Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security [Was: Re: Backport of the integer overflow in the brk system call]

2003-12-03 Thread Darren Salt
se they > don't have any :-) Some of us have to *buy* them before we can spend them ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... This was the most unkind cut of all.

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces

2003-11-18 Thread Darren Salt
me visual style. I find myself wondering if Duff's Device is implementable in Python... -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion I can't reach the brakes on this piano!

Re: Tabs v.s. spaces (was Re: Programming first steps.)

2003-11-18 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Steve Lamb may or may not have written... [snip] > if foo > bar > else > baz fi -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let'

Re: Why you are wrong [Was: On linux kernel packaging issue]

2003-11-10 Thread Darren Salt
at once, then it's more efficient to do a partial > loop unroll, and thereby have faster code, because of more efficient > parallization. Converting some multiplies to shifts (or shift plus some other arithmetic), or arranging that one of the source registers normally contains the lower value

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> BTW, no need to Cc: me - or did Gnus not notice the Mail-Followup-To >> header? > Uhm. What Mail-Followup-To header? I didn't receive one on this message, > p

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Matt Zimmerman may or may not have written... > On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:20:18PM +0000, Darren Salt wrote: >> I keep some around. I'd prefer better management of this, though: ATM all >> that I can do (with apt-get/aptitude) is remove all older versions or >

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I demand that Greg Stark may or may not have written... > What does that mean? It's (more or less) from The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The bit in question c

Re: A case study of a new user turned off debian

2003-11-05 Thread Darren Salt
e helped my friend at all because he was > unlucky enough that the *first* version of libc6 from unstable that he saw > happened to be the buggy one. That doesn't really happen that often to > libc6 so he had particularly bad luck there. Perhaps it should be the default that, when i

Re: Bug#215103: ITP: gmasqdialer -- gtk/gnome client for masqdialer server

2003-10-16 Thread Darren Salt
talking about GNOME) is 35 characters long. I think that GTK/GNOME is valid: a program may make use of GNOME features if the relevant libraries are installed, but still work without them. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC

Re: [Fwd: False Representation at Google.com]

2003-09-08 Thread Darren Salt
ld have noticed the gravitational effects by now... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | Oh, sarge too... As the dyslexic Jedi said, "Sith happens."

Re: About NM and Next Release

2003-08-08 Thread Darren Salt
, though there's one /small/ problem wrt portability: it's in ARM assembly language... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.u

Re: Should this be filed as grave? Gcc-2.95

2003-08-07 Thread Darren Salt
ssary > functionality. > For most people, disks are cheap. Time isn't. Just out of interest, what are your assumptions wrt costs associated with downloading? -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northum

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
27;talks SMTP') are generally not very useful. How about "acts as an SMTP client, acts as an SMTP server, queues mail for local delivery or for forwarding to another server"? Or /something/ like that... -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbe

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Eduard Bloch may or may not have written... [snip] > PS: a hot day or what? If you call 20°C hot, then yes, it has been a hot day ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | de

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Darren Salt
s setgid games, though it could equally well have its own uid and be run setuid. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | I don't ask for much, just untold riches... The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Stephen Frost may or may not have written... [snip] > and a consensus reached which approves of the application and it's > needs. ? Almost: s/'// :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC

Re: ITA: yadex -- WAD file editor for doom-style WADs

2003-07-25 Thread Darren Salt
do this but mumble...) > I've packaged it, changed changelog, and closed the remaining bug > (#138072). 1.6.0? If not, now's as good a time as any :-) [snip] -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS

Re: NEWS.Debian support is here

2003-07-08 Thread Darren Salt
>> regular changelog entries, and Matt plans to later let it be configured to >> only display news, if the user wants (more useful for stable users). > Kick ASS. What has that poor donkey done to you to deserve such a kicking? ;-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Dan Jacobson may or may not have written... > I was hoping that maintainers of multi-megabyte packages would do the > package justice by giving an adequate description. "I have here a 20K package. Should it have a 1/3-line description?" ;-) -- | Darren Salt

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-17 Thread Darren Salt
> information from there. That and/or search the list archive. But having a build date in the (processed) package control file would mean that the information, or at least a snapshot of it, is available off-line as well. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sa

Re: Bug#190302: Misusage of changelog!

2003-05-26 Thread Darren Salt
. (Closes: #178492). No argument there either from me, so long as the bug being closed is about there being a new upstream version, and the uploaded package is that or a newer version. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RIS

Re: "Bug marked as done" messages to-be-MIMEified?

2003-05-14 Thread Darren Salt
ED] -s "Misplacement of apostrophes" Package: doogie "developers' brains", surely. Cc: $ ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | We've got

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-27 Thread Darren Salt
RM710 in this thread? :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | Let's keep the pound sterling Hugh of Borg: "Resistance is futile. I will assimilate you."

