Re: Some fundamental usability issues
Alexandre Strube wrote: On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:00 PM, Markus Hitter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AFAIK, Apple simply ignores this problem. You either have enough disk space, or ... well, I don't know what TimeMachine does in disk full conditions. Probably it simply stops doing it's work until you clean up manually. Firstly: time machine uses directory hard links, so each backup only contains different files from the previous version, and the rest is all hard links. They have a file system events daemon, so they can calculate this easy. Sound quite similar to rsnapshot... http://www.rsnapshot.org/ -- 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: us.archive.ubuntu.com
Hi, On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:01 PM, Richard A. Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 08 May 2008, Joe Terranova wrote: | Are there problems with us.archive.ubuntu.com , or does it seriously | need an upgrade? | Every new version, it's unusable for weeks -- as of today, it's still | unusable. I'm tired of having to change my sources.list to a different | country every time there's a new version. I get that with us.archive, ca.archive, or just archive right now. I believe us.archive.ubuntu.com and archive.ubuntu.com use the same group of servers. ca.archive.ubuntu.com seems to be different though. -- Matthew East http://www.mdke.org gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF -- 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: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier
De: [EMAIL PROTECTED] en nombre de Justin M. Wray Enviado el: jue 08/05/2008 5:41 Para: Andrew Sayers; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Asunto: Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier As for a name, I personally donot like remote help, nor remote recover. And Remote Assistance is taken :( We need some good name ideas... Remote Power ? Regards. Pedro. -- 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: Some fundamental usability issues
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 21:55 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: Your idea would mean going around having to delete a bunch of temporary files that were autogenerated. When closing the file, the editor could ask whether to keep the file. It already asks whether it should be saved, anyway. -- 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: Some fundamental usability issues
On Fri, 2008-05-09 at 02:50 -0400, Blaise Alleyne wrote: Sound quite similar to rsnapshot... http://www.rsnapshot.org/ The underlying system, yes. The UI, um, no :) -- 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: firefox and bad ssl certificates
Martin Pitt wrote: I don't consider it a new feature, but a better UI. Firefox has always complained about invalid certificates, but until version 2 it was just the well-known 'SSL yadayada cannot be verified mumblemumble click here to shut me up' popup dialog, and really everyone just clicked this away, right? Security click-through dialogs should be abolished, since they achieve nothing and are really just an excuse for the software provider: I know it is unsafe, and cannot give you something better. Of course you can't know either, but at least I can make it your problem now. Now you get at least a proper error message page. I don't doubt that the text can be improved, and make more concise/clear, etc., but the UI is much better IMHO. I could not disagree with this more strongly. You can't go around applying nerf padding to everything to protect against the possibility of someone running head first into the wall. When you try to protect people from themselves, and that protection has a negative impact on them, you aren't doing them any favors. I don't like the fact that my car won't let me ( or my passenger ) choose to fiddle with the gps while the wheels are turning, and I don't like this change to firefox. An invalid cert is something that MIGHT be cause for concern, but often is not, so a notification is quite sufficient to let the user decide if it is ok to proceed or not. Making them jump through hoops of fire to be SURE they want to proceed is a bad idea. Now improving the existing message to be more informative and educate the user as to what is going on is something I'm all for, but you should not assume the user has no clue and must be locked up to protect him from himself. -- 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
