ey know they're now in.
These are particularly dedicated individuals who feel that their
message must be heard under any circumstances.
https://xkcd.com/386/
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | "Some of you may die,
\ /| but it's a sacrifice
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | I'm willing to make."
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lord Farquaad (Shrek)
once a day or so. I've just replaced
nouveau with the nVidia driver (version 390.143). So far,
so good. I'm hoping my machine will become stable once again.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs |
\ /| "Alexa, define 'bugging'."
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus |
/ \ if you read it the right way. |
er locking up.
Replacing it with nVidia's proprietary driver corrected
that problem, so I've been wary of nouveau ever since.
But if your graphics card overheats, it doesn't matter
which driver you're running. :-)
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictat
o know what a man
really is, give him power. This is the supreme test.
It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute
power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy.
-- Robert Ingersoll
(The first part is often misattributed to Lincoln.)
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
>oIvioIAgPGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuZGViaWFuLm9yZyIgdGFyZ2V0PSJfYmxhbmsiPmh0
>dHBzOi8vd3d3LmRlYmlhbi5vcmc8L2E+DQrioIjioLPio4TioIDioIDioIDioIAgDQo8L3ByZT48
>L2Rpdj48L2Rpdj48L2Rpdj48L2Rpdj48L2Rpdj4NCg==
>--b6123b05ce02888b--
You've just done it. :-)
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | I could
/
Am I the only one who sees the irony in all this? We're living
in an era where the so-called "woke" generation is taking offence
at every perceived slight or sign of racial or sexual discrimination,
however minor. Yet these same people are eagerly leaving behind the
On Tue Nov 30 11:54:48 2021 Jonathan Dowland
wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 28, 2021 at 11:54:16AM -0800, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> Am I the only one who sees the irony in all this? We're living
>> in an era where the so-called "woke" generation is taking offence
>&g
rea, where Apple systems display
> the Apple logo. I got as far as importing the swirl graphic into a
> OTF format font. I should pick it up!)
Fun.
>> Again, my apologies.
>
> No problem. Thank you,
Glad I could smooth the waters.
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Li
ce name...
If I select 1 (HDA NVidia), all I get are a couple of mute switches
labeled "S/PDIF" and "S/PDIF 1". I've turned them both on.
Any suggestions as to where to go from here?
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
(My favourite riposte from the PC 1.0 era is "s/h/it".)
IMHO "they" is plural. Period. If we want genderless pronouns (and
I agree that we seem to need them) we should create something new,
rather than indulging in a grotesque form of operator overloading.
http
7;t mediated (and monitored)
by multinational corporations. Matrix sounds like it's worth
checking out. To paraphrase Ted Nelson in his 1974 book
_Computer Lib_ (back then he was talking about IBM):
Facebook is not a necessary evil.
Facebook is not necessary.
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /| Apple is a cult.
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.
between USA and USSR was
> that in USSR the population knew that it was propaganda.
Under capitalism, man exploits man.
Under communism, it's just the opposite.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
you gurus suggest what it might be?
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
Further to my 20-30 second delay when firing up slrnpull:
Here are some of your responses and my replies:
On Wed Mar 24 13:08:20 2021 wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 23, 2021 at 10:32:27PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>> [contents of /etc/resolv.conf -> /run/NetworkManager/resolv.conf]
>&
gled machines to work
as a slave, rather than a master, please share your secrets.
aTdHvAaNnKcSe...
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft
\ /| has stolen their car and parked
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | a taxi in their driveway.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Mayayana
out yet. Oh well, worst case I can
scan to a thumb drive. It does that well - and fast.
Apologies for the intrusion.
No worries. Thanks for the note. I'm hoping to find time this
weekend to try out some of the things that have come through on
the list. I'll post a summary of my r
On 2021-04-02 10:56 a.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Emboldened by this, I went into the advanced options
and turned on "Continuous scan", then dropped in the
first part of a 300-page manual. Once the sheets
were scanned, the scanner asked me whether I had
more; I put in the next bundle
On Sat Apr 3 16:42:15 2021 John Boxall wrote:
> On 2021-04-03 1:00 p.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On 2021-04-02 10:56 a.m., Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>> the error message. I forget the exact wording, but it
>> was pretty specific about the USB device being full,
"Endian", not "Indian".
8080 One little,
8085 Two little,
8086 Three little-endians
8088 Four little,
80186Five little,
80286Six little-endians
80386Seven little,
80386SX Eight little,
80486Nine little-endians
Pentium DIVIDE ERROR
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/~\ Charli
On Sat May 8 12:04:42 2021 Gene Heskett wrote:
> Regretably, that leaves the printer itself, have you tried another?
