On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 07:32:25PM +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
If I'm not mistaken, horse is named after the character in Footrot
Flats. The big cat who don't take no nonsense from anyone, and who
rescues The Dog at a crucial point in the movie of the same name.
horse, cat, dog?
great, now
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 06:31:58PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/wlg/7252?CMP=OTC-0O724Z062301
Actually editing is an overstatement. The video file is untouched, you
just watch it chopped.
true, but i am expecting to be able to write out the chopped version to
a new
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:07:24PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
although i can't figure out why anyone would want to remove jar jar.
he and his kind and the ewoks are my favourite star-wars characters.
well that makes two of you in the known universe (my 9 year old being
the other).
well, tell
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 10:42:47PM +1200, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
If one wanted that, then one would start an X-session on a different
virtual terminal of one's machine. Not that this one can figure out how
to do that, as Fedora has rather strict security that removes the
network from the
On Wed, Jun 01, 2005 at 03:36:17PM +1200, Craig FALCONER wrote:
Thanks Martin - I got one off ebay for $69 NZ.
how did you find that?
when we had the discussion i was actually trying to find one on ebay
but i had no luck.
greetings, martin.
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On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 07:33:23PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
1 x IBM PS/1 '486$50
2 x 3Com ethernet cards $10
2 x 16 megs memory SIMMs $?? -- out of 'bits' drawer.
dont forget the cdrom drive or a hard disk.
it all adds up...
so if you buy stuff to build a
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:15:52AM +1200, Michael JasonSmith wrote:
murphy was an optimist.
Not really. Capt. Edward A. Murphy, the US Army Air-Force technician,
was someone who had to work with others, and it got him down now and
again
oh come one, do you have to distort a nice and catchy
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 11:01:28AM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
And blowing a couple hundred dollars on something that needs the warranty
voided to do what is needed, isnt really that useful.
i expect that it is still cheaper than any other hardware for the same
purpose. who cares
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 01:40:38AM +1200, Rik Tindall wrote:
so i actually nfs-mounted /var/cache/apt/archives/ from the other
workstation,
so there were two locally-visible /var/cache/apt/archives/ ?
no, the originally local one is hidden by the mount.
only the remote one will be visible.
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:24:18AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
For large applications you should be looking at compiled languages - C,
C++, Pascal,... all of which are far more mature than python, pike and
the like. Anyway, the choice of language is far less important than a
proper design
On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 10:47:07AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
I'm sorry, but it's the *operating system* that provides the ability to
glue programs together. *nix os's work fine, but try using the tools you
describe on one of Wesleys toys and see how much glue you find. To the
best of my
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:47:13PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
quote Chris
A series of how you do scripts evenings
quote Martin
i have ordered the languages
you are quoting chris and me without explaining why.
your point?
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On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 06:24:18AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
by default, register_globals = off.
that does not help me when my users ask me to run applications that
require it to be on.
Anyway, that last sentence is like my own personal sentiment that 'KDE
is crap', which was true when I
On Mon, May 16, 2005 at 11:30:36AM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
that does not help me when my users ask me to run applications that
require it to be on.
So warn them and just switch it on for their own application. What's the
problem? They can only hurt themselves.
but i am the one made
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:28:25PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
Troll, or just *extremely* misleading?
neither.
please elaborate.
where do you disagree?
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On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 03:52:04PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
1. The shell. Has full logic capabilities, and is very useful for
setting up stuff that needs only a few lines throwing together
that's what i meant too. a few lines
2. PHP. Now this is the one I *really* object to. All the
On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 04:37:14PM +1200, Steve Holdoway wrote:
agreed.
however, it is still good for stuff that is to complex for shells.
perl at least was designed to replace shell scripts and it works well in
that area.
ok, i realize that this statement is to broad when taken out of
hi,
seems yuri got a new car:
http://www.ebaumsworld.com/coolpaintjob.html
greetings, martin.
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:55:42PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
each of woody, sarge, warty and hoary represent a different snapshot of
the debian universe.
