Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-08 Thread John Pearson
On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 05:25:12PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote > On 07 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the > > same place. > > > > $ dpkg -l | grep slrn > > ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the > same place. > > $ dpkg -l | grep slrn > ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links) > That's the one I have, which no longer works. Anthony -- Anthon

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Pann McCuaig
There was one more pass. You can (or at least could) get it from the same place. $ dpkg -l | grep slrn ii slrn0.9.5.3-6 threaded news reader (fast for slow links) On Fri, Jan 07, 2000 at 11:18, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 03 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 03, 200

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Jan 2000, Pann McCuaig wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 13:05, Joey Hess wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You > > > can get it temporarily at ... > > > > Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i38

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-07 Thread Oliver Elphick
John wrote: >I have only just seen your message. The error is in the email program >made available to me by my ISP when I signed on some 20 months ago. >I had noted the problem with incoming mail, but did not think it would >affect outgoing mail onto other machines. If I've caused any dif

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-06 Thread John
on 06 Jan, Oliver Elphick wrote... > I have only just seen your message. The error is in the email program made available to me by my ISP when I signed on some 20 months ago. I had noted the problem with incoming mail, but did not think it would affect outgoing mail onto other machines. If I've

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-06 Thread David Wright
Quoting Nico De Ranter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > The original sender uses a broken mail program. It's not on your side. > > Nico > > On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > > > This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have > > seen a couple of others like this on a

Re: Y2K (Re: Vera and SIOCADDRT - separate subjects)

2000-01-06 Thread Nico De Ranter
The original sender uses a broken mail program. It's not on your side. Nico On Thu, 6 Jan 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote: > This message to debian-user shows an invalid date; (year 100). I have > seen a couple of others like this on a non-debian list, where another > subscriber did not see the er

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-04 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Mon, Jan 03, 2000 at 13:05, Joey Hess wrote: > Joey Hess wrote: > > I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You > > can get it temporarily at ... > > Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb > > > Pann, Jim please download that and

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Joey Hess wrote: > I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You > can get it temporarily at ... Er I meant to say at http://va.debian.org/~joeyh/slrn_0.9.5.3-5_i386.deb > Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem. -- see shy jo

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
I have just uploaded slrn 0.9.5.3-5 for stable, which fixes this bug. You can get it temporarily at ... Pann, Jim please download that and let me know if it really fixes the problem. -- see shy jo

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-03 Thread Joey Hess
Brian Servis wrote: > The bug by the way is the result of sloppy programming. There is a c > library call that returns the year as the number of years from 1900, > also used in perl's Time::Local. Authors were using that as the two > digit year or just appending it to 19, so you are either seeing

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-03 Thread Colin Marquardt
> Sounds good, but it won't install. Seems that debhelper has to be > upgraded as well and 'that' seems to require the perl upgrade. > Depbelper fails with > DH_VERSION=10 perl -MTest::Harness -e 'runtests grep { ! /CVS/ } [...] I had this problem as well, but the answer I got from the -devel-L

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-03 Thread Pann McCuaig
On Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 22:09, Colin Watson wrote: > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: > > > >NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT > > > >Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. > > See: > > http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811 Thank

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-03 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Re: Y2K problem with slrn? Date: Sun, Jan 02, 2000 at 05:49:36PM -0500 In reply to:Brian Servis Quoting Brian Servis([EMAIL PROTECTED]): >| *- On 2 Jan, Colin Watson wrote about "Re: Y2K problem with slrn?" >| > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-02 Thread Brian Servis
*- On 2 Jan, Colin Watson wrote about "Re: Y2K problem with slrn?" > Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: >> >>NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT >> >>Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. > >

Re: Y2K problem with slrn?

2000-01-02 Thread Colin Watson
Pann McCuaig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Here is my $HOME/.jnewsrc.time: > >NEWGROUPS 1000102 173956 GMT > >Looks like there's a 100 where a 2000 ought to be. See: http://cgi.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=53811 I imagine there'll be a new release of slrn out soon that solves this proble

Re: y2k

2000-01-01 Thread aphro
sorry another 48 years till y2k ;) nate On Sat, 1 Jan 2000, Patrick Kirk wrote: patric >Happy GNU Millennium all! patric > patric > patric > patric >-- patric >Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null patric > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Y2K fix for emacs19(potato/slink) and emacs20(slink)

1999-12-30 Thread Changwoo Ryu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Takuo KITAME) writes: > RM> I'm running emacs 19.34, compiled back in Sep 1996, on Linux, Solaris and > RM> IRIX64. I haven't found a definitive answer as to whether or not it has > RM> Y2K problems. > > RM> Does anybody know if timezone.el is the only problem? > > for example

