09-08-2008 01:00 PM
I recently sat down with my 12-year-old son Ian, who agreed to sit still long enough to try a few typing teacher applications on Ubuntu Hardy Heron. Ian has a lot of experience on the computer but, until now, he has subscribed to the hunt and peck typing philosophy. Fortunately, we found a number of open source typing tutorial programs to download and test. Ian and I looked at three GPL-licensed apps: Klavaro, TuxTyping, and KTouch.
Reading replies to questions, as an amateur, I have learnt a lot from you pros on here.
The shell in any of its guises is serioulsy poweful.
With so many transient and resident commands at one's disposal is there anything,
non-GUI, that cannot be done inside a default shell and terminal?
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H,
I
I have this below script for removing the full path from a string which is indeed a filepath location if windows.
It converts input
\abc\asssh\abc
To
abc
But if filename has 0 like:
\abc\abc\00000Hgg
Then its typing
abc00000Hgg
PLEASE note that its solaris.
Script is:
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Hi
As a dummy my question is very simple. When typing cw I've read (many times) that a '$' should appear at the end of the word I'm about to change. However, it doesn't, and in my case the word is instantly deleted and so ready to be changed!
Can somebody tell me why this is, or maybe I... (4 Replies)
Hello,
Yes, it's me again. Running around getting this done! My current problem is I'm trying to image one drive 0 (/dev/dsk/c1t0d0s0) to drive 1 (/dev/dsk/c1t1d0s0). I know that drive1 came out of a Sun Server and it is a Sun drive. Solaris 10 recognized drive1 after the devfsadm command. The... (8 Replies)
Hello all,
I am in a terminal on Solaris and something weird is happening...
When I am typing I can't see what I am typing, although what I am typing is working. As is if I type the command and hit enter, the command runs.
Anyone have a clue why or how I can make it display my typing?
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RIG(6) Games Manual RIG(6)NAME
RIG - Random Identity Generator
USAGE
rig [ -f | -m ] [ -d datadir ] [ -c num ]
DESCRIPTION
Rig is a utility that will piece together a random first name, last name, street number and address, along with a geographically consistant
(ie, they all match the same area) city, state, ZIP code, and area code.
It is suitable for such applications as feeding the NY times registration page to fend off junk (snail) mail and telemarketers, or for reg-
istering on BBS's to which you don't wish to reveal your real information.
OPTIONS -f, -m Respectively, use female and male names. If neither or both options are selected, RIG uses both female and male names.
-d datadir
Use data files found in datadir. Without this option, the default directory of /usr/share/rig is assumed.
-c num Output num identities. Default is 1.
FILES
/usr/share/rig/locdata.idx
/usr/share/rig/street.idx
/usr/share/rig/fnames.idx
/usr/share/rig/mnames.idx
/usr/share/rig/lnames.idx
HISTORY
Based on "fake" written for MS-DOS. Unfortunately the author and publish date are unknown.
First UNIX version written from scratch in 1999.
This manpage based on RIG version 1.10.
AUTHORS
UNIX version (c) 1999-2002 Ian Turner with contributions from Ian Prowell, Nick Rusnov, and Schneelocke. Geography Database is from the
original version and I believe it to be held in the public domain. Names database is from the US Census at
http://www.census.gov/genealogy/names/ , courtesy of Trent Stanley.
Send all comments and bug-reports to:
vectro@RIG.sourceforge.net
4 JUN 2002 RIG(6)
