On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 6:00 PM, Markus Hitter wrote:
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> 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
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
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
On Thu, Feb 19, 2009 at 6:24 AM, Vincenzo Ciancia wrote:
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> 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
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
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:
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>> 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
>&
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.
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
Argh. Forwarding my mis-sent message because gmail sucks.
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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 <[
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
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
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
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
On 4/15/08, Serhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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
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
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
On 11/9/07, Scott (angrykeyboarder) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
>
> 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
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
On 5/28/07, Dean Sas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> 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
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