T o n g wrote:
> T o n g wrote:
> > BTW, the reason that I gave up 'echo -e' was that it started to
> > mysteriously output that "-e " in front of the messages I wanted to show
> > in my /bin/sh scripts. I still haven't figure out why yet.
>
> Oh, I forgot, I've already figured it out -- Now /bin/
T o n g wrote:
> What I didn't make clear in the OP was that, I was actually looking for a
> general purpose command that can show whatever messages thrown to it,
> including the common backslash escapes. echo -e does a good job, but
But 'echo -e' isn't portable.
> printf will choke on any of
Hi,
Somehow I don't like the gmail's new look. I was able to defer switching
to gmail's new look before, but I can't figure out how I did it now.
Anyone knows how?
Thanks
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re: Perl
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On Sun, 25 Dec 2011 04:16:41 +, T o n g wrote:
> BTW, the reason that I gave up 'echo -e' was that it started to
> mysteriously output that "-e " in front of the messages I wanted to show
> in my /bin/sh scripts. I still haven't figure out why yet.
Oh, I forgot, I've already figured it out --
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 19:18:17 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> So, I'm wondering what's the current solution to show/prompt messages
>> with embedded \n?
>
> Use printf. What problems are you having with it?
>
> $ printf "Hello world!\n"
Thanks for your explanation, Bob.
What I didn't make clear
Original Message
Subject: Re: [Jprogramming] Debian Forum comparing J to Brainf*
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 14:09:31 -0500
From: Marshall Lochbaum
To: Programming forum ,
peterarmstr...@aya.yale.edu
Well, I'm not tired of this stuff quite yet, so here goes:
Brainfuck and APL/J/K
T o n g wrote:
> It's a well known problem to show/prompt messages with embedded \n under
> *nix.
Well known but obsolete now. If you need to use control sequences
such as \n or others then do not use echo at all but use printf
instead.
> - Unix Power Tools recommend a way to define $echo acco
lina wrote:
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/fdinfo/4': No such file or direc
J. Bakshi wrote:
> Something different !!!
> You are right, the cgi is not the all_in_all culprit.
>
> I have done further investigation and found dedicated mysql server
> introduces latency when remote mysql user connect with it. Hence
> added
>
> skip-name-resolve under [mysqld]
> And now the s
hvw59601 wrote:
Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote:
Hi!
I have installed siduction onto my desktop as well as installing at
long last my new Creative Audigy sound card. I have the KDE desktop
and my kernel is 3.1-6.towo.2-siduction-686.
I am having trouble getting the microphone to work. It is plugg
On 2011-12-24 14:06:20 -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> As you can see, there's more than one way to do it (TIMTOWTDI). (And,
> probably more than I found.) There are even more ways that appear correct
> upon casual coding, but either generate errors/ warnings (lucky you) or have
> some subtle b
On 12/24/2011 08:23 PM, hvw59601 wrote:
Kyle Schwarz wrote:
I'm having issues getting the sound to work on a laptop that has a
AC'97 Audio Controller. The laptop is a Compaq Presario 2720US.
Am I reading your amixer output right? I see:
...
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvol
Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote:
Hi!
I have installed siduction onto my desktop as well as installing at
long last my new Creative Audigy sound card. I have the KDE desktop and
my kernel is 3.1-6.towo.2-siduction-686.
I am having trouble getting the microphone to work. It is plugged into
the blue
Kyle Schwarz wrote:
I'm having issues getting the sound to work on a laptop that has a
AC'97 Audio Controller. The laptop is a Compaq Presario 2720US.
Am I reading your amixer output right? I see:
...
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pswitch pswitch-joined penum
Play
Greg Donoghue wrote:
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:28:21AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
Hi,
how can I use mc with ssh rssa/dsa keys?
regards
Once you've generated your keys and installed them, mc will use them to
connect. In mc press F9 and select "Shell link..."
Good info. Thanks
On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:05:57PM +, Walter Hurry wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
>
> > On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote:
> >> On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
> >>
> >> > How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 pr
Thank you, Richard,
I also want to thank everyone on this list, for asking questions I might
have asked, and also for answering those questions. I really feel happy to
be part of this community.
