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Fun With Windows (TM)
This morning my computer didn't start up, owing to not being able to find the hive mind.
Well, OK, hive file, but the message flashed past so fast I misread it first time.
45 mins later our sysdmin had it going again, but a bizarre selection of my software hasn't survived the experience (which was registry corruption).
Outlook is completely stuffed. Emacs, the application that usually prevails over everything, is completely stuffed - which is confusing me, as I wouldn't expect it to do much with the registry.
Winamp is fine, and is cheerfully still playing the list of mp3s I had running last night.
I just tried to install Xemacs instead, but failed to be able to run it properly. It kept complaining on start up that it couldn't find gnuserv. gnuserv is quite clearly installed on my machine, but I presume it's looking in the wrong place. Does anyone know (a) how to tell where it's looking and and (b) how to tell it to look somewhere different? I'm very fond of emacs as a thing to use, but I do find its setup and all its lispy business a bit of a mystery.
Currently resurrected old ordinary-emacs, and using that.
Oh, and after all the excitment of yesterday, I don't think it's hayfever after all. I think I've just got a cold.
Well, OK, hive file, but the message flashed past so fast I misread it first time.
45 mins later our sysdmin had it going again, but a bizarre selection of my software hasn't survived the experience (which was registry corruption).
Outlook is completely stuffed. Emacs, the application that usually prevails over everything, is completely stuffed - which is confusing me, as I wouldn't expect it to do much with the registry.
Winamp is fine, and is cheerfully still playing the list of mp3s I had running last night.
I just tried to install Xemacs instead, but failed to be able to run it properly. It kept complaining on start up that it couldn't find gnuserv. gnuserv is quite clearly installed on my machine, but I presume it's looking in the wrong place. Does anyone know (a) how to tell where it's looking and and (b) how to tell it to look somewhere different? I'm very fond of emacs as a thing to use, but I do find its setup and all its lispy business a bit of a mystery.
Currently resurrected old ordinary-emacs, and using that.
Oh, and after all the excitment of yesterday, I don't think it's hayfever after all. I think I've just got a cold.
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If/when I ever get that old laptop running (which involves locating a power cable which fits it :( ) I intend to experimentally put linux on it.
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Did anyone else care about that except me ? No, thought not.
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I encourage you to boldly split where no woman has split before.
Apparently its now accepted english usage (according to my old supervisor). And he should know having removed hundreds of them from my thesis (with appropriate sarcasm).
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Not by me it's not :)
Well, mostly not. Some sentences sound so unwieldy if you unsplit the infinitive that it's just not worth it...
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Anyway, I wouldn't worry too much about the difficulty of Linux. If I manage it, it can't be that hard. Except, I'm told, on laptops, that tend to be full of poorly-documented trick hardware.
For laptops there is
But if the laptop
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Yes... I'd have said that this rule should take precedence over all over pints of grammar.
However, I also like my sentences to sound nice, and I find the way split infinitives sound is often much less pleasant than if you'd moved the words around a bit.
(I know there's a typo in the above but I liked it, so I left it there)
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In which case the other way is better for that sentence. I'm not against doing it in principle, but you're right in saying that it's very easy to overdo. That applies to a lot of things, of course.
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And toast.
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Is it just a myth, or is it the case that the "no splitting infinitives" rule was invented at a time (the late 19th century) when it was a fairly common construction.
If so, then I'll restate the rule of thumb that I recently suggested to lanfykins - that when you invent a grammatical rule it should be descriptive rather than prescriptive, even if you later allow it to become prescriptive. Hence if there's "prior art" in this case, the rule is nonsensical and we're free to break it.
If you're looking for elegance, then speak a language in which infinitives don't arrive pre-split by the supplier :-)
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"It is I" rather than "It is me"
Does esse take the nominative case in Latin, then?
Linux..
She says deciding she really ought to upgrade her Java now.
Hehehe
On one of the sysadmin mailing lists I'm on (all subscribers being people who run their own RAQ servers, connected to the internet backbone in Docklands), one poster asked:
"Oh and another thing, when I FTP into [his server] I see two extra files in my admin directory, . and .. which don't appear when I'm using SSH. I can't download them, though. Does anyone know what they are and how I can delete them ?"
See ? If he can be a sysadmin, you get to be a Guru !
Ooh !
(Who, me, offtopic ?)
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But the obvious conclusion is that it's looking for some registry key that will tell it where to find the thing, and the fix would be to add a suitable key... Which might not be possible by hand, unless you can find someone else who has it installed properly and search their registry for it.
Manual registry editing! It's so much fun!
Seriously, though, is this something that you can individually reinstall?