Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote:
> > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in
> > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ?
>
> Why would you want to do this, when the command prompt is exactly wha
David selby wrote:
> I need to get the first two file names from a directory ...
> My code
>
> directory=$(ls -r --format=single-column)
>
> works perfect and gives me ...
>
> 20030617Jun17.tar.gz 20030616Jun16.tar.gz 20030615Jun15.tar.gz
> 20030614Jun14.tar.gz 20030613Jun13.tar.gz 20030612Jun
Gary Hennigan wrote:
> I think, in general, it's best to stick with 2.95 compilers for the
> kernel.
This seems to be the common view of the kernel developers, but I've had
no trouble building 2.4.20 and .21 kernels using whatever gcc was
current in Debian unstable at the time (3.3 currently, and
J.F.Gratton wrote:
> I just bought an Olympus D520Z digital cam, and of course, it doesn't
> come with anything Linux-related. To transfer pictures from the cam to
> my PC I'd have to use Windows, which I'd like to avoid as much as
> possible.
>
> Since in Windows my camera appears as a removable
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> 1) In $HOME/.bashrc (this could be in the profile somewhere; I don't
>manage a large system), I set and export any environment variables I
>need in my login shell.
>
> 2) In $HOME/.bash_profile, I have the following lines at the top of the
>file:
>
Paul Johnson wrote:
> Only by fluke. I already consider myself Canadian, because if you
> discount votes at the vote at Champoeg made by convicted felons (who
> weren't supposed to be voting), Oregon belongs to Canada by one vote
> instead of vice-versa[1]. Nobody caught this until it was *way*
Tim wrote:
> Is it the case that unless there is individual support for a model built
> into the kernel, it won't be recognised? From this do I deduce that I
> will be unable to mount my Nikon Coolpix E4300? And thus will need to
> buy a CF card reader?
Well, a quick web search turns up the
stan wrote:
> I'm installing on a sysem with a relativly small hard disk, so I'm trying
> to avoid as many unecessary packages as posible.
>
> I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect,
> and it toldthe that the "x-window-system" package depended on it. I can see
>
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be
> plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to
> my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd like
> to expand it -- or move my /usr area off onto a
Corey Hickey wrote:
> I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I
> want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying
> to do would be like this:
>
>
> #!/bin/bash
>
> FOO=bar
> BLAH=blarg
>
> for var in FOO BLAH ; do
> echo $var = $"$var"
Lukas Ruf wrote:
> A personal hint: Do not buy a camera not explicitely supported by
> Linux (as I did) -- you can avoid a lot of frustration!
My preference is to use a media reader (compact flash, smart media, or
whatever is needed) that works with Linux. That way, I can choose a
camera based so
Lukas Ruf wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> being owner of a Pentax OPTIO for quite a while I would like to access
> the data on my camera from Linux. *The manufacturer is not interested
> in supporting me.* So, I contact you -- maybe anyone managed to
> attach this "nice" camera to a Linux box.
>
> I am
Mike M wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/usr/src/newer/ss7box$ update-alternatives --display rsh
> bash: update-alternatives: command not found
It's in /usr/sbin, which probably isn't in your PATH.
Craig
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Mike M wrote:
> On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no shell
> or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am still
> able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine. From a RH6.1 I get connection
> refused when I try to rsh to the Debian 3 sparc
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
> Well, it wasn't only Memorex media that became coasters, but thx for the
> heads up. (Looking over shoulder and seeing 48 blanks still on that 50
> CD Memorex spindle, and muttering various phrases inappropriate for this
> mailing list)
For future reference, I've had good e
sean finney wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:56:05AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > > (from a knoppix boot up)
> > > # fdisk /dev/hda
> > > # mkdir /target
> > > (mount all the hard drive partitions into /target, /target/usr, etc...)
> > > #
sean finney wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:02:26PM -0800, Terry Milnes wrote:
> > Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX
> > installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I
> > want?
