Re: Debian Perl: Digital Detective

Hi Sean, On Tue, Nov 30, 2021 at 12:24:49PM -0700, Sean Whitton wrote: > Title: "Debian Perl: Digital Detective" > Subtitle: "The Memory Thief" > Also on cover: "Solve the case like a coding pro!" > > Blurb: > > Megalopolis used to be the city hub for all the makers, doers, and >

Re: [SECURITY] [DSA 4293-1] discount security update

On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 12:53:43AM +0200, Adrian Friedli wrote: > Where can I get this discount on security update? Every security update is at infinite discount! (gotta love division by zero) -- Could you people please use IRC like normal people?!? -- Amaya Rodrigo Sastre, trying to quiet

Re: Debian part of a version number when epoch is bumped

On Wed, Feb 07, 2018 at 09:18:03AM +, Jonathan McDowell wrote: > You can't put a : in a filename on a FAT filesystem. Interestingly enough, you *can* put a : in a filename on an NTFS filesystem, if you do it with ntfs-3g. Windows won't like it, though. Yes, I found that out the hard way ;-)

Re: Allison Randal: Application Manager report

On Mon, Aug 28, 2017 at 10:41:43PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > ChangZhuo Chen dijo [Thu, Aug 10, 2017 at 12:41:59PM -]: > > For nm.debian.org, at 2017-08-10: > > After looking at Allison Randal 's contributions and > > after exchanging some emails to > > get to know them

Re: "Debian red" used to describe color of clothing

On Mon, May 01, 2017 at 09:06:17AM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, 2017-04-30 at 20:12 +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: > > Side note: wasn't using our name in the code name of some other software > > product a dilution of our trademark? IANAL, but I suspect that it is. >

Re: "Debian red" used to describe color of clothing

On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 01:18:28PM +0800, Paul Wise wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2017 at 2:55 AM, Björn Andersson wrote: > > Has anyone ever seen "debian red" being used to describe non-debian related > > items in this way before? > > A quick web search finds this Nokia device: > >

Re: You wouldn't miss it . . .

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 02:12:32PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Dmitry Smirnov writes ("Re: You wouldn't miss it . . ."): > > Which programming languages are not a joke? > > I'm still looking for them to learn. ;) > > Common Lisp. It's not a joke; it's a piece of performance art. Lisp is cute;

Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

Hi Axel, On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 07:09:04PM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi, > > Gunnar Wolf wrote: > > Wouter Verhelst dijo [Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 06:45:49PM +0100]: > > > [M-F-T set, as this is getting increasingly off-topic] > > > > > > On Fri, Feb

Re: DE discussions

On Sat, Feb 06, 2016 at 11:44:55AM +0100, Axel Beckert wrote: > Hi. > > Amruth Chand wrote: > > Hey, why ain't anyone bringing in dwm? Sure, no config is a > > bummer... > > That's the point probably. > > > But just a few thousand lines of code sure makes it compile fast. > > Having to

Re: Re: Would you agree - Debian is for the tech savvy

[M-F-T set, as this is getting increasingly off-topic] On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:16:55AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > I mean, who needs a desktop? A background? Overlapping windows? We the > *real* tech-savvy people only need a tiling window manager, such as > i3: Nah. Awesomewm is much better!

Re: Bug#798714: debian-policy: Please explicitly recommend punctuation between the year, month and day components of date based version numbers

[mind CC change] On Fri, Sep 25, 2015 at 02:09:22PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > (Along the same lines, I expect anything of the form XX/YY/ZZ to be a M/D/Y > date until proven wrong because 99% of US dates are written that way.) Then don't ever learn Dutch. XX/YY/ZZ is very much in use in

Re: cdimage?? What should we call it?

On Tue, Aug 18, 2015 at 07:42:07PM +0100, Justin B Rye wrote: Steve Langasek wrote: - get.debian.org Too slangy and ambiguous. Make it obtain.debian.org... It's also just one typo away from git.debian.org. -- It is easy to love a country that is famous for chocolate and beer --

Re: sobre como inclinar mi pantalla de forma virtual.

