for that.
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On Mar 6, 2004, at 11:55 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Install XEmacs, then run the tutorial. Use the tutorial for even
just 15 minutes. This isn't reading documentation, it's actually
using (X)Emacs to edit the actual tutorial you're going through.
The tutorial explains the basics of using
On Feb 8, 2004, at 9:31 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Java requires even more verbosity.
This is my general impression of Java. Is the verbosity a good thing
or not? It seems verbose to the point of redundancy. Is this
helpful, or does it just get in the way?
The answer to that is that it's a
On Feb 5, 2004, at 10:47 AM, Paul Lussier wrote:
I'm not overly interesting in shell, perl, tcl, or other language
solutions
to this problem, since I already know how to write this in the first 3.
(a java or c implementation might be interesting :)
Here's the Java implementation. You can see
On Thursday, February 05, 2004, at 06:14PM, Cole Tuininga [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This is a very subtle one. The point is that in a method definition
within an object, you never want to assign a mutable type (namely, the
empty list) to an argument. Weird behavior will occur.
I totally
Paul Lussier wrote:
I'd like to see/hear others ideas on how to write this same script.
I'm most interested in improvements or commentary on why what I did
is either right, wrong, interesting, stupid, etc.
Below you'll find my stab at it -- it might not be correct, or even run, b/c I haven't
Paul Lussier wrote:
I'd like to see/hear others ideas on how to write this same script.
I'm most interested in improvements or commentary on why what I did
is either right, wrong, interesting, stupid, etc.
Below you'll find my stab at it -- it might not be correct, or even run, b/c I haven't
Paul Lussier wrote:
I'd like to see/hear others ideas on how to write this same script.
I'm most interested in improvements or commentary on why what I did
is either right, wrong, interesting, stupid, etc.
Below you'll find my stab at it -- it might not be correct, or even run, b/c I haven't
On Dec 25, 2003, at 2:54 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not sure where else it can be found, but I know
that SoftPro carries it, at least in the Burlington store.
Note however that they moved to Waltham. Not much farther, but not
quite as convenient to stop by on the way to or from Boston.
On Dec 17, 2003, at 11:16 AM, Brian Chabot wrote:
Hey, all...
I just noticed something interesting in my spam filter and was curious
if anyone here might know what it's from.
I have several emails that seem to be missing rather important header
info... like subjects... and the *body*.
What
On Nov 24, 2003, at 10:10 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hello world,
Does anybody have any knowledge on personal database software for
Linux?
I just-now made up the term personal database software, although I
would
be astounded if I'm the first person to do so. I'm thinking about
On Nov 7, 2003, at 12:53 PM, Charlie Farinella wrote:
I've found godaddy.com to be inexpensive, AND... they even offer
knowledgeable support. Twice, I've done Dumb Things(tm), and their
tech
support showed me the way to enlightenment both times. And I've
never had
a glitch with them yet. I
On Thursday, November 06, 2003, at 03:10PM, Greg Rundlett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyway, you don't even need to know where the temp location is. You
should use the $_FILES super global to access and manipulate the
uploaded file.
Greg's right.
Also, you can set the MAX_FILE_SIZE in a
On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 10:04 AM, Cole Tuininga wrote:
I would have imagined that with css (using inline style sheet defs), I
would simply do this:
div style=text-align: center
table
.
.
/table
/div
This works just ducky in Netscape 4.7x, but not my current version
mike ledoux wrote:
Apparently, this guy wasn't (just) doing this to collect email
addresses, he really thought he'd be able to obtain the parts he
needed for his time machine:
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,60141,00.html
He was a traditional spammer too.
I don't sympathize with the
Tom Fogal wrote:
I'm just interested in hearing about whether one is more appropriate
than the other in some contexts. Thanks.
Generally, I would use #defines for anything but function parameters.
Passing things as a constant reference (const type val) is a good way to
avoid passing a large
Tom Fogal wrote:
The bit about memory addresses instead of some large value is entirely correct.
