Almost, but unfortunately not really, since cut for some reason does not have an option to treat several adjacent delimiters as one, and the default input delimiter is TAB.
I guess that TAB-delimited files were once common, but cut is ill suited to handle the formatted, space-delimited input that I often see these days.
Yeah, well - but then we do not need/sbin/echo and a bunch of other tools as well.
I am not questioning that awk is usually available and that it does the job. It just does it in an awk-ward way, which makes me wonder why we do not have a dedicated and tiny tool for this specific, common job.
Is there really no standard Unix tool that just prints words 4 and 1 of every line from stdin? This is the only thing I see awk used for these days, and the awk syntax for that is not even nice.
(Plug: I have made a bash-only function that does just this; available
here)
This almost makes me want to break some other rules and hack my TCP stack to send back some other amusing responses to unsynchronized packets - perhaps a ping of death or an invalid OOB packet
You could, of course, do that. However, please be sure to make certain that the source address of said unsynchronized packet is not forged - or you will punish someone innocent.
The general rule still is to be conservative in what you produce but liberal in what you accept - the rule is in fact designed to keep things going, even if the other guy does not follow it.
Of course the most famous of all is the comment in the task switching code of the original v6 Unix (Lyons commentary era) which said.../* You are not expected to understand this */
Where are some mirrors for users to d/l Mandrake 9.0 ISO's?
Hm. I wanted to do the obvious and point you to
the mirror list at Mandrake. However, Mandrake seems to be slashdotted, which surprises me somewhat.
Oh well. Instead, try downloading it from this place.
In somewhat related news, Opera released a new beta version of their browser last night, Norwegian time. It has many new features, including improved anti-alias and Java handling. The "hidden" distribution place is here.
Incidentally, native FreeBSD builds are provided for the first time.
Ah, but there is. Last I checked (and that was in 1999) Sharity did almost everything in the Right Way.
You get a single mount point, say/smb/ and in there you have all workgroups as directories. Each of those are filled with directories for each machine in the workgroup and the next level of directories are for each share on the machine.
So you automatically get a directory/smb/workgroup/jukebox/ogg for the ogg share of the machine "jukebox". This hierarchy is updated continuously. Upon access, you get a GUI dialog for entering username and password if those are required. It worked perfectly, even back in 1999.
The one problem, of course, is that it costs a small fortune. It boggles my mind that nobody has done a free implementation of this obvious idea. Rather, you get tools for manually selecting and mounting each single share, basically front-ends for smbmount. This is silly, the network should be a part of the file system, not something you operate on in a special way all the time.
Something a bit more automatic seems to be available here. I have not tested it, though - I have moved on and currently have no need for Windows sharing.
Opera lets you turn off the referrer entirely. I always use that, for privacy reasons. Besides, it lets me use the Bugzilla links that people say are designed to be unaccessible from Slashdot:-).
What good is the referrer supposed to do, anyway? I always found it disturbing to be able to see in my logs which IMAP folders people use with their webmail.
Does anyone know if it's possible to selectively allow pop-ups on some sites you visit, but disallow from all others?
Uhm, not excatly what you ask. Well not what you ask at all.
However, I just learned the other day that Opera can do image blocking using a hidden preferences system. See the kiosk description and scroll down to URL filtering. The filter actually works for any URL, not just images, and accepts wildcards.
To get this back on topic, I hereby express that it would be nice if Mozilla would also accept wildcards in its blocking systems. "This site" is not exactly fine-grained.
Maybe the current encoder is faster, or can be made faster.
The current encoder is already some 50% faster than the late beta you tried out, and I would not be surprised to see further improvements. I understand that they are only starting to optimize the thing now, after having reached version 1.0.
Nothing, but posting a link and nothing else is considered "karma whoring" and will often be moderated as redundant.
If you really just want to supply the link, tick the Post Anonymously option and you can be sure that it will soon be at score 5 (if you really are the first one to post it).
Re:I wonder what slashdot's percentages are....
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(Now, I'm told, Opera allows multiple windows, but I'm not sure if it's mutli-window AND tabs, or mutli- window XOR tabs.)
