Sand casting parts

2015-04-08 Thread Bob
proving our competitive in pricing and quality. Shall you have any interest, pls contact for possible deal. b.rgds --- Bob Hu Ningbo Yinzhou Xusheng Machinery Factory Skype: bobhu1 Tel: 0086-574-88128603 Cell: 0086-1395832 7774 b...@xs

Looking for maintainers for our project

2017-11-06 Thread bob
Hi everyone, I work for UFC - Que Choisir (a French consumer association) and we just released (GPL3) version 2.0 of our job scheduler evQueue. Here is the website : http://www.evqueue.net/ We are providing debian packages (debian 8 and 9) but would like to know if it is possible to get some

Re: debian.org e-mail address and SPF/SRS

2004-11-14 Thread Bob Proulx
his way. Pipe the message to /usr/sbin/sendmail -oi. :0 | $SENDMAIL -oi [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Bug#355610: ITP: libeqimbase -- a set of C++ classes to encapsulate the EQIM protocol

2006-03-06 Thread Bob Tanner
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Robert J. Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libeqimbase Version : 2004.12.15 Upstream Author : Tai Mai Shu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://teqim.sourceforge.net/?p=eqimbase * License : GPL Description :

Re: Questions for maintaining several packages

1998-04-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
abases made available by the DICT group in a format suitable for use by the dictd client/server software. I have downloaded the wordnet source package from project/orphaned, but haven't had a chance to look at it. I don't know if that package includes any mor

Dictionary Packages

1998-04-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
wever, and expect to have a version that is DFSG compliant within a few weeks. I would like comments from the developers about the desirability of packaging these dictionaries. Is this a subject that should be raised on policy? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard&l

Re: Dictionary Packages

1998-04-12 Thread Bob Hilliard
necessary. I find the bible-related stuff quite useful, not for religious reasons, but as a literary reference. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
ase them until I have the database packages ready. The 1913 Webster is held up because of a copyright problem, so I don't think I will be able to release any of these packages before the end of this month. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
e, all three of these choices would conform to the FSSTND. When we move to the FHS, I believe they would go into /usr/share. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: where can i get debhelper and lintian

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
oaded it from slink on ftp.debian.org yesterday. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
ases for the dict program, which I am packaging, are compressed in .dz format. This is close enough to .gz that zless can read it. The sources are ASCII after extracting from the tarball. They may be obtained from ftp.cs.unc.edu/pub/users/faith/dict or ftp.dict.org/pub/dict. Bob -- _ |_) _ |

Re: dictd and wordnet

1998-04-16 Thread Bob Hilliard
27;t know if its appropriate to start doing this now. Maybe someone more knowledgeable will comment on this. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: /bin/sh has no man page.

1998-04-23 Thread Bob Nielsen
xrwxrwx 1 root root4 Apr 19 09:12 /bin/sh -> bash Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Upgrading Debian 1.3.1r6 to frozen

1998-04-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, Did you really mean 18 or is that a typo for 19? Is it going to hamm or slink? It seems to me that emacs19 should be in 2.0, but the release policy would seem to require it to go in slink. Bob Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emacs18 is also p

Dictionary directory

1998-04-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
go into /usr/share/dict. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Wordnet Package: (Was Re: Dictionary directory)

1998-04-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
d I am now working on one that will produce four .debs. Later this evening I will send you copies of the rules file and Makefile for these to illustrate what I am talking about. I hope this helps. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_)

Re: build: no utmp entry available

1998-04-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
type questions than debian-devel. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrading Debian 1.3.1r6 to frozen

1998-04-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
Hi, Thanks and bravo! I'm getting tired of fighting with dselect, which insists on replacing my emacs 19.34-13 with emacs20. Bob > Hi, > > I meant emacs19, and I think it is felt to be a bug fix > release, (not working with the other debian emacsen setup is a pr

Re: ncftp status? (was re: Intent to package moxa radius)

1998-04-25 Thread Bob Nielsen
1.deb is in main/net. There was a copy of 3.0 beta in non-free, but it doesn't appear to be there any more. Personally, I didn't like it because a lot of the nice stuff in the previous version wasn't included. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T

Re: wu-ftpd important bug(s)

1998-04-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
t; [ant: {appreciate}] 3: lose in value; "The dollar depreciated again" [syn: {undervalue}, {devaluate}, {devalue}] [ant: {appreciate}] Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID

Re: gpm and time after hamm upgrade

1998-04-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
the mouse problem. It sounds like your system thinks the hardware clock is set to GMT, but it is really set to local zone time. Check /etc/default/rcS for the correct setting of the GMT variable: | # Set GMT="-u" if your system clock is set to GMT, and GMT="" if not. | GMT=&

