Last time I looked, exiting Emacs wasn't all that intuitive either. Maybe this has changed, but I still remember having to kill the process.
Although I learned vi due to my professors choice of editors (and lack of UNIX experience at the time), I'm thankful I did. Emacs is common on alot of UNIX systems, but vi is a defacto standard. You can always count on having some form of vi on a box, while you may or may not have Emacs.
I'm not saying one is better than another (I never got around to learning Emacs), but knowing a little (:wq/ZZ, i, esc) vi is never a bad thing.
I also made this leap when I purchased my machine this spring. No floppy for me. The only reason that I would ever miss it, is a nice 3-floppy networked debian install. I decided to suck it up and forego that niceness.
My main reason for the decision though is that while in school I worked at the University Help Desk. You have _no_ idea how depressing it is to watch people lose their thesis because the only place they saved it was on a floppy! Sure, they should have backed it up on the network (that's what it's there for)...anyway, floppies just aren't reliable for anything anymore.
It's time to start the push for elmination of this antique and very fragile technology.
I think you may have missed something...as you sign up for this service, you get to provide the address that the spam goes to. You now have a much easier way of filtering this spam than with the normal variety.
Plus, you no longer receive this crap in your meat-space mailbox.
If you use qmail, sign up for this service with an address like: username-posten@your.domain.net, and then create a.qmail-posten file in your home directory to stuff it all in a special folder, or delete it.
Problem solved. As this is the address that all 'junk' mail from posten will go to for this service, you can trade your bandwidth for the frustrations of having to deal with this mail at all.
Has anyone looked at all of the bright colors, different fonts, etc on the XP start menu and said: 'Hey, that's easy to read'?
Personally, when I had to use XP for five minutes, the first thing I did was turn the menus back to 'old-school' style...they may not be the best, but at least I didn't get a headache looking at them.
A friend of mine refused to let me setup X anytime I put linux on his machine. He felt that the power of Linux was the CLI (true in many ways), and that X was useless.
Of course this is the same guy that having had Linux installed on his machine on three separate ocassions booted into it a total maybe five times. His summer project every year was to learn Linux.
It really is sad when computer scientists (like my friend here) are so bass-ackwards when it comes to computing...he was a real PHB-type microsoftie, so maybe he was lost before I even knew him??
If you remove all of the United States except for the trailer parks where most sightings occur, I think the US ratio would make Scotland's look like EuroDisney!
-Ben
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I actually used Debian for over a year...and I did use alien every now and then. Sometimes it worked great, and others it was so-so.
I love Debian, but until people start releasing their software packaged as a.deb, I'm gonna stick with a RPM based distro for now...even with the problems that it entails.
I agree with your post. Debian simply handles packages better...if they're in the repository you're using (which are admittedly quite large).
As someone who likes to install software from a package rather than building it from source (I hate manually removing software if I don't like it), it was becoming increasingly harder to find some of the obscure stuff in.deb format. I've never had a problem locating a.rpm though.
I finally switched back to RedHat recently, and although I really miss the the Debian did a lot of things, I can now find any software that I want prepackaged.
I guess this is the result of RPM based distros having more collective market share...I do miss my Debian though.
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RedHat does backpatching...The security fix was rolled in a while back.
-Ben
I thought all American beer was non-alcoholic...
Just a friendly poke from your neighbors to the north who prefer their barley and hops slightly stronger!
-Ben
Last time I looked, exiting Emacs wasn't all that intuitive either. Maybe this has changed, but I still remember having to kill the process.
Although I learned vi due to my professors choice of editors (and lack of UNIX experience at the time), I'm thankful I did. Emacs is common on alot of UNIX systems, but vi is a defacto standard. You can always count on having some form of vi on a box, while you may or may not have Emacs.
I'm not saying one is better than another (I never got around to learning Emacs), but knowing a little (:wq/ZZ, i, esc) vi is never a bad thing.
-Ben
I also made this leap when I purchased my machine this spring. No floppy for me. The only reason that I would ever miss it, is a nice 3-floppy networked debian install. I decided to suck it up and forego that niceness.
My main reason for the decision though is that while in school I worked at the University Help Desk. You have _no_ idea how depressing it is to watch people lose their thesis because the only place they saved it was on a floppy! Sure, they should have backed it up on the network (that's what it's there for)...anyway, floppies just aren't reliable for anything anymore.
It's time to start the push for elmination of this antique and very fragile technology.
Down with floppy drives and disks!
