Retirement, etc

2003-06-25 Thread Joseph Carter
s. Either package is up to the first bidder. I'm sure you'll all figure it out - I'm busy with a few quick summer credits before I transfer. Take care everyone! =) - -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This sentence no verb. my computer was o

[VAC] Moving and more

2002-08-29 Thread Joseph Carter
and won't have a chance to coordinate testing with anyone else till I get back. Also removing the call to autogen.sh in the rules file will workaround the libtool issue for now. Beyond that, see everyone in a couple weeks, or maybe sooner! -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> The

Re: DMA, ide-scsi, devfs by default

2002-08-27 Thread Joseph Carter
e rest of the kernel (consistency, > > what's that?) > > In American English usage, "disk" is standard for all usages *except* > for CDs, which are always "compact discs" Yeah, but Americans can't spel

Re: Convenient way to enable IDE DMA

2002-08-26 Thread Joseph Carter
gs at bootup since you only see the devices you've actually got in the filesystem. If someday a Debian installation uses 2.4+ kernels only, Debian should be using devfs by default. Won't happen till then because Herbert Xu would sooner cut his wrists than apply a patch to Debian'

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-17 Thread Joseph Carter
ering to plugin code or a JDK. > plugin != JDK. I downloaded JDK, I got a plugin. JDK includes plugin, therefore JDK has dependencies on old libstdc++. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>What're you looking at? I'm starting to think the gene pool could use a l

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-17 Thread Joseph Carter
6.1-1.so.2 : I know it doesn't work because I didn't have the thing when I first tried to set up the JDK. I'll be needing it for school, so I'm watching the discussion of a free JDK environment setup package thingy kinda closely. I'm not a fan of things whic

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 11:49:03PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joseph> Sun's JDK. > > I know for a fact there's no use of dynamic C++ libraries in any JDK > prio

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Joseph Carter
On Fri, Aug 16, 2002 at 02:54:03PM -0700, Stephen Zander wrote: > >>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Joseph> Well there's the proprietary JDK, but it already uses a > Joseph> -compat package library. > >

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-16 Thread Joseph Carter
a -compat package library. *shrug* -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Don't feed the sigs xhost +localhost should only be done by people who would paint their hostname and root password on an interstate overpass. pgpVkJEjPhr4Q.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#156503: microsoft changed its policy, msttcorefonts broken

2002-08-15 Thread Joseph Carter
ready packaged in Debian as xfonts-jmk. If Jim has TTF fonts I don't know about, I'd absolutely love to package them. The same goes for a utf-8 version of his existing fonts, which his website's been promising for a couple years now. ;) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: g++ 3.2 on woody ?

2002-08-14 Thread Joseph Carter
bout as far as my vision. (For those not in the know, that's "not very"..) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Available in cherry and grape `You have been unsubscribed from the high energy personal protection devices mailing list' I dont remember

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-19 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 09:16:49PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > this is the New Overfiend, preacher of Love and Tolerance > > I see your irony detector is as non-functional as ever... :) Oh it works just fine. It just _had_ to be said, sooner or later -- Joseph Carter <[

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:25:31PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > *Evil* twin? You mean one of us isn't? > > > > He's bck. > > I didn't go anywhere. Nowhere in my platform did I claim I wasn't evil. > ;-) this is the New Overfiend,

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Joseph Carter
e able to do it if he really tries to think about it first. > Xdm doesn't work, but that's the only breakage I've run into. ... and this comes as a surprise? Xdm is evil. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I swallowed your goldfish heh thats a lost cause

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-16 Thread Joseph Carter
the document was not taken down when 4.1 packages were ready, everything in it still applies today to 4.2..) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Here we go again I should probably reboot... ok brb So, what apart form avoiding virii, memory leaks, and rampant c

Re: Any DDs out there with a Nomad Jukebox?

