Travis posted on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:18:35 -0700 as excerpted:
[quoting me]
>> my younger sister did far better, and actually took medicine in Mexico,
>> she's a doctor
>
> I usually take my medicine at home?
LOL!
Well, her home /was/ in Mexico (at least to the point that any medicine
she took
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my younger sister did far better, and
actually took medicine in Mexico, she's a doctor
I usually take my medicine at home?
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Petr Kovar posted on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 22:10:52 +0200 as excerpted:
> One might ask whether the new system was respectful to values of
> (traditional) family institution.
>
> Surely, a driving force behind these changes was completely different in
> the Eastern bloc when compared to the U.S. In th
Duncan, Thu, 5 Aug 2010 22:53:14 + (UTC):
(...)
> (FWIW, I use reiserfs and likely will continue to until btrfs stabilizes,
> and did have in mind all the work put into that, despite the unfortunate
> situation it's in with its namesake being a convicted murderer of his
> former wife -- ta
Alan Meyer, Thu, 5 Aug 2010 15:28:11 -0700 (PDT):
(...)
> The open source world tends to be very technology intensive,
> often with those other roles that are common in the broader
> information systems world, completely missing.
Exactly, and I think it's often harmful for open source communitie
Steven D'Aprano posted on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:22:48 +1000 as excerpted:
> On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:14:21 am Duncan wrote:
>
>> Hmm... perhaps putting it in terms Stallman might understand,
>> "Every abuse victim now has a lord, a master, that has the potential to
>> torment them for the rest of the
Steven D'Aprano posted on Fri, 06 Aug 2010 11:10:05 +1000 as excerpted:
> Because you think so little of your wife, daughter and female peers that
> you imagine that they can't cope with reminders that life is sometimes
> unpleasant?
No, because they shouldn't have to. Neither should anyone, for
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 06:14:21 am Duncan wrote:
> Hmm... perhaps putting it in terms Stallman might understand, given
> the quote below (tho the parallel isn't perfect and doesn't in this
> pseudoquote reflect the ability to, with work and time, master the
> former master)...
>
> "Every abuse victim
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 01:18:25 pm Alan Meyer wrote:
> Steven,
>
> Our postings have crossed in the ether. I didn't see this before
> posting a reply to your last one, and of course you hadn't seen
> my reply.
>
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > > Perhaps if more of us would transpose remarks like Stallma
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 12:33:22 pm Alan Meyer wrote:
> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > > http://img341.imageshack.us/i/qsoladvertisementps2.jpg/
> > >
> > > OK, I can see both sides of that one. As a guy, it's amusing,
> > > but offensive as well, because I can empathize with women.
> >
> > Why
Steven,
Our postings have crossed in the ether. I didn't see this before
posting a reply to your last one, and of course you hadn't seen
my reply.
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> > Perhaps if more of us would transpose remarks like Stallman's,
> > substituting our own favorite gender, religion, race,
Steven D'Aprano wrote:
...
> > http://img341.imageshack.us/i/qsoladvertisementps2.jpg/
> >
> > OK, I can see both sides of that one. As a guy, it's amusing, but
> > offensive as well, because I can empathize with women.
>
> Why on earth would it be *offensive*? It's empowering. It's
> about a wo
On Fri, 6 Aug 2010 04:37:33 am Alan Meyer wrote:
> I didn't expect that so many programmers would agree with
> Stallman. I hope it's just that they were the ones most
> motivated to write, and not that they're really in the majority.
>
> Perhaps if more of us would transpose remarks like Stallman
On Thu, 5 Aug 2010 04:06:59 pm Duncan wrote:
> This one's a well known classic from 2000. It's an ad for QSOL (a
> Linux server company now out of business, for the best, many would
> agree, after this, after the reaction they apologized and pulled the
> ad, but ran it again (!!) in 2007) that ap
Alan Meyer posted on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 15:28:11 -0700 as excerpted:
> It seems common in the U.S. information processing world to find men
> working on the technology and women working on the content.
>
> The open source world tends to be very technology intensive, often with
> those other roles t
Petr Kovar posted on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 22:48:05 +0200 as excerpted:
>> Their share of
>> the FLOSS community is lower as well, tho that may have to do as much
>> with opportunity in a formerly closed society as it does with
>> recognition/ monetary compensation priorities.
>
> Well, I live in one
Petr Kovar wrote:
> Duncan, Thu, 5 Aug 2010 06:06:59 + (UTC):
> ...
