On 07.02.20 23:53, Long Wind wrote:
> i use mplayer -loop 0 to play white noise(it might help sleep by masking
> other noise)
> but when it reach end and restart to play againthere's some interval, which
> isn't desirable
> any mplayer option or other player i can use so that it plays seamlessly?
On 26.01.20 03:03, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> Trying to sort out how to xz compress. But xz is rejecting directories,
> like it expects tars output as its input. And the manpage is silent on
> redirections.
>
> I want to compress the directory foo into foo.xz, keeping foo as the
On 25.01.20 05:51, Richard Owlett wrote:
> My current project is dealing with oddly formatted data. Mostly just plain
> ASCII. Progress on another aspect of my project has made this thread moot.
For the thread, there's also: $ apt-cache search bvi
bvi - binary file ed
On 06.12.19 14:40, songbird wrote:
> Greg Wooledge wrote:
> ...
> > Ideally, you'd just stop trying to use sed with user-supplied variables
> > injected into the code. Sed was never built to be safe for that kind of
> > work.
>
> sed was designed to operate on streams. a sequence of
> charact
On 04.12.19 17:33, Gene Heskett wrote:
> My point exactly. That means two accounts at your isp, I think mine
> charges only after the 2nd one, and two active fetchmail/procmail
> sessions = more trouble than it worth. Me? I got the heck off gmail
> years ago for lack of privacy reasons, and I f
On 13.08.19 07:47, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> On Monday, August 12, 2019 10:56:22 PM riveravaldez wrote:
> > >> btw which option should i add to mplayer command line
> > >> so that it play only audio part (not video part) of a file?
> >
> > $ mplayer -novideo file
>
> I'm in a strange mood toda
On 13.08.19 00:38, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Its good that we can fix it, BUT IF you are going to restrict where we
> keep logfiles like this then FIX the /var/log perms so that fetchmail,
> procmail, spamassassin, clamav and its ilk, running as the user can
> access /var/log to keep its logs. Debi
On 30.07.19 11:34, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Most residential power in the US is created using a single phase transformer
> (so called because (1) it only takes power from one of the 3 phases mentioned
> above and (2) darn -- it's a bitch getting old.
Tell me about it. ;-) I'd offer that (2) i
On 29.07.19 20:46, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 29 Jul 2019 at 18:00:25 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> > On Monday 29 July 2019 17:26:17 ghe wrote:
> >
> > > On 7/29/19 1:57 PM, David Wright wrote:
> > > > Irrelevant in a domestic setting: it's illegal to have more than one
> > > > phase in an ord
On 29.07.19 14:44, Joe wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Jul 2019 09:34:25 -0400
> Dan Ritter wrote:
> >
> > In a single-family house, Powerline is about as secure as wired
> > ethernet: you need to come in and plug something in to spy on
> > it.
>
> Most people won't have RF blocking filters at their house e
On 22.06.19 12:23, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> Hi,
>
> deloptes wrote:
> > Please stop!
>
> You know what happens if you try to issue commands here, do you ?
>
>
> > BTW you are also a carbon dioxide producer ;-)
>
> Voluntarily i'm only part of the athmospheric carbon cycle, not of the
> unearthi
On 15.06.19 07:51, Curt wrote:
> curty@einstein:~$ mupdf
> usage: mupdf [options] file.pdf [page]
> -p -password
> -r -resolution
> -A -set anti-aliasing quality in bits (0=off, 8=best)
> -C -RRGGBB (tint color in hexadecimal syntax)
> -W -
On 14.06.19 10:51, Celejar wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jun 2019 18:50:22 +1000
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > I only use mupdf for problem pdf files, but it's very nifty to have on
> > hand.
>
> I actually love mupdf, and I use it as my main pdf reader. It's just so
On 14.06.19 06:10, Richard Owlett wrote:
> I can't remember the name of the file which identifies the association
> between a directory (i.e. \home) and which physical partition it is on. The
> file I'm looking for also identifies which partition is used for swap.
Easier than looking in /etc/fstab
On 13.06.19 16:29, k. jantzen wrote:
>
> in general I do not have a problem reading a pdf file with either xpdf or
> documentviewer.
Yup, documentviewer will sometimes show faint lines better, I find, but
it's easy to set the background colour in xpdf.
> But once in a while I get a pdf file that
On 09.06.19 19:11, Brian wrote:
> On Mon 10 Jun 2019 at 00:52:21 +1000, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> >
> > On 09.06.19 06:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > > And what do we call that Erik, thats much bigger than a normal foop, a
> > > megafoop maybe? Good grief,
On 09.06.19 06:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> And what do we call that Erik, thats much bigger than a normal foop, a
> megafoop maybe? Good grief, Charley Brown. And we're stuck with it. :(
Well now, there are folks who have observed that not all progress is
forward, and not all code bloat and per
On 08.06.19 11:28, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 08 June 2019 10:20:09 am deloptes wrote:
> > Did you try running this without systemd? I recall you mentioned
> > somewhere you removed it
> >
> > regards
>
> No. And I doubt there would even be a running system left. I don't think
> I wrote th
On 06.06.19 07:14, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > # Example how to put a getty on a serial line (for a terminal)
> > #
> > #T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 9600 vt100
> > #T1:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS1 9600 vt100
> >
> Yes, I recall those days. But until now ttyS0 and S1 if it existed, wer
On 28.05.19 08:59, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 May 2019 08:34:37 am Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > That said, one could upgrade just that one package, and try it out. If
> > it is fixed, you're on a winner then and there. "Fixed" beats
> > "reporte
On 28.05.19 14:59, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 08:51:41AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > But who or what is the gatekeeper to make sure the address you choose,
> > supposedly at random, isn't in use someplace next door or half the
> > planet away? There may be
On 28.05.19 08:02, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 27 May 2019 11:18:49 pm Joe Pfeiffer wrote:
>
> > Gene Heskett writes:
> > Your version (1.14.6-2) of network-manager appears to be out of date.
> > The following newer release(s) are available in the Debian archive:
> > experimental: 1.18.0-1
On 27.05.19 23:32, Jimmy Johnson wrote:
> No, seriously I would like to get some user feedback to the question.
> And also why is net-tools being deprecated?
It's not. You and I fully approve of it, so it's fine for the use cases
in which it gives the desired results. (See ifconfig use on this thr
On 27.05.19 17:06, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Thats fine, shows the loop local stuff, but how does one determine the
> ipv6 address for picnc.coyote.den for instance. I think it somehow
> related to picnc's mac address, but thats just a WAG.
On coyote, it'll look something like line 3:
$ ifconfig -a
On 12.05.19 13:45, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 12 May 2019 at 17:52, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> >> This is nice; is there an equivalent for FAT file systems? Most of the
> >> devices I mount using pmount are sd cards (ca
On 11.05.19 14:38, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Saturday, 4 May 2019 at 16:43, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > To provide that convenient automation, I use:
> >
> > $ which lmount
> > lmount is a function
> > lmount ()
> > {
> > pmount $1 `e2la
On 07.05.19 09:05, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> So, I'll use "publicly" -- I was going to do that, but it just seemed wrong
> at
> the time ;-)
It seems harder to remember uncommon spelling now than when I was
younger, and until the spellchecker disagreed, I'd gone with your
spelling - it's more
On 07.05.19 07:38, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote off-list:
> On Tuesday, May 07, 2019 12:01:49 AM Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > only the author is dumb enough
>
> Why use language like that? (It does not contribute to the welcoming
> environment that I'd like to see culti
On 04.05.19 13:48, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:43:53)
> > There doesn't seem to be an option for pmount to mount at
> > /media/label_read_from_the_media
...
