I was considering filing a bug for package request or creating a spec
for Go-Ooo.org for inclusion in Ubuntu, or possibly as a replacement
for OpenOffice.org vanilla. Start-up time is faster and feature set
is expanded.
There seems to be some contention between the world in general and Sun
over
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 5:17 PM, Joe Terranova joeterran...@gmail.com wrote:
I wouldn't suggest such a change right now for a few reasons:
a) Open Office (and its derivatives I assume) is a bear to package.
Transition packages between releases open up more points of failure.
Aye, I'm not sure
On Mon, Dec 29, 2008 at 7:29 PM, Andrew Sayers
andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote:
Speaking as someone with a strictly armchair interest in this topic, I'd
like to make a few observations here -
The way (non-Sun) people talk about OO.o reminds me of the way people
used to talk about
SILENCE! User made an error, and you obviously knew about it because
you proceeded to warn the user, it is obviously YOUR FAULT and you
will do SOMETHING about it, regardless of whether or not it's actually
effective!
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Chris Coulson
chrisccoul...@googlemail.com
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Andrew Sayers
andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote:
To be honest, I never really understood the focus on technological
solutions to this problem. The user being monitored will always try to
fight their way out of the box, and will often succeed (e.g. by
I have a really, really hard time recommending Ubuntu to schools, at
all. I can't recommend something that, as far as I know, relies
entirely on local administration. I know I could dig through 5 files
for this but it's just annoying; for schools or the most basic
3-computer networks, Fedora
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Justin M. Wray
wray.justin.ubu...@gmail.com wrote:
Even if a new user is unfamiliar with the key combination, it only takes a
little education OR them doing it once. Lessons are learned hard.
This is poorly conceived thinking, but switching it off is straight
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Scott Kitterman ubu...@kitterman.com wrote:
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 19:37:49 -0500 John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com
wrote:
This is engineering, not science. There is no single answer that is right
for everyone.
Engineering is science. How do you think engines
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 8:57 PM, Mackenzie Morgan maco...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 19:06 -0500, John Moser wrote:
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM, Justin M. Wray
wray.justin.ubu...@gmail.com wrote:
Even if a new user is unfamiliar with the key combination, it only takes
On 2/12/09, Thomas Jaeger thjae...@gmail.com wrote:
Things that can happen:
* Client can grab keys but hang.
In that case, you get the X Server back to normal by killing the client
and you should try and fix the client.
Killing the client actually prevents X from having any input; you lose
On 2/11/09, Daniel J Blueman daniel.blue...@gmail.com wrote:
By modifying the boot-time readahead to be at lower I/O and processor
priority than the boot scripts and asynchronous, I see a 20% reduction
in overall boot time (from installing bootchart) on my desktop: 41s
down to 33s.
A while
Thomas Jaeger wrote:
John Moser wrote:
On 2/12/09, Thomas Jaeger thjae...@gmail.com wrote:
Things that can happen:
* Client can grab keys but hang.
In that case, you get the X Server back to normal by killing the client
and you should try and fix the client.
Killing the client actually
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Thomas Jaeger thjae...@gmail.com wrote:
This is not a healthy discussion. We have people claiming that they
can't live without C-A-B, yet they're unable to come up with any
*concrete* situations where they need it. I don't doubt that these
issues exist, but
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Charlie Kravetz
c...@teamcharliesangels.com wrote:
Okay, I have been reading this thread from the beginning. It seems like
those making the most noise are the same individuals with the knowledge
and ability to easily add the ability to use C-A-B back. Why should
the i386 version of Ubuntu has some fairly odd characteristics:
- It's i486 compiled, but called i386
- The generic kernel is i586 IIRC, but not PAE
- Because of the above, non-executable pages are executable
I've thought on this, and come up with a rather basic solution:
1. Ship -generic
I pondered this ages ago and I'll ponder it again: Network gateway.
Everyone's probably familiar with those little Linksys routers (or the
Belkin or D-Link ones, or whatever) that you put between you and the
evil Internet thing. Small, useless, but give you NAT to protect
yourself at least.
