Re: question about documentation

2011-09-18 Thread Fritz Wuehler
You wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:34:30 +0200 Fritz Wuehler rodent wrote: That's a load of rubbish. Doing something wrong because others do it just makes you a meme, it doesn't make you right. You're a great arrogant, know-nothing son of a bitch. Trust me, you wouldn't say that to my

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-18 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-09-18 10.36, Fritz Wuehler wrote: You wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:34:30 +0200 Fritz Wuehler rodent wrote: That's a load of rubbish. Doing something wrong because others do it just makes you a meme, it doesn't make you right. You're a great arrogant, know-nothing son of a bitch.

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-18 Thread Jeffrey Walton
On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 4:36 AM, Fritz Wuehler fr...@spamexpire-201109.rodent.frell.theremailer.net wrote: You wrote: On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:34:30 +0200 Fritz Wuehler rodent wrote: That's a load of rubbish. Doing something wrong because others do it just makes you a meme, it doesn't make

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-18 Thread Fritz Wuehler
Homophobia isn't welcome on this list. Says the big homo... Besides it isn't phobia, it's a disdain. Do you understand the difference? Perhaps you can invent a new word for your abominable practices. Fuck off. Eat shit and live, faggot boy ;-)

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-18 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 23:07:11 +0200, Fritz Wuehler wrote: Homophobia isn't welcome on this list. Says the big homo... Besides it isn't phobia, it's a disdain. Do you understand the difference? Perhaps you can invent a new word for your abominable practices. Fuck off. Eat shit and live,

Re: question about documentation (off-list, only to respondents)

2011-09-18 Thread Daniel Villarreal
sehr geehrter Herr Furman, #1. You do not know what I believe. You are very presumptive and, well, you know what the first three letters of the word assume spell, I hope. #2. There's no doubt that a human language degree in the United States is considered a liberal arts degree. This is a fact. #

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-17 Thread Daniel Villarreal
Hi there Fritz, On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 8:34 PM, Fritz Wuehler fr...@spamexpire-201109.rodent.frell.theremailer.net wrote: You wrote: And how do they sound now, completely different, if the 'correct' spelling is prvilege and despite that many still use priviledge (even You can't even

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-17 Thread Daniel Villarreal
Eric, You don't get it... you and Fritz both assume the Scots give a care about what you think. You assume the rest of the world cares about your English preferences. You and Fritz got the arrogance part down pat. I don't know if you realize this, but human language is an art, hence that's why a

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-17 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 02:34:30 +0200 Fritz Wuehler rodent wrote: That's a load of rubbish. Doing something wrong because others do it just makes you a meme, it doesn't make you right. You're a great arrogant, know-nothing son of a bitch. Trust me, you wouldn't say that to my face, your a

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-17 Thread Daniel Villarreal
OpenBSD is indeed about correctness, that's computer code, so that's pretty much cut-and-dried. Human language, on the other hand, is not so cut-and-dried. Privilege is the preferred spelling that should be used in OpenBSD, fine. It's not so much that I fail or you or Fritz fail, it's that we're

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-17 Thread Ingo Schwarze
Hi, Daniel Villarreal wrote on Sat, Sep 17, 2011 at 10:54:52AM -0400: OpenBSD is indeed about correctness, that's computer code, so that's pretty much cut-and-dried. Human language, on the other hand, is not so cut-and-dried. The language in OpenBSD is correct when jmc@ and nick@ like it,

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-17 Thread Fritz Wuehler
Dear homosexual lovebirds Danni and Chadwick, I'm sure you know-nothing faggots will be very happy together. You homos are wrong, just admit it like men. Ooops, neither of you can do that, now can you ;-) Have a nice day, faggots! Hasta la vista, maricones!

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-17 Thread ropers
Homophobia isn't welcome on this list. Fuck off. On 18 September 2011 04:40, Fritz Wuehler fr...@spamexpire-201109.rodent.frell.theremailer.net wrote: Dear homosexual lovebirds Danni and Chadwick, I'm sure you know-nothing faggots will be very happy together. You homos are wrong, just admit

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:09:49 + (UTC) Ralph W Siegler wrote: It is from the Latin privilegium, so the correct spelling before the g was determined two thousand years ago. The privi part meaning private, and legium of law privil'ee'gium And how do they sound now, completely different, if

OT: Re: question about documentation

2011-09-16 Thread ropers
Listen, Kevin: When you're in a hole, stop digging. http://i.eho.st/ppqsgmzg.png You started this nonsense by claiming that the correct spelling of privileges was debateable. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/debateable Your first mistake was to try to refute Daniel's correction without

Re: OT: Re: question about documentation

2011-09-16 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 19:50:33 +0200 ropers rop...@gmail.com wrote: Your first mistake was to try to refute Daniel's correction without consulting a dictionary. I did no such thing, as I stated I had done so over 6 onths earlier when finding both in my pile of pdf published books. You then

Re: OT: Re: question about documentation

2011-09-16 Thread Rod Whitworth
On Fri, 16 Sep 2011 21:00:19 +, Kevin Chadwick wrote: I have been hoping this thread would die for a while as it serves little use Actions speak louder than words. You have been the perpetrator of the latest revival. Make your wish come true - just shut up. *** NOTE *** Please DO NOT

