On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 8:49 PM, Fabio Pedretti fabio@libero.it wrote:
1. Traditional swap on hard drive is still used and suggested, zram is a
better alternative and a complement to it, so it may for sure be useful to
everyone who actually use swap on hard drive.
I am not sure that zram
LastPass may be secure today, but it is trivially easy for LastPass
(or a hypothetical attacker who gains access to LastPass's
infrastructure) to compromise that security simply by replacing the
javascript code which does the client side encryption and decryption
with some code that also
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 4:02 AM, nick rundy nru...@hotmail.com wrote:
There are several situations where I need to find an executable. One that
comes immediately to mind is when I need to specify what program to use to
open an online stream and the program I want is not appearing in an offered
On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 7:16 PM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On Sat, Nov 05, 2011 at 02:40:31AM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
We could even enhance which to look in obvious places off the path (perhaps
locatedb?) and print the output on stderr if we really wanted to.
Please
On Thursday, November 3, 2011, John Moser wrote:
find a binary? Here, I've solved this problem for you, completely.
It's easy. Do this:
luser$ which ls
luser$ which gnome-session
luser$ which synaptic
If it isn't in your path, then it's broken. Something strange has
We could even
On Sat, Mar 19, 2011 at 7:36 AM, Vernon Cole vernondc...@gmail.com wrote:
By another strange twist of fate, there is a PPA on launchpad which
allegedly has a current version of mono, but it is only built for LTS
versions of Ubuntu, so to get the latest version of mono, I have to
unload
Apparently there is a change coming in glibc which can trigger silent data
corruption bugs in existing software that misuses memcpy with overlapping
regions.
http://lwn.net/Articles/414467/#Comments
Perhaps alpha versions of Natty or Natty+1 should test for this (using
LD_PRELOAD or a modified
Hi Martin, I intended to send the following to lyx-devel, but my dog
ate it. Louis has mentioned AdvanceCOMP, but I thought you might find
the summary below useful. I think that the figures may be out by about
30%, possibly do to squashfs doing some form of intra-file
de-duplication, but I hope it
On Fri, Oct 8, 2010 at 2:01 AM, Matthias Klose d...@ubuntu.com wrote:
Also, there are 12MB of jar files, which are basically zip files. We
can also shrink those by 5MB or so with advzip, but that doesn't seem
to shrink a .tgz of them so it may not shrink the liveCD. Since zip
files compress
the
recompressed files into the archive's packages [1].
I think this will be discussed at UDS-N, see:
http://archives.free.net.ph/message/20101004.065026.e553efd1.en.html
2010-10-06 16:08 GMT John McCabe-Dansted gma...@gmail.com:
In May, Louis Simard proposed rencoding PNG files and SVG files to
reduce
In May, Louis Simard proposed rencoding PNG files and SVG files to
reduce their size [1]. I note that we can save further space by:
1) Using advdef on the png files in addition to optipng. This is what
optimizegraphics does, and this shrinks the pngs on the Maverick RC
liveCD from about 100.1MB
This idea seems fairly easy to implement and has over 4000 votes. I
have attached a simplistic prototype script that I have used a few
times to successfully restore my MBR.
It has a few obvious limitations, but the real issue is how we'd
integrate it with the live CD. Even just adding it as a
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Scholte van Mast, Rene
r.scholtevanm...@iq-optimize.de wrote:
Hello,
I have trouble with the network performance inside my virtual machines.
As I understand this mailing list is for development discussion, and
people wanting support are generally invited to
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Derek Broughton de...@pointerstop.cawrote:
Neither do I - but for, apparently, opposite reasons. I don't understand
why we need, or even want, minimize to tray and minimize to task bar
(aargh, please don't push _my_ buttons, and write minimise :-) )
OK. Both
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 4:58 PM, Jérôme Bouat jerome.bo...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
Ubuntu - two bar (desktop edition)
The issue is that small screens are now shipped high performance laptop
(~1000 €).
On those high performance laptops, I would not use the netbook remix
flavor but the genuine
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:54 PM, Fabio Alessandro Locati
fabioloc...@gmail.com wrote:
I was looking today the firefox package. I noticed that there is a
huga amount of patches in that package [1]. If I remember correctly,
is against firefox license to redistribuite it with the same name,
same
On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 12:29 AM, Michael Kappes mich...@cacn.de wrote:
since i update my Laptop (T41) whit the last Lucid updates from today -
Firefox doesn't start. Start from the bash says:
I had some difficulty with firefox-3.6 refusing to start (on 9.10).
