Re: delegation for the Debian Politburo

[Hans-Georg Bork]

On 9/4/19 10:36 PM, hartm...@mailo.com wrote:
> 
> I appoint the following individuals as Debian Politburo
> 
> * Joerg Jaspert 
> * Steve McIntyre <93...@debian.org>
> * Theodore Y. Ts'o 
> * Enrico Zini 
> 
> This delegation expires at the end of Sam Hartman's DPL term or when
> replaced or updated by the DPL.
> 
> Task Description
> 
> 
> I was going to call this the Debian Delegation Advisory Group
> but many people noticed it looks like a Politburo

Isn't it nice to see that the shafts of satire are still pointed?
Had a good laugh. Thanks.

-- hgb

Re: Frustrated

[Hans-Georg Bork]

On 02/01/2016 08:13 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> palmal palmal  writes:
> 
>> Here is the answer:why you allowed microsoft to get inwolwe and build
>> their product on your operating system?
> 
> Anyone have any idea what this is referring to?  I think the original
> poster has a whole bunch of misinformation (and I'm sorry that they had a
> bad experience with jessie), but I have no idea what this specific point
> could even mean.
> 

It might be a referral to either Microsoft Linux [1] or is ACS [2]
(partly) based on debian?


[1]: http://www.mslinux.org/
[2]:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/09/18/microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux_repeat_microsoft_has_developed_its_own_linux/

May I have some cake as well? :)

-- hgb

Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

[Hans-Georg Bork]

Hi,

On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 23:06 +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote:
 Hi,
 
 Am Sonntag, den 11.04.2010, 12:59 +0300 schrieb Teemu Likonen:
  The download link for the Windows installer points to site
  
  http://goodbye-microsoft.com
  
  which advertises gNewSense. I guess the get.debian.org guys just didn't
  notice the change (adding a Cc).
 
 I think we really should provide this functionality, I used it a few
 times to install Debian, and now I cannot any more.

you still can do so; as stated on
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Loader you can still download it
from http://goodbye-windows.com

Rgds
-- hgb



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Re: get.debian.net installing gNewsomething instead of Debian

[Hans-Georg Bork]

On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 09:08 +0800, Paul Wise wrote:
 On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 5:41 AM, Hans-Georg Bork h...@hgbhome.net wrote:
 
 
  you still can do so; as stated on
  http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Loader you can still download it
  from http://goodbye-windows.com
 
 Perhaps you missed the beginning of this thread? get.d.n uses
 goodbye-windows.com, which now installs gNewsense instead of Debian.

Nope. It is/was goodbye-microsoft.com which is now used by
gNewsnonsense. get.d.n offers currently no win32-loader, but I've no
idea when they stopped it.

Rgds
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Re: [OT] time machine | was Debian Etch Stable.

[Hans-Georg Bork]

On Sat, 2007-06-23 at 15:50 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
 Hans-Georg Bork [EMAIL PROTECTED] asked in a PS months ago:
  [...] did anyone ask FSF
  for the reason they paid Ian in the first year of debian (IIRC) ?
 
 We are distributing it as an interim measure until the GNU kernel (the
  Hurd) is ready for users.
 Source http://www.gnu.org/bulletins/bull18.html

Even there the reason as such is not mentioned ... and I believe to see
the Hurd ready for users we might need a time machine ;-)

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Re: Include or support other vendors solutions

[Hans-Georg Bork]

Dear Mr Neumann,

I hope you read debian's rules about the use of the mailing lists,
specially those mentioned on [1].

Furthermore I'd like to advise you, to read [2] to get some ideas about
the ideas behind linux and debian. After that, please read paragraph 3 A
of the license found under [3] and find a way to merge this into the
ideas found above. In case you found away, assure to meet the policy
mention on [4]. 

After all this, look for a developer to do the packaging, as it is
mentioned on [5] or to increase your chances to get the software
included drastically, you should consider to do the packaging work
yourself and just look for a sponsor to move your work to the Debian
mirror. The procedure for this is described on [6].

BTW: The license in [3] is quiet bad formatted, e.g. it is 3(A) and then
3(b), further on it is 10(1) ... also the german and the english license
have differences which are not just due to translation.

