Re:what's the difference?
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Over a slow link you should use ange-ftp mode in emacs
Well, that works great if you've got emacs locally, and you want to edit some existing file. Using the local emacs as the editor for your remote mail program or newsreader though...this will hurt you. There are also problems with ange-ftp over some firewall setups. But in the general case, yeah, ange-ftp rocks.
Re:what's the difference?
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as a novice linux user I ask what is the difference between Vi And EMACS.
vi - A VIsual editor. Older, smaller, and less full-featured. Newer vi-decendants, like vim, are larger and more feature-ruch. Mode-based editing - in insert more, typing "x" inserts an "x" into your buffer, while in command mode typing "x" deletes the character under the cursor. Commands are based on "ed", which is also the ancestor of sed. You can do some inserting stuff by feeding it ed commands, along the lines of ":%s/foo/bar/g" for global replacement. Pretty much tty based, some newer varients let you use the mouse directly.
emacs. Editor MACroS. "The extensible self-documenting text editor." "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift." Modeless editing (mostly, sort of). Has a LISP interpreter built in, which means its big (some might say bloated) and can do anything you want it to - there are entire applications written in Emacs Lisp. Editing involves a lot of "control" and "alt" key combinations - Control-X Control-C to exit, Control-X Control-F to open a new file, and so on. Works ok in a tty, or under X with point-n-click, dropdown menus, etc.
I like vi for small quick edits, and it's easier to run over a slow link. Emacs has a heck of a learning curve, but once you understand it, it'll be your best Unix friend. (Yes, there is a Windows version too.)
Hate to go into drooling fanboy mode, but...based on the available evidence, they were wrinkly, then some at least were smooth, then they were all wrinkly again. Consider:
In one TNG (IIRC, maybe DS9) episode, the Klingons clone the great emperor Kahless. He's wrinkley.
If it was some one-way genetic mutation from TOS smooth to the movie/TNG wrinkly, he would
have been smooth.
In several DS9 eps, we see Klingons (Kor, Kang, Koloth) who showed up in TOS. They were smooth in TOS, wrinkley in DS9; so whatever happened affected individual Klingons.
In the time-travel tribbles DS9 ep, Dax asks Worf why the TOS Klingons are smooth; he says "We don't discuss it with outsiders".
My guess? Some weird fashion for body modification grips the Klingon Empire in the 23rd century. By the time of the movies, it's as embarassing to them as that Mohawk haircut from 1985 is to today's 30 year old stockbroker.
Someone who's though about this much to much has a page here.
Or better: it's just a show, I probably should relax.:-)
Actually, leeches and maggots are proving to be among the best tools modern medicine has. Leeches are used in re-attachements of severed extremities to prevent clotting and maintain blood flow; and maggots are used for removing dead tissue. Both are better at those tasks than any artificial alternative yet devised. Still gross, though.
Where do I go? I can't just call my Debian rep and ask him to help me fix my problems.
You could buy a distribution that offers support (RedHat leaps to mind). You could purchase after-market support (search Google for leads). If you want outside support, it's out there for you to purchase.
This is great but many companys can't switch easily because they have web apps based on ASP/ActiveX.
Gee. So companies that based critical systems on proprietary technology now find that they have limited options and are basically screwed? Who'd have thought?
Make a deal with the devil, you're gonna get burned.
If prefering Dead Brand X to Dead Americans makes me some kind of nationalistic freak -- so be it.
Yep, that's nationalism in a nutshell. "We arew the true chosen people, and if others get in our way and get crushed, too bad." Source of most of the evil of the past few centuries.
It's one thing to love your country - sure, I love the USA. But I love it the same way I love Maryland - I don't think that the life of a Marylander is worth more than that of someone from Montanna.
a person filled with ideas of equality and freedom is worth more to the future of this planet than someone who is filled with hate and authoritarinism.
Hmm. Would a person filled with ideas of equality and freedom set himself up to judge who is "more valuable" like that?
He who fights monsters must take care that he does not become a monster himself.
Retribution is due. If you think otherwise, you may as well have been flying one of the planes.
The desire to retribution is exactly what motivated the terrorists. Revenge accomplishes nothing. If you think otherwise, you may as well have been flying one of the planes.
