Can't we just get vim for vi users and get over it? One of my biggest frustrations with vim is that I've used vi for 15 years and when things don't work right in vim (can you say YELLOW TEXT ON A WHITE BACKGROUND IS A BAD IDEA) it is not particularly obvious where to go to find how to fix it. Help files are handy dandy nifty keen, but an as an old hack I want all the information in the damn man page, 'cos I know where to find it.
This book looks like a good step forward (at least I can search a pdf in one shot!) but it starts out telling me lots I already know how to do because it's just vi, not the improved part. Where's the single doc "here's what we improved"?
Christians have done no wrong for decades. Right. Let's take this to a better, more current analogy: Do you think racist skinheads who think nothing of beating and killing blacks, jews, and homosexuals represent Christianity? They claim to. Does this mean that they represent all Christians, or that all Christians should be held accountable for their crimes? I don't. And I don't think that the hijackers, for all the great horror of their crime, actually have any credibility to speak for Islam either. Just as you can pull words of the Qu'ran out of context and use them to justify bigotry against all Moslems (or however you want to spell it), I can pull similar words out of the Bible to justify the same kind of hatred for Christians (and if I pick the right sections, I can justify hatred for Jews while I'm at it).
To claim that you, as someone completely outside the culture and traditions of Islam, can speak with authority on what the Qu'ran means is laughable. When a friend of mine who has practiced Islam all his life tells me about his religion, I trust and believe him far more than some bigot who has had the whole "Moslems are bloody terrorists, cos it says so in one line of a huge book" drummed into his head for decades without bothering to look any further into the reality of this claim among the actual followers of the religion.
Of course now I can hear your yammering about "it says so in clear language"; well, you know what? The constitution says in clear language that Congress shall MAKE NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof, but I hear Christian Morons repeatedly claiming that this doesn't mean what it says, and that all our laws should be Christian laws. So tell me again why plain language is "obvious" in one place and "obviously not intended that way" in another.
Clearly the words of a man who's bothered to read the book himself. NOT.
I think you can hardly do better in "blood soaked" than stories of God telling you to kill all the women and children along with the men. What book is that in? The Bible. Christians have of course done nothing to persecute others. They didn't, for example, kill millions in the so-called inquisition and the Crusades (the Children's Crusade being one of the really great ones, go look it up), and that's just the easiest example to come up with.
BTW I did ask a Muslem I know about Jihad etc, and he was very clear that the BS about the 49 virgins etc are about as representative of mainstream Islam as Pat Robertson is of mainstream Christianity; i.e. not one damn bit. Of course I don't expect your bigoted ass to actually bother checking on the propaganda you're being fed by the Christian right (who stand right behind those people killing other people if it's "for the right cause"...see the nuremburg files website for another example).
God knows, Christians and Christian countries have never done anything bad to foreigners.
Here's my favorite relevant quote, from William S. Burroughs: If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch
get it in writing.
His word isn't worth shit;
not with the good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.
Applies to every kind of religious you might imagine.
No, sorry, I'm on call one week a month like clockwork. I have a pager and I know how to use it courteously, thanks. That way not even an user gets disturbed by my on call (and I don't have to waste a lot of cycles getting a special procedure in place just for me at my workplace).
I think part of the problem is that Sysadmin did their best to offend the TPJ subscribers they inherited.
Content was somewhat redundant, with perl articles in the Sysadmin section as well as the TPJ section.
Only 3 or so real TPJ articles every other issue (at least it seemed pretty sparse) as opposed to the 8 or more in the old TPJ.
Most damning, if Sysadmin treated everyone like they did me.... As soon as the two merged I was inundated with snail-mail spam. Eventually I figured out that some code on the address meant it came from Sysadmin, and I called and complained. They told me I could opt out, why was this a problem? At least I got opted out and the flow had slowed way down since then.
I had already renewed my subscription (boy do I regret that doubly now) but wasn't planning on renewing again anyway. Not because TPJ wasn't wanted, but because what I was getting in Sysadmin wasn't really TPJ any more, and Sysadmin itself isn't of any interest or use to me and they abused the relationship.
The problem with this is that it will prevent anyone who 1) has the courtesy to use vibrate mode and 2) needs those frequencies because they're on call and need to get messages, from frequenting the establishment.
