Hi folks
Umm -please forgive me, but you mention that removing the
Ctrl-Alt-Backspace three-key-salute was proposed for removal two years
ago... Has this been made absolutely clear to preinstall manufacturers
in time for them to print new manuals?
Also - I am running 8.04LTS, and I bought thi
Even if Alt+SysRq+K does work for you it will likely cause your console
(eg Alt F1-F6) to not work again until reboot, because it doesn't
cleanly shut down the xserver like C-A-B does. I used it once recently
after C-A-B was disabled by default and it worked well enough to get X
back but after that
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:37 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Saturday 14 February 2009 8:31:17 pm Mike Jones wrote:
> > But I've tried Alt+SysRq+K on many different computer systems I have
> > access to. It doesn't seem to do anything. Could you please explain what I'm
> > doing wrong? Or he
On Saturday 14 February 2009 8:31:17 pm Mike Jones wrote:
> But I've tried Alt+SysRq+K on many different computer systems I have
> access to. It doesn't seem to do anything. Could you please explain what I'm
> doing wrong? Or help me find out if I should file a bug report?
File a bug, then. D
a kernelspace way around this one.
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On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Remco wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
>> Can someone tell me how will I protect myself from fake login screens in
>> multi-user ubuntu setups? Even my office machine is multi-user!
>
> It took me a while to figure out what you m
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Can someone tell me how will I protect myself from fake login screens in
> multi-user ubuntu setups? Even my office machine is multi-user!
It took me a while to figure out what you meant by this, but yeah!
That's actually a pretty nasty
On Saturday 14 February 2009 5:43:20 pm Mario Vukelic wrote:
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:52 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> >
> > And *YOU* are missing the point that Ctrl+Alt+Delete on Ubuntu
> > *already* does what Windows does when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete but are
> > actually already logged in:
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:52 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>
> And *YOU* are missing the point that Ctrl+Alt+Delete on Ubuntu
> *already* does what Windows does when you hit Ctrl+Alt+Delete but are
> actually already logged in: it asks if you want to log out.
Nope it does not. The windows *kernel
This is what the kernel killswitch sysrq[1] key is for (but without
the security guarantees). If you read the documentation, it's very
much what you're after - killing all processes on the current VT, and
without the ability for people to remap it away.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysR
On Saturday 14 February 2009 12:54:03 pm Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> However, it seems to me that nobody is getting the point about fake
> login screens: if I am an *user* of somebody else's network, how can I
> protect myself from another *user* faking a login screen, used as the
> only running X
Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> However, it seems to me that nobody is getting the point about fake
> login screens: if I am an *user* of somebody else's network, how can I
> protect myself from another *user* faking a login screen, used as the
> only running X application, and stealing my password?
On 14/02/2009 Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
>
> However I give up: it seems to me that nobody is going to admit this
> is
> changing something important in the security of multi-user systems,
> even
> though this seems very obvious to me, so please excuse me for the
> intromission, and do whatever
2009/2/14 Peteris Krisjanis :
> 2009/2/14 Vincenzo Ciancia :
>> On 14/02/2009 Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>>> As others said, more than once in this thread, the change is
>>> reversible.
>>> There will be a package to install so you don't have to edit your
>>> xorg.conf.
>>
>> I will keep myself infor
On 14/02/2009 Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
> You have evidence that such scenario could happen or even is happened?
> Or you just speculate? Anything can be faked in this world, specially
> on computers.
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE can't be faked, I believe. Whatever else you can
fake, you have to do it under
Hello. I downloaded latest Ubuntu at last July/August
but still I'm missing GTK 2.0 development environment.
Full list of the current missing packages are at the end.
Some of the packages were claimed to be in the DVD but they
were not. I'm unable to install the now-latest Ubuntu,
please patch the
2009/2/14 Vincenzo Ciancia :
> On 14/02/2009 Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>> As others said, more than once in this thread, the change is
>> reversible.
>> There will be a package to install so you don't have to edit your
>> xorg.conf.
>
> I will keep myself informed but I expected that ubuntu-devel-di
On 14/02/2009 Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
> As others said, more than once in this thread, the change is
> reversible.
> There will be a package to install so you don't have to edit your
> xorg.conf.
I will keep myself informed but I expected that ubuntu-devel-discuss was
also a place to discuss t
Vincenzo Ciancia escreveu:
> I see, but did I miss the thread or why such big changes are not
> publicized in early stages? Announces of the planned changes or
> something like that? Is there some web page I should monitor that will
> explain the planned changes for jaunty+1? I may be just ignor
Hi,
I suddenly noticed the spec for upgrading GDM[1] to the awesome new
version. Excellent! I've been running gdm-new from a PPA for a while
now. It may not do themes, but that is easily offset by the fact that it
looks like the rest of my desktop already and has really smooth
animations. I could
Mario Vukelic ha scritto:
> On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:18 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
>> I see, but did I miss the thread or why such big changes are not
>> publicized in early stages?
>
> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty ?
>
>
Fine, I did not know. Will look at the blueprints f
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 16:18 +0100, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> I see, but did I miss the thread or why such big changes are not
> publicized in early stages?
https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/jaunty ?
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Scott Kitterman ha scritto:
> On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:24:32 +0100 Vincenzo Ciancia
> wrote:
>> I typically am the guy that persuades friends using linux that the new
>> *DEFAULT* choices ubuntu makes in every release are good even though
>> they look like evil. But this time I don't really have
On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:24:32 +0100 Vincenzo Ciancia
wrote:
>I typically am the guy that persuades friends using linux that the new
>*DEFAULT* choices ubuntu makes in every release are good even though
>they look like evil. But this time I don't really have a justification.
>
Vincenzo,
You will
Hello.
I'm interested in Ubuntu project. The only thing which anoy me a lot is a
Debian package management system, especially apt and aptitude.
There is a info in Ubuntu wiki about Smart package manager and it development
funded by Canonical. Thee is also mentioned, that smartpm
will replace apt
On 13/02/2009 Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> The fact is, many things are easier to fix afterwards.
> Particularly because that's the only time you'll find people
> motivated enough to bother about it. If you were to need to fix
> everything before-the-fact, nothing fundamental would
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