Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-26 Thread Dave Whiteley
If there is to be a vote on a new series of Debian version names, then Alice (in Wonderland and through the Looking glass) gets my vote. No copyright problem. (Of course I mean the books and not the film.) Dave -- Dave Whiteley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone +44 (0)113 343 2059 School of Electron

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-25 Thread iain d broadfoot
* deFreese, Barry ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > Is it just me, or is your client consistently and annoyingly breaking > > threads? > > > > -- > > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > http://ertius.org/ > > If your talking to me, it would surprise me. I'm stuck wi

RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-25 Thread deFreese, Barry
> > Is it just me, or is your client consistently and annoyingly breaking > threads? > > -- > Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://ertius.org/ If your talking to me, it would surprise me. I'm stuck with Outlook at work!! :-( Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Mana

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-25 Thread iain d broadfoot
* Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Is it just me, or is your client consistently and annoyingly breaking > threads? it's not just you. my mutt is set to _not_ thread by subject, and in any case doing such is unlikely to track exactly who anyone is replying to. thanks for speaking up! :D ia

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-25 Thread Rob Weir
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 09:18:30AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > > > > > > Two words: "Walt Disney" > > > > Which is actually really sad and unfair to Walt Disney > > himself. He never > > advocated animation strictly as entertainment for children. > > It was after > > his passing that the

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:29:04AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Huh? Princess Mononoke isn't a Disney movie at all; it's a Japanese > anime by Hayao Miyazaki, distributed in the USA by Miramax (at least, > their logo is on the DVD, and Disney's isn't). I saw it in KOIN Theater in Portland two sum

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Geordie Birch
said Paul Johnson (on 2003-02-24), > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans > > > associate animation strictly with children? > > > > Two words: "Walt Disney" > > Not too valid when I saw a copy of "Disne

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 13:25, Craig Dickson wrote: > deFreese, Barry wrote: > > > Actually, Fantasia was supposed to get updated every couple of years and > > re-released to show the updates in technology in animation and the growth of > > music. It was basically supposed to be a continuing work i

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 05:18:18AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans > > > associate animation strictly with children? > > > > Two words: "Walt Disney" > > Not too valid

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
deFreese, Barry wrote: > Actually, Fantasia was supposed to get updated every couple of years and > re-released to show the updates in technology in animation and the growth of > music. It was basically supposed to be a continuing work in progress but as > you say, after he passed away that dream

RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread deFreese, Barry
> > > > Two words: "Walt Disney" > > Which is actually really sad and unfair to Walt Disney > himself. He never > advocated animation strictly as entertainment for children. > It was after > his passing that the company decided to head in this direction. Walt > Disney had a close collaboration

RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 11:01 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:30AM -0800, deFreese, Barry

RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Paul Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, February 22, 2003 10:00 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:50:26AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wro

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Mike Dresser wrote: > > Huh? Princess Mononoke isn't a Disney movie at all; it's a Japanese > > anime by Hayao Miyazaki, distributed in the USA by Miramax (at least, > > their logo is on the DVD, and Disney's isn't). > > Guess who owns Miramax? Disney owns lots of things. Is every cop show on AB

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Mike Dresser
> Huh? Princess Mononoke isn't a Disney movie at all; it's a Japanese > anime by Hayao Miyazaki, distributed in the USA by Miramax (at least, > their logo is on the DVD, and Disney's isn't). Guess who owns Miramax? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Craig Dickson
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans > > > associate animation strictly with children? > > > > Two words: "Walt Disney" > > Not too valid when I saw a copy of "Disney's Princess

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Patrick McFarland
On 24-Feb-2003, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans > > > associate animation strictly with children? > > > > Two words: "Walt Disney" > > Not too valid when I saw a copy of "Dis

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-24 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans > > associate animation strictly with children? > > Two words: "Walt Disney" Not too valid when I saw a copy of "Disney's Princess Mononoke" in Freddy's (the English

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-23 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 12:18, Nathan E Norman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:42:47PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:50:26AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > > Yup, both in Toy Story. You really should see the movie. For being a > > > "kids" movie it is very good!!

