Look into hinting and subpixel hinting modes of Freetype2.
For different people different combinations of modes (full, medium,
slight, none for hinting; 0/1/2 for subpixel hinting) give optimal results.
Hinting is usually set via symlinks under /etc/fonts/conf.d/ to what's
available under
That's mainly interpersonal politics. Poettering probably pounded him
too hard one time.
He isn't giving a technical refutation of systemd and that's actually
very well possible.
Why shouldn't someone turn the ranter to LFS instead? Someone with 20
years of so-called loyalty and evangelism
It's ccTLD for South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands. Of course,
that's a fancy domain he is using. Tempted to reserve ho.gs and clo.gs.
On Wed, 2013-03-20 at 11:40 +0200, lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
[Postscript: Sorry for the paid placements. Bandwidth costs money.]
I kinda like
for that
SoC is quite mature, too.
--On Friday, July 08, 2011 21:13 -0700 ron minnich rminn...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Fri, Jul 8, 2011 at 5:26 PM, Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com
wrote:
If given a choice I'd go with something that does not generate
the heat in the first place.
agree. Get
Despite being touted as fanless and most C7-based boards being equipped
only with heatsinks they get hot as hell. Right now I'm experimenting on a
board (custom form factor) built around VIA Eden 1.2 GHz, CX700 chipset,
with FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE (1 GB RAM, 8 GB IDE SSD, networked, and an
Very good point. And, an extremely tempting experiment you have introduced
me/us to out of your mighty rucksack. Could prove to be the downfall of me,
buying a few more PC-104 (don't need be PC-104+, right?) Geode boards (I
already got one based on LX 800). Thank you :-)
Then, even without
Is it configured to use a serial console? Tried checking the output there?
What's the output from uBoot, if any? As a last resort, tried re-flashing
it over JTAG?
--On Saturday, January 15, 2011 15:09 -0500 erik quanstrom
quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
has anyone else had a sheevaplug go
no output from uboot at all. no output of any kind.
Assuming it isn't hardware death the only option I can see is re-flashing.
i haven't cracked the case. does anyone know if there's
a jtag port at all in a sheevaplug?
Even if there's no ready-to-use JTAG port on the board on the PCB
Another possibility -- the omap on chip firmware will use SD-based
uboot image if it finds it, instead of flash. If the plug plays by the
same rules, you might be able to put a known-good u-boot on an SD and
use that image.
Marvell chips lack that. TI and Samsung were a tad more thoughtful.
The compound 'code-in' follows the pattern of 'be-in' as in 'Human be-in.'
You can google that.
--On Friday, November 05, 2010 15:23 -0400 Jacob Todd
jaketodd...@gmail.com wrote:
Code-in? Could you elaborate?
On Nov 5, 2010 1:22 PM, EBo e...@sandien.com wrote:
Google just announced a
In fact, we have both printed on paper hanging from the wall of the
corridor near our office. Let's hope they learn.
Learn to...
1. ... not comment their code?
2. ... not include usage instructions?
3. ... not heed that their code might need to compile on any one of a
number of platforms
The IP address is probably that of the service provider's DNS server, for
use on machines other than the one that establishes the PPPoE connection.
--On Monday, February 22, 2010 10:02 -0800 Russ Cox r...@swtch.com wrote:
I got a username, a password, and an IP address from the Internet
i don't think a direct mapping of COM to Plan 9 fs model is
unnecessary. for example, instead of mapping every control or
configuration interface and method to synthetic directories and files,
a single ctl file will do.
It didn't occur to me at all that anyone would want to implement
Aren't DirectShow filter graphs and programs like GraphStudio/GraphEdit one
possible answer to the video processing question? Filter graphs can be
generated by any program, GUI or CLI, and fed to DirectShow provided one
learns the in and out of generating them.
The OP's question, too, finds
$ time grëp Obergruppenfuhrersaal *
Touché :-)
--On Monday, November 30, 2009 01:52 -0600 Jason Catena
jason.cat...@gmail.com wrote:
hey, this is great stuff! i really like the approach.
Thank you. It evolved from wanting to cut-and-paste character
classes, to automatically applying
arabic numeral 9 is very close: ۹
Puny pedantry: that's a(n) Hindi/Indic numeral. 9 is already an Arabic
numeral.
If playing on numerals is allowed why shouldn't they call it IXgo or even
Kyuugo?