Defending people against further attacks, on the other hand, is entirely a good idea. But killing innocent Afghanis to defend innocent Americans is no bargain - unless you're sick enough to value lives differently depending on their citizenship.
The Taliban doesn't let anyone else go armed. Therefore, if they're in Southern Afghanistan and carrying weapons, they're Taliban. Simple and easy.
The government of Washington, D.C. doesn't let anyone else go armed. Therefore, if there's in D.C. and carrying weapons, they're cops. Simple and easy - and completely wrong.
Legal or illegal, if I were in a war zone (Kabul or some parts of D.C.), acquring a firearm to defend myself and my family would definitely be a priority.
(Although i do have to say, now that we have bitched enough these 19"@85Hz monitors are *MUCH* better than them old 17"@60Hz)
It wasn't that long ago that 17" was luxurious...I still find it perfectly adequate. (Not that I'd turn down a 20"...I've swagged a couple of huge old 20" HP monitors and just ordered the VGA to BNC cables I'll need to hook them up.)
60 Hz, though - that would drive me to throw the damn thing out the window inside of an hour. I can't stand the flicker, it makes me feel ill. I'll trade resolution or color depth to get a decent refresh rate anytime.
But this time we will hopefully use tactical nuclear warheads with the bunker buster missle. And also the Nuetron Bomb to waste the
Taliban.
Goddess, I hope not. If we open the nuke box, we've got no moral authority on anti-profileration efforts. We use nukes, we become the world's worst rogue state.
6,000 Americans = 600,000 Afgas/Terrorist/Iranians/Iraqs/or whatever you want to call them.
If it weren't for the fact that many people beleive that sort of crap, I'd think you were trolling. Try - I know its hard, but try - to put down the jingoism for a second. A human life is a human life, and an innocent American is not worth more than an innocent Afghani or Iraqi.
Oh, and it's "heroin" that hooks people, not heroine. (Though some lesbian and bi women I know seem kind of hooked on Xena, but that's a different story.)
Neither Nazism nor Islamism corresponds to a race. Both ideologies are evil, however
Could I suggest that you, I dunno, read a book about Islam or something before you go spreading hate and bigotry around? Let me recommend Huston Smith's The Religions of Man.
Meanwhile, shut the hell up - or at least wear a sheet over your head so we know to classify you with your fellow fuckwits in the KKK, ok?
I repeat, given that its not abused (no fair saying "but it will be") would you
give up email privacy in exchange for Los Angeles?
A false statement implies any other statement. If we accept the false premise that such a system would not be abused - if we fail to accept that indeed its very creation would be abuse - anything and everything becomes true.
If you don't believe it to be a false premise, you are woefully ignorant of history, psychology, sociology, and politics.
It's people like you that make me thank God there are adults in the white house that will take care of the business of preserving
my peace, freedom and liberty.
Never expect others - especially politicians - to protect your liberty. And never expect the friends of arms merchants to protect your peace.
How many countries would Hitler have needed to take over to make you act during World War II?
I would have been in favor of immediate sanctions before there was any invasion, as soon as the Nazis started oppressive domestic policies. I would have been in favor of a complete blockade (a "Desert Shield" style operation), and aid to German and Polish resistance fighters, right after the invasion of Poland.
Instead, the U.S. stood by and waited for years - the invasion of Poland was in 1939, while in the minds of most Americans WWII didn't start until 1941.
Most American corporations continued business as usual with Germany. Many prominent Americans - Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg - were admirers of Hitler. And some Nazi policies were inspired by the USA - the Holocaust was partially inspired by American genocide of Indians, and eugenics policies on forced sterilization of the mentally retarded in the U.S.
Forget the "greatest generation" propaganda for a minute; the U.S. acted late, coming into the European war after the Soviet Union had largely (and at a huge cost) blunted the Nazi's offensive capabilties.
The question is not whether you believe Bush was legitimately elected or not. The question is whether it's appropriate the question it at this time, and in this context.
It most absolutely is! Dubbya has his finger on the button, and in his other hand is a pen with which can sign into law all sorts of restrictions on civil liberties.
We had damned sure ask, and keep asking, what moral and legal right he has to order death and destruction to be rained down upon the people of other nations; to send American soldiers off to die in the ruins of Afghanistan; and to issue executive orders, and sign into law bills, restricting the freedoms of American citizens.
