Re: OT: How long has your Linux system been up ?

2001-11-16 Thread Tuomas Pellonpera
On 15 Nov 2001, John Hasler wrote: > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 15/11/2001 (16:53) : > > At one time, leaving a machine on overnight consumed less power than > > rebooting it (i.e., shutting down and powering back up wasted more > > resources than just leaving it on). Is that sti

RE: customizing Emacs

2001-10-19 Thread Tuomas Pellonpera
On Thu, 18 Oct 2001, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: > If you decide you must do this, others have pointed the answer to you. I just > want to say beware the path you are taking. > > Users of other editors will find editing your codce to be a royal nightmare. This last point didn't even cross my mind.

customizing Emacs

2001-10-18 Thread Tuomas Pellonpera
Hi! I am trying to customize my Emacs and its cc-mode. I prefer "bsd" style, AKA Allman style, to the "gnu" style. With the help of http://www.delorie.com/gnu/docs/emacs/cc-mode_22.html, I was able to change the style to "bsd." However, I noticed that in bsd style the indentation level seems to b

tasksel & selecting tasks

2001-07-25 Thread Tuomas Pellonpera
Hi! Last weekend I installed Debian 2.2r on my computer. As I want to do programming in C, C++ and Objective-C, when running tasksel, do I have to select BOTH "C Devel," "C++ Devel," AND "Objective-C Devel" tasks? (Sorry, but I probably don't remember the names correctly.) Much oblige, Tuoma