I'm trying to figure out where to look to see if this is a known bug in
mkfs.exfat, and where to report it, if not. The Linux Questions thread,
below, has all the relevant details. Does anyone on this list know where I
should go to report any relevant bug to the maintainer of this software?
I'm
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 9:26 PM, Mathieu Trudel-Lapierre
mathieu...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Dane Mutters dmutt...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
So, now that we've gotten some matters of conduct out of the way (we
have,
haven't we?), does anyone care to suggest what
That said, if you can find specific things you are having problems with
and make
specific suggestions about how to solve the problems that are generally
their
direction, you've got a chance of being heard. Go back to what it was
has
no chance at
What we had was a rant followed by another rant followed by... I do not
know, I stopped in the middle of the second rant. ScootK was very right
when referring to the delete option.
...
But if I do not like something,
and I want to _help_ change it, I need to put out a very clear
Part of the problem you're having in this discussion is that Ubuntu
developers
don't develop Unity. It's a separate project within Canonical that
operates
much like any upstream does. The distribution developers have some
influence
and do, in some cases, contribute to it, but it's not
On the contrary, I found Michael's rant refreshing. Politically correct
rants look like a lot of nitpicking over nothing.
...
But of course a little We shouldn't do this, it's a bad idea just gets
an enthusiastic push-back from strong-headed visionaries that think
they're onto
gratitude.
Thanks.
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Stop throwing around privacy like there is some big security flaw in
Linux, there are tools that do what everyone wants, it seems to me
that nobody is willing to even look or everybody is fed baby food,
what is the point of being on Linux if you aren't going to use the
terminal for what it's
Also, on my system (as well as many others), I end up with 2 lines for
Windows 7 (or Vista, when I was using that)--only one of which boots. One
is the system partition; one is the main partition. Fixing this by hand
wouldn't be such a big deal if one didn't have to write part of a shell
script
I share this concern; our sysadmins had some visualisations of 11.10
installs hitting the Ubuntu geoip service around release time, and
although I forget the numbers the spike was pretty huge.
Given our scale, I'd say that the neighbourly thing to do is for Ubuntu
installs to only touch
Though I think Unity still needs a -lot- of work, I find it much more
usable in Oneiric than it was in Natty. I used it for several months
before switching to Gnome 3 in Oneiric, whereas I couldn't stand it for a
day in Natty. (Keep up the good work.) I can't speak to whether there
have been
Gerry,
I don't think this is the best place to post this question; the Ubuntu
forums would be more appropriate.
That said, it's almost certainly a plugin or extension that's going awry.
Start Firefox and don't go to any pages that make it crash. Then, go to
Tools Addons and disable every
FWIW, grub.cfg is deliberately in /boot, rather than putting an
autogenerated file in /etc. (/boot/grub/menu.lst had its own problems,
as a partly-autogenerated and partly-manually-maintained file - a scheme
that might almost have been designed to create bugs.)
Colin, I'd forgotten that
I accidentally hit reply instead of reply-to-all. My message is below the
quote.
On Tue, Dec 6, 2011 at 11:23 PM, Dane Mutters dmutt...@gmail.com wrote:
If you really care about end users and you think this is something that
need fixing, then the proper way to do it is to:
1. create a fake
I don't know if the original poster has since learned this, but I think
it's worth noting several things, in case the person coming over from
Windows hasn't figured it out. (If this is a non-issue, please disregard
this email.)
1) Linux/Unix executables don't have a .exe extension. Typically,
This seems to be a really good idea. I'm not a programmer, but if
somebody implements it, it'll make a lot of users happy.
On Wed, 2010-06-23 at 12:21 +0200, Gareth McCumskey wrote:
Hi there guys,
This is my first mail to this list so forgive me if this has already been
asked
or
Which version of Evolution are you using, and what are your filter
rules? How did you go about creating them? I've messed around with
filters a fair bit, and might be able to help.
--Dane
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 10:57 +0200, Kai Mast wrote:
Hey,
is anyone else haveing problems with the
I'm glad you brought this up, Milan. I have been dealing with
annoyances from this issue for several years now. (More reply text is
in-line.)
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 01:28 +0200, Milan Niznansky wrote:
Hi all,
presently, default mount options for ntfs-3g are:
... gid=46,umask=007 ...
This
accidently hit reply instead of sending to the list...whoops...
I think some of you would be interested in reading this page that
(allegedly) documents some of the (allegedly) somewhat shady
beginnings of Iron:
http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/notes/2009/12/iron.html
If this
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 09:49 -0400, Michael Robinson wrote:
This is my first time posting to a mailing list in years, so someone
let me know if I messed up. :)
I've found Dia to be useful for diagrams. It's a lot like Visio (the
flowchart program in MS Office).
I took a look at Dia in the
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 11:44 -0800, Brian Vaughan wrote:
On Sat, 2010-03-06 at 10:19 -0500, Martin Owens wrote:
But I've seen QuickBooks, it looks really badly designed (from a UI
perspective) so I'm intending on making something better than
QuickBooks. Much better.
