Re: Looking for help with ftp archive

1999-09-17 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, Christian Meder wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 1999 at 05:12:30PM -0700, Joel Klecker wrote: At 01:30 +0200 1999-09-17, Raphael Hertzog wrote: where are you ? Where are the people who criticized the ftpmaster about beeing too slow ? It's time to show that you can do better ...

Re: the logo: logo selections now available!

1999-04-07 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Adam Heath wrote: sucks a few times Thanks for that enlightening, reasoned comment. As a member of the logo team I'm glad to see that you appreciate the amount of effort that has gone into selecting those logos. What are you looking for in a logo exactly? Matthew -- Elen

Re: Call for mascot! :-) -- flying pigs

1999-01-31 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 30 Jan 1999, Ben Pfaff wrote: Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anderson MacKay [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Avery Pennarun wrote: Octopi and ants may also be good, if they have wings. Octopi with wings? Now -that- is a confusing bunch of

Re: Bug#32595: remove obsolete and confusing acquisition methods: harddisk, mounted, cdrom, nfs

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 30 Jan 1999, Enrique Zanardi wrote: On Sun, Jan 31, 1999 at 02:21:38AM +1100, Martin Mitchell wrote: Enrique Zanardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What about dpkg-multicd? I have no objection to cdrom being replaced with dpkg-multicd. But dpkg-multicd is more than

Re: Installation Profiles [was: Re: Reality check!]

1999-01-30 Thread M.C. Vernon
[ redundant emacs versions ] Well, I'll suggest that for potato. It will start a nice flame-war on debian-devel emacs vs. xemacs. Hey, that's just what we need at this stage for *slink*! :-) Okay, let's be serious again: unfortunately this actually means that some of the most

Re: Call for mascot! :-)

1999-01-28 Thread M.C. Vernon
1. Dragon (well-liked choice on IRC) Cool. As long as it's a decent dragon 2. Octopus (my own suggestion) OK 3. Monkey No 4. Ant no 5. Bee no :) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo [EMAIL PROTECTED], Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support

Re: Debian booth at linuxworld, volenteers wanted

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On 25 Jan 1999, Dale E. Martin wrote: Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just received confirmation that LinuxCentral is funding a booth at the LinuxWorld expo for debian. I'll be organizing it and I'm still looking for more volenteers to help man the booth so let me know if you'll be

Re: New logo strategy

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 25 Jan 1999, James A. Treacy wrote: I'd like to thank Wichert for taking on this thankless task. I'd also like to ask that we set strict criteria for what constitutes a logo. I don't feel like going back through the archives, but the criteria I remember off the top of my head are:

Re: Debian logo contest, step 2

1999-01-26 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 26 Jan 1999, Wichert Akkerman wrote: I just got word back from Sven Riedel, the guy in charge of organizing gimp contests. He was happy with our request, and was willing to organize the whole thing. The contest will start in februari, after the current contest (dreams) ends. Details

Re: Reality check!

1999-01-24 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Steve Shorter wrote: On Sun, 24 Jan 1999, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: installation easier requires hard work. If it would be easy, it would have been long done. The trick is to keep flexibility (and don't tell me SuSE is flexibel). Doing it easy for the newbie and

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: On Fri, Jan 22, 1999 at 03:24:28PM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: Why do I get the idea I should bring up once again my hope to gather a sizable group of people to build a game system which is released under free license and available to anyone

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-23 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 23 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: On Sat, Jan 23, 1999 at 10:23:51AM +, M.C. Vernon wrote: I'm all for it! How about it, anyone else interested? :) aolMe too/aol We could call it gnuice :-) I would have to bop you then... = But it would be under a free

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, David Welton wrote: The kernel is stable, but is the kernel + debian stable? No one knows. Well, assuming it's an improvement on the pre-release ones, we can make a pretty good guess :) I think we should include it, as a service to people who don't want to download

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Joseph Carter wrote: As well, my roommate and I were going to also make a character sheet program (hence the reason for making the rolldice stuff a library), so we could just enter the data, and either save it to a file or go ahead and print it out... my roommate has

Re: Intent to package rolldice, blackjack

1999-01-22 Thread M.C. Vernon
Why do I get the idea I should bring up once again my hope to gather a sizable group of people to build a game system which is released under free license and available to anyone with a web browser and the like? = I'm all for it! How about it, anyone else interested? :) aolMe too/aol

Re: Debian booth at LinuxTag '99?

1999-01-20 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Michael Bramer wrote: All is in german. No part is in english. sorry. Does this mean there's little point in English-only people turning up? (maybe if we get enough debian people there, we can have a bilingual stall :)) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward

Re: new unstable please

1998-10-18 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 18 Oct 1998, Thomas Lakofski wrote: Hi, I noticed that with the transition to frozen, as expected, packages too unstable to be in frozen have vanished (on ftp.debian.org, at least). I hope I can expect a new unstable to appear within a few days, if only to drop those packages

Test

1998-10-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
Sorry to spam you guys, but I my inbox is uncharactaristically empty Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/ http://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/

PGP question

1998-10-15 Thread M.C. Vernon
I have a slight problem with PGP: I do my development on pick and can post from there (but don't) - all my email is done from cus (and I'm not sure if it can cope with PGP) So do I: post from pick, and hope no-one sends me encrypted mail or what? I need to sort this out

Re: Thoughts on installation

1998-10-13 Thread M.C. Vernon
The second problem was installing X (an issue which I get the impression is already being addressed). Basically the X configuration process died on me all 4 times I tried it during install, leaving .dkpg-new files everywhere, so the only option was to install only the base system, and then

Re: dbugging dselect

1998-10-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sun, 11 Oct 1998, David Stern wrote: install attempt in dselect error message: - [..unmet dependencies, blah, blah.. ] dependencies: perl-suid: Depends:perl libpam0: Depends:libpam0g perl: Depends:perl-base I missed the

Re: Ropes in stl (was Re: lack of wstring in libstdc++2.8-dev)

1998-10-12 Thread M.C. Vernon
void main(void) snippety BTW, main returns int, not void. See the comp.lang.c FAQ for the bit of the C standard that defines this - main is incorrectly said to return void in a number of texts though. HTH, Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society

Re: office package

1998-10-11 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Joseph Carter wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 10:59:52PM +0200, Bart Schuller wrote: I wonder if and when we get together a real office package under gnome. I wouldlove to see that. My personal favorites would be a glyx, gtksql with poistgresql and a spreadsheet,

Re: Debian logo

1998-10-10 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Sat, Oct 10, 1998 at 12:25:07PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Sat, 10 Oct 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: I would prefer a new logo, too. We shouldn't draw it. We should run a gimp contest. They produced the Gnome logo, and there are

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
How about naming it after species of penguin? That should keep us going for a little while... I like my new debian emperor system ;) Matthew -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Steward of the Cambridge Tolkien Society Selwyn College Computer Support http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Chamber/8841/

Re: what's after slink

1998-10-05 Thread M.C. Vernon
On Mon, 5 Oct 1998, David Welton wrote: On Mon, Oct 05, 1998 at 10:06:20AM -0700, Kenneth Scharf wrote: Hey that's the best Idea yet. Rockhoppers are my favorite varity. BTW there are several dozen species (took the kids to the NY aquarium this summer.) fx:nice warm glow Glad people

Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with owner@bugs.debian.org (fwd)

1998-06-11 Thread M.C. Vernon
://www.cam.ac.uk/CambUniv/Societies/tolkien/ http://pick.sel.cam.ac.uk/ -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 1998 13:31:23 +0100 (BST) From: M.C. Vernon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Volunteer(s) wanted to help with [EMAIL