Re: Bug#611508: ITP: Sahana-Eden -- Free and Open Source Disaster Management System
On Sunday 30 January 2011 16.16:56 Sana Khan wrote: Free and Open Source Disaster Management Sytem Are they trying to fix MySQL? Or is it a system to keep track of Jörg S. and some other people? -- vbi -- I have found people using the fancy font in emails are normally the people you want to avoid. -- Chet (the donotreply.com guy) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: [MeeGo-dev] Packaging the MeeGo stack on Debian - Use the name?
On Friday 10 December 2010 17.36:13 Gunnar Wolf wrote: (Palindromicly-named projects (e.g. PHP) pose a particular problem) Well, we can always say that our PHP is spelt backwards. Or we can call it qhq. Who would want to create a decendant / fork of PHP anyway? -- vbi -- featured link: http://www.pool.ntp.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Bug#596229: ITP: lazyscripts -- A stupid scripts management tool and non official package installer
On Friday 10 September 2010 03.31:26 Mauro Lizaur wrote: I wonder why the new trend seems to be using the word 'stupid' to describe the apps (the ones to be packaged or not)... The obvious next step will be to add Yet Another as people start to be annoyed at the stupid applications and rewrite them with somewhat different (and reduced?) feature set in a different programming language. And of course, BSD licensed instead of GPL. cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://www.pool.ntp.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Switching /bin/sh to dash without dash essential
On Saturday 25 July 2009 13.00:32 Wouter Verhelst wrote: 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 capable of feelings, wow! Cylons! All of this has happened before, and all of this will happen again. In three weeks, the universe will explode in the third big bang since the start of unknown life. And then there's the theory that the universe will immediately be replaced by a slightly different, more complex and complicated universe. This, also, has happened before. cheers -- vbi (A very small contest: name the author. No prize, though.) -- The biometric identification system at the gates of the CIA headquarters works because there's a guard with a large gun making sure no one is trying to fool the system. http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2009/01/biometrics.html -- I have found people using the fancy font in emails are normally the people you want to avoid. -- Chet (the donotreply.com guy) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Declaration of intent to become a Maintainer
On Saturday 25 April 2009 11.05:54 Adeodato Simó wrote: + 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 personal side. We should accept time travelers into the Project right away! I propose we accept him into the project as of 1.1.2008 so he can officially attend Debconf8 as a DD if he wishes to. cheers -- vbi -- featured product: PostgreSQL - http://postgresql.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: tcc
Yodel! On Friday 13 March 2009 10:28:08 Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Adam Borowski wrote: On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: A C source file by itself cannot be run without having been compiled I guess you haven't seen the Real Men's only true scripting language. apt-get install tcc ... It is not real C ;-) few assumptions on compiled language doesn't allow you to interpret a compiled language (and usually also the contrary). Few programs use such assumptions, but anyway... While I agree that modern (dynamically typed etc.) scripting languages cannot easily be compiled (note that this is only a practical difference, not a theoretical one), I fail to see the difficulty with executing C from an interpreter. In fact C makes quite few assumptions about the runtime environment and doesn't expect much/any behind the scenes magic to happen. I bet a C interpreter could even be written so that it only uses memory when the C source also would allocate memory (entering a stack frame and malloc) [1], so while the interpreted program would probably hit OOM earlier then the compiled one, it would still do so only at the same places that a compiled program might hit OOM. [1] One obvious way is to parse a whole function on entering it. Given the low complexity of plain C code, it can then be executed without allocating further memory by just jumping around in the parse tree. cheers -- vbi -- featured product: Debian GNU/Linux - http://debian.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: tcc
