Re: OneNote2007 and Project2007 equivalent in Ubuntu

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Dotan Cohen  wrote:

> 2009/11/15 Jonathan Jesse :
> > Unfortnately all of those proudcts pale in comparision to OneNote.  I've
> > even had problems with OneNote and Crossover office to work correctly.
> > OneNote is one of the many programs I miss when I switch over to Ubuntu
> full
> > time.
> >
> > The way OneNote groups things together works great.
> > Plus the right-click on a meeting and send to OneNote to take notes in
> > regards to the appointment I am working is missing in all of these
> products
> > when I try to use a FLOSS PIM product, like Evoutoin or Kontact
> >
>
> If you will make a detailed list of the features that you are missing
> from OneNote in Basket and/or Zim, I will gladly take the time to file
> the appropriate bugs. Thanks.
>
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Most of my experiences are with the KDE programs, however I have tried,
gjots, gjots2, and Tomboy as well...

1.  Basket and KNotes are missing bullet points as far as I can tell, same
with gjots2... Also missing outline formating ( I. a. iii., etc)

2.  Integration with Calendaring:  OneNote and Outllook integrate together,
I can do things such as right-click an appoint in the calendar and send to
OneNote.  Then in OneNote it has all the appointment information is within
the note section.

3.  Ability to create tasks within a note:  Goes back to integration with
the Personal Information Manager, in this case Outlook and OneNote.  Within
OneNote you can create a task which then populates Outlook.

Just off the top of my head what I need to replace OneNote
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Re: OneNote2007 and Project2007 equivalent in Ubuntu

[Jonathan Jesse]

Unfortnately all of those proudcts pale in comparision to OneNote.  I've
even had problems with OneNote and Crossover office to work correctly.
OneNote is one of the many programs I miss when I switch over to Ubuntu full
time.

The way OneNote groups things together works great.
Plus the right-click on a meeting and send to OneNote to take notes in
regards to the appointment I am working is missing in all of these products
when I try to use a FLOSS PIM product, like Evoutoin or Kontact

On Sat, Nov 14, 2009 at 12:04 PM, Palle Hellemann
wrote:

> Thank You,
> I don't know any of these and I will try them.
>
> Best regards
> Palle
>
> 2009/11/14 Dotan Cohen 
>
> 2009/11/14 Palle Hellemann :
>> > I'm missing the functions of these 2 Windows applications. Are there
>> > anything in Ubuntu resembling them or solving similar jobs.
>> >
>>
>> For OneNote you could try either Basket or Zim.
>>
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>> http://gibberish.co.il
>>
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Re: I hope gparted 0.4.2 or greater is included in Jaunty. Supporting ext4 installations, but not ext4 partition management reflects a severe lack of polish.

[Jonathan Jesse]

Eric Appleman wrote:
> I believe that we should toss aside our morals and break with Debian in 
> order to do this. If not, then ext4 support really doesn't belong in 
> Jaunty. Libparted is not a valid substitute unless we have a 
> Ubuntu-original GUI to accompany it.
>
> - Eric
>
>   
Eric,

There was just a previous response posted to the mailing list from Colin 
Watson that this is on his list along with a feature freeze exectpion 
request as well.
The "problem" is that Mr. Watson has a lot on his plate and is getting 
there as quickly as possible.

Jonathan

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Re: New system sounds.

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On Sun, Aug 31, 2008 at 2:09 PM, Luke L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Doesn't concern me much, since I disable those sounds first thing!
>
> Remember that people use their laptops and take them to public places. I
> think the sound Cory attached is more 'mellow' for a logon sound than the
> current attention grabber. In short, I like it.
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 3:28 PM, Cory K. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> As someone who thinks quite a bit about the look and feel of
>> Ubuntu/Ubuntu Studio I'm always on the lookout for pretty things that
>> stand out around our community.
>>
>> This set of system sounds caught my ears:
>> http://tinyurl.com/57zvlc (shortened because the GNOME-Look link was
>> really long)
>> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=695540
>>
>> I would say these would be a great replacement for the current logon/of
>> sounds. Which IMO are in need of a dire refresh.
>>
>> (sorry if these have been mentioned)
>>
>> -Cory K.
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As I travel, I can always tell what operating system people are using solely
based on what startup sound I hear.  Hearing a lot of Vista startup sounds
but hardly any Ubuntu sounds.  Maybe the people with Ubuntu laptops have the
sound turned down?
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Re: replacement of kcontrol

