Bug#302572: (Fortunes-es contains offensive quotes that should be in fortunes-es-off)

2005-04-01 Thread Javier Candeira
The bug speaks for itself, really. The fortunes-es package is really outrageously wrong, and as there is already a fortunes-es-off (offensive) for those who don't want to put crap up on their websites or on their kids' desktops (or even see it themselves), well. Here is the original bug report,

Re: Bug#302572: (Fortunes-es contains offensive quotes that should be in fortunes-es-off)

2005-04-01 Thread Javier Candeira
or me. What is clear to me is that they should not be in fortunes-es. What is the due process now like, do you write to the bug asking for complete removal? -- j Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Gaudenz Steinlin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Apr 01, 2005 at 08:13:58PM +0200, Javier Candeira wro

Re: Bug#302572: Fortunes-es contains offensive quotes that should be in fortunes-es-off

2005-04-02 Thread Javier Candeira
sure. > go ahead, but please provide a proper patch of what content you feel should be moved over to fortunes-es-off. Thanks, will provide a patch next time. Cheers, and thanks again for taking the effort to fix this so quickly despite the low priority. -- javier candeira PS Crossposted to t

Re: A song

2005-04-02 Thread Javier Candeira
Contagiously fun. Can't *wait* to see you perform it, I can beatbox for you if you'll let me. -- javier candeira Erinn Clark wrote: It's kinda long, but I'm sure you can all deal with that. :) This is also

Re: [bp-editores] Re: Bug#302572: Fortunes-es contains offensive quotes that should be in fortunes-es-off

2005-04-03 Thread Javier Candeira
l benefit for end users. Yep, it does look like this package needs a better upstream ;) -- javier candeira -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [bp-editores] Re: Bug#302572: Fortunes-es contains offensive quotes that should be in fortunes-es-off

2005-04-03 Thread Javier Candeira
hat you meant? -- javier Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Sun, Apr 03, 2005 at 12:22:40PM +0200, Javier Candeira wrote: Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: You have skipped lots of them. And many which I don't find are truly offensive and I have actually kept those in fortunes

Re: Debian-Women webpage possibly filtered by Telefonica

2005-04-12 Thread Javier Candeira
Well, not that I approve of family-filter snake-oil, but to be fair this is a service provided to families so they can, voluntarily, censor their kids' web access. So this is an optional nanny service, not censorship. Now, I agree that blocking Debian Women is wrong, but consider that it took m

Re: Debian-Women webpage possibly filtered by Telefonica

2005-04-13 Thread Javier Candeira
I have been reading about Canguro.net, the Telefonica filter. It is a "client-server" thing (their description, not mine), i.e. the filter does not run on our computers, but on their proxies. That means, among other thing, the list filtered sites can't be reverse-engineered or decrypted, as US

Re: Political climate of Debian

2005-04-13 Thread Javier Candeira
Helix, I think you did a great job in starting a conversation for the n00bs among us. This is the point that helix touched upon that most concerns me: I acknowledgte that the GFDL and the CC with the forced -by clause are non-free, but I also think those two projects have too much people-moment

Re: Political climate of Debian

2005-04-13 Thread Javier Candeira
of DDs, never mind if it is official policy). -- javier Andrew Suffield wrote: On Wed, Apr 13, 2005 at 02:00:43PM +0200, Javier Candeira wrote: This is the point that helix touched upon that most concerns me: I acknowledgte that the GFDL and the CC with the forced -by clause are non-free, but I

Re: Political climate of Debian

2005-04-13 Thread Javier Candeira
Thanks, really! -- javier Adeodato Simó wrote: * Javier Candeira [Wed, 13 Apr 2005 21:01:53 +0200]: Hi Javier, What work is being done with CC? Who is doing it? Are there document proposals? I don't follow -legal, but this is from the latest DWN: Creative Commons License Committee.

Re: Debian-Women webpage possibly filtered by Telefonica

2005-04-14 Thread Javier Candeira
Oops, there goes my scoop! Good news all the same. -- javier Miriam Ruiz wrote: --- Miriam Ruiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --- Javier Candeira <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have been reading about Canguro.net, the Telefonica filter. It is a "client-server" thing (their descr

Re: Debconf5 accommodation (snoring)

2005-05-02 Thread Javier Candeira
Yes, and I would suggest that Debian Hanger-Ons Snoring (I am one of them) be run in a chroot jail. For our own safety. -- javier Clytie Siddall wrote: On 02/05/2005, at 6:43 AM, martin f krafft wrote: Debian Women, not Debian women? Well, that includes all of us, and I am tempted to beg for spac

Re: Women wanted as games programmers

2005-05-11 Thread Javier Candeira
One of the best games of the last year was Beyond Good and Evil, whose heroine is a green-haired teenager anybody, men or women, would identify with. Highly recommended, good for 12 yro and up, and it is now being sold for 10 euros in re-edition! -- javier Andrew Suffield wrote: > On Wed, May 1

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Javier Candeira
Javier Candeira, male, Spaniard, 38 Debian hanger-on, all-around non-technical person. I used to read boatloads of science fiction, and as far as I still read novels sometimes I do read some science fiction. I was a classic scifi fan (Heinlein, Leinster, Sheckley, Asimov, Clarke) and then I

Re: Science fiction?

