Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)

2010-10-24 Thread Brian David
Alright, I've finished the next updates on my theme. It has been converted to a dark theme (using some of the more flashy graphics I have been working on. I felt the flat colors of the light theme just didn't work well in the dark version), and I've separated it into a landing page and a content

Re: brainstorming for UDS-N - Ubuntu the Project

2010-10-24 Thread Benjamin Drung
Am Freitag, den 01.10.2010, 07:43 -0700 schrieb Rick Spencer: 3. I get the sense that certain queues are getting backed up in a way that didn't used to, and this is blocking the inflow contributions. For example, Benjamin Drung sent an email about the main sponsor queue. I think it might be

Re: Welcome to the Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

2010-10-24 Thread León Asad Castillejos
Hi all, I'm León. I'm helping a friend to update to Karmic over IM. I've noticed a few... not bugs, but little problems. For example, the update manager for him showed at first 8 minutes left. Then it changed to 34, then to 9 again. In my opinion, the timing should be calculated having in mind

Firefox profiles on a tmpfs (ramdisk)?

2010-10-24 Thread Jouko Orava
Hello, For a couple of years now I've kept my active Firefox profiles on a tmpfs (mounted size=128M,mode=01777,atime,auto,rw,nodev,noexec,nosuid) on both my desktop workstation and on my minilaptop. It feels subjectively much snappier, but I haven't actually measured the difference. On the

Re: Welcome to the Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

2010-10-24 Thread Phillip Susi
On 10/24/2010 05:31 AM, León Asad Castillejos wrote: Hi all, I'm León. I'm helping a friend to update to Karmic over IM. I've noticed a few... not bugs, but little problems. You should compose a new message and set the subject to something appropriate instead of relying to the automated

Re: Firefox profiles on a tmpfs (ramdisk)?

2010-10-24 Thread Phillip Susi
On 10/24/2010 10:12 AM, Jouko Orava wrote: The question is, are Ubuntu developers interested in this? No. Have you tried using libeatmydata? The only key difference there should be with using tmpfs is that it effectively makes fsync() a noop. Aside from fsync and friends, the filesystem