Re: Version tracking

2011-01-25 Thread Don Armstrong
e-id and as many of the logs as you have. In this case, however, it looks like Steve Langasek has gone through and fixed up the bug. [I personally haven't checked to see if it has the correct state, though.] Don Armstrong -- Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on thei

Re: Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-13 Thread Don Armstrong
ng of slides and notes easy (if you're a fan of LaTeX); I think OOo can do it too, but I've honestly never tried. Don Armstrong -- G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do? EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself ov

Re: contact address for anti-harassment policies

2010-12-14 Thread Don Armstrong
her half from females.[2] Don Armstrong 1: http://www.eeoc.gov/eeoc/statistics/enforcement/sexual_harassment.cfm 2: http://www.sexualharassmentsupport.org/SHworkplace.html -- Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's going to inquire just how most people died. The best thing is to

Re: contact address for anti-harassment policies

2010-12-13 Thread Don Armstrong
s a message that harassment is something that the entire project finds objectionable, whereas one at a subdomain indicates that only that subset may find it objectionable. Don Armstrong 1: After all, even sexual harassment doesn't necessarily follow heteronormative roles. -- If you find it impossibl

Re: Let's put some energy back into Debian Women

2010-08-18 Thread Don Armstrong
up in WML and placed in a prominent place under the www.debian.org/Bugs/ hierarchy. If someone could take the lead on this, I'm fine with answering questions, editing, and/or committing the final bits.[1] [Also if someone wants to totally rework the BTS documentation, that'd also be awesome.]

Re: DW Mailing List: Would it be better if it was not archived?

2009-09-15 Thread Don Armstrong
t they write being archived for ever, they should use free email accounts like gmail to send (relatively) anonymous messages to the list. Don Armstrong -- Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't bet, you can't win. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-09-10 Thread Don Armstrong
it's why I try to make sure that people are aware of cases when I feel they're practicing it. It's certainly not meant as an attack, though.[1] [I should also point out that this is also another example of ascribing motivations based on a perception of gender.] Don Armstrong 1:

Re: Thinking about organizing a special women-oriented event

2009-09-10 Thread Don Armstrong
pernicious weed; it cannot be tolerated.] Don Armstrong 1: In fact, I actually wrote privately about it when I first read it. -- An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p244 http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.e

General list behavior and suggestions [Was: Re: Further to: ...]

2009-07-09 Thread Don Armstrong
On Thu, 09 Jul 2009, Serafeim Zanikolas wrote: > On Mon, Jul 06, 2009 at 03:18:10PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote [edited]: > > In the future, if you run into threads like this it's best to contact > > listmas...@lists.debian.org; I don't think any of us actually read >

Re: Further to: Re: About the recent events in the Rails community about using explicit sexual contents in slides

2009-07-06 Thread Don Armstrong
nd it's better to kill these things of earlier than letting them go on.] Don Armstrong -- Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like color television only with less plot. -- Clement Freud _Grimble_ http://www.donarms

Re: /tmp accidentally filled

2008-12-03 Thread Don Armstrong
tion on most of my machines, and coupled with tmpreaper in anacron/crontab works reasonably, though tmpreaper has its own "issues"). [This also has the added benifit of avoiding tempfile race conditions.] Don Armstrong -- Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot h

Re: What is the software in debian for designing

2008-02-14 Thread Don Armstrong
ww.gimp.org/tutorials/ and http://www.inkscape.org/doc/basic/tutorial-basic.html for some introductory tutorials on the both of them. Don Armstrong -- NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South won't rise again. -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php

Re: [OT] About Computer Careers

2007-07-15 Thread Don Armstrong
what, and how much you've published is what matters.] Don Armstrong -- "There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS." -- The B.O.F.H.. http://www.donarmstrong.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu

Re: meeting - LinuxWorld San Francisco

2006-07-19 Thread Don Armstrong
there, let me know and I'd be glad to see you help in the Debian booth: http://wiki.debian.org/LWCESF has the organizational page; e-mail me if you have additional questions. [I'm not really super-qualified to talk about women in open source, but if anyone wants to talk about Debian, see

Re: Need help getting started with BTS cleanup

2006-04-14 Thread Don Armstrong
t before I start to fire off > mail left and right ;) No problem; feel free to ask in the irc channel too if there are any additional questions; someone there will know the answers. Don Armstrong 1: Once we figure out the right way of dealing with this post versioning, they'll be moved to

Re: Debian election on now

2006-02-28 Thread Don Armstrong
ess threads on -vote will be quite helpful in enabling people to decide which of the candidates they want to vote for. Don Armstrong 1: Either via email or by /msg dondelelcaro on too many IRC networks. -- THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter http://gallery.do

Re: Fwd: What is Lesbian GNU/Linux?

2005-11-07 Thread Don Armstrong
the presence of porn-get in this "distribution", which has the obvious functionality that the name implies. In any case, it's not something that's worth bringing much attention to. Don Armstrong -- It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it

Re: adding gender field on debian developer's database (from debian-devel)

2005-08-01 Thread Don Armstrong
to the biological; even computer connectors have gender. Sex is generally reserved for the categorization of things based on their reproductive structures (and various activities related to those reproductive structures.) So in this case, either word works properly; 'Sex' merely being mor

Re: DW quotes

2005-06-18 Thread Don Armstrong
oing does not meet your politeness norms, but they're just as free to disagree with you and continue behaving appropriatly to their own norms. Don Armstrong 1: Either through technical means, or by removing yourself from the stream of communication. -- I never until now realized that the prim

Re: Debian gathering in mid-May? (Was: Re: Introduction)

2005-05-11 Thread Don Armstrong
tend this gathering. Matt Zimmerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is the person to talk to, who is organizing the event. I'm not sure of the current details, but I should be there myself. See http://wiki.double-helix.org/LosAngelesMay2005 Don Armstrong -- This can't be happening t

Re: Cycle has entered sid

2005-04-16 Thread Don Armstrong
, however there are addons out there (like folderbolt) that will lock specific folders. [Not that this really matters anyway, since those OSes are primarily single user OSes, and it is fairly trivial to lock out users.] Don Armstrong -- This space for rent. http://www.donarmstrong.com

Re: On debian lists, we cc if asked

2004-08-15 Thread Don Armstrong
list. You can request that they do it, but there's definetly nothing in the list policy that requires people to Cc: people who ask. If you care about it, the archives are publicly available, so it's rather difficult to be "sneaky." Don Armstrong -- I now know how retro SCOs OSes a

Re: Supporters brief-up

2004-07-25 Thread Don Armstrong
to verbalise their opinions. Perhaps it would be better to make the supporter page gender neutral? A woman can bqe just as much a supporter of debian-women as a man can, and presumably the same objective criteria could be applied to both. Don Armstrong -- When I was a kid I used to pray eve

Re: Website, logo, etc.

2004-07-13 Thread Don Armstrong
On Tue, 13 Jul 2004, Michelle Konzack wrote: > But please can you tell me, which Font you use ? It's Poppl Laudation Condensed, with a few custom bits. http://www.identifont.com/show?U5 Or http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20030827.092142.54a8fc1a.html where this is discusse