Re: gaim-libnotify by default

2007-01-30 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Prieto wrote: > Hi, I already sent this message once but I'm not sure it got actually > posted on the list: > > >> This is a proposal to include the gaim-libnotify package in default >> ubuntu installs. >> >> People coming from windows are used t

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-22 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 thi

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-22 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Claeys wrote: > On do, 2007-02-22 at 13:40 -0500, Anthony Yarusso wrote: >> Jan Claeys wrote: >>> True, but I see at least one exception: young children don't know how to >>> enter a username & password. OTOH

Re: Idea: Restricted Formats in Examples?

2007-02-24 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alec Wright wrote: > In the examples folder (which there is a symlink to in ~/Examples), > there are some useful example files for trying stuff out, demonstrating > Ubuntu capabilities in several ways such as videos, music, images etc. > However, the m

OEM installer script, multi-use?

2007-08-10 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I was wondering if someone who helped develop the OEM install option (or is familiar with it) knows whether it can be re-used. ie, if you're leasing machines, can you send it out to a client, get it back after a while and just run the script again to

Re: OEM installer script, multi-use?

2007-08-14 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phillip Lougher wrote: > Anthony Yarusso wrote: > >> >> I was wondering if someone who helped develop the OEM install >> option (or is familiar with it) knows whether it can be re-used. >> ie, if you're leasing

Keyspan drivers

2007-08-14 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I recently purchased a Keyspan USB-Serial converter, and have been looking into what I would need to do to make it work in Ubuntu. The Keyspan site suggests compiling a new kernel; the wiki seems to say I can splice in a module without going to that e

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Waldemar Kornewald wrote: > On 9/30/07, Thilo Six <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> umount the partition and *then* run: >> $ sudo tune2fs -c 0 -i 1m /dev/hdXY >> >> that will reduce fsck period to once a month, regarless of bootcount. >> But do that on yo

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing - and current approach does not work very well in detecting defects!

2007-10-01 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I haven't looked at how it actually works yet, but the idea of being able to check the filesystem and/or blocks read-only while the system is running and only warn on error sounds fairly appealing. I imagine the implementation could look something lik

Re: UI for backports usage

2007-10-23 Thread Anthony Yarusso
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote: > On 10/23/07, Daniel Holbach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I had some discussions with John Dong and Jo?o Pinto and both >> acknowledged the fact that there's a need for installing just a >> select few backport packages