Re: Aptitude installed by default on 13.10?

2013-04-09 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
On Tue, Apr 9, 2013 at 6:37 AM, Waclaw Kusnierczyk wrote: > Where does this conmviction come from? > > On 04/09/2013 02:21 PM, Dmitrijs Ledkovs wrote: > >> On Ubuntu Desktop we want to discourage usage of command line =) as >> there is no need for that for non-developers. >> >> Regards, >> >> Dmi

Re: chromium no longer maintained

2012-09-03 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
On Mon, Sep 3, 2012 at 10:23 PM, Daniel Hollocher wrote: > why? (we have 18, but 21 is the latest stable, 19 the latest > supported or something like that [22 is the current beta, 23 is the > current dev]) > > Dear Daniel, Either you provoked something or... I am running 12.04 and just now the

Re: libsane and acl group selection in udev rules

2011-10-26 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Hi, I have an HP3055 which we sometimes use to scan documents. The area is private, and "tough nookies" if you don't like the fact that we share it locally. If the decision is to be "more secure", that is fine, BUT... Please do not break current network functionality without providing clear instr

Re: Accounting Program

2010-03-07 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
I am interested in being a customer. In what programming language are you planning to write this application? On Sun, Mar 7, 2010 at 2:52 PM, Martin Owens wrote: > On Sun, 2010-03-07 at 22:27 +0100, Jan Claeys wrote: > >> The reason why I mention a company is that if an accounting program >> wan

Re: Indie Software Dev

2010-03-05 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Dear Jon, I think you are most likely wrong (thinking you cannot sell in a FOSS world). Re: your question of "would anybody buy?" It all depends on if the app is worth it for me. I have purchased products for Linux in the past. Unfortunately for you (your stated market), there is n

Re: [OT] Re: upgrade from 9.04 - 9.10: the most broken Ubuntu / Debian upgrade I have ever experienced

2009-11-04 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Hi, I've had a good-bad-great experience with Karmic. FWIW, I started back with Feisty. Right now, I am _very_ pleased with the way my system is working, although some "adjusting" has been needed, and was somewhat "uncomfortable" initially -- that is, getting all the stuff I use conf

Re: T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Evan wrote: > On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:31 PM, LD 'Gus' Landis wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >>  Hard hang on ThinkPad T41 on Karmic Koala.  Probably other "older" >>  systems. >> >>  The current default "Cha

T41 overwhelmed by compiz "Normal" and metacity

2009-11-02 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Hi, Hard hang on ThinkPad T41 on Karmic Koala. Probably other "older" systems. The current default "Change Desktop Background"->"Visual Effects" in Karmic is "Normal". On my ThinkPad T41, the Karmic version overwhelms the machine and causes a hard hang. I was able to resolve this o

Re: configuration utility for compiz

2009-11-02 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Related but... Hard hang on ThinkPad T41 on Karmic Koala The current default "Change Desktop Background"->"Visual Effects" in Karmic is "Normal". On my ThinkPad T41, the Karmic version overwhelms the machine and causes a hard hang. I was able to resolve this on three separate machines,

Re: Status of OCaml packages on Ubuntu Karmic - 2009-06-10

2009-06-11 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Hi, OT: from OCaml Looking for "seasoned developer" advice. I am new to the "Debian world"... I have some packages that I want to get into the Ubuntu repositories, but getting them in a the "source" level (e.g. Debian) would be even better. How is this done? I have just started m

Re: Properly identifying applications

2009-06-09 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Patrick, What a great line!!! Umm... "shoot the GUI"?? (my command-line response). Thanks for the smile. On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 8:50 AM, Patrick Goetz wrote: > > When the command line is more user friendly than the GUI, this should > set off those little alarm bells that something needs to b

Re: Question about package usage of /opt

2009-06-08 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
then selection of that modified script is handled by PATH ordering. Cheers, --ldl On Fri, Jun 5, 2009 at 7:28 PM, Jan Claeys wrote: > Op vrijdag 05-06-2009 om 06:13 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef LD 'Gus' > Landis: >>   So, I would think that a good way to "packag

Re: Question about package usage of /opt

2009-06-05 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 10:18 PM, Pau Garcia i Quiles wrote: > Hello, > > Unrelated but still might be interesting: I'm packaging Intersystems > Caché, which is the only other MUMPS database still alive. It seems > like Ubuntu will be the best OS for MUMPS :-) > > On Thu, Jun

Question about package usage of /opt

2009-06-04 Thread LD 'Gus' Landis
Hi, We are planning to create a package for the GT.M database, provided by Fidelity National Information Systems. http://www.fidelityinfoservices.com/FNFIS/Markets/NonFinancialIndustries/Healthcare/GTM/ Fidelity has officially secured the /opt/lsb-gtm space at http://www.lanana.org/lsb