Yes, except for the case where ubuntu/* packages (warty, hoary, etc)
have had modifications made that are not accepted by Debian. At which
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 03:13:15PM +1300, Jim Cheetham wrote:
warty and hoary are just different collections of debian packages, just
as woody, sarge and sid are. all of those are in a different state of
flux, and normaly you should not mix them.
All the packages in ubuntu/*/main are
On Mon, Jan 31, 2005 at 02:04:34PM +1300, yuri wrote:
If you trust the members of your household, having lax security for
convenience on the home side of the firewall, but with a darn good
firewall between the LAN and the internet is an okay solution - even
if it makes the
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 03:05:52PM +1300, John Carter wrote:
speaking of funny apps, i remember someone mentioning an app that would
have a bee fly accross any screens it could connect to. even with sound.
anyone came accross that beast?
Try xroach, it should suitably gross out the chosen
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 12:59:44PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
I've never seen anybody learn their first computer language without a
book of some sort. Even experienced programmers need books to learn a
language.
where do you get that idea?
i didn't learn any of my languages from a book.
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:15:37AM +1300, Timothy Musson wrote:
is this the point where i introduce my 85 year old grandmother who
is using linux with emacs, LaTeX and mutt? ;-)
Is this the point where I introduce my 84 year old grandfather who's
been running Debian GNU/Linux and teaching
On Tue, Nov 02, 2004 at 08:13:54AM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
array ls=({ 1,2,3,4,5,6 });
array pairs=ls/2;
({ ({ 1,2 }), ({ 3,4 }), ({ 5,6 }) })
List division! Very convenient feature. You can get list division in
python by subclassing list and defining the __div__ method (if you
really
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 04:28:13PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
I'll stick with python, thanks :-)
(Unless there's some major advantage of pike over python that I'm
missing)
speed and true encapsulation. (python objects don't have private data,
(at least they didn't last we checked)
sTeam,
On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 05:03:42PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Python is not as slow as it used to be. Especially with packages like
psyco (a dynamic x86 optimiser for python) it can approach the speed of
C for some code. In fact, it can even be *faster* than C, because it can
do dynamic
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 10:58:05AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I'm not sure whether you aren't overestimating the privacy value of
received:. They look all the same, therefore not of real value to
Snoopy. Since most mailing lists are too stupid to strip it, it's
already public anyway,
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 12:57:05PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
i disagree. it is a question of customer demand that all isps start
supporting smtp over tls or ipsec.
Ok, so snoopy hacks the ISP. If you want to be safe from the cops,
forget it.
hacking the isp is not going to do any good
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 01:35:42PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
hacking the isp is not going to do any good if we are not going to use
the isps mailservers.
Sure, but you were arguing for customer demand at the ISP. Receiving
their mail at home, i.e. running a server, is out for Joe Doe.
On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 04:27:35AM +0200, Martin Baehr wrote:
there even was a company
trying to offer services in that direction. freedom network from
zeroknowledge.com. (lawrence lessing and bruce schneider are on their
advisory board, and i believe at one time emanuel goldstein
On Sun, Aug 22, 2004 at 12:06:50PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
To get USB 2.0 working usefully you need a 2.6 kernel by the looks of
it.
no.
works fine with 2.4.
Definitely wrong.
how is works for me definetly wrong?
please be more reasonable with your use of adjectives.
being
On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 01:07:57PM +1200, Wesley Parish wrote:
I'm thinking - if I'm fortunate enough to find a decent place to stay,
secure enough to get my computer back in operation - of writing a GPLed
Wordperfect 5.* clone for FreeDOS. I've already worked out how I want the
central loop
On Fri, Jul 30, 2004 at 12:20:39PM +1200, InfoHelp wrote:
http://www.rnzi.com
RealPlayer hopeful..
ah, that seems to work.
now to actually find the right show.
they don't seem to correspond...
mms://streamingmedia.xtra.co.nz/live/af159992.wma?9toNoon3
mplayer accepts that, but doesn't play
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:23:41AM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
my spamfilter is not keeping up (only catches 50% or less)
dump your distro!
what's my distro got to do with it?
kinda overkill to change the whole distribution every time you find a
single program that has a problem.
