[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread LocutusOfBorg
2004-08-20 2013-05-30 Almost ten years and 1834 comments, and bug FIXED. great job Open Source! Anyway would be really nice if google one day will start calling android just Android/Linux -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Mark Cariaga
Martyn putting $ on Microsoft is not cool anymore. It's used by trolls. If we advocate enough, eventually we'll see changes On 2013-05-30 4:21 AM, Martyn Vallett 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Micro$haft still have a grip in Australia, but I have been noticing that chrome OS and andriod

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Darth Sidious
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Shuduo Sang
I'm very happy to see this bug be closed. :D -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Dmitry Marakasov
The fix is invalid: the bug clearly states that it covers desktop PC market, while the fix cites general consumer computing market statistics. While it is true that with the spread of mobile platforms desktop market share is less important for Ubuntu, desktop market specifically is still heavily

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Zisu Andrei
I do not agree with this bug being fixed. Even if the PC market is declining, it's still going to be here for a long while, as tablets/phones are currently consumer-centric and we still need workstations. That market still has only two major players in it: Mac OS and Windows. Which means

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Luke Faraone
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread motters
As some others have said I wouldn't yet regard this bug as having been fixed, although the situation today is marginally better than it was in 2004. If I walk into an electrical store, supermarket or any of the places where people commonly buy desktop or laptop computers chances are that there

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Martin Albisetti
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread ttoine
Back when the #1 bug was fixed, PC was almost the only stuff to work and communicate in the digital world. Since, smartphones, tablets and other devices appear. They are computers, and they don't run a Microsoft OS. So, yes, the bug is fixed. And in many countries, brands like Lenovo sells more PC

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread IKT
Good news everyone :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Presianbg
10x to Win 8 :D -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has a majority market share To manage notifications about this bug go to:

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Scott Ritchie
** Description changed: + See Mark's closure comment here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/comments/1834 + -- + Microsoft has a majority market share in the new desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Ubuntu and other projects are meant to fix. As the philosophy of the

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Paul White
In my view this was never really a bug. There are dozens of other bugs that need to be fixed to make the Ubuntu family 100% usable and a real alternatives to Windows. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report.

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Tom
Hi :) +1 It is already the year of the linux desktop except that it's really the year of the linux portable device because people are increasingly moving away from desktops.  Regards from Tom :) From: ttoine tto...@ttoine.net Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2013,

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Ma Xiaojun
It's werid that we celebrate the fact that we already failed in the desktop market; consider GNOME's 10x10 goal and the reality. I'm a FOSS advocate but I feel that the result is well deserved. What's the point of Windows? It is a DEPENDABLE platform that developers can write software and make

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Charles Profitt
I agree with Mark that things have changed... If we take the term PC to mean personal computing, which is proper, then indeed Microsoft no longer has market dominance. I also focus on this part of Mark's statement: But it's better for us to focus our intent on excellence in our own right,

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread PJO
The closure comment reads like something agreed to as part of a deal with Microsoft. Declaring a bug to be fixed and actually fixing it are two different things. Shuttleworth should know this. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Tom
Hi :) That is what i thought at first but there was a crucial paragraph in there that said the main aim is now to just increase the quality of the product rather than the main aim being to fix this bug.  Personally i have always seen this as a longer-term wish-list or feature request rather

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Barry Drake
Well, I don't think Mark said anything like 'give up'. I agree that this bug has evolved to the point that it has to be closed due to a major change in character. My suggestion: Mark (not anyone else) submit a new bug commanding the 'state of the art'. If Mark is still of folowing this after

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Tom
Hi :) Have to disagree with the top man.  Ubuntu played a huge part.  Ubuntu got out there into the mainstream press over and over again.  Not as a quirky, insane, anarchistic, geek toy but as a serious business tool with repeated successes in many companies around the globe.  Redhat had

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Manjul Apratim
@Barry For the record, FOSS does not imply software that is free as in beer. The protagonists of free software - the folks at GNU - openly state on www.gnu.org that it is perfectly acceptable to sell software free as in freedom for money. Hi :) Have to disagree with the top man. Ubuntu played a

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Martin Wildam
Sorry Mark, but as many above I also cannot consider this bug being fixed. Only last week I wanted to buy a new Canonical certified hardware from Dell - they definitely do not want to sell a non-Windows PC to me. Best offer I could get (after insisting) is at about 1 third more expensive. I never

