Re: Reminder: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Brian Nelson dijo [Thu, Nov 13, 2014 at 02:27:59PM -0500]: >> Well I have a new key but it doesn't have any signatures on it other >> than my own, and I haven't encountered another developer in years to >> have it signed. I've been

Re: Reminder: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-11-13 Thread Brian Nelson
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Brian Nelson dijo [Wed, Nov 12, 2014 at 05:09:02PM -0500]: >> >> Wouldn't it make more sense to ask these people privately what is getting >> >> in >> >> the way of a switch to a stronger key? >> > >> > They h

Re: Reminder: Removing < 2048 bit keys from the Debian keyrings

2014-11-12 Thread Brian Nelson
Gunnar Wolf writes: > Henrique de Moraes Holschuh dijo [Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 07:11:14PM -0200]: >> On Sat, 08 Nov 2014, Richard Hartmann wrote: >> > Interpretation is in the eye of the bee holder, but I am considering >> > to attach this list to my weekly bug report; mainly because I can. >> >>

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 11:38:40AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:19:18PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: >> > Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: >> > > Very few responses for an universe as big

Re: Surveys in debian

2005-04-21 Thread Brian Nelson
On Thu, Apr 21, 2005 at 11:25:52AM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Andrew Suffield wrote: > > I'm rather fond of "How to lie with statistics" as an introduction to > > what it's all about, not least because it teaches extreme cynicism > > about anything that smells like a statistic. [...] > By the way, I've

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 01:26:52PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: [...] > The preamble of the survey was terrible, in my opinion. I found > it in the mail log, but not in the results posted here or on > the poll results text file. I consider it incorrect on several > key points and it states a lot of the sur

Re: Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-20 Thread Brian Nelson
On Wed, Apr 20, 2005 at 05:19:18PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: > Gustavo Noronha Silva wrote: > > Very few responses for an universe as big as debian-user, I think. > > http://lists.debian.org/stats/debian-user.png > > Thanks for that! > > For the non-graphical, http://lists.debian.org/stats/ claims 259

Poll results: User views on the FDL issue

2005-04-18 Thread Brian Nelson
I recently conducted a poll on debian-user to get some input from users about the FDL issue. The results are available here: http://people.debian.org/~pyro/fdl_poll_results.txt And the full mail log is available here: http://people.debian.org/~pyro/fdl_poll.mail Here's a summary:

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-09 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 02:53:52PM -0800, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Sun, 09 Jan 2005, Brian Nelson wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:59:08PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > > > No more nonsensical than the fact that code within a program that > > > makes optional use o

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-09 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 12:59:08PM -0500, Glenn Maynard wrote: > On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 01:09:10AM -0800, Brian Nelson wrote: > > It's also completely nonsensical that single drivers must go in contrib, > > but a bundle of drivers may go in main as long as one of those driv

Re: Dealing with drivers that need firmware on the filesystem

2005-01-09 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sun, Jan 09, 2005 at 03:21:40AM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I don't think I have a problem, conceptually, with a kernel package which > > provides drivers for 10,000 different types of hardware, and needs to load > > firmware from disk for 300

Re: just wondering

2004-06-11 Thread Brian Nelson
"shannon simms" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi i have been trying to get another os for months now.. I would like to use > somehing besides > windows...I have neve seen any other though. what is linux like. I have tryed > to install every one > that is out there for free and have failed.. don'

Re: Proposal - Free the Debian Open Use logo

2003-10-21 Thread Brian Nelson
"Benj. Mako Hill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 09:35:10PM +0100, MJ Ray wrote: >> On 2003-10-06 20:53:56 +0100 Steve Langasek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> >> >trademark law doesn't allow us the same latitude for selective >> >enforcement that copyright law does >> >

Re: IMPORTANT/URGENT - PLEASE REMOVE MY NAME FROM YOUR SITE!

2003-03-12 Thread Brian Nelson
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> KECIA BARKAWI (LAWYER, ZURICH) > > martin krafft (human, zurich) Heh, I always enjoy a good lawyer joke. -- I had no feelings about it. It was aloof and licked itself too much. Like my cat Mr. Trotsky. pgpkjMe1nWR3B.pgp Description: PGP signatur

Re: A Debian Who is Who

2003-02-16 Thread Brian Nelson
Hamish Moffatt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For amusement, also see http://master.debian.org/~edd/karma.txt > which ranks people's number of packages with adjustments for number of > outstanding bugs! > > (Hmm my standing seems to have slipped a little since I last looked -- > by about 50 or so ;