On Vi, 07 aug 20, 07:33:05, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> I had done similar search with DuckDuckGo receiving similarly useless hits.
[...]
> That's why I'm looking for a human's answer.
It helps to specify in advance what you tried already and didn't work.
Kind regards,
Andrei
--
http://wiki.de
On 08/07/2020 06:46 AM, David wrote:
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 21:31, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
I've done a first read of the well written manual which has many
examples of
On Fri, 7 Aug 2020 at 21:31, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > You may wish to have a look at recutils:
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
> I've done a first read of the well written manual which has many
> examples of individual commands. Are there
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you
could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say).
I've done a first read of the well written manual
On 7/29/20 06:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 07/29/2020 06:13 AM, Joe wrote:
>> [snip]
>>
>> I'd recommend using the right tool for the job.
>>
>
> Which is why I'll investigate.
> Your approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want.
With respect, Joe is right, in my opinion based
On Thu, 30 Jul 2020 10:51:06 -0400
Miles Fidelman wrote:
> On 7/30/20 5:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>
> > On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >> On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> >>> You may wish to have a look at recutils:
> >> A database is over-kill fo
On 07/30/2020 09:51 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote:
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. Yogi Berra
On 7/30/20 5:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
A database is over-kill for some personal preferences.
I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I had
On Thursday, 30 Jul 2020 at 06:15, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Does that sound at all like I saw anything in favor of SQL ? !
No but you said:
> IIRC, dBase was simpler.
so I suggested a simple FOSS database system. Like I said, no
worries. I obviously misunderstood what you were looking for.
On 07/30/2020 08:03 AM, Linux-Fan wrote:
Richard Owlett writes:
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you
could build on it with shell script
Richard Owlett writes:
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you
could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say).
I've just begun going th
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you
could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say).
I've just begun going through the manual
[https
On 07/30/2020 04:21 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote:
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
A database is over-kill for some personal preferences.
I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I
On Wed, Jul 29, 2020 at 01:09:15PM -0700, David Christensen wrote:
> On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> >[A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want.
>
>
> Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A,
> B, and C:
>
> fA(t) = t
On Wednesday, 29 Jul 2020 at 04:40, Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
>> You may wish to have a look at recutils:
>
> A database is over-kill for some personal preferences.
>
> I had mentioned spreadsheets in original post as I had visualized a
I am confused. You
On 2020-07-29 05:03, Richard Owlett wrote:
[A suggested] approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want.
Consider these idealized cost functions for solution technologies A, B,
and C:
fA(t) = t*t + 1
fB(t) = (t/3)*(t/3) + 10
fC(t) = (t/10/*(t/10) + 100
Observe:
On 07/29/2020 06:13 AM, Joe wrote:
[snip]
I'd recommend using the right tool for the job.
Which is why I'll investigate.
Your approach is literally orders of magnitude more than I want.
On Wed, 29 Jul 2020 04:40:24 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
> > You may wish to have a look at recutils:
> >
> > https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
> >
> > but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you
> > could build on it w
On 2020-07-29 10:40, Richard Owlett wrote:
A database is over-kill for some personal preferences.
apropos of nothing I found this great, clear introduction to Perl/Tk for
inputting how many cups of coffee and bacon sandwiches you had.
https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/aix/library/au-perltkm
On 07/27/2020 10:13 AM, Eric S Fraga wrote:
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you
could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say).
A database is over-kill for some personal prefere
On 7/27/20 9:59 PM, rhkra...@gmail.com wrote:
Somebody wrote:
But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being,
where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that
most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of
products.)
From
On 2020-07-27 22:46, Michael Stone wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote:
The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for.
Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other
people tell you that you "have to" do.
That's funny considering
Yes, the Harbour project.
https://harbour.github.io/
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 9:57 PM Nicholas Geovanis
wrote:
> There used to be an open-sourced version of Clipper, wasn't there? That
> was the dBase 3 compiler from a 3rd party. Did that go extinct?
>
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 8:59 PM wrote:
>
>> S
There used to be an open-sourced version of Clipper, wasn't there? That was
the dBase 3 compiler from a 3rd party. Did that go extinct?
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020, 8:59 PM wrote:
> Somebody wrote:
> > But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being,
> > where are you going to get
Somebody wrote:
> But... isn't the tool the least of your problems? The big one being,
> where are you going to get your nutritional database. (Seems to me that
> most of what Weight Watchers and Noom do is collect data on millions of
> products.)