Thank you, everyone no matter what timezone or religion!
I wish you all a happy Christmas time!
Sent
On 25/12/11 10:23, Dr Sian Mountbatten wrote:
> The menu editor for the KDE Launchpad menu on the siduction distribution
> is missing, so that it is impossible to add menu items for programs
> installed outwith the Debian package system. For example, I have
> installed Firefox in /usr/local/lib/fir
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 12:34:08 -0500, Rob Owens wrote:
Two GUI apps I have found useful in troubleshooting audio are:
gstreamer-properties
gnome-volume-control.pulse
I just tried adjusting some settings though both, testing after each
change, yet I can still hear no sound through the laptop spe
Hi A very happy Christmas to those that have helped me this year
Thanks
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The menu editor for the KDE Launchpad menu on the siduction distribution
is missing, so that it is impossible to add menu items for programs
installed outwith the Debian package system. For example, I have
installed Firefox in /usr/local/lib/firefox and have created a symbolic
link in /usr/bin to t
Hi!
I have installed siduction onto my desktop as well as installing at
long last my new Creative Audigy sound card. I have the KDE desktop and
my kernel is 3.1-6.towo.2-siduction-686.
I am having trouble getting the microphone to work. It is plugged into
the blue socket on the sound card whic
Correction, it is of course:
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root powerdev 67 Dez 22 23:25 /sbin/cpufreq-max.sh
-rwsr-xr-x 1 root powerdev 67 Dez 22 23:18 /sbin/cpufreq-min.sh
Sorry, the wrong output happened during my different testings.
However, still get the problem.
Hans
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On 12/24/2011 08:50 AM, PMA wrote:
Rather than APL itself -- value judgement aside --
you might consider its successor and superset,
*J* ( http://www.jsoftware.com/ ).
Interesting. :-)
David
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On 12/24/2011 02:13 PM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Now E, on the other hand, adds significant capabilities for secure
distributed computing based on the object-capability model:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28programming_language%29
Interesting. But, Go has similar (?) concurrency features and l
On 12/24/2011 01:06 PM, Jerome BENOIT wrote:
what about D ?
I'd really like to start using a UML power tool to help me with advanced
applications.
I've used Umbrello, but it hasn't been updated since June 2007 and its
Perl support is thin/ immature. (C++ and Java appear to be the best
sup
On 24/12/11 23:13, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Nah... D is just warmed over C.
may be more than a better C.
Now E, on the other hand, adds significant capabilities for secure distributed
computing based on the object-capability model:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28programming_language%29
J
Original Message
Subject: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications on
Linux
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:23:46 -0500
From: tony baldwin
To: g62993...@rezozer.net
- Original Message -
From: Jerome BENOIT
Sent: 12/24/11 04:06 PM
To: debian-user@li
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:46:23PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
$ cat /etc/debian_version
6.0.3
$ python --version
Python 2.6.6
On 12/24/2011 10:51 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
My system and Python versions are identical to yours.
Python 3.2.2 seems to be the current stable:
Nah... D is just warmed over C.
Now E, on the other hand, adds significant capabilities for secure
distributed computing based on the object-capability model:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E_%28programming_language%29
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
what about D ?
On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wr
On 12/24/2011 08:54 AM, lina wrote:
Did not notice the difference between () and {} in tutorial.
Perl is the most complex and subtle programming language/ system I know
(attempt?). For example, see the following Perl script which
demonstrates syntax for accessing single and multiple (slice)
I have squeeze working reasonably well with some minor gripes (or
differences between Lenny and Squeeze).
First: Under Lenny, when I plugged my USB sticks into my computer I
could read/write/delete files and folders with no problem. I could (and
needed to) unmount the drive to delete the icon
what about D ?
On 24/12/11 21:56, David Christensen wrote:
On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Lisp
Smalltalk
Erlang
Haskell
Caml/OCaml
APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to
Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck)
for that matter, Ada, if you're wr
On 12/24/2011 06:44 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
Lisp
Smalltalk
Erlang
Haskell
Caml/OCaml
APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to
Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck)
for that matter, Ada, if you're writing mission-critical/safety-critical
systems
If you're real
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 11:28:21AM +0100, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
>Hi,
>how can I use mc with ssh rssa/dsa keys?