--On Tuesday, November 10, 2009 22:47 -0800 Skip Tavakkolian
9...@9netics.com wrote:
/Stoddard_race_map_1920.jpg
--On Saturday, November 07, 2009 10:54 + Ethan Grammatikidis
eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 23:41:35 +, Eris Discordia
eris.discor...@gmail.com said:
Ah, bad middle-eastern humour. :} I haven't heard any of this since my
father passed
Ah, bad middle-eastern humour. :} I haven't heard any of this since my
father passed away. ;)
When exactly did India subscribe to the Mideast mailing list?
--On Thursday, November 05, 2009 16:48 + Ethan Grammatikidis
eeke...@fastmail.fm wrote:
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009 09:35:08 GMT,
'dokan /i a' fails to install the (kernel mode) driver but succeeds in
installing the mounter service. There's a build of Dokan for Vista x64 but
none for XP x64.
Thanks for the tip. I won't post here on this matter anymore (unless I find
a definite solution in which case I'll post a succinct
The script has a small bug one might say: it capitalizes the first two
words on a line that are _not_ already capitalized. If one of the first two
words is capitalized then the third will get capitalized.
--On Thursday, October 29, 2009 15:41 + Steve Simon
st...@quintile.net wrote:
Listing of file 'sedscr:'
s/^/ /;
s/$/aAbBcCdDeEfFgGhHiIjJkKlLmMnNoOpPqQrRsStTuUvVwWxXyYzZ/;
s/ \([a-z]\)\(.*\1\)\(.\)/ \3\2\3/;
s/ \([a-z]\)\(.*\1\)\(.\)/ \3\2\3/;
s/.\{52\}$//;
s/ //;
$ echo This is a test | sed -f sedscr
This Is a test
$ echo someone forgot to capitalize | sed -f sedscr
I was curious (not that I had any hope of understanding what's going on) so
I visited the place. I got this:
HTTP/1.0 500 Internal Server Error
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2009 12:58:31 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.11 (Debian) PHP/5.2.6-0.1+b1 with Suhosin-Patch
mod_python 3.3.1 Python/2.5.2 mod_wsgi/2.3
What I haven't found is a decent, no frills, sata/e-sata enclosure for a
home system.
Depending on where you are, where you can purchase from, and how much you
want to pay you may be able to get yourself ICY DOCK or Chieftec enclosures
that fit the description. ICY DOCK's 5-bay enclosure
. The 7200s have an MTBF of around 0.75 million hours in
contrast to RE4s with 1.0-million-hour MTBF.
--On Tuesday, September 22, 2009 00:35 +0100 Eris Discordia
eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote:
What I haven't found is a decent, no frills, sata/e-sata enclosure for a
home system.
Depending
I've been, for the time being, officially p9-gagged due to core-dumping
on the list. But thanks anyway for the information. And yes, the Latin
alphabet does function.
--On Monday, September 14, 2009 09:33 + Paul Donnelly
paul-donne...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
eris.discor...@gmail.com (Eris
i believe this distinction between natural and artificial
languages is, uh, arbitrary.
Well, I don't think this is true. The distinction is strong enough for
everyone to be able to immediately tell apart a language from a
non-language. Actually, I think the term artificial language is kind of
i think you need to read some chaucer. you are
the boiling frog in a pot of words.
English isn't my native tongue. It's a bit too much to expect me to read
14th century stuff only to understand what probably amounts to an
affront. You tell me what is the boiling frog in a pot of words.
Maybe it makes a sence to make something like this in Plan9 (an analog
kbmap) for typing complex symbols like an hieroglyph ?
Your method is in essence what Microsoft's IME on Windows and various IMEs
on UNIX-likes (such as SCUM) use. However, an IME for inputting from a list
of over twenty
anyway, the general idea is that it can compose kanji from strings of
hiragana. it's also been used for other languages (although my memory of
that says it was mostly for the transliteration function, rather than the
compositing function). is it possible to do something similar for the
hanzi,
http://thinkzone.wlonk.com/Language/Korean.htm
Interesting. I used to think Korean, too, uses a syllabary. Turns out it's
expressed alphabetically. Expressing Japanese that way would create some
space for confusion as there are certain sounds that never combine with
certain other sounds,
lots of romance languages have exactly that characteristic, though
(maybe other languages, too). see C and G in italian. ci is simply
pronounced correctly as chi.
