Re: Report in Swedish, English or both?

2009-01-10 Thread massimo s.
Carl Fredrik Hammar ha scritto: > I'm slightly torn however, partly because I'm more proficient in Swedish. Perfect, it's your chance to become more proficient in English too. > And partly because Swedish is in such a poor state when it comes to > computer science. Often terminology is borrowed

Re: Need Perl developer for enhancing wiki software

2008-10-01 Thread massimo s.
Thomas Schwinge ha scritto: Hello! I've done some more Perl hacking to make certain parts of functionality (which I added to our wiki software) work as they should. There is more to do, but I don't really want to do that/it isn't even really related to the Hurd, so I posted a query for help to

Re: Possible bug in name of command 'settrans'

2008-06-10 Thread massimo s.
A.Salatov ha scritto: No, you correct me if I'm wrong, but when I think about 'settrans' my mind always going to compare it to 'umount' and I started to think about a reasons why 'umount' is 'umount' and not 'unmount'. I've always found *that* a bug. umount means nothing. uNmount has a meaning

Re: python 2.4: os.urandom() hangs if /dev/random, /dev/urandom are not reconnected to a translator

2007-01-28 Thread massimo s.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > Hi, > > On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 06:16:22PM +, massimo s. wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: > >>> Does it also hang if you don't have a translator there at all? >> If I settrans -fg /dev/urandom yes, it hangs. >

Re: python 2.4: os.urandom() hangs if /dev/random, /dev/urandom are not reconnected to a translator

2007-01-27 Thread massimo s.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ha scritto: >> At first I tried showtrans on the /dev/random, /dev/urandom devices >> and I found they were attached to the unofficial translator >> (http://hurd.gnufans.org/bin/view/Hurd/RandomDevice). Resetting >> /dev/random, /dev/urandom by detaching (settrans -fg /dev/urando

python 2.4: os.urandom() hangs if /dev/random, /dev/urandom are not reconnected to a translator

2007-01-25 Thread massimo s.
Hi, I noticed that gconf-schemas was hung (even overnight) until ctrl-c is pressed. This prevented correct installation (and disinstallation) of xchat-common deb binary package. I'm using Debian gnu/hurd K14. When using ctrl-c python gives the following traceback, showing the instruction where it