ITA: animals -- Traditional AI animal guessing engine using a binary tree DB

2003-12-10 Thread Jim Lynch
Subject says it all. -Jim -- Jam sessions community web site: http://jam.sessionsnet.org

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-28 Thread Jim Lynch
On Thu, 28 Nov 2002 11:58:38 +1100 Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 12:21:40PM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: > > > A bit hypocritical of you pointing out that I was > > > participating in my own thread late. > > > > Not at all

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-27 Thread Jim Lynch
On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 22:52:16 +1100 Andrew Lau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 08:01:26AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: > > But what are you actually going to -do-? If I recall correctly, > > you've said on IRC that you aren't or don't want to be

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-26 Thread Jim Lynch
On Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:30:30 +1100 Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 11:48:15AM -0800, Jim Lynch wrote: > > But I have performed many debian installs with the boot floppy setup, > > and I found that it still suffers from problems. One pro

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Lynch
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 19:07:07 +0100 Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > #include > * Jim Lynch [Mon, Nov 25 2002, 09:54:10AM]: > > > > What we need to accept is there is a (percieved??) > > > problem, or problems, with Debian as it stands today, > > &

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Lynch
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 08:22:23 -0800 (PST) Jon Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chaps, > > Another thing I must say is that I object in the > highest order some the mail sent out regarding this > topic which basically say good riddance to the users > who have switch to Gentoo as they caused loads

Re: DAM approval wait time?

2002-11-25 Thread Jim Lynch
But what are you actually going to -do-? If I recall correctly, you've said on IRC that you aren't or don't want to be a coder (correct me if I'm wrong), and a previous attempt on your part to become a developer left NM with the question of what you intended to do crossed with what you had the ski

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-22 Thread Jim Lynch
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:38:29 -0500 Mark Mealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Mark Mealman wrote: > > > >>> But Debian's bleeding edge really tends to lag. What's KDE up to on > >>> testing, version 2.2? Mozilla is 1.0? Java's at 1.1? > >> > >> > > > >I'm missing something here... wha

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-22 Thread Jim Lynch
All lines of reasoning deleted as being irrelevent. What is relevent is this: (1) Why are you blatently insulting people on the lists?? (2) You think this is acceptable? (it's not.) The fact I posted that Andrew Lau should see someone about his disturbances comes about because of prior experi

Re: Sound card problem

2002-11-22 Thread Jim Lynch
Not enough info in your question, and the list you should post to (!after! reading README in kernel source dir, and kernel howto, and man make-kpkg after installing kernel-package) is debian-user@lists.debian.org On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 10:19:27 +0600 "chanka perera" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi,

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Lynch
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:41:19 -0500 Mark Mealman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 11:02:40AM +, Andrew Suffield wrote: > > >> On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 08:50:32PM +1100, Andrew Lau wrote: > > > > > >>> > The question I want to pose today is "Are we losing users to >

Re: Are we losing users to Gentoo?

2002-11-21 Thread Jim Lynch
On Wed, 20 Nov 2002 22:23:17 +0200 Mikko Moilanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 20, 2002 at 02:47:16PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > > Are you suggesting that you would prefer the latest software, without the > > integration that Debian provides? If so, you can get this easily by

Re: New list request

2001-04-24 Thread Jim Lynch
Daniel Stone, You need to update your people skills. Given your present arrogance and attitude, maybe you shouldn't be a debian maint. Why should you be trusted? -Jim

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Jim Lynch
A hobby server? OK; sorry: I saw "server" and read that as "important server". But in truth, you should be -filing- bugs against things you find wrong, for the following reason: not all developers read debian-devel, so your concerns, as important as they may be, may or may not reach the responsi

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-04 Thread Jim Lynch
> > Date:Thu, 04 Jan 2001 11:06:43 +1100 > To: Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > cc: Erik Hollensbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, debian-devel@lists.debian.org, >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > From:Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: bug

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Jim Lynch
Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) Emacs/20.7 > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Resent-Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Resent-From: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > X-Mailing-List: archive/latest/77093 > X-Loop: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > Precedence: list > Resent-Sender

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Jim Lynch
> > Date:03 Jan 2001 15:23:09 +0100 > To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org > From:Peter Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long) > > Jim Lynch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > If you want to adv

