A few weeks ago, I got one of these e-mails. The wording of the e-mail made it blatantly obvious that it was spam. They didn't even seem to have a web site. They just told me to phone an 09 number (which, no doubt would have cost a few pounds) to find out the identity of the admirer. It was a UK phone number which makes a change - much of the spam I get seems be in Korean or something.
Or you could just use zsh instead which has a vastly more powerful tab completion system. Certainly it doesn't have problems with any particular characters such as '{'. The 4.1 (development) releases of zsh even include a completion function for handling arch.
I agree with what he says about it being nice to have a Linux server at home but not using it for the GUI. I use an old SGI for my desktop. With Linux as my desktop, I just find myself having to spend too much time tweaking it. With it tucked out of the way as a server, I can get into the guts of it when I want to but can get things done when I don't. When I come to replace the SGI, I'll be very tempted to go for a Mac.
> I'm running it with my company's Exchange servers, via IMAP, LDAP, and SMTP
Unfortunately, support for POP/IMAP etc can be disabled on the exchange server which some companies do. Fortunately, they don't where I currently work so I can get my mail off with fetchmail.
I'd like to see fetchmail able to use the MS protocol to get my mail off servers where POP is disabled.
His rants on metadata are way off. Although file extensions for typing violate the basic rule of metadata, they still work better than Type/Creator codes.
I agree. The principle I apply here is the old KISS (keep is simple stupid) principle. File extensions do exactly that. They work nicely across platforms. In programs like Finder or Windows Explorer, users who know what they are doing can opt to see the extensions. Everyone else is happy with an icon. It is easy to associate different extensions with different applications and for the most part it works.
It also makes other tools more generic - a file finding tool doesn't need extra complexity to allow searches by file type because that is part of the filename. This is one of the things which makes UNIX powerful - a file system which is powerful enough for basic data organisation where a database would be overkill and the use of plain text files - this allows many simple tools to be combined to perform tasks unimagined by their original authors.
The only thing I might argue is that in an interface where file extensions are hidden, renaming test.tiff to hello.txt would actually rename it to hello.txt.tiff so the file type is not lost. If a user knows what they are doing enough to change the file extension then they deserve everything the get if they open a.tiff in a text editor and get garbage. This would address the complaints in the original linked article.
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J sharp I think
and C# is C sharp.
Hopefully it'll result in fewer Americans calling `#' the pound sign.
That would be nice because you'd get all the output and hence the context of the commands. The trouble is if you don't want the user to know they are being logged. Script outputs 'Script started, file is output' and to remove that, you'd have the modify and recompile script. You would need to do `exec script' from the.profile not a.bashrc because in the.rc you'd get and infinite loop and without exec, they could quit script and still be in the shell.
I'm hoping to do something like this to see what our DBA (who works directly for the client) is doing on the Sun server which I administer. She keeps changing things without telling us and it is getting annoying. Unfortunately, she knows about.profile so I can't modify that without her seeing the changes. So far, I've just kept an eye on.sh_history.
By sticking a newline in the middle of it where you want to break to the second line.
My zsh prompt is something like this: PS1="%{$pcolr%}$user$host%~%"'$((COLUMNS-12))'"(l. $prompt_newline. )[%h%0(?..:%?)]%# %{$tcolr%}"
This puts a newline in only if it is getting close to the right edge of the terminal. I configure different colours depending on the host and the user and host variables are only set for when I'm logged on to something different to normal. At the end, it includes the current history number and the return code of the last command if it was non-zero. Most of the time, it looks fairly minimal though - something like ~ [100]%
If you have a recent zsh, this is one of the examples for the prompt themes - do: autoload -U promptinit prompt oliver
to see it.
I think it would be far easier to accept the 'cracker' definition of hacker and find a new word for what we now call a hacker.
The word hacker for a computer criminal is now totally entrenched both in use by the media and by ordinary people. I tend to use it myself as well. Why not just leave it that way and come up with a new word for the people that are computer enthusiasts/experts. It would have a much greater chance of being adopted and would leave us with two distinct words.
I have to say that I don't really like the term 'Nerd' and that fact that it is used prominently on the slashdot web pages. It is generally associated with people who are sad and have no life which is not something I like to think of myself as being.
I think it is an entirely British expression and seems to be limited to some universities but when I was at university we were always called 'spods'. The meaning was as much that of a nerd as a hacker but depending on the context, there were times when I was refered to as a spod and felt that it was something to be prowd of rather than an insult (which nerd always would be).
I really like Ada and I consider myself to be a hacker. It does a good job of allowing you to represent the problem you are solving unlike C where people tend to employ lots of cunningly efficient tricks which don't add much to the readability of the code. I believe in using the best tool for the task and in many cases that is Ada while often it is something else like C, Perl or whatever.
One particular area where I think Ada 95 really beats any other OO language I've seen is the way that separate constructs are used for encapsulation and objects. This means that objects appear as normal parameters to their despatching operations - none of this object.function(params) of other languages.
