Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote:
Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in
Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ?
Why would you want to do this, when the command prompt is exactly what
Gary Hennigan wrote:
I think, in general, it's best to stick with 2.95 compilers for the
kernel.
This seems to be the common view of the kernel developers, but I've had
no trouble building 2.4.20 and .21 kernels using whatever gcc was
current in Debian unstable at the time (3.3 currently, and
David selby wrote:
I need to get the first two file names from a directory ...
My code
directory=$(ls -r --format=single-column)
works perfect and gives me ...
20030617Jun17.tar.gz 20030616Jun16.tar.gz 20030615Jun15.tar.gz
20030614Jun14.tar.gz 20030613Jun13.tar.gz
J.F.Gratton wrote:
I just bought an Olympus D520Z digital cam, and of course, it doesn't
come with anything Linux-related. To transfer pictures from the cam to
my PC I'd have to use Windows, which I'd like to avoid as much as
possible.
Since in Windows my camera appears as a removable
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
1) In $HOME/.bashrc (this could be in the profile somewhere; I don't
manage a large system), I set and export any environment variables I
need in my login shell.
2) In $HOME/.bash_profile, I have the following lines at the top of the
file:
# Get
Paul Johnson wrote:
Only by fluke. I already consider myself Canadian, because if you
discount votes at the vote at Champoeg made by convicted felons (who
weren't supposed to be voting), Oregon belongs to Canada by one vote
instead of vice-versa[1]. Nobody caught this until it was *way* too
Tim wrote:
Is it the case that unless there is individual support for a model built
into the kernel, it won't be recognised? From this do I deduce that I
will be unable to mount my Nikon Coolpix E4300? And thus will need to
buy a CF card reader?
Well, a quick web search turns up the
Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
When I originally created my disk partitions, I figured 3GB would be
plenty for my root partition, and gave the rest of my 30GB disk over to
my /home partition. However, my root now shows 90% usage, and I'd like
to expand it -- or move my /usr area off onto
stan wrote:
I'm installing on a sysem with a relativly small hard disk, so I'm trying
to avoid as many unecessary packages as posible.
I'm using gdm for my display maanger, and I went to dlete xdm in dselect,
and it toldthe that the x-window-system package depended on it. I can see
Corey Hickey wrote:
I'm writing a bash script wherein I have a list of variables of which I
want to return the values. A script representative of what I am trying
to do would be like this:
#!/bin/bash
FOO=bar
BLAH=blarg
for var in FOO BLAH ; do
echo $var = $$var #this part
Mike M wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/usr/src/newer/ss7box$ update-alternatives --display rsh
bash: update-alternatives: command not found
It's in /usr/sbin, which probably isn't in your PATH.
Craig
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Lukas Ruf wrote:
Dear all,
being owner of a Pentax OPTIO for quite a while I would like to access
the data on my camera from Linux. *The manufacturer is not interested
in supporting me.* So, I contact you -- maybe anyone managed to
attach this nice camera to a Linux box.
I am running
Lukas Ruf wrote:
A personal hint: Do not buy a camera not explicitely supported by
Linux (as I did) -- you can avoid a lot of frustration!
My preference is to use a media reader (compact flash, smart media, or
whatever is needed) that works with Linux. That way, I can choose a
camera based
Mike M wrote:
On my Debian 3 sparc machine there is no rshd running and there is no shell
or login entry in /etc/inetd.conf. There is an sshd process. I am still
able to rsh in from a Debian 3 i386 machine. From a RH6.1 I get connection
refused when I try to rsh to the Debian 3 sparc
Mark L. Kahnt wrote:
Well, it wasn't only Memorex media that became coasters, but thx for the
heads up. (Looking over shoulder and seeing 48 blanks still on that 50
CD Memorex spindle, and muttering various phrases inappropriate for this
mailing list)
For future reference, I've had good
sean finney wrote:
On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 09:02:26PM -0800, Terry Milnes wrote:
Is it possible to use KNOPPIX as a installer for Debian? Once I have KNOPPIX
installed then add Debians stable apt repository to add the other software that I
want?
you can do it, but you'll probably
sean finney wrote:
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 09:56:05AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
(from a knoppix boot up)
# fdisk /dev/hda
# mkdir /target
(mount all the hard drive partitions into /target, /target/usr, etc...)
