Re: non-free software in Ubuntu

2012-12-03 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Enrico As you probably already know, the AGPL version OpenERP is already in universe, what's the difference between the free version and the non-free version? Are there any benefits to the user in having it there or otherwise, why would you want it there? thanks -Jonathan On Mon, Dec 3, 201

Re: Old Turtle

2012-04-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Alan On 18/04/2012 21:28, Alan Jhonn Aguiar Schwyn wrote: Hi, I try to install the TurtleArt in Synaptic and only have the version 98..I have the latest sources (of precise pnagolin)...The latest Turtle are 138! http://activities.sugarlabs.org/en-US/sugar/addon/4027 Someone can update it? Re

Re: How to install Precise without getting screwed?

2012-04-01 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Dale On 01/04/2012 07:52, Dale Amon wrote: So the question is, how can I install Precise and *NOT* have Unity put me out of action and cost me days of work getting rid of it and getting my working environment back to normal? This list is for developer discussion, for user support, please tr

Re: Moving all binaries to /usr/bin ?

2011-11-01 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
On 11-11-01 05:26 PM, Matt Alexander wrote: > Interesting proposed change for the location of binaries in Fedora: > http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-considers-moving-all-binaries-to-usr-bin-1369642.html > > Would Ubuntu consider doing the same? There were some discussion about this a

Re: Proposal to delay release of Precise Pangolin

2011-10-19 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Joseph On 11-10-19 12:21 AM, Joseph Toppi wrote: > Because no one else seemed willing to check, compact view does remove the > needless amount of margin, but also switches to a more list-like look and > changes the scrolling to horizontal. I checked in Nautilus 2.32.2.1 the > version that ships

Re: Unity, consistency and password-protected web pages

2011-03-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Mark On 03/28/11 07:39, Mark Shuttleworth wrote: Whenever these crossed wires, or links to unavailable content occur, it's a reasonable question to ask if the material can be published more widely. Obviously, it's not ideal for us to have links to internal content. *Sometimes* it will be nece

Re: Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

2010-10-05 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David On 30/09/2010 17:46, David Farning wrote: > This past release has seen the complete packaging of Sugar, originally > created for the one Laptop per child project, for Debian and Ubuntu. > For the upcoming cycle, > > 1. I will commit to sponsoring maintainers for Sugar .88 on maverick > a

Brainstorming for UDS-N - Edubuntu

2010-09-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Ubuntu Developers (snip original very, very long e-mail about Edubuntu originally typed) Here are some ideas we've been discussing in Edubuntu for Natty and Natty+1. They probably won't fit in to one single Ubuntu track, so I opened a new thread on this list (hope that's ok). They aren't all i

Edubuntu Meeting Logs - 18 August 2010

2010-08-18 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi! Next meeting is at 25 August 2010 at 19:00 UTC: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Edubuntu/Meetings/Agenda I didn't have much time to take real notes during this meeting, so I'll post the logs as-is here for anyone that might have wanted to attend but couldn't: 15:00 < highvoltage> Howdy! Who's here f

Re: Update Moodle Package ETA?

2010-04-08 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Nathan On 07/04/2010 17:22, Nathan Gilmore wrote: > Do you know if you will have an updated 2.0 package for the fall release > of Ubuntu, so the 10/10 release version, (or so I assume it will be called)? > > We are running a moodle pilot, (we currently use blackboard) and if the > faculty end u

Re: Focus of the introduction for programmers

2010-01-30 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Sense On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Sense Hofstede wrote: > Maybe then we should add pointers to information about contributing to > upstream projects. > However, the Ubuntu Website, Ubuntu Drupal, Lernid, Apport, > Desktopcouch, *Indicator, Jockey and many other projects could also be > l

Re: how to propose a new feature on Ubuntu?

2010-01-28 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Marco On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 10:03 AM, Marco Pallotta wrote: > In this last page I was suggested to contact ubuntu-devel-discuss > mailing list about my idea. So I did it. > In fact I proposed a new feature on 7 Jan 2010 ("making a workaround > web page for bugs, in LTS release, not fixed").

