[Chicken-users] Bug or feature? WRT testbase

2008-03-08 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I've noticed that define-expect-binary in testbase needs its predicates to return #t; a true (non-#f) value is not sufficient. This means that (define-expect-binary string=) because, despite srfi-13's docs to the contrary: string= s1 s2 [start1 end1 start2 end2] - boolean string= returns a

[Chicken-users] format-modular feature request: defining one's own multi-part formats

2008-03-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I'd like to define my own %[...%] sort of formatter using format-modular, but it seems to be impossible without copying most of the egg into my own code! Could this be added as a general feature? Thanks. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud

Re: [Chicken-users] format-modular feature request: defining one's own multi-part formats

2008-03-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:12:06PM -0800, Kon Lovett wrote: On Mar 7, 2008, at 9:08 AM, Robin Lee Powell wrote: I'd like to define my own %[...%] sort of formatter using format-modular, but it seems to be impossible without copying most of the egg into my own code! Could this be added

Re: [Chicken-users] format-modular feature request: defining one's own multi-part formats

2008-03-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:39:02PM -0800, Kon Lovett wrote: You can override the existing semantics by supplying your own procedures. However access to the state object is very restricted to the public. So not all functionality that the *formatter-foo* provide can be reproduced by an external

Re: [Chicken-users] format-modular feature request: defining one's own multi-part formats

2008-03-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:27:55PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:39:02PM -0800, Kon Lovett wrote: You can override the existing semantics by supplying your own procedures. However access to the state object is very restricted to the public. So not all

Re: [Chicken-users] new document

2008-03-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:30:09PM -0800, Elf wrote: i am going to attach a new document to the eggs and egg authoring pages in the very near future explaining what the various licences are and what their terms are, and how to properly include licences and licence terms in the egg metatags

[Chicken-users] Trashing of Egg documentation changes?

2008-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Eggs Unlimited 3, the top of the Web programming section looks like this (rendered, not source): Web programing chickenegg name=web-unity license=BSD author=sjamaan description=Web app unification framework for CGI/SCGI/FCGI/Spiffy webservers/ ajax Using xmlHttpRequest with the Spiffy

Re: [Chicken-users] Web generation + localization.

2008-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 10:22:32AM +0100, Peter Bex wrote: I've spent a bit of time thinking about this (unfortunately, no time to code it up yet). At work we use Drupal, which simply requires you to wrap translatable strings with a function call to t(...). This is a solution that absolutely

[Chicken-users] Anyone working on a BDD framework?

2008-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I'm a big fan of rspec/jbehave/etc's Given/When/Then framework for doing BDD specifications. Before I go off and write my own (read: before I hack testbase to do it), has anyone already got such a thing for Chicken I can use? -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17:

Re: [Chicken-users] srfi-29 egg problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem to work?

2008-03-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Mar 06, 2008 at 09:46:49AM +0100, felix winkelmann wrote: You need a version of format that is more capable than the builtin one (which builds on [sf]printf). Install format-modular or format, and load that before srfi-29. Did that; now I get: Error: (vector-ref) out of range

[Chicken-users] web-scheme hart

2008-03-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
It seems to me that web-scheme and hart do more-or-less the same thing. Unfortunetaly, I have no easy way to verify that because there are no examples at http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/eggs/web-scheme.html and the exmaples it links to are 404. So: 1. Can someone fix the

[Chicken-users] srfi-29 egg problems: [EMAIL PROTECTED] doesn't seem to work?

2008-03-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I copied the attached example directly from http://srfi.schemers.org/srfi-29/srfi-29.html , with the following changes: 1. I don't use store-bundle! or load-bundle! at all 2. I force the language to French. Actually running it gives me: Error: (fprintf) illegal format-string character: #\1

[Chicken-users] General problem with the chickenegg tag on the Eggs Unlimited page.

2008-02-29 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Many author sections have e-mail addresses in them, which get eaten to turn the other name into a horribly munged wiki page name. In some cases (someone tried to use a href=mailto:...) it even breaks the egg's insertion in the table completely. Not sure what the right fix is here, but the

[Chicken-users] Unfair question: best Lisp for web development?

