Remote recovery suggestion, now with initial code

2008-05-31 Thread Andrew Sayers
We had a discussion in early May about creating a simple mechanism to make over-the-phone tech support easier. At the time, our (and especially my) focus was on recovery from a situation where X wouldn't start. I've put some time into the project since we talked about it, so if there's anyone out

Re: Remote recovery suggestion, now with initial code

2008-05-31 Thread Andrew Sayers
There's one serious security concern I have about the remote help assistant which I'm not sure how to work around: at present, it sends the helper's username in plaintext over the Internet, and strongly hints that they're running an SSH server. That's not a problem if you have proper security in p

Re: The future of packages.ubuntu.com regarding hosting

2008-05-31 Thread (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
Olá Thilo e a todos. On Wednesday 28 May 2008 20:01:26 Thilo Six wrote: > Strange. Am i really the only one who makes use of this service? nobody cares. > Anyway thanks for your (not existing) comments. i use it almost every week. -- BUGabundo :o) (``-_-´´) http://Ubuntu.BUGabundo.net Li

Re: The future of packages.ubuntu.com regarding hosting

2008-05-31 Thread Pau Garcia i Quiles
Quoting "(``-_-??) -- Fernando" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Olá Thilo e a todos. > > On Wednesday 28 May 2008 20:01:26 Thilo Six wrote: >> Strange. Am i really the only one who makes use of this service? >> nobody cares. >> Anyway thanks for your (not existing) comments. > > i use it almost every we

Re: Remote recovery suggestion, now with initial code

2008-05-31 Thread shirish
Hi Andrew, Its a good effort. As a user it would be nice if I could help other users. It would be nice if you could update the wiki page. A point I would like to make is for instance what you have put in Design paragraph [quote] On the friend's computer, a Python script will be used that dep

Unable to kill process after FF3 crashed

2008-05-31 Thread Matthias Andersson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi! I ran into this problem on my main machine - Firefox3 died (faded to grey in compiz) and stopped responding. I shut down FF3 and tried to restart it but that didn't work because there was another firefox running. On the command prompt I ran "ps -