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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 11:01:00
Message: <4808b7ac$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> 
>   I thought NetBSD was the more popular hacker OS.
> 

Possibly (I already have a netbooting NetBSD for MicroSPARC (SS5)), but 
OpenBSD would be the nerdiest overkill for the job of garmaugh (the 
Netra) :).

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Eero "Aero" Ahonen
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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 11:19:07
Message: <4808bbeb$1@news.povray.org>

> I mean, if the POV-Ray team released a brand new version of POV-Ray that 
> was exactly like the old one but up to 3% faster in certain cases... 
> would anybody care?

I would!!


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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 11:22:42
Message: <4808bcc2$1@news.povray.org>

> ...OK, that's even more bizare than an Amiga... most impressive!

I read some of QC from my iPod, so...


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From: Orchid XP v8
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 13:58:58
Message: <4808e162$1@news.povray.org>
>>>   If you discover a new fancy way of using gonads or whatever, why 
>>> should
>>> we care? ;)
>>
>> One might retort that it allows me to build a full expression parser 
>> in less than a dozen LoC,
> 
> Well I'm equally sure that 2.5.75.11 or whatever it was will allow some 
> people to do some new stuff.  Otherwise it wouldn't be an update.

That's just my point. They keep releasing new versions of the Linux 
kernel, but as far as I can tell, none of them *do* anything new. So... 
why... are they... releasing it?

>> but yeah, realistically, who cares about that? I should just go kill 
>> myself now...
> 
> What, just because you are doing something that not many others are 
> interested in?  I'm not interested in the details of what you are doing 
> with Haskell, but once I understood what your logic program was doing 
> (or rather, what it is easily capable of doing) I was quite impressed.

It probably doesn't come across in text, but at the point when I wrote 
this, I basically felt like throwing myself off a bridge. (And I *mean* 
IRL!) I am utterly ****ed off with the entire universe repeatedly 
reminding me that everything I hold dear is in fact pointless, 
worthless, empty, and that I am a stupid retarded idiot for even caring 
about such things. Face it, *nobody* enjoys being repeatedly told 
they're stupid...

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From: Nicolas Alvarez
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 14:05:26
Message: <4808e2e6$1@news.povray.org>

> That's just my point. They keep releasing new versions of the Linux 
> kernel, but as far as I can tell, none of them *do* anything new. So... 
> why... are they... releasing it?

http://kernelnewbies.org/Linux_2_6_25

Nothing new?


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 15:25:31
Message: <4808f5aa@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> I take that back. There are three different kernels, but the differences 
> are all in security patches. I don't know what I was thinking. I'll 
> blame it on the whiskey or something. ;-)

  Yeah, the difference is only in the part after the dash, for example
"2.6.18.8-0.9" here. It indicates which security update has been applied
to the kernel "2.6.18.8".

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 15:26:18
Message: <4808f5da@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> You're not the only person I'm responding to here.

  Who else claimed you were bashing Solaris?

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                                                          - Warp


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From: Eero Ahonen
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 15:47:19
Message: <4808fac7$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
> 
> I mean, if the POV-Ray team released a brand new version of POV-Ray that 
> was exactly like the old one but up to 3% faster in certain cases... 
> would anybody care? No, not really. Yet the Linux kernel apparently 
> 

Yes, I would :).

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Eero "Aero" Ahonen
    http://www.zbxt.net
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From: Darren New
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 18 Apr 2008 23:20:23
Message: <480964f7$1@news.povray.org>
Warp wrote:
> Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
>> You're not the only person I'm responding to here.
>   Who else claimed you were bashing Solaris?

Ah. So you *are* claiming I was bashing Solaris.

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     "That's pretty. Where's that?"
          "It's the Age of Channelwood."
     "We should go there on vacation some time."


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From: Warp
Subject: Re: Just in case you missed it ...
Date: 19 Apr 2008 03:47:15
Message: <4809a382@news.povray.org>
Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> Warp wrote:
> > Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote:
> >> You're not the only person I'm responding to here.
> >   Who else claimed you were bashing Solaris?

> Ah. So you *are* claiming I was bashing Solaris.

  No. Now you are nitpicking about semantics.

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