-Ben
Enron!
-Ben
...But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother.
-Ben
Any academic program should encompass Automata Theory, which in turn includes Regular Expressions, no?
-Ben
Could this be the difference between someone with a Computer Science degree, and someone who just graduated from The Devry Institute??
Sorry, but those fly-by-night, degree in a day places really bug me.
-Ben
"A successful culture has to accept that mistakes will happen."
Microsoft must have on hell of a healthy culture then <grin>...not that they're the only ones of course.
-Ben
My personal favourite: drunk@home.always
-Ben
The person responsible for this spam has just been sacked...
The person repsonsible for the person responsible for this spam has just be sacked...
Or something thereabouts! Sorry MP.
-Ben
"It's not the size of you pen...it's your penmanship."
-Furnaceface
-Ben
Admin your boxen from your desktop, and use the powers of X to solve your problem.
.bashrc, and then xhost +.
Try adding:
export DISPLAY=`who am i | awk '{print $6}' | sed 's/(//; s/)//' `:0
to your
You're all set...use those nice tools, and don't bother with the hideous syntax!
-Ben
I think you may have missed something...as you sign up for this service, you get to provide the address that the spam goes to. You now have a much easier way of filtering this spam than with the normal variety.
Plus, you no longer receive this crap in your meat-space mailbox.
So yes, 'Yippee'!
-Ben
If you use qmail, sign up for this service with an address like: username-posten@your.domain.net, and then create a .qmail-posten file in your home directory to stuff it all in a special folder, or delete it.
Problem solved. As this is the address that all 'junk' mail from posten will go to for this service, you can trade your bandwidth for the frustrations of having to deal with this mail at all.
I'd be quite happy with this solution.
-Ben
Hear, hear!
Has anyone looked at all of the bright colors, different fonts, etc on the XP start menu and said: 'Hey, that's easy to read'?
Personally, when I had to use XP for five minutes, the first thing I did was turn the menus back to 'old-school' style...they may not be the best, but at least I didn't get a headache looking at them.
-Ben
I've seen the Hip twice, the last time for the Music at Work tour. I was in row 1...small little bar...got pictures of me and Gord...it was wicked.
Unfortunately, Pearl Jam is still on my to-do list. Had a chance in '98, but coundn't make it.
-Ben
Pink Floyd...need I say more?
I believe I saw on here not too long ago something similar to:
'Lots of bands make Muzak, but Pink Floyd truly made Music'
And lets not forget Zep! Of the more modern era, I'd say that both Pearl Jam and the Tragically Hip have made marks on me.
-Ben
Who are you?
-Ben
Run this through gcc! I just ran it on RH7.2 with gcc 2.96, and it's still borked...gcc 3.x may have fixed the problem, but I wouldn't know.
#include
int main(void)
{
int a = 60, b = 6, c = 10;
printf("%d = %d\n", (int) (((60/6)*0.3) + (10*0.7)), (int) (((a/b)*0.3) + (c*0.7)));
exit(1);
}
-Ben
A friend of mine refused to let me setup X anytime I put linux on his machine. He felt that the power of Linux was the CLI (true in many ways), and that X was useless.
Of course this is the same guy that having had Linux installed on his machine on three separate ocassions booted into it a total maybe five times. His summer project every year was to learn Linux.
It really is sad when computer scientists (like my friend here) are so bass-ackwards when it comes to computing...he was a real PHB-type microsoftie, so maybe he was lost before I even knew him??
-Ben
If you remove all of the United States except for the trailer parks where most sightings occur, I think the US ratio would make Scotland's look like EuroDisney!
-Ben
I actually used Debian for over a year...and I did use alien every now and then. Sometimes it worked great, and others it was so-so.
.deb, I'm gonna stick with a RPM based distro for now...even with the problems that it entails.
I love Debian, but until people start releasing their software packaged as a
-Ben
I agree with your post. Debian simply handles packages better...if they're in the repository you're using (which are admittedly quite large).
.deb format. I've never had a problem locating a .rpm though.
As someone who likes to install software from a package rather than building it from source (I hate manually removing software if I don't like it), it was becoming increasingly harder to find some of the obscure stuff in
I finally switched back to RedHat recently, and although I really miss the the Debian did a lot of things, I can now find any software that I want prepackaged.
I guess this is the result of RPM based distros having more collective market share...I do miss my Debian though.
-Ben
Either way, marco...polo is still much more humourous!
-Ben