Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2007, 00:49 +0530 schrieb shirish:
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Hi all,
What do you guys think of putting things like keyring manager,
GPA (GNU Privacy Assistant), Seahorse, and other security-based
softwares in a separate menu entry titled
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:49:50AM +0530, shirish wrote:
Hi all,
What do you guys think of putting things like keyring manager,
GPA (GNU Privacy Assistant), Seahorse, and other security-based
softwares in a separate menu entry titled Security where all
security-based tools including
Hi all
I think putting a password by default on the grub booter just adds another
level of unnecessary complexity for users. Enabling it by default you force
people to learn another password which they then have to type in every time
you boot etc etc. I think a better option would be to allow
Am Donnerstag, den 17.05.2007, 11:03 +0100 schrieb Matthew Larsen:
Hi all
I think putting a password by default on the grub booter just adds
another level of unnecessary complexity for users. Enabling it by
default you force people to learn another password which they then
have to type in
Hi Everyone,
I am new to this list and would like to introduce myself. My name is Timothy
Armstrong and I have been a software developer for about 10 years now. I
mainly develop in Delphi/Pascal but have knowledge in other areas as well. My
linux experience is quite a bit less, I have been
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files, causing him to lose
important data.
While I'm opposed to fixing the problem in
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On 18/05/07 06:18, Micah Cowan wrote:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing
Op donderdag 17-05-2007 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Micah
Cowan:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files,
Jan Claeys wrote:
Op donderdag 17-05-2007 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Micah
Cowan:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to
On 18/05/07 08:25, Micah Cowan wrote:
Jan Claeys wrote:
Op donderdag 17-05-2007 om 15:18 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef Micah
Cowan:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in
Onno Benschop wrote:
On 18/05/07 06:18, Micah Cowan wrote:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files, causing him to
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:03:18PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
A completely different approach could be that the calls that
actually write to a file check that the file does not exist. You
could activate this with a system-wide flag, but I strongly suspect
that this would be more work than
Hi Tim. Welcome to the Ubuntu Development Mailing List.
I used to have a Lexmark printer and found that Lexmark has great lack
of support for Linux drivers for their products.
I am glad to here that somebody (such as yourself) is willing to give it
a shot of developing a driver for the Linux
A new CLI version of file-roller would rock. We need more CLI-GUI
code/concept/functionality sharing. Other candidates include
gnome-system-monitor (vs. top) and nautilus (so you could browse DAV on
the CLI, just like you do local file systems, for example).
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:18 -0700,
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:18, Micah Cowan wrote:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files, causing him to lose
Soren Hansen wrote:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 06:03:18PM -0700, Micah Cowan wrote:
A completely different approach could be that the calls that
actually write to a file check that the file does not exist. You
could activate this with a system-wide flag, but I strongly suspect
that this would be
Scott Kitterman wrote:
On Thursday 17 May 2007 18:18, Micah Cowan wrote:
A user, timothy, describing his difficulties at:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/113154
describes his frustration as a new user, in discovering the hard way
that tar's default is to overwrite existing files,
Yes. Well, the user expects the computer to do what it is told, too, but
doesn't realize that without flags like --backup or -k, he has
implicitly told the computer to go ahead and write over anything it sees.
Apparently tar -w gives you interactive mode. Unfortunately, when it
finds an
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