What we really need is some automatic protocol that phones and pagers recognized mean "this is a vibrate only zone".
You don't even have to make it "don't use me". Use tags to make the text the same color as the background, and nobody will ever see it except for the spam harvesting bots.
You must not have given it much of a shot. Certainly there are the days when the punchline is just an inside joke, and I have to explain it to my wife. But a lot of the time, she likes it just as much as me without the explanation, and she's a daily reader too. Did I mention she's not "in the industry"?
My bad, I meant to say "aren't so fat". Fact remains, there are more resources in the corporate world than academia. Feel free to get a job as a sysadmin or developer at a university making anything like you were before and prove me wrong.
Children saw people hanged on a regular basis in full glory with no one thinking anythign of it. Worse (impalings anyone?) at other times of history. If they had "fragile minds" this would not have done well for the survival of the species.
Does that mean I want my 10 year old playing GTA and Doom etc.? No. Does that mean that its somehow someone else's responsibility if I don't exercise parental authority over my 10 year old? Absofreakinglutely not.
Still, it can certainly be more rewarding at times.
And at other times it can be maddening. I went the other way, sort of. I was a University sysadmin, and I now work doing support for Sun. I have to say I like the corporate world MUCH better. I never had any money for training in adademia. I had to teach myself, buy my own books, got to go to one conference in 7 years, etc. I was appreciated, but only extremely rarely in any meaningful way. Had to do everything with nothing, in other words. And while these days things are so fat in the corporate world as they used to be, they're still way better in terms of the resources I have to draw on than they ever were on even the best days at the university.
Children have fragile minds? That's how we survived as a species through all those years of horrible things like the middle ages, right? Go read some stories about life in London in the 1800's and tell me again about how "Fragile" children's minds are.
There are plenty of ways to make it a surprise without surprising her with a ring she will hate (diamond or no). My wife and I had everything about the ring set (easy for me actually: her father had passed away and her mother wanted my wife to have her ring), and actually were making other plans towards the wedding before the proposal and formal engagement. Fact remains, I still managed to surprise her.
I'd be willing to bet that means only GUARANTEED to run on Sun x86 hardware. If it doesn't run on other things it ran on in the past, I'd be really surprised.
When is the entire series going to be available on DVD? Or perhaps more seriously, what plans are there to expand on the current three DVDs, which admittedly cover classics, but leave us wanting more? (I have to have a copy of the oatmeal episode, just for the haggis recipe; not that I want to MAKE haggis mind you, but that was some inspired scripting)
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What I found as the right answer was "unalias vi" in my .bashrc. Now when I type "vi" I get "vi".
This book looks like a good step forward (at least I can search a pdf in one shot!) but it starts out telling me lots I already know how to do because it's just vi, not the improved part. Where's the single doc "here's what we improved"?
To claim that you, as someone completely outside the culture and traditions of Islam, can speak with authority on what the Qu'ran means is laughable. When a friend of mine who has practiced Islam all his life tells me about his religion, I trust and believe him far more than some bigot who has had the whole "Moslems are bloody terrorists, cos it says so in one line of a huge book" drummed into his head for decades without bothering to look any further into the reality of this claim among the actual followers of the religion.
Of course now I can hear your yammering about "it says so in clear language"; well, you know what? The constitution says in clear language that Congress shall MAKE NO LAW respecting an establishment of religion or the free exercise thereof, but I hear Christian Morons repeatedly claiming that this doesn't mean what it says, and that all our laws should be Christian laws. So tell me again why plain language is "obvious" in one place and "obviously not intended that way" in another.
I think you can hardly do better in "blood soaked" than stories of God telling you to kill all the women and children along with the men. What book is that in? The Bible. Christians have of course done nothing to persecute others. They didn't, for example, kill millions in the so-called inquisition and the Crusades (the Children's Crusade being one of the really great ones, go look it up), and that's just the easiest example to come up with.
BTW I did ask a Muslem I know about Jihad etc, and he was very clear that the BS about the 49 virgins etc are about as representative of mainstream Islam as Pat Robertson is of mainstream Christianity; i.e. not one damn bit. Of course I don't expect your bigoted ass to actually bother checking on the propaganda you're being fed by the Christian right (who stand right behind those people killing other people if it's "for the right cause"...see the nuremburg files website for another example).
