I second the below proposal :-D
(And, to save the secretary some time, IANDD)
Bill Allombert wrote:
Dear Debian voters,
I humbly submit to your elevated mass the following amendment
to the latest General Resolution proposed by Sven Luther.
=
The
Adam Borowski wrote:
So, while obviously posting anything than includes debian-niggers
is not a good idea, you can't claim that the word nigger is an
insult. By claiming that, you state your belief that a nigger is
an inferior person.
I have no clue where this discussion came from, but
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
For those keeping score at home, notice that doing the much larger
task of upgrading GCC's version is apparently easier than python's.
Of course, if you read a little further in the message to -announce,
you'll see the part about oh, and maybe we broke 1600
Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
No. I'm asking gnome not to remove features from its most holy UI. :)
I've heard that after you die, the Gnome-gods grant you 1GB of memory
per useful feature you've removed from Gnome's most holy UI, so getting
them to stop removing features is unlikely.
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Tollef Fog Heen wrote:
I want «kvikksølv» as well, preferably in both utf8 and latin1
versions (as in, in the file system names).
/me takes latin1 out back and shoots it.
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Tony Godshall wrote:
Capsicum is also the chemical that tastes hot.
No, that's capsaicin (along with other capsaicinoids). Capsicum is a
group of plants.
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Mohiuddin wrote:
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am Mohiuddin from Bangladesh.I would like to import *Raw cotton* for
Bangladesh Market.If you feel interest to supply pls let me know details.
Best regards
Mohiuddin
Kushal enterprise,
Dear Mr. Mohiuddin,
I am unsure why you are asking Debian-devel about
Mark Humby wrote:
Dear SIr,
I believe we may have been introduced, perhaps even on the
street.
Ah! So you must be that guy I on Metro who was worried for a while that
I was an alien from outer space[0].
I have been living a black operation for the past 5 years. I
have been
Francesco Poli wrote:
:-(This Universe is buggy! Where's the Creator's BTS?;-)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:anthony$ querybts creator
Querying Debian BTS for reports on creator...
Package appears not to exist in the BTS.
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Jens Peter Secher wrote:
Shouldn't that be
Windows is like a prostitute. Sure it's got a nice make up,
but you have all kinds of vira after spending some time with it.
No, it shouldn't be, or the Latin scholars will take revenge on you.
[sending to -curiosa where this belongs]
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Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Actually, you're wrong, Anthony.
The Latin plural of virus is, actually, vira. Sorry for the news.
Wow. I suppose thos is the true power of -curiosa.
Debian-curiosa. Now with SUPER COW^H^H^HLATIN POWERS!
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On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 19:19, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote:
When do we start submitting our aperiodic guesses for a release date of
sarge?
Thursday.
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On Wednesday, Jul 2, 2003, at 17:33 US/Eastern, Claude Desgroseilliers
wrote:
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He is sending harassment emails.
Can you send him an email and ask him why he does that?
Which part of debian-curiosa did you read as
debian-mailbombing-request?
On Monday, Jun 9, 2003, at 08:56 US/Eastern, Sequeira, Tony wrote:
Alexandre Ribeiro wrote:
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God's name
right!
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Make fun of someone sending unsubscribe to the list with a
message with
On Tuesday, May 27, 2003, at 18:29 US/Eastern, Brian Nelson wrote:
Ew, single-key shortcuts are bad if you happen to have a cat who likes
to walk across the keyboard,
Personally, I'd think a single-key lock screen would be good in that
case. Ack! The cat's coming --- lock! to prevent the cat from
On Wednesday, May 28, 2003, at 11:24 US/Eastern, Thomas Ritter wrote:
Oh, that's sooo right. A friend played Diablo II and his cat drank all
his
potions []
But, as a consolation prize, he got an invisible, immortal cat which
has a +12 damage on its scratch attack.
Unfortunately, that +12
On Wednesday, May 21, 2003, at 10:34 AM, David Z Maze wrote:
I think for a while I had
mod4-Q log me out, though I had too many unfortunate accidents trying
to fill a paragraph in Emacs to keep that.)
Wow, you must log out a lot to need a keybinding for it...
/me personally has lock screen mapped
Now, this is what -curiosa needs!
