Re: shameful censoring of mono opposition

2009-06-08 Thread Stephan Hermann
Good Morning, On Sun, 7 Jun 2009 18:36:29 -0400 Mark Fink mpf...@gmail.com wrote: [...removed totally annoying article...] As I'm not a MONO Fanboy myself...and sometimes boycott novell does write good articles...but please... Mono gives us a good way into the MS front...this could also be a

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-26 Thread Stephan Hermann
Moins, On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 20:38:31 +0100 Jan Claeys li...@janc.be wrote: Op woensdag 25-03-2009 om 16:19 uur [tijdzone +], schreef Scott James Remnant: On Wed, 2009-03-25 at 15:26 +, Max Bowsher wrote: This assumes you buy into the SI's naming scheme and can say things like

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-23 Thread Stephan Hermann
Moins, On Sun, 22 Mar 2009 13:56:00 +0200 Peteris Krisjanis pec...@gmail.com wrote: scsi0 : 3ware 9000 Storage Controller 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Found a 3ware 9000 Storage Controller at 0xd014, IRQ: 16. 3w-9xxx: scsi0: Firmware FE9X 2.04.00.005, BIOS BE9X 2.03.01.047, Ports: 8.  

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Moins, On Tue, 2008-11-11 at 02:27 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: On 11/11/2008 Scott Kitterman wrote: I would encourage you (and others, you certainly aren't the only one) to hold your temper and if you can't say something helpful, just take your hands off the keyboard. Being

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi, On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 09:00 +, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: If a distributor adds more goodies to the kernel, then be happy, but that doesn't mean, that it really works...even when the distributor puts the hardware on the list of supported hardware. I hope this is not really the

Re: Ruby on Rails support in Intrepid - call for reviewers and cheerleaders

2008-08-20 Thread Stephan Hermann
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 02:01:26PM -0700, Mathias Gug wrote: What are you referring to by package ? The make a parallel with python, the gem command is similar to easy_intall. And ezinstall is broken by design for a binary distro and for endusers. ezinstall doesn't check if there is the

Re: Ruby on Rails support in Intrepid - call for reviewers and cheerleaders

2008-08-20 Thread Stephan Hermann
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 02:07:46PM +0100, Neil Wilson wrote: Scott, I'm trying to avoid the wheres and wherefores of what gem is about. Suffice to say that Rails depends upon effective gem support, such that the configuration of Rails can specify gem dependencies directly. So if Ubuntu

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-02 Thread Stephan Hermann
On Sat, Aug 02, 2008 at 03:51:35PM +0800, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: 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

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-01 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi, I don't want to comment this mail in particular, but regarding the difference of SysAdmins and HomeAdmins: There is a difference of people who are used to graphical configuration stuff which hides a lot of important things which are important to real sysadmins. IMHO the usecase for Ubuntu

Re: Disappointed with Ubuntu Server, could be used by such a wider audience

2008-08-01 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi, On Fri, 1 Aug 2008 17:04:14 +0200 Remco [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Aug 1, 2008 at 3:26 PM, Stephan Hermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But what do you (not you in particular) want to do at home? Setting up a webserver is easy...and adding a drupal or blog software, too

Re: Need to upgrade apache2 and php5 for security reasons

2008-07-01 Thread Stephan Hermann
Good Evening Scott, Chris and all, On Tue, 1 Jul 2008 10:06:21 -0400 Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Monday 30 June 2008 10:52, Christian Desrochers wrote: Hi all, Our web servers have been checked recently by an external security firm. We have been told that our web

Re: Universe Freeze Imminent

2008-04-24 Thread Stephan Hermann
On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 23:18:46 +0100 Mark Shuttleworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doh. That was intended for JR. Oh well, congrats to everyone else who's been working on the KDE4 remix :-) Oh Homer, Oh Homer... Mark, those two mails made my day...at least those misrouting emails also happen to

Re: Launchpad bug retesting

2008-03-20 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi Cody, Cody A.W. Somerville wrote: On 3/20/08, Jonathan Jesse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Good morning, How would you suggest doing this instead? I am one of those that is combing launchpad for bugs that have not been reported or updated for a long time. I try to reproduce the

Re: libc borked

2008-03-17 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi, Richard Mancusi wrote: On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Brian Murray [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One thing this, and some other events, has made me think about is - how are new community members supposed to know who someone is and what their contributions to Ubuntu have been? We have a

Re: libc borked

2008-03-14 Thread Stephan Hermann
hi Colin, Colin Watson wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 12:55:47PM +0100, Stephan Hermann wrote: The package is not at fault... The fault was to upload dpkg (2008-02-11 imho) with https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DistCompilerFlags this in mind. Setting those flags is not good without a bunch

Re: libc borked

2008-03-14 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi Colin, Colin Watson wrote: Fact, rebuilding the archive won't show any build failures, but running those rebuilt apps would have shown the evilness of this change. Rebuilding the archive against the output of the rebuild in progress would have shown it up very quickly; note that

Re: libc borked

2008-03-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Moins, Cory K. wrote: Soren Hansen wrote: On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:00:03AM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: Cory's comment was a bit intemperate, but I feel your response was not at all helpful and that it really minimized Cory's extensive contributions to Ubuntu developmen.

Re: How to include a part of Wine ... why include wine at all?

2008-02-14 Thread Stephan Hermann
hi Daniel, Daniel Hollocher wrote: Hey, good response. It looks like this problem will be fixed in the future, and I see the irony of to whom I originally responded to. If you see the current development release of Ubuntu (named Hardy Heron) you can see, that Ubuntu is up2date with wine.

Re: Proposal: cdrkit vs. cdrtools

2008-01-14 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi, On Mo, 2008-01-14 at 15:18 +, Matthew Garrett wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:51:12AM -0500, Forest Bond wrote: Didn't we just move back to cdrtools from cdrkit? Weren't these issues resolved, or something? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=270060 That's

Proposal: cdrkit vs. cdrtools

2008-01-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Dear Colleagues, as I wrote on http://www.sourcecode.de/content/cdrkit-vs-cdrtools I really wonder what way we should go. Regarding the non-freeness of cdrtools, we should concentrate on getting the cdrkit binaries to the upstream projects. Most of the apps I found in debian/ubuntu, which are

Re: Proposal: cdrkit vs. cdrtools

2008-01-13 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi, On So, 2008-01-13 at 17:29 +0100, Thilo Six wrote: Stephan Hermann wrote the following on 13.01.2008 15:17 Dear Colleagues, as I wrote on http://www.sourcecode.de/content/cdrkit-vs-cdrtools I really wonder what way we should go. Regarding the non-freeness of cdrtools, we

Re: Hardy+1 Idea: GoboLinux Filesystem Hierarchy?

2008-01-09 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi Conrad, Am Wed, 9 Jan 2008 03:12:26 -0600 schrieb Conrad Knauer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hardy, being a LTS release, will have an emphasis on stability and polish; but I was thinking for Hardy+1 that, like replacing SysVInit in Edgy with Upstart, some new ideas to kick around might be nice.

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-12-07 Thread Stephan Hermann
Hi Kevin, Am Thu, 06 Dec 2007 11:55:40 -0700 schrieb Kevin Fries [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 12:03 -0500, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think you misunderstand my point. No I got it. And I think that that thinking is wrong and dangerous to Linux in general, and Ubuntu in