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...baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode irc >> channels seem to be rather quiet these days and the irc protocol generally >> seems to be on the way out. IRC is a bit of a poor show when compared to >> modern platforms like Slack and Mattermost. > > > Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/ > I raise your XKCD with another: https://xkcd.com/1810/ > I idle in #centos and #rhel and it doesn't seem particularly quiet. > Maybe it's the hours -- that wouldn't change with Slack or any > alternatives. > > -- > Jonathan Billings...

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> > Not enthused with slack. And here's a real question: were you talking > about *instead* of this mailing list? No, certainly not instead of. A mailing list is essential. I'm part of a few slack communities and it seems an excellent platform for realtime discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode irc channels seem to be rather quiet these days and

...t approximately 4:30pm, Pacific time) is approximately 1317857320 as a numeric, but I would like to know how to go from that number back to the "2011-10-05 16:28:39 PDT" date time class which originally generated it. Thanks! Mike --- XKCD <http://www.xkcd.com> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...a numeric index or the name. Without this ability to identify portions within an array / loop context, it becomes exceedingly difficult to work in "S4 land". How is this sort of thing done? Thank you! Mike --- XKCD <http://www.xkcd.com> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

....baggi at gmail.com> said: > you are right but is not UEFI a standard and it shouldn't work the > same on several vendors? I ask this because this patch broken all my > uefi workstations. The great thing about standards is there's so many to choose from! Also relevant: https://xkcd.com/927/ UEFI has gone through a number of revisions over the years, and has optional bits like Secure Boot (which itself has gone through revisions). Almost any set of standards has undefined corners where vendors interpret things differently. Vendors also have bugs in weird places sometimes....

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Hi there! I recently installed centos 8 on my laptop. I have the following problems 1. I tried the use the default evolution 3.28. The problem with 3.28 is that when i try to create an event i get the error "Failed to create an event in the calendar ?CalDAV : Calendar?" "Cannot create calendar object: Failed to put data: HTTP error code 400 (Bad Request)" 2.I tried

On 07/25/2015 11:45 AM, Jake Shipton wrote: > I think a better solution to suite both worlds would be to simply have a > boot flag on the installation media such as maybe > "passwordcheck=true/false" https://xkcd.com/1172/ It's practically a law that every time someone's workflow is broken, they request an option to change it. Personally, I'm against it. Putting a weak password into the installer *is* a request for a weak password. There's no reason to request a weak password twice (wi...

...Mike "Telescopes and bathyscaphes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, Some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleanic war: The most exciting frontier is charting what's already here." -- xkcd -- Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...> discourse and noob baiting. Very sadly the #centos and #rhel freenode irc > channels seem to be rather quiet these days and the irc protocol generally > seems to be on the way out. IRC is a bit of a poor show when compared to > modern platforms like Slack and Mattermost. Obligatory XKCD: https://xkcd.com/1782/ I idle in #centos and #rhel and it doesn't seem particularly quiet. Maybe it's the hours -- that wouldn't change with Slack or any alternatives. -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>

...lendar works fine! BUT cant use my yubikey to read my encrypted emails :-( > For some reason flatpak seems unable to work with smartcards. > Had the same issue with keepassxc and yubikey > Flatpacks are sandboxes to make sure that the rest of your account is secure from each other https://xkcd.com/1200/ . You have to configure what applications you want to be able to talk to your smart card or yubikey because just allowing anything to talk to them just leads to the xkcd. That said, I do not know how to do this. My systems are pre-flatpak so I have not dealt with this. > 3.My third...

...of error depends on the method and R version. Currently the ?"internal"?, ?"wininet"? and ?"libcurl"? methods will remove the file if there the URL is unavailable except when ?mode? specifies appending when the file should be unchanged. Obligatory xkcd: https://xkcd.com/293/ cheers Ben Bolker -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: rdiffs.txt URL: <https://stat.ethz.ch/pipermail/r-devel/attachments/20181009/d4f186fd/attachment.txt>

> Another reason is that a webbrowser is a lot more user friendly than > "man" on the commandline. But I understand opinions vary on this topic :-) When needed, I convert them to PDF with the help of Ghostscript, keeping all the nice formatting, with a small script I named "man2pdf": man -t $1 | ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/printer -r300 - > $1.pdf The single parameter

I thought list could use a laugh. http://xkcd.com/c149.html -- Tom Elsesser

I thought all you mongrelians might appreciate this: http://xkcd.com/327/ I haven''t laughed out loud at a comic in a while. I realize it''s a working group but I figure many here might get a laugh today out of this one. Steve

...Mike "Telescopes and bathyscaphes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, Some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleanic war: The most exciting frontier is charting what's already here." -- xkcd -- Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...Mike "Telescopes and bathyscaphes and sonar probes of Scottish lakes, Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse explained with abstract phase-space maps, Some x-ray slides, a music score, Minard's Napoleanic war: The most exciting frontier is charting what's already here." -- xkcd -- Help protect Wikipedia. Donate now: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Support_Wikipedia/en [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

...might have done that for 8-bit z80 code, but I've since learned that it is rarely worth getting that intimate with the hardware. > You can?t just wish it away by telling everyone to switch to Java, or JavaScript, or whatever else. All you?re going to do is create another ?standard? in the XKCD sense: > > https://xkcd.com/927/ Well no, at this point you can't say that java is yet another new thing - probably not even groovy since that's mix/match with java. Maybe scala. > > Perl 6 was an attempt to achieve this in one big jump. Perl 5 is in the process of slowly...

...ed), such that many of the improvements in my productivity due to all the wonderful computational packages are entirely offset by the time I spend fighting this issue of poor classes. Thanks & Regards! Mike --- XKCD <http://www.xkcd.com> [[alternative HTML version deleted]]