With kind regards

-- hgb

[1]: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#ads
[2]: http://www.debian.org/intro/about
[3]: http://www.consideo.de/downloads/softwarelizenzvertrag-en.pdf
[4]: http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-archive.html#s-non-free
[5]: http://www.debian.org/devel/wnpp/
[6]: http://www.debian.org/devel/join/




On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 14:46 +0100, Kai Neumann wrote:
 Hello,
 
 would it be possible to include CONSIDEO SE as the probably first  
 system dynamics solution for Linux? It is as easy to use as a  
 mindmapping tool and crucial for many daily challenges of not only  
 managers.
 You may try it on www.consideo.de .
 Thanks in advance and best wishes for the upcoming celebrations
 
 Kai Neumann
 --
 Consideo GmbH
 Seelandstr. 1a
 23569 Luebeck
 www.consideo.de
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 +494513909145
 +491716439331
 
 
 
 


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Re: Include or support other vendors solutions

[Hans-Georg Bork]

Oooops, wrong button, it shouldn't had gone to the list as well; sorry
for the spam.

Regards
-- hgb

On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 18:56 +0100, Hans-Georg Bork wrote:
 Dear Mr Neumann,
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[OT] time machine | was Debian Etch Stable.

[Hans-Georg Bork]

On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 10:19 +, MJ Ray wrote:
 It didn't fulfil that condition: Etch didn't release on Mon 4 Dec 06 -
 or is the next chunk of funding going to repairing the time machine
 that was broken next week?

There's no need for a time machine to release on Mon 4 Dec 06. All what
you nee is a slow RM and enough time to wait for Monday 4th December
4006 ... ;-))

Regards
-- hgb

PS: IMHO that whole discussion (this thread) is going to get (or got
already) ridiculous, since the legal owner of any amount of money does
not have to share the reason, on why it was spent to two or more
individuals, with anybody else in the world ... or did anyone ask FSF
for the reason they paid Ian in the first year of debian (IIRC) ?


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Re: possible solution for open source-closed source-problem?

[Hans-Georg Bork]

On Wed, 2006-11-22 at 19:51 +, Oleg Verych wrote:
 On 2006-11-22, Johann Horwath wrote:
  Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
  From: Johann Horwath [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.devel.project
  Subject: possible solution for open source-closed source-problem?
  Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2006 15:17:17 +0100
  X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
   X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook, Build 10.0.6626
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   X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.1 required=4.0 tests=BAYES_95,MDO_DATING2  
 autolearn=no version=3.0.3
 
  hello,
 
  couldn't this be a solution for the big problem open/closed-source:
 
  the system should be basically only be open-source.
 
 I didn't read further.

but you expect that your email about DFSG is read? If so, get the
original mail and read further; if not, keep using Micro$oft.

Regards
-- hgb



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Re: Day light saving patch 2007

[Hans-Georg Bork]

Hi,

please avoid sending HTML emails, since those are sometimes quite
difficult to read in a text-only system. Thanks.
(see my answers below)

On Wed, 2006-11-15 at 11:29 -0500, Perumal, Premkumar wrote:
 Team
 
 I was searching for some patches for the day light saving patch 2007
 in debian and I couldn't find anything. But I found the link below

 http://people.debian.org/~terpstra/message/20061005.205220.2e89b18e.en.html
 
 Which explains that updated version of tzdata already have this patch
 applied; this was fixed in sarge as of 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge1 and it will
 work automatically

IIRC in sarge this is part of libc6.

  
 Now my question is my system is in  
 jamaica:/etc# uname -a
 Linux jamaica 2.4.27-1-686-smp #1 SMP Fri Sep 3 06:34:36 UTC 2004 i686
 GNU/Linux
  
 Is it above or below? I am not sure. Can you please guide us? And tell
 us how to check and whether we are okay for the daylight patch.

The command uname shows which kernel you use, but that has nothing to do
with the timezone you're in. To check if youŕe up to date run

dpkg -l libc6

and in the column called Version you should find something like
2.3.2.ds1 ..., e.g. 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge4.

If the number you see there is below 2.3.2, you should upgrade your
system, if it is 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge1 or with a higher number at the end,
you're fine.

Regards
-- hgb

 


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Re: Position Statement to the Dunc-Tanc experiment

[Hans-Georg Bork]

All,

I'd like to sign the statement as well.

Hans-Georg Bork
- debian user since the early days of hamm -


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