> I don't personally use pmount since some years, but that sure soun
On 07.05.19 10:12, David wrote:
> On Mon, 6 May 2019 at 23:53, Erik Christiansen
> wrote:
> > On 06.05.19 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:48:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > > > Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:4
On 06.05.19 09:03, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sat, May 04, 2019 at 01:48:01PM +0200, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
> > Quoting Erik Christiansen (2019-05-04 08:43:53)
> > > $ which lmount
> > > lmount is a function
> > > lmount ()
> > > {
> >
On 05.05.19 17:16, Gene Heskett wrote:
> You have made it very clear not to assign a pw to root, do everything
> with sudo.
That's just religion, Gene, promulgated to minimise queries and
complaints from people getting themselves into trouble. Like
vaccination, it only needs 95% coverage to provi
>From the pmount manpage for stretch:
»
pmount device [ label ]
This will mount device to a directory below /media if policy is met
(see below). If label is given, the mount point will be /media/label,
otherwise it will be /media/device.
«
There doesn't seem to be an option for pmount to m
On 03.05.19 18:01, Russell L. Harris wrote:
> P.S. Would someone kindly tell me how, while in Mutt and reading a
> message such as this, to launch a browser to open links such as [1]
> and [2] above?
A convenient alternative is to just double-click on a link in mutt's
display in an xterm, then pa
On 26.04.19 23:09, mick crane wrote:
> I did wonder if was some scheme I was unaware of.
> I noticed a couple of weeks ago somebody used these "::" between words to
> identify something.
> Like in apt you have
> /var/lib/apt/lists/security.debian.org_debian-security_dists_buster_updates_main_source
On 08.04.19 17:43, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 08, 2019 at 09:33:03PM +0900, Mark Fletcher wrote:
> > Hello all
> >
> > As I wrote this I began to consider this is slightly OT for this list;
> > my apologies for not putting OT in the subject line but mutt won't let
> > me go back and e
On 07.04.19 08:12, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
> Sorry, I should have tried to be more clear -- sort of a digression, but I
> came from an environment where anytime someone used the word assume, someone
> else would point out what (they thought) that meant (it makes an ass out of
> [yo]u and me).
On 30.03.19 01:29, deloptes wrote:
> John Hasler wrote:
>
> > I'm not trying to persuade anyone to use Emacs. I am trying to convince
> > people not to be deterred from trying it because of myths such as "You
> > can't use Emacs if you can't program in Lisp".
>
> Sorry John, but all of this is o
On 29.03.19 10:50, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> >>>>> "EC" == Erik Christiansen writes:
>
> EC> Yes, yes, reflexive combativeness is jolly good fun, but
> EC> understanding is more useful in the long term.
>
> In my experience, if the langua
On 29.03.19 10:44, deloptes wrote:
> One can live and do everything without Emacs.
Can't resist paraphrasing that in light of Emacs' OS-like reputation:
One can live and do everything within Emacs ... or without.
I would be tempted to have a look at ne, except that my fingers would
just continu
On 29.03.19 08:47, Gian Uberto Lauri wrote:
> >>>>> "EC" == Erik Christiansen writes:
>
> EC> On 28.03.19 21:32, Matyáš Bobek wrote:
> >> I reckon writing vim extensions in C must be quite obscure... How
> >> is it done?
>
> EC
On 29.03.19 17:26, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> " Toggle relative line numbering.
> function! NList_toggle()
> if &rnu == 1
> set nornu" For absolute, elide the 'r'.
> else
> set rnu " For absolut
On 27.03.19 11:07, mick crane wrote:
> On 2019-03-26 19:27, Wayne Sallee wrote:
> > I use vim.
> >
> > Log in as user that will use vim, and run the following command:
> >
> > cat > .vimrc << "EOF"
> > set nosi noai
> > set number
> >
> I have line numbers as the default but copy/paste with the
On 28.03.19 21:32, Matyáš Bobek wrote:
> I reckon writing vim extensions in C must be quite obscure... How is it
> done?