2008-02-27 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I'm thinking of starting a .com; probably not an especially Web 2.0 sort of one, but maybe with some Ajax involved. I seem to be more comfortable with Lisps than anything else. Are there any compelling reasons to choose a Lisp other than Chicken (my current best-known) for that sort of thing?

Re: [Chicken-users] Unfair question: best Lisp for web development?

2008-02-27 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 09:29:08AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: I'm thinking of starting a .com; probably not an especially Web 2.0 sort of one, but maybe with some Ajax involved. I seem to be more comfortable with Lisps than anything else. Are there any compelling reasons to choose

Re: [BackupPC-users] What about cpio?

2008-02-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:04:40PM -0500, Joe Krahn wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: Y'all have made it clear that rsync -H doesn't work too well with backuppc archives; what about cpio? Does it do a decent job of preserving hard links without consuming all your RAM? -Robin

[BackupPC-users] What about cpio?

2008-02-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Y'all have made it clear that rsync -H doesn't work too well with backuppc archives; what about cpio? Does it do a decent job of preserving hard links without consuming all your RAM? -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo Proud Supporter of the Singularity

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 08:40:29AM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 02/06 05:38 , Les Mikesell wrote: Instead of running backuppc locally to your source data, just have one machine that has copy of everything. Look into tools like rsnapshot or rdiff-backup. It sounds like the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: It is generally believed on this list (I believe) that it's not feasible to use something as 'high-level' as rsync to replicate BackupPC's pool. The amount of memory needed by rsync will just explode because of all the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:22:10AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: It is generally believed on this list (I believe) that it's not feasible to use something as 'high-level' as rsync to replicate

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:33:47AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 11:22:10AM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:20:46AM +0100, Nils Breunese (Lemonbit) wrote: It is generally believed on this list (I believe) that it's

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:03:03PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 02/06 09:39 , Robin Lee Powell wrote: My backuppc pool and pc directories together have 2442024 files, and 10325584 KiB of data. If I'm reading that correctly, that's only about 10GB of data. Yes, but lots

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:33:47AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: This reminds me: is there some fundamental reason backuppc can't use symlinks? It would make so many things like this *so* much easier. It such a great package otherwise; this is the only thing that's given me cause

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:20:09PM -0500, Paul Fox wrote: Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 09:33:47AM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: This reminds me: is there some fundamental reason backuppc can't use symlinks? It would make so many things like

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:03:04PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: This reminds me: is there some fundamental reason backuppc can't use symlinks? It would make so many things like this *so* much easier. It such a great package otherwise; this is the only

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:11:16PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 02/06 11:14 , Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 12:03:03PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 02/06 09:39 , Robin Lee Powell wrote: My backuppc pool and pc directories together have 2442024

[BackupPC-users] Other remote mirror options.

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
In the past, I've done my remote mirrors of my backuppc backups one of two ways: 1. Run tarCreate or whatever, and create giant tarballs of the things I've backed up. In the past, this has been totally inappropriate for remote mirroring, because encrypting the file would kill rsync's ability

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:35:21PM -0600, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: On 02/06 12:20 , Robin Lee Powell wrote: Yes, but are you trying to maintain a remote sync over a DSL line? :D no; because I have all those files. :) If I have an offsite backup server; I just have it do backups

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:19:32PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Robin Lee Powell wrote: Again: not being able to reasonbly mirror the backup system is a Real Problem; do you have other any ideas as to how to fix it? I do it locally with raid1 mirroring and physically rotate the drives

Re: [BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-06 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 03:19:32PM -0600, Les Mikesell wrote: Or, if you want a local copy too and don't want to burden the target with 2 runs, just do a straight uncompressed rsync copy locally, then let your remote backuppc run against that to save your compressed history on an encrypted

Re: Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:27:56AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: > On Tuesday February 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > I was able to solve the problem, however, like so: > > > > 132c133 > > < # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set > > --- > > > CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y > > 134,135c135,136 > > <

Re: Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I tend to adjust the max disk speed raid is allowed to use, since > the default of 200MB/s makes the system close to unusable while it > is taking place. Could having slow disk access be causing things > to lock up? I don't know

Re: Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:40:55PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: > On Monday 04 February 2008 08:21, Robin Lee Powell wrote: > > I've got a machine with a 4 disk SATA raid10 configuration using > > md. The entire disk is loop-AES encrypted, but that shouldn't > > matter here.