On Friday 13 March 2009 14:09:25 Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote: Adrian von Bidder wrote: [ok, last post from me, this is becoming silly even for -curiosa ;-) We can come back to this topic when we meet next time] [1] One obvious way is to parse a whole function on entering it. Given the low complexity of plain C code, it can then be executed without allocating further memory by just jumping around in the parse tree. But this is the problem. C code could be very complex: a lot of nesting block and hidden variables, a lot of switch cases, very long block and functions, ... which could require IMHO more memory (thus OOM). Exactly what I'm saying... If the interpreter is written so that it only uses new memory when the compiled C program also would allocate memory (at enter stack frame time or at malloc), there is no difficulty. Yes, the interpreter would hit OOM earlier than the compiled program, but memory allocation failure is legal behaviour for a C program, even if most (malloc() failure) or almost all (stack overflow) programs don't handle it gracefully... cheers -- vbi (... and as for the eval construct in interpreters: just handle it like system() in C: call the external interpreter. I guess with a few hacks this might be made to work. Ugliness is not really relevant here. But yes, I see your point. ...) -- featured product: GNU Privacy Guard - http://gnupg.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-curiosa-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Linux System Engineer (100%) in Zurich
On Wednesday 03 December 2008 07:41:38 Martin Bähr wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 03:26:49PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Mon, Dec 01, 2008 at 09:35:16PM +0200, George Danchev wrote: The paradox is that if you try to import some tons of tolerance to such a country in order to alleviate these dissensions, you risk to fade out its multi-cultural beauty. huh? doesn't more tolerance make more room for multi-cultural beauty? I'd like to be appointed as Defense Minister :-) Since the subject references my home country: I think Debian would make an even worse job of chosing a new defense minister than our beloved parliament just did. cheers -- vbi -- featured product: ClamAV Antivirus - http://www.clamav.net/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Proposal - Logo Red is our color! [Re: Proposal - Project infrastructure team procedures]
On Wednesday 30 April 2008 21.43:40 Don Armstrong wrote: On Wed, 30 Apr 2008, Manoj Srivastava wrote: What's next, a GR determining the favourite color of the Debian collective? Clearly since our logo is red, it must be red! And since our Logo in some pink-ish red, we'll have to sue Deutsche Telekom for using our Logo color. -- vbi -- 50% ist nun mal nicht gerade Bier. -- Alexander Pretschner signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Announcing the Smith Review Project: proofreading English in Debian packages texts
Package: smith-review-project Severity: critical On Sunday 01 April 2007 19:37, Christian Perrier wrote: The project also has a three-letter acronym name (SRP) which is mandatory in Free Software projects. Your acronym is not recursive. cheers -- vbi -- The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- E. Dijkstra, 1975 pgpgWKuLDoh23.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: newmaint
On Wednesday 07 March 2007 12.32:31 Kari Pahula wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:32:36PM +0800, Ma Xuelian wrote: Dear Sir, I want buy a set of newmaint software. apt-get install newmaint Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following NEW packages will be installed newmaint 0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B/1414kB of archives. After unpacking 1732kB of additional disk space will be used. Preconfiguring packages ... Do you promise to adhere to the DMUP? [Yes] Where can your GPG key be found? [~/pubkey.txt] Selecting previously deselected package newmaint. (Reading database ... 314159 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking newmaint (from .../newmaint_2.7182_i386.deb) ... Setting up newmaint (2.7182) ... Welcome to the project! You forgot to mention that Setting up newmaint is probably the longest-running postinst script in existence. HTH -- vbi -- Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -George Bernard Shaw pgpyJ9jQ9N4Xb.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)
On Saturday 03 March 2007 04.13:48 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? Yep, my wife and me both do that on a daily basis. Yes, you have to take into account delays of perhaps up to 10 minutes if you miss a connection when you have to change from one line to another, but since buses and trams here go every 6 minutes in rush hour, that's not much of a problem. For extra spice, add in winter. Main problem is that the vehicles are overheated, so you sweat when you wear a winter coat. Or you undress and dress all the time. You really, really don't want to go in your own car within the cities here: you take longer to look for a parking space than you'd have to walk the 3 minutes to the next bus or tram station and wait the 5 or 6 minutes for the next bus. Not to speak of the cost (if I'd own a car and wanted my own parking space, I'd pay up to €200 per month. And I'd have to rent a parking space at the office, and pay the fees for parking in the city.) And buses and especially trams have their own lanes. Granted, by international standard, cities here are somewhat smallish, but for an agglomeration of ca. 1 to 1.5 million people, public transport works reliably, all round the year. I do rent a car when I * need to transport big things * know I'll be away longer than midnight cheers -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/smtp pgpM1p8X7zlIj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: testing d-i Release Candidate 1 and more release adjustments
