Re: EFF & Privacy; hopefully Ubuntu will listen to users

2012-11-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On 05/11/12 15:08, Jordon Bedwell wrote: >> We've just had the Ubuntu Developer Summit during which the next release >> was planned, and everyone was welcome (both in person and online). I >> must have missed the session on privacy, or did nobody propose one? > I don't think there was one, I think

Re: Post-natty changes to unity [Was: Re: Ubuntu & Gnome 3.4]

2012-01-06 Thread Bruno Girin
On 06/01/12 15:58, Evan Huus wrote: On Fri, Jan 6, 2012 at 10:41 AM, James Haigh wrote: I was a keen Unity fan when Natty came out. However, since Oneiric, Unity is the main reason why I'm still using Natty. I find that very interesting. My personal opinion (and the general majority opinion, a

Re: Feature suggestions: optionally placing home folder into separate partition during ubuntu install

2010-12-28 Thread Bruno Girin
On 26 December 2010 10:55, Phillip Susi wrote: > This is what manual partitioning is for.  Also /home can not be on NTFS > since it does not support ownership and permissions. Well, yes and no: manual partitioning is for advanced users who know what they are doing. The fact that it's the only way

Re: Emergent: Oracle's behavior re Java

2010-08-13 Thread Bruno Girin
On Sat, 2010-08-14 at 03:12 +0530, Manish Sinha wrote: > They are going after Google as they think they can make a huge amount of > money since Google has deep pockets. If Google bends, then the patent > deals would be a huge monetization for Oracle. > > As I said, DVM is not JVM and has differ

Re: Emergent: Oracle's behavior re Java

2010-08-13 Thread Bruno Girin
On Fri, 2010-08-13 at 09:11 -0400, Evan wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 9:00 AM, John Moser wrote: > > Something to keep in mind is that this won't just affect Ubuntu. > If this does become a major issue, Debian will have to deal with it, Mono > (as a project/community) will have to deal with i

Re: bug reporting and file descriptors...

2010-07-22 Thread Bruno Girin
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 21:22 +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote: > On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 14:10:23 (CEST), Martin Pitt wrote: > > > Reinhard Tartler [2010-07-22 13:00 +0200]: > >> > 7 -> /home/daniel/test.mp3 > >> > > >> > Would it make sense to have this information, or have I overlooked > >> > somet

Re: How to use the new Launchpad status?

2010-07-07 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:29 -0400, Evan wrote: > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Bruno Girin wrote: > > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 09:53 -0500, Benjamin Root wrote: > >> Sounds like to me that it is a finer grained version of "Invalid". > >> The idea being that

Re: How to use the new Launchpad status?

2010-07-07 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:48 -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > On Wednesday, July 07, 2010 11:29:36 Evan wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 11:21 AM, Bruno Girin wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 09:53 -0500, Benjamin Root wrote: > > >> Sounds like to me that it

Re: compiz 0.8.4-0ubuntu2.1 alleged bugs report

2010-07-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 17:50 +0200, Emmanuel Michon wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to report few bugs I believe are due to the compiz component on > a fresh ubuntu amd64 > > If this mail should not be sent here, please direct me to the proper > location. Hi Emmanuel, Thanks for your interest in re

Re: Proposal: DNS cache by default for ubuntu-desktop

2010-06-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 09:50 +0100, Conn O'Griofa wrote: > Hi Kurt, > [snip] > As you can see from the community instructions, you need to edit your > /etc/resolv.conf and add the local machine's address (127.0.0.1) as > your first nameserver. This is a problem because any changes to this > file w

Re: Rethinking Ubuntu's Repositories

2010-05-24 Thread Bruno Girin
On Mon, 2010-05-24 at 09:01 -0400, Evan wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Conrad Knauer wrote: > > I like the repository system that Ubuntu uses, but I feel that there > > is a problem with it and I have a suggestion as to how to fix it. > > > > ~ The Problem ~ > > > > Ubuntu inherited the

Re: Remove OO Draw from the default install

2010-05-18 Thread Bruno Girin
On Sun, 2010-05-16 at 15:18 +0200, Aurélien Naldi wrote: > On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 1:27 PM, Shane Fagan > wrote: > > Hey all, > > > > I forgot to mention this at the session for default app selection but > > can we remove Open Office Draw from the default ubuntu install? The > > reasons are quite