> > One of the topics of discussion (and alarm, in some quarters,
> > from both sides) in the FLOSS community (various talks at
> > conferences, articles on LWN and the like) has been the fact
> > that while women /do/ seem t
Duncan, Thu, 5 Aug 2010 06:06:59 + (UTC):
> walt posted on Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:12:20 -0700 as excerpted:
>
> >> to
> >> prevent the otherwise female assumption. Could/will that some day
> >> happen to computer coding? I don't know.
> >
> > It's already happening. I tune in occasionally to
Alan Meyer posted on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 11:37:33 -0700 as excerpted:
[quote from Stallman from my post]
>> "
>> [W]e also have the cult of the virgin of emacs. The virgin of emacs is
>> any female who has not yet learned how to use emacs. And in the church
>> of emacs we believe that taking her
Alan Meyer wrote:
> ...
> I read the exchange between David "Lefty" Schlesinger and Richard
> Stallman, and a fair number of the comments.
> ...
I should have quoted Duncan's citation to this exchange. Here it
is:
http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/EMACS_virgins_joke
--
Alan Meyer
amey...@y
Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:
<... Many interesting comments elided ...>
> One of the most recent (July, 2009 Gran Canaria Desktop
> Summit), and it's a shame it's only now being addressed as he's
> been making the references in public presentations for years,
> is the Richard M Stallman r
walt posted on Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:12:20 -0700 as excerpted:
>> to
>> prevent the otherwise female assumption. Could/will that some day
>> happen to computer coding? I don't know.
>
> It's already happening. I tune in occasionally to the video streams
> from M$ and Sun/Oracle and Adobe to list
On 08/04/2010 02:01 AM, Duncan wrote:
Thanks, Duncan. I always learn something interesting when you ramble off-
topic. (Which you do very rarely, of course.)
I think being forced to pick between he/she when referring to any arbitrary
person is simply a bad design decision by whoever invented
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 11:49:03 -0600, K. Haley wrote:
> On 8/3/2010 8:11 PM, Zing wrote:
>> On a whim, I tried making it the "default" by changing the "use-regex"
>> to "true" in preferences.xml, but I get a seg fault. Either I'm doing
>> it wrong or that's just not supported... yet. ;) Thanks!
>>
On 8/3/2010 8:11 PM, Zing wrote:
> On a whim, I tried making it the "default" by changing the "use-regex" to
> "true" in preferences.xml, but I get a seg fault. Either I'm doing it
> wrong or that's just not supported... yet. ;) Thanks!
>
Fixed on both master and testing.
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walt posted on Tue, 03 Aug 2010 16:43:04 -0700 as excerpted:
> On 08/03/2010 02:31 AM, Duncan wrote:
>
>> K Haley's the most obvious candidate given his community repo...
>
> Heh, interesting how perceptions differ in cyberspace. Ordinarily I
> wouldn't even mention this, but I've had a few gla
Petr Kovar posted on Wed, 04 Aug 2010 00:51:30 +0200 as excerpted:
> Thanks for pointing out that discussion. I couldn't resist and added a
> comment myself:
>
> https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=541676#c34
I'm CCed on the bug, and read that comment there before I saw the post
here, bu
On Tue, 03 Aug 2010 09:31:32 +, Duncan wrote:
> So now's the time to step up if anyone's interested or has any ideas of
> someone who might be. I think most of us would be fine with KHaley, and
+1!
> it's obvious from the comment that Charles is, but given that it's a
> volunteer position a
On Mon, 02 Aug 2010 15:54:05 -0600, K. Haley wrote:
> Rebuilt testing has:
> filtering on all headers for cached articles
> some fixes? to text handling in article pane
> bug424083: git based info in UA header & about dialog
> bug403797: allowing subject line use in save dialog
>
> Any comments?
On 08/03/2010 02:31 AM, Duncan wrote:
K Haley's the most obvious candidate given his community repo...
Heh, interesting how perceptions differ in cyberspace. Ordinarily
I wouldn't even mention this, but I've had a few glasses of wine and
my good judgement is obviously impaired.
AFAICR, K. ha
Hi!
Duncan, Tue, 3 Aug 2010 09:31:32 + (UTC):
> FWIW, it's official now (no longer speculation): Charles is now
> definitely looking for someone to take over pan maintainership. He's no
> longer interested, as he says he rarely if ever runs a news client any
> more.
>
> K Haley's the most o
walt posted on Mon, 02 Aug 2010 17:34:48 -0700 as excerpted:
> On 08/02/2010 02:54 PM, K. Haley wrote:
>> I've just moved some things from testing to master and rebuilt the
>> testing branch.
> >
>> Any comments?
>
> Yes indeed. Thank you! for contributing your skills to the pan project
> while
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