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On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 9:05 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Olá Jonathan e a todos.
>
> On Tuesday 26 August 2008 13:46:33 Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:16 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > wrote:
> >
> > > Quick question:
> > > what tool replaces Kcontrol on intrepid?
> > > I have no way too tell my kmail to use Firefox as default browser now.
> > System Settings is the default control panel in KDE in KDE 4.
>
> Thanks. I've found out about it on IRC.
> Needed kbuildsycoca4 too.
> I dont know why kcontrol was removed, but not replaced with system-setting.
> I had to manually install it. :(
> Should I fill a bug against it? I'm using Gnome, and not KDE, but I use a
> lot of KDE progs, like dolphin, kmail, etc
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I would file a bug, I don't know exactly how it works by not having all of
the kubuntu-desktop package in or what other packages are missing by your
install.  Might want to follow up on #kubuntu-devel as they might have a
better idea there?
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Re: replacement of kcontrol

[Jonathan Jesse]

System Settings is the default control panel in KDE in KDE 4.

On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 7:16 AM, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> Quick question:
> what tool replaces Kcontrol on intrepid?
> I have no way too tell my kmail to use Firefox as default browser now.
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Re: No "run" menu item?

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On Sat, Jul 5, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Caroline Ford <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> 2008/7/5 HggdH <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>  >
> >
> >> 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" and hit Enter.
> >
> > Well, I have seen it in use, a lot of times. It usually happens when an
> > admin comes to an user system and, instead of wasting time digging in
> > through the user's customisations, we go straight to the kill.
> >
> > So, if you are talking about *end* users, casual users, then yes, you
> > are absolutely right. They would not understand the Run thingy even if
> > it bit them. As an extension, if we are building an system for the
> > naive, casual users, then we should not have such an entry in the menu.
> >
> > If, on the other hand, we a re building a system to be used by all, I
> > see no reason *NOT* to have it.
> >
> > And this is not because another OS has it, its because it is useful.
>
> I've actually only ever seen it used in tech support instruction where
> the end user is told to open Run and then enter the following
> *exactly*.
>
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Just a quick comment on the windows side of the things.  In Vista there is
no longer a "run" command, it is search and works great.  One of the things
I use every day on my work (Vista) machine that I miss in the *buntu world.
Ctrl+Esc (to pull open the start menu) and then start typing what I'm
looking for.  Hit enter or use the arrow keys on the keyboard to find the
correct item.  I use my mouse a lot less these days to open
files/applications/emails all index by search and all accessible through the
start -> Search menu
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Re: help

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On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:23 AM, shashank Agarwal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:

>  hi
> i am shashank
> I love Ubuntu and loved the new version 8.04
> just wanna know the best program for watching live Free TV on Ubuntu..
> Also please tell the best software for Torrent download, except Azureus..
> from
> shashank agarwal
> http://hackiteasy.blogspot.com
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Shashank,

THe best place to ask is on the ubuntu-users list or on IRC at #ubuntu.
This list is for development discussion.

Thanks,

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

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On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 7:29 AM, Thomas Novin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Mon, 2008-05-19 at 14:00 +0200, Przemysław Kulczycki wrote:
> > 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 make it more visible for others to see what does
> > it contribute to upstream/floss community.
> > Red Hat and Novell have websites listing their contributions to free
> > software:
>
> I just read an interesting article on Phoronix and while looking at the
> contributors you can see that Ubuntu/Canonical isn't mentioned at all.
>
>
> http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=x_server_contributors&num=1
>
> (go to page 3,4)
>
> As one of the comments on Slashdot said; I think it would be good if
> every major distribution had at least one developer helping with X.org.
>
> Phoronix actually offers cash awards to people fixing X.org-bugs. That's
> the least Canonical could do, IMHO.
>
> Rgds
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At one time wasn't Canonical hiring an X Maintainer?  I thought I sw it at
http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/ a while ago.