That's true but isn't exactly the same thing. Irregularly pronounced
combinations are still valid combinations. I'd say the
your first problem was whether japanese would have some sort of
new or unique problem with an alphabet given the absence of certain
syllables (like shi) from the language. the answer is, of course, no:
the language would fall into either of the two extant conventions for
dealing with the
Thanks.
Erik Quanstrom, too, posted a link to that page, although it wasn't in HTML.
--On Monday, September 07, 2009 22:02 +0200 Uriel urie...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Sep 4, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Eris Discordiaeris.discor...@gmail.com
wrote:
if you have quanstro/sd installed, sdorion(3)
This thread has grown into a particularly educational one, for me at least,
thanks to everyone who posted.
Vinu Rajashekhar's two posts were strictly to the point. There _is_ a
mental model of the small computer to teach along with Scheme and there are
ways to get close to the machine from
in fact, none of the things we take for granted --- e.g., binary,
digital, stack-based, etc. --- were immediately obvious. and it
might be that we've got these thing that we know wrong yet.
I don't think we are actually in disagreement here. I have no objections to
your assertion. However,
There's a talk Doug McIllroy gave where he joked about how he
basically invented (or rather, discovered) recursion because someone
said ``Hey, what would happen if we made a FORTRAN routine call
itself?'' IIRC he had to tinker with the compiler to get it to accept
the idea, and at first, no one
In this respect rating the expressive power of C versus LISP depends
very much on the problem domain under discussion.
Of course. I pointed out in my first post on the thread that [...] for a
person of my (low) caliber, LISP is neither suited to the family of
problems I encounter nor suited
Thanks for the first-hand account :-)
Don't be Whiggish in your understanding of history. Its participants
did not know their way.
Given your original narrative I really can't argue. Maybe, as you note, I'm
wrongly assuming everyone knew a significant part of that which had come
before
PM, Eris Discordia wrote:
Above says precisely why I did. LISP is twofold hurtful for me as a
naive, below average hobbyist.
FYI, it's been Lisp for a while.
For one thing the language constructs do not reflect the small
computer primitives I was taught somewhere around the beginning of
my
One serious question today would be: what's LISP _really_ good for?
http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html
I could do a similar thing:
http://www.schnada.de/quotes/contempt.html#struetics
... and leave you wondering (or not). I won't.
Paul Graham's essay/article consists of a success story,
I forgot this: Graham basically accuses programmers who don't find LISP as
attractive (or powerful, as he puts it) as he does of living on lower
planes of existence from which the heavens above of functional (or only
LISP) programming seem incomprehensible. He writes/speaks persuasively,
he's
general-purpose language good for system programming--you seem to call
that being a good OS language--
I take this part back. I mixed your post with Jason Catena's for a moment.
--On Saturday, September 05, 2009 15:14 +0100 Eris Discordia
eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote:
Let me be a little
Oh, yay, a Xah Lee quote, he's surely a trusted source on all things
Lisp. Didja read his page about hiring a prostitute in Las Vegas? Or
the one about how he lives in a car in the Bay Area because he's too
crazy to get hired?
Patience, brother. Search Paul Graham on that page and let your mind
I forgot this: Graham basically accuses programmers who don't find LISP
as attractive (or powerful, as he puts it) as he does of living on
lower planes of existence from which the heavens above of functional
(or only LISP) programming seem incomprehensible. He writes/speaks
persuasively, he's
so you're saying that the table in this section is wrong?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer#History_of_computing
if it is and you can back it up, i sugeest you fix wikipedia.
It isn't wrong.
The exact wording from The First Computers: History and Architectures
goes:
The instruction
). I downloaded
the excerpt in MOV and watched it.
--On Thursday, September 03, 2009 08:57 -0700 Bakul Shah
bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com wrote:
On Thu, 03 Sep 2009 07:29:53 BST Eris Discordia
eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote:
I mean, I never got past SICP Chapter 1 because that first chapter got
- a hot swap case with ses-2 lights so the tech doesn't
grab the wrong drive,
This caught my attention and you are the storage expert here. Is there an
equivalent technology on SATA disks for controlling enclosure facilities?
(Other than SMART, I mean, which seems to be only for monitoring
Many thanks for the info :-)
if there's a single dual-duty led maybe this is the problem. how
many sepearte led packages do you have?
There's one multi-color (3-prong) LED responsible for this. Nominally,
green should mean drive running and okay, alternating red should mean
transfer, and
there's a standard for this
red fail
orange locate
green activity
maybe you're enclosure's not standard.
