Re: xrdp broken, possible directions

. As to how far... maybe I can make an X11rdp shell script work; if there's no other interest, that's as far as it's going to go. On Mon, Jan 23, 2017 at 5:47 PM, Martinx - ジェームズ <thiagocmarti...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 7 January 2017 at 22:35, John Moser <john.r.mo...@gmail.com> wrot

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 12:52 -0400, Tom H wrote: > On Sun, Sep 11, 2016, Ralf Mardorf > wrote: > > > > > > You are quoting me out of context. The context is that the poor > > can't > > donate new computers and they can't pay for infrastructure, such as > > internet

[OT] Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

On Sun, 2016-09-11 at 17:24 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 11 Sep 2016 15:58:44 +0300, Thierry Andriamirado wrote: > > > > Le 10 septembre 2016 20:13:47 UTC+03:00, Ralf Mardorf > > a écrit : > >   > > > > > > It's not the task of the poor to help the poor.

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

On Thu, 2016-09-08 at 18:10 +0300, Thierry Andriamirado wrote: > > Le 8 septembre 2016 01:35:05 UTC+03:00, John Moser <john.r.moser@gmai > l.com> a écrit : > > > > > > > > > > There are countless very old computers running Ubuntu, in > > &

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

On Wed, 2016-09-07 at 15:54 +0300, Thierry Andriamirado wrote: > > Le 7 septembre 2016 04:58:44 UTC+03:00, John Moser <john.r.moser@gmai > l.com> a écrit : > > > > > > that context are uncommon by nature.  That in an of itself seems to > > warrant a proje

Re: My opinion on Ubuntu cancelling Intel 80386/80386-clone processor support

On Tue, 2016-09-06 at 21:33 -0400, JMZ wrote: > Hi Ryan, > > When you say "Ubuntu 16.10" I wonder if you mean that you are > running  > gnome with the unity shell or just the command line only. Running any > of  > the graphical enviroments (save maybe lxde) on a 80586 would be > pretty  >

Re: Protobuf 3.0.0 instead of 2.6.1?

Use a Docker container for now.  You may need to map /tmp as a volume (to get the X11 socket) if it's an X application. It might be easier to start from a Debian or Alpine container when building the Dockerfile. On Tue, 2016-07-26 at 14:23 -0700, JIA Pei wrote: > > Hi, Canonical developers? > >

Re: The Simple Things in Life

level to figure out what it might be.  And this is supposed to be > more intuitive and/or predictable than "eth0"? > > > > Thx. > > > > -ml > > > > > On 7/19/2016 2:

Re: The Simple Things in Life

On Tue, 2016-07-19 at 14:29 -0700, Jason Benjamin wrote: > I've been irritated by so many obvious shortcomings of Ubuntu this > version (16.04).  So many of the most obvious fixes are easily > attributed to configuration files.  I don't know if those who > purchase the operating system directly

Re: Snapcraft, Snappy

On Sun, 2016-07-10 at 17:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Hi, > > there's an interesting counter-argument against something similar to > snapcraft/snappy. > > https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-general/2016-July/041579.h > tml > That's the security team going off into lala land with a

Re: Feature request: module [pam_limits]

On 02/27/2016 04:06 PM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > # > @foo softnproc 20 > @foo hardnproc 50 > > Every user who is _not_ in the group "foo", simply is _not_ in > this group, it makes completely no sense to introduce a negation of > being

Re: Wishes for +Xenial

I"d just like to see Jabref work (for LyX) and MonoDevelop actually able to make an ASP.NET MVC project (install xsp-4, start MonoDevelop, create a C# ASP.NET MVC project, and it fails; any amount of finegeling only brings further failure. Works on Windows; and all the missing components are

Can we have a sunset filter effect in Unity, KDE, and Compiz

I'd like to see a configuration option to uniformly reduce the blue channel in the desktop during certain hours. It's ugly, but people have had good results on other OSes with fading the screen to red-orange as it nears their bedtime, using applications such as F.lux. This prevents the brain

