n enormous interface. We need only an iota of it to work well.
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ght?
It would require a separation in PID1's RC to move supervisable things into the
other list, or perhaps a way for a PID1 supervisable task to ask for other
supervision. Bleah, this could be more clearly expressed :-)
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T and BSD licenses
> and the X11 license.
What complication don't you like about GPLv3+ ?
> Any opinions on which to choose?
>
> Thanks,
>
> SteveT
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"ready to use" again. I'm able to vote multiple
> times because I'm originally from Chicago.
Boston has dibs on that as well.
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> On August 17, 2016 at 9:32 AM fsmithred <fsmith...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On 08/17/2016 07:09 AM, aitor_czr wrote:
> >
> > Hi Peter,
> >
> > On 08/17/2016 12:32 PM, Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> wrote:
> >> What does "e" plus
> On August 14, 2016 at 7:12 AM fsmithred <fsmith...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 08/14/2016 05:50 AM, Peter Olson wrote:
> >> On August 14, 2016 at 5:31 AM Arnt Karlsen <a...@iaksess.no> wrote:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> >> ..one neat thing abo
s I can tell, Grub
has no help built in. You have to be an expert to use it.
What does "e" plus tab key twice do?
Is there some way I could try this on a system which boots successfully to find
out about this?
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terday, already read. But in either
case, it shows up in an incongruous position in the discussion thread, where I
cannot make sense of the discussion.
Please fix this.
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> On August 10, 2016 at 3:01 AM Simon Hobson <li...@thehobsons.co.uk> wrote:
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> Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> wrote:
>
> > I have a machine in that state right now, and rather than try to debug it
> > at the Grub prompt, I am just going to reinstall the sy
> On August 9, 2016 at 11:06 PM Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
>
> Quoting Peter Olson (pe...@peabo.com):
>
> > Of course, it is difficult to shoot yourself in the foot with GRUB ...
> >
> >
> > I have a machine in that state right now, and r
> On August 9, 2016 at 3:04 AM Rick Moen <r...@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
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> Quoting Peter Olson (pe...@peabo.com):
>
> > I apologize for top-posting, but I have no idea what you are talking about.
> >
> > For the record, I am not fond of GRUB2 either.
>
I apologize for top-posting, but I have no idea what you are talking about.
For the record, I am not fond of GRUB2 either.
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> On August 9, 2016 at 1:52 AM Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Considering the fact that many Linux users moan about not bein
got lost in the forwarding?)
I haven't looked into the changelog of coreutils to try to find out, but it
would be helpful to know what is at issue here.
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> On July 16, 2016 at 4:47 AM Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote:
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> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Peter Olson wrote:
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> > I'm a fan of Donald Knuth as well. My funny story is that when I
> > was in college, I got an offer from Addison-Wesley to preorder the
> > s
sily. It is more expensive :-) If
you have ever used the other tape to secure cables to the floor and then
uprooted those cables when tearing down, you will know the misery of trying to
remove the other kind of tape now wrapped seamlessly around the cable.
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> On July 15, 2016 at 5:12 AM Jaromil <jaro...@dyne.org> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 15 Jul 2016, Peter Olson wrote:
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> > You misunderstand what the IOCCC is about. It's a game. Nobody
> > trying to write useful code will do anything like what IOCCC writes.
>
>
is:
if (literal == value)
stuff;
and not
if (literal = value)
stuff;
which the compiler will flag as an error.
The compiler is your friend, if you help it a bit.
Peter Olson
> those who are attacking are only interested in making disguised
> personal attacks to dissuade me from
> closing bracket. If more brackets follow the process should be
> repeated.
What happens with
a = b((7, c[3)])
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y use
> the same words to denote basic types (Boolean, Integer, Natural), and
> they're wordy.
>
> Didier
An anecdote about Niklaus Wirth:
He said he was once asked how to pronounce his name, and replied, "If you call
me by name, it is Neeklaws V
ted it :-) The whole idea of := or assignment in general
is suspect. Use a functional programming language like Scheme/LISP, Haskell,
or OCAML instead.
> Not trying to start a flamewar. Just demonstrating that there is a
> different opinion possible regards this.
:-)
Peter O
On 2016-06-24 12:17, Rainer Weikusat wrote:
> Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> writes:
>>> On June 23, 2016 at 10:48 AM Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> if (count > 0)
>>> while(putchar(' ') && --count);
>>
>> I strong
error message if you type only one = in
the latter form, whereas the first form will happily execute by setting abc to
42 and always taking the true clause.
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ram structure */
if (checkError (stdin, argv[0]))
return 1; /* this version checks for errors */
if (checkError (stdout, argv[0]))
return 1; /* I didn't actually reproduce this error, it is hard
to test */
return 0;
}
I
> On June 14, 2016 at 1:43 AM Irrwahn <irrw...@freenet.de> wrote:
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> On Tue, 14 Jun 2016 00:37:59 -0400 (EDT), Peter Olson wrote:
>
> [About possible branding issues for a hypothetical
> future Pale Moon package in De(vu|bi)an.]
>
> > This is why ther
owsers, and it's
> more stable than the webkit based browsers.
My thanks also, I have been using it too.
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te issues that we
might like to be concerned about.
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g evolution of
programs like grep because now they have to support Unicode and who knows what
else?
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that have merit.
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> sudo vs su is an interesting decision to make, but not allowing root
> login is a matter of too much security to get your job done.
Or you can sudo, edit /etc/passwd to change your login directory temporarily
to something not in /home, logout, and log
ith the OT or trolling messages here.
> Some may argue this is the strategy adopted by enemies of init
> freedom, which may be correct. However, sometimes one has to adopt an
> adversary's strategy if it proves to be the only possible of way
> solution.
