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From: Nick on 3 Mar 2010 15:17 "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim(a)verizon.net> writes: > From: "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim(a)verizon.net> > Subject: Re: The perpetual calendar > Newsgroups: sci.math, sci.physics, sci.astro, sci.lang, alt.usage.english > Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 04:11:33 -0800 (PST) > Organization: http://groups.google.com > > On Mar 3, 2:47 am, Nick <3-nos...(a)temporary-address.org.uk> wrote: >> Glenn Knickerbocker <N...(a)bestweb.net> writes: >> > Nick wrote: >> >> >> You're the persistent Google groups user IIRC. Â Look it up, or don't >> >> ^ >> >> Look! There's another one. Whenever you quote me there's a little >> >> underscore-like character appears where the second of my double spaces >> >> was. >> >> > Google is translating your second space into a nonbreaking space (0xA0) >> > so that it will be displayed in a Web page. >> >> Which is a perfectly sensible thing to do when displaying it - turn >> strings of spaces into alternating string and . I do it myself. >> >> But why on earth is it then sending it out. Among other things, for the >> structure of my post it's /wrong/. It's the /first/ space of a doublet >> that should be non-breaking (so it remains at the end of the previous >> line). Otherwise Google is telling people to break my sentences with a >> space at the start. >> Like this. >> >> I'm very grateful they run a Usenet archive (even if it seems to be >> impossible to search it sensibly at the moment, perhaps they can fix >> it). I'm getting FTB with them -hide quoted text- -show quoted text- >> spewing gunge all over Usenet. >> >> I>t's properly displayed as >> >> > just a space, but Emacs must be showing it to you as something else to >> > alert you that it's not a "normal" space. Google does change the data, >> > but it's your tool, not Peter's, that's changing its graphical image. >> >> > Then, when you post it, Gnus encodes it in UTF-8. My ancient Netscape >> > (which I may finally replace with Thunderbird now that a few more of the >> > missing basic functions have been added in version 3) then displays it >> > without decoding it, so I wind up quoting it as an A-circumflex followed >> > by a space (0x4120). >> >> > I still think it would be nice if mail and news tools left 8-bit data >> > unencoded when it didn't use any of the code points that differ between >> > the ISO 8859 and Windows code pages, unless some other code page was >> > specified. >> >> When I wrote it, of course, it didn't. So Google is making a post that >> I write that you can easily read and transforming it, when quoted, into >> something that's messy and that you can't easily quote. >> >> See above. > > No one but you sees "something that's messy and that you can't easily > quote." [whole post left in for context] Yes, Glenn does. See above. -- Online waterways route planner | http://canalplan.eu Plan trips, see photos, check facilities | http://canalplan.org.uk
From: John Holmes on 4 Mar 2010 05:05 PaulJK wrote: > > When I lived in Toorak, Melbourne Cup Day was definitely > a paid state holiday. I don't think so. It has only ever been a holiday in the Melbourne area, not statewide. Once you are more than about 80-100 km from Melbourne, you find they have their own country race day or agricultural show day local holidays on other dates instead. -- Regards John for mail: my initials plus a u e at tpg dot com dot au
From: Lewis on 4 Mar 2010 07:01 On 02-Mar-10 08:48, Evan Kirshenbaum wrote: > Lewis<notmyemail(a)example.com> writes: >> Current machine has 7TB of disk space and 6GB of RAM. > > That's a big disk for today, though, you have to admit. I don't think > I've seen more than about 1TB actually on a machine. Most the people I know, fellow geeks, have at least 4TB of storage, usually broken down into c.3TB for data storage and 1TB for Time Machine. I have a friend whose home server was just upgrade to 15.75TB, and another who is putting in 5x2TB drives at the end of the month, pushing his home server 22TB (but 4TB of that is 'lost' to RAID). If I had the money, I'd be bumping up to ~10TB right now as I am running 85% full. The real trouble is, there is no way to backup these drives, so the only solution is to add more drives and RAID them to mitigate against failure and backup the really important stuff to yet more drives When I dropped in my 2x1.5TB drives last year (RAID0) I thought, "well, it's going to be a good long while before I fill up 3TB!" Yeah, not so much. I have less than 100GB free of that 3TB, though I have some DVD images on it that, once I finish converting them to h264 I can delete, so that will free up 50GB or so. -- "I'm not bad; I'm just drawn that way."
