Re: Announcing release 3.48 of reposurgeon

> If every developer sent this list an email every time there was a new release Imagine the alternative, a single source of release information for 20,000 packages. -- finger painting on glass is an inexact art - apologies for any errors in this scra^Hibble ()/)/)() ..ASCII for Onno.. On Fri.,

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

with a GUI to that command. It allowed you to compose a command and on completion, you'd be back at the CLI, ready to run the tool. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

On 23/10/09 10:33, Ryan Dwyer wrote: So then that brings up the question of what web based tool should be used. Ubuntu Server has chosen eBox as that tool. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

that comes with installing sensible defaults. Perhaps your blueprint might attempt to describe functionality, rather than a GUI. If you're not careful you will be building ebox or webmin all over again. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

an article about this: http://itmaze.com.au/articles/cio/ -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

entail. Of course these two options are not mutually exclusive :) Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

. The challenge for me is to figure out how to deliver that and how to pay for it. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

to being enough to deal with a bell-curve that is heading this way. It would be really productive if we can come up with a process that leveraged the size of the community, but I'm yet to figure a way that we can pass it on. Thoughts? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06

Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

to continue to flourish and grow while the masses arrive with their questions and bug-reports? Perhaps I'm seeing something that isn't there. Perhaps others are already thinking about this and I've just come along to add more noise to that discussion - if so, I'm sorry. -- Onno Benschop Connected

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

no indication of expertise. And typically, using launchpad as an example, experts don't seem to get a lot of karma, since most of their activity is in the preparation of a single launchpad action, a patch, or an answer, or whatever. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115

Re: shameful censoring of mono opposition

in thinking that a technical argument can be had in a civilised tone. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

applications that it is taken seriously - almost like not willing to accept that their little program is used by real people for real purposes. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

and supporting the vast array of hardware is nigh-on impossible, I think that unless we find a way to become more disciplined about regressions, this problem will only get larger. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - o...@itmaze.com.au -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Feature Requests

Well one stab at that is to use Ubuntu Brainstorm: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN

mirror moved, apt-get/aptitude barfs

://mirror.gamearena.com.au/ubuntu/ The new mirror (203.46.104.19) is now: * http://mirror.files.bigpond.com/ubuntu/ Comments, suggestions? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno

Re: mirror moved, apt-get/aptitude barfs

On 14/04/09 22:40, Onkar Shinde wrote: On Tue, Apr 14, 2009 at 3:47 PM, Onno Benschop o...@itmaze.com.au wrote: Today I finally got to the bottom of why apt-get/aptitude update was failing. The owner of an Australian mirror has moved the files to a different server. Apart from updating

KDE update

: Running intrepid -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - o...@itmaze.com.au -- Ubuntu

Re: KDE update

On 04/03/09 17:58, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Wednesday 04 March 2009 3:50:32 am Onno Benschop wrote: Can someone please explain to me why I'm asked to download 32.2Mb of an update that has as a description: No change rebuild to satisfy build dependency for kdepim security update

Re: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea? - no.

who lost data when they pressed C-A-B? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Bigpond NextG at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - o

Re: Open Office problems

and are not supported. If you are having trouble, the best way to get support is to ask the publisher of the ppa you subscribed to. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse

Re: crash in bluetooth-properties

to pair my keyboard, here's what happens leading up to bluetooth-properties crashing. This sounds like an issue I saw last month where the pass-phrase request times out - so if you type fast during pairing, it all works. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA

Re: Ubuntu install options

On 23/09/08 23:32, HggdH wrote: Additionally, there is JeOS [1], which is a minimal install for a server. Regards, ..hggdh.. [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/jeos As I understand it, that's a server for virtual hardware, not actual bare-metal. -- Onno

Re: Firefox newly insists on showing an EULA

down this route, but if this stands as a precedent, then we're likely to be bombarded by pop-up EULA's and we'll no longer have the option of installing software within (large) organisations without having a lawyer present. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

