Thomas Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> number_pad is your friend. It's far easier to remember the keys.
I used to use the number pad, but then I got a laptop...
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rly simple username, like dsmith? Those can get caught by
spammers blindly sending to common usernames.
Now, if the username were something like hkja89ZJNhks8S12 and got
spammed, someone in the organization is probably selling usernames,
but it could just be a rogue employee.
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ts people to contribute, since
you don't need join Debian to do it.
I don't know if he really sees any reason as being a good one to try
to join Debian. I'd think the right to vote on policy that would
affect things that contributers are doing would be a good reason, but
nobody ever seems
eps, completes up to /Various\ , and doesn't go
further. How is this going to get you burned?
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Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Oh, look, someone else who CCs when it is obvious the person they're
> responding to is participating right here.
Maybe you should stop whining and just set the Mail-Copies-To header,
which is generally respected by posters on Debian
Bas Zoetekouw <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> So am I. To bad it isn't lpr compatible at all (at least not
> lprng-lpr).
Well, lprng isn't lpr... but if there are clienty things you want,
you could probably use lprng's clients with CUPS's lpr server.
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think it's too slow
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Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> SuSv3 aka POSIX was released one year ago.
Huh? POSIX is the same as SUSv3 now? They used to be separate.
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Ten anim
Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The citizens of the US have a little more power than the rest of the world,
> in that you have a *vote* as to who gets to fuck the rest of the
> world.
Well, didn't work that way last time...
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t with spam all that's lost is some mail... taking
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> I hope you can see the obvious flaws in your comments, and can learn
> from your mistakes.
Ditto.
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Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Realistically, are there any C++ apps on the planet that wouldn't choke
> an i386 to death anyway?
groff
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Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> cat foo | lpr does not work for raw data (e.g. PS files for PS
> printers).
Huh? It works fine, depending on how you set up your filters.
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Rene Engelhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sory, but why not simply use "cat foo | lpr" ?
Or "rlpr", if you don't want to set up a printcap.
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"H. S. Teoh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Now that somebody mentioned it -- will /bin/true work, or is that a
> wishlist feature?
Is it in /etc/shells?
Here's what you do:
ln -s /bin/false /usr/local/bin/ftponly
echo /usr/local/bin/ftponly >> /etc/shells
Jan Nieuwenhuizen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> If you write a Free Software application that needs to display text,
> but you omit a good font, it's useless.
So all text editors should come with their own font?!
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those identical, though. I wonder if
fields should be zero-padded to equal width before comparison? So
comparing 0.01 and 0.1, you'd zero-pad 0.1 -> 0.10, and get the right
comparison.
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Federico Di Gregorio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> that's right. dpkg compares numbers ... numerically. so 0.01 and 0.1 are
> equivalent. then -6 > -3.
What exactly do you mean by numerically? Is 0.1 == 0.01 == 0.1 ==
1.0 == 10 == 10? What should be watched out f
/usr
to / so that it can replace init.
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Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is debian for maintainers or users?
Users are well-served by not requiring a maintainer to release new
byte-compiled versions of a package for a new flavor of Emacs.
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Emacs flavors, or that they should include the byte-code for all
current (and future) Emacs flavors within the one package, even though
for most people that will be useless data?
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hink of the FDL as a
meta-license, and specific instances as used in packages as the real
license.
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ry" category?
Yes, you're screwed. If you have useful info in those saved sessions,
downgrade libc and unsuspend... or just remove the std file and
fsck/scandisk/whatever when/if you upgrade to 3.x.
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I don't know if my locale is causing it or what. The problem is that as
> soon as I try to gpg -e to edit a key I get the following junk.
[23:24:22] wesley:~ $ gpg --help|grep -e -e
-e, --encryptencrypt data
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er gets root, the user can break the chroot.
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Anyone stupid enough to be caught by the police is probably guilty.
ould add as much security to have but one copy of those files
modifiable only by root, read-only by anyone else (ie, the bind
process in the chroot). Then, unless the attacker managed to get root
from bind, they can't modify the files... and if they could get root
from bind, they can break th
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Roberto Suarez Soto) writes:
> So, am I the only one that even in 17" monitors uses 75dpi fonts?
