How to fix deadlocks with tests?

2023-10-27 Thread Joshua Gardner
I'm experiencing deadlocks in my production application occasionally. I'm using MySQL. Some of these deadlocks are due to insufficient indexing, and I'd like to fix this with some test-driven development. How can I write tests that exercise the application concurrently, and could be used to replic

How to debug asyncio.exceptions.CancelledError?

2019-10-24 Thread Joshua Gardner
I'm using a library for Django Channels that I've somehow misconfigured and is causing asyncio.exceptions.CancelledError when trying to connect a websocket. Because of how the stack isn't particularly straightforward with asyncio I'm at a loss to debug this. Any tips to find out what's going on?

Re: Experimenting with Channels: sending messages from Django shell doesn't work

2017-01-16 Thread Joshua Gardner
I'm going to answer my own question: Appears that I need to use the "immediately" keyword are to Channel or Group.send. On Monday, January 16, 2017 at 5:27:19 AM UTC-7, Joshua Gardner wrote: > > I'm in the process of developing a Websockets notifications system usi

Experimenting with Channels: sending messages from Django shell doesn't work

2017-01-16 Thread Joshua Gardner
I'm in the process of developing a Websockets notifications system using Channels. I've got a JsonWebsocketConsumer that adds the connection to a group for the Location (model) that the user belongs to. Connecting to that websocket with wscat, and trying to see if sending to that group works, I

Re: Is It Bug?

2013-12-07 Thread Joshua Gardner
If I'm having to deal with incessant backslashes in a string I'll often use the r'\' (raw string literal) syntax. Simplifies things quite a bit. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

[Dovecot] Virtual Servers, or different authentication setups.

2013-05-22 Thread Joshua Gardner
I want to know if there is any virtual server functionality in Dovecot? I would like to have two separate configurations, that access the same email, running in the same Dovecot instance. They would bind different ports and/or IPs, but have different authentication settings. In particular, one wou

[Bug 619398] [NEW] Cannot build lubuntu-desktop fat-client.

2010-08-17 Thread Joshua Gardner
Public bug reported: When attempting to use ltsp-build-client to create a lubuntu-desktop fat-client, I get this error and the build fails: # Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situatio

[Bug 619398] Re: Cannot build lubuntu-desktop fat-client.

2010-08-17 Thread Joshua Gardner
** Attachment added: "ltsp-build-client.conf" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619398/+attachment/1495956/+files/ltsp-build-client.conf -- Cannot build lubuntu-desktop fat-client. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/619398 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs

Re: [Gavel-team] (no subject)

2010-04-07 Thread Joshua Gardner
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 14:19:19 -0600 Hilton Shumway wrote: > On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:54 AM, Joshua Gardner > > wrote: > > > I'm sure we can make this work, just not sure if REST fits, unless > > we can find enough HTTP verbs to get the job done. We could easily

Re: [Gavel-team] (no subject)

2010-04-07 Thread Joshua Gardner
On Wed, 7 Apr 2010 10:54:35 -0600 Joshua Gardner wrote: > I'm having second thoughts about using REST as an architecture for > Gavel, and here's why: not enough verbs. > > While there are more HTTP verbs, the ones that REST normally uses, and > piston is set up by d

[Gavel-team] (no subject)

2010-04-07 Thread Joshua Gardner
I'm having second thoughts about using REST as an architecture for Gavel, and here's why: not enough verbs. While there are more HTTP verbs, the ones that REST normally uses, and piston is set up by default for, are GET (Read without modifying), POST (create a new item), PUT (modify an existing it

[Gavel-team] [Branch ~gavel-team/gavel/gavel]

2010-04-02 Thread Joshua Gardner
Name: simple_gavel => gavel -- lp:gavel https://code.launchpad.net/~gavel-team/gavel/gavel Your team Gavel Team is subscribed to branch lp:gavel. To unsubscribe from this branch go to https://code.launchpad.net/~gavel-team/gavel/gavel/+edit-subscription _