Practically however, this will only be better when passing a value larger than
the register size of the architecture you are on. For instance, on ix86 linux,
all pointers are 32-bit integers. Thus
When I want to define a constant value in Java, such as a magic number,
I usually use public static final:
public static final int NUMBER_OF_UNITS = 8;
However, what is the convention in C? There seem to be two fine ways
of doing it -- using the preprocessor, or the const keyword:
On Thursday, August 14, 2003, at 12:54 PM, Michael Costolo wrote:
Linux in the funnies today:
http://www.ucomics.com/foxtrot/index.phtml
Actually I remember having a Foxtrot comic hanging on the wall of an
apartment I lived in back in 1998, where Jason is trying to install
Linux on his
Larry Cook wrote:
Since Spam has been a recent topic, I thought I'd share this article
about a business in Manchester that uses Spam:
Wow. That is really bizarre. An honest state chess champion acting
as the mastermind, his teenage sister filling the orders, and a former
skinhead acting as
Scott Garman wrote:
Hi all,
I have become interested in learning about reverse engineering and
decompilation techniques, particularly for the purpose of studying
programs that exploit security vulnerabilities (including trojans,
viruses, and worms).
There was a slashdot story about it not too
On Sunday, August 3, 2003, at 09:23 PM, Travis Roy wrote:
The main thing I'm trying to say is that we should somehow block email
addresses from showing up on the archive website rather then have
people
stop it from archiving their messages. The archive becomes pointless
if a
large number of
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
BTW, as a side comment: I like emacs, and I respect the fact that
other people like different editors. For me, it isn't so important
that people use a certain editor, but it is important that they learn
how to use it *well*.
I like emacs too, and use it whenever I'm
Richard Soule wrote:
Jeff Kinz wrote:
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/professional.htm
$350.
First time I've seen a keyboard more expensive than a computer! :-)
Only $239 for the essential which has the same layout and almost the
same features:
I never realized they had a cheaper version
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 11:15:09 EDT
Erik Price said:
I like emacs too, and use it whenever I'm logged into a server w/ssh,
but I don't think I know it too well -- I have no idea what those
keystrokes do!! ;)
You should spend some time using the Emacs
Bob Bell wrote:
And I actually don't see the big deal using your left pinky to hold
down the shift key while you type. Granted, the sample line had a LOT
of upper-case characters, and hitting caps-lock may be simpler, but
I tried it both ways and holding down shift didn't really seem to
Richard Soule wrote:
Erik Price wrote:
I would save up and it would be my next big purchase -- if they
offered USB.
http://www.kinesis-ergo.com/advantage.htm
It's a bit more at $299, so I would probably go with some type of
adapter:
http://www.maltron.co.uk/USB-PS2pic.html
argh! Now I need
Bill Freeman wrote:
Then the very next keystroke that you should learn is C-H K,
which runs describe-key, which prompts for a key (combinatione), and
displays the on line documentation for the command bound to the key.
That's awesome! Thanks!
Some initial playing with this command
Hi folks,
I don't have much familiarity with PC hardware, but I'd like to purchase
a cheap (used, etc) machine to run Linux on. Since it's for [personal]
development only, my only performance requirement is that it be capable
of running a relatively recent Linux with X11 and the development
Greg Kettmann wrote:
Great idea. Is the idea that spouses or kids might be welcome as well
or is this more for Linux afficionados? Not trying to complicate
things, just clarifying.
Or as Uri Guttman put it, spice and spawn.
Erik
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Morbus Iff wrote:
Python in a Nutshell
Linux Server Hacks
Learning Perl Objects, References Modules
Linux Security Cookbook
Python Cookbook
Google Hacks
Incidentally, I contributed to Linux Server
Hacks, and did Perl consulting on Google Hacks ;)
Plus co-wrote
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Mark Komarinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Perl with a code formatter? I think that's one of the signs
of the apocalypse.
Another sign would be a Python one-liner
[EMAIL PROTECTED] /cygdrive/c/jboss/jboss-3.2.1/docs/dtd
$ python -c 'print hello world'
hello world
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Big news!
