Re: [dev] [off topic] Suckless (*NIX|*BSD) Distribution?

2009-06-20 Thread Ammar James
1. Gentoo 2. FreeBSD However, ccurrently using Arch on my netbook since it uses a flash HD (SSD) and i dont want to perform too many writes to it. Ideal fantasy: LFS + some simple package manager (pkgsrc? something new?) On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Thomas Gallenkaori.hin...@gmail.com

[dev] XCB: An alternative to Xlib

2009-06-22 Thread Ammar James
Just ran into this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XCB Any thougths on it being a suckless alternative to Xlib?

Re: [dev] email

2009-07-04 Thread Ammar James
Install plan9 you're still thinking of mail as a sequential series of communiques. mail is better thought of as a giant distributed filesystem, just like everything else everyone does with a computer -- # Kurt H Maier I just want you to know that I died laughing. Twice.

Re: [dev] [st] goals / non-goals for st?

2009-08-25 Thread Ammar James
As long as I can get that term to be slightly transparent so I can see all my slick wallpapers I use with dwm, then I'll be happy. Everything else is really just a bonus.

Re: [dev] dwm is awesome!

2009-08-29 Thread Ammar James
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 11:11 PM, Uriellost.gob...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 11:32 PM, Ray Kohlerataraxia...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 27, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Anders Anderssonpipat...@gmail.com wrote: Heh, I just started using dwm myself, and I love it! I wanted to try a tiling

Re: [dev] dwm is awesome!

2009-08-29 Thread Ammar James
On Sat, Aug 29, 2009 at 4:11 PM, hiro23h...@googlemail.com wrote: The only problem with Plan9 is that, from what I've heard, its pointless to run it without X (eg. using rio). I just find that inconceivable. What do you mean? I don't run it with X. Really? Practically everyone on #plan9

Re: [dev] [st] goals / non-goals for st?

2009-10-08 Thread Ammar James
All you people who are against transparency are like all those BSD folk on Freenode who troll you for wanting a colorized ls output. Unbelievable.

Re: [dev] Suckless word processing solution?

2009-10-08 Thread Ammar James
On Sun, Oct 4, 2009 at 6:51 PM, Kurt H Maier karmaf...@gmail.com wrote: oh god you mean someone expects me how to use this thing? Has anyone really been far even as decided to use even go want to do look more like?

Re: [dev] a suckless computer algebra system

2009-11-24 Thread Ammar James
One idea is to not install any CAS software on your own computers (probably slow and crappy compared to some huge mainframe) and just use WolframAlpha's. Check www.wolframalpha.com

Re: [dev] unsubscribe

2010-07-20 Thread Ammar James
These emails are always the best part of this mailing list anyways.

Re: [dev] [OT] Music?

2010-09-20 Thread Ammar James
I feel compelled to reply to this since none of you fools seem to listen to hip-hop. ;p A Tribe Called Quest The Pharcyde Jurassic 5 De La Soul Digable Planets OutKast Company Flow El-P Aesop Rock Nas Wu-Tang Clan The Notorious B.I.G. Black Star Kanye West MF Doom

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-13 Thread Ammar James
Gentoo. All day, every day. P.S. - Kurt H Maier is a wise sage and speaks the truth (for the most part).

Re: [dev] which minimal os

2011-02-16 Thread Ammar James
Kurt is the new Uriel. I, for one, welcome our new resident troll.

Re: [dev] [st] transparency - Was: [dwm] devilspie doesn't work

2011-05-07 Thread Ammar James
Oh god not this again. Haters gonna hate.

Re: [dev] Fmask [c posix]

2015-12-30 Thread Ammar James
Since your email was under 140 characters I am considering it a tweet. New rule for patches: all patches must be under 140 chars. -Ammar. On Dec 30, 2015, at 7:39 AM, Staven wrote: >> What's next? Linking interesting tweets? > > That can't happen, since there's no such

Re: [dev] Font edition tooling

2015-12-23 Thread Ammar James
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 05:04:11PM +, Ammar James wrote: > On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:06:35PM +0100, Mattias Andrée wrote: > > Sorry, it would be a douche move in rank with > > patenting maths, and then enforce it. > > > > Algorithms can be patented in the U

Re: [dev] Font edition tooling

2015-12-23 Thread Ammar James
On Wed, Dec 23, 2015 at 11:06:35PM +0100, Mattias Andrée wrote: > Sorry, it would be a douche move in rank with > patenting maths, and then enforce it. > Algorithms can be patented in the US. PageRank is a good example: https://www.google.com/patents/US628 Best, Ammar. > On Wed, 23 Dec 2015

Re: [dev] Collecting sins of Apple

2016-10-21 Thread Ammar James
I have never been able to have my Linux client access folders and files shared under Mac OS X Samba server. Apple replaced Samba with SMBX, their home-cooked application for Windows File Sharing. By default, it also doesn't do much logging. If you want to review logs, you'll have to edit the

Re: [dev] [st] Text select and autoscroll

2017-09-18 Thread Ammar James
On Thu, Sep 14, 2017 at 11:09:17AM +0200, Quentin Rameau wrote: On Thu, 14 Sep 2017 10:26:56 +0200 Rasmus Edgar wrote: Hi, Hi, How do I get auto scroll (upwards and downwards) functionality when selecting text which goes beyond terminal height? You don't. When text goes