From: Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>
Subject: Re: Quimby Upgrade
Date: 12 Apr 2001 07:53:23 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31yqyxnq4.fsf@gnus.cvs.983032537> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <vafvgob5e78.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de> (Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE's message of "11 Apr 2001 23:17:15 +0200")
Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> But maybe I was just lucky to have circumvented all the pitfalls? It
> seems that I am that way sometimes. Don't know why. Others discover
> plenty of bugs, for me it just works. Viz, Emacs 20.2 running in a
> Latin-1 locale and the infamous \201 characters -- I didn't have too
> many problems with those.
We can't really count Kais experiences. Kai has been known to get
FreeWAIS to work too. That alone should tell us we're not dealing
with a regular mortal here.
I have been known to suffer from the `pinhead' syndrome at times.
Seems to be brought on by heavy bouts of manual reading.
The cranial bone begins to thicken in self defense. Trying to protect
itself.
The only known cure for chronic `pinhead syndorome' is EasyLinux.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-04-12 14:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 80+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-04-04 16:30 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-04 17:10 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-04 18:35 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-04 20:35 ` Matthias Wiehl
2001-04-04 20:52 ` Josh Huber
2001-04-05 1:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-05 1:17 ` Colin Marquardt
2001-04-07 5:58 ` Manoj Srivastava
2001-04-05 5:11 ` Colin Walters
2001-04-05 5:54 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-05 13:29 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-05 15:10 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-05 15:37 ` Oyvind Moll
2001-04-06 0:56 ` Stephen Zander
2001-04-06 0:58 ` Stephen Zander
2001-04-07 23:02 ` Arcady Genkin
2001-04-08 0:19 ` Colin Walters
2001-04-08 1:54 ` Arcady Genkin
[not found] ` <87elv4i3q9.fsf@pooh.honeypot>
2001-04-08 1:52 ` Arcady Genkin
2001-04-05 15:38 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2001-04-05 15:41 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-07 5:49 ` Manoj Srivastava
2001-04-05 17:26 ` Alex Schroeder
2001-04-07 5:55 ` Manoj Srivastava
2001-04-10 16:28 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-11 5:52 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-04-11 9:23 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-11 13:48 ` Gunnar Evermann
2001-04-11 14:12 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-11 14:04 ` Colin Walters
2001-04-11 14:58 ` Wes Hardaker
2001-04-11 16:58 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-11 18:38 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-12 3:48 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-12 21:43 ` jason-dated-321e0a263c46f421
2001-04-12 22:09 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-12 23:02 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-12 23:24 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-23 19:33 ` my 'dated' address (was Re: Quimby Upgrade) Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-23 20:08 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-23 23:17 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-23 23:37 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-27 19:34 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-27 19:50 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-27 20:02 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-27 21:07 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-27 21:24 ` Paul Jarc
2001-04-27 21:38 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-27 21:51 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-28 1:05 ` Paul Jarc
2001-04-28 2:22 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-28 3:01 ` Russ Allbery
2001-04-29 13:26 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-29 14:13 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-29 14:53 ` Stainless Steel Rat
2001-04-29 14:18 ` Amos Gouaux
2001-04-29 14:55 ` Andreas Fuchs
2001-04-29 19:50 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-29 15:46 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-29 19:54 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-27 21:24 ` Robin S. Socha
2001-04-27 21:48 ` Steven E. Harris
2001-04-28 1:28 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-28 1:30 ` Jason R. Mastaler
2001-04-24 13:29 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-11 21:17 ` Quimby Upgrade Kai Großjohann
2001-04-11 23:20 ` Eric Jacoboni
2001-04-12 14:53 ` Harry Putnam [this message]
2001-04-12 15:20 ` Alan Shutko
2001-04-12 15:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-04-12 18:07 ` Harry Putnam
2001-04-12 20:36 ` Florian Weimer
2001-04-12 20:56 ` Arcady Genkin
2001-04-12 4:32 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-04-12 20:22 ` Bjørn Mork
2001-04-13 1:17 ` Daniel Pittman
2001-04-13 19:07 ` Bjørn Mork
2001-04-16 12:11 ` Daniel Pittman
2003-09-11 22:47 Quimby upgrade Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2003-09-12 0:49 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
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