Re: Canterbury Tales Prologue

ch are an excerpt from the prologue of Geoffrey > Chaucer's > Canterbury Tales. Anyone know why this is? Where can I find this - I have tried. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 28

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

#x27;t be done by other people than the usual ever-busy > developers. > > Samuel Breaking the deafening silence. I am not in a position to do this, a lack of time and don't have enough knowledge of the Hurd. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Ze

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

cial features which Hurd offers. Say three levels per feature, illustrative, practical, advanced practical. This needs to in the same directory and the images so people downloading an image will see it. This should be an effective promotional tool. This suggestion was inspired by what I saw

Congratulations on the imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release.

Hi everyone, Congratulations to everyone involved. I am proud to have been part of this project. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil

Re: Imminent Debian GNU/Hurd release

e > packages from debian-ports, and some packages from unstable which are > not in wheezy. > > So how should we call it? > > "wheesid" was suggested at some point ;) > > Samuel Astmatic? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford,

[bug #27539] pfinet hangs

Follow-up Comment #4, bug #27539 (project hurd): netbase does not configure and many packages depend on this. ifupdown (unreleased) is configured and replaces netbase. ___ Reply to this item at: __

Re: Hurd Mission Statement

sp, and distracts from other important points? If you must have a mission statement keep it under 35 words - the usual advice. However, a statement of goals and objectives would be much better. I suspect that mission staements are usually public relations exercises. Me being cynical. Ph

Re: Fwd: Debian Installer - Hurd

Thomas I will leave it all to you youngsters. I am 70. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business

Re: Fwd: Debian Installer - Hurd

t; > Great! Please take some minutes to properly document what you've > > done and how you've done that, so that we can put this documentation > > online. (Just talk to me and I'll tell you where to put it.) > > Sure. I will do that soon. > This is good news. I am retiring!! Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 phil...@copyleft.co.nz - personal.i...@copyleft.co.nz - business

Re: GSoc GNU Hurd project

e across the GNU Hurd project being listed as a mentor > > organisation in Google SoC 2008. > > > > I have a proposal to work on the "installer part" of the GNU Hurd. A > > few of my seniors did work on this project (GNU Hurd LX Installer) > > last year c

Re: GSoC application deadline passed

ase. We have been doing these for some time now, > haven't you noticed?..." > A release could be made using a mock Maxi-Optical image tree. This would be about 10-15 gig. (The image tree is used to build an iso). But not by me, I am retiring. Phil. -- Philip Charle

Re: GSoC application deadline passed

On Wednesday 19 March 2008, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > --- On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 6:43 PM, Philip Charles > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | It takes me 30-50 hours to produce a set. The > | development over this time has been considerable, from one partialy >

Re: GSoC application deadline passed

ther useless. Something else the iso builder has to sort out. My policy over the eight years I have been building the iso's has been to disturb the development process as little as possible. However, people may have got the idea that producing a disc set is a relatively quick automate

Re: Hurd savannah projects

On Wednesday 28 November 2007 07:05, Shakthi Kannan wrote: > Hi, > > Does the wiki now (with updated documentation) nullify the following > projects? > > GNU Hurd ISO: > http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/hurd-iso Yes. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abb

Re: upgrade

>. Very old stuff, the archives > of the hurd-folks mailing list which is documenting parts of the Hurd's > genesis, are available at > <http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~trent/gnu/hurd/hurd-talk.tar.gz>. > > There is no written history, as far as I know. Only bits her

Re: upgrade hurd package

make your system > break down sooner or later, sloppily stated. > Thing do seem to be in mess as far as the next iso set is concerned. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 445

Re: Hurd Meeting in Madrid

acking, > but we are going to try anyway. > > We will report the result of the experiment. We hope it will be > successful and to make a second Hurd Meeting on Madrid the next year > (international, or course!). > > Wish luck for us! :) I wish I could be there. Phil. -- -- Phili

Re: hurd boot failed - please read this

On Sat, 29 Jan 2005, ANIL C JOHN wrote: > dear friends, > > please read this mail avoid the one with the attachment, as it is not > readable. > > I tried as Philip Charles advised to download the grub image Copyleft > site, as previously there was no errors, but it did not

