Fwd: Hi,

Have you raised this with OSdisc? We're not OSDisc and we don't know what they actually sold you. Sent from a mobile device. Begin forwarded message: From: "Michael Bull" Date: 25 March 2010 01:06:21 GMT To: "Caroline Ford" Subject: Re: Hi, Hi, Thank yo

Re: Touch Screen Issues

Do programs generally work okay or does it depend on libraries etc? Sent from a mobile device. On 19 Mar 2010, at 17:53, Erik Andersen wrote: On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:23, Brian Murray wrote: On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 05:32:27PM -0700, Brandon Kuczenski wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

On 25 Oct 2009, at 15:09, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Or puts them out of a job? >> > > Likely we are talking about a small business here, so the decision > maker might be the top of the organization's food chain. But it might > get him sued, and thus out of a business. If it is a sole > proprietorshi

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

On 25 Oct 2009, at 13:03, Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Remco wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:22, Dotan Cohen >> wrote: >> The lack of tools will not prevent untrained users from doing things they don't know how to do, but having them can make them at least do >

Re: Huge instability and insanely large memory footprint in 9.04

2009/9/18 J. Lennard > Hi list, > > First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not > considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu > 9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64) using a > simple clean install. > > While the i

Re: libnm-glib0 in karmic

Please put bugs on the bug tracker - launchpad. This isn't it. 2009/9/24 Ondrej Lexa > Hi there, > > I just updated my karmic alpha6 (few minutes ago) and I realized that > network manager doesn't work (and my internet connection as well). I found > that nm-applet cannot load shared library from

Re: What about SLiM and tint2?

2009/9/23 rent0n > Loïc Martin wrote: > > Loïc Martin wrote: > >> rent0n wrote: > >>> Hello, > >>> I would like to know, if possible, the reasons why SLiM will not be > >>> present in the karmic release, since the SLiM team found a new > >>> mantainer and developpers and the project is still goin

Re: Apport Hooks Task Force

2009/9/20 Sense Hofstede > Hello, > Recently Brian Murray asked for more Apport hooks to be added to as many > packages as possible,[0] because of the choice for Apport as the preferred > way to report bugs. (For more information, have a look at the QATeam spec > [1]) > > The move away from the w

Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

What you need to do is work out the package name of the version in jaunty. I looked on packages.ubuntu.com and it ends with 0ubuntu6. This means that there is a maintainer in Ubuntu (and unusually not in Debian). it does seem that the fixed version is in karmic so we need to arrange a back

Re: Provide a GUI option in the installer to enable popcon

2009/6/23 Andrew Sayers : > Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> On Tuesday 23 June 2009 1:36:21 pm Siegfried-Angel wrote: >>> If I remember correctly there is already such an option in the installer. >> >> I think he wants it to be more prominent, not hidden behind "advanced", that >> way it gets more use.

Re: Ubuntu Gaming Team

Improving FOSS games at a distro level? Why not just participate upstream? Also are you going to work with the Debian games team and work on packaging? Caroline Sent from a mobile device. On 24 Apr 2009, at 09:33, Danny Piccirillo wrote: In recognition of the value of FOSS gaming, th

Re: CD burning: Audio, mixed, and MP3 CDs

I suspect gnome haven't got that far. Looks like only one main developer who has lost interest. Some talk on the thread about the underlying database and that it needs moving to something better such as sqlite. This discussion is on a rhythmbox list. I don't know if main gnome lists have

Re: Joysticks/joypads/etc information needed for Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex and later

If we really have broken everyone's joysticks it's bad that we've found out so late in the development cycle. I suspect we'll have some very unhappy gamers. Thanks very much for doing work on this. Caroline On 10/20/08, Loïc Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Stating with Ubuntu 8.10 In

Re: Combined status/logout/etc.

2008/10/11 Tony Yarusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I like it. First, after the various ideas about how to deal with the > logout dialogue, this is a solution that works well for me - even one > less click than before. Second, I really like the idea of desktop > integration stuff, and would like to se

Re: User Switcher, Shutdown Options, IM Status

2008/9/30 Tony Yarusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'll certainly add a vote against the new logout dialogue stuff. > Honestly, until I remembered this sort of thing being discussed in the > past I couldn't figure out how to shut down, since I haven't used the > System menu to do so for so long. (Incid

Re: F-spot 0.5.0.1 for Intrepid?