Moving ~/.mozilla out of the way
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Jan Claeys li...@janc.be wrote:
How will you revert all people's configuration data (e.g. files
created with an incompatible new file format)?
Where the upgrade to the new format is done by dpkg, we could add
downgrade scripts as well as upgrade scripts. As for
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 2:28 AM, Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
Journal, lwn.net, and breathless reviews across the blogosphere. Users
start clamoring for the features of gumptacular 2.0, not knowing how
they ever lived without them. So,
apt-get install
(Posted just to ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com, as I don't think my
mail is relevant to the other lists)
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 2:26 PM, Paul Tagliamonte paul...@ubuntu.comwrote:
I love this idea!
It will be a considerable amount of overhead for canonical to get (
EVEN ) more CDs,
On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 5:27 AM, James Westby jw+deb...@jameswestby.net wrote:
* It's a feature of dubious value to begin with. After it had taken some
time doing its thing you would need to have the user type in the password
anyway to confirm (you can't assume, and you can't really show
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Daniel Hollocher
danielholloc...@gmail.com wrote:
password. Any sort of password automation would simplify the
situation for a few people at the expense of making it more
complicated for the rest of us. The level of encryption doesn't seem
to matter.
OK. The
On Sat, Nov 28, 2009 at 6:52 PM, Conrad Knauer ath...@gmail.com wrote:
...
If the user is connected to the internet, might it be possible to
guess their physical location (e.g. for time zone) by IP address?
(http://www.tracemyip.org/ seems to be able to :) as most people will
want to install
On Sat, Jul 4, 2009 at 2:23 AM, Evaneapa...@gmail.com wrote:
We also seem to have a duplication of effort on several fronts. At last
glance we have:
- mailing lists
- IRC
- wiki
- launchpad
- launchpad answers
- forums
I wrote a blueprint for maintaining a database of errors. I suggest
2009/6/25 Matthew Paul Thomas m...@canonical.com:
...
If just 1% of Ubuntu users tick the box, that gives us enough data to
improve Ubuntu by justifying our decisions with evidence.
...
The absolute size of a sample is more important, statistically, than its
relative size. In other words,
2009/6/10 Mark Fink mpf...@gmail.com
yes it does and the people behind the censorship need to be exposed
for what they really are
Moderators?
As I understand, the Ubuntu forums are for useful, constructive posts that
adhere to the Code of Conduct. It would appear to be almost a consensus
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 9:01 AM, Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Besides, I have already made clear in later posts in this thread that I
really do not care what is used so long as it is uniform across all
operating systems. If Ubuntu wants to do its thing while other
2009/6/9 Derek Broughton de...@pointerstop.ca
Sorry, but no. You are pretending to have a rational discussion, while
dismissing perfectly valid arguments.
The codecs are
not-in-Ubuntu the same way as Wine, because they are not installed,
No, they are not. The codecs are NOT in Ubuntu
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 1:55 AM, Daniel J Blueman
daniel.blue...@gmail.com wrote:
I was trying to raise a more general point about the minimum spec
across the board, including the embedded and old-server hardware.
I challenge anyone to find someone using Ubuntu 8.10/9.04 on a
processor which
On Wed, Apr 15, 2009 at 10:24 AM, Null Ack null...@gmail.com wrote:
X security. He makes what seems to be a very sound suggestion about
Plash and hooking into GTK, thus overcoming the problem of needing to
in advance make determinations about what a desktop user might do and
the X security
On Sun, Apr 5, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote:
2009/4/4 Nils Kassube kass...@gmx.net:
If you don't trust update-manager you would have to check everything
after an update. I don't think anybody will do that even after
providing the password. Most users don't even know
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 5:10 AM, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote:
Are there any problems with enabling automatic updates by default?
Most users don't care about updates to the point that they never
install them. And even if they would open the update manager, they
would more likely
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 2:28 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
That would fail for users who make one-time changes to their data. For
example users who download their mail via pop. If they upgrade using
aufs and then proceed to test the new features of their mail client,
it might be
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 12:17 PM, don fisher h...@comcast.net wrote:
Disk /dev/sda: 8999.9 GB, 834099456 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1094179 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Rebooting under ubuntu the output is reported as:
Disk /dev/sda1: 203.8 GB,
It may help to mention that :
gestor=Manager
posterior=Later
You can get get information on relevant software installed by entering
lsb_release -r ; dpkg -l *flash* *swfdec* *gnash* *firefox* ;
ls /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/ ~/.mozilla/plugins
into a terminal.
