Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2008-07-28 Thread John Pyper
Shouldn't that be "sudo killall -9 windows" or "sudo killall -9 `pidof windows`" or something similar? :) John Pyper Kent, WA, USA BaD_CrC, BaD-Laptop on Freenode IRC On 7/25/08, Alexbellisbrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sudo - kill Windows > > --

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2008-12-03 Thread John Pyper
gle CD with each new release because I am a collector, but, if we can get less unfortunate people to be able to experience what we have to offer where bandwidth is either too expensive or non-existant, that not only improves the Ubuntu image, but the Linux image and awareness as a whole. John Pyper Ken

Re: [Bug 227156] Re: really needed daemon

2008-10-24 Thread John Pyper
You can email me at jpypergmailcom if you wish, or you can chat with me on Freenode IRC. I go by BaD_CrC or BaD-Laptop. I'm usually in all the popular *buntu channels. John Pyper On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 8:34 PM, oscartheduck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's been a while sin

Re: Re: [Bug 1] I think I have a solution...

2008-07-08 Thread John Pyper
ers or don't want to take the extra bit of effort to match up the colored wires to the back of the box. Just my 2 cents, and I want a penny back. :) John Pyper BaD_CrC on Freenode #ubuntu,#ubuntu-offtopic Kent, WA, USA On Tue, Jul 8, 2008 at 9:50 AM, »John« <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: [Bug 1] Bundling and support

2008-07-09 Thread John Pyper
you obtain a copy of XP/Vista, you have to register/purchase it within the 15-30 day limit, or you're left with a useless computer. That's why LiveCD/DVD is the route to go to give people the choice of what they want to do with their computers. John Pyper BaD_CrC on Freenode #ubun

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2008-07-09 Thread John Pyper
and burn them to cheap store brand CDs and put them in the display for people to take freely. I've had lots of people come back to me and thanking me for giving them something new and interesting to play with on their computers. Many of them have switched to *buntu full time. John Pyper BaD_C

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2008-07-09 Thread John Pyper
@jawahar I am game for building some sort of communication tool based on Jabber to hopefully get Canonical/Ubuntu behind it for basic community support. All *buntu releases come with Pidgin, which is capable of using Jabber by default. Let's see what kind of rabbits I can pull out of my hat.

[Bug 227156] Re: really needed daemon

2008-08-09 Thread John Pyper
This is surely a great idea, but this can be accomplished using tools that are in the default installation. Instead of creating a new daemon to sit there idle for 1-2 months at a time and using memory when it's not needed (even if it's very small), we can setup a 'root' cron job to run a simple sc

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2008-07-17 Thread John Pyper
It's up to you now to take the ball and run with it. Are we going to talk about the other companies and be lemmings of corporate brainwashing or are we going to something about it? John Pyper BaD_CrC/BaD-Laptop on Freenode IRC Kent, WA, USA On 7/17/08, houstonbofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2008-08-18 Thread John Pyper
If the additional bin formats package was installed by default, I don't see why that could be a problem. John Pyper BaD_CrC on Freenode IRC On 8/18/08, Vadim Peretokin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> #sudo apt-get install wine >> #winecfg >> #wine /PATHT

Re: [Bug 1] This Bug Should be Closed!

2008-06-08 Thread John Pyper
like to help you, but you really should present yourself in a bit of a more professional manner. John Pyper BaD_CrC & BaD-Laptop on Freenode On 6/7/08, Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > May my soul die with Philistines! > > This bug I filed - https://bugs.launchpad.

