Re: Ruby on Rails support in Intrepid - call for reviewers and cheerleaders

2008-08-21 Thread Darren Hinderer
Thanks for your work Neil! The ruby community is very much a bleeding edge group of developers, and so waiting 6 months between releases is really not useful. When I do my rails development on hardy, I install ruby, mysql, and ruby gems from apt, and from there use straight gems. -- Darren On We

Errors on 8.04 upgrade page?

2008-08-21 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/upgrading For the upgrade Dapper -> Hardy, it recommends either "update-manager -d" or "do-release-upgrade -d". However, in both cases the -d switch checks for the next development release, which seems to me not to be Hardy. There just was a case on the -users

Re: I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-21 Thread Nergar
Not sure but I think stopping hald would "ugly-fix" this. hal daemon is what nautilus uses to find out about new plugged devices. Maybe gparted could stop the daemon when it starts and could start it back when you close it. Well at least AFAIK. On Fri, 2008-08-22 at 07:28 +1000, William Grant wr

Re: Problem with hotkey-setup

2008-08-21 Thread Bryce Harrington
Hi Travis, Sounds like you're looking for the keyboard troubleshooting section of the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting#Problem involves missing support for some keyboard keys On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 05:17:41AM +1000, Travis Place wrote: > Hi all, > > First of all, im not on th

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-21 Thread Christopher James Halse Rogers
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:26 +0200, Krzysztof Lichota wrote: > 2008/8/20 Null Ack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm not convinced that the strategy of asking users to install > > specialised debugging packages is the right way to go. I see a very > > low hit rate with this working in practice. > > It is

Re: git 1.6

2008-08-21 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 02:40:11PM -0500, Nehemiah Dacres wrote: > will git-core 1.6 be available in hardy Hedron repositories soon or will we > have to wait till intrepid Ibex because this is a LTS release? Hardy is updated only to fix bugs, not bring in new packages. At your option you can add

Re: git 1.6

2008-08-21 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Nehemiah Dacres pisze: > will git-core 1.6 be available in hardy Hedron repositories soon or will we > have to wait till intrepid Ibex because this is a LTS release? There is no major version updates in Ubuntu life cycle. You'll have to wait for Intrepid. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki <<>> Azrael N

Re: I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-21 Thread William Grant
Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Is anyone else able to reproduce this? > > Yes, I hate it. It happens all the time when I use GParted on the > live cd to partition because the partitioner in the installer has a > terrible inte

git 1.6

2008-08-21 Thread Nehemiah Dacres
will git-core 1.6 be available in hardy Hedron repositories soon or will we have to wait till intrepid Ibex because this is a LTS release? -- Nehemiah I. Dacres Secretary Math and Computer Science Club -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or

Re: I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-21 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 1:22 PM, Dylan McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is anyone else able to reproduce this? Yes, I hate it. It happens all the time when I use GParted on the live cd to partition because the partitioner in the installer has a terrible interface. It then complains that it c

I encountered a horrible experience with Nautilus and GParted

2008-08-21 Thread Dylan McCall
Today I needed to reorganize the partitions on a MicroSD card. I found that the best solution was GParted, so pulled that open to reformat the thing. I needed to unmount its two partitions first (a FAT32 and an ext3). Okay... did that through GParted since the option was there. NOTHING Happened; N

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-21 Thread Krzysztof Lichota
2008/8/20 Null Ack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm not convinced that the strategy of asking users to install > specialised debugging packages is the right way to go. I see a very > low hit rate with this working in practice. It is not surprising. Asking people to install multi-megabyte packages and re