On Sun, 2003-08-17 at 16:02, Chris Owen wrote:
> Hi there, wonder if anyone can help me out with this.
>
> I installed Debian on an old laptop, found that hard disk access is
> unusably slow, apparently this is because my disk controller, a UMC8673,
> is not supported by the kernel. I have kern
Quote from Harcourt Fenton Mudd, on the Star Trek:TOS episode "I, Mudd"
"Knowledge should be free for all."
I couldn't stop laughing...
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On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 06:23, Hershel Robinson wrote:
> I am about to purchase a new machine on which I hope to install Debian. I
> was told by someone that I should insure that the new hardware will be Linux
> compatible. I thought that one of Debian's claims to fame is that it runs on
> so many di
gt;
> actually, the spelling isn't right, it's correct.
http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=right
"In accordance with fact, reason, or truth; correct:"
So, the spelling is right, and also correct...
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> see this thread:
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200308/msg02830.html
So is there any hope for SATA in the 2.4 kernels? Maybe in the -ac
branch?
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Some former UNSCOM officials are alarmed, however. Terry Taylor,
a British senior UNSCOM inspector from 1993 to 1997, says the
figure of 95 percent disar
t; thereof. So how much credence can I give to CR systems if he is their
> advocate?
Not much, but don't let one person's idiocy dissuade you, since,
in the Grand Scheme Of Things, AC/Bruce Burhans is not the Universal
Embodiment Of CR...
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screen does not show you more than 137GB,
a new enough kernel and EIDE controller will give you 160GB.
Of course, as John says, if your mobo is more than ~1 year old,
you may need to get a PCI controller.
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version 4.2x under Debian Woody? (Do any
> deb's exist for Woody?)
mimedefang
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"(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and
make them into b
where else in the developing world ;-)
>
> India's not China, it's a IT hotbed.
The piracy rate is still pretty high. That's *one* reason why the
Indian federal and state governments are looking favorably upon
Linux: it reduces the piracy rate.
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tworking etc. And also basic Unix and Linux commands. I also would
> like it to be as distro independent as possible.
How about looking through either of these, from The Linux Documentation
Project?
http://www.tldp.org/guides.html
http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/howtos.html
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so I am not surprised
that it it is well integrated. You ought to complain to the person/
people who created xpde as to why it's menus are sparse, and ask
them for help. After all, proprietary interfaces are more friendly,
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[snip]
Even though the packages have been "removed", the debs still remain
in /var/cache/apt/archives.
Thus, unless new revisions of the KDE s/w have been released, apt
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> > 1:1.1.4), slib, guile-1.6-slib, libfinance-quote-perl,
> > libdate-manip-perl
>
> Look at all those dependencies! You're not supposed to scare people
> off. :)
If I were running RH/Mdk/SuSE (RPM Hell), or used KDE and had a 56K
line, I
(>> 4.1.0), zlib1g (>=
> > 1:1.1.4), slib, guile-1.6-slib, libfinance-quote-perl,
> > libdate-manip-perl
>
> Look at all those dependencies! You're not supposed to scare people
> off. :)
If you use Gnome, then the majority of these dependencies will already
be me
of packages are available.
>
> Repeated runs of 'apt-get upgrade' should be no more effective than a
> single run.
Note, though, that "apt-get upgrade" plus the manual "apt-get install"
of the held-back packages works perfectly.
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ew of COBOL. In the hands of
someone with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular language.
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kobol/
http://www.thekompany.com/products/kobol/demo.php3
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On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:36, Mark Roach wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:52, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 03:35, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a
> > > requirement for getting my BS. (And t
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Too bad you have such a negative view of COBOL. In the hands of someone
> > with a brain, it's quite a powerful and modular language.
>
>
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:24, Yves Goergen wrote:
> Von: "Ron Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > > At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > Too
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-08-26T14:25:32Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > For a "Hello, World" program, or an OS, or a graphics toolkit, even
> > Admiral Hooper would not say that COBOL is the proper tool. O
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:29, David Turetsky wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > > At 2003-08-26T14:25:32Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > >
> > > > For a "Hello, World" program, or an OS, or a graphics
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 17:22, bob parker wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 08:50, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > > At 2003-08-26T12:52:33Z, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > > Too bad you have such a nega
gt; server... Am I correct here?