[Gavel-team] Basic REST API Works

2010-03-31 Thread Joshua Gardner
A basic REST API has been created. It uses two models, a Motion and a Vote. URLs under the /api/ tree are used to access these objects in a RESTful fashion, using HTTP methods. A Motion object can be created by sending a POST request to /api/motion/ with the appropriate data. The POST request will

Re: Can't load GVim when launched from a launcher

2010-01-31 Thread Joshua Gardner
Ah, ignore that previous comment. I didn't look very closely at all to that diff. :) On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 1:59 PM, RonnyPfannschmidt wrote: > > > On Jan 31, 8:48 pm, Joshua Gardner > wrote: >> It works, excellent. :) >> >> Amazing how much difference a

Re: Can't load GVim when launched from a launcher

2010-01-31 Thread Joshua Gardner
ironment, but I have no idea what it is. >> >> i figured the actual error - its a vim environment issue >> i'll try to fix it > > done, see http://bitbucket.org/aafshar/pida-main/changeset/cd0c6c127954/ >> >> >> > vic >> >> >

Can't load GVim when launched from a launcher

2010-01-30 Thread Joshua Gardner
I have a really weird error. I installed PIDA this morning from the mercurial trunk. I did it by running using checkinstall in combination with the python distutils. (I ran "sudo checkinstall python setup.py intall --prefix /usr", which installed properly and made deb packages.) I use Vim as my pr

Re: [Gavel-team] Should check out django-rest

2009-12-24 Thread Joshua Gardner
the repetition of a few > sour notes. > --Spencer W. Kimball > > Jonathan Swift - "May you live every day of your life." > > On Wed, Dec 23, 2009 at 7:14 PM, Joshua Gardner > wrote: > > http://drozdyuk.blogspot.com/2009/12/django-rest-or-reviving-dja

[Gavel-team] Should check out django-rest

2009-12-23 Thread Joshua Gardner
http://drozdyuk.blogspot.com/2009/12/django-rest-or-reviving-django-rest.html -- Society loses the value of things which are uselessly destroyed. --Frederick Bastiat GCS/B/M d+ s+ a--- C++ UL++ Py+++ L+++ E- W++ w-- M- PS+++ PE+++ Y+>++ PGP+ t+ R tv- b+ DI++ G e h! r! y- ___

Re: [Gavel-team] Some Code

2009-12-18 Thread Joshua Gardner
Which means that the url for the branch is now lp:~gavel-team/gavel/gavel_django -Josh On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:32 PM, Joshua Gardner wrote: > On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Hilton Shumway wrote: >> >> >> On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Joshua Gardner >> wrote

Re: [Gavel-team] Some Code

2009-12-18 Thread Joshua Gardner
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Hilton Shumway wrote: > > > On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Joshua Gardner > wrote: >> >> Finally have some code written. After some brief inspection of how >> Parliament actually works I decided it doesn't do what we need. We

Re: [Gavel-team] Some Code

2009-12-17 Thread Joshua Gardner
Here's the link to the Robert's Rules cheatsheet I was using. Really poor-quality scan but gets the job done. http://www.mi-lwml.org/rules.pdf -Josh On Thu, Dec 17, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Joshua Gardner wrote: > Finally have some code written. After some brief inspection of how > Par

[Gavel-team] Some Code

2009-12-17 Thread Joshua Gardner
Finally have some code written. After some brief inspection of how Parliament actually works I decided it doesn't do what we need. We can use some of its features in the future if we like, but it's just not going to fit with what I want to do. So, after playing with pyjamas a bit and realizing tha

[Bug 485371] [NEW] Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError

2009-11-19 Thread Joshua Gardner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-django-lint When running django-lint it promptly crashes. Traceback attached. ** Affects: python-django-lint (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4

[Bug 485373] Re: Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError

2009-11-19 Thread Joshua Gardner
** Attachment added: "Traceback of crash" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35856553/traceback.txt -- Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485373 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 485371] [NEW] Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError

