Re: Bug#682398: ITP: cows-and-bulls -- Words-based version of the cows and bulls game

2012-07-22 Thread Thomas Thurman
On 22 July 2012 18:54, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi there, > > Interesting! Not a game I've ever heard of before, but the package > description covers it thoroughly. > > Perhaps not under that name, but this is more widely known these days by the name of its 1970 commercial version, "Mastermind".

Bug#654659: ITP: plover -- stenotype input method

2012-01-04 Thread Thomas Thurman
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist X-Debbugs-CC: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Plover is a stenotype input method for X11. It allows input of English text using chords rather than letter by letter, enabling typing speeds to approach 300wpm for a skilled user. It can use a dedicated stenotype machin

Re: Bug#646804: ITP: cheermeup -- Send affirmative messages to the user via the notification library

2011-10-27 Thread Thomas Thurman
On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 04:38:47PM +0100, Steve McIntyre wrote: > Ole Wolf wrote: > >* Package name: cheermeup > > > >Send an an affirmative message to the currently logged in users via the > >notification library. The > >affirmative messages are intended to boost the user's self-esteem by tel

Re: Packaging an RGTP server and client

2011-02-24 Thread Thomas Thurman
I was the original author of the RGTP > protocol spec and the reference implementation used on GROGGS. Thomas > knows this I'm sure. Yes, indeed. Thomas [1] http://search.cpan.org/~marnanel/Net-RGTP-0.10/lib/Net/RGTP.pm -- Thomas Thurman, poet and programmer - thomas at thurman.org.

Packaging an RGTP server and client

2011-02-23 Thread Thomas Thurman
e already been debianised but are not included in Debian's catalogue, notably greed[3].) [1] http://www.groggs.group.cam.ac.uk/ [2] http://www.groggs.group.cam.ac.uk/protocol.txt [3] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~owend/free/GREED.html Thomas -- Thomas Thurman, poet and programmer - tho

Notification escape sequences

2010-12-02 Thread Thomas Thurman
I am proposing an escape sequence which, when transmitted over SSH or telnet, requests the client to display a desktop notification. I have written up a description, with some example code, at http://people.collabora.co.uk/~tthurman/notify/ There are patches against vte and gnome-terminal. I

Re: nethack popularity contest - number_pad?

2003-10-16 Thread Thomas Thurman
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! number_pad is your friend. It's far easier

Re: unicode

2003-07-24 Thread Thomas Thurman
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002, Sergey V. Spiridonov wrote: > For example, grep is not able to search unicode strings. It can't search for UTF-8? Why not? T -- thomas thurman - marnanel at marnanel dot org - http://marnanel.org You are in a long, narrow corridor stretching out of sigh

Re: Bug#200163: ITP: png2ico -- command-line PNG to ICO converter

2003-07-08 Thread Thomas Thurman
On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.07.08.1828 +0200]: > > > Description : command-line PNG to ICO converter > > > > What does png2ico do that convert doesn't? > > my convert didn't convert to the ico format. did you even bothe