Bug#777643: general: possibly, some keyboard layouts should use U+22C5 DOT OPERATOR instead of U+00B7 MIDDLE DOT

2015-02-12 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
I wouldn't now of any real typographical use of the MIDDLE DOT. It's a proper, traditional decimal point, isn't it, as taught in British primary schools and still the normal way of doing a decimal point in handwriting when there are no technological obstacles?

Re: Architectures where unaligned access is (not) OK?

2014-12-01 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
Usually when you're loading an unaligned value you're also loading a particular representation and endianness, which might not be the native one, so I've often written code like this: uint32_t load32(void *p) { unsigned char *c = p; return c[0] | (uint32_t)c[1] 8 | (uint32_t)c[2] 16 |

ArchitectureSpecificsMemo

2014-11-27 Thread Edmund Grimley Evans
http://wiki.debian.org/ArchitectureSpecificsMemo Some suggestions for improving this table: 1. About half of the table is taken up with sizeof information, some of which could be expressed more concisely. (Are all Debian architectures ILP32 or LP64? Any rare exceptions could be described in a

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-22 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Glenn Maynard [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, doesn't the GPL say something on it being illegal to impose additional restrictions on distribution? If the restriction is agreed upon by all copyright holders, then the issue is murky; as far as I know, there's no consensus on this issue on

Re: The nature of unstable (was: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-13 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
Paul M Sargent [EMAIL PROTECTED]: OK, Here's a question then. If Woody is unstable, which kernel is it running? Woody should be running 2.3 or pre-2.4. That should have been among the first things to change. I don't think so. People who are interested in debugging the kernel can install 2.3

stable-test? (WAS: Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!)

2000-03-12 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
At the place where I work they still have a number of machines running an ancient Linux distribution called FT with the 1.2.13 kernel. The machines work perfectly. In fact, they work a lot better than the Red Hat 6.0 machines in some respects: there are a number of things (xfs, lpr with Netware

Re: better RSYNC mirroring , for .debs and others

2000-03-10 Thread Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS
I'm not arguing the rest of your points, but I'm curious about this one. IIRC, the last thing a full bootstrap of GCC does, after building stage one binaries with the native compiler, Hum, It *used* to do this, can't seem to get it to do it today though oh well IIRC it only