Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Unix damage: color names

2006-02-07 Thread Rich Teer
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Re: Xah's Edu Corner: Responsible Software Licensing

2005-12-24 Thread Rich Teer
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Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-10 Thread Rich Teer
and OpenOffice do the job just as well, for much cheaper (and are cross platform too)?! You could even send me a URL to a webpage. Indeed! -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich -- http

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Rich Teer
: www.example.com/rich/photos. People keep thinking of email as a techie preserve. Worse, people keep misusing email. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Rich Teer
with each other. Agreed. But as I said above, I have many other issues with HTML emails, over and above the security concerns. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich -- http://mail.python.org

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Rich Teer
programming contracts. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-08 Thread Rich Teer
even see them, and more often tham not I'll delete any others that sneak through the gate. If people want me to read their email, they should send it to me in an open, universal format, which for email is plain text. It's as simple as that. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-09-01 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 1 Sep 2005, Asbjørn Sæbø wrote: I suppose you are going to volounteer to fix it, then. Right? I wish he'd just volunteer to shut up--permanently. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com

Re: Writing portable applications (Was: Jargons of Info Tech industry)

2005-08-27 Thread Rich Teer
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Mike Meyer wrote: I think you're right - a web standard designed for writing real applications probably wouldn't start life as a markup for text. The only thing I can think of that even tries is Flash, but it's What about Java? -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB

Re: OpenSource documentation problems

2005-08-27 Thread Rich Teer
/ \C_c_c_c -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-26 Thread Rich Teer
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, John Bokma wrote: people from www to Usenet or vice versa is beyond me. If 80% of the current Usenet users stop posting, Usenet is not going to die :-D Heh. Quite the opposite, I reckon: it would get much better (higher SNR)! :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-26 Thread Rich Teer
? The idea of my wife checking her email while I'm doing her over my computer is most amusing! :-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Teer
been, and should always be, plain text mediums. If I wanted to look at prettily formatted HTML, I'd use a web browser to look at the web. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich -- http

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Teer
and Usenet) is not necessarily a good argument for actully DOING it. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979-1638 URL: http://www.rite-group.com/rich -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-25 Thread Rich Teer
On Thu, 25 Aug 2005, Ulrich Hobelmann wrote: CSS sheet. If things were that way, suddenly people *would* use Outlook No no no! Let's keep those Outhouse lusers away from Usenet. There's tto much top posting as it is! -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-23 Thread Rich Teer
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Mike Schilling wrote: A formatting-only subset of HTML would be useful for both e-mail and Usenet posts. Nope; plain text for both mediums is, IMHO, th eonly way to go. -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite Online Inc. Voice: +1 (250) 979

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-08-22 Thread Rich Teer
On Mon, 22 Aug 2005, jan V wrote: Please don't use ASCII art... not everyone uses a fixed-width font for his newsreader... Then I humbly submit thet they are using broken and/or badly configured readers. ;-) -- Rich Teer, SCNA, SCSA, OpenSolaris CAB member President, Rite