From my records in my free format database (which
On Mon 27 Jul 2020 at 15:46:08 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > > > For a project of this size an
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 17:46:35 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote:
> >The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for.
>
> Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other
> people tell you that you "have to" do.
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 22:22:12 +0200
wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no
> > >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 10:34:39PM +0100, Joe wrote:
The OP is in a learning experience, it's what retirement is for.
Huh. I thought it was for doing what you want instead of what other
people tell you that you "have to" do.
On Mon, 27 Jul 2020 16:04:16 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no
> >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-)
>
> How? The OP request was for something simpler th
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> >And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no
> >one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-)
>
> How? The OP request was for something simpler
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 04:04:16PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no
> > one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-)
>
> How? The OP request was for something simpl
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 09:52:28PM +0200, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
And, in Greg's defense, he provided some code, something no
one of us did -- I'd say this round goes to him ;-)
How? The OP request was for something simpler than SQL (presumably
because he didn't want to learn SQL?), so the res
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 03:46:08PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
[...]
> >OK, here's a quick program to show how it might be done.
>
> The question wasn't "what's your favorite programming language", was it?
To be fair, the question
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:39:11AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3
> database in a local file seems
On 7/27/20 11:16 AM, Michael Stone wrote:
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3
database in a local file seems well suited.
Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as
t
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> >For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3
> >database in a local file seems well suited.
>
> Only on the internet can someone ask a simpl
On Mon 27 Jul 2020 at 11:16:45 (-0400), Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3
> > database in a local file seems well suited.
>
> Only on the internet can someone ask a simpl
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 11:16:45AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3
> > database in a local file seems well suited.
>
> Only on the internet can someone ask a sim
On Mon, Jul 27, 2020 at 08:09:36AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
For a project of this size and scope, a Tcl application with an sqlite3
database in a local file seems well suited.
Only on the internet can someone ask a simple question and get tcl as
the answer. :-/
You may wish to have a look at recutils:
https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/
but it may not have some of the functionality you wish (although you
could build on it with shell scripts & awk, say).
--
Eric S Fraga via Emacs 28.0.50 & org 9.3.7 on Debian bullseye/sid
Hi,
If you decide against a command line system and decide to go SQL / Klexi way,
I want to suggest to you a relatively lesser known integrated database system -
http://www.suneido.com. It has been around for nearly 20 years. It is pretty
easy to design and stable. It is FOSS. The only problem
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 02:45:58PM -0400, Paul M Foster wrote:
> Since you probably would like an application with a nice interface
> (curses, GUI, web), I'd suggest PHP. The platform for your interface is
> in the server and the browser; you just have to write some HTML, which
> is pretty easy. Ot
On 2020-07-26 03:06, mick crane wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:55:35 -0700 David Christensen wrote:
It's been a while, but Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl worked for me back in
the day:
I'm not very good at this and wondered how to do it and thought could
have things in a hash of hashes. As you ten
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 06:58:06PM +0100, Joe wrote:
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:24:25 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
> {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
>Neither I
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 10:24:25 -0400
Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
> > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> >Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer"
On Sun, Jul 26, 2020 at 10:24:25AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> >Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
> > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> >Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "program
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
IOW, I was n
On Sun, 26 Jul 2020 11:06:51 +0100
mick crane wrote:
> On 2020-07-26 08:54, Joe wrote:
> > On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:55:35 -0700
> > David Christensen wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> It's been a while, but Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl worked for me back
> >> in the day:
> >>
> >> https://en.wikipedia.or
On 2020-07-26 08:54, Joe wrote:
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:55:35 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
It's been a while, but Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl worked for me back in
the day:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_stack
I have a couple of early web applications written in Perl, but then I
found PH
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 14:55:35 -0700
David Christensen wrote:
>
>
> It's been a while, but Linux-Apache-MySQL-Perl worked for me back in
> the day:
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamp_stack
I have a couple of early web applications written in Perl, but then I
found PHP. There's still no SQL
I suspect the threading on this will be broken -- I forwarded it to another
computer where I have my notes on my adventures with "nutrition" programs.
