Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Waclaw Kusnierczyk w...@idi.ntnu.no wrote: Where does this conmviction come from? On 04/09/2013 02:21 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: On Ubuntu Desktop we want to discourage usage of command line =) as there is no need for that for non-developers. Regards,

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-03 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Daniel Hollocher danielholloc...@gmail.com wrote: why? (we have 18, but 21 is the latest stable, 19 the latest supported or something like that [22 is the current beta, 23 is the current dev]) Dear Daniel, Either you provoked something or... I am running

Re: libsane and acl group selection in udev rules

2011-10-26 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Hi, I have an HP3055 which we sometimes use to scan documents. The area is private, and tough nookies if you don't like the fact that we share it locally. If the decision is to be more secure, that is fine, BUT... Please do not break current network functionality without providing clear

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
I am interested in being a customer. In what programming language are you planning to write this application? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:27 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: The reason why I mention a company is that if an accounting

Re: Indie Software Dev

2010-03-05 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Dear Jon, I think you are most likely wrong (thinking you cannot sell in a FOSS world). Re: your question of would anybody buy? It all depends on if the app is worth it for me. I have purchased products for Linux in the past. Unfortunately for you (your stated market), there is

Re: [OT] Re: upgrade from 9.04 - 9.10: the most broken Ubuntu / Debian upgrade I have ever experienced

2009-11-04 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Hi, I've had a good-bad-great experience with Karmic. FWIW, I started back with Feisty. Right now, I am _very_ pleased with the way my system is working, although some adjusting has been needed, and was somewhat uncomfortable initially -- that is, getting all the stuff I use

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz Normal and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:31 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis ldlan...@gmail.com wrote: Hi,  Hard hang on ThinkPad T41 on Karmic Koala.  Probably other older  systems.  The current default Change Desktop Background-Visual Effects  in Karmic is Normal.  On my ThinkPad T41, the Karmic

Re: Properly identifying applications

2009-06-09 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Patrick, What a great line!!! Umm... shoot the GUI?? (my command-line response). Thanks for the smile. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Patrick Goetzpgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote: When the command line is more user friendly than the GUI, this should set off those little alarm bells that

Re: Question about package usage of /opt

2009-06-05 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Pau, Great! Relative to packaging, IMO, there is something quite different about ISC Cache from FNIS GT.M, and I think has significant installation ramifications. When I say database instance, think Cache environment. The GT.M software can be completely isolated from the actual