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-23 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:42:47PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:50:26AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > > Yup, both in Toy Story. You really should see the movie. For being a > > "kids" movie it is very good!! > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Ame

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-23 Thread Colin Watson
On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 09:39:25PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:03:02AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > > Sid, by the way, was the nasty little boy next door who dismembered toys > > for fun -- hence the use of his name for the unstable branch. > > The testing branch, befo

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:24:30AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Johnny Bravo?? SpongeBob all the way!!! :-) It's starting to get to the point that we should probably move this to rec.arts.animation soon, but... Spongebob? Yuck. How can anybody possibly stomach any of that derivative Klasky-

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 01:36:37PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > Glad to see/read that I'm not the only "adult" that really enjoys watching > the Toy Story movies. By the way, A Bug's Life and Antz are good too. :-) A Bug's Life was a lot better than Antz. I think ABL was also shooting to an ol

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-22 Thread Jordan Evatt
i apologize for the gpg password encrypted email nobody could read that i sent to the list in response to this thread, commenting on the hamm/slink characters from the toy story movie. my mistake. jordan On Fri, 21 Feb 2003 09:29:08 -0800 (PST) nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > deFreese, Barry

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:50:26AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > Yup, both in Toy Story. You really should see the movie. For being a > "kids" movie it is very good!! This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans associate animation strictly with children? -- .''`. Baloo

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 10:03:02AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: > Sid, by the way, was the nasty little boy next door who dismembered toys > for fun -- hence the use of his name for the unstable branch. The testing branch, before it moved to testing, was assigned the name "sid," and after it got ba

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:29:08AM -0800, nate wrote: > no coincidence. though i've never seen the movie myself. And don't > plan to :) It's a good movie, and funny. Or you just not man enough for animation? 8:o) > there was also hamm(2.0), and slink(2.1), not sure if those were part of > toy s

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-22 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:18:46PM -0500, Robert L. Harris wrote: > I think when we go to 4.0 they should be named after characters from > Tremmors... Or, better yet, how about from Antitrust[1]? The movie credits the Free Software community, and features Gnome *very* prominently. Ret-conned adv

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:55:49AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans > or is it just coincidence? I see you've heard of Google and know how to do some basic research. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html#s-source

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Geordie Birch
said Shaun ONeil (on 2003-02-21), > I could be completely wrong, but I suspect that's already been delt > with. Reading some _very_ old pages[1] recently, I came across the > addresses debian-user and debian-devel, @pixar.com - so I presume debian > and pixar had some communication early in the pr

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
* Barry Rab ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030221 17:37]: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > >Glad to see/read that I'm not the only "adult" that really enjoys > >watching the Toy Story movies. By the way, A Bug's Life and Antz are > >good too. :-) > > > >Hall > > Even close to retiring one must find some form

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Shaun ONeil
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:47, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > That said, although the releases are not so frequent that this will be > an immediate concern, eventually Debian will run out of characters from > the movie(s). I'm not personally sure that I feel too good about dealing > with characters copyright

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Barry Rab
Hall Stevenson wrote: At 10:03 AM 2/21/2003 -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: nate wrote: > deFreese, Barry said: > > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered > > before but it's been buggin' me for a while. > > > > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folk

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 12:57:14PM -0500, Hall Stevenson wrote: > They are (others have posted the Debian pages related to this). "hamm" is a > toy piggy bank (voice by one of the Cheers characters, the postman, I > believe) in the movie and "slink" is a slinky toy (voice by Gilbert Gnarly > is

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:21:27AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > I liked Bugs Life. Couldn't get into Antz very well. Probably because I > can't stand Woody Allen. Nobody likes the characters he usually plays in his movies. Nevertheless, he is a great director. At least in Europe everybody lov

