eris,

stop trolling and sending apples to the parties you're not invited.

2008/7/1 Federico G. Benavento gmail.com>:

Eris _Discordia_, good nick for a troll:

discordia: f discord

The meat of this post:

1. Since these series of postings are considered, for some reason
incomprehensible to me, "trolling" I'll simply stop posting. Good luck to
y'all.

2. The core point which still hasn't gone to a single 9fans' head is that
you either comply with public demand or stop asking for public recognition.
And the public is not "a bunch of idiots." This thread's original post
asked why Plan 9 isn't recommended on Slashdot even for tasks it seems to
be good at. I responded with my opinion: Plan 9 in its current form is and
will always remain a "niche" OS, with a rather tight niche.

3. More than a few 9fans tried to ridicule me. Such attitude won't get them
very far I assure them, even if they have a valid message to convey. I hope
they've at least had a good laugh--that makes me feel the whole affair
wasn't a waste of time.

4. The apple with καλλιστι on it is totally Russ', for he posted
the most sensible response. Thank you Russ.

i have been using non-latin characters with plan 9 tools on unix
and later on plan 9 since 1991 or so both in filenames and data.

the fact that utf-8 just works even in environments not designed for it,
is a testament to its excellent design.

unfortunately, unix tools no longer do the right thing with utf-8.
they've gotten too smart for that. locales get in the way.

- erik

// 5. Oh, and that thing on (4) is the Discordian transliteration of whatever
// was written on the apple. Greek text input to a mail client on Windows.
// Check if you can read it on the "mother of UTF-8." If you do you're
// "almost" there, if you don't...

I was surprised by this, so I actually fired up my XP install. Yes, it looks
like you finally can get some non-latin characters into thing. Good for
them. It looks like the command prompt even *almost*...

I have no idea what that discordian crap is nor what your
intentions are, but I do know that you're either a troll
or complete idiot.

what do you try to achieve ... it is the wrong'em boyo

He's clearly some ESR clone that's trying to get his "hip right wing
guy" polemic on.
Move aside, John Malkovich, there's a new a**hole on the map. =)

Its obvious to me now that Linux is a victim of its own popularity
and development model. I have always preferred BSD's way of doing
things and the folks that support it.. except for Theo, that is..

I stepped away from Linux around Kernel 1.2.13, since then the amount
of crap that has been dumped into the kernel is simply astonishing. I
am 100%% sure that, now that vmware runs on OS X, I will be finished
with linux for good once I get back to the states.I honestly think
that the #1 goal of linux kernel developers is to make sure that the
kernel takes 20 minutes to build on whatever the current fastest
processor is.

To quote dmr: "The rational prisoner exploits the weak places, creates
order from chaos: instead collectives like FSF vindicate their jailers
by building cells almost compatible with existing ones, albeit it with
more features." Linux has become a Disneyland supermax parody of what
it set out to imitate.