Re: Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 09:40:55PM +1100, Nick Piggin wrote: On Monday 04 February 2008 08:21, Robin Lee Powell wrote: I've got a machine with a 4 disk SATA raid10 configuration using md. The entire disk is loop-AES encrypted, but that shouldn't matter here. Once a month, Debian runs

Re: Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:55:17PM -0500, Lennart Sorensen wrote: I tend to adjust the max disk speed raid is allowed to use, since the default of 200MB/s makes the system close to unusable while it is taking place. Could having slow disk access be causing things to lock up? I don't know if

Re: Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 07:27:56AM +1100, Neil Brown wrote: On Tuesday February 5, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was able to solve the problem, however, like so: 132c133 # CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE is not set --- CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y 134,135c135,136 CONFIG_PREEMPT=y

[BackupPC-users] Hard links encryption

2008-02-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I've been using my own scripts http://digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/hobbies/backups.html to remotely mirror backuppc's date in an encrypted fashion. The problem is, the time rsync takes seems to keep growing. I expect this to continue more-or-less without bound, and it's already pretty onerous.

Re: Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:37:02PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Robin Lee Powell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.02.04.1021 +1300]: > > /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet > > FYI: > http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=

Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I've got a machine with a 4 disk SATA raid10 configuration using md. The entire disk is loop-AES encrypted, but that shouldn't matter here. Once a month, Debian runs: /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet and the machine hangs within 30 minutes of that starting. It seems that I

Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I've got a machine with a 4 disk SATA raid10 configuration using md. The entire disk is loop-AES encrypted, but that shouldn't matter here. Once a month, Debian runs: /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet and the machine hangs within 30 minutes of that starting. It seems that I

Re: Monthly md check == hung machine; how do I debug?

2008-02-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 06:37:02PM +1300, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.02.04.1021 +1300]: /usr/share/mdadm/checkarray --cron --all --quiet FYI: http://git.debian.org/?p=pkg-mdadm/mdadm.git;a=blob;f=debian/checkarray It basically does

[Chicken-users] I seem to not understand something about scope in Scheme/Chicken...

2007-12-25 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Can someone explain to me what's going on in http://paste.lisp.org/display/53038 ? I can't think of any reason why a define in a recursive call would corrupt the calling function's value for a variable, but having it happen IFF the define is in a (cond...) seems Really Really Wierd. err-display

Re: [Chicken-users] I seem to not understand something about scope in Scheme/Chicken...

2007-12-25 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Dec 25, 2007 at 03:02:27PM -0800, Robin Lee Powell wrote: Can someone explain to me what's going on in http://paste.lisp.org/display/53038 ? I can't think of any reason why a define in a recursive call would corrupt the calling function's value for a variable, but having it happen

[lojban-beginners] Re: C++

2007-12-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:52:22PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote: How do you express the name C++? {la cy.sumjibu.sumjibu} or {la cy.sujybu.sujybu}? la .siplusplus. It's a name; it has little real semantic meaning. sujybu is su jy bu, by the way. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17:

[Chicken-users] Debian slander?

2007-12-19 Thread Robin Lee Powell
http://packages.debian.org/sid/chicken-bin It certainly seems production quality and decently performant to me; does the Chicken community still agree with the statements there? If not, I'll endeavour to get it changed. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo

Bug#454232: sysklogd: -- MARK -- entries no longer appear

2007-12-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Package: sysklogd Version: 1.5-1 Severity: important My syslog, at some point in the last few months, stopped printing the -- MARK -- entries that it used to (and that the man pages says it should) even with -m 1 in the arguments. I needed these for forensics after a crash, and was very

Re: [Chicken-users] Runtime error while testing ncurses

2007-11-28 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Nov 28, 2007 at 05:34:07PM +0100, Stephan Lukits wrote: Hi, I tried the ncurses example after installing ncurses and easyffi (in this order) and got after a successful compilation the following runtime error executing the example: :~/stud/hauptstudium/lf-programmierung csc

[lojban-beginners] Re: JIMPE?

