Benno wrote:
So I think in the tradiation of anti-partterns, it is best to ask,
which code sucks and why, and then try to avoid doing that.
I recall reading something similar in a M$ publication a long time ago.
One has to go through
many iterations bad code/design before one recognises
* Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
Just about any language can be made to look good by applying
to a small problem that suites the language. Large projects
tackling large difficult problem domains test the language
and the developer much more that toy problems.
good point.
Benno wrote:
On Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 13:09:52 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
IMHO.[1]
So I think in the tradiation of
Rajnish wrote:
Benno wrote:
So I think in the tradiation of anti-partterns, it is best to ask,
which code sucks and why, and then try to avoid doing that.
I recall reading something similar in a M$ publication a long time ago.
One has to go through
many iterations bad code/design before
* QuantumG [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I heard someone bitching the other day that gtk+/python apps are slow.
Not been my experience, but if you're sufficiently bored, why don't you
download some and see for yourself?
I guess my point was that there are so many out there to choose from,
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 03:55:06PM +1000, Benno wrote:
On Wed Sep 21, 2005 at 13:09:52 +1000, Taryn East wrote:
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
IMHO.[1]
* Benno [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
I think this is because great code is code is due to the absence
of suckiness rather than the presence of brilliance. At least
IMHO.[1]
make sense - but surely there's some code around that has had the
greatest amount of suckiness removed... or at least
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Taryn East wrote:
I've been making do with thedailywtf.com but it doesn't always have the
same ring to it. :)
I read the dailyWTF for sheer entertainment value :)
I wonder why 90%+ of the examples are from Windows developers?
The site is a great source of antipatterns.
cheers
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Firefox keeps randomly going back. It seems to be some kind of mouse
gesture triggered by my trackpad. I'd like to disable gestures in FF
completely.
I can't find the option in the GUI or about:config.
I've tried with an extension, All In One Gestures, but it doesn't seem
to be
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 04:42:49PM +1000, Mike MacCana wrote:
Firefox keeps randomly going back. It seems to be some kind of mouse
gesture triggered by my trackpad. I'd like to disable gestures in FF
completely.
Do you have horizontal scrolling on your trackpad? The same thing
happened to me
I recently acquired a couple of WRT54G routers to create a wireless
network at home. I've flashed one of them with the dd-wrt firmware. The
great thing about using the open source firmwares out there like dd-wrt
and OpenWRT is that you can turn your router into anything you want -
router, access
Taryn East wrote:
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
I felt for sure there'd at least be one person self-promoting:
my code is briliant, you should come see it in my project foo ;)
I've spent many long hours on libsndfile:
http://www.mega-nerd.com/libsndfile/
It had its first
I'm asking for anybody's opinion of code that they think is worthwhile to
look at. It doesn't have to be universally accepted as being perfect
(though that would be really good if you know of any) just what you
have found to be really great.
cheers,
Taryn
[who is trying to prod a sleeping
Oscar,
Have you grown too technical and too old to have a sense of humour
anymore?
Lighten up - the talk is obviously on conference presentation.
Rafael Kraus
Software Developer
Wild Internet Telecom
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3) Unfortunately, Jacinta earnt her bile.
And here I was thinking that enough bile would be produced in Jacinta's
own liver.
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Hi to all Once more.
I have been travelling around Aus for abount 15 Months and am noew settled
down again. Its a BIG country 15 months and we saw only a small part of it.
Down to business!!!
Do any Sluggers run Gentoo?
Has anyone tried to install the Gentoo live cd?
How many answers to affirn
I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is,
all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install.
Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has
an option to bypass it. Naturally it would be nice if it was reasonably
Michael Kraus wrote:
Oscar,
Have you grown too technical and too old to have a sense of humour
anymore?
You've nothing to say constructive, so don't say it here.
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On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 18:54, Gerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do any Sluggers run Gentoo?
I do.
Has anyone tried to install the Gentoo live cd?
