Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

[Forest Bond]

On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 04:42:54AM +, William Tracy wrote:
> Actually, I off and on wonder if it would be possible to implement a
> filesystem over Subversion, and then just mount /home on that. I'm
> sure there's all kinds of gotchas with that idea, but it would be
> really cool.

Really cool, but probably not really performant.  Some people do multimedia
work, and this sort of thing would kill their audio & video recording
throughput.

-Forest


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Re: RFC: alias tar="tar --backup" ?

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

On May 18, 2007, at 10:51 AM, Onno Benschop wrote:

...
What I see here is a classic example of an expectation mismatch. The
new user expects the computer to almost "honour" their data,


That's a variation on Raskin's First Law of Interaction: "A computer 
shall not harm your work or, through inaction, allow your work to come 
to harm." Computers typically bludgeon this expectation out of users. 
Someday, perhaps, they'll be nicer.



the more experienced user expects the computer to do what it is told.

There is something to be said for your proposal, if we keep in mind
the "do no harm" approach, but then you would need to do that for all
such commands. That is a long and slippery slope to head down.


Yes, that's probably unworkable without a long-term effort between 
Linux and Unix distributors, on something they probably wouldn't 
consider important.



...
Perhaps when a user launches a terminal for the first time, a dialog
pops up that says something along the lines of:

Commands entered within a Terminal screen may not work as you
expect. Sometimes a command will overwrite files without warning
you. If you are unsure, use the 'man' command to find out.
...


Even better would be to print a similar message (it probably needs 
rewording a bit) in the terminal itself when it is launched. Then it 
would be more likely to be read, and it wouldn't require an extra click 
to dismiss.


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Re: Introduction and Lexmark Printer Driver

[Matthew Paul Thomas]

Hi Timothy

On May 18, 2007, at 3:30 AM, tim wrote:

...
I would like to start helping the ubuntu community by working on a 
project that is causing myself some problems. My Lexmark X6170 does 
not work with Linux and I would like to help develop a driver using 
the kit provided by Lexmark. Is anyone currently working on this and 
if so, how can I help?

...


Perhaps you could start by investigating whether a Free driver that 
works for other Lexmark printers
 could be 
extended to cover the X6170 too. Either way, the OpenPrinting site is 
probably the best place to get involved with driver development.


Good luck!

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Re: Introduction and Lexmark Printer Driver

[Till Kamppeter]

Also welcome to the list.

As I already told on the IRC I am manager of the OpenPrinting project 
and I also do printing stuff for Ubuntu.

Unfortunately, I have never done anything with the Lexmark Linux DDK, as 
I do not have a Lexmark inkjet nor did I have to package the DDK for a 
distro.

The reason why it is not in distros is that it contains closed-source 
parts. HPLIP made it into all the distros quickly because HP decided to 
release the whole thing as free software. So setting up HP printers 
usually just works under Linux.

I appreciate your work on getting actual drivers with the Lexmark Linux 
DDK. This will make many user's printers work. See all these posts of 
users crying for a driver on the Lexmark forum on OpenPrinting (you 
should post calls for testing there as soon as you have some code).

I will also look into whether your driver could be added to multiverse 
in Ubuntu (but this probably needs permission from someone from Lexmark).

Can you post a link to the current Lexmark Linux DDK site? Thanks.

Till

tim wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
> 
> I am new to this list and would like to introduce myself. My name is Timothy 
> Armstrong and I have been a software developer for about 10 years now. I 
> mainly develop in Delphi/Pascal but have knowledge in other areas as well. My 
> linux experience is quite a bit less, I have been running Ubuntu/Kubuntu for 
> almost a year now and run it on a server at my office and my family's home 
> computer. 
> 
> I would like to start helping the ubuntu community by working on a project 
> that is causing myself some problems. My Lexmark X6170 does not work with 
> Linux and I would like to help develop a driver using the kit provided by 
> Lexmark. Is anyone currently working on this and if so, how can I help?
> 
> Thanks for having me and I look forward to working with you all.
> 
> Tim (IRC: Timmay)
> 


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ReadyBoost Technology for Ubuntu and Linux

[Chris Jones]

I am rather impressed with the ReadyBoost technology that has been
implemented into Windows Vista. And providing you get an appropriate and
compatible memory stick to make good use of the technology, it actually
works.

Are there currently any plans to develop a similar technology for Linux?
Or to be more specific, Ubuntu?

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Reading a reiserfs partition in Ubuntu?

[Chris Jones]

If I have another partition on my Ubuntu drive which is in reiserfs
format, how do I read the reiserfs partition contents within Ubuntu?

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