Linux and readline

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On Fri, Jun 05, 2009 at 09:48:16AM -0700, Bill Campbell may or may not have
proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2009, Kenneth Brody wrote:
> ...
> >"On two occasions I have been asked,?'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the 
> >machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ? I am not able 
> >rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such 
> >a question."
> 
> You mean like the infamous ``hockey stick'' graph in the IPCC
> ``climate change'' report which would come out the same with any
> sequence of random numbers :-).

Unless you actually put in the data that -should- result in that graph, in
which case it screwed up and they had to massage the data to get that
shape.

> GIGO

Speaking of which.  I'm now on my FOURTH system restore of the morning.
My applications (the same five) started dying again after a reboot this
morning.  I reverted to four different restore points.  So far, this one
seems most stable--although it now wants to reinstall IE8, which as far as
I can tell may actually have been the biggest problem.  Funnily enough, IE8
was just restored in the latest reversion -forward-.  It was that, or leave
IE so lobotomised that it would crash upon loading any page.  So it wants
to install something that's already installed.  Brilliant, eh?

MS has a freaking LOT to answer for, and I have yet to hear so much as a
peep from them.  I do believe I'm going to just keep sending the error
reports upon app crashes.  EVERY SINGLE TIME THEY CRASH.

While YMMV, I highly recommend people avoid IE8 and the latest .NET
framework patch until they sort this stuff out.  It's been nothing but a
headache for me, personally--and I highly doubt it's just me.  Granted,
it's affecting only a percentage of my applications.  But the fact remains
that NONE of my applications were affected before their "upgrades" were put
into play.  This set of upgrades isn't even alpha quality, IMNSHO.

MSIGO  (MicroSoft In, Garbage Out)

mark->
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