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Is LPRng Project Still Alive?
deeptrout asks: "The LPRng distribution hasn't been updated since mid-2004, the LPRng project website hasn't been updated since late 2004, and the LPRng mailing list has been dead since the April of 2005. What's going on? Is the project unofficially dead? Has anyone heard any news from Patric Powell, the author of LPRng? It'd be a shame if that is true. I really like LPRng's simple and yet robust reimplementation of the LPD model that allows to keep the configuration for an entire site with hundreds of hosts and dozens of printers in a fairly simple text file. What are we supposed to do now? Switch to CUPS? Something else?"
"Effect" is also a verb, and "affect" is also a noun, dumbass.
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affect, n.
Disposition or constitution.
I. Mental.
1. a. The way in which one is affected or disposed; mental state, mood, feeling, desire, intention.
c1374 CHAUCER Troylus III. 1342 And therto dronken had as hotte and stronge As Cresus did, for his affectes wronge. 1528 ROY Rede me (Arb.) 117 Goode christen men with pure affecte. 1531 ELYOT Gov. (1557) II. vii. 104 Contrary to his owne affectes and determinate purposes. 1533 TINDALE Supper of the Lord Wks. III. 266 God is searcher of heart and reins, thoughts and affects. 1580 SIDNEY Arcadia (1622) 351 She gaue a dolefull way to her bitter affects. 1626 BACON Sylva 97 The affects and Passions of the Heart and Spirits, are notably disclosed by the Pulse.
esp. b. Inward disposition, feeling, as contrasted with external manifestation or action; intent, intention, earnest, reality. Contrasted with chere or outward appearance; and with effect or result.
c1400 Rom. Rose 5489 Fully to knowen, without were, Freend of affect, and freend of chere. c1449 PECOCK Repr. V. v. 509 This man ou{ygh}te loue in affect and in effect his owne bodi more than the bodi of his fadir. 1552 LATIMER Serm. in Linc. vii. 127 Restitution must be made eyther in effect or affect, thou must be sorry in thy hart and aske God forgiueness. 1591 FLORIO Second Frutes 35, I accept the affect, in lieu of the effect. 1615 T. ADAMS Lycanthr. 6 Reall in his right, in his might: Royall in his affects and effects.
c. Feeling, desire, or appetite, as opposed to reason; passion, lust, evil-desire.
1531 ELYOT Governour (1580) 109 Temperance..is the moderatrice..of al motions of the minde, called affects. 1545 JOYE Expos. Daniel iv. G4 These flaterers so nyghe them in fauour, feding their affectes. 1591 GREENE Maidens Dreame xxv, He bridled those affects that might offend. 1619 MIDDLETON Temple Masque Wks. V. 144 No doubt affects will be subdued with reason.
d. Biased feeling, partiality.
1557 EARL OF SURREY in Tottell's Misc. (Arb.) 29 An eye, whose iudgement none affect could blinde.
e. Psychol. [G. affekt.] (with pronunc. {sm}æfekt). (See quots.)
1891 J. M. BALDWIN Handbk. Psychol. II. 314 Affects..are the feeling antecedents of involuntary movements; as motives, including affects, are the inner antecedents of acts of will. 1894 W. JAMES Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 358 We may also feel a general seizure of excitement, which Wundt, Lehmann, and other German writers call an Affect, and which is what I have all along meant by an emotion. 1923 Wkly. Westm. Gaz. 24 Mar. 181 Their psychic lives are overfull of complexes, levels and affects. 1926 W. MCDOUGALL Outl. Abnormal Psychol. 26 The terms 'affect' and 'affective' denote the emotional-conative aspect of all mental activity.
attrib. and Comb.
1934 H. C. WARREN Dict. Psychol. 7/1 Affect psychoses, psychoses which are especially characterized by disturbances in the emotional life. 1943 Horizon VIII. 271 The personality, rich in affect-life. 1944 Mind LIII. 180 The dream-process is an affect-regulative mechanism. 1949 A. KOESTLER Insight & Outlook v. 68 The affect-amplifying emergency-mechanisms of the sympathico-adrenal system became gradually superfluous. 1951 C. KLUCKHORN in Parsons & Shils Towards Gen. Theory Action IV. ii. 390 Affect-laden customs or traditions. 1958 Listener 17 July 93/2 These areas of the brain..have come to be known as the 'pleasure' centres and 'pain' centres... Perhaps it would be best to call them the 'affect' systems, one which seems to be particularly related to positive affect (or pleasantness) and the other to negative affect (or unpleasantness).
2. Disposition, temper, natural tendency.
1541 ELYOT Im. Govern. 35 To knowe the sundry wittes, maners, affectes, and studies of men. 1588 SHAKES. L.L.L. I. i. 152 For e
He is off topic. Read my journal, the sig is bait. Somebody was used as a tool, but it wasn't me. ;)
Being concerned about good use of language does not make one a troll, and correcting someone who is giving incorrect advice is absolutely not a troll. (though I'll concede that calling someone a dumbass in the process probably is).
.sig is such that it is likely to get responses from pretty much anyone that sees it, even those that would not normally bother correcting word misuse.
So your project to trap all the "grammar trolls" is rather misconceived - if you find spelling or grammar corrections distract you that much, then use your mod points when you have them to mod those posts off topic. Otherwise, don't be childish.
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