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Re: making deals with MS

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On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 4:11 AM, Nergar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Dear Mark Fink
>
> I would like you to reconsider your concept of Open Source and the
> reason why you are using Linux. You don't seem to understand the
> philosophy behind free software.
>
> Foss is all about choice so if you don't like it here you can very well
> use OpenBSD or anything else, but you *NEVER* talk trash about a (very
> active and productive) Linux developer who uses Windows, no matter who
> you are. You are free to hate and not use any Windows product but if you
> want to be a respected community member you must respect the likes and
> dislikes of other people.
>
> Now, if you could show some legal proof and remain respectful, you would
> be considered more seriously, please understand that a (very biased)
> blog is not the most acceptable source of information, and don't get me
> started with IRC conversations. AFAIK mono is just a reimplementation in
> Linux of a Microsoft technology, its not like we're using the Vista
> kernel to power Ubuntu.
>
> P.S. I'm not an native english speaker, so anyone please feel free to
> correct any spelling or gramatical errors.
>
> On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 21:53 -0400, Mark Fink wrote:
>
> >
> > just because I'm not a programmer doesn't mean my opinion isn't worth
> > as much or more than yours (I'm clearly better informed about these
> > issues having read boycottnovell and having discussed issues with Roy
> > himself).
> >
> > As far as Richard Johnson being a core-dev, sounds pretty scary that
> > you let someone so in love with Microvell to contaminate Ubuntu.
> >
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I personally know Nixternal and know that his love of MS is a big joke.  Is
the whole bot response on IRC the problem?
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Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:38 PM, Onno Benschop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 28/05/08 08:30, Onno Benschop wrote:
> > 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 time
> >> doing actual productive coding, then Ubuntu is one of the better
> >> choices.
> >>
> >>
> > +1
> >
> > As an IT consultant I've been able to contribute more to Ubuntu than any
> > distribution or project before. I can submit bugs, create patches,
> > provide user help and participate with a very low entry point. I can
> > become a member of a team
> >
> > Over the years I've 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
> > people I know.
> >
> >
> >
> Hmm, seems I got distracted when hitting send here :|
>
> What I meant the first paragraph to say was this:
>
>As an IT consultant I've been able to contribute more to Ubuntu than any
>distribution or project before. I can submit bugs, create patches,
>provide user help and participate with a very low entry point. I can
>become a member of a team where I can contribute to a specific aspect
>of the project on a code and policy level.
>
>
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I would echo these thoughts.  Sorry for hijaking this thread.  By having a
low entry to something like ubuntu-docs and encouraging further growth into
the community and teh development process it has been an amazing place to
help gve back some of my not spare time.  Which is growing smaller and
smaller by the minute.

Glad to be of any servce that I can.

Jonathan
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Re: [Fwd: Re: Developemnt and use - Training manual]

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The last I checked the Official Ubuntu Book published by Prentice Hall is
licensed under the CC-BY-SA license which is sold for profit.  Also the
Ubuntu-Docs are licensed under the same license as well.  I agree that the
CC-BY_SA mihgt be better.

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Re: Got Hardy? With Sound?

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 8:07 PM, Stefan Potyra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Am Thursday 20 März 2008 13:33:50 schrieb Scott (angrykeyboarder):
> > I've been unsuccessful in getting sound working, despite lots of
> tweaking.
> >
> > I've had the same problem with other recent distros using PulseAudio as
> > well.
> >
> [..]
>
> > In fact, right now about the only distro I *can* get sound working in is
> > Knoppix 5.1 (but that's a year old).
> >
> > I wonder if this is a kernel issue?
>
> did you try sound with anything else but pulseaudio (e.g. running
> speaker-test
> to check alsa?)
>
> Also, please report bugs to launchpad, thanks!
>
> Cheers,
> Stefan.
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KDE4) having no problems with my Intel Sound Card.  It was always a pain  to
remember to rebuild ALSA manually.