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:05:14AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
of course the joke is on martin, as all such leg-pulls are to be carried
out before midday. He must have forgotten the timezone differences. LOL
i did not forget them, i just did not have internet access until late
afternoon that day.
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 07:19:16AM +1300, Steve Holdoway wrote:
How about using mixed case to make code more readable, like...
of course, but that does not require that the compiler actually makes a
difference between TemporaryStorage and TeMpOrArYsToRaGe
though one could argue that the case
On Thu, Mar 11, 2004 at 09:17:42AM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
What is more important (most of the time), is how fast the language is
to program in, not how fast it runs.
absolutely.
the money saved on coding can be invested into faster hardware
I can code in python 5-10 times
faster than
On Sat, Feb 28, 2004 at 08:41:43AM +1300, G. M. Bodnar wrote:
My laptop and work box are similar enough in configuration:
openbox3, with 4 virtual desktops:
1) remote screen sessions (can cause nesting if I'm connecting to
2) local information screen session:
3) development screen session:
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 12:17:39PM +1300, pmw57 wrote:
The danger is that if you start with a derivative and someone else then
starts from your derivative, by the time a 4th person gets in to the mix
the logo may not be recognisable as being Tux, or Linux related at all.
that is the point i
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 05:14:06PM +1300, Derek Smithies wrote:
The underlying problem for all programmers is that they want to get on
with the job, and get the product out there. Thus, code is written to
get the job done, and ignore the long term consequences.
but this is not restricted to
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 02:30:03PM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
well its very secure as long as you don't take the shrink wrap off.
as long as you don't unwrap the shrink?
greetings, martin.
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On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 08:57:43PM +1300, David Mann wrote:
They won't know Linux from a bar of soap but they certainly know cameras.
you mean they won't know this:
http://www.ele.uri.edu/~dobratzp/photos/linux_detergent.html
from this:
http://www.hopstudios.com/
but they know this:
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 03:11:53PM +1300, Yuri de Groot wrote:
It's taking bl--dy ages because I have to double check
each item that there's nothing useful before I delete it.
which is why i never delete mails.
the time saved that way is much more valuable than the few bits an
individual email
On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:19:18PM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
3CD set .. BTW I have been experimenting with Solaris X for i386 and I
like it a lot - requires fairly standard hardware but comes with CDE (very
nice) or Gnome 2 (yech).
you LIKE CDE?
someome get this guy a
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:02:39PM +1300, Brad Beveridge wrote:
consider emails. you want to search them by sender or subject
maybe. currently to do that your mailprogram has to read the
whole mailbox, which, if you have lots of mails, and more so
if you are using maildir, can take a
On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 01:02:51PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
There are no handy waterfalls around (and I have no generator),
couldn't the hot pools used for some kind of steam engine?
greetings, martin.
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On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 04:30:14PM +1300, Brad Beveridge wrote:
1) I want to put my files in a directory, not some hand wavey natural
language description - who knows where they might end up?
2) Won't a DB as a filesystem promote less organisation in the directory
structure?
erm, having a db
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:22:30AM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
It's an interesting (longish) article on the evolution of storage.
interresting reading indeed,
i like the: UPS has a transferrate of 7 MB/s within the US.
this is also interresting:
The challenge is similar to the challenge we
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:27:25PM +, Jason Greenwood wrote:
It covers MS plans for Longhorn and it's
'kernel level' inbuilt search ability. As if the NT kernel was not
bloated enough already...
that's skewing it abit.
the kernel level search ability is related to the fact that the
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 04:52:18PM +1300, Mike Beattie wrote:
dogs bark to much, i hate that. Wuff Wuff!!
Screen!
see, i love it how i can silence screen and make it emit a text message
instead. i wish i could do the same to dogs...
(and it's 'blonde' too, no?)
my screen has a black
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 09:19:25AM +1300, CF wrote:
You could cat file | head -n 96 | tail -n 33 :)
cat is almost always unnecessary:
~~~
Obviously Martin is a dog person
naaa, i am nice to cats and dont want to make them do work,
dogs bark to much, i hate that. Wuff Wuff!!
