Re: #518696 ITP: parallel -- build and execute command lines from standard input in parallel]

2009-03-09 Thread Philip Charles
S` Started $@" > $ERR > echo "-- STDERR" >> $ERR > echo "-- STDOUT" >> $OUT > "$@" >> $OUT 2>> $ERR ; EXIT=$? > > cat $ERR > cat $OUT > echo "-- `date +%H:%M:%S` Finished with exitcode $EXIT" > rm

Re: Blueray software, was: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

2008-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
t. My guess it will be 18 - 24 months before bluray discs will be worth worrying about. Even then bluray disc(s) will take up about the same space as a CD set. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875

Re: Bug#447712: Package could be non-free in the United Kingdom

2007-10-29 Thread Philip Charles
y could well take a different stand on printed versions. *While the version for the Church of Scotland is the most common and is the version under discussion, it is a shortened version of the original. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

2007-06-12 Thread Philip Charles
appened, see http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A471476 Now there is a real authority ;) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 027 663 4453 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - personal.[EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Debian Buzz and Rex binary packages

2007-04-11 Thread Philip Charles
as furious because it was incomplete and uninstallable), 1.2. Binaries were supplied. I also have 1.3.1, the first Debian release Copyleft sold. Contact me off list if you want copies. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +

Re: bet there are no senior citizen developers

2006-03-22 Thread Philip Charles
u lost your bet. Pushing 68 here. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs

Re: Request of expulsion of Zeke the Cat from the Debian Project

2006-03-17 Thread Philip Charles
eke their 23rd cousin at 14th remove is not to be in any way considered for expulsion from the Debian project. If this were to happen the feline community would switch its loyalty to Slackware. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fa

Re: Mirror split, amd64 update

2006-02-22 Thread Philip Charles
sting etc) to be mirrored. Unfortunately this script will require ftp/http access to ../debian-all. Is there any reason to restrict access to ../debian-all to rsync? Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax

Re: Packages file missing from unstable archive

2005-10-26 Thread Philip Charles
e, but didn't find > anything. I got caught with this too. Then I remembered a discussion some time back to the effect that to download Packages was a waste of time and that diffs would do the job. I personally don't bother with the diffs, but use buzip2 -fk .../dists/sid

Re: Bits (Nybbles?) from the Vancouver release team meeting

2005-03-15 Thread Philip Charles
here must be a > solution for that. > Many of the mirrors I have investigated are only partial - no source; no architecture A, B or C. However, most do carry stable, testing and unstable. Its no great deal running a partitial mirror, debmirror is designed for this. Mind you I had work

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

2004-12-12 Thread Philip Charles
n the Koran that say different things? > > An example from the Bible: the Old Testament says that homosexuals > must be stoned to death, Nonsence, people were to be stoned for many things, but homosexuality was not one of them. > But, exegesis is a thorny topic, and really shouldn't b

Re: [custom] Re: Custom Debian Distributions (was: Re: Integrate Knoppix in Debian (was: Re: Debian Enterprise?))

2003-12-01 Thread Philip Charles
be /as/ internal as a flavour But always remain on friendly terms with those working outside Debian. > * distributing customised Debian distros is not only the way of the > future, it's the way of the present! Sure is, and Debian is by far the best distro for this purpose.

Re: Some observations regardig the progress towards Debian 3.1

2003-11-15 Thread Philip Charles
ebian is superb. However, it would be good if Debian could also be more aware of J.Average User. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [E

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:39:45AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > > > > > > Take the Lawyer example. He probably bought his legal practice when it > > was all Word. He does not like it, he is stuck. > >

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Chris Halls wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:29:01PM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > We have a lawyer here who is a GNU/linux geek who still has to use MS Word > > because openoffice.org cannot handle the complex formatting of his legacy > > Word d

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Philip Charles
re were free alternatives. Please remember this is 2003 and not 1983. People have accumulated a lot on their HDDs in twenty years. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [E

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-19 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Francesco P. Lovergine wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 10:56:32AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8 > > documents. > > > > That's exactly one of the old-days craps around I w

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Philip Charles wrote: > > > xpm4.7 is needed for WordPerfect 8. I have a mass of wp5.1 and wp8 > > documents. > > Note that the packages won't be removed from your system, they will simply > no

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-18 Thread Philip Charles
Francesco P. Lovergine > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Philip Charles
Well, didn't work that way last time... > Maybe the US should elect its President in the same way as Debian elects its DPL. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTE

Re: private debian pools

2002-12-08 Thread Philip Charles
ich all others must, by definition, be emulations) > packaged and useable by mere mortals, but the last I'd heard, this was a > long way off, and not terribly high on most priority lists. I also maintain my own archive and have developed a rether crazy set of scripts to mainain it. Phil.

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002, Luke Woods wrote: > the linux distro you seek exists. its called windows xp. > > nuff said. > > Luke > > p.s. qbasic is the programming language for stupid people. > Because it does not have line numbers ;) Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Str

Re: Ian Jackson in New Zealand

2002-11-24 Thread Philip Charles
Auckland arr 1245 > > 2002-12-15 Aucklanddep 1645 > 2002-12-16 LHRarr 0910 > There are a number of us in Dunedin. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025

Re: Where are tasks now and how are they handled? (Woody sucks because there is no Task: Spanish)

2002-09-03 Thread Philip Charles
On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > On Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 10:43:25AM +1200, Philip Charles wrote: > > > | > > > | Excerpt from the changelog: > > > | * we no longer have task packages, instead, we define tasks using a > > > |

Re: Where are tasks now and how are they handled? (Woody sucks because there is no Task: Spanish)

2002-09-02 Thread Philip Charles
look. debian-cd then adds this info to the Packages file. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED] - preferred. [EMAIL PROTECTED] I sell GNU/Linux & GNU/Hurd CDs. See http://www.copyleft.co.nz

Bug#159037: general: Time Problem

2002-09-01 Thread Philip Charles
nce, as far as I know, the bios clock is only read or set at boot > time or shutdown. I don't know if this is related, but some of us in New Zealand noticed the system clock getting very slow. After some investigation we narrowed it down to a bug in the 2.4 kernel. The slowdown happened in

Re: Debian based CD based distros

2002-08-31 Thread Philip Charles
Don't forget Libranet, http://www.libranet.com, an excelent Debian based distribution. Interesting use of the GPL as well. Phil. -- Philip Charles; 39a Paterson Street, Abbotsford, Dunedin, New Zealand +64 3 488 2818Fax +64 3 488 2875Mobile 025 267 9420 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gpm and X problem investigated

2000-08-31 Thread Philip Charles
Furthermore, a fix to this effect > seems more than necessary to go into 2.2r1. > On my test installs I configured gpm manually, as I always do, and switched off repeat mode. I have never had any problems in X. A generic serial mouse on ttyS1. Phil. - Philip Charles; 39a Paterson St., Abbots