On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:56 AM, Andrew Sayers <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 1) Creating or modifying an account that has the necessary permissions
> 2) Creating an SSH connection
> 3) Destroying or reverting an account to its original state thread.
>
...
> Reliably doing (2) is a hard problem. T
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 4:17 PM, Martin Pitt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Right, but also self-signed certificates (since they prove nothing).
They prove that you are talking to the same server you are talking to when
you first logged on. They also are sufficient to prevent passive wiretapping
a
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 02.24 +0100, chombee ha scritto:
> >
> > Using git is ridiculously difficult and technical by the standards of
> > most normal users, but I see no reason why a versioning system could
> > n
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 20.28 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted ha
> scritto:
> > If we define a users work as a user's typing, we could easily save
> > this permanently.
>
> Not q
\On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Krzysztof Lichota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > Where/how are these lists of blocks stored?
>
> They are stored in /prefetch directory as prefetch lists for each
> traced app and for boot stages.
> Each file contains list of tuples (device, inode, start-in-pages
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:11:10PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > - Even if it's distribution spec
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 3. $ sudo apt-get build
>
>Run from within the source tree, this wrappers all the work of
>generating a patch from the current source tree's changes and adding
>it to the package's patch management system (or
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:07:05PM +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote:
>> On 6/25/08, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> > probably some of you already read that statement of kernel developers
>> > about th
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Stephan Hermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Serious, for a normal familiy I would advise to by ready made
>appliances..they are tested, and are usable (well not everytime, but
If a security flaw is found in such an appliance it would be much
harder to patch than on
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mackenzie Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Because as he said, if you pre-configure everything to
> super-duper-easy-peasy, you've also pre-configured it to
> super-duper-easy-peasy-to-crack. I'm personally disappointed by
> firewalls that allow outbound by defau
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Peter Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I started compiling the kernel as provided by Ubuntu source ISO and
> encountered the following error while compiling:
>
> /sda2/linux-source-2.6.20-2.6.20>ALSA lib
> confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
>
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Bryce Harrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> That said, I do like generalizing. :-) I think there is a cyclical
> thing in FOSS, where you have some legacy thing that works 80%, and
> upstream decides to get that last 20% it requires a major rewrite. They
> expe
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Martin Olsson wrote:
> Normally when I want to rebuild a package with no-optimizations and full
> debug symbols I do:
>
>mkdir some_pkg ; cd some_pkg ; apt-get source SOME_PACKAGE ; cd
> SOME_PACKAGE_DIR
>DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="noopt nostrip" fakeroot
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 13:30 +, richard wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:30:52 +
>> Ian Lynch wrote:
>>
>> Big snip and a merry Christmas to you all.
>> I've been watching this thread and the one thing that has been missed
>> and i
On 2/11/09, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> It's 9 days until feature freeze, so if you want it different I suggest
> sending patches.
Below is a prototype that I mocked up in half an hour; it gives a 10
second countdown. It would seem that something usable in 8 days is a
possibility if someone familiar
It may help to mention that :
gestor=Manager
posterior=Later
You can get get information on relevant software installed by entering
lsb_release -r ; dpkg -l "*flash*" "*swfdec*" "*gnash*" "*firefox*" ;
ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ ~/.mozilla/plugins
into a terminal.
If this is a bug it can be r
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Null Ack wrote:
> * Having AppArmor actually protecting the desktop build rather than
> what seems as currently a false illusion of coverage with just CUPS
> being protected
The big problem with GUI apps, is that Xorg was not really designed to
be secure, so apps
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> That would fail for users who make one-time changes to their data. For
> example users who download their mail via pop. If they upgrade using
> aufs and then proceed to test the new features of their mail client,
> it might be configured to downl
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:17 PM, don fisher wrote:
> Disk /dev/sda: 8999.9 GB, 834099456 bytes
> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1094179 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
>
> Rebooting under ubuntu the output is reported as:
>
> Disk /dev/sda1: 203.8 GB, 203835590656 b
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Matt Wheeler wrote:
> 2009/4/4 Nils Kassube :
>>
>> If you don't trust update-manager you would have to check everything
>> after an update. I don't think anybody will do that even after
>> providing the password. Most users don't even know what to look for to
>> ch
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
>> 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
>> would more likely just install
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Null Ack wrote:
> X security. He makes what seems to be a very sound suggestion about
> Plash and hooking into GTK, thus overcoming the problem of needing to
> in advance make determinations about what a desktop user might do and
> the X security problems.
