Re: too many virtual terminals by defaut

2010-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Jérôme Bouat wrote: > What about the system startup duration impact ? What about it? My intuition is that starting a few extra VTs should not take significant time. Produce evidence to the contrary if you disagree. Max. > Max Bowsher a écrit : >> Jérôme Bouat wrote: >>>

Re: too many virtual terminals by defaut

2010-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Jérôme Bouat wrote: > Hello, > > > I think that only 2 virtual terminals instead of 6 would be enough. > > I understand that most of the memory of the virtual terminals is shared. > However, it would decrease the number of processes (more human readable > process list, less processes context s

Re: Ubuntu Advanced?

2009-08-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Dane Mutters wrote: > 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 > prompt, it's really a pain. Hi Dane, The 'resolvconf' pack

Re: PPA: how to build for karmic

2009-08-01 Thread Max Bowsher
David MENTRE wrote: > Hello, > > I have successfully build a source package and uploaded it to my > PPA. Unfortunately, by default the PPA is for Jaunty while I wanted to > build the package for Karmic. > > As far as I have understood, one needs to tell the requested Ubuntu > release using a .dpu

Re: New GDM upload to Karmic

2009-07-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Alexander Sack wrote: > On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:35:10PM -0700, Dean Loros wrote: >> Greetings... >> >> There has been several problems with the new GDM upload to Karmic--most >> problematic is that during the update the xsession will close, causing >> problems ranging from mild to very sever

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: > On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 23:32 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: >> Anyways, someone on the forums started a discussion about this and i >> was wondering what you guys on the list though. There was a surprising >> amount of support and quite a few people seem to ha

Re: shameful censoring of mono opposition

2009-06-08 Thread Max Bowsher
Remco wrote: > Wine is not in the default install, like the codecs, > so it is *not* included in Ubuntu. To equate "not included in Ubuntu" with "not in the default install" is twisting semantics to suit your purpose. Ubuntu universe is still part of Ubuntu. If you mean "Ubuntu main", or "Ubuntu

Re: Issues with pycaml in Karmic (was: Re: Adaptation of ocaml_transition_monitor to Ubuntu)

2009-06-03 Thread Max Bowsher
David MENTRE wrote: > Hello Dmitrijs, > > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 15:23, Dmitrijs Ledkovs > wrote: >> Not an expert nor a DD nor anything in Ubuntu. But this could be >> either a gcc4.4 transition/bug or a python2.6 et al bug. >> >> Does exactly this package compile fine in Sid & Jaunty if yes th

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Mike Jones wrote: > Do we have agreement that the correct prefixs for units that are counted > in powers of two are kibi, mebi, gibi, tebi, and so on? Not really, no. Some of us, myself included, are somewhat annoyed at standards bodies attempting to foist a bunch of overly-similar, awkward to pr

Re: how to avoid unauthenticated warning

2009-06-03 Thread Max Bowsher
travis+ml-ubuntu-...@subspacefield.org wrote: > Hello, > > I'm in the process of setting up my own Ubuntu repository for some local > packages. > > I used the following HOWTOs: > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/AptMoveHowto > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/HandsOn > > I use the followi

Re: package not installing config files

2009-06-03 Thread Max Bowsher
travis+ml-ubuntu-...@subspacefield.org wrote: > Hello all, > > I've been attempting to make an Ubuntu package for local use. > > I followed the guide here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/HandsOn > > Is this the best current guide? > > I have created a package called polipo-tor whic

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: > Benjamin Drung wrote: >> On Mon Jun 1 04:15:19 BST 2009 Remco wrote: >> >>> I have a file here of "701.2 MB", which is "735270912 bytes". Now, if >>> it really *were* 701.2 MB, then it would be 70120 bytes. So that's >>> clearly base 2, which should be Mi

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Mackenzie Morgan wrote: > On Sunday 31 May 2009 11:51:16 pm Christopher Chan wrote: >> That has been the case for years and only recently have I heard this >> nonsense of base10 whateverbyte units in stuff other than misleading but >> covered my behind disk labels. > > The IEEE decided nearly a

Re: help with package creation

2009-05-29 Thread Max Bowsher
travis+ml-ubuntu-...@subspacefield.org wrote: > Hi, > > I've found very spotty documentation on packages, mostly here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/HandsOn What about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete ? There's a huge amount of information there. If you still feel tha

Re: Eclipse is stagnating

2009-04-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Robbie Williamson wrote: > FYI, we will have a session at UDS on upgrading to Eclipse 3.4/3.5 in Karmic. That's good news. What's the best way for those of us not at UDS to follow along with progress before and after? Thanks, Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- Ubunt

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Chan wrote: > Mackenzie Morgan wrote: >> On Thursday 26 March 2009 11:54:06 pm Jan Claeys wrote: >> >>> Op donderdag 26-03-2009 om 11:42 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Mackenzie >>> Morgan: >>> Yep, its 10 mbit internet >>> I hope you mean 10 Mbit/s, not 10 mbit/

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Derek Broughton wrote: > Stephan Hermann wrote: > >> as for msdos labels (which is the default) you won't come over 2TB >> (reading as disk vendor means: 1000bytes == 1KB and not 1024bytes == >> 1KByte) > > You should know that this isn't unclear. 1024 Bytes is a KiB, not a KB. > 2TB is 2*10**12

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Mat Tomaszewski wrote: > Nicolò Chieffo wrote: >> I totally agree that it's confusing >> >> > Is it confusing just because it's different to what you've been used to? > I know it's not a justification, but OSX have been using exactly the > same metaphor for many years now and it seems to be work

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-06 Thread Max Bowsher
(``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: > human-icon-theme (0.33.2) jaunty; urgency=low > > * Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal > strength icon > > -- Kenneth Wimer Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:36:53 +0100 > > > Can this be reverted? > The new icon is very deceiving

Outdated binaries in the archive due to Packages-arch-specific or FTBFS

2008-12-29 Thread Max Bowsher
There are quite a number of outdated binaries in the archive in universe, which is not covered by the current britney outdate report. A significant portion of these are outdate because Packages-arch-specific masks them preventing any new builds, but the old binaries have not been removed from the a