It was thus said that the Great A. Pagaltzis once stated:
* Smylers smyl...@stripey.com [2006-06-20 00:20]:
Also, I'm not that bothered how big indentation levels are, but
I do care that source code lines don't exceed 80 characters: I
want them to fit in a standard size terminal, to be
It was thus said that the Great Peter da Silva once stated:
Like I said, you _can_ do this, but it won't work in IE. The spec is
eight years old, so blame Microsoft, not the W3, though they should be
shot for other reasons (XSLT, for instance). Just read the damned link:
It was thus said that the Great Jeremy Stephens once stated:
I ran into problems with UCS2 a couple weeks ago. I exported some data
from MS SQL into a CSV file, which I then read from a scripting language
(R, a statistical language) to do some stuff. R doesn't know how to
read UCS2,
It was thus said that the Great Nicholas Clark once stated:
return pack('C*', unpack('n*', $sTxt));
No. That's not a valid way to convert ucs2 text to anything, let alone
ISO-8859-1
But ... but ... but ... it works for me! [1]
-spc (We don't need to steeeking accented letters!)
[1]
It was thus said that the Great Matt McLeod once stated:
On 11/6/06, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote:
Except, of course, that I hate the fact that it can do about one thing,
install a package. If it wasn't already. Because having anything else,
like reinstall or search or whatever
It was thus said that the Great Matt McLeod once stated:
yum searches repositories. 'rrdtool' isn't in any of the ones it was
searching in your example so it's no great shock that it can't find
it.
I get the same gpg-pubkey package when I run the same thing on my
CentOS box, but I also
It was thus said that the Great jrod...@hate.spamportal.net once stated:
I'm _hoping_ this one is really not a software error, there are some
basic pieces of functionality I expect software to usually get right,
like transmitting data without modification.
It was thus said that the Great Yoz Grahame once stated:
Aristotle is actually being remarkably kind to PHP here, failing to
mention the TWO THOUSAND FUNCTIONS IN THE MAIN NAMESPACE, many of
which are synonyms for each other, and most of which have wildly
inconsistent invocation patterns.
It was thus said that the Great David Cantrell once stated:
On Sun, Dec 17, 2006 at 09:36:52PM -0800, Aaron J. Grier wrote:
this is exactly what I hate about perl. there's more than one way to
do it invariably means that some dumbfucks out there will attempt to do
it every single way
It was thus said that the Great Anton Berezin once stated:
On Fri, Dec 22, 2006 at 02:43:08AM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
Um ... raises hand ... I'd like somethimg a bit more consistent.
A typical programic idiom I use (when programming in C) is:
if (argc == 1
It was thus said that the Great Earle Martin once stated:
The software that I hate the most is often the software I have to do
maintenance on.
I'll agree to that 100%.
I'm a 100% Perl guy, and spend a lot of time with
other people's Perl. One of my pet hates is seeing this:
It was thus said that the Great A. Pagaltzis once stated:
* Sean Conner s...@conman.org [2006-12-22 21:35]:
But *neolithic code*?
Yeah.
What? I should do
map
{
open INPUT $_;
do_some_process;
close INPUT;
} @ARGV
It was thus said that the Great Abigail once stated:
You are right that Perl 6 is less friendly (you could say hostile) for
people with different whitespace styles than Perl 5 was.
Yep. Were one of the features of Perl1 to Perl5 was the fact that people
coming from different schools
It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated:
Can I ask you again - why did Windows 3.11, which had a totally
dysfunctional parody on the concept of kernel, won the desktop market,
and Unix, which was 2 decades ahead in it's development, lost that market,
despite it's
It was thus said that the Great Michael Leuchtenburg once stated:
Spake Adam Atlas:
Am I the only one who finds it hateful that most web browsers add new
bookmarks/favourites to the BOTTOM of the list?
Not only that, but the features which make it possible to actually
organize bookmarks
It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated:
Let's make it simple: did you actually see it /done/? I tried it with gcc
3.3.1 on x86 and exceptions do translate to overhead (I don't know x86
assembly either, but I can see when 2 additional instructions are emitted).
Green
It was thus said that the Great Tony Finch once stated:
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Sean Conner wrote:
It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated:
Can you name a platform where no extra instructions in the normal flow
path are generated when exceptions are enabled?
VMS
It was thus said that the Great David Cantrell once stated:
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 02:54:21PM -0500, Sean Conner wrote:
VMS. Or rather, VMS on the VAX architecture
Ahh, the pinnacle of CISC. I have learnt to never be surprised at Weird
Shit in the VAX instruction set. I expect
It was thus said that the Great Yossi Kreinin once stated:
The problem is that a lot of calling code *doesn't* bother to check the
status. People don't like to do that, especially when they can't abort
right there and must propagate status up the call chain, so they deny the
existence of
It was thus said that the Great peter f miller once stated:
On 2/7/07, Robert Rothenberg rob...@gmail.com wrote:
* An optimisation which gives a 20% performance boost that imposts a limit
on the software, but one which will not affect 95% of the users (and
which most of the other 5% can
It was thus said that the Great David Cantrell once stated:
The hateful software part of it is, of course, that the software decides
to waste the time of people posting to mailing lists to which its master
has subscribed by ignoring the List-Id header. But tbh, I hate Daniel
more than I
It was thus said that the Great Chris Devers once stated:
On Aug 15, 2007, at 6:43 PM, David Cantrell wrote:
Close, but no cigar. What really is spectacularly hateful is that the
latest and greatest (and most expensive, of course) version of Acrobat
can infest documents with sounds and even
It was thus said that the Great Jonathan Stowe once stated:
On a previous laptop, unloading the ALSA drivers would cause firefox to
crash, it appears that for some reason it was linked with the ALSA
library EVEN THOUGH IT COULD NOT AND IS NOT DESIGNED TO MAKE SOUND BY
ITSELF.