2007-11-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Nov 21, 2007 at 07:46:18PM +0800, Penguino wrote: I have heard of a Lojban chatting program called JIMPE. Is there a place where I can get this? I've been around this project for, umm, nigh on 10 years, and I've never heard of such a thing. What is it supposed to do? -Robin --

Bug#388684: coreutils: Still a problem, makes ls hard to use in some cases.

2007-11-08 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Package: coreutils Version: 5.97-5.3 Followup-For: Bug #388684 As far as I can tell, the *only* place to discover that: -rw--T 1 root other2147483648 Jul 12 19:26 tmpswap means that the file is sticky but not executable is info coreutils, but man ls says info ls, which led to me

[lojban-beginners] Re: If-then-else?

2007-11-07 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 08:05:21AM +0800, Penguino wrote: What is the Lojban equivalent to if-then-else statements? Generally one of ri'a/rinka, mu'i/mukti, ki'u/krinu, ja'e/jalge, or ni'i/nibli There's some lack of clarity about what nai means with these particles, but I think that da'i do

Double mdadm --monitor == hang

2007-11-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Please cc me on replies; I'm not on the list. I don't know if this is fixable, or even if it *should* be fixed, but: summary: shortly after the state of the machine is 2 independent mdadm --monitor instances, resyncing, the machine totally locks up. Details follow. I boot my machine from a USB

[lojban-beginners] Re: The Summoning to samxarmuj [monthly repeat]

2007-11-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:56:16PM +0800, Penguino wrote: I seem to have problems accessing the Mooix page. Which page do you mean? The MOO itself is a bit upset right now; I'll try to post when I've made it better. -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo

[lojban-beginners] Re: The Summoning to samxarmuj [monthly repeat]

2007-11-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 08:09:30AM +0800, Penguino wrote: On Nov 4, 2007 7:45 AM, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 08:56:16PM +0800, Penguino wrote: I seem to have problems accessing the Mooix page. Which page do you mean? .ua Yes, that's what I

[lojban-beginners] Re: Top posting and quoting ...

2007-10-29 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 05:14:03PM -0400, John Daigle wrote: Colin, you should consider the possibility that different email quoting guidelines exist for different situations, No. Standards exist to facilitate actual communication, so people don't have to spend all their time dealing with

[lojban-beginners] Re: usefulness

2007-10-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 09:14:07AM -0400, Jared Angell wrote: I am having a problem understanding the usefulness of a language that no one actually is conversing in verbally. Who says no-one is? -Robin, who runs a Lojban voice-chat RPG. -- Lojban Reason #17:

[lojban-beginners] Re: Vocab CD iso

2007-10-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 01:18:24PM -0400, Jared Angell wrote: Has anyone created a CD with Lojban vocabulary on it to listen to in the car or otherwise? You mean with spoken vocabulary lessons? No, definately not. We're all volunteers, and such a project would be very time consuming. -Robin

[lojban-beginners] Re: With /n/ confidence...

2007-10-18 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Oct 18, 2007 at 01:11:32PM -0300, Jorge Llambías wrote: On 10/18/07, David Cortesi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although with N confidence is pedantic and stuffy in scientific papers, such a prefix, if concise, could have more general use in a logical language. I'm 90% sure I will go

Re: [Chicken-users] Profile file name problems.

2007-10-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 08:14:59AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: On 10/16/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an application in which (for these purposes, anyways) programs are fired off entirely at random, and each with a different userid. I'd like the profile name

[Chicken-users] Profile file name problems.

2007-10-16 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I have an application in which (for these purposes, anyways) programs are fired off entirely at random, and each with a different userid. I'd like the profile name to include something volatile, like the current process id. Is that possible? -Robin -- Lojban Reason #17:

[Unionfs] What branch is a file from?