That may be the case as it's really sort of a cheap hack: Chieftec
SNT-2131. A 3-in-2 solution for use in 5.25 bays of desktop computer
cases. I hear ICY DOCK has better offers but
Caveat: please add IMH(UI)O in front of any assertion that comes below.
Since education was brought up: I remember I found it seriously twisted
when I was told mathematics freshmen in a top-notch university not
(geographically) far from me are taught not one but two courses in computer
bakul+pl...@bitblocks.com wrote:
On Wed, 02 Sep 2009 12:32:53 BST Eris Discordia
eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote:
Although, you may be better off reading SICP as intended, and use MIT
Scheme on either Windows or a *NIX. The book (and the freaking language)
is already hard/unusual enough for one
Although, you may be better off reading SICP as intended, and use MIT
Scheme on either Windows or a *NIX. The book (and the freaking language) is
already hard/unusual enough for one to not want to get confused by
implementation quirks. (Kill the paren!)
--On Wednesday, September 02, 2009
Perl people love closures. It's one of their common programming techniques.
Closures in C? Way to screw its clarity and closeness to the real (or
virtual) machine. And in the end closure or no closure doesn't change how
the binary looks but allows programmers to pepper source with brain-teasers
i don't think i understand what you're getting at.
it could be that the blog was getting at the fact that select
funnels a bunch of independent i/o down to one process.
it's an effective technique when (a) threads are not available
and (b) processing is very fast.
This might help: what he is
the signal context is the original calling thread. unless
ms' diagram is incorrect, this is a single threaded operation;
only the i/o originator can process the event. so the plan 9
Of course it is single-threaded operation. That's the very idea behind
using callbacks. Originally they were
but given that plan 9 is about having a system that's easy
to understand and modify, i would think that it would be
tough to demonstrate that asyncronous i/o or callbacks
could make the system (or even applications) simplier.
i doubt that they would make the system more efficient,
either.
do you
To whom it may concern: had the right patches for Plan 9 to work on Virtual
PC been incorporated and a new ISO released half the complaints from
Windows users who want to give Plan 9 a try would disappear. Some potential
enterprise users might also get interested in running many Plan 9
I have tried to boot a number of Plan 9 4e ISOs on a number of VirtualBox
releases (even from before Sun acquired it). Just won't work. It will take
someone who knows Plan 9 very well to debug it and find out exactly why it
doesn't.
A problem with Virtual PC was recently solved, I remember,
This thing about Windows updates, I think it's a non-issue. It's not like
updates are mandatory and, as a matter of fact, there's rather fine-grained
classification of them on Microsoft's knowledge base which can be used by
any more or less experienced user to identify exactly what they need
.
--On Saturday, April 18, 2009 12:19 PM -0400 J.R. Mauro
jrm8...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:08 AM, Eris Discordia
eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote:
This thing about Windows updates, I think it's a non-issue. It's not like
updates are mandatory and, as a matter of fact, there's
...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 2:29 PM, Eris Discordia
eris.discor...@gmail.com wrote:
That is a lie. There are updates which (at least on XP) you could
never refuse. Nevermind the fact that Windows would have to restart
more than once on a typical series of updates.
Windows isn't
Plan 9 itself makes a great platfrom on which to construct
virtualisation.
I don't know what Inferno is but the phrase 'virtual machine' appears
somewhere in the product description. Isn't Inferno the 'it' you're
searching for?
--On Friday, April 17, 2009 6:48 AM +0200 lu...@proxima.alt.za
I see. Thanks for the edification :-) I found--still find--it hard to
understand what Inferno is/does. Actually read
http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/papers/bltj.html but it isn't very
direct about what it is that Inferno does for a user or what a user can do
with it; what distinguishes it
Gagliardi wrote:
On Apr 15, 2009, at 4:26 AM, Eris Discordia wrote:
Plan 9 is not intended for home or home office.
True, but that doesn't mean it can't be used in such an environment. I
type all my reports up in Plan 9.
Please set aside rare cases and let us know who except for the students
Very nice of you to go to lengths for describing Inferno to a non-techie.
Thank you. Just got the Fourth Edition ISO and will try it. Maybe even
learn some Limbo in long term.
--On Friday, April 17, 2009 1:55 PM +0200 lu...@proxima.alt.za wrote:
what it is that Inferno does for a user or
even today on an average computer one has this articulation: a CPU (with
a FPU perhaps) ; tightly or loosely connected storage (?ATA or SAN) ;
graphical capacities (terminal) : GPU.