>
> you can do it, but you'll prob
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I understand that apt doesn't know anything about packages other than
> what it't told about dependencies and conflicts.
>
> Let's get to the big picture -- is the doc there to support the use of
> the binary, or is the binary there to support the use of the doc?
The d
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I'm saying there are probably several ways to resolve this, but throwing
> out a binary (without an available upgrade) because the doc package for
> a later release is available is not one of them.
Well, the normal apt behavior when you request to install a particular
p
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> It may resolve itself when sylpheed moves into testing, but it's still a
> bug.
>
> Installing a doc package shouldn't cause removal of a binary package,
> even if the binary package an older version.
Does Debian policy say anything about this? If not, then the maintai
Randall Hansen wrote:
> I'm trying to install the sylpheed-doc package, but it conflicts with
> the slypheed package (see below). This strikes me as odd, but I don't
> know enough about debs to debug it.
>
> I installed the doc package, copied the files, then installed Sylpheed
> again (which rem
Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
> I am having trouble resizing windows in Gnome. In KDE one can put the
> cursor over the right hand border of a particular window frame and then
> resize it. This is unavaiable in Gnome as far as I can see.
This is not a Gnome vs. KDE thing; it just has to do with your
Alan Shutko wrote:
> Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >> Some programs use VISUAL, some EDITOR, some both... the distinction
> >> between them has long been lost.
> >
> > Perhaps, but EDITOR is supposed to be your line editor, and VISUAL your
>
Didier Caamano wrote:
> How can I block a user to his home directory? so he can have access to his
> home directory but no other directory on the system.
A typical user account won't have write access to anything outside its
home directory, unless you have world-writeable directories somewhere.
nate wrote:
> Brian Victor said:
> > I backed up my debian installation with the following:
> >
> > tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2'
>
> may I ask why? I have never heard of someone attempting such
> a task in that manor. I would say that the above is the source
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> not all Unix or
> Unix-like (attention SCO) systems use or would use bash.
Nor do they all have csh. But they all have sh. If you want
least-common-denominator portability, use sh and stock Unix commands.
> I have no faith in the quality of the work of developers who w
John Hasler wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh scripting,
> > OpenOffice.org.
>
> Thanks for the warning. I had been considering installing it.
I'm not sure it's required for installation. I don't have csh or tcsh
installed, yet the openo
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> What am I missing?
>
> # apt-cache policy libc6
> libc6:
> Installed: 2.2.5-14.3
> Candidate: 2.2.5-14.3
> Version Table:
> *** 2.2.5-14.3 0
> 500 ftp://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
>
Kevin Coyner wrote:
> I'm running a strictly testing box, and just a bit ago I did an apt-get
> update and apt-get dist upgrade, and before I knew it, the system
> was downloading 89 upgrades, one of which was libc6 ver 2.3.1-14.
>
> But when I go to packages.debian.org, and look at the libc6 deb
Dave Selby wrote:
> When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant
> find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail.
>
> Is it supposed to be posted to ...
> /var/mail/ ?
By default, mail ends up in /var/spool/mail/(username), but typically
mail t
bob parker wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote:
> > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned?
> >
> > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they
> > don't match the output of
> > md5sum -b /dev/cdrom
>
> Not really an expert on what happens on
Sebastiaan wrote:
> Yes: rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*
>
> You usually update packages only, or install it once. You won't harm your
> system if you remove the old packages. If it is needed, the packages will
> be downloaded again.
Not if it isn't in the repository anymore. It's nice to be able t
Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> > There is no sensitive files installed in /root. There really is no
> > reason not to make it 755. Everyone knows what is in /root. It is
> > not a secret.
>
> oh? what do i have in my /root directories then?
