1. Post 083

    Hooray, Advogato has been saved. Thanks StevenRainwater.

    nutella, certs are entirely one way, and they're always a positive assertion. The idea is that trust flows along certification links, so a spammer can create as many accounts as they ...

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  2. DOS

    Whoever was hammering the advogato person index page this (wednesday) morning, please don't do that again. It's an expensive page to generate and, well, you brought poor apache to its knees.

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  3. Whacky medieval latin

    raph and nymia, google suggests ojusdem might be eiusdem, the third person, singular, feminine, genitive pronoun.

    So inter omnes curvas ojusdem longitudinus might be "between each of its curves lengthwise." But I know exactly enough Latin to be extremely dangerous with a dictionary. Caveat lector. read more

  4. 恭喜發財

    恭喜發財

    freetype, the comment about phasing out M4 was from atai, not me.

    I don't actually mind M4. The syntax is an odd marriage, which made it hard to learn ("even more fun with quoting!") but it's just a macro substitution language, and I'm not sure what a ...

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  5. autotools

    freetype doesn't give any examples of what autoconf is used for that GNU make + pkg-config can't do, but when I said that I was thinking more about autotools as a whole, not just autoconf.

    Re configure scripts in repositories, I guess I'd always considered "lack of portability ...

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  6. Post 076

    raph, your comments on GNU autotools are pretty must spot on, but I think your point number 3 is inaccurate. It's not that everyone uses the GNU toolchain; there are applications where other compilers are still interesting, Solaris is still alive as a vendor unix in the free software ...

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  7. Post 075

    Recently, cinamod tacked on a rant about PDF being a non-free format. I'd like to hear more about that. Certainly, my views are probably coloured by working on Ghostscript but I also think I care more about free formats than post people, and it's not really my perception ...

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  8. Post 074

    redi, the disk does fill up that often. raph and I both use the same machine for email, and basically whenever there's a spike in the virus traffic the disk fills up.

    Knowing this is the actual cause of the accounts going missing, I'll try a little harder ...

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