I like the use of "we" in that sentence. Do you commit changes to the linux kernel, or are your contributions to linux in the form of brief slashdot postings?
You ought to check out Gnus. I've never used VM, and I know that people love it, but I moved from mh-mode to Gnus a couple of years back and have never regretted it.
% find . -type f | xargs grep -il "string" | xargs less
I was raised on MH, and will never move away from the one mail, one file philosophy. Currently, I use Gnus and nnml, which is the most beautiful mailer I've ever seen. nnslashdot is tres cool, too.
Ok, you're right on two out of three -- the French and the Chinese seem to have deployed ICBMs with nuclear capability. Mea culpa. The British haven't, though -- one less thing to worry about, I suppose.
MAD of course still stands as the real reason that nobody has ever tried to attack the USA (or Russia, for that matter). Whether formulated as doctrine or just assumed, the ability of a nation to counterattack with overwhelming nuclear force is perversely what has kept the world turning.
But that's exactly the problem. Any format that has to examine the payload of a message to prevent total breakage makes Baby Jesus cry. It's an idiotic thing to have to do, when there are a metric trillion better ways to accomplish the same thing.
It's one more good reason to stake that damn mbox through the heart.
You are of course completely full of shit. The reasons that nobody has ever shot a missile at us are two-fold: MAD, and the fact that/nobody/ other than the Russians has the technology to get a missile into our airspace.
Pay more attention to the real world and less to the Tom Clancy hoo-ha, eh?
The "situation" was fixed by an emergency purchase of some large number of megawatts from out of state.
Here's an article from the local rag. It'll be interesting to see what happens next time. I'd love the city to go dark, even if it meant a spendy cab ride (I normally take the local LRT home.)
Nice bonus: paranoia at work lead to all of the development servers being shut down. Counter-Strike all afternoon!
Horseshit. Bush was elected because Gore was a grotesque crapcake of a candidate. Democrats ought to look up from the boots they've been licking for the past eight years and ask themselves what if anything they offer the American people that is substantively different than what their comrades across the aisle have been promising.
I've been using it for a couple of years now, and the aggressive simplicity has really grown on me. Now, I find it impossible to use anything more baroque and crocky. lwm launches my xterms, and that's all anybody needs.
He doesn't speak to the viability of OSS; he is disputing the often restated premise that open source projects "manage themselves."
You mention XEmacs and Perl; wouldn't you say that both projects have distinct and very stringent management structures? Sure, XEmacs forked from FSF Emacs -- but it's just as strictly controlled.
And while Larry Wall does indeed delegate authority to the various Pumpkings,/nobody/ would dispute that he's the central manager, the person who vets all ideas before they can be implemented in the language or interpreter. Hardly the "bazaar" that Raymond posits -- in fact, he's very much a traditional software project manager in this regard.
The author is making a point about the organization of large software projects, that is orthogonal to the licensing issue. What his conclusions seemingly do imply, though, is that open source is not by itself a revolutionary development in the world of software engineering.
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I like the use of "we" in that sentence. Do you commit changes to the linux kernel, or are your contributions to linux in the form of brief slashdot postings?
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*cough* DB/2? *cough*
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That's /exactly/ what I thought. What's /. coming to?
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Marten.
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Well, there you are. Always good to learn something useful -- thanks.
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You ought to check out Gnus. I've never used VM, and I know that people love it, but I moved from mh-mode to Gnus a couple of years back and have never regretted it.
exmh does rock, though.
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Naw:
% find . -type f | xargs grep -il "string" | xargs less
I was raised on MH, and will never move away from the one mail, one file philosophy. Currently, I use Gnus and nnml, which is the most beautiful mailer I've ever seen. nnslashdot is tres cool, too.
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Ok, you're right on two out of three -- the French and the Chinese seem to have deployed ICBMs with nuclear capability. Mea culpa. The British haven't, though -- one less thing to worry about, I suppose.
MAD of course still stands as the real reason that nobody has ever tried to attack the USA (or Russia, for that matter). Whether formulated as doctrine or just assumed, the ability of a nation to counterattack with overwhelming nuclear force is perversely what has kept the world turning.
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But that's exactly the problem. Any format that has to examine the payload of a message to prevent total breakage makes Baby Jesus cry. It's an idiotic thing to have to do, when there are a metric trillion better ways to accomplish the same thing.
It's one more good reason to stake that damn mbox through the heart.
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> Instead of simply reformatting your drive how about using ReiserFS?
Because he might be looking for a general solution, not a Linux specific one?
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You are of course completely full of shit. The reasons that nobody has ever shot a missile at us are two-fold: MAD, and the fact that /nobody/ other than the Russians has the technology to get a missile into our airspace.
Pay more attention to the real world and less to the Tom Clancy hoo-ha, eh?
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Fucking genius.
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The "situation" was fixed by an emergency purchase of some large number of megawatts from out of state.
Here's an article from the local rag. It'll be interesting to see what happens next time. I'd love the city to go dark, even if it meant a spendy cab ride (I normally take the local LRT home.)
Nice bonus: paranoia at work lead to all of the development servers being shut down. Counter-Strike all afternoon!
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YHBT. HAND.
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PS: Fuck you taco, and the "lameness filter" you rode in on.
You mean other than Mozilla itself, right?
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Horseshit. Bush was elected because Gore was a grotesque crapcake of a candidate. Democrats ought to look up from the boots they've been licking for the past eight years and ask themselves what if anything they offer the American people that is substantively different than what their comrades across the aisle have been promising.
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This is the best thing I've read on /. in weeks.
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What kind of hail do you HAVE? Replacing roofs?
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No pocky for kitty, then?
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twm is great, but have you ever tried lwm? It's very familiar to twm users, and is, if anything, tinier and less obtrusive.
/usr/local/bin/lwm
For instance, on my FreeBSD box:
~:% ls -l `which lwm`
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 23404 Sep 18 16:20
23k!
Try it out; a lot of old twmers I've shown lwm to have switched.
Just my own little advocacy,
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Use a window manager that does nothing but manage windows:
lwm
I've been using it for a couple of years now, and the aggressive simplicity has really grown on me. Now, I find it impossible to use anything more baroque and crocky. lwm launches my xterms, and that's all anybody needs.
Best,
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I'm sorry, but I'm going to have to report you to the analogy police...
... that's going to earn you a booking with the sarcasm police.
Uhhhhh
YHBT. HAND.
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Did you even read the article?
/nobody/ would dispute that he's the central manager, the person who vets all ideas before they can be implemented in the language or interpreter. Hardly the "bazaar" that Raymond posits -- in fact, he's very much a traditional software project manager in this regard.
He doesn't speak to the viability of OSS; he is disputing the often restated premise that open source projects "manage themselves."
You mention XEmacs and Perl; wouldn't you say that both projects have distinct and very stringent management structures? Sure, XEmacs forked from FSF Emacs -- but it's just as strictly controlled.
And while Larry Wall does indeed delegate authority to the various Pumpkings,
The author is making a point about the organization of large software projects, that is orthogonal to the licensing issue. What his conclusions seemingly do imply, though, is that open source is not by itself a revolutionary development in the world of software engineering.
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I'm sorry sir, but you're over the limit with this one, and you'll have to throw some of those fry back into the stream.
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Well, that's clearly because you didn't supply the --pedantic-twat and --ego-size=10 switches.
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