Re: A Proposition

On Thu, 22 Mar 2001, Dan Seriff wrote:

> David Peterson wrote:
> >
> > In a message dated 3/22/01 6:14:14 AM, pbrown@POLARIS.UMUC.EDU writes:
> >
> > << Yes, thank you very much! It's a fine idea, but not really practical
> > in this medium. Perhaps the proposition could be modified by choosing
> > a version of ASCII IPA out there and stick to that.
> >  >>
> >
> > I don't know what "text-based" means, or what "unix" is.  :(  Computer
> > illiterate, am I.  I use a Mac, after all.
>
> Hey, now. Don't make the assumption that all Mac users are computer
> illiterate. I'm a Mac user because it works better than Windows, but my
> brother, father and stepfather are all programmers, and I do some
> programming on my own. Not computer illiterate, I.
>
And with those beautiful notebooks and MacOS X I
really long to have one - and I've been using Linux
since 1994... Actually, if there's a _real_ MacHacker
around here, I'd love to see the results of trying
to compile XFree86, Qt Free Edition, PyQt 2.3 on OS X,
and then running Kura on top of that.

Boudewijn Rempt  | http://www.valdyas.org