Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2008-01-09 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:18 +0930, Paul Wise wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:06 PM, Lennart Sorensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did DJB stop developing and supporting it too? Dunno, I'd ask about that on the qmail list. Or did he just get tired of people complaining about his license?

Re: Automatic retrieval of information from qa.debian.org

2007-10-08 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 16:19 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: In the US, not only does doctor mean a medical professional with an MD degree and anybody with a Ph.D. degree, but also a Doctor of Divinity degree (which is the equivalent of a Bachelor's degree in anything else) and even the Juris

Re: Why no Opera?

2007-09-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Sun, 2007-09-09 at 16:13 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 01:11:26PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: While I accept our users do things like run non-free software, I do not see this as beig beneficial to our users -- but then, I don't try to hinder

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-02 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Have you actually used public/mass transit lately, during rush hour, to get from one side of a city to the other, day after day, leaving and arriving _reliably_ within predictable time frames? For extra spice, add in winter. To really get your blood boiling, make it a Canadian winter.

Re: Sorting of Asian telefone books

2006-11-17 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 10:12 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: not alphabets, but since they are short, you are correct that they are easily sorted with normal radix methods. That's why I didn't mention them. The question was about names, which are pretty much always written with Kanji in

Re: Sorting of Asian telefone books

2006-11-16 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
On Thu, 2006-11-16 at 10:38 +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Additionally, the Japanese really use four alphabets: Hiragana (for Japanese words or syllables that don't have a kanji character), Katakana (for loan words or to place emphasis), Kanji, and our latin alphabet for loan words that

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And it's also worth noting that the people interested in the transition filed bugs with patches for all but a few of them, which involved a massive amount of work. I suppose it's possible people interested in the python transition could do the same

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Thomas Bushnell BSG [Tue, 06 Jun 2006 19:39:57 -0700]: For those keeping score at home, notice that doing the much larger task of upgrading GCC's version is apparently easier than python's. And shutting the^W^Wbitting one's tongue apparently more

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This one time, at band camp, Thomas Bushnell BSG said: Actually, since the very same person sent the GCC 4.1 announcement, and is the maintainer of python-defaults... Since the python team have decided to leave the rest of us in the dark, all I can do

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-07 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't remember seeing any posts from you about the progress of the transition testing. Have you gotten very far with it? How much of the python using archive have you rebuilt and/or tested? I am sure python people and the general devel readers would

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

2006-06-06 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Matthias Klose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The compilers from GCC 4.1 provide now the default compiler for etch for Ada, C, C++, Objc, ObjC++, Fortran95 and for the Java language. The packages are currently in the incoming queue and will hit the archive on Wed. June 7. Compilers for Fortran77

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
A Mennucc [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hope we do manage to release in Dec 2005 (and I thank people who work hard to this end). Yes, that would be really cool. Do we have any temporal engineers in Debian who can get to work on this right away? Actually, now that I think of it, we don't need

Re: etch before vista

2006-03-24 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Sylvain Sauvage [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If it would, etch should have been released by now. As it isn't the case, that means, either: 1. we won't have the technology (sad); 2. or noboby will use it to go back in time to release Etch earlier. Ah, or time is not correctly modeled by a single

Re: the latest gnome

2006-03-11 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 03 March 2006 01:22, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: But how about putting the feature back in the configurator widget?  It shouldn't be buried. You're using gnome and ask to add a feature to its most holy UI? No. I'm asking gnome

Re: OT: macs?

2005-04-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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.

Re: OT: macs?

2005-04-28 Thread Thomas Bushnell BSG
Anthony DeRobertis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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.