It's not. They are written in vimscript, analogous to elisp. There is a
large landscape of add-ons written in the language, and a choice of
managers to automate the minor tedium
On 28.03.19 12:34, rlhar...@oplink.net wrote:
> Once you start using Emacs macros and see the benefit, you likely shall find
> yourself creating and using numerous macros within each editing session.
> You demonstrate once to the robot, and the robot faithfully mimics you,
> without error. The onl
On 26.03.19 11:52, John Hasler wrote:
> mick crane wrote:
> > there it is then, although I've so far managed to avoid Emacs since
> > heard it is more of an operating system than an editor.
>
> Teemu Likonen writes:
> > There are those who know Emacs, and there are those who know decades
> > old
On 25.03.19 07:53, mick crane wrote:
> not heard about folding.
It can be very handy. I have around 420 pages of notes in one file. They
present as a one-page contents table with section page counts. While
cursoring down and then across opens a chosen fold, there are several
folding levels to the
On 25.03.19 04:38, mick crane wrote:
> Is there any text editor, preferably in a terminal that has the facility to
> protect lines in the document, not the document itself ?
> I've got 2 blocks of "code" that look similar and I keep editing the wrong
> one and then it doesn't work.
The only thing
On 17.02.19 12:07, hdv@gmail wrote:
> On 17/02/2019 11.58, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 17.02.19 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote:
> >> On 17/02/2019 05.05, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> >>> Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not
> >>&
On 17.02.19 10:16, hdv@gmail wrote:
> On 17/02/2019 05.05, Juan R. de Silva wrote:
> > Can your share with me what do you use for newsgroups reading. I do not
> > care
> > about binaries. All I want to follow several Linux usenet newsgroups. Plain
> > text reading.
>
> For text-only groups I us
On 17.01.19 18:35, David Christensen wrote:
> On 1/16/19 2:15 PM, Andy Smith wrote:
> > I second the suggestion to learn version control...
>
> +1
>
> I started with RCS. The concepts and commands are straight-forward, but the
> granularity is per-file. It works great for managing key /etc/* fi
On 11.12.18 09:44, Dan Ritter wrote:
> mick crane wrote:
> > On 2018-12-10 20:02, Thomas Schmitt wrote:
> > > For the purpose of sr_drive_status(), the loop is really inappropriate.
> > > This function shall obtain the drive status and not wait until the
> > > status of the medium is decided.
> >
On 07.12.18 16:42, Jason wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 07, 2018 at 05:05:30PM -, Dan Purgert wrote:
> > Jason wrote:
> > > Does anyone know if there is a console based Arduino IDE available for
> > > Debian? I am interested in making a portable programmer that could be
> > > taken out on a job to edit
On 07.12.18 09:17, John Hasler wrote:
> Gene writes:
> > Thats a huge part of the problem, but theres another fence to
> > jump. most of these so-called cad programs cannot generate even the
> > most basic gcode.
>
> I can see not wanting to learn even a small part of a CAD program if all
> you wa
On 26.11.18 21:12, Celejar wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 09:37:21 -0500
> Mark Neidorff wrote:
> > Now, I don't like the webmail interfaces and the limited storage for old
>
> Limited storage? Who - big or small player - offers unlimited storage
> for old emails?
There are various values for old
On 26.11.18 17:13, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Get on the horn and ask your isp if they run a mailserver. Mine does, and
> I use it, but when I first started, I had to call their network guy and
> have him whitelist all the mailing lists I an on.
Here, down under, that's the norm - I've never heard of
On 29.10.18 10:58, David Wright wrote:
> On Sat 27 Oct 2018 at 09:19:15 (+0100), mick crane wrote:
> > I made the mistake of printing out man bash once. It's really, really long
>
> Some of the longer man pages (eg bash, fvwm, video programs) are
> rather unmanageable when just presented as flat t
On 31.10.18 11:49, Ben Caradoc-Davies wrote:
> On 30/10/2018 21:17, P M wrote:
> > Although right now I am using Windows but still I feel very enthusiastic
> > and energetic with Linux; even I don't know what the reason is.