On Friday 17 November 2006 12:57, Paul TBBle Hampson wrote: (As opposed to meat pies, which largely consist of floor sweepings and suspicious gravy. And the cheap ones tend to leave out the floor sweepings and gravy, and are basically suspicious wrapped in pastry.) Somebody called me? Meat pies! Cheap meat pies! I also have gourmet meat pies. I also can sell you the contents of your own garage which you won't recognize anyway since you haven't been in there for two years. cheers -- vbi pgpjV5TWnIH78.pgp Description: PGP signature
Debian und Ubuntu - in the Press
Quote from http://www.itwire.com.au/content/view/5634/997/ [ The Ubuntu developers are all paid for their work. ] The rest of the article is not bad, but this made me LOL. I don't know the internals of Ubuntu, but AFAIK there are a few people who contribute to Ubuntu and are not paid. Now is the time to invite them to contribute to Debian, where they won't be glossed over in this manner. Or did anybody write an article like The Debian distribution is released by two volounteers, aba and vorlon? greets -- vbi -- So does the bible contain invariant sections? It sure does: $ bible rev22:18-19 -- Drew Parsons, in a GFDL debate pgpXGz51dq3dN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Hello!
Somehow this spam is appropriate to this mailinng list... On Thursday 07 September 2006 23:30, Condoz wrote: Dear , [Use the 'Insert Field' icon on the toolbar to insert the Contact name.] Thank you for purchasing GoldMine Business Contact Manager. [Insert your message here.] Sincerely, [Use the 'Insert Field' icon on the the toolbar to insert the Signature File] [To edit this e-mail template, select Edit | Custom Templates, right click on the 'Hello!' entry and choose Edit] cheers -- vbi -- featured product: the GNOME desktop - http://gnome.org pgpTq2WgLbr4u.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I want one of those!
On Friday 18 August 2006 20:44, Fabricio aybabtu Cannini wrote: Em Sexta 18 Agosto 2006 03:30, Adrian von Bidder escreveu: http://www.movidis.com/products/rev.asp Call me vrms if you want, but doesn't it sounds strange to trust your website to an OS that can't stay 3 days without a reboot, while preaching the power and stability of another OS ? http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=http://www.movidis.com [run by Win2000] Yes, I can see the irony. Still: I'm not surprised. If you're a very small company, you don't have time to care about your web site. What you usually do is just to have some competent marketing company do all your corporate ID stuff (web site, letterheads, business cards, all the glossy paper stuff you need.) cheers -- vbi -- Letzte Worte eines mutigen Mannes: Feigling, Feigling. pgpuJQe0fOTOk.pgp Description: PGP signature
ATI is now AMD
Yo! (Note - I would really post this to planet, except that my blog-like homepage is not in planet, and shouldn't go there because 99% of the content shouldn't go to planet and nanoblogger can't do RSS feeds for single channels AFAIK.) I just read that AMD bought ATI. Is AMD better in terms of Linux support than ATI? Does anybody have contacts inside AMD or ATI who might be able to influence management to change the policy wrt open source graphics drivers now that the company has changed hands? Just a thought -- vbi -- BOFH excuse #78: Yes, yes, its called a design limitation pgpNkn84v0Ps3.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Thanks for playing
On Thursday 20 July 2006 18:45, Fabricio Cannini wrote: Yeah, not like in OpenSolaris, when SSH depends on J2RE :-) j2re wouldn't happen to include appletviewer and thus depend on X? -- vbi -- If I have trouble installing Linux, something is wrong. Very wrong. -- Linus Torvalds pgp6xUErBV4Yq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: debian-niggers and debian-lgbt projects.
On Monday 19 June 2006 22:05, 'Mash wrote: For a safer Windows Vista eXPeriance please turn your speaker knob 30' counter-clockwise before booting you PC. For those without external speakers, please place you speakers face down. For those with builtin speakers in their monitors, that gives a very, very sane experience. Nothing better to calm down nerves than staring at the slightly greyish wall behind the monitor for a few minutes. -- vbi -- I'm writing a book. I've got the page numbers done. pgpFqjvj8UWRQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: I am ashamed to be a Debian user.