I happen to have a KX-P1124 gathering dust. If you need another,
it's yours for the price of shipping.
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don'
information on how to do this?
-- --
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft
\ /| has stolen their car and parked
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | a taxi in their driveway.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Mayayana
possibility - v4l2-ctl identifies the tuner,
composite, and S-Video inputs on my card. So far, though,
mpv just shows noise. I'll continue puttering...
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king on a file that
xv likes with the Gimp is one good way to make a file it doesn't
like.)
The latest version I've been able to find is 3.10a. Is there a
newer version out there that can handle all JPEGs?
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rite the video to a file. I tried adding the other parameters
you mentioned above, starting with -ovc, but I get the message:
Unable to open '/dev/dsp': No such file or directory.
It's really upset about this; the message appears three times.
And indeed, /dev/
On Fri May 28 16:18:42 2021 Dan Ritter wrote:
> Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> Note the "Audio: no sound" line. I still have to figure that one out
>> to get beyond silent movies. Any hints?
>
> Yes: composite video doesn't carry audio at all. Your VCR has
&
On Sat May 29 14:58:54 2021 Dan Ritter wrote:
> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>
>> On Vi, 28 mai 21, 17:00:37, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>
>>> Presumably the Hauppauge card has an audio encoder somewhere;
>>> I just have to find it. "ls -l /dev/ds*&q
of your computer.
Is the connector blue? It's a convention to make USB 3.0 connectors
blue, while USB 2 connectors aren't. My machine has a mix.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0
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/~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs)
\ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the
ISP provides for a basic 10 megabaud
> connection.
Our ISP (Telus) recently decided to get out of the e-mail and web
hosting business. All e-mail accounts have been transferred (e-mail
addresses and all) to Google. I believe the appropriate term is
"sold down the river".
I was doing e
everyone's time, and 4) creates a power hungry mob of zealots
> looking to dismantle any word they deem offensive (e.g. paper
> machete).
Paper machete?
> It's amazing how many people have bought into the corporatization
> of the Internet.
I'll leave the growth of the cor
the sides of web pages, none of them are aimed at me
>
> The same here. So maybe I have developed some skills obscuring my
> "profile" to "them", or (maybe more likely) I am just too dumb to
> realize that those ads *are* in fact targeted at me :-)
If they&#
humility to fly safely.
As for me, I'm content to stay with my Cessna 172,
and work to keep my instrument flying skills sharp.
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
On Thu Jul 15 12:42:45 2021 Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Mi, 14 iul 21, 08:02:19, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On Tue Jul 13 16:50:38 2021 Michael Lange
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 13 Jul 2021 21:25:17 +0100
>>> Joe wrote:
>>>
>>> (...)
&
t;Subway" v. "underground" comes to mind.
>
> Subway (US) vs Underground (UK) v Metro (Canada)
s/Canada/France/
The only Canadian subway referred to as "Metro" is the one in
Montreal. I've never heard a Torontonian refer to their subway
that way. And in Vancouver
king changes, deleting the original file, and
renaming the work file to the original file's name runs the
risk of failure if the deletion doesn't take effect before
the rename, which will then fail. It doesn't happen often,
but if you have a program that
t's worth) when I'm not using it; this reduces
load on the system and might even help security a little bit.
However, if this is a non-negotiable item for you, and the problem is
with Firefox, I suggest you either take the discussion to a Firefox
forum or just learn to live with it.
--
ill be served via plain HTTP.
>
> If you can't think of one, try http://www.plainwebsite.com
When I try that one, I get re-routed to https://www.buydomains.com.
My go-to in this situation is http://neverssl.com
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
pdate if
> I have to.
>
> So what suggestions does anyone have for dealing with OAUTH2 access
> to gmail?
Find another mail host.
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/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft
\ /| has stolen their car and parked
X I'm really at ac.dekanfru
On Fri Mar 4 11:30:12 2022 Christian Britz wrote:
> On 2022-03-04 18:30 UTC+0100, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
> Find another mail host.
>
> And you could find a mail client which correctly replies to messages.
> ;-)
Actually, I'm not reading this list with a mail client at
relatives
can share them using whatever Apple mechanism they prefer.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
ements constructured?
>
> Much of it is security theater.
I'll remember that phrase.