Check out http://www.mozilla.org
This hasn't hit /. yet. I just heard on IRC from some of the mozilla
folks!
Nice new site layout too!
Erik
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Derek Martin wrote:
If walmart moves into a town predominated by little shops, and they
all can't compete with walmart (and rest assured they can't), then the
owners of those shops will have to close down, and go get jobs at
walmart. Their incomes will likely be reduced by between 50 and 75
On Tuesday, July 15, 2003, at 10:32 PM, Mark Komarinski wrote:
This is a real hard problem to describe, but it's really annoying. It
seems to happen with only HTML code that I write.
Take a look at http://www.wayga.org/~mkomarinski/julie.php
Take a look between the images, in the lower right
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Does anyone know of any Database user groups in the greater Boston area?
Thanks,
There is also the NH oracle user group (http://nhoug.org/). But I
would be interested in hearing about a more general database-oriented
user group myself.
Erik
On Monday, July 7, 2003, at 10:09 PM, Steven W. Orr wrote:
I've had no email from gnhlug in over at least a month.
Can anyone hear me?
I hear you. There has been quite a lot of mail in the past 30 days or
so -- I'd guess over 300 msgs. Don't forget you can always check the
archives.
Karl Hergenrother wrote:
Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking.
internet email
great tool for conversation
context sometimes lost
Erik
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Erik Price wrote:
Karl Hergenrother wrote:
Sorry you were all so offended. I will go back to lurking.
internet email
great tool for conversation
context sometimes lost
Draft 2:
wonders of email
great tool for discussion, but
context sometimes lost
I should go into business.
Erik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, at 11:22am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Basically, I want:
Term:Some long description here which may or may not span
multiple lines, but regardless, should be left
justified.
Have you tried the DL, DT, and DD
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Ben == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ben I always keep a copy of the HTML and CSS spec's next to me. I
Ben find them remarkably readable, for specification documents.
Ben And, of course, they make excellent use of hypertext. :-)
Pointer please :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 1 Jul 2003, Erik == Erik Price wrote:
Erik dt { float: left; margin: 3em }
Erik dd { margin: 5em; }
Doh
Thanks, I'm obviously just learning the CSS thing, and it didn't
occur to me to re-define the dt/dd tags :)
Except, unfortunately, the above
On Sunday, June 29, 2003, at 10:17 PM, Greg Rundlett wrote:
It features a new Zend Engine 2, with a
slew of object-oriented features previously unavailable in PHP. In
effect,
the object-oriented features were completely overhauled, however
backward
compatibility was maintained.
Pretty cool.
On Monday, June 30, 2003, at 04:16 PM, Greg Rundlett wrote:
I think so.
Nice. I don't think it's all that bad to use an array of information
vs a proper object (it's not that different from using structs in C),
but if you're moving the language in that direction then why not take
advantage
After reading the parable (appendix C, Sconce's handout from Merrilug
6/25), I'm left puzzled by why mathematicians fail to see the point.
Erik
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Hewitt Tech wrote:
It's been too long since I had the pleasure of hearing Bill Sconce deliver a
technical presentation.
This was the first Bill Sconce presentation I had ever heard, and it was certainly a
pleasure. I look forward to part II, after everyone has had a chance to run through
Greg Rundlett wrote:
I was just about to ask if it was on. I will be there.
Yeah Bill Sconce is discussing Python!
Erik
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Michael O'Donnell wrote:
Bookmarklets are way cool! Here are some more:
http://www.squarefree.com/bookmarklets
And some more by Kevin Smith, who calls them favelets:
http://centricle.com/tools/favelets/
Most are oriented toward assisting web developers in plying their craft.
Erik
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Will it just not boot? I highly recommend getting a copy of Knoppix
on CD and attempting to boot from that. My wife's laptop died not
too long ago with a bad hard drive failure. I was able to boot off
of CD with Knoppix, which correctly identified all the system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So, anyone have any really good links for learning CSS?