If the heads of states of these countries consort with them, kill them too.
Assassination used to be a standard procedure for covert operations.
After JFK - who ordered the assassination of Diem, and attempts on Castro - got his head blown off, however, U.S. leaders realized that using assassination as a political tool made it likely that others would do the same.
I have a couple that I use. I like white or yellow on dark blue; dark blue ("midnightblue") on off-white ("antiquewhite"); light green on black (or very very dark blue.)
The best contrast, I've heard, is yellow and black, but I find that a little harsh for regular use.
But they're scattered among innocent civilians. Not only is killing innocents generally considered to be in bad taste, it tends to create a new generation of people who hate you enough to perform suicide attacks.
So getting the bad guys, and only the bad guys, is a non-trivial problem. You don't do it from the air - bombing the fuck out of people solves nothing, in the long run. You have to send people in on the ground - where they're going to get shot at by the bad guys. And many will be killed.
You're a fucking moron....Just because one was available to the media does not make him any more impressive or competent
Some friendly advice - read a comment before you insult its poster, ok?
I didn't criticize the Pretender in Chief for not being available to the media. I'm saying that when he did appear, when he spoke to the public, he looked like the overwhelmed doofus he is.
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Well, that works great if you've got emacs locally, and you want to edit some existing file. Using the local emacs as the editor for your remote mail program or newsreader though...this will hurt you. There are also problems with ange-ftp over some firewall setups. But in the general case, yeah, ange-ftp rocks.
vi - A VIsual editor. Older, smaller, and less full-featured. Newer vi-decendants, like vim, are larger and more feature-ruch. Mode-based editing - in insert more, typing "x" inserts an "x" into your buffer, while in command mode typing "x" deletes the character under the cursor. Commands are based on "ed", which is also the ancestor of sed. You can do some inserting stuff by feeding it ed commands, along the lines of ":%s/foo/bar/g" for global replacement. Pretty much tty based, some newer varients let you use the mouse directly.
emacs. Editor MACroS. "The extensible self-documenting text editor." "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift." Modeless editing (mostly, sort of). Has a LISP interpreter built in, which means its big (some might say bloated) and can do anything you want it to - there are entire applications written in Emacs Lisp. Editing involves a lot of "control" and "alt" key combinations - Control-X Control-C to exit, Control-X Control-F to open a new file, and so on. Works ok in a tty, or under X with point-n-click, dropdown menus, etc.
I like vi for small quick edits, and it's easier to run over a slow link. Emacs has a heck of a learning curve, but once you understand it, it'll be your best Unix friend. (Yes, there is a Windows version too.)
Hate to go into drooling fanboy mode, but...based on the available evidence, they were wrinkly, then some at least were smooth, then they were all wrinkly again. Consider:
My guess? Some weird fashion for body modification grips the Klingon Empire in the 23rd century. By the time of the movies, it's as embarassing to them as that Mohawk haircut from 1985 is to today's 30 year old stockbroker.
Someone who's though about this much to much has a page here.
Or better: it's just a show, I probably should relax. :-)
Actually, leeches and maggots are proving to be among the best tools modern medicine has. Leeches are used in re-attachements of severed extremities to prevent clotting and maintain blood flow; and maggots are used for removing dead tissue. Both are better at those tasks than any artificial alternative yet devised. Still gross, though.
You could buy a distribution that offers support (RedHat leaps to mind). You could purchase after-market support (search Google for leads). If you want outside support, it's out there for you to purchase.
Gee. So companies that based critical systems on proprietary technology now find that they have limited options and are basically screwed? Who'd have thought?
Make a deal with the devil, you're gonna get burned.
Yep, that's nationalism in a nutshell. "We arew the true chosen people, and if others get in our way and get crushed, too bad." Source of most of the evil of the past few centuries.
It's one thing to love your country - sure, I love the USA. But I love it the same way I love Maryland - I don't think that the life of a Marylander is worth more than that of someone from Montanna.
Ain't no other kind, my friend.Hmm. Would a person filled with ideas of equality and freedom set himself up to judge who is "more valuable" like that?
He who fights monsters must take care that he does not become a monster himself.
The desire to retribution is exactly what motivated the terrorists. Revenge accomplishes nothing. If you think otherwise, you may as well have been flying one of the planes.
