Larry Alkoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In the meantime, can anyone please tell me what this TCPA is all about?
Have a look at Ross Anderson's excellent TCPA / Palladium FAQ at
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/tcpa-faq.html.
john.
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Internet FAQs, #666:
A: No.
Q: Should I include quotations
Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I believe that there are Debian users who are also Mac users. Question
is, compared to Debian packaging system, is it Mac's any better...?
No.
There is port of dpkg/apt to Mac OS X -- see http://fink.sourceforge.net/
HTH,
john.
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Knowledge itself is power.
Greetings --
I'm trying to (finally) get my Perl coding environment set up properly
in (X)Emacs, and one hurdle I'm running into is getting the 'help on
function (at point)' commands to work.
They require a copy of the Perl docs in 'info' format. Now, I know I
cat get this file from Ilya's Z's
Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
See the followup email. It ain't my scheme, and I don't agree with it;
I was presenting what my experience shows is usually meant by people who
don't know better than the split scripting and programming.
Ah, I see -- we're mostly agreeing at the top of
Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Or what of this example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~perl hello.pl
hello, world!
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~cat hello.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Inline C = q{
void hello () {
printf(hello, world!\n);
}
};
hello();
That is a thing of
Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
begin John S. J. Anderson quotation:
I'm confused by the above statement. Canceling out the double
negative, I get
that is the definition most people mean when they know enough to
call non-scripting 'programming'.
You cannot cancel
jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
dpkg -l | sed -e 's/$/br/ dpkg.html
dpkg -l | perl -e 'while() { s/$/br/ print }' dpkg.html
golf type=perl
dpkg -l | perl -lpe 's/$/BR/' dpkg.html
/golf
Darn, I thought I could make it shorter than the sed version...
john.
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However, complexity is not
jeff [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
when would you use programming as opposed to scripting?
Well, before I answer that, define, if you would, the difference
between programming and scripting. (Warning: I don't think there's
much of one, if any.)
In my mind, your earlier question was a programming
martin f krafft [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
usually, compiled programs run faster than scripts, so if performance
is your concern (number crunching, password cracking etc.), then
compile.
IMO, it's not that simple. If performance is your sole
consideration, you shouldn't even be looking at
Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
begin John S. J. Anderson quotation:
Well, before I answer that, define, if you would, the difference
between programming and scripting. (Warning: I don't think there's
much of one, if any.)
The compliation step is seperate from the execution
Shawn McMahon [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
begin Shawn McMahon quotation:
The compliation step is seperate from the execution step, from the
perspective of the user.
I should add that is the definition most people mean when they don't
know enough not to call non-scripting 'programming'.
Sridhar M.A. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is anyone using this camera and obtained proper colours? If so, can you
provide some pointers to the same?
I'm using one with mod_quickcam.o and camE to run a webcam; you can
see the images at http://genehack.com/images/webcam.jpg (it updates
every
james martinez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Can anyone tell me where I can get it. Thanks for any help.
You need to set up the various USB devices properly. The Handspring
Visor mini-HOWTO may be helpful; there's a copy at
http://www.icewalk.com/doclib/howtos/mini/Handspring-Visor.html.
I have
Greetings --
I've been setting up a new Athlon system (thanks Santa!), and I've
been having some kernel compile issues (linker bombing out, mainly).
I was chalking it up to some Athlon quirk (power supply, cooling,
etc.), but just on the off chance I tried to re-compile a kernel on my
old
Karsten M. Self kmself@ix.netcom.com writes:
on Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 04:18:53PM -0700, Ross Boylan ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
wrote:
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:12:14PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
.
The concept you're proposing has some similarities to ideas espoused by
David
On Thu, 12 Jul 2001 16:31:23 -0500 (CDT), Richard Cobbe [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Richard I'm a fan of VM, because I'm used to the Emacs keybindings,
Richard and it's the only MUA I've found which lets you edit messages
Richard that you receive in-place.
FWIW, Gnus does that too.
Richard I've
On 06 Jul 2001 14:06:06 +0400, Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ilya Or any advice on another relatively cheap and good digital
Ilya camera which can be used with Linux?
