Re: Fw: Need a temporary list moderator

2009-06-02 Thread Daniel Devine
On Tuesday 02 June 2009 00:42:13 Stefan Leichter wrote: > Am Monday 01 June 2009 16:13:43 schrieb Luke Bratch: > > --- On Thu, 28/5/09, Luke Bratch wrote: > > > In a couple of weeks I'm going to be travelling around > > > India for about a month, from 14th June - 17th July, so I'll > > > need some

Re: Implications for Wine from the Ubuntu Developer Summit

2009-06-01 Thread Daniel Devine
se it offers a way for malicious people to EASILY engineer an attack on Linux. No doubt you have heard the jokes before about getting viruses to run on Linux and how the virus would need to come with instructions to launch the script/executable... though if the user wants to run CutePuppyPictures.exe you can't really stop them. Users really like to see cute puppies, and if that means installing something then they will. Hopefully we can find a way to make them stop for just a second and think. --Daniel Devine

Re: /. wants a fork

2009-05-25 Thread Daniel Devine
On Monday 25 May 2009 23:12:57 Remco wrote: > Oh great, now there is poison on slashdot: > > http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/05/24/2044239 > > Let's not fork, shall we? > > Remco I saw the article. Anybody who thinks a fork is a good idea is quite frankly an idiot. However they are f