Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Howard Young
Some fun suggestions 1 UK Style: Political correctness script that creates a virtual witch hunt every time someone mentions anything off topic. 2 Fun Style: Debain developer membership requires a fee. The fee is a tax to pay for rental of a meeting place. The meeting place is used to settle

apt-get

2007-05-18 Thread Howard Young
Hello, I did not find a list for APT so am asking here. Is it possible to apt-get remove package --andsuggestedpackages and to do the opposite apt-get install package --andsuggestedpackages using the original lists rather than any text matches. Howard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: apt-get

2007-05-18 Thread Howard Young
Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:06:39AM +0100, Howard Young wrote: Hello, I did not find a list for APT so am asking here. Is it possible to apt-get remove package --andsuggestedpackages and to do the opposite apt-get install package --andsuggestedpackages using the original

Re: apt-get

2007-05-18 Thread Howard Young
looking through the list I now see that may be quite possible to achieve what I wanted using, some sort of match priority command and piping it back into the remove command. thank you very much Osamu Aoki wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:06:39AM +0100, Howard Young wrote: Hello, I did

Re: debian-devel-digest Digest V2007 #198

2007-04-12 Thread Howard Young
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: debian-devel-digest Digest Volume 2007 : Issue 198 Today's Topics: Draft spec for new dpkg triggers f [ Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] Some fairly useless

Re: Maintainers

2007-03-07 Thread Howard Young
and producing course materials. Do uyou have a copy of the material that you used? Or a book title or ISBN that you could give me? cheers Jon On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:29:49PM +, Howard Young wrote: See the email I sent after wards. It has the same subject (and sorry, it is quite long

Maintainers

2007-03-05 Thread Howard Young
I know of a way that maintainers could be increased substantially (I expect hundreds to many thousands a year). I am not sure of the specifics but I have little doubt that in the end it would work. It will likely take more than four years to implement and only work in England. -- To

Maintianers

2007-03-05 Thread Howard Young
My earlier message was very over the top it would appear. I had a look while on lunch and tracked down some statistics. http://www.dfes.gov.uk/rsgateway/DB/SBU/b000266/154-t17a.htm See the line for GNVQ Advanced IT. If this line is accurate then the number of people completing the course year

Re: Maintainers

2007-03-05 Thread Howard Young
... Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 10:33 +, Howard Young wrote: I know of a way that maintainers could be increased substantially (I expect hundreds to many thousands a year). I am not sure of the specifics but I have little doubt that in the end it would work. It will likely take more

Re: Plug applications into browsers

2007-02-26 Thread Howard Young
Hello, Wouter Verhelst wrote: If you want to write a plugin, however (as opposed to an applet that is shown on a page), then you could indeed use the netscape plugin API (which is supported by almost every browser for the Linux platform). You should probably ask the mozilla people about that,

Re: Plug applications into browsers

2007-02-26 Thread Howard Young
Hendrik, This was more or less what I wanted to be assured of. Hendrik Sattler wrote: Am Mittwoch 21 Februar 2007 12:11 schrieb Howard Young: This very much depends on what you want to do. Netscape-style plugins work in many browsers, e.g. konqueror can use them, too, like it uses

Re: Plug applications into browsers

2007-02-26 Thread Howard Young
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Howard, I can guarantee you that ActiveX plug-ins don't and won't work in Linux-native browsers. I am guessing you think I mean to use ActiveX through WINE or some such thing? Do not worry that had not been my intention I was

Re: Plug applications into browsers

2007-02-21 Thread Howard Young
Hello I had wanted to use MSYS to develop for the other platform. Most of my experience is with WIN32 API, ATL3/COM+ and DirectX on the other platform. Ron Johnson wrote: Huh? ActiveX is woven deeply into, and relies upon the Win32 API. Yes. 1 I want to develop on Linux only. Writing:

Plug applications into browsers

2007-02-20 Thread Howard Young
Has anyone ever tried writing an ActiveX on Linux to use with IE. ...Has anyone ever tried writing a program that will work as a plug-in on Linux (to work in as many browsers as possible). I know Java is a possible candidate for various things but I would rather have some sort of alternative

Aptitude browser activation

2007-02-20 Thread Howard Young
Hello, Another dully question. Has anyone attempted to configure a browser so that it is able to install packages? An example is the firefox java install. So say someone comes along to another site called carbonfootprinttracker.com and is asked to download a plugin called