I know multiple people have asked you to drop this signature. I'm adding my voice to the list.
This signature is around 20 lines and you really should try to keep them under 4. This means that one of your messages probably contains as much fluff as actual content.
The real issue is that you waist the bandwidth of thousands of readers every time you send a message to this list. That's just bad manners.
I'm using Mac OS 10.4. Ruby is already installed, so I'm HOPING that the dev files are already installed. However, I keep getting that message. What's going on? Anyone else ever have this problem?
thanks,
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~ Ari
crap my sig won't fit
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On May 22, 2007, at 1:34 AM, Brian Candler wrote:
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:46:18AM +0900, Ari Brown wrote:
when I run 'ruby extconf.rb', it says "ruby headers not found". What
does this mean?
It means the ruby header files are missing
You need to be specific on exactly what platform you're trying to do this
on.
because it is always segfaulting ruby on my machine
I can't require the libnet file. I tried downloading and installing that (like a normal source program), but i couldn't require it. Maybe I installed it incorrectly?
I then attempted downloading ruby-libnet, but I am missing the header files for ruby.
yargh
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Nietzsche is my copilot
For me the real issue is that it is extremely irritating to look at
and scroll past. Maybe if people don't respond to anansi until he
shows that he can be polite to others on this list and get rid of the
stupid spider, he'll get the picture.
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On 5/22/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On May 22, 2007, at 3:35 AM, anansi wrote:
The real issue is that you waist the bandwidth of thousands of
readers every time you send a message to this list. That's just bad
manners.
Actually, a linefeed character doesn't use up any more bandwidth than
any other character. Thus, the whole "more than 4 lines = wasted
bandwidth" idea is rather arbitrary. A 300-character signature wastes
no more bandwidth if 20 of those characters are linefeeds than if only
3 of them are. If he simply deletes most of the space characters that
are being used to center the spider, thus shifting the spider over to
the left edge, his signature would be using fewer characters than a
signature consisting of 4 full 80-character lines.
Also, I note that you felt the need to quote the entire "waste of
bandwidth" in your reply.
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On May 22, 8:15 am, James Edward Gray II <j...@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On May 22, 2007, at 3:35 AM, anansi wrote:
This signature is around 20 lines and you really should try to keep
them under 4. This means that one of your messages probably contains
as much fluff as actual content.
The real issue is that you waist the bandwidth of thousands of
readers every time you send a message to this list. That's just bad
manners.
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Nietzsche is my copilot
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On May 22, 2007, at 9:40 AM, Gregory Brown wrote:
On 5/22/07, James Edward Gray II <james@grayproductions.net> wrote:
On May 22, 2007, at 3:35 AM, anansi wrote:
The real issue is that you waist the bandwidth of thousands of
readers every time you send a message to this list. That's just bad
manners.
For me the real issue is that it is extremely irritating to look at
and scroll past. Maybe if people don't respond to anansi until he
shows that he can be polite to others on this list and get rid of the
stupid spider, he'll get the picture.
On 5/22/07, Joel VanderWerf <vjoel@path.berkeley.edu> wrote:
James Edward Gray II wrote:
...
> The real issue is that you waist the bandwidth of thousands of readers
> every time you send a message to this list. That's just bad manners.
A waist is a terrible thing to mind
> Please, trim the signature.
Or replace it with a line of ruby that generates the same characters.
True. I think the commodity being wasted isn't really net bandwidth,
though, but rather screen real estate (pixel bandwidth), which can be
a little annoying. I have an old development system that I frequently
use to check my mail on. It has a crappy monitor. Can I scroll
through the fluff? Of course. But I like having as much info on the
screen at one time. Besides, the same artwork on "every" post gets
tiresome. Maybe if it was ruby code that depicted something new every
time
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On 5/23/07, Karl von Laudermann <doodpants@mailinator.com> wrote:
On May 22, 8:15 am, James Edward Gray II <j...@grayproductions.net> > wrote:
> The real issue is that you waist the bandwidth of thousands of
> readers every time you send a message to this list. That's just bad
> manners.
Actually, a linefeed character doesn't use up any more bandwidth than
any other character.
. . . minus the claws. I played around with adding some, but failed.
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On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 10:36:36PM +0900, Gregory Brown wrote:
On 5/22/07, benjohn@fysh.org <benjohn@fysh.org> wrote:
> o o
>/|"|\
>
>Or something? I'm not too good at ascii art though, sorry
I don't know what you're talking about, that's a beautiful hermit crab.
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