2007-10-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell
(Fixing up the subject line; very sorry.) I have a slightly odd use case in mind, one in which it would be very useful to be able to tell which branch a particular file is from (that is, the highest priority branch the file first appears in). Is this at all possible? I didn't see anything like

[Unionfs] What file is a branch from?

2007-10-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I have a slightly odd use case in mind, one in which it would be very useful to be able to tell which branch a particular file is from (that is, the highest priority branch the file first appears in). Is this at all possible? I didn't see anything like this is in the various tutorials and such

What branch is a file from?

2007-10-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I have a slightly odd use case in mind, one in which it would be very useful to be able to tell which branch a particular file is from (that is, the highest priority branch the file first appears in). Is this at all possible? I didn't see anything like this is in the aufs(5) documentation.

[lojban-beginners] Re: [lojban] Organizer/task-master needed, 1 hr/week, no Lojban skill required. Very important.

2007-10-10 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 06:36:50PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: (If you think you've seen this before, it's because you have; the person who tried to fill this role didn't work out.) The BPFK is the committee charged with actually finishing the Lojban baseline (in particular, getting

[lojban-beginners] Re: Rememberize: online flashcard learning.

2007-10-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 10:52:53AM -0400, turnip wrote: Robin, this is great!!! Thanks. I was wondering one thing, however. Is it possible/not difficult to great one large group of _all_ the gismu/cmavo? Trivial, actually; I avoided it because once you load a list it quizzes you on *all*

[lojban-beginners] Re: Rememberize: online flashcard learning.

2007-10-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Oct 09, 2007 at 01:32:37PM -0500, Wood Foster-Smith wrote: Hi -- I'm a brand new lojban learner. I found problems with rememberize.com too. I could set up an account and see the lojban sets, but I couldn't add them to My Sets so that I could actually use them (got an HTTP 500

[lojban-beginners] Organizer/task-master needed, 1 hr/week, no Lojban skill required. Very important.

2007-10-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
(If you think you've seen this before, it's because you have; the person who tried to fill this role didn't work out.) The BPFK is the committee charged with actually finishing the Lojban baseline (in particular, getting sensible cmavo definitions finished). It has had some serious problems with

[lojban-beginners] Rememberize: online flashcard learning.

2007-10-05 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I found an online spaced-repitition flashcard learning site and, for a friend, put all the basic Lojban vocabulary on there, ordered by frequency of usage, in 100 word groups: http://rememberize.com/search/tag/lojban -Robin -- http://www.digitalkingdom.org/~rlpowell/ *** http://www.lojban.org/

[lojban-beginners] The Summoning to samxarmuj [monthly repeat]

2007-10-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
My fellow jbobre, Have you visited the land where Lojban is spoken? It's called samxarmuj, meaning computerized imaginary universe. It's a text-based world on the internet, where you can operate a character using commands in either English or Lojban: the online software is bilingual. Lojban is

[lojban-beginners] New jbovlaste Features!

2007-09-18 Thread Robin Lee Powell
(apologies if you get multiple copies) I've spent some time working on jbovlaste (the online Lojban dictionary site, jbovlaste.lojban.org) over the last couple of weeks, and I've managed to get the following features working: - a new account creation form - a password change form - XML export

[lojban-beginners] The Summoning to samxarmuj [monthly repeat]

2007-09-03 Thread Robin Lee Powell
My fellow jbobre, Have you visited the land where Lojban is spoken? It's called samxarmuj, meaning computerized imaginary universe. It's a text-based world on the internet, where you can operate a character using commands in either English or Lojban: the online software is bilingual. Lojban is

Bug#439425: Random, but fairly regular, zsh segfaults

2007-08-26 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 08:11:37PM -0400, Clint Adams wrote: On Sat, Aug 25, 2007 at 10:54:22AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: Recompiling zsh will have to wait until I'm back from Japan; sorry. I use bindkey -v, and the most common ways I get to the history are ESC-k and ESC-/ In your