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Pedro Galvan
Just this week, a corporate customer with whom I am starting a business relationship sent me a ms word document with a form that I needed to fill in order for them to register me as a supplier. Needless to say, I had to use ms word to open it. I tried to do it in libreoffice but all the layout

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-30 Thread Tom
way and beginning to move quite a lot more quickly.  Are businesses going to be ready?  Your new corporate customer's isn't.  Yours is.  Regards from Tom :)  From: Pedro Galvan Sent: Thursday, 30 May 2013, 23:05 Subject: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-27 Thread Tom
Hi :)  I think it is fairly easy to install for most people.  Even people that have no experience installing any other OS.  It takes me around an hour or more but i add tons of extras such as Medibuntu and am typically doing so on fairly ancient machines.  As a noob it took me a lot longer

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-27 Thread Tom
Hi :) The problem is that people are comparing installing Ubuntu against using a system that is already installed for them.  A pre-installed systems means you don't have to do anything to install it.  Of course that is easier than installing it yourself!  I'm not quite sure about the

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-27 Thread Martin Wildam
On Sun, May 26, 2013 at 3:40 AM, A. Denton aqu...@tron-delta.org wrote: The bugs name should be altered. I think Microsoft is just one player in this game. I agree with you. However, from all the players Microsoft is the one that affects me most (in a negative way). And I say this although (or

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-27 Thread LocutusOfBorg
The problem is that on one side we have Microsoft Apple Google and so on, on the other we have http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/1b/Linux_Distribution_Timeline.svg Having this kind of fragmentation isn't really BAD for the whole linux community, as a developer I spend so much of my

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-26 Thread Barry Drake
Part of the problem has to be OUR negative thinking. We have a problem with users still making a valid point in saying Ubuntu is to hard to install. Just try installing Microsoft Windows from scratch. The last fresh install of Ubuntu 13.10 took me less than twenty minutes and worked 'out of the

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-26 Thread Devyn Collier Johnson
** Also affects: novabot-xaiml Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Also affects: neobot Importance: Undecided Status: New -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-25 Thread A. Denton
The bugs name should be altered. I think Microsoft is just one player in this game. Have you realized some things changed since the 90's? Just imagine... Oracle took over Sun, Apple released OS 10 (X) and BSD is a powerful and usable OS . :-] Seriously guys I think Microsoft is not the biggest

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-24 Thread Aditya Avinash
The usability of windows is easier than ubuntu. Why? It's the mind that plays the game. Every person i know is afraid to install ubuntu on their metal. Why? Because they think of it as a geek, hacker, complex operating system. Smart people use ubuntu. Why android is so popular even though it is

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-24 Thread Martin Wildam
On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 2:03 PM, Aditya Avinash 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: The usability of windows is easier than ubuntu. Why? It's the mind that plays the game. Every person i know is afraid to install ubuntu on their metal. Why? Because they think of it as a geek, hacker, complex

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-08 Thread Graham
@Barry and @Tom I appreciate that you are telling me the way which is supposed to give results, but have you actually done this yourselves? Trust me, I am not shy in expressing my opinions. If I walked into a PC World and started ranting off about the lack of support for Linux I would be

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-08 Thread Tom
Hi :) Barry has.  Check his recent attachments to this list.  I'm not suggesting ranting.  Richard Stallman seems to get away with it but i probably wouldn't.  Barry's approach seemed to be very effective.  Make them feel the market pull.  The market is changing.  These shops will only

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-08 Thread Barry Drake
Exactly Tom! And it gets better! A colleague to whom I recommended the Advent printer contacted Kodak as I suggested. He received the following reply: Firstly, thank you very much for your feedback. I understand your concerns and would like to apologise for any inconvenience that the lack of

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-08 Thread houstonbofh
On 05/08/2013 06:27 AM, Graham wrote: If I walked into a PC World and started ranting off about the lack of support for Linux I would be escorted off the premises. And you know it. As far as complaining to the CEO... have you considered what is in it for them? Do you think you could

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-08 Thread Martin Wildam
On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 1:27 PM, Graham ubu...@grahams.idps.co.uk wrote: If I walked into a PC World and started ranting off about the lack of support for Linux I would be escorted off the premises. And you know it. And that's why sometimes Linux folks are put into the same basket as