It happens so that a reversal of specialization has really taken place, as
Brian Stuart suggests. These
I don't know if it's because of bashfulness or what that people aren't
telling it to your face: Plan 9 is not intended for home or home office. It
hasn't matured to that point and its age is already past when it had a
chance to mature. From what I've read on this list it probably serves as
the
answers
if something goes wrong. I believe there won't be any need for changing
your partition table as long as you don't want QEMU read/write from/to a
raw partition.
--On Wednesday, April 15, 2009 9:05 PM +0800 Jim Habegger
jimhabeg...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Eris
If you phrased this slightly more gently, people may in fact agree
with you.
They'd be agreeing with the wrong formulation, then.
But Plan 9 is a great environment to experiment in.
Sure. So is every nascent or vestigial system.
Anyhow, the thread's originator says he's interested in
OK, they just run for a few seconds, so, any suggestions are welcome
(in fact needed)
/dev/bintime
Wouldn't many rounds of running with different data sets (to minimize cache
hits) and timing with time also serve the same purpose? Does time introduce
some unavoidable minimum margin of error
Try generating a working modeline for your X.Org and then just put the
numbers from modeline into vgadb. xvidtune should help with generating the
modeline.
A modeline looks like:
Modeline mode_name_here 106.47 1440 1520 1672 1904 900 901 904 932 -HSync
+Vsync
Numbers are from left to
. Mauro jrm8...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com
wrote:
It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash.
Have you customized your bash by aliases as long as tens or hundreds of
lines? Now is it bash's fault you have defined
researchers with
high ambitions.
--On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 11:04 PM -0400 J.R. Mauro
jrm8...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com
wrote:
The man page *does* say it's too big and slow. So does the bash
manpage. And getting readline to do
It only starts to balloon once you begin customizing bash.
Have you customized your bash by aliases as long as tens or hundreds of
lines? Now is it bash's fault you have defined an alias for something that
ought to be a script/program in its own right?
--On Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:34 PM
this is the space-shuttle dichotomy. it's a false one. it's a
continuum. its ends are dangerous.
So somewhere in the middle is the golden mean? I have no objections to
that. *BSD systems very well represent a silver, if not a golden,
mean--just my idea, of course.
it is interesting to me
Not really. Rackable Systems has for long been one of those things that
were there but you never saw. And SGI's end was coming. When did they
decommission IRIX? Wasn't it some years ago?
I think Rackable Systems is going to focus on SGI's supercomputing
background and boost their line with
Keyboard
bindings for example; why couldn't they be handled by a program that
just does keyboard bindings + line editing, and writes finalized lines
to the shell.
Like... readline(3)?
SEE ALSO
The Gnu Readline Library, Brian Fox and Chet Ramey
The Gnu History Library, Brian Fox
I see. But seriously, readline does handle bindings and line editing for
bash. Except it's a function instead of a program and you think it's a bad
idea.
--On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 10:31 PM +0800 sqweek sqw...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/4/7 Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com:
Keyboard
of bash's normal behavior
or the working .inputrc files I've been using for some time.
Anyway, thanks for the info.
--On Tuesday, April 07, 2009 3:57 PM -0400 J.R. Mauro jrm8...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com
wrote:
I see
as long as you restrict your network to plan 9 machines, it is possible
to import /net from a gateway machine and avoid sticky things like packet
filtering.
Back to the future yet? May I suggest that the sticky packet filtering,
more generally packet manipulation, has crucial applications in
I'll know soon enough as I'm in the process of building a Venti store for
our video files. I just wondered if anyone had done it already.
That kindles in me the bystander's interest. It'd be nice of you to report
back on results.
--On Monday, February 16, 2009 12:13 PM + matt
Very interesting. Thank you.
By the way, Gnash seems to be quite useful.
--On Tuesday, February 03, 2009 12:22 PM +0100 Christian Walther
cptsa...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/2/3 Eris Discordia eris.discor...@gmail.com:
I don't know of any open source implementations of Flash Player
yes, it is *also* hard to mistype on it.
Yeah, you have a point there. It's unimaginable to me how someone can type
on that keyboard, but it seems some people do and do well.
My question's target was whether it's because of a motor disability that
matt uses a Maltron or out of personal
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Erreplicate. Bye, bye, cute acute.
