Request For Comments: blueprint around Ideastorm idea

2007-09-15 Thread Nicolas Deschildre
Hi! I have been drafting a blueprint around Dell's Ideastorm idea. Considering that the current means to get user wishes feedback is not really good (see discussion in the blueprint) and considering Ideastorm success for Dell, i was thinking of using this idea to assess the user wishes. Right

update-db cron job: solving a long-standing issue

2007-09-15 Thread Milan
The slocate cron.daily job has long been an issue, making users ask why their computers were not responding or simply working hard without any explanation. This little 'bug' is giving a really bad impression to new users, making Ubuntu look 'Windows-like' (the worst for us), that is to say

Re: update-db cron job: solving a long-standing issue

2007-09-15 Thread Wouter Stomp
On 9/15/07, Milan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We can also think (and this is my opinion ;-) ) that the locate command is only used by advanced users that now how to install slocate in two minutes, and thus that we don't need to install it by default. Newbies don't use locate in a terminal, but

Re: update-db cron job: solving a long-standing issue

2007-09-15 Thread Soren Hansen
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 04:54:57PM +0200, Milan wrote: We can also think (and this is my opinion ;-) ) that the locate command is only used by advanced users that now how to install slocate in two minutes, and thus that we don't need to install it by default. I agree with this. Heck, I