[CentOS] Re: rsync mirroring

2008-10-25 Thread Rick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Hláèik wrote: >Should i add --backup --suffix = $(date) and thats it? Why not just setup a test and see? -- http://yosemitenews.info/ ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/list

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread Nifty Cluster Mitch
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008 at 12:16:23PM -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M") > s/"M"/not "M"/ I wish I still had some of my 789 and 6789 cards. If only to use

[CentOS] Re: GIMP 2.4 packages for CentOS 5

2008-10-25 Thread Rick
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Niki Kovacs wrote: >One of my rare regrets with CentOS 5 was that GIMP only came in version >2.2, but 2.4 offers many nifty new functions quite handy for everyday >work. For those of you who are interested, I built some GIMP 2.4 >packages for CentOS 5. >Downlo

[CentOS] CentOS 4.7 Server CD - update frontpage

2008-10-25 Thread R P Herrold
On Thu, 23 Oct 2008, Spike Turner wrote: totalitarian republic of CentOS. I believe an announcement All sources used by CentOS are freely available under a distributable license, as are those for patched RPMs consistent with its GPL obligation when _distributing_ the product of another; the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread Steven Vishoot
- Original Message > From: David G. Mackay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: CentOS mailing list > Sent: Saturday, October 25, 2008 4:18:01 PM > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too > long"] > > > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wro

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, David G. Mackay wrote: > >On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> My first Burroughs experience was on the B-5500, and it had some >> ``interesting'' quirks. Using Burroughs extended ALGOL, one could do what >> they called array row writes to very efficie

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread David G. Mackay
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:10 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > My first Burroughs experience was on the B-5500, and it had some > ``interesting'' quirks. Using Burroughs extended ALGOL, one could do what > they called array row writes to very efficiently write large chunks of > memory with a single h

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, David G. Mackay wrote: >On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > >> And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50. >> The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of >> 20 jobs in the mix, and didn't require 40 JCL cards to compi

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > > > > >It did the job too. It was several years before we upgraded to a S360/50 > >with 512K (IIRC). > > And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50. > The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of > 20

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread David G. Mackay
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:30 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > And our Burroughs B-3500 would run circles around the 360/50. > The Burroughs had a whopping 200KB of memory, ran an average of > 20 jobs in the mix, and didn't require 40 JCL cards to compile > and run a one line Hello World FORTRAN progra

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread David G. Mackay
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:16 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > > > > Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M") > s/"M"/not "M"/ Yep. The first computer I programmed on was an IBM 1130 with 16K of core

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread Bill Campbell
On Sat, Oct 25, 2008, William L. Maltby wrote: > >On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:17 -0500, David G. Mackay wrote: >> > >> Then came CANDE, TD8xx terminals, and editing on your head-per-track >> disk. Ah for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades >> involved fork lifts. >I tried to s

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 12:14 -0400, William L. Maltby wrote: > > Circa 1971/2(?), we had an IBM S360/30 with 64K (that's right, "K", "M") s/"M"/not "M"/ -- Bill ___ CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread William L. Maltby
On Sat, 2008-10-25 at 10:17 -0500, David G. Mackay wrote: > > Then came CANDE, TD8xx terminals, and editing on your head-per-track > disk. Ah for the good old days, when men were men, and memory upgrades > involved fork lifts. I tried to stay out of this thread, I really did. But the "forklift

[CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread Scott Silva
> > I always laughed at the early quiz shows where they had a ``computer'' > selecting the questions -- where the computer was really a card sorter that > would select the picked question into a specific bin. > > Bill Knowing Hollywood, it was probably a prop, with a human behind it sorting the

Re: [CentOS] Re: Ole Fossils [ was Re: ls and rm: "argument list too long"]

2008-10-25 Thread David G. Mackay
On Fri, 2008-10-24 at 18:09 -0700, Bill Campbell wrote: > The Burroughs Medium Systems mainframes I worked on allowed one to store > the program on disk, then compile with modifications in a card deck, using > the sequence numbers to replace or insert lines from the cards. There were > options t

Re: [CentOS] Re: Problem selecting installation drive : 5.2

2008-10-25 Thread Alex H. Vandenham
After much frustration and wasted time: Solution: Additional Boot option (undocumented) : nodmraid On Friday 24 October 2008 06:41:07 pm Scott Silva wrote: > on 10-24-2008 7:25 AM Alex H. Vandenham spake the following: > > When doing the 5.2 installation the ONLY drive option provided is > > > >

[CentOS] CentOS-announce Digest, Vol 44, Issue 15

2008-10-25 Thread centos-announce-request
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