On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 10:12:16PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > If you boot up with a rescue disk and use resize2fs on the block device
> > (assuming an ext2/ext3 filesystem) that should make the filesystem the sa
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 07:02:47AM +1200, Jenna R wrote:
> I am experiencing a problem with my dedicated server which is using a 250GB
> SATA hard drive. Fdisk reports that /dev/sda1 is 241GB in size, but df -h
> reports there is only 877MB on /dev/sda1 (mounted as /) .. Output follows
It is not i
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 09:56:44PM -0400, Erinn Clark wrote:
> I also think that some of them /are/ DDs and are also not AMs. Should we
> try to get this kind of mentoring integrated with NM? Or elsewhere? Or
> maybe just not bother and let it keep going as is?
Making NM more of a mentoring+monito
On Sat, May 07, 2005 at 11:24:16PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 11:01:57AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > And all of these problems can be averted by doing the right thing, and
> > using a real revision control system and then shipping a regular ol'
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 12:41:43PM -0400, David Nusinow wrote:
> On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 06:33:20PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote:
> > Hello Sonia,
> >
> > You have creates a native Debian Package which it is not.
> >
> > Please create a "normal" Debian package. (it is easy to do)
>
> Huh? She's
On Mon, May 02, 2005 at 12:38:09AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:03:42PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > Nah, you can range all over the place and change things. It all gets
> > recorded in the .diff.gz file in the end.
>
> However, best practi
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 07:21:08PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> [...]
> >BTW, Matt made a comment about d-mentors. Was that "d-women is for
> >'women's issues stuff', put tech stuff on d-mentors", or "some of the
> >d-mentors subscribers should know about this"? :-)
>
> He mea
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:23:37PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> * On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:35:43AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> > I'm building (my first) .deb file from source (Closes: #304450), and
>
> I'm running lintian on my .deb as per [1]. I've cleaned up all the
> problems except thes
On Sun, May 01, 2005 at 04:10:08PM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> * On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 04:03:42PM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:58:34AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> > > * On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:50:02PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > &g
On Sat, Apr 30, 2005 at 12:58:34AM +1000, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> * On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 04:50:02PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > > Obviously, I need to fix up my install target, but where/how? In the
> > > makefile that comes with the tgz, or debian/rules?
> >
> > It looks like the Makefile in t
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:39:53AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.02.1423 +0200]:
> > Now, who's gonna write the music, sing those vocals and produce
> > an .ogg file? ;)
"So you want me to star in the film, write the theme tune, sing the the
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 10:22:47AM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 08:39:53AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote:
> > also sprach Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.04.02.1423 +0200]:
> > > Now, who's gonna write the music, sing those vocals and produce
> > > an .ogg file? ;)
>
On Tue, Mar 22, 2005 at 07:01:50PM +0200, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> ti, 2005-03-22 kello 11:24 -0500, David Nusinow kirjoitti:
> > Maybe it's time to start thinking about ways to slowly open this program up
> > to the wider Debian? I'm feeling like we need more documentation to
> > standardize things
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:44:59PM -0300, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw)
wrote:
> [1]Article about women leaving I.T.
>
> [1]http://it.slashdot.org/it/05/03/11/027250.shtml?tid=187&tid=218
A few interesting observations on the original article
http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_
On Sat, Feb 19, 2005 at 09:11:14PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> 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
On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 07:53:25AM +1100, Sonia Hamilton wrote:
> Thanks Gaudenz. Anyone have a link that explains the various commands to
> control?
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/server-control or for a lighter introduction, my
half-finished BTS mini-course at
http://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/mirrors
On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 01:49:45PM +0900, Sacha Chua wrote:
> A CONTEST launched by the Philippine Computer Society (PCS) to seek
> out future women leaders in the Philippine information and
> communication technology industry has come under heavy criticism, with
> online detractors saying the cont
This Sunday, 16 Jan. 2005, at 0500 UTC[1], will mark the commencement of the
next #debian-women IRC meeting/discussion forum. It is expected to run for
approximately 1 hour, no doubt with some further discussion continuing from
there.
Our topic of discussion has been decided: we will be talking a
A possible topic for the upcoming IRC #debian-women meeting (16 Jan, 0500
UTC, don't miss it!) has been suggested in IRC. It seemed a good idea to
suggest it to the wider list.
One of the areas that must be approached with some degree of care is the
manner in which debian-women presents itself to
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:44:42AM +0100, Dabian - TMPEMAIL valid 2004dec20 + 8
days wrote:
> tir, 2004-12-28 kl. 01:07 skrev Erinn Clark:
> > * Dabian [2004:12:28 00:38 +0100]:
> > > man, 2004-12-27 kl. 14:14 skrev Helen Faulkner:
> > > > Thanks very much for allowing yourself to be volunteered
I've been volunteered (due to an apparently fortuitous position
timezone-wise) to moderate the next meeting on the debian-women IRC channel.
The next meeting is due to take place at 0500 UTC on the 16th of January,
2005. For the people who can't do timezone calculations in your head (like
me), t
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:49:57PM +, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> Having said that, Erinn was right to remind people that posting IRC
> comments is inappropriate.
If that's the case, what's the point of bringing the matter to this list?
