Re: [DNG] Identity of OP (Software written by contractors and the 'work for hire') concept

2017-07-30 Thread Christopher Clements
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 10:54:21PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Christopher Clements (bcn...@gmail.com): [...] (The person being a non-attorney dishonestly claiming to be one can be inferred from this conduct being against professional ethics. I'm not going to get into the details of why

Re: [DNG] Identity of OP (Software written by contractors and the 'work for hire') concept

2017-07-29 Thread Christopher Clements
On Sun, Jul 30, 2017 at 01:33:09AM -0400, Christopher Clements wrote: On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:56:41AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Narcis Garcia (informat...@actiu.net): El 29/07/17 a les 16:12, Antony Stone ha escrit: On Saturday 29 July 2017 at 13:55:54, ni...@redchan.it wrote

Re: [DNG] Identity of OP (Software written by contractors and the 'work for hire') concept

2017-07-29 Thread Christopher Clements
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 11:56:41AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote: Quoting Narcis Garcia (informat...@actiu.net): El 29/07/17 a les 16:12, Antony Stone ha escrit: > On Saturday 29 July 2017 at 13:55:54, ni...@redchan.it wrote: >> (boring legal stuff) [...] (Oh, I hope someone will add

Re: [DNG] Teaching IT & programming

2017-07-29 Thread Christopher Clements
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 09:16:51PM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: On 2017-07-29 20:40, Steve Litt wrote: On Wed, 26 Jul 2017 20:49:00 -0400 Robert Marmorstein wrote: >>> My high-school programming class was advertised as teaching >>> people how to >>> program in C

Re: [DNG] [OT] High level language primitives (Was: Please keep 32-bits alive)

2017-07-29 Thread Christopher Clements
On Sat, Jul 29, 2017 at 05:09:50AM -0400, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Sat, 29 Jul 2017 16:41:01 +0900 Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: In an ideal word, software would have - maximum performance - minimum resource usage - minimum of dangerous bugs In an

Re: [DNG] Teaching IT & programming

2017-07-26 Thread Christopher Clements
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 12:22:39PM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote: "Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult" <enrico.weig...@gr13.net> wrote: On 26.07.2017 04:47, Christopher Clements wrote: My high-school programming class was advertised as teaching people how to program in C and do

Re: [DNG] Please keep 32-bits alive

2017-07-26 Thread Christopher Clements
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 04:00:43PM -0400, Christopher Clements wrote: Wouldn't this work? (no error checking of course XD) off_t lseek(int fd, off_t offset, int whence); ssize_t write(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count); ssize_t pwrite(int fd, const void *buf, size_t count, off_t

Re: [DNG] Please keep 32-bits alive

2017-07-26 Thread Christopher Clements
On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 10:56:13AM +, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: On 26.07.2017 09:34, Didier Kryn wrote: All languages wrap libc's API with their own primitives: C wraps unistd's write() within printf() and fwrite() It doesn't just "wrap" it, it calls it in order to

Re: [DNG] Please keep 32-bits alive

2017-07-25 Thread Christopher Clements
On Tue, Jul 25, 2017 at 12:49:17PM +0200, Dr. Nikolaus Klepp wrote: Am Dienstag, 25. Juli 2017 schrieb Didier Kryn: > https://around.com/ariane.html Even with a high level language carefully designed to discourage loose programming and dirty low-level tricks, it is still possible,

Re: [DNG] Please keep 32-bits alive

2017-07-25 Thread Christopher Clements
On Sun, Jul 23, 2017 at 04:56:56AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 11:26:56PM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: On Sat, Jul 22, 2017 at 06:50:19AM +0100, KatolaZ wrote: > you might probably want to have a look at: > > http://popcon.devuan.org/ > > Whatever the statistical

Re: [DNG] We need to speak up

2017-03-15 Thread Christopher Clements
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:06:30PM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: On 2017-03-15 21:32, Christopher Clements wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:55:57AM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: But what is the point? Our freedoms are being eroded on all fronts - we are drowning in a tsunami of reversal

Re: [DNG] We need to speak up

2017-03-15 Thread Christopher Clements
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 10:55:57AM -0500, goli...@dyne.org wrote: But what is the point? Our freedoms are being eroded on all fronts - we are drowning in a tsunami of reversal of choice dictated by those in power be they Debian or corporations or government. Rather than piss in the wind...

Re: [DNG] We need to speak up

2017-03-15 Thread Christopher Clements
On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:37:45PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote: Can somebody please make a list, that we can put our names on, of people who left Debian because of systemd? And put the name Steve Litt on it please. Mine too. (Although my name carries no weight at all apart from quantity.) I left

Re: [DNG] [ann] heads 0.0 is out!

2017-03-03 Thread Christopher Clements
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 12:03:02AM -0500, Steve Litt wrote: I haven't yet gotten to the point of using privacy I don't need personally, as is obvious by this unsigned email. I always sign my messages. From what I understand, if my message is signed (and the signature is valid), then it is

Re: [DNG] [ann] heads 0.0 is out!

2017-03-01 Thread Christopher Clements
On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 05:42:00AM +, Kurtis Hanna wrote: [snip] Thanks, that was very insightful. -- GPG Key: 0769 AFCF 681E F61E 2137 F4CB 5044 1726 610D 5AE0 signature.asc Description: Digital signature ___ Dng mailing list

Re: [DNG] [ann] heads 0.0 is out!

2017-02-28 Thread Christopher Clements
On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 10:21:49PM +0100, Adam Borowski wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 04:06:16PM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Tue, Feb 28, 2017 at 09:12:34PM +0100, parazyd wrote: > heads 0.0 is out! > It finally happened and it's not vaporware! It's out, it's not vaporware, it boots into a

Re: [DNG] rpi3 serial console

2016-12-12 Thread Christopher Clements
On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 09:56:15PM -0700, Gregory Nowak wrote: Can anyone out there with a raspberry pi 3 and a pl2303 cable please confirm that the devuan_jessie_1.0.0-beta2_arm64_raspi3.img.xz image actually has a working serial console? I do see that cmdline.txt in the first fat partition

Re: [DNG] I ask Devuan to remove all defaming emails.

2016-11-30 Thread Christopher Clements
On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 09:33:32AM +0100, Edward Bartolo wrote: Hi, << Dude, you posted on a public mailing list. It's archived in a million places (including my and many others private archives). As I tell everyone with a facebook account, if you don't want it accessible to the public forever,