Quoting shell command lines in Makefiles

I'm using CPPUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki) to make unit tests for each class in my C++ program. I can say make test to have them all built and executed. The testexec target builds the unit test executables without running them. I started with something like this:

Re: Quoting shell command lines in Makefiles

Further Reading of The Fine Manual reveals that that way to quote $ in a makefile is to say $$: test: testexec for test in $(TESTS); do ./$$test ; done I'm using CPPUnit (http://cppunit.sourceforge.net/cppunit-wiki) to make unit tests for each class in my C++ program. I can say make

Can't browse certain websites

don't want to risk hosing the machine. Thanks for your help, Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Portable OGG Player

technology for Ogg players, but I don't see news of it actually being adopted in products yet. A while back I came across Free firmware for the iPod that allows it to play oggs. I don't know if this works alongside the normal iPod firmware or just totally replaces it. -- Michael D. Crawford

Re: A list administation query

. Happy New Year! Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What happened to my menubar?

Besides my menubar being missing, it seems that when I minimize my windows by clicking the _ in a window's titlebar, the Window just disappears, and I can't figure out how to get it back again. Thanks for your help. Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming

[SOLVED] Re: What happened to my menubar?

there was no logout menu. Hope This Helps Someone Else. Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X can't find keybinding

I don't think this is an architecture-specific problem. What package are the keybindings in? Maybe it got uninstalled when I updated. Thanks for your help, Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks at: http://www.goingware.com/tips

What happened to my menubar?

I restore it? I'm using gnome, and logging in via gdm. Thanks for your help, Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: On unresponsive maintainers (was: Re: On using magicfilter and gs)

, but if he's really being unresponsive, somebody should look into it in a serious way. Michael D. Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read GoingWare's Bag of Programming Tricks at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Good tool for light photo editing?

You know, I think the Gimp may be a little heavyweight for what the original poster was looking to do. Learning to use it for a beginner might be intimidating. Are there any imaging apps that only do the basic stuff like rotation, cropping, and scaling, and are very easy to use? There must be

Re: how to start making doodle work

Hi HS, Any suggestion what could be amiss? I get a lot of email that says \/14-gra helps with that. Hope that helps. Yours, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: ursine.ca has been hijacked

against the mentally ill. You'll find Living with Schizoaffective Disorder at: http://www.geometricvisions.com/Madness/schizoaffective-disorder/ Sincerely, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Serial terminal in testing?

dselect I couldn't find anything in the way of serial terminals for debian. I'd be shocked if there wasn't something so I must be overlooking it. Thanks! Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: Serial terminal in testing?

need to do something to put it online? I did read the man page, but I'm still unclear. Thanks! Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

LUGs in Nova Scotia?

Are there any Linux User Groups in Nova Scotia, Canada? I'm in Truro, but I'd be surprised if there was one here. I often go to Halifax though, which is a big enough city that I'd expect there to be a LUG there. Thanks! Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

where to get old hard drives?

and recover your data. It's a Quantum Viking II 9 GB LVD SCSI, (40 MB/sec SCSI transfer rate). Can anyone give me a clue where I might find one? Used would be OK, even with a dead mechanism if the controller board were OK. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software

Re: Music Services

/tips/legal-downloads.html If you install BitTorrent, check out http://www.legaltorrents.com/ Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you this one rule

Re: Scrolling beeps while playing music.

a background window in my X session, to activate it. I don't know if your problem is related but this would be a possibly helpful clue to investigate. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: Hard Drive Limitations

, compare that to the .config for the kernel in your debian installation. Debian copies the .config file to the /boot directory. Maybe you can find an option you need to enable. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL

trouble upgrading libxft-dev

-installation script returned error exit status 2 Errors were encountered while processing: /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_powerpc.deb Thanks for any help you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL

How can I install with unmet dependencies

. Try 'apt-get -f install' with no packages (or specify a solution). Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How can I install with unmet dependencies

: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libxft-dev_2.1.2-6_powerpc.deb (--unpack): subprocess pre-installation script returned error exit status 2 -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills

Re: What can make MP#'s play at the wrong rate?

Maybe you've entered a time-space distortion field, and your audio files are actually playing at the correct rate, but you're experiencing time twice as fast as everyone else. Yers, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com

Re: What mail program does this?

outside the firewall, then telnet to my popserver. $ telnet server.domain.com 110 Try giving the HELP command to find out what commands you can do. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills

Re: Debian on 640KB or RAM?

