Re: kudos to authors of kompose

2006-04-04 Thread Luis R Finotti
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Luis Finotti wrote: Thanks for the info. It seems nice and it's a good idea, but it made the desktop switching a bit too slow... (...) Only when kompose is launched for the first time, it takes some time create the screenshots. The second time onwards it is very

Re: kudos to authors of kompose

2006-04-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Luis Finotti wrote: Hi, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I just discovered this great little program called kompose which is a task manager for KDE. It just made my day! If you are a KDE user and usually open a lot of windows while working, kompose is just for you. Good bye Alt+Tab, Welcome Win+Tab

Re: kudos to authors of kompose

2006-04-04 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I just discovered this great little program called kompose which is a task manager for KDE. It just made my day! If you are a KDE user and usually open a lot of windows while working, kompose is just for you. Good bye Alt+Tab, Welcome Win+Tab :-) hth raju Th

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-17 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:24:51PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > and your L*.gz files are for your own "time stamping" > and status checking ? Something like that. It's just a flat list of the *.deb files in the mirror /a/l, that's why it's called L*.gz ("list"). It's so I can tell what

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya william On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > I looked at apt-move but I didn't want a http based mirror. the local mirror can be anywhere but okay on not using httpd/ftp > /a "this is all related to apt" okay on the directory subtreee ... make it according to the scripts > I c

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at > > okay... i'm confused ... what does each subdir dor ?? Facilitates rollback, similar to snapshot.debian.net. It goes like this: apt-get update aptitude upgrade /a/u <--- s

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:08:25PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > /var/lib/cache into /home/httpd/local-deb-mirror ? I looked at apt-move but I didn't want a http based mirror. I access my via file protocol. My scripts are a hack. I lik

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Alvin Oga
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote: > I've posted these a bunch: > > /a/l/*.deb - The set of .debs which is the "current" plus "new" >dpkg-scanpackages is run on this > /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at >HH:NN:SS on MM/DD/20YY

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:52:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > By its very operation it writes only the latest, yes? Yes, that's a built-in feature that comes for free, and is the real magic. The rest is incidental. > > Then what exactly are those last 2 steps you mention? I've posted these

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a s

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a s

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread William Ballard
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system. > I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size. I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed. I have a script that moves /v

Re: Kudos to BootCD!

2004-12-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
William Ballard wrote: Boy, BootCD is one superslick package. Used it with a debootstrap chroot. It just works, seriously. I might finally be able to give my friends and family a LiveCD that will entice them to switch. A Kernel that works just for them, Fluxbox, Firefox, MPlayer, Java, OpenO

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-25 Thread Britton
On Wed, 24 Oct 2001, Matthew Garman wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:23:03PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > > > I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots > > > of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What > > > has been very impressive is tha

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-25 Thread DvB
See todays LWN weekly edition for more on emacs features (http://www.lwn.net). I found the article quite informative (like most of LWN's stuff).

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Alan Shutko
Matthew Garman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Does the new version of GNU emacs support *console mode* syntax > highlighting (I guess it's called "font locking" in emacs-speak). Yes. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! While having never invented a sin, I'm trying to pe

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Matthew Garman
On Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:23:03PM -0500, Josh McKinney wrote: > > I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots > > of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What > > has been very impressive is that things just work. On previous major > > upgrades (1

Re: [slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Josh McKinney
On approximately Wed, Oct 24, 2001 at 01:28:09AM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > > I'm a fairly experienced user (since 1988) and I'm used to doing lots > of customization, but I've not noticed anything annoying so far. What > has been very impressive is that things just work. On previous major > up

[slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-24 Thread Jim McCloskey
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:36:48PM -0500, DvB wrote: > This may be taking this thread a little OT, but I have to ask... I've > heard (on Slashdot, to be exact) that Emacs21 has some "new user > oriented" features that can be annoying for more experienced users. What > are they? (assuming there rea

[slightly OT] Emacs21 new features (was Re: kudos)

2001-10-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Oct 23, 2001 at 07:36:48PM -0500, DvB wrote: > This may be taking this thread a little OT, but I have to ask... I've > heard (on Slashdot, to be exact) that Emacs21 has some "new user > oriented" features that can be annoying for more experienced users. What > are they? (assuming there real

Re: kudos

2001-10-23 Thread DvB
Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And no bugs that affected me -- I am impressed! Of course, upstream > work is also great - I use so many .el files that I expected a few of > them to break, but everything is fine! > This may be taking this thread a little OT, but I have to ask..

Re: kudos

2001-10-23 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
:: S Salman Ahmed writes: > Let me second that. Being an XEmacs user, I wanted to see what Emacs21 > was all about, and was planning to install from sources. I was > pleasantly surprised to see Emacs21 made it into sid so quickly. > Good job!! And no bugs that affected me -- I am impressed! Of c