Re: shameful censoring of mono opposition

2009-06-07 Thread Christopher Halse Rogers
On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Mark Finkmpf...@gmail.com 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

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 cian...@di.unipi.it 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 driver problem. What

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 cian...@di.unipi.it 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

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]

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 josephsm...@gmail.com 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

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 josephsm...@gmail.com 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 git

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

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: https:// www.linuxfoundation.org/en/Kernel_Driver_Statement Currently I'm using Intel's integrated graphics (G965,

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 called

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: 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 (because several

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 of

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 for Ubuntu

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 extend s-p