pronounce this "fack" not "eff ay kyu". Others
probably have the opposite view, but nobody I've spoken with has ever
said it out loud. ;)
It's probably up to the speaker/writer whether it's "a FAQ" or "an FAQ",
depending on how they're inte
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On Tuesday, 15 March 2005 18:50, sean finney wrote:
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> > groach is a clone of the classic xroach program, but with multiple
> > themes, more modern code, and a free license.
>
> why would anyone want to use
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to have 500x
the bandwidth of every user.
This isn't even taking into account the complexity of the internet routing
in between, which can make multiple simultaneous sources faster--in actual
wall-clock time--for the user no matter how fast or slow the user's or the
mirror's c
are offended by the dilution of Christmas by
> happy holidays.
Whether or not any particular individual is offended by the content of
Andrew's post is less important than how it was INTENDED to be offensive
and off-topic.
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On Sunday 22 January 2006 11:59, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 10:21:13 -0700, Wesley J Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
said:
> > On Saturday 21 January 2006 13:52, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
> >> So, I am seeking arguments and guidance from the developer body
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>
> I know, that's not accessible to users, only the admin. OTOH, I can't
> think of any really good reason that user needs to do something
> *automatically* on reboot.
Perhaps user-run services?
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wouldn't need to *replace* releases--it
could simply augment the release creation process.)
I'm interested to hear other's ideas on why this is/is not a good idea, and
what technical/logistical hurdles would prevent this from being done.
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#includes of the header removed from the three files it's referenced from,
and got bit for bit binaries out).
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: why is this here? It's not actually
used by the program.
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ight be to include both new entries, and entries that are
about to be requested for removal. That seems like it might be useful. What
do you think?
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Hi folks,
I wrote this up to someone. I thought I'd share it, and get your thoughts.
(e.g. anybody see any weaknesses in #1-#3 that *aren't* present in the
typical meet, check ID, get GPG fingerprint, assuming #4 is always used
afterwards?)
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 08:44, Wesley J
On Tuesday 31 May 2005 14:11, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:03:12AM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > I wrote this up to someone. I thought I'd share it, and get your
> > thoughts. (e.g. anybody see any weaknesses in #1-#3 that *aren't*
> &
a person is who they say they are as
meeting in person and checking ID's. Obviously there are always the issue
of forgeries, but I don't think this method is any *worse* in the respect.
But I thought I'd give anyone interested a chance to bang at the idea,
because I'm curi
e
ID to is me. Make ID, show it to me, dispose of ID afterwards.
Anyway, this has been an interesting thread, because what I am seeing is
that there really isn't any reason why meeting physically is better at
building a web-of-trust than alternate methods, if crafted thoughtfully. =)
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egree as meeting someone in
person and checking their ID (even if both methods share weaknesses), I'd
say that's a success. Wouldn't you?
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free (as I can at my bank)
or for a few dollars.
That said, I can only think of about 1 thing I've ever needed to have
notarized in my life, so it's not like I'm "fond" of notaries--but they
seem to fulfill their intended purpose.
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me desktops on the fly when
an extra warm body shows up.
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ded? i.e. Could I upload a new revision of a
package that has multiple upstream tarballs, and a debian.tar.bz2 right
now, or are there a lot of other things that have to change first?
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> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2006 10:31:35 -0600
> Source: cheesetracker
> Binary: cheesetracker
> Architecture: source i386
> Version: 0.9.9-6
> Distribution: unstable
> Urgency: high (security)
> Maintainer: Wesley J. Landaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Changed-B
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:15, Bart Martens wrote:
> Instead of editing the scripts in /etc/init.d to give daemons the
> nicelevel you want (and get prompted at every package update because
> these files are conffiles) you can just run reniced once a day.
Wow, that sounds like an annoying b
ke this. I can at least confirm it is
happening on at least one of my boxes that was fairly recently installed
with etch.
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> I would rather have it as an input field where people can express their
> gender in the way they want to, as gender has little to do with
> biological sex, and there's more than two options for it.
