Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-26 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 04:02:04PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: Additionally, Ubuntu is not more usable for wireless networks than Debian: the network configuration only support the useless WEP, no WPA. I recently bought a System76 laptop with Ubuntu 6.06 pre-installed, and Network Manager

Re: Why does Ubuntu have all the ideas?

2006-08-26 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 10:00:01PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: WEP works with network manager but how did you manage WPA via wpa_supplicant with the GUI setup tools? It only offered WEP when I looked at it. I have to choose ``Connect to Other Wireless Network...'' (or whatever the option in

Re: Remove cdrtools

2006-08-17 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 08:48:24PM +0300, George Danchev wrote: So are some widespread programming languages. If you blindly follow bad examples and bad styles you can dynamite yourself happily without even noticing, but that does not make them disused or abandoned (on the contrary some of

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-14 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 08:50:44AM +0200, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen wrote: * The system mta should provide /usr/sbin/sendmail, as well as mailq, runq, and man pages. The alternative system is able to link several alternatives. Right, so three should be no problems there? * The service mta

Re: Status of inetd for etch

2006-08-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Aug 12, 2006 at 10:21:50AM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: We don't allow multiple mtas because a mail-transport-agent is *required* to provide /usr/sbin/sendmail. Why can Debian's alternatives system not alleviate this conflict? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Centralized darcs

2006-08-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 01:27:45PM +0300, Lars Wirzenius wrote: My point was that having to tell mutt manually about every mailing list is a pain, and people don't do it. I do. The List- headers are sufficient, in my experience, to automate this. They don't support following up to

Re: Bug#381201: ITP: reniced -- renice running processes based on regular expressions

2006-08-03 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:26:24PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: reniced /(g(cc|++)|c(c|++))/ 15 How about ``pgrep '(g(cc|\+\+)|c(c|\+\+))' | xargs renice 15''? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrtools

2006-07-30 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 10:03:14PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Sun, Jul 30, 2006 at 11:25:00AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote: Note it is unclear whether the makefiles could be called scripts Unproven assertion. How is something proven unclear? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Bug#379663: ITP: bincmp -- utility to compare two binary files

2006-07-24 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 10:58:09PM +0200, Miriam Ruiz wrote: bincmp allows to quickly compare two binary files printing the offset and the bytes where the files differ. It should run on just about anything and it might even support large files ( 4GB) if your system does LFS properly. Does

Re: Bug#379343: ITP: jrpg -- kanji learning game

2006-07-22 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Jul 22, 2006 at 06:01:57PM -0400, Eric Dorland wrote: * URL : http://www.example.org/ Does this package not have an actual web site? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Mon, Jul 10, 2006 at 07:39:19AM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: Le lun 10 juillet 2006 02:17, Matthew R. Dempsky a écrit : On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:02:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Another problem is with hosts that do not accept a message from an MTA unless that MTA

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-10 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 02:39:00AM +0200, Adam Borowski wrote: In fact, broken servers which don't obey MX will _already_ fail: [ demonstration that debian.org doesn't accept RCPT TO @debian.org ] The issue isn't whether MTA's check against MX or A records, it's whether they check the IP that

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-09 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Jul 09, 2006 at 05:02:39PM -0700, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: Another problem is with hosts that do not accept a message from an MTA unless that MTA is willing to accept replies. This is a common spam prevention measure. It also prevents mail from setups that use different servers for

Re: Debian Bug Tracking System

2006-07-07 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, Jul 08, 2006 at 10:48:55AM +1000, Brendan O'Dea wrote: This may be a simple way to add that behaviour. +print pa href=\mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Subscribe/a to this bug./p What about something like ``To subscribe to this bug, send an empty email to a href=$email$email/a.'' to make more

Re: greylisting on debian.org?

2006-07-05 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
(Is debian-devel the correct list for this?) On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 03:19:08PM +0200, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: If not, then we should probably try it Can it be limited to suspected spam (e.g. mail with a high smtp-time spamassassin score)? Others may disagree, but I prefer the small amount of

Re: LSB init scripts and multiple lines of output

2006-06-01 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 06:51:31PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: Any suggestions? Submit a feature request to LSB? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LSB init scripts and multiple lines of output

2006-06-01 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 02:44:54AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Matthew R. Dempsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.06.02.0238 +0200]: Any suggestions? Submit a feature request to LSB? And wait 15 years? Eh, that's only 2 or 3 debian releases from now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Sun Java available from non-free

2006-05-24 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 12:10:43AM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: Sure we could just have disclosed the license to -legal beforehand, but then Sun probably would never talk to us about doing things like this one again and just tend to OpenSUSE or some other community distributino next time to

Re: Making init scripts use dash

2006-05-18 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 05:27:00PM -0300, Margarita Manterola wrote: 1. Make /bin/sh point to /bin/dash The biggest problem with this seems to be scripts that expect /bin/sh to point to /bin/bash. Arguably those scripts are broken, but there exists another choice that avoids that unnecessary

Re: Bug#366834: ITP: cxxtools -- library of unrelated, but useful C++ classes

2006-05-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 12:35:50PM +0200, Wouter Verhelst wrote: On Thu, May 11, 2006 at 05:35:35PM +0200, Frank Küster wrote: Michael Banck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Seconds, since when do we consider the GPL to be viral? Don't know about you, but the FSF does - it has created the LGPL

Re: Bug#367028: ITP: cpulimit -- limits the cpu usage of a process

2006-05-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sat, May 13, 2006 at 12:47:31AM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote: On an otherwise idle box even a process (re-)niced to 19 uses all the CPU. That might be desirable often but in other cases (e.g. when CPU temperature is an issue) you might still want to say assign this process only xy% of CPU

Re: Attractive platform for Debian people interested in ARM: NSLU2

2006-03-15 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Mar 16, 2006 at 01:01:24AM +, Martin Michlmayr wrote: On a related note, I'm also working on getting debian-installer going on a number of MIPS based consumer devices, such as the Netgear WGT634U wireless router. However, this work has not reached the maturity of NSLU2 support

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-13 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 09:20:13PM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: Matthew R. Dempsky, le Sun 12 Mar 2006 14:09:54 -0600, a écrit : gcc has the -fno-builtin and -fno-builtin-FUNCTION options. Or better, -fno-hosted and -fhosted... What makes those options better in this situation

Re: Re: Re: Implicition declarations of functions and bugs

2006-03-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 11:21:40AM +0100, Bastian Blank wrote: On Sat, Mar 11, 2006 at 01:43:34AM +0100, Samuel Thibault wrote: This is a warning and not an error, because using one's own strdup() function (that would take ints) is perfectly legal. No, it is not. At least not with a