From: Pascal J. Bourguignon on
Norbert_Paul <norbertpauls_spambin(a)yahoo.com> writes:

> Tamas K Papp wrote:
>> Doing that put him in my killfile. Quoting off-topic gibberish is not
>> good manners either.
> Interesting!!!
>
> What is a killfile?

As its name implies...

> Which news-reader do you use?

That this question can even be asked!


> I always wanted to be able to filter news but Iceape won't let me.

Use GNUS (ie. emacs!).

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__Pascal Bourguignon__ http://www.informatimago.com/
From: Tamas K Papp on
On Tue, 15 Jun 2010 15:26:54 +0200, Norbert_Paul wrote:

> Tamas K Papp wrote:
>> Doing that put him in my killfile. Quoting off-topic gibberish is not
>> good manners either.
> Interesting!!!
>
> What is a killfile?
> Which news-reader do you use?
>
> I always wanted to be able to filter news but Iceape won't let me.

I am using Pan on Linux. Not perfect, but satisfactory.

Tamas
From: Tim Bradshaw on
On 2010-06-15 16:07:41 +0100, Norbert_Paul said:

> Cool!! Are there finite non-denumerable sets?

Either my newsreader is broken or I am, as I think I sent an answer to
this but it doesn't seem to be there. Anyway: no.

From: fortunatus on
On Jun 14, 3:34 pm, Raymond Toy <toy.raym...(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> There was even one example where the C compiler made spectacularly bad
> code.  I only needed 6 pointer registers (the arch has 8), but the
> compiler decided to use only one or two and spilled and reloaded them
> from the stack for each use.  Yay!

That's one of the worst compiler stories I've heard since 1979! How
awful!