> Someone (TM) up the chain can tick the checkbox "password security
> enforced". Then, the Rest of the Web (TM) goes forth and cargo-cults
> that, because that's h
the laptop I read news on had its battery
run down overnight. Normally this isn't a problem; it's always
successfully cleaned up the file systems on re-boot. Searching the web
for "slrn server read failed" draws a blank. Any suggestions where to
look next?
--
/~\ Charl
d a problem
> with it truncating contents to zero.
I was hoping that there was an slrn guru who could explain all this.
Oh well, I've been meaning to upgrade my laptop to Bullseye -
maybe it's time to nuke slrn and re-install it from scratch.
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
r up the spool for
> the groups, so you'd need to see if that actually works or not.
Again, my issue is not with the spool, but why slrn seems to
be trying to bypass it and access the server directly. Unless
that "server read failed" message is a red herring...
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in, thanks to everyone.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
very_ large
grain of salt.
We, the unwilling, led by the unknowing, are doing the
impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much,
for so long, with so little, we are now qualified
to do anything with nothing.”
-- Konstantin Josef Jireček
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs
osoft has its own suite. Apple has at least a client. SMB is
> also known as CIFS (Common Internet File System, I think).
Another alternative is NFS. When my wife wants to get at my music
library, she runs a script I put on her Mac to do an NFS mount on
my Linux box.
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
t; troubleshooting tips around the Net.
Those are all good tips. One more thing: are you running xscreensaver?
As wonderful as it is, it is notoriously unforgiving of poorly-written
drivers. I have nVidia graphics cards, and for some time I was getting
all sorts of lockups using the nouveau driver
sor, are refurbished ThinkPads I bought there
for about $300. They run Linux just fine.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | They don't understand Microsoft
\ /| has stolen their car and parked
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | a taxi in their driveway.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Mayayana
.
Let's hope you're luckier than that.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | but it won't.
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lily Tomlin
My sentiments exactly.
>
> Yahoo mail is broken. I encourage Mr. Wind to get another mail reader.
If someone can't be bothered to take the time to write a readable
message, I can't be bothered to take the time to decipher it.
As for Outlook, I've been told that the correc
ance,
when Samba was first developed to allow non-Windows machines to
access Windows file shares, Microsoft changed their software to
deliberately send an invalid command. If the error message returned
wasn't worded exactly the way they expected, they would refuse to
work. Thanks to the open source community, a Samba patch was issued
within a few days so that it would spoof the expected response.
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
dn't have
time to make it shorter. And some, I'm sad to say, are a deliberate
effort at obfuscation: an old trick long used by politicians to keep
the electorate blissfully ignorant of their shenanigans, and now
adopted by some equally nefarious system designers.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs
;> of links to pages.
>
> Google? What /is/ that google thing people keep talking about?
I found out about it at https://www.duckduckgo.com
> ;-P
Back at ya, good buddy.
> Xmas, happy new and all that
And a happy Hanukkwanzaamas to you too.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs
0-7]: WB WC UC- UC WB WP UC-
WT
[0.012074] e820: update [mem 0xcff0-0x22bff] usable ==> reserved
[0.012080] WARNING: BIOS bug: CPU MTRRs don't cover all of memory,
losing 4800MB of RAM.
Is there some sort of HOWTO that covers this stuff? Where do I go from
her
[Sorry about the lack of threading - I read this list via its Usenet
group so I can't reply to the list.]
On Sun Feb 14 11:58:31 2021 "Alexander V. Makartsev"
wrote:
> On Sat Feb 13 16:44:34 2021 Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> [ 0.012080] WARNING: BIOS bug: C
teway ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2002ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.095/1.114/1.151/0.026 ms
What has happened to my routing and how can I restore it?
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
[Oops! Mistakenly replied to to...@tuxteam.de -
here's where it should have gone.]
On 30/08/19 03:42 PM, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 30, 2019 at 01:45:47PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> My laptop (a Lenovo T410 running Stretch) has suddenly lost the
>>
le: "dri3"
[28.509] (II) LoadModule: "dri2"
[28.509] (II) LoadModule: "present"
[32.436] (II) LoadModule: "libinput"
$ egrep -i " connected|card detect|primary dev|Setting driver"
/var/log/Xorg.0.log
[28.402] (II) intel(0): Using Kernel Mode Setting driver: i915,
version 1.6.0 20180719
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
ms in society that is really
> not the language.
Agreed. And resist the revisionist lexicographers.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /| Apple is a cult.
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | Linux is anarchy.
/ \ if you read it the right way. | Pick your poison.