Chromi
On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> If some process has been eating 100% CPU for hours, there should be some
> kind of a notification that it's happening. Like a small icon could
> appear to gnome panel and clicking it would show the process details and
> allow to kill it.
Th
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 2:39 AM, Daniel Chen wrote:
>
> Grave for whom? For you? For what common use cases? These are things
> that are factors to consider when affecting an entire release.
Quite. I haven't noticed any problems with LaTeX. This may be because
I use LyX+xdvi. LyX+Okular seems to b
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Il giorno gio, 14/05/2009 alle 19.55 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted ha
> scritto:
>> Quite. I haven't noticed any problems with LaTeX. This may be because
>> I use LyX+xdvi. LyX+Okular seems to be fine too, altho
On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 12:42 AM, Andrew wrote:
> If its developers really think that users should stick with 1.4 they
> aren't doing a good job promoting that.
>
> [1] http://amarok.kde.org/
> [2] http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Kubuntu
> [3] http://amarok.kde.org/wiki/Download:Source
>
> - A
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel J Blueman
wrote:
> I was trying to raise a more general point about the minimum spec
> across the board, including the embedded and old-server hardware.
>
> I challenge anyone to find someone using Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 on a
> processor which doesn't support the
2009/6/9 Derek Broughton
>
>
> Sorry, but no. You are pretending to have a rational discussion, while
> dismissing perfectly valid arguments.
>
> > The codecs are
> > not-in-Ubuntu the same way as Wine, because they are not installed,
>
> No, they are not. The codecs are NOT in Ubuntu at all. S
2009/6/10 Mark Fink
>
> yes it does and the people behind the censorship need to be exposed
> for what they really are
Moderators?
As I understand, the Ubuntu forums are for useful, constructive posts that
adhere to the Code of Conduct. It would appear to be almost a consensus that
those posts
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Christopher Chan <
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk> wrote:
> Besides, I have already made clear in later posts in this thread that I
> really do not care what is used so long as it is uniform across all
> operating systems. If Ubuntu wants to do its thing while ot
2009/6/25 Matthew Paul Thomas :
>>...
>> If just 1% of Ubuntu users tick the box, that gives us enough data to
>> improve Ubuntu by justifying our decisions with evidence.
>>...
>
> The absolute size of a sample is more important, statistically, than its
> relative size. In other words, 1136581 pop
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Evan wrote:
> We also seem to have a duplication of effort on several fronts. At last
> glance we have:
>
> - mailing lists
> - IRC
> - wiki
> - launchpad
> - launchpad answers
> - forums
I wrote a blueprint for maintaining a database of errors. I suggest
that for a
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Conrad Knauer wrote:
...
> If the user is connected to the internet, might it be possible to
> guess their physical location (e.g. for time zone) by IP address?
> (http://www.tracemyip.org/ seems to be able to :) as most people will
> want to install their systems
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:27 AM, James Westby wrote:
> * It's a feature of dubious value to begin with. After it had taken some
> time doing its thing you would need to have the user type in the password
> anyway to confirm (you can't assume, and you can't really show it to them).
Quite. "C
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Daniel Hollocher
wrote:
> password. Any sort of password automation would simplify the
> situation for a few people at the expense of making it more
> complicated for the rest of us. The level of encryption doesn't seem
> to matter.
OK. The issue where we want t
(Posted just to ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com, as I don't think my
mail is relevant to the other lists)
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Paul Tagliamonte wrote:
>
> I love this idea!
>
> It will be a considerable amount of overhead for canonical to get (
> EVEN ) more CDs, but it would be
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> Journal, lwn.net, and breathless reviews across the blogosphere. Users
> start clamoring for the features of gumptacular 2.0, not knowing how
> they ever lived without them. So,
>
> apt-get install gumptacular/ubuntu-experimental
Apt-ge
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Jan Claeys wrote:
> How will you revert all people's configuration & data (e.g. files
> created with an incompatible new file format)?