2009-11-19 Thread Joshua Gardner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-django-lint When running django-lint it promptly crashes. Traceback attached. ** Affects: python-django-lint (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4

[Bug 485373] Re: Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError

2009-11-19 Thread Joshua Gardner
** Attachment added: "Traceback of crash" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/35856553/traceback.txt -- Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/485373 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- u

[Bug 485373] [NEW] Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError

2009-11-19 Thread Joshua Gardner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-django-lint When running django-lint it promptly crashes. Traceback attached. ** Affects: python-django-lint (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4

[Bug 485373] [NEW] Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError

2009-11-19 Thread Joshua Gardner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: python-django-lint When running django-lint it promptly crashes. Traceback attached. ** Affects: python-django-lint (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Crashes on launch, ClassDef AttributeError https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/4

[Gavel-team] Fwd: Chat with Hilton Shumway

2009-10-23 Thread Joshua Gardner
Forwarded conversation Subject: Chat with Hilton Shumway From: *Hilton Shumway* Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:48 PM To: mellowcellofel...@gmail.com 4:48 PM Hilton: What are your thoughts on pyjamas? -- From: *Joshua Gardner* Date: Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 4:53 PM

[Bug 426556] Re: dbus-daemon high cpu usage after resume from suspend

2009-10-15 Thread Joshua Gardner
I found out what is causing dbus to go nuts. It's part of policykit, /usr/lib/policykit/polkit-read-auth-helper. I found out by simple killing processes and daemons one at a time until dbus stopped freaking out. I guess I'll go talk to the policykit guys now. Is there some way to transfer this bug

[Bug 426556] Re: dbus-daemon high cpu usage after resume from suspend

2009-10-12 Thread Joshua Gardner
How do I find out what is doing that, then? -- dbus-daemon high cpu usage after resume from suspend https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/426556 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubu

[Bug 426556] Re: dbus-daemon high cpu usage after resume from suspend

2009-10-10 Thread Joshua Gardner
Still does it, mostly after resume from suspend but sometimes on its own. I asked on the forums here http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1275316 but now response so far. This thread includes a dump from dbus-monitor --system (attached here too) for a few seconds which shows large amounts of s

[Bug 426556] Re: dbus-daemon high cpu usage after resume from suspend

2009-09-09 Thread Joshua Gardner
Never mind, it seems it has nothing to do with resuming from suspend. This morning it started doing it about half an hour after starting my laptop. It's too soon to call but I think it had something to do with my messing with some more esoteric settings for nautilus in gconf. I've reset nautilus a

[Bug 426556] [NEW] dbus-daemon high cpu usage after resume from suspend

2009-09-08 Thread Joshua Gardner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: dbus When resuming from suspend, the system dbus-daemon (the one that runs as user messagebus) starts to run with 30%+ CPU usage. This started a couple of days ago (9/6/09). I can't find any particular reason that it does it besides that it appears to be

Re: [Gavel-team] IronPython

2009-08-15 Thread Joshua Gardner
Sir Francis Bacon > A random quote: > Mike Ditka  - "If God had wanted man to play soccer, he wouldn't have given > us arms." > > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Joshua Gardner > wrote: >> >> I'd be disinclined to use Silverlight for this

Re: [Gavel-team] IronPython

2009-08-15 Thread Joshua Gardner
Ooops, forgot to post this to the list. On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 10:07 PM, Joshua Gardner wrote: > I'd be disinclined to use Silverlight for this project unless you can > show me something actually using it. I've never heard of using > IronPython in Silverlight before, and I

[Gavel-team] Parliament Module

2009-08-03 Thread Joshua Gardner
Just wanted to send a quick status update. A month or two back I did get some communication from the main dev of the Parliament module. Haven't made any definite decisions. My preference for Parliament is that it be moved to Launchpad from SourceForge, and the Parliament project added as a sub-pro

