On Sun, 07 Apr 2013 12:03:21 -0400, Tanstaafl wrote: > > But not actually empty. If you are correct, and I suspect you are, > > then the news item is poorly worded. No effective content is not the > > same as no content at all. > > Oh, I agree that it was poorly worded, I was just pointing out that it > was kind of silly to take quite it so literally...
These are computers we are dealing with, literally interpretation is the norm. If the news item meant "devoid of actionable content", that is what it should have said. > Every sysadmin knows (or should know) that a config file full of > nothing but comments isn't going to do *anything* other than provide > whatever defaults the program is designed to use in such a case. You do realise that you have just described the file as "full" so it cannot be considered empty :) -- Neil Bothwick Last words of a Windows user: = Why does that work now?
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