[Bug 578733] Re: no way to change username for ssh tunneling

2011-04-04 Thread wild.ideas
We need to add one more option: The remote host port number for the SSH connection. Reason: It's not good practice to expose an open Port 22 to the Internet; it attracts relentless break-in attempts from all over the world. I use a custom port number for SSH into my VNC server machine

[Bug 335712] Re: strange escape handling in Exec line of .desktop files

2010-02-20 Thread wild.ideas
I'm experiencing the same problem, and tracked it down to the 'exec' line in the '.desktop' file. I'm seeing the same behavior, whether I use the menu editor to create the '.desktop' file, or if I hand-edit the file to modify the 'exec' line. Ironically, I ran into this with Wine, just as the

[Bug 335712] Re: strange escape handling in Exec line of .desktop files

2010-02-20 Thread wild.ideas
AHA!!! It's NOT a bug in the 'exec' parser!!! I found it... It's a bug in the way the menu editor Wine create/manage/display the menus. It's not acting consistently! Here's what's happening: I'm running 64-bit Karmic. I have an application I installed in Wine 1.1.38 called MyApp. When

[Bug 70535] Re: Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed

2006-11-06 Thread wild.ideas
Aha! This is *not* a 'cp' or Nautilus bug, per se -- I think this is a problem with this USB hard drive. Now the question is, is it a particular idiosyncrasy with this external drive, or is it a fundamental limitation of USB technology? (If the latter, then Nautilus --and 'cp'?-- would be

[Bug 70535] Re: Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed

2006-11-05 Thread wild.ideas
Crash file for Nautlius attached... ** Attachment added: Crash file for Nautlius HD to USB HD crash http://librarian.launchpad.net/4971336/_usr_bin_nautilus.1001.crash -- Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/70535 -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 70535] Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed

2006-11-05 Thread wild.ideas
Public bug reported: Occurred while copying an 8GB backup file from an internal HD to a USB HD. The Nautilus process crashed while unattended, likely after the screensaver had kicked in. (Blank Screen was selected for the screensaver to reduce CPU load.) ** Affects: nautilus (Ubuntu)

[Bug 70535] Re: Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed

2006-11-05 Thread wild.ideas
Found the smoking gun: Nautilus died after copying 4294967295 bytes = 2^32-1 bytes -- a 4GB boundary error. -- Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/70535 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

[Bug 70535] Re: Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed

2006-11-05 Thread wild.ideas
'cp' crashed with the same problem, at the same point in the file. (No suprise there.) -- Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/70535 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs

[Bug 70535] Re: Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed

2006-11-05 Thread wild.ideas
This is odd: Nautilus was able to copy this file initially from one internal HD to another, without crashing at 4GB. In this case, the source HD was NTFS and the destination was ext3. -- Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/70535 -- desktop-bugs mailing list

[Bug 70535] Re: Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed

2006-11-05 Thread wild.ideas
Workaround: Divide files 4GB with 'split', then copy the pieces, then join them again with 'cat'. -- Nautilus copy to USB hard drive crashed https://launchpad.net/bugs/70535 -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs