Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-24 Thread Crossfire
O Plameras was once rumoured to have said: This is a different code. I'd do it differently. But for another time. So would I. If I was trying to implement the original arrangement properly, I'd probably do it something like this... ---BEGIN--- #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include

Re: [SLUG] C Gurus

2005-11-24 Thread O Plameras
Crossfire wrote: So would I. If I was trying to implement the original arrangement properly, I'd probably do it something like this... ---BEGIN--- #include stdio.h #include stdlib.h #include string.h #include getopt.h #include libintl.h #define _(x) gettext(x) #define VERSION 0.1 void

Re: [SLUG] Thunderbird

2005-11-24 Thread Domingo Llavero
Hi Sridhar, Thanks for your help I will give this a go!!! Dom -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html

Re: ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-24 Thread telford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 11:11:42AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: Well, the only bugs I've found to date that cannot be effectively tested for are concurrent operation bugs - threads and co-processes specifically. None of which are detected by

Re: ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-24 Thread telford
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 10:42:54PM +1100, Del wrote: Less is a measure of quality not quantity. If I have less money than you do, the quality of my money is still exactly the same as yours. So by saying there are less bugs what you are

Re: [SLUG] I hate udev!

2005-11-24 Thread Glen Turner
...Then my backup fails or worse the disk is completely full because writing to /dev/nst0 when the device file doesn't exist creates a data file on the disk which grows to be bigger than the /dev partition. That's a bug in the backup application. Group disk is sufficient to do a backup

Re: [SLUG] I hate udev!

2005-11-24 Thread Ben Stanley
Guys, The original SCSI bus specification is not designed to be hot-plugged. You were supposed to plug it all together and then turn on the equipment and leave it that way. Any automatic scanning was intended to be performed at boot time. If you don't like this, then go and replace your devices

[SLUG] Guidance and Recommendations on Hardware + Distro

2005-11-24 Thread Gavin Tomlins
Greetings All, my 8 port barricade router is starting to misbehave badly, so I thought I would replace with a Mini-ITX/switch combination. The following are a few questions regarding hardware acquisition and distro. Criteria 1. Small 2. Quiet 3. Aesthetic 4. Budget is fairly open to

[SLUG] FireFox 'open with' csv excel

2005-11-24 Thread slug
Hi there, I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem? When we create a CSV (comma seperated values) text file in our app and firefox passes it to Excel (yes I know, immovable object currently but working on it! OO _is better), all of the data is thrown to column one in a completely

Re: ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-24 Thread James Gray
On Wednesday 23 November 2005 22:42, 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 is a measure of quality not quantity. So

[SLUG] o3 magazine, free magazine for open source in enterprise

2005-11-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
I got sent this link today: http://o3magazine.com/ Free PDF download. There were a couple of headlines that piqued my interest, but the content seemed to be pitched lower than I was expecting. Wasn't all bad though. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/

RE: [SLUG] FireFox 'open with' csv excel

2005-11-24 Thread Roger Barnes
Hi Stu, I am wondering if anyone else has had this problem? I have. :) When we create a CSV (comma seperated values) text file in our app and firefox passes it to Excel (yes I know, immovable object currently but working on it! OO _is better), all of the data is thrown to column one in

Re: ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-24 Thread James Purser
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

Re: [SLUG] I hate udev!

2005-11-24 Thread Peter Rundle
Ben Stanley wrote: So SCSI is not electrically designed for hot-plugging, and most pieces of SCSI equipment come with dire warnings against doing so... Agreed. However, I don't believe for a minute that all devices connected to a scsi chain have to be on for the chain to be valid. It's quite

[SLUG] Monthly Meeting: November, 2005: Update

2005-11-24 Thread Lindsay Holmwood
When: Friday, November 25, 6:30pm - 9:30pm Where: UTS Broadway SLUG's monthly meeting featuring talks and SLUGlets. Meetings are open to the general public, and are free of charge. Room 2.4.10 (Building 2, Level 4, Room 10), at UTS Broadway (There is a map of UTS available at

Re: ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-24 Thread Peter Miller
On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:48 +1100, James Purser wrote: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/less?view=uk Read the note on usage again. Here it is in terms geeks will grok: less is used for continuous quantities, fewer is used for discrete quantities less water, fewer drops. less population,

[SLUG] Vacation Message Problem

2005-11-24 Thread Simon
Hi all, I am trying to setup an autoresponder on a couple of email addresses to tell senders that the email address has changed. Using Vacation. The mail is not being delivered to the old address which is good, but there is no autorespond message. .forward has \username, /usr/bin/vacation

Re: ocaml vs python/ruby/perl etc. was [SLUG] Why not C

2005-11-24 Thread QuantumG
Peter Miller wrote: On Fri, 2005-11-25 at 12:48 +1100, James Purser wrote: http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/less?view=uk Read the note on usage again. Dist thou not knoweth how thee shalt speak?! Prescriptive grammer is domain of the historically ignorant. Language

Re: [SLUG] Vacation Message Problem

2005-11-24 Thread Phil Scarratt
Simon wrote: Hi all, I am trying to setup an autoresponder on a couple of email addresses to tell senders that the email address has changed. Using Vacation. The mail is not being delivered to the old address which is good, but there is no autorespond message. .forward has \username,

Re: [SLUG] FireFox 'open with' csv excel

2005-11-24 Thread Gottfried Szing
hi For example, if your application is a cgi, eg http://somehost.com/sendsomecsv.php?param1=value1, try adding a csv filename after the script name, eg http://somehost.com/sendsomecsv.php/export.csv?param1=value1 instead of hardcoding the filename in the url you can also try to use the