Ubuntu Wanted Site

2008-06-28 Thread Sense Hofstede
A while ago I posted an idea at Brainstorm [1] about the creation of a website where team administrators can post roles in their teams. This includes static tasks(bug triaging, MOTU) and tasks that are just suitable for one person(maintainer of package X, leader of team Y). The team administrator

Re: acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

2008-06-28 Thread Forest Bond
Hi Sebastian, On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 09:00:05PM +0200, Sebastian Breier wrote: > Am Samstag, den 28.06.2008, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Forest Bond: > > Not only does it clobber them, though, it overrides on-battery HDD APM > > settings > > (hdparm -B, hdparm -S) with some pretty aggressive settings th

Re: acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

2008-06-28 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 28.06.2008 um 20:21 schrieb Forest Bond: > In the end, it was proclaimed that the problem is not Ubuntu's > fault, since the > only software mechanism that sets overly aggressive APM settings > for hard drives > is laptop-mode, which is disabled by default. Consequently, laptop mode should

Re: acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

2008-06-28 Thread Sebastian Breier
Am Samstag, den 28.06.2008, 14:21 -0400 schrieb Forest Bond: > Not only does it clobber them, though, it overrides on-battery HDD APM > settings > (hdparm -B, hdparm -S) with some pretty aggressive settings that can, in fact, > lead to people's hard drives dying early. Users that think they are s

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Felix Feyertag
Evan wrote: > If the code is functional, shouldn't this be pushed to Ubuntu to be used > by their repositories? Or would the CPU drain for aptsyncmake on that > many packages be too much? I would like to set up a repository of aptsync files, and if this can be done on the Ubuntu servers, that w

acpi-support, laptop-mode-tools, and hdparm: when will the madness end?

2008-06-28 Thread Forest Bond
Hi, Nearly everyone has probably heard of the "Ubuntu destroyed my hard drive" controversy, which made headlines all over the Internet with stories such as these: http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=ubuntu+load_cycle_count&btnG=Search In the end, it was proclaimed that the problem is not Ubuntu

Re: Compiling subversion 1.5.0

2008-06-28 Thread Benno Korn
I finally made the sources built correctly. First I used the Intrepid sources instead of the debian sources. https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/intrepid/+source/subversion/1.5.0dfsg1-1ubuntu2 But this was not the problem. As you said correctly, the problem was that the headers of the nested classes

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Evan
On Sat, Jun 28, 2008 at 5:33 AM, Felix Feyertag <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In 2006 I participated in summer of code to implement this, the project > website is: > > https://launchpad.net/apt-sync > > The code is functional and I'm using it successfully on my home computer > (usually saving arou

Re: Whatever happened to apt-sync?

2008-06-28 Thread Felix Feyertag
Evan wrote: > IIRC, it was going to provide delta updates. Smaller server load, > smaller downloads, etc. It's a great idea, but seems to be dead. All of > the pages I can find that mention it are early 2007. > > Is there any particular reason that it never went anywhere? > In 2006 I participa