Re: Hurd state

all Debian GNU/Hurd from now on, this > > package should be used. Another Debian system is required to be > > installed on the same machine. The GNU/Hurd installation guide has > > not been updated yet. > > It should be updated. I have taken over the tarball. It can be fou

Re: hurd_20040508-3.changes ACCEPTED

y have been for at least two 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

Re: hurd_20040508-3.changes ACCEPTED

gt; Thank you for your contribution to Debian. > > > ___ > Bug-hurd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-hurd > > -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818

Re: [linux 2.6 patch] ext2 support for hurd extensions via xattr interface

On Fri, 27 Feb 2004, Danilo Segan wrote: > Hi Philip, > > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > If the patched linux kernel is used with mkfs then it produces a hurd fs > > that is free from the 1-2Gb limit? > > You don't need "patch

Re: [linux 2.6 patch] ext2 support for hurd extensions via xattr interface

Because of overload I need to spend my free time sleeping, so please excuse me if I am asking the obvious. If the patched linux kernel is used with mkfs then it produces a hurd fs that is free from the 1-2Gb limit? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand

Re: What was the date that Alpha was cracked?

he exact date, but after 3 March. IIRC 17 March. 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: HURD distro's available in INDIA

es. 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.c

Re: Improving the (web) content (was: Re: Hurd advocacy?

o wants to present > microkernel projects in his lecture, for example), and you seem to have > experience (or a natural talent) on how the first experiences of a user > can be made more delightful rather than frustrating. Please! I would like this for the CD docs. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a

Re: GNU Translating

rg/papers/hurd-installation-guide/spanish > > > > Although, it is a bit out of date. > > > If no one translates it before, I will have time to update it in two > weeks. ;) > That would be good timing. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dune

Re: GNU Translating

me time learning more about > Hurd OS? Can be useful for GNU project this translating that we are making? I have French and German translations of hurd-install-guide.html on the CDs and I would welcome a Spanish translation. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin,

Re: serverboot

en}, {neat}, {nifty}, {not > > bad(p)}, {peachy}, {slap-up}, {swell}, {smashing}] > > And I thought I knew this language! Wow, what a corking word. > IIRC, it was in wide use in the 1920-30s as "corker". -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Du

Re: serverboot

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > Is anyone using serverboot anymore? If not, then it could maybe be > removed. FYI, the severboot option was removed from the GRUB floppy image distributed with the K1 image. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedi

Re: Installing Hurd: dselect causes panic

lips 8x IDE CD-RW > -Acer 36x IDE CDROM > -Seagate 6.5GB IDE drive > -Seagate 40GB IDE drive (Hurd installed on hd1s5) > > > > __ > Do you Yahoo!? > Y! Web Hosting - Let the expert host your web site > http://webhosting.ya

Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0

On Sun, 29 Sep 2002, Glenn McGrath wrote: > On Sun, 29 Sep 2002 22:04:09 +1200 (NZST) > Philip Charles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Would you please let me know how you get on. Next step, a ramdisk. > > > > Yes, i will keep you informed. > > I might

Re: storeinfo /dev/fd0

disk in the mail archives, > however i suspect the info maybe outdated now. > http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/1999/debian-hurd-199909/msg00079.html > > > Glenn > > > ___ > Bug-hurd mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mail.gnu.org

Re: isofs -> iso9660fs

skfs_extra_version = "GNU Hurd"; > int diskfs_synchronous = 0; > > -- > `Rhubarb is no Egyptian god.' GNU http://www.gnu.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Marcus Brinkmann The Hurd http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.marcus-brinkma

Re: hosting hurd CD image at hurd.gnu.org

http://www.debian.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Marcus Brinkmann GNUhttp://www.gnu.org[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.marcus-brinkmann.de > > - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand;

Re: hurd.gnu.org site construction project

On Thu, 5 Apr 2001, Jim Franklin wrote: > I wish you all well and look forward to hearing your input on the project > on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. > Will you be wanting input on the Hurd CDs? Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Dunedin, New Zealand; +64