>regards
Once you've generated your keys and installed them, mc will use them to
connect. In mc press F9 and select "Shell link..."
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On 2011-12-24 18:15:34 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> No doubt it's powerful, and you can do powerful things. The problem is that
> the syntax is so ideosyncratic, that I'm so relieved to get someting finally
> to do what I need, that I can't be bothered expressing it in a very concise
> way.
W
Hi,
When I boot my computer and the greeter window appears, the one where
you can choose the user to login, a very loud and annoying sound (boink)
is played. How can I turn that completely off? I am using the current
Wheezy /Gnome3.
NB I found /etc/gdm3/greeter.settings that had a commented out e
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 06:15:34PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> On 24/12/11 17:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >On 2011-12-24 17:06:38 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> >>Yep, that's PERL for you. Having taken over the maintenance of a large
> >>PERL project, I've come to the conclusion that it's
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:46:23PM -0800, David Christensen wrote:
> On 12/23/2011 07:57 AM, Dean Allen Provins, P. Geoph. wrote:
> >I noted your comments on Python, and while I haven't any
> >experience with the 2 -> 3 transition, I am inclined to prefer
> >it. In fact, almost all my work is now
On 24/12/11 17:34, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2011-12-24 17:06:38 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
Yep, that's PERL for you. Having taken over the maintenance of a large
PERL project, I've come to the conclusion that it's IMHO the worst
programming language ever invented. Totally non-intuitive.
On 24 December 2011 17:50, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 17:20:03 +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian wrote:
>> >
>> > Please post the output of '/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdX' for the drive.
>>
>> !532
>> sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 /dev/sdX
>> ba
On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 17:20:03 +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian wrote:
> >
> > Please post the output of '/sbin/fdisk /dev/sdX' for the drive.
>
> !532
> sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d459 /dev/sdX
> bash: sbin/media/8eef3b99-c17b-4913-ae61-d34c7fd5d45
On 25 Dec, 2011, at 1:01, Kyle Schwarz wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:09:01 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
>> I'm not willing to read it, until you exactly describe your troubles.
> No sound comes from the speakers on the laptop. For some reason I do
> hear sound though the headphone jack, but not
On 2011-12-24 17:06:38 +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Yep, that's PERL for you. Having taken over the maintenance of a large
> PERL project, I've come to the conclusion that it's IMHO the worst
> programming language ever invented. Totally non-intuitive.
I completely disagree. It's a very power
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 12:01:37PM -0500, Kyle Schwarz wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:09:01 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> > I'm not willing to read it, until you exactly describe your troubles.
> No sound comes from the speakers on the laptop. For some reason I do
> hear sound though the headphone j
Should have gone to the list; sorry Lina:
Original Message
Subject: Re: OT programming languages/ systems for advanced applications
on Linux
Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:35:29 +
From: Tony van der Hoff
To: lina
On 24/12/11 15:43, lina wrote:
Tonight I am pretty free, so
On 24 December 2011 16:36, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 01:42:00 +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
>
>> Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on
>> investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t
>> have the right permissions. On further checking I f
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 11:09:01 +0100, Ralf Madorf wrote:
> I'm not willing to read it, until you exactly describe your troubles.
No sound comes from the speakers on the laptop. For some reason I do
hear sound though the headphone jack, but not though the speakers.
The volume is not muted (I've made
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 1:00 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-12-25 00:44:51 +0800, lina wrote:
>> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, lina wrote:
>> > du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
>> > du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fdinfo/4': No such file
On 2011-12-25 00:44:51 +0800, lina wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, lina wrote:
> > du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
> > du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fdinfo/4': No such file or
> > directory
> > du: cannot access `./proc/6535/fd/4': N
Rather than APL itself -- value judgement aside --
you might consider its successor and superset,
*J* ( http://www.jsoftware.com/ ).
Miles Fidelman wrote:
David Christensen wrote:
Any other comments/ suggestions regarding programming languages/
systems for advanced applications on Linux?
