Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 17:34 +0200, Markus Hitter wrote: > Am 10.05.2008 um 11:58 schrieb Sitsofe Wheeler: > > I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in > > Hardy. > > How would one notice? Is Hardys hibernating/standby still so flaky > one is forced to shut down the com

Re: help

2008-05-10 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
since hardy (8.04) there is a graphical user interface for DSL/pppoe connections, see the menu "System/Administration/Network": - select "Point to point connection" and start "Properties" dialog - choose "Connection type" as "PPPoE" and configure your connection... Best Greetings, Roman Friesen

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-10 Thread Todd Deshane
CAcert doesn't even have a valid certificate? https://www.cacert.org/ Todd -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread Bryce Harrington
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 10:58:12AM +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in > Hardy. Anecdotally I believe that Gutsy was the fastest but from a > viewable stats perspective the fall can be seen in Feisty versus Hardy > on > https://wiki.ub

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-10 Thread HggdH
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 16:08 +0200, Milan Bouchet-Valat wrote: > Notifications are never read, especially by users that are not > passionate by computers - they're exactly like there was no message at > all, only they annoy users: "click OK and then see if there's a problem" > is what OS have used

Re: help

2008-05-10 Thread Roman Friesen
since hardy (8.04) there is a graphical user interface for DSL/pppoe connections, see the menu "System/Administration/Network": - select "Point to point connection" and start "Properties" dialog - choose "Connection type" as "PPPoE" and configure your connection... Best Greetings, Roman Friesen

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 10.05.2008 um 11:58 schrieb Sitsofe Wheeler: > I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in > Hardy. How would one notice? Is Hardys hibernating/standby still so flaky one is forced to shut down the computer more than once a month? Maybe such questions appear not seri

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le samedi 10 mai 2008 à 16:01 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia a écrit : > And, to get back on the issue, perhaps the page could just be made > local. Why do we need a special Ubuntu homepage anyway? The first thing I do when creating an account is changing my homepage to google.com. This practice mades me

Re: firefox and bad ssl certificates

2008-05-10 Thread Milan Bouchet-Valat
Le vendredi 09 mai 2008 à 17:02 -0400, Phillip Susi a écrit : > Martin Pitt wrote: > > I don't consider it a new feature, but a better UI. Firefox has always > > complained about invalid certificates, but until version 2 it was just > > the well-known 'SSL yadayada cannot be verified mumblemumble c

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno sab, 10/05/2008 alle 06.50 -0700, Dylan McCall ha scritto: > > > 5) there already is the search engine input field, and the focus is > > shifted without conditions to the page field only after loading the > > ubuntu page, which is rather irritating because you may already be > > typing

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Dylan McCall
> 2) country seems to be set to "UK", which can explain (1) but I don't > like this behaviour especially because it breaks usability for non-UK > users and creates confusion Oh, that is pretty ugly :o > 4) the obtained page does not have the standard google look and feel (in > particular there is

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 10:58 +0100, Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in > Hardy. Anecdotally I believe that Gutsy was the fastest but from a > viewable stats perspective the fall can be seen in Feisty versus Hardy > on > https://wiki.

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno sab, 10/05/2008 alle 12.08 +0100, James Westby ha scritto: > > The website also uses launchpad for bug tracking, you can file any > bugs you like at > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+filebug > > where the people able to do something about it are more likely to > see it.

Re: The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread James Westby
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:21 +0200, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > Hi all. > > The new firefox start page in hardy: > > http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/ > > is aesthetically pleasing, and I like it, however the google search > gives me concerns: Hi, The website also uses launchpad for bug tracking, yo

Re: Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread Sam Tygier
Sitsofe Wheeler wrote: > Hi, > > I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in > Hardy. Anecdotally I believe that Gutsy was the fastest but from a > viewable stats perspective the fall can be seen in Feisty versus Hardy > on > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting#head-dca037

Ubuntu boot speed fall in Hardy

2008-05-10 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Hi, I've noticed that Ubuntu's boot speed seems to have taken a fall in Hardy. Anecdotally I believe that Gutsy was the fastest but from a viewable stats perspective the fall can be seen in Feisty versus Hardy on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/BootCharting#head-dca0372aa8fd490a9717ad0c72c9b400c236a581 .

The new firefox start page looks a bit tricky when searching google

2008-05-10 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Hi all. The new firefox start page in hardy: http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04/ is aesthetically pleasing, and I like it, however the google search gives me concerns: 1) search results returned using the search field of firefox (upper right corner of the browser) are different than those returned u