Have you considered the Sony Mavica series? They write picture files
to standard VFAT filesystem floppy disks -- no need
On Fri, 06 Jul 2001 10:39:20 -0400, Peter S Galbraith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
Peter John S. J. Anderson wrote:
Peter I have wondered about this. I fill up a 32MB memory card
Peter pretty quickly when taking pictures at 3.1Mpixels. A single
Peter picture is usually around 1.1 to 1.3 MB, so
On Fri, 6 Jul 2001 09:27:43 +0800, luwim+ [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
luwim+ Hi, i forgot the command how to install cpan on my machine,
luwim+ thats, .. perl --cpan? any one know what the command is?
CPAN.pm comes with the standard Perl distribution, so if you've got
perl, you should have CPAN --
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 12:22:12 -0500, Jay Latham [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Jay I've decided that it's time I learned a little about programming
Jay and I've decided that, for various reasons, Perl would be a good
Jay place to start. But I'm confused on which book would be best for
Jay a total
On Thu, 28 Jun 2001 22:59:03 +0200 (MEST), thomas anderson [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
thomas I want to try to put a perl script in the /usr/lib/perl
thomas directory however I don't have permission access.
boy, the script kiddies get lazier every day, don't they?
john.
On Sat, 09 Jun 2001 13:04:48 -0700, Debian User [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
DU With the conservative route (install gnus in order to keep using
DU RMAIL for a while), will gnus give normal MIME ability? Or would
DU I need to install semi-gnus to be able to use the MIME
DU functionality that semi
On Wed, 30 May 2001 10:53:22 -0700, Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Mike To answer your question, I used xev to grab the information on
Mike the dreaded menu key. It reported (among other things):
Mike keycode 117 (keysym 0xff67, Menu)
Mike when the menu key was pressed with the pointer
On 30 May 2001 22:08:33 -0400, Paul D. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Paul Second, my point is, with so many truly _useful_ and
Paul _interesting_ things to learn, why waste brain cells on
Paul something as basically useless and uninteresting (and baroque)
Paul as modmap syntax?
Personally, I
On Thu, 31 May 2001 15:37:49 -0700, Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Mike Is there an easy way to check for Mod3 and Mod4 events?
If you do 'xmodmap -pm', you'll get a listing of all the modifiers
(Mod1-5,Lock,Control, etc.) and the keysyms each is currently bound
to. That may at least tell
On Tue, 29 May 2001 15:25:37 -0700, Mike Pfleger [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Mike What am I doing wrong?
Have you tried using a real keysym for the menu key? I don't think
'Menu' is a real keysym -- try 'Multi-key' or 'Super_R' or 'Hyper_R',
and then bind ModN (where N=(1..5)) to that keysym.
My
On Wed, 23 May 2001 19:57:17 -0400, Noah L. Meyerhans [EMAIL
PROTECTED] said:
Noah Supporting RFCs is fine and should be encouraged, but from what
Noah I've seen there is not another mail reader in existance that can
Noah verify mutt's attached signatures.
Just to add to the list, the CVS
On 24 May 2001 14:57:12 +0400, Ilya Martynov [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Ilya I thoght that Gnus itself doesn't support PGP at all. It needs
Ilya Mailcrypt for PGP. And mailcrypt seems to support only embeded
Ilya sigs. Or am I wrong?
You're wrong. 8^)=
The version of Gnus in CVS (Oort Gnus) comes
David Raleigh Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It makes *every* program that works with a gui *much* less good and
some really insane, like emacs. (and xemacs, presumably because X
is pathetic that way too.)
Just so you know, XEmacs is perfectly capable of running on the
console (the 'X' in
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Adrian Kubala [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is this an unstable-broken thing? (I didn't see any files that
looked useful in stable though). Anybody know how to set up dvorak
'properly' in debian?
FWIW, I use xmodmap. In fact, I'm the only one using
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Christoph Groth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Is there anyone successfully using gnus with gnupg out there? I just
wanted to ask if it's worth the effort trying it.
Yep, and it wasn't too hard to set up. Key fetching and message
decryption aren't
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Greetings --
My ISP is once again changing Usenet providers, meaning that I'm going
to have to deal with the whole article renumbering mess. Grrr. (Did I
mention that this has happened before?)
I've decided that enough is enough, and it's time to
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Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I guess you can remove it, I did remove true type font server
(forgot which one I had) and I have the true type fonts.
