Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-08-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 19:25:26 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: * Hurd related: - Boot on laptop ;) - Non-jerky X - Switching between console and X - A full-featured high-resolution console (doesn't good X suffice?) - WLAN - Ported Firefox - Flash

Re: GPL code reuse questions

2010-08-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday 04 August 2010 20:59:50 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Hi, On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 12:08:45AM +0200, Samuel Thibault wrote: No need to care about license stuff: fold that into a separate process, and voilà :) It's not that simple. What constitutes a derived work cannot be

Re: July 2010: RMS about the Hurd

2010-08-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Monday 09 August 2010 11:43:27 Michal Suchanek wrote: On 3 August 2010 05:14, Quiliro Ordóñez quil...@gmail.com wrote: | Finishing the HURD would not advance us at all in supporting these | devices. The work that is needed is at the driver and firmware | level. That's why our high

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-08-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Wednesday 28 July 2010 14:13:44 Ivan Shmakov wrote: For those wishing for a better experience, a Linux kernel module version of Mach could be developed at some time later. That would be quite neat. Then adding Hurd to other distributions would be easy, too. Then,

Concept: Forking the web with the Hurd and Mercurial

2010-08-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, This is just a concept. It would be nice, to see it become reality, though. In my opinion it shows how the Hurd makes complex concepts easy. You could also call it read/write web ;) It is still untested, though. Goal -- Being able to edit any website in the web, see the changes

translators in submodules and copyright assignment

2010-08-06 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Since copyright assignment is a problem to some (i.e. those who can’t be found anymore), would it be possible to just use submodules for all translators which don’t have full copyright assignment? That way there would be core translators (you need copyright assignment to get your code

news 2010-07

2010-08-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I prepared the news for 2010-07. Please check if something is missing or doesn’t fit. A month of the Hurd: *debian installer*, *compatibility*, *make dist* and *newssites*. This month Jérémie Koenig got the [Debian installer (d-i) for the

Re: What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-07-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Saturday 24 July 2010 04:08:51 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: Not sure why you want to exclude me here :-) That was just because you already said what’s missing. But your list here is much more useful, so the excluding was clearly wrong :) Am I right in reading your mail, that the real

Re: hurdextras in git?

2010-07-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Saturday 24 July 2010 04:19:46 olafbuddenha...@gmx.net wrote: IMHO Hurd-Extras was a very bad idea from the start. People writing useful translators should just man up and assign copyrights, so they can be included in the main Hurd repository -- where they actually stand a chance of getting

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Thursday 22 July 2010 20:27:41 Michael Banck wrote: Maybe try assigning more RAM to KVM if you assigned much less than 512MB. Just a wild guess. That might be a good hit → -m megs set virtual RAM size to megs MB [default=128] 128MiB might be a bit too little… :) (I don’t use kvm

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-22 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Justus, On Monday 12 July 2010 15:40:07 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Do you have an idea why it breaks here? Are you still there? Best wishes, Arne -- singing a part of the history of free software: - http://infinite-hands.draketo.de signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: What can a translator do that FUSE can’t?

2010-07-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Friday 16 July 2010 00:04:31 Ludovic Courtès wrote: Unlike the Hurd, Plan 9 exposes everything textually (through a file system interface), but that is sometimes awkward (the ‘ctl’ files...) and the marshalling/unmarshalling is probably inefficient compared to what MIG and similar tools can

Re: What can a translator do that FUSE can’t?

2010-07-14 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Roland, There are two core things about translators vs other systems' filesystems: 1. passive translators. These are definitely great, yes! 2. They are naming points for arbitrary RPCs. In FUSE, the only kind of interface available is the filesystem interface. The

Re: Usable translators: nsmux details

2010-07-13 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Tuesday 13 July 2010 09:48:13 Sergiu Ivanov wrote: Aha, good to hear. This means that, unless nsmux opens bogus ports (which I don't remember), the anonymous translators will actually go away after the timeout with the current design. And that means: nothing missing, nsmux works as it

What can a translator do that FUSE can’t?

