Posts by jake

Re: Easily solved

Unfortunately, the Mexicans don't want them either.

Thankfully, the problem will be gone in under two years. We can wait.

Re: Crazy

Not a petulant child. Rather, a senile old man. And getting worse, from what I can see. Sadly, his wife is no Nancy ...

Re: I guess it's a good time

That's odd ... on this system, /usr/bin/alpine is only about 4.7M ...

Re: I guess it's a good time

How can it be complete when you only posted a sample of one?

Re: Much-adored Linux toolkit...

If you miss /etc/rc.local (or /etc/rc.d/rc.local), then switch to a distro that is still sane. It's not exactly rocket surgery.

Re: I guess it's a good time

Or Slackware.

Re: Bit late with this prediction

Horsemen? The only one of those three who can ride is Putin. And from the video I've seen, he's really, really bad at it. Critters don't like people like that, and they show it. We, as humans, could learn a lot from critters. For example, how many US Presidents can you name who didn't have a pet in the Whitehouse?

Re: He knows when you are sleeping...

"Santa is an anagram of SATAN"

Of course. Have you ever seen Saint Nick and Old Nick in the same room together? Do the math(s).

Who would YOU pick as the patron saint for the holiday best known for hedonism, libertinism, decadence and debauchery?

Re: The so-called "beast" of Revelation was an STD ...

But Ken, we live in the Computer Age! Shirley you have copious free time?

(My view on "gawd/ess" is that I just plain don't know. If there really is another side, I'll claim ignorance. It's not as if such a supposed entity has made any kind of effort to make itself known to me in any way, shape or form. What am I supposed to do, guess? What if I guess wrong? If I decide to worship the gawd of the New Testament, I'll be deep in sixteen kinds of shit if the gawd of the Old Testament is the one that rules the roost ... and that's just the Xtian side of things. What if I go the Jewish route, only to discover that Mictlāntēcutli is in charge of the afterlife? Etc.)

Re: Dial 5 for sadomasochism...

Geoffrey W wonders: "Don't we count?"

Covered under "like-minded adults".

Re: Dial 5 for sadomasochism...

Not a Furry, a Feathery.

Re: The so-called "beast" of Revelation was an STD ...

It has been disputed, yes. But when you filter John's other writings through a brain being eaten alive by syphilis, the style becomes almost unmistakable.

Re: Dial 5 for sadomasochism...

That's up to the other people, silly!

Re: Lost in translation

As a side note to my fellow Yanks: Please note that "petrol lamp" does NOT translate as "gas light". Hopefully this revelation comes in handy to someone, somewhere, eventually.

Re: Lost in translation

So-called "smart" phones as a physical Faustian representation?

The word all y'all are looking for is a long, drawn-out "OK".

Re: Dial 5 for sadomasochism...

What you and other like-minded adults do in the privacy of your home is of no concern to me ... as long as it doesn't frighten the children and animals.

Re: Free! For up to three collaborators!

WOW! You sure invented a lot of stuff that I didn't say ... and then replied to it. There's probably a word for that ...

(Yes, I made my own septic systems. Kind of mandatory when you live in a place without a public sewer to tie into. It's not exactly rocket surgery.)

Re: That didn't take very long.

It would indeed be interesting to see actual stats. Somehow, I really doubt the owners are willing to release anything meaningful. And that in itself is a worry, from a FOSS standpoint.

Re: As ever

Yeah, but JDX, that doesn't alter the fact that MS tends to destroy everything it touches. We've all seen it over and over again, decade after decade. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice ...". Why apologize for a company which you know gives you hives on a regular basis, but otherwise doesn't give a flying fuck about you, yourself, personally?

Re: Free! For up to three collaborators!

"Lots and lots and LOTS of big name companies started out as 3 guys coding in their basements."

With a single server sitting in the corner, running one version or another of a source code control system. The ones that actually became "big name" understood the concept of "off-site backup"; one of they three took a floppy home each eveningmorning.

Seriously, when did taking control of your own shit become out of fashion?

Yes.

Paul 195

There is a fundamental flaw with your theory. Can you spot it?

Re: Not impressed

"virii" is properly pronounced "viruses".

See the FAQ, section F, question 3.

Variation on the theme (was: Re: Same here)

40 years ago, my brother bought a house in Ukiah, California. Somehow, he managed to keep the telephone number that the prior owner had owned ... something about limited numbers at the exchange. To this day, he gets occasional snail-mail advertising and telephone calls addressed to the original owner. And that's from the old, unconnected world!

Kind of makes me wonder how long the data facebook, google, ms, amazon, apple, etc. is going to be valid (and sell-able!), especially after a fair percentage of it becomes staler than last month's bread. Methinks a good deal of it is already quite stale ... What's the critical percentage of stale to valid before it's useless? Or do marketing "geniuses" care about that kind of thing?

Re: The downward spiral to the ground is well underway.

We were doing manpower reports on 13 column pads long before VisiCalc existed.

Re: I had the opposite

Out o'curiosity, why would one hoard karma? To do so would be bad karma, no? And, almost by definition, the result would be pretty much exponential, Shirley. Sort of like a ball of shit rolling down a hill of shit, becoming a larger ball of shit of ever increasing size.

Yes, in school.

Cubberly High School in Palo Alto had access to Stanford's computers. Pre-Internet. They extended that access to a few of us kids at the across-the-parking-lot Greendell Elementary. Wilbur, the Jr. High that most kids went to between Greendell and Cubberly, had an HP machine (I can't remember what it was) and access to Stanford. I started playing with compiler source in my early teens.

THAT said, when I referenced "school" earlier, I meant Uni ... which is a school, no matter how you look at it. (Yes, I know the difference in lingo across the pond. I usually make allowances for this, to avoid confusion.)

"I started with Fortran 77. There was no heap, and there was no stack."

Not in the language. Perhaps[0]. The compiler is a whole 'nuther kettle o'worms. (Ask yourself "Why isn't Fortran self-compiling?")

[0] I prefer vi vs EMACS, more scope for argument :-)