You can have both, the classic MDI mode is basically just a subset of the SDI mode.
Re:I wonder what slashdot's percentages are....
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... this was back when the MDI design was mandatory for Opera...
I have always wondered whether this MDI thing that everyone hated about Opera is basically the same as the "tabbed browsing" that everyone seems to love in other browsers?
If not, what is the difference?
But yes, the latest Opera re-opens the pages you were viewing when you exited/crashed.
Every Opera download is a one lost Mozilla download.
Actually, I download pretty much all releases of both of them (not counting nightlies), so no downloads are lost to Mozilla. It is just that I like Opera better, generally.
Whenever a page is not working in Opera, however, I will usually try it in Mozilla (if the page is important enough to me), and it will work. So if the Mozilla interface is ever improved to be as fast and with all the nice shortcuts of Opera, they might indeed get my "download".
I guess someone will tell me to use Galeon now; I tried, never got it working reliably.
It seems to be pretty good at blocking other animals (skunks, etc...), but what about another cat?
As noted on their index page, their software has a new feature: "our image recognition algorithm can now determine which of the two cats is entering.".
You can even watch it in real time. The pictures will have a label telling the name of the cat that was allowed access.
I never realized there was competition between the two. I did hear the low-latency crowd claim that it was lower risk due to its less invasive nature. However, that hardly says anything about the performance of either approach - or that they should be mutually exclusive.
Two wrongs doesn't make a right, and vice-versa (but two Wrights make an airplane).
I somehow find it telling that the comments show no moderations of "funny" posts. It seems that a lack of bandwidth is one of the few things that the collective Slashdot has a hard time making cracks about.
Slashdot Mirror
[...] the M$ tax should not apply to a linux loaded laptop (I think you misspoke on that point)
Uhm, The Bungi said that $800 minus a negligible amount would not be $450, and I think that I agree.
Almost, but unfortunately not really, since cut for some reason does not have an option to treat several adjacent delimiters as one, and the default input delimiter is TAB.
I guess that TAB-delimited files were once common, but cut is ill suited to handle the formatted, space-delimited input that I often see these days.
Awk IS a standard unix tool.
Yeah, well - but then we do not need /sbin/echo and a bunch of other tools as well.
I am not questioning that awk is usually available and that it does the job. It just does it in an awk-ward way, which makes me wonder why we do not have a dedicated and tiny tool for this specific, common job.
Is there really no standard Unix tool that just prints words 4 and 1 of every line from stdin? This is the only thing I see awk used for these days, and the awk syntax for that is not even nice.
(Plug: I have made a bash-only function that does just this; available here)
This almost makes me want to break some other rules and hack my TCP stack to send back some other amusing responses to unsynchronized packets - perhaps a ping of death or an invalid OOB packet
You could, of course, do that. However, please be sure to make certain that the source address of said unsynchronized packet is not forged - or you will punish someone innocent.
The general rule still is to be conservative in what you produce but liberal in what you accept - the rule is in fact designed to keep things going, even if the other guy does not follow it.
Of course the most famous of all is the comment in the task switching code of the original v6 Unix (Lyons commentary era) which said ... /* You are not expected to understand this */
And, of course, it means something like "this won't be on the exam". See Odd Comments and Strange Doings in Unix for more of this kind of fun.
I'm glad this is open source because i don't want to shell out lots of money either.
Open source != gratis. Check for yourself.
Where are some mirrors for users to d/l Mandrake 9.0 ISO's?
Hm. I wanted to do the obvious and point you to the mirror list at Mandrake. However, Mandrake seems to be slashdotted, which surprises me somewhat. Oh well. Instead, try downloading it from this place.
In somewhat related news, Opera released a new beta version of their browser last night, Norwegian time. It has many new features, including improved anti-alias and Java handling. The "hidden" distribution place is here. Incidentally, native FreeBSD builds are provided for the first time.
You mean you can't use shift-pgup and shift-pgdown?
No, not while output is being generated - not in a meaningful way, anyway. But press Scroll Lock and you can. Even in Linux.
I would settle for a database mapping old, non-working e-mail addresses into current ones.
[...] there is no *seamless* sharing system.