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-03 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi. If you want to advocate the use of unstable software, please be my guest... but not on #debian. it changes daily, and can potentially break every day, potentially disasterously. So -no-. It's NOT appropriate to tell people to run servers on unstable software. On the other hand... if you want

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-02 Thread Jim Lynch
One more thing... You are correct, that developers need to test and not cause syntax errors before uploading packages, even to unstable or woody. But people do, and -if- you're using unstable or woody in production, errors and problems you get are your responsability. If not, file appropriate bugs

Re: bugs + rant + constructive criticism (long)

2001-01-02 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi Eric. One of the things you said, is: Some packages refuse to install, and of course, break apt in the process. Right now, I'm *hopefully* going to be able to repair a totally hosed server that failed an apt-get because MAN AND GROFF failed to install properly, ending the upgrade process a

Re: test -d /usr/man && mail submit@bugs

2000-12-28 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi, In my (potato) /var/cache is... apache/ apt/ bind/ cracklib/ man/ man2html/ xfstt/ -Jim

ANNOUNCE: Project to weld a specially-built perl-5.6.0 to aolserver

2000-09-05 Thread Jim Lynch
thinking about the outer layer can begin once the inner layer is complete. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~jwl/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: ANNOUNCE: First official release of "apt-show-source"

2000-08-30 Thread Jim Lynch
t let me know where I can get things upstream. Also, if I want to find out if a particular source tree available upstream has already been packaged for debian, I can find that out also. This would help me. It can also help someone new to debian but experienced with linux outside of debian. -Jim --

Re: Pgcc in Deb

2000-04-02 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi, So the original question remains: is there a simple pgcc available somewhere? -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/~jwl/

Re: Pgcc in Deb

2000-04-02 Thread Jim Lynch
l packages in debian would be compiled with pgcc for i586 architecture. I have heard discussion to this effect, so I suspect that some work or at least exploration of this possibility has been done. I don't know its status. (All: does anyone know curr stat of any such?) -Jim --- Jim Lynch

Re: ITP: Linux

2000-04-01 Thread Jim Lynch
funet.fi/pub/linux/PEOPLE/Linus/) I don't know if > it will go anywhere as it based on an obsolete monolithic design but some > people seem to like so it might be a good addition to Debian. The license > is GPL so it can go in main. > > Let me know if anyone is working

Re: ITP: solfege

2000-03-21 Thread Jim Lynch
mony. I bring him up because a collaboration may be possible. If there is interest, I will contact him to see if he is also interested. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.laney.edu/~jim/ as Debian developer: [EMAIL PRO

Re: Danger Will Robinson! Danger!

2000-03-11 Thread Jim Lynch
If debian puts a 2.4 in, they will have to spend time testing it. there's enough to do without more stuff that we don't even know will be out... If you want 2.3 or 2.4, build it yourself. Look into kernel-package. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admi

The headers of this spam suggest knowledge of debian server setup (was Re: Secret Holy Code revealed to Seekers of Truth!)

2000-03-09 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi, Also... could someone please forward me all logs in regard to this spam, as well as the original posting as it was received by the list (i.e., with all headers intact? I intend to take action on its basis. -Jim --- Jim Lynch Finger for pgp key as Laney College CIS admin: [EMAIL

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-10 Thread Jim Lynch
Mike Stone said: > Perl is just another app. For most distributions, this is true. Proof: you can run those dists without perl. For debian, however, Mike's statement is not valid. Proof: try to release debian without perl in any form. You're gonna find that perl happens to have been made essentia

Re: Perl 5.005 in potato

1999-05-10 Thread Jim Lynch
Mike Stone said: > I'm still convinced that the reason slink's freeze took so long is that > some major packages were uploaded just prior to it, because they > "needed" to be in. Just like people want to do with perl... There is a difference in this case: freeze is not in effect, and not immenent.

Re: getting kernel 2.2 into slink

1999-01-25 Thread Jim Lynch
Hi Joey and *... I have noticed something in 2.2.0* that has potential to break scripts that add net routes. If I don't include "netmask " in the route commands, it tells me "SIOCADDRT: Invalid argument". Relevent versions: basically everything is recent slink, except kernel-image-2.2.0-pre1-i58