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-26 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Bart Trojanowski may or may not have CCed to me WITHOUT MY ASKING FOR THAT... > * Darren Salt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030426 10:26]: >> I demand that José Luis Tallón may or may not have written... >>> At 19:55 26/04/2003 +1000, you wrote: >>>> On S

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-26 Thread Darren Salt
gt;> Is there much performance improvement in dropping i386 in favour of i486+? > - Integrated math coprocessor ( why does libc still check for its > availability? ) [...] 486SX. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking |

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-24 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Nathan Paul Simons may or may not have also sent directly to me despite my not having requested this... > On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 08:28, Darren Salt wrote: >> Hmm. They're conffiles (not sure why, given that they're all binaries); >> have you tried 2.4 with

Re: debconf review of cvsd (was Re: stop abusing debconf already)

2003-04-22 Thread Darren Salt
ove it later once your repositories are safe. One other small change: s/loose/lose/. -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoking | RISC OS | Toon Army | demon co uk | This space reserved for future expansion Nothing is as

Re: stop the "manage with debconf" madness

2003-04-20 Thread Darren Salt
ot;proposed handling" posting (which looks like it'll become Something Useful), that looks like "look, things are heading in the right direction again". Maybe you were too quick to criticise Matt and to distance yourself? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) a

Re: why do we care about configuration files?

2003-04-20 Thread Darren Salt
, and he finds it harder to follow when it's formatted like that... 5) Said user happens finds your message and some followups, and agrees that you were probably too tired to think straight... ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | woody, sarge, | Northumberland | youmustbejoki

Re: multiarchitecture binaries - technical obstacles?

2003-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
d that would solve/help what exactly? *I* don't have a s/390 at home to > produce such packages. And I'm sure people don't want to wait for all > buildds even for unstable... Not to mention download times. Here I am, stuck with a 56K modem... -- | Darren Salt | nr.

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-13 Thread Darren Salt
ould get things up and running without any need to modify (m)any packages. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | woody, sarge, | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | RISC OS | demon co uk | Toon Army | http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/> (PGP 2.6, GPG k

Re: Work-needing packages report for Apr 11, 2003

2003-04-12 Thread Darren Salt
avetable synthesis daughter board, and playmidi is the only thing I've > found that can use it. Hmm... another reason to keep it, then. [snip] > For instance, what are some good replacements for magicfilter? apsfilter seems to work well. > Or linuxconf? A text editor :-

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Darren Salt
mmer who'll be interested in hearing from you ;-) > He's talking about the envelope sender address on the confirmation > messages, which is empty (<>), the same as for bounce messages. That doesn't matter (much) wrt address/location checks... -- | Darren Salt

Re: Ask yourself some questions

2002-11-24 Thread Darren Salt
ghing out loud at most of them. > Sadly, my coworkers think I'm going insane rather than laughing at a good > joke. :) Talking to the monitor can't help that too much either... Has it ever answered? -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, | linux (or ds) at | Linux PC, Risc PC | Nort

Re: lack of libbz2 bindings [Was: Packages.bz2, ...]

2002-08-31 Thread Darren Salt
]) since this should allow those of us who are running stable [2] to grab the occasional binary package from testing or, possibly, unstable. [1] As opposed to "after sarge releases". [2] On humanbrain-linux, if you're wondering. ;-) -- | Darren Salt | nr. Ashington, |

Re: Antigen found =*.pif file

2002-04-20 Thread Darren Salt
m RFC 2822: >"In all cases, the "From:" field SHOULD NOT contain any mailbox that >does not belong to the author(s) of the message." Why is it that your attention is directed at the From header instead of the lack of a Sender header? -- | Darren Salt | lin

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that tony mancill may or may not have written... > On Sun, 14 Apr 2002, Darren Salt wrote: >> xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ > FYI, aviplay (in the avifile-player package) plays the animation just fine. Bug 141319 (no dependency on libavifile0.6) bi

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread Darren Salt
during the > first fly-through) > http://www.fachschaften.uni-muenchen.de/~erich/debian/woody.avi xanim says that DIVX(44495658) is unsupported. :-\ -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberland | No Wodniws here | dem

Re: [2002-04-06] Release Status Update

2002-04-06 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Anthony Towns may or may not have written... [snip] > I'm becoming increasingly confident in woody's release readiness. So, to go > out on a limb: > Debian 3.0 (codenamed woody) will release on May 1st, 2002. Oh good. What will it be releasing? :-)

Re: Sponsor for gkrellm-newsticker

2002-01-03 Thread Darren Salt
1.2-1 These don't: logjam3.0.1-2 It looks as if both logjam and gkrellm-newsticker have it wrong, *but* I think that it'd be easier to use the Provides option. (For some reason, packages.d.o doesn't seem to want to return 'came' in the package search resul

Re: EURO and CENT signs in the console keymaps

2002-01-02 Thread Darren Salt
ake us > just as bad as Microsoft where standards are concerned? There is precedent for this elsewhere; the E**o character appears at 0x80 in RISC OS 4's Latin* character sets. -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux PC, Risc PC | youmustbejoking | Northumberla

Re: at least 260 packages broken on arm, powerpc and s390 due to wrong assumption on char signedness

2001-12-31 Thread Darren Salt
I demand that Colin Walters may or may not have written... [snip] > No, the C standard guarantees that a char is exactly a single byte; i.e. > sizeof(char) == 1. Yes, but who's to say that a byte is 8 bits wide? :-) -- | Darren Salt | linux (or ds) at | nr. Ashington, | Linux

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-27 Thread Darren Salt
^']*'|[^':]*)/g; # split, leaving 'quoted' as is foreach (@host) { $_ =~ s/^'(.*)'$/$1/; } # 'quoted' => quoted I /think/ that what's happening is that all parenthesised expressions in the regexp are being assigned to @host, whether defined (

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