>
> Does anyone know why? Has this something to do with Sobig.F? Luckily my
> ISP filters out Sobig.F for me, so this saves me the hassle ;).
I've noticed the same thing on this list and the PostgreSQL lists.
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> On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:55AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
[snip]
> This just isn't true. Perl at least is brought to its knees by a variety
> of problems that C has no
On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 18:23, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 02:30:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:29, David Turetsky wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 10:05, Kirk Strauser wrote:
> > > > From: Ron Johnson [mail
s add
up.
> Seems like a one-to-one correspondence to me, never mind the compactness
> and power of Perl
I'd still rather the MOVE CORRESPONDING, because it means that
one more bit of busy work is off my plate.
A corollary command is, if I remember properly, the FILL verb.
If
the price of being incredibly wordy. Our first "Hello
> World" program is a little over two pages.
Don't worry. By the time your code gets out to 3-500 lines, it'll
be approximately the same length as a similar C program.
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And it runs on OpenVMS, which is The One True OS!!
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hon is *very* portable, but even it has platform-specific
functions. It's relatively easy, though, to compensate with run-
time conditional execution.
Given that the app programmer is adequately skilled and uses the
proper algorithms, speed is dependent upon the compiler writer's
skill, not
in Fortran. Thus, C is great,
and all other languages suck!". Fortunately, this attitude is also
diminishing. Unfortunately, nowadays "s/C /Perl /".
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gt; all the Debian mailing lists that Debian sends more email than some
> spamhauses. It really takes a long time to send a lot of email on
> old, donated hardware.
Totally disagree.
Before MSBlaster & sobig.f made their appearance, the debian- lists
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On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:52, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:46:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > It's only compatible and portable on similar platforms. Any C
> > code that chock full of Linux system calls won't portable to any
> > other platfor
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 06:34, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 03:59:27AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 2 - C is The Language Of Unix, Unix is Great, We Use Unix, there-
> > fore We Write In C. (The fact
I'm totally confused on
> the concept. (If not, what does .o stand for if not Object?)
That's a joke, right?
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t;C was created to write unix to
begin with" are sheep.
Give me a better reason, like "I need to touch the hardware", or
"the scripting language I use only allows binary extensions to be
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> On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:16:03AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> | On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:17, Paul Johnson wrote:
> | > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:10PM +0200, Pim Bliek wrote:
[snip]
> |
> | Totally disagre
eally need depending on what you
> want to do...
Python!! Object oriented, and methods that need speed are
wrapped around C.
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On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 05:42, bob parker wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 10:46, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 17:22, bob parker wrote:
> > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 00:25, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > >
> > > I particularly like the way it deletes the most sign
t; C was the single biggest mistake Stroustrup made.
Gee, I thought I was a Luddite for not wanting my kids to start
playing computer games when they turned 3.
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On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 3:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:15, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > > Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wro
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 09:42, John Hasler wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
> > But the point is that it can easily be done, and often is, to get that
> > extra feature, or reduce the SLOC by a dozen or so, or to speed it up a
> > little bit.
>
> The only one of my packages
e of honor in the
> "brain-damaged" C++ hall of fame.
How about Python with C modules for the stuff that C does better/
faster than Python?
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If you want a C-like OO language with type safety, why not use Java?
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pla
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 06:41, Pigeon wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 07:53:34PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 19:35, Britton wrote:
> > > On Tue, 26 Aug 2003, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Aug 26, 2003 at 11:25:55AM -05
s it isn't 2.4.18.
>
> Other than generating an entirely new kernel, is there
> a way to get this driver happy with this kernel?
> Like, rename the kernel somewhere?
Could you give us a concrete example?
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The purpose of the military isn't to pay your college tuition or
give you a little extra income; it's to "kill people and break things&q
llent binaries.
> (Yeah, some people can get good performance because they're good c++ coders.