[Bug 407086] [NEW] Loads wrong libjack path

2009-07-30 Thread Joshua Gardner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: recordmydesktop When using JACK to record with recordmydesktop packaged in Jaunty, recordmydesktop tries to load /usr/lib/libjack.so, while the libjack0 package puts it in /usr/lib/libjack.so.0. Symlinking /usr/lib/libjack.so to /usr/lib/libjack.so.0 fixe

[Bug 407086] [NEW] Loads wrong libjack path

2009-07-30 Thread Joshua Gardner
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: recordmydesktop When using JACK to record with recordmydesktop packaged in Jaunty, recordmydesktop tries to load /usr/lib/libjack.so, while the libjack0 package puts it in /usr/lib/libjack.so.0. Symlinking /usr/lib/libjack.so to /usr/lib/libjack.so.0 fixe

[Gavel-team] Fwd: Using Parliament Module

2009-06-15 Thread Joshua Gardner
lways thought there should be a web-frontend, but never got around to writing it outselves, so it is great to hear that someone wants to make one. Wow, I know another person named Joshua Gardner. You must not be him, though, as he doesn't live in Utah. btw, where did you find my hotmail email address

Re: [Gavel-team] Additional features

2009-06-14 Thread Joshua Gardner
Yeah, I've thought that implementing some kind of connection with Gobby via libobby or sobby (the server component) would be great for collaborative realtime editing. On the other hand, collaborative realtime editing isn't generally used within the parliamentary structure except in small committees

[Gavel-team] Testing Mailing List

2009-06-03 Thread Joshua Gardner
Just seeing if this works in any way. -Josh signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part ___ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~gavel-team Post to : gavel-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~gavel-t

[Cherokee] Fwd: Segfault in Cherokee

2009-05-07 Thread Joshua Gardner
Says I should submit a bug report but I don't really see any bug-reportable information, so I am rather confused. -Josh Forwarded conversation Subject: Segfault in Cherokee From: *www-data* Date: Thu, May 7, 2009 at 2:04 AM To: r...@cellofellow.homelinux.net The Chero

[Cherokee] Restrict Cherokee-Admin to specific Virtual Host

2009-05-06 Thread Joshua Gardner
I just migrated my home webserver from Apache to Cherokee. Everything is working fine, except for some mod_python PSP scripts I wrote but I was planning on replacing those with Django anyway. I love Cherokee, it's great. One thing I had on there was a couple of virtual hosts for some friends. In A

[Cherokee] Restrict Cherokee-Admin to specific Virtual Host

2009-05-06 Thread Joshua Gardner
I just migrated my home webserver from Apache to Cherokee. Everything is working fine, except for some mod_python PSP scripts I wrote but I was planning on replacing those with Django anyway. I love Cherokee, it's great. One thing I had on there was a couple of virtual hosts for some friends. In A

[GNOME Do] Re: Gnome Do; "Run" program not in PATH?

2009-04-24 Thread Joshua Gardner
t doesnt work really well > > annoying popup windows and errors all over the place > > and the dont even suport a ati 1600 anymore > > idiots > > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Joshua Gardner < > mellowcellofel...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Or create the direct

[GNOME Do] Re: Gnome Do; "Run" program not in PATH?

2009-04-24 Thread Joshua Gardner
Or create the directory ~/bin and put a symlink to eclipse in there. Ubuntu includes that dir in your path if it exists by default (there's an if thing in the .bashrc file that does that). -Josh On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 1:34 AM, Jorrel wrote: > > Try adding /home/user/eclipse/ in "Files and Fold

[GNOME Do] Re: Shutter.