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 8:35 PM, Evan eapa...@gmail.com wrote:
Sounds like a very interesting idea. One other thing I'd like to throw out
there is perhaps an option for transparent TOR, for the truly paranoid among
us ;)
While we're at it, let's add security questions (with answers stored
2009/3/25 Marius Gedminas mar...@pov.lt:
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 07:51:38PM +, Matt Wheeler wrote:
2009/3/24 Timo Jyrinki timo.jyri...@gmail.com:
And the I/O problem comes from the hundreds/thousands of small files
that are inefficiently read. The amount of transferred data is not
that
First off I dislike Brasero, the UI's complex. Nautilus CD creator or
Serpantine holds up better for elegant simplicity. But whatever,
Brasero's more powerful and consolidated.
I have a stereo system in my car. It can't read DVD-Audio (... why?
WHY DOES NOTHING SUPPORT DVD-A?!), or even a
Mostly, a lot of things are supported and work just fine. We live in
a decent enough world, usually you're not really a target for anything
bad, and we can ignore all the hype about most stuff because hey, it's
just unlikely.
...
I call BS.
If I wanted to get into your bank account, I would
On Mon, May 18, 2009 at 7:24 PM, Daniel J Blueman
daniel.blue...@gmail.com wrote:
A number of benchmarks show a significant performance loss on 32bit
ubuntu over 64bit [1], on the same hardware. This is partially due to
restrictions on the instruction set and partially due to worse
instruction
Daniel J Blueman wrote:
All older VIA processors, AMD Geode procs and so on support the full
i586 instruction set, which including MMX instructions and registers,
which itself can provide a good win.
Geodes have partial implementation, particularly they only handle a few
PREFETCH
Felipe Figueiredo wrote:
On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 6:25 PM, Felipe Figueiredophils...@gmail.com wrote:
To name one problem, people who use LVM can't use GRUB because it
doesn't support LVM block devices.
Of course this is wrong, silly me. What I meant is that you have to
bypass LVM for
As a self-assigned task at my place of employment I've been
investigating Prelude, honeypots, malware collection, host intrusion
detection systems, integration of intrusion detection systems like
Snort, integration of Linux systems with Active Directory domains, and
the like.
I would prefer not
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 7:46 AM, J. Lennard lennar...@yahoo.com wrote:
Hi list,
First I'm sorry to write what may appear as a rant, but I hope it is not
considered so. I'm writing to express huge instability problems in Ubuntu
9.04. I migrated from ubuntu 8.04 (386) to ubuntu 9.04 (amd64)
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alvin Thompson
al...@thompsonlogic.com wrote:
First, as a Java developer I hope this doesn't happen as Maven is pretty
much required for Java development (at least in the U.S.).
I laughed.
Your pet project is NOT pretty much required for X in any global
scope.
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 1:02 PM, Dustin Kirkland kirkl...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:53 AM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 11:09 AM, Alvin Thompson
al...@thompsonlogic.com wrote:
First, as a Java developer I hope this doesn't happen as Maven
On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 11:59 AM, Chan Chung Hang Christopher
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Shentino wrote:
My first impression is that it's something to look into.
Disk images? Give me a break. Disk images (a feature that Windows Server
does not have) will make this the laughing
There's a bunch of open source clones of Microsoft Entertainment Pack
games. I'd be sufficiently ammused by actually including them all in
Ubuntu... and maybe an Entertainment Pack option. Ubuntu would
probably better serve its users including other things, though, rather
than just an attempted
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 8:02 PM, Ryan Dwyer ryandwy...@gmail.com wrote:
I don't think there's any use discussing whether we think a GUI or CLI is
better. Shouldn't we focus on what the typical business wants and what
they're prepared to use?
This is an easy question.
First off, we need a
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote:
2009/11/30 Jan Claeys li...@janc.be:
Op zondag 29-11-2009 om 00:47 uur [tijdzone +0800], schreef John
McCabe-Dansted:
There are also algorithms for extracting the password from XP as
well...
XP passwords are compared to
this, then actually doing the crack is roughly
twice as much as just doing the crack with the right tools first.
