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|    Nicholas Boel to Rick Christian    |
|    Re: JamNNTPd that WORKS    |
|    04 Nov 16 09:16:50    |
      Hello Rick,              On 03 Nov 16 21:04, Rick Christian wrote to Nicholas Boel:               NB>> Habitual complainer, maybe?               NB>> It probably IS indeed up to snuff.               RC> It either IS or IS NOT?               RC> Which is it???              You tell me! Did you try it? Or are you waiting for someone else to do it for       you?               NB>> His lack of inspiration and               RC> Lets see I wasted my free time to prove a point.. that NONE of the        RC> code in any of the sources is viable.              You haven't proven anything, except that you're hard headed and not willing to       learn. Your way or the highway, right?               RC> NONE of it is viable.. INCLUDEING the source provided in the        RC> cm071linux.zip.               RC> It might compile.. but it bombs on execution causing a seg fault.              If it does that for you, and nobody else.. do you still blame the code?               RC> Testing is something I do a lot of....testing in re compiling, nope.              Exactly my point.               RC> Lets say that we want to use nginx instead of Apache, not going to        RC> happen ever, but lets just use them as an example...               RC> VM(s) would be setup to test nginx with the various things we do        RC> including .htaccess, and other modules for web...               RC> How would this testing start...               RC> Take seup the VM with ubuntu server 14.0.4.5 and then               RC> sudo apt-get install nginx               RC> Then go in modify the config for some test sites... etc..              apt-get/aptitude is not the end-all-be-all in the Linux world. Sorry to burst       your bubble.               RC> I have a plan to make all of this a lot, whole, no ASTOUNDINGLY A LOT        RC> SIMPLER for any one in the future...              We'll see.               RC> DEB Repo with these in it.. to install! No compiling!              Not everyone uses Debian or any *buntu flavor. So while it may help some, it       definitely won't help all.               RC> AMD64, and hopefully ARMHF for the Pi's... Have to see on that one.. I        RC> am amazed that those binaries run on an AMD64 system, since for some        RC> reason alot of stuff is still compiled only against 32b.              As long as multilib is enabled, 32 bit compiles have always worked fine on 64       bit systems.               RC> I also have a plan to fix something with JamNNTPd since using        RC> thunderturkey to access it on my end is not viable, and on Linux that        RC> is not the mainline NNTP client, and JamNNTPd doesn't work with it,        RC> right now.              That has to do with thunderbird changing something on their end in the latest       versions. This would be something someone would probably have to fix and       compile themselves. If you're up to the task, by all means go for it.               RC> With a working CM II at least I can move on to the next part of my        RC> setup.. I can turn up the final version of the server that will host        RC> this, and some of the other plans I have for it...              Good luck.              Regards,       Nick              ... "Не знаю. Я здесь только работаю."       --- GoldED+/LNX 1.1.5-b20160827        * Origin: thePharcyde_ telnet://bbs.pharcyde.org (Wisconsin) (1:154/10)    |
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