[OT - maybe] systemd conspiracy theories

2014-10-22 Thread Miles Fidelman
Given all the talk about conspiracy theories, it occurs to be to point out this statement by none other than Lennart Poettering (http://0pointer.net/blog/revisiting-how-we-put-together-linux-systems.html on 9/1/2014) in a blog post titled "Revisiting How We Put Together Linux Systems&quo

Re: Conspiracy;

2014-03-28 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 20:08 -0700, Weaver wrote: > I believe elections are coming up for DPL soon, Mark, if you want to chuck > your hat into the ring, you could well save us from both Santa Claus and > Larry Page. Is this just a joke or is Lawrence Page being discussed to become Debian project le

Re: Conspiracy;

2014-03-28 Thread Weaver
e > carrying their presents in a sleigh pulled by reindeer, you can assume > that is only the first of many conspiracy's that you will encounter in > your life. While the fanatics rave about there being no conspiracies. > Our society is a conspiracy. How dare we have a constitution t

Conspiracy;

2014-03-28 Thread Mark Evans
assume that is only the first of many conspiracy's that you will encounter in your life. While the fanatics rave about there being no conspiracies. Our society is a conspiracy. How dare we have a constitution that guarantees the right to individual freedom of expression in a world controll

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements: Conspiracy

2002-11-23 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, 23 Nov 2002 13:58:22 -0600, Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:39:32AM +, Pigeon wrote: >> OK, but what about the hard drive? In both cases the head has to track >> over the preceding sectors and switch into write mode when it gets to >> the right se

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements: Conspiracy

2002-11-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Nov 23, 2002 at 03:39:32AM +, Pigeon wrote: > OK, but what about the hard drive? In both cases the head has to track > over the preceding sectors and switch into write mode when it gets to > the right sector to be written. OK, so one's magnetic, one's optical, > but the head servos are

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements: Conspiracy

2002-11-22 Thread Pigeon
On 22 Nov 2002 15:42:17 +0100, Stefan Janecek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:37, Pigeon wrote: >> On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:55:41 -0800, Vineet Kumar >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >This is exactly what burnproof does. You can load the machine; you can >> >deplete the buf

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements: Conspiracy

2002-11-22 Thread Stefan Janecek
On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 23:37, Pigeon wrote: > On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:55:41 -0800, Vineet Kumar > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >This is exactly what burnproof does. You can load the machine; you can > >deplete the buffer. Rather than spewing the contents of the empty > >buffer to the disc (creat

Re: [OT] CD-R Requirements: Conspiracy

2002-11-21 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:55:41 -0800, Vineet Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >This is exactly what burnproof does. You can load the machine; you can >deplete the buffer. Rather than spewing the contents of the empty >buffer to the disc (creating a coaster), it suspends the write and >resumes when

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
On 09 Apr 1998 13:15:21 EDT, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Products that are DFSG compliant are Open Source compliant, and vice > versa. It's two names for the same thing. Suits understand `Open > Source' better than they understand `Free Software'; they have a > suspicion of anything that has `Free' in th

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
To clarify, RedHat is DFSG-compliant (it's listed in Open Source products), and Debian is Open Source-compliant (Open Source definition is DFSG), but because DFSG targets non-commercial software (ironically the same software that appears on commercial Linux distros) and Open Sour

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
On 09 Apr 1998 10:35:20 EDT, Ben Pfaff wrote: > Hi, > > Are the terms "DFSG" and "Open Source" completely interchangeable or > not? They're based on identical wording. > > Yes, they are, AFAIK. On the one hand that's nice because it's completely interchangeable, on the other hand two names fo

Re: Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread Ben Pfaff
Hi, Are the terms "DFSG" and "Open Source" completely interchangeable or not? They're based on identical wording. Yes, they are, AFAIK. http://www.opensource.org/osd.html http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines What's the relationship between Debian and Ope

Open Source and DFSG conspiracy ?

1998-04-09 Thread David Stern
ource.org/products.html http://www.opensource.org/history.html Another Eric conspiracy ? :) -- David Stern -- http://weber.u.washington.edu/~kotsya