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 10:47 AM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote:
2009/11/30 Jan Claeys li...@janc.be
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 12:22 PM, Lefty (石鏡 ) le...@shugendo.org wrote:
On 12/7/09 10:38 PM, Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I think it would be cool, but are there any reasons against this?
2) the number of people who would derive even the slightest bit of
benefit from it
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:56 AM, Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
Subject: Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?
From: John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2009 10:07:44 -0500
you know the microkernel arguments, and they're actually
pretty considerable. The idea
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 11:17 AM, Patrick Goetz pgo...@mail.utexas.edu wrote:
Subject: Re: Supporting a GNU Hurd port?
From: Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2009 17:14:38 +
To: Danny Piccirillo danny.picciri...@ubuntu.com
Speaking as the guy who maintains the boot
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 13:11 -0500, John Moser wrote:
This is actually a core part of my argument: Linux is working, the
fact that HURD or Minix Could be better
Given that Linux is *working*, which is what we want
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 3:06 PM, Scott James Remnant sc...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 14:48 -0500, John Moser wrote:
That's certainly how things are supposed to work. A lot of this kind of
robustness comes from the requirement to support SMP systems, and make
I'm not talking
On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 6:53 AM, Marco Pallotta marco.pallo...@gmail.com wrote:
Often Ubuntu users (expecially new users or user that doesn't know
much of Ubuntu bug fixing procedure) are disoriented by the fact that
bugs, in LTS releases, aren't fixed (or they are marked as fix
released if
On Sun, Jan 24, 2010 at 7:19 AM, Sense Hofstede se...@qense.nl wrote:
Hello,
permissions on a CD it is impossible to execute files on the CD. It is
impossible to use Wine in the GUI, you'll have to execute a command.
obviously, .exe should be associated with Wine.
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On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:57 AM, John Dong jd...@ubuntu.com wrote:
The Upstart event-driven bootup doesn't really have the notion of progress,
unlike the old SysV Init script bootup. It's hard to provide a linear
measure of progress...
This is why I disable 'quiet' ... my boot screen is like
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:48 AM, Joe Zimmerman
joe.zimmerman...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 11:41 AM, John Dong jd...@ubuntu.com wrote:
It's familiar, and when something stalls it's suddenly not familiar.
I don't have to care WHAT it's doing, just as long as it's doing
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 8:59 AM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote:
Am 05.02.2010 um 10:46 schrieb Siegfried-A. Gevatter:
Apparently, the bug reporting and fixing (and packaging?) mechanism
is so complex only few developers can keep up with it. Out of the ten
bugs I have current, just a
On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Brian Vaughan bgvaug...@gmail.com wrote:
I posted this query some time ago on the Ubuntu forums, and got no
response. In IRC, it was suggested to me that this list might be a more
suitable place to ask, so I'm repeating it here:
As explained, the
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 6:48 AM, Daniel Baluta daniel.bal...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
The following phrase taken from man 2 write manual page is confusing:
POSIX requires that a read(2) which can be proved to occur after a
write() has returned returns the new data.
This parses properly. a
This will come fast and rough; it's a rough idea, not a specification
or even a full proposal. This is definitely NOT a design document.
I use Rhythmbox. I don't care about Amarok, or whatever. This will
be framed for Rhythmbox; as for Kubuntu and whatever else, just cry
Feature Parity until
On Thu, Apr 29, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Brandon Holtsclaw
m...@brandonholtsclaw.com wrote:
I use Rhythmbox. I don't care about Amarok, or whatever. This will
be framed for Rhythmbox; as for Kubuntu and whatever else, just cry
Feature Parity until someone duplicates work solving the same
problem
Sorry for top post. The client in android 1.5 sucks.
Why not get rid of rhythnbox's stupid behavior? It seems since 10.04 it has
STARTED IN TRAY, and I have to restore it from its tray icon to get at the
UI. Why not actually load with the window visible?
On Apr 30, 2010 2:46 PM, Chandru
I only use Ubuntu/Gnome, but Google seems to tell me the state of things is:
- Ubuntu comes with Firefox
- Xubuntu comes with Firefox
- KDE comes with something called Arora
Arora seems to be a Webkit-based browser, as Chrome.
