Martin Pitt wrote:
> I don't consider it a new feature, but a better UI. Firefox has always
> complained about invalid certificates, but until version 2 it was just
> the well-known 'SSL yadayada cannot be verified mumblemumble click
> here to shut me up' popup dialog, and really everyone just clic
Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
> Notifications are never read, especially by users that are not
> passionate by computers - they're exactly like there was no message at
> all, only they annoy users: "click OK and then see if there's a problem"
> is what OS have used people to for many years. And after
Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 02:17 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
>> Il giorno dom, 11/05/2008 alle 17.32 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan ha scritto:
>>> On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 10:40 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote
>>> I wish I could configure what it considers "low."
>> You can: just laun
Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> Specify both packages at the command line at the same time, e.g. with apt:
>
> apt-get install libstdc++6-4.2-dev g++-4.2.deb
You know, this really does seem like a bug in apt. If it can resolve
the circular dependency when you explicitly specify both packages, it
sh
Onno Benschop wrote:
> Hi,
>
> A recent update to the kernel in my Gutsy laptop, from 2.6.22-14.21 to
> 2.6.22-15.54, prompted by Update Manager has caused VMware to stop working.
>
> This is likely because the vmware modules have not yet been updated from
> 2.6.22-14 to 2.6.22-15. I've lodged a
Andrew Sayers wrote:
> I assume that the equivalent of "umount $snapshot" is done within the
> kernel when the snapshot is created, because it gives you a new
> non-mounted block device. It's therefore possible to do fsck from cron.
The snapshot was never mounted in the first place, so there is
Alexander Jones wrote:
> Because people are talking about snapshotting a FS in a potentially
> broken state, fscking it in the background---whilst continuing to use
> it!
I've been thinking something like this as well. The whole point of fsck
is to find and repair damage BEFORE your attempts to
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
>> One thing that I have not seen in this discussion is the notion that
>> fsck might be modified to run incrementally.
>
> That's an interesting idea, though I don't know enough about ext3 to comment
> on its feasibility. Perhaps something to discuss with upstream?
Not pos
Peteris Krisjanis wrote:
> Even better, hal just needs to know which devices are actually
> formatted atm, and spread this info to other apps so they don't try to
> access this device.
I think it needs to take place at a lower level than hal; either in the
kernel or udevd. The partitioners need
Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> 2008/9/15 Andre Mussche <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> I want to try to use e2defrag on my ext3 disk, to try to reorder the
>> bootfiles (of the readahead list),
>> so less head movements.
>
> e2defrag is dangerous, can destroy your data, and should not be used.
> See http://ma
Markus Hitter wrote:
> Glad to see standby and suspend getting more attention.
>
> For the records, I'm even dual-booting two suspended states on the
> same computer. Using Grub, I can choose wether to resume the
> suspended (hibernated) Windows XP or the suspended Intrepid. Works
> like a c
Felix Miata wrote:
> How nice for you that you've never had broken X, and never will have, and
> never will need to help someone else with broken X.
>
>> So no, I don't think MC _needs_ to be anywhere.
>
> Right. You'll never need it, so no one else should have it either. Ever heard
> of the tyra
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> Scott James Remnant wrote on 06/11/08 22:44:
>> ...
>> I've always thought it would be interesting to be able to influence the
>> scheduler on a per process basis - and do that from the Window Manager.
>> ie. delibera
Martin Pitt wrote:
> 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 is detected as removable. The hard
> part is to get kernel support for it.
They already are applied by h
Scott James Remnant wrote:
> Sync is *always* better than no readahead at all.
> Parallel is *sometimes* better than no readahead, but in various cases
> is actually _worse_.
> When Parallel is not worse then no readahead, it is better than sync.
>
> Since the out-of-the-box has to work for everyo
On 3/24/2010 9:54 AM, Evan wrote:
> Why? I'm sure there are reasons, but my initial reaction is that any
> computer which can easily be stolen (ie laptop/netbook) should
> NEVER have auto-login enabled.
Why? Given physical access to the machine, bypassing login is easy.
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On 3/24/2010 10:13 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> That still wont guarantee access to user files. If you use ecryptfs
> (the default encryption system for /home on Ubuntu live CDs) then even
> having physical access won't give you immediate access to files in the
> user home directory.
