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Bdale Garbee elected Debian Project Leader
Daniel Stone writes "In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale! And no CmdrTaco, the debs are not (quite) yet ready, but they *are* very close." The elections page has more information.
Is that like fucking G'Kar?
Fascism trolls keeping me up every night. When I starts a preachin', he HITS ME WITH HIS REICH!
That's right, first post!
i got frist poast i got fristy prithy rost haha haha ya'll suk ass
Other people, Other Names!
CowboyNeal was elected to
I kindly request that the parent be modded down(way down!)
bGeorge W won the election.
TWO days, TWO kernel security issues, TWO recompiles and reboots. And the second in the list, despite the claim that it was corrected two months ago, was only notified yesterday.
Dear FreeBSD team, I had higher hopes than this...
Topic: routing table memory leak
Category: core
Module: net
Announced: 2002-04-17
Credits: Jayanth Vijayaraghavan
Ruslan Ermilov
Affects: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE
FreeBSD 4-STABLE after 2001-12-07 09:23:11 UTC
and prior to the correction date
Corrected: 2002-03-22 16:54:19 UTC (RELENG_4)
2002-04-15 17:12:08 UTC (RELENG_4_5)
FreeBSD only: YES
Topic: syncache/syncookies denial of service
Category: core
Module: net
Announced: 2002-04-16
Credits: Alan Judge
Dima Ruban
Affects: FreeBSD 4.5-RELEASE
FreeBSD 4.4-STABLE after 2001-12-14 19:53:01 UTC
FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE prior to the correction date
Corrected: 2002-02-20 16:48:49 UTC (RELENG_4)
2002-02-21 16:38:39 UTC (RELENG_4_5, 4.5-RELEASE-p1)
FreeBSD only: YES
looks its Al Gore still bitching about ballots!
What was Cowboy Neil elected to?
As someone who knows nothing about Debian... perhaps they should use a different method for deciding their release schedule. OpenBSD has a regular release every six months, LaTeX every twelve months. Both of these have in common with Debian that they are a collection of packages from different sources. There's no way that Debian can plan and organize XFree86, Linux, gcc, Apache etc etc to all work to a single release cycle - they are completely out of phase with each other. Nothing wrong with that. But given this situation, the best release strategy is surely to pick an arbitrary date and go with whatever is available at that time. Debian does put a lot of effort into finishing each distribution once the deadline is known, but IMHO the release date should be known right from the start, as in 'it's always the fifteenth of August'.
Or even every week - 'It's Friday, it's six o'clock, and it's Debian New Release Time!'. That might be taking it a bit far.
-- Ed Avis ed@membled.com
They had to input the source code using paper punch cards. More chads that way.
What make this "stuff that matters"? Who the fuck cares?
Who the fuck cares?
Hey, I resemble that remark
Try saying his name many times fast!
Looking for people to chat about multicopters, coding, music. skype: gtsiros
I just tried this. After about the 8th time, I sounded just like Porky Pig.
Bdale?!?
No. the florida voters decided that election. All the Supreme Court did was shut off an attempt by one side to tamper with the ballots.
Now we are in trouble
There was no attempt to "tamper" with the ballots
Yes there was. Party hacks were caught stealing vote-punching machines during the process. Votes were being "created" each time, as well. Remember the chads littering the floor?
They'd already been counted a few times. And were counted a few times afterwards.
in line with the one that won the popular vote. No contesting that, is there?
The electoral process is the law of the land. Gore campaigned on it. He never objected until he lost by the electoral process. It was then he ordered his attorneys to lie in the courtroom in an attempt to take by frivolous lawsuit that which he lost at the ballot box.
By the way, see the ol' liar on teevee last weekend? The man has invented the razor!
Bdale explains the reason for his name:
Bdale is a contraction of Barksdale, and I pronounce it "Bee-Dale".
He's lying. The real reason for his name is that his parents wanted to ensure he came home bloody from school every day.
"Hello, Mr Garbee? This is Bdale's teacher. I'm afraid Bdale got beaten up at school again today. I'm sorry, I just don't know what came over me."
"Scoobe, doobe, doobe. Wherbe arbe yoube?"
My god, you sound like Jar-Jar Binks!
In results released by Project Secretary Manoj Srivastava today, Bdale Garbee was elected Project Leader ahead of Raphael Hertzog and Branden Robinson. Congratulations Bdale!
Manoj Srivastava? Bdale Garbee? Raphael Hertzog? Those are some kind of names! Maybe when they went to the court to have their names changed from John Doe, the judge did not have the foresight to just give them each the one name they actually spelled out correctly: Max Power.
Note to self: go to court today to have name changed. Any of the following will be acceptable: Hercules Rockefeller, Rembrandt Q. Einstein... and so on.
Lack of eloquence does not denote lack of intelligence, though they often coincide.
It would set a very dangerous precedent to allow one side to "contest" an election and get it tossed out on a state by state basis. Bedtime for democracy! The votes won't matter anymore, just hire the best attorneys.
Watch the election get decided on whether or not the legal briefs filed by Democrat Party lawyers to toss out Texas voting results are better than the Republican Party filings to toss out the New York State election.
Not that it matters anyway. There is a current push to get rid of any idea of an accurate census by allowing statisticians to make up people to use in the congressional districting process ("statistical sampling", etc.). Then the political parties will be able to conjure up votes without bothering to leave the office and go to court.
The most important thing then will be which party will appoint and oversee the statistician who use their imagination to create the voters in the districts.
Fine. But how do you pronounce it?
Bee-dale, I guess..
Here in Norway, it's natural to pronounce Linux just the way it's supposed to. Maybe our "i" is a bit narrower than the native english one (like in the word "Interesting"). To pronounce Linux the way it should be according to english dictionary rules just sounds.. wrong (-8 I remember when I installed my first Linux distro (I beleive it was RedHat 4 or 5), and the sound configurator played a test, where Linux Torvalds stated how to pronounce the name of his OS.. I thought I would die from laughter. (-8
Perhaps I knew here: http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=irony
-- Krishnasrutis Rajesridarshan
Testing is that, testing. It will still have bugs in it, unstable is just worse.
If you want something absolutely stable with no bugs, then go for the Debian stable release (currently potato). I realize potato is rather old, but that's just kinda how it works. If you want a proven stable release with more recent software, then sadly, maybe Debian isn't for you.
Granted I can not resist apt-get update every few weeks but there is nothing stopping people installing from testing and then leaving it alone. Most people don't need the latest version of bash,one from a few months ago is fine for them.
Beautiful. But it needs to be toned down slightly and posted with a +1 bonus.
dont you just hate poletics?
That guy is going to get the Americans into a real pickle. It's become clear that he is bound and determined to do _something_ at any cost to Human life, suffering, environment and all nations other than the (lately not so) venerable USA.
Now get back to making software, and stop giving yourselves boners with these unimportant "elections".