On Friday 16 June 2006 03:12, GNAA Jmax wrote: I shall not tolerate this, and will be considering legal action against the Debian group under the equal rights act of 1964. That would be a U.S. law? Please do that, so perhpas some more people can be convinced that having the most important Debian assets covered under U.S. laws is a bad idea, and things like ftp-master etc. would perhaps better be hosted in some other country. (Yes, I'm half-joking. But I just don't the sort of silly law action à la whowasit vs. FSF or that person vs. Groklaw and 200 John Doe's in most of Europe.) cheers -- vbi -- Die Umwelt nimmt die Gestalt des Herzens an. Dem Mürrischen antwortet die Welt mürrisch oder überhaupt nicht. -- Josef Magnus Weber pgpsTQ6dSIT6H.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: dak changes (names, version control, mail headers)
On Monday 12 June 2006 18:41, Joe Smith wrote: News Flash! My sources indicate that the loss of her friends has made britney very depressessed, and nearly suicidal. No, it's just made her mother somewhat aggressive, driving over some poor photographer's foot and all that... -- vbi -- Adult, n.: One old enough to know better. pgpMpyiWTdvhq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Calendar...
On Friday 12 May 2006 19:55, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Friday 12 May 2006 10:20, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 12:13 -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 03:04:15PM +0100, 'Mash said: Um, Emacs is not a console app; it's an OS running inside a console/terminal emulator. Thanks anyway. It's a nice OS, but it needs a better text editor if it's ever going to be competitive. Maybe somebody should port vi to it. I hurd somewhere that GNU was going to port their microkernel to emacs. Oh come on, stop it, that hurds... -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/smtp pgpjJuBEq2RH7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: advertising with http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-portuguese/2004/05/msg00047.html
On Tuesday 02 May 2006 16:55, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Mon, 01 May 2006, stanley jenkins wrote: I am looking to advertise with debian.org [...] on your site at the following page: http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-portuguese/2004/05/msg00047.html Which is a page that contains SPAM, and does *not* contain the report spam logic. LOL. Now there's a business model. Sell advertising space on list archive pages containing spam - Debian would have FAST INCOME GUARANTEED etc. etc., and nobody would really care about those banner ads. Now expand on this. Place the banner ads on separate web pages, on which we again can sell banner ad space. We'll buy the world this way! Yay! -- vbi (Oh, yes: don't forget lots of sheet music for dueling banjos and get me off call*wave, so that the banner ads actually get any traffic. Users who ask Debian about those topics are bound to click on any banner ad. GUARANTEED FAST GROWTH LONGER ENDURANCE MILLIONAIRE WIDOE etc. etc. etc.) -- I'll carry your books, I'll carry a tune, I'll carry on, carry over, carry forward, Cary Grant, cash carry, Carry Me Back To Old Virginia, I'll even Hara Kari if you show me how, but I will *not* carry a gun. -- Hawkeye, M*A*S*H pgpz0hU1eDGCG.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: OT: U.S. Army veterans in Debian?
On Wednesday 22 March 2006 01:23, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [...] Stop it. Now. Please. I like debating a very diverse number of topics, political and other. But most don't have a place here. Even, imnsho, on d-curiosa. Thank you. -- vbi pgpBVGh67TFzW.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: etch before vista
On Friday 24 March 2006 22:35, Sylvain Sauvage wrote: Vendredi 24 mars 2006, 12:43:46 CET, Thomas Bushnell BSG a écrit : 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 to get to work on it right away. We can just wait for the necessary technology, and then go back and release. 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. 3. we will have the technology, but time travel backwards branches of parallel universes, and we just happen to still live in the original one where the time tourists didn't arrive yet. -- vbi -- There can never be a computer language in which you cannot write a bad program. pgpifxcdwkmvz.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: DPL Debate prepared questions list
On Saturday 18 March 2006 17:32, 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 members should have pointy ears and a puzzled raised eyebrow. Nah, a fancy letterhead, a certfied logo program and very high fees should suffice. -- vbi -- get my gpg key here: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 pgpqW6zPqKgNb.pgp Description: PGP signature
random fortunes...
