Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread jamie
bject: Re: Malloc and security On 18/06/12 21:11, Jamie White wrote: > Hiya > > Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function > (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as > the stack - or code space! > > Jamie > >

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread jamie
Merry Christmas to you also. Incidently, I haven't written any the documentation. Jamie Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From: Mistikos Nik Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:50:57 To: Subject: Feedback Debian documentation is a joke. It constantly refe

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread jamie
only going to annoy people, it would be a lot better to go into more constructive detail about what you find makes it difficult. Jamie Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From: ja...@jatos.co.uk Date: Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:17:40 To: Mistikos Nik; Reply-To: ja

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread jamie
I guess by twelve year old trolls, you refer to Mistikos? To be honest, I am not sure I'd respond to him/her like that, they do not just seem like a troll. However they seem like someone who perhaps needs to think before they talk, and spend more time explaining what is bothering them

Re: feedback

2012-12-25 Thread jamie
ad no access to anything Debian developers have created for you're idiotic and ignorant attitudes, and if I did that, it would mean you had no Ubuntu, would be such a shame, er not! Jamie Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2

Re: Feedback

2012-12-25 Thread jamie
I didn't thought the use of codenames was hardly unique to Debian, remember Windows Longhorn? Also remember Windows XP, the practice he moans about is used in a form by the worlds most used OS. Also... Does Ubuntu not use names such as Dapper and Breezy? I think this guy is just too thick to

Re: Feedback

2012-12-30 Thread jamie
. Jamie P.s. Please excuse the top loading, I can't do it differently on a BB. Sent from my BlackBerry® smartphone on O2 -Original Message- From: olivier sallou Date: Sun, 30 Dec 2012 09:42:03 To: Cc: Subject: Re: Feedback Le 25 déc. 2012 14:09, "Mistikos Nik" a écr

Bug#348625: ITP: puppet -- centralised configuration management for networks

2006-01-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: puppet Version : 0.11.1 Upstream Author : Luke Kanies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://reductivelabs.com/projects/puppet/ * License : GPL

Bug#304270: ITP: libfishsound -- simple programming interface that wraps Xiph.Org audio codecs

2005-04-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: libfishsound Version : 0.6.3 Upstream Author : Conrad Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Silvia Pfeiffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Zentar

Bug#364976: ITP: facter -- a library for retrieving facts from operating systems

2006-04-26 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: facter Version : 1.1.4 Upstream Author : Luke Kanies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://reductivelabs.com/projects/facter * License : GPL Programmin

Re: Bug#366328: ITP: bsp -- nodes builder for doom-engine levels

2006-05-07 Thread Jamie Jones
enNode/ ) ? or glBSP ( http://glbsp.sourceforge.net/ and .debs are http://www.youmustbejoking.demon.co.uk/progs.sarge.html#glbsp )for node building ? Regards, -- Jamie Jones Proprietor E-Yagi Consulting ABN: 32 138 593 410 Mob: +61 4 16 025 081 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: http://www.eyagiconsult

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-25 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: >Packages Developers Looks like a normal distribution curve in gnuplot. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq

Re: Debian Weekly News - June 3rd, 2003

2003-06-04 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Martin Schulze wrote: >Flaming with Jamie Zawinski. Slow news day, Joey? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq

Re: package name change (moviemate -> mediamate)

2003-07-31 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: >you should Conflict, Replace, and provide MovieMate. This will ensure a >smooth transition. You instead (may) want to upload a package called >moviemate which is a dummy package that depends on MediaMate. You should do both, with the Con

Re: Searching for Angus Lees

2003-08-19 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Colin Walters wrote: >If someone here knows an alternate email address for Angus, could you >resend this message there? Thanks. Done. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~jaq

Re: configure web proxy via DHCP server

2003-08-30 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Russell Coker wrote: >The ideal solution however would be an addition to the DHCP standard for a >field to specify this information. My solution only works AFTER I have >figured out the correct data for each network by some other means and >customised my script. SR

