, the latter is not).
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might consider certain statements simply derisive.
some KDE people should apologise to RMS for being over-sensitive
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intend it. take appropriate action when you encounter
any divergence from your desires.
no package manager can read your mind. you're still going to have to do
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is. additional permissions are fine, additional restrictions are not.
another significant issue is that the US state of Virginia has adopted
the DMCA, so accepting that jurisdiction means accepting all of the
onerous terms allowed (and enforced) by the DCMA.
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, sounds good. i have no problem at all with that. quite the
opposite, in fact.
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 06:09:31PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
it's simple - if you want a service that's worth having, you
pay whatever it costs. if you don't want that, then pay for a
cheap/crappy service and put up
then it's unlikely that they can get anything
workingthey don't deserve your money.
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community. We sincerely hope this will happen also to Jazz++ and
that all users will benifit from this change of license terms. As a
contributing developer, you can really make a difference!
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On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 12:31:03PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 03:12:40AM +0200, Enrique Robledo Arnuncio wrote:
I have not found any other free graphical MIDI notator for
linux. Maybe we will have
.
#
# by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script is hereby placed into the
# public domain.
#
# BUGS: this script has absolutely no error checking. this is not good.
if [ -z $* ] ; then
echo Usage:
echo dpkg-hold package...
exit 1
fi
for i in $@ ; do
echo $i
be. (Ever used dselect on a
9600 serial console? It's fun ;).
twice in one day...this must be the 4th or 5th time i've posted this
script to this list over the years.
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#! /bin/bash
# dpkg-hold -- command line tool to flag package(s) as held.
#
# by Craig Sanders, 1998-10-26. This script
too long).
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On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:08:53PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 11:18:47PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone
else to listen.
Then this principle must apply universally. I reserve the right to ignore
of it then i could agree with you.
Thanks for clearing this up for me.
you're welcome. you be sure to have a nice day now.
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- like yours - is
irrelevant because it's his mail server, not yours or mine).
on your machines, your policy applies. on his machines, his policy. simple.
your right to free speech does not include the right to force anyone
else to listen.
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:41:15PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote:
debian developers should have the option of a uucp account from one
of the debian servers (trivially easy for us to set up).
I think we have been over this in various forms, I don't
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:36:37AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote:
yep. the DUL lists dynamic (dialup) IPs, it doesn't list static IPs.
that's why it's called the MAPS Dialup User List.
Well then I have to agree, DUL is bad, because it's near impossible
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:55AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote:
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote:
DUL is very effective in doing that. it prevents spammers from
hiding their activities from their ISP...which ensures that they
will be caught and their account nuked very promptly
, as knowing where to
start.
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future).
Anyway, you didn't answer to my question !
yes i did. my answer was that you were asking the wrong question.
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5000 for woody - and potato
isn't even out the door!
i'm glad i don't have to wait. unstable is more than good enough for
use on production servers (and has been the entire time i've been using
debian - almost 5 years now)
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if the end-user does make use
of one of the dynamic dns services)
The anti-spam bigots enjoy seeing catch-22's like this.
the anti-DUL bigots love spreading disinformation and bullshit like this
to backup their shaky claims.
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BTW, by using stunnel and openssl you can ssl encrypt the entire uucp
session, giving you a secure AND reliable mail service. for a (very
brief) mini-howto of how this can be done with taylor uucp and postfix,
see http://taz.net.au/postfix/uucp/
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On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:16:32PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:58:22AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
yep. the DUL lists dynamic (dialup) IPs, it doesn't list static IPs.
that's why it's called the MAPS Dialup User List.
Unfortunately that is not correct. Both
the DUL for ages.
most of the recent spam would have been blocked by using MAPS RSS
(relays.mail-abuse.org), though...and not by MAPS DUL.
IMO, we should use both. individually they are quite effective in
blocking spam, but they are even better when used together.
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..)
I don't know anything about DUL.
that's OK, neither does Joseph. As usual, he's shooting his mouth off
about stuff he couldn't even begin to comprehend.
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blue on black is just a bad idea - too little contrast between fg bg
to be readable.
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the awful secret of debian, the secret
cabal will have to take care of you. wait right where you are. there
will be a knock on the door shortly.
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by the damage
it would cause.
in short, add the sbin directories to your PATH and move on.
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takes a few seconds to do so i don't care much what the default
is.
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(newbies) fom
using mutt, they first must to learn how to change those defaults to
something acceptable.
it's not that bad. if newbies can pick up emacs' horribly contorted key
bindings then mutt's a doddle.