2009-04-11 Thread Joshua Gardner
Personally I don't have a need for Shutter. The Do GNOME-Screenshot plugin works fine for full screen or window screenshots, and the Compiz Screenshot plugin for area screenshots (just Super+Drag to select an area to shoot, it's very handy). I haven't tried Shutter though (screwed with it a little

[GNOME Do] Re: Adding terminal to GNOME Do

2009-03-25 Thread Joshua Gardner
at returns output as some kind of Do object. It's actually quite cool. -Josh On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:04 AM, Dave Bauer wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 5:21 PM, Chris Szikszoy > wrote: > >> On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 15:13 -0600, Joshua Gardner wrote: >> >>

[GNOME Do] Re: Adding terminal to GNOME Do

2009-03-24 Thread Joshua Gardner
Done https://bugs.launchpad.net/do-plugins/+bug/348291 -Josh On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Chris Szikszoy wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 15:13 -0600, Joshua Gardner wrote: > > While not adding a terminal to Do, what about having the ability to capture > the output from a co

[GNOME Do] Re: Adding terminal to GNOME Do

2009-03-24 Thread Joshua Gardner
While not adding a terminal to Do, what about having the ability to capture the output from a command in the Selected Text buffer in Do? So I can run something like, oh, I dunno, `date`, and have the output available to Google, or open a file, or tweet, or whatever else I can possibly think to do

[GNOME Do] Re: Gnome-Do Crashes on startup

2009-02-05 Thread Joshua Gardner
Another option would have been to install Tasque and set it up with the RTM backend and use the Do Tasque plugin. 2009/2/5 holotone > I'm not sure what did it, but something in between installing the > gnome-do-plugins update that rolled in last night, restarting gnome-do a > couple of times, an

[GNOME Do] Re: banshee plugin....

2009-01-30 Thread Joshua Gardner
/me wishes for an Exaile plugin. 2009/1/30 Alex Launi > On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 5:36 PM, iko bruckelmann > wrote: > >> Are there any plans to manage my media library directly trough this >> plug-in (ala rhythmbox plugin)? >> > > This is already implemented but you need banshee from SVN. The cod

[GNOME Do] Re: Docky very, very slow

2009-01-16 Thread Joshua Gardner
gt; memory when we go to paint it. However, in your setup system memory and > video memory are shared, so there is almost no performance penalty. > > Jason > > On Wed, 2009-01-14 at 15:02 -0700, Joshua Gardner wrote: > > 177 driver rather > > > > On Wed, Ja

[GNOME Do] Re: Docky very, very slow

2009-01-14 Thread Joshua Gardner
177 driver rather On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Joshua Gardner wrote: > just for the record, it works perfectly fine on my NVidia GeForce Go 6100 > with the 170 driver. > > > On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, JohnnyG wrote: > >> >> Thanks everyone. >> >

[GNOME Do] Re: Docky very, very slow

2009-01-14 Thread Joshua Gardner
just for the record, it works perfectly fine on my NVidia GeForce Go 6100 with the 170 driver. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM, JohnnyG wrote: > > Thanks everyone. > > docky now running reasonably smoothly and I've got the preferences > too. > > Added bonus, the nvidia tweaks have speeded up a c

Using vObject

2008-09-22 Thread Joshua Gardner
I'm brand new to USENET so please bear with me. I'm writing a specialized to-do list app. I'm using Django but this is not a question about Django. It has to have recurring tasks set by the managers for the employees to then check off. I've got pretty much everything in the app worked out, except

Re: New awesome icon set proposal

2007-03-18 Thread Joshua Gardner
Those are really, really cool. I like it. -Josh On 3/18/07, jmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Here is an awesome icon set, Nimbus. It is complate and has a GPL licence. This is what we are looking for. Take a look at it!! Here is a screenshot. https://wiki.ubuntu.

Re: Default artwork

2007-03-05 Thread Joshua Gardner
Just curious, but would it be too hard to put in an alternative Xubuntu GDM login screen with a face browser? I like having a list of users to choose from. Making my own or finding another theme works, but it always looks really out of place. -Josh On 3/5/07, Luzius Thöny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wro

Re: Artwork packages

2007-02-23 Thread Joshua Gardner
I remember it wasn't so difficult to add the face browser, but it looked terribly out of place when I tried to do so. That was with Breezy or something however. Anyway, this gdm looks great: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artwork/Proposed/AllImages?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=l

Re: Artwork packages

2007-02-22 Thread Joshua Gardner
Just wondering, would it be possible to make a GDM theme with a face browser? It's nice to have a list of users to choose from, but there isn't a face-browser enabled theme for Xubuntu. -Josh On 2/22/07, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like the flat version of the Usplash too, but I still

