Re: NMU etiquette (arpwatch package)

2009-09-01 Thread Craig Sanders
it but Peter seemed to hint that he'd like someone to adopt arpwatch...hopefully the new form of the package will make it more appealing (or less unappealing) to someone. > Other "polite" conventions regarding NMUs are spelled out in the developer's > reference <http://www.

NMU etiquette (arpwatch package)

2009-09-01 Thread Craig Sanders
04) * fixed sprintf in ec.c (Closes: #315215) * Applied patch from Sebastian Reichelt to initialise interface variable (Closes: #289426) * updated watch file to v3 (Closes: #529097) * applied patch from Sebastian Reichelt to display IP in subject if hostname unknown (Closes: #288

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-17 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 06:30:26PM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > Which is better? I like the default keys because you learn how to use nvi > very efficiently knowing the hjkl-style keys :) I'm searching for as many > opinions as possible so please speak up! i agree. hjkl keys are betterand give

Re: IMPORTANT: your message to html-tidy

2003-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Sep 07, 2003 at 11:09:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, 8 Sep 2003 15:40:15 +1000 > Matthew Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:04:39AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > I'm coming to the view that we're approaching the era where all mail is > > > going

Re: music sheet

2003-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 09:11:09AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 09, 2003 at 01:00:11AM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 06:55:31PM -0400, Jim Penny wrote: > > > > > Do you have the sheet music for "dueling banjos"? I would like to > > > > > get it if possible. >

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken (RAPNAP)

2003-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 11:32:04PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > DNSBL's and spamassasin seem quite good at dealing with spam and are much > less annoying. That combined with some new laws that are being enacted to > combat spam should keep it to a managable level. oh, please tell me that these n

Re: "non-free" software included in contrib

2003-09-01 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 09:47:46AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: > Ah, reductio ad absurdum. Such a wonderful means of demonstrating that you > can't think up a decent argument, so you'll take something to it's illogical > extreme to try and scare some people. more accurately, it is a useful tool

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 11:49:40PM +, Brian May wrote: > On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:01:19PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > > That is the idea behind autorespoonders after all, to tell the sender > > > that his mail didn't get through because it didn't meet some required > > > criteria. > > >

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 04:01:19PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > Backup MX servers serve no useful purpose in the modern Internet, this is why > big sites such as microsoft.com and hotmail.com don't have them. agreed. > If you have a backup MX then it should know all the acceptable email > addre

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-31 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 10:42:17AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > On Fri, Aug 29, 2003 at 03:48:13PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > the point that you keep on missing is that TMDA and similar programs send > > "confirmation" emails to innocent third-parties who di

Re: Bug#207300: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 08:21:22AM -0700, Adam McKenna wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2003 at 12:35:25PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > #2, Misplaced burden, is the reason for the 'grave' severity. > > People have a right to ask that unkown people that e-mail them confirm the > e-mail. the point t

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Craig Sanders
this question really belongs on debian-user, not on debian-devel. On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:55:28PM +0200, Dennis Stampfer wrote: > I have to log out a user who is logged in via ssh. The information that he > is not allowed to login comes from the utmp-file like the pid to kill. if he's not

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 06:10:33PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 11:11:13AM +0200, Sebastian Rittau wrote: > | > 100 million users > | > 1000 installations > | > | I would recommend to exchange these last two lines. More installations > | than users? > > If yo

Re: Debconf or not debconf : Conclusion

2003-07-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 04:49:19PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > If I ever add filtering to the notes debconf allows to be displayed, > notes that refer the user to README.Debian will be at the top of the > list to never be displayed. > > Of course, I am much more likely to bow to the pressure of note

Re: Debconf or not debconf : Conclusion

2003-07-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 02:36:24PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > [...] > This upstream change makes no sense from a usability standpoint; this new > stunnel package would be pretty useless to me, and I wouldn't want to have it > automatically installed on my systems if I were using the previous, w

Re: Bug#198957: ITP: email -- Send email from command line, either via MTA or SMTP, with optional encryption

2003-06-29 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 03:33:16PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 04:08:05PM +0100, Millis Miller wrote: > > E) Email does binary attachments and uses MIME (mime types, base64 > > encoding) to "attach" and send them with the message. You can't do this > > by doing what is d

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 07:07:46AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Anyway, one liner "snob" descriptions just have to go. > > $ apt-cache show emacs21 > Description: The GNU Emacs editor > GNU Emacs is the extensible self-documenting text editor. > > Oops, I see, it is self-documenting. that's act

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 04:15:29PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 10:41:59PM +0200, Josip Rodin wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:17:58PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > > > > the worst culprits are usually sets of binary packages from the one > > > > source file > >

Re: Packages: an average 66321 bytes per line of description

2003-06-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 09:10:09PM -0500, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 07:56:42AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Fellas, looking in the Packages files, some big packages have little > > descriptions, some little packages have big descriptions, > > and this package description w

optional filtering and/or tagging is the perfect compromise

2003-06-15 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 09:22:08AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > As I have said before, as long as the default is to not cause data loss for > everyone (since dropping emails may cause data loss), but allow people to opt > in to have their mail filtered, I would have no objection. Opt in filter

Re: Problems with XFS patch and SMP

2002-12-08 Thread Craig Sanders
0.000s if you have any other tests you'd like me to run, i'll leave dictd installed here for a day or two...then i'll remove it. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Craig Sanders
orld can actually read > hexadecimal code anyway. either 1) you're a troll or 2) you resent having to learn or understand anything about your computer or 3) both. in any case, my advice to you is thæ same: linux is probably not for you, you would be happier staying with windows. craig -- c

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 07:27:06PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:01:12PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > >> Current cost of hard disk is something between $1.00 and $1.50 per > >> gigabyte. > > > it's not just the cost of disk

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Nov 21, 2002 at 12:15:12PM -0800, Thomas Bushnell, BSG wrote: > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > i remember a year or so ago when i complained about this worthless > > practice i said that it would end up consuming hundreds of megabytes > > -

Re: Packages.bz2, Sources.bz2, Contents-*.bz2, oh my

2002-09-03 Thread Craig Sanders
ackages.gz e6d7f7afad5eba7c04f6be8b4f64971ba5cb762314195 main/debian-installer/binary-sparc/Packages 9ca48708f119e3776fae836e2a8ab026d59244a5 4482 main/debian-installer/binary-sparc/Packages.gz craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-16 Thread Craig Sanders
hat kind of "quality-control" then try redhat's contrib packages. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free software in main)

2002-04-08 Thread Craig Sanders
tedious) argument is had until everyone is bored into apathy. this practice is, of course, a wonderful morale booster. hip hip hooray. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: serious bug. Evolution and Microsoft mentality.

2002-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
ome other annoying thing. to evaluate an MUA safely, create another account on your system (you can have mail delivered to it by setting up .forward to CC your real account's mail to it) and login as (or "su -" to) that userid before running the MUA. better yet, just stick with mutt. It

Re: How to put files at a location determined at install-time.

2002-01-01 Thread Craig Sanders
d-symlink /usr/doc and /usr/share/doc to another partition when the /usr partition is too small. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-28 Thread Craig Sanders
27;s also no need to have quotes (`) around the connect string - you'll only have to strip them off before using it. also, why have the connect string at all when it can be built up from the details provided in the other fields? it seems to me that the fields you need are: username dbi_driver attributes db_name db_host db_port db_user db_password the connect string can be built up like so: $connect = "DBI:$driver:database=$db_name:host=$db_host" ; (using db_port, db_user, and db_password as well if required) craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: What config file for a .pm perl module ?

2001-12-27 Thread Craig Sanders
following lines to the script: use Data::Dumper ; print $Dumper($virtual1); alternatively, use the IniConf module (in package libiniconf-perl). it uses ugly multi-line windows style .ini configurations, but the IniConf module parses it automatically into a hash for you. it&#x

Re: thomas's trivia crusade

2001-12-22 Thread Craig Sanders
s about the words "zonefile" and "usenet". craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-22 Thread Craig Sanders
> [ drivel deleted ] in a word, No. btw, learn to spell "authoritative". OTOH, it's kind of amusing to read someone who can't spell attempt to harangue me over spelling. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: Flamewars & Why pedantic spelling is good.

2001-12-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 02:55:13AM -0600, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > > yawn. you're wrong. again. > > I have seen no quotes from you, of other, *outside* sources, that show > 'zonefile' in widespread use. I *have* seen p

Re: Completely OT, just to quickly prove a point.

