Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
to get rid of the relatively minor performance penalty of the extra FS layer. Can Linux work with a loopback root fs, using initrd to set it up? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153| http://www.e-advies.info pgpr258QC6y3r.pgp

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153| http://www.e-advies.info

Re: Pre-linux Windows program - was Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 12:24:56PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 07:08:17PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Sun, Dec 08, 2002 at 11:31:11AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: Why make it a separate program that runs under Windows? Why not mount the Windows

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Emile van Bergen
? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgprxcutj0URl.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:23:12PM +0200, Cyrille Chepelov wrote: Le Thu, Apr 10, 2003, à 04:43:57PM +0200, Emile van Bergen a écrit: That way you could do something like: # echo x86-64 /etc/dpkg/legal-archs # dpkg -i libgtk2-2.0-1_i386.deb # dpkg -i lib64gtk2-2.0-1_x8664

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-10 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 05:27:40PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 04:43:57PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:33:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: [SNIP] So basically, I don't think this is a very good idea. However I think we can

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-11 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 06:23:12PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 10 April 2003 16:43, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2003 at 03:33:39PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: # echo x86-64 /etc/dpkg/legal-archs

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-11 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Fri, Apr 11, 2003 at 09:42:52PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: On Friday 11 April 2003 15:49, Emile van Bergen wrote: You do want to allow both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of libraries to be installed, for which you need different package names; you want to avoid adding fields

Re: Bug#189347: stop the manage with debconf madness

2003-04-18 Thread Emile van Bergen
ideas for this, but if people feel the current way of doing things is good enough, then I won't bother you guys with another idea lacking implementation. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: Bug#189370: acknowledged by developer (irrelevant)

2003-04-23 Thread Emile van Bergen
a symlink to the texmf-debian.cnf? I.e. have a fully managed file, but leave it to the admin whether or not his real file points to the managed file, or includes it (if possible), or ignores it altogether. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Wed, Apr 23, 2003 at 10:49:09AM -0700, Mark Rafn wrote: That said, I'd prefer Debian NOT remove such advertising, only that we guarantee users the right to do. *And* distribute the result, if you want to be DFSG-free. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL

Re: Only .changes files are readable in NEW/

2003-04-24 Thread Emile van Bergen
been able to convince these people to allow registration to happen in write only memory. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Emile van Bergen
flavours of the 486. In other words, if you use 486-compatible instructions and pentium scheduling, you're already taking almost full advantage of the pentium. It makes therefore little sense to group the original pentium with the later architectures. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Emile van Bergen
++ programmers tend to forget to conquer while dividing. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgpurcLir9xvi.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: i386 compatibility libstdc++

2003-04-26 Thread Emile van Bergen
just as well for 386SX as for 486SX. Note that the SX suffix for 386 means a 16-bit external data bus (instead of a 32-bit one for the DX), whereas for 486 the SX means no FP included. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153

Re: Bug#191037: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root

2003-04-28 Thread Emile van Bergen
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Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-28 Thread Emile van Bergen
that developer hasn't explicitly created an interface for. The user can only do what the developer intended; no more, no less. That is not in the best interest of our users, I'd say. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

2003-04-30 Thread Emile van Bergen
). It's not that I think GUIs are bad in any way. It's just that they are vastly overrated by a lot of people. Just because they're seen often nowadays don't make them natural, remember that. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153

Re: Bug#193017: ITP: ipsvd -- Internet protocol service daemons

2003-05-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgp6E84FF9ChE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
on this useful initiative? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgpQePf62zWoU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
that is practical and useful, seems a good thing for all parties concerned. And no, IANADD. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgpM3uXEUAtYx.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 09:48:49AM -0500, Luca - De Whiskey's - De Vitis wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 12:07:12PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: [...] Regardless, I actually think it's a wonderful scaleability measure to provide some infrastructure that allows DDs to delegate some

Re: The Debian Mentors Project

2003-05-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
say? After all, if I understand correctly, the service is more intended for use by sponsors who would upload them into unstable after checking, than directly for users. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-17 Thread Emile van Bergen
what do you propose then, to drop everything just because you cynically point out that a lot of rules are being violated today? Or were you just trolling? Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: Do not touch l10n files

2003-05-18 Thread Emile van Bergen
not be as it is today. Yes, most notably the spam levels would be much more bearable. Sorry, couldn't resist. Of course, that's also an argument /for/ translating mail server documentation. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:26:38AM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote: Emile van Bergen wrote: So what do you propose then, to drop everything just because you cynically point out that a lot of rules are being violated today? What I'm saying is that (a lot of) these rules are archaic

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-19 Thread Emile van Bergen
, but proving to a robot that you are not *is*), there is no need to drop any netiquette rules. In short, I still fail to see your point. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from vacation. (MIA?)]

2003-05-20 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, May 20, 2003 at 07:14:33AM +0100, Matt Ryan wrote: Emile van Bergen wrote: However, I fail to understand why you want people to refrain from bringing the netiquette under the attention of the people they are receiving email from. Never said they should refrain. I do think

Re: Executable /lib/ld-linux.so breaks noexec

2003-05-20 Thread Emile van Bergen
as a substitute for properly set up filesystem permissions. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgpuM75iqCpsm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Emile van Bergen
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Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Emile van Bergen
asked. I think GWB is a 'good fellow'. Yes. Too bad he didn't happily stay being a good fellow on his ranch in Texas. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgpaRtbeDPTJj.pgp Description

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron) and migration?