>
> You are feeling the potential of open source: a community open to all
On 26.10.18 22:39, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 15:13:20 -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote:
> > I agree, and I have found a lot of info "complete manual"s
> > to be exactly like the man page!
>
> Please give an example.
Anyone who has tried info a number of times, in the hope of finding a
bit mor
On 26.10.18 19:17, Brian wrote:
> On Fri 26 Oct 2018 at 13:20:36 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Agreed, a good man page is the best. I've no clue why there seems to be
> > an aversion to a man page that has to be scrolled to read it all. All of
> > us have up/down arrows on our keyboards, and 99%
On 26.10.18 13:20, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Friday 26 October 2018 10:41:54 Richard Owlett wrote:
> > 1. I don't want to install unneeded packages just to find out whether
> > or not the package might be useful.
> > 2. The info output has an annoying format. A browser acceptable format
> > {pla
On 26.10.18 13:05, David Christensen wrote:
> When programming, I tend to do check-in's when I make some kind of progress
> (ideally, the code builds and the test suite passes).
Yup, the smaller edits of bugfixes aren't going to threaten code stability.
>
> The trap is when I work for a while, m
On 14.10.18 12:36, Patrick Bartek wrote:
> FYI: Testing Devuan ascii now for future consideration. No problems so
> far. Still like runit though. And it's easy to convert the
> default sysvinit to it.
+1 (Running pre-systemd debian on laptop and one old desktop, devuan
ascii on the new one
On 14.10.18 22:06, Long Wind wrote:
> given two directories, the program can print files that are in both
> directories
>
> to make it easy, if file name and size are same, then they are same
>
> i've to admit my memory is poor, if good, who need such program?
>
> i'm about to write it in java,
On 25.09.18 20:19, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 25 Sep 2018 at 14:08:23 -0500, Nicholas Geovanis wrote:
>
> > Brian wrote: Note to non-English speakersnatural English politeness
> > will get you a nod of the head but there will be incomprehension
> > in the mind
> >
> > That also works with America
On 14.09.18 16:10, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 01:23:31PM -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:
> > I just find it amazing that the kernel has grown to be so big as to be
> > comparable to a complete unix distribution on a workstation of some
> > years ago (with GUI, compilers, ...).
>
>
On 11.09.18 13:52, Pétùr wrote:
> I have some files, with weird permissions:
>
> # ls -la
> d-wS--S--T 2 1061270772 2605320832 4096 oct. 7 2412 index.html
OK, you have the suid, sgid, and sticky bits set, and it's a directory.
Execute (directory navigate) permission is off.
> Cannot delete,
On 29.08.18 11:57, Jonathan Dowland wrote:
> However both sendmail and update-inetd are orphaned at the moment (no
> regular maintainers, although Andreas Beckmann has done a lot of work
> via the QA team)
After favouring sendmail for a decade and a half, I thought I was slow
to switch to postfix
On 26.08.18 12:25, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> A regular itchy annoyance for years now:
>
> df shows bytes, df -h shows only one decimal place, so e.g. on a
> 1.8TiB drive "1.6T" is the free space, but that resolution/ precision
> is insufficient.
For more than 3 decades I've just used "df -k". OK,
On 14.08.18 06:44, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 08/14/2018 01:43 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > The whole thing is just a plain text file, edited and read with Vim,
> > using multi-level folding, so it all presents as a one-page TOC. My
> > version is probably of limited use
On 13.08.18 06:47, Richard Owlett wrote:
> PREAMBLE:
> I've downloaded a .deb file.
> I've recently done such an install but don't remember how.
> Looking at the man pages for apt, apt-get, aptitude didn't help.
> Couldn't come up with useful search term for wiki.