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

On 05/18/2015 08:24 PM, Raphael Calvo wrote: As an engineer I can definitelly say that saddens me to see such level of argumentation towards a client/user. As an engineer, I can say you're vulnerable to the engineer's problem of coming up with some complicated way of doing things. Thinking

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

On 04/29/2015 08:54 PM, John Moser wrote: On 04/29/2015 08:32 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: The entire reason for them being on the left is to make the top-right Actually, no, you know what? I'm going to set decorum aside and pull a Linus here, on everyone involved. Not you, Clynt; *everyone

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

On 04/29/2015 10:38 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 2015-04-29 10:23 PM, John Moser wrote: I said most people are right-handed, and that the easiest way to tilt your wrist or move your arm was out and away. The top-right of your screen is the easiest area of the screen to access--go ahead

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

On 04/29/2015 08:32 PM, Clint Byrum wrote: The entire reason for them being on the left is to make the top-right of the screen consequence free for a single click. This is to encourage the user to dig into the indicators and to help developers inform users easily in a uniform way. You

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

On 04/29/2015 10:36 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 2015-04-29 12:42 AM, John Moser wrote: On 04/29/2015 12:40 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: I am very happy with window controls on the correct (left) side. :-P It is close to the App's Menus which is why the window closes 40% of the time

Re: Window Controls on the Right Side

On 04/29/2015 12:40 AM, Martinx - ジェームズ wrote: I am very happy with window controls on the correct (left) side. :-P It is close to the App's Menus which is why the window closes 40% of the time I try to hit File (I don't need to travel the entire screen to hit those buttons) and

Re: irqbalance superfluous

IRQbalance keeps all of the IRQ requests from backing up on a single CPU. It tries to balance this out in an intelligent way accross all the CPUs and, when possible, puts the IRQ processing as close to the process as possible. On NUMA systems, you may want numad. I believe irqbalance exits if

Re: Change what is considered by apt-get as major amount of disk space

Why? On multiple CentOS systems installed from the same CD using the same parameters, yum will either list updates and ask Y/n or just update/install stuff without confirmation; this irritates me, because sometimes I see updates I want to run in a separate batch for risk management, or I see that

Re: Change what is considered by apt-get as major amount of disk space

can even make it permanent) to completely skip this check.). 2015-03-25 13:47 GMT+01:00 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com mailto:john.r.mo...@gmail.com: Why? On multiple CentOS systems installed from the same CD using the same parameters, yum will either list updates and ask Y

Re: A Jumble of Lines - Because that's what systemD is.

On 11/05/2014 12:27 PM, Chateau DuBlanc wrote: A Jumble of Lines - Because that's what systemD is. More code .: better youtu.be/ACDi1YOcupk SystemD introduces (further) systemic vulnerabilities into Gnu/Linux. Here is a song feeling that situation out. Take this immaturity elsewhere.

Re: A Jumble of Lines - Because that's what systemD is.

On 11/05/2014 01:01 PM, Castle OfWhite wrote: It's licensed elsewhere under CC-BY-SA aswell, just for such an occasion. The GPL is a fine media license when said media is a part of a program (game etc). In such cases Judges usually see the entire thing as a whole rather than a collection of

NFS and fscache always crashes

Has anyone ever got cachefilesd and fsc to actually work? On any combination of servers (glusterfs, CentOS 6, Ubuntu 14.04) and clients (CentOS 6, Ubuntu 14.04), an NFS mount as simple as nfs4 with option 'fsc' always locks up the system. You can do a few things; but as soon as you get to any

Re: Increase default nofile ulimit

On 06/09/2014 07:10 AM, Robie Basak wrote: AIUI, there are security implications for raising this limit system-wide by default, since applications that use select() are often broken and will become vulnerable with a higher limit. See

Increase default nofile ulimit

The default nofile ulimit is 1024 soft, 4096 hard. As you know, the soft limit is *the* limit. A hard limit specifies how high a process may increase the ulimit; many processes don't attempt this. Apache on CentOS 6, for example, will easily run over the 1024 soft limit after just 55 server

