Help, I'm being held hostage!!

2005-08-15 Thread Suzanne M ODell
I am afraid I may not be computer literate enough to use Debian. My board is an Intel D815EEA, with a 700mg Celeron processor, I cannot find info that tells me I can use this OS. I want to get away from XP as I just saw a news release that says Microsoft is gunning for Google, and I'm tired of

Re: Debian Core Consortium

2005-08-15 Thread Jonathan Carter
Benj. Mako Hill wrote: Greg Pomerantz tells me that guys still haven't talked yet about the DCC and the Debian mark. What happened about this? I'm not involved in any way, but I'm quite interested. -Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:28:26PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Fortunately nobody needs to justify their decision to killfile you to anyone but themselves. Or even a decision for a group to collectively killfile you. So what you're saying is that mob rule is acceptable to you. I think that's

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-15 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[Andrew Suffield] On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:28:26PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Fortunately nobody needs to justify their decision to killfile you to anyone but themselves. Or even a decision for a group to collectively killfile you. So what you're saying is that mob rule is acceptable to

Re: What happened to archive.debian.org?

2005-08-15 Thread Philip Hands
David Moreno Garza wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-13 at 20:30 -0500, Thomas Bliesener wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ping -c3 archive.debian.org PING archive.debian.org (208.185.25.38): 56 data bytes --- archive.debian.org ping statistics --- 3 packets transmitted, 0 packets received, 100% packet loss

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-15 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:56:32AM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: [Andrew Suffield] On Sun, Aug 14, 2005 at 09:28:26PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Fortunately nobody needs to justify their decision to killfile you to anyone but themselves. Or even a decision for a group to

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-15 Thread Adam McKenna
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:25:36AM +0100, Andrew Suffield wrote: That does not extend to permit a group to go around making accusations and advocating that other people do something based on those accusations. Yes Andrew, we know you think we're all idiot lemmings who believe everything we're

Re: Debian Core Consortium

2005-08-15 Thread Benj. Mako Hill
quote who=Jonathan Carter date=Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 09:29:05AM +0200 Benj. Mako Hill wrote: Greg Pomerantz tells me that guys still haven't talked yet about the DCC and the Debian mark. What happened about this? I'm not involved in any way, but I'm quite interested. AFAIK, Greg Pomerantz

Education Sponsorship.

2005-08-15 Thread Liberty Mutasa
As the above subject refers, I wish to appeal for sponsorship of my degree programme in Transport Logistics management. I hold a Diploma in the above mentioned discipline but I strongly wish to further my studies if funds avail. Thank you in advance Liberty 194 Shortsone,

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
On 8/15/05, Andrew Suffield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That does not extend to permit a group to go around making accusations and advocating that other people do something based on those accusations. In the real world, this is a tort, specifically defamation of character. And benefit of the

Re: Debian Core Consortium

2005-08-15 Thread Martin Michlmayr
* Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005-08-15 14:20]: trademark list this week. In terms of DCC, that will be up the DPL and the SPI board who will, conveniently enough, be meeting tomorrow IIRC. David, can we get something on the agenda for this? I do not have a proposal but I would like to

Re: Pledge To Killfile Andrew Suffield

2005-08-15 Thread Michael K. Edwards
I wrote: Z rejoices in the flames that his posts inspire, which is more or less the factual content of Z's posts are trolls [1] ... Whoops, left out Footnote 1, which is my own take on the same topic as http://www.catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/T/troll.html : FWIW, the origin of this usage of

Re: Debian Core Consortium

2005-08-15 Thread Matthew Garrett
Benj. Mako Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Exclusivity? As in, the idea of making a trademark license an exclusive one in a given area or field? I think that would be a very bad idea with Debian. Think of it in terms of namespace pollution. We complain about packages called Terminal, because it

Re: What happened to archive.debian.org?

2005-08-15 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 01:17:06PM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: Adam Lackorzynski wrote: On Mon Aug 15, 2005 at 10:14:09 +0100, Philip Hands wrote: I've pointed archive at saens -- it will take a little while to propogate. Of course, if there were reasons for not doing that, please tell me.