Re: Do you want XFree86 working out of the box?

2004-12-17 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Fri, 17 Dec 2004 22:30:02 +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try to install xdebconfigurator, URL:http://packages.debian.org/xdebconfigurator, and see if it work for you? To test it, install the package and run xdebconfigurator dexconf This will replace your

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-16 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004 19:55:02 +1100, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: WC -Sx- Jones Dash Sx Dash must be hard to pronounce quickly.. LOL :-) Sx is an Action Verb. And it's damn easy to find in search engines; however my first mumblings into Usenet are likely deleted now -- I was on

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-15 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 23:32:39 +1100, Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 14, 2004 at 10:01:59AM -0500, Chasecreek Systemhouse wrote: It would be nice if you included your name in your posts. Lordy. :-) It *is* in my posts. See below here ... -- WC -Sx- Jones http

Re: transition of htop

2004-12-15 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
http://buildd.debian.org/ How accurate is the information on buildd? I wonder because I am using more recent versions than a few of those reported (at least those I checked - like gcc) http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=sparcpkg=gcc ??? -- WC -Sx- Jones http://insecurity.org/

Re: transition of htop

2004-12-15 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:00:02 +0100, Adeodato Simó [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in buildd.d.o, you should specify a source package. try gcc-defaults, and gcc-3.3. it seems that the 'gcc' source package existed for a very short timeframe (?). Yes, you are right. I forgot. Or, better yet, an

installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
Installing a source tree? (But NOT a CVS tree.) OK, this is probably somewhat retarded -- because I cannot figure it out and it very likely is simple and I am missing something basic: I would like to install a software package that requires the PostgresSQL development and source code tree -- so

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 17:13:10 +, Steve Kemp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 'postgresql-dev'. What's the name of the software you're trying to build? I'm creating/documenting a quick Debian_Hints file at: http://insecurity.org/ll3i11_j0n35/Debian_Hints Have you read many of the

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:35:40 +0100, Frank Küster [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about apt-get source postgresql? Yes I did, but that doesn't place/install it into the proper places -- what(where)ever they may be. I could have just as easily download the source from postgressql website and

Re: installing a source tree?

2004-12-15 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:55:53 +0100, Peter Eisentraut [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: apt-get install sql-ledger Um, that didn't work last night and I cannot find what command I used when grep'ing history either ... Yep, thats my story. OK, Im going back to my cave -- sorry for the noise. (Thanks

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-15 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004 18:59:05 +0100, Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: LCC could concentrate on providing such a distribution-independent execution environment, and perform the necessary integration tests for commercially relevant distributions. Just an idea. I think this is far more

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
Any commercial software company will tell you exactly the same thing about software: testing is not free. Testing is not free only in the sense that a *vendor* might lose clients if said clients are the *testers*... Historically, lots of clients are performed free testng for vendors. I'm

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
To design software, all you need is a fully functional computer. To design hardware, you need to create and test a prototype every once in a while. That'll cost you. Your logic doesnt follow. Why, then, isn't Be (BeOS) still around ? Plenty of fully functional computers around at the

Re: If you really want Free firmware...

2004-12-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
[Please Note that I'm not trying to create a hardware holy war. Of all the OSes I have used and upon all the architectures I have built - both commercial and non-commercial -- Debian has consistently delivered a great wholistic, as well as holistic, system solution.] On 14 Dec 2004 09:03:20

Re: /var/log on Debian systems

2004-12-14 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 19:55:59 +0100, Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's so private in these log files that they should not world readable? A local user can look at usage patterns and formulate a plan of attack. A badly written CGI can leak server data across the public Internet.

Re: Linux Core Consortium

2004-12-10 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Thu, 09 Dec 2004 13:59:10 -0500, Jim Gettys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That being said, certainly UNIX's disunity was a major aid to Microsoft. Repeating that history would not be good. I must agree with Jim. From the stand-point that Debian is losing developers to other Linux platforms and

Re: Intel EM64T porting machine for Debian

2004-12-10 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Sat, 11 Dec 2004 00:27:38 +, Martin Michlmayr - Debian Project Leader [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: agreed to set up the machine, host it for a while and give interested developers access. This box is not a general .debian.org Is this by invitation only? -- WC -Sx- Jones

Re: OT: appealing to the puritan interest [was Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor]

2004-12-03 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
It must be 4/20 already -- cuz this discuss makes me think everyone is stoned out of the reality check minds. -- WC -Sx- Jones http://insecurity.org/

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-02 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
Regarding this thread - there are 240 articles posted into google NNTP groups already. -Sx-

Re: Depending on Virtual Packages (Public Service Announcement)

2004-12-02 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 20:33:00 -0500, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Depends: mail-transport-agent Instead, you should write something like this: Depends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent Oh. So, you are saying that all we need to do is cross reference all the co-dependencies for

Re: Depending on Virtual Packages (Public Service Announcement)

2004-12-02 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 21:18:12 -0500, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't understand what this has to do with Gnome or anything I said. Maybe its just me -- but your statement about selecting a preferred package over any old package that provides [insert whatever] to satisfy a

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Chasecreek Systemhouse
On Wed, 01 Dec 2004 13:16:11 -0200, Fernanda Giroleti Weiden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... We need to discuss this point and find a technical way of solving the first. ... Years ago (MSDOS 5 days) I was writing a work-group computing series for Datapro; the Microsoft representative I had been