Re: "non-free" software included in contrib

2003-09-01 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Bruce Sass wrote: >Exactly. What if a generalised DFSG-free software installer used a >separate config file to download, debianize (using dh_make templates), >then install the resulting package (most of it non-free because such a >scheme should not be necessary for fre

Re: doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-22 Thread Jamie Jones
, when I'm listed in the official wiki, and present in the official forums announcing new release is disturbing. Us non-DD's don't like having our packages hijacked either, especially when we are preparing a new release. In this case no raven code is in the engine, and the doom or heretic

Re: doomsday not DFSG (was Re: ITP: doomsday - greatly improved engine to play doom, doom2, heretic and hexen)

2005-07-22 Thread Jamie Jones
On Fri, 2005-07-22 at 22:00 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 04:13:30AM +1000, Jamie Jones wrote: > > G'day Jon, > > > > As the unofficial maintainer for the past 6 months, I'd like to chime in > > here. The current version can be built wi

Re: doomsday not DFSG

2005-07-23 Thread Jamie Jones
On Sat, 2005-07-23 at 18:31 +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > > Doomsday (or Deng as upstream and I refer to it) is the cleanest > > implementation in regards separation of the different game logic and > > features. The plugins are basically .so files, so if you want to play > > doom, you load the jdo

Re: Bug#324179: ITP: quake3 -- a famous first person shooter by ID-Software

2005-09-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Hi! I only just found this ITP; I've been working on a debian/ dir for icculus.org's quake3 branch for a few weeks. Also in the pipeline is a quake3-data that doesn't suck as much as quake2-data... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-06 Thread Jamie Morken
al size of the current full Debian distribution is over 18GB: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.4/i386/iso-dvd/ so including compressed package source code would have a very minor impact on the overall file size of the debian release. cheers, Jamie

Re: including full package source code in the debian release

2010-03-07 Thread Jamie Morken
- Original Message - From: Josselin Mouette Date: Sunday, March 7, 2010 12:57 am Subject: Re: including full package source code in the debian release To: Jamie Morken Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org   > There are two little flaws in your reasoning. > 1. Compression

Bug#609625: ITP: nsscache -- asynchronously synchronise local NSS databases with remote directory services

2011-01-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jamie Wilkinson * Package name: nsscache Version : 0.19 Upstream Author : Jamie Wilkinson * URL : http://code.google.com/p/nsscache * License : GPL Programming Lang: Python Description : asynchronously

Bug#609626: ITP: libnss-cache -- NSS module for using local cache files as a naming service

2011-01-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jamie Wilkinson * Package name: libnss-cache Version : 0.10 Upstream Author : Jamie Wilkinson * URL : http://code.google.com/p/nsscache * License : GPL Programming Lang: C Description : NSS module for using

Re: status of Progeny projects

2003-11-04 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ian Murdock wrote: >We have ported Red Hat's Anaconda installer to Debian; This rocks. I have an extensive PXE+kickstart based server build system at work and I was considering hacking d-i to read a kickstart configuration file, this looks like it's saved me the troub

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote: >The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within >other arguments against your "linux" package. IIRC you prefered not to >answer to it but refered to an URL which did not contain the answers. 'linux' is a perfect name for the pa

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote: >You repeat this again and again and got answers from me and others to >such an ultimate argument. But did you ask yourself why Herbert does not >participiate this discussion to help you? Why does the lack of response from Herbert prove that this pa

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Garrett wrote: >Robert Millan wrote: > >>But someone claimed there are critical problems with System.map in the way >>my package is upgraded, which is not the case. > >If I get a new linux package after doing apt-get ugprade which replaces >the one for my runnin

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > > * A package which requires a reboot on updates > > > > Oh, now I'm suposed to fix that, too? Bitch upstream for a run-time > > updatable Linux kernel. > > ROTFL > > That's not the point, I thought that was obvious, sorry. The point

Re: create new Debian-Kernel project (was: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel)

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote: >#include >* Jamie Wilkinson [Mon, Nov 10 2003, 06:54:22PM]: > >> >The fact of the too generic package name was mentioned before within >> >other arguments against your "linux" package. IIRC you prefered not

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, A.J. Rossini wrote: >Jamie Wilkinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> This one time, at band camp, Eduard Bloch wrote: >>>You repeat this again and again and got answers from me and others to >>>such an ultimate argument. But did y

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Andrew Suffield wrote: >On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 11:58:46AM +0100, Robert Millan wrote: >> On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:43:49PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: >> > > 1) You said before you were concerned about my package occupiing the >> > > package >> > > namespace in the ar

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Garrett wrote: >Robert Millan wrote: >>On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 08:33:00PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: >>> klogd will be unable to look up symbols, and ps and top need it for >>> wchan to be displayable. >> >>I'm so scared. wchan won't be displayable! > >What w

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan wrote: > Place the package files in /usr/lib, and copy them conditionaly (debconf) > into /boot. The debconf question would properly explain that if per chooses > to update it, then the system must be rebooted promptly. > >Another option: > > Place the

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Matthew Garrett wrote: >Jamie Wilkinson wrote: > >>I do not expect Robert's package to make any more of an attempt to convince >>you a reboot is required than any of the other kernel packages. > >The current kernel packages include the

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: > > How do the current kernel packages guarantee this? > > > > Why would Robert's package need to behave any differently? > > The current kernel packages don't make the old stuff just dissappear, > so it's less of an issue in that case. In f

Re: Bug#219582: ITP: linux -- Linux 2.4 kernel

2003-11-11 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Robert Millan wrote: >> being presented with. > >I'd really LOVE to. But this is my discussion. If I don't take part in it, >who will respond to all these bogus arguments some people enjoy sending in? > >Rather, this is you and the other trolls who are wasting my time.

Re: GCC 3.2 transition

2002-08-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Joseph Carter wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/local/j2sdk1.4.0_01/jre/plugin/i386/ns610$ ldd >libjavaplugin_oji.so > libXt.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXt.so.6 (0x40044000) > libX11.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libX11.so.6 (0x4008e000) > libdl.so.2 => /lib/libd

Re: RFC: A regression test framework for Debian packages?

2002-09-02 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jérôme Marant wrote: > In a chrooted environment, we can install deboostrap and > package dependencies through APT. About 6 months ago I started writing some code in expect to do just this, to test my quake2-data installer package. I was able to install the package

Re: RFC: A regression test framework for Debian packages?

2002-09-02 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jérôme Marant wrote: >On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 08:19:23PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> This one time, at band camp, Jérôme Marant wrote: >> > In a chrooted environment, we can install deboostrap and >> > package dependencies through APT

Re: web browser bookmark defaults

2002-11-21 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Mark Howard wrote: >I also vote for removing any other upstream bookmarks (e.g. rpm search, >slackware searches). Feel free to disagree, with a convincing argument. I use a Debian workstation, but admin a collection of Debian and Red Hat machines -- remove the rpm sear

Bug#170484: ITP: chaksem -- a LaTeX class for presentations

2002-11-23 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2002-11-24 Severity: wishlist * Package name: chaksem Version : 1.6a Upstream Author : Manuel M. T. Chakravarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~chak/presentation/presentation.html * License :

Re: Multiple conflicts between firewall configuring packages (policy change? mass bug filing?)

2002-11-27 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: >He can either: >1.- get the rules of the latest firewall script that runs from init (if it >flushes the previous rules) >2.- get a mixed setup of rules. > >¿Shouldn't there be a way for these firewalls to cooperate so as to not >ge

Re: ifupdown writes to /etc... a bug?

