Red Blade penac...@yomomma.hot.invalid writes:
So from a user's perspective, what is Win8 supposed to improve/do
different than Win7 ?
Win8 turns back the clock of progress 20 years, devolving computers into
giant Playskool toys with a giant Internet Explorer button.
Heh; from Fisher-price
Florian Weimer f...@deneb.enyo.de writes:
One very convenient thing about Skype is the skype in and
skype out services -- they let you use skype for calling from a normal
phone, or calling somebody on a normal phone. Are there any companies
that offer this service using a free protocol...?
Michael M n...@ingtotell.you writes:
As far as the future of Skype on GNU/Linux is concerned, there isn't
one. I think people need to start looking at the free alternatives that
are available now rather than locking themeselves in even more with
Skype.
One very convenient thing about
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes:
[Balanced delimiters are] useful how?
For instance, they can be used by a program invoking the compiler
(emacs, an IDE, etc) do highlighting of the enclosed text.
That would be useful if it were done anywhere but Gnu documentation. It
isn't.
I'm
John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes:
I find it amazing that people go to such great lengths to try
(emphasis here...) and fix this.
I've never tried to fix this.
For instance, gcc actually uses unicode quotes if LANG (or whatever)
suggests it's possible...
-Miles
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John Hasler jhas...@newsguy.com writes:
...the usefulness of balanced delimiters...
Useful how?
For instance, they can be used by a program invoking the compiler
(emacs, an IDE, etc) do highlighting of the enclosed text. The use of `
to mark the start of such sequences is particularly useful
Richard Kettlewell r...@greenend.org.uk writes:
Some fonts have the apostrophe represented by, approximately speaking,
the mirror image of the grave accent. In that case `htonl' looks like
it has balanced quotes.
These days ‘single’ and “double” quotes are available in Unicode.
Unicode
Barry Margolin bar...@alum.mit.edu writes:
Now, I was wondering what could be the reason behind this convention.
Why not use just straight quotes also in front of the quoted word?
It's an attempt to emulate proper left and right single quotation marks
in ASCII. I don't like it.
Neither
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 2:14 AM, Victor Tarabola Cortiano
victorcorti...@gmail.com wrote:
[In a typical silly net flamewar, one might explain it as simple
pigheadedness and unwillingness to admit error (AFAICT, these are the
common driving forces), but he's been spewing his bile so frequently,
David Kastrup d...@gnu.org writes:
Alexander Terekhov terek...@web.de writes:
... rants incoherently ...
Your rants are obviously not helping either your case, your reputation,
or your mood.
Why bother?
Something I've always wondered.
Terekhov's endless anti-free-software diatribes must
Cork Soaker thunderb...@intrepid.invalid writes:
...just a bunch of conceited, immature, juvenile, control-freaks who get
picked on every day by the school bully and take it out on the Internet
when they get off the bus?
What are you going on about, loon?
Clearly his attempts to spam his
Bob Fry bob...@mailinator.com writes:
Well, I wouldn't touch the traditional single-letter options.
Instead, fix the double-dash options. Again, I don't think it would
be huge.
The various programs which compose GNU were written by many different
people, and are often still maintained
Alan Mackenzie a...@muc.de writes:
I must say, I'd welcome a system where I can get straight to a browser
without having to go through the excessiveness of X-Windows and a typical
window-manager like KDE or GNOME.
What'd _totally_ be cool would be if you could that while your heavy
system
Peter Köhlmann peter.koehlm...@arcor.de writes:
amicus_curious wrote:
...
Yep, you get dumber by the second. Heavy ingestion of alcoholic
beverages? Drug abuse?
Excessive Windows use?
-Miles
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Mike Jervis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
However, I'm a little disconcerted to see that they have batch
processed all source code and claimed copyright to all files, with a
note that it's based on work from the original project which was
copyright by {list of original authors}.
My gut feeling
Gary Nym?
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David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
That one's easy. Suppose that his wife is a three-headed fire-breathing
dragon. You are toast.
Mmmm, toast
-Miles
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Andreas Röhler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Maybe take some books from Noam Chomsky or Howard Zinn
and read about your political and legal system.
Ah, you're one of _those_...
I was wondering where your (rather incoherent, but that might have been
a language problem) ranting was leading.
-Miles
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Do I understand you correctly, that in the U.S. we could ignore all
GPL statements? I'm sorry, it's hard for me to get what your
explanations imply, and we have no legal department to ask for help.
Just ignore rjack, he's a troll. Very little of what he says is
Linonut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As far as I can tell, rjack is simply a troll.
Yup. He's the dim one too.
-Miles
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Linonut [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does that mean Terekhov is the smart one?
Terekhov is the rabid one.
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Heh, you've really got the trolls riled up today!
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Dave Crossland [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
He does get his info directly from lawyers; and this cannot be said
for Terekhov. So it is foolish to forget what RMS says just because he
doesn't have a degree in law.
This is true of Stallman's written works, but I would be very wary of
putting any
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ZFS the breakthrough file system in FreeBSD 7 (ported from Sun's
Solaris 10 Operating System) delivers virtually unlimited capacity,
provable data integrity, and near-zero administration.
... and massive amounts of silly hype, something not usually associated
with
Bill O'Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
How can you expect to attract anything but a super geek, who is most likely
using Linux already, with topics like the ones you present?
How would you get such people to attend a meeting of computer users? By
definition, only geeks would attend such a
Tim Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there any particular reason for all that FUD here, rather than in a
group where it would be on topic?
Why is it FUD?
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Moshe Goldfarb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Why do these weekly posts look like some badly formatted, difficult to
read, article that floated around on some list server circa 1977?
Are you guys trying feel like it's 1970 complete with green/orange screen
and punched cards again?