I didn't think auto
On 3/24/2010 6:14 PM, Nick Pavlica wrote:
> All,
> I'm currently working on a new project and would like to utilize
> Ubuntu 10.04. However, I'm having issues with both the built in RAID
> controller an AMD SP5100, and an add on controller which is an LSI
> MegaRaid 9240-8i. In my testing I w
On 3/25/2010 4:41 PM, Patrick Goetz wrote:
> It's not clear to me how a handful of folks at Canonical or RedHat
> splicing and dicing kernel code from one version into another
> necessarily gives you greater stability than an officially released
> kernel that has been thoroughly tested by thousa
I don't see what FUSE would have to do with anything. The UDF
filesystem has the ability to not store the uid on the media, instead
writing a uid of -1, which it then can map to the currently logged in
interactive user that mounted the disc later. This feature was created
specifically to solve th
On 5/20/2010 8:35 PM, Louis Simard wrote:
> Greetings ubuntu-devel-discuss :)
>
> I have a proposal for you, and I'll present it simply with the 5 W's.
When attaching scripts please make sure they are attached with an inline
disposition so they are readily reviewable while reading the email
ins
On 5/21/2010 1:40 PM, Louis Simard wrote:
> Err... While I know what you want me to do (you want
> Content-Disposition: inline), I don't know how to do that in the Gmail
> web interface. Perhaps I'll set up Mozilla Thunderbird, if it can do
> that :-)
Heh, yea, I've struggled with this on thunderb
On 9/29/2010 5:05 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote:
> Yeah, I saw that. I think that is also on wikipedia. So maybe
> ondemand is for battery usage. It would still be nice to have
> conservative for plugged in situations, like a desktop.
>
> I did try to google first, I just didn't see a clear answer
wiki.ubuntu.com forces you to use an SSL connection via automatic
redirect to https. Why does it do this, and can we stop that please?
There is no reason for using SSL to access a public web site when you
are not logged in. It only serves to slow things down, prevent caching,
and put a lot more l
On 10/8/2010 1:20 PM, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote:
> Yes, but what protection does this bring if:
>
> * the speaker enters "wiki.ubuntu.com" in the browser (default to HTTP)
>
> * the attacker does NOT redirect to a SSL site and just presents a
> (malicious) HTTP page
>
> * the speaker has no c
I am bringing this issue up resulting from a user complaining on the
forums about their windows install being unintentionally overwritten by
a side-by-side install of Ubuntu in this thread:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1595807
To sum up the matter, after choosing to do a side-by-sid
On 10/24/2010 05:31 AM, León Asad Castillejos wrote:
> Hi all, I'm León.
>
> I'm helping a friend to update to Karmic over IM. I've noticed a few... not
> bugs, but little problems.
You should compose a new message and set the subject to something
appropriate instead of relying to the automated w
On 10/24/2010 10:12 AM, Jouko Orava wrote:
> The question is, are Ubuntu developers interested in this?
No.
Have you tried using libeatmydata? The only key difference there should
be with using tmpfs is that it effectively makes fsync() a noop. Aside
from fsync and friends, the filesystem cac
On 10/25/2010 1:34 PM, Jouko Orava wrote:
> Using tmpfs, I can save and snapshot the active profile at any time,
> for example in suspend scripts. As long as Firefox syncs changesets
> to the profile files properly, the profile can be copied at any time.
> With a helper, one could save the profile
On 10/25/2010 5:18 PM, Jouko Orava wrote:
> (You can take a snapshot opportunistically at any time, by first
> taking the snapshot of the profile, and then checking that the files
> were not modified in the last two seconds, and will not be modified
> in the next two seconds. If the profile is o
On 12/05/2010 08:13 AM, maven apache wrote:
> Hi,thank your guys. :)
> BTW, is there a graphic ui based svn server in ubuntu like VisualSVN Server
> in windows?
This discussion is off topic for this mailing list as it has nothing to
do with Ubuntu development. You are asking general svn question
This is what manual partitioning is for. Also /home can not be on NTFS
since it does not support ownership and permissions.
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On 1/7/2011 12:46 PM, Jan Claeys wrote:
> Actually, NTFS does support ownership & permissions, but it's somewhat
> complicated to configure/use it like that.
