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Re: NTFS is case-sensitive

From Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject Re: NTFS is case-sensitive
Date 2015-03-30 17:41 -0700
Message-ID <D13F3B5E.4951F%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> (permalink)
References (10 earlier) <mfbk7j$4fp$3@dont-email.me> <shfu30.3e@rooftop.invalid> <D13EEFD4.494C4%usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> <bvhe03fa.p3@rooftop.invalid> <bhvh3e9.a3f0@rooftop.invalid>

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On 3/30/15, 5:06 PM, in article bhvh3e9.a3f0@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
<owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:

> owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
>> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>> On 3/30/15, 10:06 AM, in article shfu30.3e@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
>>> <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:
> 
>>>>>> In your deranged minds it is a self-nuke for me to correct your
>>>>>> misspelling of my name when you are using that misspelled name to address
>>>>>> me in conversation, as determined circumstantially by the fact that it
>>>>>> was used in a sentence where one would normally expect to find himself
>>>>>> being addressed. "Hey, jOe, where you going with that gun in your hand?"
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Somehow in your (French-influenced?) mush-heads, not continuing
>>>>>> on as if the misspelling were without consequence, i.e. in the way
>>>>>> that a case-insensitive file system would react, is evidence of my
>>>>>> own case-insensitivity, and therefore worthy of a self-nuke award.
>>>> 
>>>>> Yes, lamer.  Exactly.
>>>> 
>>>>> A case-sensitive filesystem or programming language or gibbon wouldn't
>>>>> have recognized Owl as your name.  You did.  Normally not worth noting,
>>>>> except this time you did it while in the middle of arguing FOR
>>>>> case-sensitivity.
>>>> 
>>>>> epic self-nuke!
>>>> 
>>>> So if he had addressed me as "Bob" in a direct reply to my post,
>>>> and I had corrected him that "Bob" is not my name, that would
>>>> also have been a self-nuke?
> 
>>> How about your self-nuke of referring to the program Firefox as "firefox",
>>> and then your effort to save yourself by noting he executable file is called
>>> "firefox" and not "Firefox", even though the program is.
> 
>> The name of the file is "firefox."  You know, a file, like might sit
>> on the file system NTFS, the subject of this thread.  Try to keep up.
> 
>>> It is largely of the inherent challenges of using a case sensitive file
>>> system that they use all lower case letters in program names in Linux (or at
>>> least generally recommend people to). On OS X which does not have that
>>> challenge the mozilla team calls the program bundle itself "Firefox".
> 
>> That's irrelevant, but out of curiosity what is the executable called?
> 
> Nevermind.  Apparently it's "firefox"  :)

Which I already told you. :)

> root@thinkpad:/tmp/macfire/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS# ls
> crashreporter.app  libmozglue.dylib                 libsoftokn3.dylib
> firefox            libnss3.dylib                    plugin-container.app
> firefox-bin        libnssckbi.dylib                 updater.app
> libfreebl3.dylib   libnssdbm3.dylib                 XUL
> libmozalloc.dylib  libplugin_child_interpose.dylib
> root@thinkpad:/tmp/macfire/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS#

Oh no! "Contents"... "MacOS"... how can we deal with this?!?!?!

The horror!

LOL!



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NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-27 22:46 +0000
  Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-27 19:29 -0400
  Re: NTFS is case-sensitive John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 08:45 -0700
    Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 16:00 +0000
      Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 16:26 +0000
        Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 12:56 -0400
          Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 17:06 +0000
          Re: NTFS is case-sensitive John Gohde <john.h.gohde@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 10:32 -0700
          Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-28 13:08 -0700
            Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 22:22 -0400
              Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-28 21:40 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 22:23 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-29 11:06 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-29 15:12 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-29 21:22 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-29 23:08 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-29 09:18 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-29 21:22 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-29 18:27 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-30 02:16 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 09:49 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 08:24 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-30 17:06 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 12:19 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-30 23:54 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-31 00:06 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 17:12 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 17:41 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 17:15 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-31 01:07 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 18:21 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 12:24 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 20:46 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-31 01:52 +0000
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 19:10 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 11:35 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 23:09 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 22:01 -0700
                NTFS is not the best filesystem taka0038@gmail.com - 2015-03-31 18:52 -0700
                Re: NTFS is not the best filesystem Slimer <slvrslmr@lv.c> - 2015-03-31 22:51 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 09:48 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 08:44 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-30 09:37 -0700
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-30 20:50 -0400
                Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> - 2015-03-30 19:14 -0700
          Re: NTFS is case-sensitive Steve Carroll <fretwizzer@gmail.com> - 2015-03-28 17:09 -0700
            Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-29 00:24 +0000
              Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 22:26 -0400
    Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 16:09 +0000
  Re: NTFS is case-sensitive DFS <nospam@dfs.com> - 2015-03-28 13:06 -0400
    Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 17:15 +0000
      Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 17:28 +0000
        Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-28 18:35 +0000
    Re: NTFS is case-sensitive owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-03-29 12:57 +0000

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