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 11:21:27AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > I liked Bugs Life. Couldn't get into Antz very well. Probably because I > can't stand Woody Allen. Nobody likes the usual character Woddy Allen play > > Barry deFreese > NTS Technology Services Manager > Nike Team Sports > (94

RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Hall Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 10:56 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names > > > Glad to see/read that I'm not the only "adult"

RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 11:20 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names > > > > generally dislike family flicks. I've seen a lot of previe

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread nate
Craig Dickson said: > Do you just generally dislike films, or "kid" movies? Toy Story is > actually a lot of fun for all ages. The script has a lot of clever touches > aimed at the adults in the audience. Amazingly, Toy Story 2 is also quite > good; Pixar chose not to just make an inferior clone o

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 10:03 AM 2/21/2003 -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: nate wrote: > deFreese, Barry said: > > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered > > before but it's been buggin' me for a while. > > > > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans > > o

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Craig Dickson
deFreese, Barry wrote: > > From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > > > I think when we go to 4.0 they should be named after characters from > > Tremmors... > > Or they could stay on theme and go with Monsters Inc. :-) The thing about Toy Story is that it had a pretty big ensemble

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Craig Dickson
nate wrote: > deFreese, Barry said: > > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered > > before but it's been buggin' me for a while. > > > > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans > > or is it just coincidence? > > no coincidence. thoug

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Jordan Evatt
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Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread D.
> no coincidence. though i've never seen the movie > myself. And don't > plan to :) > > there was also hamm(2.0), and slink(2.1), not sure > if those were part of > toy story too ? > > nate > Its a shame that you have no plan to see the Movie Toy Story it a nice escape from reality and we

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Hall Stevenson
At 09:29 AM 2/21/2003 -0800, nate wrote: deFreese, Barry said: > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered > before but it's been buggin' me for a while. > > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans > or is it just coincidence? no coin

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Seneca
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 09:29:08AM -0800, nate wrote: > there was also hamm(2.0), and slink(2.1), not sure if those were part of > toy story too ? They are. Hamm is the piggy bank, and slink is the slinky dog. -- Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:45 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names > > > no coincidence. though i've never seen the movie myself. And don&

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2003-02-21 at 12:18, Robert L. Harris wrote: > Nope, it's quite intentional. > > Ths fun site is keeping up with who's who. On the Debian.org site > there's a "Debian Releases" which describes stable, testing, etc. The > last line of each group uses the toystory names... > > I think whe

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Keith O'Connell
Barry > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered > before but it's been buggin' me for a while. http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-ftparchives.html Section 5.3 -- ___ _ Keith O'Connell. -o) Maidst

RE: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread deFreese, Barry
> -Original Message- > From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 21, 2003 9:36 AM > To: deFreese, Barry > Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names > > > > > Nope, i

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread nate
deFreese, Barry said: > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered > before but it's been buggin' me for a while. > > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans > or is it just coincidence? no coincidence. though i've never seen the movie

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Joe Lillibridge
On Friday, February 21, 2003, at 09:55 AM, deFreese, Barry wrote: OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered before but it's been buggin' me for a while. So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans or is it just coincidence? Thanks!

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Feb 21, 2003 at 08:55:49AM -0800, deFreese, Barry wrote: > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered before > but it's been buggin' me for a while. > > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans > or is it just coincidence? No coi

Re: [OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread Robert L. Harris
Nope, it's quite intentional. Ths fun site is keeping up with who's who. On the Debian.org site there's a "Debian Releases" which describes stable, testing, etc. The last line of each group uses the toystory names... I think when we go to 4.0 they should be named after characters from Tremmor

[OT] Actually Way OT - Debian version names

2003-02-21 Thread deFreese, Barry
OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered before but it's been buggin' me for a while. So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans or is it just coincidence? Thanks! Barry deFreese NTS Technology Services Manager Nike Team Sports (949)-61