"b"], ["c","d"])))
$ python3 porting_example.py
[('a', 'c'), ('b', 'd')]
See docs at http://python3porting.com/2to3.html
Porting Python 2 Code to Python 3 — Python 3.6.1rc1 documentation
https://docs.python.org/3/howto/pyporting.ht
* commands into one unified command,
auto-invokes sudo when necessary, and much more.
Cheers,
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On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 10:15:46PM +, Matt Wheeler wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2017, 18:21 Colin Law wrote:
>
> OK, I see where
more appropriate venues for the conversation.
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On Thu, Jun 02, 2016 at 03:33:59PM +0100, Sam Bull wrote:
> On Thu, 2016-06-02 at 14:35 +0200, Xen wrote:
> > The intention of the GPL is not really relevant.
> >
>
open up GRsecurity patches could buy commercial support:
https://grsecurity.net/business_support.php Elsewhere it has been said that
support cost $200, but perhaps that has changed.
Thanks for noting this, and I hope we find someone who can actually make this
happen, or file a legal case.
d-line tool". I thought by this part
> of the discussion it had became clear that it is not a
> sensible solution (except maybe if auto-scheduled).
+1
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On Tue, Nov 11, 2014 at 05:19:38PM -0500, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On Nov 11, 2014, at 11:48 AM, Neal McBurnett wrote:
>
> >I'm glad that python2 is in Debian and Ubuntu (do you know offhand which
> >releases?). Which distros is it still not supported in? Are they likely to
h distros is it still not supported in? Are they likely to catch up?
Do you see a path to a world where compliance with PEP 0394 is the right
approach, making the transition to python3 easier?
http://legacy.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0394/
Thanks,
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On Fri, Jun 06, 2014 at 02:46:46PM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
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> Neal McBurnett wrote on 02/06/14 20:49:
> > Is there anything in the official upgrade tools to remind users
> > about use of ppas, non-repo packages
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 02:18:52PM -0700, Dale Amon wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 01:59:23PM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > The appropriate way to deal with clear bugs is to report them in launchpad,
> > along with the necessary details like steps to reproduce, kind of har
On Mon, Jun 02, 2014 at 12:50:29PM -0700, Dale Amon wrote:
> The big must fix items:
> * Critical: lockups on lid closure
...
> And note that you really do have at least one bug in the
> backdrop and lock panel. I have thousands of aviation photos
> in ~/Pictures and it cannot deal with it, o
s or other
organizations, etc. It would help a lot if it didn't spew out too much
information, e.g. by combining warnings for a set of packages into an overall
warning about a particular desktop or suite of related packages with similar
upgrade issues.
Do things like that exist?
Cheers,
you should ask the supporters of
those repos and tools about how to do a clean upgrade.
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s to retain all their
superpowers without needless disruption. Specific bug reports related to those
goals are welcomed.
And lets all take a deep breath.
In...
Out...
Ahhh...
Thanks to all the volunteers and supporters that make Ubuntu possible!
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g to the Ubuntu Developer Summit, or digging in
to the aspect of Ubuntu where you could have the best leverage.
But this is not the place to address the concerns you have, at least in the way
you're trying to frame them.
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On Wed,
isturbing other customers.
Good list!
For what it's worth, I used Linux-based cyber cafe software
(workstation and presumably server also) at a cyber cafe near the
train station in Bansko Bulgaria in 2005. So there has been some
demand/availability :)
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of all the
component upstream development projects. We can always use new
testers, developers, and folks to get involved early in a release
cycle to look out for issues like this.
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Ubuntu-devel-di
bers (like dividing file
sizes by bandwidth units) to see how long something will take will get
results that are off by larger and larger amounts as we move from
kilobytes to terabytes.
It is certainly an improvement to make these things make sense.
We can argue about how to do it, who to work w
e an effect is to comment in the bug
reports, or in the blueprint, both of which help to preserve important
context.
See also the Gnome bug discussions:
storage units standard
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=309850
g_format_size_for_display() should use correct IEC units
http://bu
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:59:10AM +0800, Christopher Chan wrote:
> Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > I agree. More details and discussion are at this ifconfig bug report,
> > which came to the same conclusion:
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-too
. More details and discussion are at this ifconfig bug report,
which came to the same conclusion:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/net-tools/+bug/240073
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tt is right - complicated trademark issues leave us with two
options as described above.
For those that want to see the discussion, most of it is pointed to
in this long bug:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/firefox-3.0/+bug/269656
Rehashing it here won't be helpful - take it up directly with the
trying to get agreement to
use their anti-malware and anti-phishing web services, which is a
different thing.
Is there a better place to discuss the Ubuntu process and options with
those working on it? The bug is not the right place, and those
involved may not be subscribed to this list.
Nea
tributors.
But first I'd like to actually read the EULA, and I'm surprised no one
has posted the text of it (as far as I have found) to this discussion
or to the bug. Though the bug is so verbose now that I haven't
managed to read all the way thru, I must admit - but I didn't se
On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:34:49AM +0100, Matthew Paul Thomas wrote:
> Neal McBurnett wrote on 09/09/08 00:12:
> >...
> > It is common to focus on a fixed width design as "narrow", but for
> > many users the big issue is that it is "fixed". On a wide page
ign thwarts that plan.
So as earlier posters have said, what is wrong with keeping the
fluidity of the current design, letting the user choose how wide to
make their browser window, and thus how long their lines of text
should be? The rest of the design can match ubuntu.com, where
graphics and othe
ard. I think we
> can condense it so that there isn't whitespace between the two lines.
Yes - tighter would be my preference.
Beyond that - I definitely appreciate attention to updating the theme.
I like the smaller text. Thanks!
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ded specs along
the lines of
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEasyBusinessServer
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EboxSpec
Please join the Server Team and get involved!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam
Cheers,
Neal McBurnett http://mcburnett.org/neal/
> It is only a matter of time
t
for us to report issues to the hardware manufacturers and tell them
we'd like them to do open source development and testing if they want
folks to buy their hardware. If we all think "they'll just ignore me"
than no one will write to them and they'll think it i
untu/+source/php5/+bug/227464/comments/15
and a ppa version for Hardy in
https://edge.launchpad.net/~tormodvolden/+archive
Which all goes to show that searching the bug database first, or early
on in the conversation, would avoid a lot of messages
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Another thing that would help a lot is if launchpad could let us see
which blueprints have been _proposed_ for a sprint:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/blueprint/+bug/111610
which is a dup of
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/blueprint/+bug/66093
so we'd know we didn't have to du
words over unencrypted connections, or users will get used to
bypassing yet another set of dialogs and phishing will continue
scarcely abated.
E.g. how hard is it for folks to buy in to their own web of trust and
get e.g. all CACert certs accepted?
http://cacert.org
Neal McBurnett
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 08:15:32AM -0600, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> I think the "non-commercial" part is more complicated than most people
> think, and makes it less useful to both commercial and non-commercial
> use.
I've looked some more and here are some specifics
have to share modifications, and we
would all benefit - both the training community, and the whole Ubuntu
user and developer community - because it would be essentially a
win-win-win.
Neal McBurnett http://mcburnett.org/neal/
> Hope this clears any misunderstanding.
>
>
x27;s a hug for finally adding some *helpful* content to
this discussion. A bug reference - just what Todd so nicely asked
for!!
And thanks to all the developers who got us this far, and who make
things happen, and who try to learn from the past. Yeah, we're all
human.
Neal McBurnett
Competition
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/hash/
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 02:36:41PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Jan 28, 2008, at 5:28 PM, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> >Cryptographers are nervous about not only MD5, but also all the
> >functions in the same class, which include
list have to be approved by the moderator]
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 10:51:49PM -0500, Fabian Rodriguez wrote:
> Neal McBurnett wrote:
> | That ftpmaster key is already on installed systems, right? I would
> | think we could preinstall system keyrings and give instructions that
> |
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 05:20:52PM +, Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:28:48AM -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:
> > > (I'm all in favor of moving to SHA256 or whatever is considered best
> > > practice these days. I've just not heard that MD5 is re
hash
> > information based on trust roots that are (or should be) on your
> > system already.
> >
> > Neal McBurnett http://mcburnett.org/neal/
> >
> > > /Lamby
> > >
>
> Forgive me if i'm missing the obvious. Why should
not ship the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> key?
> If the MD5SUMS files are purely for validating downloads[3], could the
> completely useless/misleading GPG files be dropped?
They are far from useless - they are the only way to validate the hash
information based on trust roots that are (or should
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 03:02:28PM -0700, Kevin Fries wrote:
> > https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/krb5/+bug/159357
>
> Yep, saw that, and followed that thread. But I like many others have
> dnsdomainname working correctly, and it is still not working.
...
> Others in the forums rep
forums) led me quickly to this:
https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/krb5/+bug/159357
which gives more details on the root problem: dnsdomainname is not
finding the FQDN. For me, a gutsy install in which I gave it my FQDN
at install time properly put my FQDN in the /etc/hosts file,
ing we should encourage is that Ubuntu
users use Skype.
I've had success with ekiga. Removing it from main without a free
alternative would be a setback.
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ng lists send requests like
"subscribe" or "help" to the entire list, rather than to the
administrative address assocaited with the list. So the software
tries to filter that "administrivia" out so it doesn't spam the other
subscribers.
My guess would be to look f
creative new ways to
contribute is another. My own suggestions for contributors, both
developers and non-developers, is in a talk I did last month for the
Boulder Linux Users Group:
http://mcburnett.org/neal/talks/contribute_to_ubuntu.html
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er analysis is needed. And this issue has at
least one official blueprint:
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/prompt-for-fsck-on-shutdown
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoFsckspec
You can try AutoFsck:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoFsck
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noticing these standard ways
of getting information and doing configuration "The Ubuntu/Debian
Way". But I think these are just the sorts of things we want more and
more users to be aware of. Now, instead, people suffer with systems
that don't work the way they want, or hack config
nfigure
their systems with a nice graphical environment over the web. They
can do it either from a local browser or from another machine.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/EboxSpec
It uses the web because we shouldn't require servers to have the huge
set of (potentially dangerous) packages that are neede
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