Well, it is more of a hack than a documented feature. POSIX forbids it, and (therefore) it doesn't work on all OSes (seems it is GNU-specific). You better don't use it.
Curiously, the french ln(1) manpage is more verbose and gives more details than the english one...
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I agree to some extent.
But... A database is a file system, and a filesystem is a database. You're in fact opposing hierarchical data organization to relational data organization.
Any program that deletes files ought to be vaguely symlink aware, as you need to know whether you are following and deleting stuff under symlinks or not.
In fact, these are different issues, I suppose it needs some I/O programming background.
When opening a file, that is : int open(const char *pathname, int flags); You don't care if pathname is a symlink or not : you're accessing "the real data"
When deleting a file : int unlink(const char *pathname); You're deleting the symlink if pathname points to a symlink.
When deleting a directory : int rmdir(const char *pathname); Deletion won't work if pathname points to a symlink : a symlink is always a file, even when pointing to a directory.
Therefore you might say, I need to this point to know if this is a directory or a symlink ! Right, but you also need to know if this a directory or a file in the first place ! So you use stat for all that : int stat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf);
In other words, when modifying a file, you don't need to know at all if a pathname points to a file or a symlink.
When doing file management, you need to, but you're checking anyway because of the file / directory difference.
since it still wouldn't make Wine apps look like other X apps.
What is the X app look ? AFAIK, there is no such thing. There are at least a dozen of toolkits (like gtk, qt, gnustep, wxwidgets, tcl/tk...), each one with its own look. A true X app looks like... what ? xfig ?
> do you really think that "they" have a database they could reference to find out what printer serial number goes to what citizen?
They don't. However, if you're into things like (say) counterfeiting banknotes, and the FBI raids your home upon some suspicion, they can get the link between the counterfeited money and your printer, so there's proof against you.
In the American system, there are still numerous parties, it's just that the coalitions are permanent, and you vote for the coalitions.
Well, I was unaware of that.
it's just that the coalitions are permanent Division pretty much guarantees defeat.
Agreed, because there is one single turn. There are also occasionally coalitions here (in France), but mostly for other elections than the presidential one. Having a second turn allows more choice, sometimes early favorites are losing a lot of voices later.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans represent a range of differing views that would be quite unusual in a single European political party
Not true. It's because you (and me) only get simplifications of foreign politics (and often don't care).
If one party becomes weak, the stronger party tends to split along ideological faultlines as the differing groups see a chance to put their own policies into action.
Happens here too. More specifically about the presidential election, it happens that a party forks because some head hasn't been elected to be te official candidate. In other words, because of personal ambitions.
This tends to push both parties towards the center, which I personally regard as a good thing.
I somewhat disagree. How do you define "center" ? I would call that uniformization, so it becomes gradually more pointless to choose between grey. I think a greater range of ideologies could only provide benefits : "mainstream" parties could then borrow good ideas from other ideologies.
However, I agree that most of the time, it's candidate that is the most towards center (in speek / promises) who gets elected, because he grabs some votes from "the other party".
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Now my point is that you get your system (with two super-coalitions) because of the voting system. Other voting systems are getting other political organizations.
And, IMHO, a single turn indirect voting system is particularily bad.
French senators are indirectly elected (by mayors), and AFAIK the senate is right-wing from the start of the fifth republic. Hopefully, it has less power than the legislative assembly. However it works reverse for the european institutions (parliament, directly elected, has less power than commission / council), so I wouldn't say europeans institutions are truly democratic.
And a single turn results in only a few coalitions being represented.
But in the end, every democratic system tends to despotism... (don't remember who's the author of that idea)
The winner-takes-all nature of the American political system makes it almost impossible for third parties to get anywhere even if they do have money. Whether that's a feature or a bug is arguable.
Well, look, I just can say that the system don't work since 1876, they could have changed it by the time ? And it seems to me that the original system (1789-1800) was more democratic (not by the numbers, but by the constitution article).
I'm pretty sure that will be customizable. If UI is not, then Kahuna has big problems.
Not so sure it will... How do you customize GMail UI for instance? I know it's technically doable, but I'm unaware of a webmail currently implementing that.
Cancel will require positive confirmation, just like it does in other email apps.
Webmails usually don't (I suppose it's because they don't have dialog boxes). I use 2 webmails that do not, and just checked with gmail : it doesn't either, but at least it allows you to "undelete".
Very naively.
Yeah, I know:) However, I would think that a lot of people wouldn't use a webmail with such invasive ads, when there is so much choice around (like your internet provider, gmail,...).
Can't trademark "mail."