They look like
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes, I want the questions taken seriously, since I want a real and
understandable answer so I can put the questions to bed, I want to
learn!
The best way is not to ask questions, but to find them yourself.
It also helps to not ignore the
David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Anyway, your trolling is becoming unimaginative at the moment: you went
through all this already previously. Try something more original.
It seems like mike3's done this exact same troll 50 or 60 times. He
waits a bit in between attempts, presumably in
Koh Choon Lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Nobody around me in life and work communicated using ODF or TXT and
people just assumed I am crazy to use them.
You have to understand that non-free-software people are often a bit slow...
-Miles
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Ryan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Ummm, anyone want to address my question?
You only posted it about 10 hours ago even if somebody is interested
in the issue, you still have to give them time to read it.
-Miles
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is having dreams. [from a fortune cookie]
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not sure what you mean by for Mach, but if you mean one
doesn't call it Mach then you're mistaken. I have often heard
people refer to it that way, and I can't recall ever hearing them
refer to it as BSD.
Would be the first time I
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or, put differently, you got eggplant on your face.
I think you mean `an eggplant', now who has the dirty face?
Eggplant without an is a mass-noun referring to the material of an
eggplant. Something you're much more likely to have on your face
Noah Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it is enough to feed the trolls with a reference.
I don't think OP was trolling.
The OP is a notorious troll on this group. Trust me, he was trolling.
-Miles
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wh troll cluster-fuck!
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Tim Shephard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you have a client-server application and GPL the client but it has
a very broad and very tight protocol coupling with a backend server
that is closed source .. is that really GPL?
One example of this is Second Life, where the client speaks a very fat
Alfred M. Szmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alfred does not represent or speak for GNU.
Since you don't either represent or speak for GNU, you really can't
state that now can you?
Sure I can.
Anyway, to reiterate: Alfred does not represent or speak for GNU.
-Miles
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am not a lawyer, so I can only offer a common sense opinion:
Which sadly, is not much common sense.
I see GNU likes civilized discourse.
Alfred does not represent or speak for GNU.
-Miles
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John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Rjack is a troll. There is no point in trying to make sense of what he
writes.
FWIW, Mike Cox is a troll too, though perhaps a slightly more subtle one
than bumblers like rjack or wigged out nutcases like Terekhov.
-Miles
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Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Date: Sat, 26 May 2007 05:51:49 -0500
From: rjack [EMAIL PROTECTED]
User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (Windows/20070326)
Er, David's right -- I only see [EMAIL PROTECTED]; apparently either some
software on your end appends your
Ciaran O'Riordan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No one asked me to make that, but I knew people would find it useful, so I
made it - and a lot of people have said thanks.
Morever, it's a good sign that you must being doing something right if
Terekhov has started whining about it...
-Miles
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Ron Baker,Pluralitas! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
If you add file3.c, just make sure it's included in foo_SOURCES:
foo_SOURCES = file1.c file2.c file3.c hdr1.h
That will make sure it gets built and linked into foo, and will take
care of all dependency generation etc.
I did that and
Ron Baker,Pluralitas! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It just sets the environment variable AUTOMAKE to automake --foreign
and then runs autoreconf -i (when autoreconf tries to run automake, it
Did you leave out a semicolon?
AUTOMAKE=automake --foreign; autoreconf -i
No; without the
Ron Baker,Pluralitas! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The one really stupid part though is the rigmarole of running the
various programs in the right order (as you seemed to have been asking
That doesn't sound dead simple to me. ;)
Well, writing the input files is dead simple -- it's only this
Ron Baker,Pluralitas! [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I first learned of m4 twenty years ago, when I was just learning Unix.
Then after a couple years I actually used m4. I thought it was pretty
cool. Then I never heard any mention of m4 until yesterday. Strange.
It's a fun piece of trivia,
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Conspiration-theory nuts like you only tend to bother people.
Tend? Now there's a question: Has Terekhov _ever_ made a useful,
readable post, which the majority of readers appreciated?
[Not an idle question actually -- I've noticed a bunch of
Trollin' trollin' trollin'
Though they're disapprovin',
Keep them doggies flamin'
Rawhide!
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Keith Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm not commenting on whether the NYC LOCAL messages are appropriate
or not.
While the original gripe was apparently mis-posted to gnu.misc.discuss,
FWIW, I rather like the lxny postings (even though I don't live in NYC).
They add a nice sort of
David Kastrup [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The systems glibc is known to work on as of this release, and most
probably in the future, are:
I read on the debian-devel mailing list that glibc has been ported to
the freebsd kernel (a message in the debian on minux thread, saying
that porting
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Tobin) writes:
Then you'd better stop releasing your code under the GPL (or any other Free
license) because they certainly can make money out of it and not pay you
any.
Very likely, but it's not so important that I'm going to go to great
lengths about it. It seems to
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think it depends on what you've taught yourself. I've taught myself
to expect that that brace should be at the end of the line, so I have
no trouble finding it.
That's the case with many formatting issues, but I think it's less clear
here -- something on
Karen Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Honorary PhDs are real degrees. In fact in academic circles, an
honorary PhD is thought of very highly because
No they're not, they're a joke.
My god if you're going to troll, at least try to do a halfway competent
job...
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Eric [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
so its basically if i modify any gpl'd code I must give away my changes
whether or not i keep it 'in-house' ?
No.
Go troll somewhere else.
-Miles
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wow, this really has you freaking out Terekhov...
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Allan [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
As everyone knows, gcc -S file.c will generate file.s. Is it possible
to generate a file which has C statements followed by their assemblies.
You can do it using objdump:
$ objdump --help
Usage: objdump option(s) file(s)
...
-d, --disassemble
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