Reproducible w3m bug

2009-05-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
This is a quick heads up about a w3m bug that was reported many years ago and has not seen any responses. As w3m is installed by default and the bug has easy steps to reproduce the problem I'm making a last ditch effort to raise the bugs visibility:

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-15 Thread Onno Benschop
On 14/05/09 19:57, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 14.05.2009 um 13:16 schrieb Vincenzo Ciancia: If every case can be argued to be uncommon, why worrying at all with fixing bugs? No bug affects all users. Good point. Having no common case means bugs have to be taken seriously independent

Re: Reproducible w3m bug

2009-05-15 Thread Sitsofe Wheeler
Martin Olsson mnemo at minimum.se writes: For the first bug I recommend that you upstream it. There is not a lot That's an extremely useful reply and is the sort of information I could have done with a few years ago. I won't follow that suggestion at the moment though as prior to my original

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-15 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 15.05.2009 um 11:17 schrieb Onno Benschop: There are days when I wonder if Linux will ever get ahead of the curve. As popularity increases, expectations mount, bug reports increase, noise level goes up, work-load goes up, dissatisfaction goes up, morale drops, momentum stalls,

Re: Reproducible w3m bug

2009-05-15 Thread Scott Kitterman
Whenever I am drowned in Is this still a problem? emails (and bear in mind it takes ages to type up these reports in the suggested style precisely so OTHERS can reproduce the problem) it occurs to me that perhaps I've misunderstood the purpose of the Ubuntu bug tracker (it seems to most

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-15 Thread Mackenzie Morgan
On Friday 15 May 2009 11:27:27 am Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: I have an external network card, bought upon frustration after iwl3945 _replaced_ ipw3945, breaking it with my home router, and nobody in ubuntu cared to consider forward port of the drivers. It became incompatible with the router? I

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-15 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Il giorno ven, 15/05/2009 alle 12.56 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan ha scritto: It became incompatible with the router? I didn't think that was possiblethough it is true that iwl3945 had some growing pains. I found that a Broadcom-based laptop I had had about double the range the iwl3945

A bug in openoffice that affects disabled persons, needs attention

2009-05-15 Thread Vincenzo Ciancia
Hi all, this bug has been perhaps brought up on this list other times. On the ubuntu philosophy it is loudly stated that ubuntu should work equally well for disabled persons and the rest of the world so perhaps some more manpower (if there is anybody able to work with the ooo source code indeed)