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* On 2005.09.30, in <20050930060044.GH7852@xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxx.xxx>, * "Aaron J. Grier" <agrier@xxxxxxxxx.xxx> wrote: > > thunderbird is crashing during exit, which throws up a dialogue box > which must be attended to. > > "do you really want to exit?" Apparently the Mozilla Foundation, or whatever moniker of implied respectability they're calling themselves lately, has learned its manners of irony from "Heave Ho" Ballmer & co. This is strikingly reminiscent of ~"Windows has detected that you pushed the power switch. Please do not push the power switch; choose 'turn off my computer' and allow Windows Shutdown to push the power switch for you. This will save your valuable data."~ Or whatever it is that it says when you reboot after it crashes and destroys your valuable data. KMA, POS. [Not that it stops me, but] really it's too harsh to post about it here, on hates-software; for without such hateful software, I would never have learned this important lesson: never possess valuable data that you can neither print on a 3x5 note card nor remember yourself. This is roughly half the reason I cannot bring myself to reply upon PGP even in my mail, which I largely recall: I'd have to trust a computer, and look what sort of record those have. Is A6 the ISO rough equivalent of a 3x5 (inch) card? Among ISO standards, this is one I increasingly respect (if not enjoy), as though it were metric. I feel dirty playing metric, but deep in my soul I know it has a more bedrock foundation than the span of Henry IV's stride. Likewise ISO paper, what with its natural-number properties and stuff. How can you help feeling drawn to a square root of a prime? I tell you, it has a simplicity that you can only fully appreciate if you're a type A reductionist, or you really believe that extraterrestials will know us by our number theory. Or maybe those are idempotent. Where's my tumbler? -- -D. dgc@xxxxxxxx.xxx NSIT University of Chicago Modified Luddite
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