Found in this order in Joey's fortunes email from yesterday morning: +++ Das schöne an der Konzentrierung von Ämtern ist, dass man fast immer sagen kann Ganneff ist Schuld. -- Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Die größten Schwierigkeiten liegen da, wo wir sie nicht suchen. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe +++ (english: the nice thing about concentration of charges [on few people] is that you can almost always say 'Ganneff is the guilty one'. and The biggest problems lay where we don't look for them.) cheers -- vbi -- The content of this message may or may not reflect the opinion of me, my employer, my girlfriend, my cat or anybody else, regardless of the fact whether such an employer, girlfriend, cat, or anybody else exists. I (or my employer, girlfriend, cat or whoever) disclaim any legal obligations resulting from the above message. You, as the reader of this message, may or may not have the permission to redistribute this message as a whole or in parts, verbatim or in modified form, or to distribute any message at all. pgpLYxCjtrnzF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Our project
On Tuesday 07 March 2006 21:44, Adam Borowski wrote: the knetbsd port LOL German - Knetmasse or sometimes 'Knete' -- modeling clay... Never occured to me before when I saw it as kNetBSD. .. vbi -- get my gpg key here: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 pgpfwm914sGA7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Subscribe message
On Saturday 25 February 2006 15:32, Michelle Konzack wrote: Amaya 1 - Answering to spam in a Debian mailing list His E-Mail is bouncing! And you honestly think a spammer reads mailing lists to check if his spam comes through? -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro) pgppRHHYe7wJk.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Flyer Re-print for CeBIT
On Wednesday 15 February 2006 19:05, Joost van Baal wrote: More than 13 CDs :-) How about: ... at least 2 DVDs or 14 CDs? Well, that way you assume there won't be _less_ CDs in the future... :) Somehow I feel that this is likely a valid assumption... -- vbi -- A user friendly computer first requires a friendly user. pgpd4YkLNBUnD.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The Debian community should influence the next Haskell language standard
On Monday 30 January 2006 05:06, Isaac Jones wrote: The Debian community should influence the next Haskell language standard Anybody founded the Debian Universal Standardisation Institewte yet? Should the DPL try to get Debian in the loop of IEEE, ISO and DIN so we can rubbestamp all their new standards first? Should Debian show up at next year's WEF? Well, at least Isaac didn't ask for an official statement of the Debian project. And he didn't use 'For those who care about Haskell' as Subject. -- vbi -- featured link: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/subkeys pgpIwv1oRlgxt.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: The klik project and Debian
On Thursday 19 January 2006 13:37, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Shouldn't this have been on debian-devel-announce? No, the subject was wrong. It should have been For those who care about their packages in klik to be marked as real announcement. To avoid these discussions in the future, I propose to merge all announcement and discussion lists of all major Linux distributions. People then will just have to write sophisticated enough procmail recipes to get what is on topic for their interests. -- vbi -- Available for key signing in Zürich and Basel, Switzerland (what's this? Look at http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro) pgp8nZUxUcLck.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: We should release!
