<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">I was going to respond to Christopher's thoughtful post about the differences between Android alternative ROM development and Linux distributions. It's a reasonable topic, worthy of discussion and thoroughly relevant to GTALUG.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Then ... something happened. It didn't just derail the conversation, the whole train melted.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif">Are there enough people still reading here to make a sane return to the original subject worthwhile?</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:trebuchet ms,sans-serif"><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 February 2015 at 15:08, David Collier-Brown <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:davec-b@rogers.com" target="_blank">davec-b@rogers.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Plonk!<br>
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On 02/19/2015 10:51 AM, Russell Reiter wrote:<br>
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The Trochedactyl says, save the earth, eat a Tree whugger today.<br>
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On 2/19/15, Lennart Sorensen <<a href="mailto:lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">lsorense@csclub.uwaterloo.ca</a>> wrote:<br>
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 08:02:56PM -0600, Russell Reiter wrote:<br>
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<SNIP><br>
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What do any of those have to do with VLIW?<br>
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No offence intended, but check your notes on DELTA vs. WYSE AC Power.<br>
I believe I have pontificated on this list about that quite enough in<br>
the last decade to correct YOUR errors Lennart.<br>
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You didn't even know what the centre tap is, so how could you be<br>
expected to understand dirty AC and the power's relationship to 64 bit<br>
ARCH, VLIW, UART, LSBinit, SGML, HTML, XML, dependency based booting<br>
in Debian, or why they are called script kittys, or the universe in<br>
near and far field effects, randomness and time modification in<br>
transmissions.<br>
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They apply equality to CISC and RISC as well, but at least those tend<br>
to be designed to run real code generated by real compilers rather than<br>
imagined code generated by imagined magical compilers that don't exist.<br>
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Whatever exists in your imagination regarding real compilers and<br>
imagined magical ones are just another ponzi scheme of big oil money<br>
IT, apparently now centred in Alberta. The rest of us try to use a<br>
DELPHI consensus of experts, sort of a Canadian Intelligence Agency.<br>
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I cut my teeth on the IBM blue wire fix, no reason for me to jump ship<br>
now. I've been pushing for clean air and clean power in Toronto for a<br>
long time. God bless IBM for opening up their architecture when every<br>
one else was closing up shop. I wonder why they did that?<br>
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I might be premature but I believe a trusted compiler is in the works,<br>
it just needs some funding after the dirty power issue is cleaned up<br>
bit bya bit.<br>
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Regression testing is a bitch, but you do have to do it one tiny bit<br>
at a time. Believe me I spend a shit-load of time trying to fix up my<br>
own mistakes but the bosses won't let me, so I just have to eat them.<br>
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I think you win the price for the most incomprehensible message I have<br>
ever seen on this list.<br>
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None of what you wrote had anything to do with what you replied to.<br>
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Len Sorensen<br>
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