# debootstrap sid /target
(you can do woody instead of sid if you
Jeremiah C. Foster wrote:
I am having trouble resizing windows in Gnome. In KDE one can put the
cursor over the right hand border of a particular window frame and then
resize it. This is unavaiable in Gnome as far as I can see.
This is not a Gnome vs. KDE thing; it just has to do with your
Randall Hansen wrote:
I'm trying to install the sylpheed-doc package, but it conflicts with
the slypheed package (see below). This strikes me as odd, but I don't
know enough about debs to debug it.
I installed the doc package, copied the files, then installed Sylpheed
again (which removed
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It may resolve itself when sylpheed moves into testing, but it's still a
bug.
Installing a doc package shouldn't cause removal of a binary package,
even if the binary package an older version.
Does Debian policy say anything about this? If not, then the maintainer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm saying there are probably several ways to resolve this, but throwing
out a binary (without an available upgrade) because the doc package for
a later release is available is not one of them.
Well, the normal apt behavior when you request to install a particular
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I understand that apt doesn't know anything about packages other than
what it't told about dependencies and conflicts.
Let's get to the big picture -- is the doc there to support the use of
the binary, or is the binary there to support the use of the doc?
The doc
Didier Caamano wrote:
How can I block a user to his home directory? so he can have access to his
home directory but no other directory on the system.
A typical user account won't have write access to anything outside its
home directory, unless you have world-writeable directories somewhere.
Alan Shutko wrote:
Will Yardley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Some programs use VISUAL, some EDITOR, some both... the distinction
between them has long been lost.
Perhaps, but EDITOR is supposed to be your line editor, and VISUAL your
full screen
nate wrote:
Brian Victor said:
I backed up my debian installation with the following:
tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat linuxbackup.tar.bz2'
may I ask why? I have never heard of someone attempting such
a task in that manor. I would say that the above is the source of
the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
not all Unix or
Unix-like (attention SCO) systems use or would use bash.
Nor do they all have csh. But they all have sh. If you want
least-common-denominator portability, use sh and stock Unix commands.
I have no faith in the quality of the work of developers who
John Hasler wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh scripting,
OpenOffice.org.
Thanks for the warning. I had been considering installing it.
I'm not sure it's required for installation. I don't have csh or tcsh
installed, yet the openoffice
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
What am I missing?
# apt-cache policy libc6
libc6:
Installed: 2.2.5-14.3
Candidate: 2.2.5-14.3
Version Table:
*** 2.2.5-14.3 0
500 ftp://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages
500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
500
Kevin Coyner wrote:
I'm running a strictly testing box, and just a bit ago I did an apt-get
update and apt-get dist upgrade, and before I knew it, the system
was downloading 89 upgrades, one of which was libc6 ver 2.3.1-14.
But when I go to packages.debian.org, and look at the libc6 debs in
Dave Selby wrote:
When an application sends mail to ''root where does it go ? because I cant
find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail.
Is it supposed to be posted to ...
/var/mail/ ?
By default, mail ends up in /var/spool/mail/(username), but typically
mail to
Sebastiaan wrote:
Yes: rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*
You usually update packages only, or install it once. You won't harm your
system if you remove the old packages. If it is needed, the packages will
be downloaded again.
Not if it isn't in the repository anymore. It's nice to be able to
Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Bob Proulx wrote:
There is no sensitive files installed in /root. There really is no
reason not to make it 755. Everyone knows what is in /root. It is
not a secret.
oh? what do i have in my /root directories then?
If your implication is
karrottop wrote:
Ok, I have been having a horrible time getting java to behave, I
thought I followed the directions explicitly but I guess I messed
something up somewhere. Here is what I did:
First I unpacked everything in /usr/java/ and added this to a line in my
/etc/profile
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
Over the past few weeks, I've been recieving several pieces of mail
directly to my inbox because users are Bcc'ing (for what ever reason)
the debian-user list. I would like to ask those people to please NOT bcc
the list.