2005-05-23 Thread Javier Candeira
Well, I am more of a Lois McMaster Bujold type of person... -- j Ana Guerrero (aka Anja) wrote: El Lunes 23 Mayo 2005 16:31, Hanna M. Wallach escribió: On Friday I met with two researchers working on "understanding gender issues in open source" as part of the FLOSSpols project. One of the (ma

Re: d-w wiki

2005-05-25 Thread Javier Candeira
If it is only a precaution against automted spam, you could publish the password on the wiki itself. In other wikis I work in this works well. -- javier Meike Reichle wrote: Samantha said/sagte: On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 21:47 -0400, Christine Spang wrote: This is a neat idea. However, I am a

Re: Another story about OSCON Women in Open Source panel

2005-08-12 Thread Javier Candeira
On 8/12/05, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Should we write to them, do you think? I don't have much experience > with the media, but there's a member on the Volunteers Linuxchix list > who has a lot. Does it work to write in on occasions like this? Write to them respectfully, addressi

[OT] Re: Living dangerously (was: Re: Another story about OSCON Women in Open Source panel

2005-08-12 Thread Javier Candeira
On 8/12/05, Clytie Siddall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Herman likes to prod things and see if they explode. ;) It's > fun, but you need to stand back and have good life insurance. > > Haven't you ever had that urge to stand up and shout "Fire!" in a > crowded, dark film theatre? Or to pu

Re: Introducing myself...

2006-03-19 Thread Javier Candeira
Hi Maria, Welcome to d-w. I have a lot of friends in softcatalá (oldtimers like Jordi Mas and Oscar del Pozo), you run with a cool crowd! I am currently running your work (I sometimes use a Catalan UI so I get to practice the language). Enjoy, -- j Maria Soler escribió: > Hi everyone! > > I'm

Sex, Gender and Scientific Achievement article in Scientific American

2007-12-09 Thread Javier Candeira
One of the few really thought out articles on sex, gender and scientific achievement I have read, balancing all the studies (low on opinion too) between nature and nurture, and individual versus group behaviour. http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=sex-math-and-scientific-achievement Cheers all,

Re: Happy! Congratz!

2008-04-20 Thread Javier Candeira
Felicidades a las premiadas! Yay, Javier -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Learning now coding in Perl :-)

2008-05-27 Thread Javier Candeira
What is the nearest Perl equivalent to _Dive into Python_? I mean a smart, terse book on how to code in Perl for people with some coding experience (no "variables are different from constants"), but who still need some overarching narrative structure that man pages will always be too fragmentary o

Re: Learning now coding in Perl :-)

2008-05-27 Thread Javier Candeira
There is nothing wrong with top-posting, when done right. Steve Kemp wrote: > On Tue May 27, 2008 at 00:01:45 -0500, Carmen Marcela Alegria C. wrote: > >> http://www.unix.com.ua/orelly/perl3/index.htm > > Please do not link to illegally posted, copyright infringing > works. > > That's wor

Re: should these be reworded?

2008-07-28 Thread Javier Candeira
Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 11:52:19PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: >> On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 03:17:21PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> "Our priority is our users" might have originally been "Our priority is >>> our male users", >> Put your hands in the air and step away from the cra

Re: should these be reworded?

2008-07-28 Thread Javier Candeira
Meike Reichle wrote: > PS: And by the way, I'd rather play ten times Gordon Freeman than once > Lara Croft ;) Unless what you are saying is that you like well-wrought FPSs with a backstory better than ambiental platformers, consider reviewing your decision. The first two Tomb Raiders were great ga

Re: Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-09 Thread Javier Candeira
Miriam, you rock! J On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 10:51 PM, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > Hi, > > On the 12th of November 2010 I participated in a meeting about Free > Software, Art and Women [1], talking about Women in Free Software. I > have finally finished translating my slides [2] into English [3], in > ca

Re: Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-12 Thread Javier Candeira
Éric, did you write "Muphry" on purpose? Or was it The Law that made you? J On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:10 AM, Éric Araujo wrote: >> Miriam Ruiz wrote: >> I read the slides in English and found several minor typos as in using >> "now" instead of "know". Unfortunately I hate office suits, but i wo

Re: Slides about Women in Free Software

2011-01-12 Thread Javier Candeira
Oh, I was slow there. J On Thu, Jan 13, 2011 at 10:13 AM, Éric Araujo wrote: >> Éric, did you write "Muphry" on purpose? Or was it The Law that made you? > Yep, Muphry’s Law is a derivative of Murphy’s Law.  That’s why it’s funny :) > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-women-requ...@lists.