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- From: enag@ifi.uio.no (Erik Naggum)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp48
- Subject: Re: unpostable sex48pos
- Message-ID: <23310C@erik.naggum.no>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 23:44:20 GMT
- References: <9208171437.AA03964@is1.vub.ac.be> <BSON.92Aug17114146@kropotkin.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1992Aug17.224319.29939@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Organization: Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
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- Chris Spell <spell@seq.uncwil.edu> writes:
- |
- | If everyone doesn't care about things like this, then fine, i'll
- | post anything that comes down the wire. But you will have to let me
- | know. Personally his post didn't bother me a bit, but I sent it to
- | one of our readers and that person told me that it was a little
- | offensive to them. So I decided not to post it. Be it right or be
- | it wrong.
-
- I found this thing extremely offensive, but that has nothing to do with
- the graphics, which were kind of entertaining. (Good work to cram so
- much into so few pixels, Glu.) It has to do with Lutz Vieweg's lazy
- programming style, which caused my '48 to lock up when I tried to figure
- out how this picture compression thing worked, and it deleted the entire
- "null" directory, with alarms and user key assignments, and made it
- impossible for me to add new alarms or user key assignments: the '48
- cleared memory when I tried to re-install user key assignments (STOK).
-
- This is the third time I have to restore from backups, all of them after
- I've used a program written by Lutz Vieweg, all of which did incredibly
- stupid things to completely unrelated parts of the system. I'm not
- happy with this, of course, and I'm not going to use software written by
- Lutz Vieweg for the next decade or so, or until somebody can give some
- evidence of his improving his programming style to include sanity checks
- on arguments and input, so as not to blow up the system on bad input.
-
- If you don't heed this advice, please heed another: always take a full
- backup before you download Lutz Vieweg code to your '48. Think of it as
- safe sex.
-
- Best regards,
- </Erik>
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