(forw) Minneapolis, MN USA BSP + Keysigning

2003-12-12 Thread Scott Dier
Sort of late to send it out again, but it was suggested in case users in the area want to do keysigning or help with bugsquashing. Thanks! - Forwarded message from Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - From: Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Minneapolis, MN USA BSP + Key

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Dier - dieman
osoft does, in its credit, allow people to hit the 'upgrade my box for me forever' button for the non-paranoid. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Dier - dieman
n't being distributed to users fast enough, not that users avoid having to maintain their systems. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Alas and alack.

2003-01-28 Thread Scott Dier - dieman
re on the merits. However, one point I do see, about security fixes in decent time from source to distribution form seems to focus on product lifecycle rather than true experience and actual facts. I would love to see a comparison of distributions that shows how deticated many of the Linux distributions

Re: Microsoft's plans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-03 Thread Scott Dier
s in their best intrest to make sure their technology gets in place to accept the masses without alerting the technologically knowledgable. TCPA could easily become better 'law' than anything based on mass acceptance and market forces. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> KC0OBS http://www

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Scott Dier
That widining can easily create a ton of work that impedes on that part of the contract, and a disservice to many users. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/

Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material

2002-03-15 Thread Scott Dier
If your not allready noticing a concensus one way or another, there are more formal ways of proving this is the way or not. I urge you to make a decision on this instead of wallowing around in -devel. Enlist a willing developer or two into your cause and find out if this is feasible. -- Scott D

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-28 Thread Scott Dier
figure out how far some machines are from the 'norm' install. (and setup some programs to fix machines missing some dpkg selections) I'm also using cfengine to manage permissions and configuration files. Horribly complex, but fun to beable to push out changes that dont clobber t

Re: Propossed Project: Odyssey

2001-10-23 Thread Scott Dier
with a future release of debian. Also, I think there is a lot of need for this sort of work. I've been talking to some admins here about starting a project for backporting sets of packages from unstable to stable to do 3-6month update packs after stable comes out, the response has been positive.

Re: emu10k1 for debian

2001-10-11 Thread Scott Dier
* Alexander Kotelnikov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [011011 11:06]: > Once I wrote about an intention to package emu-tools. I prepared How linked are the tools version to the driver revision? IE: if i keep with an 'old' cvs snapshot of the driver, will the tools stop working on an

Re: Sound problems

2001-08-18 Thread Scott Dier
primary scope of progeny. Not that they can't be installed, its just harder. > Tried to run: > /etc/modules.conf > /dev/dsp > /dev/mixer ls -al > /proc/interrupts > /proc/ioports > /proc/sound > /dev/sndstat aumix? -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.ringworld.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Anyone attending the IETF Meeting this month?

2001-03-08 Thread Scott Dier
ings could occur. > > I won't be attending the conference, but I am a Debian developer. I live > just over the border in Wisconsin and I would very much like to get my key > signed. I will be voulenteering at the meeting. I would love to cross-sign. -- Scott Dier <[EMAIL PRO