If your implica
Errol Neal wrote:
> I would like to know how to setup a secondary account on a Linux system
> that would have the same abilities and privledges as the "root" user, say
> an account such as "root2". I do not want to use sudo, because the people I
> work for do not want to use "sudo" before every
karrottop wrote:
> Ok, I have been having a horrible time getting java to behave, I
> thought I followed the directions explicitly but I guess I messed
> something up somewhere. Here is what I did:
>
> First I unpacked everything in /usr/java/ and added this to a line in my
> /etc/profile
>
>
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Actually, that Reply-to-list functionality can be implimented on the
> list itself. Why list-masters don't do this is so far beyond me that I
> don't even bother asking anymore
It's because that's the wrong place for it. If you put a Reply-To:
header in, then it's a p
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Still, there is no reason to BCC the list. Not everyone has the ability
> to customize what their filters filter on (I'm sure there are more then
> a few Evolution and OE users on the list).
Evolution can't filter on arbitrary headers? Really? I wasn't terribly
impress
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Over the past few weeks, I've been recieving several pieces of mail
> directly to my inbox because users are Bcc'ing (for what ever reason)
> the debian-user list. I would like to ask those people to please NOT bcc
> the list.
Bcc'ing a mailing list seems sort of odd,
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Also sprach Craig Dickson (Tue 25 Feb 02003 at 01:30:32PM -0800):
>
> > Here are the fruits of two minutes of research using only dpkg -p, which
> > you could just as easily have done yourself:
>
> Of course, I have already done this [...]
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Now that I've got exim|fetchmail|razor|spamassassin|procmail|mutt
> more or less functioning properly, it is time to implement virus
> protection, especially for email:
>
> # apt-cache search virus | grep -i virus | sort
> amavis-exim - Interface between MT
deFreese, Barry wrote:
> Actually, Fantasia was supposed to get updated every couple of years and
> re-released to show the updates in technology in animation and the growth of
> music. It was basically supposed to be a continuing work in progress but as
> you say, after he passed away that dream
Mike Dresser wrote:
> > Huh? Princess Mononoke isn't a Disney movie at all; it's a Japanese
> > anime by Hayao Miyazaki, distributed in the USA by Miramax (at least,
> > their logo is on the DVD, and Disney's isn't).
>
> Guess who owns Miramax?
Disney owns lots of things. Is every cop show on AB
Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans
> > > associate animation strictly with children?
> >
> > Two words: "Walt Disney"
>
> Not too valid when I saw a copy of "Disney's Princess
David Pastern wrote:
> Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
>
> BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker
> operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos
> Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. [...]
That was a lovely bit of satire, w
Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Er, I think you'd want to use "nice --20" or "nice -n -20" or even
> "nice --adjustment=-20"; "nice -20" implies a nice level ov positive
> twenty whic is invalid; the highest numer (and lowest priority)
> accepted is 19.
Ought to be "nice -n -20" actually; "nice --20" is
Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Why is it that when I switch to a text console with -- that
> bash does not read in my ~/.bashrc?
>
> When I pull up a terminal in X it works fine (all my command aliases are
> there). And when I log in to a text console, if explicitly type in the
> command 'bash' at
nate wrote:
> Jonathan Matthews said:
> > Here's a transcript from a shell session.
>
> > jaycee@bigdaddy:~$ echo $PATH
> > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> > jaycee@bigdaddy:~$ ls ~/bin
>
> just a guess but I say your problem is there. The shell did not
> expand the
deFreese, Barry wrote:
> > From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > I think when we go to 4.0 they should be named after characters from
> > Tremmors...
>
> Or they could stay on theme and go with Monsters Inc. :-)
The thing about Toy Story is that it had a pretty big ensemble
nate wrote:
> deFreese, Barry said:
> > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered
> > before but it's been buggin' me for a while.
> >
> > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans
> > or is it just coincidence?
>
> no coincidence. thoug
Dai Yuwen wrote:
> I've a 64M USB flash disk. I searched the internet, and did the following
> steps:
>
> 1. plug USB disk into my PC
> 2. modprobe sg usb-storage
>
> Then I tried to mount it:
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
>
> But a messages said `/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device'.
