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| | | (...) [snip a lot of differences] cool - I just installed it today, as an upgrade, so I didn't notice most of these... I upgraded the daemons myself as they came out, and wouldn't let it touch my inetd.conf, so a lot of these would be missed on me. (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Yeah -- disabling unnecessary servers is good, but not even installing them is better. Before, if you wanted the finger client [1], uou had to install the finger server, which is kinda silly. (...) Did it freak out and still let you continue? (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :) —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) yah, true... but I'm bad about using rpm anyhow, I end up compiling my own stuff most of the time... I know I shouldn't, but it's a habit I'll have to un-learn... (...) no, even worse... it just stopped, no backtrace - it gave me a warning (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Didn't I lecture you about this before? *grin* (...) Hmm; I wonder how the 6.0 installer deals with that case. (It's generally better about error conditions. (Although, one of the improvements I've made is that it auto-retries once if an ftp (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :) —Dan Boger
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| | | | (...) *hide*. I am getting better though - the other day, I removed netscape from my computer, and did it with rpm -e :) (...) do you also check for space while choosing? RH has this annoying trick, when you painfully choose all the packages you (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | (...) *grin* good for you. (...) Nope. That'd be too much of a change to the 6.0 installer for me to tackle right now. (The original code is _really_ crufty.) I'll look at this once I start on the next generation. (...) The python folks would (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :) —Christopher Lindsey
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| | | | | | (...) Yeah, but they also claim that checking your indentation levels is good too... :) Chris (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | | | (...) I can see their point on that one. Indention _is_ a logical way to keep blocks seperated, and it's easier for new users than keeping {s and }s matched up. It's important to note that it's only _relative_ indentation that is important -- you (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | | | Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :) —Christopher Lindsey
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| | | | | | (...) It's like a throwback to the days of Cobol and Fortran, except, as you pointed out, it doesn't require column placement. When I script in Perl I always add my changes all the way to the left so they're easy to find, remove, etc. if things (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | TMTOWTDI (was: Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)) —Todd Lehman
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| | | | (...) I'd like to take a close look at Python someday, but I doubt I'll end up using it if it's got the frustrations of other syntactically challenged languages. (My favorite programming languages are Perl, PostScript, and LISP/Scheme/Logo for their (...) (25 years ago, 7-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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| | | | | | Re: TMTOWTDI (was: Re: NQC in Boston University Linux :)) —Matthew Miller
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| | | | (...) Well, in python, that's very easy, since all variables are references. But, for example, to test if 'foo' is a callable object (a function, class, method, etc...), this is the Way: if not callable(foo): sys.exit(1) As I understand it, any (...) (25 years ago, 8-Apr-00, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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