Re: Quoting shell command lines in Makefiles

Further Reading of The Fine Manual reveals that that way to quote $ in a makefile is to say "$$": test: testexec for test in $(TESTS); do ./$$test ; done I'm using CPPUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki) to make unit tests for each class in my C++ program. I can say "mak

Quoting shell command lines in Makefiles

I'm using CPPUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki) to make unit tests for each class in my C++ program. I can say "make test" to have them all built and executed. The "testexec" target builds the unit test executables without running them. I started with something like this: TE

Can't browse certain websites

to solder the ethernet myself, as I'm pretty sure it's just a broken wire, but for now I don't want to risk hosing the machine. Thanks for your help, Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read "GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks" at: http://ww

Re: Portable OGG Player

technology for Ogg players, but I don't see news of it actually being adopted in products yet. A while back I came across Free firmware for the iPod that allows it to play oggs. I don't know if this works alongside the normal iPod firmware or just totally replaces it. -- Michael D

Re: A list administation query

ll the other messages that I don't read. Happy New Year! Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read "GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks" at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X can't find keybinding

t; "us" EndSection My box is a PowerPC Mac 8500, but I posted to debian-user rather than debian-powerpc because I don't think this is an architecture-specific problem. What package are the keybindings in? Maybe it got uninstalled when I updated. Thanks for your help,

[SOLVED] Re: What happened to my menubar?

there was no logout menu. Hope This Helps Someone Else. Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read "GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks" at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What happened to my menubar?

Besides my menubar being missing, it seems that when I minimize my windows by clicking the "_" in a window's titlebar, the Window just disappears, and I can't figure out how to get it back again. Thanks for your help. Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read

What happened to my menubar?

I restore it? I'm using gnome, and logging in via gdm. Thanks for your help, Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read "GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks" at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &q

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

ut if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a serious way. Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read "GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks" at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

You know, I think the Gimp may be a little heavyweight for what the original poster was looking to do. Learning to use it for a beginner might be intimidating. Are there any imaging apps that only do the basic stuff like rotation, cropping, and scaling, and are very easy to use? There must be s

Re: how to start making doodle work

Hi HS, Any suggestion what could be amiss? I get a lot of email that says \/14-gra helps with that. Hope that helps. Yours, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

article about it in large part to fight the stigma against the mentally ill. You'll find "Living with Schizoaffective Disorder" at: http://www.geometricvisions.com/Madness/schizoaffective-disorder/ Sincerely, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Cons

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

quot; all the time. Do I need to do something to put it online? I did read the man page, but I'm still unclear. Thanks! Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorro

Serial terminal in testing?

ng through dselect I couldn't find anything in the way of serial terminals for debian. I'd be shocked if there wasn't something so I must be overlooking it. Thanks! Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL

LUGs in Nova Scotia?

Are there any Linux User Groups in Nova Scotia, Canada? I'm in Truro, but I'd be surprised if there was one here. I often go to Halifax though, which is a big enough city that I'd expect there to be a LUG there. Thanks! Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Softw

where to get old hard drives?

ical drive and recover your data. It's a Quantum Viking II 9 GB LVD SCSI, (40 MB/sec SCSI transfer rate). Can anyone give me a clue where I might find one? Used would be OK, even with a dead mechanism if the controller board were OK. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. -

Re: Music Services

at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/legal-downloads.html If you install BitTorrent, check out http://www.legaltorrents.com/ Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. "I gi

Re: Scrolling beeps while playing music.

a background window in my X session, to activate it. I don't know if your problem is related but this would be a possibly helpful clue to investigate. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilti

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

r the kernel it uses, compare that to the .config for the kernel in your debian installation. Debian copies the .config file to the /boot directory. Maybe you can find an option you need to enable. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.

trouble upgrading libxft-dev

-unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_powerpc.deb Thanks for any help you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://

Re: How can I install with unmet dependencies

nclude/X11/Xft/Xft1.h', not allowed dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_powerpc.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goi

How can I install with unmet dependencies

: Unmet dependencies. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: What can make MP#'s play at the wrong rate?

