Re: [Pan-users] Command line use; download of nzb files does not stop

[Duncan]

Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 18:28:23 -0500 as excerpted:

> On 11/03/2011 05:47 PM, Duncan wrote:
>> Ron Johnson posted on Thu, 03 Nov 2011 17:34:09 -0500 as excerpted:
>>
>>> Anyway... "Task Manager" (Real Men run top(1) in a separate window...)
>>> just reports what the kernel tells it.
>>
>> I parsed his "task manager" reference as to pan's TM, not the one in
>> his DE, corresponding to top, etc.
>>
>>
> Except that the pan TM doesn't appear when you run "pan --no-gui".

Thus this bit (I /think/ it's the correct number of quote levels)?

>>>> The only way I was able to completely shut it up was to select all
>>>> the items in Task Manager and delete them, when in gui mode.

=:^)

Perhaps that's why I parsed it as referring to pan's task manager, tho I 
obviously didn't take the time to analyze why, back then, the pieces 
simply fit together better when I parsed TM as referring to pan's, than 
otherwise.

For more discussion of the alternate parsings effect, google "crash 
blossoms".  Here's an explanation of how the name came to be (and a very 
amusing read it is), by Language Log's Ben Zimmer.  (I came to know them 
thru language log, which I believe I'm mentioned here before, after 
originally stumbling upon LL while googling, IIRC, "toe the line" vs. 
"tow the line", the former being "correct", tho I was sure it was the 
latter, but that could well be its own subthread!)

http://www.google.com/search?q=%22crash+blossoms%22

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31FOB-onlanguage-t.html

http://languagelog.com/ ( which redirects to
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/ , take your pick)

Then of course there's also eggcorns and Lady Mondegreens...  Suffice it 
to say that I have LL in my feed-reader now.  Not only the articles 
themselves, but the comments as well.

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