Re: [SLUG] Re: linux assignment
On Fri, Aug 18, 2006 at 02:41:09PM +1000, O Plameras wrote: O are you writing a book on shell scripting? I believe it is the committee's responsibility to ensure appropriate behaviour in SLUG forums. I'm not a SLUG financial member but there is plenty of inappropriate and discouraging comments enough to break the silence. I'm not a financial member either, but I do have an interest in how the Linux community chooses to represent itself publicly. And I agree with you - some people on this list seem to really get a kick out of bullying others with inferior technical knowledge. Someone being clueless shouldn't be an excuse for abusing them. Having said that, the original poster was asking list members to help him cheat on an assignment. Mark, back to trying to learn organic chemistry reactions -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] How to set runlevel in Breezy
On Wed, Jun 07, 2006 at 09:47:13AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This IS NOT what was asked! It may be that it is the only answer! After playing for a week, I think ubuntu is probably a good solution for someone needing a wife and 2.3 kids. IMHO it is not a good solution for people wanting to 'work' their computers. eg Q: I want to do advanced sound card making out A: Not many people have multiple sound cards ... eg this question If you want to do complicated things, you should be prepared to take responsibility for shouldering the burden of dealing with the issues that arise. And your throwaway example actually demonstrates this perfectly. The reason few people have multiple sound cards is that multiple sound cards are generally more trouble than they are worth. Sound cards have AD/DA converters which are synced to clocks. Unless the clocks of each card are synchronised to one another, anything you record or playback may well be out of phase with what the other card is recording/playing back. The standard way of dealing with this is to have sound interfaces with multiple inputs and outputs all synchronised to one clock. Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
Re: [SLUG] Paying Money for Quality (and software testing)
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:35:19PM +1000, Ken Foskey wrote: Don't you think we may be right? Absolutely. I have written perl modules with test scripts and without. The ones with test scripts have always been faster to develop. This sounds absolutely wrong however it is what I have found. This is exactly what I've found as well. There are a few mistakes I've consistently made in my programming career which I've slowly managed to learn not to repeat as I've gained experience. And they have been: 1) Think more about the problem domain 2) Structure the code better now 3) Write more tests, and run them after each and every change Works for me. Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
[SLUG] Curve fitting in spreadsheets
First of all, I'd like to thank Jeremy Anthorp for his nomination and kind words. I reason I couldn't accept his nomination is that I've enrolled in a Bachelor of Science degree at Sydney University, mostly concentrating on advanced maths subjects. That's been keeping me pretty busy. I'm also doing physics and chemistry - and both of these subjects require varying amounts of analysis of numerical data. In physics we use Microsoft Excel to analyse numerical data we collect - including determing how much uncertainty is in the result and a line or curve of best fit for the data we have found. To give you an example, in the first week we took the distance of all the planets in the solar system from the sun and the periods of their orbits and used them to test Kepler's Third Law. Intermediate steps required included plotting a log line and adding a trend line to the graph - complete with the trend line's equation and a correlation coefficient. How would I accomplish the same task using Gnumeric or Open Office Calc? Failing that, how would I accomplish the same task using some other sort of free software tool such as R or Octave? The above task took me a few mouse clicks in Excel but I couldn't find a way to accomplish the same task in Gnumeric or Open Office Calc easily. Neither of them seem to have a LINEST function, for instance. Thanks in advance. Mark -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