2003-04-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote: >On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 18:56, Steve Langasek wrote: >> The FHS is about more than just providing a system that technically >> allows you to mount different filesystems as needed. There are also >> aesthetic concerns in the heirarchy (in the broad sen

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Blars Blarson wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>I won't debate whether this is true in general, bug it is certainly >>unnecessary in the case of pump. I have specifically added code to >>deal with the inability to write to /var/run by

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Apr 07, Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Duh. Did you miss the part where people were talking about *amending the > >FHS because the FHS is flawed*? >Yes: I did not agree with them. >And looks like I was right, because as I showed

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Apr 07, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > * pam, shadow > > Allow either /etc/nologin or /run/nologin to prevent non-root logins >Use a symlink. > > > * util-linux > > Use /run/mtab for mount's statefile >Use a symlink. A

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote: >On Sat, 2003-04-12 at 10:12, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: >> On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:17, Thomas Hood wrote: >> > * ppp >> > * Change /usr/sbin/pppd to: >> > * Store PID in /run/, not in /var/run/ >> Why? Is the goal to make PPP-mounter /var

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote: >(Re: /etc/nologin) >> A dangling symlink should be considered like a missing file. > >Yes, that would work. However, having separate /etc/nologin >and /run/nologin looks like a useful feature, as I mentioned >earlier. For clarification, (and this i

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Anthony DeRobertis wrote: >On Wed, 2003-04-09 at 14:17, Thomas Hood wrote: >> The proposed new directory is for files similar to those in /var/run/ >> that are not just variable and unshareable but also local -- i.e., they >> must be writable independently of network co

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote: > * base-files > Add /run/ directory #191036: create /run for programs that run before /var is mounted > * pam, shadow > Allow either /etc/nologin or /run/nologin to prevent nonroot login #191037: Allow both /etc/nologin and /run/nolo

Re: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Sam Hartman wrote: >Until you get general consensus on a specific goal, I'm unlikely to >accept such changes if they are submitted to me. As a maintainer I >want to be able to look at some statement and answer the following >questions: Hi Sam, I've just filed the bug

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote: > >/etc has a "static nature". See the note on /etc/mtab under Table > >3.7.3.1. It is also for configuration files. /etc/adjtime is neither. >Then propose to change FHS. Welcome to the discussion. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Marco d'Itri wrote: >On Apr 07, Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >(I forgot to mention) J.W.'s patch does more than what a mere symlink > >would do. By making programs sensitive both to /run/nologin and > >/etc/nologin, it becomes possible for the administra

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Thomas Hood wrote: >Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> That is right! The core of the matter is not whether >> filesystems need to be mounted over the network or not, >> but whether the parts of the filesystem you are attempting >> to write to are on

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Steve Langasek wrote: >Shell pseudocode was posted to this thread (a month ago?) that showed >how the init scripts could handle the requirement that /run be mounted >early, even if it's not on the root fs. The init scripts already >include special handling of /proc and

Re: /run and read-only /etc

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Sorry to reopen this at such a late date, but I'm way behind on -devel. > >"Hi, I'm Karl and I maintain login and passwd." > >Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> * pam, shadow >> Allow either /etc/nologin or /run/nologin to preve

Re: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root

2003-04-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >... and those who have tried to explain why it's a bad idea or have >concerns have been brushed off. So I've given up for now trying to >explain to you folks why I'm not convinced, since I don't have time to >go pig mud-wrestling, but please don't

Re: /run/, resolvconf and read-only root

2003-04-29 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >This one time, at band camp, Theodore Ts'o wrote: >>... and those who have tried to explain why it's a bad idea or have >>concerns have been brushed off. So I've given up for now trying to >>explain to you

Re: Quake 2 sources GPL'd

2001-12-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Joey Hess wrote: >That's neat, but I wish we at least had quake 1 in contrib for woody. >Woody will be the first release of debian in years and years without the >possbility of quake at all (in main, contrib, or even non-free), I think. (I'm not yet a d-d, I'm currentl

Re: Quake2/GPL: At least source should go into main

2001-12-22 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Erich Schubert wrote: >Software in contrib needs non-free software to run. >But the source of quake2 certainly is useful without the commercial game >data. This is a silly assertion; the source to *any* program is useful without the data files. As others have pointed

Re: Quake2/GPL: At least source should go into main

2001-12-24 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Erich Schubert wrote: >> I wonder how many people in either of these threads have actually downloaded >> this source and looked at it? > >i have. I even got it to compile... >and i think it'll need quite some work to get useful... >it has inline asm gcc doesn't like; th

Bug#126716: ITP: quake2 -- popular 3D first person shooter game (engine only)

