Welcome, New Emacs Developers

Re:Welcome, New Emacs Developers by nekopa on Thursday November 13, 2014 @04:13PM (#8604132)

Jesus Christ, (and I say that as a Buddhist) thanks for that rabbit hole. Thanks. I have spent 45 minutes so far on it, and it just keeps getting deeper. If I had enough karma I would downvote you for effectivly killing my evening, but as I don't I upvoted you instead in the hope that you will read my message and think twice in the future about posting such a fascinating, interesting time sink that will kill people's productivity. Cheers

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Re:Welcome, New Emacs Developers by mistermumble on Thursday November 13, 2014 @04:45PM (#8604334)

ESR's post provides a link to a long but worthwhile article by Jelmer Vernooij on the history of Bazaar and why it lost to Git.

The key paragraph:

We lost sight of what mattered for our users, focusing on features that were nice but perhaps not as necessary as we thought. We overengineered. We didn't get rid of the crufty unnecessary features. It's harder to comprehend, contribute to or fix performance issues in a large layered codebase. And the larger a codebase becomes, the larger the surface for bugs, the harder it is to refactor.

https://www.stationary-traveller.eu/pages/bzr-a-retrospectiv...

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Re:Welcome, New Emacs Developers by cbd1984 on Friday November 14, 2014 @12:33AM (#8605940)

The link appears down (hostname doesn't resolve for me):

http://web.archive.org/web/20141108100240/https://www.statio...

    % host www.stationary-traveller.eu

    Host www.stationary-traveller.eu not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

(In case that helps someone.)

In fact, I think I have something, because dig www.stationary-traveller.eu +trace seems to work: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12025173/dig-returns-serv...

My resolv.conf is just 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 so I'm pretty sure this is affecting others. OpenDNS resolves it, though:

    % nslookup www.stationary-traveller.eu 208.67.222.222
    Server:         208.67.222.222
    Address:        208.67.222.222#53

    Non-authoritative answer:
    www.stationary-traveller.eu     canonical name = aurelia.vernstok.nl.
    aurelia.vernstok.nl     canonical name = aurelia.jelmer.uk.
    Name:   aurelia.jelmer.uk
    Address: 178.63.244.14

This might provide a solution: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=1278335

> EDIT,fixed: The CAUSE was that /etc/named.conf had no zone set for that domain. and also there was file for "DB record" missing in /var/named/domain.com.db file. This manual fixed it: http://kb.iweb.com/entries/21155058-Adding-new-domains-to-DN...

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