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-27 Thread Bob Hilliard
aking process should provide for a process to change it when the developer community agrees it is desirable. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Proposed Constitution

1998-04-27 Thread Bob Hilliard
ronouns (they, their) to refer to singular entities (Leader, Secretary, etc.) should be changed to use singular masculine pronouns (him, his). Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UN

Directory for dictionary databases

1998-04-27 Thread Bob Hilliard
and will build the dictionary packages that I expect to upload tomorrow to install in /usr/share/dictd. I suggest that you consider /usr/share/wordnet for your packages. Bob [1] This does not mean proprietary in the non-free sense. Rik means unique to the dictd package. -- _ |_) _

Re: Proposed Constitution

1998-04-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
ot;anyone" or whoever". I do not think Project Leader is an indefinite antecedent. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conflicts between developers and policy

1998-04-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
I have no opinion regarding the reason or reasons for the large number of open bugs, and think that they are irrelevant to the subject that was being discussed. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID:

Re: Boot Disks

1998-04-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
peating the installation many times. I have no cure to offer for the problem, just what may be a better insight into where to look for a cure. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To

Re: Directory for dictionary databases

1998-04-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
There is an FHS mailing list, but I don't know its address. The current draft of the FHS is available at tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/docs/linux-standards/fsstnd. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Boot Disks

1998-04-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
, made the suggestion that the Linux drivers were the source of the problem. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

New install.txt

1998-04-20 Thread Bob Hilliard
ally random, and that the recycled disks performed slightly better than the new ones (probably not statistically significant, however). In one test, I had five or six successive failures with one set, followed by six or seven successive successes. Therefore, I am convinced that downloading a new imag

Re: ppp: how to tell the connection speed?

1998-05-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
ay 2 14:37:51 bobspc chat[199]: -- got it May 2 14:37:54 bobspc pppd[192]: Serial connection established. I use ATW1, but this report doesn't seem to include the DTE speed (which is 115600). > > BTW has anyone else run across a modem that reports 'CARRIER' instead of &

Re: hamm

1998-05-05 Thread Bob Hilliard
amm, and am maintaining a hamm and slink mirror (i386 binary only), all over a 28.8 link. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) Palm City, FL USAPGP Key ID: A8E40EB9 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of &qu

Re: mirror-2.9 released, and hopefully DFSG compliant

1998-06-02 Thread Bob Hilliard
8-15 included: * Applied patch by Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> to allow restarts on partially downloaded files (fixes #19239) I would like to see this feature continued if it isn't in 2.9-1 by default. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PRO

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-07 Thread Bob Proulx
level 3 fix this problem? Your X config is still broken. If your X configuration is broken and your X won't start then that is effectively the same thing as the proposed run level 3 anyway. So what is the point? > 2. it is defined in the LSB Can't argue with that. Bob --

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
d defaulted to yes. They are an annoyance when installing and better handled differently. Using policy-rc.d is the superior solution. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Running daemons without root access?

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
> If so, how? > > sudo - userslogin command arguments > on call to executable at /etc/init.d/daemon > then links in aproppiates /etc/rcX.d/ But installing to /etc requires root access which is what the original poster was asking how to avoid. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: And now for something completely different... etch!

2005-06-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Jesus Climent wrote: > Matthew Palmer wrote: > > Jesus, meet policy-rc.d. > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ man policy-rc.d > No manual entry for policy-rc.d Look here: /usr/share/doc/sysv-rc/README.policy-rc.d.gz http://people.debian.org/~hmh/invokerc.d-policyrc.d-specification

Re: namespace conflict != package Conflict?

2005-06-20 Thread Bob Proulx
n user-visible changes. I am not sure upstream inactivity by itself is a good measure. For example compare this to GNU rcs. GNU rcs has not had an upstream modification since 1995. I would hate to see this argument applied there that we should remove or rename RCS commands. Bob -- To UNSUBS

Re: TODO for etch ?

2005-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
tanding problem causing the default ntpdate configuration to fail out of the box when used in conjuction with a local caching nameserver. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=245338 Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Compiling and using glibc-2.2 under Debian Sarge

2005-06-26 Thread Bob Proulx
h to an older distribution if possible, as Sarge comes > with Subversion and gcc-3.3.5. > > I'd really appreciate any help or ideas. Is a chroot for development acceptable? Is a chroot for a production build process with development in sarge acceptable? Is shipping all shared libs used with a wrapper to use those acceptable? Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Greylisting for @debian.org email, please

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
gt; - > should not suffer from greylisting. Remember that all subsequent messages after the first one are not in any way delayed. The effect there is the same as not having greylisting. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Compiling and using glibc-2.2 under Debian Sarge

2005-06-27 Thread Bob Proulx
ight be somewhat outdated for our purpose. Maybe I > can find a backport or something, tho. > Think I'll try that. Be sure to look into Adrian Bunk's woody backports of gcc-3.3. They were very useful to me. deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian woody/bunk-1 main contrib non-free Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT: No unsubscribe signature?

