Re: OT: Smartcards and Physical Security

2003-12-03 Thread Tom Badran
gives the jist of why smart cards are _much_ better than magnetic strips for instance. Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\| Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgpwrVEhZvy8M.pgp Description: signature

Re: Install Images

2003-12-03 Thread Tom Badran
On Wednesday 03 December 2003 18:12, Andreas Metzler wrote: > http://freedesktop.org/~daniel/d-i/ > cu andreas You star ;) Thanks Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\| Department of Computing |

Install Images

2003-12-03 Thread Tom Badran
Is there anywhere i can download debian-installer beta images (im getting a new laptop tommorow), prefereably with support for reiserfs filesystems? Gluck still isnt working and i cant seem to find mirrors anywhere. Thanks Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial

Re: Why you are wrong [Was: On linux kernel packaging issue]

2003-11-11 Thread Tom Badran
propriate (multiply by 2^x), and has been for as long as i can remember. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\| Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgpofV8sx60Eg.pgp De

Re: Why you are wrong [Was: On linux kernel packaging issue]

2003-11-10 Thread Tom Badran
nd how modern processors and compilers work. Tom -- ^__^ | Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\| Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgps7ASy7ZpJa.pgp Description: signature

Re: Debian Jr. joins with OSEF to focus on outreach

2003-11-04 Thread Tom Badran
to give out fruit. When i was a kid we hated the people that did that ;) Tom -- ^__^| Tom Badran (oo)\__ | Imperial College (__)\ )\/\| Department of Computing ||w || --- || ||| Using Debian SID pgpd8jryBcxeY.pgp Description: signature

Re: The IPsec kernel problem

2003-10-06 Thread Tom Badran
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Re: On package description quality

2003-10-05 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 05 October 2003 16:22, Mathieu Roy wrote: > KDE in the description makes more sense, IMHO, than Qt. The same goes > gtk+ and GNOME. Agree. > A user should know which enviromnent he picked -- while he may totally > ignore that KDE is using Qt, for instance. > > Descriptions should only c

Re: On package description quality

2003-10-05 Thread Tom Badran
On Sunday 05 October 2003 15:45, Tom wrote: > I disagree. GUI apps in Linux are so wildly disparate that knowing the > basic architecture is pretty important for me to decide whether or not I > want it. I second that, i consider that a very good guideline for how likely a package is going to int

Re: DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-28 Thread Tom Badran
too small for this case (more noticeable with icc rahter than gcc). Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgpMOGAeGLdIt.pgp Description: signature

toolchain-source

2003-08-07 Thread Tom Badran
This hasnt been updated to gcc-3.3 yet, has it been obsoleted perhaps, or am i just being impatient ;) Thanks Tom -- ^__^ Tom Badran (oo)\__Imperial College (__)\ )\/\ ||w | || || Using Debian SID pgpgtGkeEoBLD.pgp

Latest libfreetype6 degrades font rendering

2003-06-04 Thread Tom Badran
The latest libfreetype6 (as of this morning) seems to slight degrade font rendering for me (this is an LCD screen with sub pixel hinting). For instance the @ symbol under the Arial font looks slightly smudged, and there is a hint of blue on the bottom left suggesting the sub pixel hinting is sli

Re: Why is openoffice in Contrib?

2002-12-10 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 10 Dec 2002 8:06 pm, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:40:12PM -0600, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 01:13:13PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > > Secondly, since OpenOffice seems to be GPL'd, I am wondering why it is > > > in contrib instead of main. > > >

Re: KDEE3 question

2002-11-29 Thread Tom Badran
On Friday 29 Nov 2002 9:12 am, Michael Meskes wrote: > Hi, > > I was just being told that we won't get any KDE3 packages until the > whole Debian project is moved to gcc 3.2. Is this correct? If so, why? > And is there a timetable? Is it a problem to compile the packages with > gcc 2.95? > > The ma