ncurses

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Kruse
--8-- ./configure --help | grep .-includedir --includedir=DIRC header files [PREFIX/include] --8-- this would indicate the header files are by default to be installed in ...

which: no hate in /bin

2009-08-21 Thread Peter Kruse
you know, under Solaris which deserves a threefold hate: 1. is a csh-script 2. does not return a proper return status 3. prints the error message (no suchandsuch in path...) to stdout you couldn't think of something more hateful? Me neither, but if which's return status is used in a Makefile to

versions

2009-11-01 Thread Peter Kruse
Chapter 1: for b in /bin/* /usr/bin/*; do $b --version; done I never did that but on a GNU system probably 90% of the programs would support that option. Good thing... looks like a standard, standards are good, aren't they? me: well, is there a standard for the version string? GNU: of course

Re: X (was: EDITING SUBJECT with gmail is POSSIBLE terrible)

2010-10-25 Thread Peter Kruse
On Fri, Oct 22, 2010 at 4:50 AM, Daniel Pittman dan...@rimspace.net wrote: -- X Windows is the Iran-Contra of graphical user interfaces: a tragedy of political compromises, entangled alliances, marketing hype, and just plain greed. X Windows is to memory as Ronald Reagan was to money.    -- The

mercurial

2011-03-03 Thread Peter Kruse
$ hg st M dir/file $ hg ci -m add a line dir/file abort: dir/dir/file: No such file or directory RUN AWAAAYYY!!!

mercurial II

2011-03-08 Thread Peter Kruse
$ hg log ext-repo/file abort: path 'ext-repo/file' is inside repo 'ext-repo' so what is preventing you from giving me the log???

mercurial III

2011-03-09 Thread Peter Kruse
oh, when I do hg move you do an remove followed by add and all the history is lost, great, gimme more, yeah!

mercurial IV - hgignore

2011-08-09 Thread Peter Kruse
So I can teach you to ignore certain files, and I can do that either in glob or regexp style. (But why? What can I do in glob that I cannot do with regular expressions?) Anyways ... to distinguish between those two I put in .hgignore (that is the same file where I actually list the patterns)

rpmbuild

2012-05-11 Thread Peter Kruse
you need a spec file for building rpms, and this is a comment # %__build_body right? wrong. Because http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ch-rpm-inside.html#S1-RPM-INSIDE-COMMENTS states: Note that macros are expanded everywhere, so with multiline macros which would only have the first line

Re: Wi-Fi Hotspot Log-in and Apt

2012-05-18 Thread Peter Kruse
On Thu, May 17, 2012 at 9:38 AM, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Fantastic. A wi-fi hotspot has substituted a redirect to its log-in page for the file requested, serving it with an 200 status header, and so giving the impression that the payload is indeed the requested file. aren't you glad