Not since 2002, when I installed my main system. That's a testament to how
well a Gentoo system can run and be kept up-to-date, despite being
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:59:10PM +1000, Michael Kraus wrote:
Lighten up - the talk is obviously on conference presentation.
Of course, that's just what YOU would LIKE us TO believe!
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On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:09:52PM +1000, Taryn East wrote:
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
Depends whether you wanted programming in the small or large.
Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls books are excellent.
Not sure whether they count as FOSS though.
Matt
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Huh ? I've happily used internet banking with Commonwealth, St. George,
and ANZ using Epiphany, Galeon, Firefox Mozilla but now find Moz is
the only one working and all the others are giving me variations on the
message that 'Your browser does not support Javascript'.
Yet under all the
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:38 +1000, David wrote:
I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is,
all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install.
Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has
an option to bypass it.
pop up blocking
St George for example wont even work with IE6 sp2 unless you tell the pop up blocker to ignore the St George website (same for Firefox).
So add your banks URL to the pop up blocker allowed list.
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 23:28 +1200, Adam Bogacki wrote:
Huh ? I've happily
David wrote:
I've looked at the Knoppix website, but that looks similar in concept to
Ubuntu.
There are a million Knoppix variants, but if you want a Knoppix shell
you can simply boot knoppix with knoppix 2 at the boot prompt. it boots
runlevel 2 I think - all knoppix root shell, with all
Yet under all the Preferences I've ticked all the correct boxes explicitly
allowing Javascript. My Gnome network proxy is set to allow direct
internet connection (unlike T*bird F*fox I never managed to get
it working) and I'm at a loss ...
What's the gnome network proxy?
Chris-
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On Wednesday 21 September 2005 19:47, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is,
all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install.
Can anyone suggest a live distro that either doesn't have X at all, or has
an option
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 21:30 +1000, Ken Caldwell wrote:
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 19:38 +1000, David wrote:
I just used a live CD for the first time (Ubuntu), and as good as it is,
all I really want is a shell for diagnostics. It took ages to install.
Can anyone suggest a live distro that
I am trying to get Skype to run through artsd and jack so I can pipe it
to an icecast client.
Below is what I got from the guy who wrote the icecast client:
This bit works fine:
jackd -d alsa -r 44100 # Or however you normally start it.
# The next line will not work if arts is suspended. It
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:03:23AM +1000, Jacinta Richardson wrote:
G'day everyone,
You are invited to join us in a talk by Paul Fenwick about Presentation Mind
Control - how to make other people think your talk is much better than it
really
is. Come and learn some great tips on how to
hi slugs,
today my asus wifi router has arrived and i am going to play around with
it this weekend. so i will try to install openwrt. because it has 2x usb
ports, having a standalone mp3-player with an external harddisk seems
to be possible.
i have checked the support for external storage
On 21/9/2005, Gottfried Szing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
i have checked the support for external storage of linux and this works
fine, but i havent seen a list of supported usb-audio-devices. on the
web are hosts of pages that describe sometimes that usb-audio is no
problem, sometimes that it is
On Wed, 2005-09-21 at 17:41 +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote:
i have checked the support for external storage of linux and this works
fine, but i havent seen a list of supported usb-audio-devices. on the
web are hosts of pages that describe sometimes that usb-audio is no
problem, sometimes that
I'm using a Perl script for MySQL backup, I'd like to compress the
database dumps, the business end of the script runs like:
---
while (my @arr = $sth-fetchrow) {
print $arr[1]\n;
system(rm $backuppath/$arr[1]-$oldyear$oldmonth$oldday.sql);
system(mysqldump --opt $arr[1] -u $DB_User
On 9/22/05, Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
do I simply add like:
system(gzip $backuppath/$arr[1]-$year$month$day.sql);
(and change the 'rm' line extension?)
