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

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003, Branden Robinson wrote: > Catholics compared to their Protestant brethren. I should think if > anyone were taught demonology these days, it would be kids in Catholic I knew all about demons around that age, and I'm not even a religious person. Doom taught me everything I ne

Re: ITP: 1-mb-random-data -- one megabyte of pseudo-random data

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003, Joey Hess wrote: > I intend to dd if=/dev/urandom of=debian/tmp/usr/lib/1-mb-random-data Will this be available via CVS? ;) Mike

Re: Forgive me

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Christoph Haas wrote: > Perhaps I'd better send all my passwords and serial numbers here. In > case my hard disk crashes I can always recover it from the mailing list > archives. SCNR. Isn't this basically how Linus does/says to do his backups? Or was that someone else? Mik

Re: Garbled messages received from lists.d.o.

On 27 Jun 2003, Philippe Troin wrote: > I have been receiving bugs.d.o emails which are unrelated to my > package for the last two-three days. > > And their headers seem quite garbled: they include part of other > messages... > > Included five of them. > > Is there anything fishy going on? Or is t

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

On Tue, 13 May 2003, Paul Jarc wrote: > No, the file's metadata is stored in its own inode. But its > permission bits affect access only to its data, not to its metadata. > Metadata is always writable by the owner - otherwise you wouldn't be > able to restore your own write access after removing

Re: Announcing Debian Package Tags

On Wed, 30 Apr 2003, Martijn van Oosterhout wrote: > Maybe that's intuitive to some people but to me it just looks wierd. On the > other hand if it simply had the letters "bash" or just "sh" it's meaning > would have been immediatly apparent. Indeed. There's a Windows tool I use at times, called

Re: /proc/cpuinfo is false

On Sat, 30 Nov 2002, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > I have a nfs-server at home and it was running SLINK r5. > All was working fine. > > Now I have installed WOODY r0 on it, and linux_logo give > me only 117 MHz. The BogoMIPS are right with 233.47. Indeed, that speed IS right. AMD did the

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, Branden Robinson wrote: > Sorry, correction: total liquid assets. SPI "owns" some hardware in the > U.S. on behalf of Debian (like the machine that is auric.debian.org), > but an exhaustive inventory has not been done. > > We, uh, might want to do that someday, say for insura

Re: sox sucks !

On Fri, 14 Sep 2001, Eric Van Buggenhaut wrote: > I'm unable to find out why this command actuall doesn't work : > > mpg123 -s audio/01_Birdland.mp3 | sox -r 44100 -s -w -c2 - \ > audio/01_Birdland.wav i assume there's something wrong with mpg123 -w audio/01_Birdland.wav audio/01_Birdland.mp3?

Re: System spec.'s

> PC hardware won't even POST without a videocard! > Depends on your BIOS, I had a 486 in the closet for over a year with no video card in it. Setup the machine, set the video to NONE, in the bios, and pulled the video card out. Worked fine, until it locks up and you can't see why :) Mike

Re: Hello

> would even dare try it. I have decided to offer windows and siding > to you, at our basic cost. In other words, I'm going to offer you > windows and siding for no personal profit whatsoever! This will Can i get the siding without the windows? If not, am I able to return the windows unopened,

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

Daniel Stone wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:21:58PM +0200, David N. Welton wrote: > > Adding readline support, while you're at it, would be really nice:-) > > And alias "quit" to "exit". :) type.exit.you.dolt A 127.0.0.1 quitIN CNAME type.exit.you.dolt.windsorma