Comments on: Mending casino fences

By: bogofree

bogofree — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 17:09:50 +0000

Wally Glendye : Chuck has a sign in my yard that’s got a pretty good slogan for someone running for Town Assessor Office – “The Buck Stops Here”.

Memories of one of my favorite Pols - HST! Got to finally go to the Truman Library last summer. Best Presidential Library IMO. LBJs is a close second. Hard core on both sides are a very small group. I treat them like extreme moonbats and wingnuts - ignore them. Read and listen only for amusement.

By: bumpkin

bumpkin — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 16:10:36 +0000

Sorry for the delay posting comments – must be getting gobbled by my spam filters.

By: Wally Glendye

Wally Glendye — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:14:13 +0000

At times I type before my brain catches up: It’s “The Buck Starts Here”.

By: Wally Glendye

Wally Glendye — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:01:47 +0000

Chuck has a sign in my yard that’s got a pretty good slogan for someone running for Town Assessor Office – “The Buck Stops Here”.

By: Wally Glendye

Wally Glendye — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 14:01:48 +0000

I’m trying to take the same path B.B.

By: TonyL

TonyL — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 13:35:17 +0000

Most people need word processors, not editors. Programmers definitely need editors, most other people usually don’t.

Just in case you are wondering: the simple find/replace functions in Microsoft Word and similar apps are very weak. VI and Emacs run circles around that.

By: bumpkin

bumpkin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:34:46 +0000

@Wally Glendye
I’ve been at peace with most for a long while now. People I’m not at peace with – or rather are not at peace with me – have resisted my efforts to coexist in a constructive fashion. I’ll try to a point but eventually cast them into my “no upside to dealing with” bin and move one.

By: bumpkin

bumpkin — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:27:51 +0000

That stuff was good?
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If by “stuff” you mean unix yes unix is great. Apple got smart a few years ago and took their crap OS with it’s elegant user interface and replaced it with a unix variant. Linux while technically not unix is easy enough for anybody to use. By “technically not unix” I mean it was written from scratch to work like unix instead of starting off with trademarked unix source code.

If by “stuff” you mean vi and emacs ….
The problem I have with many text editors today is that they suck at editing text. Sure they’re great for creating a flyer to find your lost cat (that’s not actually lost but rather eaten by a coyote) … .but they’re terrible for processing large quantities of simple, unformatted, vanilla, ascii text. Both emacs and vi kick ass when it comes to editing text. There is steep learning curve, but in the course of your computer life it’s worth it. They exist for Windows but I’m not sure I’d advise a pure windows user to go to vi or emacs. I use emacs on windows, but I rarely, rarely, rarely actually use windows.

By: Chuck Shea

Chuck Shea — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 02:26:14 +0000

Very Interesting! That’s what I labeled vi years ago. I used it on unix based AT&T 3B1′s and 3B2′s. I was told they were very advanced for their time. I didn’t know anything about that. I just drove the things. I didn’t know anything else. I’m not really computer savvy, but I must use what is at hand. That stuff was good?

By: Wally Glendye

Wally Glendye — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:24:41 +0000

Peace at last!

By: TonyL

TonyL — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:19:48 +0000

I deny everything.

Only today have I leaned that you are THAT Mark Belanger. I should have known – there’s something very wrong with people who use Emacs.

Oh, well – the damage is done. Your failure to disclose your past is behind us. It was dishonest of you to not fess up immediately, but I’ll be magnificently magnanimous and lower myself to grudgingly forgive you (for the Casino stuff – never for Emacs!).

Oh, and Linda still thinks you are “wonderful”. Obviously she’s insane.