On 20/08/08 16:40, Soren Hansen wrote: On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 06:43:16AM +0800, Onno Benschop wrote: If you recall the google research about hard drive failures you will have remembered that SMART is no indication of impending failure. And if you recall the very same research, you

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

been reallocated, hinting at a dying drive. The disk I replaced in January after SMART flagged it was 18 months old. If you recall the google research about hard drive failures you will have remembered that SMART is no indication of impending failure. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3

Re: Minutes from the Technical Board, 2008-07-15

On 20/08/08 06:43, Onno Benschop wrote: On 20/08/08 05:39, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 5:32 PM, Andrew Sayers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think there's an elephant in this room - why are we running fsck at all? b) If it's to check for dying hardware[1

Re: Automatic fsck

magnetic fields affecting the information on a hard-drive - this problem is only going to get bigger with increased storage density. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno

Re: Tahoma (or, Does anyone have a copy of Microsoft Office 97 Developer Edition?)

Developer Edition Tools, *then* you can redistribute TAHOMA.TTF TAHOMABD.TTF with said run-time. I suppose you could create a run-time that said Hello World, and distribute that with the two files, but I'm pretty sure that's not what you meant :) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31

Re: Extremely large -data packages

for Jack's name? All the details are here: * https://launchpad.net/~jscinoz/+archive -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178

kernel image updates and dependencies

://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-meta/+bug/242505 My question is this: * How is it possible that this update was installed at all? Isn't this exact issue the reason we have dependencies at all? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

contributed to other projects, but never felt that it was noticed - I'm not talking about a thank-you, just that when you made a contribution, it was picked up, looked at, critiqued and used where appropriate. Ubuntu does this better than any other group of people I know. -- Onno Benschop

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

On 28/05/08 08:30, Onno Benschop wrote: On 27/05/08 18:11, John McCabe-Dansted wrote: To my mind the biggest contribution downstream projects make is saving developers time. My experience suggests that it if you are a developer and you want to spend less time fighting your distro and more

Re: make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible

exist. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: make information for installing Ubuntu from a USB flash drive easily accessible

the download page. Without wanting to be to blunt and given that there is nothing wrong with your keyboard - witness your post to the list - why not add a page to the wiki yourself. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno

Re: Problem with Grub being installed in MBR as default (GG)

and society as a whole. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Bug and discussion about ubuntu menu

perhaps ;-) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: madwifi-source

-assistant, seeing that it still has madwifi as an option. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219

Re: madwifi-source

module(s) from that, or is that idea heading for a world of hurt? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04

madwifi-source

Is there any reason that madwifi-source is not available under Ubuntu? I'm basing this on the following research: This link shows that madwifi-source is not available:http://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/madwifi-tools -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA

madwifi-source

://packages.ubuntu.com/gutsy/madwifi-tools This answer shows that the source is only available in Debian: * https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/17182 This bug shows that module-assistant lists it: * https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/module-assistant/+bug/136852 -- Onno Benschop Connected via

Re: How to include a part of Wine ... why include wine at all?

in and bugs still get unearthed, but at least you're working within a known problem scope, that is, the goal-posts move every six months, but they don't move every minute, which is what you're proposing. So, does that answer your question? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06

Re: How to include a part of Wine ... why include wine at all?

On 14/02/08 09:32, Daniel Hollocher wrote: Again, wine in ubuntu is unsupported and outdated. Perhaps some prior research would be appropriate before you shoot from the hip: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/motu-council/2008-January/000720.html -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3

Re: LVM on hardy's live installer?

these packages to the Live CD, I would suspect that a simple set of instructions would do the trick, as AFAIK apt-get install (et al.) is available to you on a Live CD, giving you the functionality you require. Of course I might be completely wrong :) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

done. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: GParted installed by default?

