Re: Hard Disk

2005-07-13 Thread Philippe Troin
"Billy O'Neal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm using MS Virtual PC to install Debian before I chose it as my full time > os, to replace windows. I'd like to know if there is a utillity (such as > necrofile) in Debian that will null the free space on the drive, to allow > the vortual pc compac

Re: Hard Disk

2005-07-14 Thread Philippe Troin
Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ke, 2005-07-13 kello 20:53 -0700, Philippe Troin kirjoitti: > > cat /dev/zero > /bigfile > > rm /bigfile If you want to have maximum compression / zero filling, you should do that as root in your shutdown script, for

Data does NOT belong in Debian (was: Stop Archive bloat)

1999-10-19 Thread Philippe Troin
[This is my last post on -devel on this topic. More discussion encouraged in debian-project.] Debian is about creating a Unix/linux/hurd distribution, not about packaging everything under the sun in the .deb format. I think we need a policy on "pure data" packages. "Pure data" packages are a pr

Re: Discussing the DMUP

2000-04-25 Thread Philippe Troin
Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I think it needs a rewrite, and one that should go through a > better review process than the current one did. An document that > determines the rulkes and penalties that the developer community has > to live by should noit be decided by a sma

vger.rutgers.edu & lmkl down ?

2000-08-16 Thread Philippe Troin
I did not get any messages from the linux kernel mailing list in a couple of days. And vger.rutgers.edu does not resolve anymore: % dig @dns1.rutgers.edu vger.rutgers.edu any ; <<>> DiG 8.2 <<>> @dns1.rutgers.edu vger.rutgers.edu any ; (1 server found) ;; res options: init recurs

Potato cd cover art ?

2000-08-23 Thread Philippe Troin
Has anybody done some (reusable) potato cd cover art ? Phil.

Re: The Ineffectual DPL?

2004-04-07 Thread Philippe Troin
[Cc'ed only to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have not voted in this DPL election. I didn't vote in last > year's. I think I only voted in the first one, but even then, I'm > not sure. I always vote, probably for the same reasons I vote in my country's elections (