xwem-devel
[Top] [All Lists]

Re: Summary for xwem--main--2.2--patch-43

From: Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: Summary for xwem--main--2.2--patch-43
Date: Mon, 02 Jan 2006 10:01:29 +1000
Organization: The XWEM Project
User-agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) SXEmacs/22.1.4 (Bentley Turbo, linux)
* Zajcev Evgeny <lg@xxxxxxxx> writes:

  > Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxx> writes:
  >> * Zajcev Evgeny <lg@xxxxxxxx> writes:
  >> >   1) In case there no other methods to access web.  In Russia this
  >> >      method of controlling user's usage of the web resources is widely
  >> >      spreaded.  You are closed by proxy with authentification - and
  >> >      admin always can see what you are doing in the web ..
  >> 
  >> Holy crap!  Talk about your anal-retentive admin!  I can hardly grok
  >> this level of paranoia.  Do the admins in Russia really have their
  >> heads shoved _that_ far up their arses?

  > The main problem is 'khalyava' syndrome .. for average russian if it
  > is possible to download anything for free he will download whole
  > internet, boss will overpay for the internet traffic than will ask
  > admin, "why we are having so many traffic this month?".  Admin will
  > answer: "I dont know sir".  Boss will say: "So why i'm paying you
  > money and you are answering `dont know', start searching for new job
  > right now!".  But if admin has proxy, he will answer "Wait a minute
  > sir, ah .. that is Peter Ivanov, he downloaded
  > http://www.ru/archive/whole_internet.zip yesterday.  May i watch how
  > you will fuck him up, sir?"

LOFL!!!!!1111oneoneone

  >> But I wish to go on record that I'm _really_ unhappy about making
  >> people install all of ancient W3 package just to be able to retrieve
  >> a 380 byte file.  I will, however, quit bitching about it... at
  >> least until I (or somebody else) writes xwem-proxy.el. :-P

  > Yeah, i agree better place for url.el is in xemacs-base or net-utils
  > packages ..

You better talk to the respective package maintainer about that...

(package-get-info 'xemacs-base 'maintainer)
 => "XEmacs Development Team <xemacs-beta@xxxxxxxxxx>"

Phew!  It's not me.

(package-get-info 'net-utils 'maintainer)
 => "Steve Youngs <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>"

Shit!

-- 
|---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: A94B3003>---|
|                        In space,                         |
|             No one can hear you rip a stinky             |
|---------------------------------------<steve@xxxxxxxx>---|

Attachment: pgpkUWMNmCHse.pgp
Description: PGP signature

<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>