2008/9/27 Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > The current version of F-spot in Intrepid was released back in May. A new > version was released in the middle of September. > > Is there any hope of seeing this in Intrepid? Should I bother filing a > freeze exception request for it? We're in beta freeze. Wha

Re: readahead slow down

2008/8/28 Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/8/28 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Ubuntu (and also Fedora) are trying to make the boot of a system be the >> shortest possible, but on my system, readahead is adding up to 90 seconds to >> my boot time. >> I've attached my l

Re: PulseAudio integration issues

2008/8/20 Conn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 6:39 PM, Caroline Ford > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Flash and audacity? It sounds like anything people are likely to be >> using is broken. >> >> I think it's actually better

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008/8/20 Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > But there are also many crash reports where the retracers fail and we > dont have any testcase. You want those to stay open as well? But what do we do with these then? They are still bugs, and with some crashes we never seem to get a backtrace with

Re: PulseAudio integration issues

2008/8/20 Conn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > Feature Freeze is scheduled for Intrepid in eight days, and several > configuration issues relating to PulseAudio have not yet been addressed. I > feel it is very important to encourage some discussion and collaboration > towards fixing these issues

Re: Add Limewire to the Main respository.

2008/7/10 Trevor Schauls <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Limewire is a very popular PTP sharing software. This is the license for > it.http://wiki.limewire.org/index.php?title=Gnu There is a long standing needs packaging bug on this application. Not all the source is available which is the stum

Re: No "run" menu item?

2008/7/5 HggdH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> I've never actually seen a Windows user use it. They usually seem to >> prefer hunting through the Start Menu, except when tech support tells >> them to go to the Run thing and type "cmd" and hit Enter. > > Well, I have seen it in use, a lot of times. It

Re: Banshee by default in Intrepid

2008/6/8 Sebastian Breier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Am Sonntag, den 08.06.2008, 14:43 -0400 schrieb Darren Albers: >> If we use Banshee we can get rid of Sound Juicer and gain iPod support >> out of the box. If we use Banshee we can say to people: "Yes, your >> iPod or other digital music player wil

Re: Ubuntu beyond GTK apps?

2008/5/24 Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Op vrijdag 16-05-2008 om 13:49 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Kai > Schroeder: >> There is no good reason for the affirmative action being the rightmost >> button > > AFAIK this _is_ based on HI research (I guess it has something to do > with the way our e

Re: Brainstorm ML and Ubuntu's own summer of code?

2008/4/24 Nicolas Deschildre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I would also like to take this opportunity to introduce an idea that I > see as a natural follow-up to the Brainstorm website: an event similar > to the Google Summer of Code, that would be launched every development > cycle. Basically the

Re: merging keyboard & keyboard shortcuts capplets

2008/4/25 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > Note that reducing the number of items in System->Preferences is the > > 4th highest idea on Ubuntu brainstorm [3], and there are numerous > > related Launchpad bugs / wiki pages / blog posts / etc. [4][5], > > probably more if you dig deep enough... >

Re: Request for update to python-twisted package

Far too late for hardy, but doable for intrepid. Caroline 2008/4/22 Simon Pickles <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Please can I lodge a request for an update to the ubuntu package for > python-twisted. The ubuntu package is at version 2.5, which twisted is > at version 8.0.1, with many major imp

Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual

On 18/04/2008, Paul Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 14:53 -0700, George Farris wrote: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training > > > > This site has an Instructor and Student training manual for Ubuntu. The > > license says share and add to but not for commercial use. W

Re: Tux Paint on Gutsy

On 31/03/2008, Michael Petit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Caroline, > I am trying to install the package through the "Add/Remove > Applicaitons" interface from the standard build of 7.10 Ubuntu. The > version of Tux Paint that I am selecting is not stated in the GUI. The > GUI states "Tux Pa

Re: Tux Paint on Gutsy

On 31/03/2008, Michael Petit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have Gutsy running on 2 HP x4000's. Both clients have 2-2.4Ghz CPUs > and 4GB memory. My 5 year old loves the Tux Paint program. The first > client has Vista as the host OS and Gutsy running on top of VMWare > Server -- Tux Paint works

Re: Who wants to share their PPAs?

On 20/03/2008, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've seen a bunch at ppa.launchpad.net (ps. that shouldnt be open like > that, should it?), and add a few to try out. > Most seem to have stopped a few weeks to months updating... maybe when > their stuff got updated on hardy. Mi

Re: Hardware Database and Client - Dohickey

On 01/03/2008, Martin Owens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > http://dohickey.parsed.net/ > https://launchpad.net/dohickey > > What tasks do I need to prepare to get the dohickey client in the > official repositories? and if that's too much what are restrictions of > getting it into mul

Re: "Make sense" keymap to launch gnome-system-monitor?

