On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:56:39 +, Matthijs Benschop wrote:
> Op Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:58:21 +, schreef walt:
>
>
>> Have you used strace before? It's pretty simple to run, not so easy to
>> interpret the output sometimes...
> Okay, done that. The output is at
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~be
walt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:31:26
+:
> Still, it was a practice up with which she did not put. I see that in
> my last reply to Duncan I typed "it's" to indicate the possessive. One
> more whack on the knuckles for me.
Most of t
Joe Zeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted
[EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:35:26
-0700:
> You are right, however, that it's wrong, a sentence to end, a
> preposition with.
I never groked this particular part (referring to the subthread) of
English (or apparently, enough Engl
I've stopped, backtraced, continued, many times (during the freeze) and
the following is typical.
Program received signal SIGINT, Interrupt.
0xb7abba62 in g_type_check_instance_is_a () from
/usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0
(gdb) bt
#0 0xb7abba62 in g_type_check_instance_is_a () from
/usr/lib/lib
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:46:32 +, Duncan wrote:
> GL's suggestion, I think, was that it was just taking the time to sort
> all those headers, and there wasn't a lot that could be done about it.
Yes, I think Pan needs the time, but that doesn't quite mean there's
no fix. If the problem is the
[ I thought I had made this reply to the list, but I now realize I
sent it only to walt. This web mail doesn't seem to honor Reply-To.
So, try again... ]
Quoting walt:
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:46:32 +, Duncan wrote:
...
GL's suggestion, I think, was that it was just taking the time to s
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 09:35:26 -0700, Joe Zeff wrote:
> Better, of course, would be to say, "Look, lady, in that context, it's
> not a preposition, it's a particle and there's nothing wrong with ending
> a sentence with a particle. You are right, however, that it's wrong, a
> sentence to end, a pr
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 15:56:03 +, Greg Lee wrote:
> ...The sentence of mine that you
> incorrectly criticized is like that -- "pan" is a noun phrase consisting
> of the single proper noun "pan".
Okay, okay, both of you are correct -- your sentence was grammatically
correct and that particular '
Op Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:58:21 +, schreef walt:
> Have you used strace before? It's pretty simple to run, not so easy to
> interpret the output sometimes. Example: use 'top' to find the process
> that's using up the cpu, and then start strace like this: #strace -p
> pid-of-greedy-process
> a
On 08/05/2008 Steven D'Aprano wrote:
[...]
> > (Oh crap, now my old teacher
> > would whack my knuckles for ending a sentence with a preposition.)
I hope you would say, "Listen up you old biddy, if ending sentences
with
prepositions was good enough for Chaucer, Shakespeare and Milton, to
say
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:31:26 +, walt wrote:
> 4. (Gram.) The noun to which a relative refers; as, in the
> sentence "Solomon was the prince who built the temple," prince is the
> antecedent of who.
> [1913 Webster]
That is not a great definition for grammatical antecedent,
since it (the de
On Wed, 6 Aug 2008 12:31:26 am walt wrote:
> I see that in
> my last reply to Duncan I typed "it's" to indicate the possessive.
> One more whack on the knuckles for me.
Heh, I can agree with that one. My wife is constantly throwing things at
me for making the same mistake :-)
--
Steven
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On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 23:06:41 +1000, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:35:51 am walt wrote:
>> ...
>> My old 7th grade English teacher would now rap you on your knuckles
>> with a ruler, shouting "Antecedent! Antecedent!"
> Antecedent? As in, "A preceding occurrence or cause or even
On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 05:46:32 +, Duncan wrote:
> ...
> GL's suggestion, I think, was that it was just taking the time to sort
> all those headers, and there wasn't a lot that could be done about it.
> I don't believe that's the case, because it's not behaving that way for
> everyone, and where
On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 10:35:51 am walt wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Aug 2008 00:03:33 +, Greg Lee wrote:
> > On Mon, 04 Aug 2008 21:58:21 +, walt wrote:
> >> ... Because pan is stuck in a loop somewhere, ...
> >
> > In my opinion, you guys are spinning your wheels. Because pan is
> > not stuck (if I'
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