Re: Entropy (was Re: how to generate random negative numbers)

2009-08-12 Thread Francois Bottin
Eric De Mund wrote: Ron, John Hasler: ] echo $(( $(( $RANDOM - $RANDOM )) % 3 )) Ron Johnson: ] Does this burn through entropy faster than other methods? Yes. Twice as fast. And, more importantly, it's mathematically incorrect. It does not have the same probability density function as: ec

Re: *****SPAM***** Re: Re: cupsys does not print: update

2008-04-26 Thread Francois Bottin
Mark Maas wrote: If so, each new person joining and emailing this list will get this very disturbing message from this guy. What can we do to "enlighten" him? You may subscribe his address to any mailing list that asks confirmation through mail: the responder doesn't change the subject... F

Re: Debian attack on Mac OS X?

2004-10-21 Thread Francois Bottin
do not need a proxy, then disable its use in IE (I have no idea how you can do this) If you need a proxy, copy the config you have in netscape as you said it is working. Do not forget the port number. If it is not a proxy config problem... I have no clue what it could be. HTH, François.

Re: .deb dependancy hell

2004-01-28 Thread Francois Bottin
: > libgphoto2-2 depends on libgphoto2-port0 (>= 2.1.4-1). >dpkg: error processing libgphoto2-port0 (--remove): > dependency problems - not removing >Errors were encountered while processing: > libgphoto2-port0 > apt-get remove libgphoto2-2 libgphoto2-port0

Re: 2 networks

2003-09-24 Thread Francois Bottin
Quoting Christoph Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 24 Sep 2003 12:13:06 +0200 > Francois Bottin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Personnaly, I use netenv but I'm planing to change it soon (I don't want > > to have to choose the config during the b

Re: 2 networks

2003-09-24 Thread Francois Bottin
figuration detection for laptops intuitively - Automatic IP configuration detection for laptops laptop-net - Automatically adapt laptop ethernet laptop-netconf - network detection and configuration program for laptops whereami - Automatically reconfigure your (laptop) system for a new location HTH. Fra

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Francois Bottin
t useable also for C): if (cond) { block; } else { block; } In this case I find it much better than the GNU Coding Standards, and there is only one line more than Python... François. -- Francois BOTTIN -- "How kind," the PFY sighs. "But where will I go?" &

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-27 Thread Francois Bottin
t; So that it wouldn't change Choo-choo to Perlhoo-choo. I wasn't > just thinking of that one paragraph... > Then: s/\bC\b/Perl/g ;-) (Yes, I also added a g at the end to not only substitute the 1st occurence) Francois. -- Francois BOTTIN -- "How kind," the PFY