> Eventually recalled "dpkg -i" wh
On 10.08.18 11:46, Dan Purgert wrote:
> Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> To expand on that with my own personal prejudice -- the people using
> these "sub-par" tools are also the ones who're the cause of some of the
> existent (modern?) problems with mailing lists.
>
> Namely:
>
> - HTML Messages
> - Not
On 07.08.18 09:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
> dpkg: warning: 'ldconfig' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: warning: 'start-stop-daemon' not found in PATH or not executable
> dpkg: error: 2 expected programs not found in PATH or not executable
> Note: root's PATH should usually contain /usr/lo
On 05.08.18 18:59, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> If you make it as far as tweaking linker scripts, then the info page is
> infinitely more informative than the manpage.
s/the info page/the info page for ld
On 30.07.18 08:11, cyaiplexys wrote:
> On 07/27/2018 12:31 AM, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > On 26.07.18 08:29, cyaiplexys wrote:
> > > I'd like to try a native compiler but also I would like to have something
> > > I
> > > could compile for Arduino (he
On 26.07.18 08:29, cyaiplexys wrote:
> I'd like to try a native compiler but also I would like to have something I
> could compile for Arduino (here we go again) and ARM and other CPUs as well.
$ apt-cache search avr | more
arduino - AVR development board IDE and built-in libraries
libavresample-d
On 23.07.18 10:28, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> On Sunday, 22 Jul 2018 at 05:39, Tom Browder wrote:
> > Sounds like there are a lot of fellow travelers here. If you lean
> > more towards loving programming as I do (started in FORTRAN IV in
> > 1961), you might check out the new world of Perl 6 (https://p
On 22.07.18 10:29, cyaiplexys wrote:
> I think my mindset also came from my days of trying to program the WowWee
> RoboSapien RS Media (ARM/Linux with Java). That was like a fully
> programmable computer and robot all in one.
Then the full arduino environment will be more comfortable than raw C on
On 21.07.18 10:42, Richard Owlett wrote:
> P.S. I've saved ~6 years of useful posts from this group. I've been trying
> to figure out how to organize it in order to create a QWSBFA rather than a
> FAQ. QWSBFA=="Questions Which Should Be Frequently Asked" ;/
There are so many paths that people have
On 10.07.18 12:53, David Wright wrote:
> On Mon 09 Jul 2018 at 19:05:52 (-0400), Dan Ritter wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:53:44PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 06:39:29PM -0400, Dan Ritter wrote:
> > > > You're both missing the main point, which is that a Brother
On 24.06.18 10:04, mick crane wrote:
> On 2018-06-23 13:12, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test
> > page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other
> > print jobs not at all. Again, print
Aargh! Apologies for committing a subthread hijack. That wasn't intended.
The new CUPS & HP-LaserJet-3050 addition prints the printer self-test
page immediately, the CUPS test page after several minutes, but other
print jobs not at all. Again, printing from xpdf, the job is queued:
$ lpq
HP-Laser
After a fresh update of CUPS, and a fresh "Add Printer", selecting the first
(gutenberg) model option, printing a pdf page from xpdf caused display
of GUI message boxes indicating "printing started" and "printing
completed", but no printer output.
At localhost:631 -> Job Management, "Show all jobs
On 13.03.18 10:48, David Wright wrote:
> On Tue 13 Mar 2018 at 21:31:00 (+1100), Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > Too true. After a couple of hours of failing to get any GUI drawing
> > package, not least LibreOffice, to do anything useful, I used Vim to
> > textually produce
On 13.03.18 09:59, Joe wrote:
> On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 20:42:08 +1100
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > An sc description: "Its keybindings are familiar to users of 'vi', and
> > it has most features that a pure spreadsheet would, but lacks things
> > like graph
On 13.03.18 08:59, Joe wrote:
> I'm not aware of a 'simple' spreadsheet, as it is the kind of
> application that begs for feature-creep. Synaptic turns up sc, which I
> know nothing about, but the description doesn't look compatible with
> 'simple', unless the user interface is similar to something
On 05.03.18 03:06, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> As to "manpages not a tutorial" *ROFL*
> I'll admit content is there, but ...
