That's a city in Bosnia. Right?
-- Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands
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-Who wants to remember that escape-x-alt-control-left shift-b puts you into
-super-edit-debug-compile mode?
- -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs
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-Anyone who thinks UNIX is intuitive should be forced to write 5000 lines of
-code using nothing but vi or emacs. AAAAACK!
- -- Discussion on the intuitiveness of commands, especially Emacs
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Now, it we had this sort of thing:
yield -a for yield to all traffic
yield -t for yield to trucks
outside"
(By Linus Torvalds)
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-"And the next time you consider complaining that running Lucid Emacs
-19.05 via NFS from a remote Linux machine in Paraguay doesn't seem to
-get the background colors right, you'll know who to thank."
-(By Matt Welsh)
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> : Any porters out there should feel happier knowing that DEC is shipping
> : me an AlphaPC that I intend to try getting linux running on: this will
> : definitely help flush out some of the most flagrant unportable stuff.
10 minutes listening to Musak waiting for technical support which isn't."
(By Dr. Greg Wettstein, Roger Maris Cancer Center)
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-"I'd crawl over an acre of 'Visual This++' and 'Integrated Development
-That' to get to gcc, Emacs, and gdb. Thank you."
-(By Vance Petree, Virginia Power)
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"I'm an idiot.. At least this one [bug] took about 5 minutes to find.."
(Linus Torvalds in response to a bug report.)
of different places, just write a Unix operating system."
(By Linus Torvalds)
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-"[In 'Doctor' mode], I spent a good ten minutes telling Emacs what I
-thought of it. (The response was, 'Perhaps you could try to be less
-abusive.')"
-(By Matt Welsh)
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In most countries selling harmful things like drugs is punishable.
Then howcome people can sell Microsoft software and go unpunished?
(By hasku@rost.abo.fi, Hasse Skrifvars)
wouldn't believe...
(Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.)
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-"On a normal ascii line, the only safe condition to detect is a 'BREAK'
-- everything else having been assigned functions by Gnu EMACS."
-(By Tarl Neustaedter)
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"On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT"
(Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restrugo@fateware.com)
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all-new-and-improved linux kernel version."
(By Linus Torvalds)
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-Your job is being a professor and researcher: That's one hell of a good excuse
-for some of the brain-damages of minix.
-(Linus Torvalds to Andrew Tanenbaum)
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I've heard a Jew and a Muslim argue in a Damascus cafe with less passion
than the emacs wars."
-- Ronald Florence <ron@18james.com> in