>
&
. Gotta love grub, which is useful only when nothing is wrong
:-)
Any advice about how to proceed?
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> On May 5, 2016 at 12:53 PM Edward Bartolo <edb...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
> Some may think I am insane, but sometimes even the company of a four
> legged friend can be beneficial.
>
> Edward
And it runs another OS which is free of sys
y contain
programs for administrative purposes such as adduser which require privileges
and are not needed by user logins or might not be expected for ordinary user
access.
On some distros ifconfig is in one of these and isn't visible to the user, even
though it might be us
wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictional_butlers
for some ideas.
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> On January 26, 2016 at 2:30 PM Rainer Weikusat
> <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> writes:
> >> On January 25, 2016 at 5:54 PM Rainer Weikusat
> >> <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote:
> >
>
es for it. Also: Windows and Mac
path names follow different rules. Use the libraries. I actually like the
example of Python's os.path library, which implements a unified set of portable
routines for manipulating path names.
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Off topic P.S.: memoize means somethi
ve and hacking.
>
> KatolaZ
This also brings up the question of whether you should roll your own get_name or
use basename(3) which already does the same thing except in some edge cases.
It's easier for the student to understand the code if it is implemented as
get_name, but the student ought
> On January 23, 2016 at 1:36 PM Rainer Weikusat
> <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote:
>
> Peter Olson <pe...@peabo.com> writes:
> 5>> On January 22, 2016 at 4:34 PM Rainer Weikusat
> <rainerweiku...@virginmedia.com> wrote:
>
by clearing the sixth bit.
I'm unhappy for two reasons:
the failure mode of alloca is SIGSEGV or some other malfunction and there is
no way to test for it
the *buf &= ~0x20; breaks for UTF8 strings.
Nevermind that the function implicitly references stderr except when it d
, usually
for the purpose of drawing a contrast. The abbreviation cf is sometimes
mistakenly used to mean see also."
Usually it written differently ... "blah, blah, blah, cf. this other thing"
However, other Latin abbreviations are used this way, cf. "q.v", &qu
to
> strawman the conversation away from monolithic entanglement,
[snip]
> Proud or not, you don't want to assist the systemd marketeers in
> shutting down discussion about systemd's architecture, do you?
"discussion about systemd's architecture"
I have to smile ... what discus
> On September 23, 2015 at 5:44 PM Laurent Bercot <ska-de...@skarnet.org> wrote:
>
> >> if you can confirm the plan of releasing s6-rc within september
> > I confirm it.
>
> And, lo and behold, I'm on schedule for once.
> s6-rc-0.0.1
> On February 24, 2032 at 3:32 PM aitor_czr <aitor_...@gnuinos.org> wrote:
Your last few messages have had Date: lines far in the future.
Check your clock!
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Sorry, couldn't help myself :-)
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h some variation *Joseph-Louis Lagrange* :-)
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that have nothing to do with installing (or even identifying by name) the
package I want, not to mention how complete the doc/devel/debug environment I
might like.
/rant
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changes with vi, quite simply, which had to be repaired
by source code control :-) :-(
Well, I probably could have done that with any other of multiple editors.
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Cubic ( http://cubicboard.org/ ) and OpenCores ( http://opencores.org/ ) has
been around for a while.
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software, we'd be
using Windows.
+1
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(apologies if this duplicates a reply sent from the wrong email address which
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general.
But I don't want to make it easy for people who could install fine with the free
installation to select the other one just in case. There is possibly an
opportunity to gather information about what cases don't work with the free
download.
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that might qualify.
Here's a starting point if you are interested in learning more about it:
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2010/06/02/the-beos-filesystem/
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On March 22, 2015 at 6:29 AM Jaromil jaro...@dyne.org wrote:
On Sat, 21 Mar 2015, Peter Olson wrote:
RMS didn't call me a troll, he answered the question. Somebody else
took it upon himself to refer to the question as trolling. I haven't
decided yet whether to speak to that person
systemd? No. I know it's free
software, so you can make your own opinion about it. #lp2015
The exact quote is Do you have an opinion about the prevalence of systemd in
most distributions?
Peter Olson
follows up Stefano Zacchiroli (former Debian leader and present board
member of OSI
, etc.).
Miles Fidelman
Freedom 0 probably already covers this. The freedom to run a program, as you
wish, includes the freedom not to run the program, if that is what you wish.
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whether to speak to that person tomorrow about it.
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Well, RMS doesn't do anymore development work as far as I know, so maybe
his opinion doesn't matter. Still, as a well-known time-honored
spokesperson for free software (I know he doesn't want us calling it
open source) I would have
the initial citation of A to B and A will be none the wiser.
Doubtless there are other worms in this can, so I rest my case.
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still
don't know how Devuan's dmenu package will look.
Does dmenu act without me pressing Enter? I'm wondering what happens when I
make a typo that happens to match the name of a program I never heard of.
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left over it to prohibit it.
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, or
the safety of the user interfaces.
-- hendrik
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke
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and systematic attack.
Well, don't read too much literally into this except to note that we all know
that systemd subverts this. It's not just the Unix way, it's the reliability
way.
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On Mon, Feb 16, 2015 at 07:34:57PM -0500, Peter Olson wrote:
“Those who don't know history are doomed to repeat it.”
― Edmund Burke
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I think the original quote was by Santayana:
George
and MD126. But I still
didn't know how to fix it.
Unfortunately, the upgrade was mandatory to fix a fatal flaw in the version of
ecryptfs in the previous version which had destroyed some of my files.
I switched to a different distro to get around this.
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