Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-12 Thread Jim Crilly
On 04/10/07 10:19:02PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 06:39:16PM -0400, Jim Crilly wrote: > > And don't forget games. Game developers will start releasing 64-bit binaries > > and gamers will eat them up just because 64 > 32. So the Win64 market will &g

Re: 64-bit transition deadline (Re: Etch in the hands of the Stable Release Managers)

2007-04-09 Thread Jim Crilly
On 04/09/07 05:20:34PM -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:14:50PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > > You forgot the "+PAE" part. > > PAE helps the OS, not the applications. Applications still only get > 32bit. Well unless the OS starts doing something weird, and it would >

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-19 Thread Jim Crilly
On 12/19/06 11:52:50AM +0100, Gabor Gombas wrote: > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 06:36:49PM -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > > > I would agree, when I did an install of etch a few weeks ago the use of > > allow-hotplug caused the network to come up later in the boot process and > &

Re: possible grave bug in debian-installer or ifupdown?

2006-12-18 Thread Jim Crilly
On 12/18/06 08:18:54PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Gabor Gombas: > > > On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 09:23:13AM +0100, Bastian Venthur wrote: > > > >> But who has created the allow-hotplug-line? I thought hotplug is dead? > > > > Doesn't matter, udev handles "allow-hotplug" interfaces just fine, I

Re: Question about "Depends: bash"

2006-11-25 Thread Jim Crilly
On 11/25/06 06:06:09PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-11-25 00:02:34, schrieb Jari Aalto: > > PII with 62-128M, fairly common. > > ACK > > > > For example my IBM TP570 (PII/366MHz/192MB) > > > is happy with /bin/bash and fast enough. > > > > "fast enought" is in the eye of a beholder.

Re: Question about "Depends: bash"

2006-11-19 Thread Jim Crilly
On 11/18/06 10:50:30PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello, > > Regarding the discusion about POSIX and sh I have a grave problem. > > My scripts (or better programs) are using #!/bin/bash because I use > BASH specific extensions. > > You say: "BASH must not be a Depends: since it is Essentia

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-10 Thread Jim Crilly
On 10/09/06 07:42:03PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: > Actually, it can't do even that. According to installation > instructions, it can be run without root privileges, as long as it has > read/write access to a rather small subset of files in the /sys tree. > That's how I plan to make it work in t

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-09 Thread Jim Crilly
On 10/09/06 08:38:46AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > Jim Crilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Intel's daemon isn't as bad as the Atheros HAL or nVidia's blob > > Could you please elaborat on that? why is ath_hal.ko or nvidia.ko worse > than inte

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-08 Thread Jim Crilly
On 10/09/06 12:11:28AM +0100, Stephen Gran wrote: > This one time, at band camp, Jim Crilly said: > > Most people are willing to deal with firmware since they don't run on the > > host CPU but only on the card that they're controlling. Intel's daemon > > isn

Re: Bug#391686: ITP: ipw3945-daemon -- Binary userspace regulatory daemon for Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG cards

2006-10-08 Thread Jim Crilly
On 10/08/06 02:30:14PM -0700, Jurij Smakov wrote: > On Sun, Oct 08, 2006 at 07:57:27PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote: > > Jurij Smakov wrote: > > > * Package name: ipw3945-daemon > > > Version : 1.7.22 > > > Upstream Author : Intel Corporation > > > * URL : http://http

Re: Desktop task(sel) in Etch? (Bug #389092)

2006-09-26 Thread Jim Crilly
On 09/26/06 02:25:21AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 09:12:58AM +0200, Christoph Haas wrote: > > What I would expect at least: > > Rename the task from "Desktop" to "Desktop (Gnome)" so more experienced > > users know what's coming up. > > Should we also have "Mail Server

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-27 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/26/06 03:26:12PM +, Sam Morris wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2006 16:02:04 +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > > Am Samstag 26 August 2006 15:15 schrieb Theodore Tso: > >> No support for: (The * are critical) > >> > >>* SATA Hard Drives (*) > >>* Intel AD1981 HD Audio (*) > > > > This stuf

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-15 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/15/06 09:49:54AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Hello, > This seems to be totally overengineered. Having MTA a provide sendmail > which uses MTA b for remote deliveries is no common usage scenario on > which any effort should be spent in the Debian packaging > infrastructure. > > Actually t

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-13 Thread Jim Crilly
On 07/13/06 08:06:19AM -0700, Erast Benson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 12:59 +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > > Erast Benson writes ("Re: cdrtools"): > > > Joerg clearly stands that: > > > > > > 1) Makefiles != scripts or at least it is unclear whether Makefiles may > > > be called "scripts": > > >

Re: Bug#363598: udev should conflict with ifrename

2006-04-21 Thread Jim Crilly
On 04/21/06 10:19:46AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Apr 20, Adam Borowski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Idea: if /etc/iftab is present on upgrade, you can consume it, producing > > relevant rules in that place (and displaying a message to the admin). > An even better idea is, on the upgrade

Re: 4GB address space

2006-02-28 Thread Jim Crilly
On 02/28/06 04:19:45PM +0100, Mad Props wrote: > Hi, > > i'm interested in whether it is possible to modify the Linux kernel so that > user applications can use the whole 4GB of virtual address space while the > kernel runs it's own AS. > > If yes, how complicated would that be ?? > > Thanks, >

Re: a place for a package directory in root

2005-08-29 Thread Jim Crilly
On 08/29/05 03:32:55AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote: > > [Steve Langasek] > > [use of /dev/shm] inappropriately ties the required feature (early > > availability of read-write space for data that doesn't persist across > > reboots) to a particular implementation, instead of leaving the admin > > f

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-22 Thread Jim Crilly
On 06/22/05 12:02:53PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 07:22:33 -0400 (EDT), Freddie Unpenstein <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> said: > > >> > - inetd begone! -> xinetd (better mechanism to control DoS, > >> > separation, etc.) > > >> xinetd begone. There is no justification for us