User talk:Dysprosia/Archive

Hi,

How did you make the Machine_language page redirect to the Machine_code page?

Thanks! JohnMG 03:05, Mar 14, 2004 (EST)

Nevermind. Got it. How_to_use_a_redirect

JohnMG 20:40, Mar 14, 2004 (EST)

As a matter of interest, what's the advantage in "moving" a previous desktop environment page to "Desktop_environment" - the redirects are becoming a little confusing whereas ordinarily they're simple :)

Skyline 22:39, Mar 14, 2004 (EST)


 * The simple argument is: what is simpler to type/read - "the GNOME and KDE desktop environments", or, "the GNOME and KDE desktop environments"?


 * Furthermore, the Wiki software here is set up to transparently redirect, making double redirects harder to eliminate...
 * Furthermore, the Wiki software here is set up to transparently redirect, making double redirects harder to eliminate...


 * However, there seems to be at least a preliminary distinction in some pages, used here in that the singular is used for some other purpose than the plural, which is not a Good Thing, but I'll just leave that alone for the moment without having a brainfreeze :) Dysprosia 04:16, Mar 15, 2004 (EST)
 * However, there seems to be at least a preliminary distinction in some pages, used here in that the singular is used for some other purpose than the plural, which is not a Good Thing, but I'll just leave that alone for the moment without having a brainfreeze :) Dysprosia 04:16, Mar 15, 2004 (EST)

Re: redirecting talk pages. Thank you. Sometimes I suspect the doctor dropped me when I was born.

Re: the csh article - just for personal interest, csh or a variant is the default shell with *BSD and even the system scripts are written in it? Being 98% Slackware and 1% Gentoo and not a particularly devout GNUist I sometimes wonder about BSD, but I like bash.

Digiot 21:51, Mar 15, 2004 (EST)


 * I don't know about all the system scripts, the ones i checked use sh, but csh is the default interactive shell on OpenBSD. I get along pretty well with the straight csh, but at times I really pine for NeXT's version of csh on OpenBSD though - it's like tcsh without all the junk ;)... as you could probably tell... Dysprosia 03:49, Mar 16, 2004 (EST)


 * Oh. Well, if they're in sh and I can just change my shell to bash, that removes a concern. (I'm utterly clueless about NeXT and its shell but it does seem too many programs leap from needing a few improvements to being overloaded with nonsense without ever hitting the golden mean. I'm sure bash falls in the same class, but I don't have grounds for comparison. I don't pine for COMMAND.COM. ;) ) Digiot 14:02, Mar 16, 2004 (EST)

What do you think of combining stdin, stdout, and stderr into one page called "Standard Files" or "Standard Streams" or something (with redirects from the currently existing pages)? Each article is small, and they are all closely related. --Snags 08:43, Mar 25, 2004 (EST)


 * Neat, it seems we have the same interests. Thanks for fixing Wikipedia's physics article. --Snags


 * Sounds like a good idea (Is that you, Decu? :) I'll have a little more time later and I'll start merging all into Standard IO stream, I think... Dysprosia 16:37, Mar 25, 2004 (EST)


 * I'm Not Decu. I guess there are more of us than we think.  --Snags 10:00, Mar 26, 2004 (EST)


 * In-ter-essss-ting ;) (Sorry bout the confusion!) Dysprosia 18:21, Mar 26, 2004 (EST)

Dysprosia, would you mind contacting me (via email) when you have a chance? Thanks. Jeremy 12:32, Apr 8, 2004 (EDT)

Hi! I was wondering if you could precise what you meant in xterm with this paragraph:


 * xterm is much more sophisticated than its use to interface with the command line - it is in fact a terminal emulator, emulating the standard DEC VT102/VT220 and Tektronix 4014-compatible computer terminals.

I'm not quite sure I get it and I don't want to make any changes before you can check out it you made a typo or something like that. MikeCapone 10:14, May 29, 2004 (EDT)


 * Reworded. Better? Dysprosia 03:50, May 30, 2004 (EDT)


 * Yes, it's fine now. Thanks! MikeCapone 10:42, May 30, 2004 (EDT)

Dysprosia, I remeber reading in some talk page somewhere about you not liking the mailing list. I've been think for some time that a Community area, including a Village Pump style area (like from the wikipedia) would be nice. I don't particularly like the mailing list either - i have a slight phobia about interactive text communication, email being the worst. What do you think? Crazyeddie 16:39, Jun 2, 2004 (EDT)


 * Sounds like a great idea. I might give you a hand implementing it, but I've been quite busy recently, so have limited "runtime" to donate to the LQ wiki :) Dysprosia 07:01, Jun 3, 2004 (EDT)


 * Kind of busy myself - sat waiting for the phone to ring all May, now I'm real busy. Just making sure there's a consensus for this now. Crazyeddie 02:15, Jun 5, 2004 (EDT)


 * Have a few hours to work on it now. Can't think of a good place to link to it from. Eventually, it'll be linked to from the main page (assuming that everybody else likes it) but it's definitely not ready for prime time yet. Here's a good as place as any to do the link: Community Commons Follow the link when you have time. Crazyeddie 00:37, Jun 19, 2004 (EDT)