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
le encoding. :-) Of course base64 works too, but that is a strong spam sign and your message might get dropped by people scoring based upon that so I would recommend against using base64 encoding for plain text messages. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT: No unsubscribe signature?

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Proulx
Pascal Hakim wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I guess if you don't want a footer on your messages you can always > > send them out with a quoted-printable encoding. :-) > > In my experience as a listmaster, the people who like to complain about > the fact that we add

Re: HashKnownHosts

2005-07-03 Thread Bob Proulx
nd. I don't believe the IP address is really significant and I turn that off in my config. CheckHostIP no This prevents the IP from being stored in the known hosts file. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Shared library versioning

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
to link the project library code as an archive library for Debian. That should avoid most of the problems. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: multiarch?

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
at will just drive people away from Debian and to another distro and that is not really good for anyone. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-07 Thread Bob Proulx
, etc. in coreutils. It is now one of the FAQs in coreutils[1].) > * why the different implementations? It is there for BSD job control functionality. That way you can say 'kill %1' and kill the background jobs by job control number. The standalone version does not know about the

Re: Question about kill(1)

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Adeodato Simó wrote: > * Bob Proulx [Thu, 07 Jul 2005 21:24:07 -0600]: > > > * why the different implementations? > > > It is there for BSD job control functionality. That way you can say > > 'kill %1' and kill the background jobs by job control number. The

Re: Drop the minor release number

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
cond release of etch. So really it should be 4.1 for the first release of etch and 4.2 for the second release and so on. Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Drop the minor release number

2005-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.08.1750 +0200]: > > Counting numbers start at one. > > Not in the computer world. How do you explain RCS/CVS? The first revision after a checkin is 1.1. :-) Bob signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: multiarch?

2005-07-09 Thread Bob Proulx
Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Bob Proulx writes: > > Sure, native code is always better. But that still won't help when > > sharing binaries from other distros to and from Debian. Because those > > other commonly available binaries of which people think are so > >

Re: Broken us mirror

2006-08-10 Thread Bob Tanner
oth http.us.debian.org and ftp.us.debian.org, and > notified that it's having a problem. > Any status on this issue? Mirror seems to still be broken. -- Bob Tanner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Phone : (952)943-8700 http://www.real-time.com, Minnesota, Linux | Fax : (952)943-8500

Re: Disk Performance

1999-09-24 Thread Bob Nielsen
7;m sure more memory would help here. It was unusable on a P-150. Bob -- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: slink -> potato

1999-10-01 Thread Bob Nielsen
I did an upgrade of one of my systems yesterday with little incident (apt-get update ; apt-get dist-upgrade). I had to rerun the upgrade part several times because the order of installation was a bit messed up (bind). Bob On Fri, Oct 01, 1999 at 02:24:45PM +0200, andreas pålsson wrote

Re: SSH never free

1999-10-03 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 11:57:07PM -0700, Joseph Carter wrote: > On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 08:54:48AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > > PS: the RSA patent expires in 2001 (or is it 2002?), anyway. > > 20 September 2000. Does anyone know when the LZW patent expires?

Re: DO NOT UPGRADE TO POTATO. MENU UPLOAD ON OCT 2 KILLS SYSTEMS

1999-10-06 Thread Bob Nielsen
> Adam> incoming. So, it should all be fixed tomorrow. > > [...] > > > > Adam, thanks. What are the menu package versions (broken and fixed)? > > Thanks. > > > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-15 Thread Bob Nielsen
also tried installing the tarball and installing the .deb created by running alien on the .rpm, with the same results, so it would appear that the installer is not the problem. On the other hand, the old realplayer worked just fine for me in potato. Unfortunately there does

Re: realplayer installer and frozen

2000-03-16 Thread Bob Nielsen
4. Unset REALPLAYER_HOME - realplayer kept working > > In short, REALPLAYER_HOME was the sole cause on my system and unsetting > it completely seems to be the best fix. -- Bob Nielsen, N7XY (RN2)[EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ DM42nh QRP-L #1985 SOC #77http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen

Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Galloway
ay. Yuck. MozM14 still has a host of bugs that make it worse than Navigator. Bugs on the level of converting "" to "<>" within blocks. It's not IMHO an acceptable browser for anything involving elements. -- Bob Galloway You're always hearing

Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
anyone interested in more than one architecture could subscribe to as many lists as required. I am sure that the overwhelming majority would subscribe to only one list. What happened to this idea? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-18 Thread Bob Hilliard
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > --n8g4imXOkfNTN/H1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > Content-Disposition: inline > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: &g

Re: Single architecture on -announce lists

2000-03-19 Thread Bob Hilliard
Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 04:49:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > During the slink freeze there was some discussion of the wasted > > bandwidth due to -devel-announce and -announce listing all packages > > installed/up

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
s they also filter on ports 465 and 540). Bob

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-08-30 Thread Bob Bernstein
o appears completely disingenuous when he claims he would have liked to have written a glowing review of Debian. Here's my reply to him, which was a kneejerk reaction and could have been longer and more thorough: Date: Wed, 30 Aug 2000 12:51:12 -0400 (EDT) To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Security of Debian SuX0r?

2000-09-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
rol over your privacy to other parties, whether it be the operating system, the network configuration, or whatever. Encourage users to be responsible for security *themselves*. My $0.02 worth... -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, R.I., USA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: wnpp bug reports

2000-12-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On Fri, Dec 22, 2000 at 12:58:54PM -0500, Bob Hilliard wrote: > > Is there any way to submit an ITP bug on WNPP, so that the bug > > number appears in the copy to -devel? > > Yes, put -devel in Cc: or (X-Debbugs-

Re: possible problem with ftp archive

2000-12-26 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Tue, Dec 26, 2000 at 09:41:02PM +, John O Sullivan wrote: > Hi all, > I've noticed something that seems odd to me. > On ftp.uk.debian.org/debian/dists/potato/main/source > theres a bunch of files (.dsc .diff .orig etc) appearing in this > directory. > Is this the correct behaviour? Is this r

GRUB Questions

2000-12-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
Is there a GRUB mailing list, or is this the proper forum for GRUB questions? Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hilliard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL USA GPG Key

Re: Anyone get Evolution 0.8 working?

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
Only to the extent you are duplicating _exactly_ my experience with evolution 0.8 and gtkhtml 0.8, where both are built from source on unstable! Sorry. If you are vouchsafed a solution (by your, or anyone else's, hand) could you post a heads-up hereabouts? -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA

Re: Anyone get Evolution 0.8 working?

2001-01-02 Thread Bob Bernstein
nd oaf. I'll be staying tuned! Thanks, -- Bob Bernstein at Esmond, Rhode Island, USA

Bug reports - copies to submitter

2001-01-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
This is probably in the documentation somewhere, but I haven't been able to find it. Which messages to the bug reporting system are automatically forwarded to the submitter, and which must be explicitly copied to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bob -- _ |_) _ |_ Robert D. Hil

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-24 Thread Bob Hilliard
Please take all of these political screeds off -devel!! Regards. Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559

Re: /etc/hostname

2003-05-29 Thread Bob Proulx
ostname should contain short hostname. > But e.g. etherconf package puts FQDN name there ... I always put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. To me it is the cleanest configuration. Bob pgp0djWtpfcXO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: does debian also support 64-bit x86 systems > HP i2000 itanium

2003-05-31 Thread Bob Proulx
lly use it myself since I don't personally need it. But other coworkers near me use VMware daily on Debian i686 to run MS software and all reports are that it runs fine and does the job. Bob

Re: /etc/hostname

2003-05-31 Thread Bob Proulx
e that you have taken it offline. On laptops that is not a desireable situation. Even in the desktop environment there are cases where users will take the network offline creating a similar situation. Applications should be able to handle either configuration transparently. Bob pgpnK65WD0450.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: appropriate use of /etc/alternatives

2003-05-31 Thread Bob Proulx
thize, I think this might be your best option. Commenting instead upon the name. "xplot-xplotorg" seems long. How about "xplot.org"? (Following "openoffice.org".) Bob pgpoWOYMvp2lU.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: gcc on a biarch system

2003-07-08 Thread Bob Proulx
better suited by supplying that information as a command line option. Bob pgpAjMqFodmfX.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Debian 10th birthday gear

2003-07-11 Thread Bob Proulx
planning for the future. :-) Bob pgpH6s7IHfSN5.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Excessive wait for DAM - something needs to be done

2003-07-22 Thread Bob Hilliard
In my experience, James has been very responsive, albeit not verbose, to reasonable questions/requests that don't start out saying "James is a bum - throw him out". Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_)

