On Fri, Oct 23, 2015 at 04:41:56PM +0100, Dimitri John Ledkov wrote:
> i knew it! there are three identical twins of Piotr. No wonder they
> get so much done!
If it is three, wouldn't that be identical triplets?
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On Thu, Oct 23, 2014 at 09:20:30AM -0300, Felipe Sateler wrote:
I always thought this was Mark Twain, it was only searching for the
source that I learned it was Pascal ;-)
Did Mark Twain ever say any of the many things people claim he said?
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On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 08:27:07PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Chow Loong Jin dijo [Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 08:40:11AM +0800]:
It was the case in old versions of gnulib, but appears to be no more.
Too bad, quite a few packages ship embedded copies of ancient gnulib.
I just submitted a
On Wed, Dec 26, 2012 at 12:40:23AM +0100, Robert Waldner wrote:
On Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:49:53 -0700, Wesley J. Landaker writes:
Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refers to Debian
versions by their nick names, and not their versions.
Right, more or less like the Windows
On Fri, Nov 09, 2012 at 10:59:37PM +0100, Manuel Görlich wrote:
Am 09.11.2012 um 22:19 schrieb Lupe Christoph l...@lupe-christoph.de:
On Friday, 2012-11-09 at 15:58:29 +0100, Jakub Wilk wrote:
AFAIK you can't copyright a recipe because it's just instructions.
So, you can't copyright
On Thu, Mar 01, 2012 at 09:48:30PM +0100, Martin Bagge / brother wrote:
I don't read Italian(?) but the pictures are pretty - at least the
logo is similar to something I know of...
http://temi.repubblica.it/iniziative-capirelascienza/?ref=hpedi
Clearly not the same though other than in
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 02:18:48PM +0100, Lech Karol Pawłaszek wrote:
On 01/17/2012 02:05 PM, Samuel Thibault wrote:
Roland Mas, le Tue 17 Jan 2012 13:41:23 +0100, a écrit :
Samuel Thibault, 2012-01-17 12:03:41 +0100 :
[...]
I'm not sure to understand what you mean exactly. If you
On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 05:19:04PM +0200, Gregory Colpart wrote:
No more Sid in Toys Story 3! The new wicked who wants break
the toys is a jumbo, pink teddy bear named Lots-O'-Huggin Bear:
http://www.pixar.com/featurefilms/ts3/lotso.html
Should we rename sid to lotso ? :-)
Sid broke toys.
On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 10:28:08AM +0100, Giacomo A. Catenazzi wrote:
Adam Borowski wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 11:21:08PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote:
On Wed, Mar 11, 2009 at 01:14:03PM +0100, Bill Allombert wrote:
I fail to see the difference between a BDF-to-PCF converter and a C
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 10:06:18AM +0100, Sandro Tosi wrote:
Who uses xfs, really?
I do, really, on every systems I have.
I tried 4 years ago and had to switch because it was way too unstable
and buggy in the 2.6 kernels at the time (2.6 up to around 2.6.10).
Doing rm -rf on something like
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 10:19:47AM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
Debian Lenny - We could have released two months earlier if we had fixed
RC bugs instead of thinking about this banner.
Says who? People coming up with slogans might not be the same people as
those that can fix RC
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:17:37PM -0300, UPGRADE wrote:
We are currently carrying out an upgrade on our system due to the fact
that It had come to our Notice that one or more of our subcriber are
introducing a strong virus into our system and it is affecting our
network.We are trying to
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 08:49:26AM -0500, Matthew K Poer wrote:
I do feel like a prude for saying it, but I was pretty taken aback when
I saw this in the repository for the first time. But, I can respect that
Debian has one of the largest repos of any gnu/linux distribution, and I
think that
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:22:08PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
and while you're at it, please remove the various tea-timers too. One Boston
tea party was enough.
How about those bible texts. Better get rid of those. Some awful stuff
in those too.
kraptor has you killing people (seems worse
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:40:58PM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
I heard a rumor that there are, if you can believe this, actually people
still using mailers that don't have that function.
I know, it didn't sound very likely to me either; right up there with
not supporting lowercase letters.
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:32:05PM -0500, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote:
Under US law, you can't release copyright or license it orally; it must
be in writing.
The video did say he was updating the web pages and such with the
information.
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On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 08:35:28AM +0930, Paul Wise wrote:
Thomas Bushnell BSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] and Lennart Sorensen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote stuff
Please don't CC me, I'm subscribed to the list:
http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct
And meanwhile lkml whines if you don't CC
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 01:04:44PM +0930, Paul Wise wrote:
When djb dedicated all his software to the public domain. You must
have missed the video. Yep, it is already in non-free in source-only
form.
Did DJB stop developing and supporting it too? Or did he just get
tired of people
On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 02:46:52PM -0400, Felipe Sateler wrote:
In spanish, using doctor means both a person with a PhD and (mistakenly) an
MD. When talking in spanish, I normally tell people to use the word medico
to refer to physicians, and to use doctor only for PhDs.[1]
Is this the case
On Tue, Sep 18, 2007 at 04:11:41AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
You try watching three, full to the brim busses drive right by in the
depths of a Canadian prairie winter. Rush-hour is known for that
around here.
Toronto does that in the winter too, although winter isn't quite as bad
here.
