- Oldest Linux system still in use?
- Posted by Ben Shimmin on October 6th, 2003
student <student@linuxbox.anom.com>:
[...]
I think you've still got a few upgrades to go... 
b.
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it's too dark to read.' -- Groucho Marx
- Posted by Alan Connor on October 6th, 2003
On 6 Oct 2003 13:19:15 GMT, Ben Shimmin <bas@monster.buffster.org.uk> wrote:
Why? 0.8.8.4 works just great. I mean, he's posting here and you are reading
those posts and they aren't distorted or anything.....
If an application you have works well, then getting the latest model is
not "upgrading", it's idiocy.
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- Posted by student on October 7th, 2003
On 6 Oct 2003 13:19:15 GMT, Ben Shimmin <bas@monster.buffster.org.uk> wrote:
)))
slrn grows on you, this one has been growing a long time
- Posted by Ed Murphy on October 7th, 2003
On Mon, 06 Oct 2003 15:19:21 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
Nonsense. What if the latest model works *better*, e.g. it includes new
features that you'd like to use? This one sounds intriguing:
When used in combination with slrnpull, slrn now supports "true offline
reading", i.e. you can tell slrnpull to download article headers only,
mark interesting ones for download in slrn and fetch those article bodies
during the next run of slrnpull. Please see doc/slrnpull/README.offline
for details.
And since you think PGP is a silly waste of time, you might like this:
The "BEGIN PGP SIGNED ARTICLE" line is displayed using the "pgpsignature"
color and stripped on followups. (Emmanuele Bassi)
Never mind the various bug fixes (for bugs that perhaps you've never
actually encountered personally). And that's just the latest release;
never mind the 85-or-so pages of new features and bug fixes for all
the other versions between the latest one and the one the OP has.
- Posted by Alan Connor on October 7th, 2003
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 02:51:25 GMT, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@socal.rr.com> wrote:
Speaking of nonsense, YOU need to learn to read English.
If the program lacks features that you WANT, then it isn't working well.
Like DUH.
To YOU it sounds interesting.
It is an idea that has some merit, and I do use slrn and slrnpull. But
if I was going to do that, I wouldn't install a new slrnpull bloated with
crap I don't want, but would just write a script that would do the job.
NNTP really isn't much different than POP.
In fact, I will shortly be going over to an earlier version of slrn that
doesn't have a lot of crap I don't need at all.
Isn't it about time that you accepted that we are all individuals? What
you want and what I want are not and do not have to be the same thing.
By-the-way, I will be ditching Debian 3.0 for a radically trimmed Slackware
4.0 in the very near future.
I call it an improvement. I doubt that you would.
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- Posted by Ed Murphy on October 7th, 2003
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 03:59:14 +0000, Alan Connor wrote:
You need to learn to *speak* English. "Working well" does not
necessarily mean "working as well as physically possible"; it
simply means "working sufficiently well to please the user".
http://eagle.auc.ca/~dreid/
- Posted by Alan Connor on October 7th, 2003
On Tue, 07 Oct 2003 04:52:24 GMT, Ed Murphy <emurphy42@socal.rr.com> wrote:
Dial-up has never looked so good! - classmate
[test1]
At Algoma University the mature students in the fast track accelerated second
degree program are not quick to accept theory without proof. As a result,
Professor George Townsend offered extra credit to anyone in his forth year
Computer Networks course who could take up the challenge of implementing
internet based protocols over a new form of medium - Bongo Drums.
Eight weeks later, the first public demonstration was given to the class by
using a simple ping packet. With a blinding 2bps speed, the class sat patiently
as the packet was received in roughly 140 seconds.
Aren't we just the funny man, Ed?
(I cracked up)
But in all seriousness:
1) When the US invaded Somalia, they jammed all the radio transmissions of
the Somalis. Who then used their tribal drums and thereafter kicked the
US's ass right out of their country.
2) Simple text and still graphics gives us the internet (and vastly
superior on the global scale) equivalents of magazines, newspapers, letters,
newsletters, books, bulletin boards,discussion groups, and telephone (IM/chat).
I prefer to work on perfecting these things from the ground up, and making
them available to everyone on the planet, which means bringing the price
as far down as it will go which means making the technology as simple as
possible and therefore the software as simple as possible.
As for those who want to turn the Internet into a shopping mall exclusively
for the world's rich people (the American and European Middle Class) well, they
can go their own way.
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- Posted by Ben Shimmin on October 7th, 2003
Alan Connor <zzzzzz@xxx.yyy>:
[...]
Alan! What a surprise to hear from you: I was convinced you'd kill-filed me
(though perhaps that only applied to comp.mail.mutt).
Other posts in this thread have indicated that the concept of comparative and
superlative adjectives (`good -> better -> best'), as with so many things,
seems to be beyond your abilities to grasp: therefore I have little really
to add apart from to say that I'm sure you'll argue yourself into a position
of complete lunacy within a few posts, so I guess I'd better go back in the
kill-file before I make matters any worse...
b.
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`We are becoming a nation of jailers.' -- Hunter S. Thompson
- Posted by Alan Connor on October 7th, 2003
On 7 Oct 2003 16:43:16 GMT, Ben Shimmin <bas@monster.buffster.org.uk> wrote:
With very few exceptions, I give everyone the second or even third chance
that I would wish they would give me. If this post is any indication, you
will soon be returning to my psuedo-killfile and I won't miss you a bit.
The terms are 30,60, and 90 days.
Hello Ben. "Making matters worse" DOES seem to be your principle motivating
force, but perhaps I am mistaken :-)
What you are missing here, is that *I* get to decide what I want from a
program. And *you* get to decide what you want from a program.
*I* decide what criteria are important based on MY overall goals.
Just because you and the other guy think a feature is superior, doesn't
make it so. It just makes it so for you.
I use vi. A lot of people think vi sucks. I couldn't care less.
I am not going to condemn or harass them because they choose to use what
I regard to be pathetically inferior editors. The choice is theirs to
make, not mine.
The idea that more features make an application superior is nonsense.
Only if those features are ones that I want do they make the application
superior. Otherwise, they make it *inferior* by adding useless bloat.
Good applications give one the option of compiling or not-compiling its
various features into the executable. Not-so-good ones don't.
These are my standards. You are welcome to your own.
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