If this is a bug it can be reported
On 2/11/09, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote:
It's 9 days until feature freeze, so if you want it different I suggest
sending patches.
Below is a prototype that I mocked up in half an hour; it gives a 10
second countdown. It would seem that something usable in 8 days is a
possibility
On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 2:40 PM, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 13:30 +, richard wrote:
On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 08:30:52 +
Ian Lynch ian.ly...@zmsl.com wrote:
Big snip and a merry Christmas to you all.
I've been watching this thread and the one thing that
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 5:37 AM, Martin Olsson mn...@minimum.se wrote:
Normally when I want to rebuild a package with no-optimizations and full
debug symbols I do:
mkdir some_pkg ; cd some_pkg ; apt-get source SOME_PACKAGE ; cd
SOME_PACKAGE_DIR
DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noopt nostrip
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 7:57 AM, Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
That said, I do like generalizing. :-) I think there is a cyclical
thing in FOSS, where you have some legacy thing that works 80%, and
upstream decides to get that last 20% it requires a major rewrite. They
expect it
On Tue, Aug 5, 2008 at 4:31 PM, Peter Teoh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I started compiling the kernel as provided by Ubuntu source ISO and
encountered the following error while compiling:
/sda2/linux-source-2.6.20-2.6.20ALSA lib
confmisc.c:670:(snd_func_card_driver) cannot find card '0'
ALSA
On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Stephan Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Serious, for a normal familiy I would advise to by ready made
appliances..they are tested, and are usable (well not everytime, but
If a security flaw is found in such an appliance it would be much
harder to patch than one
On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 6:23 AM, Mackenzie Morgan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Because as he said, if you pre-configure everything to
super-duper-easy-peasy, you've also pre-configured it to
super-duper-easy-peasy-to-crack. I'm personally disappointed by
firewalls that allow outbound by default,
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 3:36 PM, Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 05:07:05PM +1000, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote:
On 6/25/08, Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
probably some of you already read that statement of kernel developers
about the opening of
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 6:20 PM, Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:11:10PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:18 PM, Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
- Even if it's distribution specific it's still a commitment to the
whole
On Thu, Jun 5, 2008 at 7:07 AM, Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
3. $ sudo apt-get build
Run from within the source tree, this wrappers all the work of
generating a patch from the current source tree's changes and adding
it to the package's patch management system (or
\On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 5:12 AM, Krzysztof Lichota [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Where/how are these lists of blocks stored?
They are stored in /prefetch directory as prefetch lists for each
traced app and for boot stages.
Each file contains list of tuples (device, inode, start-in-pages,
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 5:38 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 02.24 +0100, chombee ha scritto:
Using git is ridiculously difficult and technical by the standards of
most normal users, but I see no reason why a versioning system could
not
be
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 9:40 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Il giorno gio, 08/05/2008 alle 20.28 +0800, John McCabe-Dansted ha
scritto:
If we define a users work as a user's typing, we could easily save
this permanently.
Not quite :) What if I type in a video editor and save
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:33 PM, Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If you can create a diff to linux-ubuntu-modules and put it in
launchpad, and then contact [EMAIL PROTECTED], that ought to
do. I wouldn't necessarily expect this to happen until after hardy's
released, though.
OK,
On Tue, Mar 4, 2008 at 7:24 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just use rsync:
rsync -zhP
rsync://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage/daily-live/current/hardy-desktop-i386.iso .
That works. However, when I try to get the alpha-6 release, I get:
$ rsync
I am trying to package compcache. Control.modules.in does not seem to
be used by debuild. Other packages of compiled modules in Ubuntu don't
seem to use control.modules.in. Am I correct in assuming that
control.modules.in is only used when users compile their own modules
using the module
On Wed, Mar 5, 2008 at 11:31 PM, Matthew Garrett [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 11:08:00PM +0900, John McCabe-Dansted wrote:
I am trying to package compcache.
A much better solution is to get it included in linux-ubuntu-modules.
What process do I need to follow to get
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