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or making a
symlink.
craig
ps: if you prefer pine, then just use it. there's no need to make every
mail client as bad as pine...some of us like mutt the way it is and
don't want to see it mangled into an awkward pine clone.
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of what they do and why someone might choose to uncomment
them - a summary of your comments in this thread would be perfect.
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:brightcyan:black
vim too. fixed with the folling in ~/.vimrc:
set background=dark
hi Commentterm=bold ctermfg=Cyan guifg=Cyan
hi PreProcterm=underline ctermfg=Cyan guifg=#ff80ff
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for
me than just learning the mutt keys.
i've been using mutt for long enough now that pine's key bindings seem
clumsy and awkward.
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' will be used by those with fewer guinea-pig genes, who want
something up-to-date but with major obvious problems resolved.
'frozen' is for those who just can't wait for stable or who want to help
with final testing.
'stable' is for everyone.
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On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 11:02:31AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
??? - packages auto moved to here after basic criteria met (e.g.
in unstable for 2 weeks with no bug reports). can't remember
what this stage was to be called.
i feel a need to write some more about
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:41:01PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 15-Mar-00, 01:06 (CST), Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
DO NOT PUT WORDS IN MY MOUTH.
your argument for want of a better term is obviously so poor that you
have no choice but to misrepresent mine to make your
that this is the Debian Project, *not* Ben's Project.
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the release team and allow them to take as much time as they feel is
necessary to produce the 'perfect' release.
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:23:42PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
On 14-Mar-00, 18:58 (CST), Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
actually, it's really sad that you haven't learnt that closing down
'unstable' is a disastrously bad idea. you've been with debian long
enough now to have
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:35:35AM +0100, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
Le Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 06:06:24PM +1100, Craig Sanders écrivait:
and fuck you too! how dare you fucking misrepresent my position and
twist what i said in such a reprehensible manner?
if you don't fucking understand what
-critical bugs.
most are. most of them even in a timely fashion.
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it to bother adopting it in that time).
most of the rest have actually been fixed, but i must have got the BTS
syntax wrong when closing the bugs in the changelog.
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, but that would be a last ditch idea.
It truly would, QT is FAR superior to GTK!!
if you only want to work in C++, and if you don't care that it's
incompatible with the GPL.
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 07:07:51AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 09:03:18PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
i haven't yet decided what to do about vtun. i'll probably get around
to upgrading it to the latest version one day, but i made a mistake
packaging it in the first
recall reading that it was being prototyped on lully...but lully is
currently waiting for some replacement hardware.
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. It doesn't have to behave like it is
with releases.
well said!
and you make an important point that most people overlook - that the
whole commercial product style release cycle may not be thet best way
for debian releases to be made.
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is to implement the package pool
idea, coupled with reasonably frequent snapshot releases and less
frequent but fully-tested stable releases.
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On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 09:02:50AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 10:01:15PM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
On Mon, Mar 13, 2000 at 09:08:43AM -0500, Ben Collins wrote:
We are knee deep in a release cycle. We should not be expending our
resources on woody right now
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 11:02:20PM +0100, Josip Rodin wrote:
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 08:42:07AM +1100, Craig Sanders wrote:
this same empirical evidence has also proved that 'stable' is LESS
stable and reliable and secure than 'unstable'. the few debian boxes
which i know of that have been
true for those stuck with
stable.
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- many of us
are willing to risk our important systems to it.
rather than seeing that as a problem, we should be working to take
advantage of unstable's stability and quality.
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to non-genuine seekers of
truth, and to seekers of falsehood (genuine or not) too.
god told me to write this so you better believe it.
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certainly agree that this usage IS an ethical and
appropriate use of this kind of software.
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On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 01:02:55AM +0200, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
even opt-out lists are the wrong solution...because they don't work very
well (especially when usage of them is optional). telephone pests should
be limited
On Sun, Oct 03, 1999 at 07:29:15PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Mon, Oct 04, 1999 at 08:13:02AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
it may be an important tool, but that doesn't give you or anyone else
the right to pester people in their own homes. it really does no good
to apologise or even
to dinner can say PUT ME ON
YOUR DO-NOT-CALL LIST IMMEDIATELY!. write the software so that it is
trivially easy for the telemarketer to add numbers to that list.
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On Sat, Oct 02, 1999 at 10:50:06PM -0500, Chris Lawrence wrote:
On Oct 03, Craig Sanders wrote:
IMO, this is morally akin to writing free software specifically to make
spamming cheaper and easier.