Are you using 75dpi fonts on a 75dpi monitor, or just using 75dpi
fonts because you like them?
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Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looks like it's only the purity in unstable (1-11). In fact, it looks
> like it's the termios patch put in purity 1-10 that is munging stty
> settings.
Yep, a typo... it wanted to query the settings, but actually set
them. Oops
if you haven't been following this thread on debian-devel,
check the bug listing, since I just reported it.)
Time to check the source
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Remco van de Meent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There is a maintainer, Martin Mares, listed at the top of those files.
> Don't know what the best place for the file is, I'm trying to keep it
> uptodate in the pciutils package (also by Martin).
Probably the kernel
ize a script used by all these packages, which
knows how to translate various sources, so you can do
doc-gen ebook-foo pdf
and have it come out right? Or maybe hook it into debconf so on
installation, the format you wish is autogenerated....
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Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is that a good idea? I know the scripts have changed between GNU and
> Aladdin GS, to make things somewhat more secure. You naturally won't
> be able to use the Aladdin versions in gs-common, but that means that
> you will los
mmon, but that means that
you will lose features.
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Pedro Zorzenon Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The author intends to incorporate my patch in the upstream, I'd like to
> know if "getenv" will work in DOS.
It's ANSI C.
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in it probably want to keep
up-to-date by compiling it locally.
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Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it
> because of a lack of alternatives.
http://subversion.tigris.org
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generic symbol to
provide a placeholder in a font where a real currency symbol can be
placed.
> However, xemacs-mule doesn't seem to support anything greater then
> ISO-8859-9, so it looks like I am out of luck here.
This is a good place for the Ob"Emacs 21 will support it"
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Wolfgang Sourdeau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> My 0.02 ¤ (2 ¢)
If you're going to try to use the euro, you should be posting as
"iso-8859-15", not "iso-8859-1".
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"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> nope. your content-type was the same; and i opened it up in two
> different rxvt's one (the smaller one) spawned like this:
You're using an iso8859-15 font to display iso8859-1 messages. Don't
you s
David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Mutt is pretty good about displaying different charsets, maybe even
> better than some of the "graphical" mailers.
Cool! Useful thing to know.
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cal" mailer over mutt, though I don't know whether most of them
can display different charsets correctly, or if they're limited to the
one in the font you specified.)
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Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one.
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
so _everyone_ should be showing it as the "o with four little tick
marks". (What a weird character... it has to have a name, right?)
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't exist, which is just plain wrong!
> And it's not happening on potato.
Whee, I switched to Debian in time to catch the fury here, too.
Basically, the situation is:
Take it up with the glibc developers or set LC_COLLATE.
They aren't listening and nobody else can do a
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Wow, that's the most creative spam I've ever read..it almost was worth the
> effort :)
Except there was really nothing there!
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"John H. Robinson, IV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> it says ``that a user would obtain by installing''
Sorry, I thought he was referring to binary packages above.
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Well, Jim, I'm not much of an actor either.
odds that a different compiler will produce the exact
same files as his are unlikely. It means you have to link against the
exact same libraries as djb.
So, "makes it impossible to distribute binaries that aren't compiled by DJB
himself" sounds pretty accurate to me. It may
Arthur Korn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Looking at apmd(8), it seems "change power" would fit, but
> unfortunately it doesn't tell you wheter AC was plugged in or
> out.
Your script could query `apm | grep on-line` or something.
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Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> There are billions and billions of ways you can tweak environment
> variables to break shell scripts that don't bother. What's your
> point? If I can tweak IFS to change parsing, I can also tweak PATH.
So far, all I've com
il.
There are billions and billions of ways you can tweak environment
variables to break shell scripts that don't bother. What's your
point? If I can tweak IFS to change parsing, I can also tweak PATH.
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space, tab and
newline characters. Implementations may ignore the value of IFS in
the environment at the time sh is invoked, treating IFS as if it
were not set.
That seems to indicate that sh is not required to ignore IFS in the
environment.
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e "Emacs as an editor" may not make
much sense as a task (only a couple packages), a task which installed
most Emacs add-ons might be useful.
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