On 11/23/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
While I agree wholeheartedly that tests are necessay, I'm curious
why you are advocating writing Python tests to find bugs at run time
that say an Ocaml compiler will find for free at compile time.
While I would agree that catching
Hi all,
I am having trouble editing my grub boot file. I can log on as su - and
change to the dir. but when I try to edit the grub.conf file all I get
is a blank screen with grub.conf 1L, 1C on the bottom line.
What am I doing wrong.
Paul.
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Kevin Fitzgerald wrote:
I want to set it up so that scalix.company.dyndns.org periodically goes to
mail.company.com.au, gets the mail and puts it in the appropriate mailboxes.
I know that one way to do this would be set up forwarders at
mail.company.com.au but this does not actually clear the
Steve Lindsay wrote:
While I would agree that catching any bugs asap is a good thing, I
find that typos and the like are not the problems that are causing me
most grief (crappy logic, crappy requirements, not enough time, other
developers writing crappy code, etc are more likely to cause me
On 11/23/05, Erik de Castro Lopo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lots of interesting stuff
Cool, thanks Erik. Will check it out.
CheersSteve
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Paul Maloney wrote:
Hi all,
I am having trouble editing my grub boot file. I can log on as su -
and change to the dir. but when I try to edit the grub.conf file all I
get is a blank screen with grub.conf 1L, 1C on the bottom line.
This means your file has exactly 1 character(perhaps a
O Plameras wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
If you come to the SLUG meeting on Friday, I will bring you a copy of
this book so you can see for yourself. If you then publically admit
that you were wrong on this issue you can keep the book [1].
It's nice of you to make that offer.
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 13:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Catchy Subject?
rant emotion=annoyed sanity=atrisk
Yes I hate udev because if my server is rebooted and the tape drive
isn't switched on then the entries in /dev/ such as nst0 don't get
created. Then my backup fails or worse the
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 18:18 +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Robert Collins wrote:
However, Perl, Python and Ruby are also often the wrong language.
[try finding variable name spellos or type parity problems quickly in
these languages - in a nice polite language like C, the compiler
Steve Lindsay wrote:
Python works for me because:
a) i (and others) write less code because the language is very
expressive. therefore less bugs
Gra. Grammar fascist attack coming up:
Less is a measure of quality not quantity. So by saying there are
less bugs what you are implying is
Should probably move this to [chat]...
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:42:54PM +1100, Del wrote:
Steve Lindsay wrote:
Python works for me because:
a) i (and others) write less code because the language is very
expressive. therefore less bugs
Gra. Grammar fascist attack coming up:
Less
quote who=Denis Crowdy
Dictionaries, and therefore definitions, are constructed through analysis
of usage. That would throw a spanner in the works for compiler writers
wouldn't it?
Good morning, Perl 6!
- Jeff
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Hi all,
To all the Debian Developers on the list:
Please consider sunny Perth for a holiday destination this Christmas!
Visit the coral reefs, the surf, the forests and the forest dunes!
That way you could sign my GPG key while you are over here :)
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bye,
pabs
Russell Davie qualifies. Give him 21 days and we'll see how he goes.
I'll email him to see how he goes after 21 days.
And so 24 more books to go.
To Russell: Congratulations you have reasonable case to receive this
offer with the brief
you have provided. Please provide a photo of the Back
O Plameras wrote:
I did not receive Erik's original email on this can you re-send it to
me, please ?
http://lists.slug.org.au/archives/slug/2005/11/msg00511.html
Erik
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1) Turning on your tape drive should create the dev entries
Nope didn't do it. The tape drive is a scsi device and the hotplug or whatever
that this udev is supposed to be designed to work with obviously
doesn't see it
/ detect it. Not surprising really I don't ever recall that a scsi
device
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005 09:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SLUG,
This morning I have tried to open Thunderbird only to find it won't open. I
click on Thunderbird, and my desktop thinks about it, but somehow won't
load up my default profile.
I have important e-mails that I can't afford to lose.
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 13:13 +1100, Benno wrote:
On Tue Nov 22, 2005 at 19:47:51 -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
-
char* somefunction()
{
char string2[] = some words;
return string2;
}
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doesn't
In this case
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 06:58 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
1) Turning on your tape drive should create the dev entries
Nope didn't do it. The tape drive is a scsi device and the hotplug or whatever
that this udev is supposed to be designed to work with obviously
doesn't see it
/ detect
On Wed, 2005-11-23 at 15:00 +1100, Taryn East wrote:
Hi all,
* Chris Deigan [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
8:20pm (approx): Split into two groups for:
* Special Interest Talk: Erik de Castro Lopo - Careers for Geeks
is it possible for a recording to be made of this talk? It
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:55:50AM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
If you come to the SLUG meeting on Friday, I will bring you a copy of
this book so you can see for yourself. If you then publically admit
that you were wrong on this issue you can keep the book [1].
