Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sat, 08 Oct 2005 22:39:38 GMT Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So from an aesthetic point of view, once people learn how it works, > CSS lets sender and receiver compromise on what the message looks > like. No other medium gives ANY control to the receiver about how a > message is forma

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Sun, 9 Oct 2005 13:44:42 GMT Tim Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In comp.lang.java.programmer Roedy Green > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted: > > > Read my essay. > > http://mindprod.com/projects.html/mailreadernewsreader.html It's gone :-) > FYI, this bit: > > ``Like ICQ, someone

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-09 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 08:49:32 +1000 Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Oct 2005 19:28:31 +, Roedy Green wrote: > > > What if I am sending diagrams to help someone repair > > their computer? It is ridiculous to tie people's arms behind their > > backs. What you do instead

Re: Jargons of Info Tech industry

2005-10-14 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On Wed, 12 Oct 2005 22:04:14 GMT Roedy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 10 Oct 2005 00:42:18 +0200, Stefaan A Eeckels > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote or quoted : > > >"I don't understand that attitude. Don't we want email that has > >

Re: Python popenX() slowness on AIX?

2006-11-24 Thread Stefaan A Eeckels
On 24 Nov 2006 09:03:41 -0800 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > > On 21 Nov 2006 13:02:14 -0800 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > The fact that it does this in Python code instead of C is the main > > > cause of the slowness.