Linux-Misc Digest #876, Volume #23 Fri, 17 Mar 00 18:13:06 EST
Contents:
Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch! (Tony Houghton)
Re: Linux based software to US government? ("Norman K. Scherer")
Re: Salary? (Greg Yantz)
Re: perl crontab problem??? (Juergen Heinzl)
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From: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: uk.comp.os.linux,comp.editors,comp.unix.misc
Subject: Re: Do you hate vi? vi or vim? Deathmatch!
Reply-To: Tony Houghton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Mar 2000 22:01:54 GMT
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Don't get me wrong, I love vi/vim (easily the best text editor I've
> ever used), but I find the complaint that EscMetaAltCtrlShift is
> bloated increasingly lame.
On a PIII with 64MB it's still too cumbersome to start up regularly for
editing mail and news or quickly su-ing to root to change some script or
config. OK if you don't mind sticking to Gnus for the former and
learning different muscle memory to use pico or joe for the latter. You
could use jed for the little admin jobs I suppose, a good compromise as
long as you don't need to do much in the way of search & replace.
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From: "Norman K. Scherer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Linux based software to US government?
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 14:13:28 -0800
John wrote:
>
> Hi there!
>
> We are currently evaluating Linux (RTLinux to be more specific) as the
> operating system for our control software. Part of our products are sold to
> the US government. Does they accept products which are 'equipped' with
> Linux? Is there a place where I can find more info on this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> John
The FAA does use Linux systems supplied by JVN Communications as radar
simulators.
Norm
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Crossposted-To: comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Salary?
From: Greg Yantz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: 17 Mar 2000 17:16:49 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Donovan Rebbechi) writes:
> On Thu, 16 Mar 2000 22:08:18 +0100, Matthias Warkus wrote:
> >Someone recently explained it to me, but I forgot it in the meantime:
> >what is affirmative action again?
> The practice of prefering candidates from "disadvantaged groups" over other
> candidates, all other things being equal. Or in it's more aberrant forms, the
> practice of discriminating in favour of "disadvantaged groups" even though
> the candidates in question may be underqualified.
> IMO, this can work for scholarships ( or special funds available only to
> minorities ) because these create opportunities. However, when you do this
> in ( for example ) admissions policy in the education system, all it does
> is bring in a lot of poorly qualified candidates who can't make passing
> grades.
Some of these special minority scholarships, which are designed to
create opportunities for the disadvantaged, are in fact need-blind.
That is, you can be from a minority and be well-to-do and still
receive them. Unfortunately, I've seen it.
Full scholarships (to MIT no less) for the wealthy is kind of counter
to the idea of creating opportunities.
-Greg
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Juergen Heinzl)
Subject: Re: perl crontab problem???
Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 22:18:55 GMT
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mike Jopling wrote:
>I can't get my perlscripts to execute via crontab entries. Other crontab
>processes are OK and I can execute the perlscripts manually OK --what's up?
You ought to take a look into crond's logfile and be somewhat more
specific.
Bye,
Juergen
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