shirish writes ("Using standardized SI prefixes"):
> Please look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix .
Urgh, these things are ugly and an abomination. We should avoid them.
Ian.
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João Pinto writes ("Re: Untrusted software and security click-through
warnings"):
> 2 - fake software, or "companion" software
...
> Case 2 can only be addressed by educating people on how to use the
> internet on a safely manner, again, typing random commands from an
> untrusted web site is a m
Aaron C. de Bruyn writes ("Restricted tab-completion is annoying"):
> Today a website generated a PDF file for me automatically and
> firefox popped up and asked if I wanted to download it. I hit 'OK'
> and it saved 'genpdf.asp' into my downloads folder. I was surprised
> to find bash wouldn't ta
John Dong writes ("Re: Untrusted software and security click-through warnings"):
> I don't think it'd hurt if we had a warning in gdebi when installing a
> .deb not from or signed by the Ubuntu Archive key, to the likeness of
> "Installing packages not from Ubuntu repositories can introduce softwar
Alexander Sack writes ("Re: Untrusted software and security click-through
warnings"):
> how about using a captcha-like mechanism to trigger this decisionmaking
> process?
I assume this is some kind of joke but I'm afraid I don't get it.
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Alexander Sack writes ("Re: Untrusted software and security click-through
warnings"):
> I completely agree. My point is: if captchas don't help then why would
> pasting commands from the net help to get the user think about the
> risk their actions imply?
The point is pasting random commands from
