Op maandag 26-10-2009 om 14:36 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef George
Farris:
Oh right and also http://www.cbc.ca/video none of them play in
Firefox.
If anyone knows how to debug this stuff I'd love to try, but really it
works with Firefox on Windows and Mac but not Linux, Fail.
I completely disagree. There's no theoretical reason why a computer program
couldn't do any of the above.
We are discussing practice, not theory. In theory, there isn't any
difference between the two. But in practice...
Professionals are primarily required to
protect professionals' jobs.
You keep missing the main point. which is not whether or not people without
knowledge _should_ be running servers, but that they _are_, will continue to
be whether or not we support them, and can't be prevented from doing so.
All of your arguments against providing the tools to support them
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Jan Claeys li...@janc.be wrote:
Op maandag 26-10-2009 om 14:36 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef George
Farris:
Oh right and also http://www.cbc.ca/video none of them play in
Firefox.
If anyone knows how to debug this stuff I'd love to try, but really it
works
Here is a great example of people administering things that they shouldn't:
http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/PHP-has-an-eval-function-like-perl.aspx
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Christopher Chan wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote:
I don't follow why you would think an X server on Windows is required.
Easy. Remote desktop for remote administration. Of course, I do not
necessarily agree with using
Alvin Thompson [2009-10-27 10:36 -0400]:
I'd just like to publicly thank whoever was responsible for getting
Maven up to snuff in time for this release.
That was Matthias Klose. Kudos for your hard last-minute work!
For the record, some plugins are still missing, but these will be
provided in
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 09:07 -0400, Daniel Robitaille wrote:
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Jan Claeys li...@janc.be wrote:
Op maandag 26-10-2009 om 14:36 uur [tijdzone -0700], schreef George
Farris:
Oh right and also http://www.cbc.ca/video none of them play in
Firefox.
If anyone
On 10/25/2009 10:19 PM, Dustin Kirkland wrote:
First, before sending an email criticizing aesthetics, I would pass my
own text through a spell checker and carefully examine the format of
the composition.
Questioning the messenger instead of the message is a logical fallacy. :P
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Dotan Cohen wrote:
Here is a great example of people administering things that they
shouldn't:
http://thedailywtf.com/Comments/PHP-has-an-eval-function-like-perl.aspx
Very funny. Now, wouldn't it have been better to give Jim some useful
tools?
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2009/10/26 George Farris farr...@cc.mala.bc.ca:
On Mon, 2009-10-26 at 14:16 -0500, solaris manzur wrote:
1. Re: cancel the 9.10 release... it is not ready (Markus
Hitter)
I agree we should cancel it and deliver 9.12 in a week or so.. it is
better because it is the time
On Oct 25, 2009, at 4:16 PM, Jordan Mantha wrote:
I've accidentally hit this zoom thing many many more times than I ever
accidentally hit the dreaded Ctrl-Alt-Backspace. I've never figured
out a good
way to get out of it other than to reboot my computer so the effect
was about
the
Has anyone else got this problem? - none of my PulseAudio applets work -
none of them
Karmic 9.10 RC 64bit
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On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 6:38 AM, Kyle Amadio kyle.ama...@itvss.com.au wrote:
Has anyone else got this problem? - none of my PulseAudio applets work -
none of them
A bit more detail -- e.g., bug reports -- would be useful.
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I would tend to second the motion, especially in cases where said new
packages are already a dependency of another package.
IIRC, ubuntu-desktop (and maybe a few others) are the apex packages that
represent what is installed. Anything new that is already a dependency of
the new version of these
Just curious, but would Landscape have any feature set overlap with what
we're talking about here? I read that canonical uses it commercially.
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:32 AM, Derek Broughton de...@pointerstop.cawrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
Here is a great example of people administering
My arguments are against making a dangerous tool accessible to the
masses. Assessible in this context meaning seemingly designed for.
I understand that - but the problem is the dangerous tool IS already
accessible to the masses. They can set up completely bollixed servers with
MS tools. So
On Mon, Oct 26, 2009 at 10:11 PM, Jan Claeys li...@janc.be wrote:
You mean button 3 (the middle button is the third button as it was
added to mice after the main (left) button and the right button).
Ah, sorry, I did mean button 3.
I think the Super+Scrollwheel is okay (and more
Dotan Cohen wrote:
My arguments are against making a dangerous tool accessible to the
masses. Assessible in this context meaning seemingly designed for.
I understand that - but the problem is the dangerous tool IS already
accessible to the masses. They can set up completely bollixed servers
On Oct 27, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Shentino wrote:
Just curious, but would Landscape have any feature set overlap with
what we're talking about here? I read that canonical uses it
commercially.
This has brought my focus back on the subject line for what we're all
replying to. I think it's
Derek Broughton wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote:
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote:
Derek Broughton wrote:
I don't follow why you would think an X server on Windows is required.
Easy. Remote desktop for remote
Derek Broughton wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
My arguments are against making a dangerous tool accessible to the
masses. Assessible in this context meaning seemingly designed for.
I understand that - but the problem is the dangerous tool IS already
accessible to the masses. They
Derek Broughton wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
I completely disagree. There's no theoretical reason why a computer
program couldn't do any of the above.
We are discussing practice, not theory. In theory, there isn't any
difference between the two. But in practice...
Steven Susbauer wrote:
On Oct 27, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Shentino wrote:
Just curious, but would Landscape have any feature set overlap with
what we're talking about here? I read that canonical uses it
commercially.
This has brought my focus back on the subject line for what
On Oct 27, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
Hands up those who know end users that understand tcp/ip enough to
decide on a static ip for the UDS server that will host the user
account
database, the update repository and the monitoring software.
So now you're what, bashing
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 07:53:08 +0800 Christopher Chan
christopher.c...@bradbury.edu.hk wrote:
Steven Susbauer wrote:
On Oct 27, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Shentino wrote:
Just curious, but would Landscape have any feature set overlap with
what we're talking about here? I read that canonical uses
Christopher Chan wrote:
Professionals need to be on-call. In fact, for most medical treatment,
the doctor _is_ on-call. If we could make the day-to-day
administration of servers simple and fool-proof, the small business owner
might be far more happy to consider keeping an expert on-call.
Steven Susbauer wrote:
On Oct 27, 2009, at 6:53 PM, Christopher Chan wrote:
Hands up those who know end users that understand tcp/ip enough to
decide on a static ip for the UDS server that will host the user account
database, the update repository and the monitoring software.
So now you're
Derek Broughton wrote:
Christopher Chan wrote:
Professionals need to be on-call. In fact, for most medical treatment,
the doctor _is_ on-call. If we could make the day-to-day
administration of servers simple and fool-proof, the small business owner
might be far more happy to consider
There seems to be a set of very irritating regressions in Karmic (well,
gnome 2.28.0) regarding session idling or power management inhibition.
Core software such as eog and totem seem to break it. In the case at
hand, your screen will never blank, never lock, and your IM will never
be set to away
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