2003-06-16 Thread Emile van Bergen
other libraries. IOW, there's no automatic way to create all these lib64* packages from source. Have I summarised this correctly? Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgp7VIRUBBmvE.pgp

Re: Bug#197907: ITP: quark -- an audio player, for geeks, by geeks.

2003-06-18 Thread Emile van Bergen
$ grep '^Description: [a-z]' /var/lib/dpkg/available | wc -l 1262 Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: Bug#198602: ITP: debbackup -- Backup and restore Debian specifics (package status, conffiles)

2003-06-24 Thread Emile van Bergen
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Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-25 Thread Emile van Bergen
, no paging. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: Bug#198158: architecture i386 isn't i386 anymore

2003-06-29 Thread Emile van Bergen
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Re: but I want the GNU versions of packages

2003-07-02 Thread Emile van Bergen
candidate to create such a package. HTH, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl pgpj0yHadjySe.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Please remove RFCs from the documentation in Debian packages

2003-07-03 Thread Emile van Bergen
in harmonizing the various documentation licenses, that serves Free Software and Our Users. Free Software is definitely served by standards and documentation, and convenient off line access to them. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0

Re: [Debian-au] Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 12:06:03AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: Anybody else get a bad cryptographic signature on the message to which I am replying? AOL. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: the RFC mess: tentative summary

2003-07-13 Thread Emile van Bergen
name. Also, the clause is about appropriately identifying a file as such when distributing a modified copy. No perverse combination of law and license should be able prevent you from installing it on your own system under a file name of your choice. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-07-30 Thread Emile van Bergen
is a good alternative, I'd say. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-07-30 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 11:38:12AM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:56:32PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: I object to this ITP. Not very strongly, but I still object. I think it's a wonderful idea to have a decss package in Debian. If Debian cannot

Re: Bug#203498: ITP: decss -- utility for stripping CSS tags from an HTML page.

2003-07-31 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:01:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:48:55PM -0400, Jim Penny wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 11:38:12 -0500 Steve Langasek [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 05:56:32PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: I

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Emile van Bergen
, it needs a volunteer who can scratch his or her itch by doing this work. This may actually be one of the bigger problems. Most developers who can do the work have gotten used to the idiom and badly worded error messages. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-05 Thread Emile van Bergen
really hate it when the UI drags me down ('open folder, open subfolder, click on file, type Ctrl-C, open other folder, type Ctrl-V', it's just horrible). The computer should wait for me, not the other way around! Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 03:15:59PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, 5 Aug 2003 21:38:19 +0200 Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apple has a great way of doing that. They don't dumb down, they don't belittle you, they assume an intelligent being who can grasp reasonably

Re: How to install X-Chat in five hours (or more)

2003-08-06 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 11:06:53PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: * Emile van Bergen | Hi, | | On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 10:19:53AM -0700, Ian Hickson wrote: | | And I would scream if you called it /_My_ Variable Data/ too... :-P | | I would even scream at | | /Variable Data

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Emile van Bergen
('talks SMTP') are generally not very useful. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Emile van Bergen
. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
to an end) I've heard our respected project secretary express a vastly different opinion on this matter. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
entertained. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153 http://www.e-advies.nl

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-08 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 11:39:25PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 09:38:43PM +0200, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Fri, Aug 08, 2003 at 07:34:26PM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: altruim, [sic] Self-delusion. (It's invariably a form of 'By doing this I can

Re: Returned Mail

2003-08-22 Thread Emile van Bergen
that breaks the message's MIME structure well and thoroughly. After bouncing, at least a virus can't take advantage of the abysmal Outlook (Express) HTML and MIME handling anymore -- the source of at least 95% of the world's virus problems. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies - Emile van Bergen [EMAIL

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-22 Thread Emile van Bergen
transliteration) talks a lot about it in connection to Dharma. Self censorship is if one side of you is compelled to say something whereas another part of you forbids it. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153| http://www.e-advies.info

Re: Ask yourself some questions

2002-11-22 Thread Emile van Bergen
the argument that Branden's joke could only appeal to people on his side in this debate ;-)) Same here, and I'm not exactly in favour of the GR either. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153| http://www.e-advies.info

Re: Need access to an Alpha

2002-11-24 Thread Emile van Bergen
, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153| http://www.e-advies.info pgpLHlwWStLQK.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Emile van Bergen
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Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Emile van Bergen
be on the same IRC network at the same time. Now for the *real* important debate: how to call it? What about Avalon? Both a composer (well, hmm) and the place where Excalibur was forged. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153| http

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-27 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Roberto Suarez Soto wrote: On Nov/27, Emile van Bergen wrote: What about Avalon? Both a composer (well, hmm) and the place where Excalibur was forged. Being about forging, Orodruin comes also to mind ;-) Yes, although there's already

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-27 Thread Emile van Bergen
Andrew is. This is totally out of bounds, in /any/ circumstance. Thanks, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] tel. +31 (0)70 3906153| http://www.e-advies.info pgpcvJkY55IGT.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Emile van Bergen
-free, or as free as say, ASCII or English. Newspeak is free for non-commercial and other non-infringing uses, and when not used to say bad things about Our President. Otherwise, please contact the worldwite patent bureau for a RAND-license. Bah. Cheers, Emile. -- E-Advies / Emile van Bergen

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Emile van Bergen writes: I'd say that the definition of Unicode, heck even ASCII, involves a fair amount of creativity. I don't doubt that the development of Unicode involved creativity: under current law it probably

Re: location of UnicodeData.txt

2002-11-28 Thread Emile van Bergen
Hi, On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 10:47:02PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 07:02:07PM +0100, Emile van Bergen wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 11:47:52AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Is it possible to create other Unicode tables that serve the same purpose as that one