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@FaheemMitha if it failed getting through private beta it generally means there wasn't enough activity or the CM team had some other issue with promoting it to public beta
My CUPS seems to be ignoring the default printer setting. Any idea why? It is quite annoying. I could ask about it here, but I'm not sure if it is useful to ask about what is basically a bug report. I modified it on the web interface, and I verified that it was changed correctly in the config file.
@casey Oh, right.
Would it be reasonable to ask about debugging strategies?
@mikeserv Basically it is how memory is reclaimed in an interactive process, roughly speaking. I'm sure I'm expressing that all wrong.
A simple example is Python. If you create an object in python is uses some memory. When you delete the object, the memory is not longer being used, so the system can reclaim it. In Python's case, it uses reference counting, which is pretty primitive.
Every place that is using the object has a pointer it. When there are no pointers to it, it is gc.
@derobert local ARM SoC connected via null modem cable to a machine I'm not sitting in front of. Trying to boot a vanilla kernel on it sans binary blobs I don't need for DVI/HDMI support that lock you into an old kernel they support
if you tend to gloss over grammatical errors and the like, it can be tedious. If the writer makes terrible errors in his methodology or interpretation of results, it can also be tedious
@Ramesh are you (a) an avid consumer of Indian multimedia? (b) don't care one way or the other (c) head for the hills when you hear Hindi film music? (d) none of the above?
if you want to see really idiotic pilots, try and find some of the old youtube videos from ERAU pilots playing top gun in their cessna 172. Nothing like hearing "danger zone" set to an approach at 35 knots in CAVU
@mikeserv let me know if you find a truly awful one. Most of the ones I used to have bookmarked for a laugh were taken down for copyrighted music (danger zone!)
I stress approximate. I'm not sure it contains an accurate row count, maybe just a close one. So e.g., it might say 0 when there are actually 2 rows, or something like that.
@FaheemMitha I'd guess at least 20. (Obviously, just kidding about the die roll), but its because of the SQL standard. Other databases have multiple schemas per database, as a type of namespace
So, e.g., you can put each app in its own schema. Then you can select across schemas too, with the 'schema.table' notation.
MySQL has schemas as well, they just call them databases. Actually, they call them schemas too ... you can use 'create schema' instead of 'create database' in MySQL. They're the same thing.
@mikeserv I had one landing into EWR in 1200 RVR, obscured ceilings, snowing and the runway had just been chemically treated and we were the second to land on it. All clouds until ~100 ft when we picked up the approach lights and as we lowered the clouds transitioned into a pure white snow field with no horizon reference with lights barely visible and one set of tracks in the snow from the plane in front of us.
@FaheemMitha in a helicopter your controls are the stick between your legs (horizontal motion) and collective stick to your side (up and down). Its a bit of a simplification, but thats it in a nutshell.
always low and slow. There are few moments in an airplane where an engine loss would require the same level of quick response as a helicopter is almost always at
@FaheemMitha - they're really not all that heavy though - 10 strong guys can tow a Chinook up/down an airstrip. My bird - the Kiowa - often only took two.
Though you might want to warn them to watch out for unexplained paresthesia, itching, burning, pain, skin discoloration, and swelling. If they start experiencing those, they should switch to CVS immediately. Ok, actually, see a doctor. Then get the prescription filled at CVS.
That list of symptoms, of course, comes from Wikipedia. But that's OK, that's surely where they'll go instead of to a doctor.
I think the mercurial devs would rather die than switch to CVS. They also have pretty nasty things to say about git.
E.g.
16:13 < faheem_> !gitspeak 16:13 < hgbot> "gitspeak" could be apparently mad ravings and incantations characteristic of git users, not generally understood by others
printf '%s' 'Host localhost\n ForwardAgent yes' >> file.txt
Or, if it's a literal tab that you want (rather than the four spaces in your question):
printf '%s' 'Host localhost\n\tForwardAgent yes' >> file.txt
You can achieve the same effect with echo, but exactly how varies from implement...
the guy says do printf %s 'string\n'
of course, now that I've seen it, it has only 8 votes.
Can I get mysql to return all non-empty tables in database ? much like "SHOW TABLES" but only those that are not empty.
You can do with the --no-data option with mysqldump command
mysqldump -u root -p --no-data dbname > schema.sql
printf '%s' 'Host localhost\n ForwardAgent yes' >> file.txt
Or, if it's a literal tab that you want (rather than the four spaces in your question):
printf '%s' 'Host localhost\n\tForwardAgent yes' >> file.txt
You can achieve the same effect with echo, but exactly how varies from implement...
