Re: Dump Google?

2010-09-11 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 12:06:36PM -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote: > If you are willing to use a search engine that censors web sites at > China's whim go right ahead. Google puts their profit ahead of their > stated support of the free flow of information. Only the lazy or those > who are uninfor

Re: Dump Google?

2010-09-10 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 07:58:29PM -0700, Jordan wrote: > Why not drop Google and go for a more private search engine? Yes, let's suggest for Ubuntu users use an obscure search engine, because they are worried someone at Google Inc may be knowing what kind of searches they do. Anyone who is conc

Re: Apache2 in default Ubuntu install

2010-08-13 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 6:00 AM, Martin Pitt wrote: > php5 installs everything related to PHP, which includes the web server > module. If you only want the command line interpreter, but none of the > web stuff, just install php5-cli instead. But I dare to claim that > most people who want PHP actu

Re: Apache2 in default Ubuntu install

2010-08-12 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 03:55:24AM +0100, Phillip Whiteside wrote: > Not wishing to get involved in arguments, but an LTS is just that. As apache > is the major market of hhtp [1] it is imprortant for LTS that it will be > able to be supported for five years. This would not be possible with > apach

Re: Apache2 in default Ubuntu install

2010-08-12 Thread Harry Strongburg
On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 09:34:24PM -0400, Scott Kitterman wrote: > It's not in the default install. Look at the output of aptitude why > apache2-mpm-prefork to see what pulled it in. So it just happened to have been auto-installed on all the boxes I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04? That's weird. H

Apache2 in default Ubuntu install

2010-08-12 Thread Harry Strongburg
Why is apache2 in the default Ubuntu install? I upgraded from 9.10 to 10.04 LTS today, and the upgrade procedure installed Apache2 onto my box, even though I have had it autoremoved for a long time. It also did this on another server I upgraded, and that server runs lighttpd too! >Selecting pre

Add miredo to the default install.

2009-12-14 Thread Harry Strongburg
Hi, in my opinion, the "miredo" package should be default on Ubuntu install. Why? IPv6 is proclaimed to be some big future thing that should be acted upon. What better than to have the most known (in my opinion) GNU/Linux distribution be pushing forward with IPv6? It will deploy IPv6 globally a