Re: My adventures with NM - part 5b (T&S vanquished)

2005-01-12 Thread David Nusinow
n't meant to be hostile, but to help everyone involved, including you. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ITA

2005-03-01 Thread David Nusinow
perfect. > Thanks, > Penny (red faced!) Don't be embarassed about something like this, that's what we're here for. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Article on women and mathematics

2005-03-07 Thread David Nusinow
On Sun, Mar 06, 2005 at 05:14:42PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > If you change the level of strogens or testosterone in > your organism, your spacial abilities do not change. How do you know? - David "Developmental Biologist" Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: NYTimes article: women more genetically complex ...

2005-03-21 Thread David Nusinow
omache churn. The findings have interesting implications for sexual dimorphisms, and perhaps more importantly differences between individuals. In no way though, does this imply that women are genetically superior to men. I give the NYT article a big "Troll" rating. - David Nusi

Re: NYTimes article: women more genetically complex ...

2005-03-21 Thread David Nusinow
On Mon, Mar 21, 2005 at 03:47:24PM -0700, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2005-03-21, David Nusinow penned: > > > > I'm not even going to begin to touch the NYT article directly, as it makes > > my stomache churn. The findings have interesting implications for sexual &g

Mentoring Feedback

2005-03-21 Thread David Nusinow
a limited number of questions to ask of you. 4) Don't take on a mentee if you don't have the time. We're all overloaded, but try to be honest with yourself. They can demand a lot of time and they deserve the t

Re: Mentoring Feedback

2005-03-22 Thread David Nusinow
ontact me and I will assign you to a mentor who suits your > interests. 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 though. A mentoring HOWTO and maybe a mentee HOWTO

Re: Mentoring Feedback

2005-03-22 Thread David Nusinow
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 documen

Re: Political climate of Debian

2005-04-13 Thread David Nusinow
e to solve all these problems yourself, but voicing your thoughts and doubts is all that's needed. - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: errors building a .deb

2005-05-01 Thread David Nusinow
ckage. 1.1-1, the -1 being the package version number. How is this a native package? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Localizing main site?

2005-06-21 Thread David Nusinow
o what Erinn said, the docs for baz are just not there yet (yes I've seen the pre-release ones) to find out what to do when things do go wrong. Learning by zsh tab completion is not my idea of fun. - David Nusinow, who would love to move X.Org to arch one day -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Re: Website, logo, etc. (and hello!)

2004-07-06 Thread David Nusinow
er should ask questions here. I've gone through the majority of the NM queue myself (just waiting on the DAM at this point) and I know there are a number of DD's on this list as well. Friedly advice from a smaller forum that's not trying to weed out the weak is exactly what this sort of list is for. - David Nusinow

Re: help wanted! get involved! make Debian-women work!

2004-07-12 Thread David Nusinow
oesn't have a manpage this is a great way to help out. - David Nusinow (who's trying to start the Debian-integration discussion part of the list) [1] http://www.nl.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-docs.html#s12.1

Re: help wanted! get involved! make Debian-women work!

2004-07-12 Thread David Nusinow
o send the manpage to the upstream author and ask them to check it for you. It's not unlikely that they'll include it in the next release of their app too. - David Nusinow

Re: Digging Up An Intro

2004-07-13 Thread David Nusinow
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. - David Nusinow

Re: Is "debian-women" crashed ?

2004-07-16 Thread David Nusinow
On Fri, Jul 16, 2004 at 03:19:18PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Clearly, establishing this separate mailing list has left people out of > touch with how things really work in Debian ;) Perhaps we need a GR to right this egregious wrong ;-) - David Nusinow

Re: Is "debian-women" crashed ?

2004-07-18 Thread David Nusinow
e debian-devel list. Just trying to poke some fun at our current cultural climate. :-) - David Nusinow

Re: Is "debian-women" crashed ?

2004-07-18 Thread David Nusinow
effort seems to be a good way to get people interested in Debian without having to slog through the tiresome political vitriol that recent GR's have created. Erinn has created a great opportunity here, and I hope people take advantage of it. - David Nusinow

Re: Is "debian-women" crashed ?

2004-07-18 Thread David Nusinow
ant this project to succeed for a while (I've been urging helix on since debian-women was just an abstract idea) and I get the feeling that there's many who feel the same. - David Nusinow

Re: X Question

2004-07-26 Thread David Nusinow
ringing up Gnome? Try "echo "exec gnome-session" > ~/.xsession" and then run startx. - David Nusinow

Re: editing Debian documentation

2004-07-29 Thread David Nusinow
ine and in person) to be able to get another sponsor should I really have needed it. Waiting for the DAM isn't a true barrier to getting work done, and it's definitely not hell. Anyhow, I hope that answers your question about the whole process. I can't speak for Carla as to why it

Re: sexist language in debian instructions/documentation

2004-08-05 Thread David Nusinow
simply because it will be obviously needed. But isn't getting women involved in the actual Debian process the founding purpose of debian-women anyhow? - David Nusinow

Re: My adventures with the NM process, part 2:

2004-08-11 Thread David Nusinow
On Wed, Aug 11, 2004 at 10:32:59AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > (b) Not being a complete fuckwad (the "elmo" test) > > I'd be more inclined to name the test after the person who made it necessary > -- after all, elmo won't always be performing the test, but it'll always be > Eray who made it n

Re: On debian lists, we cc if asked

2004-08-14 Thread David Nusinow
le a bug report or something similar. - David Nusinow

Re: No goals, selective memory, be nice, red nose day

2004-08-20 Thread David Nusinow
then there is a problem. As you say though, the Debian developer community does seem to be largely immune to this (krooger aside) but I think it would be nice to see this extended to our userbase. The best way to do this is more exposure of minorities in respectable positions, which is what I see th

Re: The prevailing Debian culture

2004-08-22 Thread David Nusinow
ack from users and good discussions between all concerned. I wouldn't say that was Andrew describes doesn't happen (it's pretty unfortunate that it does, especially to many of those who it does happen to) but it's not the universal rule by any means. d-i is a very high profile project right now too, with well over a hundred contributers, and it gets along without these problems. - David Nusinow

Re: No goals, selective memory, be nice, red nose day

2004-08-25 Thread David Nusinow
about Debian so that they're better prepared for these lists is a preferable approach. Granted, they could ask the same questions on other lists, but they came to this list for a reason, and that is why the list is here in the first place. - David Nusinow

Re: Fw: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread David Nusinow
a bug with a patch to integrate the content in to the package, and wait for the maintainer to include it. If he chooses not to, make your own package with it and upload it. - David Nusinow

Re: Next #d-women forum; topics anyone?

2005-01-02 Thread David Nusinow
s. I've got some ideas on how to do this that I'll be happy to talk about in the meeting, but I hope this mail gave some people some good ideas :-) - David Nusinow

RFP/RFH: xcompmgr

2005-07-17 Thread David Nusinow
e, important parts of the project, and this is the perfect opportunity. Thank you! - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with log out

2008-02-23 Thread David Nusinow
ts free drivers like we promised we could > have. radeonhd exists today, why not use that? - David Nusinow -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: problem with log out

2008-02-23 Thread David Nusinow
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:37:51AM -0600, Jordi GutiƩrrez Hermoso wrote: > On 23/02/2008, David Nusinow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > radeonhd exists today, why not use that? > > Is it working yet? I don't use ATI cards. The Dell Ubuntu lappy I > bought, since dipp