ing plugged in. I'd also like my tablet to work as soon
as I plug it in and not have to restart X every time to get none
mouse functionality.
Is there a ticket for this specific bug instead of the symptoms.
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d to ignore the rant that followed the productive part of the
email, it wasn't very nice. Please lets keep this mailing list
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2008/5/8 John McCabe-Dansted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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
esn't conform to the HIG of gnome or
kde in those settings is a bug, it might not be an important one but
it _is_ a problem and not a feature. The solutions will be non-obvious
and a real pain in the neck sometimes but we can't just dismiss these
problems because their too hard or requ
any
country) and it's not how we're supposed to do things here.
Fortunately while there are those of us bemoaning the codec problem,
there are still those of us trying to solve it.
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2008/6/7 Remco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> And just for kicks they annoy their
>> Anybody in their uneducated right mind probably. I run openSUSE and run it
>> happily I might add. Lets take a breath here and step back from the FUD
>> button
>> on your keyboard.
>>
>
> Spoken like a true Microvell shill.
>
Richard A. Johnson sees no problem with the technicalities of openSu
> All of a sudden, any 'back room deals' are irrelevant.
I wish people would talk about issues instead of technical solutions
or flaming some mis-informed guy. Anyone care to?
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e developer money into
solving these problems. Where is the investment money from these
tablet PC makers into the projects that would reduce their costs in
the long run? We should be asking them to invest in real project too.
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>
> It sucks, but that's software patents for you.
>
It's sucks? no eating a bad piece of pie and farting too much sucks.
Having your laws slapped in your face by greedy bastards that's an
insult several levels above sucks my friend.
I don't believe in these so called licenses, they didn't make t
of hack will improve things
and I reckon they made good progress.
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the way apt/deb works.
I propose python as a language of choice to build such a system.
I assume much of these ideas to have been discussed at length before,
but my searches aren't picking up useful results.
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2008/9/12 Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Could you spell out some specific issues that this would solve? For
> example, are you looking to avoid two packages overwriting each other's
> files in ~/? If so, can you give an example of that happening?
>
Examples:
1) I manually edit a config f
t what is currently best practice.
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n go build the building.
I'll be talking more about this at UDS in December if you want to join
the session.
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know if I've managed to explain my ideas on how we can
differentiate user data from configuration data. I'd be interested in
cases which break my logic.
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stored in the right place it's not permanent
and is more of a state of the application.
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ving to "sync" data, it would allow programmers far more stability
and confidence in how to access various types of data, creating a
platform for more interesting ideas to be tried out.
Oh and most people end up creating a backgrounds folder anyway.
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h the main aspects of being able to run your files through any
application outside of gnome is still very attractive. ergo: ssh from
your laptop to your computer, your looking for a contact in your
evolution account. You have the command line.
P.S. I've taken cheese mailing list off the reply,
d be a simple matter of getting the files
in the right places.
As for opensync, could you imagine if they could eliminate all those
custom end point plugins for each and every application?
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My 2 pence worth:
2008/9/22 (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> First, I'm sorry for the cross posting, but this subject concerns both areas.
>
> I've been attending several distros users meeting this last year, and had my
> last one at OpenSuse ENOS08 [1].
> In every meeting I go, I kee
> 1) I didn't expect that tablet support in intrepid was going to be
> SILENTLY DROPPED or else I would have spoken earlier
It's funny but I watched as Graphic Tablet support was silently
dropped from Hardy because of a KDE wishlist bug. "Oh noes! my kde is
creating warnings about missing tablet h
>> Someone needs to kick^H^H^H^Hask upstream :)
> If we want to forward the bugs upstream, do we do this on xorg (wherever
> it might be), evdev or linuxwacom bug tracker?
Not sure to be honest, months and months ago (so long ago I forget) I
sent Bryce a wacom table to work with. I'd hold off on
ight be dealing with some odd cups problem,
encoding into postscript twice or what have you; although I haven't seen
that kind of error for many years.
Failing all else, ask on the foomatic/gutenprint mailing list. Some good
experts with printers there.
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On Thu, 2008-
> 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 you really need to look upstream.
Doesn't this tie our hands wi
What does the mobile manager do? what does is manage?
There has been a lot of discussion and debate about Hardware Management
vs Device Capability. Should the manager provide functional access then
it might work via hal capabilities, if it's configuration or some other
kind of hardware management
On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 22:56 +0530, Chandru wrote:
> One very common use of a mobile management app is backup of contacts.