Where the upgrade to the new format is done by dpkg, we could add
downgrade scripts as well as upgrade scripts. As for new files,
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Michael Kappes wrote:
> since i update my Laptop (T41) whit the last Lucid updates from today -
> Firefox doesn't start. Start from the bash says:
I had some difficulty with firefox-3.6 refusing to start (on 9.10).
Moving ~/.mozilla out of the way fixed the probl
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Fabio Alessandro Locati
wrote:
> I was looking today the firefox package. I noticed that there is a
> huga amount of patches in that package [1]. If I remember correctly,
> is against firefox license to redistribuite it with the same name,
> same logo if changes a
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Jérôme Bouat wrote:
> > Ubuntu - two bar (desktop edition)
>
> The issue is that small screens are now shipped high performance laptop
> (~1000 €).
>
> On those high performance laptops, I would not use the netbook remix
> flavor but the genuine flavor of Ubuntu.
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 5:38 AM, Davyd McColl wrote:
> For what my input is worth, I'd just like to point out that I'm one of
> those people who is annoyed when an app which runs in the systray *exits*
> when I close the interface window (main or otherwise). For apps that support
> the "minimise t
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Derek Broughton wrote:
>
> Neither do I - but for, apparently, opposite reasons. I don't understand
> why we need, or even want, "minimize to tray" and "minimize to task bar"
> (aargh, please don't push _my_ buttons, and write "minimise" :-) )
>
OK. Both are correc
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Scholte van Mast, Rene
wrote:
> Hello,
> I have trouble with the network performance inside my virtual machines.
As I understand this mailing list is for development discussion, and
people wanting support are generally invited to report the problem to
one of the su
This idea seems fairly easy to implement and has over 4000 votes. I
have attached a simplistic prototype script that I have used a few
times to successfully restore my MBR.
It has a few obvious limitations, but the real issue is how we'd
integrate it with the live CD. Even just adding it as a scri
In May, Louis Simard proposed rencoding PNG files and SVG files to
reduce their size [1]. I note that we can save further space by:
1) Using advdef on the png files in addition to optipng. This is what
optimizegraphics does, and this shrinks the pngs on the Maverick RC
liveCD from about 100.1MB to
the
> recompressed files into the archive's packages [1].
I think this will be discussed at UDS-N, see:
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20101004.065026.e553efd1.en.html
> 2010-10-06 16:08 GMT John McCabe-Dansted :
>> In May, Louis Simard proposed rencoding PNG files and SVG f
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Matthias Klose wrote:
>> Also, there are 12MB of jar files, which are basically zip files. We
>> can also shrink those by 5MB or so with advzip, but that doesn't seem
>> to shrink a .tgz of them so it may not shrink the liveCD. Since zip
>> files compress file by fi
Hi Martin, I intended to send the following to lyx-devel, but my dog
ate it. Louis has mentioned AdvanceCOMP, but I thought you might find
the summary below useful. I think that the figures may be out by about
30%, possibly do to squashfs doing some form of intra-file
de-duplication, but I hope it
Apparently there is a change coming in glibc which can trigger silent data
corruption bugs in existing software that misuses memcpy with overlapping
regions.
http://lwn.net/Articles/414467/#Comments
Perhaps alpha versions of Natty or Natty+1 should test for this (using
LD_PRELOAD or a modified
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Vernon Cole wrote:
> By another strange twist of fate, there is a PPA on launchpad which
> allegedly has a current version of mono, but it is only built for LTS
> versions of Ubuntu, so to get the latest version of mono, I have to
> unload Maverick and install an e
On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 4:22 PM, Nedas Pekorius wrote:
> I would like to ask developers to update 'ntfs-3g' from version
> '2010.8.8' to '2011.4.12'
While I agree that the latest ntfs-3g is really nice (iirc it gave me
a 10x performance boost). I don't think we'll see 2011.4.12 in Natty,
as a fea
/changelog
e.g. Configuring with --enable-crypto and --enable-extras.