You'd be doing
If you are unable to complete fsck on that partition from the live CD, you
may have a bad hard drive (bad sectors, etc.). To test for that, boot onto
a live CD, open a Terminal, and use this command:
sudo badblocks -svb 4096 /dev/sda
This will test the integrity of hard drive /dev/sda. Please
On Fri, 2009-08-28 at 18:18 +0100, Dave Walker wrote:
Dane Mutters wrote:
SNIP
Just an example that I was arguing with yesterday: /etc/resolv.conf.
It's auto-generated by NetworkManager. I like NM; don't get me wrong,
but if you need to change the DNS (or other) settings from the command
skripts, that generate configurationfiles, for everything they see and
keep it forever
- better tested (community is there to help, some unixers would like
easy-to-maintain systems for ther families too)
But it is already tested a lot and it is easy to maintain for
families,
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 08:01 +0200, Davyd McColl wrote:
Good day
Thanks for your response. Suspecting that there could be a problem
with the card itself (rather inconveniently coincidental, since I just
bought a new mobo, psu and ram after a power surge (as far as I can
ascertain) killed my
lies in compiz, not in the driver.
I take it you've gotten all the system updates via the Update Manager?
If not, it might be a good thing to do.
I may not be a devel, but at least I can help troubleshoot. :-)
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and collaborate with them. Please keep hope
in this list. It definitely needs some improvement, but it's certainly
not something that anybody currently subscribed to it ought to abandon.
OK, so my email wasn't short, but I hope it helps.
Have a good one, everybody.
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On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 15:50 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
On Sunday 15 February 2009 12:24:32 pm Dylan McCall wrote:
Re: SysRQ not working. Try it in a virtual terminal and see if that
works (something harmless, like Alt SysRQ M).
For starters, the SysRQ / Print Screen key becomes SysRQ
On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 20:37 -0500, Mackenzie Morgan wrote:
On Saturday 14 February 2009 8:31:17 pm Mike Jones wrote:
But I've tried Alt+SysRq+K on many different computer systems I have
access to. It doesn't seem to do anything. Could you please explain what I'm
doing wrong? Or help me
I've been following this discussion, and it seems that some people have
been wanting some poll results. This might be of interest:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1040988
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I don't remember if I mentioned it on this list, but I submitted a bug
(pertaining to Hardy) that at least SEEMS very similar to this a while
ago. It has yet to be looked at.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/220349
I managed to find a workaround by way of recompiling
:35 +0100, Stefano Doni wrote:
Thanks Dane,
is this workaround valid with stock kernels?
Can other developers comment on this?
I would not consider compiling my own kernel to be a solution for me,
I firmly believe it is better to use the stock Ubuntu one.
Thanks!
2008/10/28 Dane
:
Thanks Dave for your willingness,
but I think it is definitely better to fix this into Ubuntu stock
kernel, so that other user will benefit from it!
2008/10/28 Dane Mutters [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Stefano,
I'm currently using this workaround with kernel 2.6.26.5
You're uploading the wrong file; you want empathy_..._source.changes.
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Thanks! I'll give that a shot.
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On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 14:35 +0100, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
Olá Mark e a todos.
On Thursday 24 April 2008 14:02:52 Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
Ubuntu Announcements wrote:
The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce Ubuntu 8.04 LTS (Long-Term Support)
on desktop and server, continuing
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 22:35 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote:
Has anybody managed to get the bogofilter plugin for Evolution work in
Hardy? For me, Evolution reports that learning spams works fine,
everything is present (plugin and binaries), spamassasin is disabled,
junk filtering is
On Tue, 2007-12-04 at 08:03 -0700, Neal McBurnett wrote:
You're right - a deeper analysis is needed. And this issue has at
least one official blueprint:
https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/prompt-for-fsck-on-shutdown
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AutoFsckspec
You can try
On Sun, 2007-12-02 at 22:55 +, (=?utf-8?q?=60=60-=5F-=C2=B4=C2=B4?=)
-- Fernando wrote:
On Monday 22 October 2007 01:51:03 Dane Mutters wrote:
I think that there is an occasional need to check the file system for
errors, but I think that it might work better as an optional, but
highly
I thought you might find this helpful. (I brought this issue up with
the Slackware folks once, and they told me basically this.)
http://wiki.craz1.homelinux.com/index.php/Linux:Security:Forkbomb
I was also told that the ability to spawn such rampant forks/processes
is controlled by default in
I think that there is an occasional need to check the file system for
errors, but I think that it might work better as an optional, but
highly recommended thing.
Here's another case in point:
I have been working to set up an Ubuntu-based Asterisk phone server at
my workplace. For this
I'm writing in response to some recent emails on this list that may have
had a discouraging effect on the developers and other community members.
While Some constructive criticism is needed, I would like to remind
people that the developers are essentially volunteers who put a LOT of
hard work
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