Re: shameful censoring of mono opposition

2009-06-08 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Markus Hitter wrote: > > Am 08.06.2009 um 08:37 schrieb Stephan Hermann: > >> Mono gives us a good way into the MS front...this could also be a >> point >> of view. > > It's interesting to see how some people accuse Mono to be Microsofts > inroad into the open source

Re: shameful censoring of mono opposition

2009-06-07 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Mark Fink wrote: > you sound like a typical M$ appologist. do you sleep well at night? > hope they are paying you well. > Let's inject a little humour here. When making arguments, it's vitally important that your language doesn't make me think of this: http://penn

Re: video card (intel) problems in jaunty

2009-02-19 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 9:28 PM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: > On 18/02/2009 Christopher Halse Rogers wrote: >> This is known by the X team, but I'm not sure what they're planning to >> do about it. > > Is it a problem of the drivers or of the server? It's a dri

Re: Installation fails: how to know why? + Audio and video card problems in jaunty

2009-02-18 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote: ... > An even worse problem is with the video card (i955): Xorg is *extremely* > slow, with or without compiz. This appeared also in the very first > alpha, but I thought it was due to some in-progress migration and forgot > about it. Then I

Re: Fake login screens

2009-02-14 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
This is what the kernel killswitch sysrq[1] key is for (but without the security guarantees). If you read the documentation, it's very much what you're after - killing all processes on the current VT, and without the ability for people to remap it away. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysR

Re: [strawman] Make Git Branches of all Ubuntu Packages Too

2009-01-12 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Joseph Smidt wrote: > On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 11:38 +1100, Christopher Halse Rogers wrote: > >> You might be better served by helping John Carr with his git-serve[1] >> addition to bzr-git. That will basically serve bzr branches over the >&

Re: [strawman] Make Git Branches of all Ubuntu Packages Too

2009-01-12 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 11:12 AM, Joseph Smidt wrote: >I will up the ante: if somebody would be willing to mentor me, I would > do the work. > >Admittedly, I am a physics grad student, not a CS major so I am only > proficient in the basic C/C++ coding that goes into numerical work.

Re: When will a new version of Doxygen be pushed?

2008-10-21 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Merkel, Randy T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sebastian, > > Does that mean that an updated Doxygen package will be available to Ubuntu > 8.02 users as well? > I presume you mean "8.04" there, and the answer is a qualified "no". Once released, the criteria for upd

Fwd: OpenAL Regressions In Intrepid

2008-09-23 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
Argh. Forwarding my mis-sent message because gmail sucks. -- Forwarded message -- From: Christopher Halse Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sep 24, 2008 12:58 PM Subject: Re: OpenAL Regressions In Intrepid To: Null Ack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On 9/24/08, Null Ack <[

Re: ISO Testing, before 1700 UTC Thursday

2008-09-17 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 9/18/08, Jason Crain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nergar wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-09-18 at 12:23 +1000, Sarah Hobbs wrote: > > > >> The standard warnings about how it might kill your hard drive, > >> etc, might apply - but no one's found them this far. > >> > > > > Might kill my hard dirve

Re: The non-evil graphics card

2008-06-25 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 6/25/08, Markus Hitter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > probably some of you already read that statement of kernel developers > about the opening of graphics drivers: www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement> > > Currently I'm using Intel's integrated graphics (G965, G3

Re: Problem with yum etc after installing Ubuntu 7.10.....

2008-05-14 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 5/15/08, Peter Teoh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a. install ubuntu > b. apt-get install yum* > c. apt-get install git This probably hasn't installed the program you thought it would. It turns out that before Linus developed the distributed VCS called 'git' there was already a project call

Re: Suggestion to make remote recovery easier

2008-05-06 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 5/7/08, Andrew Sayers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At this point, I'm trying to walk the line between unrealistic "wouldn't > it be great if..." type ideas and overly-strict reliance on solving the > specific problem I have in my head, so I'd like to go back to first > principles for a moment

Re: unused dependencies of shared libraries

2008-04-14 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 4/15/08, Serhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > ps: afaik, for most foss programs, when compiling a package from > source, just adding LDFLAGS='-Wl,-O1,--as-needed' to the ./configure > command eliminates unused dependencies. > And can break some software in unpredictable ways when applied d

Re: Massive breakage on my system with April 1st updates

2008-04-01 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 4/2/08, Conrad Knauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Not an April Fool's joke... or if it is, I'm not laughing ;) > > Today I lost: > > - sound (due to latest kernel, linux-image-2.6.24-13-generic; > selecting 2.6.24-12 in GRUB gets sound working) > > - most of my GNOME theme settings (becaus

Re: Clarification over Alpha 1 and dual monitors

2007-12-03 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 12/3/07, Onkar Shinde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 2007 3:38 AM, Sidarth Dasari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Does Alpha 1 have support for Dual monitors? > > I noticed there was no xorg.conf so I was wondering how to configure it. > > Isn't Xorg 7.3 supposed to support hot plugging o

Re: GIMP *final* release for Gutsy?

2007-11-08 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 11/9/07, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > > For some strange reason I'd rather have a final release of a program > rather than a beta or a release candidate. I'm weird like that. > Release candidates (especially later ones) tend to be nearly identical to the actual rele

Re: Activate Desktop-Effects: Yes/No-Button?

2007-09-27 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 9/27/07, Dominik Wagenfuehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Even without that question the user can still decide: Just deactivate > Compiz. ;) > > The reason is that many people do not trust you (I know, blasphemy. ;)) > that you will catch all non working cards. I think the worst marketing > fo

Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository

2007-05-28 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On 5/28/07, Dean Sas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not in Gutsy at least, there's an authentication tab in > software-properties-gtk, you can press the "import key file" and browse > to a key file to add that. > Since software-properties-gtk is already a mime handler for sources.list, could we ext