Let's not get fooled by the fanatic followers of Mr. Christ who are trying to pervert a perfectly fine pagan feast into some kind of superstitious x-tian celebration.
Happy Winter Solstice!
The mind boggles as to how this not only rude, but downright wrong and offensive comment could possibly be modded as insightful. Might I ask insightful how? By attacking the Christian faith? By providing public self-reassurance that "I'm all 'perfectly fine'"? By blatantly accusing Christians of perverting something completely opposite to everything they believe in?
Yeah, mod me down, but there are some people in this world who will always believe celebrating the anti-pagan birth of Jesus is quite the opposite of 'fanatic' and 'superstitious'.
You don't need to believe in Jesus to understand it is about celebrating love and truth. Just take a stroll to your nearest nativity scene.
I live in Brisbane, and I must say this is bloody fantastic. I'm a student and travel is out of my scope for the time being; I've been hanging out for a decent sized Linux event for a long time. I will definitely be there.
Does anyone know who is going to be speaking or any other details? I checked the site and I couldn't find any specifics as yet.
IANAL, but from what I gather, this is an Australian case, which is AFAIK outside the jurisdiction of any US courts - and thus any sort of cases disputing the American yahoo.com domain?
"In other words, these common problems with mailing lists are a result of poor list management and not from stupid users (at least most of the time). It takes but a few seconds to prepare these configurations in Majordomo, and thus there's no reason to not have them if that is something you want to enforce on your list."
I agree - also some simple human measures - how hard would it be for upon a subscription to a list, to point out a reference to (or even just inline) a quick 'netiquette' page or somesuch highlighting.... (quoting original post)
"...subscribers how to _use_ mailing lists - not replying to all, not sending admin commands to the list, realising that digested people really don't like binaries."
Not one mailing list I have subscribed to (okay, only a small few, but still) have done this?
Okay, I was hoping this would be obvious, but by 'compiler dependent' I was referring to non-portable parts of the product. This would of course include the assembler, and any specific tools/libs.
People programming on DOS didn't have such benefits from the internet and collaborative development/open standards we have today.
You said it yourself, compiler dependent code is silly. Having Watcom for Linux will only make it easier for software houses to port their silly Watcom stuff, so I'm all for it.
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Let's not get fooled by the fanatic followers of Mr. Christ who are trying to pervert a perfectly fine pagan feast into some kind of superstitious x-tian celebration. Happy Winter Solstice!
The mind boggles as to how this not only rude, but downright wrong and offensive comment could possibly be modded as insightful. Might I ask insightful how? By attacking the Christian faith? By providing public self-reassurance that "I'm all 'perfectly fine'"? By blatantly accusing Christians of perverting something completely opposite to everything they believe in?
Yeah, mod me down, but there are some people in this world who will always believe celebrating the anti-pagan birth of Jesus is quite the opposite of 'fanatic' and 'superstitious'.
You don't need to believe in Jesus to understand it is about celebrating love and truth. Just take a stroll to your nearest nativity scene.
I live in Brisbane, and I must say this is bloody fantastic. I'm a student and travel is out of my scope for the time being; I've been hanging out for a decent sized Linux event for a long time. I will definitely be there.
Does anyone know who is going to be speaking or any other details? I checked the site and I couldn't find any specifics as yet.
Checking the user agent won't work for long - how hard will it be for the spammers to change the user agent to "Mozilla..."
Certainly not as hard as convincing every web site on the net that displays email addresses to dick around with this..
While we're at it, why not just copyright the concept of copyrighting - that would really give them something to think about..
IANAL, but from what I gather, this is an Australian case, which is AFAIK outside the jurisdiction of any US courts - and thus any sort of cases disputing the American yahoo.com domain?
I agree - also some simple human measures - how hard would it be for upon a subscription to a list, to point out a reference to (or even just inline) a quick 'netiquette' page or somesuch highlighting.... (quoting original post)
Not one mailing list I have subscribed to (okay, only a small few, but still) have done this?
Okay, I was hoping this would be obvious, but by 'compiler dependent' I was referring to non-portable parts of the product. This would of course include the assembler, and any specific tools/libs.
People programming on DOS didn't have such benefits from the internet and collaborative development/open standards we have today.
You said it yourself, compiler dependent code is silly. Having Watcom for Linux will only make it easier for software houses to port their silly Watcom stuff, so I'm all for it.