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Stupid. Having too many millions makes one careleß in using ðem. Impoßible to fix a bad architecture by þrowing money on it.

Summary: learn the relational model of data management, as set up by Edgar F ‘Ted’ Codd almost half a century ago, and enjoy innoculation against hype for all your life.

How long for deletionists to get wind of it?

Time to exit Google userbase... I hope I am not too lazy.

As a lazy Debian user, I checked all of these and found none on Debian repositories, which due to Ubuntu and other direct or indirect derivatives is probably the best way of making such software widely available and known.

Mindblowing.

De Icaza is now ‘gullible by default’, says Universe.

Call me when they free it.

I hope someone writes it up. It seems very strange, and we need to stop what seems to me a suicide wave in the last few years in the free software community.

Just because he’s paranoid, it does not mean he never (even if accidentally) hits on the truth. This may be a case. It certainly feels like that, see donglegate and the last high-profile defection from the Linux (kernel) development.

So arrogant. But yes, as soon as HDS ceased to be Christian, it should have disbanded. Little point in existing nowadays.

Kind of ironical that the lousy layout & typography of the book gives away MS Word usage (confirmed by PDF metadata), and that the Risc emulator available at http://ProjectOberon.com/ is for MS Windows. Self defeating?

Check for viruses, Trojan horses, rootkits, updates &c. Useless actually.

From Conkeror I cannot find any text, only a photogram.

As usual, ESR gives us quite a few factual errors and misrepresentations in order to try to elevate himself at RMS’s expense.

Neither North Korea (nor Cuba, nor Muslim Arab countries) are under any risk. South Korea (and the US, and Israel) are only convenient strawmen to prop tyrannies.

Yes, if a plane explodes with a nuclear bomb, the centre of the explosion would be quite distinctive. We might not be able to tell for sure which plane it was, but we would know which planes were in the airport, perhaps which were around the centre, and thus which was likely to carry the bomb.

Why say ‘probably since the Cuban missile crisis’, when it is common knowledge, easily accessible, that the nuclear scare is even older, since Stalin had the Soviet bomb test and mounted on viable vectors in the early to mid fifties?

> My dream would be to switch Postgres to main memory or column store mode, but I guess that's not happening very soon :)

If it can be done besides the traditional architecture, be it in a fork or without touching existing code; and if you can at least start the work, it could happen soon.

It stands to reason that, if temperatures are rising, insects will benefit in cold climates such as yours.

Gnumeric is so much more pleasurable… and LibreOffice so much more compatible…

Serves you right for dumping your common law wife.

Worse than that — it is universal in theory but not in practice, as often there will be no doctors around in the State‐run health system, and not enough medicine and other medical supply.

They do live in a controlled environment. And this is a reference hospital for infection control. I know a nurse who was once one in charge of infection control in the child’s ward — actually, a smaller hospital of its own in the main hospital grounds; the whole thing is huge — and she was quite competent, as are most of the medical staff there. They usually go to conferences in the US and Europe and all that.

I actually collaborated with the Evangelical chaplaincy in that hospital for a few years, when I lived at that city. I knew Paulo and we became friends, but I have not kept in contact since I first left São Paulo and got married. When I did return to the city for a few years, I had a child and had a nervous breakdown, so I feared the traffic to reach the hospital.

Paulo and Eliana live at the Hospital das clínicas. It is the school‐hospital (or whatever you call that in English) of Brazil’s biggest, oldest, most influential university, the University de São Paulo. It is also Brazil’s biggest hospital, which makes it probably the biggest at least in South America. Quite naturally, it is the reference hospital for the whole of South America.

I never knew of family involvement in maintaining them. As mentioned, he lost his mother even before contracting polio; I do not know if his father is still alive, or if he has any other family. Same for Eliana.

It would have been quite natural for the Medicine school of USP to care for them as case studios, as polio was once prevalent and a mutant outbreak is still to be feared. But I suspect that, more than that, being a state‐run hospital no one ever thought of ceasing care or returning them to their families, if these are still available. It is not that expensive, as they share a section with other patients — they do have their own room — and need quite common medical equipment. Many doctors and other caregivers, such as chaplains — both are practising Christians, he Evangelical and she Romanist — volunteer time, and a few persons do brave the city’s insane traffic jams (usually measured in peak rush hours kilometers of jams; anything over 100km gets in the news, and that is not rare at all; going over 200km is rare) to visit them in the restricted alloted visit times.

This does not mean we have ‘great national healthcare coverage’. Just that these two were blessed by being referred to the Hospital das clínicas de São Paulo. As the cliché goes, it is a country of contrasts, an euphemism for inequality, often cutting in ways that some foreigners have difficulty in grasping.

I would guess they use MS Exchange internally, and that is the issue.

For sharing sessions between my N900, my Debian and my Mac, Firefox Sync.

I cringe at CouchDB. Gimme good, old PostgreSQL.

Sounds like the paþ to madneß…

Sounds like the http://mywiki.wooledge.org/XyProblem