I think if someone *really* doesn't want to put "male" or &quo
27;ve been getting intermittant problems like this with
ftp.us.debian.org since ~ October last year.
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Joe Smith wrote:
> Is this really needed? Google was very careful in making sure that the
> package installs in /usr/local, and does not interfere with the
> system. Normally the main reason why a debian package is better than
> what upsteam distributed is because using upstreams packages will mess
Paul Wise wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-06-18 at 23:56 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
>
>> Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
>>
>>> But the most important one of all is: I've found it useful, I've got it
>>> working[1], and I'd like to give others an opportunity
h, that doesn't explain why people give it away as free software.
I release all software I create as free software of the common
philosophical beliefs that I share with the FSF. Simply put: If I make
something cool for myself, I want to share it so that other people can
enjoy it too. I'
about Voldemort?
Voldemort, who's that? Oh yeah, I think he's the composer of dueling
banjos... ;)
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On Sunday 31 July 2005 08:22, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> I don't want to rant, but since you are urging NMUs and apparently doing
> them yourself. Your recent NMU of cheeesetracker compiled it against two
> C++ ABIs; you could avoided this if you read the bug report and my
&g
27;t think it was out of line. I thought, "wow, that'd be cool to
go meet Bruce; too bad I'm not in that area."
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n other kernels are popular,
you'll hear lots of stuff like:
"Hey, what Linux do you use?"
"Hurd, man."
"That's cool, I use FreeBSD."
"Debian rocks with all these kernels."
"Yeah, that's why I love Linux."
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On Wednesday 31 August 2005 09:49, Yavor Doganov wrote:
> On Wed, 31 Aug 2005 07:35:23 -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > That and--it will make most of us cringle--when other kernels are
> > popular, you'll hear lots of stuff like:
>
> The reason for calling it GNU
hat isn't really
any more accurate, unless you *really are* running GNU. Just something to
think about. =)
(Personally, I'm usually happy to just call it "Debian" when promoting it's
use -- we'd still be Debian even if we replaced all GNU software with
alternative implementat
that the
> FHS helps with machine-global installed stuff.
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t;
> That would explain a lot... but still make such a "fix" quite a bad
> idea.
No, on all of my sarge and sid machines the entry looked like:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost foobar
Where foobar was the name I gave during the install process.
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et the the IETF to make it clear. =)
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to be
> bugs:
>
> * The application expects to be able to resolve 'localhost.localdomain'
> to an IP address.
> * The application breaks if 'localhost.localdomain' is included on the
> 127.0.0.1 line in /etc/hosts.
Yes, I totally agree here. =)
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I don't know what you mean by "there are no false positives". My ghdl
package you mention is a false positive, for one.
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On Saturday 07 June 2008 11:44:42 József Makay wrote:
> This picture is a dream of the Debian-logo in the future...
Very cool looking!
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If it were permitted, then what
> would happen when other unofficial repository maintainers want to
> package their repository keyrings? Will those be allowed or disallowed?
Maybe a common, group maintained, debian-unofficial-keyring package?
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oc/debian-keyring/copyright even says "The keys in the
keyrings don't fall under any copyright." Ops!
Maybe there are other reasons, but let's not pretend we're keeping
debian-backports-keyring out because it's not "free software".
(Personally, I think
pective.
IMHO:
I would be happy to see bugs against my own packages that *clearly*
increased usability and readability of code, as long as they included
tested, working, patches.
But a bug that asks to change coding style just for the sake of style or
preference of someone who isn't even work
T mail is rejected (e.g. as spam) for some reason?
Perhaps unlikely, but just in case it would be nice if the WaT status was
available somewhere online (e.g. perhaps under db.debian.org).
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up a few of my systems manually to do something similar,
like have different syslog levels/types go to vt10, vt10, and vt12, since
those are rarely used for anything else.)