Li
On 2011-12-25 00:42:25 +0800, lina wrote:
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/fd
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-12-24 23:43:18 +0800, lina wrote:
>> Tonight I am pretty free, so started to read something about perl.
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl
>>
>> print "Hello World! \n";
>>
>> $a = 3;
>>
>> print "$a \n";
>>
>> @food = {"apples", "pears", "eel
On Sat 24 Dec 2011 at 01:42:00 +, Sharon Kimble wrote:
> Tonight at midnight my backup of my home directory failed, and on
> investigation why it couldn't make a directory i found that i didn’t
> have the right permissions. On further checking I found that the
> ownership had reverted to root:
On Sun, Dec 25, 2011 at 12:42 AM, lina wrote:
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
> du: cannot access `./proc/65
On 2011-12-24 23:43:18 +0800, lina wrote:
> Tonight I am pretty free, so started to read something about perl.
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> print "Hello World! \n";
>
> $a = 3;
>
> print "$a \n";
>
> @food = {"apples", "pears", "eels"};
I suppose you want:
@food = ("apples", "pears", "eels");
{
du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `./proc/6535/task/6535/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `./proc/6535/fd/4': No such file or directory
du: cannot access `./proc/6535/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory
End
Just want
On 2011-12-24 09:58:43 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> On 12/23/2011 06:32 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >Yes, /dev/scd0 disappeared after a recent upgrade (after 2011-11-17).
>
> I believe that was after a udev update. It showed up in the changelog.
Indeed:
udev (175-1) unstable; urgency=low
[..
On 12/23/2011 06:32 PM, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2011-12-23 18:30:25 -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 12/23/2011 03:38 PM, Wayne Topa wrote:
On 12/23/2011 12:18 PM, Ed Jabbour wrote:
CDROM tray will not respond to "eject":
[Fri Dec 23] edj:~$ eject
eject: tried to use `/me
On Sat, Dec 24, 2011 at 10:44 PM, Miles Fidelman
wrote:
> David Christensen wrote:
>>
>>
>> Any other comments/ suggestions regarding programming languages/ systems
>> for advanced applications on Linux?
>>
> Lisp
> Smalltalk
> Erlang
> Haskell
> Caml/OCaml
> APL - if you're crazy or want to be; o
I know a little bit about Linux but nothing about apache, mysql and php
(other than installing the corresponding debian packages). Can you please
recommend a book that covers all these topics so I can get a simple website
up and running by the end of reading it?
I was looking in amazon and foun
David Christensen wrote:
Any other comments/ suggestions regarding programming languages/
systems for advanced applications on Linux?
Lisp
Smalltalk
Erlang
Haskell
Caml/OCaml
APL - if you're crazy or want to be; or you could go all the way to
Brainfuck (http://esolangs.org/wiki/Brainfuck)
f
Having done a bare-metal squeeze (KDE) reinstall after a major disk
screw-up, things are just about working as they used to. One weird
thing, however, which I fine seriously annoying:
I can call sudo dolphin, which works as expected, and gives me root
privs. From this point, I used to be able
On 2011-12-23 20:14:32 -0500, Ed Jabbour wrote:
> On Friday, December 23, 2011 7:32:22 PM Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> >Yes, /dev/scd0 disappeared after a recent upgrade (after 2011-11-17).
>
> Why do I still get error msgs referring to scd0??
Perhaps because it is mentioned in /etc/fstab?
> > Runni
Hi,
how can I use mc with ssh rssa/dsa keys?
regards
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On Sat, 2011-12-24 at 00:40 -0500, Kyle Schwarz wrote:
> I'm having issues getting the sound to work on a laptop that has a
> AC'97 Audio Controller. [snip]
That's a common audio device and it's known to work with Linux.
> I'm not sure what is causing this issue, but I could really use some
> hel
Hello list,
I am stuck with a little problem, maybe you know, where I am thinking wrong.
Problem description: In earlier times, powerdevil got an option, to force the
cpu not to increase clockspeed to max, even when a process wants it to.
This option is no more available, but it is possible, to
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