On Saturday, July 25, 2020 6:40:47 PM you wrote:
> -- Forwarded Message --
>
> Subject: Re: FOSS equivalent
On 2020-07-25 13:22, Joe wrote:
Shame about that. If you didn't need FOSS I'd recommend Microsoft
Access, by far the best piece of software they ever produced (not that
it's a high bar). It combines a simple database server, OK for one user,
with a visual RAD system to make the user interface. Be
On Saturday, July 25, 2020 01:38:10 PM Richard Owlett wrote:
> Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
>{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> IOW,
On 2020-07-25 10:38, Richard Owlett wrote:
Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
IOW, I was not in abject *AWE*
On Sat, 25 Jul 2020 12:38:10 -0500
Richard Owlett wrote:
> Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
>{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> IOW, I
On Sat 25 Jul 2020 at 14:45:58 (-0400), Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>
> > Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
> > {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> > Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "pr
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
IOW, I
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
> {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> IOW
On Sat, Jul 25, 2020 at 12:38:10PM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
> Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
> {8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
> Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
> I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
> IO
Back in 70's/80's I wrote programs as part of routine job duties.
{8080/8085 assembler, dBase and Paradox}
Neither I, nor my employers, classed me as a "programmer".
I was "Senior Engineering Tech" or "Junior Engineer".
IOW, I was not in abject *AWE* of computers. *ROFL*
Right now I'm working o
On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 9:30 AM, francis picabia wrote:
>
> A developer wanted packages python-networkx python-numpy python-scipy
> python-matplotlib
> amongst others. Then I learned he had developed everything in Ubuntu
> where 2.7 is
> the standard version.
>
> No problem, add a repo for testin
A developer wanted packages python-networkx python-numpy python-scipy
python-matplotlib
amongst others. Then I learned he had developed everything in Ubuntu where
2.7 is
the standard version.
No problem, add a repo for testing and install python2.7
There are two problems with the shopping list w
Michelle Konzack wrote:
> And why do Debian need three similar programs which do the same thing?
> But unfortiunatly it is... since those which want to be individual and
> use only fvwm are cuted to older apps which are "not more supported"
> and deprecated since GNOME and KDE exist!
Hi John,
Am 2006-10-24 12:05:29, schrieb John C:
> You're absolutely correct. The xterm should be "IN MY FACE" every
> time I log on. (it does on my box) Unfortunately the linux
> community is sliding down the "commercially" driven "one desktop
> fits all" slope, so that once all the desktops
Jameson C. Burt wrote:
THANK YOU -- nautilus-open-terminal does just what I would hope for.
--Jim Burt
Anytime. :-)
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:44:14AM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote:
If you install the 'nautilus-open-terminal' package, you can open up a
terminal on demand right off
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:05:29PM -0500, John C wrote:
} [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
} >We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
} >So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
} >interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE)
} >and not even any immediate panel
> > THE XTERM (or its equivalent) SHOULD BE
IN MY FACE
> > THE VERY FIRST TIME I LOGIN,
> > requiring at most a single obvious mouse click.
>
> Why are you screaming?
>
> The correct thing to do, I believe, is to file a wishlist bug against
> debian-installer.
Hi,
why don't you just add xterm or
John C wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We in Linux heavily use the command-line. So, I was dismayed when my
new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE) and not
even any immediate panel options for these terminals.
Gnome's "Add to Pane
John C wrote:
One of the greatest features of linux *was* that each individuals
desktop was as different as that individual. The box looked, operated,
and sounded the way that user wanted it too.
Now it seems that individuality is out-of-style and every useful
tool/program that is not part o
On 2006-10-23 09:58:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Vincent Lefevre writes:
^^
Bad attribution. I didn't write the following.
> > That said, those types of people likely don't know about the command
> > line. If they do, they are likely frightened by it.
>
> Only if what the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE)
and not even any immediate panel options for these terminals.
Gnome's "Add to Panel" includes a t
Jameson C. Burt wrote:
I'll also accept your solution to start gnome-terminal
from a command-line using
alt-F2
Luckily, when done once,
Gnome usually saves even that effort, since
Gnome remembers the previous gnome-terminal application between boots.
If you install the 'nautilus-open-t
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006 17:23:58 -0400
"Jameson C. Burt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> But you folks have affirmed that this was by design,
> so I'll quit being shrill.
That's a relief :-)
>
> I'll also accept your solution to start gnome-terminal
> from a command-line using
>alt-F2
> Luckily,
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 05:23:58PM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> I DIDN'T MIND SO MUCH THAT I DIDN'T IMMEDIATELY SEE A GNOME-TERMINAL
> OR A TERMINAL ICON,
> BUT WHEN THE PANEL OPTIONS OFFERED NO GNOME-TERMINAL
> AND GNOME MENUS OFFERED NO TERMINAL AT MENU'S FIRST LEVEL,
> I FELT SOMETHING WAS A
Vincent Lefevre writes:
> That said, those types of people likely don't know about the command
> line. If they do, they are likely frightened by it.