> I think what we need is a ksh with readline support added.
If you use Zsh, you'll in effect have that. Zsh doesn't actually use readline but it's builtin line editor is better and atleast as easy to use as readline.
Zsh will run virtually all your ksh scripts. It has builtin floating point so you don't need to run bc in a co-process. It has co-processes too though, and in the latest version, there's a module to create a pseudo-tty which is great if you want to run a program that wants a tty in a coprocess. It really is way more powerful than either ksh or bash. With the new completion system, I can get things done much more quickly than in any other shell.
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A few weeks ago, I got one of these e-mails. The wording of the e-mail made it blatantly obvious that it was spam. They didn't even seem to have a web site. They just told me to phone an 09 number (which, no doubt would have cost a few pounds) to find out the identity of the admirer. It was a UK phone number which makes a change - much of the spam I get seems be in Korean or something.
Or you could just use zsh instead which has a vastly more powerful tab completion system. Certainly it doesn't have problems with any particular characters such as '{'. The 4.1 (development) releases of zsh even include a completion function for handling arch.
I agree with what he says about it being nice to have a Linux server at home but not using it for the GUI. I use an old SGI for my desktop. With Linux as my desktop, I just find myself having to spend too much time tweaking it. With it tucked out of the way as a server, I can get into the guts of it when I want to but can get things done when I don't. When I come to replace the SGI, I'll be very tempted to go for a Mac.
Unfortunately, support for POP/IMAP etc can be disabled on the exchange server which some companies do. Fortunately, they don't where I currently work so I can get my mail off with fetchmail.
I'd like to see fetchmail able to use the MS protocol to get my mail off servers where POP is disabled.
I agree. The principle I apply here is the old KISS (keep is simple stupid) principle. File extensions do exactly that. They work nicely across platforms. In programs like Finder or Windows Explorer, users who know what they are doing can opt to see the extensions. Everyone else is happy with an icon. It is easy to associate different extensions with different applications and for the most part it works.
It also makes other tools more generic - a file finding tool doesn't need extra complexity to allow searches by file type because that is part of the filename. This is one of the things which makes UNIX powerful - a file system which is powerful enough for basic data organisation where a database would be overkill and the use of plain text files - this allows many simple tools to be combined to perform tasks unimagined by their original authors.
The only thing I might argue is that in an interface where file extensions are hidden, renaming test.tiff to hello.txt would actually rename it to hello.txt.tiff so the file type is not lost. If a user knows what they are doing enough to change the file extension then they deserve everything the get if they open a
and C# is C sharp.
Hopefully it'll result in fewer Americans calling `#' the pound sign.
A question: what is your view of gpg? Have you used it?
I'm hoping to do something like this to see what our DBA (who works directly for the client) is doing on the Sun server which I administer. She keeps changing things without telling us and it is getting annoying. Unfortunately, she knows about
My zsh prompt is something like this:. $prompt_newline. )[%h%0(?..:%?)]%# %{$tcolr%}"
PS1="%{$pcolr%}$user$host%~%"'$((COLUMNS-12))'"(l
This puts a newline in only if it is getting close to the right edge of the terminal. I configure different colours depending on the host and the user and host variables are only set for when I'm logged on to something different to normal. At the end, it includes the current history number and the return code of the last command if it was non-zero. Most of the time, it looks fairly minimal though - something like ~ [100]%
If you have a recent zsh, this is one of the examples for the prompt themes - do:
autoload -U promptinit
prompt oliver to see it.
How about using slashdot.at instead.
The word hacker for a computer criminal is now totally entrenched both in use by the media and by ordinary people. I tend to use it myself as well. Why not just leave it that way and come up with a new word for the people that are computer enthusiasts/experts. It would have a much greater chance of being adopted and would leave us with two distinct words.
I have to say that I don't really like the term 'Nerd' and that fact that it is used prominently on the slashdot web pages. It is generally associated with people who are sad and have no life which is not something I like to think of myself as being.
I think it is an entirely British expression and seems to be limited to some universities but when I was at university we were always called 'spods'. The meaning was as much that of a nerd as a hacker but depending on the context, there were times when I was refered to as a spod and felt that it was something to be prowd of rather than an insult (which nerd always would be).
One particular area where I think Ada 95 really beats any other OO language I've seen is the way that separate constructs are used for encapsulation and objects. This means that objects appear as normal parameters to their despatching operations - none of this object.function(params) of other languages.
If you use Zsh, you'll in effect have that. Zsh doesn't actually use readline but it's builtin line editor is better and atleast as easy to use as readline.
Zsh will run virtually all your ksh scripts. It has builtin floating point so you don't need to run bc in a co-process. It has co-processes too though, and in the latest version, there's a module to create a pseudo-tty which is great if you want to run a program that wants a tty in a coprocess. It really is way more powerful than either ksh or bash. With the new completion system, I can get things done much more quickly than in any other shell.