2001-12-28 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-28 Severity: wishlist * Package name: quake2 Version : 3.21 Upstream Author : iD Software (unmaintained) * URL : ftp://ftp.idsoftware.com/idstuff/source/q2source-3.21.zip * License : GPL Version 2 Description :

Re: BUG: Quake2 and mailcap file (mime-support)

2002-01-09 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Pete Ryland wrote: >So is this a bug with mime-support (shouldn't have blown away mailcap when >/tmp was full), quake2-data (shouldn't have filled /tmp in the first place), >both, or should I have been monitoring /tmp and it's really my own silly >fault? (100M is surely

Re: SUGGESTION: Re: Some thoughts about problems within Debian

2002-01-10 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ola Lundqvist wrote: >Ahh it already exists! Cool. Well then it is a bug on the www pages. >Missing here ... >http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#severities It was at http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Developer#tags when I looked today... -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debbugs and ACK messages

2002-04-03 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Wichert Akkerman wrote: >Previously Colin Walters wrote: >> This gets tricky though, because right now the BTS isn't designed to >> do stuff depending on the submitter at all... > >It's simple, just stick a flag in the mail headers. And that flag is? -- [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debbugs and ACK messages

2002-04-04 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Colin Walters wrote: >On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 17:44, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > >> It's simple, just stick a flag in the mail headers. > >I don't really regard that as a reasonable solution. For example, my >email client doesn't (as far as I know) allow adding arbitrary h

Re: Debian Conference 2 Registration

2002-04-07 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jeroen Dekkers wrote: >IMHO the non-free section should be removed. IMHO you should write less email and fix more bugs. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg Commander Taco wastes our time with these dumb polls but we keep r

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Aurelien Jarno wrote: >DFSG stand for "Debian Free Software Guidelines". IMHO we ave to create a >DFDG, "Debian Free Documentation Guidelines". I wrote this up last night after getting fed up with this thread, then modified it this morning after reading the thread on

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >I wrote this up last night after getting fed up with this thread, then >modified it this morning after reading the thread on -legal that was >referred to. Flame away. > >http://people.debian.org/~jaq/jfdl.html Of course

Re: GNU FDL (was Re: Bug#141561: gnu-standards: Non-free =?iso-8859-15?q?software in?= main)

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Ola Lundqvist wrote: >On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 03:57:42PM +1000, Jamie Wilkinson wrote: >> http://people.debian.org/~jaq/jfdg.html > >Well written. Thanks. > >One issue though: >The license may not require a royalty or

Re: The GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) and /usr/share/common-licenses

2002-04-08 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Dale Scheetz wrote: >So, in fact, both of these licenses are non-free, as they contain clauses >that can be used, and will be considered non-free. > >I find it ... foolish to declare a license to be free IFF some clauses of >the license are not exercised. Using this lan

Re: Bug #140769: frozen-bubble: RC bug

2002-04-14 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Rob Bradford wrote: >Package: frozen-bubble >Version: 0.9.2-9 >Severity: critical > >Frozen-bubble is holding up the release process as all the developers >are now hooked and are no longer working on woody, hence the RC status >as this package is single handedly holding

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-15 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: >Time to throw some gasoline on the flames ... Branden apparently is >incapable of releasing it. So, I suggest that anyone, with enough >knowledge and TIME, reading this, would volunteer as XFree package >maintainer. Branden's comments suggest

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, David D. W. Downey wrote: >No apologies needed, we all know it's his evil twin. *evil* twin? Now I'm scared. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://spacepants.org/jaq.gpg Marge, this ticket doesn't just give me a seat. It also gives me the right -

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Joseph Carter wrote: >On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 07:25:31PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >> I didn't go anywhere. Nowhere in my platform did I claim I wasn't evil. >> ;-) > > this is the New Overfiend, preacher of Love and Tolerance Orwellian Love and Tolerance, that i

Re: Technical Committee: decision on #119517?