(Coles ref to w3schools already noted :)
This one might be too basic/introductory for you, but it's very
well-written and can at least cement the knowledge that you already -do-
have. I found it very useful when
Michael O'Donnell wrote:
This is definitely OT but I'd be pleased to think that
somebody in the GNHLUG was able to snag this stuff:
You know, that might be a cool activity for a GNHLUG social. There's a
beer-brewing place in Nashua, and you can do group-brews where
corporate/religious/other
Greg Rundlett wrote:
Sitepoint is hawking a book on the subject, and will let you download the first four
chapters.
http://www.sitepoint.com/ Of course their site is done with minimal use
of tables.
I was extremely impressed with the sitepoint.com website makeover, it
looks incredible but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Other than that, it's not bad. As for the price, well, it depends
upon what you brew. I've left the place having spent $200 between
the beer and bottles, and I've walked out for as little as $50. And
I always leave with far more beer than I can drink! I still
Cole Tuininga wrote:
As I understand, the correct way to do it now would be with style
sheets. However, I can't seem to figure out the attribute to use. The
closest I could find was text-align, but that seems to only work on
text (which does make sense).
I've been using www.w3schools.com (a
Cole Tuininga wrote:
I agree that it has some great features, but when we looked into using
it, we found some serious drawbacks to it. If anybody has comments on
these, I'd be very interested to hear them.
I don't have any comments except to say thanks for mentioning them Cole,
because I
Sharpe, Richard wrote:
Erik
I am a DBA and have been for over 20 years and my all time favorite
RDBMS is DB2 and now especially that it runs on LINUX and that the LINUX
flavor of DB2 is enjoying much attention from IBM, I think it is hands down
better than Oracle.
Thanks for your
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My personal preference is anything PalmOS based. It's simple, well
supported, and has all the features you requested.
I have yet to see why anyone would *need* one of these Linux based
PDAs. They seem like total overkill, and they're expensive.
Word to that. I
Jason Stephenson wrote:
Entirely OT, I want to add that if you've never had real, southern fried
chicken or ckicken fried in a pressure cooker, then you haven't had
fried chicken. It's best, of course, if the bird was raised free range.
The industrial stuff that you generally find in your
On Wednesday, June 4, 2003, at 08:08 AM, Jerry Feldman wrote:
On Wed, 4 Jun 2003 07:21:57 -0400
Sharpe, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dvorak Predicts Death of Linux
Dvorak is a schmuck. I'm not saying this just because of this
prediction
but also after having read some of his other articles
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 04:30 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Glanced at the cover of EE Times this week, and saw Maddog weighing in
on
the whole SCO thing. Check out the article (and picture) at
http://www.eetimes.com/story/OEG20030527S0020
Thanks for posting that.
Though the article
On Monday, June 2, 2003, at 09:22 PM, Brian wrote:
I have some books here, mostly of the 4ish-year-old vintage that I was
wondering if anyone would be interested in? I'd preferably like to
swap
them for something (anything) even remotely
useful/intriguing/interesting but am open to all
Chris wrote:
Michael O'Donnell wrote:
I can't do any DNS lookups for any machines in
any domain associated with AOL.
I'd join you all in the unison chanting of
good riddance! except that many of my relatives
use AOL and all 4 nameservers for cnn.com are
AOL machines. Any idea what's going on?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In a message dated: Wed, 28 May 2003 11:34:29 EDT
Michael O'Donnell said:
Bob: Hope Rob don't say balls nasty.
Rob: -Balls- nasty!
Bob: He don't shiv.
I'll bet this is high-larious, 'cept fer I don't get it...
Well, I wouldn't say high-larious...
Mmmm, yeah. That was
Tom Buskey wrote:
Michael O'Donnell wrote:
Bob: Hope Rob don't say balls nasty.
Rob: -Balls- nasty!
Bob: He don't shiv.
I'll bet this is high-larious, 'cept fer I don't get it...
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Mark Komarinski wrote:
In case you don't read slashdot. This is getting strange.
