http://www.siltala.net Mon, 09 Aug 2010 10:19:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.siltala.net/2007/12/07/tales-from-the-offtopic-18-sane-errors-and-pie/ http://www.siltala.net/2007/12/07/tales-from-the-offtopic-18-sane-errors-and-pie/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 12:53:01 +0000 topyli http://www.siltala.net/2007/12/07/tales-from-the-offtopic-18-sane-errors-and-pie/ Ideally, a Unix program is silent. Only when a program fails for some reason, it must fail spectacularly, providing the user with detailed, helpful error messages. PFA, topyli, riotkittie, and gord all agree.

]]> http://www.siltala.net/2007/12/07/tales-from-the-offtopic-18-sane-errors-and-pie/feed/ 2 http://www.siltala.net/2007/07/01/tales-from-the-offtopic-11-irc-support/ http://www.siltala.net/2007/07/01/tales-from-the-offtopic-11-irc-support/#comments Sun, 01 Jul 2007 20:33:11 +0000 topyli http://www.siltala.net/2007/07/01/tales-from-the-offtopic-11-irc-support/ One of the strong points of using free systems such as Linux and Ubuntu in particular is the community support. When you have a bug to report, or a question to ask, you don’t have to call Microsoft and hope somebody will care. We care! This was demonstrated on #ubuntu-offtopic today. DrNick1 asked a question, topyli and NickGarvey helped immediately.

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