On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, at 10:14, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 09 August 2019 07:59:07 Bob Crochelt wrote:
>
> > Gene,
> > I’m scheduled for some heart rewiring myself. Good luck to the both of
> > us! Bob Crochelt
>
> My heart guy is out of the country till around Sept 1. So I'm takeing an
>
On Fri 09 Aug 2019 at 09:57:00 -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
> On 2019-08-09 at 09:46, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Étienne writes:
> >
> >> ...profanity...
> >
> > Profanity is a matter of context. As used in this discussion "shit"
> > is just a synonym for "manure".
>
> To be pedantic, "shit" isn'
John Hasler, on 2019-08-09:
> The Wanderer writes:
> > Profanity deals with matters religious.
>
> Originally, yes. The definitions of all three words have been broadened
> in common use so as to make them synonyms to most people.
That is without mentioning translations. The idea carried by
the
The Wanderer wrote:
> To be pedantic, "shit" isn't profanity in the first place; it's
> vulgarity.
>
> Profanity deals with matters religious.
>
> Obscenity deals with matters sexual.
>
> Vulgarity deals with matters involving other bodily functions, i.e.,
> primarily matters scatological.
>
>
The Wanderer writes:
> Profanity deals with matters religious.
Originally, yes. The definitions of all three words have been broadened
in common use so as to make them synonyms to most people.
Étienne writes:
> Interesting! If agreement there is on this definition, then this
> would explain the
On Friday 09 August 2019 07:59:07 Bob Crochelt wrote:
> Gene,
> I’m scheduled for some heart rewiring myself. Good luck to the both of
> us! Bob Crochelt
My heart guy is out of the country till around Sept 1. So I'm takeing an
extra half a 7.5gr warfarin pill a day to ward off another
clot/bloc
On 08/08/2019 03:12 PM, Curt wrote:
On 2019-08-08, Dan Ritter wrote:
I think you are missing the point: When someone asks a question on this
list, then that someone gets to decide what the question is.
To which Curt replied:
The questioner gets to decide what the question is, and the
answe
The Wanderer, on 2019-08-09:
> On 2019-08-09 at 09:46, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Étienne writes:
> >
> >> ...profanity...
> >
> > Profanity is a matter of context. As used in this discussion "shit"
> > is just a synonym for "manure".
>
> To be pedantic, "shit" isn't profanity in the first place; it
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 9:57 AM The Wanderer wrote:
>
> On 2019-08-09 at 09:46, John Hasler wrote:
>
> > Étienne writes:
> >
> >> ...profanity...
> >
> > Profanity is a matter of context. As used in this discussion "shit"
> > is just a synonym for "manure".
>
> To be pedantic, "shit" isn't profani
On 2019-08-09 at 09:46, John Hasler wrote:
> Étienne writes:
>
>> ...profanity...
>
> Profanity is a matter of context. As used in this discussion "shit"
> is just a synonym for "manure".
To be pedantic, "shit" isn't profanity in the first place; it's
vulgarity.
Profanity deals with matters r
tomás, on 2019-08-09:
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 12:24:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
[...]
> >My message was actually addressed to anyone
> > on the list, especially some writers with stronger language than
> > usual, but I can't recall you being part of this set. Yes, I
Étienne writes:
> ...profanity...
Profanity is a matter of context. As used in this discussion "shit" is
just a synonym for "manure".
--
John Hasler
jhas...@newsguy.com
Elmwood, WI USA
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 12:24:41PM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
[...]
> Good morning tomás,
>
> Sincere apologies if you took it personally,
No worries, I didn't. Not as an offense, by the least. No need
to apoligize.
> I did not intend to
> targe
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019, at 03:15, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Thursday 08 August 2019 18:01:01 ghe wrote:
>
> > On 8/8/19 4:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > > I also hear stories about people, using Raspberry Pi Systems as
> > > Servers.