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
s elvis being an alternative for /usr/bin/vi I think the current value is fine and I would not change it. I personally don't like the present defaults for /usr/bin/vi. But so much water has passed under the bridge that changing it now would be problematic. Bob pgppzwbiy25dc.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
lly make use of older hardware. But I can reliably buy something new for when I need it to work. Bob pgpVCOWVeEa2g.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
ndency to consider "newbie" to mean a refugee from MS or some other eye-candy system. A true newbie would be one who has never used a computer before. To such a person, a CLI is much more intuitive than any GUI. Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PR

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Hilliard
ere any tool to easily determine reverse build-depends? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
/usr/bin/ae in the package contents of any Debian package. Does it exist? (I remember it being an 'ee' type of program.) In the current distribution it should probably call 'nano' as the first fallback. I will file a minor bug in a little bit about it. Bob pgpRd02Rr7C5d.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > > I personally would not have had either elvis or vim supply an > > alternative for /usr/bin/editor. > > I don't mind lowering the priority of vi clones, or whatever; but please > don't try to get them removed from

Re: Future releases of Debian

2003-07-26 Thread Bob Hilliard
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Hilliard wrote: >> A true newbie would be one who has never used a computer before. To such >> a person, a CLI is much more intuitive than any GUI. > > Colin Walters writes: >> And your research supporting this is...

Re: update-alternatives priorities for editors

2003-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
me for emacs. Agreed on the basis of symmetry. (And I am an emacs user.) But from a pragmatic standpoint I think editor should be something for the untrained masses. Bob pgpIjAoK8ozzd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
xsession file and instead just starts up KDE in the way that it does now without sourcing any user environment. The "default" menu selection is always what you want when you want to run the $HOME/.xsession file. The "KDE" menu selection is what you want when you suspect a problem with the user environment and want to avoid it for debugging or other purposes. Bob pgpEOHjgbU7WD.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-28 Thread Bob Proulx
er to make every shell a login shell and source their profiles. Which I think is a less than optimal configuration and I avoid that myself. Bob pgpMenSL60IBd.pgp Description: PGP signature

/usr/bin/pager

2003-08-07 Thread Bob Hilliard
Is /usr/bin/pager a Debianism, or is it common to other distributions and/or unices? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL 34990 USA

ITA freedict

2003-08-23 Thread Bob Hilliard
eedict packages. Would this be acceptable? Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm City, FL 34990 USA GPG Key ID: 390D6559

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-26 Thread Bob Hilliard
). Both return invalid locale, which is the error message dictfmt emits when it cannot open the specified locale file. The locale _is_ generated in $LOCALE_PATH. Is the environment variable LOCPATH used by setlocale(3)? Can anyone suggest what I need to try to make this work? Regards,

Re: ITA freedict

2003-08-28 Thread Bob Hilliard
advertised now. I had set the value of LOCPATH earlier in the rules file, but I didn't export it. PEBCAK! Regards, Bob -- _ |_) _ |_Robert D. Hilliard<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> |_) (_) |_) 1294 S.W. Seagull Way <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Palm

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
ype of kernel and the version of the configuration of that kernel. I have to ask if this is really enough of a problem to justify any handling at all, special or otherwise? Bob pgpdu9yeFHFLr.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: overwriting files from modules packages

2003-09-01 Thread Bob Proulx
martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Bob Proulx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.09.01.0853 +0200]: > > Abbreviated example: > > make-pkg --append-to-version -2-686-smp kernel_modules > > Produces: > > /usr/share/man/man4/bcm5700-2-4-21-2-686-smp.4.gz > > N

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-07 Thread Bob Proulx
rne shell which also exists in the Korn shell which became the basis for the POSIX shell much later. For example on HP-UX: /bin/sh -c 'var=-f ; [ "$var" ] && echo yes' /bin/sh: test: Specify a parameter with this command. Everywhere: /bin/sh -c 'var=-

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Branden Robinson wrote: > test -n and -z exist for a reason, even if one has to come up with > pretty dodgy mnemonics for remembering them. -n Nonzero size string -z Zero size string Dodgy mnemonics? I find them very mnemonic! Bob pgpJpoX4Xwb2h.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-08 Thread Bob Proulx
'. But I did find at least one commercial system that had not gotten around to documenting it that they had done it. So by reading the man page there you would still be thinking that it had not. Bob pgpHxmUdat8B0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /etc/shells management

2003-09-09 Thread Bob Proulx
all. I am just talking about portable script style and advocating defensive programming in general. Bob pgpNm7Dq74zIX.pgp Description: PGP signature

  1   2   3   >