Re: About merging the Hurd homepage and the Hurd wiki

2008-11-25 Thread Anatoly A. Kazantsev
On Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:44:05 +0100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW, never ever px sizes, except for the very few cases where actually > dealing with pixels. (like bitmap graphics.) > > Most sizes (including padding and margins) are relative to the font size > by default. Using px will result in

Re: About merging the Hurd homepage and the Hurd wiki

2008-11-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Tue, Nov 25, 2008 at 01:39:43PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > but I still need margin-top and margin-bottom in .newsitemcontent to > avoid the space at the top and bottom of a single news item. Why is > that? Again, this is the 's standard top and bottom margin. (As newsitemheader is n

Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check

2008-11-25 Thread olafBuddenhagen
Hi, On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 04:20:01PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: > Well, you don't stop using knives because people can be threatened and > killed with them, do you? Please, don't start that discussion again, with all it's absurd comparisions about guns being good for shooting horses and wha

Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check

2008-11-25 Thread Michal Suchanek
2008/11/23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 11:24:42PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: >> 2008/11/20 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 11:17:29PM +0100, Michal Suchanek wrote: [...] >> In my view saying "this is like posix but it's really capabilities, >> and you

Re: Gentoo GNU/Hurd thread in Gentoo Forums

2008-11-25 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:25 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Marek's work is interesting on several levels. For one, Mach was > originally created by taking a BSD kernel, throwing out the UNIX stuff, > and implementing some generic primitives (IPC, external pager interface) > ins

[task #7096] glibc 2.6 support

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Update of task #7096 (project hurd): Wiki-like text discussion box: => strerror_l is done, submitted: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2008-11/msg00031.html ___ Reply to this item at:

Re: What shall the filter do to bottommost translators

2008-11-25 Thread Sergiu Ivanov
Hello, On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 10:27 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 10:33:51PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 7:01 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2008 at 10:57:37PM +0200, Sergiu Ivanov wrote: > > > > > Note that the only se

Re: Niche for Hurd - discussion - lightweight virtualisation

2008-11-25 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag 23 November 2008 05:25:10 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Would that as concrete example mean, that each Hurd would use > > translators to "masquerade" as a generic platform, hiding all the > > specifics beneath the mask? > > Not sure what you mean. > > The idea is that each application (

Re: A niche for the Hurd - next step: reality check

2008-11-25 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag 23 November 2008 08:41:15 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > Can a translator be used to do this without using the shell and > > "subdo" route? > > Should be doable; but what's the point? Just use a wrapper script that > launches the subenvironment with the application... I thought that thi

Re: About merging the Hurd homepage and the Hurd wiki

2008-11-25 Thread Thomas Schwinge
Hello! On Sun, Nov 23, 2008 at 10:40:34AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:38:56PM +0100, Thomas Schwinge wrote: > > But still not enough: > > > > .newsitemcontent > > { > > /* TODO. Why is this needed to make the floating text appear on the > > same >