gets used to its ways - for example, Esc-q
(M-q in Emacs speak) preserves indentation etc. It is meant for
paragraph reformatting, I think. Works like a charm with reformatting
bullet/number/alfa/dash lists etc in some modes which recognise such
textual constructs.
HTH
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All the best, everyone.
>
> --
> John Eells
> IBM Poughkeepsie
> ee...@us.ibm.com (for a couple more days)
Good bye and good luck.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -
art by replacing
themselves with millenials. As the saying says, an army of rabbits
commanded by lion is worth more than an army of lions commanded by
rabbit.
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** As the answer, master did "rm
f somebody's mail separately, but if
others insist on doing it their way, sure, it is _their_ mail and they
can write it any way they like. So can I.
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master
Perhaps this kind of spirit is not compitible with spirit of IBM?
Perhaps one not only needs to imagine what could have happened, but
also why something does not happen / have not happened?
No, I do not have the answers. I think a good question is worth a
thousand answers, perhaps.
--
Rega
them, because "*I* have
to shine".
When millions of buffalos are running to the cliff, the only clever
thing one can do is run off their way. Just MHO...
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** As the
h to jump this
many hops... he may also be a reasonably good chess player. Good
enough to improve his game over time.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the p
it's well to
> keep in mind that an AI isn't of that sort. It may have that impulse, but
> so far that's just an assumption, no?
I suppose humans are good enough for the job of wiping humans. Any AI
worth its salt will just sit and wait, being polite and helpfull.
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do not do
all this in a single emacs process, just in case.
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home
y matching the keys I used with the ISPF editor to insert,
> delete, split and join lines etc.
U-hum. I never felt such inclination (except once when I was very very
young). Learning the tool and using it well enough, seems like
attanaible goal for me :-).
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https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/OrgMode
and some obligatory short movie:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnMntOQjs7Q
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer&
in some non-relevant dir, this brought
me info files there, and entered INFOPATH variable with some dir into
a script I use to start emacs (I use scripts to start various
complicated programs, I find it less complicated than click-and-pray).
As you can see, everything was in there but it still was fun
be "quick unplug" or
some warning? What about rights of users affected by unplugging, who
are not going/willing to use discord?
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the
other companies
including Mitsubishi and Fujitsu.
(quotation stop)
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer
ys it right, I
guess, but AFAICT the name says 1/5 of 1/3, i.e. 1/15 ... Oy, not
good. Fortunately for them, nobody is that picky to notice.
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On Wed, Jan 08, 2020 at 11:38:48AM -0800, Charles Mills wrote:
> Where do people get the notion that engineers have no sense of humor?
>
People are wrong about so many things and you complain about this one?
:-)
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ng lost in the
woods, loosing big picture, and "it passes the tests, fly it and go
home".
So, now they also cut the testing?
As a joke, there was also a suggestion that part of aviation software
is being written in Javascript. Perhaps not so much a joke, in a
future.
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agine it would or else I am
cooked... because I am a paper hoarder and to make place for new
equipment I have to carve out niche in a heap. The other solution is
to prepare for digging tunnels.
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ge, and I will not reproduce it here because
bots. Send them list of titles, authors, year of printing etc, so they
can say what they already have. Sometimes they have it, still waiting
in a pack for processing.
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er of CPUs which can boot it is going to
shrink dramatically.
OTOH, some folks are hardware tinkerers and some old firmware
programmators might only work with DOS programs via parallel port etc.
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or "user days" (as given by /usr/bin/time; and was IO time
accounted for)?
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on th
hobby?
[2] I know, I know, Friday is a day for such topics.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 10:15:31PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 06:04:49AM -0400, Edward Finnell wrote:
> > Ibm-main is 31!
> >
> > Been quite a ride. Kudos to Darren for tending us this long and all the
> > developers and coders who have helpe
you. Already subscribed.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. A
to support -
so, for example, some Schemes will support Unicode, some will only
support ASCII.
Other LISP dialects are even a bit more limited in their use.
Prolog - quite interesting language which I should learn one day...
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Try to animate an icon using just pen and paper, like
computer users had to do decades ago. They lacked proper graphics,
they had to draw icons in their notebooks.
Still not convinced? Okay, so try animating your icon with pen&paper
every 30 seconds.
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to eat them spaces somewhere on the road to my mailbox...
Maybe this is not very important but sure it would be nice to know.
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer&#x
h good keyboard and some coffee.
HTH
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then
leasure to exchange a mail or two with him off list, the
last one was December last year. So I too wonder, from time to time,
where John W Gilmore is and what is he doing.
