Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread Matthew Paul Thomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vasilis Kalintiris wrote on 28/01/09 03:31: ... I believe that it would be very nice to offer the ability to parents to monitor theirs children activity on PCs in a simple and easy way. After all Ubuntu is a distribution that offers simplicity and

Re: hwclock delaying boot...

2009-01-29 Thread LaMont Jones
On Thu, Jan 29, 2009 at 12:18:09AM +, Daniel J Blueman wrote: Boot-charting jaunty-A3 [1] on my SSD system, we see both the 'hwclockfirst.sh' and 'hwclock.sh' init scripts invoke 'hwclock --hctosys --utc', being significant on the map. The two scripts are debian/ubuntu specific, and yes

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 29.01.2009 um 13:19 schrieb Matthew Paul Thomas: I suggest instead taking up this issue with the companies that sell computers with Ubuntu on it. If enough customers demand parental control features, those companies may invest in implementing them, precisely because they know

updated package from upstream questions...

2009-01-29 Thread Daniel J Blueman
Where there is no updated package pre-built in debian experimental, what's the process to take upstream code and contribute a proposed package? Also, how can we share this with Debian to reduce duplication? A good candidate example is dcraw 8.90, since 8.86 has subtly broken colour transformation

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread John Moser
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 5:07 AM, Andrew Sayers andrew-ubuntu-de...@pileofstuff.org wrote: To be honest, I never really understood the focus on technological solutions to this problem. The user being monitored will always try to fight their way out of the box, and will often succeed (e.g. by