Re: Proposed change to debian release system

On Sun, 14 Dec 2003, Scott Minns wrote: Hiya all, Thanks for your reply’s, I like the idea of making some packages perishable the trouble is where would you draw the line? I could do with some of the new features in proftpd, but that would not be perishable – so the problem is still

Is there a limitation on swap parition size linux can use?

I heard that 2Gb is the limit. If so I would have to create distinct swap partitions if I wanted to have more than 2Gb swap? Just wondering... -walter

Re: Stupid Arithmetic Tricks

On Sat, 30 Mar 2002, Erich Schubert wrote: A little knowledge of series tells me to apply n*(n+1)/2 to sum an arithmetic progression of common difference 1, starting at 1. This seems even quicker: 100*101/2 becomes 5*101*10 becomes 505*10 = 5050. Yep, but you aren't teached these