When there are stupid lawsuits about "lindows" or "wxwindows" (IIRC, it was only a threat in the latter case), I can only wonder...
I think that the "messages" column, combined with the folders column (Inbox,...) eats too much width.
Oh, and the cancel button is too close to "attach" drop-down in the compose mode. Especially in the compose mode : now you've written a long message and want to attach some file... oops !
Also I hope (naively ?) that those big banners on the top and left are only in the beta version.
About the name (mail^beta) : Does that mean that MS trademarked the "mail" word ? Are they voluntarily mimicking Google (sorry, "innovating":) ) by the use of that "beta" ?:)
If MSIE had approximately 97% usage at it's peak, and FireFox is now close to 8%, how could most of FireFox's market share come from Mozilla browsers and Opera?
Just looking at the source doesn't give me a headache anymore though
BUT ! If you can read Slashdot using Telnet, it's not Slashdot anymore !
On a little more serious note, however, sections could be ordered in a better way for lynx / links users (like, login to the top, advertisements to the bottom;)
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when you move [...] to an unsupported configuration, you lose support
:)
Huh, so you don't get support on what is unsupported ? Incredible !
Well, it is more of a hack than a documented feature. POSIX forbids it, and (therefore) it doesn't work on all OSes (seems it is GNU-specific).
You better don't use it.
Curiously, the french ln(1) manpage is more verbose and gives more details than the english one...
I agree to some extent.
But... A database is a file system, and a filesystem is a database.
You're in fact opposing hierarchical data organization to relational data organization.
I suppose Reiser4 is the way to go...
Only problem being that you can't hard link to a file on a different filesystem.
AND you can't hard link a directory.
Any program that deletes files ought to be vaguely symlink aware, as you need to know whether you are following and deleting stuff under symlinks or not.
In fact, these are different issues, I suppose it needs some I/O programming background.
When opening a file, that is :
int open(const char *pathname, int flags);
You don't care if pathname is a symlink or not : you're accessing "the real data"
When deleting a file :
int unlink(const char *pathname);
You're deleting the symlink if pathname points to a symlink.
When deleting a directory :
int rmdir(const char *pathname);
Deletion won't work if pathname points to a symlink : a symlink is always a file, even when pointing to a directory.
Therefore you might say, I need to this point to know if this is a directory or a symlink ! Right, but you also need to know if this a directory or a file in the first place ! So you use stat for all that :
int stat(const char *file_name, struct stat *buf);
In other words, when modifying a file, you don't need to know at all if a pathname points to a file or a symlink.
When doing file management, you need to, but you're checking anyway because of the file / directory difference.
What about evilwm or 9wm as a window manager ?
;)
And why do you need a bloated X server at all if you only need mutt and pork ?
When asked which other products and services Microsoft would host, another Microsoft insider said, 'Everything. Hosted Office. Everything hosted.
But isn't that insider a newly hired, "lower-level business person" who did not understand the company's obligations ?
1: Porn sites
;)
2: Spam sites
3: Spyware sites
4: Scamming sites
5: Warez sites
What are the differences between these five ?
You also forgot ad-serving sites between 5 and 6.
It's not because you have an ad-blocker that they don't exist
since it still wouldn't make Wine apps look like other X apps.
What is the X app look ? AFAIK, there is no such thing.
There are at least a dozen of toolkits (like gtk, qt, gnustep, wxwidgets, tcl/tk...), each one with its own look.
A true X app looks like... what ? xfig ?
Is this Bill's Birthday or something ?
Mmh... close, he's born on Oct. 28, 1955.
We're getting msdot today, what happened to googledot ?
> do you really think that "they" have a database they could reference to find out what printer serial number goes to what citizen?
They don't. However, if you're into things like (say) counterfeiting banknotes, and the FBI raids your home upon some suspicion, they can get the link between the counterfeited money and your printer, so there's proof against you.
Can we at least omit the accented 'a'? Or do we have to learn Unicode to meet Slashdot's strict level of posting standards?
Ahem. Accented a is part of ISO-8859-1, which I suppose you're using. Only your keyboard lacks accents.
man iso-8859-1 : "à" is \340 (octal), or decimal 224, so with MS-Windows alt-224 should work.
In the American system, there are still numerous parties, it's just that the coalitions are permanent, and you vote for the coalitions.
Well, I was unaware of that.
it's just that the coalitions are permanent
Division pretty much guarantees defeat.
Agreed, because there is one single turn. There are also occasionally coalitions here (in France), but mostly for other elections than the presidential one.
Having a second turn allows more choice, sometimes early favorites are losing a lot of voices later.