Re: terminal icons

2007-02-19 Thread Joshua Gardner
Yah, that's it. Bash always puts the $ as the prompt for users. (# for root.). On Debian/Ubuntu by default it adds [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir before the prompt, so mine looks like [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ usually. -Josh On 2/19/07, Ivà <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: En/na Vincent ha escrit: > Just out of c

Re: New gnome panel concept

2007-01-23 Thread Joshua Gardner
Oh, so it's back to menu buttons? I do like the idea. After that discussion in the mailing list about it I went and made myself one. Adam liked it, but it's not stellar. -CelloFellow On 1/23/07, jmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/23/07, Matthew Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Looks good. W

Re: Dream linux review

2007-01-16 Thread Joshua Gardner
Yeah, Apples to Oranges. Comparing Dreamlinux Multimedia to Xubuntu isn't exactly correct. On 1/16/07, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hmmm... Well, it didn't point out things I found really interesting, because I don't primarily use my computer for multimedia... On 1/15/07, jmak <[EMAIL PR

Re: New icon theme proposal

2007-01-15 Thread Joshua Gardner
After downloading that theme from gnome-look.org, I think it's a really nice concept but woefully incomplete. I saw more gnome icons (its default inherit) than Gcezanne icons. Maybe next time, or perhaps more icons can be added. -CelloFellow On 1/15/07, Joshua Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: New icon theme proposal

2007-01-15 Thread Joshua Gardner
That's actually a really nice icon theme. One thing I'd like Ubuntu to do, I don't know exactly if this is doable, but I'd like it if Firefox can be made to have a theme that uses whatever the system icons are by default. I use a Tango theme on Firefox for it to blend in nicely. I know there is

Re: pinot

2007-01-10 Thread Joshua Gardner
Search4Files, recently rechristianed Catfish, is a frontend to many CLI-based search tools including find, locate, trackerd, and beagled. I use it in conjunction with tracker all the time. This is the program that kalikiana was writing, Cody. Search4Files has very nice integration with Thunar, an

Re: Deferred Edgy Ideas for Feisty

2007-01-09 Thread Joshua Gardner
Have you managed to get pyNeighborhood to work as user? Currently I have to run as root to get it to mount stuff. setuid-ing the smbmnt and smbumount files like in LinNeighborhood didn't work. Even setuid-ing the pyNeighborhood executable didn't work. -Josh On 1/9/07, Cody Somerville <[EMAIL PRO

Re: Menu button

2007-01-08 Thread Joshua Gardner
]> wrote: I'm in favor of keeping the current menu button unless you can come up with something REALLY nice looking. Thanks, Cody A.W. Somerville On 1/9/07, Joshua Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Good idea. I've never liked the default menu button icon for Xu

Re: Menu button

2007-01-08 Thread Joshua Gardner
Good idea. I've never liked the default menu button icon for Xubuntu. -CelloFellow On 1/8/07, jmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, What do you think about the idea of replacing the application label with a button. Something like this. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Desktop/Feisty/Incomin

Re: Live cd / alt cd in Xubuntu

2007-01-08 Thread Joshua Gardner
I'd guess that running packages in a live environment would be rather difficult. On 1/8/07, alexander cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "" > >The biggest problem is that the text installer uses packages, and >installs from sets of packages to the hard drive. Very similar to >booting into single u

Re: Desktop

2007-01-08 Thread Joshua Gardner
If Xubuntu is going to stay light, Beryl should definitely not be the default window manager. If Ubuntu wants to join Vista as a power-graphics system, let them. But Xubuntu should be a lightweight alternative, and Beryl sort of defeats the lightweight bit. On 1/8/07, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Desktop

2007-01-07 Thread Joshua Gardner
I agree with Adam. Blue is a nicer color that gray, and Beryl should always be an option, not a default. I do like that desktop though, jmak. Very pretty and, well, Feisty. -Josh On 1/7/07, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1) I really prefer we keep with the blue theme 2) murrina is awe