From: Peter Moylan on 4 Mar 2010 07:15 John Holmes wrote: > PaulJK wrote: >> >> When I lived in Toorak, Melbourne Cup Day was definitely >> a paid state holiday. > > I don't think so. It has only ever been a holiday in the Melbourne area, > not statewide. Once you are more than about 80-100 km from Melbourne, > you find they have their own country race day or agricultural show day > local holidays on other dates instead. > Agreed. Melbourne Cup Day has never been a holiday in NSW. -- Peter Moylan, Newcastle, NSW, Australia. http://www.pmoylan.org For an e-mail address, see my web page.
From: Andrew Usher on 4 Mar 2010 13:10
Transfer Principle wrote: > Yes, the only official name of the mid-February federal > holiday is Washington's Birthday. As was pointed out > earlier in the thread, Washington's Birthday can never > fall on his actual birthday (which was February 22nd > Gregorian, though when Washington was born Britain and > its colonies were still on the Julian calendar). Strange, isn't it? I can't understand why Lincoln got screwed! > Many school districts take off two Mondays in February, > one each for Lincoln and Washington. Obviously practice varies here; I don't remember two Mondays off. > Notice that in the Usher reform plan, the federal > holiday would fall in the February 16th-22nd range, > rather than the current 15th-21st range. Thus the > Usher Washington's Birthday can actually fall on > Washington's birthday, unlike the current holiday. OK, I've added this to my calendar. I said originally that all holidays that are now taken on Monday etc. should be fixed to a particular week of my calendar. > Moving from California to Louisiana, it was pointed > out that many Louisianans take Shrove Tuesday (i.e., > Mardi Gras) off. But this is awkward since after the > weekend of Saturday and Sunday, there's a single day > of work on Monday before the Tuesday holiday. In the > Usher plan, Mardi Gras, being 47 days before the > Usher Easter (April 5th-11th), would fall in the > February 17th-23rd range -- in other words, it's > always one day after Usher Wasington's Birthday. So > Louisianans would always have a full four-day weekend > under the Usher plan (Sat-Sun-Washington-Mardi Gras). That's right but it's not terribly surprising because they are, after all, tied to the same week in that case. I suppose it would matter less outside Louisiana, but at least it wouldn't hurt. That was the point of me using the Christian holidays, and I can't understand why Peter Daniels wouldn't understand that. > Notice that the two major public university systems in > California (UC and CSU) no longer tie their spring > breaks to Easter (as is traditional). Instead, spring > break in these two university systems is now the week > that contains Chavez Day. This reflects a current trend > across the nation (and possibly the globe) of having > spring break appear at a fixed point in the term, > rather than tied to Easter with its five-week swing. It's also because US universities have changed to the semester system that they generally want their break during March, to be more nearly toward the middle of the semester. > Under the Usher plan, Easter appears at a fixed point > in the term, and so many schools and universities might > return to having spring break contain Easter if we were > to use the Usher plan. I'm not sure. Perhaps it is feared that there would be too much rowdy and chaotic behavior if all college students in the country got off at the same time. > I'm not sure what California > would do, since the latest Usher Easter is eleven days > after Chavez Day. Of course, since Washington's Birthday > isn't always on February 22nd, Chavez's Birthday need > not always be observed on March 31st. The observed > holiday might fall on the Monday after Palm Sunday, so > that the spring break can always include both Chavez > Day and Holy Week. This is correct; if Chavez Day is to be observed as an official holiday, I suppose there shouldn't be a problem fixing it to Monday. Andrew Usher |