Francois-Denis, you can get more bash-like behavior by doing setopt nohup, or you can disown the jobs before exiting, or you can background and disown immediately by running program &|.

Also, that silly non-free window manager, ion3, is decent with the small popups.

Thijs, in the U.S. we call it arugula and have bred all the flavor out of it so it can be just as non-threatening as Iceberg lettuce. Americans who go to the UK will be hesitant to pay £12 for a rocket sandwich, as without being able to see a TSA seal of approval, they will fear the Washington school bus's re-entry shield.

Jaldhar, you are dressed too nicely to be in the club.

Raphael, what you're doing is incredibly inefficient, especially with one million string-to-integer conversions and two million back. You could do this instead:

% zsh -c 'zmodload zsh/datetime;
(( s = EPOCHSECONDS ));
for (( c = 0; c < 1000000; c++ )) do : ;
done;
print "$0 took" $(( EPOCHSECONDS - s )) "seconds to finish"'
zsh took 3 seconds to finish

Raphaël, I'm not sure you understood.

The solution is to get rid of all of DSA (and maybe anyone that supports them). Removing one side of a power struggle may win you some short term gains, but may be a no-op or even more harmful in the long run. Such a solution is indicative of what I would call an overly-practical mindset, the kind I'd expect from Project Scud.

You can say that DSA's inadequacies and ineptitude are due to specific individuals, but it is a team: each member is free to quit at any time (unless there is some kind of sinister blackmail or other means of coercion in progress, in which case I'm sure we would all appreciate if you exposed it), and each member is responsible for the performance of the team.

If you accept that each team member is responsible, and you acknowledge that DSA's behavior is unacceptable, then how can you imagine that adding or subtracting members piecemeal will effect anything substantial?

Joey, I find it the creepiest when I see my words scroll across my boss's monitor.

Wow, Ian Jackson is on crack.

Tollef, little monkeys think FreeSynd is good enough.

Biella, you ingrate, just be thankful you don't live in one of those commie countries with socialized medicine. Those people have to wait in line for 3 months before they can get triaged at the ER, and then receive second-class organs while the corrupt party leaders buy up the delicious prime organs on the black market.

Surely we wouldn't want to give up our current system when it works so much better than that.

Marco is remembering a time long ago, before people threw away their dictionaries so they wouldn't be able to look up what “policy” means, and before they started foaming at the mouth and mindlessly spouting metaphors with the word “stick” in them.

MJ, you might want to look at this.