Ah, did
It was thus said that the Great Peter da Silva once stated:
On the other hand, for me, 1.5.4 versus 1.5.2 does tell me something
useful.
If a script worked on 1.5.2, it will work on 1.5.4 and it's supposed
to work on 1.6, and unless you hit a bug fixed in 1.5.2 it'll work on
1.5.1
It was thus said that the Great Abigail once stated:
Man, sometimes I feel so tempted to put things like
$VERSION = 'yellow';
in my modules.
Quick! Can someone tell me which is older---Mac OS Tiger or Mac OS
Jaguar?
I remember a bunch of years ago a Linux module that would
It all started some five hours ago with my own hateful blogging software,
when the web interface (which is something I rarely use it's so loathsome,
but that's my own fault) didn't work. It took me the better part of three
and a half hours to track down the actual problem deep within Apache.
It was thus said that the Great Sean Conner once stated:
Postfix, for setting a return path of spc at brevard.conman.org
even though I told it to use a myorigin of mydomain and not
myhostname?
Oh, I almost forgot.
I just learned that if you aren't running Postfix
It was thus said that the Great Peter da Silva once stated:
On 2008-03-02, at 05:50, demerphq wrote:
*Nix editors are laughingly hateful across the board. Lots of
features, too bad about the goddamned USER INTERFACE.
What's an example of an editor that isn't hateful?
For me, it's IBM's PE
It was thus said that the Great Gerry Lawrence once stated:
Sean Conner wrote:
So, can anyone here explain the rather hateful practice of ezmlm
ofignoring the From: header and using the Return-Path: header? I've
read DanBernstein's justification for this [1], but while the
individual words
It was thus said that the Great Aristotle Pagaltzis once stated:
That's *all* you need in mail. There is absolutely zero need for
any fancy layouting. Email is supposed to be something where you
can hit Reply and reasonably respond to pieces of the message
inline. An email is not a fracking
Tell me about it.
At work, I inherited some PHP application written for MySQL. My boss
wants to use PostgreSQL. It can't be that hard to convert it, says I.
SQL is SQL, right?
Stop laughing back there, I'm trying to tell a story.
First off, the PHP code is littered with mysql_this()
It was thus said that the Great Joshua Juran once stated:
On Sep 29, 2008, at 7:39 PM, Sean Conner wrote:
-spc (Holding back the bile on a whole bunch of PHP hate ... )
No, no, by all means bring it forth! :-D
Oh, you mean how modules in PHP applications are installed by modifying
It was thus said that the Great Peter da Silva once stated:
[10]http://boston.conman.org/2007/12/18.1
Someone who thinks views are for wimps.
Someone who's never had to deal with SQL until told get this working
under PostgreSQL.
Or ...
Views? Whatcha talking 'bout, Willis?
It was thus said that the Great Tony Finch once stated:
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008, Sean Conner wrote:
Section 4.4.3 of RFC-822 seems to allow it, but for those of you who
consider RFC-822 a bit outdated, I did try checking up on RFC-2822,
RFC 5322 is the latest revision.
Reply
It was thus said that the Great Martin Ebourne once stated:
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 20:20 -0400, Sean Conner wrote:
5 text/x-c
3 text/x-c++
file attempts to identify C versus C++? I'm going to be depressed all
day now, maybe there isn't any hope out
It was thus said that the Great Philip Newton once stated:
(Also: it's not for nothing that MSIE does content sniffing for
certain MIME types [IIRC, including text/plain and
application/octet-stream], simply because there are/were web servers
that sent the wrong content type so that MS
It was thus said that the Great Philip Newton once stated:
2009/8/15 Peter da Silva pe...@taronga.com:
The bestest make replacement ever would be one that uses XML and requires a
different version of Java than the program you're building!
Except that it doesn't actually use an XML parser
It was thus said that the Great Nicholas Clark once stated:
Copy a block of text.
Paste it back in.
This is *not* something that Gnome Terminal can do reliably.
Sometimes it decides that it will paste carriage returns first time, but
paste it again (without changing the selection) and it
It was thus said that the Great Peter Corlett once stated:
Dammit, I've driven the stake into many systems using software written by
a certain author, gaining many Brownie points in the process when the load
drops 90%, but I'm going to need a fully-automatic intercontinental
stake-launching
It was thus said that the Great Peter Corlett once stated:
On 5 Aug 2011, at 21:32, Roger Burton West ro...@firedrake.org wrote:
[...]
A few years back I went to a network security show at Olympia. It
rapidly became clear that what most of the punters wanted, but nobody
quite dared to
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