> Apart from that if need be (not exactly too common), back up text
> messages.
>
> But beyond that Wammu provides capabilities to manage mobile's
> calendar, To Do, etc, etc w
> Anyway, it does look like linux wins in the end.
I do not believe that is a good thing; Just because Gnu/Linux can be
faster than windows vista doesn't automatically mean we are serving our
users well.
The good news always comes from the users directly who never complain
about slowness. When
> Anyway, thanks for the good work in areas different from hardware
> support. Intrepid is lovely, every time I try it I really would like to
> be able to start using it. I hope to be in time for jaunty :)
Have you tried reinstalling Ubuntu 8.10 from scratch? I have the same
wifi as you and I h
> This list was created to give users a way to discuss Ubuntu development with
> developers. Comments like "I was just joking about you having to know
> anything" make the decision to unsubscribe easy. I'm seriously considering
> it myself.
It should remain, developers should remain. Develop
Alpha Test conducted by Martin Owens, on Tue 26 Dec 2008 09:17:20 -0500
Notes: Lots of things couldn't be tested, we need some more information
in the test suite about how to execute some things. Other things are
blocked because it's impossible to reset the account we use for testin
Sorry guys, I sent this email to the wrong list.
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> Oh it is, i just meant "don't go doing a global replace on the wiki
> with that because formatting and special conditions would break
> pages". But yes, in a carefully considered editing exercise, one could
> edit many pages on the wiki and make them more usable/friendly.
The problem with the
ble to generate a unique hardware class ids that allow
destinations, even when normal class ids are the same (examples of
scanners, phones, motherboards with the same usb or pci ids but
different metrics)
Only then can you start fixing this problem properly.
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Thank you for taking time and explaining everything so well.
> Would like to know a bit more about the project you tried
> Martin Owens.
Sure: https://launchpad.net/dohickey the python based client implements
some very rough filtering and sorting logic to pick through the
erroneous informa
On Thu, 2009-01-22 at 11:19 +, Andrew Sayers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Ubuntu developers tend to complain about the ratio of signal to noise on
> this list - that is, the percentage of posts that take up their time
> without helping them to improve Ubuntu. Many developers have apparently
> unsubsc
> >> I'm [somehow confident] that other people would consider these
> >> examples of noise.
> >
>
> Good point - I've now changed it to "... consider these to be examples
> of noise". Is that alright?
"Somehow confident"? your confident, but you don't know why?
My brain must have auto replace
, I tend to crop, but tend to include the quote that the test refers
to.
>
> On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:56:03AM -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
> > ...
> > "Somehow confident"? your confident, but you don't know why?
>
> Loïc was indicating that the space filled
ary diff
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> In the interest of feature-parity, the relevant question to my mind is:
> can composited Metacity do everything that the default Compiz can? I'm
> not talking about what can be enabled with ccsm or simple-ccsm, but what
> can be enabled in Appearances -> Desktop Effects. If the simple
> transi
Would the lay person grok that they are online from this
icon or would it show that they are in fact sitting behind a paywall?
I don't think it's as useful to equate network connectivity to online
status. I think we may need two separate icons, or one of these
newfangled status widgets an
o load a file from a nautilus context when you can just load the
target application first and use that Open/Load functionality.
This may at first look like duplication, but it's not, it's contexted
functionality and it improved the ease of use of the system.
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> It is true that some menu items in Ubuntu have context menus (another
> example is Firefox's Bookmarks menu), but that doesn't necessarily mean
> it's a good idea.
Firefox bookmarks are a great comparison, because the bookmarks menu
isn't a context menu, it's a list menu.
It's a good idea to h
> 2) Create trust to this study platform within interested players -
> commercial OEMs, non-commercials, universies;
Is Canonical not interested in brining these OEMs and other commercial
entities into the community or does it find it's job is now just to
shield them from the community?
I hope t
> Further, this could (in theory) give users a one-stop-shop for all
> things physically attached to their computers so they know where to look
> after connecting new hardware.
It's sounds useful, just be aware that there is a difference between a
device and hardware. The former is a representati
e recent Eclipse packages,
which are maintained upstream, but not in our packaging.
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s combined was the reason for removing it.
Ah so the important part here is not that it's unmaintained, but that
it's superseded with a package that should (in theory) offer all the
features.