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From: Chad Walstrom [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Wafula Okumu [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Common Policy Proposal
Date: 20 Apr 2003 15:39:04 -0500
Wafula Okumu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Debian and
On Wed, 2003-02-12 at 18:16, Hubert Chan wrote:
cat /var/mail/user or telnet server 110.
Barg!
nc server 143
Now if only I could complete a TLS handshake...
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On Sat, 2003-01-25 at 05:36, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
Yeah, assuming uptime is measured in hundredths of a second. Is it?
Yes, the kernel keeps time in jiffies, which on i386 are hundredths of a
second. On Alpha, OTOH, ...
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On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 08:39, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
BTW, as it turns out, Evolution has a reply to list command, and one
that seems to work perfectly, but it's quite obscure! Other Evolution
users take note: there is a 'Reply to List' command in the 'Actions'
menu, and in each message's
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 08:43, Shawn McMahon wrote:
[...] or pontificating on speculations as if they were facts.
That sounds like a pretty good definition of religion to me.
On Wednesday, January 22, 2003, at 04:17 AM, John Holroyd wrote:
the Glory of Emacs. ;)
s/Glory/Bloat/
On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 12:54 AM, criggie wrote:
You're a male - getting girls interested in anything outside anime/dbz,
Ugh, dbz, the victims keep piling up... Make 'em watch Excel Saga, that
oughta screw with their brains enough they'll want to use OS/2.
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 06:44 PM, Josip Rodin wrote:
Whether the BTS would like? I know debbugs has some strange
characteristics,
but that it has the ability to like or dislike things... hmm. That
would
explain a lot of the bugs. ;)
Dang it! You've stumbled upon that secret AI which
On Tue, 2002-10-22 at 13:10, Branden Robinson wrote:
NO WAY. DUDE!!1! U HAVE 2 PUL FROM CVZ EVRY DAY + UPLOAD. DONT READ THE
D1FFZ.
IF 1T BUILDZ. SH1P IT! MAYB N0T EV3N TH3N!!1
^
Hmmm, clearly a fake Branden. The Branden we know
On Friday, October 25, 2002, at 03:23 AM, Hardy Boehm wrote:
What would you use www.adminsanonymous.org for??? ;-)
see alt.sysadmin.recovery.
On Wed, 2002-10-16 at 16:27, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Suppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at
the same rate as computers and over the same period:
There would be one brand of car control system that would have
approximately 90% of the market share. It would often
Oh my god, they killed Branden! You anti-bastards!
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Subject: Re: Accepted vim 6.1.165-1 (i386 source)
On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 01:47:22PM -0400, Wichert
2) Hand compile openssh on each Potato machine, allowing for SSH2
network-wide, but requiring monitoring openssh for security
issues, and an annoying hand compiled upgrade on each machine
if/when issues are found.
2a) Handle compile on one machine, and use apt-get to install on
On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 12:48, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
Potato has too old versions of things to be of much use on a bunch of
the servers. They have run woody for a few months now. I have to track
security updates myself.
I agree with potato being way out of date for some things. I upgrade
Hrm. I'm not so hopeful, but not complaining, either.
What's the packages per developer per release time average?
No idea. Don't know where I'd get those statistics.
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and relieves me as a
System Administrator that I don't have to go through major software
upgrade pains every 6 months
I unfortunately don't have that luxery. My users demand too-new versions
of things... I think if I left it up to them, they'd run unstable on the
servers.
Potato has too
Just out of interest -- what is the longest ever release cycle of a
modern distribution? Woody's pushing 1 year -- there must be a longer
one somewhere :)
Potato was released August 15, 2000. That means Woody is approaching two
years. (http://www.debian.org/News/2000/2815)
Slink was
On Wed, 2002-04-10 at 06:20, Norbert Nemec wrote:
There is one big pool of complete Debian, as we have it now. Why not offer
selections of subsets for people who don't want to do all the decisions on
their own?
apt-get install tasksel
There are other tools if you want to build cd's,
http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20020120
Would fit in with vigor.
On Wednesday, November 14, 2001, at 10:22 , Vince Mulhollon wrote:
That's why there's been approximately no technological progress
in palmtops
for a couple years, no demand.
No demand? I WANT A NEW NEWTON!
[Sorry]
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