>
> Then
martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.18.1725 +0100]:
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows a good way with mutt to tag a message and
> > then pipe it into "spamassassin -r"...
>
> view the message, then enter
>
> | spamassassin -r
Or better still, se
Kirk Strauser wrote:
> In a nutshell, ALSA still starts without any error messages, but any
> sound-playing program falls into an endless cycle of 100% CPU usage as soon
> as playback starts. However, if I set `startosslayer=true' in
> /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf and restart via /etc/init.d/alsa, I
Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Caoilte O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 03:46]:
> > Hey All,
> > I have a hankering for a bbc emulator, but was a bit shocked to just
> > realise that there isn't one in sid.
>
> ] 2 definitions found
> ]
> ] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02)
martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]:
> > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!)
>
> For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch to
> a better OS.
Such as? This sort of unkillable process can e
Scalar wrote:
> This isn't about debian but about the list..
>
> Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few
> letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the
> list from other email?
>
> I use pine over telnet in 25x80 mode for email, and it is
> frequently impossible to t
[CC'd to the Debian NoteEdit maintainer]
Norbert Preining wrote in debian-user:
> Hat schon irgendwer irgendwo noteedit (2.0.19) für kde3 gesehen?
I'm guessing this means, "When will sid have NoteEdit rebuilt for
KDE 3?"
That's a good question. Is the maintainer still active and still
intereste
stan wrote:
> I am probably going to get a new Compaq EVO N 410c laptop. I booted one of
> these today off a Knoppix CD, and it seemed to recognize everythign
> important, with the possible exception of the modem.
>
> Would it make sense to isntall Knoppix, planing to follow Debian testing?
Soun
DvB wrote:
> Kind of hard when your ISP is Yahoo! and you're not willing to pay for
> their pop server :-)
apt-get install fetchyahoo
I've been using it for months in a cron job. Works quite nicely.
Craig
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Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:28:53 -0800 (PST)
> Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Encoding to either ogg or mp3 is lossy, but when converting
> > back to wav the information in the mp3 or ogg audio should
> > be retained completely.
>
> Erm, no. These two statemen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I know this is off-topic but since joining this list I'm getting
> increasing levels of Spam. I've heard that using SpamCop.net to process and
> report spam can help. Is this true? Is it worth bothering with?
SpamCop is a rather arbitrarily-run service that has recei
James Hughes wrote:
> Since you're talking about audio degradation issues, one thing I've
> always wondered is how much and what kind of loss is there (if any)
> when unencoding from [.ogg]|[.mp3] to .wav?
I would think none. Lossage happens during encoding, not decoding, as
long as you're deco
Travis Crump wrote:
> By that logic, what is to stop some company from releasing their product
> under the 'GPL' and then never releasing the source and requiring
> per-seat 'royalties' for the use of their patented IP?
That's nonsensical, because source is what you release under GPL. If
they d
Travis Crump wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from
> >releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not
> >themselves bound by the terms of the licence,
>
> Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence?
Becau
Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-02-05T16:07:12Z, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Since it would have an mp3 encoder, it couldn't possibly be under GPL,
> > since mp3 encoders are patent-encumbered.
>
> Not true. LAME is released under th
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> The gcc 3.2 transition (which was announced on debian-devel-announce) isn't
> complete yet; KDE2 apparently hasn't been rebuilt against the updated
> libraries yet or not all of its dependencies have made the transition
> themselves.
>
> > and is anyone working on it?
Colin Watson wrote:
> They have libfam in common too, and that's having problems with the g++
> 3.2 transition: GNOME 2 uses the g++ 3.2 version (libfam0c102) while KDE
> 2 uses (and needs to continue using) the g++ 2.95 version (libfam0), and
> the two need to conflict. I'm not sure what's being
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe the fastest way to get bipartisan support for a manned
> mission to Mars is to convince the politicians that the mainland
> Chinese are going to get there first.