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Re: Launchpad bug retesting

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 10:49 AM, Cody A.W. Somerville <
[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On 3/20/08, Jonathan Jesse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> 
>
> > Good morning,
> >
> > How would you suggest doing this instead?  I am one of those that is
> combing
> > launchpad for bugs that have not been reported or updated for a long
> time.
> > I try to reproduce the bugs on my own system or vm which I try to run
> the
> > development branch. If I am unable to reproduce it myself, I always ask
> the
> > user to try and reproduce it as well.
> > So how would you suggest dealing with those bugs instead of asking the
> end
> > user to deal with it?
> >
> > Jonathan
>
> They've already produced the bug if they've reported it. It is
> obviously important to ask if it is reproducible every time but the
> more critical information is determining _how_ to reproduce it. If you
> can't reproduce it on the version they're using, then obviously you
> can't assume it is fixed on the development release because you can't
> reproduce it there. Although, I imagine it would be safe to close the
> bug or ask for them to try and reproduce it if the version of Ubuntu
> that the bug occurred on is no longer supported and you can't
> reproduce the bug in a version that is supported. So, although you
> test, I don't think a lot of people do.
>
> Goals are important here. I don't think the goal should be to close as
> many bugs as possible. I believe the goal is to have as many bugs
> triaged _correctly_ so that they can be dealt with effectively.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Cody
>

Cody,

I agree the goal is make sure the bugs are triaged correctly, not necessary
limit the size of Launchpad... I was trying to figure out exactly what the
OP would suggest doing instead of requesting the indviduals to test things
out on Hardy or for further detail if an update solved the problem.
The goal is not to have the highest launchpad karma, but to make Ubuntu
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Re: Launchpad bug retesting

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 5:00 AM, Sitsofe Wheeler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Many bugs reported turn out to be "hit and run" reports where something
> is filed and never followed up. As such it is good that bugs are
> aggressively closed where possibly to prevent launchpad cluttering up.
> Unfortunately there are scenarios where this becomes problematic.
>
> These days I see people romping through launchpad asking for bugs to be
> retested on pre-releases of Ubuntu (which may be months away from their
> final release). These bugs are stuffed into a Incomplete state and then
> one month later closed (due to lack of response) before the final
> release of Ubuntu is ever released. Sometimes these are bugs with very
> thorough descriptions which are reproducible all the time so there is
> nothing stopping the launchpad gardener checking the problem.
>
> A flip side of this is that sometimes a bug is reported and again at
> some point before the next major release a request for testing is put
> out. The reporter goes away, tries the pre-release and tests the bug and
> reports back. Then another request to test another pre-release comes up
> because "maybe it's been fixed" but without any firm reason for this
> other than a minor point release change. Thus the bug is turned into a
> game of how many pre-releases the reporter can keep up with.
>
> The problem with all these requests for retesting is that the more bugs
> someone files the more retests they will be asked to do thus punishing
> those who file real bugs that are not resolved. In order to keep
> bugs.launchpad.net manageable perhaps collateral damage is inevitable
> but if you are expecting people to be repeatedly testing things every
> month (or see their bug closed) then it would be nice if this was stated
> up front.
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Good morning,

How would you suggest doing this instead?  I am one of those that is combing
launchpad for bugs that have not been reported or updated for a long time.
I try to reproduce the bugs on my own system or vm which I try to run the
development branch. If I am unable to reproduce it myself, I always ask the
user to try and reproduce it as well.
So how would you suggest dealing with those bugs instead of asking the end
user to deal with it?