On Sunday 08 January 2006 06:18, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Saturday 07 January 2006 18:06, Hamish Moffatt wrote: On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 09:12:33AM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: It worked when Joey posted it. It didn't BLINK, because most browsers ignore the blink tag; but if you looked at the source, it had the tags. =) It blinked here.. in Firefox 1.5. I guess actually to have good content/presentation separation, we should transform the text we wish to blink from semanticly marked up XML to XHTML via XSLT and then use CSS and DOM transformations with ECMAScript to blink it. W, easier to just manually blink it with show(), hide() and sleep() in a piece of javascript. -- vbi -- pub 1024D/92082481 2002-02-22 Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] Key fingerprint = EFE3 96F4 18F5 8D65 8494 28FC 1438 5168 9208 2481 pgppoXQWQN1Q7.pgp Description: PGP signature
Debian goes commercial
Whee, we're a commercial entity now! OPENOFFICE.ORG 2.0 is out TechWhack - Delhi,India ... is handled by a community made up of independent programmers and is supported by corporate entities like Sun Microsystems, Novell, Red Hat, Debian, and Intel. ... http://stuff.techwhack.com/archives/2005/10/21/211001-openofficeorg-20-is-out/ cheers -- vbi -- Iambe you are not a nutcase Knghtbrd You obviously don't know me well enough yet. = pgp0PYWDEjVav.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: More polygen tricks
On Friday 09 September 2005 19.41, Enrico Zini wrote: Hi all! apt-get install dadadodo Selected for you: polygen -X 100 bio dadado - is my favorite. I propose a bio-dadadodo contest here. Unbelievably successful in the Windsor dinasty, he studied surgery, and spent his strong interest for safari, while studying Web design: and retired to the art of Western Dalmatia, along with his whole tender years old young boy (he lives by Oriago: San Marino on July the Saint Matthew cemetery in western Luxemburg until After the fall of textile industry). cheers -- vbi -- MACINTOSH stands for Most Applications Crash If Not The Operating System Hangs. pgptS8DRMiyGj.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: gril required
On Saturday 27 August 2005 16.41, martin f krafft wrote: (debian isp: the inexpensive sex procuration) With that combination of terms in google, I wonder what kind of Email we're going to see now. -- vbi -- featured product: the KDE desktop - http://kde.org pgpK1HQA4t5HQ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CIA training
On Thursday 21 July 2005 16.20, Michelle Konzack wrote: [not funny.] Moderators, can somebody score this post down, please? -- vbi -- featured product: the KDE desktop - http://kde.org pgpOxPFInlUms.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: CIA training
On Thursday 21 July 2005 20.51, Lennart Sorensen wrote: On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 08:36:16PM +0200, Adrian von Bidder wrote: On Thursday 21 July 2005 16.20, Michelle Konzack wrote: [not funny.] Moderators, can somebody score this post down, please? debian-curiosa is a mailing list. It has no scores and probably no moderators either. [ -1 obvious ] -- Fnord. pgpmSu1Gh88Ay.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: the bottle and the cup
On Monday 11 July 2005 21.38, Torsten Landschoff wrote: Hi Gustavo, On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 06:12:27PM -0300, Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: Why a cup? Any specific reason to draw the cup besides the bottle? =D Isn't that Branden's cup? I am missing the helmet! :) Greetings from debconf5 Being at HEL you should know that Branden wears a crown these days. http://alfie.ist.org/photos/2005-07-08/p7080024.jpg (sorry, couldn't resist...) -- vbi -- Could this mail be a fake? (Answer: No! - http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro) pgpuecLCKkfBJ.pgp Description: PGP signature
Joey's back!
Yo! Is it a good sign or a bad sign when Heise starts an item on its 'newsticker' with 'Joey's back!'? http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61270 cheers -- vbi (For the foreigners here: Heise Newsticker is probably the most important german IT news outlet.) (Incidentally: Thanks to Joey for all his work, and thanks to mstone for proving that Debian security Joey.) -- this email is protected by a digital signature: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg pgpC0tn48YM4Y.pgp Description: PGP signature
All programmers are crazy, junkies and criminals
Yo! Yes, I know, list language is english, but I just can't fight my urge to pass this on... :-) Published in the Tagesanzeiger (Zürich, Switzerland), 20050627. Rough translation: Many programmers are criminals - they are, for example, guilty of secual crime or are responsible for violence in their own families. In my opinion their brains went out of control in their job. It is well-known that programmers use coke. It enhances their imagination and they can program more efficiently and more creatively. No wonder if people who have access to everything that is on offer on the Internet all day long lose control over their imagination. I am convinced that a supervision body for programmers is needed to disable potential criminals early on. Sorry about that. Back to work now. cheers -- vbi -- to debug such lockups in the future you can do: ... NOTE: dont use the keyboard in this mode for too long, it can lock up. -- Ingo Molnar, lkml attachment: tagi-informatiker.jpg pgplNgxGetzdE.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: All programmers are crazy, junkies and criminals