Novell (remember them?) is getting into the picture. They claim that
they never sold the copyrights/IP to SCO, only a license to use said
copyrights/IP.
Paul Lussier wrote:
Memo: Potential depletion of lumineferous electrons
From: Paul Reisenfern, Director
Office of Health and Safety, Computer Division
To:All Computer Users
Date: 1 April 2003
As a result of recent studies carried out in cooperation with the
National
Ken D'Ambrosio wrote:
Check out the CPAN. http://cpan.org/
Maybe my humor circuits have burned out, but... CPAN doesn't look a whole
lot different to me today than usual. (Though my Wanda the Gnome Fish
looks suspiciously dead...)
Hm. They must have put the original page back up. For a
Derek D. Martin wrote:
At some point hitherto, Erik Price hath spake thusly:
Do you really have to convert the number to binary and then do a
digit-for-digit comparison?
Bear in mind that if this is for an exam, your prof will likely want
to SEE the binary conversion of the two numbers
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
My advice: convert your numbers to binary for the exam, and know that
in the Real World after school, people tend to let the computer do the
work for them. But it *is* important for you to have this skill.
Thanks Kevin, and to everyone else who gave me suggestions. I
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The short circuit operators AND () and OR (||) work just like their
^^^
regular counterparts except they stop evaluating once they know the
result (AND stops
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
OK, now we're really splitting hairs, and I suspect that you mistyped
anyways, but just to be clear, the logical operators work on any
scalar type.
For example, these are all legal in C:
1 2
2 3.14
2.718 hello
'b' foo;
Oh sorry, I wrote
Paul Iadonisi wrote:
WARNING: You may love it, or you may hate it. I'm just sick of
Clear Channel's monopoly and want to spread the access
to this song and let people judge for themselves, instead
of allowing the media mogul's to act as faulty filters for
our
Yeah, this is totally offtopic of Linux but I know there are some
helpful hackers on this list and was wondering if anyone wouldn't mind
letting me know if there is a mental trick to working out the results of
bitwise comparison operators.
Do you really have to convert the number to binary and
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So why are you not filtering on 'Subject.*[Oo][Tt]\s*:' ?
If Mike did this, he would have missed out on Eric Price's [OT] help
w/ bitwise comparison operators thread, which I think is sufficiently
interesting to be discussed on this mailing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Regardless, AFAIK, all lists managed by MailMan add the following
lines to the header:
X-BeenThere:
X-Mailman-Version:
List-Help:
List-Post:
List-Subscribe:
List-Id:
List-Unsubscribe:
List-Archive:
I really like mailing lists that use MailMan and I think
of the
ego of the OP being unwilling to take being corrected/criticized.
Let's keep dragging this on.
As such, I think public response is more efficient, and
hence better.
I agree. A little humility once in a while is good for the soul.
Erik
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Michael Bovee wrote:
b) I grew up on Macintosh (groans from the peanut gallery :0) and so I
expect to be able to get work done pretty quickly, and learn finer ways
of doing things as I go.
Hey me too. I only first used Unix in college because that's how you
checked email. My first forays
Mark Komarinski wrote:
Programming Perl (Wall, Christiansen, Schwartz, O'Reilly)
Excellent combination of tutorial and reference. I don't code
in perl as much as I used to, but when I do, this book gets cracked
open.
I've been reading Programming Perl on and off in my free time. I'm
started buying these books, I didn't really think about any of
them being better than any others -- after all, they're just computer
books, right? How good can they be? Why not go for one of the
biggest so I can get my money's worth and try to learn it all in one
go...
Erik
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Ben Boulanger wrote:
In business
http://yahoo.businessweek.com/magazine/content/03_09/b3822601_tc102.htm
I hadn't heard about this part:
excerpt
What could derail Linux? The biggest risks are intellectual-property
issues. SCO Group, holder of the original patents for Unix software upon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Incidently, that's exactly what the Subversion project aims to do;
write a replacement for CVS. And, rather than trying to fix the
brokeness of CVS's networking capability, they decided to chuck it
all, and write a replacement. But, rather than write all that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm curious why you think that is arcane[1]? I was about to remark
something amazingly similar to mod, but got distracted and Derek beat
me to it[2] :)
That knowledge is indispensable to anyone who needs to debug user
environments (e.g. a sysadmin).
