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Dave Korn | 2 May 2009 08:38

Re: [1.5] v. [1.7] unison: version clash?

Charles Wilson wrote:
> Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> I think we decided in cygwin-apps that cygwin packages should be
>> numbered differently between 1.5 and 1.7 just for clarity since the
>> namespace isn't reflected in the package name.
> 
> That matches my recollection.  Even tho setup.exe/setup-1.7.exe know
> about the implicit namespaces, we use different release numbers to avoid
> confusing normal humans.  Not sure what that says about Dave...

  Five years ago, I was a four-stone apology...  today, I am two separate
gorillas.

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Phil Betts | 5 May 2009 14:26
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RE: [1.7] Weird error "grep: writing output: Cannot allocate memory"

Dave Korn wrote:
>   If only those fools upstream would open their source, we could have
> fixed
> the underlying bug for them... ;-)

That's crazy talk Dave!  Their entire business model is based on 
people "upgrading" in the hope that longstanding, obvious bugs will be
fixed (Word *still* has bugs I first reported to them about 18 years 
ago).  If the bugs were fixed, the whole house of cards would collapse.

Phil
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Dave Korn | 5 May 2009 14:52

Re: [1.7] Weird error "grep: writing output: Cannot allocate memory"

Phil Betts wrote:

>   If the bugs were fixed, the whole house of cards would collapse.

  Curses, my secret plan is revealed!  Drat and double drat!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Dave Korn | 6 May 2009 01:47

Re: job opening VISION SPECIALIST # 8439

Consulpro wrote:
> André,

  <slap>  I told you never to call me that again!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Dave Korn | 6 May 2009 02:22

Re: job opening VISION SPECIALIST # 8439

Dave Korn wrote:
> Consulpro wrote:
>> André,
> 
>   <slap>  I told you never to call me that again!
> 
>     cheers,
>       DaveK

  Also:

http://www.tramsmail.se/tramsfiler/08/10/23/Looking_For_A_Job_In_Quebec.mp3

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Dave Korn | 6 May 2009 02:35

Re: job opening VISION SPECIALIST # 8439

Consulpro wrote:
> I'll keep you informed.

  You're gonna keep absolutely everyone informed at this rate!

    cheers,
      DaveK
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Buchbinder, Barry (NIH/NIAID) [E] | 15 May 2009 23:43
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RE: Please use either "sourceware.org" or (when possible) "cygwin.com" in announcement messages

Andrew Schulman wrote on Friday, May 15, 2009 4:28 PM:
> Since this is something that probably every person wonders about who
> ever posts to cygwin-announce, perhaps it would be useful for you to
> restate the reason, say, once a year or so, on, oh, I don't know,
> maybe May 15.  No doubt there is a good reason, but I don't recall
> ever learning what it is. Thanks, Andrew.   

As long as we're considering May, how about May 25?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Towel_Day
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Phil Betts | 19 May 2009 00:08
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RE: [1.7] Proposal: the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of SO/UTF-8

Mark J. Reed wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dave Korn  wrote:
> > Lenik wrote:
> >> On 2009-5-18 14:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >>>
> >>> I think the main person you should be thanking isn't a guy.
> >>>
> >> Ok. Thank you gods.
> >>
> >
> >  Hey Corinna?  Congrats!  You just got a promotion!
> 
> All praise to the great Corinna!

Some thoughts from Terry Pratchett on the subject:

"It's a god-eat-god world."

"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."

"Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time."

"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards 
quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point-
of-view is seldom necessary."

- Small Gods


Phil
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Christopher Faylor | 19 May 2009 02:06
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Re: [1.7] Proposal: the filename encoding in C locale uses UTF-8 instead of SO/UTF-8

On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 11:08:47PM +0100, Phil Betts wrote:
>Mark J. Reed wrote:
>> On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 9:17 AM, Dave Korn  wrote:
>> > Lenik wrote:
>> >> On 2009-5-18 14:09, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> I think the main person you should be thanking isn't a guy.
>> >>>
>> >> Ok. Thank you gods.
>> >>
>> >
>> > ??Hey Corinna? ??Congrats! ??You just got a promotion!
>> 
>> All praise to the great Corinna!
>
>Some thoughts from Terry Pratchett on the subject:
>
>"It's a god-eat-god world."
>
>"The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to."
>
>"Most gods find it hard to walk and think at the same time."
>
>"When you can flatten entire cities at a whim, a tendency towards 
>quiet reflection and seeing-things-from-the-other-fellow's-point-
>of-view is seldom necessary."
>
>- Small Gods

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Robert Pendell | 21 May 2009 00:03
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Hippos on rsnapshot (mirror)

As of right now it seems that a server configuration issue is
preventing access to the rsnapshot package directory.  This started
occuring last year but I just noticed it recently.  I guess the hippos
sabotaged it for me and I never knew.  I have opened a ticket with the
host.  They have already acknowledged the issue.  In the meantime if
you are attempting to get the rsnapshot package from my server then
please try from another mirror for now.

P.S. - The issue is that they are denying access to the .snapshot dir
since backups are stored there but instead it is denying access to
*snapshot.  This would match anything that has a single character
right before the word snapshot.

--
Robert Pendell
shinji <at> elite-systems.org

"A perfect world is one of chaos."

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