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Re: problems after upgrading to hardy

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On Feb 18, 2008 1:52 PM, Jared Schlicht <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

>  On Monday February 18 2008 11:08:42 am Jonathan Jesse wrote:
> > Over the week I did a Gusty -> Hardy upgrade on one of my boxes at home
> and
> > am running into some problems.  Upon logging in, I receive a
> notification
> > that i am "Unable to contact HAL."  I am not getting a network adress
> and
> > when I go to any of the system tools, I'm told that I am not allowed to
> run
> > the application.
> >
> > What files or info do I need to provide to solve the current state my
> > computer is in?  Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
>
> Without knowing more details, it could be the same issue I had with Gutsy.
> After each install, I've had to run the following command to make HAL
> work:
>
> sudo /usr/lib/hal/hald-generate-fdi-cache
>
> It won't make your system any worse off than it is now.  It can take a
> little
> while, even on newer hardware, so be patient.
>
> -Jared Schlicht
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after running hald-generate-fid-cache should i get some prompt or return?  i
type the command in and nothing on the system changes.  upon loggin in i
still receive an error "faled to initailize HAL"
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problems after upgrading to hardy

[Jonathan Jesse]

Over the week I did a Gusty -> Hardy upgrade on one of my boxes at home and
am running into some problems.  Upon logging in, I receive a notification
that i am "Unable to contact HAL."  I am not getting a network adress and
when I go to any of the system tools, I'm told that I am not allowed to run
the application.

What files or info do I need to provide to solve the current state my
computer is in?  Any help would be greatly apprecaited.
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Re: Too many icons in the Ubuntu menus?‏ (repost)

[Jonathan Jesse]

2008/2/11 Michael T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

>
> I'm sorry, I am short of sleep at the moment and sent this without a
> subject.
>
> === Reposted message===
> Hello,
>
> I originally posted this as a wishlist item on Launchpad, but was advised
> to send it to the appropriate
> mailing list (so I hope that this is it :) ).  Something which slightly
> annoys me in Ubuntu (and more
> generally in KDE and Gnome) is the overuse of icons in menus.  Most (if
> not all) GUI style guidelines
> recommend only using icons in menus where they are instantly recognisable
> to the user, so that they can
> identify the menu entry from the icon faster than they would be able to
> read the menu text.  See for
> instance
>
> http://developer.apple.com/documentation/UserExperience/Conceptual/OSXHIGuidelines/XHIGMenus/chapter_17_section_3.html#//apple_ref/doc/uid/TP3356-TPXREF116
> .
> In other situations, the icon slows the user down, as they will
> automatically look at the icon before they
> read the text.  If you look at for example the "K" menu in Kubuntu, you
> will see that every menu entry,
> including every application listed, has an icon next to it, which to my
> mind makes it look somewhat
> unprofessional.
> Does anyone else have thoughts on this?  I realise of course that in many
> cases this is something that can
> only be fixed upstream, but I wanted to start a discussion somewhere :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael
>
> BTW, please excuse the messy hotmail formatting - this is my "disposable"
> address for posting to mailing
> lists and things where it will be publically visible.
> _
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Michael,

I actually find it more annoying to not have an icon.  For example, in my
Gutsy build w/ KDE4 running I have Konsole showing up as kde4-konsole
withouth the icon in the Application Launcher.  To me this is more annoying
and unproffesional looking then having the icon there.  But its probablly
something I did that has changed my system that way.

Jonathan
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VMWare and Wireless bridge

[Jonathan Jesse]

If I receall correctly there was some discussion on this list (or
another Uubntu list) in regards to using VMWare and communication over
wireless?  I have my VM machines setup with NAT communication.  They
can communicate fine to the internet but not to each other machines.

Did this converstation happen here or elsewhere?  Any thoughts on what
I have to do get this working?

Thanks, or please direct me to the right mailing list.

Jonathan

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Re: That need to close bugs?

