On Tue, 17 Apr 2001, Ted wrote:
> Thanks for that, never did manage to catch all their words.
> Not that it helped a lot - its a *wierd* song.
> LSD was all the rage then, but that LP wasnt exactly trippy,
> more like a total blowout.
I feel that Jim may have done the drugs thing many of his songs were self
expression not drugs. Lets face it, he did have a difficult childhood.
> I've just ticked "none" for religion on my census form.
> Are you going to enter it as BlueBus/Linux?
:)
> Unfortunately Linux doesnt keep me so happy. Well the linux
> kernel serves me well, but unix pd/free/open/X11 whatever
> applications are getting far too bloated for me. Its partly the
> GNU policy of rewriting copyrighted code with extra bells and
> whistles, and partly the tendency to make every application do
> everything. Too much overlap for me. When something goes wrong,
> it takes too long to fix it - too many places to look in.
Ouch, my head hurts. I have only just come in from the windows.
That is bloat. At least you can get to see the code that makes it.
> Take for example keyboard character translations. I've got a minor
> problem with the interpretation of my DEL key. Kernel tty driver,
> stty settings, X11 translations, Motif/Lesstif bindings, bash,
> xterm, less, all race each other to get control of DEL. Sometimes
> one one seems to win, sometimes another.
> Too much cooking, if you ask me.
Ouch again. Newbie, still dripping.
> Have you tried Tom's root-boot kit - its more like minix, total
> system on a floppy (or maybe two)? Its amazing how much quicker
> things happen when you cut out all the middle men. Minix used to
> pack down to less than 2 MB for everything. It served me well
> for several years. My current system built on LFS guidelines
> has source code alone totalling over 2 Gigs. Try typing "strace"
> on some X11 applications as they startup, or even just "set" to
> a bash prompt. Far too much clutter for a healthy life!
Ok what is strace?
> And I havnt even looked at {C|K}DE stuff!
KDE fan, I know it is based on QT but I am a professional developer and going
into C++ and Java. I want to make Linux my dev machine for work, so some
expereince with QT is good.
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