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From: Lew Pitcher on 29 Nov 2009 16:02 SomeDumbFuckImpersonatingUs <lpitcher(a)teksavvy.com> trolled: The name LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca is registered to us, and us alone. Could you please use your own name from now on to avoid confusion? Thank you! LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca -- Official Website -->> http://lewpitcher.ca/ Something to look at: -->> http://www.emusclemag.com/ Lonely in Brampton? -->> http://gaypros.meetup.com/cities/ca/on/brampton/ Peel HIV/AIDS Network -->> http://www.phan.ca/home.html
From: Lew Pitcher on 29 Nov 2009 16:32 Mike Jones <Not(a)arizona.bay> trolled: > There is always a problem or two learning a new way to do an old job. I don't believe what I am about to read... > There is usually a "learning curve" experience while adopting and > adapting to the new way of doing something. This is why the > "migrating to *NIX" experience has a classic "steep learning > curve", which is in fact simply the confusion cause by UN-learning > the old (typically M$) way of even thinking about things. How can there be a new way of doing something on a 40 year old operating system? How can there be a relatively old M$ way of doing something when M$ is the state of the art? What kind of an idiot would embark on a "learning curve" when the techniques they are learning are at least 20 years out of date? > This kind of activity is usually fun for me, as I like exploring > alternatives (love SLRN, athritis hates it), There it is. You are a victim of slackware hype. slrn. mutt. lynx. Pure text and we don't want any pictures because the "best" programs do not handle bitmapped displays. The "best" programs only use text so that is the way that we, and everybody who wants to communicate with us, is going to have to play. If we have our heads up our asses then surely everybody else should have their heads up their asses as well. Lets make a law banning html, jpgs and gifs from the internet. Hell, lets go back to uucp and bulletin boards! Uucp forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca -- Official Website -->> http://lewpitcher.ca/ Something to look at: -->> http://www.emusclemag.com/ Lonely in Brampton? -->> http://gaypros.meetup.com/cities/ca/on/brampton/ Peel HIV/AIDS Network -->> http://www.phan.ca/home.html
From: Bud on 29 Nov 2009 17:08 On Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:29:38 +0000, Mike Jones wrote: > Responding to Jim Diamond: > >> [quoted text muted] > > > Ok. Lets see now... > > There is always a problem or two learning a new way to do an old job. > > There is usually a "learning curve" experience while adopting and > adapting to the new way of doing something. This is why the "migrating > to *NIX" experience has a classic "steep learning curve", which is in > fact simply the confusion cause by UN-learning the old (typically M$) > way of even thinking about things. > > This kind of activity is usually fun for me, as I like exploring > alternatives (love SLRN, athritis hates it), however, every now and then > there is something that feels like running into a brick wall instead of > just dropping a gear for a gradient. I have no real explanation for > this yet. > > Vi is one such experience generator. I've read up on it, and on paper it > looks fantastic. I've read other's experiences of it, and thought "Wow! > I gotta get me one of those!" And then there is the > face-against-the-bricks "moment of impact" as what I now call > "Vim-lexia" hits. > > Its like some kind of blind-spot thing, writers block, or something. > > I do know that I'm not alone in this, so this must be something to do > with Vi(m) itself too, and, obviously, as I suffer from "Vim-lexia" I'm > not likely to figure it out any time soonish. > > > Did that go anyway to answering your query? Oh, golly, you explained my problems too. With loosing the feeling in my left little and the nest one and probably will be the middle soon enough due to the ulna muscles choking the nerves plus the arthritis, typing is a chore and many mistakes I have to take time to correct. I'd rather just use one type of program well enough to get the job done and have and that is slrn which is not available in Mandriva 64 which I'm trying out with Gnome. Pam has a habit of disappearing after a follow-up. Oh the fun! -- Bud
From: Bud on 29 Nov 2009 17:26 On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:01:24 -0600, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > F#1 happens only when the person in charge of the system is willfully > ignorant. No one can be caught without knowing Vi unless they > purposefully do not wish to learn before disaster hits. If that's the > way they are, then they deserve the trouble they get. Ahha! That is when I have to get my _Linux in a Nutshell_ book out and find the damn commands I need just so I can forget them. I'm a Pico fan, KISS. -- Bud
From: Lew Pitcher on 29 Nov 2009 18:46
Bud <bud.e.beck(a)gmail.com> trolled: > On Sat, 28 Nov 2009 17:01:24 -0600, Aaron W. Hsu wrote: > >> F#1 happens only when the person in charge of the system is willfully >> ignorant. No one can be caught without knowing Vi unless they >> purposefully do not wish to learn before disaster hits. If that's the >> way they are, then they deserve the trouble they get. > > Ahha! That is when I have to get my _Linux in a Nutshell_ book out and > find the damn commands I need just so I can forget them. I'm a Pico fan, > KISS. But this is true of _all_ linux commands, not just vi commands. If you want to use a straightforward, modern editor then it would seem consistent to want to use a straightforward and modern OS. Ah, but you are the "LewPitcher" troll. You're the guy who uses my name and writes garbage in a bid to embarrass me. But it doesn't work very well, does it? Could you please refrain from trying to confuse the readers of this newsgroup by using my legally acquired domain name? I, and I alone, am LewPitcher.ca. Not you. Me. In fact, you can use your browser to checkout LewPitcher.ca (again), if you want. LewPitcher(a)LewPitcher.ca -- Official Website -->> http://lewpitcher.ca/ Something to look at: -->> http://www.emusclemag.com/ Lonely in Brampton? -->> http://gaypros.meetup.com/cities/ca/on/brampton/ Peel HIV/AIDS Network -->> http://www.phan.ca/home.html |