Re: Are file permissions in files on external devices silly?

2008-11-21 Thread Dan Colish
I think you're looking at this the wrong way. There are a number of ways already available to have the functionality you seek. You will need to leverage both the HAL fdi for the device you're trying to automount and a script to fix the permissions on a that disk. This is what makes linux so great,

Re: Wacom tablets, TabletPC and Xorg support for Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty)

2008-11-09 Thread Dan Colish
Hi Loic, The move away from xorg.conf has been to a new hal integration. Please see the documentation in the wiki: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input Configuring an fdi for your tablet hardware should not be any more difficult than an xorg and could probably be accomplished by a script. I

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-06 Thread Dan Colish
I'm not convined those Phoronix test are really that accurate, especially after reading this one: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=ubuntu_macosxnum=1 It looks like they are not really comparing apples to apples, especially when it comes to java benchmarking. They're using very

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-06 Thread Dan Colish
faster than Vista isn't hard, we want it to be faster than XP because remember, that's what most people are running. Why would they switch to Ubuntu if it's going to make their machine slower? I think performance is a very relative term. Slow for games can be great for a database. I am a lot

Input Device Commented Out Lacks documentation

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Colish
I think there should be a link placed in the xorg document when update-manager comments out an input device to the new fdi documentation. It is hard to find that page in the wiki if you're not familiar with the details of the project. It is also frustrating to not know the proper way to configure

Re: Input Device Commented Out Lacks documentation

2008-11-05 Thread Dan Colish
at 12:31 AM, Bryce Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: Hi Dan, Would you mind going ahead and sketching this documentation in? http://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input Bryce On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 12:21:45AM -0500, Dan Colish wrote: I think there should be a link placed in the xorg document