Maybe you've entered a time-space distortion field, and your audio files are actually playing at the correct rate, but you're experiencing time twice as fast as everyone else. Yers, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goi

Re: What mail program does this?

login outside the firewall, then telnet to my popserver. $ telnet server.domain.com 110 Try giving the "HELP" command to find out what commands you can do. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

tp://www.uclinux.com/ It would probably be a lot of work. uCLinux is now integrated with the 2.6 kernel, I understand. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

iRATE radio 0.3 released

ia key binding support, audio prompting, more publicity, and several others. The iRATE radio website is at http://irate.sourceforge.net/ -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better T

Can't get out of dependency resolution in dselect

urn to exit the dialog just brings me back into the dialog. -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: OT: C++

You might also find my article helpful: "Pointers, References and Values: Passing Parameters, Returning Results, and Storing Member Variables with Musings on Good C++ Style" at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/parameters/ Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Exper

Re: OT: C++

guidance of one or two experts. http://www.accu.org/ They also have a bunch of very helpful technical book reviews on their website. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills

Can't play audio CDs

u can give me. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to install BitTorrent on Woody?

help you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Importing Corel Draw

than using the Debian package, as there has been a lot of work such as the very recent 2.0 and 2.0.1 releases. However, they don't appear to provide Debian packages, I thought they did. Maybe you can use alien to convert an RPM. You will also need the Import/Export plugin package as well

If esd is running Mozilla won't launch

then started esd again, I am able to open new Mozilla windows. So I guess I have a workaround, but it should not be this way. Can you tell me what is wrong? Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Recommend a better sound card?

with Linux, BeOS and Windows 2000. Extra credit if the card's vendor provides complete hardware specs to Free Software developers. If you'd like to email me your recommendation send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert So

What does Aliant Telecom use for DSL?

upply the password with some standard protocol, then it should work fine. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. "I give you this one rule of co

running short on DMA buffers during badblocks

powerpc patch. Possibly it's got the benh patch, I don't know because I don't have my kernel sources online right now. /dev/sda11 is 16.7 GB in size. I will probably upgrade my kernel once I'm done with the installation of my new drive. Thanks for any advice you can give m

Please test iRATE radio

t bugs, either mail them directly to me (not the Debian list!) or join the irate-devel mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=77232 Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

is all in one file, with very simple, valid markup, and with no external dependencies such as images or external stylesheets. It even looks good in lynx! Thank you for your attention. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.c

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

w.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco.html I just got out of bed after sleeping for 17 hours from a hacking bender so it's going to be a little while before I can get it together to post it. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

/prosecute-sco/ You'll find the UBB code version there as well, with a plain-text version coming up in the next couple days. The original article is still at: http://www.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco.html I'll try to shut up now. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Ex

restarting wget?

be able to do this, but I haven't been able to get it to work. Alternatively, is there another recursive website downloader that can do what I want? I just want something I can restart in the event of failure. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Re: Q on NYT article on the cost of Spam

it for a while: The importance of advertising to business http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/7/9/831/85518/55#55 Direct mail is very scientifically targeted http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/7/9/831/85518/67#67 Ever Faithful, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Deve

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

> How can i have a gpg public key? Go to a locksmith in your nearest town and ask them to cut you one. They keep blanks on hand. Warmest regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Serial terminal program?

use tip on the old SunOS. On Windows I use Hyperterminal. I'll need it for powerpc, but if one is available for x86 there is likely to be one for powerpc too. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.c

Re: Firewire card supported by Linux?

Windows doesn't come with PCILynx drivers. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &

Re: kinda OT: Web Hosting

host with them is that they have always had excellent customer service, and have always treated me really well. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorr

Re: floating point hex calc?

"%x", &bar ); foo = *(float*)&bar; printf( "%1.15f\n", foo ); return 0; } -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To

floating point hex calc?

at various data types from a memory address, but unfortunately doesn't seem to be able to handling floating point the way I want. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills f

Re: OS X Games

ative compiler for Mac OS X is gcc. Objective C has been compiled with gcc for many years. Next tried to avoid releasing the sources to the objective c compiler but the Free Software Foundation wouldn't let them.) -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consu

USB Midi adapters for Linux?

r the midiman midisport or MOTU Fastlane. Does anyone know about these specifically? Midisport: http://www.m-audio.net/products/midiman/usbmidi.php FastLane: http://www.motu.com/english/hardware/fastlane_usb/body.html Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - E

Re: External serial modem advice ?

n my modem working. It's really sad to see that from a Hayes product. I have also used a Hayes 1200 (that I bought for $700!) and a Hayes 28.8, and they were both rock-solid. Each gave years of performance without a hint of trouble. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Softw

Re: Security: system reboot?

ecame root by setting their userid. It won't tell you if someone has cracked your system in such a way as to be able to reboot you without becoming root though. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL

Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?

any advice you can offer. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel for PowerPC (AppleMac)

ned actual system software, rather than just being used for booting, then you have an old world machine. You will need to know that for when you install. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making a DSL server

pleasant GUI interface to any configuration that can't be avoided. Does Linux handle DSL authentication? Can linux configure a DSL modem to handle authentication, without any use of Windows? Is there a way I can test this authentication with my office LAN? Thank you for your help. Mike --

