soft but I can't do it because I am not an important
> person in the linux world.
Microsoft is a platinum member of the Linux Foundation (meaning they
pay a larger membership fee than Google). "Defeat Microsoft" is not a
project/goal they will accept...
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al too, I anyway removed it and will stay with Roxterm
> for several reasons.
ROXTerm is just re-using the VTE terminal widget that was written as
part of GNOME Terminal, of course, and VTE has supported this for a
very long time.
Maybe you should start thanking the bloatware desktop environme
Flash plugin; (most?) other video
players don't show this behaviour...
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e "Recently used" location in the Nautilus sidebar to jump
back to a recently used file/location
@Johan: are the above methods not sufficient for your use case(s)?
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rs, and
donated to us a couple of years ago) capable of running Unity 3D in the
event boxes of our locoteam, which will become obsolete or at least
difficult to use because of this, so I feel your pain... :-/
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to know why you are working without getting anything in return,
either money (a paid job) or certificates (e.g. a school, or an open
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nd a little bit of extra traffic... ;-)
Another idea: why not do an IPv6-only day at UDS to test what works and
what not? If the infrastructure allows that of course...
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the Ubuntu websites, the main archive/download
server, and many mirrors don't support IPv6 currently...
When you do an IPv6-only install (and you have no local mirror), it
would be nice if an IPv6-capable mirror is configured in
sources.list ;)
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> other french-speaking nations are likely to have different
> requirements as well. Whatever default layout is choosen is bound to
> make people unhappy ;)
The solution is simple: let people choose their keyboard layout *before*
starting partitioning, as it was in older versions of the i
Scott Kitterman schreef op di 26-04-2011 om 14:14 [-0400]:
> Jan Claeys wrote:
> >John Rowland Lenton schreef op do 21-04-2011 om 18:23 [+0100]:
> >> * recently we had to upgrade couchdb in lucid for replication to work,
> >> and the upgrade broke replication with the
example name) which installs in a different
location/namespace and doesn't interfere with the LTS version of it?
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om the official repositories and moved
into the "extra" repositories to make it easier to follow your release
schedule).
PS: I don't have anything to say about this, just trying to help you,
your project *and* Ubuntu... :)
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we all will have fun!
[1] For those who don't know FOSDEM: it's probably the biggest
non-commercial community-organised event for developers of Free Software
& Open Source. http://fosdem.org/2011/
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Phillip Susi schreef op vr 07-01-2011 om 15:30 [-0500]:
> On 1/7/2011 12:46 PM, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Actually, NTFS does support ownership & permissions, but it's somewhat
> > complicated to configure/use it like that.
>
> MS reserved space to hold a posix uid/g
ure/use it like that.
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se _might_ be solved in cdrtools 3.0 (released in June 2010) as
upstream claims that most code in it is now CDDL-licensed (seems like
only mkisofs and libhfs_iso are still GPL).
And in case mkisofs is still an issue, would it make sense to only
distribute the other tools?
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possible, and in some cases it would significantly bloat them or
(partially) duplicate existing scripting functionality (that can't be
removed for backwards compatibility or because it has more/other
features).
The first thing to do if you
to 10.04.x?)
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Op zondag 11-04-2010 om 11:12 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Jérôme
Bouat:
> Nowadays are the screens mostly lcd/led with fast resume.
Turning on an LCD screen that's connected with an analog cable might
take several seconds to "settle".
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Op vrijdag 19-03-2010 om 11:19 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Rene
Veerman:
> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 10:44 AM, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op donderdag 18-03-2010 om 19:14 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Rene
> > Veerman:
> >> i'm getting a bit tired with nautilus' 90&#x
IDE (which is intended to become an alternative to Delphi)
seems to be developing quite slowly because of a lack of contributors...
> aswell as a strong inclination towards easy-to-read code.
That sounds a lot like Python though... :-)
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ade could double the work required
> to produce a deb,
How will you revert all people's configuration & data (e.g. files
created with an incompatible new file format)?
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t; avahi-daemon.conf" which, after pressing //enter// results in an
> "unknown job" message.)