MS reserved space to hold a posix uid/gid and mode so they can run an
NFS server, but it is not supported by the Linux driver.
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On 01/07/2011 09:38 PM, Jan Claeys wrote:
Since some time ntfs-3g supports mapping between Windows and POSIX users
and permissions though:
http://www.tuxera.com/ntfs/release-ntfs-3g-2009-11-14/
Oh, neat. If you set up these mapping tables, then maybe you COULD use
NTFS for /home or even /. I
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On 02/16/2011 04:49 PM, Patrick Goetz wro
Much of the boot process has been migrated away from the sysV init
scripts that run serially and attached to the console. Since the
startup processes are run in parallel their input and output would
become all jumbled. This is the main reason plymouth was created: to
multiplex console IO. It mak
On 02/24/2011 05:45 AM, Lukas Hejtmanek wrote:
Can I setup plymouth somehow instead of passing the "text" boot parameter?
I mean its config files in /etc/.
It doesn't seem to have config files in /etc. You either need to pass
text or nosplash boot options.
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On 03/06/2011 11:24 AM, John Moser wrote:
> When my CPU is under extreme load my system shuts down. Okay, I've
> noted this. There was a layer of dust caked between the fan and heat
> sink... removed it, that helped.
You've got a hardware problem.
On 3/9/2011 12:29 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> ntfs (hd0,2). Therefore any attempt to read any files from (hd0,2)
> simply wont work, cause there's no file there.It's a somewhat
Then you want to change the prefix to point to where the module can be
found:
set prefix=(loop0)/boot/grub
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On 3/10/2011 12:41 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> I am not very clear with what you said in following entry where should
> I add the line as you suggested.
Any time before the insmod that fails.
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On 03/12/2011 02:05 AM, Abhishek Dixit wrote:
> As Phillip suggested
> set prefix=(loop0)/boot/grub
>
> I tried putting above line at many different places which included
> before I gave command
> insmod multiboot
> and I am getting the same file not
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I have no idea whether it is easy or not, but gnome-system-monitor is
horribly inefficient and has a LOT of room for optimization.
On 04/09/2011 12:13 AM, Robert Kozikowski wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am student at Warsaw University and I am doing the clas
On 4/27/2011 3:53 PM, Tony Atkinson wrote:
> I'm posting this here (as opposed to filing a bug) as I'm not sure
> exactly what the issue is
> Tomorrow, I'm going to be compiling a vanilla .38 kernel, to try and
> narrow down exactly where the issue with the natty kernel is, but
> thought I'd post h
On 10/30/2011 05:17 PM, Bear Giles wrote:
> LVM lets you create a snapshot where the mounted filesystem looks normal
> but under the cover it's using a journal and the original logical volume,
> e.g., /dev/mapper/vg0/home, is untouched. You can then perform your backup
> and when you release the sn
On 12/1/2011 9:27 PM, Anthony G Weitekamp wrote:
Ubuntu Developers,
Have you noticed the MASSIVE exodus from Ubuntu once the unity desktop was
shoved down our throats? What is wrong with Gnome? I wound up going back
to Xubuntu just to have a workable interface.
Just my two cents,
Tony Weite
Did you use dpkg-statoverride?
On 12/7/2011 7:07 AM, Christoph Mathys wrote:
We are using debian packages to distribute our software inside the
company. Recently I messed up the permissions inside a package: A
whole directory-tree suddenly belonged to root:root, when it should
belong to someone
On 12/8/2011 9:08 AM, David O. Rowell wrote:
Folks seem to be proud of the clean uncluttered blank screen during the
boot process. I thought that we as programmers/analysts/designers had
learned decades ago that we need to keep the users informed of what's
going on? Lets go back to the moving d
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On 03/03/2012 03:16 AM, John Moser wrote:
> In any case if the A/C goes down in a server room, it would be nice
> to have the system CPU frequency scaling kick in and take the clock
> speed down before the chip overheats. Modern servers--for example,
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On 03/05/2012 08:10 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> To restrict the maximum frequency when on battery / low battery? The
> last analysis I've seen, by Matthew Garrett, was that the most
> power-efficient way to run modern CPUs is to have t
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On 03/03/2012 03:50 AM, John Moser wrote:
> I'm pretty sure zram will be superceded by zcache on freeswap.