Here's my favorite relevant quote, from William S. Burroughs: If you're doing business with a religious son of a bitch get it in writing. His word isn't worth shit; not with the good Lord telling him how to fuck you on the deal.
Applies to every kind of religious you might imagine.
No, sorry, I'm on call one week a month like clockwork. I have a pager and I know how to use it courteously, thanks. That way not even an user gets disturbed by my on call (and I don't have to waste a lot of cycles getting a special procedure in place just for me at my workplace).
Obviously you missed a lot of jokes in movies directed at doctors being at the opera with their pager on.
- Content was somewhat redundant, with perl articles in the Sysadmin section as well as the TPJ section.
- Only 3 or so real TPJ articles every other issue (at least it seemed pretty sparse) as opposed to the 8 or more in the old TPJ.
- Most damning, if Sysadmin treated everyone like they did me.... As soon as the two merged I was inundated with snail-mail spam. Eventually I figured out that some code on the address meant it came from Sysadmin, and I called and complained. They told me I could opt out, why was this a problem? At least I got opted out and the flow had slowed way down since then.
I had already renewed my subscription (boy do I regret that doubly now) but wasn't planning on renewing again anyway. Not because TPJ wasn't wanted, but because what I was getting in Sysadmin wasn't really TPJ any more, and Sysadmin itself isn't of any interest or use to me and they abused the relationship.What we really need is some automatic protocol that phones and pagers recognized mean "this is a vibrate only zone".
Is MetaFont open source? It's certainly free.
Fact remains that most people stealing laptops aren't doing it for the data.
You don't even have to make it "don't use me". Use tags to make the text the same color as the background, and nobody will ever see it except for the spam harvesting bots.
You must not have given it much of a shot. Certainly there are the days when the punchline is just an inside joke, and I have to explain it to my wife. But a lot of the time, she likes it just as much as me without the explanation, and she's a daily reader too. Did I mention she's not "in the industry"?
My bad, I meant to say "aren't so fat". Fact remains, there are more resources in the corporate world than academia. Feel free to get a job as a sysadmin or developer at a university making anything like you were before and prove me wrong.
Does that mean I want my 10 year old playing GTA and Doom etc.? No. Does that mean that its somehow someone else's responsibility if I don't exercise parental authority over my 10 year old? Absofreakinglutely not.
And at other times it can be maddening. I went the other way, sort of. I was a University sysadmin, and I now work doing support for Sun. I have to say I like the corporate world MUCH better. I never had any money for training in adademia. I had to teach myself, buy my own books, got to go to one conference in 7 years, etc. I was appreciated, but only extremely rarely in any meaningful way. Had to do everything with nothing, in other words. And while these days things are so fat in the corporate world as they used to be, they're still way better in terms of the resources I have to draw on than they ever were on even the best days at the university.
Children have fragile minds? That's how we survived as a species through all those years of horrible things like the middle ages, right? Go read some stories about life in London in the 1800's and tell me again about how "Fragile" children's minds are.
There are plenty of ways to make it a surprise without surprising her with a ring she will hate (diamond or no). My wife and I had everything about the ring set (easy for me actually: her father had passed away and her mother wanted my wife to have her ring), and actually were making other plans towards the wedding before the proposal and formal engagement. Fact remains, I still managed to surprise her.
We need variable length UPC masks!!
Who's to say the waste itself can't be used to generate some kind of energy to provide some kind of thrust?
Birds do not have external ears, as a general rule. They can still hear, because they do have ears, but they aren't like yours & mine.
I'd be willing to bet that means only GUARANTEED to run on Sun x86 hardware. If it doesn't run on other things it ran on in the past, I'd be really surprised.
you might not want to, but some customers of Sun's do.
You'll wait patiently for the rest of the DVDs... or you'll get the back of me hand!
Head! Paper! Now! Move that melon of yours and get the paper, if you can! Haulin' that gargantuan cranium about....
Heh. Scots humor is the best.
When is the entire series going to be available on DVD? Or perhaps more seriously, what plans are there to expand on the current three DVDs, which admittedly cover classics, but leave us wanting more? (I have to have a copy of the oatmeal episode, just for the haggis recipe; not that I want to MAKE haggis mind you, but that was some inspired scripting)