2010-07-13 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just realized that I couldn’t remember stuff which translators can do which FUSE can’t. What additional usecases do translators provide by offering more than filesystem operations? This isn’t meant as attack or similar. I just found myself bedazzled at the realization that I don’t

Re: What I’d need from the Hurd to use it for work

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Friday 09 July 2010 23:36:52 Samuel Thibault wrote: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Fri 09 Jul 2010 11:13:25 +0200, a écrit : * Boot Hurd on the OLPC from a USB stick. - not yet? Would need a USB stack. * Support networking over wlan and wpa_supplicant. - not yet? Might DDE kit help

What do you need from the Hurd for your day-to-day tasks?

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, This message goes to all who (different from Olaf aka antrik) don’t yet use the Hurd for their day-to-day tasks (if you do, please write anyway that it fullfills your (basic?) needs). What is currently missing in the Hurd distibutions to make it fullfill your basic needs for your

Re: Usable translators

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Ludovic, On Saturday 10 July 2010 16:53:59 Ludovic Courtès wrote: I *think* tarfs is usable too, though I haven’t checked in years. I assume it shows a tarfile. Am I right? Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Usable translators: nsmux details

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Friday 09 July 2010 14:32:52 Sergiu Ivanov wrote: Yes, you can kill them manually, but nsmux does nothing about dead control ports; this memory leak you cannot avoid easily :-( Nevertheless, I'd expect that killing translators won't have other bad effect than leaving nsmux with invalid

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Justus, I now got to testing it. Cool, you are the first person of who tried the installer and gave me some feedback :) I didn’t expect that… and sorry for taking so long, my timescale is often quite long, so it took me some time to get from the decision to test it to actually doing

hurdextras in git?

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Are the hurdextras already in git? They have some very interesting translators, and these should be easily available. And easily doesn’t mean cvs :) Best wishes, Arne -- Ein Würfel System - einfach saubere Regeln: - http://1w6.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Monday 12 July 2010 14:53:02 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Hm, I just retried the installation in kvm and creating the filesystem worked for me. I just tried it again and realized my error: I had assumed that the script had partitioned the disk, so my disk simply wasn’t partitioned

Re: hurdextras in git?

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi cfhammar, They have some very interesting translators, and these should be easily available. And easily doesn’t mean cvs :) Yeah, definitaly. Should all be in one repository with different subfolders or should each have its own repo? (I’d vote for all in one, because then others

Re: Usable translators

2010-07-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Ludovic, Yes: http://hurdextras.nongnu.org/#tarfs. Thanks! As first step I adapted the translator page: → http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/ Best wishes, Arne -- Ein Würfel System - einfach saubere Regeln: - http://1w6.org signature.asc Description: This is a

Re: News 2010-06

2010-07-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Thursday 08 July 2010 16:19:59 Thomas Schwinge wrote: Enhanced, and published: http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/news/2010-06-30.html It looks nice. Many thanks! - Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-07-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Sunday 09 May 2010 16:19:32 Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Sonntag, 9. Mai 2010, 00:01:12 schrieb Justus Winter: I just wanted to say hello and to inform you about two young pet projects of mine, an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer and a script to master live

What I’d need from the Hurd to use it for work

2010-07-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just stumbled again over the sentence “If an official release of the Hurd were made now, people would try the Hurd and be disappointed.” SInce this sounds awfully much like “we’ll never release”, I thought about what I’d need from the hurd to be able to use it for a part of my work.