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-06 Thread Barry Drake
** Attachment removed: currys_f.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/+attachment/3665984/+files/currys_f.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title: Microsoft has

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-06 Thread Graham
I have Ubuntu in my home, I have also an IT built laptop at work (build with Windows 7) on which I run a VM with Ubuntu. I use Linux and Ubuntu in all areas of computing where usually one would expect to see Windows I have no _need_ for Windows, nor has anyone else in my opinion. Not

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-06 Thread Barry Drake
Graham said: So I go to my local PC world and look for a Linux PC ..? NO you go to your local PC World and complain ... to the staff, then to the manager. Gently, but firmly, to the effect that they are bound to give proper support to all of their Linux compatible products, (at this time

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-06 Thread Bruno
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Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-06 Thread Tom
Hi :) +1 Long gone are the days of behaving like a gentleman and getting treated with respect as a result.  If you think you might be shyembarrassed then read up on Richard Stallman's philosophies or get the slightly more corporate approach from the Free Software Foundation.  Either should help

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
Thought I'd attach all the bug report responses from Dixons/PC-World group. ** Attachment added: currys1.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/+attachment/3665949/+files/currys1.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
attachment 1 :currys_1.pdf ** Attachment added: currys1.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/+attachment/3665951/+files/currys1.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
attachment 2: currys_3.pdf ** Attachment added: currys3.pdf https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1/+attachment/3665953/+files/currys3.pdf -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
Also attached: currys_a.pdf, currys_ceo_1.pdf, currys_ceo_resp.pdf, currys_f.pdf, currys_reply_2.pdf, currys_resp_1.pdf, currys_resp_1.pdf, kodak_2.pdf Hope some of you can pester the folk concerned unti the bug-fix is released!!! ** Attachment added: currys_a.pdf

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
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Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Tom
Hi :)Lol, nice!  Errr, you realise this is an intenational online resource that may stand forever? Also that this bug-repoort is usually used for general gripping or for occasionally shouts of triumph/joy. It's not usually used as a marketing list for assessing specific strategies or ideas. 

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Barry Drake
On 05/05/13 20:24, Tom wrote: It's not usually used as a marketing list for assessing specific strategies or ideas. There must be a marketing list or something that would really appreciate all this work a lot more and be able to use the intelligence. Now that it is up and avilable it

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-05 Thread Martin Wildam
Hi, On Sun, May 5, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Barry Drake b.dr...@ntlworld.com wrote: Ubuntu is a fantastic community, but is is too fragmented and anarchic to debug this particular bug! If Ubuntu would be a terror organisation, I think everybody would see exactly that - the thinking global and acting

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-05-04 Thread Barry Drake
I've been trying to find a workaround for this bug for about four years. My latest effort has not been directly to confront the bug, but to look at the effect it is having on peripherals. A recent complaint about support for printers from our local branch of PC World brought me the following when

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-04-25 Thread Xiang Zhai
Ubuntu has a majority Chinese market share Ubuntu has a majority market share in the Chinese desktop PC marketplace. This is a bug which Linux Deepin and other projects are meant to fix. As the philosophy of the Linux Deepin Project states, Our work is driven by a belief that software should

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-04-25 Thread Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-04-09 Thread Mind Booster Noori
Luis Alvarado (luisalvarado) wrote on 2013-04-05: There is work in progress to solve this bug. You can find some of the progress here: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2408515 and

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-04-09 Thread Tom
Hi :) When this bug-report was first posted the IT world was a very different place.  I think it was even before netbooks!  There are a couple of ironies now 1.  The long awaited Year of the Linux Desktop is already happening but we kinda missed it or don't notice it because it's not about

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-04-05 Thread Luis Alvarado
There is work in progress to solve this bug. You can find some of the progress here: http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2408515 and http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2013/04/microsofts-market-dominance-is- coming-to-an-end-say-leading-analysts The fix will arrive soon on Ubuntu -- You received this

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-11 Thread Tom
Hi :) Are you sure you are not Torrenting something?  I usually deliberately leave my torrenting-client on for a while after i download something with the aim of uploading it 2 or 3 times before switching it off.  The defaults are to upload as much as possible but i usually throttle that down

