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On Wed, April 12, 2017 8:07 am, Alice Wonder wrote: > On 04/12/2017 05:59 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: >> <humor for the day>Why don't we discuss something ***less*** >> controversial, like politics or religion?</humor for the day> >> > > Even when I'm the one complaining (and I don't about systemd), I'm > always reminded of some TV clip I saw

One thing that irritates me is that I'll copy something from a site in ff and paste it into webmail (squirrel/ensign, if that matters); then, in the evening, when I want to forward it to one or more of my lists, using t-bird, I have to clean it up *all* the time: 2-3 characters replacing ",' and -. I can't seem to find anything in either the webmail options (which I have set to

; *99: ; 99 bottles of beer on the wall. exten => *99,1,Noop(99 Bottles of beer on the wall) exten => *99,n,Answer() exten => *99,n,Set(bottles=99) exten => *99,n(loop),Noop(There are ${bottles} bottles of beer on the wall) exten => *99,n,SayNumber(${bottles}) exten => *99,n,Noop(Take one done and pass it round and there's) exten =>

> > Of course, to be fair, there may have been a *reason* for not doing it > that way before.... > Between the early 1990's and early 2000's the price of a GB of memory went from ~$100,000 to ~$1000*. I guess a lot of the design decisions made for things like init were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server platforms to have 32Mb ram whereas the kernel alone in my

Hello, i have two models : class Container < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :bottles end class Bottle < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :container def self.find_all_from_container(container) container.bottles.find(:all) end end i was asking myself if there was a better way to write the function find_all_from_container : i can call it from an instance of Container but

On 04/12/2017 05:59 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: > <humor for the day>Why don't we discuss something ***less*** controversial, like politics or religion?</humor for the day> > Even when I'm the one complaining (and I don't about systemd), I'm always reminded of some TV clip I saw when I was young and can't place of a bunch of old people complaining :

Valeri Galtsev wrote: > On Wed, April 12, 2017 8:07 am, Alice Wonder wrote: >> On 04/12/2017 05:59 AM, Leroy Tennison wrote: >>> <humor for the day>Why don't we discuss something ***less*** >>> controversial, like politics or religion?</humor for the day> >> >> Even when I'm the one complaining (and I don't about systemd), I'm

The plastics industry says polycarbonate bottles are safe. http://www.bisphenol-a.org/about/faq.html#g I'm sure Maggie and here friends would say ALL plastic bottles are very dangerous. This lady seems to be at a reasonable middle ground. http://trusted.md/blog/vreni_gurd/2007/03/29/plastic_water_bottles Polycarbonate plastics the kind of bottle you bought contains BPA. "In 2006 Europe

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

Le 12/04/2017 ? 19:41, Andrew Holway a ?crit : > Between the early 1990's and early 2000's the price of a GB of memory went > from ~$100,000 to ~$1000*. I guess a lot of the design decisions made for > things like init were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server > platforms to have 32Mb ram whereas the kernel alone in my PC here at home > is consuming just over

> > When Windows 2000 came out some called it "bloated pig". Some 6 years down > the road Linux started catching up ;-) Then we stopped laughing about > Windows. > All in the name of progress..

On 4/12/2017 12:39 PM, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > I have been told that Windows developers were taught not to > optimize their code for memory/cpu/etc since those could be solved by > throwing more hardware at it. Instead they should make clean readable > code. Not claiming that is exclusive to Windows or the clean readable > part is followed... There is a good case to be

On Wed, April 12, 2017 2:39 pm, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2017 at 2:56 PM, Andrew Holway <andrew.holway at gmail.com> > wrote: >>> >>> When Windows 2000 came out some called it "bloated pig". Some 6 years >>> down >>> the road Linux started catching up ;-) Then we stopped laughing about >>> Windows. >>>

Andrew Holway wrote: >> >> Of course, to be fair, there may have been a *reason* for not doing it >> that way before.... >> > Between the early 1990's and early 2000's the price of a GB of memory went > from ~$100,000 to ~$1000*. I guess a lot of the design decisions made for > things like init were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server >

Robert Moskowitz wrote: > On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> d) And then there stuff that I'm not sure of the purpose... like >> eclipse, that needs 2GB to run... for an editor. >> >> mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" > > And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. > > Using a editor that understands html

On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 10:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: > > On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > > mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" > And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. Gedit works for me - webpages, PHP, init (with Vi) et cetera. -- Regards, Paul. England, EU. England's place is in the European Union.

On 04/16/2017 04:37 PM, Always Learning wrote: > On Thu, 2017-04-13 at 10:39 -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote: >> On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>> mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" >> And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. > Gedit works for me - webpages, PHP, init (with Vi) et cetera. That means loading gnome. I

On Thu, April 13, 2017 1:38 pm, Mauricio Tavares wrote: > On Thu, Apr 13, 2017 at 2:06 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> Robert Moskowitz wrote: >>> On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >>>> d) And then there stuff that I'm not sure of the purpose... like eclipse, that needs 2GB to run... for an editor. >>>> mark "my

On Wed, April 12, 2017 1:31 pm, Nicolas Kovacs wrote: > Le 12/04/2017 ? 19:41, Andrew Holway a ?crit : >> Between the early 1990's and early 2000's the price of a GB of memory went >> from ~$100,000 to ~$1000*. I guess a lot of the design decisions made for >> things like init were focussed on this. In 1995 is was common for server >> platforms to have 32Mb ram

On 04/12/2017 02:08 PM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: > d) And then there stuff that I'm not sure of the purpose... like eclipse, > that > needs 2GB to run... for an editor. > > mark "my web pages proudly built in vi!" And mine on medon.htt-consult.com done with Geany. Using a editor that understands html tags so you can collapse ones not being edited