. Just because there are things that are dangerous... -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219

Gutsy partner repository

responsible for packaging vmware, I'm trying to understand where my expectation and reality experienced a disconnect resulting in this unsatisfactory experience. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC

Re: Our best foot forward

:) Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219 - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ubuntu-devel

Re: Our best foot forward

a script to walk you through the installation process. Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219

Re: Our best foot forward

and benefit from them. Ultimately bug number 1 still needs to be closed. Cheers, -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057

Re: Our best foot forward

time. Said another way, to be experienced requires experience. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04

Re: Easier and more reliable ISO downloads, with error correction

downlink at any share-rate, making the transfer absolutely horrendous. Bittorrent may well be useful in some environments, but not in all, nor is every ISP who restricts you trying to screw you over any way they want. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

On 17/10/07 01:33, Phillip Susi wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: My point is this, an fsck is an 'out of band' check, that is, a check that doesn't rely on other things. It means that while theoretically a file-system maintains its integrity, in practice it cannot. fsck is a useful tool that needs

Re: 4 More days...

the amount of effort, both paid and unpaid, put in by the community. If you're frustrated with the development process perhaps you should find another way to contribute to its success. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno

Re: Restricted tab-completion is annoying

occasions. Just pressing tab again should extend the completion level. Vincenzo +1 -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing

' check for the dosfsck tool, but thus far an implementation has eluded me. (That and severe time constraints while I get ready for the onslaught on the World Solar Challenge web site :) -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

. Animosity causes rejection. Alex Polglaze 26/09/04 -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063 - ph: 04 1219

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

or not makes sense in a testing environment, but after that phase of development the code should be robust enough to figure out the correct answer, and if it's not robust enough, that means it wasn't tested widely enough. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA

Re: That need to close bugs?

was enough to locate the source of a bug. A better approach in my opinion would be to mark the bug as needs info and leave it alone. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno

Re: Updating software between releases - where backports/SRU isn't enough

released after the launch of an LTS release should not be supported except in unusual circumstances. An LTS release should only ever have security and severe bugs applied. It is possible that you're agreeing with me, but that we're coming at this from a different angle. Kind regards, -- Onno

Re: Launchpad bug workflow change

? -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno.. --- -. -. --- ..Morse for Onno.. Proudly supported by Skipper Trucks, Highway1, Concept AV, Sony Central, Dalcon ITmaze - ABN: 56 178 057 063

Re: Launchpad bug workflow change

On 20/06/07 05:59, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: On 20/06/07 04:56, Henrik Nilsen Omma wrote: What I did not mention in my first mail (just confirmed this with the LP developer), is that the groups who can set the different states will now also change

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

by doing a bit shift[0] and instead dividing the number of bytes by a power of 10. [0] I'm assuming that most applications will calculate how many Kilobytes/Megabytes are used by dividing by a power of two. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA

Re: Using standardized SI prefixes

be embarrassed into using the SI units :) And just in case anyone else was as confused as I was, wikipedia cleared it up for me: * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibibyte * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kibi (Ironically, my spell-checker had never heard of a kibibyte :) -- Onno Benschop Connected via

Re: RFC: alias tar=tar --backup ?

that this is a good idea because then you would have a tar command in a safe environment (with a --backup flag) and the same tar command in the unsafe environment, causing a deferred mismatch of expectation with potentially bigger harm down the track. - -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3

Re: RFC: alias tar=tar --backup ?

could activate this with a system-wide flag, but I strongly suspect that this would be more work than the few words it took for me to write the idea. -- Onno Benschop Connected via Optus B3 at S31°54'06 - E115°50'39 (Yokine, WA) -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC

Re: SPEC: Support existing dirty flag on a (v)FAT file system

On 21/03/07 14:28, Mike Fedyk wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: On 21/03/07 03:32, Mike Fedyk wrote: Onno Benschop wrote: As more and more users have access to USB sticks, external drives, digital cameras and larger drives that co-exist with other operating systems, dosfstools needs to participate

Re: New feature: easy codec installation, please test

. I would suggest that in the scenario that you put forward the corporate desktop user would not have permission to install anything, so this would not be a concern. -- Onno Benschop Connected via ADSL (Kalgoorlie, WA)... -- ()/)/)()..ASCII for Onno.. |?..EBCDIC for Onno