Corporate creep in Linux? (mini-rantette)
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From: Michael Black on 12 Sep 2009 19:26 On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, notbob wrote: > On 2009-09-12, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: > >> I've started dumping my notes into a single HTHDI (How The Hell Did >> I...?) dir. > > I need to start doing that. One directory for all the hints, tips, > configs, etc. I usually dump my primary dirs like /etc, /home, etc on > a flash drive. It would be so much easier to put config notes for > the more difficult stuff like emacs, camera, scanner, printer setup in > one dir to save. I like the name. ;) > I don't know whether it's consistent, but the last time I installed, rather than go through a config file to change things, I just put what I'd changed in the past at the end of the config file. It seemed to work fine, whatever was parsed earlier was changed when my values came along. It worked for the programs I tried it with, I can't guarantee it works consistently. The advantage was that I could just keep a block together at the end, and thus it's quite visible what I changed. Michael
From: James Woodard on 12 Sep 2009 20:32 On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 07:42:41 -0700, wexfordpress wrote: > > After installing Slack 13 on its own partition I went through a "make it > right" cycle as follows. > 1. Use XFCE instead of kookie KDE4. There, that's better. Left KDE after > many years of use. Good idea. > 2. Install my favorite apps on the kicker bar (not possible with e.g., > Scribus and KDE4.) ITYM Panel. > 3. Reconfigure text editor to call Gvim instead of the standard XFCE > text editor. > 4. Reconfigure the terminal button to call Konsole. Bookmarks and choice > of color scheme. I thought you left KDE. > 5. Add Kmail to the kicker bar. Again, I thought you left KDE. Also, again, it's a Panel. > 6. Copy old email files over. > 7. Recreate email filters one at a time. > 8. Copy overnight Bogofilter scripts. > 9. Diddle with xorg.conf to get 1280 x 1024 added to choices. > 10. Run script to get latest Scribus. Qt 4.5 libs help. > 11. Install Vector Linux on another partition to get Inkscape 46. Still > don't have Inkscape 47. slackbuilds.org has the build script for 4.7pre0 > (etc.) > > John Culleton
From: Glyn Millington on 13 Sep 2009 01:02 notbob <notbob(a)nothome.com> writes: > On 2009-09-12, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: > >> I've started dumping my notes into a single HTHDI (How The Hell Did >> I...?) dir. > > I need to start doing that. One directory for all the hints, tips, > configs, etc. I usually dump my primary dirs like /etc, /home, etc on > a flash drive. It would be so much easier to put config notes for > the more difficult stuff like emacs, camera, scanner, printer setup in > one dir to save. I like the name. ;) You know how to automate this process in Emacs, nb? Heard of remember.el? There is some good stuff here:- http://sachachua.com/wp/2008/01/13/capturing-notes-with-remember/ atb Glyn -- RTFM http://www.tldp.org/index.html GAFC http://slackbook.org/ The Official Source :-) STFW http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&group=alt.os.linux.slackware JFGI http://jfgi.us/
From: notbob on 13 Sep 2009 01:55 On 2009-09-13, Glyn Millington <wistanswick(a)linuxmail.org> wrote: > You know how to automate this process in Emacs, nb? Heard of remember.el? I can only imagine, but did save your link. Would you allow me to communicate directly? If so, you can send your email addy to notbob at q dot com. Thnx, Glen. nb
From: Grant on 13 Sep 2009 02:25
On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 19:26:33 -0400, Michael Black <et472(a)ncf.ca> wrote: >On Sat, 12 Sep 2009, notbob wrote: > >> On 2009-09-12, Mike Jones <Not(a)Arizona.Bay> wrote: >> >>> I've started dumping my notes into a single HTHDI (How The Hell Did >>> I...?) dir. >> >> I need to start doing that. One directory for all the hints, tips, >> configs, etc. I usually dump my primary dirs like /etc, /home, etc on >> a flash drive. It would be so much easier to put config notes for >> the more difficult stuff like emacs, camera, scanner, printer setup in >> one dir to save. I like the name. ;) >> >I don't know whether it's consistent, but the last time I installed, >rather than go through a config file to change things, I just put what I'd >changed in the past at the end of the config file. It seemed to work >fine, whatever was parsed earlier was changed when my values came along. Another technique is to comment out the original or default setting, then add your custom setting. I do this in files rarely visited, like in blacklist or udev guts. Grant. -- http://bugsplatter.id.au |