On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 10:33 AM, Clem Cole <clemc@ccc.com> wrote:

On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 11:56 AM, Ralph Corderoy <ralph@inputplus.co.uk> wrote:

Eric S. Raymond has a long-term plan underway to get all man-page source
moved to DocBook or asciidoc using his doclifter program, and convincing
projects to make the switch. Unfortunately, some have. DocBook stinks
and it shows how long the project has been going that Eric chose it back
when it and XML were still shiny.
xkcd on Standards (And the Gnu guys have their doc standard ...)

Things are more like the are today then they have ever been before." Dwight David Eisenhower
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I recently committed a fix to FreeBSD that made booting a little less verbose. Seems like on EC3 the scrolling is painfully slow. By removing the one-line-per-core/thread (well, 5 lines) I was able to speed up boot times 40%. My comment was 'The more things change, the more it's 1985 again' when I was doing similar hacks to make programs run faster when run from the Decwriter II in the lap connected at 300 baud...

Warner