Usable translators

2010-07-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Is the list of translators on the web up to date? → http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/translator/ Moreover: Which of these are actually usable (build and work)? To avoid forcing everyone to look up the site: Existing Translators * auth * exec * pfinet * pflocal * hostmux *

Re: Usable translators

2010-07-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
On Friday 09 July 2010 11:51:11 Sergiu Ivanov wrote: Sadly, since I am very-very short on time now, nsmux is currently stuck at almost the same capabilities as about a year ago: it works for the simplest file,,a,,b . It does not shutdown the translators a and b after the client that has

News 2010-06

2010-07-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just wrote the Month of the Hurd for last month. A month of the Hurd: *initrd*, *clustered page-in* and *auth server fixes*. This month Jérémie Koenig wrote a [preliminary patch](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-hurd/2010-06/msg00047.html) to add initrd support in Mach for

Re: news for 2010-05

2010-06-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Thomas, Thanks – and I don’t mind the delay. That happens, and I don’t think people got hurt ;) The changes look good - slim it down a bit. Best wishes, Arne On Montag, 7. Juni 2010 00:41:36 Thomas Schwinge wrote: Hello! Did some changes, then published. Sorry for the delay.

Re: news for 2010-05

2010-06-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, On Mittwoch, 2. Juni 2010 00:00:20 olafbuddenha...@web.de wrote: Hm... Do you mean to include this verbatim? I think it's rather confusing out of context... The bottom line is that all drivers emulated by qemu and vmware work fine now. That description is nice → verbatim replaced :)

news for 2010-05

2010-06-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just wrote the new Month of the Hurd. Please tell me if there’s anything which should be added, removed or changed. A month of the Hurd: *dde linux26*, *thread storms*, *new live CD* and *IRC meeting schedule*. This month Zheng Da

Re: GSoC IRC meetings, dammit!

2010-05-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 18. Mai 2010, 16:15:13 schrieb Sébastien Duquette: I would like to remind the fact that this is a public mailing-list, criticizing people in public is a bit inconsiderate. This is the sort of thing that should be settled in private. No names were called, and the GSoC is about

Re: Debian GNU/Hurd installation wizard and live cd

2010-05-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 9. Mai 2010, 00:01:12 schrieb Justus Winter: I just wanted to say hello and to inform you about two young pet projects of mine, an installation wizard in the spirit of the OpenBSD installer and a script to master live cds from existing systems. Cool! Many thanks for sharing it!

Re: news 2010-04 in identi.ca and twitter

2010-05-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 4. Mai 2010, 13:25:56 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Also, you just made me waste almost a day writing comments ;-) I just read them all — nicely written and a good way to get the basics right again. Thanks! — Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: news 2010-04 in identi.ca and twitter

2010-05-04 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 3. Mai 2010, 13:44:10 schrieb Jure Repinc: --- Links --- https://identi.ca/notice/30857295 https://twitter.com/ArneBab/status/13288232394 http://www.fsdaily.com/HighEnd/GNU_HURD_in_April_2010 http://digg.com/linux_unix/GNU_HURD_in_April_2010

Re: news 2010-04

2010-05-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 2. Mai 2010, 09:10:06 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Hi, On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 06:07:50PM +0200, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Also the fix from *Samuel Thibault* got included in libxcb1, so X.org [works out of the box again](http://lists.debian.org/debian-hurd/2010/04

Re: news 2010-04

2010-05-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 2. Mai 2010, 14:39:00 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: I used ``perceivedly boring, yet extremely valuable'' -- what do you think? I’d say „it might look less exciting from the outside…“ Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: news 2010-04

2010-05-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 2. Mai 2010, 14:39:00 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: Get well soon! I’ll try :) thanks! : Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: news 2010-04

2010-05-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 3. Mai 2010, 02:25:41 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Apparently it didn't work out, if it needs explanation ;-) Jepp :) - Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

news 2010-04 in identi.ca and twitter

2010-05-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, If you use identi.ca or twitter, you can find our current news in there, too: → https://identi.ca/notice/30857295 → https://twitter.com/ArneBab/status/13288232394 (well, the title and a link) Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: news 2010-04

2010-05-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Am Montag, 3. Mai 2010, 02:23:17 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: It is surely very valuable work that Sergio is doing (Go!, Go!, Go!), but we previously agreed to only list items that have already (and recently) been published as patches (or equivalent) -- such that others can use /