Re: Y2K fix for emacs19(potato/slink) and emacs20(slink)

1999-12-30 Thread Takuo KITAME / 北目 拓郎
> On Wed, 29 Dec 1999 09:52:22 -0700 (MST) > "RM" == Rick Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... RM> On 29 Dec 1999, Takuo KITAME wrote: >> I think that emacs19 19.34(potato/slink) and emacs20 20.3(slink) has the y2k >> problem in lisp/timezone.el. >> Are package maintainer or anybody wo

Re: Y2K fix for emacs19(potato/slink) and emacs20(slink)

1999-12-29 Thread Rick Macdonald
On 29 Dec 1999, Takuo KITAME wrote: > I think that emacs19 19.34(potato/slink) and emacs20 20.3(slink) has the y2k > problem in lisp/timezone.el. > Are package maintainer or anybody working for fix this? or already fixed? > > Here is the fixed timezone.el. > http://master.debian.org/~kitame/tmp

Re: y2k hardware checking software for linux ?

1999-11-05 Thread aphro
thanks for the tips! i can now rest pretty easy :)) nate On 5 Nov 1999, John Hasler wrote: john >aphro writes: john >> also, what are the chances that software on the system will check the john >> date from the hardware clock and not the software clock (hwclock as john >> opposed to date). john

Re: y2k hardware checking software for linux ?

1999-11-05 Thread John Hasler
aphro writes: > also, what are the chances that software on the system will check the > date from the hardware clock and not the software clock (hwclock as > opposed to date). Zero. > i don't want to feel rushed to shut down the main server if the danger is > not that great. It isn't. Linux onl

Re: Y2K / contact address needed /wsb SPARC-Solaris 2.0b01

1999-09-02 Thread J.H.M. Dassen \(Ray\)
On Thu, Sep 02, 1999 at 19:54:07 +0200, Marcel von Ranson wrote: > Ref.: > wsb SPARC-Solaris 2.0b01 > To ensure y2k compliance of our hardware/software partners we would like > to ask for information. The Debian project does not deal with Solaris in any way. If you are interested in running Debia

Re: Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In a message dated 3/30/99 10:23:17 AM Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > You forgot that Gnome and KDE aren't either (for you AOLamers out there, > > neither is Info) :) > > If that's true, the programmers working on KDE and GNOME out to be noodle

Re: Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread Dale E. Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Anyway, what does Info and AOL have to do with each other? Or did I miss > something? You missed the fact the the entire post was a troll and you got sucked in. There shouldn't be Y2K issues for most Unix (including Linux) applications, any distro or whatever. (Yes,

Re: Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 3/30/99 10:23:17 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > You forgot that Gnome and KDE aren't either (for you AOLamers out there, > neither is Info) :) If that's true, the programmers working on KDE and GNOME out to be noodle- whipped in public. These products a

Re: Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread John Galt
You forgot that Gnome and KDE aren't either (for you AOLamers out there, neither is Info) :) On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote: > In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > > I get a Slackware 2.0.29 Kernel of Linux. I'd like to know if it's Y2K. > > If not which version is Y2K. > > Only Debian GN

Re: Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread Mitch Blevins
In foo.debian-user, you wrote: > I get a Slackware 2.0.29 Kernel of Linux. I'd like to know if it's Y2K. > If not which version is Y2K. Only Debian GNU/Linux is Y2K compliant (any version). All other distros will fail at the end of this year. Please reformat your Slackware system and install Deb

Re: Y2K

1999-03-30 Thread David B. Teague
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, CSR de Port-au-Prince wrote: > I get a Slackware 2.0.29 Kernel of Linux. I'd like to know if it's Y2K. > If not which version is Y2K. > > Thank you to answer me at > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Thanks > Reynold GUERRIER Reynold: Y2K problems stem from a two digit date, do

Re: Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread Immanuel Yap
Here's a link to Debian's Y2K statement: http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104 Noel

Re: Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread servis
*- Robert Dominguez wrote about "Y2K Compliant?" | Hello, | | I am Robert Dominguez. My company uses Debian GNU Linux 1.3 | running a DNS server. The OS works fine with no bugs. My question | is, is this version compliant with Y2K. I really don't see how it's | directly affected but I had

Re: Y2K Compliant?

