Re: Abusing CC:
On Thursday, July 11, 2002, at 09:10 PM, Thomas M. Albright wrote: You know, with all the stuff you guys are talking about, this remains the only list I'm on where I have to reply-to-all if I want my reply to go to the list. Every other list sets the replies to go to the list unless you specify otherwise. Why is that? Why do I need to reconfigure my client to be able to reply to the list? Here we go again! Erik * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Shell scripting moron
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:13 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: [please configure your mailer to wrap lines] Is that the customary setting? I thought that the burden of wrapping was upon the client, so that URLs don't get broken, etc. (I'm not challenging you, I really am curious.) Any sales guy who knows what you know about shell scripts impresses me. I know *very senior* engineers who don't know this stuff. Is that because they do it in Perl and therefore never use bash, or because they don't program? (I hope it's the latter b/c that bodes well for my current job hunt [server side programming]) Erik * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Shell scripting moron
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 12:44 PM, Bill Studley wrote:
timtowtdi ;-)
Hey, if you're going to say that, then you have to use this:
perl -e
'for($c=1;$c284;$c++){printhttp://foo.foo.org/foo$c.file\n;}'somefile.
txt
;)
Erik
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Re: Shell scripting moron
On Wednesday, July 17, 2002, at 01:05 PM, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Shell scripts are like a convenient glue or maybe like a handy power tool (think cordless screwdriver). There's some initial learning I see shell scripts come with a lot of software, and linux distributions, but it seems that when someone writes their -own- script/tool, they do it in Perl (at least I do). For instance, Perl's regexes are a lot easier and more precise (to me) than the bash's globbing system. Well, I guess that's not fair, I just know a little bit more Perl than I do bash. But what I'm wondering is if there really are a lot of Unix systems out there that don't come with Perl, to the extent that a script accompanying an application should be written in bash or csh over Perl. (Not counting the super-specialized systems like handhelds which might not have Perl for space reasons.) * Like for example, the people I know who know that they want to make a textual replacement in, oh, a thousand files -- they either write a custom C program to do this, or else they make the changes *by hand*. Duh... I cannot find it for the life of me, but somewhere in the [EMAIL PROTECTED] archives (that damnable WebObject interface is terrible and doesn't return the matches) is a quotation by Douglas Adams. He describes the joys of spending fifteen minutes writing a script that he could have done by hand in five minutes. Come on, we've all done it. Admit it... Erik * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: automated installation
On Wednesday, July 24, 2002, at 10:49 AM, Kenneth E. Lussier wrote: OK, before the My distro is better than yours starts again, I can save everyone the trouble: A bunch of people like Debian because it's more stable, apt-get is better than RPM, and it's very hands-on. A bunch of people like Red Hat because RPM is better than apt-get, and it's easier to install, and has simple management. A bunch of people like SuSE because it comes with everything under the sun, and has a good install and management system. A bunch of people like Mandrake because it's more desktop-friendly. Do we really need to re-hash this *AGAIN*??? Don't forget Slack!! There are still some people who like Slackware because Linux is fun. Erik * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: User education and the security apocalypse (was: Quickbooks)
On Tuesday, July 30, 2002, at 09:32 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is, ultimately, an education problem. I suspect that, until we have had a sufficient number of computer security disasters (by disaster, I do not mean website defaced, I mean widespread financial hardship and/or personal injury), your average user will regard computer security as something they want to avoid. I once read a sci-fi novell that used an apropos plot device. At one point, the world-wide computer network fails, causing a decade-long global depression. That is the sort of thing I am envisioning. I fully expect it to be an unpleasant time to be alive. Unfortunately, a disaster which could be just as great is being erected specifically because of these problems with users who do not (know enough to)? take security seriously. TCPA and Palladium take the burden of security out of the hands of the user: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html Erik * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
Re: Bridges of a different color.
On Friday, August 2, 2002, at 02:26 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I must now ask: IS there a bridge which connects Queens and Brooklyn? I could be mistaken, because I have only been to Long Island a few times, but IIRC Queens and Brooklyn are (for the most part) adjacent regions on the same chunk of rock. Erik -- Erik Price email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * To unsubscribe from this list, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the text 'unsubscribe gnhlug' in the message body. *