> Probably it's not even a 1% of all c++ coders though)
>
> Another reason: great C compilers. (yeah, c++ is getting better...)
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anguage, to distinguish
it from 3GLs like, oh, every other procedural language except Assembly
(which is 2GL, after all).
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On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 10:34, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 7:45 pm, Deryk Barker wrote:
> > Thus spake Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
> > > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > > > Pytho
adamant
> in how I use whitespace. Though I will need to pick it up sooner later.
Why Alex, whatever do you mean by that?
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If you want a (IMHO) good mix between QnD and OO, try Python. It
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"What other evidence do you have that
've ever seen it.
> Someday I'd like to see some "COBOL-like" code written in C.
Instead of lots of small functions and a minimum of global variables,
the classic code from a "bad COBOL programmer forced to write C"
would have large main(), very few other functions,
.pyc file
(c) you can hide the source from the end-users, especially "a
little knowledge is a dangerous thing" dorks.
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st other of it's ideas, others are *finally* catching
up with DEC: GNU is, I believe, trying to do something similar with
the gnu compiler collection.
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Thanks to the good people in Microsoft, a great de
h better
> after that.
>
> I also think that enforced indentation is a very good thing in a
> language used to teach programming - one of the things that makes
> python so good for that, in fact.
But as you just demonstrated, regularized indenting is crucial to
any code bigger than
On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:58, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:53:26 -0500
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Seriously, though, OO languages, being born of academia, were designed
> > *not* to be quick-'n-dirty languages. They were designed with
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important to you? Speed or silence?
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On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 22:13, Deryk Barker wrote:
> Thus spake Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
>
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 17:34, Paul M Foster wrote:
> > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:15:13AM -0500, Michael Heironimus wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Tue, Aug 26
hat os.path.walk() is a godsend. :)
As are, IMO,
.isabs()
.isfile()
.isdir()
.islink()
.ismount()
.realpath()
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Thanks to the good people in Microsoft, a great deal of th
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 01:44, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:43, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 16:01, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > > Дана сре, 27-08-2003 у 13:06, Steve Lamb је написао:
> > > > On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 04:21:05 -0700
> >
me, a COBOL fan, COBOL-69 was Truly,
Totally Evil.
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nly change the extension.
And, no, MS *still* can't do anything right, since the filename/
filetype split is at least as old as the '70s. CP/M had it, as
well as various DEC OSs (which were the inspiration for CP/M).
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> > proggies were up to what we had on the 286.
>
> Windows, yes. OS/2 v3.0 and higher, no.
Could Warp run on the 286? I don't think so. It definitely ran
fine on my 486DX/33 w/ 8MB RAM and et4000/w32 video card.
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> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:55, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 27 August 2003 3:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:15, Peter Hugosson
w AMD 2500+ is as quiet as the PIII-667 it replaced.
> Try something more than a $.09 cooling fan.
What brand of fans and CPU cooler do you use?
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On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, Alfredo Valles wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 August 2003 3:59 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 07:15, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote:
> > > Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:11:08AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wro
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 05:22, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 05:09:03 -0500
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 02:04, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:51:23 -0500
> > > Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 06:31, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:01:59 -0500
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 23:52, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 13:57:50 +1000
> > > bob parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 06:35, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:07:35 -0500
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So I *am* a Luddite after all: a good text interface is just as
> > good as any GUI interface, and a hell of a lot faster.
>
> Depen
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 07:23, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:46:09 -0500
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Lets take my MUA, Evolution, for example. It's not processor
> > intensive. Why couldn't it be written in Python?
>
>
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 05:28, Tom Allison wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 21:06, Tom Allison wrote:
> >
> >>I am getting really curious about these new Via CPU's that work on the
> >>micro-ITX systems. I especially like the idea that I
retty much defeated then, though.
Thus, if you wind up tunneling many ports thru 22, it might be
better to use a VPN.
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arently it's good for CPU's up to the
> 3200+. It'll fit all SocketA CPU's so if you're Athlon 1Ghz is running
> noisy it may be worth a look!
What do you mean by "25 cooler" and "8 CoolerMaster"?
