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

2002-04-07 Thread mdanish
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 08:39:12PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 20:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Whatcha mean "becoming"? Lispers have been blurring the line between > > data and code for the last half-century. > > Speaking as a budding LISPer (working my way through "On

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

2002-04-07 Thread mdanish
On Sun, Apr 07, 2002 at 12:12:47PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > On Sun, 2002-04-07 at 06:14, Federico Di Gregorio wrote: > > people, i just want to remember you that DFSG stands for debian free > > SOFTWARE guidelines. documentation is *not* software > > Unfortunately this is becoming less true.

Re: Loader

2001-09-25 Thread mdanish
On Tue, Sep 25, 2001 at 08:13:33AM -0700, BERNARDES,JOAN (Non-HP-Brazil,ex1) wrote: > Hi, > I want to make a warm boot from Linux to Dos, do you know if it's > possible? > Somebody tested this yet: > There was a BIOS set up interrupt (INT19 form memory) which could be > cal

Re: Orphaning all packages

2001-09-13 Thread mdanish
Can I have sex? (sorry, had to be said 8-) If anyone else steps up to take the package, they're welcome to it. -- ;; ;; Matthew Danish email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;; ;; OpenPGP public key available

Re: Bug#112118: ITP: python-visual -- A Python library for 3d visualization

2001-09-13 Thread mdanish
> > Package: wnpp > > Severity: wishlist > > > > Visual is a library for 3D scientific visualization. It allows rapid > > development of programs in Python, but is itself written in C++ for speed. > > It currently supports various colored geometrical primitives (texture > > support is being adde

Bug#112118: ITP: python-visual -- A Python library for 3d visualization

2001-09-12 Thread mdanish
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Visual is a library for 3D scientific visualization. It allows rapid development of programs in Python, but is itself written in C++ for speed. It currently supports various colored geometrical primitives (texture support is being added). It was developed for use

Re: Two debconf issues

2001-05-04 Thread mdanish
I created a test program to do fibonacci series recursively in Perl, Python, Scheme, Lisp, C, and OCaML. Needless to say, OCaML kicked ass ;) But between Perl and Python, Python performed better by about 20%. On the other hand, fibonacci series is a bit of a different application than whatever ta

ITP: stklos -- A fast, light, R5RS-compliant Scheme System

2001-05-01 Thread mdanish
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Based on an ad-hoc Virtual Machine, STklos can also be compiled as a library, so that one can easily embed it in an application. The salient points of STklos are: * efficient and powerful object system based on CLOS providing - Multiple Inheritance, - Ge

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread mdanish
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +, Will Lowe wrote: > > > I think it's safe to assume that your system MUST have a working MTA of > > > some sort (even if it's local-only, which is supported by eximconfig). > > This is true, but does it need to be world-accessible? There should > > be a way

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread mdanish
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 08:12:59PM +, Will Lowe wrote: > > Actually there are some packages that depend on a mail-transport-agent, > > (such as lilo->logrotate->mailx), yet one may not want to have an MTA > > running on certain systems. I suppose a dummy or minimal MTA may be > > I think it's

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread mdanish
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 02:25:34AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > Why would you keep something around if you don't want to run it? Debian > makes the (correct) assumption that if you've installed something, you > want to run it. If i install bind, it will assume i want it to run. If > i install

Re: Keysigning request in New York City

2001-04-29 Thread mdanish
I will be back in the NYC area on May 16th, if no one else has signed your key by then, I will do it. On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 12:33:39PM -0400, Jimmy Kaplowitz wrote: > Hi, I have recently started maintaining a Debian package for Althea, an IMAP > email client for GTK+. That package, thanks to the

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-28 Thread mdanish
On Sun, Apr 29, 2001 at 10:34:02AM +0800, zhaoway wrote: > > I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not > > aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas > > implemented instead. > > apt-get install ratpoison. it rocks. :) sorry, can't resist.

Re: Lightweight Web browsers

2001-04-27 Thread mdanish
> Maybe because they're bloated, take huge gobs of memory, and are > designed only to emulate the mistakes and misdesign of a certain OS > from Redmond? I too agree that Linux window managers and session managers should not aspire to emulate Microsoft, I'd rather see some newer and better ideas imp

Re: Storage (8*IDE HDs) any experiences?

2001-04-26 Thread mdanish
On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 08:02:30PM -0500, Rahul Jain wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 01:39:01PM -0500, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: > > Hi all > > > > I notice there are these new-fangled motherboards with 2*ATA-100 and > > 2*ATA-33 ports. With 75GB disks, that baby should give us 600GB of raw > > disk

Re: console in testing

2001-04-25 Thread mdanish
Here's what I do: 1. apt-get update 2. apt-get dist-upgrade -uf if this breaks then, 3. dpkg --configure -a then 4. apt-get dist-upgrade -uf (the -f flag is especially important here) and repeat 3-4 until it finishes. Sometimes I might apt-get install or remove a package that is explicitly me