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 03:26:43PM +1300, Gareth Williams wrote:
You could cat file | head -n 96 | tail -n 33 :)
cat is almost always unnecessary:
head -96 file | tail -34
greetings, martin.
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On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:32:09AM +1300, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
head -96 file | tail -34
sed A,B\!d
impressive.
would i have thought of sed i'd have used:
sed -n A,Bp
greetings, martin.
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On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 01:09:19PM +1300, Carl Cerecke wrote:
Also, the Received: headers in email are interesting for tracing the
path of an email delivery.
but you don't need those to figure out at what time the email was written.
besides with smtp going source to destination nowadays there
On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 12:15:42PM +1300, Fisher, Robert (FXNZ CHC) wrote:
I get a cannot connect message for http://computerworld.co.nz
Same problem from here at work.
likewise from europe.
to debug stuff like that,
traceroute is interresting:
(skipped 20 hops that sprintlink takes from
On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 09:02:55AM +1300, Nick Rout wrote:
LINUX - Linux Is Not gnU linuX
i prefer this one:
Gnu is Not Unix / Linux Is Not UniX
greetings, martin.
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On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 01:06:51PM +1300, Chris Hellyar wrote:
Arrr, thanks Martin Volker...
Imagemagik, is there anything it can't do? :-)...
your laundry.
i just got mine back,
and now i have a set of wonderfull bright sky blue underwear.
i am sure it's imagemagicks fault, you know, it
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 09:10:01PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
It looks as if the next meeting is going to be the showing of RevolutionOS
and supporting shorts. i.e. A Night at tthe Flicks.
what supporting shorts are those?
stuff on the RevolutionOS dvd or from other sources?
i am
On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 11:56:34AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
I am intending to show some seattlewireless.tv clips
ah, i'll have to dig around on that site, thanks for the pointer.
and a couple of linux ads.
the new ibm ads i suppose...
greetings, martin.
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On Sat, Sep 13, 2003 at 02:35:07PM +1200, G. M. Bodnar wrote:
Vi's moded operation
was the only choice of editor that we had. (I guess we could have used
ed, but I'm not that masochistic. ;)
in AIX single user mode and in many LPmuds ed is the only editor available.
knowing vi helped a lot
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:33:23PM +1200, CF wrote:
I've just received a Sun Sparcserver 20MP, and the only editor installed
is vi
So I *have* to get to grips with it :-(
i have run into this situation more than once,
it is the only reason why i switched from emacs to vi.
i might still
On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 01:10:34PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I am not interested in having dumb shell arguments.
i am not going to start one, i just want to satisfy my curiosity.
The by far most annoying I can remember is that esc-bs only erases to
the previous period, so keeping a finger
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 01:27:24PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Key bindings? I always assumed it would be possible to change that,
been on the lookout... Would you be able to email me (offlist) your
bash key bindings
i'll include the relevant one here:
\e\C-h: backward-kill-word
\e\C-?:
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:05:07AM +1200, Yuri de Groot wrote:
I didn't know that a sender can over-ride the list reply-to
header. Cool.
well that depends on the list software.
it may either:
- notice that there is already a Reply-To: header and not set one.
(which leads to inconsistencies -
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:04:34PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
No freaking way am I going back to tcsh :-)
There are a few minor utter time-wasters in bash which I haven't found
out how to fix
which are?
i find it terribly annoying that filename completion uses ctrl-d in tcsh
and only
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:44:44AM +1200, Jim Cheetham wrote:
ssh - Super Shell, from Dublin in the mid 1980's ...
$ cta /etc/motd
DWIM: 'cta' not found ... did you mean 'cat'? y/n
But I don't think the code lived very long ... :-(
on the contrary, i have seen this feature in somewhere
On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:54:40AM +1200, CF wrote:
sick of distro wars, desktop wars, lets do shell wars :-)
Bash them.
Phil... just sh!
ksh! no yelling!
greetings, martin.