Those of us who weren't on the channel at the time cannot a
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 02:54:21AM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
> The idea is to make a course on packaging programs,
> initially with debhelper. Every person interested
> could choose some program they like and then we could
> be building our packages symultaneously, explaining it
> step by step, and
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 12:13:39AM +0100, Jutta Wrage wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 01.12.04 um 22:34 Uhr schrieb Matthew Palmer:
> >Don't look for technical solutions to social problems. This is in *no*
> >*way* a technical problem.
>
> It is not. And for sure such things w
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 01:27:02PM -0200, Fernanda Giroleti Weiden wrote:
> One way of fixing this specific problem is creating a way to choose
> between pictures of women or men on the program. Yes, why not have p0rn
> pictures of a man in the .deb package too? Is it possible to fix this
> sexism
On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 07:37:32PM -0400, Erinn Clark wrote:
> Also, I believe Colleen and Matthew Palmer were working on something
> similar. Do you two have any comments on this?
I think a "mentoring" scheme for bug reports is a good thing, where people
come to the collecti
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 03:49:26PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 02:23:43PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> > What you will encounter in Debian, and free software development in
> > general, is nothing like you will encounter in the mundane
> > world. There will be an endles
On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 12:15:34AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:04:42AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> > There is no such thing as a rational dialog with
> > people of this ilk, because their goal is not to engage in any kind of
> > constructive communication. It's a
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 12:02:33PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> But I think Manoj might be missing the point a bit when he discusses
> confrontation. Confrontation along the lines of "your code is poo, my code
> does it better and here it is" actually accomplishes something. Or "I agree
> that
On Fri, Aug 20, 2004 at 11:04:42AM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 August 2004 3:12 am, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:16:29PM +1000, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
>
> > >
> > > There are ways to have confrontation and challenge g
[Caution: words not minced.]
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 07:16:29PM +1000, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> > But a number
> > of such confrontational interactions in the past have challenged what
> > used to be well established ideas, and thus mitigated against group
> > think; any evolution away from the cur
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 09:42:43PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Saturday 14 August 2004 6:02 pm, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 06:40:12PM -0500, Evilpig wrote:
> > > would probably be helpful to touch on. These may include: your
> > > motivat
On Sat, Aug 14, 2004 at 06:40:12PM -0500, Evilpig wrote:
> would probably be helpful to touch on. These may include: your
> motivation to become involved with Debian, your first steps towards
> that, a description of what you actually do in this position, what
> type of skills have benefitted you,
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 10:52:20PM +0200, Almut Behrens wrote:
> looking for things in Debian that might fit my personal skills and
> motivation profile, I browsed through http://www.debian.org/devel/todo/
> And - although the list seemed rather short compared to what I would've
> expected - I actu
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 09:45:33PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote:
> TBH, the advocate step is just verifying that you're a person and not
> a cabbage or something (I've written about this at more length in the
> past, but not on a public list that I can recall, and I don't feel
> like rewriting it a
On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 11:06:46AM +0100, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> Actually, the list of my relevant skills and experience really isn't very
> long at all, but I'm not going to worry about that, since my sponsor
> evidently thinks it is sufficient. OK, I'll admit to a couple of anxious
I think
I thought I'd drop this in here, as it's a good description of how I feel
about the culture of Debian, and what makes Debian a good thing.
http://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2004/08/msg00057.html
- Matt
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 01:05:47PM -0400, Erinn Clark wrote:
> * MJ Ray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004:08:08 18:03 +0100]:
> > site. I can't submit it, as the site says it is copyright the Debian
> > Women project, which I am not a member of, "All Rights Reserved" and
> > with no copyright permission
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 12:42:42AM +1000, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 12:36, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > I don't want an @debian.org account. I was just confused about the
> > > process of contributing. :(
> >
> > Identify something you thi
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 09:32:03AM +1000, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 17:34, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > > Nor do I know anyone in the Debian community (or more accurately, I
> > > don't know that I know anyone in it), so I wouldn't be choosing someo
On Wed, Aug 04, 2004 at 04:11:09PM +1000, Jenn Vesperman wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-08-04 at 09:47, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:54:23AM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
> > > somewhat interested in documentation. Like Carla, I've been daunted
> > >
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 06:35:41PM -0700, Carla Schroder wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 August 2004 4:47 pm, Matthew Palmer wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:54:23AM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
> > > somewhat interested in documentation. Like Carla, I've been daunted
> > &
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 09:54:23AM -0700, Akkana Peck wrote:
> somewhat interested in documentation. Like Carla, I've been daunted
> by what I've heard about the NM process, and also by difficulty in
What have you heard about the NM process that makes it daunting? You find
a Debian Developer (DD
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:28:31AM -0700, Patty Langasek wrote:
> One of the biggest complaints you will likely hear about women's movements
> and feminism is that women demand political correctness and will become
> offended by the slightest off-hand comment that doesn't meet a woman's
> sensitivi
On Tue, Aug 03, 2004 at 01:01:42PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> You may want to try the mailinglist debian-mentors@lists.debian.org or
> IRC. I cannot guaranty that it will be a friendly place though :-(
-mentors should typically be a far kinder, gentler place than, say, -devel.
We're there to encou
[Sorry for barging in here if I'm not wanted, but I thought I'd be my
helpful self and throw my two penneth worth into the ring]
On Sun, Aug 01, 2004 at 10:41:54PM +0100, Helen Faulkner wrote:
> >So, the website is nearing mostly-completion (don't worry, I promise to let
> >everyone know when I fi
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