> >
> > At least a 3+, on a T1, with a good UPS, well backed up,
> On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:12:22AM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> > tomás, on 2019-08-09:
> > > (Yes, and there's some hidden message in my seemingly OT comment,
> > > but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader ;-)
> >
> > Oh my ${DEITY}, once you see it, you cannot "un-see" it...
> >
> >
On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 11:12:22AM +0200, Étienne Mollier wrote:
> tomás, on 2019-08-09:
> > (Yes, and there's some hidden message in my seemingly OT comment,
> > but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader ;-)
>
> Oh my ${DEITY}, once you see it, you cannot "un-see" it...
>
> It sounds like
tomás, on 2019-08-09:
> (Yes, and there's some hidden message in my seemingly OT comment,
> but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader ;-)
Oh my ${DEITY}, once you see it, you cannot "un-see" it...
It sounds like a good opportunity to recall the code of conduct
of the list; in addition to o
[...]
> No,
> I am helping the OP. As one wise man said once: from shit you can make only
> shit [...]
This wise man didn't know about agriculture, then.
(Yes, and there's some hidden message in my seemingly OT comment,
but I'll leave that as an exercise to the reader ;-)
Nevermind, cheers
--
On Thursday 08 August 2019 18:01:01 ghe wrote:
> On 8/8/19 4:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> > I also hear stories about people, using Raspberry Pi Systems as
> > Servers.
>
> At least a 3+, on a T1, with a good UPS, well backed up, and with
> clones of hardware and software near at hand. And runni
On 8/8/19 4:39 AM, Kenneth Parker wrote:
> I also hear stories about people, using Raspberry Pi Systems as Servers.
At least a 3+, on a T1, with a good UPS, well backed up, and with clones
of hardware and software near at hand. And running Debian.
Under those conditions, they do just fine.
--
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> You might theoretically be helping millions of others reading along who
> appreciate your continued inout about a derived subject - but it is more
> sensible to me, and more visible to those who want that help, if you
> change the subject line to match your derived topic.
On 2019-08-08, Dan Ritter wrote:
>>
>> I think you are missing the point: When someone asks a question on this
>> list, then that someone gets to decide what the question is.
>
> Sure. But they also bear the burden of communicating precisely
> what it is that they are asking for, and accepting
My experience with Linux forums over the years is that more effort is spent
trying to find reasons to call people asking questions lazy and stupid (or
dissing Windows/Windows users when the OP never even mentioned either) than
actually helping them.
So far this mailing list is below average on tha
Quoting deloptes (2019-08-08 17:13:03)
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Reading the whole initial post (not only first half) is good too ;-)
>
> But please, I tried to make the statement more precise, cause the
> first half contradicts the second. Of course you could use any
> hardware that runs li
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Indeed.
>
> Reading the whole initial post (not only first half) is good too ;-)
But please, I tried to make the statement more precise, cause the first half
contradicts the second. Of course you could use any hardware that runs
linux as a server, but putting those dema
Quoting Dan Ritter (2019-08-08 16:19:37)
> Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Question was not "please advice on buying what you consider a
> > server" but "please advice on buying what original poster considers
> > a server".
>
> A bit of elucidation was in order, since to many people "server
> hard
Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-08-08 12:39:35)
> > On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> >
> > > deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > > > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as
> > > > server:
> > >
> > >
> > > I have observed that contributor
On Thursday, August 08, 2019 04:50:31 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server:
>
>
> I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency
> to fall in two categories:
>
> - those who try to unders
Quoting Kenneth Parker (2019-08-08 12:39:35)
> On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote:
>
> > deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as
> > > server:
> >
> >
> > I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a
> > tendency
On Thu, Aug 8, 2019, 4:50 AM Nicolas George wrote:
> deloptes (12019-08-08):
> > Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server:
>
>
> I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency
> to fall in two categories:
>
> - those who try to understand what th
deloptes (12019-08-08):
> Well strictly speaking two different things are referred as server:
I have observed that contributors on this mailing-list have a tendency
to fall in two categories:
- those who try to understand what the original poster says in order to
reply in the most helpful mann
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