Re: Latest Lucid kernel (2.6.32-20) chokes on my hardware

2010-04-12 Thread Bruno Girin
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 12:09 +0530, Vishal Rao wrote: > Bruno, > > What are your hardware specs and SSD model? > > Try passing " libata.force=noncq " as kernel boot param and see if it helps? > > Helps with my Intel DP5DP motherboard and Crucial M225 SSD (IndiLinux > barefoot controller/firmware)

Latest Lucid kernel (2.6.32-20) chokes on my hardware

2010-04-11 Thread Bruno Girin
n I upgraded to Karmic 6 months ago. I also upgraded the BIOS of the machine to its latest version today. I'm not sure whether that can have an impact. Thanks in advance, Bruno Girin -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscri

Re: Thoughts on quitting and window controls

2010-04-07 Thread Bruno Girin
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 21:05 -0700, Akkana Peck wrote: > Jonathan Blackhall writes: > > It's very confusing for me when I click the big 'X' in my window controls, > > only to find that the application I was attempting to close has since been > > minimized to my system try (or notification area or it

Re: Medical Task Force

2010-04-01 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi Sasha, On Thu, 2010-04-01 at 23:32 +0200, Sascha 'saigkill' Manns wrote: > Hello Mates, > > warm Greetings from the openSUSE Community. > We all knowing that we have a lack of Software from Medical needs > (Medicine Doctors or Clinics). > So we (the openSUSE, Fedora and Debian Developers) ha

Re: A bug of Linux in Ubuntu 10.04

2010-03-26 Thread Bruno Girin
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 18:07 +0530, Chandru wrote: > You seem to have been bitten by this Virtualbox bug. > http://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/6100 > > > The fix is available in the Lucid's Virtualbox . Yes but that's not much use for people who use Karmic and want to test drive Lucid in a VM to m

Re: Indie Software Dev

2010-03-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On Fri, 2010-03-05 at 15:06 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Fri, 05 Mar 2010 15:43:40 -0600 > Jon Buys wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I posted this on the Ubuntu Forums, and didn't get a whole lot of feedback, > > so I thought I'd try this mailing list. > > > > I'm launching a commercial sof

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:04 -0700, Charlie Kravetz wrote: > On Wed, 03 Mar 2010 22:48:13 + > Bruno Girin wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > > > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:22 +0100, Fred . wrote: > > > > > > &

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 16:48 +, Scott James Remnant wrote: > On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 13:22 +0100, Fred . wrote: > > > Everybody knows that a terminal has white text on black background. > > > Everybody knows that the bikeshed is green. > > > Seriously, there's a whole tab of preferences devote

Re: White-on-black terminal should be default

2010-03-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On Wed, 2010-03-03 at 10:34 +0200, Lucian Adrian Grijincu wrote: > On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 6:13 AM, Shentino wrote: > > My personal opinion is that the default should be gray on black like the vc. > > For some reason the terminal colors just work better that way, particularly > > with midnight comm

Re: Ask for a nickname in users-admin; Was: Should Short really be username when creating a user in users-admin

2010-02-28 Thread Bruno Girin
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 09:53 -0400, Derek Broughton wrote: > Thomas Templin wrote: > > > > > I would vote for > ... > > and also for > > 'Full Name' (DE_de: 'Vollständiger Name') > > or better > > 'Name Surname' (DE_de: 'Name Nachname') > > You'd know better than me if that's bette

Re: ubuntu : A mantis problem while updating

2010-02-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 10:23 +0100, Cédric BRIFFON - AIROD Technologies wrote: > Hello, > i'm working on an ubuntu server , and sometime using mantis. > Since few months, i have a problem with the mantis package. > The updates are not working properly. > You can found the log when i try tu update. S

Re: Focus of the introduction for programmers

2010-02-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 19:56 -0300, Brian Vidal Castillo wrote: > It could sound like a fanboy, but using a powerful IDE is the best > choice for programers new to Ubuntu. > And I think Eclipse is the right for this tasks. I'd agree to that. Eclipse is very powerful. I've used it extensively and i