Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:12:46AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:43:19AM +0200, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 09:37:27AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > Nowadays, on average I tend to use expandtab for new code, but > > > c

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Anders Arnholm
aining any information.) So for that reason it should still work to update the code to have better indention and get the full usage of the revision control. (As you don't use python.) / Balp -- o_ Anders Arnholm, HiQ - Consultant o/ /\[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:24:41AM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 06:20, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:04:28AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:18:14 +0200 > > > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wr

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:50:08AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 12:15:11 +0200 > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And why don't you use cindent? Becouse you have something religus > > against the c in the name? > > Because

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 03:04:28AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:18:14 +0200 > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, but vim uses tabstop to determine how many spaces to put in. Hence > tabstop to 4, expandtabs on, shiftwidth to 4. Tabstops

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 02:51:20AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 11:02:09 +0200 > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Then why not learn the editor :^) Whan hitting tab MY vim with tabstop > > of eight jumps to the next indention level, > &

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:56:39AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:26:56 +0200 > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Yes but why does you need it if you don't get bad files from other > > programers using tabs for spaces wides as indention? &

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 01:49:23AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 10:23:38 +0200 > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So why change tabstop? > So that when we hit tab it goes to the next multiple of... 4? Then why not learn the editor :^) Wh

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 12:30:24PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 18:32:08 +0200 > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:33:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:07, Pigeon wrote: > > >

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 01:46:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:32, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:33:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:07, Pigeon wrote: > > > set tabstop=4 > > > >

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-01 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:06:53PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 11:27, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:35:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 03:35, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > So if not using braces matching, h

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Anders Arnholm
PLAIN fucking evil!!! Or as the vim help file puts it. Note: Setting 'tabstop' to any other value than 8 can make your file appear wrong in many places (e.g., when printing it). / Balp -- o_ Anders Arnholm, HiQ - Consultant o/ /\[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 08:35:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 03:35, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:32:07PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:06, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Thats about what I'm using,

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 02:36:26AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003 10:41:45 +0200 > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > So you don't copy from example web-pages and so on when trying to learn > > about a new feature, area and so on. I d

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:46:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 15:10:33 +0200 > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One of the main reasons is that Python leaves a loot of the resolving to > > runtime, that means that the code actually has

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:55:56PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:10, Anders Arnholm wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:46:09AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Lets take my MUA, Evolution, for example. It's not processor > > > intensive

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Anders Arnholm
oblems with the witespace in languanges that use them, thats is a fact. / Balp -- o_ Anders Arnholm, HiQ - Consultant o/ /\[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +46-703-160969 /|_, \\http://anders.arnholm.nu/ http://www.hiq.se / ` pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-29 Thread Anders Arnholm
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:32:07PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 11:06, Alan Shutko wrote: > > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > So, basically, you don't like Python because your text editor is > > junk. Fix it or go find a real edi

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Anders Arnholm
isn't good any more, there is still differences and different ideas... It's just not the same ones. / Balp -- o_ Anders Arnholm, HiQ - Consultant o/ /\[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +46-703-160969 /|_, \\http://anders.arnholm.nu/ http://www.hiq.se / ` pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-08-28 Thread Anders Arnholm
anguage. That will give you problems in any language. / Balp -- o_ Anders Arnholm, HiQ - Consultant o/ /\[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +46-703-160969 /|_, \\http://anders.arnholm.nu/ http://www.hiq.se / ` pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Making /home not accessible by outsiders

2002-05-30 Thread Anders Arnholm
, .ssh/known_hosts, but they raily gets touched. (All root work is done with su.) The secret stuff is in /home/balp/private/. / Balp -- o_ Anders Arnholm, HiQ - Consultant o/ /\[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +46-703-160969 /|_, \\http://anders.arnholm.nu/

Re: Kernel for AMD Thunderbird

2001-08-24 Thread Anders Arnholm
lems. One is a Duron 600 the other a Thunderbird 1200. The duron as run kenels 2.4.1 throu 2.4.5 and the thunderbird only as 2.4.9. / Balp -- o_ Anders Arnholm, HiQ - Consultant o/ /\[EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone : +46-703-160969 /|_, \\http://anders.arnholm.n

Re: Help with a Dell Latitude CPia

1999-11-25 Thread Anders Arnholm
p3's while writing this...) > 3. My Gold card 56K modem will dial out but will not connect to my ISP. I > get the error that the pppd died unexpectedly. Here I can provide no help at all. -- Anders Arnholm.-. Sisjö Kul

Re: gui progs as root in x under normal user?

1999-05-18 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>Robert Vollmert wrote: > A safer solution would be to do (as root): > > # export DISPLAY=:0.0 > # export XAUTHORITY=/home/yourname/.Xauthority That worked until I started to work in a networked environment. Then I don't like all clients to have root access to the users home directory so t

Re: [DEBIAN] Dell Latitude CPi A366XT

1999-05-18 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for repying on the answer, missed (probably deleted) the original question. > > is there anybody who has experience with the > > Dell Latitude CPi A366XT portable. > > Is the Neomagic 2200 graphics board supported? The Label in front of me, well actually Fn-S

Re: remote execution

1999-05-14 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>Robert Vollmert wrote: > Currently, I'm using ssh with a /root/.shosts file on B, but this > seems a little dangerous. Any better suggestions? ssh using RSA authentication to a "dummy" user on the remote host, use sudo to run that script as root. This will only make that command possible fr

Re: Partition Type A0 ??

1999-05-12 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>Will Lowe wrote: > partition, and that's how it did that crazy install-with-no-disk thing. > Does anybody know if that's possible? Or know what partition type A0 > really is? I don't know about how AST makes it, but I have seen several Laptop's from Toshiba that uses an extra partition in

Re: Secure Mailer

1999-01-12 Thread Anders Arnholm
Is it possible to get postfix to do ident lookup on incomming smtp sessions. And then there has to be some serious perforamce testing :) / Anders -- o_ Anders Arnholm, Work : http://www.opensoftware.se/ o/ /\* MOVING * Phone : +46-31-*SOON* /|_, \\* MOVING *

Re: 2.2 ready ?

1999-01-08 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>Shaleh wrote: > On 08-Jan-99 Bert Barbe wrote: > > Is there a distribution that is kernel v. (pre-)2.2 ready (= having > > the right versions of neccessary tools to run linux (pre-)2.2) > potato definately, slink possibly Slink works, over here (I think I have mostly slink installed now, SA

Re: Presort my email messages when exmh is the MUA.

1998-12-15 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>shaul wrote: > I am using exmh to handle my email (MUA ?). The MTA is smail (is it also the > MDA ? What are the differences between MDA and MTA ?). > I want to presort my email messages. > Can you recommend a way to do it (procmail ? exmh capabilities for this task, > if it got any

Re: Installation problem from floppies, RAMDISK error, please help me!!!

1998-12-08 Thread Anders Arnholm
>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am trying to install debian from a 386SX 16mhz with 5 megs of ram from a > floppy disk drive. It has a 106 meg hard drive. 15 megs of the hard drive > are used as an MSDOS partition. The installation goes through detecting ite ms > on the system and then

Re: Experience with IBM Thinkpad 300CSE

1998-10-27 Thread Anders Arnholm
> Does anyone have experience installing Debian (Hamm/Slink) on an IBM > Thinkpad 300CSE? My father got me an early xmas present. 486-50(?), 20Mb > RAM, 350Mb HD. It has Win95 on it now. I don't really need X, just curious > as to how well Linux will like such a beast. I have installed i