Re: core unix command broken in latest updates

On 05/13/2014 01:04 PM, Dale Amon wrote: It just seems strange that something like this could slip past in a set of updates to a package... but the dh command is not working after the last security update I did via dselect. dh is not a core Unix command. Strongly suggested reading:

Re: Those extra packages on the live CD

On 02/17/2014 04:26 PM, Tong Sun wrote: Hi, I have never taken a closer look at what's inside the Lubuntu CD, until now when I discovered that there is bunch of packages on the CD that is not packed in the filesystem.squashfs file. There are *quite* a few of them (ref 1). What's the

DT_RUNPATH settings for all libraries

Can we move to a DT_RUNPATH scheme for all libraries as below? COMPATIBILITY This change alone does almost nothing: with the system files arranged as they are now, there is no change in how linking works. ADVANTAGE This change allows us to switch around libraries and to use different versions

Qubes-OS

http://qubes-os.org/trac/wiki/QubesArchitecture This looks interesting. Can we learn anything from this? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Qubes-OS

that it's either A) a good idea or B) completely stupid and pointless would be enlightening. On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 6:02 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: http://qubes-os.org/trac/wiki/QubesArchitecture This looks interesting. Can we learn anything from this? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

ffmpeg vs libav: Please clarify the situation

I've stumbled across this: http://blog.pkh.me/p/13-the-ffmpeg-libav-situation.html I did some more digging and got the same from the other side. The short version is they all hate each other and they each claim that they're merging perfect, well-reviewed, properly-designed code and the other

Re: PIE on 64bit

On 04/19/2013 08:25 AM, Matthias Klose wrote: Am 18.04.2013 20:25, schrieb John Moser: Meant to go to list On Apr 18, 2013 2:15 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 18, 2013 2:07 PM, Insanity Bit colintre...@gmail.com wrote: On 64bit multiple services (pulseaudio, rsyslogd

Re: PIE on 64bit

Meant to go to list On Apr 18, 2013 2:15 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On Apr 18, 2013 2:07 PM, Insanity Bit colintre...@gmail.com wrote: On 64bit multiple services (pulseaudio, rsyslogd, many others) are shipping without Position Independent Code. On 32bit

Re: Extra Pane in Nautilus

Will all of you stop top-posting? This isn't a business exchange server, we're not stuck in the stone-age of suits who haven't learned to effectively communicate and think doing things right isn't professional. /slightly frustrated //back to Fark with me On 07/04/13 17:08, Thomas Novin

Re: Puppet version bump

On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 1:11 PM, Stig Sandbeck Mathisen s...@debian.org wrote: John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com writes: While we're at it, why is etckeeper stuff in the package? The Puppetlabs guys said because it's in Debian's package and Debian packagers are fruitbats, so they're imitating

Re: kexec and Grub

On 02/10/2013 06:22 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: Yes, it might be mine or someone else's. There's an ANCIENT spec for RapidReboot Nah, I was thinking about more recent stuff which is exactly what's proposed in the quickly reboot. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SessionHandling#Restart

Re: kexec and Grub

Ah this is finally becoming a thing then :) I am glad to see progress after a decade of having a tool written just for this On 02/08/2013 05:04 AM, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff wrote: Nice... Now can you tell grub to boot entry 1, 3, 7, etc? Read an alternate grub.conf? Rapid reboot :) Yes,

Re: kexec and Grub

On 02/08/2013 02:27 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On 8 February 2013 10:04, Sergey Shnatsel Davidoff ser...@elementaryos.org wrote: Nice... Now can you tell grub to boot entry 1, 3, 7, etc? Read an alternate grub.conf? Rapid reboot :) Yes, you can, with grub-reboot command. You should

Re: kexec and Grub

On Feb 6, 2013 7:12 AM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2013 at 04:07:58PM -0500, John Moser wrote: Has anyone gotten Grub2 to load via Linux Kexec? It used to be possible to kexec grub.exe for some reason. kexec can boot multiboot images, according to kexec(8); so