Re: why privacy and security matters

2010-01-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi On Wed, Jan 6, 2010 at 10:57 PM, Patrick Freundt wrote: > The career of this daddy poo is obviously so settled that he does not > care at all whether I am able to gain proof for whats going on. And it > seems to make that 21 year old chocolate girl all proud to have such a > daddy. > > The onl

Re: CLI friendliness

2009-11-11 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Shentino wrote: > * MUDs > * SSH > * Kernel development > > Generally, how friendly is ubuntu planning to be with users like me? You can do a minimal install that will give you just VT's to begin with, Ubuntu has some nice screen profiles and has KMS support so you should get fast switching betw

Re: Sponsorship deadline for UDS-Lucid approaching

2009-09-25 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Mike On 25/09/2009 05:07, Mike Basinger wrote: > Maybe we should redistribute the info on UDS-L sponsorship to mailing > list, blogs, etc... and perhaps extend the deadline a few days if > possible. As far as I understood it the canonical place to announce any developer related news should al

Re: ubuntu

2009-08-26 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Jo Jo Demetriou wrote: > I don't know who to contact, I downloaded ubuntu from a disc. It has > made my computer very slow as I still have windows on startup. How do I > uninstall it. It does not prompt you on the disc to uninstall. My guess is that you've installed using Wubi and you are now

Re: Offering sponsorship to the active developers of Edubunty

2009-07-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Alex Alex Dedul wrote: > I want to offer a sponsorship to the active developers of Edubunty. I > want to see contributions so far for active developers and pay them > for the work they done so far. Also i want to pay them for any further > active work on the Edubunty. Thanks for your offer, bu

Re: ltsp feedback.

2009-03-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Rogler (moving to ubuntu-devel-discuss) Rogier Wolff wrote: > Similarly the ssh-to-the-server is something I don't want. My client > is on a private network, I'd rather have the performance of straight X > connections than the security of ssh-encrypted X traffic (on my > low-performance thin c

Re: how to test restricted nvidia drivers on live cd without CAB?

2009-02-16 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Odysseus Odysseus Flappington wrote: > I'm just kinda asking how to restart X without rebooting the computer, > so that I can test nvidia drivers in a live cd session.. > > I take it there must be a way from the command-line.. Oliver suggested > logging out and back in again.. hopefully that'l

Re: Midnight Commander in 8.10

2008-10-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Felix Felix Miata wrote: >> I haven't used MC since late 1990's and I can't really say I miss it! I >> perform lots of file-managing tasks every day and I'm quite happy with >> Nautilus. > > How nice for you that you've never had broken X, and never will have, and > never will need to help som

Re: Midnight Commander in 8.10

2008-10-29 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Please add mc to the '8.10'. It's very useful It's too late to change anything in 8.10, it's frozen solid :) Also, as useful as mc is, it's only useful to a small amount of users, and will waste precious space on the Ubuntu release discs. mc is incredibly easy to in

Boot-time improvements

2008-09-09 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi Some systems have been really successful at making it *appear* as if the system starts up faster. In my opinion, where the system can't be made to boot faster, it should be made to appear so. Here are some ideas around improving boot speed and making it appear faster: 1. Have as few transit

Re: sound on the lenovo X.61?

2008-01-31 Thread Jonathan Carter (highvoltage)
Hi David David Meyer wrote: > Seems not to work. Anyone else seen this? This is not the correct list for support, please try one of the following linkshttp://ubuntuforums.org/ instead: * https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-users * https://answers.launchpad.net/ * http://ubu

Re: Dell, Microsoft, Novell

2007-05-07 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi t u t u wrote: > Did we (Ubuntu, Canonical) just join the Novell-Microsoft partnership > indirectly? By accident? If Dell is going into that much-dreaded deal > (according to this[1], it indeed is), and if Canonical is in partnership > with Dell (through the sale of Ubuntu-installed Dell system

Re: An Entirely Different Approach on LiveCD Installer.

2007-02-12 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Joel Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > Since Squashfs 3.1 had been released, it now supports specifying "the > filename or the directory within the Squashfs filesystem that is to be > extracted, rather than always extracting the entire filesystem."[1] > This allows the LiveCD to function in different

Re: Which third party repository do you use?

2007-01-06 Thread Jonathan Carter
Hi Sebastian Sebastian Heinlein wrote: > But since I only use the Ubuntu repositories I would need your help to > collect some repositories. Please reply to this mail which repositories > you use. If you're collecting repositories, you can get a large amount of them, with some brief descriptions,