Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org (fwd)

1998-06-11 Thread M.C. Vernon
8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:31:23 +0100 (BST) From: "M.C. Vernon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re:

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... "I like my new debian emperor system" ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: > On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:20AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > > Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. > > BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium > > this summer.) Glad people like the idea

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:25:07PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > > > > I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. > > > We should run a gimp contest. They produced the Gnome logo, and th

Re: office package

1998-10-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 10:59:52PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: > > > I wonder if and when we get together a real office package under gnome. I > > > wouldlove to see that. My personal favorites would be a glyx, gtksql with > > > poistgresql and a spreads

Re: dbugging dselect

1998-10-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, David Stern wrote: > install attempt in dselect error message: > - > [..unmet dependencies, blah, blah.. ] > dependencies: > perl-suid: Depends:perl > libpam0: Depends:libpam0g > perl: Depends:perl-base I missed the

Re: Ropes in stl (was Re: lack of wstring in libstdc++2.8-dev)

1998-10-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
> void main(void) BTW, main returns int, not void. See the comp.lang.c FAQ for the bit of the C standard that defines this - main is incorrectly said to return void in a number of texts though. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn Col

Re: Thoughts on installation

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
> The second problem was installing X (an issue which I get the impression > is already being addressed). Basically the X configuration process died on > me all 4 times I tried it during install, leaving .dkpg-new files > everywhere, so the only option was to install only the base system, and > th

Test

1998-10-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
Sorry to spam you guys, but I my inbox is uncharactaristically empty Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.se

PGP question

1998-10-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have a slight problem with PGP: I do my development on pick and can post from there (but don't) - all my email is done from cus (and I'm not sure if it can cope with PGP) So do I: post from pick, and hope no-one sends me encrypted mail or what? I need to sort this out befo

Re: new unstable please

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Thomas Lakofski wrote: > Hi, > > I noticed that with the transition to frozen, as expected, packages too > unstable to be in frozen have vanished (on ftp.debian.org, at least). I > hope I can expect a new unstable to appear within a few days, if only to > drop those packages

Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Michael Bramer wrote: > All is in german. No part is in english. sorry. Does this mean there's little point in English-only people turning up? (maybe if we get enough debian people there, we can have a bilingual stall :)) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward o

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Welton wrote: > The kernel is stable, but is the kernel + debian stable? No one > knows. Well, assuming it's an improvement on the pre-release ones, we can make a pretty good guess :) > I think we should include it, as a service to people who don't want to > downlo

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > > As well, my roommate and I were going to also make a character sheet > > program (hence the reason for making the rolldice stuff a library), so we > > could just enter the data, and either save it to a file or go ahead and > > print it out... my roomm

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
> > Why do I get the idea I should bring up once again my hope to gather a > > sizable group of people to build a game system which is released under > > free license and available to anyone with a web browser and the like? => > > I'm all for it! How about it, anyone else interested? :) Me too

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:24:28PM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > > Why do I get the idea I should bring up once again my hope to gather a > > > > sizable group of people to build a game system which is releas

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:23:51AM +0000, M.C. Vernon wrote: > > > > > I'm all for it! How about it, anyone else interested? :) > > > > > > > > Me too We could call it gnuice :-) > > > > >

Re: Reality check!

1999-01-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Steve Shorter wrote: > On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: > > > installation easier requires hard work. If it would be easy, it would have > > been long done. The trick is to keep flexibility (and don't tell me SuSE is > > flexibel). Doing it easy for the newbie and

Re: Debian booth at linuxworld, volenteers wanted

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 25 Jan 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I just received confirmation that LinuxCentral is funding a booth at the > > LinuxWorld expo for debian. I'll be organizing it and I'm still looking for > > more volenteers to help man the booth so let me know if

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: > I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task. > > I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a > logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria > I remember off the top of my head ar

Re: Debian logo contest, step 2

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing > gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize > the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current > contest (dreams) ends. Det

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
> 1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC) Cool. As long as it's a decent dragon > 2. Octopus (my own suggestion) OK > 3. Monkey No > 4. Ant no > 5. Bee no :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support h

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Enrique Zanardi wrote: > On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:21:38AM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: > > Enrique Zanardi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > What about dpkg-multicd? > > > > I have no objection to cdrom being replaced with dpkg-multicd. > > But dpkg-multicd is more t

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
> [ redundant emacs versions ] > > Well, I'll suggest that for potato. It will start a nice flame-war on > > debian-devel "emacs vs. xemacs". > > > Hey, that's just what we need at this stage for *slink*! >:-) > > Okay, let's be serious again: unfortunately this actually means that > some of th

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-01-31 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 30 Jan 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Kevin Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >Anderson MacKay <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote: >> > Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings. >> >> Octopi with wings? Now -that- is a con

Re: Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Christian Meder wrote: > On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: > > At 01:30 +0200 1999-09-17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > >where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about > > >beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do be