+ssl +uudeview +iconv
Features: +decoding +emphasized_text +end_of_thread +fake_refs +gen_msgid
-grouplens -msgid_cache +piping +rnlock +spoilers -strict_from
Using 64 bit integers for article numbers.
DEFAULTS:
Default server object: nntp
Default posting mechanism: nntp
--
/~\
me intact. (Needless to say, though, I
back up /home regularly, plus /etc and /usr for good measure.)
BTW please don't top-post. Not all of us are Jeopardy fans.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictatorship.
\ /| Apple is a cult.
X I'm really at ac.de
come out properly on my machine. I read this list
through the newsgroup linux.debian.user, using slrn - and the "--\n"
from these two people comes through as --=20, hence is not recognized.
This probably has something to do with the fact that their messages
contain a "Conten
Linux file system (in my case ext4), and that gives it a performance edge.
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
r.
If you have a self-cleaning oven, I think they get up to 900F during
their cycle. Don't tell your wife. :-)
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
n"
returns "9.2". The failing laptop is still running a patched version of
Jessie; "cat /etc/debian_version" returns "jessie/sid". Both are 64-bit
systems.
Do I need to upgrade my laptop?
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
ot; does not return anything.
Try grep -i - it's officially spelled TiMidity++ because it was designed
to play MIDI files. (I see you're using BSD parameters to ps - that
should work, although since I was raised on SysV I say "ps -ef".)
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
ping the disk (e.g. with cfdisk) and starting from scratch?
(Probably - I should probably split /var into a separate partition
anyway.)
After this experience, I'm gun-shy about upgrading a system in place.
BTW is it ok to sudo apt-get, or should I su root and run it from an
actual root prompt?
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
On 02/07/18 12:55 AM, Curt wrote:
On 2018-07-01, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/.
apt-get autoclean doesn't help; neither does apt-get clean. When I
tried apt-get autoremove, the upgrade started, but at 99% completion it
ks quite well. A local shop sells refurbished ones for a good price.
IMHO ThinkPads are the only laptop with a keyboard worth using. (I'm a
fast touch typist - YMMV.)
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gZGVmYXVsdHMge0kgYXNzdW1lIGZvciBjYXVzZX0g
dG8gcHV0dGluZyBldmVyeSB0aGluZyBvbiA8YnI+b25lIHBhcnRpdGlvbi9kaXJlY3RvcnkuPGJy
Pjxicj5XaGVyZSBtYXkgSSByZWFkIGFib3V0IHByb3MvY29ucyA/PGJyPlRJQTxicj48YnI+PGJy
PjwvYm9keT48L2h0bWw+PC9kaXY+
--b1_9ab76127dcfcb2a8c0f2da8ca70a713c--
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
x27;s just slrn which is affected.
My .slrnrc is unchanged. What has happened to my colours? And more
importantly, how do I get them back to where they were?
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/~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs)
\ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way.
X Top-posted messa
On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
Recently I upgraded my laptop (a Lenovo T410) from Jessie to Stretch.
I almost have everything working again, but something puzzling (and
irritating) has happened to slrn. All the colours
On 18/07/18 05:20 PM, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 02:45:32PM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
On 18/07/18 11:05 AM, Dan Ritter wrote:
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:24:45AM -0700, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
What terminal program are you using? Is the behavior the same if you
fire up s
ments? (Colour and grayscale scans
work beautifully, but that's not what I need right now.) If all else
fails, is there another scanning package I could use in the meantime?
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm really
se xsane for colour and
grayscale scans.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | "Some of you may die,
\ /| but it's a sacrifice
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | I'm willing to make."
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lord Farquaad (Shrek)
T
Has anybody seen my gal?
She does the cutest tricks with her six
Stereo ears
When she walks by, spacemen cry
'Specially when she shifts her gears
If she's found, run like mad
Put her on a launching pad
Down at Cape Can-av-er-al
And shoot me back my
. I've looked at various Windows
programs, compiled by different compilers, and found one of the
following messages in the first 128 bytes:
This program must be run under Microsoft Windows.
This program must be run under Win32
This program cannot be run in DOS mod
I've found many references to this topic on the web,
the answers are confusing, conflicting, or oriented toward
PulseAudio rather than ALSA. Can someone help clear the air?
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Life is perverse.
\ /| It can be beautiful -
X I'm re
urns, and it's time
to set it aside for another day.
Thanks anyway, though. I've filed these notes for the next
time I have an hour or two to spare.
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | "Some of you may die,
\ /| but it's a sacrifice
X I'm really at ac.dekanfrus | I'm willing to make."