> zcache is a tmem backend, freeswap and CleanCache are freemem
> frontends. Any backend can be used on any frontend, so when (if) the
> freeswa
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On 03/05/2012 09:19 PM, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote:
> Less power per instruction, or less power per instruction amortized over
> the run-time? My understanding was that hitting the low C-states was
> such a huge power win that the increased
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On 03/06/2012 07:54 AM, Roberto NM wrote:
> The thing is, I think that the default setting on closing the lid of a
> laptop should be set to do nothing instead of suspend. At least do this for
> the install/live CD environment.
> It makes no sense that
On 3/8/2012 9:47 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
This is (broadly speaking) untrue. There's a bunch of fixed costs that a
naive P=IV² doesn't take into account. Assuming a fixed amount of work,
race to idle is almost always the most power efficient strategy.
What fixed costs? If you spend 5 seconds
On 3/8/2012 11:10 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
Yes, if those are the actual power figures. But they're typically not
going to be.
Can you be a little less vague and hand wavy?
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On 03/08/2012 12:11 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> My i7 draws about 7W when fully loaded at 800MHz, and about 27W when
> fully loaded at 2.7GHz. That's a 3.4x performance improvement at a
> 3.9x power increase. So, naively, that does result in a fixed
On 4/1/2012 7:52 AM, Dale Amon wrote:
Just as an example, I have about 30 terminals
on my desktop. Clicking on one of them puts
me directly into a server somewhere. I can
have a customer on the phone, click once and
be dealing with their problem almost instantly.
And you think switching to a bl
On 4/2/2012 3:58 PM, Dale Amon wrote:
Oh and did I mention that some are only accessible
by ip or have unique ssh ports for security? I'm
not very good at remembering those at 3am.
You can set you your ssh config to have those so you don't have to
remember them, and then typing "ssh somehost"
Please don't post completely unrelated, off topic brain farts as replies
to random threads. Start a new thread, with an appropriate subject, on
the appropriate mailing list, and write a complete and detailed message.
Or better yet, file a bug report.
On 4/2/2012 11:38 PM, solaris manzur wrot
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On 04/11/2012 10:19 AM, Nicholas Abbott wrote:
> I have a new computer that has an Intel SSD. I have some questions
> about using Ubuntu with an SSD that I hope ubuntu developers can
> answer for me. I've researched online but do not know how best to
>
On 4/23/2012 9:28 PM, Gustavo R Leal wrote:
I believe I've found the solution to excessive swapping with 1GB of memory.
There is a script "/usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-mode" that is setting too
low values to VM tunable kernel parameters when on AC power:
dirty_background_ratio=5
dirty_rat
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On 04/30/2012 09:53 PM, Alfred Zhong wrote:
> Basically, I want something like $ pfstat ./a.out page faults: 3 Execution
> Time: 1003 ms
>
> Is there such a tool? I want to make sure before deciding to write one by
> myself, which will be a lot of wor
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On 06/01/2012 03:59 PM, Sam Smith wrote:
>
> She sent one email on the 29th asking for feedback, info, help.
> received no response.
>
> She sent a second email on the next day. received no responses
> addressing her email.
>
> She sent a 3rd email
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On 06/01/2012 08:47 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 1, 2012 at 7:28 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
>> On 06/01/2012 03:59 PM, Sam Smith wrote:
>> Once is fine. A second time after a week or three is too. Three times in
>>
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On 8/8/2012 11:01 AM, John Moser wrote:
> Put your mouse pointer in the middle of the screen.
>
> Put your mouse somewhere you can grab it.
>
> Now reach out and grab the mouse.
>
> Where does the pointer end up?
It ends up in the middle of the scr
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On 8/8/2012 11:43 AM, Felix Miata wrote:
> You're under 40, right? Under 30 too? 20?
33 actually, though I don't see what that has to do with the price of
tea in China.
