Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-26 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:00:01PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > WEP works with network manager but how did you manage WPA via wpa_supplicant > with the GUI setup tools? It only offered WEP when I looked at it. I have to choose ``Connect to Other Wireless Network...'' (or whatever the option in

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-26 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:02:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Additionally, Ubuntu is not more usable for wireless networks than Debian: > the > network configuration only support the useless WEP, no WPA. I recently bought a System76 laptop with Ubuntu 6.06 pre-installed, and Network Manage

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-17 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:48:24PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: > So are some widespread programming languages. If you blindly follow bad > examples and bad styles you can dynamite yourself happily without even > noticing, but that does not make them disused or abandoned (on the contrary > some

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-14 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:50:44AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: > * The "system mta" should provide /usr/sbin/sendmail, as well as > mailq, runq, and man pages. The alternative system is able to link > several alternatives. Right, so three should be no problems there? > * The "servic

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:21:50AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > We don't allow multiple mtas because a mail-transport-agent is *required* to > provide /usr/sbin/sendmail. Why can Debian's alternatives system not alleviate this conflict? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:26:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > reniced /(g(cc|++)|c(c|++))/ 15 How about ``pgrep '(g(cc|\+\+)|c(c|\+\+))' | xargs renice 15''? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:27:45PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > My point was that having to tell mutt manually about every mailing list > is a pain, and people don't do it. I do. > The List- headers are sufficient, in my experience, to automate this. They don't support following up to cross-po

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-30 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:03:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > Note it is unclear whether the makefiles could be called "scripts" > > Unproven assertion. How is something proven unclear? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#379663: ITP: bincmp -- utility to compare two binary files

2006-07-24 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:58:09PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > bincmp allows to quickly compare two binary files printing the offset and > the bytes where the files differ. It should run on just about anything and > it might even support large files (> 4GB) if your system does LFS properly. Doe

Re: Bug#379343: ITP: jrpg -- kanji learning game

2006-07-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 06:01:57PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: > * URL : http://www.example.org/ Does this package not have an actual web site? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:39:00AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > In fact, broken servers which don't obey MX will _already_ fail: > > [ demonstration that debian.org doesn't accept RCPT TO @debian.org ] The issue isn't whether MTA's check against MX or A records, it's whether they check the IP th

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 07:39:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > Le lun 10 juillet 2006 02:17, Matthew R. Dempsky a écrit : > > On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:02:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > > Another problem is with hosts that do not accept a message from an > &g

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-09 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:02:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > Another problem is with hosts that do not accept a message from an MTA > unless that MTA is willing to accept replies. This is a common spam > prevention measure. It also prevents mail from setups that use different servers fo

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:48:55AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: > This may be a simple way to add that behaviour. > +print "mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Subscribe to this bug. What about something like ``To subscribe to this bug, send an empty email to $email.'' to make more explicit that they don'

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-05 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
(Is debian-devel the correct list for this?) On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 03:19:08PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: > If not, then we should probably try it Can it be limited to suspected spam (e.g. mail with a high smtp-time spamassassin score)? Others may disagree, but I prefer the small amount of

Re: LSB init scripts and multiple lines of output

2006-06-01 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:44:54AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Matthew R. Dempsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006.06.02.0238 +0200]: > > > Any suggestions? > > > > Submit a feature request to LSB? > > And wait 15 years? Eh, that's only

Re: LSB init scripts and multiple lines of output

2006-06-01 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:51:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > Any suggestions? Submit a feature request to LSB? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-24 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:10:43AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > Sure we could just have disclosed the license to -legal beforehand, > but then Sun probably would never talk to us about doing things like > this one again and just tend to OpenSUSE or some other community > distributino next time

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-18 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:27:00PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: > 1. Make /bin/sh point to /bin/dash The biggest problem with this seems to be scripts that expect /bin/sh to point to /bin/bash. Arguably those scripts are broken, but there exists another choice that avoids that unnecessary

Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 12:47:31AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: > On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the > CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when > CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say "assign this > process only xy% of C

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:35:50PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:35:35PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: > > Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Seconds, since when do we consider the GPL to be viral? > > > > Don't know about you, but the FSF does - it has create

Re: Attractive platform for Debian people interested in ARM: NSLU2

2006-03-15 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:01:24AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > On a related note, I'm also working on getting debian-installer going > on a number of MIPS based consumer devices, such as the Netgear > WGT634U wireless router. However, this work has not reached the > maturity of NSLU2 support

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:20:13PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > Matthew R. Dempsky, le Sun 12 Mar 2006 14:09:54 -0600, a écrit : > > gcc has the -fno-builtin and -fno-builtin-FUNCTION options. > > Or better, -fno-hosted and -fhosted... What makes those options better in

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 11:21:40AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: > On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:43:34AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: > > This is a warning and not an error, because using one's own strdup() > > function (that would take ints) is perfectly legal. > > No, it is not. At least not with a