Re: news 2010-04

2010-05-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 30. April 2010 15:52:07 schrieb Ivan Shmakov: Arne Babenhauserheide arne_...@web.de writes: A couple of minor tweaks are suggested below. Fixed, many thanks! - Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

news 2010-04

2010-04-29 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just wrote the news 2010-04 (with help of a draft by Thomas). Please tell me if there’s something missing or something we could improve. A month of the Hurd: *Arch Hurd on Hardware*, *X.org out of the box*, *new debian qemu image* and *GSoC students*. This month the Arch Hurd team

Re: GSoC: Call for mentors

2010-04-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 12. April 2010 13:49:03 schrieb Carl Fredrik Hammar: No, only the following projects have been applied for: VM tuning (2 times), libcap, Hurdish package manager, and fixing various test suits. In addition, porting Debian installer to Hurd has been applied for with Debian as

Re: GSoC: Call for mentors

2010-04-11 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi antrik, Am Samstag, 10. April 2010 09:49:02 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Now we need to find mentors. So far only Samuel and me have signed up for some of the projects; but in case we get more than one slot, it is important to know who is willing to mentor what, so we can distribute it

Re: The Hurdish Package Manager

2010-04-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 8. April 2010 17:49:19 schrieb Patrik Olsson: I have actually changed my mind by 90% now. I'll probably send in an application today Great! (there still is time, is there?). Jepp: Exactly today. Just not sure what change I should make for that patch you want... I have

Re: New IRC meeting schedule

2010-04-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi antrik, Am Mittwoch, 7. April 2010 02:50:42 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: As usual, I forgot to mention that we decided to change the meeting time again, to compensate for daylight saving time idiocy: from now on, we are meeting each Wednesday at 10:00 UTC. I updated the wiki (and

Re: news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-04-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 1. April 2010 10:08:42 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: I had removed it from the master branch again, as we needed to publish some other updates (and I didn't want the news item to be visible already). But now it's online on http://hurd.gnu.org/. Many thanks! Best wishes, Arne

Re: news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-03-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 16:16:11 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: PPS: branch not up to date, because I merged too early and will hold off pushing to first get feedback here. It’s on bddebian, now. Best wishes, Arne --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Unpolitisch sein heißt politisch sein

news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-03-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
I wrote the news for this march and am ready to release it. Please write every improvement suggestinon which comes to your mind! This month saw bugs dieing as they met hackers like [Jérémie, Antrik, Samuel](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- hurd/2010-03/msg00027.html), [Da Zheng,

Re: news 2010-03: *bug squashing* and *Hurd in GSoC 2010 with GNU*

2010-03-27 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Am Samstag, 27. März 2010 16:00:37 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Hi, On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 03:03:36PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: This month saw bugs dieing as they met hackers like [Jérémie, Antrik, Samuel](http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug- I don't take any

Re: Late news

2010-03-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 10. März 2010 17:17:04 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: The news are now released on bddebian. ... now on http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/ (after some changes and enhancements, as usual) -- enjoy! Many thanks! The changes are great! Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description:

GSoC: Who does the application?

2010-03-09 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Has someone already prepared and submitted the application for GSoC this year? Application is already open and time's running… Best wishes, Arnre signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Late news

2010-03-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 8. März 2010 08:41:35 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: If there are no objections, I'll push it do bddebian master this evening, so it will be online once Thomas pulls it into the site. The news are now released on bddebian. - http://www.bddebian.com:/~hurd-web/news/2010-02-28

Re: Late news

2010-03-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 5. März 2010 17:58:29 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: I still haven't uploaded the slides. But I guess you can just link to the relevant pages for the talks on the FOSDEM site -- I assume the slided will be linked there too once I send them in... I added a note for that, and now

Re: hurd - fosdem

2010-03-05 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 4. März 2010 17:41:44 schrieb Mikel Olasagasti: Sure! But if I made any big mistake due my english level, please, fix it :P OK, thanks! I think your english is nicely readable (but I'm no native either). 04/03/2010 06:53 a.m.(e)an, Arne Babenhauserheide(e)k idatzi zuen

