Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-06 Thread Markus Hitter
. Try a different video player maybe. I've never experienced stuttering video under normal use conditions on my Ubuntu installation. Thank you. That exactly demonstates what I meant with not helpful at all. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-06 Thread Markus Hitter
for being so egocentric here. I can't speak for Ubuntu in general, just for the experience of me and three friends I recommended Ubuntu to. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-06 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 06.02.2010 um 11:09 schrieb Mario Vukelic: On Sat, 2010-02-06 at 10:15 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: That exactly demonstates what I meant with not helpful at all. Markus, this is not the support list for random problems. I know. How else would I demonstrate the disastrous experience some

Re: Fsck stops at boot, how to debug?

2010-02-05 Thread Markus Hitter
CD (or another partition) and do the fsck manually. If it still insists to fsck at boot time, hit the Esc key, this should abort checking. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-05 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Removing Ubuntu releases, just Ubuntu (Aitor Pazos)

2010-02-05 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 05.02.2010 um 10:46 schrieb Siegfried-A. Gevatter: 2010/2/5 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de: Perhaps he's talking about not to introduce a different photo viewer or instant messenger application every other release. I'm not sure what you mean with this in relation to Ben's message

Load 2.0, idle 99% ?

2010-02-01 Thread Markus Hitter
can a cpu be loaded and idle at the same time? What should I watch out for to track down the bug (of at least the display being stuck)? Thanks, Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: making a workaround web page for bugs, in LTS release, not fixed

2010-01-07 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 07.01.2010 um 12:53 schrieb Marco Pallotta: we cannot ignore this user perception and I think we have to study to try to fix it (also because LTS has seen as a sort of a very stable release). To use some of Mark's words: I agree with you wholeheartedly. So the bug triager [...]

Re: proper procedure regarding bug reports

2010-01-06 Thread Markus Hitter
claim Ubuntu is so exhausted introducing new features there is no room for keeping the current stuff tidy pretty much your own situation? What to do now? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Making Resolution Setting More User-Friendly

2010-01-04 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: No Cyber Cafe Software for Ubuntu yet...

2009-12-26 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Bug #71870 - won't fix???

2009-12-26 Thread Markus Hitter
as won't fix. Why would this be? Look here: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/handbook/configtuning- configfiles.html#AEN16807 for a proper solution. Perhaps it's possible to port this to Ubuntu. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de

Re: No Cyber Cafe Software for Ubuntu yet...

2009-12-26 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 26.12.2009 um 15:13 schrieb Martin Owens: On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 13:58 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 26.12.2009 um 07:23 schrieb Martin Owens: The target of computing design is to make the very complex, simple to operate. Unfortunately, many software designers think that way. The more

Re: No Cyber Cafe Software for Ubuntu yet...

2009-12-26 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 26.12.2009 um 18:47 schrieb Martin Owens: On Sat, 2009-12-26 at 18:37 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: That's what I often do. As a rule of thumb, if there's more than one way to achieve a goal, there's too much functionality. [...] What did you think I was saying? that we should repeat

Re: No Cyber Cafe Software for Ubuntu yet...

2009-12-26 Thread Markus Hitter
be talking to brick walls. This might be true[1]. One reason more to slim down this infrastructure and to cheer about those working on it. :-) Markus [1] I can't tell, as I never tried to talk to brick walls. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump

Re: managing choices

2009-12-26 Thread Markus Hitter
as well. Again less choice, less header files, less libraries, less required knowledge - in short, less complexity. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Add miredo to the default install.

2009-12-16 Thread Markus Hitter
care to work on his net connection if (s)he can seemingly reach any web site in the world already? Another $o.o2 Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Add miredo to the default install.

2009-12-14 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: karmic trashed in Tomshardware.com

2009-12-08 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: gthumb vs fspot

2009-12-02 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: gthumb vs fspot

2009-12-02 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 02.12.2009 um 12:39 schrieb Onkar Shinde: On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: Is it just me or doesn't do the F-Spot shipped with Karmic editing at all? Timeline view? No such thing here. Which version of Ubuntu are you using? F-Spot 0.6.1.5 on Ubuntu

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-11-22 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 21.11.2009 um 22:38 schrieb Remco: On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 19:58, Michael Bienia mich...@bienia.de wrote: On 2009-11-21 17:37:46 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screens/gparted_1_big.jpg Oh, perhaps you prefer command line disk partitioning over gparted

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-11-22 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 22.11.2009 um 20:44 schrieb Remco: We want to cater to administrators with varying degrees of experience, making them more productive and less error prone. At least, that's why *I* want GUI tools. Well said. -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-11-21 Thread Markus Hitter
://gparted.sourceforge.net/screens/gparted_1_big.jpg Oh, perhaps you prefer command line disk partitioning over gparted as well. It's doable and much more flexible :-) Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: Stop the madness

