Fishing with the Debian Angling Association
Howdy all, This week, the Debian Angling Association makes its presence known through a representative member. The Debian Packages link on the home page lets you search for the fishing gear we have on offer. On the right of the package's page the Developer Information link should bring you up-to-date on whether a particular rod or line is in stock. […] Whatever you do, please read our brochures; we stand by their accuracy and will accept and respond to complaints if you are dissatisfied with our service. <URL:https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/08022018183433.01b23d51b...@desktop.copernicus.org.uk> -- \“Your [government] representative owes you, not his industry | `\ only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, | _o__)if he sacrifices it to your opinion.” —Edmund Burke, 1774 | Ben Finney
Re: help needed: LSM acronym
Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl> writes: > The best I've been able to come up with was: kitteh "Kill Invalid Tree > Terms, Evading Harm". This is groan-worthy, and especially "tree" is > incorrect as files/dirs/sockets/fifos/etc are at most tree nodes. Neuter Your Ambiguous Names -- \ “I don't want to live peacefully with difficult realities, and | `\ I see no virtue in savoring excuses for avoiding a search for | _o__)real answers.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2009-09-12 | Ben Finney
Re: Call for volunteers: FTP Team
Don Armstrong <d...@debian.org> writes: > On Thu, 17 Aug 2017, Joerg Jaspert wrote: > > GopherTeam? > > Go Team RFC1149! The unofficial Gopher extension to RFC 1149? I guess that would get to many places unreachable by the official standard. -- \ “For myself, I am an optimist — it does not seem to be much use | `\ being anything else.” —Winston Churchill, 1954-11-09 | _o__) | Ben Finney
Re: policy §9.6: .desktop vs .menu
Andrey Rahmatullin <w...@debian.org> writes: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2017 at 01:17:49AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: > > + * Drop desktop file, fixes lintian warning. > Good, good. > And if you RoM the package all warnings will disappear. Some developers evidently hold to the belief that Lintian is a deity to be appeased through package changes, without objective justification of those changes. -- \ “God was invented to explain mystery. God is always invented to | `\ explain those things that you do not understand.” —Richard P. | _o__) Feynman, 1988 | Ben Finney
Re: Bug#863361: dgit-user(7): replace apt-get build-deps with mk-build-deps
Andrew Shadura <and...@shadura.me> writes: > On 28/05/17 10:40, David Kalnischkies wrote: > > Recommending everyone to have a wonderful day, > > > > David Kalnischkies > > I recommend this for debian-curiosa. I commend this, again. -- \ “Try adding “as long as you don't breach the terms of service – | `\ according to our sole judgement” to the end of any cloud | _o__) computing pitch.” —Simon Phipps, 2010-12-11 | Ben Finney
gr_snoopy2 (was: Misc Developer News (#42))
Gunnar Wolf <gw...@debian.org> writes: > Please do. No private communication should ever be disclosed. > > [ Not to be ever made public! ] -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- 59c0e60e-94a1-11e6-8e0b-0e6d1d2d9c75 [ ] Choice 1: Repeal subsequent GR [ ] Choice 2: Bcc all correspondence to Wikileaks [ ] Choice 3: Run in circles, scream and shout [ ] Choice 4: Further Discussion -=-=-=-=-=- Don't Delete Anything Between These Lines =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- -- \ “Alternative explanations are always welcome in science, if | `\ they are better and explain more. Alternative explanations that | _o__) explain nothing are not welcome.” —Victor J. Stenger, 2001-11-05 | Ben Finney
Re: Colorful Fun with Emacs: debian-changelog-mode + rainbow-mode
Axel Beckert <a...@debian.org> writes: > $ emacs aptitude*/debian/changelog > M-x rainbow-mode Now I can follow LSB bugs while I am on LSD. Thanks, Debian! -- \ “I don't want to live peacefully with difficult realities, and | `\ I see no virtue in savoring excuses for avoiding a search for | _o__)real answers.” —Paul Z. Myers, 2009-09-12 | Ben Finney
Re: SEE THRU METAL
Francesco Ariis <fa...@ariis.it> writes: > Judging to the replies to your message, people aren't getting > the joke Yep. My apologies to you all for not being funny enough in expressing my amusement at the bizarre content. (Certainly I wasn't expecting the original poster to care enough to see the response here.) -- \ “… a voice said reassuringly: cheer up, things could get worse. | `\So I cheered up and, sure enough, things got worse.” —James C. | _o__) Hagerty, 1909–1981 | Ben Finney
Re: SEE THRU METAL
"Dennis Roberts" <i...@seethrualuminum.biz> writes: > I have a project I want to work with you on because I have a > transparent metal or see thru radiant barrier for windows, skylights > and numerous other applications you can see out but they can’t see > inside! Your message is appropriate and on-topic here! Thank you! > It is the only see through metal in the world! Your motivations are certainly transparent! > Inflector can be a solar collector or solar rejector! Just like our options for dealing with spammers! > How do I promote my product to companies such as yours? The way you already did. I know of no better way for your promotion to get a positive outcome than the message you already posted. > Respectfully, That is perhaps the funniest part! Hooray! -- \ “Reichel's Law: A body on vacation tends to remain on vacation | `\unless acted upon by an outside force.” —Carol Reichel | _o__) | Ben Finney
Re: Debian conspiracy theories?