So, what font lines do you have in XF86Config?
john.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Remco Rijnders) writes:
Before reading your (or any) answer, I went ahead and pointed apt at
the unstable archive and got PHP4 from there. Unfortunately, it seems
like this really messed things up for me:
There's a pretty
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Joris Lambrecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm working on a Document that will simply be a basic tutorial on
how to do your first steps into perlscript. Written by a newbie for
another newbie. This will probably be published at
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David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I've been removing the file, but it gets to be a drag remembering
to do this every time apt-get updates ssh, and I'm fairly sure
this is not the Right Way to do it. 8^)=
I think the Right Way is now
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Stefan Srdic [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
With all of this I still can't get my sound card to work, I do know
that the device works because I have ran esd and heard the sample
that plays. But I cant used any programs like XMMS or CD playing
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Greetings --
Could somebody tell me what I need to frob to get sshd to run
automatically when I restart my computer? There's a file,
/etc/ssh/sshd_not_to_be_run, which seems to be installed by one of the
ssh debs[1], and it also seems to prevent
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Michael O'Brien [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I was curious if there's a deb for the lame/not-lame encoder? Just
wanted to know before I download the binaries and install by hand.
(probably too late, but might help somebody eventually...)
add this:
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Corey Popelier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Yes you need a line under Dynamic Extensions that says:
extension=mysql.so
Actually, I've _got_ that line in /etc/php3/apache/php3.ini.
To re-iterate, bookmarker *was* working; I can only assume that the
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Greetings --
I use the bookmarker deb to store my web bookmarks, because I was
already running a local webserver, and it seemed like the best
solution to the where did I bookmark that site problem when bouncing
around (as I currently am) between
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Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I am using the inn2 package to try to set up a periodic download
of newsgroups I read frequently. I use a dial-up ISP, and have a
home LAN with three computers. I have read the docs that came with
the
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Russ Cook [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Thanks for the reply. The news daemon is running as rc.news, as
called by /etc/init.d/inn2. Also running is innwatch. My active
file exists. The problem appears (to me) to be an inability to
connect to my
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Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
There seems to be much confusion on how to get TrueType fonts working
with the new X4 packages.
Thanks for the clear instructions. I sorta had TrueType stuff working,
but I think I've got stuff totally sorted now.
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Joel Dinel [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[ dependancy problem elided ]
Has anybody else encountered this? Is there woody boxes out there
running Helix?!
I see this also, but I've already got a working install of Helix
Gnome, so it's not a big
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Rogerio Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On Nov 04 2000, John S. J. Anderson wrote:
Once I got it working, however, I was quite impressed. It's
noticeably faster than XFree 3.3.6 on window movement and screen
redraws, even with the old 4 MB
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Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It's not all that hard... I went through this last night.
Well, yah, it shouldn't have been. 8^/= I was doing the right thing,
and for some reason, it wasn't working. Then, it started working. I'm
not sure
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Greetings --
Did the XFree86 upgrade last night. Wasn't too bad; if I hadn't
mis-remembered the video card in this box, I think it would have been
seamless. As it was, I had to do some reading and playing around to
get /etc/X11/XF86Config set up the
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wulfie [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
ttmkfdir in the ttf dir :) Add the path to your fonts section in
XF86Config, freetype to the modules section (you already did both, it
seems) you're there.
What's the exact path to ttmkfdir on your box? I don't
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Steve Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
So far all the Linux clients have taken the Eudora/Lookout!/Pegasus
approach to email. Either everything goes into a single inbox and
you need to filter out from there and set up personalities or you
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Pontus Lidman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm trying to use gnus to read posts written in japanese. Unfortunately it
refuses to show the posts using japanese characters by default.
You've left out at least one crucial piece of info: what version of
Greetings --
Is there a beginner-targeted guide for getting this set-up? I've got
everything installed, and something is happening (I appear to have
some sort of local spool, and so on), but I'm not quite sure how to go
about configuring everything -- or even where to start.
Pointers, etc, to
Jozef == Jozef Skvarcek [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jozef Managing Usenet by H. Spencer D. Lawrence O'Reilly 1998
8^)
I was looking for something that wouldn't require me to go to the
bookstore.
--
[ John
Owen == Owen G Emry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Owen Can someone tell me how to switch to the Dvorak keyboard layout?
Owen I dimly recall the debian boot diskette asking to choose a
Owen keyboard layout, but I don't know how to change it on an
Owen installed system.
The answers from others should
Petteri == Petteri Heinonen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Petteri Hi. I've compiled new kernel, and made soundcard support as
Petteri modules. I've SB64PCI card, which I think is preferred as
Petteri es1371.
What _version_ of the kernel? I've got a card that reports as a
es1371, and (due to
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