We seem to be having a pretty good attempt at killing all the animals on the planet. Not always deliberately, but not sure the animals care for the distinction.
The package can easily make it into the 'unstable' branch of Debian, where it can have a man page which symlinks to the "undocumented" man page. This explains to the user reasons why the package (temporarily) has no man page, and solicits help to fix it, IIRC.
The absence of a man page is automatically logged as an important bug in the Debian bug tracking system. Unless addressed, this will prevent the package from entering the next stable release.
If the package is good enough, and a stable release is looming, this type of bug can easily be fixed by anyone willing to invest the time.
>The point here, is that computer systems force people to think in ways that are completely >un-natural and non-logical. The words "AND/OR" mean exactly opposite between real >life and computers.
I'm being serious here. I've been programming since I was 12 (long time ago) and I was fairly happy with the correlation between AND & OR in computing and real life uses.
LILO can handle this situation:- Set the delay to 2 seconds Make Win9x the default boot partition Install this boot setup on the MBR
The machine will now default into Win9x unless you press the shift key when "LILO" appears (or have CapsLock on), from where you can boot into Linux (or Win9x if you change your mind)
The only clue for the Linux is on your box is the small "LILO" at boot time (well... and the fact your hard disk is smaller than was reported by the BIOS buring boot.) HTH.
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We seem to be having a pretty good attempt at killing all the animals on the planet. Not always deliberately, but not sure the animals care for the distinction.
Someone who has no social skills but uses his persona to stay at the head of the ship.
Well, either that or his technical understanding, organisational skills and the respect of his peers for many a year.
it is just a shame such a social retard is allow to rant as he is.
Guess humour isn't your thing ?
We in the UK do have the right to bare arms. I myself have an extensive t-shirt collection.
You'd prefer "Anonymous is an idiot" ?
Not really. They wrote books which went into depth on what words sounded like (according to my dad who taught both).
"No major problems yet" ...
...
What about USS Yorkdown being 'dead in the water' for 2 and a half hours ?
Okay it's 5 years ago, but even so
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pjk
You don't need to worry.
The package can easily make it into the 'unstable' branch of Debian, where it can have a man page which symlinks to the "undocumented" man page. This explains to the user reasons why the package (temporarily) has no man page, and solicits help to fix it, IIRC.
The absence of a man page is automatically logged as an important bug in the Debian bug tracking system. Unless addressed, this will prevent the package from entering the next stable release.
If the package is good enough, and a stable release is looming, this type of bug can easily be fixed by anyone willing to invest the time.
[NOT a Debian maintainer and working from memory]
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pjk
>The point here, is that computer systems force people to think in ways that are completely
>un-natural and non-logical. The words "AND/OR" mean exactly opposite between real
>life and computers.
I'm being serious here. I've been programming since I was 12 (long time ago) and I was
fairly happy with the correlation between AND & OR in computing and real life uses.
What am I missing ?
pjk
Metallica don't need the publicity. They're
already quite famous enough.
I paid for all my Metallica albums. If anyone
wants to listen to their music, I suggest they
do the same.
Don't want it ? Can't afford it ? Don't like
it ? Then don't buy it. And certainly don't
rip it off. You don't have the right.
Paul
Apple are highest in terms of dollars due to
the high price of the PPC and associated chips.
I'm sure Ford do score much higher in terms of volume.
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pjk
LILO can handle this situation :-
... and the
Set the delay to 2 seconds
Make Win9x the default boot partition
Install this boot setup on the MBR
The machine will now default into Win9x unless
you press the shift key when "LILO" appears
(or have CapsLock on), from where you can boot
into Linux (or Win9x if you change your mind)
The only clue for the Linux is on your box is
the small "LILO" at boot time (well
fact your hard disk is smaller than was reported
by the BIOS buring boot.) HTH.
Paul