> I've been referred to vim. Although awk and cousins are probably under the
> surface, vim.org is fascinating and accessible to end users such as myself.
A good text
On 04.03.18 10:28, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I don't have any background in Perl and the last formal course in
> programming was in the 60's.
>
> However awk and/or sed may be what I'm looking for and are well documented.
> Your description of nedit is interesting. I'll investigate. I'm on my way
On 17.02.18 10:00, deloptes wrote:
> Since couple of months firefox is taking too long to open a new window or
> new page.
Whenever that happens here, I just clear the cookies & cache with
CTRL+SHIFT+DEL. That puts a spring in its step again.
Admittedly, my old mobo is too slow for video streamin
On 08.02.18 08:42, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 08, 2018 at 01:36:41PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> [...]
>
> > [...] Fastidious fusspotting on minor terminology matters [...]
>
> Yikes :-)
>
> May I steal this one when I need it badly?
It'
On 07.02.18 12:13, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:58:55PM +1100, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > Michelle, that netmask is 0b1001 , which is
> > the first I have ever seen with a hole in it.
>
> No, that would be
On 07.02.18 09:33, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> Good morning,
>
> Am 2018-02-07 hackte Gene Heskett in die Tasten:
> > On Tuesday 06 February 2018 14:07:55 Brian wrote:
> >> 1. auto enp0s25
> >> iface enp0s25 inet
> >> static address 192.168.0.
On 06.02.18 19:16, Richard Hector wrote:
> On 06/02/18 18:38, Erik Christiansen wrote:
> > Perl is the quintessential write-only language, which with a bit of luck
> > will die out before it catches on
>
> Now you're getting to fighting talk ... :-)
Whoops, forgot the
On 05.02.18 10:02, Michael Stone wrote:
> IIRC it started out as a YACC function in the late 80s, and is now a Bison
> (YACC+GNU extensions) library.
In that case it has a precise grammar, expressed in BNF (Backus Naur
Form), though the lexer (I've always used lex together with
yacc/bison) could a
On 05.02.18 09:39, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 04, 2018 at 04:04:34PM +0100, Nicolas George wrote:
> > All you describe is convenience for programmatic use. As I explained,
> > this parser is meant for interactive use.
>
> What on EARTH made you think THAT?
The fuzzy grammar of the date st
On 09.01.18 15:04, Christian Groessler wrote:
> I just edited the password file directly, "vipw" and "vipw -s", and renamed
> the pi user.
When doing that, there is merit in running pwck before any powerdown/reboot,
as any illegality in a line stopped processing of all following when I
last tried
On 07.01.18 13:26, Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> This may be more delicate?: https://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/
Hmmm ... and if ps2pdf isn't yet installed at your end, then an apt-get
fixes that. It produces sterling pdf from ps for me - big prints come
out perfectly at the local printer.
Erik
On 07.01.18 00:19, Brian wrote:
> On Sat 06 Jan 2018 at 21:02:15 +, Curt wrote:
> > On 2018-01-06, Brian wrote:
> > unoconv -f pdf text.txt
>
> 50+ megabytes of the libreoffice stack to install, But yes, that will
> do it. A sledgehammer to crack a nut.
This may be more delicate?: https:/
On 06.12.17 08:57, pe...@easthope.ca wrote:
> Hi,
>
> At https://wiki.debian.org/DebianTinker/Desktop#EDA is a list of
> packages for electronics design automation. According to various
> documents, Electric, Fritzing and gEDA, at least, can help to create
> schematics. I use librecad but hav
On 28.11.17 21:41, Emanuel Berg wrote:
> Erik Christiansen wrote:
>
> > After trying to get various GUI drawing
> > packages to function at the most basic level,
> > and failing to produce anything, I'm just
> > finishing the 8 drawings for my new house
> >
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