Re: Calendar...

2001-01-29 Thread Jerry Kubeck
Our thanks to you Bob for such a speedy (fix) recovery upon your return and a Big thank you for just maintaining the calendar for us. Jerry My apologies to all. The calendar thought every year was 2000. This has been fixed. Bob Knowles === If Bill Gates had a

Is h/w to blame? (was: Re: MS is down again?)

2001-01-29 Thread Bruce McCulley
Benjamin Scott said: On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: Hey, they never said there were any apps running! FWIW, we once setup an NT 4.0 SP6 server at a customer site, but due to a SNAFU on their part, couldn't hook it up to the LAN for a couple weeks. All it was running

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Sun, 28 Jan 2001, Joshua S. Freeman wrote: I thought it would be cool if there was a GUI frontend for sed and for awk.. if for no other reason to gain a better understanding of just what these two tools are for and how they are used... I recommend the dead-tree front-end entitled "sed

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are countless other uses for both sed #!/bin/sed -f # dc.sed - an arbitrary precision RPN calculator # Created by Greg Ubben [EMAIL PROTECTED] early 1995, late 1996 # # Dedicated to MAC's memory of the IBM 1620 ("CADET") computer. # @(#)GSU dc.sed 1.0

RE: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Tilly, Lawrence
IMHO, a GUI for sed or awk would actually HINDER learning these tools (GUIs are usually designed to let you use something without actually understanding it). The best way to learn them is to have an actual purpose for them, so that you can put it into context. In my first few years playing with

Re: Is h/w to blame?

2001-01-29 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20
Bruce McCulley wrote: FWIW, I've seen different o/s architectures respond differently to h/w faults, so not crashing under Linux would not prove the h/w is clean. Incidentally, that raises an interesting question for discussion, is it better for the o/s to be fault-tolerant and run through

Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Bill Freeman
Kenneth E. Lussier writes: Does anyone know of a GUI frontend for procmail? ... Try smearing jam on the keyboard, that should make it gooey. But, all seriousness aside, while we're at it, how about a GUI frontend for Windows?

It's the amazing...

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Scott
VOICE TYPE="salesman/sideshow" Step right up, step right up, for the greatest spectacle this side of the Mississippi river. The amazing -- Astounding! -- Incredible! -- disappearing -- reappearing -- DSL company! /VOICE Vitts says they're back in business this week.

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Jeffry Smith wrote: Some basic tools that would enable them to make simple choices, AND SHOW THEM THE COMMAND LINE EQUIVILENT (i.e. learn by example) would be extremely useful. Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard (okay, no "maybe" about it), but every time I've seen such a

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Derek Martin
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There are countless other uses for both sed #!/bin/sed -f # dc.sed - an arbitrary precision RPN calculator # Created by Greg Ubben [EMAIL PROTECTED] early 1995, late 1996 Yeah, but WHY? Obviously Greg had too

RE: It's the amazing...

2001-01-29 Thread Tony Lambiris
I feel sorry for the businesses who rely alot on reselling their DSL. I know I was considering to purchase DSL from them (before they announced they were closing up shop), but now I'm having second thoughts about the whole situation. I'm sure I'm not the only one. [+] Tony Lambiris [[EMAIL

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Maybe I'm just a cynical bastard (okay, no "maybe" about it), but every time I've seen such a front-end for anything, I see two groups of people: Those who do not want to learn the underlying tool and just want the GUI, and those who know that you cannot program

RE: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Lawrence.Tilly
A good example of Ben's point might be M$ Access. It offers a pretty series of boxes you can connect w/ lines to choose items out of column A to match with column B while avoiding column C, etc etc. When you're all done it creates an ugly SQL statement behind the scenes to do the work.

It's the amazing...

2001-01-29 Thread Bayard Coolidge USG ZKO3-3/S20
Benjamin Scott [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Vitts says they're back in business this week. It was widely reported this morning - and I heard a blurb on the news on WZID(FM) - that apparently they were able to secure some last-minute funding from an unnamed source that will permit them to stay in

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Mark Komarinski
When people ask me about writing for Access vs. MySQL, my best comparison is that MS products are focus on how things look on the screen versus how they act. MySQL (and most other UNIX tools) are focus on how things work and act. A UI is left as an exercise to the reader, or is at least the

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, but WHY? Obviously Greg had too much time on his hands... Because it was there. Anyways, here's my contribution to this type of zaniness. --kevin PS I wrote this because I *didn't* have enough time on my hands. #!/usr/bin/perl # Author: Kevin D. Clark

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Kevin D. Clark
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Anyways, here's my contribution to this type of zaniness. Geez, put enough disclaimers on that? I probably should mention that, now that I'm older and wiser, I probably wouldn't have implemented that hack in that way

Re: Procmail front-end?

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Kevin D. Clark wrote: Geez, put enough disclaimers on that? I probably should mention that, now that I'm older and wiser, I probably wouldn't have implemented that hack in that way anymore. Hey, don't get me wrong, I'm not commenting on the quality of the code (one

Re: uppercase?

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote: thanks to Microsoft and their wisdom i now have ~200 files that used to be all lowercase...now their all caps. their web sites so now everything is broken. does anyone know or a util or a script that will let me make all the filenames lowercase?

Re: quota memory HOG?

2001-01-29 Thread Benjamin Scott
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Kurth Bemis wrote: has anyone running debian 2.2r2 noticed anything funny with quota support? I just installed 2.2r2 on a box and then compiled the 2.2.18 kernel. after bootup my used RAM is up to ~85 megs! is this a "feature" of quotas? does anyone have any ideas