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** As the answ
to do, because majority of tools are
available on both OSes, or so I believe. I understand that with Linux
one has to display a lot of "do it yourself" attitude, but with
FreeBSD even more so (which does not frighten me at all).
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I don’t have any idea
> what the difference is in Russian.)
думать -> "to think", i.e. infinitive, a basic verb form
думай -> "think!", i.e. imperative mood, a verb in form of a command
directed to someone
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On Fri, Jun 22, 2018 at 09:24:25AM -0700, Charles Mills wrote:
> Спасибо.
>
> Charles
Uhum. The preferable word is "Dziękuję", to which I would say "Nie ma
za co" (roughly, "No problem").
:-)
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ith public VAXen, there are/were few of them on the net, one could
login as guest and/or apply for normal account).
So, it was not only z, some time ago.
BTW, would it count as a mainframe if I ran one inside emulator on PC?
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On Wed, Jul 11, 2018 at 11:29:51PM +0200, R.S. wrote:
> W dniu 2018-07-11 o 20:07, Tom Marchant pisze:
> >On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 18:06:59 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> >
> > >BTW, would it count as a mainframe if I ran one inside emulator
> > >on PC?
> >Sure, if y
based, 6'' - does not glow
its own light, and from afar can be mistaken for glossy paper in
strange notebook. On which you tap from time to time. Mine has sudoku
and chess.
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** As the an
ing people talking about security on
this list - grab the archive, look for matching phrases, no need to
know when the said talk took place - if it is there, it will be
found, if not, then searching next mailing list can deliver.
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l separation in between. Something like this. I
really have no idea if this is the right way to do it, so I am
guessing. Maybe even three batteries. That is no pocket device - a
suitcase phone.
Much easier would be to simply not have anything important on a phone,
however smart.
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On Wed, Aug 29, 2018 at 02:00:39PM +0200, R.S. wrote:
[...]
>
> Note: the effort paid for the attack depends on expected value. And
> attacker usually choose the weakest link in the chain, usually
> people.
Bingo.
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nes)
If it is old enough, you may try your luck here:
http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/
Other than this, I do not know - HTH.
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the program
On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:57:13PM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
[...]
> Why not a plain ol' .zip? The greater the variety of nested
> envelopes, the greater
I think it is because *.zip is (almost) useless for spreading viruses.
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On Wed, Oct 03, 2018 at 09:30:33PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 01:57:13PM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> [...]
> > Why not a plain ol' .zip? The greater the variety of nested
> > envelopes, the greater
>
> I think it is because *.zip is (
On Mon, Jan 08, 2018 at 09:21:15AM -0600, John McKown wrote:
> https://xkcd.com/1938/
>
"Honestly, I've been assuming we were doomed ever since I learned
about rowhammer".
This.
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ts starting point, tell him to look into Forth
interpreter in bash. Once he adapts Forth to his needs, he can have
pretty much anything else in it (sure, this is not very capable Forth
dialect from what I have seen, but seems like excellent tool for
building custom repl).
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n is available on GitHub.
I'm not sure if this kind of opinion matters, but after looking at
github examples, I think the language is rather ugly.
Whatever happened to Ada?
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** As the an
On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 02:39:36PM -0500, John McKown wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 13, 2014 at 2:32 PM, Tomasz Rola wrote:
>
>
> >
> > I'm not sure if this kind of opinion matters, but after looking at
> > github examples, I think the language is rather ugly.
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:27:30AM -0400, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> rto...@ceti.com.pl (Tomasz Rola) writes:
>
> > So, now the 5-6 years old anecdote about one contractor stating
> > that "Ada is obsolete" makes much more sense, even though at the
> &g
On Sat, Aug 23, 2014 at 11:31:45AM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 16:26:03 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> >
> >So, now the 5-6 years old anecdote about one contractor stating that
> >"Ada is obsolete" makes much more sense, ...
> >
b floppy - I think I once
performed such trick - and somehow I see no reason to undust it).
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lso, if she uses DHCP client which executes shell scripts with
bash. If she could trick it to executing something else, maybe pdksh,
perhaps she would have been safe(r).
Take my opinions with usual spoon of salt. I have no idea if I know
anything, maybe my pills ran out long ago and they allow me
On Fri, Sep 26, 2014 at 08:19:39PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
> process, by using "declare -F".
>
> => (627 1): declare -F
Ooops, should be "declare -f". Sorry.
> declare -f fingerics
> declare -f insertblade
> declare -f prjstart
> declare -
ygiene when using eval.
Right. I played a bit with those examples and it turned out the
problem was a bit more serious than I thought. But I think that "bash
-r" (i.e. restricted one) or even better, using different
sh-compatible shell should help a lot. Of course this works best
s posts were some
> of those that I always read, to glean the nuggets that were relevant to me
> even when the subject didn't seem like it would be.
