Karmic might scare users about hard disk dying

ones. Please take a look at it as soon as possible to avoid the bad PR such as with the infamous bug 59695 Cheers, -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Support data gathering tool

-explorer/ Check out the Explorer page and its documentation to see how it's useful. http://sunsolve.sun.com/search/document.do?assetkey=1-9-82329-1 -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael

Smolt - a better hardware database

support http://xyzz.kexik.net/node/12 But it might be outdated by now. Can anyone finally package Smolt for Ubuntu and make Ubuntu use it in place of our old hwdb/hwtest tool? -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http

Re: wiki spam

The Ubuntu wiki is getting spammed again. See my latest comments in the following bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/224971 Something must be done about it. Wikipedia does this much better. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a

Re: Setting up Ubuntu 8.04.1 development system with no Internet

it to another machine to update it easily (using apt-mirror or debmirror) and take it back to the non-connected machine when it needs software / updates. Use aptoncd. http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/ -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a

Re: Firefox newly insists on showing an EULA

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Re: Firefox newly insists on showing an EULA

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Re: Boot-time improvements

with Fedora because they're using Upstart too. This would make it easier to create and test all the scripts. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: Boot-time improvements

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Re: Boot-time improvements

the transitions where it is possible. How about using Red Hat's news rhgb replacement - Plymouth? http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_itempx=NjU3OA -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl

Re: Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

to add anything you see fit. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: git 1.6

Nehemiah Dacres pisze: will git-core 1.6 be available in hardy Hedron repositories soon or will we have to wait till intrepid Ibex because this is a LTS release? There is no major version updates in Ubuntu life cycle. You'll have to wait for Intrepid. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael

Buggy Exaile in Hardy

Currently Hardy ships Exaile 0.2.11 (in universe) which has a blocker bug which prevents Exaile from displaying the playlist. https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/exaile/+bug/124066 Is it possible to upload newer version of Exaile to universe? (0.2.13) -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki

pm-utils vs acpi-support

, we can see that pm-utils are conflicting with acpi-support. References: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/acpi-support/+bug/59695 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PowerManagement https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pm-utils/+bug/239419 -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker

Re: Did we really release 8.04?

functions for ? What does update-manager do that apt can't? And why apt doesn't have these features? Commandline/server users also want to have the best upgrade experience possible. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www

Re: No run menu item?

Mackenzie Morgan pisze: On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 00:31 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: No. This would be used to open programs that are not in the menu without having a terminal window open. Example: metacity or compiz crashes Solution: run it again from a run menu item Bad solution: run

Re: No run menu item?

://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=512290 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=65850 Also there are lots of reimplementations of this dialog: grun, gnome-run-dialog, gmrun Having many people doing reimplementations of it proves that people still need it. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker

Re: No run menu item?

Andrew Sayers pisze: Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Recently I've noticed that Ubuntu (or just Gnome) doesn't have a run program menu entry like in Windows' Start menu. I don't think every user will magically know the alt+f2 shortcut. I think this menu item should be added to the Applications menu

Re: absurd: network connection required to obtain a network driver

Sam Tygier pisze: Does Jockey ask the user to put in a driver cd? or check it the firmware is on a windows/mac partition? or ask the user if they have the file? those would be cool I've filed a bug about it. Also I've filed a bug about ndiswrapper support in jockey. -- ## Przemysław

No run menu item?

a pretty trivial task so I think it could be easily added in Intrepid. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: No run menu item?

Mackenzie Morgan pisze: On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 23:21 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Recently I've noticed that Ubuntu (or just Gnome) doesn't have a run program menu entry like in Windows' Start menu. I don't think every user will magically know the alt+f2 shortcut. I think this menu item

Re: No run menu item?

Mackenzie Morgan pisze: On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 00:14 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Mackenzie Morgan pisze: I've never actually seen a Windows user use it. They usually seem to prefer hunting through the Start Menu, except when tech support tells them to go to the Run thing and type cmd

Re: No run menu item?

Cory K. pisze: There's no reason we need to match features of other OS's bit for bit. It's not about features from other operating systems. It's about usability. KDE has it. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http

Re: absurd: network connection required to obtain a network driver

Mackenzie Morgan pisze: On Thu, Jul 3, 2008 at 2:26 PM, Martin Pitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Przemysław Kulczycki [2008-07-03 20:14 +0200]: If not, then maybe Canonical could ask Broadcom for permission to redistribute these files? That already happened many times, but fell on deaf ears

MID Edition vs Netbook Remix

Is the recently announced Ubuntu MID Edition the same as earlier announced Ubuntu Netbook Remix? Or is the Netbook Remix just based on MID Edition? The MID Edition announcement doesn't mention it and it might create confusion. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael

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

Matthew Nuzum pisze: On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 4:36 AM, Przemysław Kulczycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now let's get to the point. One of the often accusations against Ubuntu is that it only takes from other projects (Debian, Red Hat, Novell/Suse...) and doesn't give back anything. Ubuntu should

Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

is reading this? -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

such name and you will be prompted for a name change. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Reusing old specs

. I've also filed a bug with lots of totally useless invalid blueprints: https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/blueprint/+bug/177519 They should be marked as obsolete or just deleted. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http

Reusing old specs

obsolete. And finally some of them might be good for Ubuntu 8.10, at least after some cleanups. Maybe a separate spec should be created to cleanup old specs? Good but old ideas shouldn't be forgotten nor stopped in the middle. Greetz -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael

Re: SPARC architecture moved to ports.ubuntu.com for 8.04 and beyond

release notes.) Is it possible to set up a HTTP redirect on old locations? Would apt accept a HTTP 301 Moved Permanently? -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description

Configuring X with multiple drivers available

, but it's not shown by default. The new tool should have an option to choose a driver manually, if there is more than one driver available, or at least it should have a button to run the old tool. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a

Re: A note for translators regarding bootloader message

Colin Watson pisze: On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 01:56:11PM +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote: Matthew Paul Thomas pisze: PrzemysBaw Kulczycki wrote on 21/04/08 14:36: I know that we're already behind the translation freeze, but there is something that many translators translate wrong

Re: A note for translators regarding bootloader message

report a bug for adding an explanatory comment in the source code, immediately after this string. That way the comment will show up as a note in Launchpad for people translating the string. Which package should I file this bug against? syslinux? gfxboot? other? -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael

A note for translators regarding bootloader message

in 3 translations - I've checked it in Hardy RC for Czech, Slovak, and Slovenian, which are similar enough to Polish so I can understand them. Other translations should be checked too. I've checked that Russian translation is ok. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael

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

Mackenzie Morgan pisze: The page is right here. It just needs to be linked to on the main download page so users know it exists. https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromUSBStick Then file a bug about it against ubuntu-website -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker

Re: Hardy abnormal disk use on battery

be the (in)famous bug 59695. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/59695 -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Unneeded System Tools menu

There is also a spec about cleaning up the menus: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MenusRevisited2 -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital

Re: P2P COMPUTING POWER IDEA

example of a grid. -- ## Przemysław Kulczycki Azrael Nightwalker ## # jabber: azrael[na]jabster.pl | tlen: azrael29a # ### www: http://reksio.ftj.agh.edu.pl/~azrael/ ### signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss