Re: Upcoming Section changes in the archive

2009-02-27 Thread Dave Holland
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:13:07AM +, Matthew Johnson wrote: > localization is the spelling given by the OED, so it is correct in all > locales. It doesn't even list localisation as an alternative spelling. The OED lists plenty of examples of "localisation" and "localise"; whether you consider

Re: A suggestion

2008-04-03 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 10:55:40AM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > I run unstable on my home machines, and stable on my work machines. At > work I am trying to get things done, not play with my software. At home > is different. I don't need to spend 4 hours figuring out why X no > longer works

Re: debian-private and Gmail

2006-12-06 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:46:51PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Dec 06, "Nelson A. de Oliveira" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > People discussed at this thread > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/05/msg02531.html that it's > > not nice to redirect debian-private to a Gmail account. > Pl

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread Dave Holland
On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 08:07:16AM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Quite true, though my impression is that this is much more rare. Our > controller (HP MSA1500cs) seems to have added active/active controllers > as a recent option. That's worth knowing. > I'm not really sure if multipath-tools supp

Re: Poor quality of multipath-tools

2006-07-06 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 04:06:54PM -0500, John Goerzen wrote: > Now, when you bring up this system, Linux will assign *two* /dev/sdx > devices for each RAID LUN (basically looks like a disk). At any given > time, exactly one will be readable and useful. That is, the disk can be > probed on both c

Re: For those who care about debian-devel-announce

2006-01-18 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 06:44:32PM +0100, Josselin Mouette wrote: > Raphaƫl has also harmed the project by implicitly > linking it to Ubuntu. Don't be ridiculous. Ubuntu explicitly acknowledge that they build on Debian - see http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/relationship - and Debian positively en

Re: Alternate proposal for Declassification of debian-private archives

2005-12-01 Thread Dave Holland
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 08:30:37AM +1100, Robert Collins wrote: > I think the default behaviour should be to keep the post private, not to > open it up. That is, if the author and other individuals do not reply, > the message is kept hidden. > > The primary reason for this is that the existing mes

Re: Linux / Debian / Ubuntu

2005-06-01 Thread Dave Holland
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 09:37:28PM -0700, Stephen Birch wrote: > Darren Salt([EMAIL PROTECTED])@2005-05-31 21:49: > > For those who've missed the first three broadcasts today, there's one more > > at > > 01:05 GMT; also see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/1478157.stm>. > Why on earth does th

Re: .d.o machines which are down (Re: Questions for the DPL candidates)

2005-03-17 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 07:32:37PM -0500, Ben Collins wrote: > Ok, I can guarantee that it never dies. Sorry, but I do not believe you. "Never" is a very strong word. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2002/11/msg01926.html Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: [RFC] OpenLDAP automatic upgrade

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Holland
On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 01:36:17AM +0100, Torsten Landschoff wrote: > As you might have noticed or not we are working on getting OpenLDAP 2.2 > into unstable. The packages are mostly working fine (as available in > experimental) but what is missing is a really tested upgrade path from > OpenLDAP 2.

Re: apply to NM? ha!

2005-01-30 Thread Dave Holland
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 02:18:36PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote: > PS You really should talk to some mothers about the stress involved with > raising children. Or fathers, maybe? > Most reports make raising children sound about a million > times more difficult than dealing with flames. Indeed.

Re: Bug#283578: ITP: hot-babe -- erotic graphical system activity monitor

2004-12-01 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 05:16:16AM +0200, Sami Haahtinen wrote: > But as for this issue, this can all be solved by replacing the babe in > the images with a sheep, in the first pic it has all it's wool, the next > it's partially sheared and finally fully sheared. (in case of > overheating the im

Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-04 Thread Dave Holland
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:32:37AM -0600, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Laptops with biometric print readers are supposed to be around > the horizon as well. If you're talking about laptops with fingerprint readers, they're consumer items right now. The sales manager at my ex-employer had one f

Re: Debconf or not debconf : Conclusion

2003-07-04 Thread Dave Holland
On Fri, Jul 04, 2003 at 12:18:33AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > sometimes think Eric Troan really got this part of rpm's design right > (some 7 or 8 years ago) when he completely forbade any I/O between the > install scripts and the user at install time. [...] > (And perhaps by removing this crutc

Bug#4551: xautolock and xtrlock conflict on screensaver

1996-09-22 Thread Dave Holland
saver may lead to monitor burn over extended periods if the user was expecting the screen saver to operate. xautolock should check to see if the display is already locked before attempting to run the locker program. Dave -- Dave Holland <[EMAIL PROTEC

Bug#4504: ircii: segfault/coredump with "/leave"

1996-09-18 Thread Dave Holland
Package: ircii Version: 2.8.16beta-1 Typing "/leave" without arguments causes a segfault and coredump. (I have a 475K core file if anyone's interested.) The help information claims that /leave without arguments should behave identically to "/leave *", i.e. leave curren

Bug#4497: mailq confused by $TERM setting

1996-09-17 Thread Dave Holland
Some problem with the tab settings? Dave -- Dave Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trinity Hall, Cambridge, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>