Re: Some fundamental usability issues

2008-05-08 Thread Blaise Alleyne
Alexandre Strube wrote: > On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> AFAIK, Apple simply ignores this problem. You either have enough disk >> space, or ... well, I don't know what TimeMachine does in disk full >> conditions. Probably it simply stops doing it

Extra hand-holding if `mount -a` fails

2008-05-08 Thread Andrew Sayers
When important filesystems (like /usr and /home) fail to mount, Ubuntu currently tries to carry on regardless, leading to confusing higher-level errors. Ubuntu's /etc/fstab uses UUID=blah to make failed mounts less likely, but it also means that it's impossible to mount anything when udev fails to

Re: us.archive.ubuntu.com

2008-05-08 Thread Richard A. Johnson
On Thursday 08 May 2008, Joe Terranova wrote: | Are there problems with us.archive.ubuntu.com , or does it seriously | need an upgrade? | Every new version, it's unusable for weeks -- as of today, it's still | unusable. I'm tired of having to change my sources.list to a different | country every ti

Re: help

2008-05-08 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Dane Mutters pisze: > I'm not sure what to tell you about DSL/PPPoE; I too would really like a GUI for that, but I'm not aware of such a thing. There is UbuDSL. http://ubudsl.com/ -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki <<>> Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www:

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-08 Thread Jan Claeys
Op maandag 05-05-2008 om 20:26 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Andrew Sayers: > * There should be three ways to enable remote recovery: > - In the GRUB menu, there should be a "remote recovery" option This could also be based on a special boot image; that way it would work in even more cases... -

us.archive.ubuntu.com

2008-05-08 Thread Joe Terranova
Are there problems with us.archive.ubuntu.com , or does it seriously need an upgrade? Every new version, it's unusable for weeks -- as of today, it's still unusable. I'm tired of having to change my sources.list to a different country every time there's a new version. Cheers, Joe Terranova -- U

Re: help

2008-05-08 Thread Dane Mutters
On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 13:12 +0530, shashank Agarwal wrote: > hi > i am shashank from india ,, and ubuntu lover. > i love this software..would you just try out to get latest yahoo > messenger to work on ubuntu.and also Gtalk.and also try coping in wid > the latest MS-office 2007 coz some of my appl

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

2008-05-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 20.28 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted ha > scritto: > > If we define a users work as a user's typing, we could easily save > > this permanently. > > Not quite :) What if I "type" in a video edit

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

2008-05-08 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 20.28 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted ha scritto: > If we define a users work as a user's typing, we could easily save > this permanently. Not quite :) What if I "type" in a video editor and save a changed 600mb .avi file? We should record input instead of changed data, b

help

2008-05-08 Thread shashank Agarwal
hi i am shashank from india ,, and ubuntu lover. i love this software..would you just try out to get latest yahoo messenger to work on ubuntu.and also Gtalk.and also try coping in wid the latest MS-office 2007 coz some of my applications aren,t workin in it.. also please provide a Graphical Use

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

2008-05-08 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 08.05.2008 um 14:28 schrieb John McCabe-Dansted: > [...] and then get up to 4.4GiB a month to play with, which is > probably more than enough to permanently store your average users > documents and photos etc. For me, I'm producing several hundred files each day, most of which are delete

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

2008-05-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 02.24 +0100, chombee ha scritto: > > > > Using git is ridiculously difficult and technical by the standards of > > most normal users, but I see no reason why a versioning system could > > n

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

2008-05-08 Thread Alexandre Strube
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AFAIK, Apple simply ignores this problem. You either have enough disk > space, or ... well, I don't know what TimeMachine does in disk full > conditions. Probably it simply stops doing it's work until you clean > up manuall

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-08 Thread John McCabe-Dansted
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Right, but also self-signed certificates (since they prove nothing). They prove that you are talking to the same server you are talking to when you first logged on. They also are sufficient to prevent passive wiretapping a

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

2008-05-08 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 08.05.2008 um 11:38 schrieb Vincenzo Ciancia: > OSX does automatic backup and versioning, The newest Mac OS X ships with an application which can be told to do backups. It's well integrated into the OS' appearance, though. Automatic backup, as provided with the OS distribution, requires an

Re: Some fundamental usability issues

2008-05-08 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 02.24 +0100, chombee ha scritto: > > Using git is ridiculously difficult and technical by the standards of > most normal users, but I see no reason why a versioning system could > not > be built in to the OS or the desktop environment and function > completely > with

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-08 Thread Martin Pitt
HggdH [2008-05-07 19:34 -0500]: > On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:45 +0200, Martin Pitt wrote: > > > This doesn't have anything to do with power users/n00bs. An invalid > > SSL certificate isn't any better or worse depending on the type of > > user. If a site sets up SSL with an invalid certificate, then