2002-04-16 Thread Joseph Carter
o the public, but it _can_ play them, certainly. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Certified free software nut "What are we going to do tonight, Bill?" "Same thing we do every night Steve, try to take over the world!" pgpbTBKpQOcRP.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [SDL] SDL 1.2.4 debian packages

2002-04-16 Thread Joseph Carter
st solution is SDL 1.2.4 with the distclean and ALSA 0.9 patches you've applied to 1.2.5cvs is what I should upload, and probably targetted for woody to fix the build from source bug. It may take me a couple of days to do this since I need to test the hell out of it all between now and then. --

Re: Supermount

2002-04-15 Thread Joseph Carter
ch as ejecting a medium in use. A standard ISA-mapped floppy controller's drive can be ejected in the middle of a write. You can't deal with that in any meaningful way. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Now I'll take over the world dunham: You know how real numbers

SDL 1.2.4 debian packages

2002-04-15 Thread Joseph Carter
romises that SDL 1.2.4 will actually get into woody either way - I'm building it in a woody chroot to make sure it _can_ go into woody, but I am targetting it for a woody release. Whether it gets in or not depends on the rest of the release process and whether or not major bugs are found in the

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Joseph Carter
50 takes several hours. If you're lucky. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>What're you looking at? this is the New Overfiend, preacher of Love and Tolerance pgpYH1WTtp9Hg.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Joseph Carter
actually use the package. A few exceptions exist, but I suspect not many. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>This thing is an AI * joeyh_ wonders if linux is supposed to lock up when you ask 100 processes to cat the entire cd drive pgpZvKWHR5Wb9.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-09 Thread Joseph Carter
an they absolutely need to be changed. I wouldn't mind seeing the Debian Free Content Guidelines change, just to put this issue to bed for the forseeable future, but I do think that's a silly thing to spend a long voting process on. =p -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Joseph Carter
his > > trial. Or you could just write an E-Mail to BTS or write your > > own super duper bug reporting tool. > > Stop talking about one's time. I won't repeat myself. He's talking about doing the right thing for users. Novel concept I do realize, but an imp

Re: Bug#141847: O: dupload -- Utility to upload Debian packages.

2002-04-09 Thread Joseph Carter
nd dput are (though dput was not when I first tried it - weird problems that have resolved themselves with a few more revisions..) We'll see about linda. If you think you can make a better tool than one that exists, make it. I don't care what you write it in as long as it works well.

Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards

2002-04-09 Thread Joseph Carter
more direct. That would be a massive PITA given that so far such changes seem to require a supermajority GR vote. I think it's probably a good idea, personally. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sooner or later, BOOM! Knghtbrd: We have lots of whatev

Re: GNU FDL

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
t; > So is the Bible "software"? We ship it in a package, after all. I believe the Copyright has expired on that one, so it's a moot point. It is in the public domain. Modifications to it are legal - in most courts at least. Modify at your own risk software? =p -- Josep

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
e. Neither are conffiles, icons, etc. So, > if we're to be true to our creed, here's what we have to do: Ahh, but icons which fail the DFSG have been declared non-free in the past. So we have (still more) precedent for applying the DFSG to non-software. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL P

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-08 Thread Joseph Carter
n just because it's a GNU license. Either the license is a mistake (as I believe) or our method of determining a thing's freeness needs to be relaxed. I don't intend to support relaxing our definition of free very much. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
al Contract/DFSG document was made. (Personally, I think that was a very unwise precedent to set.. Who has the authority to change it? Does Manoj, as the current secretary?) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> You're entitled to my opinion those apparently-bacteria-like mult

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
ch no consensus was ever reached that the license is free. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> glDisable (DX8_CRAP); you don't have to be insane to work hereoh wait, yes you do! :) pgpUN5zjhhOpm.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
fallout of a conclusion against the FDL, and no attempt to revise the DFSG has ever succeeded. I expect the issue will eventually be dropped (again) without resolution and either Debian will continue to cover its ears and hum real loud, unless someone is foolish enough to believe that they can gat

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
ter and click on "Introduction to KDE". > > We should also move binutils and gcc to non-free because the manpages > are under the GNU FDL. So the FDL is a free license because it's inconvenient for it to be not? -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If

Re: The GNU FDL is a free license! (Was: Re: O: gnu-standards -- GNU coding standards)

