On Tue, 2008-10-07 at 10:25 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> > 9. In the Command box, type syndaemon -d -t -i 2.
> > Note: In this example, 2 represents the number of seconds to
> > disable the mouse pad after the last character has been typed.
does this turning on and off affe
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 03:11 +, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 05:01:33PM -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2008/10/29 16:28 (GMT-0400) Phillip Susi composed:
> >
> > > How exactly is mc vital to fixing a broken X?
> >
> > It's vital to fixing broken __, __, __, __
On Thu, 2008-10-30 at 16:50 -0400, Martin Owens wrote:
> > Firefox is a special case. Because of Mozilla Corp's trademark policy
> > Ubuntu cannot ship Firefox and call it Firefox unless Mozilla has approved
> > all the changes in the package. If you have a problem with Firefox, I
> > think yo
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 13:07 +0100, Robert Entner wrote:
> I could also think about something like:
> apt-get remove
>
> Or is this already possible somehow?
>
You can do this easilly with aptitude's TUI. Open
sudo aptitude
and navigate in the menu interface to the Installed Packages line. Th
Richard,
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 19:56 +, richard wrote:
> Hi All
>
> As g95 has been dropped, and one package I use needs g95 to compile, it
> wont compile with gfortran, I'm trying to compile g95.
Have you tried asking in #gfortran in freenode? They helped me compile
something when I was in
On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 09:47 -0600, Luke L wrote:
> On a practical note, it isn't as if this ML is getting flooded with
> hundreds of messages of traffic a day. For those who could benefit
> from the technical discussions and user input, I don't see why someone
> would disconnect themselves from th
On Fri, 2008-11-21 at 19:42 +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> 2008/11/21 Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> > For removable drives, once the kernel supports uid=/gid= options for
> > hfs+ (Mac) and ext3 (other Linuxes), they can be trivially applied
> > automatically in hal if a device i
On Thursday 04 December 2008 15:07:14 Odysseus Flappington wrote:
> 2008/12/4 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I'm not sure what you mean by s2both.
>
> I'm talking about the Use Case in the spec that says: "A user puts the
> computer to sleep on battery, but then forgets about it. The
On Thursday 04 December 2008 18:31:27 nergar wrote:
> Will this work? I currently have 4 machines running Ubuntu, only 1
> suspends correctly, another suspends but audio and wireless stop working
> and none can hibernate.
>
You should check for existing bug reports and see if your specific case fi
Peter,
Disclaimer: I'm a regular user, not a Ubuntu developer, nor affiliated with
Canonical in any form.
I also think further replies should be directed to the ubuntu-users list [1].
Please subscribe to that list if you need further help on this.
On Tuesday 23 December 2008 18:02:15 Evan Dand
Scott,
Scott James Remnant escreveu:
>
> For those that need utmost stability, we have Long Term Support releases
> every couple of years; we put extra effort into bug fixing for these,
> and try to avoid any large subsystem changes.
>
and yet, pulseaudio was introduced in Hardy, the LTS releas
Vincenzo Ciancia escreveu:
> I see, but did I miss the thread or why such big changes are not
> publicized in early stages? Announces of the planned changes or
> something like that? Is there some web page I should monitor that will
> explain the planned changes for jaunty+1? I may be just ignor
On Thursday 05 March 2009 18:15:39 Daniel T Chen wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> > could sync with Ubuntu. Wouldn't the appropriate way to address this be
> > to have a PDA-syncing application that could work with their Nokia,
> > Apple, Google, RIM, and yes, Palm, devices?
On Tuesday 17 March 2009 10:50:55 Andrew Barbaccia wrote:
> - The connection strength for wireless and 3G could be the current "bars"
> icon but with a 3G bubble in the corner. If that's too small then possibly
> different color bars would be sufficient?
How about an icon that includes a generic
On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 9:32 PM, Christopher Chan
wrote:
> Scott James Remnant wrote:
>> Network speeds are generally in thousands of bits per second and
>> multiples thereof.
>>
> I don't know about you but I have never seen any network speed measured
> at anything other than the 1024 bits/bytes
Evan escreveu:
> While apt, synaptic, update-manager, and gnome-app-install all do
> decent jobs of providing front-ends for package management, there are
> a few issues and common feature requests which bear taking a look at.
> This is a strawman, so feel free to rip it apart as necessary.
I miss
Hello,
I've been following discussion on new design features and bugs, and just
downloaded Jaunty beta to check things out. It's a great difference from
Hardy, which is what I still use. I didn't see the face of Intrepid, so
I don't know how much of the difference is actually from Jaunty, but
ma
Remco escreveu:
> Are there any problems with enabling automatic updates by default?
> Most users don't care about updates to the point that they never
> install them. And even if they would open the update manager, they
>
Which is precisely why security should be *enforced* by the system.
> Th
John,
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 4:21 PM, John Moser wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 1:40 PM, Luke L wrote:
>> How many of these things are actually going to make it into Karmic? A
>> dynamically sized swap file? GRUB 2 residing on its own partition,
>> etc? These things sound good.
>>
>
> GRUB2 on
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
>
> To name one problem, people who use LVM can't use GRUB because it
> doesn't support LVM block devices.
Of course this is wrong, silly me. What I meant is that you have to
bypass LVM for GRUB, by means of a non-LVM
Hello,
a slightly longer version of this proposal is posted in [1].
I have seen that changes are being planned [2] for the release cycles,
and I'm excited about what's to come. But I still feel Ubuntu can do
better, and easier, provided at least some of my premises are correct.
The main premise
Patrick,
thanks for your comments. I'll address them separately.
On Thu, 2009-07-02 at 13:40 -0500, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> The counterexample to this can be found in the just posted Pulseaudio
> v0.9.16~test1 availability announcement: Everyone seems to agree that
> audio on linux needs to s
Hello,
when I did the kernel upgrade from 2.6.28-14-generic to
2.6.28-15-generic, the installation never completed, and I lost the
ability to use aptitude and apt-get. I don't know against which package
I should report a bug.
Symptom of package installation failure is the new kernel not appearing
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