Re: Delta debs / zsync (etc) discussions gone quiet?

2009-10-23 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On Fri, Aug 21, 2009 at 18:45, Lars Wirzenius wrote: > Indeed. Thanks for your notes, they are very useful. Finding and fixing > the problems is what I'm currently looking at. > > In the long run, it would be good to have checksums of .debs be done on > the uncompressed data, but that

Integrating release schedules into google calendar (.ics)

2009-09-27 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I'm sure there are lot of people who use .ics (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICalendar) . I use google calendar. It would be great if there was a standing RSS feed as well as the schedule that could trickle in my google calendar. I'm sure somebody may have already done it and/or documente

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 05:57, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:40:05PM +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> a. Lots of background services which are started by default. > > Background services are either doing something (in which case the user &g

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- 2009/9/22 Martin Owens : > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> The use-cases are unique to laptops and laptops in battery-mode. Any >> benefits on this are surely going to overlap with UNR as well. (as it >> suffers from similar const

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
in-line :- 2009/9/22 Martin Owens : > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 22:40 +0530, shirish शिरीष wrote: > >> The use-cases are unique to laptops and laptops in battery-mode. Any >> benefits on this are surely going to overlap with UNR as well. (as it >> suffers from similar const

Re: Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
at bottom :- On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 22:16, Martin Owens wrote: > On Tue, 2009-09-22 at 11:40 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote: >> If you google for ext4 and battery life you can find quite a bit of >> discussion about how the default filesystem configuration prevents the >> disk from being able to go

Ubuntu for laptops

2009-09-22 Thread shirish शिरीष
Hi all, I have a friend who has a ubuntu laptop . She was complaining that the OS eats her batteries more than Windows XP. A little searching around gave me many examples of this. For e.g. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/laptop-testing-team/2009-February/001239.html and http://hardware.s