1998-10-14 Thread Nikolai Andreyevich Luzan
On Wed, 14 Oct 1998, Robert Dominguez wrote: > I am Robert Dominguez. My company uses Debian GNU Linux 1.3 > running a DNS server. The OS works fine with no bugs. My question > is, is this version compliant with Y2K. I really don't see how it's > directly affected but I had to ask. If you

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-10-02 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Stephen J. Carpenter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > I agree...but...they still could be. Isn't that exactly what the people who > were writting mainframe applications a few yars ago said? :) > > "Nah this system wont be in use past 9

RE: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Lewis, James M.
pient's address is unknown. Subject:Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian? Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > 2) 64 bit math is _very_ slow on a 32 bit machine. Since time_t is used > > all o

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Wed, 30 Sep 1998, Michael Stone wrote: [ snip ] : If you're using a pentium-class machine in 2038, you deserve what you : get. I can't believe it would be operative after that long. I know people still sing PDP-11s -today- ! Who would have thought they'd still be around? Their cost of own

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Stephen J. Carpenter ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > > 2) 64 bit math is _very_ slow on a 32 bit machine. Since time_t is used > > all over the place (e.g., the filesystem) you'd seriously slow things > > down by making it 64 bits. >

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 30, 1998 at 11:01:22AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: > Quoting Philip Thiem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Why would 32-bit apps be limited to 32 bit integers?? Didn't we have 32 > > bit avallible to us on the 286?? If not, I'm certain we were able to > > get around it then. Also if any one

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Michael Stone
Quoting Philip Thiem ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Why would 32-bit apps be limited to 32 bit integers?? Didn't we have 32 > bit avallible to us on the 286?? If not, I'm certain we were able to > get around it then. Also if any one wants to make use of MMX registers > there is even a 64-bit ASM MOV com

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-30 Thread Philip Thiem
--- > From: dsb3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 11:40 PM > To: Miquel van Smoorenburg > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian? > > On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > > >In article <[EMAIL PROT

RE: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-28 Thread Mike Barton
-Original Message- From: dsb3 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 27, 1998 11:40 PM To: Miquel van Smoorenburg Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian? On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-28 Thread John Goerzen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) writes: > It's a kernel issue. On 32 bit platforms time_t will probably always be > restricted to 32 bits, but on 64 bits systems such as the alpha time_t > is 64 bits .. and by 2038 I expect everyone to be running at least > a 64 bit machine. BZZT, wron

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-28 Thread dsb3
On 27 Sep 1998, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, >Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Hi >>There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ >>applications, but what about the "Y2K+38 disaster" in the POSIX world? >>I was pretty sure that

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Wojciech Zabolotny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hi >There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ >applications, but what about the "Y2K+38 disaster" in the POSIX world? >I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, It's

Re: Y2K+38 disaster in debian?

1998-09-27 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Sun, Sep 27, 1998 at 02:55:08PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi > There was a lot of noise about the y2k problem in old COBOL and M$ > applications, but what about the "Y2K+38 disaster" in the POSIX world? > I was pretty sure that the new libc6 library implements 64 bit time_t, > but just

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 01:52:38PM -0500, Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > Actually, i did check the debian web page. Unfortunately, i don't have the > resources necessary to go on a long hunt for the information and it didn't > seem to be readily noticeable on the site. Perhaps i'm smoking crack.

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephanie A. Tomlinson
Actually, i did check the debian web page. Unfortunately, i don't have the resources necessary to go on a long hunt for the information and it didn't seem to be readily noticeable on the site. Perhaps i'm smoking crack. At any rate...

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Stephen J. Carpenter
On Wed, Sep 09, 1998 at 12:03:28PM -0500, Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > Ok, don't kill me.. i know you all are probably tired of/avoiding/irked with/ > frothing at the mouth because of the whole y2k compliance bruhaha. > > I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Keith Beattie
Stephanie A. Tomlinson wrote: > > I just gotta find out... where might i find an official bullettin or who might > i talk to in order to get an official statement concerning debian linux's > y2k compliance? > You can always looks at the source code, you'll find no other statements more "official

Re: y2k (don't kill me!)

1998-09-09 Thread Greg Vence
No problem. http://www.debian.org/News/1998/19980104 Enjoy -- Greg. -- What do you want to spend today? Debian GNU/Linux (Free for an UNLIMITED time) http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html Greg VenceKH2EA/4

Re: y2k subcontracting arrangements

1998-06-11 Thread Ed Cogburn
Sally Pesiri (HQ) wrote: > > > > Please feel free to call us if you are looking for an option to Your y2k > projects for clients or yourself. > > Thank you, > > Sally Pesiri > You do realize that your Word attachment file is nearly 400k in size. Sending a message with a 400k M$ Wor