Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-25 Thread Akkana Peck
Bernhard Krieger writes: > Very often women in this genre of literature do simply not > appear in the stories at all. Or if they do, they get roles and > positions so distinct of the male heroes. I am not at all an expert on [ ... ] > rational, logic, creative (i.e. cultural). For instance look

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Akkana Peck
Hanna M. Wallach writes: > -- do you read science fiction? I do, though less than I used to -- I've been on a nonfiction kick lately, and even occasionally reading mainstream fiction, which I seldom used to do. In my teens and twenties pretty much the only fiction I read was SF or fantasy.

Re: Tech stuff on d-women (Was: errors building a .deb)

2005-05-03 Thread Akkana Peck
Patricia Jung writes: > Erinn Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > will scare them off. If I were to join DW now and had not been a > > founder, I would probably be annoyed by a lack of *any* technical > >focus. > Full ACK. I'm not a founder, and I am missing technical discussion here > sin

Re: Opening doors for women in computing

2005-02-19 Thread Akkana Peck
Helen Faulkner writes: > I wonder how many other people here experienced a similar thing to what > the woman interviewed relates: namely that the apparent level of > programming expertise of the men in her course, before the course even > started, was so high that she felt incompetant by compari

Re: What do you want to learn?

2004-08-03 Thread Akkana Peck
Erinn Clark writes: > So far we have a couple people interested in packaging and a couple > interested in documentation. Is this enough to get something started? I'm interested in packaging and perhaps in eventually getting involved with the installer and/or packaging systems. I'm also somewhat

Re: sexist language in debian instructions/documentation

2004-08-02 Thread Akkana Peck
Nori Heikkinen writes: > Helen Faulkner writes: > > http://www.debian.org/devel/join/nm-advocate: > [...] > > Count the "he"s. I get 13. This doesn't seem to be, based on the > > stuff I've been flicking through, particularly unusual. And people > > wonder why women find debian unfriendly to the

Searching for files and packages

2004-07-13 Thread Akkana Peck
David Nusinow writes: > In addition to the apt-file command already mentioned, there's > packages.debian.org, which is able to search package contents for you. If you > happen to wander in to the gauntlet that is #debian on freenode, it's often > abbreviated "p.d.o" because it's so useful. We were

Re: Digging Up An Intro

2004-07-13 Thread Akkana Peck
Raquel Rice writes: > But that's not really what I'm asking about. I've tried to find the > package that contains "dig". I've installed NetTools, but still > can't find "dig". Can someone help me? A terrific package for answering questions like that is apt-file. Install it with apt-get, do an a