Re: Pronounce sudo
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 10:44 AM, Roger Searle ro...@stepahead.org.nzwrote: Only because it was a long time until I heard anyone pronounce it as etcetera, having always thought of it internally as the letters. I have no knowledge of the origins of the folder name. So to borrow Robert's question from this morning, how would people say the folder /etc out loud? And to borrow from Rogers question, how do you all pronounce usr . bin, proc , sys, lib, they're all straight forward ( I hope ), but 'usr' has some degree of ambiguity, especially when some platforms ( looking at you Apple ) have a literal /User which is not correspondent to /usr, and you have to be careful not to enter a disambiguation problem in communicating this to people because they're likely to put the e in there. -- Kent perl -e print substr( \edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\, \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 ); http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
Re: Telstra slow download from some sites?
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 8:38 AM, Craig Falconer cfalco...@totalteam.co.nzwrote: Eliot Blennerhassett wrote, On 09/09/09 20:45: Is it just me, or has telstra cable in got a rusty pipe somewhere? Not everywhere, but to/from a number of places in the US at least. I.e. using speedtest.net Local CHC speed 2.9Mb/s down, 1.74Mb/s up - fine. Los Angeles 3.3Mb down 1.8 up Boston 4.6/1.14 but... SanJose 0.05Mb/s down 0.7Mb/s up Works fine for me. DownUp (Mbit) Latency (ms) christchurch48.16 2.3760 wellington 12.01 1.72190 (no peering - internat.) auckland44.03 2.3583 san jose4.311.31189 san francisco 16.51.86191 los angeles 15.10 1.60191 boston 13.46 1.92234 -- I've had speed issues and packet loss to anything that routes via northern california. Southern California is fine, but northern california ( and as such, this appear to be where my traffic goes to Google and YouTube ) as such sucks. I've been getting maximum downstream from youtube of 30kbytes/sec ( yes, yuck, cant even watch low-bitrate without buffering lots ), but ironically, I get 600kbytes/sec torrenting, and can watch HD on that *as* its downloading. And I'm on o'nary DSL w/ telecom. # Here is a reasonably good day. San Diego : 3479 Downstream , 608 Upstream, 324ms ping Los Angeles: 1948 Downstream, 534 Upstream, 162ms ping San Fransisco: 2711 Downstream, 655 Upstream, 197ms ping San Jose: 823 Downstream, 561 Upstream, 198ms ping I had reasonably worse numbers a few weeks ago, but speedtest seems to have forgotten them :( ( I was getting 80% packet loss on one of the hops :/ ) Routes today seem to be going via asianetcom.net , and thats reasonably reliable. But youtube is still sucking at ~50k/s. I'd like conclude evil is afoot, but that would be a bit crazy. -- Kent perl -e print substr( \edrgmaM SPA nocomil.i...@tfrken\, \$_ * 3, 3 ) for ( 9,8,0,7,1,6,5,4,3,2 ); http://kent-fredric.fox.geek.nz
Re: Pronounce sudo
On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 7:53 PM, Kent Fredrickentfred...@gmail.com wrote: And to borrow from Rogers question, how do you all pronounce usr . user with low inflection, as opposed to User with a high inflection at the beginning to denote the capital. But in all cases where strictly unambiguous communication is needed, I'd say it and spell it, including the slash marks, which will be introduced as the forward slash, which is the one on the question-mark key (because some Windows people think \ is a forward slash) -jim
Re: measurement software for electrical networks?
Thanks Will do. Wesley Parish On Thu, 10 Sep 2009, Craig Falconer wrote: Wesley Parish wrote, On 10/09/09 01:19: I dropped the speed from 115200 to 57600 and it's a little bit more reliable now, but only by a fraction, not at all by a magnitude. That's your DTE/DCE speed, between modem and computer. The recommendation was to use AT commands to limit the connect to 33.6 http://www.modemsite.com/56K/x2-linklimit.asp might help. -- Clinersterton beademung, with all of love - RIP James Blish - George Kelischek - To impress those high-tech computer types, tell them what an Ocarina really is: an animal-activated-solid-state-multi-frequency-sound-synthesizer. - Mau e ki, he aha te mea nui? You ask, what is the most important thing? Maku e ki, he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. I reply, it is people, it is people, it is people.
Re: RoR tutorials for *nix systems
Know this is rather OT but the OP may find (and other too) of interest. Try www.rubylearning.org they have courses on Sinatra merb etc Someone there maybe able to help to on linux RoR related sites too. Note i have done 2 ruby core classes and a couple of shoes classes also. for my sins and poor skills i also am noted currently as an assistant teacher. but i was mainly there trying to help Satoshi create some notes/examples etc for Shoes and to challenge the students on those courses with different things about Shoes. Shoes is a cross platform (Linux, Mac windows) ruby GUI front end written by a brilliant programmer called _why (aka _whytheluckystiff) blurb finished. Dave. On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 08:51:58 Kerry wrote: Hi I'm keen on taking a look at Ruby on Rails and am after some linux specific real world tutorials ie no hello world type tuts. Most of the tutorials I have come across so far have been for Windows systems and are using gui's. I would much rather learn from the command line so I get more appreciation on what is going on. I have an interest in building web apps so anything along that line would be appreciated. Regards, Kerry
Re: Pronounce sudo
2009/9/10 Jim Cheetham j...@inode.co.nz: But in all cases where strictly unambiguous communication is needed, I'd say it and spell it, including the slash marks, which will be introduced as the forward slash, which is the one on the question-mark key (because some Windows people think \ is a forward slash) #!/bin/bash hash bang slash bin slash bash -- Abhinav Keswani @wasabhi
Re: Pronounce sudo
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:07 AM, Abhinav Keswani abhinav.kesw...@gmail.com wrote: 2009/9/10 Jim Cheetham j...@inode.co.nz: But in all cases where strictly unambiguous communication is needed, I'd say it and spell it, including the slash marks, which will be introduced as the forward slash, which is the one on the question-mark key (because some Windows people think \ is a forward slash) #!/bin/bash hash bang slash bin slash bash aitch tee tee pee colon slash slash slashdot dot com
Re: Pronounce sudo
2009/9/11 John Carter john.car...@tait.co.nz: On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Abhinav Keswani wrote: hash bang slash bin slash bash Too long winded.. hash bang bin bash is a bit more, umm, punchy. ohhh you want punchy instead of accurate? :) try this one then shebang[1] bin bash how does that rate on your punchometer? Happy Friday, -A @wasabhi [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shebang_%28Unix%29
