Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-28 Thread Brian Curtis
Parents rely too much on other parties to protect their kids, when they can do it themselves by checking logs and histories. If you really want to know what your kids are doing on the internet. Check out the history provided by firefox (the default browser in Ubuntu). If you want to know what yo

Re: [comment request]New Blueprint for UDS Jaunty

2008-11-12 Thread Brian Curtis
I like the idea of this, my only comment is on your use cases of the pre-cache. I think it would be smarter to pre load the config/lib files necessary but not the programs itself. I felt by some of the use cases you mentioned there were applications being opened, and IMO I don't want firefox/OOo

Ubuntu netbook remix upgrades

2008-09-05 Thread Brian Curtis
Just a simple question, and this may not even be the right place for it, so my apologies beforehand. I am wondering if the Ubuntu Netbook Remix will also upgrade to intrepid when it is released in October? (j/w for if i purchase a Dell Mini). Thanks, ~Brian C. Research is what I'm doing when I d

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-22 Thread Brian Curtis
I haven't been following along very closely, but I have an idea on something that might help out with bug management (assuming this hasn't been talked about). I went through and marked a bunch of bugs as incomplete yesterday because it seems that pidgin was updated and their problems were resolved

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-09 Thread Brian Curtis
The main goal of any instant messaging program is to allow the user to talk with friends and family around the world. Empathy, from the brief experience i've had, has that capability, as well as a multiple protocol capabilities which doesn't limit who they can talk to at all. I'm really intereste