Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Andrew Sayers
To be honest, I never really understood the focus on technological solutions to this problem. The user being monitored will always try to fight their way out of the box, and will often succeed (e.g. by downloading a live CD and using that). When you start locking down every avenue for "unauthoris

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:07 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > It seems to me that putting computers in shared spaces (e.g. the family > living room) encourages users to police themselves, as well as letting > everyone spend more time together. > And when you go out, your child will still head straigh

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Tony Brijeski
I agree. I've taken a different approach with my kids. I am educating them on the ills of society and the world in general so they can make sound decisions on their own. That isn't to say I let them do what they want but I want to prepare them from the world and not make the world change to s

Bug report

2009-01-28 Thread Andy Smith
The Ubuntu avast! Antivir found a virus in Zope! Magyar hibajelentés: Az Ubuntu "Synaptic" csomagkezelővel telepítettem a "Zope" programot. Mikor az avast! programot megnyitottam, frissítettem az adatbázist és megvizsgáltattam a Teljes fájrendszert "Standard" módban. Az avast! vírust talált a

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread richard
On Wed, 28 Jan 2009 16:56:06 + Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:07 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > > It seems to me that putting computers in shared spaces (e.g. the > > family living room) encourages users to police themselves, as well > > as letting everyone spend more

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 16:56 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:07 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: > > > It seems to me that putting computers in shared spaces (e.g. the family > > living room) encourages users to police themselves, as well as letting > > everyone spend more t

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Fergal Daly
2009/1/28 Mackenzie Morgan : > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 16:56 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: >> On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 10:07 +, Andrew Sayers wrote: >> >> > It seems to me that putting computers in shared spaces (e.g. the family >> > living room) encourages users to police themselves, as well as

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Brian Curtis
Parents rely too much on other parties to protect their kids, when they can do it themselves by checking logs and histories. If you really want to know what your kids are doing on the internet. Check out the history provided by firefox (the default browser in Ubuntu). If you want to know what yo

Re: Bug report

2009-01-28 Thread Bartlomiej Gerlich
This is a general trigger for broken MS Word file, the example Zope input file is apparently broken (?) thus triggering avast! and freezing OO writer when opening it.. This is not a virus of any sort as far as I can tell, just a false positive. On 1/28/09, Andy Smith wrote: > The Ubuntu avast! An

Upgrading with update-manager over remote GDM

2009-01-28 Thread Thomas Novin
(copying text from my LP bug[1]) Hello I was about to do a distribution upgrade from 8.10 latest to 9.04 alpha yesterday. I started it via a remote GDM session (which seems to run over SSH). I got a warning that the upgrade might fail and that a second sshd was started on port 9004. Well, probabl

Re: Upgrading with update-manager over remote GDM

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 22:07 +0100, Thomas Novin wrote: > (copying text from my LP bug[1]) > > Hello > > I was about to do a distribution upgrade from 8.10 latest to 9.04 alpha > yesterday. I started it via a remote GDM session (which seems to run > over SSH). I got a warning that the upgrade migh

Re: Upgrading with update-manager over remote GDM

2009-01-28 Thread John Moser
SILENCE! User made an error, and you obviously knew about it because you proceeded to warn the user, it is obviously YOUR FAULT and you will do SOMETHING about it, regardless of whether or not it's actually effective! On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Chris Coulson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at

Re: Upgrading with update-manager over remote GDM

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:31 -0500, John Moser wrote: > SILENCE! User made an error, and you obviously knew about it because > you proceeded to warn the user, it is obviously YOUR FAULT and you > will do SOMETHING about it, regardless of whether or not it's actually > effective! I don't really get

Re: Upgrading with update-manager over remote GDM

2009-01-28 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 22:36 +, Chris Coulson wrote: > On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 17:31 -0500, John Moser wrote: > > SILENCE! User made an error, and you obviously knew about it because > > you proceeded to warn the user, it is obviously YOUR FAULT and you > > will do SOMETHING about it, regardless

hwclock delaying boot...

2009-01-28 Thread Daniel J Blueman
owever, is there a good reason why they haven't been/can't be combined into a single script and invocation? Thanks, Daniel --- [1] http://quora.org/hive/jaunty-20090128-1.png -- Daniel J Blueman -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com M

Re: Upgrading with update-manager over remote GDM

2009-01-28 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2009-01-28 at 18:12 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > > I think he left off the tag. > Thanks, you're most likely correct :) Sorry, the sarcasm was lost on me, but that's probably because I'm grumpy ;) Regards Chris signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part --