[Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

There was eleven of us last night, so this is just the bits of conversation I heard. strace(1) is handy for looking at the system calls a program makes to the kernel, try `groups' and then `sudo -i strace -tte file groups'. Facebook's React has spread to Android and iOS. "React Native lets you

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Hi Tim, > Ah, memories of PIP PUN:=CON: in the days of good ol' CP/M Going back a bit further, http://www.masswerk.at/misc/card-punch-typography/ explains how IBM card punches would print the column's character on the top by selectively pressing down on 35 wires using a "code plate" that was an

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Isn't backwards compatibility great? Reminds me of this oddity that still exists in Windows http://superuser.com/questions/613313/why-cant-we-make-con-prn-null-folder-in-windows On 8 February 2017 at 12:06, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > > One main thing; poking about an

[Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

Hi, One main thing; poking about an NTFS filesystem mounted with ntfs-3g on a Linux laptop using FUSE. Many of the files showed a link count of two, that second field from `ls -l', but there was no second occurrence of the file's inode number on the filesystem. ntfs-3g's support forum has an

[Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

Hi, Terry, don't think your searching (Google?) found the first of these; top hit for me. The others might be useful to look at given your simple needs. http://getbootstrap.com/css/ http://purecss.io/ http://getskeleton.com/ And then https://angularjs.org/ was the bigger framework

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On Wednesday, 4 May 2016 07:00:17 BST Ralph Corderoy wrote: > "A quine is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and > produces a copy of its own source code as its only output." -- > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29 > > World War Ⅱ voice encryption used by Allies.

[Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

Hi, "A quine is a non-empty computer program which takes no input and produces a copy of its own source code as its only output." -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quine_%28computing%29 World War Ⅱ voice encryption used by Allies. Claude Shannon and Alan Turing involved. One-time pad in the

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On Wed, 03 Feb 2016 18:21:52 +, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk said: > Is there another way to create a list of > packages that can be passed to apt-get, to re-install everything? /usr/bin/dpkg --get-selections "*" > package.selections ..to save a list of packages. To install that same list:

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On Wednesday 03 February 2016 13:03:12 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Terry's not getting all he expects from his > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET and has bought a scope. Link, > Terry? http://www.picaxe.com/Hardware/Add-on-Modules/PCB-scope/[1] > Some oscilloscope traces of a Raspberry Pi's

[Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

Hi, Draw circuits with pixels. A power source is a 2x2 block. Crossing wires that don't interconnect simply miss out the common pixel. Transistors are T junctions, and drop the wire's current by one. Iterate the circuit until a state is seen for the second time; that defines the animated GIF.

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On 03/02/16 13:43, Terry Coles wrote: On Wednesday 03 February 2016 13:03:12 Ralph Corderoy wrote: Terry's not getting all he expects from his https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MOSFET and has bought a scope. Link, Terry? http://www.picaxe.com/Hardware/Add-on-Modules/PCB-scope/[1] And there was

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On Wednesday 03 February 2016 17:40:46 Peter Merchant wrote: > And there was a discussion on using Synaptic to give a list of > installed packages, which didn't work on Clive's machine (Mint 17). Yes. I meant to ask about this, but everyone was busy at the time. Some years ago, I gave Mint a

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Hi Peter, > > > Haven't seen this, but might be interesting. Marcus du Sautoy > > > spends an hour looking at algorithms for the layman. 60 minutes. > > > Available for about another three weeks, but get_iplayer could > > > always just save it to disk until you've spare time. > > >

[Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

Hi, I'd never heard of this, but Terry was passing through at the time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Aberdeen_typhoid_outbreak Haven't seen this, but might be interesting. Marcus du Sautoy spends an hour looking at algorithms for the layman. 60 minutes. Available for about another three

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Some additions from the other table: On Wednesday 07 Oct 2015 09:41:01 Ralph Corderoy wrote: > I'd never heard of this, but Terry was passing through at the time. > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_Aberdeen_typhoid_outbreak I hadn't realised it was '64; I was 14 then! > Haven't seen this,

Re: [Dorset] Links from Last Night's Pub Meet.

I watched this. Didn't get much out of it. Dumbed down for the average TV viewer. Peter Haven't seen this, but might be interesting. Marcus du Sautoy spends an hour looking at algorithms for the layman. 60 minutes. Available for about another three weeks, but get_iplayer could always just