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
> The FDL is not DFSG-compliant, but that doesn't make it non-free. By the definitions we have given "non-free", it is exactly that. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sooner or later, BOOM! knightbrd: from knightbrd.brain import * :) Oh go

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
t; in your view? I would certainly be less eager to argue over the 1.2 version if the FDL when it's released since it applies a sanity check to section 3 and clarifies a little the named sections which may deserve special treatment. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Have chai

Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main

2002-04-07 Thread Joseph Carter
that be have decided to close this bug, apparently without reading that the FDL isn't the only problem. Do as you like with it. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> My opinions are always right lilo: well then, you are probably a responsible thinker. Welcome

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-06 Thread Joseph Carter
out this? Why put a blatantly non-free license in the common licenses directory? -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> glDisable (DX8_CRAP); cat /dev/random | perl ? doogie: it is also a valid sendmail.cf :) * knghtbrd hands doogie a senseless-use-of-cat award * shaleh wan

Re: Uplink release with Debian

2002-04-03 Thread Joseph Carter
atly!) and don't happen to have a copy of Uplink yet. Those damned living expenses getting in the way of the really important things like games, you understand. =) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Certified free software nut you should be afraid to use KDE because RMS m

Re: Problems with libsdl1.2-dev 1.2.2-3.3 and OpenGL?

2002-01-15 Thread Joseph Carter
The last I've heard from guys at Matrox was that they too will likely go with a non-Mesa OpenGL, and possibly ATI will as well. I'm not sure about 3DLabs, but they're not much of a player in the consumer hardware market and probably don't even know we exist. -- Joseph Carter &l

Re: About sponsoring non-free packages

2002-01-14 Thread Joseph Carter
hose mistakes. But this isn't a technical hurdle. It's a political one designed to help maintain the facade that the stuff in non-free is not in fact part of Debian. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Don't feed the sigs The purpose of having mailing lists rat

Re: VIM features

2002-01-02 Thread Joseph Carter
"vi" user, so you WANT > those features. Actually, vim does install as an alternative for vi. At less priority than nvi obviously since nvi is more pure. It used to install itself as like priority 100 for both that and /usr/bin/editor. Neither of those were terribly good things, and

Re: quake I for woody

2001-12-31 Thread Joseph Carter
the QF packages, about 3 months ago as I remember it. It's at my apt > repo, alongside the (~1 month old) QF packages that depend on it. I'll look at these. Thanks to the flu - er, I mean ANTHRAX(!) - the only holiday I'm taking is a trip to the store for Theraflu and chicken soup,

Re: quake I for woody

2001-12-31 Thread Joseph Carter
t'd put the engines in main. I can actually do the necessary work to get the shareware thing done next weekend (I'm going on holiday for a few days and won't have much time for code..) As for the registered game installer, I've got something written in perl for that already,

Re: quake I for woody

2001-12-31 Thread Joseph Carter
sary as I had permission to distribute the glibc2 binaries which were made for Quake: The Offering for Linux. I could also fix up SDLQuake for SDL 1.2, OpenGL, and QW support if need be. That at least I can apply -sharedir and -gamename switches to so that nasty symlink trees are not needed. -

Re: new port: and the winner is....

2001-09-02 Thread Joseph Carter
; > compiled for MSVC versions 4 and 6. > > Yes, but using mingw for the port is out of the question IMHO. If you > tried that, you'd end up re-implementing Cygwin... That's not a problem if what resulted was not as buggy and otherwise broken as cygwin tends

Re: emu10k1-mixer?

2001-05-07 Thread Joseph Carter
ped. I think getting the current driver in the kernels is the best bet. Once that happens and the tools are better documented, I think you'll see a bit more interest in making better tools for the SBLive. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer I am

Re: Recovering dpkg database

2001-04-22 Thread Joseph Carter
up yet. It took me all night on a DSL line, so I pity anyone with just a modem. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer The less you know about computers the more you want Microsoft! -- Microsoft ad campaign, circa 1996 (Proof th

Re: ITP: Bakery

2001-01-10 Thread Joseph Carter
aries Gtk-- and Gnome-- entirely. Never should you generate source code with Glade. The result is ugly and not very good anyway. There is libglade for this purpose. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer Exactly how much of a PITA is this in C? It&