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Wednesday 12 September 2007 03:19:17 Alexandre Strube wrote:
> 2007/9/12, Matthew Paul Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> A bug report takes up exactly the same amount of disk space regardless
>
> > of whether it is open or closed.
> >
> > What's most important is making the best use of developer time. That in
> > turn requires making the best use of QA time, because an efficient QA
> > team will be more likely to convey accurately which bugs developers
> > should be working on.
> >
> > So the QA team need to balance the probability that aggressively
> > declining incomplete bug reports will lead to more duplicates being
> > reported, against the probability that leaving bug reports open will
> > make searching harder and slow down QA in general.
>
> Matthew,
> there are important bugs not being fixed from version to version, but
> instead being closed.
>
> A new release that doesn't fix a bug must not close the bug just because it
> was posted a long time ago or because the OP is not a debugging expert.
> This generates two things:
>
> - Other people will report it again. Newer reports are not necessairily
> better than a "mee too" with more detail on a bug.
>
> - Frustration, as the poster will not find the same error with other
> people, and waste time looking if the problem is his.
>
> I've passed through both situations recently. One for a prism54 hardware,
> where the bug was recently closed on hardware. The kernel reported that my
> hardware is faulty as soon as I upgraded from feisty to gutsy. Damn, how
> can it be faulty? I just used it to download the 700mb+ of the upgrade!
>
> Then, I searched for the bug on launchpad and nothing. Lacking a cd to
> reinstall Ubuntu (and no network on ubuntu anymore), I installed a windows
> just to be able to test the prism54 card again.
>
> The card worked perfectly. I then went to launchpad again (about three
> hours later) to submit the bug. When I submitted, I found a similar one,
> closed.
>
> This is what I call frustration...


As a member of -QA that close bugs with no response how would you then argue 
dealing with the bug if the person is not responding.  I have closed several 
bugs with no resposne because I wasn't seeing the bug on my system, but that 
might have been because the bug was fixed by an update and the reporter just 
hasn't updated the status of the bug.

I think to help this is if there was some way to set a "reminder" email if the 
reporter would want to subscribe to a bug, they get an email after X days of 
no update saying "there was a bug reported by you, was it fixed?" or 
something like that.

I've closed plenty of bugs because of no response from the orginial reporter 
and hope we continue.  this trims down the list of bugs that are actually 
bugs.

JOnathan

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Re: Ubuntu development...

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Saturday 25 August 2007 12:57:21 Tim Hull wrote:
> > The fact that you submit bug reports and do not follow up / patch them
> > yourself
> > shows a severe disinterest in *really* helping ubuntu and (like most
> > new devel's in all projects) just want to focus on the hot-dog stuff.
>
> I do follow up - in fact, I've often posted additional info on my bug
> reports as to the origin of the issue/suggestions as to what could be done.
>  I may not have the solution to everything, but that doesn't mean that I'm
> just being lazy or "just focusing on the hot-dog stuff".  Maybe it means
> that for you, but I've submitted bugs/ideas to other projects (including
> *Debian*, of all distributions) and have received plenty of response.
>
> > 2) RTFM. Please. Coming onto the mailing list and asking for manual
> > locations makes me want to knife myself. Yes it could be clearer, but
> > you are not asking for help or clarifying a point, your just being
> > lazy.
>
> I'm not asking for something trivial - I'm asking how to provide
> input/ideas regarding key components of the system.  It's perfectly clear
> how to do MOTU/Bug Squad/etc - it's NOT clear how to go about suggesting
> changes to the main desktop setup.  I've looked countless times on
> Launchpad and have remained stumped - "RTFM" really doesn't help one bit.
>
>
> 3) Before you start working on MAJOR new features, why not help fix
>
> > bugs and other common problems first? Wouldn't these be more benficial
> > and a better learning process than "Making the default system look
> > better"?. BTW the way it renders fonts is entirely appropriate: Most
> > people get used to MS's crappy way of sub-sampling fonts to make them
> > look sharper.
>
> In many of the cases I've discussed, I'm not necessarily talking about
> coding a major new project from scratch - I'm talking about integrating
> already existing code into the system, investigating changes in default
> settings, etc.  Yes, I certainly would work on the smaller bugs/issues as
> well - and I already know where to go for that (Bug Squad, MOTU, etc etc).
>  However, it's unclear where to go with basic desktop issues/ideas, other
> than to file a bug in Launchpad, provide all the info you can, and wait.
>
>
>
> Do any Ubuntu developers care to comment?  I'd like to contribute, but I'm
> beginning to feel like I can't do so in any meaningful way outside the
> "universe" and Launchpad bug reports (which, even when I provide extensive
> info and narrow the problem to something fairly specific, don't tend to get
> much response).
>
>
>
> Tim

