Re: mtr

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From: peter (Peter da Silva)
Subject: Re: mtr
Date: 17:20 on 12 Jan 2007
> > Dear Berkeley and/or AT&T or whoever owned UNIX the week the decision 
> > was made to stop background jobs that wrote to stderr, I would like to 
> > render a hearty "FUCK YOU".

>   % stty -tostop

Yeh, I'd forgotten that, because I normally use this instead:

	http://www.scarydevil.com/~peter/sw/detach.shar

Which solves a lot of other random hatefulness and should work on everything
from Version 6 through Dead Rat and Interix.

> Advanced Unix Programming book[1] was devoted to interacting with the
> terminal driver and its idiosyncracies...  Hate?  I nearly laughed.

That's because the terminal driver was the previous playground of the "I
have a better idea of how to do menus" jerks who made X11 toolkits such a
maze of weird behaviour and exceptions, and who now delight in finding new
ways to abuse CSS and DHTML...

Does hates-software extend to hates-people-who-make-software-hateful?

There's stuff above here

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