Re: [dev] [sbase]building

2014-11-21 Thread k0ga
Hi, Hi Evan, I'd prefer to stick to the existing makefile. It might be scary to say that it depends on GNU make but bear in mind that of all the make implementations I've tried only OpenBSD make had some trouble with it. I think we should remove the GNU make dependence, because we don't

Re: [dev] [surf] [PATCH] add per-site user styles

2014-11-21 Thread Markus Teich
Nick wrote: Great, I'm glad to see this, thanks for it. The opera inspired browser hiro posted to the list reminded me of this functionality, actually, and it's a good step towards more general customisable settings per website (e.g. cookies, javascript), as Christoph suggested a while ago.

Re: [dev] [sbase]building

2014-11-21 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 09:40:13AM +0100, k...@shike2.com wrote: Hi, Hi Evan, I'd prefer to stick to the existing makefile. It might be scary to say that it depends on GNU make but bear in mind that of all the make implementations I've tried only OpenBSD make had some trouble with

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread Alexander Huemer
Hi. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 06:25:13PM -0800, Charles Thorley wrote: I find Minix3 to be extremely interesting, and attractive (at least in principle). The advantages of Minix are purely theoretical. All the different servers can be restarted when they crash, but that does not make the cause

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread Anselm R Garbe
On 21 November 2014 12:07, Alexander Huemer alexander.hue...@xx.vu wrote: In my personal opinion Minix is no foundation to build on. There is a reason why Linux Torvalds with his 'hobby project' got much more thrust from the community than Andrew. S. Tanenbaum with his professional work. Not

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread koneu
+ microkernel is inferior to monolithic in almost all aspects

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread stanio
* koneu 2014-11-21 13:22 + microkernel is inferior to monolithic in almost all aspects microkernel is beautiful --s

Re: [dev] Operating system choice

2014-11-21 Thread koneu
sta...@cs.tu-berlin.de wrote: microkernel is beautiful Beauty might be the only property superior to monolithic.

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2014-11-21 Thread doa379

Re: [dev] Unsubscribe

2014-11-21 Thread Martti Kühne
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[dev] [dwm] [PATCH] Remove .hgtags

2014-11-21 Thread Dimitris Papastamos
From 028f613d08a264a75b58adfaac758fadeae4c51a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: sin s...@2f30.org Date: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 20:54:31 + Subject: [PATCH] Remove .hgtags --- .hgtags | 73 - 1 file changed, 73 deletions(-) delete mode

[dev] [dwm][PATCH] added support for _NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK

2014-11-21 Thread Quentin Rameau
Hi, someone asked tonight why he couldn't use his dwm keybindings when using is SDL2 application in fullscreen. After investigation it seems that SDL uses _NET_SUPPORTING_WM_CHECK to check if the window manager can handle fullscreen. Here is a patch implementing it, I'm not sure if I cleared the

[dev] [surf] web videos idea

2014-11-21 Thread Henrique Lengler
Hi, I have a video player (mplayer) installed on my computer with a lot of codecs, so it is able to play a lot of videos formats. I don't like the idea of installing some plugins like gstreamer to play vide on on the browser if have a video player already working. This is the Unix philosophy:

Re: [dev] [surf] web videos idea

2014-11-21 Thread Markus Teich
Henrique Lengler wrote: So I just thought, is there a way to combine both, my web browser that will care only about display the html stuff, and leave the video work to my video player? This would be awesome. Heyho, you can use youtube-dl to download embedded videos from many sites or play

[dev] [sbase] what is a text file?

2014-11-21 Thread Evan Gates
POSIX defines a text file as: 3.397 Text File A file that contains characters organized into zero or more lines. The lines do not contain NUL characters and none can exceed {LINE_MAX} bytes in length, including the newline character. Although POSIX.1-2008 does not distinguish between text files