Re: lynx 2.8.4dev.16 --with-ssl

2001-01-10 Thread Joseph Carter
lynx is GPLed, surely we shouldn't be linking it to OpenSSL at > all? :( (Unless there's an exception I'm not aware of ...) AFAIK, there isn't. =( -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer come on it's a pico clone it's *meant* to be annoying pgpAb0KsrKeln.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: dueling banjos

2000-12-27 Thread Joseph Carter
trange request. I don't know where in Debian to find dueling banjos, but I know where to find dueling licenses. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Free software developer dhd: R you part of the secret debian overstructure? no. there is no secret debian overstructu

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-25 Thread Joseph Carter
ity to fix dpkg's broken database with a text editor. > > if your talking about a different database then nevermind. Berkeley DB to text and back is pretty easy. Also, I was speaking of binary indices which are even easier to regenerate if corrupted. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-24 Thread Joseph Carter
ell of a lot nicer to people's CPUs and memory. Whether or not that requires a re-implemenetation of dpkg or not isn't for me to say since I haven't looked at dpkg's code in 3 years. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Close list

2000-12-23 Thread Joseph Carter
iltered before it ever gets to the requester. Needless to say, I have considered taking drastic action regarding this stupidity. For the record, I'm talking about the GGI Project's ggi-develop list, which I used to follow. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuP

Re: finishing up the /usr/share/doc transition

2000-12-23 Thread Joseph Carter
package has likely been abandoned upstream but am not sure. I don't want to take the package for that reason (I think eog could become a better replacement for it in time.) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian

Re: x-session-manager alternative

2000-12-23 Thread Joseph Carter
7;s > log in screen? I'll give you a hint.. gnome-session tries to start x-window-manager. What if that's gnome-session? What if that's startkde? In either case, that could be really messy really fast. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuP

Re: Bug#79933: [window minimization] animation not pointing to correct location

2000-12-23 Thread Joseph Carter
s, he's an idiot. Christian, please don't waste time on this "problem". Eray's opinion of the severity of this problem is, as often, quite lucid. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.or

Re: Mozilla PSM (https support)

2000-09-13 Thread Joseph Carter
have a look at the regulations or something? IIRC the policies were up for review in four months, but it's been longer than that by quite some measure. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261

Re: KDE2 - nice demolition job ...

2000-09-13 Thread Joseph Carter
email software) cause me to question his qualifications as a Debian developer. He certainly seems like he would not make much of a positive influence in or reflection on the project as a whole. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http:

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
hort of the impossible (which has now happened..) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 how bout

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
teous and pure. IMO, this makes him as dangerous as Eric Raymond. (But then, my opinions of RMS as a "leader" aren't terribly popular around here... I do freely admit my own ego is too large to make me any better, so I am essentially throwing stones outside my glass ho

Re: End of the line for Epic?

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
gt; hideous bugs, but it's not going anyplace, either. You might be right with all of the talk of epic4 1.0 ... -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
To sum up, your particular problem is not with DNS, it's with some fool > arbitrarily blocking either you in particular, or some larger network which > includes you. I don't have such a problem. As you have agreed, any such requirement would be unreasonable, so why are we arguing? -

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
to coding and Debian to get back to packaging. Show's over, nothing to see here, move along. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quak

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
he DUL, so far as I know. A couple of hosts seem to reject 24.* or something, but I'm not overly worried about them. I _AM_ worried about people who want to make it worse by adding additional arbitrary requirements before they accept mail related to Debian. It's somewhat amusing

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
se name is actually the machine in question. How this would combat spam, I have no idea, but if you found such a system it would indeed be very broken. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F1

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Joseph Carter
s is world-renown at this point. So let's not even start there, because I'm going to be very upset when people start suggesting I need a couple thousand a month for a decent T1 connection in order to be considered a good net citizen. You can't even get ISDN here. -- Joseph Carter <

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Joseph Carter
ose from whom they reject legitimate mail find another way to deliver mail to them, however. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/)