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2009-01-23 Thread John Pyper
at you can do what they do, and you have all the tools to do it easily and for free. Advocate open source, but don't force it on people. Inform them about it, what it could do for them, how easy it is to perform various tasks and so on. John Pyper TrigaTronic Designs, L.L.C. Kent, WA, USA BaD

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2009-02-18 Thread John Pyper
ugh. Now it's your turn to exercise your right and make a decision in which direction you want to go. ***NOTE*** The words that I say in this message are not representing or endorsed by Dell in any way. These are my personal views. John Pyper Dell | Managed Services http://john-os.blogspot.c

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2009-02-19 Thread John Pyper
s and/or Microsoft vs Open Source. While Microsoft does fight dirty, we will keep bringing technologies forward that will eventually lead this revolution. It's all about making your own decisions. Advertising can persude you to check out a product, but it can't force you to like it. John

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2009-02-23 Thread John Pyper
rganize it, but I'm sure willing to participate in it. John Pyper Dell | Managed Services http://john-os.blogspot.com/ Follow me @ http://twitter.com/jpyper On 2/22/09, Mark wrote: > How about a 'Free your PC campaign'? > it starts > Billions of PC's worldwide are chain

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2007-09-28 Thread John Pyper
This bug is easily reproducible in Washington State[1], USA. I live in Kent[2], WA, which is about 20 or so miles south of Redmond[3]. In all this land, the bug is so critical that upon attempting to fix it gets you shunned in your own workplace. When Gutsy Gibbon[4] is officially released in Octo

Re: [Bug 181406] Re: aptitude crashed with SIGSEGV in pkgRecords::Lookup()

2008-04-18 Thread John Pyper
Rolf, Thank you for your reply. I have been noticing this issue after having my system running for 3+ days. I have an alias set for easy updates for me: alias osupgrade="sudo aptitude update && sudo aptitude safe-upgrade" I run the osupgrade alias at least once a day to make sure my hardy instal

[Bug 502267] [NEW] package yiff-server 2.14.5-5.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-01-02 Thread John Pyper
Public bug reported: Description:Ubuntu 9.10 Release: 9.10 Crash while installing games from software-center Apt Output: installArchives() failed: Preconfiguring packages ... Preconfiguring packages ... Selecting previously deselected package liby2-14. (Reading database ... (Readi

[Bug 502267] Re: package yiff-server 2.14.5-5.1 failed to install/upgrade: subprocess installed post-installation script returned error exit status 1

2010-01-02 Thread John Pyper
** Attachment added: "AptOrdering.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37358229/AptOrdering.txt ** Attachment added: "Dependencies.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37358230/Dependencies.txt ** Attachment added: "Dmesg.txt" http://launchpadlibrarian.net/37358231/Dmesg.txt ** Attachment

[Bug 378561] Re: [needs-packaging] vbam

2016-11-04 Thread John Pyper
@Sergio Any chance of getting your vbam-trunk PPA to have a 16.04 xenial build? The PPA currently goes up to 15.10 wily. I really don't want to mix release versions, even though the package is quite old. I would make a PPA myself for a 16.04 version, but packaging is over my head at this time. Le

[Bug 1495494] Re: package libxfce4panel-2.0-4 4.12.0-3ubuntu2 failed to install/upgrade: trying to overwrite '/usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/xfce4/panel/wrapper-2.0', which is also in package xfce4-panel 4

2015-10-22 Thread John Pyper
Upgrading from 15.04 to 15.10. This issue is present in the i386 builds as well. If I can be of assistance, please let me know. Thank you. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1495494 Title

[Bug 991481] Re: Constant dns traffic for daisy.ubuntu.com

2014-11-25 Thread John Pyper
This is a bit redonkulous. I just setup a new box using the utopic 14.10 amd64 desktop dvd image. I upgraded it from utopic to devel, which points to vivid 15.04 currently. I didn't notice this traffic before on my LAN's DNS cache because normally I would configure the static IP info from /etc/net

[Bug 991481] Re: Constant dns traffic for daisy.ubuntu.com

2014-11-25 Thread John Pyper
Added info... The icmp6_send events seems to coincide with the DNS queries to daisy.ubuntu.com. I'm not quite sure why the kernel is complaining about IPv6 stuff, as it is working just fine. Connecting to https://www.v6.facebook.com/ and https://ipv6.google.com/ come up with no problem using the I