On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 09:35:58AM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: [ Curiosely, this is an off-topic mail for debian-curiosa. No it isn't, by definition. -- Copyshops should do vouchers. So that next time some bureaucracy requires you to mail a form in triplicate, you can mail it just once, add a

Re: removing yada (was: Re: Bug#636016: ITP: goodbye -- next part after 'hello', and a packaging example)

On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 11:42:36AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sat, Aug 06, 2011 at 05:04:10PM +0100, Tim Retout wrote: On the subject of yada: since your email, bug #334164 has been upgraded to RC, yada itself has been orphaned, and I have proposed its removal to debian-qa. So if

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 01:04:19PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Saturday 25 July 2009 13.00:32 Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:46:36PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: Cylons! All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. In three weeks

Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential

On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:46:36PM +0200, Ana Guerrero wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 04:45:01PM +0200, Paul Wise wrote: On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Manoj Srivastava sriva...@debian.org wrote: At my last job, there were production machines that would have cared Machines

Re: Declaration of intent to become a Maintainer

On Sun, Apr 26, 2009 at 12:10:51AM +, s. keeling wrote: Adeodato Simó d...@net.com.org.es: + Joachim Breitner (Fri, 24 Apr 2009 22:30:56 +): I’d like to advocate Marco’s application. [...] Marco has attended DebConf 9 and thus has gotten to know Debian also from it’s

Re: Bug#507021: Fails to work on amd64

On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 07:52:20PM +, Adam D. Barratt wrote: On Fri, 2008-11-28 at 18:43 +, peter green wrote: Index: helpdeco-2.1.3/Makefile === --- helpdeco-2.1.3.orig/Makefile2008-11-28 01:18:25.0

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:16:12PM +0200, Dirk Neumann wrote: On Sat, 21 Jun 2008 00:40:27 +1000 Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 04:27:25AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: And as apps go, emacs isn't the bloated hawg it once was. That's kde and gnome now.

Re: Renaming New Maintainer to New Developer?

On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 09:51:24AM +0200, Holger Levsen wrote: Hi, On Wednesday 11 June 2008 17:12, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Since there now is the concept of Debian Maintainers (DM), New Maintainer (NM) should be renamed to New Developer [ND?]. This could prevent confusion about the

Re: mentors.debian.ORG?

On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:09:33PM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: P.S.: I do not endorse the abuse of drugs while coding! I do. Especially caffeine, or chocolate. -- Lo-lan-do Home is where you have to wash the dishes. -- #debian-devel, Freenode, 2004-09-22 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

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

On Sat, Dec 22, 2007 at 04:20:37PM +, Stephen Gran wrote: This one time, at band camp, Wouter Verhelst said: I'd agree that there are way better ones out there. But I'd also say that it doesn't really matter which is best, and that this type of behaviour is quite childish. As long

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

On Fri, Dec 21, 2007 at 11:20:45AM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, Don Armstrong wrote: On Fri, 21 Dec 2007, John H. Robinson,

Re: second notice

On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 09:17:16PM +, Terence wrote: On 30/10/2007, Martin Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Hey, as it's in the list's name, can't we claim this and split it amongst all of us on the list? Please do not reply to spam. This is debian-curiosa, not debian-spamtrap. If you

Re: bugs in packages not frequently used

On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:52:20PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: On Mon, 27 Aug 2007, Russ Allbery wrote: We all appreciate good bug reports, Speak for yourself! You mean you prefer crappy bugreports? It's broken. Fix it! -- Lo-lan-do Home is where you have to wash the dishes. --

Re: (C) vs ©

On Sat, May 26, 2007 at 06:53:54AM +0200, Martin Bähr wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:15:32PM -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: And what if you have an old-fashioned typewriter. It's all very well saying you must use the copyright symbol, but what if your golfball/daisywheel/lineprinter

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar Gay Nigger Association of America

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:34:00PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Pierre Habouzit [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I DID NOT CREATE THIS WEBSITE AND I AM NOT A MEMBER OF THIS ORGANISATION. KINDEST REGARDS, Matthew, get out of that body, right now ! That'd be more like Branden, actually.

Re: Question for Sam Hocevar Gay Nigger Association of America

On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:51:08PM +0100, Julien BLACHE wrote: Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That'd be more like Branden, actually. It lacks words like COCK, And UTTER. so this cannot be Matthew. True. OTOH, it couldn't be Branden, either: [...] IOW, it's missing

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

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 03:13:48AM +, s. keeling wrote: 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? Yes. Reliability of public transportation

Re: Request from Tunisia

On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 01:46:08PM +0100, Fourat Zouari wrote: Hello, Am reprensenting a Tunisian company (TriTUX) wich is already subscribed as a Debian consultant. We're a company 100% specialized in Debian based solutions, we've got a big variety of customers, telecom operators, ISPs ...

Re: Sorting of Asian telefone books

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

Re: Hello!

