Deprecating slocate for desktop users?

Hi, Are there still grounds for keeping slocate in cron.daily for desktop users? At least I'm annoyed by it running on my computers every day, and I always either remove it or move it to cron.monthly for the occasional use. Still, I think there is no GUI for it anyway, and everyone's home dire

Re: VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

On 02/01/2008, Jonathan Musther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I agree, we don't have any usage stats. Although I was defending VOIP, I > don't know of anybody who has successfully used Ekiga. Wengo is a > possibility (I've been trying it) and it supports IM protocols too so you > can use it for go

Re: VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Jan 1, 2008 8:45 PM, Jonathan Musther <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > I agree, we don't have any usage stats. Although I was defending > VOIP, I don't know of anybody who has successfully used Ekiga. > Wengo is a possibility (I

Re: Team TODO pages

On Nov 29, 2007, at 10:05 AM, Daniel Holbach wrote: ... A page worth looking at is http://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/TODO - it includes https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/WeeklyTODO which has a neat table overview over what's going on. The color code is derived from the release schedule pa

Re: Failure starting X on hp 6715s laptop, ati x1250 graphics card, with alpha2

Pär Lidén gmail.com> writes: > /etc/gdm/failsafeXserver: line 47: [: too many arguments > Warning: Could not retrieve EDID because get-edid is not installed (1) > open_sock(): Permission denied > : error: this program dows not know how to configure the "10 > shared/default-x-server doesn't exist X

Re: Failure starting X on hp 6715s laptop, ati x1250 graphics card, with alpha2

Ok, good to know, thank you very much! /Pär 2008/1/2, Tormod Volden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Pär Lidén gmail.com> writes: > > /etc/gdm/failsafeXserver: line 47: [: too many arguments > > Warning: Could not retrieve EDID because get-edid is not installed (1) > > open_sock(): Permission denied > >

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

Well, maybe there should be two different versions of the LTS release: One for the home-users where the applications are upgraded And another for corporate use, where they are not. /Pär 2008/1/1, Joel Bryan Juliano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 12/31/07, Evan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

On Jan 2, 2008 11:21 AM, Pär Lidén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, maybe there should be two different versions of the LTS release: > One for the home-users where the applications are upgraded > And another for corporate use, where they are not. > > /Pär > > 2008/1/1, Joel Bryan Juliano <[EMAIL

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

2008/1/2, Jon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Jan 2, 2008 11:21 AM, Pär Lidén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Well, maybe there should be two different versions of the LTS release: > > One for the home-users where the applications are upgraded > > And another for corporate use, where they are not. > >

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

Pär Lidén wrote: > Well, maybe there should be two different versions of the LTS release: > One for the home-users where the applications are upgraded > And another for corporate use, where they are not. > > /Pär As its been said many times before on this subject, having backports enabled accompli

Re: VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

On Jan 2, 2008 6:23 AM, Fergal Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If your setup is relatively straight-forward or you are able to open > ports on your firewall then you don't have be SIP expert to get it > working - I know nothing about SIP I got it to work by following the > docs, > I'm going to

Re: VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

On 02/01/2008, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 2, 2008 6:23 AM, Fergal Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If your setup is relatively straight-forward or you are able to open > > ports on your firewall then you don't have be SIP expert to get it > > working - I know nothing

Re: VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

On Jan 3, 2008 2:02 AM, Fergal Daly wrote: > Then I'm not sure how you got any of the other SIP clients to work. As > I understand it, unless the machine yon which you are running the SIP > client has a publicly accessible IP address, you will not be able to > use SIP unless you have a way to twidd

Re: VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

On 02/01/2008, Emmet Hikory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 3, 2008 2:02 AM, Fergal Daly wrote: > > Then I'm not sure how you got any of the other SIP clients to work. As > > I understand it, unless the machine yon which you are running the SIP > > client has a publicly accessible IP address, y

Re: VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 17:39 +1300, Jonathan Musther wrote: > I've just been trying it for IM, you're right, it doesn't stand up - > but it is better than Ekiga for VOIP stuf, or seems to be based on my > early impressions. I also agree with your assessment of pidgin. I use Ekiga all the time wit

Re: VOIP: ekiga, wengophone, twinkle (was What is 'administrivia')

Most Clients for X program just us UPnP these days, so most people are understandably spoiled by it. On Jan 2, 2008 12:02 PM, Fergal Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/01/2008, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 2, 2008 6:23 AM, Fergal Daly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: LVM on hardy's live installer?

Op dinsdag 01-01-2008 om 12:28 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Mackenzie Morgan: > On Jan 1, 2008 7:14 AM, Lex Hider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there any plans to enable LVM for the live cd installers for > > hardy? > > The Alternate CD has, as far as I'm aware, always had it, but I don't > t

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

Op dinsdag 01-01-2008 om 14:07 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Mackenzie Morgan: > Couldn't there be a LUM (linux-updated-modules) > compiled for LTS to add support for newer hardware? It's called 'linux-backports-modules' and is available since "gutsy". -- Jan Claeys -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss m

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

oh cool. I didn't see that on the Gutsy release notes. Well, that doesn't help Dapper users, but for Hardy it should be very useful. On Jan 2, 2008 7:20 PM, Jan Claeys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Op dinsdag 01-01-2008 om 14:07 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Mackenzie > Morgan: > > Couldn't ther

Re: Strawman: Change the Ubuntu Release Cycle

On Wed, 2 Jan 2008 17:21:14 +0200 "Pär Lidén" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Well, maybe there should be two different versions of the LTS release: >One for the home-users where the applications are upgraded >And another for corporate use, where they are not. I've been following this thread and am cu

Re: LVM on hardy's live installer?

Jan Claeys wrote: > Op dinsdag 01-01-2008 om 12:28 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Mackenzie > Morgan: >> On Jan 1, 2008 7:14 AM, Lex Hider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there any plans to enable LVM for the live cd installers for >>> hardy? >> The Alternate CD has, as far as I'm aware, always ha

Re: LVM on hardy's live installer?

On 03/01/08 12:29, Lex Hider wrote: > Jan Claeys wrote: > >> Op dinsdag 01-01-2008 om 12:28 uur [tijdzone -0500], schreef Mackenzie >> Morgan: >> >>> On Jan 1, 2008 7:14 AM, Lex Hider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Is there any plans to enable LVM for the live cd installers for