Bcc'ing a mailing list seems sort of odd,
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
Still, there is no reason to BCC the list. Not everyone has the ability
to customize what their filters filter on (I'm sure there are more then
a few Evolution and OE users on the list).
Evolution can't filter on arbitrary headers? Really? I wasn't terribly
impressed
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
Actually, that Reply-to-list functionality can be implimented on the
list itself. Why list-masters don't do this is so far beyond me that I
don't even bother asking anymore
It's because that's the wrong place for it. If you put a Reply-To:
list header in, then it's a
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
Also sprach Craig Dickson (Tue 25 Feb 02003 at 01:30:32PM -0800):
Here are the fruits of two minutes of research using only dpkg -p, which
you could just as easily have done yourself:
Of course, I have already done this [...]
Then you could have at least edited
Paul Johnson wrote:
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans
associate animation strictly with children?
Two words: Walt Disney
Not too valid when I saw a copy of Disney's Princess Mononoke in
Mike Dresser wrote:
Huh? Princess Mononoke isn't a Disney movie at all; it's a Japanese
anime by Hayao Miyazaki, distributed in the USA by Miramax (at least,
their logo is on the DVD, and Disney's isn't).
Guess who owns Miramax?
Disney owns lots of things. Is every cop show on ABC a
nate wrote:
deFreese, Barry said:
OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered
before but it's been buggin' me for a while.
So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans
or is it just coincidence?
no coincidence. though i've never
deFreese, Barry wrote:
From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
I think when we go to 4.0 they should be named after characters from
Tremmors...
Or they could stay on theme and go with Monsters Inc. :-)
The thing about Toy Story is that it had a pretty big ensemble of well-
nate wrote:
Jonathan Matthews said:
Here's a transcript from a shell session.
jaycee@bigdaddy:~$ echo $PATH
~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
jaycee@bigdaddy:~$ ls ~/bin
just a guess but I say your problem is there. The shell did not
expand the ~ when
Roberto Sanchez wrote:
Why is it that when I switch to a text console with Ctl-Alt-F1 that
bash does not read in my ~/.bashrc?
When I pull up a terminal in X it works fine (all my command aliases are
there). And when I log in to a text console, if explicitly type in the
command 'bash'
David Pastern wrote:
Is your son obsessed with Lunix?
BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker
operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos
Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. [...]
That was a lovely bit of satire, wasn't
Dai Yuwen wrote:
I've a 64M USB flash disk. I searched the internet, and did the following
steps:
1. plug USB disk into my PC
2. modprobe sg usb-storage
Then I tried to mount it:
mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
But a messages said `/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device'.
Then I checked
martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Robert L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.02.18.1725 +0100]:
I'm wondering if anyone knows a good way with mutt to tag a message and
then pipe it into spamassassin -r...
view the message, then enter
| spamassassin -r enter
Or better still, set up a
Kirk Strauser wrote:
In a nutshell, ALSA still starts without any error messages, but any
sound-playing program falls into an endless cycle of 100% CPU usage as soon
as playback starts. However, if I set `startosslayer=true' in
/etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf and restart via /etc/init.d/alsa, I can
Vineet Kumar wrote:
* Caoilte O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 03:46]:
Hey All,
I have a hankering for a bbc emulator, but was a bit shocked to just
realise that there isn't one in sid.
] 2 definitions found
]
] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02) [foldoc]:
martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach Nicos Gollan [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]:
(For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!)
For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch to
a better OS.
Such as? This sort of unkillable process can exist on
[CC'd to the Debian NoteEdit maintainer]
Norbert Preining wrote in debian-user:
Hat schon irgendwer irgendwo noteedit (2.0.19) für kde3 gesehen?
I'm guessing this means, When will sid have NoteEdit rebuilt for
KDE 3?
That's a good question. Is the maintainer still active and still
interested
DvB wrote:
Kind of hard when your ISP is Yahoo! and you're not willing to pay for
their pop server :-)
apt-get install fetchyahoo
I've been using it for months in a cron job. Works quite nicely.