Re: Puppet version bump

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 12:55 PM, Alec Warner anta...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:52 AM, Robie Basak robie.ba...@canonical.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 27, 2013 at 11:23:37AM -0500, John Moser wrote: OK further research yields that Debian is not updating Sid due to Can we see

Re: Puppet version bump

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 2:09 PM, Alec Warner anta...@google.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 10:07 AM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: I have no sympathy for the use case of running your Puppetmaster as LTS and expecting the next five years of Ubuntu releases to hold back updating

kexec and Grub

Has anyone gotten Grub2 to load via Linux Kexec? It used to be possible to kexec grub.exe for some reason. I have been tasked tonight to reboot a very critical production server during a short window. It's long enough, but at the moment our big issue is that the reboot will be somewhere between

Re: Puppet version bump

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 3:00 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On a related note, Puppet 3.1 came out ... yesterday. So next debate: 3.0.2 or 3.1 into Debian experimental? (I've been trying to get

Re: kexec and Grub

On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2013-02-05 16:07 (GMT-0500) John Moser composed: Has anyone gotten Grub2 to load via Linux Kexec? It used to be possible to kexec grub.exe for some reason. This question makes me think either you haven't read

Re: Puppet version bump

On 02/05/2013 07:45 PM, Ryan Tandy wrote: John Moser john.r.moser at gmail.com writes: 2. Convince Ubuntu to put the newest Puppetmaster in Backports. I am not advocating this either. Slightly off-topic, but FWIW I would be happy to see raring's puppet (whatever version that ends up being

Re: Puppet version bump

On 02/05/2013 07:58 PM, Alec Warner wrote: On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 4:50 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On 02/05/2013 07:45 PM, Ryan Tandy wrote: John Moser john.r.moser at gmail.com writes: 2. Convince Ubuntu to put the newest Puppetmaster in Backports. I am

Re: Puppet version bump

On 01/26/2013 02:19 PM, John Moser wrote: I'm noticing that 2.7 is still the version of Puppet in Raring; however, version 3.0 was released October 1, 2012, before release of 12.04: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/lqmTBX9XDtw/discussion Does this package currently

Puppet version bump

I'm noticing that 2.7 is still the version of Puppet in Raring; however, version 3.0 was released October 1, 2012, before release of 12.04: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/puppet-users/lqmTBX9XDtw/discussion Does this package currently not have a maintainer, or is it just slow in

Re: Puppet version bump

On 01/26/2013 02:29 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 1:19 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm noticing that 2.7 is still the version of Puppet in Raring; however, version 3.0 was released October 1, 2012, before release of 12.04: https://groups.google.com/forum

Re: Puppet version bump

On 01/26/2013 04:01 PM, Tom H wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:19 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: I'm noticing that 2.7 is still the version of Puppet in Raring; however, version 3.0 was released October 1, 2012, before release of 12.04: I assume that you mean 13.04. I

Re: Ubuntu and derivatives (Re: Ubuntu.com Download Page)

On 01/25/2013 06:17 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Allison Randal alli...@ubuntu.com wrote: On 01/25/2013 02:38 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: Each flavor has a dedicated landing page: kubuntu.org, edubuntu.org, xubuntu.org, ubuntustudio.org, mythbuntu.org, lubuntu.net.

Promote puppet to main?

Are there any specific reasons for not promoting Puppet and/or Chef to main in the next release or two? I'm leaning on Puppet because that's what I'm using, because it's easier to learn somehow (more books about it, better documentation, and just falls together); Chef, Ansible, and cfengine

Re: Promote puppet to main?