>
Right.
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Tomasz Rola
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** As the answer, mas
I would not eagerly accept criticism from
people who only had experience with one group. They may still have some
valuable insights but I think they are also more probable to lack
perspective (broader look).
If someone knows only programming by IDE, I would expect he lacks
perspective.
Regard
On Thu, 1 Nov 2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In , on 11/01/2012
>at 01:17 AM, Tomasz Rola said:
>
> >I.e., IDEs are ok to use but for me, it is also nice to realise
> >that whenever a language is depending on sophisticated tool
> >to be usable,
>
On Sat, 3 Nov 2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
> In , on 11/01/2012
>at 10:04 PM, Tomasz Rola said:
>
> >For example, I have never so far needed autocompletion in
> >editor.
>
> Never needed, or never found it useful when available?
Both. Actually, there
to replicate a 3d printer with itself, please turn it
off before you go to sleep :-).
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Tomasz Rola
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. And then the C progra
ore reading (but
I am also disgusted by Lord otR, so perhaps I am just disgusted with
everything - um, not with everything, so those must be mediocre and
deserve contempt).
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as those real life
stories. If I wanted to wait, it would have been a long wait.
--
[1] Schmidt was arrested by Germans in 1943 and months later committed
suicide in prison.
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As th
On Fri, Dec 05, 2014 at 03:17:32PM -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
> On 5 December 2014 at 13:36, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> [...]
> > From what I've gathered so far, up to early 1970-ties the
> > popular knowledge was that Enigma was unbreakable, and at the same
> > time some d
ing their shop. So there are some promises right
now, but longer term, I think the game is over in this field. Debian,
which I regarded highly enough to use from 1997 on, decided to toast
itself. Cut the ropes! ;-/
Morale: trust, what's this?
decision to never again
install their products on bare hardware (how wise I was 8 years ago :-) ).
I guess I can move virtual machine image however I please, can't I?
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master
a
I like Opera, because I can easily turn various extra functions on and off
by quick menu. So, when I want to watch video on y-tube, I turn plugins
on, when I stop watching I turn them off and browse somewhere else.
When I am very suspicious I check selected pages with text browsers, like
lyn
ds XP (... Pro, I
believe). So I guess they use just their own stuff?
Of course if Win8 proves as unusable as I read it is, they will have to
switch to something else, MacOS, maybe?
Regards,
Tomasz Rola
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the
t accusing you,
m'kay? But when I send this message, I will chase down your answer to
zMan and manually link it. Again...
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the pro
hatever reason.
And it took me only few minutes, who knows what is there waiting for
me to have another look.
Thus, I think you do not have to do anything particular, because
things are messed up in so many places, the big picture will look the
same.
Now, stop worrying and I... will love scriptin
p.
Sorting with procmail worked fine, until one day spam started to come
from mailing lists themselves. After that, having messages in many
different folders lost lot of its charm, so I do not sort nowadays.
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's
e my first keyboard macro in mutt, if
possible.
If you would like to try something, I will try to help.
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** direct
I have inspected so far, the
"message-id" field is not included, thus reply would not have
"In-Reply-To" field either, or have wrong value.
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did
On Thu, Aug 18, 2016 at 05:26:25PM +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
[...]
> Hope this helps somebody. Sending via listserv interface to the list's
> archive seems to be source of the problem - I have not had time to log
> in there and see myself, but according to Bill W. there is no "
ts to shoot itself in the knee, why not. First, it is
their knee. Then, they might find it pleasurable. And besides, someone
could have thought I wanted to start a flame, while I have better
things to do :-) .
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On Sat, Aug 20, 2016 at 05:27:37PM -0500, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Aug 2016 19:07:20 +0200, Tomasz Rola wrote:
> >
> >I could have written that poor MUAs lead to respondends being unable
> >to trim their emails to manageable size ...
> >
> I've
7058741469583L0
This gives about 4k z/OS and 1k VSE worldwide. Quite in agreement with
estimation given few posts earlier by Phil Smith, if I recall
correctly. However, I do not claim that my method is worth anything.
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any of
its incarnations?
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** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. **
** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home**
** directory. A
very far):
- SEVered: Subverting AMD's Virtual Machine Encryption
https://arxiv.org/abs/1805.09604v1
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** As the answer, master did "rm -rif&
careless when
experimenting with cyanide. And geniuses, they are the most ridicule of
all humanity. Give them a cyanide and an apple and guess what they will do
with them... accidentally... how else.
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Tomasz Rola
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