That sounds like the lack of a specialised bash-completion function?
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Op zondag 07-03-2010 om 14:27 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Martin
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> On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:22 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > The problem with most open source accounting apps is that they don't
> > support local (country-specific) requirements, or they need extensi
banks, etc.).
IOW: every serious accounting application will need a dedicated company
behind it... (or multiple companies if you want to go international).
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Op zondag 29-11-2009 om 00:47 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef John
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> There are also algorithms for extracting the password from XP as
> well...
XP passwords are compared to hashes, and you can't extract the password
from a hash.
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(Always over a secure tunnel, of course.)
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Well, I got a "We're sorry the video you've selected cannot be streamed
outside of Canada" movie, so it seems to work on linux too... ;-)
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ds better documentation (howtos etc.) & promotion? ;-)
And I mean howtos that also explain how to integrate it with all the
other stuff.
Or maybe those exist, but nobody knows them? Then it needs better
marketing... ;)
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> I take it no one has any issues with web based GUI tools?
That's one obvious way to do it, although real GUI tools (if designed
well) can offer better usability than WebUI tools.
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on and the right button).
I think the Super+Scrollwheel is okay (and more discovarable), but maybe
the Super+MiddleClick isn't as useful?
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run on a server, but on the admin's (or
pseudo-admin's) desktop. Using a secure connection to the server, of
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Op donderdag 27-08-2009 om 12:59 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Paul
Smith:
> If it wasn't one of the most well-known programs in the
> world would you guess that "Quicken" was a program for handling your
> finances?
Well... it's printed on the paper box you bou
> control of audio devices via D-Bus.
I don't really use JACK myself, but get questions/complaints about this
regularly, so how well does this coordination via d-bus work now?
E.g. is automatic rerouting from PA->ALSA to PA->JACK->ALSA possible
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a simple bug or security fix causes a
regression that is only detected after releasing it. Maybe apport & the
Xorg failure script could even offer the user to downgrade to a previous
package version in some cases?
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Op zaterdag 25-07-2009 om 11:36 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef dan:
> The custom search is quite annoying and intrusive. I've resorted to
> using the binary download.
Eh, you know that you can add/remove whatever search engine you want,
don't you?
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Op zaterdag 25-07-2009 om 13:22 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Siggy
Brentrup:
> I don't know these Chinese Loongson chips,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loongson
I guess they are more or less comparable to the similar recent chips
used in the ARM netbooks that Ubuntu supports...
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> On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 04:00 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Last time I checked, Thunderbird didn't support that very well--while
> > that bloody incomplete non-working one that comes with Ubuntu
g their working
hours, so they get paid to work on Debian. But that's not the same as a
contract between a supplier & a client of course; they have no
obligation to work on $SOMEBODY's problem (unless $SOMEBODY is their
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Op vrijdag 17-07-2009 om 15:39 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef solaris
manzur:
> of course mouse cursors
There are also cursors in databases for example:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cursor_(databases)
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Debian unstable & experimental are updated all the time, so as long as
the Debian maintainer keeps the package up-to-date, there will be a new
version every 6 months in Ubuntu too?
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gs (as in the "C" locale) if a translation is missing. Those
original strings are English in most cases (maybe even all packages in
the repositories?), but they don't *have* to be (except if you want your
application to be POSIX compatible).
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unimportant...).
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any sysadmins don't know
that network speeds use base10; that means they routinely overestimate
the available bandwidth. ;-)
Use whatever base you want (preferably what is custom in your field of
expertise), but make it explicit what you use by using the correct
multiplier symbols.
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bandwidth). Standardizing on one or the other would be bad for several
reasons.
But at least let's use correct symbols to go with the chosen multiplier
system... ;-)
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Op maandag 01-06-2009 om 12:03 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef Christopher
Chan:
> Stop changing age old conventions.
kilo = 1000 is in fact ages older than kilo = 1024 :P
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Caché? (Some years ago I followed an unrelated course where a Caché
manager was a teacher, so I know at least a bit about what it is ;) )
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s they're
> willing to share.