Re: Late news

2010-03-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Olaf, Am Dienstag, 2. März 2010 21:16:47 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Some things that come to mind: - libpciaccess backend merged upstream - first driver running with DDE Can you point me to mails about these? (or IRC logs or so) I currently can't find resources myself. Do you

Re: Fosdem results and recording

2010-02-14 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Am Freitag, 12. Februar 2010 17:42:59 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Nope, no recordings. Damn, maybe I'll manage to be there next year - or maybe omeone else will be. I had some technical problems with my presentations, because I didn't get around to prepare some things properly.

Re: news 2010-01: Arch Hurd, FOSDEM preparations and a thesis on mobile Hurd objects

2010-02-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
published on bbdebian. Sorry for the short notice. The current news reads like this: … PS: As usual you can get the news beforehand in the master-news_next branch of the wiki (git). signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

news 2010-01: Arch Hurd, FOSDEM preparations and a thesis on mobile Hurd objects

2010-01-31 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Sorry for the short notice. The current news reads like this: This month saw the first booting version of an [Arch GNU Hurd](http://www.archhurd.org/), which seconds the distribution from [Debian](http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/) which already gives you 66% of the debian software

Off Topic: Re: xz

2010-01-11 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2010 18:54:33 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Just drop lzma-utils -- xz is the successor of lzma, and xz-utils provide the lzma tools for compatibility. I had to fix the packages which still depended on lzma instad of xz :( Or at least that was the case a few weeks ago

Re: interest in Ikiwiki development

2010-01-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi Tanami, That sounds great! I forwarded your mail to the bug-hurd list where most people meet. Best wishes, Arne PS: @all: Sorry for the bounces. I had problems with my mailprogram, and my mailaccount filled up :( Am Samstag, 9. Januar 2010 13:21:55 schrieb Tanami Muller: Hello, I am

Re: xz (was: Re: review of modifications of eth-multiplexer)

2010-01-08 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 31. Dezember 2009 03:46:31 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: My remark probably was actually a bit premature: I fear xz-utils are not yet easily available in stable distributions; so people might have trouble reading .xz file if you send them out... xz-utils have been giving me

Months of the Hurd 2009-12

2009-12-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I prepared the news about this months. If something is missing (or wrong), please tell me! A month of the Hurd: *official Xen domU support*, *ddekit beginnings*, *FOSDEM 2010* and *SMP discussion*. This month Samuel Thibault got the necessary Xen patches committed into the unstable

Re: Months of the Hurd 2009-12

2009-12-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 28. Dezember 2009 11:09:20 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Mon 28 Dec 2009 10:25:44 +0100, a écrit : So from 4.0 on you'll be able to run the GNU Hurd in a default Xen system. Note that one doesn't stricly need Xen 4.0, the http://youpibouh.thefreecat.org

Porting highlights for the Month of the Hurd 2009-12

2009-12-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 28. Dezember 2009 12:20:37 schrieb Michael Banck: There was lots of porting activity as well, mostly by Pino Toscano and Emilio Pozuelo Monfort. Maybe asking them for some highlights of newly fixed or ported packages would be worthwhile. That's a great idea! I forwarded this reply

Re: Months of the Hurd 2009-12

2009-12-28 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 28. Dezember 2009 13:34:06 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Yes, just a small addition: So from Xen 4.0 on you'll be able to run the GNU Hurd directly using pv-grub I added it. Thanks for checking the news! Best wishes, Arne signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed

Re: additional questions

2009-12-10 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 9. Dezember 2009 17:22:11 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Unfortunately, we do not have any roadmap. This is, in part, because people have different visions about where the project should go... But it is also because there are many areas which need work, and it's most efficient

