Re: Proposed change to debian release system

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Scott Minns wrote: > Hiya all, > > Thanks for your reply’s, I like the idea of making some packages > "perishable" the trouble is where would you draw the line? I could do > with some of the new features in proftpd, but that would not be > perishable – so the problem is

Is there a limitation on swap parition size linux can use?

I heard that 2Gb is the limit. If so I would have to create distinct swap partitions if I wanted to have more than 2Gb swap? Just wondering... -walter

Re: Stupid Arithmetic Tricks

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Erich Schubert wrote: > > A little knowledge of series tells me to apply n*(n+1)/2 to sum an > > arithmetic > > progression of common difference 1, starting at 1. This seems even quicker: > > 100*101/2 becomes 5*101*10 becomes 505*10 = 5050. > > Yep, but you aren't teache