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>
> Some confusion maybe seen from the naming, but I see no real issue. The
> team members who wish too can look at and work with more specific Ubuntu
> issues and act as a conduit between the teams of both distributions to
> make things better. Many teams work in this way and I see no real
> com
c)
Although no idea how this effects DeviceKit, I presume it's going to
need some kind of similar list of devices supported.
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On Sun, 2009-05-03 at 16:16 +0300, kohe...@gmail.com wrote:
> Hello,
> In the Brother support page:
> http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en
andling,
config-handling all of which are moving along)
Although if LoCo experience is anything to go by, people are happy with
their Ubuntu installations and some will ask for re-installation with a
newer version. But most are happy.
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On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 14:12 +0300, Peteris
pace and developing more flexible, modular
and easier designs over time.
Perhaps others have a different view of maturity though. thoughts?
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were fustrated that they
couldn't get their Epson scanner working.
Any advice would be very useful.
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On Sun, 2009-05-31 at 18:27 -0400, Joseph Miller wrote:
> I like this suggestion, I think it really makes a lot of sense. Kind
> of makes me wonder why there isn't one already. Przemysław Kulczycki,
> I have looked at the Explorer page. I don't see any reason for Ubuntu
> to not do this as a s
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 09:48 -0700, Dylan McCall wrote:
> Sounds like the discussion at UDS about having support for adding
> repositories (or at least PPAs) via apturl didn't get very far. At risk
> of prolonging a stalemate, I get the impression blocking this idea for
> safety reasons is completel
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 11:51 +0200, Alexander Sack wrote:
> In fact there was a second apturl session during UDS (which you didnt
> attend unfortunately);
Yea sorry about that, too many sessions going on, although I did talk
with people directly after the session and I was happy enough with the
dec
> No, it isn't. HTTP is by definition over port 80 - or perhaps 8080:
Is it? I didn't think is was the port that defined the protocol but the
nature of the messages sent over the connection. The port is a default
but not a requirement, like ssh or ftp.
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> MONO is a poor imitation of java, so why use MONO!?
Mark, while I'm no fan of Mono, I am a big fan of the Code of Conduct
and giving an issue the consideration it deserves. Your email, like many
of the boycott-novell give the wrong impression and have a sort of nutty
after-taste.
http://www.ub
depending on your arch would probably be a better bet, I bet it's also
set to be i386 only too. A more clever script would prevent confusion I
think.
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On Wed, 2009-06-17 at 12:19 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> IIRC, the Flash 64 bit Alpha almost made it into Intre
.
>
Nothing seems to have changed on Jaunty installs when installing
ubuntu-restricted-extras, does this install via the script or are we
talking perhaps at cross logic?
Anyway, this seems like a job for Adobe, probably make it in for 10.04.
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On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 13:39 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
> Or just because they take profit of the fact that they are advertised as
> _the_ free video card for linux, but they do not really work for fixing
> their drivers timely. I have nvidia, ati and intel cards. The most
> problematic and bugg
On Sun, 2009-06-28 at 00:37 +0200, tacone wrote:
> I really think the best thing to do would be to offer a download
> option for localized CDs.
> That way an english+selected-language cd can be shipped without
> sacrificing LiveCD applications.
You might be helped by binary diffs instead of full i
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On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 07:45 +0800, Onno Benschop wrote:
> As Ubuntu becomes more and more popular, the resources we use to
> communicate within our community become saturated with the sounds made
> by new and learning users. This is not a new thing, nor is it
>
On Fri, 2009-07-03 at 19:47 +0100, Andrew Sayers wrote:
> I'm coming to a similar conclusion from the opposite direction. A quick
> chat in #ubuntu-signpost lead me to start writing this:
>
> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Signpost
The only problem I see is that you redirect people wh
On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 14:53 -0400, Nathan Dorfman wrote:
>
> P.S.: If the OP is not a troll, I don't know what is.
>
http://redenaz.deviantart.com/art/Behind-the-Keyboard-Trolls-76598407
Do NOT feed the trolls!
Hug them.
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On Wed, 2009-09-02 at 08:03 -0700, George Farris wrote:
> That's okay Jonathan, if you think Ubuntu is hard you should try Windows
> some day, talk about hard, man, driver hell, no easy printer installs,
> the list goes on and on, it really is amazingly bad.
If you think that's hard, try developin
n the laptop is plugged into the wall.