Ah, but there is. Last I checked (and that was in 1999) Sharity did almost everything in the Right Way.
You get a single mount point, say /smb/ and in there you have all workgroups as directories. Each of those are filled with directories for each machine in the workgroup and the next level of directories are for each share on the machine.
So you automatically get a directory /smb/workgroup/jukebox/ogg for the ogg share of the machine "jukebox". This hierarchy is updated continuously. Upon access, you get a GUI dialog for entering username and password if those are required. It worked perfectly, even back in 1999.
The one problem, of course, is that it costs a small fortune. It boggles my mind that nobody has done a free implementation of this obvious idea. Rather, you get tools for manually selecting and mounting each single share, basically front-ends for smbmount. This is silly, the network should be a part of the file system, not something you operate on in a special way all the time.
Something a bit more automatic seems to be available here. I have not tested it, though - I have moved on and currently have no need for Windows sharing.
Opera lets you turn off the referrer entirely. I always use that, for privacy reasons. Besides, it lets me use the Bugzilla links that people say are designed to be unaccessible from Slashdot :-).
What good is the referrer supposed to do, anyway? I always found it disturbing to be able to see in my logs which IMAP folders people use with their webmail.
Does anyone know if it's possible to selectively allow pop-ups on some sites you visit, but disallow from all others?
Uhm, not excatly what you ask. Well not what you ask at all.
However, I just learned the other day that Opera can do image blocking using a hidden preferences system. See the kiosk description and scroll down to URL filtering. The filter actually works for any URL, not just images, and accepts wildcards.
To get this back on topic, I hereby express that it would be nice if Mozilla would also accept wildcards in its blocking systems. "This site" is not exactly fine-grained.
Maybe the current encoder is faster, or can be made faster.
The current encoder is already some 50% faster than the late beta you tried out, and I would not be surprised to see further improvements. I understand that they are only starting to optimize the thing now, after having reached version 1.0.
What's so redundant with that link?
Nothing, but posting a link and nothing else is considered "karma whoring" and will often be moderated as redundant.
If you really just want to supply the link, tick the Post Anonymously option and you can be sure that it will soon be at score 5 (if you really are the first one to post it).
(Now, I'm told, Opera allows multiple windows, but I'm not sure if it's mutli-window AND tabs, or mutli- window XOR tabs.)
You can have both, the classic MDI mode is basically just a subset of the SDI mode.
I have always wondered whether this MDI thing that everyone hated about Opera is basically the same as the "tabbed browsing" that everyone seems to love in other browsers? If not, what is the difference?
But yes, the latest Opera re-opens the pages you were viewing when you exited/crashed.
Of course, Opera 6 has an SDI mode as well, though I usually get along just fine with a bunch of tabs and a single window maximized.
Hurray for the benefits of competition!
Yes, it is nice that we can now argue religiously about web browsers and not just editors! ;-)
Every Opera download is a one lost Mozilla download.
Actually, I download pretty much all releases of both of them (not counting nightlies), so no downloads are lost to Mozilla. It is just that I like Opera better, generally.
Whenever a page is not working in Opera, however, I will usually try it in Mozilla (if the page is important enough to me), and it will work. So if the Mozilla interface is ever improved to be as fast and with all the nice shortcuts of Opera, they might indeed get my "download".
I guess someone will tell me to use Galeon now; I tried, never got it working reliably.
It seems someone should mention the Cat Scan site.
There! Someone did :-).
It seems to be pretty good at blocking other animals (skunks, etc...), but what about another cat?
As noted on their index page, their software has a new feature: "our image recognition algorithm can now determine which of the two cats is entering.".
You can even watch it in real time. The pictures will have a label telling the name of the cat that was allowed access.
Cute :-).
I never realized there was competition between the two. I did hear the low-latency crowd claim that it was lower risk due to its less invasive nature. However, that hardly says anything about the performance of either approach - or that they should be mutually exclusive.
Two wrongs doesn't make a right, and vice-versa (but two Wrights make an airplane).
I somehow find it telling that the comments show no moderations of "funny" posts. It seems that a lack of bandwidth is one of the few things that the collective Slashdot has a hard time making cracks about.