: On 28-Jan-08, at 4:35 PM, Nicholas Clark wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:30:26PM +0100, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 16:17:01 +, ilm...@ilmari.org (Dagfinn Ilmari Mannsåker) wrote

Re: autocrap error messages

2008-02-09 Thread H.Merijn Brand
don't know how to proceed. would be a better wording. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.1 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http

Re: mysqldump Error Messages

2008-02-12 Thread H.Merijn Brand
aix 395.000 aix hate181.000 hate hpux 13.300 hpux hate 105.000 hate solaris 732.000 solaris hate734.000 ibm hate oracle 534.000 -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x

Re: configuration hate

2008-03-10 Thread H.Merijn Brand
. sendmail -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.1 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/http://www.test-smoke.org

Re: krashing krap

2008-03-25 Thread H.Merijn Brand
as Exchange in which clustering seems to consist of a set of mechanisms by which the failure of a single machine can bring about the demise of its peers). -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00

Re: Firefox 401 festival

2008-04-30 Thread H.Merijn Brand
a (small) system took 18 tapes and over 8 hours. And that stops a web page from being visible? Also, the wording makes it sound like their database is constipated. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20

Re: Word 2008 for Mac: How to assign Cmd-G to Find Next

2008-05-22 Thread H.Merijn Brand
idiot way of thinking is not limited to M$ I recently patched some util to remove those '' tokens in the menu's because it wouldn't let me assign a function to Shift-Control-T for exactly that reason (X11 under KDE) -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using

Re: Why Python's is not my favorite REPL

2008-06-09 Thread H.Merijn Brand
2.5.1 (r251:54863, Jan 10 2008, 18:00:49) [GCC 4.2.1 (SUSE Linux)] on linux2 Type help, copyright, credits or license for more information. ^C KeyboardInterrupt -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20

Re: Why Python's is not my favorite REPL

2008-06-09 Thread H.Merijn Brand
it by doing what the user clearly wants to do the designers have chosen to admonish the user with the gratuitous equivalent of Ha ha, you didn't say Simon Says! Hatefully. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x

Re: Opera

2008-06-14 Thread H.Merijn Brand
! -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers (http://amsterdam.pm.org/) using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, SuSE 10.1 10.2, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://qa.perl.org http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/http://www.test-smoke.org

Oracle

2008-06-30 Thread H.Merijn Brand
-- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org

Re: Hating broken mailers!

2008-07-06 Thread H.Merijn Brand
? Of course there are people that send HTML mail that *adds* information, but in my experience, they are the exception to the rule. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31

Re: MySQL type conversion

2008-09-04 Thread H.Merijn Brand
TRASH CAN ASS HOLE! Meanwhile I found the solution: SQL ALTER DATABASE FLASHBACK OFF; and add recyclebin = OFF to the .ora startup file It is sad it only solves one problem Hateful, the lot of them. Including the enterprisey ones. Perhaps especially those. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam

Re: perl and line endings...

2008-10-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
is not one of those. It's a plain case of PBCAK -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux

Re: Lurking within MT

2008-10-17 Thread H.Merijn Brand
then. -- H.Merijn Brand Amsterdam Perl Mongers http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, SuSE 10.1, 10.2, and 10.3, AIX 5.2, and Cygwin. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org

Re: alias rm rm -i

2008-12-31 Thread H.Merijn Brand
version, my settings to make it look more like vi no longer work properly, probably the config syntax changed or something. Just leave it alone, unless there's a very, very good reason to change it ('some people prefer it' is not a good reason.). -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl

Re: Windows and NFS

2009-02-22 Thread H.Merijn Brand
. SSHFS++ (or FUSE++) To return to hate. The client only allowed ONE sshfs `share' at the same time, and it forgot it *saved* settings when the client exited So much for usefulness -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x

Re: annoying mailing lists

2009-03-05 Thread H.Merijn Brand
MUA around, by a margin. (The next best choice was Outlook Express...) I rated Becky! over TheBat after a long parallel testing time. But both TheBat and Becky! at least don't do top-posting like Omry -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl

Re: OO has it too (was: Excel.)

2009-03-24 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Tue, 24 Mar 2009 06:35:48 -0700 (PDT), Ann Barcomb a...@domaintje.com wrote: On Tue, 24 Mar 2009, H.Merijn Brand wrote: OO is IMHO even worse, in that they say they follow the locale pretty strict, but they only follow $LANG and ignore $LC_* Set $LANG to en_US.utf8 and LC_PAPER

Re: Excel.

2009-03-24 Thread H.Merijn Brand
. This means that using \N{FULLWIDTH COMMA} as separation character, \N{FULLWIDTH QUOTATION MARK} for quotation character and \N{SYMBOL FOR ESCAPE} for escape character are not allowed. I expect M$ to break this rule :) -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org

Re: Excel.

