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> Investors like Cunningham fell the fastest.

One man's investor is another man's parasite.

"crypto-faggot" is not "crypto-homosexual"

I work for a registered non-profit charity financed partly by The Arts Council and National Lottery Funding. You'd certainly call our licensed bar and restaurant a commercial enterprise, as would the employees.

I also volunteer for a registered co-operative part-financed by said charity, the rest from ticket sales of our film screenings. We have no legal obligation to be non-profit or otherwise.

If I used your non-comm image on our website, how would you feel ?

Dublin is the capital city of Eire.

Today as in over a year ago

I've been using for a year too, works pretty good.

Being called "faggot" is not the same as being accused of homosexuality.

> taking care of it for fifteen years, and then seeing the ones you handed it over to

sold to, for a hefty sum and then quit as caretaker

> being bought by the ones who owns the rest of the city.

because the city went bust and needed the money

How does one make that a legally binding requirement in perpetuity ?

Um, yes.

they do work fine once you replace the ends, I did it with mine

> I, Michael "Monty" Widenius, the creator of MySQL, am asking you urgently to help save MySQL from Oracle's clutches.

UL, So I'll guess you'll be crying into your €16.6m

USB

Universal - No

Serial - No

Bus - No

leave the USB alone, seriously, that's my advice

The irony

s stands for stream

there is no s in ed

that's my point

two admittedly poor taste posts, one a response to the other being modded down and I'm out

and they didn't tell me for two weeks but they let me dead post so no mods and no responses.

I'll take your six and raise you

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mothra_%28web_browser%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abaco_%28web_browser%29

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charon_%28web_browser%29

I had an account banned, you can clearly see why

http://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=skwiddor

man ed

If I'd want to edit in place I use ed

If I want to edit a stream I use sed

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity. - Dennis Ritchie

The X server has to be the biggest program I've ever seen that doesn't do anything for you. - ken

After the introduction of Windows 95, it was clear that the free software universe was lacking a number of technologies and that we were lagging behind in various areas.

At Microsoft I learned the truth about ActiveX and COM and I got very interested in it inmediately [sic]. Upon my return to Mexico Federico and I started to design a GUI control infrastructure for Unix that we code named `GNOME'.

"The Story of the GNOME project" http://primates.ximian.com/~miguel/gnome-history.html

or "How one man ruined everything"

FTFA "So the money that used to flow through the music business has slowed to a trickle"

I'd like to call that a "mis-speak"

"The digital music business internationally saw a sixth year of expansion in 2008, growing by an estimated 25 per cent to US$3.7 billion in trade value. Digital platforms now account for around 20 per cent of recorded music sales." [1]

Which makes music sales of US$18 billion for 2008 by contrast the revenue for the top 20 countries in 2005 was $12b [2]

"PRS for Music, the organisation representing songwriters, composers and music publishers, today published new research showing that UK music industry revenues totalled £3.63bn in 2008, up 4.7% from 2007’s £3.46bn." [3]

Some fucking trickle

[1] http://www.ifpi.org/content/section_resources/dmr2009.html

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_industry#Statistics

[3] http://www.prsformusic.com/aboutus/press/latestpressreleases...

Yeah I wondered about that one. I would have said it was more like "design for now, tomorrow is a long way off".

I think perhaps it means more like "don't make your Epoch 32bits long, it'll soon be 2038" oh

It's an irony missed on many people.

All pollution is practical, it takes discipline to dispose of waste properly.

if you like the Unix philosophy you mighty like Pike's the Acme text editor - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acme_%28text_editor%29 (and Plan9 in general).

Many plan9 programs post a file tree which you can manipulate with regular Unix tools - Acme's are described here - http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/acme

for instance, if I name this shell script C

    #!/bin/rc
    tags=`{cat /mnt/acme/$winid/tag}
    s = `{echo $tags(1) | sed 's/\.c$//'}
    8c $s.c && 8l -o $s $s.8 

And middle click on a 'C' in the tag bar (or anywhere in the window) and the filename ends in .c, it will be compiled and linked for me. The /mnt/acme/$winid/tag is exported by Acme which provides a file tree to all of its windows.

Other similarly behaving programs in the distribution (including the windowing system) are described in http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/4/

GNU does not follow the Unix Philosophy and BSD can't talk either

'cat came back from Berkeley waving flags' - Rob Pike

18. GNU is not Unix

or /fd/0 or /dev/fd/0 (depending on OS)

Tom Duff's rc shell has the same construct

    xdvi <{curl http://www.diku.dk/~andrzej/papers/RC.dvi}

Another reason why you should have changed to rc shell 10 years ago

http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/rc