2001-09-26 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Sep 26, 2001 at 10:08:04PM -0600, Russel Ingram wrote: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > > I've used the make-kpkg command to create kernel packages, but they > > > always come out with a custom-1.00 label on them and I haven't figure

Re: XFS Kernel image packaging

2001-09-26 Thread Craig Sanders
on them and I haven't figured > out how to get around that. RTFM. see the --revision option. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: isync vs mailsync

2001-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
by or to you. dunno if it looks at References: or In-Reply-To: lines for that, but it certainly uses From:, To:, and CC: headers. makes it quite easy to spot your messages and replies to them in large threads. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of t

Re: reopening ECN bugreport/netbase

2001-09-06 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 06, 2001 at 01:37:02AM -0500, Scott Dier wrote: > * Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010905 20:17]: > > the correct solution is to NOT compile ECN support into the distribution > > kernels. that's a choice that should be left up to the individual system >

Re: reopening ECN bugreport/netbase

2001-09-05 Thread Craig Sanders
oice that should be left up to the individual system admin - if they want it, they can compile a kernel to support it. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: sysctl should disable ECN by default

2001-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
good thing, and widespread adoption of it should be encouraged - BUT enabling it should require an informed act by the user since it is likely to result in network outages at the moment. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fabricati Diem, PVNC. -- motto of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-09 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 06:36:30PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Craig" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Craig> why is application bar any *more* reliable or trustworthy > Craig> just because it is compiled against an old

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-09 Thread Craig Sanders
different apt repositories, each with > different selections of packages compiled for stable, you would have > one big repository that could be used by everyone. a fine idea (really, i'm not being sarcastic). but ALL it is doing is making yet another unstable. think about it: that's all it is - just another unstable tree, but with different versions of stuff. why bother? craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: support for older distributions

2001-05-08 Thread Craig Sanders
ource systems? IMO, forcing debian into that model is missing a large part of the point of debian. potato's been released. woody's getting closer to freeze. lets move on. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Craig Sanders
r: 1. ssh and sshd should be split into separate packages. if it bothers you enough, file a bug report. i'm happy with the way it is. or 2. the handful of people who want the ssh client but not the ssh daemon can learn how to edit /etc/init.d/ssh craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Craig Sanders
port and rejects all non-localhost connections that aren't explicitly allowed (by ip address) in /etc/hosts.allow > Having daemons shut off by default is not the way to go, however. yep. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint:

Re: Many ports open by default

2001-04-30 Thread Craig Sanders
packages if they don't want the daemon to run - or they should learn how to edit the startup scripts (or inetd.conf) if they want non-standard behaviour. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 12:41:22PM +0200, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 05:19:12PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > anyone running SMP ought to have enough of a clue to compile their > > own kernel. > > This is the point where I disagree. I really hate hav

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-30 Thread Craig Sanders
s are compiled automatically, with the modules_image target. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-30 Thread Craig Sanders
> and the 686 flavour covers a very large chunk of the > i386 userbase. a 386 kernel covers all of the ia32 userbase. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-26 Thread Craig Sanders
e is whether there should be dozens of kernel-image and kernel-headers packages when one is enough to do the job. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-26 Thread Craig Sanders
s whether it's appropriate to have a dozen or so kernel-image packages (and associated kernel-headers packages) per kernel version, when one(*) will do. (*) or whatever the minimum number is that will boot on all ia32 boxes. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/

Re: Referring what kernel-images to build to the technical committee?

2001-04-25 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Apr 25, 2001 at 08:30:31PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: > [...] i think you've done a good job of summarising the issues. i hope we can resolve this soon. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-25 Thread Craig Sanders
been the topic of this thread from the beginning. > > In that case, you're mixing them up as well. you are mistaken. i started the thread, i know what i started. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-25 Thread Craig Sanders
ead. they're one and the same. "kernel-{image,headers} package bloat" has been the topic of this thread from the beginning. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Craig Sanders
l, > or, let them pick the optimization they want, and we compile the kernel for > them. well said. couldn't agree more. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-24 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 07:30:47PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:47:44AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > > > what is the DIFFERENCE between kernel-headers-2.4.2 and all the other > > 2.4.2 kernel headers packages? > > Kernel-headers-2.4.2 is bu

Re: Why does typing "navigator" run mozilla?

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
owser, that's no problem - i just start up netscape whenever i need to visit an SSL site) i just learnt to work around it, because i'd be even more annoyed if it started up a new binary every time. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fin

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:37:35AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:15:03AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 07:24:13PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > > > How are they going to compile a kernel if they haven't even installed > &g

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:39:00AM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: > On Tue, Apr 24, 2001 at 08:20:42AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > what, exactly, is the difference between kernel-headers-2.4.2 and: > > > > kernel-headers-2.4.2-386 > > kernel-headers-2.4.2-586 &

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
if they don't want to do it, they don't have to. if they can't be bothered, they're not even going to notice the difference between a 386 kernel and a k7 kernel. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
what do they provide that just plain kernel-headers-2.4.2 doesn't provide? craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-23 Thread Craig Sanders
of > kernel images needed on boot floppies to one. you're missing the point again. nobody is disputing that using initrd was a good idea - it's a useful tool. what is being disputed is the package bloat of having dozens of kernel-image packages taking up approx 110MB for EACH kernel v

Re: Dual CPU compilation.

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
reliably when you use make -j. this won't be fixed until Keith Owens and others have got their fixed kernel build system into the kernel tree - that won't happen until 2.5.x i believe. i've successfully compiled several kernels using -j3, but it's not something i'

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 03:36:02PM -0700, Aaron Lehmann wrote: > On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 08:33:43AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > is there such a thing as cross-compilation for the kernel? > > Yes - porting to new architectures would be nearly impossible > otherwise. yep, tru

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
on for the kernel? craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
*helps* new users. what you want to do doesn't help at all, in fact it causes harm. craig -- craig sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> GnuPG Key: 1024D/CD5626F0 Key fingerprint: 9674 7EE2 4AC6 F5EF 3C57 52C3 EC32 6810 CD56 26F0

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
; > exist" bugs against all the excess kernel-image bugs. > > Go ahead, I'll close them as soon as they're filed. and i'll open them again or file new ones. what you are doing is broken. > And what does this have to do with our discussion? it's about as rele

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
el .config files and kernel versions. kernel-package is an outstanding piece of work...manoj has done some lots of other cool work too, but this by itself is more than enough to earn a great deal of respect. if users don't know that this exists or don't realise how useful it is, then that c

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-22 Thread Craig Sanders
't care about > > compiled in. > > IMHO, with the current 2.4.* setup, the difference between compiling your > own and using the preexisting one is so minimal that most people will be > able to use the precompiled one rather than building their own. there's good reason

Re: tar -I incompatibility

2001-01-09 Thread Craig Sanders
. changing it to -j means that an upgraded GNU tar is no longer a drop-in replacement for older versions of GNU tar. both options suck. craig -- craig sanders

Bug#81396: root shell fscked after upgrade to woody

2001-01-06 Thread Craig Sanders
blem solved with a minimum of user support calls. there's really no excuse for running (non-ssl) telnetd any more. good free ssh clients are available for just about every operating system. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Jan 04, 2001 at 10:43:05AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > [ Craig Sanders writes ] > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:26:25AM -0800, Philip Brown wrote: > > > And in the case of the debian mailing lists, you should "reply to" the > > > list. > > s

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Sanders
t;always" in place of "poster". These usages are deprecated, but followup agents MAY observe them. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:15:23PM +0100, Sven Burgener wrote: > On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 05:23:55PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > the new 'testing' distribution (sid) should be even better - nearly > > all the benefits of 'unstable' but tested to at least

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 11:11:50PM -0700, John Galt wrote: > On Thu, 4 Jan 2001, Craig Sanders wrote: > > Mail-Followup-To is the correct header to use. > > Mail-Followup-To isn't even a registered header! The closest thing to a > registry that RFC822 implies is in the han

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Sanders
f both programs is readily available it should be easy enough to check this allegation. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Sanders
-To header created by the original author of a message. the Reply-To header exists for the *person* who originally sent the message to be able to direct replies to their preferred destination. it is not there so that mailing lists can screw with it. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Sanders
lunteer is > if you have anything at all to do with debian. there's no need to be so pompous and pretentious. you're just another volunteer, not the Thought Police. craig -- craig sanders

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Craig Sanders
stribution (sid) should be even better - nearly all the benefits of 'unstable' but tested to at least install properly without error. craig -- craig sanders

Re: What do you wish for in an package manager?