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 18.27, Tobias Klauser wrote: On 2005-06-28 at 16:14:59 +0200, Adrian von Bidder [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yes, I know, list language is english, but I just can't fight my urge to pass this on... :-) Published in the Tagesanzeiger (Zürich, Switzerland), 20050627. Care to tell the page for those of us who own this newspaper? ;-) Sorry, the mail was forwarded to me by somebody who forwarded it to that person... But the Tagi doesn't have so many Leserbriefe that you wouldn't be able to find it, I guess... -- vbi (NZZ Leser) -- Bien predica. quien bien vive. pgp2fZ6vXLqBT.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian parody
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 12.54, Alberto Gonzalez Iniesta wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2005 at 12:46:12PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: 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 important site on the web is, right? Yes, KDE.org There is a G in kde.org Muahaha -- vbi -- In den Augen des Bewunderten ist der Bewunderer nicht stets klug, wie Helvetius sagt, aber doch gut. -- Jean Paul pgpTyUXlvmynq.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian parody
On Wednesday 22 June 2005 20.36, Tobias Wolter wrote: [pron-get] ... tarzeau ... Why am I not surprised? Try any package with a controversial name, and either tarzeau or William Ballard (I really miss him...) are not far. :-) -- vbi -- Beware of the FUD - know your enemies. This week * The Alexis de Toqueville Institue * http://fortytwo.ch/opinion/adti pgp783wCkXGYA.pgp Description: PGP signature
A Setback For Linux
LMAO Forbes was reporting yesterday on the whole Bitkeeper/kernel thingy. Somebody either just read some headlines and thought he'd write a story. (And, sadly, I guess with Linux being a buzzword nowadays, and the typical Forbes readership not knowing much about Linux and how it is developed, it will even make a splash.) http://www.forbes.com/business/2005/05/25/cz_dl_0525linux.html Anybody found the second part of that article yet? (Supposed to be published today.) McVoy says BitKeeper lets Linux programmers crank out new versions twice as fast as they could before. BitKeeper also has protected the integrity of Linux. In 2003, BitKeeper detected a back door that a hacker had tried to plant into the operating system. Without BitKeeper, Linux now may be more vulnerable to such breaches, McVoy says. Yeah, sure. BitKeeper has built-in IDS and whatnot. And a builtin coffee machine, too, and a Pizza delivery device. Pull the other one. greetings -- vbi -- Protect your privacy - encrypt your email: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/intro pgpmY1IyF7ghB.pgp Description: PGP signature
Debian-based gadget: Nokia 770
Yo! Just stumbled on http://www.mobileburn.com/review.jsp?Id=1376, which describes the new Nokia 770. ARM, Debian+gnome based. Anybody has the slightest idea what it is based on, exactly? This can't be right... As I mentioned, the 770's software is based on Debian Linux (v2.6). Hmmm. -- vbi -- featured product: Debian GNU/Linux - http://debian.org pgpIClTIjSCD1.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Paranoider Deutschenmoerder kommt in Psychiatrie (verification)
On Sunday 15 May 2005 12.33, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday May 15 2005 1:47 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just received your mail and noticed it is coming from an address I have not received mail from before. I would really appreciate it if you would help me separate your message from the spam that shows up in my mailbox every day, by clicking on this link to verify you intended to send mail to my address... Ah, yes, autogenerating more spam based on arbitrary email with the list as a From: address being received. One of the many reasons challenge-response systems are considered harmful... I approve any challenges for which I am not responsible (i.e. email challenge spam) as a matter of principle, and I invite everybody to do the same. I usually do not react to challenges if I actually *was* the originator of the mail triggering that challenge. Except in cases where I really, really want to reach the recipient (IIRC this was exactly once, so far.) -- vbi -- All you need to know is the user interface. pgpLJG7446jjn.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Project Leader report for 2005-04-24
On Sunday 01 May 2005 00.36, Miros/law Baran wrote: 28.04.2005 pisze Lennart Sorensen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Hey, this is debian-curiosa! *We* have much time on our hands, and we want to spend it reading his blog :) Maybe you should write it for him. Why should she? It is Branden's blog that she wants to read. Note: READ. Not write. Writing is what I'm doing now. Reading is what you're doing now. And yes, I mean you, you and you too. And, when we're at it, why do you read this? Don't you have better things to do (than reading someone's poorly written English)? We're the ones ensuring steady business for the pop-corn vendor at the entrance, to your left. He'd complain bitterly if everybody suddenly left and turned to real work. -- vbi -- Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. pgpz5dHfRWX40.pgp Description: PGP signature
Internetnews.com article updated.