Re: lightening xubuntu

2006-12-16 Thread Joshua Gardner
ice <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks, > > On Sat, 2006-16-12 at 10:37 -0700, Joshua Gardner wrote: > > There's also Exaile!, which isn't in the repositories but there are > > Ubuntu .deb packages available on there website. (I don't have a > >

Re: lightening xubuntu

2006-12-16 Thread Joshua Gardner
There's also Exaile!, which isn't in the repositories but there are Ubuntu .deb packages available on there website. (I don't have a link right now. If I did I would give it to you. A couple seconds on google.com/linux found it for me.) Exaile! is a GTK application similar to AmaroK. It's lightwei

Re: Marketing

2006-12-15 Thread Joshua Gardner
Oops, I just realized I port forward port 22 to my desktop, not my server. So, forget the SFTP thing. I'll see about setting up WebDAV on Apache or an FTP server instead. -Josh P.S. Due to my little problems, the Ubuntu wiki is sounding better and better. On 12/14/06, Joshua Gardner &l

Re: Marketing

2006-12-14 Thread Joshua Gardner
his is the home directory for the user wiki on my machine. You can use SFTP to upload images to that dir. The username is wiki, the password is market. -Josh On 12/14/06, Joshua Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not much hard work yet. But I'll get on it. :) -Josh On 12/14/06, Co

Re: Marketing

2006-12-14 Thread Joshua Gardner
e official wiki is certainly a viable alternative. > > -Adam > > On 12/14/06, Jani Monoses < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > Joshua Gardner wrote: > > > I've made a wiki for putting together content for a Spread Xubuntu > &

Re: Marketing

2006-12-13 Thread Joshua Gardner
(except if you want to install a printer...) etc. etc. On 12/12/06, Joshua Gardner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > At the last meeting Cody Somerville gave me a job in cooperation with > other Ubuntu teams. I'm looking at the Marketing team right now and woul

Marketing

2006-12-11 Thread Joshua Gardner
Hello, At the last meeting Cody Somerville gave me a job in cooperation with other Ubuntu teams. I'm looking at the Marketing team right now and would like some input. To market Xubuntu Xubuntu needs an image. Some goals it wants to fill, how it fills them, and what's cool about Xubuntu. Both as

Re: tuXlab and xubuntu

2006-12-07 Thread Joshua Gardner
Seeing how Xubuntu is very well suited to thin-client environments, and one of the most beneficial uses of Edubuntu is thin-clients, I say this is a nice marriage or concepts. Should we try to bring TuxLabs into the Ubuntu fold, or provide support? They seem to be able to take the best from both

Re: htop

2006-12-06 Thread Joshua Gardner
htop is awesome. I say "aye" to this proposal. -CelloFellow On 12/6/06, Adam Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Since we are debating about applications to add since there is space in the iso for a little extra, i would like to propose we add htop. While i think top should be included purely ou

Re: Wiki for artworks

2006-12-06 Thread Joshua Gardner
I renamed the page to https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Artwork/Feisty/Incoming to fit the naming system outlined at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu/Documentation/Wiki if that's allright. -CelloFellow On 12/6/06, jmak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I've created a wiki for artworks. This is

Re: Replacements for ThunderBird and FireFox

2006-12-06 Thread Joshua Gardner
As for myself, I use Swiftfox, which is faster and seems to be in keeping with Xubuntu's spirit of speed. Abiword I used to use, but it doesn't work with MS Word or pictures very well, and I find myself using Google Docs for my quick stuff lately. But still, Abiword is useful and works well. I've

Re: Games for feisty

2006-12-06 Thread Joshua Gardner
If we MUST have games keep it simple. We don't need power-hungry 3D RTS and FPS games. You don't need that stuff to keep entertained. -Josh On 12/6/06, Vincent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I like Liquid War :D At the moment I got three games installed: Globulation 2 (glob2), Liquid War and Warz