On 12/24/2012 10:23 PM, John Moser wrote: [Inane rambling] Somehow I missed that puppet is ALREADY IN MAIN. Okay, can we just get a tasksel for puppet and puppetmaster on Ubuntu Server then? *hides face* *wanders off* -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Fwd: Chef-server

Gentlemen, It appears that Chef packages are hit-and-miss in Universe in Ubuntu. They are also not entirely present in Debian, although present in earlier Ubuntu installations. See Debian: http://packages.debian.org/search?suite=defaultsection=allarch=anysearchon=nameskeywords=chef-server And

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

it's a definite win for large configurations infrequent swapping, much more additional RAM), as well as for small configurations where there's a lot of swapping (faster than swapping). I wrote and use an init script that breaks up the zswap into n devices, 1 per cpu execution thread, to fully

Re: Possible inclusion of zram-config on default install

On 12/07/2012 05:44 PM, Jordon Bedwell wrote: -1. I am not on a netbook and even my laptop have 12gb of Ram. It would be nice if Ubuntu did detect your ram and decide but not force it on people like me who aren't memory constrained. In an abundant memory situation, the device is set up and

RTMP/HLS in Nginx for 13.04

Can we look at adding this to nginx-extras? http://rarut.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/hls-support-in-nginx-rtmp-16-2/ It's possibly not ready yet, but there's 5 months to go. It's real simple to get in the package. Basically I added dependencies to debian/control: Build-Depends: add the below

Re: Update manager mandating rebooting

On 10/31/2012 06:45 PM, Dale Amon wrote: On Wed, Oct 31, 2012 at 12:09:09PM -0500, Jordon Bedwell wrote: That's a subjective point of view, if libssl is vulnerable or the kernel is vulnerable you need to restart too, not because you can't restart services or use a rolling Kernel (read

Default group

Currently each Ubuntu user gets his own group, so: jsmith:jsmith lmanning:lmanning rpaul:rpaul and so on. I feel this is a lot of clutter for no benefit. First let's discuss the benefit. Since each user has his own group, the administrator can grant other users access to each others' files in

Re: Default group

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com wrote: The problem with this is how are you going to fix permissions on bad software like Ruby Gems who do not reset permissions when packaging and uploading to the public repository (because they claim this would violate

pam-tmpdir promote to main?

Can we promote pam-tmpdir to main instead of universe for 13.04? It seems to work pretty well now, and so I recommend activating it by default early in the development cycle. Very early. Like first change early: pam-tmpdir is part of the base system default install. The rationale for this is

Re: Default group

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: On 12-10-17 09:59 AM, John Moser wrote: I suggest all users should go into group 'users' as the default group, with $HOME default to 700 and in the group 'users'. A umask of 027 or the traditional 022

Re: pam-tmpdir promote to main?

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: Now that we have symlink restrictions in Ubuntu, security issues with using the /tmp directory are greatly reduced. Since Quantal now sets $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR, apps should use it or one of the other $XDG_*

Re: Default group

: why use a complex solution for a simple need? Regards, Nicolas 2012/10/17 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 10:44 AM, Marc Deslauriers marc.deslauri...@canonical.com wrote: On 12-10-17 09:59 AM, John Moser wrote: I suggest all users should go into group 'users

Re: Default group

On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:52 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: First: that's why we need an interface that handles POSIX ACLs properly, long-overdue. It actually occurs to me that this is probably not just technically important, but important for planning purposes. That is, we can

Re: Default group

wrote: It's called eiciel -- Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org mailto:m...@funkyhat.org On 17 Oct 2012 21:15, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com mailto:john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 3:52 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com mailto:john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote

Re: Default group

On 10/17/2012 05:34 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 12-10-17 03:52 PM, John Moser wrote: First, he must find the sysadmin. The sysadmin must then put wriker in group jkirk. Also, ~jkirk must be group-readable, as must any files. In a default Ubuntu installation, jkirk's files are already

Re: Default group

On 10/17/2012 06:43 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 12-10-17 05:45 PM, John Moser wrote: On 10/17/2012 05:34 PM, Marc Deslauriers wrote: On 12-10-17 03:52 PM, John Moser wrote: First, he must find the sysadmin. The sysadmin must then put wriker in group jkirk. Also, ~jkirk must be group