2009-03-24 Thread H.Merijn Brand
to just use a Comma, where the specs tell it to use a Comma and not use any character the current environment happens to have defined? -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23

Re: The Third Gospel According to the Fox of the Fires

2009-06-12 Thread H.Merijn Brand
ever read. Thank you! -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http

Re: BBC Radio

2009-06-26 Thread H.Merijn Brand
-- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org/ http

Re: BBC Radio

2009-06-26 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Fri, 26 Jun 2009 15:50:24 +0200, Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de wrote: * H.Merijn Brand h.m.br...@xs4all.nl [2009-06-26 12:55]: The best proof for that is bmp (beep-media-player) which had a perfectly working SIMPLE GUI, but was abandoned for bmp-2 that doesn't work as good

MySQL

2009-06-26 Thread H.Merijn Brand
, including SQLite and DBD::CSV allow it. You moron! MySQL is obviously NOT my database. But then again all other databases have their own shortcomings too. None of them is perfect but this is beyond belief. MySQL, I HATE YOU! -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http

Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse

2009-07-08 Thread H.Merijn Brand
away? If so, I'd've thought that implementing in Carbon was the fetish. Only if implemented with support for leather skins and bound with ropes -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11

Re: File Hate (was Re: Gnome focus-follows-mouse)

2009-07-10 Thread H.Merijn Brand
to enable C99, but is is NOT allowed in C89 IMHO // should NEVER ever have been enabled for plain C it breaks way too many compilers that do not have or do not have by default C99 -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x

Re: kill all Linux weenies

2009-08-14 Thread H.Merijn Brand
for anyone on a system not exactly like theirs want to pull their hair You can also read that as 'they use auto-tools' And worst of all of that is libtool, which *ONLY* works on Linux and breaks all linking on AIX and friends. HATE HATE HATE! -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-11 Thread H.Merijn Brand
are found by interpolation. Abigail -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-21 Thread H.Merijn Brand
:13PM -0500, Peter da Silva wrote: On 2009-10-16, at 09:06, H.Merijn Brand wrote: But where is the (software) hate in this post? My last name has a space in it? Should you be sorted under d or S? Of the two van Whatevers I know in the UK, one likes to be sorted under v

Re: leading zeroes..

2009-10-15 Thread H.Merijn Brand
is the name people know me by: Merijn My initial is *in front* of that: H.Merijn Brand Try to enter that in the braindead US forms On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 7:07 AM, Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.comwrote: 2009/10/15 Aristotle Pagaltzis pagalt...@gmx.de: Yes, it's complicated, but it's also

Re: UI language in Google Chrome beta for Linux

2009-12-13 Thread H.Merijn Brand
/chrome: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/chromium/chrome: undefined symbol: g_signal_override_class_handler Exit 127 -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE

Firefox

2010-01-07 Thread H.Merijn Brand
How useful can you make your error messages? $ firefox Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.1.7 and 1.9.1.7. Exit 1 Right! And that should be information I can use to `fix' your fuckups? -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting

Re: iTunes. Again.

2010-04-27 Thread H.Merijn Brand
iStuff -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using porting perl 5.6.2, 5.8.x, 5.10.x, 5.11.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com/hpux/ http://www.test-smoke.org

Re: XML

2010-04-29 Thread H.Merijn Brand
, there is absolutely no guarantee that the content indeed is of that encoding. I've seen proof of M$ exports that were completely inconsistent. Microsoft seems to see the BOM as just a promise. And promises can be broken, right? Endless fun in dealing with data interchange! Daniel -- H.Merijn

GNU

2010-04-29 Thread H.Merijn Brand
was already done. They don't check on .o, but on vague and useless .lo files. SHOOT LIBTOOL TO HELL! I give up. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0

Re: GNU

2010-04-29 Thread H.Merijn Brand
a libiconv *ANYWHERE* on this system. neither 32bit nor 64bit. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23, and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.3, 11.0, and 11.1, AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http

Re: GNU

2010-04-29 Thread H.Merijn Brand
On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 16:06:34 +, James Laver j...@jameslaver.com wrote: On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 05:32:16PM +0200, H.Merijn Brand wrote: On Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:59:55 +0100, Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org wrote: And only with unclaimed preconditions: ld: Unsatisfied symbol

Re: bash

2010-10-25 Thread H.Merijn Brand
completion or spelling correction attempt if set to `complete' or `correct' respectively; if set to `always', this will be done for both cases. It even has a choice of when to rehash! I really do not see, as Nicholas, why that should not be true by default. -- H.Merijn Brand http

Re: Outlook Forwarded Email Hate

2010-11-09 Thread H.Merijn Brand
be in the default you-don't-need-to-know-that mode!) -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http://amsterdam.pm.org/ using 5.00307 through 5.12 and porting perl5.13.x on HP-UX 10.20, 11.00, 11.11, 11.23 and 11.31, OpenSuSE 10.1, 11.0 .. 11.3 and AIX 5.2 and 5.3. http://mirrors.develooper.com

Re: This is why I gave up on Linux desktops

2010-12-26 Thread H.Merijn Brand
that aren't are Finder windows on the Mac. And the desktop background is Finder too... Hmmm, I'll go back to hating GNU emacs, and something to do with the C compiler on Solaris 11. Bah humbug to software the world over. -- H.Merijn Brand http://tux.nl Perl Monger http

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