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:05:02AM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
Thank you Martin,
A nice laugh to start what looks like becoming a Difficult Friday.
hehehe, you are welcome.
note that this is not my text, i picked it from the tokyo lug list.
greetings, martin.
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On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 08:58:06AM +1200, Michael Pearce wrote:
Interesting that an Austrian Crop and food company owns Unix ;-)
www.sco-group.com
ooops!!!
i should have checked before making up the email-address.
that this company is austrian is a pure coincidence.
greetings, martin.
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On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 04:19:41PM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
If you want to dig a hole 10 feet deep, extra men won't help.
but they will, because one can take over when the other is exhausted.
(* quickly runs for cover* (hmm, erm in NZ i better swimm for cover)
* says it and swimms faster *)
On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 07:04:45PM +1200, David Mann wrote:
My eldest daughter. She has been told not to but persists in doing it.
Just out of curiosity, why must she not use IE?
it's probably the typical youth rebellion stage we all went through
at one point of time.
but better IE than
On Sun, Jul 20, 2003 at 05:32:12PM +1200, Chad wrote:
Use javascript to determine browser useragent
why do you need javascript for that?
there is a user-agent header.
greetings, martin.
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On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 10:27:09AM +1200, Carl Cerecke wrote:
I'd like to introduce my 6 yr old daughter to programming
language ideas.
at the linuxtag i met a KDE developer who is teaching his son c++
his argument was that if he learned pascal he would then have noone to
talk to and share code
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 01:36:17PM +1200, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
I could get some sent over, cost
prob about just under NZ$30. Anyone interested? I'd need to know within
the next few hours (it sounds like it's today, and they're only sold on
the day itself). (Reply off-list)
actually they
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 11:55:33AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Can anyone tell me why this might be, and how to fix it? I don't recall
changing anything.
it is a secret plot to get you to invite volker over for dinner.
greetings, martin. (this was the pick-on-volker list, wasn't it?)
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On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:24:42PM +1200, Mahesh De Silva wrote:
This also has implecations for using red hat at our
install fests!!
no, it has not.
Dear Sir/Madam:
I am writing on behalf of Red Hat, Inc. with respect
to its trademark
matters.
It has come to our attention that you are
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 07:44:00PM +1200, Gareth Williams wrote:
I was thinking more along the lines of someone buying McDonalds Burgers and
then reselling them as McDonalds Burgers ...
To be able to sell any second hand right next to an official restraunt, you
would need to undercut them
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:19:25PM +1200, Slosh wrote:
my one is naive instead of naïve, even though they mean the exact same
thing.
i didn't know that english supported the use of ï
i expected that naive would be the correct spelling in english because
the english alphabet doesn't contain ï.
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:25:27AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
strangely enough when I did a marketing paper at university, our
lecturer was of the view that once a brand name became a household word
for the generic item, that was the ultimate marketing success, ie your
brand was so far into the
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 11:28:56AM +1200, C Falconer wrote:
vnc
nmap
eh???
what other than the original products are these used for?
how about unix?
greetings, martin.
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On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:36:09PM +1200, Mark Tomlinson wrote:
i didn't know that english supported the use of ï
If you're really worried about the use of i, make sure you use a capital
when using the first person singular pronoun!
i was only worried about ï, not i.
as for I, it may have
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 12:06:18AM -0700, elvis wrote:
can you guys refresh us to whats going on here?
--whats a toy library?
a place where you can borrow toys and games.
very usefull to try out various things instead of spending lots of money
for them and then finding out that the kids don't
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 12:57:50PM +1200, Tim Wright wrote:
Oh and this will make you all laugh or cry (both happened in this
household I assure you ) - my latest jetstream bill - wait for it:
$60, last month! - 291GB! (about 1G of which I can account for)
Wow! Is it even possible to
On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:27:58AM +1200, Paul Swafford wrote:
KNOPPIX .. no good Gentoo User should leave home without it!
you do realize that knoppix is debian?
greetings, martin. ;-)
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On Sat, Jun 07, 2003 at 12:11:19AM +0100, Jim Cheetham wrote:
FreeBSD is almost as flexible as a Linux, and more stable in a
qualitative way.
which linux distribution are you comparing this with?
greetings, martin.
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On Fri, Apr 04, 2003 at 07:54:05AM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
Thanks to Chris W for mentioning this program. I just reinstalled it
(gentoo ;-)
i just installed it because of your post.
I'd forgotten what a great program it is, beautiful renderings of
outerspace/planets etc.
i think i heared
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 09:18:49AM +1200, Zane Gilmore wrote:
how many LUG lists are you a member of around the world?
well, all the lugs i am in, are places that i have been to:
vienna, san diego, los angeles, auckland, wellington, chch, dunedin,
tokyo, singapore...
the list is slowly growing
On Tue, Apr 01, 2003 at 05:20:33PM +1200, Nick Rout wrote:
wow is this the martin we know?
you bet it is!
time to come back for another demo!!
i'd love to!
topic will be sTeam (www.open-steam.org)
an environment for cooperative knowledge managment and communications hub.
greetings, martin.
enough is enough!
i've had it!
with pike:
calendar failing,
floatingpoint bugs,
blocking i/o callbacks
upgrading woes
with caudium:
php problems
parser bugs
entity problems
licensing problems
camas problems
with roxen:
mysql dependancy
complex rxml classes
with sTeam:
confusing web interface
On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 08:02:26AM +1200, Tim Wright wrote:
Well, the next stage for using my MP3 player is converting some ogg vorbis
files to MP3. I have all the command line tools (that I'm using now), but
was wondering if anyone had a nice GUI I can play with?
what mp3 player are you
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:07:12AM +1200, Chris Hellyar wrote:
Anyway, I've had a play with festival, which works fine direct to /dev/dsp,
hmm, i had a look at festival (as installed through debian)
and my biggest gripe is that the voice quality is rather poor.
i have been playing with a voice
On Wed, Mar 26, 2003 at 10:22:32PM +1200, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
You have received this email because you recently had Linux installed on
your computer by the Canterbury Linux Users' Group. It is a one time posting.
hmm, this makes it sound like a typical spam excuse,
especially one time
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:54:21PM +1300, Helmut Walle wrote:
i looked at blender, and could not figure out how to use it
Yes, Martin, it is the CAD-like concept of Blender
ah, that gets my hopes up, i have played around with CAD many years ago,
so i might handle the effort to learn this...
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 07:43:22AM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote:
The problem with simple is that sooner or later you will need something
only a complex program can deliver. Then, if you move to the more
complex program all the time spent on learning the simple one
goes to waste.
i
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 08:40:41AM +1300, Ryurick M. Hristev wrote:
there are general concepts in all these things that don't change.
I wasn't talking about general concepts but specific techniques.
This is were you spend most of the time and they are not transferable.
only if your goal is to
On Wed, Mar 12, 2003 at 11:34:57AM +1300, Will Pilvio wrote:
Alternatives?
- C: Development too slow
- Java: I Dont like programming in it...
- Python: Maybe
- Perl: reading Hebrew is not as hard
- Ruby: Yes, I like this, but its much too young to predict where it will go
- Delphi: ? Its
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 12:47:04AM +1300, Jason wrote:
of=91CD2.iso is your modifier,
so in this case the output gets written to the file 91CD2.iso and not to
stdout.
Not on my Mandrake system. That modifier just changes the file name of
the output ISO.
that's what i said.
The stdout is
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 08:55:17PM +1300, Vik Olliver wrote:
Try kpovmodeller. Actually, I'm about to start an article on 3D modeling
programs for Linux so any feedback is welcomed.
oh, i have been looking for practical not to complicated 3d editors.
i looked at blender, and could not figure
On Wed, Feb 19, 2003 at 05:17:09PM +, paul schulz wrote:
I reciently had an unexpected system power down at home, leaving some one of
the file systems rather fragmented. Fsck doesn't find any trouble, but would
be nice to get the partition in some sort of nice order again.
Have thought
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