/ It would probably be a lot of work. uCLinux is now integrated with the 2.6 kernel, I understand. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you this one rule

iRATE radio 0.3 released

prompting, more publicity, and several others. The iRATE radio website is at http://irate.sourceforge.net/ -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you

Can't get out of dependency resolution in dselect

the dialog just brings me back into the dialog. -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: OT: C++

You might also find my article helpful: Pointers, References and Values: Passing Parameters, Returning Results, and Storing Member Variables with Musings on Good C++ Style at: http://www.goingware.com/tips/parameters/ Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software

Re: OT: C++

://www.accu.org/ They also have a bunch of very helpful technical book reviews on their website. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Can't play audio CDs

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Re: Importing Corel Draw

the Debian package, as there has been a lot of work such as the very recent 2.0 and 2.0.1 releases. However, they don't appear to provide Debian packages, I thought they did. Maybe you can use alien to convert an RPM. You will also need the Import/Export plugin package as well. Mike -- Michael D

How to install BitTorrent on Woody?

. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

If esd is running Mozilla won't launch

then started esd again, I am able to open new Mozilla windows. So I guess I have a workaround, but it should not be this way. Can you tell me what is wrong? Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Recommend a better sound card?

if the card's vendor provides complete hardware specs to Free Software developers. If you'd like to email me your recommendation send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL

What does Aliant Telecom use for DSL?

protocol, then it should work fine. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you this one rule of conduct. Do what you will, but speak out

running short on DMA buffers during badblocks

it's got the benh patch, I don't know because I don't have my kernel sources online right now. /dev/sda11 is 16.7 GB in size. I will probably upgrade my kernel once I'm done with the installation of my new drive. Thanks for any advice you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc

Please test iRATE radio

the irate-devel mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id=77232 Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. I give you

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

there as well, with a plain-text version coming up in the next couple days. The original article is still at: http://www.goingware.com/notes/prosecute-sco.html I'll try to shut up now. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com

Re: Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

/notes/prosecute-sco.html I just got out of bed after sleeping for 17 hours from a hacking bender so it's going to be a little while before I can get it together to post it. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL

Let's Put SCO Behind Bars

simple, valid markup, and with no external dependencies such as images or external stylesheets. It even looks good in lynx! Thank you for your attention. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

restarting wget?

to do this, but I haven't been able to get it to work. Alternatively, is there another recursive website downloader that can do what I want? I just want something I can restart in the event of failure. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting

Re: Q on NYT article on the cost of Spam

://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/7/9/831/85518/55#55 Direct mail is very scientifically targeted http://www.kuro5hin.org/comments/2003/7/9/831/85518/67#67 Ever Faithful, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: how to have a gpg public key?

How can i have a gpg public key? Go to a locksmith in your nearest town and ask them to cut you one. They keep blanks on hand. Warmest regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Serial terminal program?

on the old SunOS. On Windows I use Hyperterminal. I'll need it for powerpc, but if one is available for x86 there is likely to be one for powerpc too. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Firewire card supported by Linux?

with PCILynx drivers. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: kinda OT: Web Hosting

with them is that they have always had excellent customer service, and have always treated me really well. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

floating point hex calc?

address, but unfortunately doesn't seem to be able to handling floating point the way I want. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: floating point hex calc?

); foo = *(float*)bar; printf( %1.15f\n, foo ); return 0; } -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OS X Games

compiler for Mac OS X is gcc. Objective C has been compiled with gcc for many years. Next tried to avoid releasing the sources to the objective c compiler but the Free Software Foundation wouldn't let them.) -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

USB Midi adapters for Linux?

the midiman midisport or MOTU Fastlane. Does anyone know about these specifically? Midisport: http://www.m-audio.net/products/midiman/usbmidi.php FastLane: http://www.motu.com/english/hardware/fastlane_usb/body.html Thanks for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert

Re: External serial modem advice ?

really sad to see that from a Hayes product. I have also used a Hayes 1200 (that I bought for $700!) and a Hayes 28.8, and they were both rock-solid. Each gave years of performance without a hint of trouble. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting

Re: Security: system reboot?

root by setting their userid. It won't tell you if someone has cracked your system in such a way as to be able to reboot you without becoming root though. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

Compiling gnucash 1.7.7 for Woody?

. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Kernel for PowerPC (AppleMac)

system software, rather than just being used for booting, then you have an old world machine. You will need to know that for when you install. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: Making a DSL server

to any configuration that can't be avoided. Does Linux handle DSL authentication? Can linux configure a DSL modem to handle authentication, without any use of Windows? Is there a way I can test this authentication with my office LAN? Thank you for your help. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare

Making a DSL server?

an ISP and needed to service hundreds of connections, this wouldn't be a problem. Does anyone make DSL server hardware that serves one connection? What do I even look for. Thanks for any help you can offer. Regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

things people can do with their computers, things for which patent-free Free Software would spring up, thus assisting the market failure of the patents. That might not be the case if there were Free Software that implemented a patent. Respectfully, Mike Crawford -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare

Re: Please Help Pass W3C Patent Policy

. If I distributed my work, even with source, I would be in violation of the kernel's GPL and ever kernel developer would have standing to sue me because I didn't license my addition to the kernel with the GPL. Regards, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Making a custom Debian distro?

, the startup script would relaunch this browser. Thanks for any tips you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: killing the penguin (framebuffer)

leaving the framebuffer, you can run at higher resolution and use nice fonts like the one from Sun. Just type reset to get rid of the penguin. Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Using p2c to translate Delphi to C?

to make it work, but I worry about causing some problem because I don't have a Delphi compiler. Is there a version of p2c available anywhere (it doesn't have to be a Debian package) that can translate Delphi to C? Or any kind of Delphi to C translator? Thank you for your help. Michael D. Crawford

Re: nature of a boot loader

grubboot.dat to your Windows partition and add it to your NT or Win2k boot menu. This probably works on XP too, but I don't have XP. Yours, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting. http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills

Re: What [OT] stands for?

Either Ornithology or Ornithologist, depending on the context. It means the study of birds. Bird scientists are very active online. Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

electronic CAD software?

of commercial applications for this sort of thing, but most are very expensive. I don't need anything very elaborate at this point, I'd just like to learn back what I used to know about electronics. Thanks, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Is there a later mozilla?

and relaunch it. Thanks, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Standards docs available in Debian?

through apt. Are these indeed available with apt? It would be easier than hunting them down, and make it easier to find a place to put them. Ever Faithful, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: (semi-OT) JPG files - Movie file

search gives Loki's SDL Motion JPEG Library: http://www.lokigames.com/development/smjpeg.php3 however I get the impression from the page that it's not ready for production use yet. There are also motion jpeg hardware cards available on the market. Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert

Re: macintosh hardware

. There are a few linux distros for the Mac. Besides debian, there is Yellow Dog and LinuxPPC, which I think are both ports from Red Hat, and there is the Apple-sponsored mkLinux which uses the Mach microkernel like OS X does. I used to run mkLinux on my Mac a few years ago. Michael D. Crawford

Re: XMMS goes silent when moving windows

? Which kernel version are you using? Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: cross platform development

://www.goingware.com/zoolib/cookbook/ there is also some sample code. It's best these days to get it from CVS. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: FireWire harddrives

much for IDE drives because they have to be mounted inside the cases and have such unpleasant cables. Even Ultra160 scsi can be external. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting

Re: dual boot win2k and debian

to grub to deal with that, but I don't know what it would be. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: dual boot win2k and debian

installation CD and choose the repair option. Then install grub with just setup (hd0) and NOT setup (hd0,0) Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: OT: Programming books

://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/ http://www.goingware.com/tips/ http://www.byteswap.net/ Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

DOS on non-x86 systems?

bochs so maybe it would suit me, I don't know. I would be happy if there were free software that could do what Gimpel Software's products do, but I don't think there is. gcc does a certain amount of lint-like diagnostics, but not nearly so extensive. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford

Has Mozilla been hijacked?

can't figure out what is making this happen. Sometimes it seems to me that the pages change to a new URL without me clicking anything. Thanks for any help you can give me. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL

Re: print html without netscape

this yet, but I think it would be straightforward to do it. You could even run this from a cron job to spit automatically generated HTML to the printer every hour or day. It looks like Gecko's home page is at: http://www.mozilla.org/newlayout/ Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert

Re: wget asp pages recursively?

have been studying the man page.) I could hack on wget's source code if necessary. If I have to do that, maybe somebody could give me a tip on where to look in the source. Maybe I could contribute a useful patch. Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software

Re: How to avoid meltdowns in the future

lilo to replace your block list. If you have a /boot/grub/menu.lst entry for it already, you can just select it immediately when you boot. If you have no menu entry, you can use the Grub command line. Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Debian book for complete newbie?

to overwhelm him. Maybe I could get a book on Linux basics and another on Debian administration, but I think he would find it least intimidating if I could give him just one book to refer to. Thanks, Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Re: Debian book for complete newbie?