?
http://search.cpan.org
Look for the GZIP module, nicer way of doing it. Also, you probably
want to use unlink instead of
I'm a FreeBSD user/sysadmin/tweak-for-fun-guy. I used slackware until
recently when I started to use Gentoo as my GNU/Linux system.
Gentoo has a package management system that resembles the BSD ports
system. If you take your time reading the Gentoo Handbook, you'll have
enough knowledge to make
* Ian Wienand [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
So the best code is code you look at and say is that it - I could
have done that, even though you probably couldn't have.
good point!
If you're interested in systems, I'd suggest starting with an
intermediate step of some good books first, the
* Matthew Hannigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 01:09:52PM +1000, Taryn East wrote:
what nobody else is going to bite? :(
Depends whether you wanted programming in the small or large.
anything and everything will help.
Jon Bentley's Programming Pearls books are
just for everyones info
if you want BSD style linux (and lets face it... who doesnt)
there is crux!
www.crux.nu
Dean
Julio Cesar Ody wrote:
I'm a FreeBSD user/sysadmin/tweak-for-fun-guy. I used slackware until
recently when I started to use Gentoo as my GNU/Linux system.
Gentoo has a
Hi Taryn,
It seems to me you are looking for a project to exercise and to learn
new tricks in
programming. Project that challenges you enough but not too much, for
starters. An
environment that provides feedbacks - positive, neutral, or negative or
peer reviews
of your work.
Then, if I
G'day Voytek,
In a spirit of defensive programming, I have an important question for you.
What happens if the mysqldump fails? Perhaps the database goes offline part way
through, perhaps the disk fills up... since you've just deleted your old backup,
what are you going to do?
I suggest the
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:41:38PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote:
so, has someone a usb-audio device in use?
requirements:
- linux 2.4 support (because openwrt uses this version)
- headphone mini jack. i want to connect it to my amplifier
I use an Edirol UA-20 audio/MIDI interface, and it just
quote who=Jacinta Richardson
thanks, Jacinta
ahem, you assume I'm somewhat perl-literate, beyond knowing how to
paste'n'save... I'm not...
the script was kindly given to me in the past by a slugger
paste'n'save gave me an error on the last '}' in your additions, after
chopping it, I'm
Voytek wrote:
quote who=Jacinta Richardson
thanks, Jacinta
ahem, you assume I'm somewhat perl-literate, beyond knowing how to
paste'n'save... I'm not...
My apologies. Although I do find that it's usually better to to assume that
people who are asking about an existing Perl program are
On 9/21/05, Voytek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
do I simply add like:
system(gzip $backuppath/$arr[1]-$year$month$day.sql);
(and change the 'rm' line extension?)
Go for it. There's no reason to install the module when you can safely
do it via system(). In fact, don't be afraid of using it at
quote who=Jacinta Richardson
Voytek wrote:
My apologies. Although I do find that it's usually better to to assume
that people who are asking about an existing Perl program are more often
Perl
literate than they are Perl newbies. :)
no need to apologize, I'm flattered
On further thought
Jacinta Richardson wrote:
Voytek wrote:
quote who=Jacinta Richardson
unless( unlink($backuppath/$database-$oldyear$oldmonth$oldday.sql.gz);
Ah. Remove the trailing ; and replace with a ) {
Oh, cool, a Perl person.
One thing thats been bugging me for a while about Perl is the
lack
On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 11:38:57AM +1000, Mark Johnathan Greenaway wrote:
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:41:38PM +0200, Gottfried Szing wrote:
so, has someone a usb-audio device in use?
requirements:
- linux 2.4 support (because openwrt uses this version)
- headphone mini jack. i want to
Hi all,
Can anyone tell me why I get no output from this script? I am not good
at writing my own so modify others. I have tested that it is reading the
allusers.txt by adding an echo $name
#!/bin/bash
while read name; do
grep $name smbpasswd;
done allusers.txt
My basic problem is I have an
#!/bin/bash
while read name; do
grep $name smbpasswd;
done allusers.txt
are the names in allusers.txt listed one per line?
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