Re: Untrusted software and security click-through warnings

2007-10-02 Thread João Pinto
I taught we were talking about users which are expected to understand what is a software repository or what is a software install package, the security improvement would be for those users, to make sure they would understand the risks of using such resources. In my opinion for users which do have

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing - and current approach does not work very well in detecting defects!

2007-10-02 Thread Phillip Susi
Jan Claeys wrote: I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware defects, it's mostly useless on most hard disks in use these days. The HDD firmware does internal bad block detection replacement (using spare blocks on the disk reserved for that purpose). So if you can

Re: regular fsck runs are too disturbing - and current approach does not work very well in detecting defects!

2007-10-02 Thread Jan Claeys
Op dinsdag 02-10-2007 om 13:56 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Phillip Susi: Jan Claeys wrote: I'm not an Ubuntu developer, but if 'badblocks' looks for hardware defects, it's mostly useless on most hard disks in use these days. The HDD firmware does internal bad block detection replacement

Gutsy's HAL is broken.

2007-10-02 Thread Scott (angrykeyboarder)
I *can't* be the only one with this problem. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/hal/+bug/147963 -- Scott http://angrykeyboarder.com ©2007 angrykeyboarder™ Elmer Fudd. All Wites Wesewved -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify