oud) is a 'good fellow'.
>
> Well since you asked. I think GWB is a 'good fellow'.
Yes. Too bad he didn't happily stay being a good fellow on his ranch in
Texas.
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is that it will be necessary
to make the source package for libreadline4 generate two packages,
libreadline4 and lib64readline4. Same for all other libraries. IOW,
there's no automatic way to create all these lib64* packages from
source.
Have I summarised this correctly?
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1163
at least on woody, with just a few small extra repositories. The
lowercase recommendation seems much less followed:
$ grep '^Description: [A-Z]' /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l
7661
$ grep '^Description: [a-z]' /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l
1262
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files.
*g*
5 serious replies already -- sorry Adam, I'm afraid there are just too
many people that lack even the most basic sense of humour.
Cheers,
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is a 16-bit CPU and its protected mode
MMU mode offers only segmentation, no paging.
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ot;hppa" may be three or four arches to
> the NetBSD kernel folk.)
Turbochannel machines? VAXen?
Cheers,
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at's closest to GNU. Why should the universal operating system not fit
that niche as well?
It just needs someone to do it.
Since you brought it up and seem to feel passionately about the issue,
you're probably the best candidate to create such a package.
HTH,
Emile.
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can see a similar benefit in
harmonizing the various documentation licenses, that serves Free
Software and Our Users.
Free Software is definitely served by standards and documentation, and
convenient off line access to them.
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 12:06:03AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> Anybody else get a bad cryptographic signature on the message to which I
> am replying?
AOL.
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your choice.
Cheers,
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. If
Debian cannot distribute the decss that allows Debian users to view DVD
movies (yet), then distributing this one is a good alternative, I'd say.
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:38:12AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:56:32PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote:
>
> > >I object to this ITP. Not very strongly, but I still object.
>
> > I think it's a wonderful idea to have a decss pac
Hi,
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:01:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:48:55PM -0400, Jim Penny wrote:
> > On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:38:12 -0500
> > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:5
s, UI-wise.
I fully agree with the poster that increasing the number of intelligent
and intelligible English sentences that we output is one of those things
that can be done without harming the hacker in any way.
Of course, like any enhancement, it needs a volunteer who can scratch
his or her itch b
s
quickly as I think. I really hate it when the UI drags me down ('open
folder, open subfolder, click on file, type Ctrl-C, open other folder,
type Ctrl-V', it's just horrible). The computer should wait for me, not
the other way around!
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:15:59PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:38:19 +0200
> Emile van Bergen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Apple has a great way of doing that. They don't dumb down, they don't
> > belittle you, they assume an intellig
Hi,
On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:06:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
> * Emile van Bergen
>
> | Hi,
> |
> | On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Ian Hickson wrote:
> |
> | > And I would scream if you called it "/_My_ Variable Data/" too... :
-t or through SMTP.
I would not consider anything that contains a SMTP client an MTA. A
proxy that handles port 25 is no MTA either. Such strict definitions
('talks SMTP') are generally not very useful.
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e the local part of the transport
> may also be implemented on the smarthost, eg. sharing /var/mail
> directory and the user database some other system which also acts as the
> ssmtp's smarthost.
You're right, it /is/ a hot day. Sorry. I agree with your definition.
Cheers,
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e other variation; it is a goal in
> itself, and not a means to an end)
I've heard our respected project secretary express a vastly different
opinion on this matter.
Cheers,
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e will be eternally grateful.
Or at least entertained.
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:39:25PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:38:43PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:34:26PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> >
> > > > altruim, [sic]
> > >
> > >
excellent that these bounces don't have the full message,
but show only the first few kB, in a way that breaks the message's MIME
structure well and thoroughly.
After bouncing, at least a virus can't take advantage of the abysmal
Outlook (Express) HTML and MIME handling anymore -- the
an
ethical concept, and I'm sure the Bhagavat Ghita (Dutch transliteration)
talks a lot about it in connection to Dharma.
Self censorship is if one side of you is compelled to say something
whereas another part of you forbids it.
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vour of the GR... (just to refute the argument that
> Branden's joke could only appeal to people on his side in this debate ;-))
Same here, and I'm not exactly in favour of the GR either.
Cheers,
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d it. I have no problem running it for a week though if
you need the time.
Cheers,
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ing/unstable once in a while to
show we've got the fancy stuff too does make sense though, IMHO.
Cheers,
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even managed to find a time where both
> of us can be on the same IRC network at the same time.
>
> Now for the *real* important debate: how to call it?
What about Avalon? Both a composer (well, hmm) and the place where
Excalibur was forged.
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote:
> On Nov/27, Emile van Bergen wrote:
>
> > What about Avalon? Both a composer (well, hmm) and the place where
> > Excalibur was forged.
>
> Being about forging, "Orodruin" com
e *puke*. Sorry. I don't care who you are
or who Andrew is. This is totally out of bounds, in /any/ circumstance.
Thanks,
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AND-license."
Bah.
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Emile van Bergen writes:
> > I'd say that the definition of Unicode, heck even ASCII, involves a fair
> > amount of creativity.
>
> I don't doubt that the development of Unicode involved cre
Hi,
On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:47:02PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:02:07PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> >
> > > Is it possible to create other Unicode tables
would only be needed when the user wants to get rid of the relatively
minor performance penalty of the extra FS layer.