At the footer of an updated article at internetnews.com: Update corrects misspellings to Robinson's name and the name of the Debian distribution. The article was about Branden Robinson's first report as Debian project leader. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3500321 -- Many people are secretly interested in life. pgp1eo37ZHCj9.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Pope vs. Sarge
On Thursday 21 April 2005 18.03, Marcel Hicking wrote: If you need some very exotic passwords, checkout your /dev/urang-utan But that's not a good password - it's not random enough: there's basically only Ook and Eek. -- vbi -- The content of this message may or may not reflect the opinion of me, my employer, my girlfriend, my cat or anybody else, regardless of the fact whether such an employer, girlfriend, cat, or anybody else exists. I (or my employer, girlfriend, cat or whoever) disclaim any legal obligations resulting from the above message. You, as the reader of this message, may or may not have the permission to redistribute this message as a whole or in parts, verbatim or in modified form, or to distribute any message at all. pgpeMZPNkyFoN.pgp Description: PGP signature
Debian article on serverwatch.com
http://www.serverwatch.com/eur/article.php/3491106 ... and a meticulously coordinated release schedule ... Yeah, sure. But then: ... describing Debian's release schedule as glacial. ... And I seriously wonder what they did to their text - bits are missing and some paragraphs are mutilated to the point where I can't tell what the auther meant to say (madduck, have you been pasting that text into this web site? ;-) So many people cheered ... [when the drop-arch-proposal came] So? Where? (Ok, I'm biased by mostly seeing the impact on the mailing lists here and mostly ignoring reports in other media ;-) The rest of the article actually isn't so bad - it was the first thing that made me laugh. greetings -- vbi -- Excuse me for butting in, but I'm interrupt-driven. pgp1t0ja3BcKF.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Gergely Nagy in need of support votes
On Wednesday 16 February 2005 20.43, Joey Hess wrote: Please be sure to post your support message in the form of a simple gpg-signed phrase such as go for it or please do, as this will allow best possible re-use of your signed message in an alternate forum (such as http://wiki.debian.net/?DraftBranden, or email to debian-admin). Thanks to the Debian developers who have already done so. Ok, so here is a free one, you have official permission to use this in any way you want: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Go for it! -- vbi -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: get my key from http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 iKcEARECAGcFAkIZojdgGmh0dHA6Ly9mb3J0eXR3by5jaC9sZWdhbC9ncGcvZW1h aWwuMjAwMjA4MjI/dmVyc2lvbj0xLjUmbWQ1c3VtPTVkZmY4NjhkMTE4NDMyNzYw NzFiMjVlYjcwMDZkYTNlAAoJECqqZti935l6L8gAn3e6AIbtb+2ZZxarz6FR82VB l9fzAJ4pVPpQTuKsxvv7Yu1ZSdGXtFdVsw== =heSy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- Beware of the FUD - know your enemies. This week * Patent Law, and how it is currently abused. * http://fortytwo.ch/opinion pgpRU9dCZXAPK.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Debian Logo on an italian amateur bicycle racing team
On Tuesday 08 February 2005 15.31, Alexander Schmehl wrote: [Debian cycle team] Cool idea! May I suggest to arrive as last to the finish and be rock solid in the sattle when they arrive? *and* they'll have to be arguing at the top of their voices all the way through the race. -- vbi -- get my gpg key here: http://fortytwo.ch/gpg/92082481 pgpPLrKGBLVVc.pgp Description: PGP signature
Re: Bug#286377: ITP: cdde -- CD Detect and Execute
On Sunday 19 December 2004 23.51, Roman Kreisel wrote: Description : CD Detect and Execute When it finds a disc inserted in the drive it will attempt to determine the type of disc, and execute a specified command. Does the AUTORUN.INF based copy protection work as intended with this package (start wine, load the copy-protection, etc.)? (Sorry, couldn't resist.) -- vbi -- Kallisti! pgpsa07hQ0B74.pgp Description: PGP signature