2000-12-26 Thread Craig Sanders
s of libc6 or the last 10 versions of xbooks would waste an enormous amount of disk space). if i really need more than one version of a library installed, i can compile it in /usr/local and set LD_PRELOAD appropriately. craig -- craig sanders

Re: CGI bug scripts

2000-09-11 Thread Craig Sanders
t; line to "#! /usr/bin/speedy". mod_perl still has it's uses - speedy and mod_perl perform similar but far from identical tasks. for some jobs, mod_perl is better while for other jobs, speedy is better. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian and KDE: Appology

2000-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
nts simply derisive. some KDE people should apologise to RMS for being over-sensitive ungracious brats. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-08 Thread Craig Sanders
resolves to the IP address of the incoming connection. these have nothing to do with reverse DNS lookups, and the question of whether they are good policy or not is debatable (IMO the former is OK, the latter is not). craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
e with a clue. if your current ISP can't even get something simple like DNS working properly then it's unlikely that they can get anything workingthey don't deserve your money. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 05:48:17AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:09:31PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > it's simple - if you want a service that's worth having, you > > pay whatever it costs. if you don't want that, then pay for a > >

Re: Problems with mail system? [Fwd: Returned mail: User unknown]

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
of reasons. if i've got the time i'd even be willing to experiment with the certificate based relay control in postfix-tls (so far i only use it for smtp encryption, not relay control) craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
.. > > After all error checking is stripped off. fine, sounds good. i have no problem at all with that. quite the opposite, in fact. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Python 1.6 released and GPL incompatible

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
. another significant issue is that the US state of Virginia has adopted the DMCA, so accepting that jurisdiction means accepting all of the onerous terms allowed (and enforced) by the DCMA. craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian, daemons and runlevels (was: Re: X and runlevels)

2000-09-07 Thread Craig Sanders
m to make sure that everying is running (or not running as the case may be) exactly as you intend it. take appropriate action when you encounter any divergence from your desires. no package manager can read your mind. you're still going to have to do some of the work yourself. craig -- c

Re: MIDI Notation Software

2000-09-04 Thread Craig Sanders
On Sun, Sep 03, 2000 at 09:07:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:31:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 03:12:40AM +0200, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote: > > > I have not found any other free graphical MIDI notator for >

Re: MIDI Notation Software

2000-09-04 Thread Craig Sanders
ads to a better product and a dedicated user community. We sincerely hope this will happen also to Jazz++ and that all users will benifit from this change of license terms. As a contributing developer, you can really make a difference! craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Project Gutenberg

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
erg packages. personally, i think that a script which regularly downloaded the index of available texts, providing a searchable database, and capable of automatically fetching any one or more of them for you would be more useful... and it would be useful to non debian users too. think of it as the ap

Re: APT problem

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
# dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the # public domain. # # BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good. if [ -z "$*" ] ; then echo "Usage:"

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
how it should be. (Ever used dselect on a > 9600 serial console? It's fun ;). twice in one day...this must be the 4th or 5th time i've posted this script to this list over the years. ---cut here--- #! /bin/bash # dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held. # # by Cr

Re: Machine-specific optimizations

2000-09-02 Thread Craig Sanders
because going through dselect just takes too long). craig -- craig sanders -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Election Results] Official and Final

2000-04-02 Thread Craig Sanders
drugs, hypnosis and alien mind-control devices) made us all forget the torture session. craig ps: there is no cabal. -- craig sanders

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Craig Sanders
of it then i could agree with you. > Thanks for clearing this up for me. you're welcome. you be sure to have a nice day now. craig -- craig sanders

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-04-01 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:08:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone > > else to listen. > > Then this principle must apply universally. I

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-31 Thread Craig Sanders
(and yes, i do happen to think that SAUCE is insane, but my opinion - like yours - is irrelevant because it's his mail server, not yours or mine). on your machines, your policy applies. on his machines, his policy. simple. your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone else to listen. craig -- craig sanders

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
(and is doomed to cause significant problems in the near future). > Anyway, you didn't answer to my question ! yes i did. my answer was that you were asking the wrong question. craig -- craig sanders

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