Craig
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know this is off-topic but since joining this list I'm getting
increasing levels of Spam. I've heard that using SpamCop.net to process and
report spam can help. Is this true? Is it worth bothering with?
SpamCop is a rather arbitrarily-run service that has
Steve Lamb wrote:
On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:28:53 -0800 (PST)
Jack Pistachio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Encoding to either ogg or mp3 is lossy, but when converting
back to wav the information in the mp3 or ogg audio should
be retained completely.
Erm, no. These two statements are
James Hughes wrote:
Since you're talking about audio degradation issues, one thing I've
always wondered is how much and what kind of loss is there (if any)
when unencoding from [.ogg]|[.mp3] to .wav?
I would think none. Lossage happens during encoding, not decoding, as
long as you're
Jack Pistachio wrote:
Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg vorbis
audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the info in
the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of course.
Such a program would essentially just be an ogg vorbis decoder piped to
an mp3 encoder,
Bart J. Himel wrote:
I know this has probably already been answered, but I can't find it
anywhere. I installed Debian Unstable on my computer a couple of weeks ago,
but instead of installing Gnome2 it installed 1.4. When I try to use apt to
install nautilus 2, it tells me it needs to remove
Jack Pistachio wrote:
Well, I'm actually not sure I need to. I'm making a cd for
my brother to use on his mp3 capable DVD player. I assumed
that the player wouldn't be able to handle ogg encoded
files. Perhaps I'm wrong?
Most likely you're right. However, one thing you should be aware of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I believe the fastest way to get bipartisan support for a manned
mission to Mars is to convince the politicians that the mainland
Chinese are going to get there first.
Thus giving new meaning to the idea that Mars is red...
Craig
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Colin Watson wrote:
They have libfam in common too, and that's having problems with the g++
3.2 transition: GNOME 2 uses the g++ 3.2 version (libfam0c102) while KDE
2 uses (and needs to continue using) the g++ 2.95 version (libfam0), and
the two need to conflict. I'm not sure what's being
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
The gcc 3.2 transition (which was announced on debian-devel-announce) isn't
complete yet; KDE2 apparently hasn't been rebuilt against the updated
libraries yet or not all of its dependencies have made the transition
themselves.
and is anyone working on it?
Kirk Strauser wrote:
At 2003-02-05T16:07:12Z, Craig Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Since it would have an mp3 encoder, it couldn't possibly be under GPL,
since mp3 encoders are patent-encumbered.
Not true. LAME is released under the GPL - it was written from scratch:
http
Travis Crump wrote:
Colin Watson wrote:
That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from
releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not
themselves bound by the terms of the licence,
Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence?
Because they
Travis Crump wrote:
By that logic, what is to stop some company from releasing their product
under the 'GPL' and then never releasing the source and requiring
per-seat 'royalties' for the use of their patented IP?
That's nonsensical, because source is what you release under GPL. If
they
(sigh) We're drifting farther and farther off-topic here, but what the
hell...
Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
| How the US can justify spending so much money on Space while 33 million US
| citizens live below the poverty line amazes me.
Actually, the answer to this one is quite simple. There are
Paul E Condon wrote:
Suppose, all human life were to perish. In that case would the value of
pi (3.14...) perish as well?
The value of pi is dependent on the geometrical concept of a circle
having a radius and a circumference. These are human-created ideas,
not a priori facts existing in the
Ron Johnson wrote:
He discovered (take the cover off of) the mathematical model that
rules the universe.
The mathematical model does not rule the universe. The model is an
attempt to approximate the observed behavior of the universe in a way
that allows us to predict future events. Why the
martin f krafft wrote:
also sprach karrottop [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.02.03.2003 +0100]:
Are republican bashers really so bored that they have to post crap like
this in a debian mail list. Download some friends and tell them your
propoganda. Try opening up a live journal, then you can
Pigeon wrote:
On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:22:44AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
Rockets don't stay up on faith.