2009-11-18 Thread Markus Hitter
(kernel, drivers, blank desktop, admin controls). Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: Ubuntu ghc6 package (german translation)

2009-11-16 Thread Markus Hitter
the best would be to stay at the technical term lazy. I agree, too. IMHO, programming languages shouldn't be translated at all. Different languages make communication around the world a nightmare. Cheers, Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump

Re: Idea: Dyslexia screen tinter

2009-11-02 Thread Markus Hitter
. This sounds like a logical extension to xrandr, which can set resolution, gamma and the like already. I'm not sure wether xorg is capable of shifting colors already. Just to chime in these $0.02, Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de

Re: cancel the 9.10 release... it is not ready

2009-10-26 Thread Markus Hitter
system. Markus (currently installing qemu manually as kqemu support was dropped intentionally from the official packages) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-10-22 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-10-20 Thread Markus Hitter
with Popups, colors and graphs. Menus give a much better overview than an invisible list of options, and so on ... Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Benchmarking Ubuntu

2009-09-30 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Testing karmic currently impossible?

2009-09-16 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 16.09.2009 um 00:52 schrieb Scott Kitterman: On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 00:14:52 +0200 Markus Hitter m...@jump-ing.de wrote: It's a pretty generic Dell with a Core 2 Duo, intended to run desktop- amd64. Any idea on how to get back on track? Wait until tomorrow and try again. Indeed

Testing karmic currently impossible?

2009-09-15 Thread Markus Hitter
? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

$HOME/.xsessionrc ignored

2009-09-14 Thread Markus Hitter
that? Thanks, Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Guessing environment variables set origin

2009-09-12 Thread Markus Hitter
another shell in a shell, use bash it's self to interpret it's environment: $ bash env Bash does distinguish a few modes it can run in: login shell, ksh emulation, etc. See the man page for more. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de

Re: Guessing environment variables set origin

2009-09-12 Thread Markus Hitter
. Using this GUI, the user could define its own variables and the system variables (since it has root access, of course) Typical GUI users don't even know environment variables exist ... Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu

Re: The disgrace of (the) Kompozer (package maintainer)

2009-09-04 Thread Markus Hitter
. Is the package maintainer for this package in a coma? ... if there is a maintainer at all ... More friendly words likely result in a more friendly answer. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: Examining our release cycle: stricter instead of longer?

2009-07-17 Thread Markus Hitter
emphasis on releases either, as open source software is always a living thing. Is it a matter of matching company policy checklists? Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Flash, and 32 vs. 64

2009-06-18 Thread Markus Hitter
? For now I'm back to swfdec. I prefer it for the minor, but very convenient feature to load flash after a click on a placeholder, only. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-25 Thread Markus Hitter
friends work, of course. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: What's wrong with Ubuntu's policy?

2009-05-22 Thread Markus Hitter
now and promise to deliver the updates over the next year. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [rfc] improving 32bit user performance/experience...

2009-05-19 Thread Markus Hitter
AMD64 to be faster than i386 and take this argument to turn away some of the i386 users? If you are so keen on performance, by all means, install AMD64. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-15 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Current situation of amarok, and of latex tools

2009-05-13 Thread Markus Hitter
: There is no common case. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: High CPU usage applet

2009-05-09 Thread Markus Hitter
use of the available processing power: Doing scientific calculations, rendering videos, playing games, serving. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-03-01 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 28.02.2009 um 19:52 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Saturday 28 February 2009 6:38:04 am Markus Hitter wrote: I can understand this is difficult to get swallowed. For 40 (or more) years now, the rule was 1 pixel = 1 dot on the screen. A picture, 100px x 100px in size used to use exactly 100

Re: Default font size in gnome

2009-02-28 Thread Markus Hitter
for phone screens ;-) MarKus P.S.: There's no real need for an additional measurement unit besides mm and in, so I'd actually prefer to see px going away entirely. What a dream! - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Is disabling ctrl-alt-backspace really such a good idea?

2009-02-10 Thread Markus Hitter
unfortunate for you, but a good thing for Ubuntu as you get the chance to report and track down a bug. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-10 Thread Markus Hitter
with this challenge: http://www.nabble.com/HEADSUP-usb2-usb4bsd-to-become-default-in- GENERIC-td21866690.html MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Any news on skype+pulseaudio+intel_hda_realtek ?

