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On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 20:58 +0100, Gareth Edwards wrote:
> On 17 August 2013 22:14, Stefan Salewski <mail AT ssalewski DOT de> wrote:
> >
> > Dead from http://www.gpleda.org/
> >
> 
> That's not a gEDA page, that's Ales's page. He's the only person who
> can fix those I think.
> 
> > But of course that is not only a geda problem -- simple minded people
> > pollute the net with redundant information when they have too much free
> > time -- and later the do not care...
> 
> I'm sure the links will have been provided in good faith and were live
> at the time. Calling someone "simple minded" for not being able to
> maintain links is more than a little harsh in my opinion.

Yes, my statement may be a bit harsh -- but all the garbage in the
Internet makes me really some sort of angry. Most of the time Google
does a good job to skip all that dirt, but more and more often it fails.
It is my impression that the volume of junk increases much faster now
than the valuable content -- in the end the whole internet will become a
large heap of garbage. Wikipedia may be left of the only reliable source
of information. Recently I was looking for the formula for intersection
of two line segments -- tried one promising google hit:

http://cboard.cprogramming.com/c-programming/154196-check-if-two-line-segments-intersect.html

It is wrong -- I contacted the original author, that forum thread was
closed, so he was not able to correct it. One hour wasted of my time.

I just checked the exact meaning of 'simple minded' at www.leo.org, one
translation is the german word "einfältig", which is indeed harsh. But
currently I have not really a more adequate term available in my head --
guess I am too simple minded.