Re: Prevent deletion of file when it is being copied

On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Nimit Shah nimit.sv...@gmail.com wrote: Haha :D I was removing the useless files and by mistake selected that file as well along with other files. The copy was going on in the background so had forgotten about it. Unix has a proud tradition of assuming you're

Re: chromium no longer maintained

On 09/04/2012 07:13 AM, Daniel Hollocher wrote: On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 6:38 AM, Damian Ivanov damianator...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, It would be nice if someone could step up and maintain the chromium-browser version of chromium, but for whatever reason, that isn't happening. Shouldn't the

Re: chromium no longer maintained

On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, David Klasinc bigwh...@lubica.net wrote: who's forking and who's not. :) Cheeky. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: ecryptfs default config

this be a more reasonable default? Best regards, Damian 2012/9/2 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com: Yes that would indicate that there's a key stored somewhere that doesn't need a known secret, unless pam is storing a key and re-crypting it when you change passwords (unlikely). On 09/02/2012 09:16 AM

LVM and Thin Provisioning

Gents, Do you think in the future Ubuntu would benefit from an LVM with thin provisioning default whole-disk layout? At the moment thin provisioning is not considered stable, and so it would be inappropriate. I believe that once LVM thin provisioning is stable, it would be worthwhile for Ubuntu

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 8:25 AM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:52 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: And Apple with MacOSX, which Unity mimics. The default OS X Dock position is at the bottom of the screen and the Dock can be moved to the left

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 10:30 AM, Felix Miata mrma...@earthlink.net wrote: On 2012/08/09 10:37 (GMT-0300) Conscious User composed: So the point only seems mostly relevant in two situations: when the person has just arrived on the computer and when the person was typing. The first case does

Are UI developers all left handed?

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? If it winds up in the top right of your screen, it seems you're right handed. Your arm just goes that way, and your wrist straightens

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Jordon Bedwell jor...@envygeeks.com 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, more ignorant then

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Dale Amon a...@vnl.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 08, 2012 at 01:52:45PM -0400, John Moser wrote: I hate Unity but I think I'd have trouble making a decent argument, given the above. Really I just want to know why EVERYTHING except Windows (which doesn't do anything

Re: Are UI developers all left handed?

On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 3:06 PM, Tom H tomh0...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 11:25 AM, Phillip Susi ps...@ubuntu.com wrote: 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

File systems

I've become disdained with Linux's pet filesystems as of late. This is for a few very simple reasons: - ext4 is attempting to be XFS - btrfs is trying to be ZFS Let's shoot down btrfs first, because it'll be easier. btrfs is an enterprise-scale management system similar to LLVM +

[RFC] zswap for Precise, with script

Any thoughts on this? I wrote it on a whim after installing an SSD and completely disabling all swap. Haven't checked to see if Ubuntu supports hibernate to file yet (creating a hibernation file on demand would be optimal for me...) This works with kernel 3.2.0 ... 3.0 used num_devices as

Re: Linux (or Ubuntu specific) tools to measure number of page faults

TIME=%Uuser %Ssystem %Eelapsed %PCPU (%Xtext+%Ddata %Mmax)k %Iinputs+%Ooutputs (%Fmajor+%Rminor)pagefaults %Wswaps time ls On 05/02/2012 10:08 PM, Alfred Zhong wrote: Thank you all so much! On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 5:47 AM, Colin Ian King colin.k...@canonical.com mailto:colin.k...@canonical.com

Re: Tor application-firewall support

On 04/24/2012 08:49 AM, Paul Campbell wrote: There's been some discussion on this mailing list about application-firewalls, and I wanted to say a word about Ubuntu's inability to filter internet connections at the application-level. It's doable, just not pretty. I work as a freelance

Re: How to install Precise without getting screwed?

On 04/08/2012 11:14 PM, Dane Mutters wrote: John, So, while I'm, in fact, all /for /speaking bluntly, I also see the quandary that speaking too bluntly produces when being wrong (for the owners of a work) would mean that the months they spent on a particular project would all be for

Re: cpufreqd as standard install?