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Joseph Carter
ard? Until then, you have absolutely no right to tell someone what ISP they should use. For some, the option of getting another ISP is unaffordable or even impossible in some regions of the world. This is sometimes true even in the US, especially if you require more than a modem connection. -

Re: QT-GPL

2000-09-06 Thread Joseph Carter
On Wed, Sep 06, 2000 at 09:07:23AM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Anyone checked the temperature in Hell lately? > Do you intend to go there? By the sounds of it, it's time to plan a ski trip ... -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9D

Re: QT-GPL

2000-09-06 Thread Joseph Carter
in main for > Woody, right? Yes. Anyone checked the temperature in Hell lately? -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7

Re: ITP lame

2000-09-06 Thread Joseph Carter
sue is .de (and the rest of the world) mirrors. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 ok guys .. so whens t

Re: ITP or rather upload... KDE

2000-09-06 Thread Joseph Carter
hey want more bleeding edge stuff durring freezes and for releases. Just a suggestion. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9

Re: (Beware helix packages) Re: [CrackMonkey] The right to bare legs

2000-09-05 Thread Joseph Carter
just don't understand. It defies the conventional structured thinking I apply to the way I write my code. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (h

Re: (Beware helix packages) Re: [CrackMonkey] The right to bare legs

2000-09-05 Thread Joseph Carter
s a fact of life. New software is more likely to have unknown bugs that affect more people. What makes the Helix packages so nice is the turnaround time for fixes. I don't know how they do it, but they do. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 De

Re: Qt2.2 released under the GPL

2000-09-05 Thread Joseph Carter
ars the likes of which I couldn't even place on a CDR in compressed format. All of that isn't going away overnight. So what we really have is a single step. A big and important one - but still a step. So do we prance around gloating over our "victory" or do we take the next

Re: Qt going GPL ...

2000-09-05 Thread Joseph Carter
> I was wondering if there was some long flame war on debian-private > that I was missing. No flamewar on -private (at the moment), and the archive people wouldn't just delete it. Most likely you're seeing mirroring delays. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Qt going GPL ...

2000-09-04 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:55:51PM +0200, Jordi Mallach wrote: > > Who is going to ITP kde ? > > I guess RevKrusty may want to put his packages into Debian? He already uploaded kdelibs, I didn't see if it was installed. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Help on Debian Project - Need Me?

2000-09-04 Thread Joseph Carter
t; think most people feel the same way. Yes, that is essential. Making information available is the single most important thing the website is there for. Nice web pages are good for Debian's image, but if the information isn't there the fluff isn't worth it. That

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Joseph Carter
oup users or whatever. I see other uses for a users group as some web CGI scripts have files that need to be world writable and you can only maintain security that way if you make the files you.users 646 or 642. Obviously, no default is going to be acceptable to everyone, that's why it

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Sep 02, 2000 at 10:07:04AM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote: > > want. Shall we make something like 700 default? It would break some > > things like "UserDir public_html" in Apache, etc. In my school server > > You could make it 711. 751 seems more reasonable IMO

Re: Free Pine?

2000-09-01 Thread Joseph Carter
ee is hot! By reading this sentance, you agree that it in fact is a sentance and also that it is funny. Hukt awn foniks wurks fer mea! Do not look into laser with remaining eye. Do not adjust your TV set. This paragraph makes no sense except that about five people who read it will be slightly am

Re: Non-US Incoming

2000-08-21 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sun, Aug 20, 2000 at 07:51:14PM +0400, Michael Sobolev wrote: > > Previously Michael Sobolev wrote: > > > Is it possible to access this for non-developers? > > > > No. > Hmm.. And what's the reason of that? Nobody has bothered to set it up yet, most

Re: Bug#69229: [PROPOSED 2000/08/16] Free pkgs depending on non-US should go into non-US/{main,contrib}

2000-08-20 Thread Joseph Carter
hat does (from non-US/*) would > go in the following, probably. [..] Seconded. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F

Re: Braille devices

2000-08-20 Thread Joseph Carter
hat reason. Not necessary. I might use such a thing to write a kernel driver for handling I/O for the wearable I've been planning to build at some point, however.) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 2