On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:21:13PM +0200, Martin Bähr wrote: On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 10:14:54PM +0200, Tobias Klauser wrote: Somehow this spam is appropriate to this mailinng list... Dear , [Use the 'Insert Field' icon on the toolbar to insert the Contact name.] Hey, we should have

Re: I want one of those!

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 01:12:03PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: Nobody ever picked Sun over HP because the latter's website is so horrid. Maybe it's because the latter's website is a rest to the eye, while the former's website is a bitch to look at, to navigate, and to think about. ;-P --

Re: dpkg doing wrong math (0.09 = 0.9) ?- [was: dak now supports ~ in version numbers]

On Mon, Aug 21, 2006 at 06:51:24PM +0200, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote: On Fri, Aug 11, 2006 at 10:42:53AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: I'd imagine you'd be hard pressed to find a mathematician who knows what to do with a number that reads 0.0.9, either. Well, I have found one. Myself. You

Re: Centralized darcs

On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 10:23:32AM +0200, Romain Francoise wrote: Marc Haber [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A few years ago, we had only CVS, which sucked. And now, we have a gazillion of different VCSes, all different. And most of them suck too, in their own ways. mutt, the version control

Re: Debian is doomed

On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:05:21PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Saturday 29 July 2006 00:54, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Goswin von Brederlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.07.28.2145 +0100]: There is nothing NEW[1] in Debian. :) Finally hands-down proof that Debian stopped

Re: Let's not drag this into another flame war please.

On Thu, Jun 29, 2006 at 09:14:48AM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:49:46PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Henning Makholm [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.28.1946 +0200]: [1] Meaning Enrico. Martin is not a DD and not even an NM, so obviously his opinion

Re: Let's not drag this into another flame war please.

On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 11:50:06AM +0100, Enrico Zini wrote: ...just to see what happens... NOTHING is happening! This is all UNREAL! And I am NOT going to follow UP! -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, Ashes to Ashes, stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-listbugs orphaned

On Fri, Jun 23, 2006 at 05:01:47PM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: Scripsit Adam Borowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] 内部資料についてはここによくまとめてもらっています: http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer/column/data/debianmeetingresume200510.pdf The referenced pdf is less legible, but you can grok its general meaning

Re: GCC 4.1 now the default GCC version for etch

On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 02:24:35PM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: (amd64 is only faster in 64-bit mode because of all the poorly designed x86 32-bit instruction set.) x86 32-bit instruction set and designed in one sentence? Hah. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, Ashes to Ashes,

Re: dak changes (names, version control, mail headers)

On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 10:01:33AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sun, Jun 11, 2006 at 11:13:26PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: Joe Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You killed katie, jennifer, et al.? Poor britney will feel so alone! After all the ranting he finaly gave in to

Re: ammo

On Mon, Jun 05, 2006 at 11:42:50AM +0300, Kari Pahula wrote: Content-Description: original message before SpamAssassin Resent-date: Mon, 05 Jun 2006 02:37:13 -0500 (CDT) Resent-from: debian-mentors@lists.debian.org It has been showing a steady move up on increasing volume. So if you

Re: DPL Debate prepared questions list

On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 05:32:20PM +0100, Roland Mas wrote: Thaddeus H. Black, 2006-03-18 16:00:11 +0100 : It appears that to have a Enterprise Grade Debian Distribution, we need a SPOC [ed.: Single Point of Contact?] team which can address Enterprise demands quickly. Yeah, and its

Re: We should release!

On Fri, Jan 06, 2006 at 09:15:10AM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Wednesday 04 January 2006 13:59, Wouter Verhelst wrote: The QA team says so: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=not+releasing+etch http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=abusing

We should release!

The QA team says so: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?excuse=not+releasing+etch -- .../ -/ ---/ .--./ / .--/ .-/ .../ -/ ../ -./ --./ / -.--/ ---/ ..-/ .-./ / -/ ../ --/ ./ / .--/ ../ -/ / / -../ ./ -.-./ ---/ -../ ../ -./ --./ / --/ -.--/ / .../ ../ --./ -./ .-/ -/ ..-/ .-./ ./ .-.-.-/ /

Re: change email address for all debian ml

On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 07:56:55PM -0200, Felipe Augusto van de Wiel (faw) wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/20/2005 07:40 PM, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sun, Nov 20, 2005 at 09:29:13PM +0100, Jorge Salamero Sanz wrote: is there any way to change the email address

Re: most consistently geeky award?

