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3 | <mdz_> SirDibos: that sentence sounds like it wants to be a bug report when it grows up
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7 | From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
8 | Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.0-test1 Ext3 Ooops. Reboot needed.
9 | To: Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es>
10 | Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
11 | Date: Fri, 18 Jul 2003 14:27:20 -0700
12
13 | Ricardo Galli <gallir@uib.es> wrote:
14 | >
15 | > "File alteration monitor", from Debian.
16
17 | OK.
18
19 | > $ apt-cache show fam
20
21 | I was attacked by dselect as a small child and have since avoided debian. 
22 | Is there a tarball anywhere?
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26 | From: Bob Hilliard <hilliard@debian.org>
27
28 |      In my experience, James has been very responsive, albeit not
29 | verbose, to reasonable questions/requests that don't start out saying
30 | "James is a bum - throw him out".
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34 | <eigood> Kamion: are you too busy to look at my generic
35 |          include/exclude stuff for the bts yet?
36 | <Kamion> eigood: expect me to be busy for about the next week at this
37 |          rate
38 | <eigood> my %field_match = (
39 | <eigood>     'subject' => \&contains_field_match,
40 | <eigood>     'severity' => \&exact_field_match,
41 | <eigood> that's how it works, basically
42 | <eigood> I'm a big fan of callbacks
43 | [...]
44 | <eigood> Kamion: how do you feel about having
45 |          per-bug/per-package/per-source notes support in the bts?
46 | <Kamion> eigood: as I said five minutes ago, I really don't have time
47 |          to think about it right now, sorry
48 | <Kamion> here, maybe it would be clearer if I /part
49 | <-- Kamion (~cjwatson@host81-129-36-235.in-addr.btopenworld.com) has left #debian-devel (too busy. no, really.)
50 | <eigood> no need to be hostile
51 | <Joy> eigood: he told you he's too busy and you kept bugging him. take
52 |       a hint :)
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56 <mstone> bwahahaha. Dear "security@debian.org" Thank you for your
57          email about "[SECURITY] [DSA-403-1] userland can access Linux
58          kernel memory" ...I need to filter out spam... To send email to
59          vhs@flexdesign.com please put "ducks" anywhere on your subject
60          line. ...Thanks, Bob...
61 <mstone> I'll be sure to do that...
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65 <drow> Hmm, that was a nice short bug report.
66 <drow> to submit@: "strdup(NULL) segfaults" to -done@: "Yes, go away"
67 [...]
68 <Kamion> how did he pass T&S? sheer bloody-mindedness?
69 [...]
70 <drow> Good attention to detail?
71 <drow> Masking of psychopathic tendencies?
72 * drow shrugs
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76 <DanielS> the people love me
77 <Joy> like pneumonia
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81 test.c:5: `long long long' is too long for GCC
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85 http://yro.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=91696&cid=7890274
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89 <Joy> argh.
90 <Joy> i accidentally banned all mails to the bts that had 'ossi' in them
91 <Joy> "possible" etc
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95 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/12/24/>
96
97 Wednesday, December 24th, 2003
98 3:34 pm         
99 Dear PC World,
100
101 1) The most common chipset used in Pentium-II machines is the Intel 440BX. It is also relatively common in slower P-IIIs, and is approximately identical to the 440MX (a one-chip version aimed at laptops).
102
103 2) The 440BX has the interesting feature of only being able to address up to 128MBit density RAM. This is a relatively widely known issue.
104
105 3) Simple maths suggests that if you have a 128MB DIMM with 4 chips on it, they are likely to be 256MBit parts.
106
107 4) Marking said DIMMs as being suitable for Pentium-IIs is therefore really indescribably stupid, you wankwits. Please fuck off and die in a great big chemical fire before I get back there to beat you.
108
109 Love,
110
111 Matthew.
112
113 PS,
114
115 Die. No, really. 
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119 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/11/12/>
120
121 Wednesday, November 12th, 2003
122 2:43 am         
123 It's true that you learn something new every day. Yesterday I discovered that playdough is electrically conductive. I also discovered that RAM becomes unhappy if all of its pins are joined together with electrically conductive material.
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127 <http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/2003/11/03/>
128
129 Monday, November 3rd, 2003
130 3:13 pm         
131 Hint to people attempting to sell things online:
132
133 DON'T PUT http://172.16.100.107/ IN YOUR URLS, YOU INCOMPETENT FUCKMONKEYS 
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136
137 | priviledged positions? What privilege? The honour of working harder
138 | than most people for absolutely no recognition?
139
140 Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@debian.org> in <87lln8aqfm.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com>
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144 <elmo_h> you could just r00t klecker through [...] and do it yourself
145 <mdz> heh
146 <mdz> I think there's a bit in the DMUP about that
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150 <Yoe> well, thing is, he doesn't seem to understand you usually don't
151       have the time to give everyone status updates when a fly moves a
152       leg
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155
156 In Soviet Russia...
157
158 The cops arrest YOU for not showing papers. Wait, I didn't have to
159 reverse it this time, what's going on?
160
161 http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=97501&cid=8334726
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165 <infinity> <shrug>... Messaging IRCops isn't the end of the world,
166            unless its "/msg ircop I fucked your wife."
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170 | From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
171 | Subject: Re: [PATCH] Compile kernel with GCC-3.5 and without regparm
172 | To: "Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net>
173 | Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
174 | Date: Tue, 2 Mar 2004 16:59:28 -0800
175 | X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i586-pc-linux-gnu)
176
177 | "Art Haas" <ahaas@airmail.net> wrote:
178 | >
179 | > I tried to build the kernel with my CVS GCC-3.5 compiler today, and had
180 | > all sorts of failures about prototypes not matching.