Re: ITP: gopher, gopherd, gopherindex

2000-08-18 Thread Joseph Carter
On Thu, Aug 17, 2000 at 01:30:29PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > I intend to package up the gopher suite from UMN, together with my > patches to it. > > Note: they have informed me it will be GPL'd shortly. And so the madness begins... -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&

Re: Intel Assembly error

2000-08-18 Thread Joseph Carter
ing to the C. I never became clear on that. Sometimes that C alternative is only useful for porting the asm to a new language because the C would run too slowly for acceptable results. (quake for example..) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian G

Re: Embedded Debian (was: compaq iPaq)

2000-08-18 Thread Joseph Carter
ure... May not be worth the development time and effort, but it SOUNDS like one hell of a cool hack to me (at least at 2am..) -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForg

Re: How many CDs in potato?

2000-08-18 Thread Joseph Carter
port either. This caused the proposal to be rejected. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforge.net/) 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 Be warned, I h

Re: Pgcc in Deb

2000-04-03 Thread Joseph Carter
Those patches and improvements found in pgcc get added to egcs as soon as they are known not to do stupid things anyway so it's worthwhile simply to stick with egcs and use the optimizations it provides. In almost all cases you will not be seeing any noticable difference in execution speed. --

ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
nd once only to reach you via the lists. I will not attempt to do so in the future. Mail me from an ISP with a clue in the future if you'd like a reply. Regarding your problem, epic4 pre2.507 (uploaded today) should fix it. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Joseph Carter
s you can provide me with an RFC number which deprecates running a mail server on a static IP address with an identifyable host name. I will not reply to the rest of the flamebait in the original message. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debia

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Joseph Carter
d they're usually not cheap. Third: The difference in cost between my DSL service and any other broadband service (even with lest bandwidth!) is almost exponentially more expensive. You've not offered to pay the difference. (Nor do I suspect that you could afford it..) -- Joseph Carter

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Joseph Carter
ke Debian use all the blacklists you want. You'll find users and developers dropping like flies. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC The QuakeForge Project (http://quakeforg

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Joseph Carter
ld get another. There are an awful lot of people out there who simply CAN'T DO THAT. Expecting them to is even more of an example of just how wrong the DUL is from its beginning. RSS and RBL at least are measures taken to combat known spammer friendly sites. DUL discriminates on what ki

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-28 Thread Joseph Carter
d mail through one smarthost which sends through another which sends through another. It's all for a good cause. The holy land must be purged. Remember that. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/)

Re: 0 days till bug horizon

2000-03-28 Thread Joseph Carter
On Mon, Mar 27, 2000 at 05:38:54PM +0200, Richard Braakman wrote: > Package: epic4 (debian/main). > Maintainer: Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > 58508 Epic pre2.503 has bugs which 2.505 has not The bugs mentioned in this report do not affect everybody. 505 fixed a few bu

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
le even had a choice! Can't make an omelette without breaking some eggs right? That sort of uncaring attitude shows exactly how unethical that view (and IMO the people who hold it) are. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Lin

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
fically for the purposes of tracking who was trying to use the relay... ie, one rabid anti-spam group blacklisted another because their methods happened to conflict. It's rather amusing to say the least. Unfortunately, it demonstrates that ORBS is a little more indiscriminant than perha

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
7;ve heard to the contrary, I'm not sure I believe that. I've also been told that there are cases where their tests produce false positives. -- Joseph Carter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG key 1024D/DCF9DAB3 Debian GNU/Linux (http://www.debian.org/) 20F6 2261 F

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
ist. ORBS has a tendancy to not take the time to make sure their messages go to the right places and then they are very slow to take sites off the list after problems are fixed. ie, to them making sure spam never happens is more important than what damage they cause in hte process. I rate

Re: Idea: Debian Developer Information Center

2000-03-26 Thread Joseph Carter
On Sat, Mar 25, 2000 at 09:51:50PM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > Hey people ! I posted this mail in order to have some input ... it would > be great if some of you gave their opinion about this proposition I posted > a while ago : [..] I'd have to bookmark myself. ;> -- Jose

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