Re: [vox-tech] copy and paste from Konsole?

2002-05-15 Thread nbs
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 05:48:18PM -0700, Alexandra Thorn wrote: > > Could anyone very quickly tell me how to copy and paste text from the KDE > Konsole to a file I can save (or else, how to save the Konsole text to > file directly)? Been working on something for over an hour, and would > like t

Re: [vox-tech] copy and paste from Konsole?

2002-05-15 Thread Rod Roark
Bring up Kate or Kwrite, highlight the text with the mouse, middle-click (or Ctrl-V) in the editor window. Then save the file. -- Rod http://www.sunsetsystems.com/ On Wednesday 15 May 2002 05:48 pm, Alexandra Thorn wrote: > Could anyone very quickly tell me how to copy and paste text from t

[vox-tech] copy and paste from Konsole?

2002-05-15 Thread Alexandra Thorn
Could anyone very quickly tell me how to copy and paste text from the KDE Konsole to a file I can save (or else, how to save the Konsole text to file directly)? Been working on something for over an hour, and would like to go home and get dinner, but don't want to lose the record of what I did.

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:49:52AM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > > On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think each sequence is completely independent of the others... > > > in that the order of numbers in one cycle of all sequences

Re: [vox-tech] random number question (longish)

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi mike, begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Pete, > > - Could you explain you want in the way of random numbers? > > (reproducible or not, how many over the life of the program, how long > the program runs, etc...) sure. reproducible is a requirement, since i've already used

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Mark K. Kim wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If your goal is play each song once in a random order, I don't see why > > you don't just assign each song a random number, then sort the list > > of songs by those random numbers to get the play list

Re: [vox-tech] LVM fun

2002-05-15 Thread Samuel Merritt
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 04:06:37PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:01:14PM -0700, Samuel Merritt wrote: > > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:49:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Is anyone using LVM here? > > > > I use LVM. Kernel 2.4.17, LVM version 1.0.1-rc4(ish)(

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If your goal is play each song once in a random order, I don't see why > you don't just assign each song a random number, then sort the list > of songs by those random numbers to get the play list order. When the > first play-songs pass is finishe

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread msimons
Pete, - Could you explain you want in the way of random numbers? (reproducible or not, how many over the life of the program, how long the program runs, etc...) On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 12:16:00PM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > open up the

Re: [vox-tech] LVM fun

2002-05-15 Thread msimons
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:01:14PM -0700, Samuel Merritt wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:49:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Is anyone using LVM here? > > I use LVM. Kernel 2.4.17, LVM version 1.0.1-rc4(ish)(03/10/2001). Hi Sam, I was digging around in ext2resize man pages, and n

Re: [vox-tech] LVM fun

2002-05-15 Thread Samuel Merritt
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 01:49:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Is anyone using LVM here? I use LVM. Kernel 2.4.17, LVM version 1.0.1-rc4(ish)(03/10/2001). -- Samuel Merritt PGP key is at http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~merritt/snmerritt.asc Information about PGP can be found at http://ww

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi mark, begin Mark K. Kim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I think each sequence is completely independent of the others... > > in that the order of numbers in one cycle of all sequences will be > > different. > > It generates the numbers in the same

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread msimons
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:49:52AM -0700, Jeff Newmiller wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I think each sequence is completely independent of the others... > > in that the order of numbers in one cycle of all sequences will be > > different. > > Not quite sure I understa

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
hi mike, i've been writing down everything i know about random numbers with C. thanks for the info! i hope to have something useful in a day or so. begin [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sometimes is very valuable to be able to have pseudo-random numbers > which can re-generate a

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread msimons
On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 11:44:21AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote: > On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > These algorithms also tend to "cycle" back upon themselves, so > > if they spit out (10, 5, 8, 20, ...) sometime millions of reads > > later the same millions of numbers will be pulled

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: [...] > > and i assume it's not true across different computers? > > False, sequences will be the same across machines with the same CPU (1) > using the same algorithm. > > 1: T

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Mark K. Kim
On Wed, 15 May 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > and i assume it's not true across different computers? > > False, sequences will be the same across machines with the same CPU (1) > using the same algorithm. > > 1: The main question is that the algorithm be the same, for integer >based algo

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > thanks jeff! > > begin Jeff Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > > > using the same seed will produce the same set of random numbers. > > > > srand->rand and srandom->random behave this way. > >

[vox-tech] LVM fun

2002-05-15 Thread msimons
Is anyone using LVM here? ___ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread msimons
Pete, Didn't study heavy math, this is what I have gathered... if someone with a heavy math background would like to chip in that would be great. Later, Mike On Wed, May 15, 2002 at 09:23:07AM -0700, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > using the same seed will produce the same set of random

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
thanks jeff! begin Jeff Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Wed, 15 May 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > > > using the same seed will produce the same set of random numbers. > > srand->rand and srandom->random behave this way. i forgot about srandom/random. the man pages say that rand/srand

Re: [vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Wed, 15 May 2002, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > using the same seed will produce the same set of random numbers. srand->rand and srandom->random behave this way. > i assume this is NOT true across reboots? You can assume it IS true across reboots. These are purely numerical, deterministic algo

[vox-tech] random number question

2002-05-15 Thread Peter Jay Salzman
using the same seed will produce the same set of random numbers. i assume this is NOT true across reboots? and i assume it's not true across different computers? i'd do the experiment, but i'd rather not reboot my system right now. does anyone know the answer offhand? pete ___