Also, do you know what brand(s)/size(s) of case
ch about Java. Having used Java, I'd
say that Java isn't good for small programs/quick hacks.
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drun
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 09:42, John Hasler wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
> > In fact, if there was a text-based MUA that has drop-down menus, etc, I'd
> > seriously think about dropping Evolution...
>
> Gnus.
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:31, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 06:34, Chris Wilcox wrote:
> >
> >>>On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 00:05, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:21:57 +0200
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 12:21, Diego Calleja García wrote:
> El Wed, 27 Aug 2003 17:12:22 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
>
> > KDE is pretty fast, and the MS VC++ generates excellent binaries.
>
> Tried running kde apps outside of kde?
Well, n
editor!
Heck, vim in default mode (no syntax coloring) is Good Enough.
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After listening to many White House, Pentagon & CENTCOM
briefings in both Gulf Wars, it is my firm belief that most
"senior
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:16, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 6:07 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:31, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote:
> > > Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 06:34, Chris Wilcox wrote:
> > > >
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 07:58:01PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> >> On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 21:53:26 -0500
> >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> > Seriously, though, OO languages, being born of
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 14:23, Joey Hess wrote:
> Ron Johnson wrote:
> > The primary design goal of these x86 CPUs is low power usage. In
> > fact, they just released a *passively cooled* 733MHz CPU.
>
> And? I have a 867 mhz transmeta cpu in my laptop. No fan. No heat
&g
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 15:36, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 8:01 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 13:16, Peter Nuttall wrote:
> > > On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 6:07 pm, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 10:31, Harshwardhan
d then by OSs that allow IRQ-sharing.
Even then, though, the Dead Hand Of 1981 hangs over Linux: perform-
ance suffers if too many PCI devices (whether cards or devices built
onto the mobo: IDE, USB, ieee1394, SCSI) share the same IRQ.
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he opposite problem. I think people should just use
> whatever they're most comfortable with that's possible in their
> environment. (e.g. I don't think it's possible to do a } else { line in
> python even when using comments because you'd have comment code comment
gt; points to make it more-or-less readable. With delimiting based on
> whitespace and line breaks, you've had it.
That happens occasionally, but most, going on all,) Python program-
mers set their editor config files to this:
set expandtab
set shiftwidth=4
set tabstop=4
set smarttab
&g
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:
> > > Anders Arnholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > So, basically, you don't like Python
code because of the inconsistancy in
> indentation/placement of braces. My solution for that has been $ indent
> .c.
And then when you check the file back into cvs, it grinds away at
a whole-file differential...
The solution, though, is an Organizational Standard that must be
followed.
ompiler were strong enough to permit us to rewrite
the Unix kernel for the PDP-11 in C during the summer of that year."
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On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 17:31, Paul M Foster wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 06:07:35AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 22:57, bob parker wrote:
> > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 01:55, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 2003-08-27 at 04:06, A
w the modules look. See? I just frobnitzed the
> knob from 500 miles away!"
>
> Him: "So, I'm supposed to tell my boss that there's NOT EVEN A DEMO
> INTERFACE?!?"
>
> Us: "Well, right"
This is why programmers who have PHBs like RAD...
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 19:18, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 01:08:56PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> > Ron Johnson said on Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 02:16:22PM -0500:
> > > With tight budgets and tight schedules, I've *never* seen a project
> > > rew
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 05:09, Tom Badran wrote:
> On Thursday 28 Aug 2003 20:16, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > The SDLC and corporate politics are independent. Academics should
> > take corporate politics into consideration when coming up with these
> > theories.
>
> W
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 04:18, Paul Johnson wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 09:06:23AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > Or the poster doesn't know much about Java. Having used Java, I'd
> > say that Java isn
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 01:56, bob parker wrote:
> On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 21:37, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > On Thu, 28 Aug 2003 06:13:47 -0500
> >
> > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > What brand of fans and CPU cooler do you use?
> >
> > He
uh... very slow" laptop. Even with all that inefficiency built into
>
> I'm amazed nobody's come up with x terminals in laptop form factor...
The components are more expensive than their full-sized counter-
parts.
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