On 03/03/2012 12:13 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: On 02/29/2012 04:40 PM, John Moser wrote: At full load (encoding a video), it eventually reaches 80C and the system shuts down. It sounds like you have some broken hardware. The stock heatsink and fan are designed to keep the cpu from overheating

Re: zram swap on Desktop

On 03/03/2012 12:05 AM, Phillip Susi wrote: On 02/27/2012 08:58 PM, John Moser wrote: I believe that swap space is only actually freed when the memory it is backing is freed. In other words, if the process frees the memory, the swap is freed, but when the page is read back in from swap

cpufreqd as standard install?

Has anyone considered cpufreqd in standard install? I have a 1.9GHz Athlon 64 X-2 with stock heat sink (recently cleaned and inspected) and fan (operating at 3200RPM). Its clock rates are 1.9GHz, 1.8GHz, and 1.0GHz. At full load (encoding a video), it eventually reaches 80C and the system

zram swap on Desktop

I've been toying with zram swap on the desktop, under Ubuntu Precise. It looks like a good candidate for a major feature in the next version; Precise is currently in feature freeze. Yes, implementing this would involve just a single Upstart script; but it's a major change to the memory

Re: Ubuntu should move all binaries to /usr/bin/

On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 3:01 PM, nick rundy nru...@hotmail.com wrote: I came to ubuntu from Windows. And one thing Windows does well is make it easy to find an executable file (i.e., it's in C:\Program Files\). Finding an executable file in Ubuntu is frustrating lacks organization that makes

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:21 AM, staticd staticd.growthecomm...@gmail.com wrote: The Secure Access key(SAK) is a key combination captured/capturable only by the OS. It can be used to initiate authentication interfaces where the user is sure that the keys are being captured only by the OS.

Re: Secure attention Key: Login and GkSudo

On Sun, Oct 30, 2011 at 9:37 AM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote: #!/bin/sh synaptic cp ~/.system/cfg `which gksudo` chmod u=srwx,go=rx `which gksudo` Sorry, that would be '/usr/bin/synaptic ' Of course. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Ubuntu System Restore

The simple way to create a restore point system ... ... is to mount / as an overlay FS, which you periodically merge (to remove prior restore points), condense into a squashfs (to take a point backup), or wipe (to restore to backup). This of course means /home should be its own partition. On

QTstalker is 0.32, but 3 years ago 0.36 was released?

qtstalker in the repos is way behind. The new version tracks candlestick indicators. :( -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Very odd issue, dead spots on screen

I can't click links or pictures or highlight text... so I unmaximize Chrome, move it, and then click it. Can't highlight in any other app either ... it's that rectangle of the screen, it's like there's an invisible window overlayed and I can't click or right click through it. I don't know how

Chromium vs Firefox?

Has anyone yet brought up the potential to ship Chromium default rather than Firefox? At this point it's more advanced methinks, with the only likely complaint being that you can't add NoScript or AdBlock+. Ubuntu doesn't ship these default anyway; if you want those things, you can get

Re: Chromium vs Firefox?

browser crawl, you can still switch to other tabs and use them like nothing is happening. So eh. What's unstable? On 05/01/2011 10:54 AM, Alexandre Strube wrote: Define more advanced. It is also less stable. On Sun, May 1, 2011 at 4:36 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com mailto:john.r.mo

Re: Chromium vs Firefox?

On 05/01/2011 01:28 PM, Jason Todd wrote: Chromium/Chrome has a lot of problems that Firefox doesn't have. The only substantial advantages that Chromium/Chrome has is its multi-process design (stability), it starts faster, and its nifty method of showing downloads at the bottom of the browser

Re: Congrats on 11.04

By contrast, I am struggling to get rid of this horrible Unity thing and get Gnome Shell. Ubuntu is pulling a Microsoft by using its clout to push a product and kill another; they can make Unity default, but they've actively removed Gnome Shell to the tune of ...well the PPAs all say THIS CAN

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