Re: Ongoing Firefox (and Thunderbird) Trademark problems

2005-06-17 Thread Donald J Bindner
I've only been skimming this thread, so I fear this may have been said. What about: 1) rebrand mozilla-firefox 2) create a permanent "transition package" with the firefox name that depends on it 3) use alternatives to provide /usr/bin/firefox The description of the transition package shou

Re: "The Debian exim 4 packages suck badly" on exim-users@exim.org

2005-02-17 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Thu, Feb 17, 2005 at 10:07:11PM +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > * John Hasler > > If you are unsure then you should not use split configuration. > > I think the last point sums it up -- use monolithic configuration if > you don't understand what the question is about. I've installed exim ma

Re: Some important orphaned packages

2003-05-18 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 11:39:00PM +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 12 May 2003 13:30:00 -0500, Donald J Bindner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Maybe I should roll my sleeves up and send them some patches. > > apg's upstream is pretty responsive. I checked out the

Re: Update on alioth

2003-04-13 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Sun, Apr 13, 2003 at 02:27:10PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > Previously Joerg Wendland wrote: > > When debugging an application of mine using OpenLDAP I found out, that > > each single ACL makes not queries but return of results significantly > > slower. Maybe you want to try to tune these..

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-09 Thread Donald J Bindner
Well, I didn't expect to inspire such a vibrant thread! A couple of responses (not in anger, just adding some perspective). 1) free vs. non-free alternatives I use VMWare 2.0. If you think that bochs and Plex86 aren't viable alternatives yet, you can imagine the state of the world (2 years ago

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 11:47:42PM +0200, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: > It's your own fault. You choosed to run non-free software, now you get > the consequences. Debian doesn't support vmware, so go somewhere else > with your vmware problems. (Debian does support plex86 and bochs, BTW) > > Jeroen Dekke

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 09:14:17PM +0200, Harald Dunkel wrote: > May you should consider VMware's current beta of 3.1? That might have been an option if my VMWare sessions weren't "suspended". To upgrade, they first have to be restarted with version 2.0 and shut down properly. Then they can be u

Re: sid: libc6-2.2.5-4 kills vmware workstation 3.0

2002-04-08 Thread Donald J Bindner
On Wed, Mar 27, 2002 at 12:01:00AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike Phillips) writes: > Petr Vandrovec wrote: > > > As SUSv2 mandates that new nice return value is correct, > > please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or @GLIBC_2.2.6 as it is in CVS > > only) for new nice() interface, so o