Only if what they know isn't true (the usual case, unfortunately).
--
John Hasler
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On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:26:40AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
>
> > We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
> > So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
> > interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINA
On 2006-10-22 01:31:53 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Well, it is well known that the target audience of GNOME is end user
> newbies or windows transplants. That said, those types of people likely
> don't know about the command line. If they do, they are likely
> frightened by it.
And Apple
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 04:14:03PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:23:09 -0400
> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> > >
> > > since this seems a nit pick session , I believe to bring up the run
>
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On 10/22/06 19:14, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:23:09 -0400
> "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
[snip]
> the meubar on
> the top of the screen bin Gnome is
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
>
> since this seems a nit pick session , I believe to bring up the run
> dialog box is . Also imho Debian is not for a newbie or even
> less so a windows convert, hence Ubuntu.
>
Good catch on the Alt-F2. I hardly use GNOME, so I tend
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:31:53 -0400
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> >
> > We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
> > So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
> > interface WITHOUT A
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 17:23:09 -0400
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 12:14:53PM -0800, Greg Madden wrote:
> >
> > since this seems a nit pick session , I believe to bring up the run
> > dialog box is . Also imho Debian is not for a newbie or even
> > less s
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On 10/22/06 08:34, Kevin Mark wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
>> We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
>
> Hi Jameson, this is not entirely true today. Linux is moving
> towards the desktop, so when that f
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
>
> We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
Hi Jameson,
this is not entirely true today. Linux is moving towards the desktop, so
when that fully happends, it will be expected to be fully gui like
MacOS X.
> So, I was dismayed wh
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 01:12:48 -0400
"Jameson C. Burt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
> So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
> interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE)
> and not even any immediate panel op
On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 02:55:32 -0400
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
[...]
> If you are a newbie, you should not have
> terminal popping up in the top level of the menu. If you are a power
> user, you will know where to find it.
>
That sums up the approach of the GNOME project, i
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:48:14AM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
>
> Not to flame, but "well known that the target audience of GNOME is end
> user newbies or windows transplants"
>
> It is? I mean KDE is more windows like then gnome. I never use the
Yes, it is wel known. But he was griping
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE)
and not even any immediate pane
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
> So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
> interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE)
> and not even any immediate panel options for these t
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On 10/22/06 00:12, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
> We in Linux heavily use the command-line. So, I was dismayed when
> my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome interface WITHOUT
> ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE) and not even any
> immediate panel
We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE)
and not even any immediate panel options for these terminals.
Gnome's "Add to Panel" includes a trashcan and a file-manager ju
On Sun, Oct 22, 2006 at 01:12:48AM -0400, Jameson C. Burt wrote:
>
> We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
> So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
> interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE)
> and not even any immediate panel options for these
We in Linux heavily use the command-line.
So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome
interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE)
and not even any immediate panel options for these terminals.
Gnome's "Add to Panel" includes a trashcan and a file-manager j
Tim Kelley wrote:
dpkg -L packagename
does the same
dpkg -S /path/to/filename
tells what package owns what file
Thank you very much Tim. Yes I tried it out, and you are quite right, it
does the same.
Erik.
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On Thursday 14 October 2004 04:05, Erik Jakobsen wrote:
> Artur M. Piwko wrote:
> > I do not know what '-ql' does.
> > Try 'dpkg -X package', where 'X' is: l, L, s, S. Maybe you'll find
> > what you want.
>
> q means what version of a package.
> l means where are the package installed, and it also
Riccardo Tortorici wrote:
If you want to obtain a list of matched package try in example:
apt-cache search gcc
it will show you all the matched package...to see it in detail:
apt-cache show gcc
Thanks for your kind reply.
Erik
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Artur M. Piwko wrote:
I do not know what '-ql' does.
Try 'dpkg -X package', where 'X' is: l, L, s, S. Maybe you'll find
what you want.
q means what version of a package.
l means where are the package installed, and it also shows all the
different files in
a package.
I'll try what you suggest, a
If you want to obtain a list of matched package try in example:
apt-cache search gcc
it will show you all the matched package...to see it in detail:
apt-cache show gcc
Erik Jakobsen wrote:
Hi.
What is the equvivalents of rpm -ql in debian ?.
Erik.
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Erik Jakobsen wrote:
What is the equvivalents of rpm -ql in debian ?.
I do not know what '-ql' does.
Try 'dpkg -X package', where 'X' is: l, L, s, S. Maybe you'll find what
you want.
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