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But Vim doesn't have Org-mode nor does it try to do anything comparable so why speak of Vim at all? Not true, though it's probably not really production ready yet. https://github.com/hsitz/VimOrganizer I'm pretty sure that's not the only attempt either. https://github.com/jceb/vim-orgmode I've neve...

http://ontwik.com/linux/shell-programmi ... beginners/

I haven't watched it yet, but it sounds decent (if elementary).

Ahtiga Saraz wrote:As for Debian User Forums, does anyone know who I should petition?

I believe that only Mez can make this change. PM him directly, I suppose.

Nick Parlante, a teacher of Computer Science at Stanford, has made available a lot of good material on the basics of programming for free: http://cslibrary.stanford.edu/ Most of the materials there are clear but move at a very quick pace. They cover basics and focus on C and C-like languages. But th...

The Architecture of Open Source Applications

If nothing else, the chapter on Bash should be useful to many people here.

Lucas Nussbaum posted this to the Ruby-core mailing list as well as the Debian-ruby list. I'm posting the whole thing here and a link to the thread, in case anyone is very interested in the follow-up. However, here's the matchbook cover version: If you use Debian and Ruby, your life will soon be muc...

Just fyi, if you don't know Down For Everyone Or Just Me, it's worth a bookmark.

The cron daemon is always running when the machine is on, I believe. The jobs run when you ask for them to run. The first five fields specify when the job should run; the sixth is what should run. There are lots of tutorials out there, but here's a nearly random Google pick: http://perl.ericdlarson....

Bash solution: http://mywiki.wooledge.org/BashFAQ/044

Have you tried setting break points in the debugger to check the value of the key variables in the version that runs until segfaulting?

First, I half suspect this is a troll. Second, the OP seems to be asking about the entire *nix owners, groups and permissions model (not su versus sudo as a number of people seem to be assuming - he says that Debian and Ubuntu are the same ). Third, if you are really interested in permissions, owner...

As saulgoode suggests, your problem is that your loop isn't doing what you think. Without a wildcard expression of some kind, your loop only sees one thing: the name of the directory you specify. To see what I mean, debug it this way: for file in /full/path/name do echo "$file" done When y...

If you have a service listed in /etc/init.d and want to delist it, so that it won't start again upon next boot, the only solution I know is ugly: move the script in question to a backup directory. The sysv tool that Bugs mentioned is a less ugly way to do it. Except I'm not using sysv init - I'm us...

If you have a service listed in /etc/init.d and want to delist it, so that it won't start again upon next boot, the only solution I know is ugly: move the script in question to a backup directory. The sysv tool that Bugs mentioned is a less ugly way to do it. @djcp I think you're looking for insser...

@pendrachken I think you misunderstood me and jumped to conclusions. I neither said nor implied anything which suggested forcing my opinion on anyone else. I also very carefully did not state any kind of preference for this or that license. (I frankly have mixed feelings and minimal knowledge about ...

So the first and the very negative answer is that I absolutely despise the people who try to push the GPL as being about "ethics". I think that's absolute bullshit. Why? Because ethics are to me something private. Whenever you use it as an argument for why somebody_else should do somethin...

The command, ' ruby ', is found in your $PATH; however, Ruby itself does not necessarily make use of $PATH to locate .rb files (it may have its own search path, but more than likely it expects a resolvable filename). Ruby has $LOAD_PATH as an internal variable, just as say Perl has @INC, but that's...

Hello, (Q1) Where is the "best practice" place to add onto path? (Q2) Are there any other places $PATH can be set? (Q3) In what order does path get searched - from left to right? (Q4) Are directories in $PATH searched recursively? (Q5) Oh dear.. why can't test.rb be found if the location ...

Yes. Sadly, the hardware and os (Apple and OSX) are not open source, but nearly all of the software I use regularly (vim, bash, ruby, perl, various and sundry command-line tools) are FOSS.

There is a command with apt-get or aptitude you have to do before doing any other commands like autoremove. I just can't figure out what command it was..... You are probably thinking of aptitude keep-all . It will clear the database's sense of what "should be removed." That is a mixed ble...