Thus giving new meaning to the idea that Mars is "red"...
Craig
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Jack Pistachio wrote:
> Well, I'm actually not sure I need to. I'm making a cd for
> my brother to use on his mp3 capable DVD player. I assumed
> that the player wouldn't be able to handle ogg encoded
> files. Perhaps I'm wrong?
Most likely you're right. However, one thing you should be aware
Bart J. Himel wrote:
> I know this has probably already been answered, but I can't find it
> anywhere. I installed Debian Unstable on my computer a couple of weeks ago,
> but instead of installing Gnome2 it installed 1.4. When I try to use apt to
> install nautilus 2, it tells me it needs to rem
Jack Pistachio wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg vorbis
> audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the info in
> the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of course.
Such a program would essentially just be an ogg vorbis decoder piped to
an mp3 encoder, a
Ron Johnson wrote:
> He discovered ("take the cover off of") the mathematical model that
> rules the universe.
The mathematical model does not rule the universe. The model is an
attempt to approximate the observed behavior of the universe in a way
that allows us to predict future events. Why the
Paul E Condon wrote:
> Suppose, all human life were to perish. In that case would the value of
> pi (3.14...) perish as well?
The value of pi is dependent on the geometrical concept of a "circle"
having a "radius" and a "circumference". These are human-created ideas,
not a priori "facts" existin
(sigh) We're drifting farther and farther off-topic here, but what the
hell...
Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> | How the US can justify spending so much money on Space while 33 million US
> | citizens live below the poverty line amazes me.
Actually, the answer to this one is quite simple. There are
Victor Torrico wrote:
> Running KDE3 woody debian packages downloaded from kde site. Works great.
>
> In order to run nautilus and yelp in gnome2 I need libgnomevfs2-0 and
> libgnomevfs2-common which depends on libfam0c102.
>
> When I execute "apt-get install libfam0c102 libgnomevfs2-0
> libgno
Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be
> > _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less,
> > because passing civilization along from one generation to the next
> > ought to be the
Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:22:44AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
> >
> >Rockets don't stay up on faith.
>
> Oh yes they do... see Matthew 17:20
Faith moves mountains? Okay. Show me. Just use faith, no explosives or
earth-moving equipment. You can't? What a surprise.
Craig
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martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach karrottop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.03.2003 +0100]:
> > Are republican bashers really so bored that they have to post crap like
> > this in a debian mail list. Download some friends and tell them your
> > propoganda. Try opening up a live journal, then you
Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> hmm, space shuttle running redhat. that explains everything.
Even if it had been running Windows XP, a remark like that is in
outrageously poor taste.
Craig
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Andy Estes wrote:
> I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is
> bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However,
> the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely
> invoke bash (typing 'bash' at the shell), .b
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The testing distribution has *exactly* the same problem, as the
> unstable libc is different from the testing libc.
That's true currently, but it should be temporary, right? (Of course,
it's been temporary for some time now, but at least in theory, things
are supposed to
behapy wrote:
> kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html
> kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi
> kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi
>
> =>
>
> www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html
> kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi
> kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi
>
> I'd like to remove the first words everyliles ~+-
>
>
Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Heh. If I weren't lazy, I'd throw away most of the GNOME stuff... I
> don't use any of it anymore, and sawfish is unfortunately buggy.
Really? I used sawfish back in the Gnome 1.x days and was happy with it.
> Maybe one of these days I'll get around to trying Metacity...
Steve Juranich wrote:
> I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock
> sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing
> this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and I see that
> the main offenders are X (65 Mb, totally expected), Gal
John Griffiths wrote:
> Whoops,
>
> missed a step converting a box to ext3
>
> procedure i was using was:
>
> 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda*
>
> for all ext2 file systems.