> We all must navigate to a clicking point before clicking. You seem
> to be assu
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On 8/8/2012 1:15 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> It has a lot of bearing for people. Proper usability testing would
> have pointed that out, and Canonicals decision not to allow the
> toolbar to be on the right if users wanted is completely ignorant,
> mo
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On 8/8/2012 2:11 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote:
> Speaking of useless. And because critiscm is ranting... oh yeah
> that is usually the go to word for people now everything is either
> a rant or a troll now days. Don't expect me to throw on the
> training
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On 8/8/2012 2:35 PM, Felix Miata wrote:
> Sadly obvious. If you've not studiously watched people over 50 or
> 80 try to use a computer you should. Then you should be able to
> discover some important realities about UI usability.
I have watched people
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On 1/7/2013 2:59 AM, Gregor Shapiro wrote:
> Ubuntu is (as some competent Linux users have told me) a "user
> friendly" distribution and as such lots of more or less 'advanced'
> things you might like to do are difficult or impossible. If you are
> or
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On 3/4/2013 2:58 PM, Bryan Fullerton wrote:
> However, in the process of this I couldn't help but notice that
> ureadahead seems fairly abandoned, even though it's still shipping
> with most (all?) versions of Ubuntu. The main project on LP hasn't
> be
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On 3/31/2013 7:28 PM, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>
> I have decided that sudo is superior to polkit in every way for
> both developers and user except for if developers want to be lazy
> and outsource policy creation to more general and so less specific
>
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You know you can specify the config file to use when you build the
grub net image right?
On 2/5/2014 3:13 PM, Mroczek, Joseph T wrote:
> Hello:
>
> Please let me know if this is not the correct place to make this
> suggestion/request. First time mai
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On 12/14/2014 03:27 AM, Diego Germán Gonzalez wrote:
> Hi Can you tell me if Quickly it continues to develop? thank you
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On 12/21/2014 8:20 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 21 December 2014 at 00:45, Alex Oh wrote:
>> http://git-blame.blogspot.com.es/2014/12/git-1856-195-205-214-and-221-and.html
>>
>>
>>
There is a vulnerability with git pull. Would be great if the git packag
Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:
> Since Squashfs 3.1 had been released, it now supports specifying "the
> filename or the directory within the Squashfs filesystem that is to be
> extracted, rather than always extracting the entire filesystem."[1]
> This allows the LiveCD to function in different ways rat
I have noticed that the mime-support package classifies troff files with
the mime type of "application/x-troff". I believe this is wrong since
troff is a text format, it should be "text/troff". This causes problems
because troff files served via an apache server can not be viewed by
clients b
Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
> Wenzhuo Zhang wrote:
>> 3. The desktop has two hard drives. One is connected to the motherboard
>> as primary master, and the other is connected to a Promise Ultra100 TX2
>> IDE controller card as tertiary master. The feisty live-cd recognizes
>> the primary boot drive as /de
I've been seeing several complaints lately from users who have upgraded
to feisty and their ide disks are now being handled by libata. It seems
that hdparm does not work on the devices created by the libata driver,
so how are you supposed to enable 32bit and dma transfers? Several
users have
Are you saying that libata is supposed to always enable 32bit dma transfers?
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> As has been the case for a long time, the kernel and drive are supposed
> to negotiate the appropriate speeds themselves. If that's not happening,
> please file a bug against the kernel.
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Sven wrote:
> Modifying hardware is very different quality of impact than just
> pressing 2 keys to gain root access.
It isn't any harder to insert a bootable cd.
> Say i setup a pc in the childrens room, do i want my children to gain
> root access without a password?
If your children are smart
Matt Zimmerman wrote:
> - Xfont, which provides font services (including selection and rendering)
> through the X server. This is basically obsolete in favour of client-side
> fonts.
Why is this? Client side fonts are bad for several reasons:
1) You end up with the mess you point out, wher
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 10:52:46AM -0400, Phillip Susi wrote:
>
>> 3) Performance suffers. The X server is in the best position to render
>> fonts using any hardware acceleration provided by the video card, and
>> allows for those f
shirish wrote:
> Hi all,
> There was some discussion on having an unstable & experimental
> repository just like debian but don't know whatever happened to that.
> Can somebody share if ubuntu is moving to that space? As I see so many
> of the packagers already package new stuff about a week o
Christof Krüger wrote:
> Unfortunately, computer designers, technicians etc. are not living in an
> isolated world (well.. maybe some of them).