What would be more ideal is to sort out the file system driver so it
behaved differently when it's on battery power (or in any kind of energy
conservation mode).
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to do, then we might just
have to suck it.
I'm an optimist, if these fine kernel folks have a problem thrust upon
them, they will likely solve it somehow. More resources required?
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Arm netbooks all the way up to the monster 16GB RAM Gaming rigs for
playing Savage2.
It it's not working on a computer with 1GB of RAM, then we need to fix
it. This is clearly not a case of user error.
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Am 20.10.2009 um 11:26 schrieb Michael Zoet:
> I think it is a big mistake to believe server administration is
> easy when
> you have a GUI.
Servers are easier to administrate when you have education, easy tool
use is useful. But broad sweeping statements like "GUI for the win" is
not accurate
ddit
> link: http://www.reddit.com/tb/9w23y/ original
> link:
> http://www.consortiuminfo.org/standardsblog/article.php?story=20091020050110241).
> If you're in support of this idea, just pass on any simple actions you come
> across to the list. There's also this nifty ac
Hey John,
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 10:46 -0500, John Vilsack wrote:
> It saddens me because Ubuntu is a dominant product that could be so
> much more if the grassroots movement would allow itself to have
> direction. But after years of infighting in politics and other open
> source products, I didn
Hello Coz,
Lets not call for people to be fired just yet, I'm sure things can be
improved with some community involvement and a little unmooding of the
style.
Though it's totally subjective, as style usually is. A lot of people
call my graphics too cartoonish and not serious. I tend to iconify
in
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 16:11 +1000, Chris Jones wrote:
> I sense a bit of laziness involved with the OP with wanting software
> that does all the hard work for you!
>
Isn't laziness a good thing? If the OP is willing to pay for the
development of tools to speed or make easier the setup of these s
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 13:58 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> Am 26.12.2009 um 07:23 schrieb Martin Owens:
>
> > The target of computing design is to make the very complex, simple
> > to operate.
>
> Unfortunately, many software designers think that way. The more
>
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 18:37 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> That's what I often do. As a rule of thumb, if there's more than one
> way to achieve a goal, there's too much functionality.
>
> Not exactly mainstream, I know. By profession I'm a mechanical
> designer and there the cost of redundant
On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 19:57 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote:
> To get back to the initial topic, instead of paying people to write
> tools for taming complexity, paying people for getting rid of unused
> stuff would be even better.
Culling is a valid job, it's just not valid to remove functionalit
Hey Sense,
Perhaps the problem is that inside the Ubuntu project there aren't a
great number of development projects that new users can just dive right
into. Basically anything to do with bzr, launchpad, ubiquity or the
handful of other little extras that help the Ubuntu distribution.
Most progra
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 15:05 -0500, John Moser wrote:
> So yeah, i tend to be the "Lock it down until it's unlocked" person.
> There should be a /home/_Shared/ folder owned by root, drwtrwxrwx,
> linked to as "Shared Documents."
Why the underscore? Just put it in some other directory and not
in /ho
Hello Jon,
All the game makers that make FDO versions (aka Linux versions) of their
games say they make good money from them. The ones that fail are usually
the ones that disrespect the market by not making the FDO version
available for general consumption in a nice easy way. They make it so
hard
There's a plan for that.
Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also set up the hat and drummed
up other people's interest?
Because I believe that this is something we can make money doing and
provide Ubuntu with something GOD DAMN AWESOME and FOSS.
Martin,
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 16:44 -0800, B
Hi Brett,
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 05:18 -0800, Brett wrote:
> >There's a plan for that.
> >Would you put $200 in to the hat if you also >set up the hat and drummed
> >up other people's interest?
>
> Am moving back to my hometown in a few weeks, and was thinking of getting in
> touch with the local
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 18:22 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote:
> The problem with most open source accounting apps is that they don't
> support local (country-specific) requirements, or they need extensive
> tweaking that requires help from local accountants and a bunch of
> programmers to get and keep it ri
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 14:32 -0500, Danny Piccirillo wrote:
> What if you created a framework that could add support for other
> states and countries so that a new application isn't needed for each
> case?
Of course. It would be silly not to reuse what we already have available
and of course just
On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:27 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote:
> The reason why I mention a company is that if an accounting program
> wants to be useful for more than a couple of other people it will need
> *a lot* of maintenance, and some changes will have rather short
> deadlines (the tax office won't bu
You mean "Publishing Model" not "Development Model"
There are people thinking about development models, economics,
community, tools etc and this thread is not about any of it.