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-11 Thread Martin Wildam
Martyn Vallett 1...@bugs.launchpad.net: How do I do that? (I didn't even know that was possible...) It looks like you are pretty fast in making conclusions without enough proove. You could use tcpdump or wireshark to investigate traffic - as maybe it's just ubuntuone. Use the inotify tools (just

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-10 Thread houstonbofh
I had already turned it off, and then it decided to leak the data. I am also curious what the 'Data' that it was sending was. There are three things off the top of my head that could be communicating back... The Amazon silliness, Landscape and Popularity Contest (popcon) assuming, of course,

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-10 Thread Martin Wildam
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Martyn Vallett 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: I had already turned it off, and then it decided to leak the data. I am also curious what the 'Data' that it was sending was. Do you have more details on the data or how you discovered the leak? For example the

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-10 Thread Martyn Vallett
Do you have more details on the data or how you discovered the leak? I was causually surfing the web and I noticed it was overly laggy, so I went into the system monitor and noticed that my system was uploading at it's maxiumum rate. (Which in my case is about 30kb/s) This was leaving barely

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-10 Thread Martin Wildam
On Sun, Mar 10, 2013 at 11:17 PM, Martyn Vallett 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Do you have more details on the data or how you discovered the leak? I was causually surfing the web and I noticed it was overly laggy, so I went into the system monitor and noticed that my system was uploading at

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-10 Thread Martyn Vallett
What? You didn't grab a real data-stream and investigate the content? How do I do that? (I didn't even know that was possible...) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1 Title:

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-09 Thread Martin Wildam
Another problem that should be fixed in ubuntu is the data leaks caused by the spyware of the webapps. Not again! Yes, it was not really ok to add the amazon and online search. I think, even Canonical knows in the meantime that everybody else in the community dislikes that. But please, there is

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-09 Thread Martyn Vallett
Yes, it was not really ok to add the amazon and online search. I think, even Canonical knows in the meantime that everybody else in the community dislikes that. Agreed. But please, there is the switch to turn it off even in the GUI of the privacy settings, so this is not really a problem! I

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-03-08 Thread Martyn Vallett
Another problem that should be fixed in ubuntu is the data leaks caused by the spyware of the webapps. On one particular occasion I experienced a MASSIVE data leak beaming to an IP address owned by canonical. The lag caused by this actually quite literally grinded my web surfing to a halt. I

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-30 Thread MDV
The 11.10 was a bit of a nightmare for a lot of us and the 11.04 (6months earlier) was even worse. The thing I always remembered about 11.10 was that I would get some stupid error message stating that it couldn't update after a week or two of installing, another time I used ubuntu 10.04 on a

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-28 Thread MDV
To all those who are asking: Firstly: I initially installed ubuntu 12.10 beta on the computer I am using now, I downloaded it from the offical daily builds. After that I directly upgraded to 13.04. Secondly: I do have the apport package, It will only start spamming about program crashes after

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-28 Thread Tom
Hi :) The best place to get normal Ubuntu from is http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop and avoid installing apport.   It sounds like you are looking for trouble by trying to use unstable alpha-test versions that would only normally be used by certain devs working on fairly specific projects. 

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-28 Thread MDV
Firstly I report bugs that I find if I am on the internet when they occur. Secondly I am sorry if I come across as looking for trouble, but what I say is what I think could help combat this bug. Thirdly, when I was asking about overclocking I meant that there was no 'Custom Setting' sort of

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-28 Thread Tom
Hi :) Sorry, i didn't mean you were deliberately seeking out trouble.  Just that it seems you have done what most of us did in our early days too.  There is a LOT of advice out there and not all of it is good for all occasions.  Often people claim that the only legitimate way of doing

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Martin Wildam
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 6:16 AM, MDV 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Firstly something that would appeal to the gaming market is an overclocking and underclocking feature, as some people prefer to do overclocking in their OS, but we don't appear to have any such programs. And other groups like

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Tom
Hi :) I don't have any of those problems.  Perhaps you need to check that you have an official Cd or downloaded from the official website and then md5sum or Sha check the Cd or Usb that you use to install Ubuntu. 1.  Overclocking and underclocking.  Doesn't this need to be done from inside the