> No one wants to forbid the computer people to use base 2 numbers. They
> are just asked to write KiB instead of KB if they mean base 2
> quantities, beca
Jan Claeys wrote:
> The problem is that it's used for both decimal & binary multiples in the
> same context... (E.g. several programs use it as a binary multiple for
> "network speeds", while many other programs use it as a decimal multiple
> in that _exact_ same context.)
Network speed is usuall
Jan Claeys wrote:
> Except that many user apps use binary multiples for both bits and bytes
> when they show "download speed".
>
> (But of course your usage of "usually" already tells us that there is no
> clear definition.)
Most use 1000 for bits, and 1024 for bytes. Those that do not are
cons
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> * Triaged will mean that a bug has all the information attached to it
> that a developer needs to fix it. The 'confirmed' state was previously
> used for this purpose, but many users were 'confirming' bugs when
> observed by a second person.
I disagree with this ter
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> I agree that 'evaluating the urgency' should also fit into the Triaged
> state. However, not that this can only be done by ubuntu-qa or
> developers (setting importance). Assigning resources can really only be
> done by the people who intend to fix it, which is an eve
Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote:
> If you are not a developer then it is misleading to set it to In
> Progress because nobody is actually working on the fix and it may never
> be fixed.
There are those of us who are not developers but do still work on fixing
bugs ;)
Non developers should be able to s
Krzysztof Lichota wrote:
> Hello everyone.
> I am working this summer on "Automatic boot and application start file
> prefetching" project as part of Google Summer of Code for Ubuntu.
>
> I am glad to announce that first version of kernel with automatic boot
> tracing and prefetching is available
Kevin Fries wrote:
> For a long time, I used to use Fedora exclusively. The cleaner more
> user friendly Ubuntu desktop has been much better for me as a consultant
> in every way sans one. Remote update between versions.
>
> Here is how I would do this in Fedora:
> Step nine, I would wait for
Scott Kitterman wrote:
> ReiserFS is effectively unmaintained. I've switched from ReiserFS to Ext3
> for
> my installs too. While it works well now, bitrot seems inevitable.
>
> Scott K
>
> Note: This has nothing to do with an legal issues the developers have. The
> Reiser devs have been
Waldemar Kornewald wrote:
> Why did the Ubuntu developers choose that particular behavior (fsck
> every 21st or 30th boot), anyway? IMHO, a much more accurate
> measurement would be: how much time has the FS spent in the "mounted"
> state since the last FS check?
Because that is how ext has been s
Jan Claeys wrote:
> I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware
> defects, it's mostly useless on most hard disks in use these days. The
> HDD firmware does internal bad block detection & replacement (using
> spare blocks on the disk reserved for that purpose). So if you ca
Jan Claeys wrote:
> Indeed, 'smartmontools' for hardware-defects, "fsck" for
> filesystem-defects.
>
>
> About doing "live" fsck & defrag on a rw filesystem, IIRC Windows NT has
> a system API for doing e.g. atomic "swap 2 sectors" operations; does
> 'linux', or any of the filesystem drivers for
Jan Claeys wrote:
> Ext2/ext3 suffer from fragmentation too, when available disk space gets
> low enough.
Yea that's why the defrag package was written.
> But I think a similar API could be used to mark & move bad sectors or
> "lost" sectors, and that's more related to this discussion...
As
Jan Claeys wrote:
> The main reason (IMO) why "defrag" is not useful (anymore) is that for
> ages there hasn't been any (guaranteed) correlation between hardware
> order and software order of sectors on a disk. Defragmenting disks
> might actually fragment them more on a fysical level, and thus ca
John Dong wrote:
> I agree with everyone who says that the current fsck experience is a blemish
> to Ubuntu's general user-friendliness, and also that we should not be entirely
> removing the regular fsck as it catches hardware irregularities and potential
> software bugs with ext3.
When was the l
Onno Benschop wrote:
> My point is this, an fsck is an 'out of band' check, that is, a check
> that doesn't rely on other things. It means that while theoretically a
> file-system maintains its integrity, in practice it cannot. fsck is a
> useful tool that needs to run regularly and every 30 mounts
Onno Benschop wrote:
> I am subscribed to the list, there is no need to send this to me directly.
Fair enough. I will remove you for now, but if you wish to not get such
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> I have personal experience where "a
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