Both the Democrats and the Republicans represent a range of differing views that would be quite unusual in a single European political party
Not true. It's because you (and me) only get simplifications of foreign politics (and often don't care).
If one party becomes weak, the stronger party tends to split along ideological faultlines as the differing groups see a chance to put their own policies into action.
Happens here too. More specifically about the presidential election, it happens that a party forks because some head hasn't been elected to be te official candidate. In other words, because of personal ambitions.
This tends to push both parties towards the center, which I personally regard as a good thing.
I somewhat disagree. How do you define "center" ? I would call that uniformization, so it becomes gradually more pointless to choose between grey. I think a greater range of ideologies could only provide benefits : "mainstream" parties could then borrow good ideas from other ideologies.
However, I agree that most of the time, it's candidate that is the most towards center (in speek / promises) who gets elected, because he grabs some votes from "the other party".
---
Now my point is that you get your system (with two super-coalitions) because of the voting system. Other voting systems are getting other political organizations.
And, IMHO, a single turn indirect voting system is particularily bad.
French senators are indirectly elected (by mayors), and AFAIK the senate is right-wing from the start of the fifth republic. Hopefully, it has less power than the legislative assembly. However it works reverse for the european institutions (parliament, directly elected, has less power than commission / council), so I wouldn't say europeans institutions are truly democratic.
And a single turn results in only a few coalitions being represented.
But in the end, every democratic system tends to despotism... (don't remember who's the author of that idea)
The winner-takes-all nature of the American political system makes it almost impossible for third parties to get anywhere even if they do have money. Whether that's a feature or a bug is arguable.
Well, look, I just can say that the system don't work since 1876, they could have changed it by the time ? And it seems to me that the original system (1789-1800) was more democratic (not by the numbers, but by the constitution article).
I already did a post about that in June.
Voting methods like Schulze method used by Debian is better, but quite impractical for a large number of voters.
Two-turns elections like practiced in France for presidential elections seems to me a quite good compromise.
I'm pretty sure that will be customizable. If UI is not, then Kahuna has big problems.
:) However, I would think that a lot of people wouldn't use a webmail with such invasive ads, when there is so much choice around (like your internet provider, gmail, ...).
Not so sure it will... How do you customize GMail UI for instance? I know it's technically doable, but I'm unaware of a webmail currently implementing that.
Cancel will require positive confirmation, just like it does in other email apps.
Webmails usually don't (I suppose it's because they don't have dialog boxes). I use 2 webmails that do not, and just checked with gmail : it doesn't either, but at least it allows you to "undelete".
Very naively.
Yeah, I know
Can't trademark "mail."
When there are stupid lawsuits about "lindows" or "wxwindows" (IIRC, it was only a threat in the latter case), I can only wonder...
I think that the "messages" column, combined with the folders column (Inbox,...) eats too much width.
:) ) by the use of that "beta" ? :)
Oh, and the cancel button is too close to "attach" drop-down in the compose mode. Especially in the compose mode : now you've written a long message and want to attach some file... oops !
Also I hope (naively ?) that those big banners on the top and left are only in the beta version.
About the name (mail^beta) : Does that mean that MS trademarked the "mail" word ? Are they voluntarily mimicking Google (sorry, "innovating"
They were supposed to document all api's and make them available. Anyone think he's referring to something else besides hidden api's?
:)
No, they're referring to all those holes and backdoors they've intentionally put and that "third parties" are yet unaware of.
Since Brittany will not be able to pay, the RIAA should be granted the right to harvest Brittany's organs.
:)
Are you talking about Briteny Spears organs ? So she's not a bot singer after all ?
(Must resist about this organs pun...)
I suggest you try chattr +a+i+u to strengthen further your filesystem :)
97% + 8% != 100%
Seems they've used a bogus FPU :)
They've learned from "less is more"...
China is moving to 'centralize all China-based Web news and opinion under a state regulator,' the Wall Street Journal reports
:)
Isn't that yesterday news ? There was an opportunity for a dupe link...
Where's my dupe ?
Slashdot doesn't respect traditions those days, tss...
BUT ! If you can read Slashdot using Telnet, it's not Slashdot anymore !
On a little more serious note, however, sections could be ordered in a better way for lynx / links users (like, login to the top, advertisements to the bottom ;)
Could we change the section name to something more accurate like "Your Lefts Online" ?
Things sound more and more like Minipax, Miniluv...
Right, because we all know ESR is on the same level with those two guys because he's responsible for uh... What exactly did he do?
Just for the uninformed (sorry for ruining the joke...) :
Write / maintain software.
Write books, the most known being "The Cathedral and the Bazaar".
Direct from his homepage.