Oh yes they do... see Matthew 17:20
Faith moves mountains? Okay. Show me. Just use faith, no explosives or
earth-moving equipment. You can't? What a surprise.
Craig
--
To
Daniel Barclay wrote:
Kenward Vaughan wrote:
...
In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be
_teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less,
because passing civilization along from one generation to the next
ought to be the highest
Victor Torrico wrote:
Running KDE3 woody debian packages downloaded from kde site. Works great.
In order to run nautilus and yelp in gnome2 I need libgnomevfs2-0 and
libgnomevfs2-common which depends on libfam0c102.
When I execute apt-get install libfam0c102 libgnomevfs2-0
Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
hmm, space shuttle running redhat. that explains everything.
Even if it had been running Windows XP, a remark like that is in
outrageously poor taste.
Craig
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behapy wrote:
kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html
kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi
kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi
=
www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html
kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi
kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi
I'd like to remove the first words everyliles ~+-
sed -e
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
The testing distribution has *exactly* the same problem, as the
unstable libc is different from the testing libc.
That's true currently, but it should be temporary, right? (Of course,
it's been temporary for some time now, but at least in theory, things
are supposed to
Steve Juranich wrote:
I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock
sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing
this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and I see that
the main offenders are X (65 Mb, totally expected), Galeon
Mark Ferlatte wrote:
Heh. If I weren't lazy, I'd throw away most of the GNOME stuff... I
don't use any of it anymore, and sawfish is unfortunately buggy.
Really? I used sawfish back in the Gnome 1.x days and was happy with it.
Maybe one of these days I'll get around to trying Metacity... I
John Griffiths wrote:
Whoops,
missed a step converting a box to ext3
procedure i was using was:
1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda*
for all ext2 file systems.
2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto
3) #touch/forcefsck
4) reboot
only i forgot step 2
it
Robert Land wrote:
An example from the phone list:
1248 Kate 634
1548 Kerry 534
To match a line that starts with a 1,
has some digits, at least one space
and a name that starts with a K we can write:
grep '^1[0-9]\{1,\} \{1,\}K' phonelist.txt
or use * and repeat
Brian Nelson wrote:
Richard Beri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does anyone else find AA fonts annoying? I hate them, sure they look
smoother, but I find that it just seems blurred and they are hard to
read. Makes me feel something is wrong with my eyes. It hurts.
Amen, brother. I've
Brian Nelson wrote:
I find that, for well-designed fonts, the jaggies are not an issue.
Fonts specifically designed for pixel-oriented displays (such as
Microsoft's Georgia and Verdana) certainly are much more readable on
screen at small sizes than traditional print fonts such as Times or
Narins, Josh wrote:
From: Craig Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 4:51 PM
[snip]
Display resolution has, of course, been increasing gradually for years.
Eventually we'll reach a point where the jaggies recede into
near-invisibility. At that point
Jody Grafals wrote:
Dose anyone know how to replace a line break with a space using sed or
awk?
for example
cat
dog
goat
duck
would become
cat dog goat duck
This should do, and it's simpler than either sed or awk:
tr '\n' ' '
Craig
msg24097/pgp0.pgp
Kirk Strauser wrote:
At 2003-01-13T16:49:26Z, Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Mon, Jan 13, 2003 at 09:05:39AM -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote:
and writing your zone files (which you'll have to do regardless of what
DNS software you which to use).
Technically this
csj wrote:
What's the real deal on the gcc-2.95 to gcc-3.2 transition? I've
read enough FUD I can't distinguish the facts. Particularly, what
programs or libraries are actually affected? What havoc would
result from compiling the kernel or X with 3.2 on a largely
Testing system (since
Paul Johnson wrote:
Running sid, why has logcheck started producing this?
[snip]
/usr/sbin/logcheck: line 107: /bin/egrep: No such file or directory
Because with the newest grep package, egrep is now in /usr/bin. It's
logcheck's fault for hard-coding the path. I understand this will be
fixed
John Gedeon wrote:
I have Debian installed on my home computer (3.0 stable version) I want
to use it to remote login in to work, however the people in charge of the
remote logins (IT) at my work say that Debian has lots of security holes. I
was wondering what security holes Debian may
Frank Copeland wrote:
AIUI, the problem with ext3 filesystems applies only if they are in
journal mode, which isn't the default. I've also seen suggestions that
the bug exists in several versions of the 2.4.x kernels prior to
2.4.20.
