> 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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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an article
about this: http://itmaze.com.au/articles/cio/
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entail. Of
course these two options are not mutually exclusive :)
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. The challenge for me
is to figure out how to deliver that and how to pay for it.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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in thinking that a technical argument can be had in a
civilised tone.
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applications that it is taken seriously - almost like not
willing to accept that their little program is used by real people for
real purposes.
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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.
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Well one stab at that is to use Ubuntu Brainstorm:
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/
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The new mirror (203.46.104.19) is now:
* http://mirror.files.bigpond.com/ubuntu/
Comments, suggestions?
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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
: Running intrepid
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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
who lost data when they
pressed C-A-B?
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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.
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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.
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On 23/09/08 23:32, HggdH wrote:
Additionally, there is JeOS [1], which is a minimal install for a server.
Regards,
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[1] http://www.ubuntu.com/products/whatisubuntu/serveredition/jeos
As I understand it, that's a server for virtual hardware, not actual
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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.
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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
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.
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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
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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
magnetic fields affecting the
information on a hard-drive - this problem is only going to get bigger
with increased storage density.
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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 :)
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for Jack's
name? All the details are here:
* https://launchpad.net/~jscinoz/+archive
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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?
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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
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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
exist.
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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.
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and society as a whole.
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perhaps ;-)
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-assistant, seeing that it still has madwifi as an option.
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module(s) from that, or is that idea heading
for a world of hurt?
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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
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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
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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?
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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
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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 :)
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Just because there are things that are dangerous...
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responsible for
packaging vmware, I'm trying to understand where my expectation and
reality experienced a disconnect resulting in this unsatisfactory
experience.
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and benefit from them. Ultimately bug number 1 still needs to be
closed.
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time. Said another way, to be
experienced requires experience.
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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.
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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
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.
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occasions. Just pressing tab
again should extend the completion level.
Vincenzo
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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 :)
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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.
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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 :)
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tar command in a safe environment (with a --backup flag) and the
same tar command in the unsafe environment, causing a deferred
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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.
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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
.
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.
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