Not a Ubuntu-Core developer or in fact someone who packages or anything but 
I'm suprised by the rudeness of the person who responded to Tim.  WHy would 
he then want to still work for a community that treats him such.

Im sorry you were dealt such a low blow via email

Jonathan

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Re: Launchpad bug workflow change

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:41:13 Scott Kitterman wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007 13:34, Micah Cowan wrote:
> > I _might_ not be opposed to the restriction, if we added a new, fairly
> > open but still moderated group, to include MOTU Acolytes, capable of
> > setting these states, just to prevent *total* non-developers from
> > setting to/away from them.
>
> That would  be better, but still imposes an administrative burden both on
> unofficial developers and on whoever would have to administer the team.
>
> Ironically, virtually all of the bugmail I get dumped on me because a team
> was incorrectly assigned the bug is because of ubuntu-qa.  Personally, I
> have yet to see in progress misused.
>
> Scott K

>From the converstation, membership in ubuntu-qa grants you access to these 
items as well correct?  Simply join ubuntu-qa and that should solve the 
problem if I'm correct.

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Re: ReadyBoost Technology for Ubuntu and Linux

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Monday 21 May 2007 13:32:46 Florian Zeitz wrote:
> Oystein Viggen wrote:
> > * [Florian Zeitz]
> >
> >> Linux has been able to do this for ages, but it has been considered a
> >> bad idea, because it wears the memory sticks flash.
> >> In theory all it takes is:
> >> 1. # mkswap /dev/sdX (where sdX is your memory stick)
> >> 2. Edit your fstab to say:
> >> /dev/sdX none swap sw,pri=2 0 0
> >> UUID=stuff none swap sw,pri=1 0 0
> >> instead of
> >> UUID=stuff none swap sw 0 0
> >> 3. # swapon -a
> >
> > Then again, this is nothing at all like ReadyBoost.
>
> I'll have to admit that I now know that I know nothing.
> Back when I wrote the message you quoted all articles I had read about
> ReadyBoost said it was just swapping on flash drives.
> Right now after doing some research I'm a bit confused, because most
> sites contradict each other.
> It seems that ReadyBoost is actually a cache for about everything from
> swap file over system data to often read user data.
> I think it might be worth implementing if done properly (it seems using
> ReadyBoost in it's current form in Vista can actually slow down the
> system sometimes).


I've been suprised about how little even people who work w/ MS products every 
day really understand ReadyBoost.  In one of the recent issues of Microsoft 
Technet magazine, I don't have it in front of me, but Mark from SysInternals 
fame has written a really good article about it.  

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Re: hwdb

[Jonathan Jesse]

On Saturday 14 April 2007 15:01:15 Thilo Six wrote:
> hello
>
> not sure if this is intended or a bug therefore asking here:
>
> since i have installed feisty and open up the online hwdb record for my
> machine it allways tells me:
> <
> Ubuntu hardware database entry : xxx
>
> This is an interim page, that does not show more then some basic data from
> the dataset.
> If you dont see any cpu or memory data below, you might have sent a broken
> file, this is most likely the case if hal is not running or has the wrong
> (non ubuntu hoary or breezy) version.
>
> Couldnt detect laptop
> (assuming Desktop)
> >
>
> with dapper it displayed iirc cpu, screen resolution, swap space and mem
> correctly.
>
> should be a bug opened for this?
>
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>
> gpg key: 0x4A411E09


If I recall correctly that placeholder existed for Edgy as well

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