Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Somehow I get all these emails two to three times ;) I am not against a rename some much, but DIS is no better than CDD, really, so I am rather with Gert and Karsten. Better than DIS may be DUC (pronounced duck or dak) as an acronym for Debian User Community. I never understood though why it was n

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:05:51AM +0200, Steffen Moeller a écrit : > why it was not just called Special Interest Group (SIG) Hi Steffen, I strongly oppose SIG, it should be reserved my hometown's "Strasbourg Illkirch-Graffenstaden" basketball club's name ;) http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strasbour

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Ben Armstrong
On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:05:51 +0200 Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never understood > though why it was nut just called Special Interest Group (SIG), something that > everyone would grasp immediately. If we were trying to describe something that everyone grasped immediately, then us

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Sylvestre Ledru
Le mardi 19 août 2008 à 06:49 -0300, Ben Armstrong a écrit : > > Will think on this some more. Maybe a simple rearrangement of the > letters, so we can keep the meaning of each of these words but lose > the > quirky pronunciation and bad association with the slang "dis"? Thus, > IDS (Integrated

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Salvador Garcia Z.
Steffen Moeller escribió: Somehow I get all these emails two to three times ;) I am not against a rename some much, but DIS is no better than CDD, really, so I am rather with Gert and Karsten. Better than DIS may be DUC (pronounced duck or dak) as an acronym for Debian User Community. I never un

Registering

2008-08-19 Thread Computer assistance to Akatsi District
I was just wondering where to register my copy of Debuan Edu on the net? Robert -- Please keep message text when replying Computer assistance to Akatsi District http://computeraid.zapto.org Mob: (0047) 47466352 (00233) 247005311 Christian (in Ghana) (00233) 247893430 Robert (in Ghana) E-mail:

Problems burning DVD

2008-08-19 Thread Computer assistance to Akatsi District
Hello I have recently tried to burn the Skolelinux DVD ( http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-amd64-i386-powerpc-DVD-3.0r1.iso) but the first one didn't work (not able to boot on it, could not see any files in Explorer on the DVD) so i threw it away. I downloaded a new iso and b

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Steffen Moeller
Ben Armstrong wrote: > On Tue, 19 Aug 2008 11:05:51 +0200 > Steffen Moeller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I never understood >> though why it was nut just called Special Interest Group (SIG), something >> that >> everyone would grasp immediately. > > If we were trying to describe something that e

Re: Problems burning DVD

2008-08-19 Thread Ronny Aasen
Computer assistance to Akatsi District wrote: > Hello > > I have recently tried to burn the Skolelinux DVD > (http://ftp.skolelinux.org/skolelinux-cd/debian-edu-etch-amd64-i386-powerpc-DVD-3.0r1.iso) > but the first one didn't work (not able to boot on it, could not see > any files in Explorer on

Re: Registering

2008-08-19 Thread RalfGesellensetter
Am Dienstag 19 August 2008 schrieb Computer assistance to Akatsi District: > I was just wondering where to register my copy of Debuan Edu on the > net? Dear Robert, welcome to Debian Edu - and thank you for insisting on registering ;) For free software, there is no compulsary registration - how

Re: stopmotion broken in Lenny because vgrabbj is missing

2008-08-19 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Martin Oehler] > I'm not an expert in using stopmotion, but the results seemed > reasonable. We checked this with two different webcams (one using > luvc, the other using the gspca kernel module). Very good to know about an alternative program to fetch images. Upstream for stopmotion should be to

Re: New name: Call for opinions

2008-08-19 Thread Neil Pilgrim
Steffen Moeller wrote: Ben Armstrong wrote: Will think on this some more. Maybe a simple rearrangement of the letters, so we can keep the meaning of each of these words but lose the quirky pronunciation and bad association with the slang "dis"? Thus, IDS (Integrated Debian Solutions). Whil