Making a DSL server?

e? I expect that if I were an ISP and needed to service hundreds of connections, this wouldn't be a problem. Does anyone make DSL server hardware that serves one connection? What do I even look for. Thanks for any help you can offer. Regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc

Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

ux kernel with the MIT license instead of the GPL. If I distributed my work, even with source, I would be in violation of the kernel's GPL and ever kernel developer would have standing to sue me because I didn't license my addition to the kernel with the GPL. Regards, Mike -- Michael

Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

are other things people can do with their computers, things for which patent-free Free Software would spring up, thus assisting the market failure of the patents. That might not be the case if there were Free Software that implemented a patent. Respectfully, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawford

Making a custom Debian distro?

achine were rebooted, the startup script would relaunch this browser. Thanks for any tips you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNS

Re: killing the penguin (framebuffer)

ctor. But I suggest leaving the framebuffer, you can run at higher resolution and use nice fonts like the one from Sun. Just type reset to get rid of the penguin. Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECT

Using p2c to translate Delphi to C?

source to make it work, but I worry about causing some problem because I don't have a Delphi compiler. Is there a version of p2c available anywhere (it doesn't have to be a Debian package) that can translate Delphi to C? Or any kind of Delphi to C translator? Thank you for your help.

Re: nature of a boot loader

if=/dev/hda2 of=grubboot.dat bs=512 count=1 then copy grubboot.dat to your Windows partition and add it to your NT or Win2k boot menu. This probably works on XP too, but I don't have XP. Yours, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting. http://www.goi

Re: What [OT] stands for?

Either Ornithology or Ornithologist, depending on the context. It means the study of birds. Bird scientists are very active online. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

electronic CAD software?

's lots of commercial applications for this sort of thing, but most are very expensive. I don't need anything very elaborate at this point, I'd just like to learn back what I used to know about electronics. Thanks, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Develo

Is there a later mozilla?

mouse. I have to quit mozilla and relaunch it. Thanks, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Standards docs available in Debian?

rieve through apt. Are these indeed available with apt? It would be easier than hunting them down, and make it easier to find a place to put them. Ever Faithful, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilti

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files -> Movie file

t I get in the above google search gives Loki's SDL Motion JPEG Library: http://www.lokigames.com/development/smjpeg.php3 however I get the impression from the page that it's not ready for production use yet. There are also motion jpeg hardware cards available on the market. Michael D. Cr

Re: macintosh hardware

ither OS 9.1 or OS X. There are a few linux distros for the Mac. Besides debian, there is Yellow Dog and LinuxPPC, which I think are both ports from Red Hat, and there is the Apple-sponsored mkLinux which uses the Mach microkernel like OS X does. I used to run mkLinux on my Mac a few y

Help with CardBus hotplug on kernel 2.4?

I'm trying to figure out if an Elan Digital Systems P111 CardBus to PCI adapter works with my Mac 8500. I have read that sometimes PCMCIA adapters don't work because of problems with ones motherboard. http://www.elan-digital-systems.co.uk/adapter/p111.php As a test I'm trying to use an Adaptec

How to repair Mozilla settings?

I had mozilla open while I was running a kernel compile in my home directory, and my /home filesystem filled up. This seems to have screwed up my mozilla settings files. When I start mozilla, it's lost all my preferences and when I create a new message, I'm prompted to create an account. I c

Re: XMMS goes silent when moving windows

g DRI? Which kernel version are you using? Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: cross platform development

://www.goingware.com/zoolib/cookbook/ there is also some sample code. It's best these days to get it from CVS. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow.

Re: gui c/c++ programming

/2002/getting-started/ Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Programming books

7;ve written myself you might find helpful: http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/ http://www.goingware.com/tips/ http://www.byteswap.net/ Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for

Re: dual boot win2k and debian

boot off your Win2k installation CD and choose the repair option. Then install grub with just setup (hd0) and NOT setup (hd0,0) Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills f

Re: dual boot win2k and debian

or in memory, then copy that out to offset zero on the drive in one 512-byte chunk. So installing a new boot loader also writes a new partition table, which hopefully is identical to the original, but I can see how corruption might occur. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Sof

Re: dual boot win2k and debian

n say to grub to deal with that, but I don't know what it would be. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: FireWire harddrives

with firewire for that reason. I never cared much for IDE drives because they have to be mounted inside the cases and have such unpleasant cables. Even Ultra160 scsi can be external. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.

