Re: LoseThos - Yet Another Hobbyist OS

2007-06-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 6/26/07, Wesley Parish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://www.losethos.com/ LoseThos is for programming as entertainment. Played with it? -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell

Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Robert Fisher
I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux compatable mobo. One of my suppliers' web sites suggest that the Asus P5N-E SLI is a popular purchase. Any list members used it? Any other recommendations? Robert

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Christopher Sawtell
On 6/26/07, Robert Fisher [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux compatable mobo. One of my suppliers' web sites suggest that the Asus P5N-E SLI is a popular purchase. According to:-

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Volker Kuhlmann
I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux compatable mobo. One of my suppliers' web sites suggest that the Asus P5N-E SLI is a popular purchase. Mobo models are 95% irrelevant for whether it works well with Linux. Chipsets are critical. If you want to work it

Mailserv processor error

2007-06-26 Thread Matthew Whiting
something appears to be up with the automatic Mailserv processor... Error processing the command: UNSUBSCRIBE LINUX-USERS.. %MAILSERV-F-NOMAILLIST, Mailing lists are not enabled Use the HELP command to get a list of legal MAILSERV commands. (i tend to unsubscribe periodically to keep my emails

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Jonathan Bell
Robert Fisher wrote: I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux compatable mobo. Any other recommendations? I have had no problems with the Albatron PX865PE Pro. Very little network usage though. Just a bit of leeching of uni work. Sound, serial, usb work well.

Reference on gdb

2007-06-26 Thread Kerry Mayes
Does anyone know of an online or downloadable reference for gdb (gnome debugger)? On the level of gdb for dummies. There is an annoying bug in evolution that I reported but can't get to do it when I have the debugger going. The debug team have told me that you can attach the debugger when it

Re: Motherboard advice

2007-06-26 Thread Roger Searle
Robert Fisher wrote: I am about to upgrade my home PC and trying to make sure I get a Linux compatable mobo. One of my suppliers' web sites suggest that the Asus P5N-E SLI is a popular purchase. Any list members used it? Any other recommendations? Robert I recently put an Asus

Re: Greetings from a Funky Penguin in Africa!

2007-06-26 Thread John Carter
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007, David Young wrote: My name is David Young. I'm a South African Linux Geek, and I run a small consulting company over here called Funky Penguin. For the past three years, we've been assisting clients with Open Source systems, developments, and customizations. I've subscribed

Re: Reference on gdb

2007-06-26 Thread Carl Cerecke
I don't think gdb is for dummies :-) You can attach strace to a process. That might help. strace -p pid Cheers, Carl. On 27/06/07, Kerry Mayes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anyone know of an online or downloadable reference for gdb (gnome debugger)? On the level of gdb for dummies. There is

Guess what this will do...

2007-06-26 Thread John Carter
Some deeper mysteries of the the world of hash bangs Without cheating (trying to run it) what will this pair of files do under Linux Here is a little script we want to be interpreted by the flashbang interpreter...

Re: Reference on gdb

2007-06-26 Thread John Carter
On Wed, 27 Jun 2007, Kerry Mayes wrote: Does anyone know of an online or downloadable reference for gdb (gnome debugger)? On the level of gdb for dummies. You may find ddd useful. It's a gui wrapper around gdb. (BTW, its Gnu DeBugger, not Gnome) John Carter

Re: Guess what this will do...

2007-06-26 Thread Jasper Bryant-Greene
If you invoke via 'env', then you can use scripts which are themselves interpreted as interpreters. e.g. #!/usr/bin/env /home/johnc/foo/flashbang puts ARGV[0] Jasper On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 11:30 +1200, John Carter wrote: Some deeper mysteries of the the world of hash bangs Without

Re: Reference on gdb

2007-06-26 Thread Matthew Gregan
At 2007-06-27T09:02:04+1200, Kerry Mayes wrote: There is an annoying bug in evolution that I reported but can't get to do it when I have the debugger going. The debug team have told me that you can attach the debugger when it has frozen but I don't know how to do that and can't find an