Defending people against further attacks, on the other hand, is entirely a good idea. But killing innocent Afghanis to defend innocent Americans is no bargain - unless you're sick enough to value lives differently depending on their citizenship.
The government of Washington, D.C. doesn't let anyone else go armed. Therefore, if there's in D.C. and carrying weapons, they're cops. Simple and easy - and completely wrong.
Legal or illegal, if I were in a war zone (Kabul or some parts of D.C.), acquring a firearm to defend myself and my family would definitely be a priority.
It wasn't that long ago that 17" was luxurious...I still find it perfectly adequate. (Not that I'd turn down a 20"...I've swagged a couple of huge old 20" HP monitors and just ordered the VGA to BNC cables I'll need to hook them up.)
60 Hz, though - that would drive me to throw the damn thing out the window inside of an hour. I can't stand the flicker, it makes me feel ill. I'll trade resolution or color depth to get a decent refresh rate anytime.
Any "real techie" has a decent monitor with anti-glare coating...and positions it appropriately to reduce reflections.
A dark room puts me to sleep. More light! Bigger windows! Having to work in a windowless area was a top reason why I left one job about two years ago.
Could I suggest that you, I dunno, read a book about Islam or something before you go spreading hate and bigotry around? Let me recommend Huston Smith's The Religions of Man.
Meanwhile, shut the hell up - or at least wear a sheet over your head so we know to classify you with your fellow fuckwits in the KKK, ok?
A false statement implies any other statement. If we accept the false premise that such a system would not be abused - if we fail to accept that indeed its very creation would be abuse - anything and everything becomes true.
If you don't believe it to be a false premise, you are woefully ignorant of history, psychology, sociology, and politics.
Never expect others - especially politicians - to protect your liberty. And never expect the friends of arms merchants to protect your peace.
I would have been in favor of immediate sanctions before there was any invasion, as soon as the Nazis started oppressive domestic policies. I would have been in favor of a complete blockade (a "Desert Shield" style operation), and aid to German and Polish resistance fighters, right after the invasion of Poland.
Instead, the U.S. stood by and waited for years - the invasion of Poland was in 1939, while in the minds of most Americans WWII didn't start until 1941.
Most American corporations continued business as usual with Germany. Many prominent Americans - Henry Ford, Charles Lindberg - were admirers of Hitler. And some Nazi policies were inspired by the USA - the Holocaust was partially inspired by American genocide of Indians, and eugenics policies on forced sterilization of the mentally retarded in the U.S.
Forget the "greatest generation" propaganda for a minute; the U.S. acted late, coming into the European war after the Soviet Union had largely (and at a huge cost) blunted the Nazi's offensive capabilties.
We had damned sure ask, and keep asking, what moral and legal right he has to order death and destruction to be rained down upon the people of other nations; to send American soldiers off to die in the ruins of Afghanistan; and to issue executive orders, and sign into law bills, restricting the freedoms of American citizens.
There's also a thing which we might call "legitimate means of selecting the electors". Which didn't happen. Illegimate electors = illegimate election.
And so, we've ended up with an incompetent doofus occupying the White House during a time of unprecedented national crisis.
Yee-haw. Goddess bless America, 'cause we need all the help we can get
Assassination used to be a standard procedure for covert operations.
After JFK - who ordered the assassination of Diem, and attempts on Castro - got his head blown off, however, U.S. leaders realized that using assassination as a political tool made it likely that others would do the same.
I have a couple that I use. I like white or yellow on dark blue; dark blue ("midnightblue") on off-white ("antiquewhite"); light green on black (or very very dark blue.)
The best contrast, I've heard, is yellow and black, but I find that a little harsh for regular use.
Experiment! Your eyes are not mine.
But they're scattered among innocent civilians. Not only is killing innocents generally considered to be in bad taste, it tends to create a new generation of people who hate you enough to perform suicide attacks.
So getting the bad guys, and only the bad guys, is a non-trivial problem. You don't do it from the air - bombing the fuck out of people solves nothing, in the long run. You have to send people in on the ground - where they're going to get shot at by the bad guys. And many will be killed.
Some friendly advice - read a comment before you insult its poster, ok?
I didn't criticize the Pretender in Chief for not being available to the media. I'm saying that when he did appear, when he spoke to the public, he looked like the overwhelmed doofus he is.