On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 02:36:29PM -0400, Aaron M. Ucko wrote: http://www.extremetech.com/slideshow_viewer/0,1205,l=s=200a=158083po=6,00.asp has a picture of Debian's recent LWCE booth, with a somewhat amusing caption. :-) BTW, anyone know who's in the picture? I'm pretty sure the guy

Re: Debian parody

On Tue, Jun 21, 2005 at 08:39:24PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:03:36PM -0300, Fabricio segfault Cannini said: KDE: 'cause there's no G in DESKTOP. And no K in GNU. You know what, there's a 'G' in 'google'. Two of them, actually. And we all know what the most

Re: FW by tarass.ho...@laposte.net : debian c'est plus fort que toi

On Thu, May 26, 2005 at 01:42:47PM +0200, Jesús Roncero wrote: On Thursday, 26 de May de 2005 11:02, Wouter Verhelst wrote: It's more likely that the system's firmware battery was drained or so, so that the date was set to something way off base. Yeah, that happens to me every once

Re: eDrugs Online

On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 08:56:26AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: On Wed, May 18, 2005 at 01:01:44PM +0700, Alec said: ePills http://[snip] eDrugs? Whatever happened to the good old fashioned meatspace drugs? You can't get h1g|-| from those. -- The amount of time between slipping on the

Re: OT: macs?

On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 03:22:21PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: 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

Re: Pope vs. Sarge

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:35:17PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:51:41PM +0200, Alexander Schmehl said: Everytime a RC-bug is submitted, you can see black smoke rising from the machine hosting bugs.debian.org :) Also, God kills a kitten. Let's go start filing

Re: unsubscribe

On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:05:44PM +0200, Demonen wrote: Fredrik Demonen Vold /* - Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup. */ I resent the idea that I would be crunchy. -- The amount of time between slipping on the peel and landing on the

Re: Pope vs. Sarge

On Tue, Apr 19, 2005 at 11:20:39PM +0200, Sebastian Raible wrote: Hi, something from #debian.de on Freenode today :) @1113934867 [EMAIL PROTECTED] .oO( mit 'nem 78 jährigen Papst werden wohl die Releasezeiten jetzt auch verkürzt... die Frage ist: zuerst ein neuer Papst oder Sarge? ) It

Re: logo enlargement

Op di, 08-02-2005 te 01:16 +, schreef Paul Brossier: On Mon, Feb 07, 2005 at 11:20:56PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote: Op ma, 07-02-2005 te 05:38 +, schreef Paul Brossier: http://nautilus.org/images/logo.gif IANAL, but I'd say this is not an infringement. It's not our logo, even

Re: german debian mirror with 700mb paris.avi file...

Op zo, 30-01-2005 te 20:32 +, schreef Pigeon: BTW I'm assuming this is a video of someone in a fast car or bike bombing round the Paris ring road? Don't you receive any SPAM? There's some private video thing of Paris Hilton and her boyfriend circulating on the Internet, which is probably

Re: german debian mirror with 700mb paris.avi file...

Op ma, 31-01-2005 te 17:14 +0100, schreef Alexander Schmehl: * Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] [050131 15:38]: BTW I'm assuming this is a video of someone in a fast car or bike bombing round the Paris ring road? Don't you receive any SPAM? Wow, after more than 9 years my search

Re: Give your partner more pleasure

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 06:32:40PM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:54:58PM -0700, Cometman said: You'll pay twice as much in taxes, but your medicine will be free. ..some (dare I say, many?) people in those countries feel it's a good deal. Some people in less

Re: DooM3 Binaries!

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 10:02:20PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wouter Verhelst [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:14:35PM +0200, Demonen wrote: Yeah, I know it's old news

Re: DooM3 Binaries!

On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 01:14:35PM +0200, Demonen wrote: Yeah, I know it's old news (about 10 hours), but here she goes: http://zerowing.idsoftware.com/linux/doom/ Does that mean their translation is crap? -- EARTH smog | bricks AIR -- mud -- FIRE soda

Re: dueling banjo music

Op za 15-05-2004, om 13:29 schreef Bas Zoetekouw: Hi Joachim! You wrote: http://www.muziekzetter.be/free/dueling_banjos.pdf Shouldn't we put this on www.debian.org? Is it DFSG compliant? It says Public Domain at the end. So it is DFSG free in copyright-states. Don't

Re: Red-Handed SCO ?

-readable copy of the corresponding code.' The third option (to pass on the received written offer) is only valid for non-commercial redistribution, which is not what's being done here. -- Wouter Verhelst Debian GNU/Linux -- http://www.debian.org Nederlandstalige Linux-documentatie -- http