Re: (no subject)

drive to use as the "BIOS C: drive". This allows you to boot off of up to fifteen different hard drives, which each may have their own boot loader, so you don't have to touch the Windows Master Boot Record at all. Regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Exper

Gnucash with PostgreSQL?

ckBooks to Gnucash, but I'd really like to be storing my data in a robust database, as well as having the multiuser access that PostgreSQL storage offers. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [

DOS on non-x86 systems?

oftware. I've never used bochs so maybe it would suit me, I don't know. I would be happy if there were free software that could do what Gimpel Software's products do, but I don't think there is. gcc does a certain amount of lint-like diagnostics, but not nearly so exte

RE: Why mailing-lists? Usenet have been invented, I hear. ;-)

powerful and rich corporations can afford to hire marketing staff to pretend to be friendly to their customers while they relieve them of their pocketbooks. We have no such resources, instead it falls to each and every one of us to welcome new users into the fold - even if they are rude. Mike

Has Mozilla been hijacked?

ebian developers. I can't figure out what is making this happen. Sometimes it seems to me that the pages change to a new URL without me clicking anything. Thanks for any help you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://

RE: Woody on a 486/50

ISOLINUX. I learned much of this making a boot CD for my other laptop, a Compaq Presario 1800T. I wanted to resize the partitions using GNU parted, but the parted bootdisk wouldn't load my ramdisk floppy because I have an IDE floppy. I haven't found a way to load ramdisk flo

SSL chat site?

n of the text would be private, but likely that would be OK, if neither of us identified who he was. Unfortunately, sourceforge is one of the sites he is unable to access. I cannot fathom why. Yours, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting ht

repairing a ntfs partition with fdisk?

I'm going to have to reinitialize the filesystem and reinstall Linux. So the parted folks have a bit of work left to do. (Sorry I haven't had a chance to file bugs about this yet.) Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://w

Re: wget asp pages recursively?

ing it, but I don't see a way to do that. (I have been studying the man page.) I could hack on wget's source code if necessary. If I have to do that, maybe somebody could give me a tip on where to look in the source. Maybe I could contribute a useful patch. Thanks, Mike -- Mi

Re: print html without netscape

does this yet, but I think it would be straightforward to do it. You could even run this from a cron job to spit automatically generated HTML to the printer every hour or day. It looks like Gecko's home page is at: http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/ Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWar

wget asp pages recursively?

ly different page, and it should go recursively retrieve it. The --recursive option doesn't seem to help. Any help you can give me is appreciated. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to avoid meltdowns in the future

ure anything when you replace a kernel - no worry about forgetting to run lilo to replace your block list. If you have a /boot/grub/menu.lst entry for it already, you can just select it immediately when you boot. If you have no menu entry, you can use the Grub command line. Michael D. Cra

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

Running Linux looks pretty good. The edition available at http://www.chapters.ca/ is from 1999. The website seems to say there is an upcoming 2002 edition, but when I click the link on chapters' website it takes me to the wrong page. I couldn't find anything about a 2002 edition at O'Reilly'

Debian book for complete newbie?

one book, but I don't want to overwhelm him. Maybe I could get a book on Linux basics and another on Debian administration, but I think he would find it least intimidating if I could give him just one book to refer to. Thanks, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Softw

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills

codes if you want to recruit only in a limited region. For example, http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&q=resume+debian+experience+c%2B%2B+04854&btnG=Google+Search Finds my resume, thereby demonstrating I'm the only Debian C++ programmer in the town of Owl's Head, Main

Tuning for processor architecture

dynamically loads the best library for the processor at program startup. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter/ Tilting

Re: Mac OS X package

ries for a great many Free Software programs. You can download a 650 MB installer .iso image, or you can buy a CD from a vendor: http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/ Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PRO

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

p://www.boondocksnet.com/ai/twain/ has some of his writings on the matter. Try a google search for: "mark twain" war philippines And you'll find lots of pages about it. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www

Re: tomcat test

ion developed, do follow the advice of my article, and test it for valid HTML, as well as stress-testing it with a load generator. I wrote the article after I was hired to tune a web application that fell over the day it went live, because it couldn't handle even a moderate user load! Mike

Re: tomcat test

Maybe this will help: Use Validators and Load Generators to Test Your Web Applications http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/webapptesting/ Mike --- Hello, I just apt-get install tomcat but I don't find how to test it :-) Any idea ? -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWar

Re: Debian on an old system

different. You can see the phase tree stuff in: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/zoolib/zoolib/src_other/storage/ the slotstore is the older database format, which works well (and maybe is faster) but is vulnerable in the event of powerfailures or crashes. Best, Mike -- Michael

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