Bug#439425: Random, but fairly regular, zsh segfaults

2007-08-24 Thread Robin Lee Powell
Package: zsh Version: 4.3.4-13 Severity: important zsh does the following to me fairly regularily; this seems different to me than the other segfault bug reports. It seems to do it slightly more often in my root shells. It seems to motly occur when I'm typing ahead (due to engaging in

Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-21 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:01:44PM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: > John Stoffel wrote: > >Robin> I'm bringing this up again (I know it's been mentioned here > >Robin> before) because I had been told that NFS support had gotten > >Robin> better in Linux recently, so I have been (for my $dayjob) >

Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-21 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 01:01:44PM -0400, Peter Staubach wrote: John Stoffel wrote: Robin I'm bringing this up again (I know it's been mentioned here Robin before) because I had been told that NFS support had gotten Robin better in Linux recently, so I have been (for my $dayjob) Robin testing

Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:27:06AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: > On Monday August 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (cc's to me appreciated) > > > > It would be really, really nice if "umount -f" against a hung > > NFS mount actually worked on Linux. As much as I hate Solaris, > > I consider it the

NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
(cc's to me appreciated) It would be really, really nice if "umount -f" against a hung NFS mount actually worked on Linux. As much as I hate Solaris, I consider it the gold standard in this case: If I say "umount -f /mount/that/is/hung" it just goes away, immediately, and anything still trying

NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
(cc's to me appreciated) It would be really, really nice if umount -f against a hung NFS mount actually worked on Linux. As much as I hate Solaris, I consider it the gold standard in this case: If I say umount -f /mount/that/is/hung it just goes away, immediately, and anything still trying to

Re: NFS hang + umount -f: better behaviour requested.

2007-08-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Aug 21, 2007 at 09:27:06AM +1000, Neil Brown wrote: On Monday August 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (cc's to me appreciated) It would be really, really nice if umount -f against a hung NFS mount actually worked on Linux. As much as I hate Solaris, I consider it the gold standard

[lojban-beginners] Re: technology

2007-08-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 12:55:08PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote: mi'e vid The official lujvo for technology is {mi'irlarcu}, from {minji larcu}. I don't think this works for every case. Yes, technology seems to often involve {minji}, machine, but not always. The definition goes like: the

Re: [Chicken-users] c-callbacks

2007-08-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:34:46PM +0200, Bastian Müller wrote: Finally, I tried to do the actual call. First, I tried: (ode-space-collide space (null-pointer) foobar) and during the simulation I got an Error: bad argument count - received -2 but expected 3: error in error

Re: [Chicken-users] c-callbacks

2007-08-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 11:23:10PM +0200, Bastian Müller wrote: so, I put the define-external in graphics.scm, where I do now: (ode-space-collide space #f (location foobar)) and throws again: Error: (location) bad argument type - locative can not refer to objects of this type:

[BackupPC-users] Feature request: user-configurable directory exclusion

2007-08-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
A feature I'd really like, and would be willing to give gifts in return for, would be something like this: User touches a file named .donotbackup in a directory. Backuppc notices this and does not backup that directory. The sysadmin doesn't have to alter the system include list. -Robin --

[lojban-beginners] Re: Lojsk and Voksigid

2007-08-04 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 08:33:28PM +0100, Vid Sintef wrote: mi'e vid Lately I heard of these curious brother and sister of Lojban: http://www.netgotham.com/lojsk I've never heard of this either. It seems vaguely interesting. I definately like the idea of single-syllable words. The

[lojban-beginners] The Summoning to samxarmuj [monthly repeat]

2007-08-02 Thread Robin Lee Powell
My fellow jbobre, Have you visited the land where Lojban is spoken? It's called samxarmuj, meaning computerized imaginary universe. It's a text-based world on the internet, where you can operate a character using commands in either English or Lojban: the online software is bilingual. Lojban is

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-23 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 02:42:18AM -0400, John Cowan wrote: In practice, longjmp is not a problem either, though that's not an option in Chicken. Most signal handlers just set a global variable to 1 and return. Which is completely unacceptable here because I need to update status for the user

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 01:39:10PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: On 7/21/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. A grotesque hack using foreign code and setitimer and such. You can find this hack at http://paste.lisp.org/display/44881. The problem here is that if the interrupt kicks

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Sun, Jul 22, 2007 at 03:54:26PM +0200, Thomas Christian Chust wrote: felix winkelmann wrote: On 7/21/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an app that uses a couple of C libraries. The general problem I'm trying to solve is providing status updates to the user

Re: [Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-22 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Jul 20, 2007 at 06:54:29PM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: 2. A grotesque hack using foreign code and setitimer and such. You can find this hack at http://paste.lisp.org/display/44881. The problem here is that if the interrupt kicks off when the program is busy, the whole program hangs

[Chicken-users] Signal woes.

