Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Marc Haber
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:21:30 -0500, "Vince Mulhollon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >References? Just curious what the huge problems are. It fundamentally >seems to work, or at least I've not yet run into any road blocks. - symlinks - file owners - file modes These three are show stoppers for the m

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 13:36, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > > Actually, one good solution is turning on the Nagle algorithm, or > > > rather not using TCP_NODELAY (I don't know if ssh sets it, but I guess > > > it does to improve responsiveness

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 01:31:14PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Actually, one good solution is turning on the Nagle algorithm, or rather > > not using TCP_NODELAY (I don't know if ssh sets it, but I guess it does to > > improve responsiveness). What you propose will break situations where you >

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 9 Sep 2001 12:11, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Ideally we could have a terminal type that ALLOWS THE SERVER TO SAY > > "local echo all characters, buffer them and flush the buffer on '\n', > > '\t', (and ANY OTHER INTERESTING CHARA

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 15:18:35 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting > my final year project some time next > year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development > ideally kernel / module based or a port >

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Richard Braakman
On Sun, Sep 09, 2001 at 12:11:58PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > Actually, one good solution is turning on the Nagle algorithm, or rather not > using TCP_NODELAY (I don't know if ssh sets it, but I guess it does to improve > responsiveness). What you propose will break situations where you have to t

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-09 Thread Guus Sliepen
On Sat, Sep 08, 2001 at 06:56:40PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > Ideally we could have a terminal type that allows the server to say "local > echo all characters, buffer them and flush the buffer on '\n', '\t', (and any > other interesting characters)". That would allow the above command to be

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-08 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 16:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting > my final year project some time next > year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development > ideally kernel / module based or a port > of software to

RE: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-08 Thread skaya
> I'm a student [...] and I am looking to find a project that > involves linux development ideally kernel / module based or a port > of software to a specific platform. if you're interested in newtork-oriented things, I'm developing here a test suite to torture-test IP routers. it has s

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-08 Thread skaya
> Add versioning to debian packet management. Something like: > ># apt-get install package ># # damn it broke my server again!! ># apt-get rewind package IIRC, you can do # apt-get install package=3.2.0-3 or alternatively # apt-get install package/{stable,unstable,testing}

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [subversion] > It looks like a candidate to be packaged as well. Maybe not yet, though ISTR there's a Debian Developer who follows subversion. Right now, its under extreme development and just started self-hosting, so people interested in it probably wa

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 07 Sep 2001 14:56:23 -0400 "Alan Shutko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it > > because of a lack of alternatives. > > http://subversion.tigris.org > Yes, interesting, i ha

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 02:56:23PM -0400, Alan Shutko wrote: > Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it > > because of a lack of alternatives. > > http://subversion.tigris.org OT: galeon does not like this website muc

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Alan Shutko
Glenn McGrath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hate CVS, i thought everyone else did as well and people only used it > because of a lack of alternatives. http://subversion.tigris.org -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - In a variety of flavors! Silverman's Law: If Murphy's Law can go wrong, it w

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 09/07/2001 09:21:27 PM Glenn McGrath wrote: >> The command line arguments CVS use are truely original, which is a really >> really bad thing ! >> >> :pserver:, :ext: mixed with environment variables crazy... what were >> they thinking when they came up with that stuff, not simplicity thats

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Glenn McGrath
On Fri, 7 Sep 2001 12:21:30 -0500 "Vince Mulhollon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 09/07/2001 11:20:42 AM Andrew Suffield wrote: > > >> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > >> > Integrating CVS into Debian (as a core component, not just a package) > would > >> >

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Roland Mas
Vince Mulhollon (2001-09-07 12:21:30 -0500) : > On 09/07/2001 11:20:42 AM Andrew Suffield wrote: > >>> But futile and misguided. CVS has whole swathes of fundamental flaws, >>> largely historical. Better to integrate with something similar to CVS > > References? Just curious what the huge problem

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 09/07/2001 11:20:42 AM Andrew Suffield wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: >> > Integrating CVS into Debian (as a core component, not just a package) would >> > be a long, complex, and rewarding project. >> >> But futile and misguided. CVS has whole swath

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > Integrating CVS into Debian (as a core component, not just a package) would > be a long, complex, and rewarding project. But futile and misguided. CVS has whole swathes of fundamental flaws, largely historical. Better to integrate

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 04:45:35PM +0200, "T.Pospisek's MailLists" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > # apt-get install package > # # damn it broke my server again!! > # apt-get rewind package Aside from the fact that the specific packages may not handle this gracefully, and that you may n

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 10:13:50AM -0500, Vince Mulhollon wrote: > > On 09/07/2001 09:45:35 AM "T.Pospisek's MailLists" wrote: > > >> Add versioning to debian packet management. Something like: > >> > >> # apt-get install package > >> # # damn it broke my server again!! > >> # apt-get rewind pack

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Vince Mulhollon
On 09/07/2001 09:45:35 AM "T.Pospisek's MailLists" wrote: >> Add versioning to debian packet management. Something like: >> >> # apt-get install package >> # # damn it broke my server again!! >> # apt-get rewind package I'd prefer something "like CVS" so I could roll back to milestones or back t

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread T.Pospisek's MailLists
Add versioning to debian packet management. Something like: # apt-get install package # # damn it broke my server again!! # apt-get rewind package *t Tomas Pospisek SourcePole - Linux & Open

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Jules Bean
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:18:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting > my final year project some time next > year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development > ideally kernel / module based or a

Re: Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Eric Van Buggenhaut
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 03:18:35PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi > I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting > my final year project some time next > year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development > ideally kernel / module based or a

Student Looking for A Final Year Project

2001-09-07 Thread Blake_2_Drayson
Hi         I'm a student at Kent University Canterbury UK I will be starting my final year project some time next year and I am looking to find a project that involves linux development ideally kernel / module based or a port of software to a specific platform.  I am unsure as to what projects are