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;d like to see this split out into several binary packages at
least:
lib09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0-1
lib09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0-dev
09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0-tools
lib09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0-ruby
lib09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0-perl
lib09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0-python
lib09F911
r *actual* problem, but I've had a stuck screensaver before
and important data I didn't want to kill, so I know the feeling:
If you get stuck like this again, you can switch to a text console w/
Ctrl+Alt+F1, log in as root, and do a "killall -9 kdesktop_lock".
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On Friday 04 May 2007 12:34:23 Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> On Friday 04 May 2007 05:23:17 Christoph Haas wrote:
> > libpam-ldap (optionally) people who lock their screen in KDE will not
> > be able to unlock the screen and may (like me) lose data because they
> > finally
specific versions of twelve
different libraries only found in an old development build of Fedora. ;)
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orities. Basic merge tracking is scheduled to be in
the next release; more enhancements will follow.
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[1] AFAICT fslint can do hardlinks, but not symlinks.
[2] fdupes lists duplicate files, but does not take any action.
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On Monday 21 May 2007 00:16:13 Philipp Matthias Hahn wrote:
> On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 07:42:56PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > For a package problem I'm trying to solve (#414422), it would be nice
> > to have a tool that could find duplicate files (ala fslint[1] or
>
On Monday 21 May 2007 23:51:24 Klaus Ethgen wrote:
> Hi Weskey,
>
> Am Di den 22. Mai 2007 um 0:53 schrieb Wesley J. Landaker:
> > > If hardlinks are okay too, see the "perforate" package (I find this
> > > package hard to find, since the name is somewhat mi
dered where the later silly default
came from. =)
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Abbreviations are ambiguous by design. Who actually says that KB means
> kilobyte?
Well, in SI units, KB never means kilobyte, and is not ambiguous at all;
it's a kelvin·bel.
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dard?
Even in the US all legitimate science and engineering is done in SI units.
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1 048 576
>
> No more ambiguity.
Except, don't forget that prefixes are case-sensitive. "ki" and "mi" aren't
correct binary prefixes, and "m" means milli.
Instead you want "k", "Ki", "M" and "Mi" above.
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On Wednesday 13 June 2007 14:03:51 Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 05:33:12PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > Even in the US all legitimate science and engineering is done in SI
> > units.
>
> Suurre... That's why in 1999 the NASA Mars orbiter
more clear and less ambiguous, and have now been around
for almost 10 years.
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There have been lots of
schemes like that over the years.
If it were k2B that were standardized instead of KiB, I'd be pushing to use
that instead, but that's not the case. =)
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don't want
to do that, because the package in question works on *every architecture*,
including unofficial ones (like hurd, knetbsd, etc) except for it has all
sorts of perpetual, unresolvable problems on one particular architecture. I
just want to exclude that specific one.
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On Sunday 12 August 2007 13:35:02 Adeodato Simó wrote:
> * Reinhard Tartler [Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:27:50 +0200]:
> > "Wesley J. Landaker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > Is is possible to make the equivalent of an Architecture: any package
> > >
On Sunday 12 August 2007 19:13:38 Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 12, 2007 at 05:43:27PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote:
> > Won't this then prevent the package from migrating to testing, because
> > it's arch: any, but failing to build on a release arch?
>
>
a *maximum* password of 8 characters, so you
have to get creative anyway...)
However, all that said, you have to draw the minimum line somewhere, 8 is a
subjectively better "arbitrary" default than 6, and it's also good to match
upstream in this case.
[1] Seriously similar to
based
distribution, which gives you the advantage of not starting from *scratch*
but getting to strip things down, select exact packages, make your own
installers, rebrand things, whatever.
A bigger plus is that it's not terribly difficult. See
<http://wiki.debian.org/Custom> for
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mms
m 1743 have
been out of copyright for at least, oh, 5 years or so. ;)
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On Friday, October 12, 2012 05:10:12 David Kalnischkies wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Christoph Anton Mitterer
>
> wrote:
> > algo,... not to mention that newer algos like Keccack are quite fast.
>
> I wonder if it is really a good idea to search for a security checksum
> based on th
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