Re: news 2009-11-30

2009-12-07 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 7. Dezember 2009 15:25:05 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: Given that it is meant to be a review of the last month, you definitively have a point there. For the next month's news, I'll take more care / have you confirm my extensions before publishing them. Now it is too late to change

Re: news 2009-11-30

2009-12-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2009 13:06:36 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:00:10AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: I just wrote and pushed the news entry for 2009-11-30 (sorry for being late). Thanks. I applied my usual amount of extensions and modifications, had

Re: news 2009-11-30

2009-12-03 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 3. Dezember 2009 13:37:53 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: The first part grew a bit too large, I think. I would keep explore out of the news. The Hurd also explored L4, but it can't be used. IMHO the exploration part would have a better home on a seperate wikipage about

Re: news 2009-11-30

2009-12-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Am Mittwoch, 2. Dezember 2009 09:24:54 schrieb Emilio Pozuelo Monfort: Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Also thanks to Samuel Thibault, the latest grub2 package (1.97+20091125-1) Note that this version has a segfault that is triggered when running grub-install or grub-mkconfig. The 1.97

Re: Hurdish Desktop

2009-12-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 25. November 2009 14:31:30 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: The other plan would have the advantage that it would be built directly on top of the stuff I'm doing for my thesis... Essentially, I'm telling myself that the KGI stuff is part of the big puzzle -- so I don't have to

Re: learning curve

2009-12-02 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 28. November 2009 00:48:26 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Sure, I don't question the need for smart developers... What I'm saying is that (unlike switching microkernels), the existing implementation requires a lot of less challenging work also -- it's just not true that we don't

news 2009-11-30

2009-12-01 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I just wrote and pushed the news entry for 2009-11-30 (sorry for being late). I'm sure I missed something important this month (had my exams and celebrated them...), so please have a look: A month of the Hurd: *network in userspace* and *grub2 from hurd*. This month Zheng Da ported

Re: Hurdish Desktop (was: OT: automation)

2009-11-23 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Mittwoch, 18. November 2009 23:33:50 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: So a roadmap. I think I might have mentioned it at some point already: I have two different ideas for a possible approach. One is to built it up from the bottom: once I have KGI, build a console/windowing system based

Re: learning curve

2009-11-19 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
such an off-topic thread again. Michael On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 08:24:21AM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: -snip- PS: I think that this can be relevant to the Hurd, because the learning curve is something which also affects every program, translator usage, etc. - and so it affects how

learning curve

2009-11-18 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 17. November 2009 22:38:39 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: The problem with learning bit by bit is that you only look up things if you want to do something new. You never get a complete picture; you never learn how you could do things more efficiently, and/or with better result;

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 17. November 2009 14:32:29 schrieb Michal Suchanek: Similarly, if you want to put a single warning sign somewhere in yellow on red then you just add it. If you want your site to have some particular text color you better ensure that you define a background on which the text is

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 17. November 2009 00:35:30 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: It's actually perfectly OK to override text colors for emphasis in specific bits of text -- if you also override the background color *for these same bits of text*. The rest of the page can keep default colors for both

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 17. November 2009 00:31:30 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: No idea what you mean. If a user sets his default background color, we can safely assume that he also sets a matching default text color... The Konqueror bug I cited is the problem, not the Hurd Website. Sadly it took me

Re: OT: automation

2009-11-17 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Am Montag, 16. November 2009 23:25:16 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: Still not sure what you want to know. Are you asking for a technical design description? For a roadmap? Or yet something else?... I just meant the question as a prompt to you, no explicit roadmap request or similar,

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 16. November 2009 11:34:22 schrieb Michal Suchanek: If you set the background, you also have to set all other colors, else the custom user color for a visited link could be invisible. Yes, that's how things work. Why is it so hard to accept for you? I think the reason is simply

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-16 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Montag, 16. November 2009 23:07:33 schrieb Michal Suchanek: It's not all or none. You can use different text style and size, alignment, spacing, borders, ... and colors. But whenever you touch an aspect of the site, be it colors, text style, or anything else you must ensure that it works