You mean data journaling mode -- ext3 is always
p wrote:
for my sd/mmc (secure digital/multimedia
card), sandisk works flawlessly, mounted
as /dev/sda1.
Some of SanDisk's USB card readers are USB-storage compatible, and some
aren't -- and of those that aren't, one or two have custom drivers
available in the Linux kernel, but most don't.
Lars Jensen wrote:
Which brand name portable USB memory works well with linux? I'm thinking
about getting something like a SanDisk Cruzer or an ImageMate w/Secure
Digital media, but I'm not sure if it will work.
There are reports of the Cruzer working with SuSE 8.0, so apparently it
can be
Eric G. Miller wrote:
On Sat, Dec 14, 2002 at 08:46:43PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in practice?
[snip]
People use tasks in Ada on a regular basis. So, it must be usable,
neigh?
By the same reasoning, concurrency support in C and C++ must
Rob Weir wrote:
Just coming off a concurrent systems course at my Uni: Ada was created
for this sort of thing; i.e. it has built in support for concurrency,
rendezvouses (is that a plural already), monitors, etc, etc at the
language level.
Yes, but the question is, how usable is it in
Kirk Strauser wrote:
At 2002-12-13T14:52:51Z, Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes. So is Ocaml and I think Scheme also.
Since Scheme is a Lisp derivative, yes, it's also a functional language.
Scheme is a functional language; but I hesitate to call Lisp
functional. In fact,
martin f krafft wrote:
while C is an imperative language, Erlang is a functional or
procedural language. (correct me if i am wrong, folks). it has no
loops, assignments, variables or whatever.
Since Lisp is very similar, I was wondering if it's also functional...
You're mangling things
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote:
imperative and procedural are the same thing,
Well, not _exactly_. Procedural is a subset of imperative. One could
trivially imagine an imperative language with no subroutines, which
could hardly be called procedural. In fact, MS-DOS's shell is such a
language
Craig Dickson wrote:
Essentially, the definition of a functional language is that it is
based on lambda calculus or combinators, and
Oops, forgot to go back and finish that sentence. Sorry!
Functional languages are basically sugared lambda calculus or combinator
logic. The sugar generally
Eric G. Miller wrote:
Ada tasks provide concurrency. I'm not enough of a language expert
to discuss the merits, but folks seem to use them...
I'm not an Ada expert either, but the fact that people use it isn't
much of an argument. People do multi-threaded programming in C, too,
and ANSI C has
Pete Harlan wrote:
Lisp and Scheme are not functional languages. A functional languge is
one that doesn't support mutating data; Lisp and Scheme very much do.
I certainly agree about Lisp. With Scheme, it's a bit trickier,
especially since the history is that Scheme was first invented to be a
hiranokazunari wrote:
I understand /bin represents binaries,
/dev represents devices,
/lib represents libraries,
/mnt represents mount,
/opt represents option(?) etc...
But I am wondering why the host-specific
configuration partition is called /etc?
If you go back to very early versions
Michael Olds wrote:
This is a small sample from my access log. Can someone explain to me why
this person
It's not a person.
would repeatedly attempt access to my computer using the same IP
and the same requests over and over? This isn't to the point of being a DOS
attack; can't they see I
Michael Olds wrote:
This same guy is at it again today. The stupid thing to my mind is using the
same IP. How exactly do I go about reporting him to his ISP? Anyone
know...or should I just let him be?
Run the 'host' command on the IP address, then write to abuse@ the
domain. Might also do a
Andy wrote:
Kind of a newbie question here.
I really want to try Mozilla Calendar but I need Mozilla 1.2 first.
My apt-get tells me that my Mozilla 1.0.0 is already the newest
version. 4 questions please:
Should I just download and compile Mozilla 1.2 on my own?
I would like to stick
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