Martin,
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 18:44 -0400, Ryan Oram wrote:
> Ubuntu needs a change in direction. I propose that Ubuntu
Indeed, but what you suggest is not economically relevant although it
may be interesting socially.
Work on making GPG keys easier to work with and easier to trust people
and packages signed by people and organisations, then you can work on
getting it more distributed.
Martin,
On Wed, 2010-05-05
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 16:23 -0400, John Moser wrote:
> Which brings us back to trusting people.
I'll ignore your over the top theatrics and merely posit that perhaps
solving the problem of trust can only really be tacked once you've got a
firm grasp of human dignity.
Most people are not out to ge
Hey Louis,
Sounds great and looks like a pretty good script, I have some comments:
You may be able to make it a little faster by using the find results in
one like like this:
find / -type f -name "*.svg" -print0 | xargs -0 -I FILE sh -c
'/tmp/scour/scour.py --enable-id-stripping --indent=none -i
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 14:41 +0100, Mohammed Bassit wrote:
> This is already implemented in NetworkManager. I believe dnsmasq-base
> is
> included by default in Lucid (in Karmic too I think).
> You only need to select "Shared to other computers" when edit the IPv4
> settings of a network connection
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:08 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
>
> "Danny Piccirillo" wrote:
> >Yes, the free software only option is there, but isn't entirely free. That's
> >what linux-libre is for. Linux libre should be the kernel for the free
> >software install. Mainline Linux is not free because
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 16:59 -0500, Travis Beaty wrote:
> Now then. Having been involved in the Linux society and culture, I
> understand why closed-source software is shunned. However, I also see
> that, at this juncture, it is often necessary to make things work.
> Right now, I've got a wireles
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 18:30 -0500, Travis Beaty wrote:
> Hmm. This confuses me, then. Because I know it was a problem at one
> point, at least with SuSE. I had to get different packages from plf
> in order to play them.
The problem is patents, i.e. people who didn't write the code, who have
n
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 18:32, David Schlesinger
wrote:
> I disagree: these "politics" are part of "free software", not "open
> source software". There's nothing in the OSI Definition dictating that
> you remove the option to use non-open source software from users if
> that's their choice. Feel f
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 00:38 -0400, Nathan Dorfman wrote:
> A fair point, but I think that up to 24 hours without a critical
> security update could be undesirable in some situations. Certainly, I
> think the default should remain "daily." For what it's worth, Fedora's
> default is daily but it does
Hello Palle,
This is not the place for support, this is for development discussion.
Could you report the problem to one of the support channels listed here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community
Martin,
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 13:45 +0200, Palle Hellemann wrote:
> I can't install a Flash playe
Randall,
I was going to ask if you had contacted the local team, but you seem to
be already in with that team. If no one in your team is a packager, it's
hard to imagine there could still be packagers near Vancouver but not in
your loco too.
(although it could happen)
Martin,
On Wed, 2010-06-30
ke sure
that you all know there are people like our geeky squad friend in New
Hampshire that are not only delighted by Ubuntu, but I would say
profoundly effected by it.
Best Regards, Martin Owens
[1] Best Buy, a USA company that has large stores selling office
supplies and media. Similar to the
Hey Sebastian,
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 22:51 +0200, Sebastian Geiger wrote:
> I just wanted to bring this up, if there has already been a discussion
> about this, maybe someone can point me to it or let me know about the
> current status about this issue.
XDG underuse and misuse is a pet peeve of
On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 00:19 +0200, Krzysztof Klimonda wrote:
> For example you are saying that emails should go to the directory
> specified in user-dirs.[defaults,dirs] but that makes no sense uless
> we
> are thinking about $DOCUMENTS/.email_app/. Emails, while being
> documents, aren't really
On Tue, 2010-08-31 at 19:35 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote:
> I think working to promote cross desktop adoption of technologies that
> make it easier to interact with data in a consistent, DE independent
> manner, (like Akonadi) will do more to solve this class of problems
> than specification work.
On Fri, 2010-10-08 at 00:07 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
> Strangely, even running advzip -z -0
> images_human.zip shrinks it by 3%, and even shrinks the corresponding
> images_human.zip.gz file
That's not strange, that's just entropic packing principles. You've got
a bunch of assumptions th
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