Re: OT: automation

2009-11-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Samstag, 14. November 2009 23:57:07 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: find -print0 | shuf -z | xargs -0 mplayer I can't control the mplayer from the shell now... Problem is that xargs doesn't reset stdin -- not only xargs, but also the actual program exectuted reads from the

Re: OT: automation

2009-11-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Am Samstag, 14. November 2009 23:38:21 schrieb olafbuddenha...@gmx.net: That's where the Hurd comes in: with the extensible VFS, it's possible for every component to offer a filesystem interface that can be used by other components, by external scripts, or even by users directly. That's

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 15. November 2009 14:55:09 schrieb Michal Suchanek: You cannot make a site which has no background, has text color set, and expect it to be readable. The default background color may be any color, including the one you chose for some of your text. You can try to fit the most common

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 15. November 2009 16:27:13 schrieb Michal Suchanek: Yes, you either set all colors or set none, anything else is broken (as is your web site). That's a quite extreme view - and mine differs. I prefer websites which I visit to set colors so they work in both dark and bright

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 15. November 2009 19:44:57 schrieb Michal Suchanek: They can offer alternate dark and bright themes. But that requires setting all colors again. It makes it impossible for people to get into webdesign bit by bit - either you define all colors or you leave your hands off

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-15 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Sonntag, 15. November 2009 23:17:59 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: Am Sonntag, 15. November 2009 19:44:57 schrieb Michal Suchanek: They can offer alternate dark and bright themes. But that requires setting all colors again. And thinking your stance a bit further gets us to each site

Re: GNU/Hurd in german news

2009-11-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 20:23:45 schrieb Samuel Thibault: Arne Babenhauserheide, le Tue 10 Nov 2009 19:59:35 +0100, a écrit : Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 18:28:40 schrieb Samuel Thibault: http://people.debian.org/~sthibault/hurd.png Is that GnuStep? Nope, fvwm. Just

Re: GNU/Hurd in german news

2009-11-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Dienstag, 10. November 2009 20:13:47 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: hurd/status/picture.png. Then use the img directive, http://ikiwiki.info/ikiwiki/directive/img/, to embed it like this: ``[[!img picture.png]]''. I now read the description and I think that directive is great! Naturally I read

Re: GNU/Hurd in german news

2009-11-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 12:57:22 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: - http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/status/ @Thomas: Can you write a note, once you pulled this into hurd.gnu.org? When it's in, I'll publish this comment in osnews: If you want to see the current state

Re: GNU/Hurd in german news

2009-11-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 13:02:39 schrieb Michael Banck: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:57:22PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: @Samuel: Do you have contact with the fvwm people? If yes: Could you send them a link with the status page? I don't think fvwm working is news. Nor

Re: GNU/Hurd in german news

2009-11-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 14:45:00 schrieb Thomas Schwinge: On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:18:17PM +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 12:57:22 schrieb Arne Babenhauserheide: - http://www.bddebian.com/~hurd-web/hurd/status/ @Thomas: Can you write

website: background color in css

2009-11-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Hi, I'm currently browsing in dark mode (dark colors for my KDE 4), and realized that the website wasn't very readable with dark background color. I just fixed that by putting background-color: white; into the body tag in local.css So now our background is always white except if all CSS is

Re: website: background color in css

2009-11-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Donnerstag, 12. November 2009 19:42:11 schrieb Carl Fredrik Hammar: Why wasn't it readable? If it was because the font color was still black (my first guess), then shouldn't we change that instead, so that the font color is also the browser's default? That's the other option :) It's

Re: benchmarking of user-level pcnet32 driver

2009-11-12 Thread Arne Babenhauserheide
Am Freitag, 13. November 2009 03:57:06 schrieb Da Zheng: Anyway, the informal benchmarking shows us that the user-level pcnet32 driver does have relatively good performance compared with the in-kernel driver. That sounds great! Is your port already publicly available somewhere? Best

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