I'm currently playing with SRWare Iron, which is a build of
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com wrote:
Work on making... easier to trust people
hahahahahahaha.
Hey man, I'm calling from your bank. There's like, a problem with
your account...
Wait, what were you suggesting again?
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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 4:07 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs
dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com wrote:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_of_trust
The thing that all packages in debian rely on to prove that they are
authentic?
He said easier to trust PEOPLE. Look at the PGP web of trust, people
with dozens or
The last concern is important. The drive is not fixed; all security on
removable media is broken
On May 11, 2010 2:22 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@ubuntu.com
wrote:
How about formatting your flash drive as FAT and use it everywhere
without ACL mess?
=)
Alternativly you might be able to
Shut up. You're whining like a raving politicized lune and nobody is
listening to your monologue.
Apply some critical thinking skills. It's a bug in a special mode of a
browser, a mode that doesn't store history/cookies. It's not (known to be)
sharing anything with the 'net, so it's innocuous
Let's all work out how to make a working, stable, legal distribution that
can't be crippled by retracting license terms later.
As for the politics... ignore the loonies. They have an imaginary enemy and
most people just want a working OS
On Jun 10, 2010 1:51 PM, Martin Owens docto...@gmail.com
I've noticed that I constantly get notifications about instant messages,
e-mails, and the like. I've also noticed that Thunderbird uses its own
notification system, which seems to work much better than the one used
by Pidgin et al.
The difference in these two systems is pretty simple and easy
My 'net is broke enough that I can't log in to freaking Launchpad. Been
trying for 40 minutes, the page won't load.
Here's an strace for whichever bug # it is. I just updated Thunderbird
in 10.04, and now I can't switch to the Inbox tab or else it eats
infinite memory and crashes the whole
Are you a maintainer of the package or an actual code contributor for the
project?
Raising the license seems silly if you're not a core dev or significant
contributor. *GPL3 were driven by politics and contain language not well
tested in court (particularly, the completely ineffective patent
http://news.slashdot.org/story/10/08/13/0255205/Oracle-Sues-Google-For-Infringing-Java-Patents
Emergent news.
I want to raise the question on what to do about this if it persists.
We're too early to call this another SCO fight (Ko fight?), but I'm
not the only person in the world with a strong
So here's a thought: I can read my fan speed, CPU temp, and CPU
frequency scaling speed.
When my CPU is under extreme load my system shuts down. Okay, I've
noted this. There was a layer of dust caked between the fan and heat
sink... removed it, that helped.
Why not have a
On 03/06/2011 12:10 PM, Phillip Susi wrote:
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Hash: SHA1
On 03/06/2011 11:24 AM, John Moser wrote:
You've got a hardware problem. The system should never overheat under
load if the fans are working properly.
Cool, I'll switch to ext2 which is faster
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
On 04/29/11 22:33, Martin Owens wrote:
On Fri, 2011-04-29 at 21:11 -0400, John Moser wrote:
The Gnome developers are also upset at Canonical. No idea why.
It's because Canonical only ate their ice cream cone and wouldn't eat
their ice cream. I remember when Gnome developers* built a rocket
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On Fri, Apr 29, 2011 at 7:42 PM, John Moser john.r.mo...@gmail.com
mailto:john.r.mo...@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/29/11 22:33, Martin Owens
On 04/29/11 23:40, Bilal Akhtar wrote:
Why GNOME3 didn't make it to 11.04 is a different story. There are a
handful of Ubuntu Desktop developers who had to focus on Unity work. It
would be difficult for Unity to be made on then-unstable GNOME3
libraries and it would have been equally difficult
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
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
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
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
qtstalker in the repos is way behind. The new version tracks
candlestick indicators. :(
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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.
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.
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 +
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
On Tue, Sep 4, 2012 at 8:43 AM, David Klasinc bigwh...@lubica.net wrote:
who's forking and
who's not. :)
Cheeky.
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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
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
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
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
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
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_*
: 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
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
wrote:
It's called eiciel
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Matt Wheeler
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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
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