--On Monday, January 19, 2009 6:53 AM + jimmy brisson
theotherji...@gmail.com wrote:
Although there is already an ircfs for Inferno, since I don't want to
run Inferno outside
So it did on Windows + Mulberry. I know, I know, I'll shut up.
--On Friday, January 16, 2009 8:17 PM -0500 erik quanstrom
quans...@quanstro.net wrote:
On Fri Jan 16 20:16:55 EST 2009, aku...@mail.nanosouffle.net wrote:
the subject header in the last message came out to be very ugly
due to
What'd you say if you had my keyboard? It's got a couple of (useful)
Windows keys, a numeric pad, and some multimedia keys. Can't complain, to
each their lot ;-)
And for the oldies fun: last week I had to replace an AT type PSU and get
the right wires (white, black, brown, blue) connected to
[...] Last thing I did before I packed it in was take the superimposed
picture and look at it through a green filter. You remember I was
always superstitious about the color green when I was a kid? I always
wanted to be a pilot on one of the trading scouts?
I love green and I admire
I'm baffled. Slap me, or kick me--your choice.
--On Saturday, December 27, 2008 11:36 AM +0100 tlaro...@polynum.com wrote:
On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 06:04:42AM +, Eris Discordia wrote:
it all begins with Adam and Steve, as Brian Stuart suggests, ways have
been found of managing large teams
How come the Renée French who appears in Jim Jarmusch's Coffee and
Cigarettes has nothing to with the Renée French who drew Glenda? How
probable is for two people of artistic inclination to have the exact same
name? Or is Glenda's creator hiding her identity as part of Plan 9 for
World
The Story of Mel
[...]
I compared Mel's hand-optimized programs with the same code massaged by
the optimizing assembler program, and Mel's always ran faster. That was
because the top-down method of program design hadn't been invented
yet, and Mel wouldn't have used it anyway. He wrote the
building a pyramid, starting at the top is one of those things
that just doesn't scale.
For that, you have bottom-up, right? But there's no meet-in-the-middle
for a pyramid, or for software. Unless, the big picture is small enough to
fit in one man's head and let him context-switch back and
At last, something I can claim expertise in--you actually see the sci-fi
expertise showing on my feeble attempts at technicality ;-)
You should definitely try anything by Stanislaw Lem. Reading him in the
original Polish would be awesome but somewhat far-fetched. Then there are
the German
03, 2008 12:54 PM +0100 Uriel [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 11:32 AM, Eris Discordia
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
At last, something I can claim expertise in--you actually see the
sci-fi expertise showing on my feeble attempts at technicality ;-)
[...]
Then there's Philip K
I've read that it talks about what would have
happened if Allende had succeded implementing Cybersyn...
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Cybersyn] I am looking for reading
this book.
That is the most interesting thing I've come by in months. Shame on Augusto
Pinochet, unaugust scoundrel,
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On Wed, Dec 3, 2008 at 5:32 AM, Eris Discordia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
There are the Great Three, of course. Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, and
Robert A. Heinlein. Anything they wrote is worth a read. Sometimes a
number of reads. Clarke particularly interests me. Try the short
Again, just say *no* to xml, even the web 2.0 fools have given it up.
I agree. Web 2.0 is for fools.
I don't agree. Say yes to XML because you have to say yes to some markup
language anyway. Why not give the yes to an eXtensible one with a zillion
applications already, from TEI to DocBook to
wrong. binary would be the opposite of text.
Now I'm becoming convinced you are trying to infuriate me. That 9P is
actually binary is a _fact_, which you presented to me, thank you, okay?
But, the _idea_, which existed in the posting you had quoted, remained and
remains the same
seems you use IMAP to read gmail. I usually read my gmail mail through
my web browser, which is not a problem from opera/firefox in linux.
However, I can't do the same from plan9. Neither abaco, nor charon
work. Is this so for everyone or just for me? Thanks.
GMail's normal web interface is a
does humans work well with that software?
I do, but I doubt I qualify as human--from your point of view.
--On Friday, November 21, 2008 5:52 PM -0200 Iruata Souza
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:33 PM, Eris Discordia
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FUN FACT: GMail works well
, Eris Discordia [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ps: I love science
Yeah, and that must be UV.
P.S. I know I shouldn't be replying and further staining my already
messed up reputation here.
--On Friday, November 21, 2008 6:16 PM -0200 Iruata Souza
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On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 5:57
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