Can Linux work with a loopback root fs, using initrd to set it up?
Cheers,
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w to do it there.
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:24:56PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote:
>
> > > Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows?
ed a way to present the extra choices caused by legal-archs in
dselect. How would that be done?
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:23:12PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:
> Le Thu, Apr 10, 2003, à 04:43:57PM +0200, Emile van Bergen a écrit:
>
> > > That way you could do something like:
> > >
> > > # echo x86-64 >> /etc/dpkg/legal-archs
> > >
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:27:40PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:33:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
> >
> > [SNIP]
> > > So basically, I don't think this i
Hi,
On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 06:23:12PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
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>
> On Thursday 10 April 2003 16:43, Emile van Bergen wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:33:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>
> > >
Hi,
On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:42:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Friday 11 April 2003 15:49, Emile van Bergen wrote:
>
> > You do want to allow both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of libraries to be
> > installed, for which you need different package names; you want t
a lot of them must be treated as fully opaque.
Definition should be done like you'd treat a network protocol, with a
healty dose of "be conservative in what you write, be liberal in what
you read", to paraphrase the great J. Postel, as it /will/ be a
protocol, spoken between package
all -- no idea) or make his
texmf.cnf a symlink to the texmf-debian.cnf?
I.e. have a fully managed file, but leave it to the admin whether or not
his real file points to the managed file, or includes it (if possible),
or ignores it altogether.
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Hi,
On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:49:09AM -0700, Mark Rafn wrote:
> That said, I'd prefer Debian NOT remove such advertising, only that we
> guarantee users the right to do.
*And* distribute the result, if you want to be DFSG-free.
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is
> already registered.
Considering the legislators' feeling for these matters, I'm surprised
nobody's been able to convince these people to allow registration to
happen in write only memory.
Cheers,
Emile.
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rly as well as the various flavours of the 486.
In other words, if you use 486-compatible instructions and pentium
scheduling, you're already taking almost full advantage of the pentium.
It makes therefore little sense to group the original pentium with the
later architectures.
Cheers,
Emile.
e problem is STL
and the fact that a lot of C++ programmers tend to forget to conquer
while dividing.
Cheers,
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ed the gap between 486
> > DX and SX.
>
> It works just as well for 386SX as for 486SX.
Note that the SX suffix for 386 means a 16-bit external data bus
(instead of a 32-bit one for the DX), whereas for 486 the SX means no FP
included.
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> So, for now I'll sit back and see what other people do about /run.
If you mean other GNU/Linux distributions or the *BSDs, don't hold your
breath. If you mean Debian developers, it seems that a lot of good
progress is being made.
Cheers,
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set of multiple choice options. They cannot be connected in
a meaningful way to anything that developer hasn't explicitly created an
interface for. The user can only do what the developer intended; no
more, no less. That is not in the best interest of our users, I'd say.
Cheers,
Emile.
our
is when you type a quote, causing the next prompt to be different).
Also, people tend to have a lot larger memory for words than for images
and unpronounceable hieroglyphs (icons, and -- shudder -- tool bars).
It's not that I think GUIs are bad in any way. It's just that they are
vastly overrate
atch to limit the total mail output for a mail relay to a
certain average.
Cheers,
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s and/or AMs, who /are/ DDs, could warrant a debian.net name,
can't it?
That no DD had to spend much energy to set this up is only a good thing,
isn't it?
In short, why pick on this useful initiative?
Cheers,
Emile.
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work through a sponsor.
Allowing DDs to take advantage of the work of lesser gods, whenever that
is practical and useful, seems a good thing for all parties concerned.
And no, IANADD.
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:48:49AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:07:12PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote:
> [...]
> > Regardless, I actually think it's a wonderful scaleability measure
> > to provide some infrastructure
solved I'd say?
After all, if I understand correctly, the service is more intended for
use by sponsors who would upload them into unstable after checking, than
directly for users.
Cheers,
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gt; these days don't give a damn about the 'rules' dreamt up by academics in
> 1985!
So what do you propose then, to drop everything just because you
cynically point out that a lot of rules are being violated today?
Or were you just trolling?
Emile.
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)
>
> You would be surprised in any case, if speaking English would be a
> prerequisite for running routers then the Internet would not be as it is
> today.
Yes, most notably the spam levels would be much more bearable.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Of course, that's al
Hi,
On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:26:38AM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote:
> Emile van Bergen wrote:
> > So what do you propose then, to drop everything just because you
> > cynically point out that a lot of rules are being violated today?
>
> What I'm saying is that (a lot of) t
fort (and
including a text/plain part is no effort, not forwarding virus hoaxes is
no effort, but proving to a robot that you are not *is*), there is no
need to drop any netiquette rules.
In short, I still fail to see your point.
Cheers,
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Hi,
On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:14:33AM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote:
> Emile van Bergen wrote:
> > However, I fail to understand why you want people to refrain from
> > bringing the netiquette under the attention of the people they are
> > receiving email from.
>
> Never
ould fix your security problem.
I'm not saying userland security is never needed or useful, but still:
never use userland security as a substitute for properly set up
filesystem permissions.
Cheers,
Emile.
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ourselves! You need a strong man to protect you!" Etc.)
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