Re: Proposed change to debian release system

2003-12-16 Thread Walter Tautz 


On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Scott Minns wrote:

 Hiya all,
 
 Thanks for your reply’s, I like the idea of making some packages 
 perishable the trouble is where would you draw the line? I could do 
 with some of the new features in proftpd, but that would not be 
 perishable – so the problem is still there.
 The main problem is that software is moving on so damn fast atm.
 
  From my point of view one of the main issues is that new packages are 
 never built for the stable release, so there are loads of packages in 
 testing that I need or want to use, but they are not in stable - 



Perhaps an official debian subproject that attempts to provide 
some backports such that adding  an additional line to sources.list
would enable them to be available. Perhaps this is already the aim
of the flavours idea that has been discussed?

Is there a limitation on swap parition size linux can use?

2002-08-23 Thread Walter Tautz 
I heard that 2Gb is the limit. If so I would have
to create distinct swap partitions if I wanted to
have more than 2Gb swap? Just wondering...


-walter

Re: Stupid Arithmetic Tricks

2002-04-08 Thread Walter Tautz 


On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Erich Schubert wrote:

  A little knowledge of series tells me to apply n*(n+1)/2 to sum an 
  arithmetic
  progression of common difference 1, starting at 1.  This seems even quicker:
  100*101/2 becomes 5*101*10 becomes 505*10 = 5050.
 
 Yep, but you aren't teached these formulas when in primary school you
 just learned adding and summation... the teacher was said to have
 expected his pupils to need the whole lesson for doing this calculation.
 And Gauss was born 1777, and he really surprised his teacher by then,
 presenting the solution that fast ;)
 
 BTW: I just checked: gauss added 1+100, 2+99 etc. and got directly to
 the calculation 101*50 ;)
 
The astonishing thing is he did this when he was about 6 years old. Credit
should be given to the teacher for immediately recognizing something special
about the `peasant' boy in his class.

-walter


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