Re: Questionable image process. Was: Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- (abusive?) erotic images in Debian

2004-12-04 Thread David Palmer
Bruce Perens wrote: David Weinehall wrote: The ITP contains a link to the source for the package. You *really* need to have a look at the pictures. All of your argumentation below about pron neatly goes *wooosh*. I'll take your word. However, we seem to be lacking some process here. I don't have

Linux: Status Update On Open Source Friendly Graphics Card

2004-10-27 Thread David Palmer
Hello, Noticed this a couple of days back, and it's one of those things that stay on your mind and nag away at you until you become functional. I'm not up to taking on anything as advanced as this, but I thought perhaps others may be interested. http://kerneltrap.org/node/view/4057 Regards, Davi

Re: linux cookbook package

2004-10-15 Thread David Palmer
Nico Golde wrote: Hello David, ok this explains a deletion of the package, but it isnt fully deleted (it is in stable) but it isnt on the devel page of the maintainer. sorry i dont understand it. The one in stable will be the first edition which was free. Regards, David.

Re: linux cookbook package

2004-10-14 Thread David Palmer
Nico Golde wrote: hi, i saw the linuxcookbook package is only available in stable (i mailed the maintainer why) but i noticed that the package isnt mantioned on the devel package of the maintainer: http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] can someone tell me why? regards nico:wq The second edition

Re: ..d-u support sponsorships, was: Problem with ppp keeping link up

2004-10-12 Thread David Palmer
Mike Mestnik wrote: --- Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How about breaking up the list in to several smaller lists, like debian-fierwall. Already exists, but is under used. I think that many post 'wall questions to d-u because of the higher population, and therefore the greater potentia

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-18 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 20:08, Michael Piefel wrote: > Am 18.12.03 um 11:05:36 schrieb Sven Luther: > > That would be a funny naming scheme. That said, how would we then > > differentiate the three BSD ports ? GNU/First one that shall not be > > named and so one ? > Exactly: >Debian GNU/First one

Re: [OT] Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-16 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 2003-12-17 at 06:30, Chad Walstrom wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:51:47 -0800, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > Well, it depends on what mythology you're working from. In the > > Christian mythology, which is probably the dominant context for > > evaluating that sort of questio

Re: Changes in formal naming for NetBSD porting effort(s)

2003-12-15 Thread David Palmer.
On Mon, 2003-12-15 at 20:57, Steinar H. Gunderson wrote: > [Whoops, didn't send to the list the first time :-)] > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:03:48PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > > LSD is "lysergic acid diethylamide", that's three words and there are three > > variants of BSD. So the only ques

[Fwd: Easing the load.]

2003-12-11 Thread David Palmer
-Forwarded Message- From: David Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-curiosa@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Easing the load. Date: 11 Dec 2003 20:50:15 +0800 I have seen what I believe is a need for an additional mailing list, not so much for the bene

Re: APT-Fu 0.2.3

2003-12-10 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 2003-12-11 at 10:54, Miles Bader wrote: > Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I'm afraid that although the character `fu' has many meanings, but > > style or technique isn't one of them. > > Hmmm, you seem to be right, I was confused. :-( > > I don't have a chinese dictionary, but

Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - packages

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 19:58, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 16:44, "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:04, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Please point out where the Adamantix developers expressed a willingness > >

Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - packages

2003-12-04 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 07:04, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thu, 4 Dec 2003 08:07, "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I note also that Adamantix developers, when a present priority project > > reaches completion, have expressed a willingness to commit in th

Re: The term "Custom Debian Distribution" (Was Re: [custom] The term "flavor" and encouraging work on Debian)

2003-12-03 Thread David Palmer.
On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 20:01, cobaco wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2003-12-03 12:24, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > On Wed, 2003-12-03 at 12:17, Andreas Tille wrote: > > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, Fabian Fagerholm wrote: > > > > The term suggests that the distribution is "

Re: [custom] Debian Enterprise - packages

2003-12-03 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 03:18, John Goerzen wrote: > On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 10:58:12AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Dec 2003, John Goerzen wrote: > > > > > First of all. This is obviously not a Debian projects > > I see it clearly as Debian project and can't find the rationale why > >

Re: Preparation of Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r2 (II)

2003-11-20 Thread David Palmer.
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 11:41, Kenshi Muto wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > At 19 Nov 03 18:12:44 GMT, > Osamu Aoki wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 16, 2003 at 11:20:21AM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > I'm sorry but I missed this mail. > > > > I'm not sure there's any reason t

Re: Programming first steps.

2003-11-18 Thread David Palmer
Just like to thank everybody for their opinions. I think that I've probably got enough to think about for now. Aside from the recommendations for languages and editors, the idea of learning multiple languages to gain more comprehensive expression for programming concepts, and also learning an initi

Re: Programming first steps.

2003-11-16 Thread David Palmer
Thank you Paul, Chad, Wesley and Bernhard. Regards, David.

Programming first steps.

2003-11-16 Thread David Palmer
Hello, I thought that I might make a beginning at learning. I've searched the web, found information that goes beyond the definition of plethora, so I thought that I'd ask here. (1) What is the best language to start with? Some say C. Others say C++. Some say learn C, then go on to C++. Others sa

Re: Help inserting soundcore.o in kernel 2.4.21

2003-10-10 Thread David Palmer.
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 19:45:46 +0800 "David Palmer." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey you guys, I need some help here from the gurus. > I've found that kernel 2.4.21 has no soundcore.o, at > least after googling it seems to be a general problem. > I posted a messag

Help inserting soundcore.o in kernel 2.4.21

2003-10-10 Thread David Palmer.
Hey you guys, I need some help here from the gurus. I've found that kernel 2.4.21 has no soundcore.o, at least after googling it seems to be a general problem. I posted a message to the users list about it last night, but I haven't got any help. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-