>
> 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto
>
> 3) #touch/forcefsck
>
> 4) reboot
>
> only i forgot st
Robert Land wrote:
> An example from the phone list:
>
> 1248 Kate 634
>
> 1548 Kerry 534
>
>
> To match a line that starts with a 1,
> has some digits, at least one space
> and a name that starts with a K we can write:
>
> grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt
> or use *
Narins, Josh wrote:
> From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:51 PM
>
> [snip]
>
> Display resolution has, of course, been increasing gradually for years.
> Eventually we'll reach a point where the jaggies recede into
&g
Brian Nelson wrote:
> I find that, for well-designed fonts, the jaggies are not an issue.
Fonts specifically designed for pixel-oriented displays (such as
Microsoft's Georgia and Verdana) certainly are much more readable on
screen at small sizes than traditional print fonts such as Times or
Helve
Brian Nelson wrote:
> Richard Beri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they "look"
> > smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to
> > read. Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes. It hurts.
>
> Amen, b
Jody Grafals wrote:
> Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or
> awk?
>
> for example
>
> cat
> dog
> goat
> duck
>
> would become
>
> cat dog goat duck
This should do, and it's simpler than either sed or awk:
tr '\n' ' '
Craig
msg24097/pgp0.pg
Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-01-13T16:49:26Z, "Derrick 'dman' Hudson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:05:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
> >> and writing your "zone files" (which you'll have to do regardless of what
> >> DNS software you which to use).
>
> > Te
csj wrote:
> What's the real deal on the gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.2 transition? I've
> read enough FUD I can't distinguish the facts. Particularly, what
> programs or libraries are actually affected? What havoc would
> result from compiling the kernel or X with 3.2 on a largely
> Testing system (since Te
Paul Johnson wrote:
> Running sid, why has logcheck started producing this?
[snip]
> /usr/sbin/logcheck: line 107: /bin/egrep: No such file or directory
Because with the newest grep package, egrep is now in /usr/bin. It's
logcheck's fault for hard-coding the path. I understand this will be
fixe
John Gedeon wrote:
> I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I want
> to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in charge of the
> remote logins (IT) at my work say that Debian has lots of security holes. I
> was wondering what security holes Debian may
Frank Copeland wrote:
> AIUI, the problem with ext3 filesystems applies only if they are in
> journal mode, which isn't the default. I've also seen suggestions that
> the bug exists in several versions of the 2.4.x kernels prior to
> 2.4.20.
You mean "data journaling" mode -- ext3 is always journ
Lars Jensen wrote:
> Which brand name portable USB memory works well with linux? I'm thinking
> about getting something like a SanDisk Cruzer or an ImageMate w/Secure
> Digital media, but I'm not sure if it will work.
There are reports of the Cruzer working with SuSE 8.0, so apparently it
can be
p wrote:
> for my sd/mmc (secure digital/multimedia
> card), sandisk works flawlessly, mounted
> as /dev/sda1.
Some of SanDisk's USB card readers are USB-storage compatible, and some
aren't -- and of those that aren't, one or two have custom drivers
available in the Linux kernel, but most don't
Colin Watson wrote:
> You can pass function pointers around in C happily enough. I appreciate
> it's less theoretically elegant than having functions as first-class
> citizens, and that it doesn't allow as much compile-time checking, but
> does it really limit you?
Yes, it does. C function pointe
Eric G. Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:46:43PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
>
> > Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in practice?
> [snip]
>
> People use "tasks" in Ada on a regular basis. So, it must be usable,
> neigh?
By the same reaso
Rob Weir wrote:
> Just coming off a concurrent systems course at my Uni: Ada was created
> for this sort of thing; i.e. it has built in support for concurrency,
> rendezvouses (is that a plural already), monitors, etc, etc at the
> language level.
Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in pra
hiranokazunari wrote:
> I understand /bin represents binaries,
> /dev represents devices,
> /lib represents libraries,
> /mnt represents mount,
> /opt represents option(?) etc...
>
> But I am wondering why the host-specific
> configuration partition is called /etc?
If you go back to very early v
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