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msevior The GPL is not a contract, it is a license.
fjf In some jurisdictions java+cocoa would be considered a species of "mocha". Capuccino is of course coffee with frothed milk "cowl"...and I guess a sprinkle of cocoa on top, yes.

hey MichaelCrawford, 'tis a brave adventure: Good luck!

8 Mar 2005 (updated 8 Mar 2005 at 23:46 UTC) »
connolly, is that because you don't have MySQL installed? If you do, it's a matter of:
mysql -u root -p
> create database wordpress;
> grant select,insert,update,delete on wordpress.* to wpuser@localhost identified by 'pword';
>\q
That error message you cite makes me wonder if you need to drop the existing db before trying that script (assuming it has no valuable data in it).
knipknap
Maybe some day compiling software will be easy enough that normal users do not even notice the difference between binary and source packages
You must be thinking of Gentoo... :)
nutella,
the software company that produced it had increased the price too much for their budget so they hand to make do with the cheaper slower program. Their planned cure for the slowness was to replace all of the library's catalogue client computers with faster machines. That is totally bizarre
You should offer your services to solve the problem at a reasonable rate! Screw the other greedy bastards.
avriettea, Looks like you're looking at virtual sizes, not resident sizes?
20 Feb 2005 (updated 20 Feb 2005 at 01:58 UTC) »
pjf, oh I can relate! Just a few days ago I Quixotically sent a note in to a very large and well known UK newspaper's online site that their feature on Québec was riddled with garbled text. They had attempted (inconsistently) to render the accents in Québec and Montréal but their entities were in error; they had omitted semicolons leaving markup like &eacutebec - so instead of an accent, this gobbledygook was rendered just so in Firefox, Safari etc. But the punchline is that IE parsed the entity references as if the semicolons had been there. Its permissiveness with regard to markup errors is some double-edged sword, since they clearly test (if they test at all) only in IE.

Predictably, the reply came that the "the only browser that [we] can fully support is Internet Explorer" as other browsers "may experience errors". I persisted in explaining that their limited test regime had failed them in this case, and the problem was certainly in the markup. After a few messages exchanged in this vein they seem to have fixed the page (inexplicably, they've also switched to numeric entities. I guess they reasoned to themselves that alphabetic ones were actually part of the problem(!!))

19 Feb 2005 (updated 19 Feb 2005 at 18:40 UTC) »
zhaoway what i really care is native windows and a couple of linux and maybe solaris and mac os x. all i want is build with their native build tools instead of gnu-pull-me-all-out

GNU *is* the native toolset on Linux, OS X, and Solaris (usually). If Windows doesn't support auto* well (Cygwin and mingw excepted of course - which support it just fine), then so what? Just use make. There are dozens of other usable make utilities on Windows (even if you might need a separate makefile for that platform if not using aforementioned Cygwin/mingw).

rmathew, Pick your lesson to learn from this incident - Use reiserfs? Isn't it very time- and space-efficient for many small files?

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