/ \ if you read it the right way. |-- Lord Farquaad (Shrek)
m - and one which the Evil Empire's browsers apparently manage
to circumvent somehow.
I'm using Seamonkey, BTW.
--
/~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs)
\ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way.
X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855.
/ \ HTML will DEFINITELY be ignored. Join the ASCII ribbon campaign!
;Sie" or "xie" or similar German-derived words just sound ridiculous
> and made-up, at least to those of us who don't speak German.
>
> Just try to do the best you can. Nobody has any good answers yet.
Back when all this Political Correctness silliness was getting started,
someone suggested "s/h/it".
--
/~\ cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid (Charlie Gibbs)
\ / I'm really at ac.dekanfrus if you read it the right way.
X Top-posted messages will probably be ignored. See RFC1855.
/ \ "Alexa, define 'bugging'."
o 20GB. Problem solved.
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
rs to
> initialize it for you.
This behaviour goes all the way back to the original
classic Mac in the mid-'80s; back then they would even
eagerly offer to format FAT16 disks created on an MS-DOS box.
Death to impure file systems!
--
/~\ Charlie Gibbs | Microsoft is a dictators
programming was often
> seen as a generalization of list processing.]
Complexity is a weapon. The KISS principle is a countermeasure.
Never forget that many people have a vested interest in complexity.
Empire-building politicians (corporate and otherwise) want larger
kingdoms to rule, and monopolistic corporations want nothing more
than to make systems so complicated that users can't use them
without becoming dependent on the latest app.
Simplify, simplify.
-- Thoreau
--
cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
27;m seeing in modern software. Even in Linux, many window managers'
file requesters don't provide a place where you can type a file
specification, requiring you to point and click your way up and
down directory trees to get to where you want to go.
I am a skilled touch typist, and
On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:10:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
wrote:
> On Du, 16 feb 20, 09:36:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 14:20:01 +0100 Andrei POPESCU
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Just use whatever works for you.
>>
>> If you can. I really resen
References:
On 2020-02-17 at 06:00:01, David Wright
wrote:
> On Sun 16 Feb 2020 at 13:03:05 (-0800), Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>
>> On Sun, 16 Feb 2020 21:10:01 +0100
>> Andrei POPESCU wrote:
>>
>>> On Du, 16 feb 20, 09:36:16, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>&g
bad brain.
However, someday Buster will be the stable release. A name is always
associated the the same release number. The one exception is "Sid",
which is always the unstable release. (Those of you who have seen _Toy
Story_ will know why.)
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
here between 2000 and XP and has
been going downhill ever since.)
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
On 14/01/18 03:00 AM, Steve McIntyre wrote:
> "I suspect most samba developers are already technically insane...
> Of course, since many of them are Australians, you can't tell."
> -- Linus Torvalds
It's probably the exposure to Windows that does it.
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
y."
"Out" means "My transmission is finished; I do not expect a reply."
One more distracting error... :-)
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
On 17/01/18 11:38 AM, Darac Marjal wrote:
On 17/01/18 02:17, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
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On 16/01/18 12:15 PM, david...@freevolt.org wrote:
Is there a natural law or something, that every email message sent
must contain at least one distracting error that is totally beside the
point?
Anyw
/dev/sr0 -x -B -O wav
I like ISO 9660 better than CD-DA. But it is always a good feeling when
the riddles get less and the insight grows.
My CD player, however, likes CD-DA much better. Insists on it,
actually. :-)
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x27;s escaped now, so please feel free. Here's hoping it's not badly
needed too often.
I'm still chuckling about "the entomological leviathan that is Windows."
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
alues.
Q: What's the difference between a sadist and a masochist?
A: A masochist says, "Beat me." A sadist says, "No."
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DuckDuckGo (https://duckduckgo.com), MapQuest
(https://www.mapquest.com), etc.
So do not think that we all here on the other side like google or facebook.
My machine is now a Google-free zone (and Facebook-free, etc.).
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
se it to scan using xsane, and after
setting it up in CUPS it prints with no problems. Dunno about Windows,
but my wife's Macbook accesses it just fine too.
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cgi...@surfnaked.ca (Charlie Gibbs)
g
which hashes to a given hash, which hasn't to resemble your original
password all too much). Usually you want this something to have
some properties to be useful.
But I don't think your operating system is going to do that behind
your back ;-)
Not if it's Linux, anyway...
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fluff on top of
something they really don't understand.
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mat, but ISO 8601 is apparently beyond
what its feeble mind can handle, and Excel leaves it alone.
A lot of my programming effort goes toward "Excel-proofing" my data.
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