Re: Potato now stable

2000-08-15 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The user should see a list of groups (I will call them this because I think groupings can be more general than just tasks). The UI tool will allow sorting and searching of the groups and when browsing individual packages it will be possible to

Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Ralf Treinen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote I was wondering that the work done by Project Gutenberg (http://sailor.gutenberg.org) should be made available through debian. This came already to discussion some months ago when someone proposed to package the

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Jacob Kuntz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does mozilla support SMILE? that's syncronized multimedia event language, a W3 consortium stanard that tries to do much of what flash is capable of. IIRC, only these programs officially support SMIL at the moment (http://www.w3c.org/AudioVideo/):

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-04 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Marcelo E Magallon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andreas Fuchs [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: None of them look DFSG-Free to me. Nonetheless, SMIL _is_ a nice tool to produce something multimedia-ish. Hopefully, somebody writes a DFSG-Free player in the near future -- but it won't be me, I don't

Re: alternatives for MUA and NUA?

2000-09-05 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do most mail readers have the same command line interface? Perhaps, but I really doubt that news readers do. Not even mail readers do, AFAIK. Console readers have the mail(1) interface to stick to, but if it comes to an x MUA... It would really

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been promising this for a while, but now it's happened: The latest version of isdn4k-utils has been packaged. Yippie! [...] deb http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian isdnutils/ After this, apt-get update; apt-get install ipppd isdnlog-data

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs wrote: Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: deb http://www.murphy.nl/~paul/debian isdnutils/ After this, apt-get update; apt-get install ipppd isdnlog-data should install isdnutils, ipppd, isdnlog

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling isdnrep is not working well: it's looking for the zone files in /usr/lib/isdn/zone, but they are in /usr/lib/isdn/: Oh, silly me. I had configured isdnrep to look specifically there, in /etc/isdn/isdn.conf. Fixed this now, let's see if it works...

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
(I already replied to this, but I figured that would be better style than replying to my own mails three times in a row.) Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Please let me know if you use this version, and keep me informed of ANYTHING, good or bad. I *do* mean anything, like spelling

Re: new experimental ISDNUTILS packages available

2000-09-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Paul Slootman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu 07 Sep 2000, Andreas Fuchs wrote: Today, I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Calling isdnrep is not working well: it's looking for the zone files in /usr/lib/isdn/zone, but they are in /usr/lib/isdn/: In /usr/share/isdn/ actually. Jep. Local

Re: dualing banjos

2000-09-13 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Miros/law `Jubal' Baran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 13.09.2000 pisze Rick Younie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Probably doesn't make any sense to many non-native English speakers or those from different cultures but it really is hilarious. It did make sense. ;- Yea, but only if you spell kernel

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Fuchs
-stop-daemon won't work, because console-log (contrary to Marc's explanation needs a (nay, two) less process in the foreground to allow the user to watch log messages. I wonder if a sh script could do what Marc described... erik -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-23 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2000-12-22, Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: web/weblint net/zenirc Fixes for these two are in the BTS, in bug numbers #79747 and #79750, respectively. HTH, -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Fuchs
a better solution than run. Trying this now. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Andreas Fuchs
transactions on every fs then (and rollback each of them afterwards) or have a trans-filesystem transaction monitor, AFAIK. I'm afraid some serious non-trivial magicks are at work here. Wichert. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris

Re: looking for replacement for run (because of critical bug in

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
-- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: Grub question/problem

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
--recheck and then reinstalling grub? Alternatively, you could just edit /boot/grub/device.map. I don't know if this helps, but it has worked for me. Any help sppreciated. HTH. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail

wit goes here (was: Re: dueling banjos)

2000-12-26 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Kim Richards [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: could you please mail me sheet music for dueling banjos And before you post a witty comment, please search through the list archives to make sure you don't duplicate effort. Let the jokes begin! -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: big Packages.gz file

2001-01-06 Thread Andreas Fuchs
On 2001-01-05, Brian May [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What do large packages have to do with the size of the index file, Packages? They waste one byte per multiple of 10 bytes of package size. (-; Bad joke? So sue me. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS

Re: jabber field on db.debian.org?

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Fuchs
... (-: -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: Linux Gazette [Was: Re: big Packages.gz file]

2001-01-08 Thread Andreas Fuchs
readers happy. Or am I missing something? -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: Developer Behavior

2001-01-09 Thread Andreas Fuchs
unstable on a production server (or a calculatron of similar designation), and You Shouldn't Do That, remember? (-; Next post is on topic. I promise. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Re: rfc1149

2001-05-07 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Hilko Bengen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, no. Pigeons are ugly horrid things that infest cities and leave droppings on my car. You mean packet loss? ITYM log entries as defined in RFC2549. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
, it actually acts as a pseudo-anonymysing relay. Thus, my conclusion: These things are evil. Don't use them or somebody might use them against you, eventually. -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs Hail RMS! Hail Cthulhu! Hail Eris! All hail Discordia

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Andreas Fuchs
Today, Adam McKenna [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:49:09PM +0100, Andreas Fuchs wrote: Right. I just thought up a scheme to exploit this, based on the fake source-IP address approach you find in descriptions of ping-floods. Wow, you're pretty smart. Nobody has thought

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-04 Thread Andreas Fuchs
MAX_AUTORESPONSES_PER_DAY, which only seems to consider messages per sender. I'm not quite convinced that such a setup can not be abused as a spam reflector, useless as it may be (it bounces the full headers), other than annoying a lot of people. (-: -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], antifuchs

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread Andreas Fuchs
descriptor from this open(2) calland not the path name. Root, of course, could still replace the /usr/bin/gpg program and get away with it, but this seems to me to guarantee that the binary can not be stolen away under the unsuspecting user's noses. Have fun, -- Andreas Fuchs, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL