Re: NaDa in repositories

2007-05-07 Thread t u
Matthew Paul Thomas wrote: > On May 7, 2007, at 5:19 AM, Alec Wright wrote: [...] >> This is the description of it: >> NaDa" is a new concept. A thought, really. It is very light : 1 byte. >> It doesn't take long to fetch. It doesn't take long to understand. It >> doesn't disturb your habits nor d

Dell, Microsoft, Novell

2007-05-07 Thread t u
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Did we (Ubuntu, Canonical) just join the Novell-Microsoft partnership indirectly? By accident? If Dell is going into that much-dreaded deal (according to this[1], it indeed is), and if Canonical is in partnership with Dell (through the sale of Ubu

Re: [RFC] ShipIt CD-RW

2007-04-18 Thread t u
Thilo Six wrote: >> If you give blank CD RWs with Ubuntu branding away some bad guy(tm) >> could put bad stuff on it and spread that. (That way the gpg chain >> is broken that took soo long to put up on mirrors.) That would be >> bad publicity for Ubuntu/Canonical. > i remember McDonalds had given

Re: kqemu

2007-03-18 Thread t u
Mikael Eriksson wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 06:59:54PM +, Alec Wright wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:01 +0100, Mikael Eriksson wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 03:54:35PM +, Alec Wright wrote: http://www.digg.com/linux_unix/The_QEMU_Accelerator_KQEMU_Module_is_Open_Source >>

Re: Firefox 2.0 in Dapper?

2007-03-18 Thread t u
Christoffer Sørensen wrote: > On 3/18/07, Mike Fedyk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> It is a big deal only because of the sheer volume of support requests >> repositories like this generate to ubuntu. > > Mozilla.com should really offer a deb for all major distros for all > their versions, IMHO. >

Windows CD has wrong label

2007-03-07 Thread t u
Hi, I imagine that fixing this wouldn't take too long (I apologize if I'm wrong). This is the bug report: https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/71119 Accordingly, both in Edgy and Feisty, the Windows LiveCD shows itself as Ubuntu 6.06. Can someone please fix it, it is fairly unprofessional (as in "hm

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

2007-03-06 Thread t u
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Ubuntu can have serious problem when installed on machines whose BIOSes > cannot read files past the 1023rd cylinder. I'd like to +1 _at least_ putting a warning to the release notes... It's a known and common-enough issue to warn people against it... -- Ubuntu-devel-di

Re: More Ubuntu Wallpapers

2007-03-05 Thread t u
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 :) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

try scanmodem on feisty?

2007-03-01 Thread t u
Hi, A request to devels as well as anyone with free time monitoring the list :) Can someone who is testing feisty on a machine with a winmodem test whether the scanmodem tool is working there and report their experience at the *bug report*? Bug report at https://launchpad.net/bugs/42454 It's not

forgotten ubuntu-calendar

2007-02-27 Thread t u
Hi, May be because it seems unimportant, or maybe because the artwork team is not happy that their efforts have been thrown away (I do *not* know, I'm speculating), this package is getting requests fro revival but no one is doing anything. If nothing ubuntu-specific will be done about the package

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-22 Thread t u
Anthony Yarusso wrote: > Jan Claeys wrote: >> On do, 2007-02-22 at 15:54 +0100, Ouattara Oumar Aziz wrote: >>> Should we do the same mistakes as in windows ? I think having a >>> password is better cause we should teach people about security >>> measures. and that gdm password thing's a pretty simp

Timezone change in US

2007-02-19 Thread t u
Hi, Please ignore if this was discussed before (though it seems not to be from the search results). I'm subscribed to Slackware security notices and they seem to have released an update to their system for the time zone changes in the US. I was wondering whether we received such an update ourselv

Re: Bug descriptions and titles.

2007-02-11 Thread t u
Robert Collins wrote: > Just a plea that we update bug descriptions and titles to be relevant - > it saves folk having to dig through the entire thread to get an idea of > whats wrong. For instance: > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/orbit2/+bug/67361 is a high > priority crasher, and something

Re: Kqemu is GPL

2007-02-06 Thread t u
Hervé Fache wrote: > May I suggest we add the kqemu module to our Feisty kernel? > I know it's late, but it would be a great thing to have... > > Hervé. I didn't know about kqemu being GPL'd. And having that module already in would be so great! I wonder whether we should report this as a bug or a

Re: BadVista action & BBC looking for Linux advocates in debate

2007-01-25 Thread t u
I got the attached email from the BadVista campaign but I think the following link might serve nicely to promote Linux: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6288119.stm "On the BBC web site in the technology section, the BBC is trying to find advocates for Windows, Mac OS and Linux to debate the

flash player 9 -don't include it in Feisty

2007-01-18 Thread t u
Hi, I usually don't write to tell stuff like this, but this is just unbearable... I was using Flash 7 & Fx 2 with Dapper and I was very happy. After the release of the interview with Torvalds, I updated to Flash 9 (after it was announced not to be a beta anymore). For the last two days, Fx crash

Re: Notifying end-users when support is no more

2007-01-01 Thread t u
Conrad Knauer wrote: > On 1/1/07, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] I think our end-users who do not like to go out of their way to learn about what's going on in the community could really use such a feature. [snip] At the least, if it is do-able, for desktop users,

Notifying end-users when support is no more

2006-12-31 Thread t u
Hi, Today, I booted to Windows after 4-5 months. Because of my switch to Linux, I have been behaving like an average Windows user, not going out of my way to protect the OS. A pop up appeared and told me that my AVG free anti-virus 7.1 will not be updated ever again after Jan 15th, and that I sho

Re: ubuntu-desktop metapackage - options?

2006-12-31 Thread t u
Christian Leber wrote: > On Sun, Dec 31, 2006 at 10:39:09PM +, Alec Wright wrote: > >> So what does everyone think? could this be acheived in fesity, or will >> we have to wait until feisty+1? > > I don't get it, why should somebody be annoyed by them? > They just use a few MB diskspace and l

Rearranging the DebuggingFirefox wiki page for users

2006-12-26 Thread t u
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I have been meaning to do this for a while now. The wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingFirefox is a nice place to provide as a source for firefox bug reporters to use while sending bug reports. I rearranged it so it is oriented towards bug reporters instea

Feisty breaking graphic card?

2006-12-25 Thread t u
Interesting, and scary: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=325209 (no, the OP there is not me) -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: [Spec winmodem-support] Winmodems need be supported out of the box

2006-12-19 Thread t u
Rich Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 19 December 2006 12:59, t u wrote: > | Matthew East wrote: > | > * Matthew Paul Thomas: > | >> On Dec 19, 2006, at 6:17 AM, Scott James Remnant wrote: > | >>> Specification changed by Scott James Remnant: > | >>> >

Re: [Spec winmodem-support] Winmodems need be supported out of the box

2006-12-19 Thread t u
Matthew East wrote: > Hi, > > * Matthew Paul Thomas: >> On Dec 19, 2006, at 6:17 AM, Scott James Remnant wrote: >>> Specification changed by Scott James Remnant: >>> >>> Approver: Colin Watson => Scott James Remnant >>> ... >> Hi Scott > >> The documentation team would like to know how modem

Re: Missing Documentation / Help Requests

2006-12-16 Thread t u
Freddy Martinez wrote: > I've been searching for support for a sound issue. Basically, I have a > TV tuner blocking my sound card output so I can't even get "aplay -l" to > give me output. I know this is the problem. I have had problems with > hardware recognition and in editable get lead to this p