2007-07-20 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I have an app that uses a couple of C libraries. The general problem I'm trying to solve is providing status updates to the user in a timely fashion (ideally, about 750ms). I've tried two approaches, both of which have failed: 1. set-signal-handler!. This just doesn't work at all, because my

Re: [Chicken-users] Bundling chicken.

2007-07-18 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:28:27AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: On 7/17/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I eventually found http://galinha.ucpel.tche.br:8080//linking%20eggs%20statically (which appears to be orphaned, by the way) and things are working now. So all is well

Re: [Chicken-users] Bundling chicken.

2007-07-18 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:54:56AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: On 7/18/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:28:27AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: On 7/17/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I eventually found http

Re: [Chicken-users] Bundling chicken.

2007-07-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:07:00AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:25:16AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: On 7/15/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an app that is almost 1.0 ready. I've seen the page on what C files you have to bundle

Re: [Chicken-users] Bundling chicken.

2007-07-17 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:04:27AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:07:00AM -0700, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 08:25:16AM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: On 7/15/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an app that is almost

Re: [Chicken-users] operations

2007-07-16 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 12:12:27PM +0200, felix winkelmann wrote: A quick and dirty implementation of T's (http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/) object system Wow. What an amazing mess, including that the T Revival page linked to near the top has been taken down. Before I kill myself trying to

[Chicken-users] Bundling chicken.

2007-07-15 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I've got an app that is almost 1.0 ready. I've seen the page on what C files you have to bundle to allow things to be compiled by people that don't have Chicken, but what I'm unclear on is what you have to do to allow people to run an app that includes eggs. Can anyone give me pointers? -Robin

[lojban-beginners] Re: double letters

2007-07-13 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 12:06:55PM -0500, Adam D. Lopresto wrote: On Fri, 13 Jul 2007, Robin Lee Powell wrote: On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:08:51PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't think of a Lojban word featuring neither consonant doubling nor vowel doubling. Can you

Re: [Chicken-users] List - C strings

2007-07-10 Thread Robin Lee Powell
$ grep string-length library.scm (define (string-length s) (##core#inline C_i_string_length s)) $ grep C_i_string_length runtime.c C_regparm C_word C_fcall C_i_string_length(C_word s) Hope that helps. Zb On 7/9/07, Robin Lee Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except: Problem: no way to get

Re: Bug/problems with fmt (was Re: [Chicken-users] Columnar text display code?)

2007-07-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
On Mon, Jul 09, 2007 at 01:49:12PM +0900, Alex Shinn wrote: On 7/7/07, Alex Shinn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unfortunately, fmt hangs on the obvious solution: (fmt #t (join (lambda (x) (trim 5 x)) (string-split foo foo\nbar bar\n \n) nl)) That's a bug.

[Chicken-users] List - C strings

2007-07-09 Thread Robin Lee Powell
I need to take a Scheme list and pass it to a foreign function, so I stole the following code from chasen: # char **make_strings(C_word lst) { int len, i; C_word tmp; char **hlist; len = C_unfix(C_i_length(lst)); hlist = (char**) malloc(sizeof(char*) * (len + 1)); for(i = 0,

[Chicken-users] Complaining as ordered: pre-declare-external?

2007-07-08 Thread Robin Lee Powell
(I was ordered to complain by the Cowan) I have code that calls (with easyffi) a C library function. One argument is a function. I've defined, with define-external, the scheme function play. I pass a pointer to play to the C library function with (location play). This breaks if play is not

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