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Tom
Hi :) Wow!!  Some good links there from other people!  There was 1 release that had a lot of problems with segmentation faults.  That got fixed and doesn't seem to have reappeared in any of the subsequent releases in the last few years.  Regards from Tom :) -- You received this bug

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Achilles12
...@bugs.launchpad.net Subject: Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share Hi :) I don't have any of those problems.  Perhaps you need to check that you have an official Cd or downloaded from the official website and then md5sum or Sha check the Cd or Usb that you use to install Ubuntu. 1

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Martin Wildam
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 12:16 PM, Tom 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Perhaps you need to check that you have an official Cd or downloaded from the official website and then md5sum or Sha check the Cd or Usb that you use to install Ubuntu. I only use images from the official download page and

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Tom
Hi :) Martin, i wasn't referring to you having bad Cd images, i was referring to the person that seems to have had multiple problems that the rest of us hasn't (or only had in certain unusual cases when doing something quite peculiar). I am curious about setting up a login to a Ctirx server

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Tom
Hi :) +1 I think MDV somehow got a corrupted Cd or else was using Windows and didn't notice.  I've done it myself sometimes at work.  Xp and Ubuntu feel so comfortable, even the 12.04.  Win7 is not to bad either although it's a bit weird to get a pop-up box demanding to know if you want to

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Martin Wildam
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 2:51 PM, Tom 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: I am curious about setting up a login to a Ctirx server btw. Could you give links or contact me off-list? I have sent you information. Also a LOT of times i find that people claim to have become infected by some sort of

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Tom
Hi :) Thanks for the off-list help there Marin :)  Should help improve my relationship with my boss :) All Windows 'security' seems to be just a layer added on top of a fundamentally insecure system.  Where Win7 appears to have something similar to sudo or gksu that really feels like something

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-26 Thread Martin Wildam
On Sat, Jan 26, 2013 at 4:04 PM, Tom 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Thanks for the off-list help there Marin :) Should help improve my relationship with my boss :) Sounds familiar to me... ;-) Programs need to operate without constantly asking the users permissions but have they all

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-25 Thread MDV
Here are some suggestions to help fix this bug: Firstly something that would appeal to the gaming market is an overclocking and underclocking feature, as some people prefer to do overclocking in their OS, but we don't appear to have any such programs. And other groups like to underclock their

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-17 Thread Tom
Hi :) There might be proprietary software in the Software Centre but that is like saying you can't walk into a high-street shop if you have no intention of buying anything.   Of course you can still buy and sell Cds or Dvds with Ubuntu on and of course you can still sell support services either

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-17 Thread Ramchandra Apte
+1 On 17 January 2013 17:26, Tom 1...@bugs.launchpad.net wrote: Hi :) There might be proprietary software in the Software Centre but that is like saying you can't walk into a high-street shop if you have no intention of buying anything. Of course you can still buy and sell Cds or Dvds

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-16 Thread Alberto Salvia Novella
I would say two things, one intellectual an one moral: - The intellectual: no one really knows why some important decisions are taken in certain direction in this project. For example like why in the Ubuntu One Client naming jumping the promise of branding Ubuntu only the project itself ,

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-16 Thread MDV
Something needs to be done to get the OEM's to start making laptops without operating systems or a linux distro. For example, Dell appears to have broken their partnership with ubuntu, and on their website the laptops seem to only be bundled with Windows 7 or 8, with no option of having the laptop

Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-03 Thread Martin Wildam
Hi, not sure, if anybody who can make decisions is still reading this, but I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 for a total beginner (this is what Ubuntu claims to be most adapted for): a) Never ever a total beginner is able to install and setup Ubuntu on his own - will always need help (I already

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2013-01-02 Thread William Grant
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[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2012-12-30 Thread paolode
there are just a few firms (garlach44, system76 and others) selling pcs and servers with linux preinstalled. expanding linux in the server sector might be a very good first step. maybe one day linux enterprises and communities will own small pc firms. -- You received this bug notification

[Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2012-12-19 Thread Andrea Corbellini
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Re: [Bug 1] Re: Microsoft has a majority market share

2012-12-16 Thread Tom
Hi :) Also i think it might help to just run a standard programs updates/upgrades while sticking with the 12.04 LTS.  With the Unity interface i usually use the Software Manager to install Synaptic Package Manager and then do all my installs and upgrading from Synaptic.  Dunno what came as

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