Running Linux looks pretty good. The edition available at http://www.chapters.ca/ is from 1999. The website seems to say there is an upcoming 2002 edition, but when I click the link on chapters' website it takes me to the wrong page. I couldn't find anything about a 2002 edition at

Re: Q: How to find people with Debian skills

codes if you want to recruit only in a limited region. For example, http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=q=resume+debian+experience+c%2B%2B+04854btnG=Google+Search Finds my resume, thereby demonstrating I'm the only Debian C++ programmer in the town of Owl's Head, Maine. Mike -- Michael D

Re: Mac OS X package

download a 650 MB installer .iso image, or you can buy a CD from a vendor: http://gnu-darwin.sourceforge.net/ Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http

Tuning for processor architecture

at program startup. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

a google search for: mark twain war philippines And you'll find lots of pages about it. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter

Re: tomcat test

Maybe this will help: Use Validators and Load Generators to Test Your Web Applications http://linuxquality.sunsite.dk/articles/webapptesting/ Mike --- Hello, I just apt-get install tomcat but I don't find how to test it :-) Any idea ? -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc

Re: tomcat test

article, and test it for valid HTML, as well as stress-testing it with a load generator. I wrote the article after I was hired to tune a web application that fell over the day it went live, because it couldn't handle even a moderate user load! Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert

Re: Debian on an old system

think you'll be fine. It would be greatly to your benefit to build a custom kernel that has only the features you need, and whose build options are optimized to the kind of processor you are running. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Re: Debian on an old system

tree stuff in: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/zoolib/zoolib/src_other/storage/ the slotstore is the older database format, which works well (and maybe is faster) but is vulnerable in the event of powerfailures or crashes. Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert

Re: are there bootable net install alpha woody isos?

I only have windows up Does anyone know whether it would be possible to use the tools that create an iso under Cygwin on Windows? If this were explicitly supported it would likely help a lot of people. http://www.cygwin.com/ - a Free Software *nix environment for Windows. Mike -- Michael D

disable paragraph flows in mozilla?

. Can someone enlighten me? I'm using Mozilla 0.9.9 on Debian Woody x86. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter/ Tilting

Evolution quits while recieving mail

there is a later Evolution version available, but there doesn't seem to be a debian package for PowerPC later than 1.0.2-1. Is there a later PowerPC debian package I can obtain somewhere? Thanks, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http

Re: word format

to format a nice resume, and it is absolutely free. It's not even shareware, it is Free Software in the sense of Free Speech. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter

Mozilla can't post at Kuro5hin

Mozilla try posting a comment there? Maybe this is a bug someone needs to know about. I emailed one of K5's staff but I'm not sure what client systems they have for testing. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com

ATI video out on laptop?

for a pleasant evening cuddled up with one's honey on the couch to watch a movie. It would be much nicer if I could play it on the TV set. I guess I could spring for a dedicated DVD player, but then there's the region coding thing. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development

Re: GRUB question

the GRUb command line. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http://www.goingware.com/newsletter/ Tilting at Windmills for a Better Tomorrow

Re: Change compile options wi/ apt-get source?

too. Recompiling glibc is a bit risky because you can make your machine unbootable if you make a mistake. I think Mandrake is Pentium optimized. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe

C++ Style at Kuro5hin

, although it does have its trolls. It was written in Emacs on Woody, and viewed in Mozilla 0.9.9. Best, Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare Newsletter at http

RE: Applications close by themselves with CPU under load.

and check your whole drive. If you have a SCSI disk you may be able to do this from the SCSI host bus adapter's BIOS setup utility. Mike -- Michael D. Crawford GoingWare Inc. - Expert Software Development and Consulting http://www.goingware.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe to the GoingWare

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