Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-09 Thread Philip Charles
echo -- STDOUT $OUT $@ $OUT 2 $ERR ; EXIT=$? cat $ERR cat $OUT echo -- `date +%H:%M:%S` Finished with exitcode $EXIT rm -f $OUT $ERR exit $EXIT -- Chuan-kai Lin http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~cklin/ -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64

Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

2007-10-29 Thread Philip Charles
, it is a shortened version of the original. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Philip Charles
Now there is a real authority ;) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs DVDs. See

Re: Debian Buzz and Rex binary packages

2007-04-11 Thread Philip Charles
list if you want copies. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] - business I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs DVDs. See http

Re: bet there are no senior citizen developers

2006-03-22 Thread Philip Charles
. Pushing 68 here. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs DVDs. See http

Re: Request of expulsion of Zeke the Cat from the Debian Project

2006-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
to happen the feline community would switch its loyalty to Slackware. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU

Re: Mirror split, amd64 update

2006-02-22 Thread Philip Charles
to ../debian-all. Is there any reason to restrict access to ../debian-all to rsync? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-10-26 Thread Philip Charles
, but use buzip2 -fk .../dists/sid/main/binary-hurd-i386/packages.bz2 Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Philip Charles
is designed for this. Mind you I had worked an alternative solution before discovering debmirror and no doubt others have done the same. Phil -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activitymonitor

2004-12-12 Thread Philip Charles
to death, Nonsence, people were to be stoned for many things, but homosexuality was not one of them. But, exegesis is a thorny topic, and really shouldn't be on d-devel. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

Re: [custom] Re: Custom Debian Distributions (was: Re: Integrate Knoppix in Debian (was: Re: Debian Enterprise?))

2003-12-01 Thread Philip Charles
customised Debian distros is not only the way of the future, it's the way of the present! Sure is, and Debian is by far the best distro for this purpose. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Philip Charles
if Debian could also be more aware of J.Average User. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:56:32AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8 documents. That's exactly one of the old-days craps around I was pointing. Wordperfect 11 is now

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Philip Charles
years. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Chris Halls wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:29:01PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: We have a lawyer here who is a GNU/linux geek who still has to use MS Word because openoffice.org cannot handle the complex formatting of his legacy Word documents. Is that still true

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:39:45AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: Take the Lawyer example. He probably bought his legal practice when it was all Word. He does not like it, he is stuck. If he was really interested in his data, he

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
-compat and others, partially. This could impact potentially very old (commercial mostly) binaries, Comments, ideas, complaints? -- Francesco P. Lovergine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Philip Charles

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote: On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Philip Charles wrote: xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8 documents. Note that the packages won't be removed from your system, they will simply no longer be in the Debian archive. This *may

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Philip Charles
should elect its President in the same way as Debian elects its DPL. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread Philip Charles
, and not terribly high on most priority lists. I also maintain my own archive and have developed a rether crazy set of scripts to mainain it. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Luke Woods wrote: the linux distro you seek exists. its called windows xp. nuff said. Luke p.s. qbasic is the programming language for stupid people. Because it does not have line numbers ;) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New

Re: Ian Jackson in New Zealand

2002-11-24 Thread Philip Charles
2002-12-16 LHRarr 0910 There are a number of us in Dunedin. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I

Re: Where are tasks now and how are they handled? (Woody sucks because there is no Task: Spanish)

2002-09-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:43:25AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: | | Excerpt from the changelog: | * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a | special field in the control file (and these should

Re: Where are tasks now and how are they handled? (Woody sucks because there is no Task: Spanish)

2002-09-02 Thread Philip Charles
the archives on -boot for information. `. `' The info for the Tasks is in debian/indices/override.woody.extra.main.gz if you want to have a look. debian-cd then adds this info to the Packages file. Phil. -- Philip Charles

Bug#159037: general: Time Problem

2002-09-01 Thread Philip Charles
when CDs were being burnt so it seems to be related to some real-time critical operations. I just remembered to run hwclock -s as I have burnt some CDs earlier today, the hardware clock keeps good time. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488

Re: Debian based CD based distros

2002-08-31 Thread Philip Charles
based distribution. Interesting use of the GPL as well. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux GNU

Re: gpm and X problem investigated

2000-08-31 Thread Philip Charles
seems more than necessary to go into 2.2r1. On my test installs I configured gpm manually, as I always do, and switched off repeat mode. I have never had any problems in X. A generic serial mouse on ttyS1. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbotsford, New Zealand; +64 3 4882818 Mobile 025