It might me useful, but a workaround for a bug that works fine on a
specific set of Dell systems doesn't necessarily work well on all other
systems. I'm sure they are happy to provide such test results anyway,
as not doing so would cost them more than sha
stalled a full GNOME-based Ubuntu 4.10 desktop
on a Pentium MMX system with 64 MiB RAM... ;)
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eneral those systems might not see
the same sort of use that people's "main" computers see.
And to be honest, I don't see how we can make more people use alpha
versions on their "I need this for work" system...
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serts & commits might be a good example)
* an expensive syscall, preferably one that locks out the other
processes wanting to access the same kernel/system resource
Now try again... ;)
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compiling or writing a plugin). Would
> somebody please point me in the right direction?
I think it's best to ask upstream for help with implementing it.
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This sounds like something that might be useful for the live-CDs
http://syslinux.zytor.com/wiki/index.php/Hdt_(Hardware_Detection_Tool)
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Op vrijdag 01-05-2009 om 03:32 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Philip
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> On Fri, 2009-05-01 at 03:36 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op woensdag 29-04-2009 om 11:51 uur [tijdzone +0100], schreef Philip
> > Wyett:
> > > - I have been subscribed since yesterday
e power for an application that runs forever though, which
is what Evan wants (running a BOINC client).
Seems like a good use-case to me; any (almost) perpetual background-task
should not scale up the CPU frequency. How to implement that behaviour
is up to the linux devs though... ;)
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Op vrijdag 24-04-2009 om 09:08 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Danny
Piccirillo:
> Alright, i'll bottom-post for you =]
Now also try to snip away irrelevant text from what you quote. ;-)
That makes it much faster to read mail!
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8.10 i386 VM, but Vitualbox wont
> handle the USB connections through it.
> It should but without the use of a printer I'm stuck
You can print using you host system as a "network printer" if you want
(you need to enable that in the host system's printer configuration
firs
ug in LaunchPad?
If not, then please do so, that way it doesn't get forgotten.
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gt; I manually checked every file in /ect/apt looking for the debian
> entries and could find nothing.
Did you install anything like ia32-apt-get ?
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; is almost used as a synonym for digital audio these days--see how
an iPod is called an "mp3-player" despite its primary format being AAC.)
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> but I do remember 5 Ubuntu servers being compromised
> less than 2 years ago because they weren't getting their updates.
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/loco-contacts/2007-August/001510.html
5 *locoteam* servers. ;)
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> On Mon, 2009-04-06 at 07:27 +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Maybe delaying upgrades until shutdown *is* the right
> > solution?
>
> There are a couple of other issues with that.
>
> 1.
Op maandag 06-04-2009 om 00:43 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Mackenzie
Morgan:
> On Sunday 05 April 2009 11:55:10 pm Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Actually, a running firefox shows you a warning and a restart button (or
> > at least it did?) if it's older than the on-disk version. I g
the time to block updates that contain serious bugs (like
breaking X or such).
24h after the release of a security patch in Ubuntu is on average still
at least 14 days before the release of a similar patch in Windows... ;)
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and a restart button (or
at least it did?) if it's older than the on-disk version. I guess
that's part of the ubufox extension?
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Op zondag 05-04-2009 om 09:40 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Luka Renko:
> On Sunday 05 April 2009 08:21:53 Jan Claeys wrote:
> > I reported a crash in Synaptic yesterday:
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/synaptic/+bug/355415
> >
> > Now, the "Apport r
nd I think it
might be useful to have a look at the invalidated bugs reported against
those packages...
PS: I'd be happy to file a bug about this, but I'm not sure where to
file it (launchpad, apport-retrace, somewhere else?).
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speed, hard disk & filesystem speeds, network speed & mirror
server speeds. And some of these parameters may fluctuate/change
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ppose update-manager doesn't pull this info from launchpad directly
because that could easily result in an unintentional DDoS.
But like you say, this information should be made available to
update-manager (and the new app) *much* *much* faster.
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ing that, from my point of view, is a single task.