Paul Wise <p...@debian.org> writes: > Anyone got any conspiracy theories about Debian? None that anyone actually believes. > I found this one the other day: > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12298547 The author there clearly doesn't believe that one either, judging by the replies. -- \ “The right to use [strong cryptography] is the right to speak | `\ Navajo.” —Eben Moglen | _o__) | Ben Finney
Re: Greek Language for Linux
Linus Hughes <linushughe...@gmail.com> writes: > I am an intelligent individual because I am Greek Pagan. Socrates is an intelligent individual. Socrates is a Mayan Pagan. Therefore American frogs did not swim to Africa, not at all. > (Actually I am Mayan Greek Pagan, though it's cool.) I am simultaneously amused by this lonely echoing solo rant thread, and want it purged from the archives. Fortunately the illogic of that is no worse than this person's utterances. -- \ “Of all classes the rich are the most noticed and the least | `\ studied.” —John Kenneth Galbraith, _The Age of Uncertainty_, | _o__) 1977 | Ben Finney
Re: Tắm bé sơ sinh như thế nào là đúng?
The subject line translates to “Bathing babies, how to do it right?” according to an automated tool. HUGGIES® - Cẩm nang cho Mẹ <camnangch...@crm.huggies.com.vn> writes: > Nếu nội dung email không hiển thị hoàn chỉnh, vui lòng nhấn > [SPAM URL] vào đây để đọc phiên bản web (“If the content does not show the complete email, please click here to read web version”) I'm having so much fun with the translation of the text, I don't think I could cope with the web version. > Cách tắm và bảo vệ làn da non nớt của bé sơ sinh (“How to protect your skin and bathing immaturity of newborn”) Certainly we are off-topic for other Debian discussion forums. This is enough curiosa for me. -- \“You know I could rent you out as a decoy for duck hunters?” | `\ —Groucho Marx | _o__) | Ben Finney
Re: Legal question to a file from Dr. Dobb's
Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> writes: > Silly rabbit. Surely it's obvious to everyone here that those timestamp > components are in increasing order of specificity. That's a reference to > 18:20 on the 4th of February in the year 15 (of the current century). Thanks to those who spotted the deliberate mistake in the above. I meant “increasing order of magnitude”, of course. > Provided the first 184 days of the month are full of April Fool jokes, > I approve. Maybe we are still in that period, and I was under the influence? -- \ “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that | `\ something else is more important than fear.” —Ambrose Redmoon | _o__) | Ben Finney
Re: Legal question to a file from Dr. Dobb's
Gunnar Wolf <gw...@gwolf.org> writes: > Paul Wise dijo [Wed, Jun 01, 2016 at 01:59:03PM +0800]: > > http://www.drdobbs.com/cpp/logging-in-c/201804215?pgno=4 > > IDs that follow formats similar to dates should be avoided and > banned. I scratched my head with curiosity as to how an article from > April 2018 was being refered... Silly rabbit. Surely it's obvious to everyone here that those timestamp components are in increasing order of specificity. That's a reference to 18:20 on the 4th of February in the year 15 (of the current century). > Not only that — It seems that in the next few years we will get a > calendar reform so that April has at least 215 days. Provided the first 184 days of the month are full of April Fool jokes, I approve. -- \ “On the internet you simply can't outsource parenting.” —Eliza | `\ Cussen, _Top 10 Internet Filter Lies_, The Punch, 2010-03-25 | _o__) | Ben Finney
Re: dpkg-buildpackage -ucb
Enrico Zini <enr...@enricozini.org> writes: > On Tue, Apr 26, 2016 at 02:11:36PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > > Should dpkg-buildpackage have a -ucb option which does the same ? > > Can it have some more switch? It doesn't get anywhere close to > "netstat -peanut", or my favourite "netstat -polenta". It does, though, have thematic assonance with ‘lintian -EvIL +pedantic’. -- \ “The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But | `\ the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound | _o__) truth.” —Niels Bohr | Ben Finney
Re: Package naming rant
Thomas Goirand <z...@debian.org> writes: > I'm ok with this discussion in principle, but it's going really too > far in this way. Let's be serious for 5 minutes please. Best to move it somewhere like ‘debian-devel’, then. IMO. -- \ “It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in | `\trouble. It's the things we know that ain't so.” —Artemus Ward | _o__) (1834–1867), U.S. journalist | Ben Finney
Photos from Debian 10th Birthday party, Melbourne
Howdy all, Here are some photos I took during the Debian 10th Birthday celebration tonight at Mexicali Rose, in Melbourne, Australia. http://www.zip.com.au/~bignose/photos/20030816-debian-10th-birthday/ Ian Murdock announced the Debian project in comp.os.linux.development on 1993-08-16 13:05:37 UTC+. Happy 10th Birthday, Debian! -- \ Courteous and efficient self-service. -- Café sign, southern | `\France | _o__) | Ben Finney [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: how to set digest mode? (was Re: unsubscribe)
On Mon, Jul 29, 2002 at 03:46:38PM -0700, Evan Prodromou wrote:
OK, OK! Quit haranguing me.
(Incidentally, those who wondered why anyone would want digest mode on
debian-curiosa, this demonstrates my point. d-c is low-traffic
normally, but for many subscribers it's also very low priority. It's
irritating to be subscribed to d-c for the fun bits, but then when an
interesting thread comes along to be pinged many times a day as these
low-priority messages come through. Setting digest mode ensures there
will never be more than one such message a day, far preferable to simply
unsubscribing.)
I agree. I just got through re-vamping the lists.debian.org code, and
it's all fixed so that you can toggle digest mode on any list.
Thanks very much for this.
Now, all you have to do to set the digest flag on any list you're
subscribed to is send the following command to the list address:
LIST-DAEMON COMMAND {{ DIGEST MODE FLAG TRUE TOGGLE }} STOP END
To clarify, surely this should be sent to the list's -request address,
i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED], rather than the list itself? It's
rather confusing to have a list control message that is sent *in-band*,
when we've been working so hard to educate list newbies to send them to
an out-of-band address :-)
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