Printing Bug

2011-12-20 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hi, I have a bug report against UMLet [1] which states that printing to a shared SMB printer using CUPS with authentication-requirement does not work. I had the reporter test printing with freemind too, where he has the same problem. A superficial web search does not reveal a solution for this

Re: Concerns with Open/OS Corporate Linux ads?

2006-08-29 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, It calls our distro reliable and secure and states that they add maturity and corporate readiness. Then they go on to state that Debian is - reliable - secure - upgradeable - integrateable - preconfigured - remotely administratable and that they add support and

Re: Concerns with Open/OS Corporate Linux ads?

2006-08-29 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, And Debian has lacked security support for new software for a long time (I believe testing is supported now). What I meant to say here is, that testing with the latest relatively stable software in it, had no security support in the past. and since their ad is entitled Debian of full

Re: No more bugreports from me.

2006-08-15 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello The report you can see was a ordinary e-mail sent to the maintainer of Aptitude. He saw it as a Dpkg thing and asked me if he could send it to the public dpkg list. I said O.K. Now you can think I have to blame myself but I could never thought about that he would include my

Re: Debian GNU / Linux 3.1 r0a für AMD 64

2006-04-17 Thread Benjamin Mesing
[Robert Werner is complaining about Debian being unusable and old-fashioned. I point him to the debian-user-german list.] Dies is eine englischsprachige Liste. Bitte senden Sie deutsche Beiträge an [EMAIL PROTECTED] Mit freundlichen Grüßen Benjamin Mesing On Mon, 2006-04-17 at 13:06 +0200

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-13 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello like your studies (beeing in a computer science PhD/MSC helps), Well this might be interesting for the Debian project, but applicants might not want this to become public knowledge. Please do not assume, that this is for any particular reason, but merely for keeping ones privacy. Debian

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Benjamin Mesing
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 02:09 +0200, Michael Banck wrote: On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 06:59:44PM +0200, Pierre Habouzit wrote: For 2.2, I'd recommend that NM's maintain a page about them on wiki.d.org (my current applicant did that, and I found that rather useful). In a glance you can see

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-12 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello I would strongly suggest, allowing to restrict access to such a site to DDs. This is because not everyone feels comfortable having personal information (like your specific view on free software) world-accessable. Debian developers need to know, since you are about to become part

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Hello, my comments as someone planning to enter NM during the next couple of month follow. Overall I find your analysis enlightening. I agree with those points I do not discuss here. 1.2.1 Add more people [Marc argues that this is not a long solution] I disagree here up to a certain point. I

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Benjamin Mesing
Unless you are not planning to have long term second class developers Make this: Unless you are planning to have long term second class developers -- Please do not send any email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- all email not originating from the mailing list will be deleted. Use the reply to address

Re: Reforming the NM process

2006-04-11 Thread Benjamin Mesing
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 15:07 -0300, Gustavo Franco wrote: On 4/11/06, Benjamin Mesing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless you are not planning to have long term second class developers Make this: Unless you are planning to have long term second class developers No, no, no. Give someone