Re: Prevent deletion of file when it is being copied

2012-09-28 Thread sam tygier
On 27/09/12 06:28, Emmet Hikory wrote: Nimit Shah wrote: While copying a file from my computer to external disk, I by mistake shift+deleted the file. But still the file transfer dialog showed that it was continuing. At the end of the transfer it failed. Hence i request you to add a check for

Re: SSH and the Ubuntu Server

2010-11-18 Thread sam tygier
On 17/11/10 21:38, Dustin Kirkland wrote: This proposal requests that: 1) a new prompt be added to the Ubuntu Server installer 2) this prompt be dedicated to the boolean installation, or non-installation, of the SSH service, as an essential facet of a typical server 3) the cursor

Re: An Open Letter to Ubuntu Developers -libraries

2010-09-06 Thread sam tygier
On 06/09/10 17:05, Tony Atkinson wrote: 1) Applications, and their dependence on desktop environment libraries Currently certain application rely on specific desktop environment libraries to operate. As examples, if you install kate on stock Ubuntu 10.04, you pull in 108 packages,

Re: Desktop CDs: Around 60 MB saved on the installed system, 28 MB in binary packages

2010-08-11 Thread sam tygier
On 11/08/10 18:50, Till Kamppeter wrote: So on the running system of the Desktop CD 31 MB get saved which can be used for other useful things. i suggest that some of the space is used for poppler-data[0] which is needed[1,2] to display PDFs with eastern fonts (this is latin characters in

Re: Remove OO Draw from the default install

2010-05-16 Thread sam tygier
On 16/05/10 12:27, Shane Fagan wrote: Hey all, I forgot to mention this at the session for default app selection but can we remove Open Office Draw from the default ubuntu install? The reasons are quite obvious it just isnt any good and I dont think any of the regular users actually use it.

Re: Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

2010-05-12 Thread sam tygier
On 11/05/10 09:20, Luke Yelavich wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 08:15:30AM CEST, Chandru wrote: The default media players in Ubuntu, though quite capable do not have graphical equalizers. Rather than including an equalizer in every application, having a system wide equalizer can be very handy

Re: Including a system-wide pulseaudio equalizer

2010-05-12 Thread sam tygier
On 12/05/10 10:07, Daniel Chen wrote: On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 11:03 AM, sam tygiersamtyg...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: The solution to bugs like this is to make apport upload the equalizer settings (i think it already does with the volume settings). It uploads the *alsa* mixer perspective, which

kernel-ppa/mainline missing versions and packages

2010-04-18 Thread sam tygier
Hi the mainline ppa seems to be a bit neglected at the moment. there have been no stable updates to the 2.6.33 series (should be up to 2.6.33.2) the source and headers packages are missing for some kenrels, eg v2.6.34-rc4-lucid meaning i can't build extra modules (openafs). thanks sam --

Re: Remove F-Spot from the LiveCD

2009-06-21 Thread sam tygier
Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: 20/26 MB of Gimp is Documentation as pointed out on Ubuntu Planet. I think there is also thunderbird documentation(?) in thunderbird-locale-en-gb included on the live cd, even though thunderbird is not included. it seems to be ~1MB. sam -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-02 Thread Sam Tygier
Mackenzie Morgan wrote: I would like to know how they handle situations where the person hasn't updated in 3 weeks and the package has been updated in the meantime. Say, for example: -0ubuntu1 is currently installed -0ubuntu3 is available to install Do they need to install -0ubuntu2 and

Re: Command to flush file system cache to prepare for performance testing?

2008-12-09 Thread Sam Tygier
changes in numbers will be directly attributable to my code changes. Does anyone know such a command to flush the file system cache? Martin i think this is what you are after # echo 1 /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches see http://linux-mm.org/Drop_Caches for more info/options sam

Re: Are file permissions in files on external devices silly?

2008-11-21 Thread Sam Tygier
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote: This should not be done unconditionally. The mac os solution is to have a 'enforce permissions on this device' option (in the info/properties of the device). maybe this could be implemented in a similar way to the .is_audio_player file [0]. A safer way to

Re: Cruft Remover (system-cleaner): testing help?

2008-11-08 Thread Sam Tygier
Lars Wirzenius wrote: http://code.liw.fi/ubuntu/pool/main/s/system-cleaner/ I'm asking for help with testing to verify that these bugs are, indeed, fixed, and that there aren't any new problems introduced. Any help with this would be appreciated. it offers to remove 2 packages for me

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-07 Thread Sam Tygier
on this task. Sam Tygier -- 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: python-numpy

2008-10-11 Thread Sam Tygier
anything newer. another good source of information are the package change feeds. http://feeds.ubuntu-nl.org/HardyChanges http://feeds.ubuntu-nl.org/IntrepidChanges etc Sam Tygier -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Intrepid compatibility with C3 CPUs #5212

2008-09-01 Thread Sam Tygier
. if you do a title search for C3 through the devel-discuss you will fine the start, from me on 20080818 the bug is https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/254453 Thanks Sam Tygier -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Intrepid compatibility with C3 CPUs

2008-08-18 Thread Sam Tygier
are still for sale http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=2 so if Via have stopped building them it can't have been long ago). Sam Tygier -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Making apt-get powercut-proof

2008-05-05 Thread Sam Tygier
Evan wrote: Reading this, I just thought I'd mention that previous upgrades have caused issues with scrollkeeper-update, in which the only way to continue was to kill the process. Having a 'skip package' option would have been particularly useful in that situation. updating the docs database

Re: Hardy+1 Idea: GoboLinux Filesystem Hierarchy?

2008-01-09 Thread Sam Tygier
what i think is very useful about the gobo system is that it trivially handles multiple versions of a package. /Programs/Firefox/2.0 /Programs/Firefox/3.0 with debian systems there are sometimes packages with multiple versions, eg apache2, but i think it is extra work for the packagers, so it

Re: Hardy+1 Idea: GoboLinux Filesystem Hierarchy?

2008-01-09 Thread Sam Tygier
handle this, but I assume they do. sam tygier -- 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: apt-cacher in main + apt-zeroconf

2007-11-16 Thread Sam Tygier
Fabian Rodriguez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Sam Tygier wrote: it looks like they have got the security side covered. Now, one might think this could potentially pose a security threat as everyone can offer and distribute debs without any authentication

Re: apt-cacher in main + apt-zeroconf

2007-11-15 Thread Sam Tygier
Kevin Fries wrote: I am not sure it needs to be moved. But, what would be totally cool is if the installer scanned the local network on install and configured apt-cacher in sources.list instead of the normal repos by default when if finds a server. That would be a terrific usability upgrade.

Re: apt-cacher in main + apt-zeroconf

2007-11-15 Thread Sam Tygier
Fabian Rodriguez wrote: apt-zeroconf is actually a replacement for apt-cacher, not a complement to it, according to its site. I think we already know the answer to enabled by default autodiscovery / other networking services. I would have some trust issues using apt-zeroconf, but that's just

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

2007-09-30 Thread Sam Tygier
Waldemar Kornewald wrote: Are there any alternatives? Here are two examples: one alternative is fsck at shut down. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoFsck sam tygier -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https