Are you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
And the machine I *do* run is MacOS X, which doesn't use an /etc/passwd
file for user info.)
Really? I thought OS X was BSD? Where is user info stored? Is
there an /etc/passwd file?
NeXT machines used a database called NetInfo to store information that
you'd
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
RANT=HIGH
Okay, first, let me say that I love Debian, and I love apt. That
being said:
APT IS NOT A PACKAGE MANAGEMENT TOOL!!!
It's DEPENDANCY RESOLUTION TOOL. There is a HUGE difference. Saying
you like apt better than rpm is like saying my house is better
Hi,
I am probably overlooking something obvious but it seems that when I try
to execute a command-line for loop, the do command part is not
executed from the current directory. Is that normal? Here is what I mean:
[erikprice@host:/home/erikprice]$ for i in `ls`; do `which du` -khs
$i; done
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
First, a pet peeve of mine: Use
for i in * ;
instead of
for i in `ls` ;
I always forget that it can be done that way, but in fact, in this case
I was ls'ing a diff't directory. I just posted a simplified version to
the list. Also, I recall from an earlier
Does anyone on this list use Cygwin when they are using Windows? I use
Win2k at work and was hoping to get that Linux feel with this program.
Any advice or comments?
Thanks,
Erik
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Erik Price wrote:
Does anyone on this list use Cygwin when they are using Windows? I use
Win2k at work and was hoping to get that Linux feel with this program.
Any advice or comments?
Judging from offlist responses, it sounds like a lot of people use or
have used it, and that it can make
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Michael O'Donnell wrote:
perl -e 'opendir DIR,.;@f = grep { ! /^\./ -f $_ } readdir(DIR);\
map {($n = $_)=~ s/\s+/_/g; rename ($_, $n) } @f;'
Heh. Just for fun I rot13'd that Perl hack and, for my money,
it's just as readable... ;-
LOL
crey -r 'bcraqve
Bob Bell wrote:
One nit: the $_ in the anonymous block passed to map does not come
from grep. Rather, it is a reference to each item (in turn) in the
provided list (here, @f).
Upon re-reading my explanation, I came to the same conclusion -- I was
thinking that the script worked the
Derek Martin wrote:
This particular one-liner is very readable when properly indented and
code-formatted, making use of few of the esoteric symbols that make
reading Perl scripts hard. I like it quite a bit.
I disagree, in large part, though I've definitely seen worse. I find
the syntax
Kevin D. Clark wrote:
Erik Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
PS: FWIW, Python is a friendlier and IMO superior language for writing
scripts where legibility is important, but you can't write a oneliner
like the OP's Perl script using Python. I think a lot of Perl users
like the way
Useful, I didn't know that. Thanks.
Erik
Michael O'Donnell wrote:
I just noticed that I was able to execute
programs in the current directory without
prefixing their names with ./ and without
having . in my $PATH. After saying WTF?
a number of times I finally figured out that
it's related to
mike ledoux wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Mon, Dec 23, 2002 at 11:55:35AM -0500, Erik Price wrote:
Why does dd use options named if and of? I just paged through the
man page but can't seem to find an explanation. Especially since you
would think of refers
work half the time. CNET says Mozilla is actually a
better mail client performance-wise, but doesn't offer the calendaring
compatibility with Exchains. I don't use the calendaring anyway.
Basically, I think it's great.
Erik
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On Friday, December 20, 2002, at 08:43 PM, Erik Price wrote:
No problems with importing old mail (though it took over an hour to
fetch all my old mail).
s/fetch/import/;
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of piping
are handled by the shell or OS or something.
Erik
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interactive interpreter.
Erik
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of the company
applications, so I need to make sure that there is a driver for Win2k
too.
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