Taryn East wrote:
What FOSS projects (or parts therof) do you know that have really great
code in them? The kind of excellent code that a person with reasonable
but not brilliant skills could read/study and learn nifty things from?
Samba.
It's in C, it solves a non-trivial problem in such a
I'd steer clear of D-Link, at least the 580-TX. It caused us nothing but
trouble.. we ended up buying quad intel cards instead and have had no
problem
with them.
http://mailman.ds9a.nl/pipermail/lartc/2003q4/010847.html
I had problems with the old sundance driver which that post is
Grant Parnell wrote:
For this Friday's SLUG meeting we're doing a newbie oriented talk for the
second half of the meeting and SLUGlets will be where all the tech guru's
head for a chat on random stuff like coding and key signing etc.
It just occurred to me that we should get a run-down of
On Monday 26 September 2005 17:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear List,
I am looking for a supplier of single board computers to play with embedded
linux and home automation.
The box will be put into a living room so it should be similar to a DVD
player.
I need to incorporate a GSM module
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:57, Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For this Friday's SLUG meeting we're doing a newbie oriented talk for the
second half of the meeting and SLUGlets will be where all the tech guru's
head for a chat on random stuff like coding and key signing etc.
It just
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 18:58, Ben Buxton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Grant Parnell [EMAIL PROTECTED] uttered the following thing:
xv (old, small image viewer)
Ye!! In the 11 (yes eleven) years since its last release, I have
found nothing to be faster, smaller or more convenient than XV.
Well Dan's still working on the website(s) so things might be up by now.
I've been doing a lot of stuff and have joined the committee. Perhaps I
can field some questions you have for now.
In terms of donation, yep we should be able to accept some stuff again
soonish. We're aiming to get a
quote who=Grant Parnell
For starters what apps do you tend to use the most?
Here's my top 10 list:-
gnome-terminal
firefox (squirrelmail,google)
gimp
openoffice
evince
gaim
evolution
palm sync
xchat
rhythmbox
I also suggest showing off f-spot, totem, and some cool stuff like celestia,
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 15:57 +1000, Grant Parnell wrote:
gnome-terminal
firefox (squirrelmail,google)
qfaxreader
nautilus
xv (old, small image viewer)
gimp
openoffice
nagit's openoffice.org /nag
gnumeric
xmms
grip
evolution
terminal server client (remote desktop for windows)
project
On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 19:45 +1000, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
I'll bite :-). My somewhat unorthodox list:
gcc
of course.
Plus:
vim - because my 20-something year unix veteran fingers already know the
key strokes
Valgrind
How did we ever live without it?
wget / curl - because
Desktop apps? For this I read gui, gentle learning curve, suitable for
people who dislike learning about the computer.
In no special order the ones I use regularly and like are
firefox
rhythmbox
sound juicer
sweep
gqview
wesnoth
oowriter or abiword (equally good in different ways)
lifrea
xine
Konqueror - using fish to transfer files - fish://user@host
Konqueror - to display man/info pages
freenx
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Peter Miller wrote:
C offers you enough rope to hang yourself.
C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and
a blindfold.
and better type safety that sh, tcl, php and a shit load of other
advanced make-the- type-up- at-run-time you-can-only-find- bugs-by-
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Thats why I'm so keen on O'Caml. It offers even more static analysis
than C and C++. Its significantly more difficult to write bugs into
an O'Caml program than a C or C++ program.
Sounds like the antithesis of Objective-C and other dynamically typed
languages.
QuantumG wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Thats why I'm so keen on O'Caml. It offers even more static analysis
than C and C++. Its significantly more difficult to write bugs into
an O'Caml program than a C or C++ program.
Sounds like the antithesis of Objective-C and other dynamically
On 9/27/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The problem with dynamic typing is that it postones testing for an
important class of errors (type errors) until run time.
Nah. In fact the oposite is true. Static typing is just another form
of premature optimisation!
I make extensive
C offers you enough rope to hang yourself.
C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and
a blindfold.
Our system architect calls me crazy,
But coding in C makes me feel pretty.