2009-02-10 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 10.02.2009 um 16:35 schrieb Scott James Remnant: On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 16:31 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Undoubtly, efforts to avoid regressions are a very good thing. One possible solution is to offer the possibility to roll back to or keep the previous technology. Perhaps you want

Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-02 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Thoughts for assisting those with limited bandwidth

2009-02-01 Thread Markus Hitter
. Perhaps you can find this spot and start working out something like a concept or even mockup code. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Internet-Teenagers and what Ubuntu can do.

2009-01-29 Thread Markus Hitter
volunteers won't. This is a good idea. One of the most fundamental ideas of free open source software is to _avoid_ artifical barriers, after all. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: QuitAppletPlus is ready for your feedback!

2009-01-22 Thread Markus Hitter
. Offering a selection dialog after the user has (pre-)selected his choice in the menu, isn't. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: Doing something about signal:noise complaints

2009-01-22 Thread Markus Hitter
how likely it is for the participant to post to the -devel list. Isn't the -devel list closed to non-developers, making it not a choice for most people? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Re: [strawman] Make Git Branches of all Ubuntu Packages Too

2009-01-13 Thread Markus Hitter
, but different direction. A nightmare. As the others mentioned, having a single (git-)interface for different repos whould be a big leap in the right direction. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu

Re: Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

2009-01-09 Thread Markus Hitter
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Mimicking Ubuntu's build robots

2009-01-08 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2008-12-28 Thread Markus Hitter
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How to push bugs upstream

2008-12-26 Thread Markus Hitter
/282379 Thanks, Markus / Traumflug - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel

Re: Proposal for restricted drivers policy adjustment

2008-11-20 Thread Markus Hitter
should give high download numbers in a place where the vendor would notice. A vendor should really notice how much demand there actually is, perhaps making him think twice about his lock-in. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de

Re: [strawman] partual support of apps for policykit for Jaunty

2008-11-20 Thread Markus Hitter
: - prevent him from accidently shooting into his foot - protect against possibly insecure software by running it with user privileges. I hope neither of both gets lost when gedit becomes PolicyKit-aware. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump

Re: Apport in stable releases [was: Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list]

2008-11-14 Thread Markus Hitter
off at some point in time. If a user is enthusiastic enough to run alpha and beta releases (s)he already agrees to Apport's doing, so it would be reasonable to maintain this state beyond the update to the stable release. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter

Re: Do you really want developers to be on this list was (Re: Very bad status of hardware (especially wifi) support in ubuntu, due to the too many accumulated regressions)

2008-11-13 Thread Markus Hitter
and pretty well avoid introducing a bug a second time. to add my $o.o2, MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https

Re: Jaunty open for development

2008-11-06 Thread Markus Hitter
doesn't work? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: Ubuntu 8.10 significantly slower than previous versions

2008-11-06 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 06.11.2008 um 20:21 schrieb Dan Colish: They're using very different gcc versions between the os's. Well, newer gcc's are meant to produce faster code, aren't they? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-04 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 03.11.2008 um 13:35 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: ma, 2008-11-03 kello 12:49 +0100, Markus Hitter kirjoitti: To add my own $ o.o2, I'd very much like to see a tool or Synaptic feature which tells me about the differences between a standard install and the current set of installed packages

Re: Version Control

2008-11-03 Thread Markus Hitter
. A significant advantage over some of it's competitors is in your case, it works with a single private (.git) directory. Git works here for controlling binary files just fine. Binaries disallow merging, of course. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump

Re: rename system-cleaner-gtk to cruft-remover-gtk

2008-11-03 Thread Markus Hitter
,...} wants to remove the ubuntu-desktop meta-package, but this is tedious, very tedious. Perhaps this exists already, but I didn't notice yet. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss

2008-10-30 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 29.10.2008 um 20:52 schrieb Phillip Susi: Markus Hitter wrote: Glad to see standby and suspend getting more attention. For the records, I'm even dual-booting two suspended states on the same computer. Using Grub, I can choose wether to resume the suspended (hibernated) Windows XP

Re: Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss

2008-10-29 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 29.10.2008 um 09:16 schrieb (``-_-ยดยด) -- Fernando: On Tuesday 28 October 2008 22:44:03 Markus Hitter wrote: Am 28.10.2008 um 18:36 schrieb Chris Coulson: So, it's been running all night waiting for me to respond to a dialog! Yet another reason to use standby or suspend instead

Re: Midnight Commander in 8.10

2008-10-29 Thread Markus Hitter
a Ubuntu derivate, composed for DOS fans. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 27.10.2008 um 23:26 schrieb Christopher James Halse Rogers: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:03 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: ... snip ... Perhaps you've seen it already, Synaptic has such a switch in it's preferences. While this switch isn't ill-placed there, I think it would be an advantage

