Re: Installation screen proposal (was Please test this woody cd image)

2002-04-19 Thread Sean Middleditch
I think you're a little late... boot floppies are frozen, are they not? On Fri, 2002-04-19 at 03:08, Svante Signell wrote: > Hello, > > When booting the Woody CD you are presented to the information screen > giving general information and ways to get help, etc _before_ choosing > which kernel to

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-18 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Thu, 2002-04-18 at 09:13, Jack Howarth wrote: > I agree with Chris it that is insulting for folks to be degrading the > other arch's supported by Debian. What is strange is that someone would > feel strongly enough about having a choice in operating systems to > run Debian Linux yet think th

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Wed, 2002-04-17 at 06:47, Russell Coker wrote: > I don't know which sub-version of the GeForce cards I'm using, I just got > whatever was cheapest at the time (you'd have to be crazy to buy a high-end > NVidia card - they release new models every 6 months and the old models then > sell for l

Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody

2002-04-17 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Tue, 2002-04-16 at 15:05, Ben Collins wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:01:06AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > A couple of people on a recent thread in debian-devel linked to a > > message I recently posted on Slashdot on this subject. I had thought > > about posting this information to D

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 22:29, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > Em Mon, 15 Apr 2002 12:06:23 +0200, David Odin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: > > > Automount will mount the medium as soon as you access it. I fail to see > > any use of mounting a medium when it is put, and before it is accessed. > > T

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
Ack, I don't like doing this, but I'm provoked now... Fucking idiot!!! On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 23:30, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: > Forgot to cc this to the list.. The message is attached. > > > > From: Lasse Karkkainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re:

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 11:27:15PM +0200, David Odin wrote: > On Mon, Apr 15, 2002 at 05:12:26PM -0400, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:54, David Odin wrote: > > > Well, the main problem I have with supermount and not have with > > > automount is t

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 16:54, David Odin wrote: > Well, the main problem I have with supermount and not have with > automount is the following: > I'm a CS teacher, and the linux distribution in the computer room is > mandrake. And, very often, a student use supermount to mount a floppy, > do som

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 05:17, David Findlay wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Is there a particular reason why Supermount couldn't be included in the > debian unstable kernels as an option? It works brilliantly on Mandrake, and > makes things much easier to use. Thanks,

Re: dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 22:40, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > I haven't looked at xdialog lately. > > I just did. It almost works. What, pray tell, doesn't work? Also, since I wouldn't know what things to test, how badly is gdialog broken? There are no filed bugs on gnome-utils regarding miss

Re: dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Sun, 2002-04-14 at 20:03, John Hasler wrote: > Sean Etc. writes: > > So, back to my point (wow, I actually had one?), should there be an > > alternatives for dialog, so we can at least simplify the scripts to > > "launch xdialog when X11 is around, launch text dialog otherwise," and > > leave th

dialog alternatives

2002-04-14 Thread Sean Middleditch
Hi all, Just out of curiosity, should there be alternatives for dialog/xdialog? I mean, on my system, I'd rather have gdialog used instead of xdialog (for GUI consistancy with my other apps, which are 95% gtk/gnome). For some scripts I've written, I've checked for X: if X exists, it thens find

Re: Uplink release with Debian

2002-04-03 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 13:40, Rob Bradford wrote: > On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 16:32, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > I'll go ahead an e-mail some of the game companies, if you or anyone > > else really wants to help, I can get debiangames.org registered and find > > a decent h

Re: Uplink release with Debian

2002-04-03 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 10:18, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 17:10, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > > Maybe you could run such a site and use it to promote your AwesomePlay > > > company? I doubt that your company would be seen as a competitor of > > > Introvis

Re: Uplink release with Debian

2002-04-03 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 09:50, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 16:01, Sean Middleditch wrote: > > > > I represent Introversion Software (www.introversion.co.uk). > > > > We are currently releasing our first computer game - Uplink. Uplink is > >

Re: Uplink release with Debian

2002-04-03 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 08:30, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 3 Apr 2002 15:18, Mark A. Morris wrote: > > I represent Introversion Software (www.introversion.co.uk). > > We are currently releasing our first computer game - Uplink. Uplink is > > a puzzle / adventure game set on the intern

Re: Question before buying GNU Debian

2002-01-07 Thread Sean Middleditch
I run nVidia hardware on my Debian install. Debian stable (potato) has older XFree86 packages; they should support unaccelerated TNT2's fine tho (someone correct me on this if I'm wrong). If you want full acceleration, you'll need to upgrade to XFree86 4.1 after installing Debian (or get your han

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-04 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Fri, 2002-01-04 at 12:11, David B Harris wrote: > On Fri, 4 Jan 2002 17:56:58 +0100 > martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > it would be possible, you know. an RPM that basically substitutes > > every installed RPM by the corresponding DEB. that would rock ;) > > Well, what you're sugge

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-26 Thread Sean Middleditch
On Wed, 2001-09-26 at 20:50, Ben Burton wrote: > > > British English is beautiful where it appears in poems, plays, and > > novels by Shakespeare and Wilde and other brilliant English authors. > > It certainly does NOT belong in the ls man page. > > Why such emphasis? The idea is to spell