On Wed, 05 Apr 2017 10:12:14 +0100, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:

> On Tue, 04 Apr 2017 17:49:09 +0100, rickman  wrote:
>
>> On 4/4/2017 6:27 AM, Kerr Mudd-John wrote:
>>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 22:42:16 +0100, Rob Morley 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Fri, 31 Mar 2017 20:21:50 -0000 (UTC)
>>>> Martin Gregorie  wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> That was a rather off-topic comment for this NG: apologies.
>>>>
>>>> It might have inspired someone to go develop a fault-tolerant cluster
>>>> using Pi compute modules ...
>>>> :-)
>>>>
>>> Off topic?? there's a thread on the merits (or not) of metric units
>>> and electric sockets. It's easy to miss the header is "ARMv8.1?"
>>>
>>> I'm thinking of getting it vaguely back on topic-ish as Yet Another vi
>>> v emacs debate!
>>
>> Which side are you on.  My old editor, Codewright has had a stroke and
>> I
>
> Neither. I was "forced" to learn a bit of vi, as at the command prompt
> there's little available after a failed boot of a pi.

IIRC nano is installed as standard on a PI
it is far simpler for basic editing that either of the two   
behemoths that are treated as rights of passage by some UNIX gurus.
I am reminded of two quotes:

1 Vi is a text editor with two modes mode 1 beeps continuously & mode 2
corrupts files.

2 EMACS has everything needed to make a great operating system except a
good text editor.

 

>I use Geany (if on
> a linux GUI) or notepad2 on XP these days.
+ 1 for Geany - even when I am forced to use Windoze
>
>> am finally learning a new one so I can use the same editor on the rPi
>> and the PC.  Right now I am struggling to learn Emacs as I have heard
>> so much good about it.  But it doesn't do much through the GUI.  :(
>>
>> Does VI even run on the PC?  How well does it deal with the Unix NL vs.
>> PC CR/LF issue?  Codewright would just preserve what it saw used in the
>> file being edited.  That was *great*.
>>





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Brief History Of Linux (#11)
Birth of Gates and the Anti-Gates

October 28, 1955 saw the birth of William H. Gates, who would rise above
his humble beginnings as the son of Seattle's most powerful millionaire
lawyer and become the World's Richest Man(tm). A classic American
rags-to-riches story (with "rags" referring to the dollar bills that the
Gates family used for toilet paper), Bill Gates is now regarded as the
world's most respected businessman by millions of clueless people that
have obviously never touched a Windows machine.

Nature is all about balance. The birth of Gates in 1955 tipped the cosmic
scales toward evil, but the birth of Linus Torvalds in 1969 finally
balanced them out. Linus' destiny as the savior of Unix and the slayer of
money-breathing Redmond dragons was sealed when, just mere hours after his
birth, the Unix epoch began January 1st, 1970. While the baseline for Unix
timekeeping might be arbitrary, we here at Humorix like to thank the its
proximity of Linus' birth is no coincidence.

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