Andy Hall vs IMM

The Natural Philosopher wrote

True, but it's even better to be up front and admit you don't know right from the start and ask for help. I admit I haven't got a clue about core dumps and segmentation faults, but then I'm not a programmer. Neither am I an electrician. But unlike IMM, I do not try to show off and give bad and sometimes dangerous advice on matters I know very little about.

It would be nice if we had a rule that everybody totally ignores everything he says, and then maybe he might just go away.

Peter

Reminds me of the carp (ing) in uk.env.cons. I'd kill-file at least 3 posters from uk.d-i-y, if I could. Two you've mentioned, the third purports to be of the female sex and seemingly contributes only waffle and OT tittle-tattle.

J.B.

I know. You give it on a subject you earn a living at. Appalling!

Agreed...

But, apropos of very little, it's quite amusing that modern UNIX-ish systems still have that error message...

It comes from the first public UNIX (1976) which ran on the PDP-11. That machine had segmented memory (not paging), hence 'segmentation fault' and of course it had real core, not semiconductor, memory. Yet the message persists!

In article , Bob Eager writes

Allegedly, early unices have the amusing message "lp: on fire" as a catch-all error message for printers. It's made it into the Linux kernel:

I never saw that one when I started back in 1976...but then we didn't have a proper printer...! Just a DECWriter...

In message , Peter Taylor writes

I doubt it.

I think he posts here through a need to belong, and just being ignored isn't going to stop him

In message , IMM writes

Not only DIMM, but clueless with it aren't you

Maxie, I don't need to belong to the likes of you.....a Morris dancer??? Boy oh boy!

In article , geoff writes

He's no more than an attention seeker, and is too stupid to realise he's as welcome as a dose of the clap, and about as useful.

My Arse!

Blimey, a youngbie. Don't you remember the gatling guns? (Teletype 43 and earlier)

C'mon. If you haven't used an ASR33 - with tape reader and punch - then you've missed an entire education.

Ah... the smell of warm oil, the jamming of the mechanism.

.andy

To email, substitute .nospam with .gl

No, that's just when I started UNIX. Remember it NEEDS a lower case peripheral. The DECWriter was the first lower case thing we got.

Oh, ASR-33s....! Used those a LOT earlier... CLATTER! JAM! WHINE!

:D so true

It was somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember "IMM" saying something like:

Pah; the only thing you know about US PoWs in Korea is what you read in "The Manchurian Candidate".

I do. I did see North Korea play football once. And I saw South Korea play football in the last World cup on TV. Is this the stuff for a spy novel writer?

In message , IMM writes

What, on the telly tonight?

In message , geoff writes

Except that if your first suggestion is true then ignoring him will mean that his need is no longer being satisfied here and so he will move on.