*If* installing runs in parallel with downloading, then there should be
an indication that downloading is ready, so that people who pay their
internet per time unit can drop the connection.
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> other details, refer to the SuspendResumeTesting wiki [3].
>From what I can see on the wiki, these tests won't work for a desktop,
right? Might be useful to mention that, next time...
Even better, make sure tests scripts don't depend on built-in power in
the future.
Or do you
I forgot I use a different e-mail address for the list, so it might not
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don't follow standards doesn't mean they
aren't useful. It just means they should be enforced better.
We don't want to go back to the time when an "inch" (or a "zoll" in
German) meant something different in every other village, don't we?
(1 Gbit/s) respectively.
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Op donderdag 26-03-2009 om 11:42 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Mackenzie
Morgan:
> Yep, its 10 mbit internet
I hope you mean 10 Mbit/s, not 10 mbit/s... ;)
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out bursting into giggles or groaning in
> > despair :-)
> It isn't SI, it's IEEE
I think it's IEEE, CIE & ISO now (although I can't be sure about ISO as
it's not freely available, but IIRC there is something mentioned in the
table of contents that is public
> Reports so far have been extremely positive. With additional feedback,
> we can finally put the linux task of bug 330814 to rest.
I've just installed it and will test after my next reboot.
> Thanks for understanding and testing!
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OEM usability study...
Conclusion: I hope Canonical does everything possible to explain
psychology 101 to their OEM partners. :-P
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currently it's just wasting my panel space with duplicate info.
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72 inch).
TeX uses 1 pt = 1/72.27 inch = 351.5 µm (which is an older, but more
"official" definition than the 1959 one).
And to make things even more complicated, in Europe the last official
definition (in 1975) of a "didot point" was 375.000 µm. ;)
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Now seriously, I agree that we need 'update-notifier' back, or at least
the part that displays the "there are new updates" and "you need to
reboot" icons.
If I have to change an option somewhere to get them that's okay, but
just like you *I want to see this _very i
s" of Smart is
currently...
> I suppose ubuntu will adopt Packagekit as a default front-end for
> package management system.
AFAIK PackageKit is too simple for that, and the default front-ends will
still be update-manager, gnome-app-install and (for more advanced usage)
synaptic.
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>
> You need 'apturl' installed.
And you can install that by clicking apt://apturl ? :-P
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d/resume alongside makes code changes in it so painful)
The main problem is probably changing video modes. Maybe the new
kernel-based modesetting in recent drivers might help here though?
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equired characters) without these.
>
> Please let me know if I need to approach anyone else for inclusion of
> this patch, and whether I need to submit it upstream.
You might want to file a bug in launchpad and attach the patch there too
(that way it doesn't get lost).
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with IE it certainly is
far from trivial...
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quot; menu item either.
Also, why would you use the Start-->Run menu item in Windows if you can
use Win+R as well...? ;-)
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s doesn't mean that they should have to.
> It is a time consuming process, and users should be able to assume that the
> default configs are at least coherent and behave as advertised in comments,
> etc.
AFAIK the default config is that this "laptop-mode" is disabled...?
r at least "undesired" on Windows (and most of their reasons
are similar to why distros want you to use their package management...).
I think solutions like InstallShield will become more and more some sort
of an IDE for installer development that outputs installer packages for
differe
Libet for most of my music playing, as it is the
only player that allows me to easily find the music I'm looking
for... ;-)
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me problems last time I used it, but the explanation about how
to do more or less the same as UCK on the wiki worked fine...
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Op dinsdag 03-06-2008 om 02:36 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Alexander
Sack:
> On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:39:36AM +0200, Jan Claeys wrote:
> > Op vrijdag 30-05-2008 om 16:39 uur [tijdzone +0200], schreef Valent
> > Turkovic:
> > > I was amazed how good "Plugin finder s
tary and open flash
> plugins.
I got some complaints about it though: it doesn't tell users what the
advantages and disadvantages of those plugins are.
(Being free is nice, but if a plugin doesn't work 90% of the time,
that's worthless for most end-users...)
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