Re: Garbled messages received from lists.d.o.
On 27 Jun 2003, Philippe Troin wrote: > I have been receiving bugs.d.o emails which are unrelated to my > package for the last two-three days. > > And their headers seem quite garbled: they include part of other > messages... > > Included five of them. > > Is there anything fishy going on? Or is the spam filter going crazy? > > Phil. > Getting them here, so it's not your system along.. Seeing parts of bug reports here.
Re: Forgive me
On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christoph Haas wrote: > Perhaps I'd better send all my passwords and serial numbers here. In > case my hard disk crashes I can always recover it from the mailing list > archives. SCNR. Isn't this basically how Linus does/says to do his backups? Or was that someone else? Mike
Re: ITP: 1-mb-random-data -- one megabyte of pseudo-random data
On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > I intend to dd if=/dev/urandom of=debian/tmp/usr/lib/1-mb-random-data Will this be available via CVS? ;) Mike
Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > Catholics compared to their Protestant brethren. I should think if > anyone were taught demonology these days, it would be kids in Catholic I knew all about demons around that age, and I'm not even a religious person. Doom taught me everything I needed to know, such as the number of shells required to take one down. Thank you, id! Mike
Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > Sorry, correction: total liquid assets. SPI "owns" some hardware in the > U.S. on behalf of Debian (like the machine that is auric.debian.org), > but an exhaustive inventory has not been done. > > We, uh, might want to do that someday, say for insurance purposes in > case of a fire or something. :( Send it all to me, I'll make you a lovely spreadsheet showing it all got lost in transit. Mike
Re: /proc/cpuinfo is false
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I have a nfs-server at home and it was running SLINK r5. > All was working fine. > > Now I have installed WOODY r0 on it, and linux_logo give > me only 117 MHz. The BogoMIPS are right with 233.47. Indeed, that speed IS right. AMD did the whole PR rating thing back then, they only needed to run their "166" at 117 to get the equivalent of a pentium 166. http://www.incisive.com/used/voltage.htm The K6/166 actually ran at 166, k5 was 117. You'll see in that table that some of the cyrix's did the same thing. Mike
Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags
On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Maybe that's intuitive to some people but to me it just looks wierd. On the > other hand if it simply had the letters "bash" or just "sh" it's meaning > would have been immediatly apparent. Indeed. There's a Windows tool I use at times, called EasyCleaner (http://www.toniarts.com) The stable version is 1.7f, and there's a new Beta 2.0 that he's working on. Anyways, here's how 1.7f looks: http://www.toniarts.com/images/ECss1.jpg In Beta 2.0, all the menus have been replaced with icons(no screen shots available). I've used this program for many years, and I still have to hover over the icon, or just click it, to find out what each new icon does. Works about as good as random clicking in MineSweeper does! Granted, this makes the program more international friendly, but it's a step back for everyone that has to use the program. Mike
Re: can touch(1) readonly files
On Tue, 13 May 2003, Paul Jarc wrote: > No, the file's metadata is stored in its own inode. But its > permission bits affect access only to its data, not to its metadata. > Metadata is always writable by the owner - otherwise you wouldn't be > able to restore your own write access after removing it. Reminds me of a "bug" in the old Icon systems that the schools used in the early 80's or so. The immutable(+i) flag couldn't be removed, even by the superuser because then you'd be modifying the file, which wasn't allowed cause of the +i. So if a student did that on a file, it was there forever until the system was reinstalled. At least, this is what we were told, I suspect somehow the teacher was told this by someone who didn't understand how the +i was supposed to work. Mike
Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !
Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:21:58PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-) > > And alias "quit" to "exit". :) type.exit.you.dolt A 127.0.0.1 quitIN CNAME type.exit.you.dolt.windsormachine.com. Works nicely ;) mike
Re: Hello
> would even dare try it. I have decided to offer windows and siding > to you, at our basic cost. In other words, I'm going to offer you > windows and siding for no personal profit whatsoever! This will Can i get the siding without the windows? If not, am I able to return the windows unopened, for a refund? I already have windows from a competitor, called X. Please advise, Mike
Re: System spec.'s
> PC hardware won't even POST without a videocard! > Depends on your BIOS, I had a 486 in the closet for over a year with no video card in it. Setup the machine, set the video to NONE, in the bios, and pulled the video card out. Worked fine, until it locks up and you can't see why :) Mike
Re: sox sucks !
On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > I'm unable to find out why this command actuall doesn't work : > > mpg123 -s audio/01_Birdland.mp3 | sox -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - \ > audio/01_Birdland.wav i assume there's something wrong with mpg123 -w audio/01_Birdland.wav audio/01_Birdland.mp3? Doesn't solve your question, but provides a solution anyways. Mike
