Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Michael DePaulo
Hey, You have very nice boot times. Are you on a solid state drive? Are you counting the entire time till the desktop is usable? I just went to see RMS speak at Lycoming college. He said they are currently recommending ati over nvidia. It's nice to see improvements in FOSS ati drivers, but I

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Doc Kinne
Robert: On 24 Apr , 2009, at 15:41, Robert Wall wrote: A preface: I am not an Ubuntu channel operator, I just hang around in #ubuntu* channels entirely too often for my own good. For those who haven't raid the guidelines we're discussing, here's the link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcGuidelines

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Wall
A preface: I am not an Ubuntu channel operator, I just hang around in #ubuntu* channels entirely too often for my own good. For those who haven't raid the guidelines we're discussing, here's the link: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrcGuidelines > Language and Subject > > * All the #ubuntu chann

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Maia Kozheva
Doc Kinne wrote: You just made my day, Scott. THANK YOU! Maia, my concern with such a "banned topic" is that it targets LGBT people and is therefore blatantly discriminatory. Now, I say that, at this point, not exactly having READ it so I may be talking out of my butt (although that hasn't h

[Ubuntu-lgbt] discrimination

2009-04-24 Thread bret sheppard
Our sex or sexes should never be an issue. There is nothing wrong with human biology if its presented tactfully and doesn't hurt anyone. I'm not anyone special,  but I would like to say that the discrimination and I mean all discrimination needs to stop and so does the bad behavior that generate

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Doc Kinne
Scott: On 24 Apr , 2009, at 10:54, Scott James Remnant wrote: On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:57 +0100, Jimmy Forrester-Fellowes wrote: Would also be good to see this group get more popular & active. I was shocked when I was told in the official ubuntu IRC channels (#ubuntu-offtopic on irc.ubuntu.co

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Maia Kozheva
Scott James Remnant wrote: > I hadn't heard about that, I'll investigate and raise this with the > community council. > > Scott Gender and sexuality are listed among "controversial topics" that are "not for here" in the !o4o command. To be frank, I can understand people's discomfort about discu

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 09:01 -0500, Jim Campbell wrote: > My experience with Jaunty has been very good. I've heard from other > people of occasional problems with Intel drivers and some problems > with audio, but my experience has been good with both of these items. > To me it's a bit interesting t

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Scott James Remnant
On Fri, 2009-04-24 at 10:57 +0100, Jimmy Forrester-Fellowes wrote: > Would also be good to see this group get more popular & active. I was > shocked when I was told in the official ubuntu IRC channels > (#ubuntu-offtopic on irc.ubuntu.com/freenode to be specific) LGBT is a > banned topic according

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Jim Campbell
Hi, On Thu, Apr 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Michael DePaulo wrote: > I personally at the moment, do not want to draw too much attention to my > presence in this group. However, that will change in the future and people > who are completely out would likely want their membership known. > > So anyway, how

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Jimmy Forrester-Fellowes
Hey Jorge, I think the brown is a strong/unique feature in ubuntu's brand. I think ubuntu could continue to use brown as their brand/mascot-colour but it should be used tastefully rather than just painting everything brown (like the human theme). I really don't like the new gdm login theme, think

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Jorge
Hi again, Does anybody here really like BROWN?. The new notification system is a very nice step towards a new graphical interface, but I really think that most of us, the first thing we do when installing, is removing the default theme. Of course, make some critics without being really involv

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Jimmy Forrester-Fellowes
Hey all (first post too), I upgraded my work desktop to Januty yesterday, previously I upgraded a lot earlier but recently ubuntu releases have felt less stable than they were a few years ago so I've been a bit more cautious with my upgrades recently. The upgrade itself went smoothly (unlike my exp

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Robert Wall
Hi everyone! (first post!) I've been using Jaunty since Alpha 3, so I've known about the improvements for a while, but they're still awesome! The boot time decrease for my computer -- from 26 sec on Intrepid to 15 sec on Jaunty ext3 to 13 sec on Jaunty ext4 (on a test install I did; I use ext3 no

Re: [Ubuntu-lgbt] Hello!

2009-04-24 Thread Jorge
Hi, Long night without sleeping. :) I tried Kubuntu Jaunty but installer failed after partition created. It simply stopped. I checked the CD, and tried again and again. Finally I came back tu Ubuntu (Jaunty) and every thing went on wheels. Although I'm still using Ext3 (I love too much my data