Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vasilis Kalintiris wrote on 28/01/09 03:31: >... > I believe that it would be very nice to offer the ability to parents to > monitor theirs children activity on PCs in a simple and easy way. After > all Ubuntu is a distribution that offers simplicity a

Re: hwclock delaying boot...

2009-01-29 Thread LaMont Jones
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:18:09AM +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: > Boot-charting jaunty-A3 [1] on my SSD system, we see both the > 'hwclockfirst.sh' and 'hwclock.sh' init scripts invoke 'hwclock > --hctosys --utc', being significant on the map. The two scripts are debian/ubuntu specific, and yes

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 29.01.2009 um 13:19 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: > I suggest instead taking up this issue with the companies that sell > computers with Ubuntu on it. If enough customers demand parental > control features, those companies may invest in implementing them, > precisely because they know vol

updated package from upstream questions...

2009-01-29 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Where there is no updated package pre-built in debian experimental, what's the process to take upstream code and contribute a proposed package? Also, how can we share this with Debian to reduce duplication? A good candidate example is dcraw 8.90, since 8.86 has subtly broken colour transformation

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread John Moser
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Andrew Sayers wrote: > 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 t