2014-02-18 14:20 GMT-05:00 kpb <k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk>:

> On Mon, 2014-02-17 at 22:18 +0100, Sam Geeraerts wrote:
> > Op Sun, 16 Feb 2014 19:43:57 +0000
> > schreef kpb <k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk>:
> >
> > > I've found it possible to compile Icecat 17.0.1 on gNewSense 3.1
> > > 64bit by following the wiki instructions at
> > >
> > > http://wiki.gnewsense.org/Documentation/IceCat
> > >
> > > just *leave out the source code patch* steps as gNewSense 3 has a
> > > compiler version recent enough for this code. YASM still needs to be
> > > compiled as 0.8 is in the gNewSense 3 repository.
> >
> > Feel free to update our wiki page. I think it's safe to assume that
> > users are more interested in IceCat 17 than 14.
> >
>
> Hello Sam and all
>
> Wiki page: I've clicked login, then register new account or whatever,
> typed in camel case name, password and then keep being asked about
> someone called Alexandre in a Text captcha box. It keeps telling me I've
> got the answer wrong, which I have because I have no idea who Alexandre
> might be, and then I can't access the gNewSense.org domain at all for
> some time.
>
> Is this some form of anti-spam device or a cunning way of discouraging
> contributions? If the latter, it is remarkably effective!
>

Yes, it's to prevent spam. Alexandre is Oliva, maintainer of Linux-libre
[1].

For the other textchas, just note that gNewSense used to use the pmwiki
system and that odt is the text format.


[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandre_Oliva



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