Re: bkbits.net is down

Geert Uytterhoeven
2005-04-13T09:17:12Z

On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Toon van der Pas wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:19:34PM +0200, Jesper Juhl wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Marcin Dalecki wrote:
> > > On 2005-04-12, at 04:17, Larry McVoy wrote whatever...
> > > Excuse me, but: who gives a damn shit?
> >
> > Lots of people do; those who use bitkeeper, and even people (like me) who
> > don't use it to manage source but still use the info at bkbits.net to
> > track what patches got merged etc.
> >
> > Ohh and by the way, Larry doesn't deserve comments like that. He's done a
> > lot of hard work for everyone here (not to mention spent a lot of money)
> > and he's provided an excellent tool. He deserves gratitude and respect,
> > not childish BS like the above.
>
> I agree wholeheartedly.
>
> But... I think someone is trolling here.
> I mean: who makes a spelling error in his own first name? ;-)

I don't think so: both `c' and `t' are (different) ASCII-transcripts of the
actual non-ASCII character that should have been there. Yes, UTF-8 to US-ASCII
is lossy and imprecise ;-)

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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