No, it isn't. Survey research is an important part of the social
sciences.
it may
to the maintainers of the pop
packages (and other interested parties) to come up with a way that can
be achieved without hassle, and without imposing stupid and onerous
burdens on the maintainers of unrelated packages.
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that way here, it's not who you work for that's important, it's what
you've done.
It is my hope that Craig Sanders reads this and thinks about what he
has done and why.
very little of what i write is done without review and consideration of
the effect of my words. i am a very deliberate writer. i
can't comprehend that someone might deliberately choose those
words, then that is your problem not mine. such paucity of imagination
is truly sad.
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it out was necessary.
or at least see that stabbing at people isn't productive.
if it makes fools quit their yapping then it can be highly productive.
this discussion is a waste of time.
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change, so follows principle
of least surprise. easy to remember. init.d scripts are conffiles so it
won't be automatically replaced at the next upgrade.
cons:
you have to re-do the change if you ever upgrade and answer Y to
dpkg's question about replacing /etc/init.d/postgresql.
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override.potato
will do the job, and is probably significantly faster than an awk
script.
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free software in the free world, but
encumbered by a patent problem in the world's favourite police state.
craig
PS: the RSA patent expires in 2001 (or is it 2002?), anyway.
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On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:34:48AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 02:16:31PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
to paraphrase: i am against messing with the current default. i am not
against (indeed, i am in favour of) increasing choice.
There is currently no default
their needs.
other daemons, e.g. pop and imap, work with little or no configuration -
install them and they start working immediately. it is useful to enable
them at install time.
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On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 07:02:44AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Thu, Sep 30, 1999 at 08:05:32AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
sorry, it's you who needs to wake up to the real world.
if people don't know how to administer a unix machine then they need
to learn fast.
Not true.
you
,
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their setup but you risk that your custom mods will be
blown away the next time someone runs the stupid GUI configurator).
debian's attitude is: if you want something different, DIY. and more
importantly, it lets you DIY.
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is one. sun's Netra is another...both are
examples of how NOT to do configuration management on unix.
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they are needed.
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majority who
would be inconvenienced if the reverse were true. it looks to me like
it's an either/or situation (i.e. no way of satisfying both parties
at once - mutually exclusive needs) so it's a pretty easy choice to
make...cause the minimum harm/hassle/inconvenience.
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always choose when building systems
because i prefer to select all packages.
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i'm not against increasing choice.
the default should remain as is, though - those who want it different
should be the ones who have to take whatever action with debconf.
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of a daemon
is a security problem then that config should be fixed or the package
dropped from the distribution.
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their personal
preferences on everyone else by making loud noises about trumped up
nebulous and vague security issues. it would be nicer if such FUD were
left behind in the proprietary software world.
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On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 03:21:34AM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 01:05:58PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
then don't install those services. installing a package *IS* an explicit
OK.
You're saying that packages reliably say when they provide daemons?
no, but it should
it
on everyone else.
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On Mon, Sep 27, 1999 at 11:46:19AM +0200, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
it's irrelevant whether other debian developers or users agree with me
or disagree with me about the relative utility of these two packages.
by not censoring packages, by refusing
of having specialty CDs then those who want them
will be able to purchase them from specialty vendors or download the
packages for free from the net.
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the anarchist
faq far more useful and interesting than (a bad translation of)
religious texts.
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packages in the last release but not new
ones in the current unstable).
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redesigned.
On Mon, Sep 20, 1999 at 07:18:09AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
do they automatically set up sash as root's shell?
They don't touch the root account. Instead, they clone it as sashroot
and set the shell on the cloned account.
cool. i was just checking that the discussion from
or whatever else from that?
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redefines many
slcurses.h macros) but ran into a problem with elvis' qfaddch macro
which requires more knowledge about curses than i currently have.
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On Sat, May 22, 1999 at 07:54:57PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
On Sun, May 23, 1999 at 09:47:33AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
that extra 30k (if it is actually available on the rescue disk) would be
better used either as part of the space needed by elvis-tiny (**) or by
I still don't
vi emulation. it
may not be real vi, but it's infinitely better than nothing.
If you want all of the stuff you commonly use on the boot disk, modify
it yourself. Simple :)
i don't want all the stuff i commonly use. i just want the bare minimum,
and that includes a decent editor.
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perfect, it should not
be removed until there is a replacement which can fit on the rescue
disk.
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shots like this. guess i
was mistaken.
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