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On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 07:43:23PM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
government monopoly on health care = everybody gets the same pathetic
level of service. Equality is not quality. It's easier and quicker
to get an MRI for a dog here (Canada) than it is to get one for a
human.
If you don't have
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:07:47AM -0400, Shawn McMahon wrote:
If it's higher-quality, how do the Canadian companies who broker access
to American doctors for Canadians tired of their crappy care manage to
make a profit?
Because some people with a lot of money and no patience will pay for
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 03:13:06PM -0500, Harry Penner wrote:
In other words, the people who have a choice whether to accept the
quality and wait times associated with health care in the government
system, don't. That doesn't make you pause to think, even a tiny bit?
If you can't let go
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:08:47AM +, s. keeling wrote:
And please, may we not bring up the recent debacle about Airbus, as
it's entirely unrelated, where the German team were using one version
of Autocad and the French team ...
Autocad for something the size of an airbus? That sounds
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:49:55PM +0100, Holger Levsen wrote:
On Thursday 07 December 2006 14:32, Jo?o Henrique Furtado wrote:
Hi, would like to know which day of December will be launched and version
of the Debian Etch Stable.
Tank's.
Wow. What a typo :)
Hmm, well my guess about the
On Wed, Jun 21, 2006 at 01:51:46AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote:
The lack of x87 wouldn't be a problem. At least, i386 still has the
code left from the old days and will emulate it transparently; when
such an amd64 CPU pops out the x87 emulation can be ported.
In fact, it has a separate
On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 12:32:18PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
Exactly. Isn't the x86_64 instruction set basicaly the same as ia32
just with a few extra opcodes and more registers? Any general fault in
the instruction set should still remain.
x86 processors have multiple modes with
On Sun, Jun 18, 2006 at 11:40:03PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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.
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 12:49:02PM +0100, Wouter Verhelst wrote:
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:
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:35:57AM -0500, Stephanie da Silva wrote:
To send mail to me, you need to add [laundry] to the end of the
subject line (eg: Subject: Random message [laundry]).
Wouldn't it be much simpler to turn off such useless spam generators
when subscribing to mailing lists?
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.
Len
On Wed, May 25, 2005 at 10:22:45PM +0200, Martin Dickopp wrote:
Nokia's position may not be official, but Tim Frain (head of Nokia's
patent department) has never missed an opportunity to ask politicians to
support software patents. To the best of my knowledge, no Nokia employee
has lobbied
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 06:09:10PM +0200, Moss wrote:
Mandatory here.
Here too. Not sure when it became that way. Way too many design
decisions are based on cost in north america for cars, and not enough on
safe sensible design.
I always thought that to be mandatory in the US - that's one of
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:26:14PM +0100, Pigeon wrote:
Not only crazy, but more complicated to make than a separate turn
signal. Never seen on this side of the pond!
I have heard claims that it is simple to do, but I can't imagine how.
The DS. I think someone else did it as well but I can't
On Sun, Apr 04, 2004 at 01:47:42AM +1000, bob parker wrote:
Speaking from limited experience. The graphical configurator xf86cfg that is
used in Woody is such a useless heap of shit that I suspect that it must have
been donated by Microsoft. By useless heap of shit I mean that it actually
On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 07:31:16PM -0400, Mike Dresser wrote:
Version 1.03 --Sequential Output-- --Sequential Input-
--Random-
-Per Chr- --Block-- -Rewrite- -Per Chr- --Block--
--Seeks--
MachineSize K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec %CP K/sec
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 02:30:45AM -0800, Alexander Hvostov wrote:
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 11:29, criggie wrote:
All we need to do now is have someone mention Nazis or Hitler, then we
can invoke Godwins Law http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?GodwinsLaw
You just did. This thread is not over. Next
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 02:01:37PM +0100, Arne Schwabe wrote:
Hm, i guess the IE/OE AIX/(some other unix i don't remember which it
was) people.
Actually, not likely, given IE/OE for unix (Solaris and HP/UX only), was
simply a recompile of the win32 version codebase using MainSoft's
MainWin
On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 11:30:21AM -0500, Kenneth Pronovici wrote:
Question: wouldn't that also require getting apt, dpkg, etc. from
woody? I though pinning wasn't available in potato?
And most woody packages require libc6 2.2, which potato does not have.
Doing apt-get source openssh -b on
On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 07:29:12PM -0400, Anthony DeRobertis wrote:
I unfortunately don't have that luxery. My users demand too-new versions
of things... I think if I left it up to them, they'd run unstable on the
servers.
My users can make requests, and if their request is reasonable, I will
Amen! The last time I tried to pitch Debain for a project, I was soundly
shot
down by how stale the released production was. I'm really hoping that
they get
the release out this summer (not following the main lists, I don't know how
far
they are from it, but my understanding is that it's
connection close. Very handy for piping commands to
http or such for testing, where telnet wouldn't work since it terminates
on EOF, not connection closed.
Lennart Sorensen
(in the British system)?
a
10^6 = million
10^9 = milliard
10^12 = billion
10^15 = billiard
10^18 = trillion
10^21 = trilliard
This is true as far as I can tell of just about every european language.
Only in north america did they change the meaning of the words.
Lennart Sorensen
scandinavian languages than
I though. A google search seems to prove me right.
Lennart Sorensen
in one, which looks amber when both are on at once.
So it has 4 states available: black, green, amber, red. What neat stuff
can be done with 2 x 12 x 2bits?
Lennart Sorensen
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