2002-04-19 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
This one time, at band camp, Branden Robinson wrote: >Over six months ago, on 2001-11-14, Bug #119517 was submitted to the >Technical Committee for a ruling. No member of the Technical Committe >has participated in any public discussion of this bug (at least in the >bug logs or in available messag

Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
Hiya Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as the stack - or code space! Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
Hiya Just a quick question, which malloc, is there anyway that this function (used in C) could allocate memory into already allocated memory, such as the stack - or code space! Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: Malloc and security

2012-06-18 Thread Jamie White
Aaah, any packages that need maintaining? Has there been swearing before? I assume to private email addys. Jamie On 18/06/2012 22:12, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: I totally understand top posting from mobiles. Well, debian has improved, there was no swearing this time around, I don't

Re: tasksel: Default desktop: Gnome→Xfce

2012-08-03 Thread Jamie White
ly be enough to fit GNOME and KDE (and maybe other alternatives) on that image. Michael Also, with the package survey, could you just work out what packages tend to be downloaded together and use that to make specialised CDs for a purpose, instead of numbered CDs. Jamie -- To UNSUBSCRI

Bug#634124: ITP: cronutils -- Utilities to assist running batch processing jobs

2011-07-17 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jamie Wilkinson * Package name: cronutils Version : 1.0 Upstream Author : Jamie IWlkinson * URL : http://code.google.com/p/cronutils/ * License : Apache Programming Lang: C Description : Utilities to assist

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > Hi there, > > as you may know, Debian 10 buster includes the iptables-nft utility by > default, > which is an iptables flavor that uses the nf_tables kernel subsystem. > Is intended to help people migrate from iptables to nftables. > > For t

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > 2) introduce firewalld as the default firewalling wrapper in Debian, at > > least in > > desktop related tasksel tasks. > > No objection. I think it's high time we have some default firewall > installed in particular with IPv6 getting more widely d

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Di, Jul 16, 2019 at 11:23:43 +0200, Guillem Jover wrote: > > On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 11:07:15 +0200, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote: > > > as you may know, Debian 10 buster includes the iptables-nft utility by > > > default, which is an iptables flavor t

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2019-07-16 at 11:57 +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > [...] > > The other desktop firewall that I know is "ufw" but it doesn't seem to > > have any momentum behind it. > > Also, while its syntax is obviously intended to be simple, it's quite > irr

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Chris Lamb wrote: > Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > The other desktop firewall that I know is "ufw" but it doesn't seem to > > have any momentum behind it. > > It is curious you mention a lack of momentum; in my experience, it is > the most commonly recommended firewall on vari

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Jamie Strandboge wrote: > On Tue, 16 Jul 2019, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > > > > 2) introduce firewalld as the default firewalling wrapper in Debian, at > > > least in > > > desktop related tasksel tasks. > > > > No objection

Re: default firewall utility changes for Debian 11 bullseye

2019-07-17 Thread Jamie Strandboge
On Wed, 17 Jul 2019, Chris Lamb wrote: > Jamie Strandboge wrote: > > > Again, I'm biased, but ufw supports IPv6. It's also been on the default > > server > > and desktop install of Ubuntu for 9+ years. ufw functions well for bastion > > hosts, less so

Bug#946014: ITP: pyao -- Python interface to the Audio Output library

2019-12-02 Thread Jamie Wilkinson
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Jamie Wilkinson * Package name: pyao Version : 0.82 Upstream Author : Christian Schmitz * URL : http://www.xiph.org/ogg/vorbis/download/ * License : GPL-3 Programming Lang: C Description : Python interface to

Follow Up To IBM WebSphere or Apache Tomcat or Oracle WebLogic or IIS 7.5 Users List

2018-02-23 Thread Jamie Messer
initiatives and I will send you the counts and list details accordingly. Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you soon. Best Regards, Jamie Messer Marketing & Lead Specialist

Re: [draft] need your help on the AI-DFSG general resolution prepration

2025-02-01 Thread Jamie Bainbridge
3.5-7.8B-Instruct/blob/main/LICENSE Also a small correction, just after heading "# Problem 1: "Preferred form of modification" there is a "udner" instead of "under". Jamie