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Hitter
man pages I can't see any options that pop out as useless. The existence of aptitude duplicates a lot of what apt-get can do already. I've yet to find a case where aptitude is actually needed. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de

Re: Intrepid's gnome-session will easilly cause serious user data loss

2008-10-28 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 28.10.2008 um 18:36 schrieb Chris Coulson: So, it's been running all night waiting for me to respond to a dialog! Yet another reason to use standby or suspend instead of shutdown. ;-) MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de

Re: Proposal for apt install-recommends settings

2008-10-27 Thread Markus Hitter
to the package sources selector accordingly. What would you think about a global switch, without making a hijack- package? MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Boot times,services and packages

2008-10-27 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 27.10.2008 um 20:11 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 20:09 +0100, Markus Hitter wrote: Am 27.10.2008 um 18:13 schrieb Mackenzie Morgan: On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 16:55 +0530, shirish wrote: Hi all, There are three services which on my system which just take cycles

Re: Package removals from archive should have email notifications

2008-10-26 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: pain in the butt

2008-09-17 Thread Markus Hitter
of the problems at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ and start working on them. Your help is appreciated. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: IDEA: Commercial Subscription Repositiory

2008-09-17 Thread Markus Hitter
on a different partition or the rescue disks most computers ship with. It's not so much wether other OSs have better fonts, it's more because you want to look at your older documents with the fonts they were made with. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-09-15 Thread Markus Hitter
, stack traces came out of (apparently) nowhere and within a day, a fix was posted. Short of self-healing applications, this is about as good as one can imagine. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list

Firefox newly insists on showing an EULA

2008-09-15 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Boot-time improvements

2008-09-10 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Boot sequence profiling on first boot

2008-09-08 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: feedback on new wiki theme

2008-09-05 Thread Markus Hitter
is to avoid the insistence and use variable width rendering for web pages. Helps PDA users a lot as well. my o.o2 MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: fehlermeldung

2008-08-28 Thread Markus Hitter
kurzem erschien auf meinem laptop die mitteilung des kostenlosen downladens von morzilla firefox 3. Are you sure you're actually using Ubuntu? With Ubuntu, Update Manager should take care of installing new versions. Have fun, MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus

Re: Drag Window from anywhere in Metacity?

2008-08-22 Thread Markus Hitter
: the drag-from-anywhere feature isn't always useful, but as well never gets into the way. I'd drop the requirement to hold down the Alt key. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: Backtracing, Invalidated Bugs and Quality

2008-08-20 Thread Markus Hitter
straight from the developer's alpha release into the distribution CD anyways. my $ o.o2 MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe

Re: Call for testing empathy

2008-08-14 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Did we really release 8.04?

2008-07-07 Thread Markus Hitter
even go as far as putting betas and release candidates right on the standard download page, right below the current stable release. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Cloned virtual test machines (was: Did we really release 8.04?)

2008-07-07 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Cloned virtual test machines

2008-07-07 Thread Markus Hitter
Am 07.07.2008 um 16:59 schrieb Felix Miata: On 2008/07/07 16:32 (GMT+0200) Markus Hitter apparently typed: Then you can clone your OS to this spare partition, unmount it in Ubuntu and launch your preferred virtual machine off it. I'm well past my 15 partition limit in most of my machines

Re: No run menu item?

2008-07-04 Thread Markus Hitter
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The non-evil graphics card

2008-06-25 Thread Markus Hitter
. Which vendor should I prefer (or stay with the G31) in order to support proper open source graphics drivers? Is there a contraindication if I want to use CUDA-like technologies (I'm doing FEA, CFD) ? Thanks, MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http

Re: making deals with M$

2008-06-09 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Making Canonical's/Ubuntu's contributions more visible

2008-06-04 Thread Markus Hitter
such patches is another question, but having a patch and perhaps a few lines of comments should be a real booster for upstream's code quality. MarKus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: New motherboard not supported by Ubuntu

2008-06-02 Thread Markus Hitter
of the Install-CD's F6 menu, locate the point of trouble, recompile the corresponding piece of software, debug it ... Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify

Re: Should default keyboard be based on location?

2008-05-25 Thread Markus Hitter
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Ars Technica discusses Ubuntu's release strategy

2008-05-22 Thread Markus Hitter
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Re: Strip incompatible characters from Windows partitions!

2008-05-18 Thread Markus Hitter
. This is fine, as it can be used to copy files from one Linux machine to another Linux box. Markus - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dipl. Ing. Markus Hitter http://www.jump-ing.de/ -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

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