On 07/02/2008, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The original argument about this went something like: > > > - Killing X is dangerous, and unknown to users from other OSes. People > hitting it by accident (trying to hit Ctrl-Alt-Delete, for example), can > cause damage to their systems etc. > >

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

On Tue, 2008-01-01 at 14:07 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > I still wouldn't call Gutsy the most unstable release I've used > though. That was Dapper, simply by virtue of being released right > around the same time my laptop was made. It didn't have time to get > proper hardware support for it.

Re: Tux Paint on Unbuntu Gutsy

gt; ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com mailing list (which is listed > as the "Maintainer" for these packages). Hopefully someone there will notice > and address the issue. > > In the meantime, you could always install from the source tarball off the > Tux Paint website! :^) &g

Tuxpaint - upgrade or not?

Hello. I don't know if this is the right list, please let me know if I should send this elsewhere. I'm involved in tuxpaint upstream and our current release 0.9.18 hasn't been packaged by Debian, which means that it hasn't been synced to Hardy. We'd obviously like our new version in hardy, especia

Re: GParted installed by default?

On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 11:59 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 04.12.2007 um 10:11 schrieb Jonas Jørgensen: > > > A normal/average user won't ever use GParted, nor will they ever use > > many of the other tools in System->Administration -- but that isn't an > > argument for not including those tool

Re: Easier and more reliable ISO downloads, with error correction

On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 17:14 -0500, Phillip Susi wrote: > Caroline Ford wrote: > > Some ISPs block bittorrent of course. Vodafone UK is one of them. I had > > great problems downloading openoffice.org for windows as they *only* use > > bittorrent as a distribution mechan

Re: Easier and more reliable ISO downloads, with error correction

On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 23:50 -0500, John Richard Moser wrote: > > Anthony Bryan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an > > XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file > > (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic er

Re: Gutsy's HAL is "broken".

On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 05:05 -0700, Scott (angrykeyboarder) wrote: This really belongs on the bug tracker not here. > X Error: BadDevice, invalid or uninitialized input device 171 > Major opcode: 149 > Minor opcode: 3 > Resource id: 0x0 What is this? Do you have any interesting hardware

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

We are strongly being advised NOT to leave things on standby here as it's bad for the environment. Caroline On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 23:46 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 27.09.2007 um 22:17 schrieb Phillip Susi: > > > Scott Kitterman wrote: > >> ReiserFS is effectively unmaintained. I've switche

Re: That need to close bugs?

And all the duplicates have closed - duplicates naturally don't have any further progress. I don't think 60 days is long enough either, but that's a different point. Caroline On Sat, 2007-09-22 at 10:38 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 12:58:25PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:

Re: The latest amd64 nightly desktop ISO is 730 megs

On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 07:37 +0300, Murat Gunes wrote: > Not many daily images end up oversized. If it were a substantial > percentage of all images, you'd have a point. With the current state of > things, people can wait a day, or two at worst, or use the image from a > day or two before (I think

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

Alec Wright wrote: > Is Creative Commons an acceptable lisence? Or is it incompatible with > the GPL because you have to give credit to the original authour? > > On 09/03/07, *Conrad Knauer * <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > Just to add a note to this thread, I just

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes > cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. This is a well known problem > and there have been a fair few reports of this problem listed on the > forums as well as within launchpad. One of the more re

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

t u wrote: > I mentioned this before regarding bug # 77289 [1] but wikipedia and > commons featured pics are nice places to look for background pics... > > [1] https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-calendar/+bug/77289 > Revive ubuntu-calendar > > thanks :) > > I uploaded some featured imag

Re: SPARC port (was Re: Technical Board decisions)

Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> Our documentation is confused (and bug reported..) >> > > I'm not sure where you filed this or which documentation you mean, but in > any case the documentation team would be a better place to discuss it: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > It was here - https://launchpad.net/bug

SPARC port (was Re: Technical Board decisions)

Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:42:38AM -0600, Chris wrote: > >> Matt Zimmerman wrote: >> >>> The Ubuntu Technical Board has made two technical decisions of which we >>> would like to inform the Ubuntu community. Both of these decisions concern >>> the upcoming 7.04 rele