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 02:16:29AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
To all the Debian Developers on the list:
Please consider sunny Perth for a holiday destination this Christmas!
Visit the coral reefs, the surf, the forests and the forest dunes!
That way you could sign my GPG key while you are
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:34:04AM +1100, ashley maher wrote:
G'day,
As the original poster, I did expect to eat some humble pie asking
such a trivial question.
Thanks to those who gave serious answers. (As most of the respondents
know me I expect I'll get a hard time for a while over
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 06:59:51PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2) Make your backups just a tiny bit cleverer eg RFMd on bash and test
I was going to suggest something similar, but use
'mt stat' instead; it will fail if the tape is not loaded,
needs cleaning, and also if it's not a char file.
Matt Palmer wrote:
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 08:55:50AM +1100, O Plameras wrote:
Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
If you come to the SLUG meeting on Friday, I will bring you a copy of
this book so you can see for yourself. If you then publically admit
that you were wrong on this issue you
On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 07:46:36PM +1100, Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
Steve Lindsay wrote:
While I would agree that catching any bugs asap is a good thing, I
find that typos and the like are not the problems that are causing me
most grief (crappy logic, crappy requirements, not enough
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 11:01 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
So, you add a testsuite, and then there's a whole new set of bugs that crop
up that can't be effectively tested for in the royal PITA list. LRR.
Well, the only bugs I've found to date that cannot be effectively tested
for are concurrent
Grant,
I'm trying to get a stack of people from down here so I've forwarded
your email to our South Coast LUG list.
I know of two of us for the meeting so put down an RSVP for two please.
Regards,
Ashle
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 11:15 +1100, Grant Parnell wrote:
Due to catching Spice Boys in the
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:11:42AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote:
On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 11:01 +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote:
So, you add a testsuite, and then there's a whole new set of bugs that crop
up that can't be effectively tested for in the royal PITA list. LRR.
Well, the only bugs
* Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
We record all the main talks, only sluglets dont get recorded.
understood, but not all of them are available on the website... I guess
I'm putting in a special request that this one go up - it would be
really appreciated :)
Many thanks,
Taryn
Due to catching Spice Boys in the middle of a move we've gone with our old
restaurant this month, the House of Guangzhou (AKA House of Boiled
Television Entrails).
I need to confirm the booking today so I'd like and indication of numbers
- off list thanks.
Price $25/head + drinks
Here's the
Hi All,
According to the SLUG website events calendar there is a Debian codefest
this weekend.
The site is listed as TBA. Does anyone know if this will be happening or
has it been cancelled and not removed from the webpage ?
I'm hoping to get some pointers on building a Debian package and would
Hi!
Does anyone have an old svnadmin-0.33.1 static binary lying around? If you
have an old Debian unstable machine, that had subversion installed late
2003, then you might be able to help me :)
I've got an old subversion repo that I'd like to extract the changesets out
of, unfortunately the
also lsmod and modprobe are your friends
Can't see any modules that pertain to tapes. Only the scsi driver and I'm
not
about to rmmod insmod that.
I guess that you should spend the time to learn about your system, which makes
the process here much easier :-).
Look in
Taryn East wrote:
* Robert Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus:
We record all the main talks, only sluglets dont get recorded.
understood, but not all of them are available on the website... I guess
I'm putting in a special request that this one go up - it would be
really appreciated :)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I find this interesting.
snipped
char* somefunction()
{
char string2[] = some words;
return string2;
}
--
doesn't
Hi Yiz,
A couple of people have explained why the above does
not work.
My attention will focus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can't see any modules that pertain to tapes. Only the scsi driver and
I'm not
about to rmmod insmod that.
I take it this is 2.6 - if its 2.4 you need to run the
rescan-scsi-bus.sh script (google knows where it is)
dave
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On Thu, 2005-11-24 at 06:58 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can't see any modules that pertain to tapes.
The module you need to reload is the lowest level one, the HBA's device
driver. Some of them have an ioctl which rescans, so you don't need to
rmmod insmd.
Also, this works for my scsi
Heya SLUGgers. I've been battling lamdaemon.pl recently (part of LDAP
Account Manager) and I've not managed to get it to create home
directories for users.
I've configured LAM with:
- the remote host IP
- the path to lamdaemon.pl on the remote host
Also:
- there is an account in LDAP for the LAM
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