181
182 | -mm is where the gcc-3.5 action is.  There seems to be a bit of an arms
183 | race going on wherein the gcc developers are trying to break the kernel
184 | build faster than I and others can fix it.
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187
188 (Note that the above is a gross oversimplification, and ignores issues
189 including but not necessarily limited to subarchitectures, and quality
190 of hardware coverage within certian architectures. It contains forward
191 looking statements, and may cause cancer in lab animals.)
192
193 Joey Hess in <20040317065216.GA29816@kitenet.net>
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197 <jdub> now there's a thought
198 <jdub> DD trading cards
199 <mdz> official joeyh action figure, with rapid-fire upload action
200 <jdub> lamont with pump-action NMU flame-thrower!
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204 <aj> "attempt to de-scare ... may cause cancer"
205 * aj thinks elmo needs to work on his de-scaring
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209 <mdz> the Thom Remote Management Unit
210 <mdz> TRMU
211 <thom> i cost 3 times the amount an IBM remote management card would. per use.
212 <jdub> last time *i* checked, you were free
213 <jdub> oh, different service
214 <jdub> never mind
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218 From: Stan Shebs <shebs@apple.com>
219 Subject: Re: MS/CW-style inline assembly for GCC
220 To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
221 Date: Mon, 03 May 2004 17:35:40 -0700
222
223 Can you be more specific about the difficulties? The CW version didn't
224 seem that hard (unless Apple mgmt is reading this, in which case it was
225 fiendishly difficult :-) ), but I did impose some restrictions in edge
226 [...]
227
228 Stan
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232 buildd@caballero:~/logs$ du -sh kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.5_2.6.5-2_20040506-1033 
233 54G     kernel-patch-powerpc-2.6.5_2.6.5-2_20040506-1033
234
235 Next week on "When Good Buildds Go Bad"[...]
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239 <aj>  153 NP+ 11 James Troup     (7.9K) you know you want it.  err.
240 * aj looks disturbed as he trolls through his saved mail
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244 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
245 Subject: 2.6.6-mm5
246 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
247 Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 01:36:36 -0700
248 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
249
250 [...]
251
252   Although this feature has been around for a while it is new code, and the
253   usual cautions apply.  If it munches all your files please tell Jens and
254   he'll type them in again for you.
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258 From: Randall Donald <ftpmaster@debian.org>
259 Subject: foo_3.4-1_i386.changes REJECTED
260 To: John Doe <jdoe@debian.org>
261 Cc: Debian Installer <installer@ftp-master.debian.org>
262 Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 23:17:48 -0400
263
264 Hi,
265
266  Description: something to put here
267    Maybe I need a long description here!
268  
269 Yes, you do!
270
271 --
272 Randall Donald
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276 <Keybuk> I don't test, I upload to unstable and a milllllion users test it for me :)
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279
280 This is based on an actual radio conversation between a U.S. Navy
281 aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, and Canadian authorities off
282 the coast of Newfoundland in October, 1995. The radio conversation was
283 released by the Chief of Naval Operations on 10/10/95 authorized by
284 the Freedom of Information Act.
285
286 Canadians: Please divert your course 15 degrees to the South to avoid
287            collision.
288
289 Americans: Recommend you divert your course 15 degrees to the North to
290            avoid a collision.
291
292 Canadians: Negative. You will have to divert your course 15 degrees to
293            the South to avoid a collision.
294
295 Americans: This is the Captain of a US Navy ship. I say again, divert
296            YOUR course.
297
298 Canadians: No, I say again, you divert YOUR course.
299
300 Americans: THIS IS THE AIRCRAFT CARRIER USS LINCOLN, THE SECOND
301            LARGEST SHIP IN THE UNITED STATES' ATLANTIC FLEET. WE ARE
302            ACCOMPANIED BY THREE DESTROYERS, THREE CRUISERS AND
303            NUMEROUS SUPPORT VESSELS. I DEMAND THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR
304            COURSE 15 DEGREES NORTH--I SAY AGAIN, THAT'S ONE FIVE
305            DEGREES NORTH--OR COUNTER-MEASURES WILL BE UNDERTAKEN TO
306            ENSURE THE SAFETY OF THIS SHIP.
307
308 Canadians: This is a lighthouse. Your call.
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312 <neuro> i didn't slam today's dinstall too badly, did I?
313 <elmo>   File "/org/ftp.debian.org/dak/process_accepted.py", line 608, in main
314 <elmo>     sys.stderr.write("Installed %d package %s, %s.\n" % (install_count, sets, utils.size_type(int(install_bytes))));
315 <elmo> OverflowError: float too large to convert
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319 "The Hurd's design is so secure that it makes firewalls immoral IMHO." -- Jeroen Dekkers
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323 <helix> I bought some foam soap for kids the other day and only
324         realized it had an elmo picture on it when I got home
325 <helix> now I can't use it because I feel perverted
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329 <helix> hm hilarity did not ensue
330 <helix> with my laundry
331 <helix> I washed it with bubble bath :|
332 <neuro> *snork*
333 <helix> well, nothing bad happened; but my clothes also don't smell like 
334         cinnamon buns, like I'd hoped
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338 <bdale> I thought Jeroen's comment was interesting...
339 <aj> What was that?
340 <bdale> Well I didn't let him speak....
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344 <helix> elmo: I can't believe people pay you to fix computers
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