Since I always remotely log on to a linux box, I am command line junkie. The
things I use most
I need to setup a local Ubuntu apt server
but don't know where to start. I need something that syncs with official Ubuntu
servers but I only want it to sync packages I define. Is this
possible?
Thanks,Carlo
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When:
Friday, September 30, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Where:
UTS Broadway
SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the
general public, and free of charge.
Room 2.4.10 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 10), at UTS Broadway (There is a map of
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Hi all Slugger
I am wondering about FreeBSD tgz binary packages is
compatible with linux distros such as debian or
fedora. and also can i just unpack the bsd package and
run them on any of these two linux distros
many thanks in advance
On 9/27/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There are large classes of problems where running speed is an
important issue. Static typing does make for faster run times
and in cases where that moves your program from being too
slow to being fast enough, that is not a premature
On 2005-09-27, Carlo Sogono [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to setup a local Ubuntu apt server but don't = know where to
start. I need something that syncs with official Ubuntu servers = but
I only want it to sync packages I define. Is this possible?
I searched Google for setting up a partial
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 11:16:24AM +1000, Carlo Sogono wrote:
I need to setup a local Ubuntu apt server but don't know where to start.
I need something that syncs with official Ubuntu servers but I only want
it to sync packages I define. Is this possible?
You want apt-proxy.
- Matt
However, other dynamically typed languages like Python, php and to a
lesser extent Perl do not have anywhere near as sane a system. I
suspect that the Smalltalk equivalent of the following Python code
might actually do the right thing:
a = [ 1, help ]
b = a + 10
but Python squeals like
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:00 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote:
[good things about run-time behaviour of modern interpretive languages]
This isn't my gripe, and I'm not certain it's Erik's, either. I don't
care when in the process the code is compiled (well, I do, for embedded
code) so long as I don't
Have just tried an MSI M510c notebook with Kanotix (Debian) 2005.03 lite
and viewing the results of lspci determined that Kanotix found all of the
hardware.
Does this mean that I can expect that everything that was found will work
? Or does it mean that hardware detection has worked and
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Peter Miller wrote:
C offers you enough rope to hang yourself.
C++ offers a fully equipped firing squad, a last cigarette and
a blindfold.
and better type safety that sh, tcl, php and a shit load of other
advanced make-the- type-up- at-run-time
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
However, other dynamically typed languages like Python, php and to a
lesser extent Perl do not have anywhere near as sane a system. I
suspect that the Smalltalk equivalent of the following Python code
might actually do the right thing:
a = [ 1, help ]
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:26:46PM -0700, pesoy misak wrote:
I am wondering about FreeBSD tgz binary packages is
compatible with linux distros such as debian or
fedora. and also can i just unpack the bsd package and
run them on any of these two linux distros
No. Explanation follows.
BSD
O Plameras wrote:
I do not know O'Caml, so I just want to ask the equivalent of ff code.
Probably the best place to get an idea of the language is the
Pleac project:
http://pleac.sourceforge.net/pleac_ocaml/index.html
I can RTFM but if I can see the equivalent of this code, it'd be
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
You will notice that something like the Array.mapi function is
much less likely to contain errors than the C for loop.
What I noticed is that they invented syntax when they could have just as
easily have used C syntax. Way to knife your language.
Trent
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On 9/27/05, O Plameras [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I can RTFM but if I can see the equivalent of this code, it'd be helpful.
I wish to have a quick idea of the language.
#include stdio.h
int integer_array[] = {1,-2,3,-4,5,-6,-7,8,-9,32727000};
int *ptr;
int main(void)
{
int i;
Grant Parnell wrote:
For starters what apps do you tend to use the most?
xterminal
leafpad
firefox
thunderbird
nautilus
gaim
gimp
vim
f-spot
Although more recently i've been using epiphany instead of firefox, due
to its lighter feel. I'm slowly moving away from nautilus to thunar (an
xfce
On 9/27/05, Peter Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 12:00 +1000, Bruce Badger wrote:
As a developer intent on doing the best job possible, I want to
discover whole classes of bugs long before the corresponding unit test
is executed. (E.g. my keyboard can't spel.)
I
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