Re: OT: Re: question about documentation

2011-09-16 Thread Daniel Villarreal
In this entry, you'll see a Scot newspaper article using priviledge. http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com/Priviledge Is priviledge wrong ? Who am I to say, if a Scot prefers that spelling, I'm fine with it. In retrospect, I was making a big assumption, and that is that people should use

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-16 Thread Fritz Wuehler
You wrote: And how do they sound now, completely different, if the 'correct' spelling is prvilege and despite that many still use priviledge (even You can't even spell or type a coherent email, how do you dare to argue? some publishers) because it is more intuitive, then which is more

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-15 Thread Ralph W Siegler
Kevin Chadwick ma1l1ists at yahoo.co.uk writes: On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:13:22 -0400 priviledge is wrong in any version of English. And what's right about privilege exactly, actually I wouldn't care for the answer anyway, sounds came before words and there are many complexities, before

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-02 Thread Marc Espie
Well, priviledge, seperation, implimentation. Those are all common mispellings used by some OpenBSD developers. Mispellings none the less, which have to be fixed in official documentation, of course.

question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Daniel Villarreal
So I was installing OpenBSD on my nice (for me) dual-core desktop and saw some things that need to be corrected... There's a misspelling here and I've noticed other errors. Is it okay to submit these and the proposed corrections here, or should I follow another course of action? +polkit-0.97p3

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Tomas Bodzar
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 4:50 PM, Daniel Villarreal yclwebmas...@gmail.com wrote: So I was installing OpenBSD on my nice (for me) dual-core desktop and saw some things that need to be corrected... There's a misspelling here and I've noticed other errors. Is it okay to submit these and the

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Vijay Sankar
On 2011-09-01, at 9:50 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote: So I was installing OpenBSD on my nice (for me) dual-core desktop and saw some things that need to be corrected... There's a misspelling here and I've noticed other errors. Is it okay to submit these and the proposed corrections here, or

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Daniel Villarreal
Thanks, Vijay, Maybe they'll have this all fixed for the next release. I'll email my suggestions and see what they come up with. Thanks, Daniel On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Vijay Sankar vsan...@foretell.ca wrote: On 2011-09-01, at 9:50 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote: +polkit-0.97p3

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Amit Kulkarni
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Vijay Sankar vsan...@foretell.ca wrote: On 2011-09-01, at 9:50 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote: So I was installing OpenBSD on my nice (for me) dual-core desktop and saw some things that need to be corrected... There's a misspelling here and I've noticed other

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Daniel Villarreal
Antoine, Thank you for looking at this. This is a start. I have more notes to look over from my previous install on a different system. Regards, Daniel Villarreal -- +python-2.6.6p0 If you want to use this package as your default system python, as root create symbolic links like so

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Daniel Villarreal
sent to Amit and Antoine... On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Daniel Villarreal yclwebmas...@gmail.comwrote: So any changes, including documentation, need to be checked against -current ? My previous suggestions to Antoine were against -stable. Sorry if I caused any inconvenience. Regards,

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:35:57 -0400 Daniel Villarreal yclwebmas...@gmail.com wrote: If you'd like to completely disable priviledges granting through the PolicyKit framework, create the file: /etc/polkit-1/nullbackend.conf.d/99-nullbackend.conf containing the following lines: [Configuration]

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Benny Lofgren
On 2011-09-01 19.01, Kevin Chadwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 11:35:57 -0400 Daniel Villarreal yclwebmas...@gmail.com wrote: priviledges -- privileges I believe the correct spelling of privileges is debateable, I personally prefer priviledges as I also prefer colour but I think it should be

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:26:25 +0200 Benny Lofgren bl-li...@lofgren.biz wrote: I'm pretty certain that privilege is spelled without a 'd' in British English as well as in all other English subvariants. The only authoritative dictionary I have readily available right now is my copy of the

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread ropers
On 1 September 2011 19:01, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: priviledges -- privileges I believe the correct spelling of privileges is debateable, I personally prefer priviledges as I also prefer colour but I think it should be the Maintainers preference and switching it seems to

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Nick Holland
On 09/01/2011 11:40 AM, Daniel Villarreal wrote: sent to Amit and Antoine... On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 11:37 AM, Daniel Villarreal yclwebmas...@gmail.comwrote: So any changes, including documentation, need to be checked against -current ? yes. Development work is done on -current. Do NOT waste

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Eric Furman
priviledge is wrong in any version of English. On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 18:44 +, Kevin Chadwick ma1l1i...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 19:26:25 +0200 Benny Lofgren bl-li...@lofgren.biz wrote: I'm pretty certain that privilege is spelled without a 'd' in British English as well as

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 1 Sep 2011 21:11:37 +0200 ropers wrote: YOU SHALL NOT PASS But I am Gandalf the white and you have not fallen from the bridge of Khazad-dum to the depths of moria and fought the fiery shadow, Yet!

Re: question about documentation

2011-09-01 Thread Kevin Chadwick
On Thu, 01 Sep 2011 17:13:22 -0400 priviledge is wrong in any version of English. And what's right about privilege exactly, actually I wouldn't care for the answer anyway, sounds came before words and there are many complexities, before very few decide to put a variant in an english dictionary.