On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:32 AM, Peter Fraser <[email protected]>wrote:
> > What's macports? macports.org - it's a nice, easy way to compile open source programs on your Mac. The only issue is that macports likes to be a little too helpful at times. For example, if I were to tell it to install 'mailman' (the software that runs Phono-L), it may also install its version of the Apache web server, Postfix, and any programs that it thinks those might need -- even if your system already has those things installed, but not in the macports directory. So what you think might be a simple software install can lead to hours of downloads/installations that you might not require. And having two versions of a piece of software running at the same time on the same server isn't always a good thing ;) Loran From [email protected] Wed Nov 12 11:42:39 2008 From: [email protected] (Andrew Baron) Date: Wed Nov 12 11:43:12 2008 Subject: [Phono-L] Edison vs Tesla In-Reply-To: <b072038f53ee4fc8ae8e651a327fd...@new> References: <[email protected]> <b072038f53ee4fc8ae8e651a327fd...@new> Message-ID: <[email protected]> Very well stated. Refer to the January 1915 E.P.M. for Tesla's letter to Edison. Best to all, Andy Baron On Nov 12, 2008, at 10:40 AM, DanKj wrote: > "The History Channel" is running yet another mis-informed story > about the alleged "feud" between Tesla and Edison. "Edison hated > Tesla, Tesla was cheated", blah blah blah. > > The reality is that both of them hardly ever mentioned the other, > and when each had a disaster, the other responded with kindness. > When Tesla's lab burned to the ground, he was invited to bring his > work to the Edison lab in NJ - and he accepted. When Edison had a > huge fire in 1914, Tesla sent a messsage of sympathy. Hate? Hardly. > > The whole "feud" business is a conflation of the brief "war of the > currents" between Edison's system and Westinghouse. Westinghouse > bought many Tesla patents (which required a great deal of > Westinghouse work to make practical) , thus the confusion. Once > Edison got out of the electricity generation business, there was no > conflict. > > Both Tesla and Edison were brilliant, great men, but making them > into petulant, battling children diminishes both. They had their > strengths and weaknesses, as do we all. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Phono-L mailing list > http://phono-l.oldcrank.org
