Re: Reusing old specs

2008-05-13 Thread Przemysław Kulczycki
Bryce Harrington pisze: The Ubuntu's blueprints page currently lists over 2000 specs. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu Some of them are implemented, but not marked as such. Some of them have been deferred, but are not marked as such. Some of them became obsolete. And finally some of them

1. Unabel to unmount/eject CD/DVD ? (( ``-_-?? ) -- Fernando)

2008-05-13 Thread Arvind K
Yesterday I was met, with what I think is one of the most stupid bugs I ever found. When I tried to eject a DVDr, either using nautilus tools or the drive eject button, an error popup showed up, telling me that I wasn't root. WTF, now I can't even eject CDs? I had a look at my user permitions

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:51:59PM +0100, Sam Tygier wrote: David Prieto wrote: Some time ago, I posted this idea on Ubuntu Brainstorm, about the possibility to use a separate /home folder by default on systems where, depending on free disk space, it is considered advisable. The main

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-13 Thread David Prieto
Hi again, Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories. Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep my /home in a separate partition, but I have another partition with some

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-13 Thread Phillip Susi
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 that

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-13 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 11:22 +0200, Oliver Grawert a écrit : hi, Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 23:14 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: I'd like to raise the developers' awareness about bug 59695 [1]: High frequency of load/unload cycles on some hard disks may shorten lifetime please see

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-13 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:51:29PM +0200, David Prieto wrote: Hi again, Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories. Do you have to do anything special for that to work? I usually keep my

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-13 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 13 May 2008 19:32:23 -0400 (EDT) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No, they won't, and shouldn't. Why pay some idiot corporation an extortion fee just because they bribed the browser manufacturers to include their certs by default? There is NO added security to having a paid for cert. In

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-13 Thread HggdH
The rather larger problem is that the little lock is generally presumed by users to mean much more than it does. Emphasizing cert validity only compounds the problem. As an example, after today I'd be rather more concerned if I didn't get an unknown cert warning from a Debian site than

Re: Ubiquity - setting a separate /home by default

2008-05-13 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Wed, 2008-05-14 at 00:33 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:51:29PM +0200, David Prieto wrote: Hi again, Ubiquity can now install onto a partition that has an existing home directory without deleting it. It just removes the system directories. Do you have

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-13 Thread Zak B. Elep
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-13 at 16:24 -0400, Phillip Susi wrote: No, they won't, and shouldn't. Why pay some idiot corporation an extortion fee just because they bribed the browser manufacturers to include their certs by

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-13 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Mon, 2008-05-12 at 08:32 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 03:37 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 08:28 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: Do you have a link to the discussion? Were things suposed to be any better in Hardy?

Re: Bug madness: High frequency of load/unload cycles

2008-05-13 Thread Oliver Grawert
hi, Am Dienstag, den 13.05.2008, 22:42 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: Le mardi 13 mai 2008 à 11:22 +0200, Oliver Grawert a écrit : hi, Am Montag, den 12.05.2008, 23:14 +0200 schrieb Milan Bouchet-Valat: I'd like to raise the developers' awareness about bug 59695 [1]: High frequency