Re: too many virtual terminals by defaut

2010-03-31 Thread Max Bowsher
Jérôme Bouat wrote: What about the system startup duration impact ? What about it? My intuition is that starting a few extra VTs should not take significant time. Produce evidence to the contrary if you disagree. Max. Max Bowsher a écrit : Jérôme Bouat wrote: Hello, I think that only 2

Re: Ubuntu Advanced?

2009-08-28 Thread Max Bowsher
Dane Mutters wrote: Just an example that I was arguing with yesterday: /etc/resolv.conf. It's auto-generated by NetworkManager. I like NM; don't get me wrong, but if you need to change the DNS (or other) settings from the command prompt, it's really a pain. Hi Dane, The 'resolvconf' package

Re: PPA: how to build for karmic

2009-08-01 Thread Max Bowsher
David MENTRE wrote: Hello, I have successfully build a source package and uploaded it to my PPA. Unfortunately, by default the PPA is for Jaunty while I wanted to build the package for Karmic. As far as I have understood, one needs to tell the requested Ubuntu release using a .dput.cf

Re: New GDM upload to Karmic

2009-07-03 Thread Max Bowsher
Alexander Sack wrote: On Fri, Jul 03, 2009 at 03:35:10PM -0700, Dean Loros wrote: Greetings... There has been several problems with the new GDM upload to Karmic--most problematic is that during the update the xsession will close, causing problems ranging from mild to very severe...Bug

Re: Replace Tomboy with Gnote?

2009-06-17 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 23:32 -0400, Danny Piccirillo wrote: Anyways, someone on the forums started a discussion about this and i was wondering what you guys on the list though. There was a surprising amount of support and quite a few people seem to have

Re: Issues with pycaml in Karmic (was: Re: Adaptation of ocaml_transition_monitor to Ubuntu)

2009-06-03 Thread Max Bowsher
David MENTRE wrote: Hello Dmitrijs, On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 15:23, Dmitrijs Ledkovs dmitrij.led...@gmail.com wrote: Not an expert nor a DD nor anything in Ubuntu. But this could be either a gcc4.4 transition/bug or a python2.6 et al bug. Does exactly this package compile fine in Sid

Re: Ubuntu Desktop Unit Consistency (LP: #369525)

2009-06-01 Thread Max Bowsher
Chan Chung Hang Christopher wrote: Benjamin Drung wrote: On Mon Jun 1 04:15:19 BST 2009 Remco wrote: I have a file here of 701.2 MB, which is 735270912 bytes. Now, if it really *were* 701.2 MB, then it would be 70120 bytes. So that's clearly base 2, which should be MiB. That is

Re: help with package creation

2009-05-29 Thread Max Bowsher
travis+ml-ubuntu-...@subspacefield.org wrote: Hi, I've found very spotty documentation on packages, mostly here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/HandsOn What about https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PackagingGuide/Complete ? There's a huge amount of information there. If you still feel that to

Re: Eclipse is stagnating

2009-04-20 Thread Max Bowsher
Robbie Williamson wrote: FYI, we will have a session at UDS on upgrading to Eclipse 3.4/3.5 in Karmic. That's good news. What's the best way for those of us not at UDS to follow along with progress before and after? Thanks, Max. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-27 Thread Max Bowsher
Christopher Chan wrote: Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Thursday 26 March 2009 11:54:06 pm Jan Claeys wrote: Op donderdag 26-03-2009 om 11:42 uur [tijdzone -0400], schreef Mackenzie Morgan: Yep, its 10 mbit internet I hope you mean 10 Mbit/s, not 10 mbit/s... ;) My

Re: Large files under ubuntu do not appear to work

2009-03-25 Thread Max Bowsher
Derek Broughton wrote: Stephan Hermann wrote: as for msdos labels (which is the default) you won't come over 2TB (reading as disk vendor means: 1000bytes == 1KB and not 1024bytes == 1KByte) You should know that this isn't unclear. 1024 Bytes is a KiB, not a KB. 2TB is 2*10**12 bytes,

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-07 Thread Max Bowsher
Mat Tomaszewski wrote: Nicolò Chieffo wrote: I totally agree that it's confusing Is it confusing just because it's different to what you've been used to? I know it's not a justification, but OSX have been using exactly the same metaphor for many years now and it seems to be working out

Re: Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon

2009-03-06 Thread Max Bowsher
(``-_-´´) -- BUGabundo wrote: human-icon-theme (0.33.2) jaunty; urgency=low * Replacing network-offline (old version 2xmonitor) with NM wlan 0% signal strength icon -- Kenneth Wimer kw...@ubuntu.com Thu, 05 Mar 2009 18:36:53 +0100 Can this be reverted? The new icon is very

Outdated binaries in the archive due to Packages-arch-specific or FTBFS

2008-12-29 Thread Max Bowsher
There are quite a number of outdated binaries in the archive in universe, which is not covered by the current britney outdate report. A significant portion of these are outdate because Packages-arch-specific masks them preventing any new builds, but the old binaries have not been removed from the