[2] http://www.tuxera.com/community/release-history/
e.g. ntfs-3g: fixed possible wrong hole size when overwriting compressed data.
--
John McCabe-Dansted
Not an Ubuntu Developer
--
Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list
Ubun
On Thu, Sep 1, 2011 at 8:57 PM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> My boss obliges me to use MSword for writing some core business documents.
>
> I have then the choice (duh!) either to:
> - Wine
Generally, it takes wine some time to mature. Until quite recently you
couldn't run Office
On Thursday, November 3, 2011, John Moser wrote:
>
> find a binary? Here, I've solved this problem for you, completely.
> It's easy. Do this:
>
> luser$ which ls
>
> luser$ which gnome-session
>
> luser$ which synaptic
>
> If it isn't in your path, then it's broken. Something strange has
>
We c
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:02 AM, nick rundy wrote:
> There are several situations where I need to find an executable. One that
> comes immediately to mind is when I need to specify what program to use to
> open an online stream and the program I want is not appearing in an offered
I find it quite
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:40:31AM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
>> We could even enhance which to look in obvious places off the path (perhaps
>> locatedb?) and print the output on stderr if we really wanted to.
>
>
> LastPass may be secure today, but it is trivially easy for LastPass
> (or a hypothetical attacker who gains access to LastPass's
> infrastructure) to compromise that security simply by replacing the
> javascript code which does the client side encryption and decryption
> with some code that also
On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Fabio Pedretti wrote:
> 1. Traditional swap on hard drive is still used and suggested, zram is a
> better alternative and a complement to it, so it may for sure be useful to
> everyone who actually use swap on hard drive.
I am not sure that zram makes good use of a
Zsyncing ubuntu-7.10-desktop-i386.iso to xubuntu saves ~63% of
bandwidth over downloading the xubuntu.iso directly. Zsyncing 7.10 to
Hardy alpha-4 saves ~14% of bandwidth; presumably zsyncing between
different alphas saves more than this.
However Zsync requires .zsync files to be available some
I am trying to package compcache. Control.modules.in does not seem to
be used by debuild. Other packages of compiled modules in Ubuntu don't
seem to use control.modules.in. Am I correct in assuming that
control.modules.in is only used when users compile their own modules
using the module assistant?
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:08:00PM +0900, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> > I am trying to package compcache.
>
> A much better solution is to get it included in linux-ubuntu-modules.
What process d
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 2:24 AM, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As far as I can see, zsync is rsync for when you can't actually use
> rsync due to lack of server support. However, cdimage does support
> rsync, so why not just use that directly?
OK. I thought rsync was unpopular among
On Mon, Mar 3, 2008 at 10:57 PM, Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [This should be on a development mailing list, surely?]
OK, moved to ubuntu-devel-discuss.
> On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 04:15:22PM +0900, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> > Hello, I have created a low-me
On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 4:20 PM, Alexandre Strube <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> if we have ram in the first place, why should we swapping and
> compressing the swap back into ram again? I mean, if you can store the
> swap in ram, is that you have space, so you didn't even need to swap,
> no?
Bec
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just use rsync:
> rsync -zhP
> rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/hardy-desktop-i386.iso .
That works. However, when I try to get the alpha-6 release, I get:
$ rsync
rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com
On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 7:51 PM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yeah, been seeing that for a few days.
> MAIN (cdimage.ubuntu.com) is really heavy loaded, and rsync times out with
> that lovely and totally CLEAR message.
> I guess I should report that as a bug, so that future
I have provided updated patches against [kx]ubuntu-7.10 (and updated
patch source code) at:
http://www.ucc.asn.au/~mccabedj/ccache/
These patches now do three things:
1) They use compcache-0.2. This fixes a crasher and provides stats at
/proc/compcache and /proc/tlsf.
2) pagecache-managements s
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Matthew Garrett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If you can create a diff to linux-ubuntu-modules and put it in
> launchpad, and then contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], that ought to
> do. I wouldn't necessarily expect this to happen until after hardy's
> released, though.
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