Re: strategy

[Aaron Mehl]

Well I found in the Linux cookbook that the tool I need is sed and was
able to find a way to cut the pieces I need.

wrong tools but now a happy camper, sorta.

I want to the sed script to all the files in a directory.
sed '1,5d' 425-defs.ly  425n.ly  

removed the first 5 lines, which is what I really needed.
but how do I put this in a script which will apply it to all files in a
directory?

Thanks,
Aaron




 I find often that I want to use standard tools to do a simple
repetitive
 task but can't conceptualize the way to achieve it.
 
 
 I have 20 text files with text to delete on top and on bottom.
 



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[ot] Launchpad is Evil

[Diego Iastrubni]

Hi all,

After reading a blog from Lennart Poettering (1), I found out that I have a 
launchpad account active (but not enabled). It seems that the use the data 
found in OpenSource project and they inserted the developers into their 
system. 

Lennart sees this as a privacy violation, and I tend to agree with him. If you 
ever coded a single line of code in any project, you might have a n account 
available and waiting for you (2). Be afraid, be very afraid, not only Google 
are abusing the OSS community.

(1) http://0pointer.de/blog/projects/launchpad-stole-my-name
(2) https://launchpad.net/people/

-- 
diego, kde-il translation team

Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html

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Gentoo is about to drop hspell support

[Michael Vasiliev]

It has come to my attention (since I am CC-d on that particular bug) that 
Gentoo treeclean team is about to remove hspell from main Gentoo portage 
tree. I've responded immediately to team lead, Alec Warner, about it, and 
we're discussing it in private mail ever since. He suggests that we have a 
local overlay of hspell and packages that need hspell support, or use 
http://gentoo-sunrise.org
My response was on the inconvenience of such solution, due to the fact that 
hspell support is already present in KDE and commented-out in Gentoo version 
of it for political/bureaucratic reasons. Other than maintaining our own 
overlay, the easiest and most straightforward way would be to add a recent 
version of hspell and revert the hspell-remove patch.
Of course, there comes the real problem: no Gentoo developer is willing to 
watch the package and update the portage tree CVS if needed.

I am against mass-mailing Alec Warner as of that moment, please read on:

A little bit of background:

Hspell was originally imported at version 0.4 in April 2003 and maintained by 
Tal Peer and Alex Weber. They are since then retired as Gentoo developers and 
currently there is noone to act as a maintainer (which in that particular case 
is basically a liason between upstream developers and the CVS interface ;).

In January 2005, Alon Bar-Lev submitted a new ebuild for the version 0.9 
which, with minor fixes by yours truly, was never merged.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=77751

12 months later, in December 2005, Gentoo KDE team removed hspell support from 
KDE due to incompatibility with the version in portage tree (0.7), the 
version requred was 0.8, while the version available on official site was 
0.9.
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114161

Currently, without packages that depend on hspell, the treeclean team has 
picked on the orphaned package and marked it pending removal on September 26.

I know that there is a lab of Gentoo in Haifa University (using their own 
overlay when it comes to hspell and KDE). Honestly, I'm a bit tired of Gentoo 
way of breaking^Wrunning things, and Debian seems more and more appealing 
every day. Let's establish how many Gentoo users are there that hspell is 
important to them.

-- 
Sincerely Yours,
Michael Vasiliev
Linux-IL moderator

I mean, if 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, 
you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to 
yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough 
immortality for me.
-- Edsger Wybe Dijkstra

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