Mailing list filtering [Was: usplash and alternate resolutions]

2008-07-22 Thread Michael R. Head
e a copy of the entire list stays in the mailing list folder. Recent mailman versions have learned to only send one by default, so it is necessary to configure it each time I sign up for a new mailing list. -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike/ s

Re: LTS and release methodology

2008-07-08 Thread Michael R. Head
n Ubuntu’s short and long-term cycles around that. -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@

Re: synaptics driver for xorg: new feature

2008-04-29 Thread Michael R. Head
(everyone, > > even remotely logged in people can change the trackpad settings for the > > locally logged in user). > > Is there any way at all that synclient could be made to not require > SHMConfig? Alternatively, is it possible to add a graphical way to enable

Re: SPARC architecture moved to ports.ubuntu.com for 8.04 and beyond

2008-04-16 Thread Michael R. Head
stop working soon and you should migrate to ports.ubuntu.com as > above. What should happen to security.ubuntu.com lines? mike  > Regards, > > -- > Colin Watson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/~mike/ smime.p

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-07 Thread Michael R. Head
kinda my point: unless you've got an actual "Compose" key on your keyboard, there's no good default. mike > On Jan 7, 2008 9:26 AM, Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Sat, 2008-01-05 at 07:52 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote:

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2008-01-07 Thread Michael R. Head
ble. I like setting the CapsLock to be the compose key, since I never intentionally press the CapsLock... which raises the question: which key should be set to be the compose key? > Example usage are ñ (enye) for Piñata, é in Beyoncé, Café, José, Pérez > and Pokémon. -- Michael R. Head <[E

Package source and binary packages out of sync

2007-12-15 Thread Michael R. Head
aries were never built for anything other than sparc. There appears to have been plenty of time to get it built for gutsy, since the source package was put into the repository in May. What gives? [1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/logjam/+bug/176622 -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PRO

Re: New Programs for Hardy?

2007-12-13 Thread Michael R. Head
l PowerEdge running 64-bit dapper in such a configuration). For example, in its base configuration, the Dell SC440 is still being sold with a 48X CD-ROM Drive. These are just the machines on which users may wish to install Ubuntu's amd64 architecture. > CK > -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL

Re: UI for backports usage

2007-10-23 Thread Michael R. Head
lled from backports should not be upgraded > from backports. > > Scott K > -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel

Re: GetDeb Project

2007-10-16 Thread Michael R. Head
r became reality. Then after using getdeb for a while, the packages I was looking for came into the official repository and I got automatic updates across all my machines (having five different versions of GNOME References on each of my machines was a pain). > Sebastien Bacher -- M

Reporting bugs for unofficially support ports (powerpc in particular)?

2007-09-29 Thread Michael R. Head
fixed, since it renders the package useless on ppc (gpar2 always crashes when it runs). What's the right way to file a bug against a package in an unofficially supported architecture? -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://picasaweb.google.com/demiri.head.wedding -- Ubuntu-

Re: Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-26 Thread Michael R. Head
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 05:13 +0800, Joel Bryan Juliano wrote: > > > On 9/24/07, Tormod Volden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Michael R. Head suppressingfire.org> writes: > > The obvious suggestion is to use the alternate CD, but a > graphical

Graphical installer for the alternate CD?

2007-09-23 Thread Michael R. Head
but a graphical installer that has lower system resources would be nice. Or even if the Desktop CD had a boot mode that could launch the GUI installer using directfb-gtk (is that still around anymore?) without loading all of X and the entire desktop. -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Better Remote Upgrade Capabilities - Ideas?

2007-09-14 Thread Michael R. Head
s Ubuntu) does not make this easy. I feel that stealing > the reinstall procedures from Fedora could resolve this problem without > resorting to overhauling the APT system. That is why I am seeking to > contribute in this way. I have seen some hiccups during upgrades, but nothing that wo

Re: Hardy: Time for sync project focus and here is how

2007-09-02 Thread Michael R. Head
any gui methods that are particularly attractive? I think Conduit can use opensync as a backend (or at least it's intended at some point: http://www.conduit-project.org/ticket/14 ) , but I think its focus is more on connecting your apps with web sites: http://www.conduit-project.org/wik

Re: Hardy: Time for sync project focus and here is how

2007-09-02 Thread Michael R. Head
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 11:45 -0400, Martin Owens wrote: > > Maybe I've been misled but doesn't Conduit belong to that list as well? > > I thought that was a Mac thing http://www.conduit-project.org/ Looks pretty gnomeish to me! -- Michael R. Head &l

Re: Request for Comments (RFC): Potential change in setting sound card volume on boot

2007-07-06 Thread Michael R. Head
On Wed, 2007-07-04 at 01:02 -0400, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-03 at 15:49 -0400, Michael R. Head wrote: > > Should it not be possible to extract the smarts from mixer_applet and > > put it into alsa-utils (or some other startup/shutdown script)? > > Not quite. &

Re: Request for Comments (RFC): Potential change in setting sound card volume on boot

2007-07-03 Thread Michael R. Head
On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 15:25 -0400, Daniel T. Chen wrote: > On Wed, 2007-06-27 at 08:32 -0700, Michael R. Head wrote: > > My feeling is that levels > > should be restored before gdm beats its drums (this is particularly > > needful for the "laptops in meetings" cas

Re: Request for Comments (RFC): Potential change in setting sound card volume on boot

2007-06-27 Thread Michael R. Head
/launchpad.net/bugs/21804 > [2] /var/lib/alsa/asound.state > [3] e.g., https://launchpad.net/bugs/106380 > [4] e.g., https://launchpad.net/bugs/45739 > [5] RUN+="/sbin/start-stop-daemon --start --background > --pidfile /var/run/alsa/bogus --startas /etc/init.d/alsa-utils --

Re: GetDeb.net vs. Backports...

2007-05-02 Thread Michael R. Head
GPL-compliant first. This appears to be resolved, with standard source and debdiff links for each release of the packages. (I don't know when this happened, but when I visited the site today, I noticed that the change had been made). mike > -- > Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED] &

Re: texlive

2007-04-20 Thread Michael R. Head
least test. > -Jordan Mantha > > [0] https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-tex > [1] > http://qa.debian.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuTeX > -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livej

Re: It should be possible to disable the PC speaker's beep

2007-03-15 Thread Michael R. Head
;System Beep" tab and untick "Enable system beep" and you still get pc speaker beeps in GNOME under metacity? This works for me on all of the machines I use... -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livejournal.

Re: Configure dual screens

2007-03-13 Thread Michael R. Head
gt; Sebastian > > > Cheers, > > > -- > Mehdi Dogguy -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing

Re: Release notes should warn against installing Ubuntu on old machines

2007-03-06 Thread Michael R. Head
ot;front" of the disk? In that case, we > > probably should warn or stop users when they try to install in some > > place that won't work. > > > > > > -- > > Jan Claeys > > > > > > -- > > Ubuntu-devel-discuss

Re: GetDeb.net vs. Backports...

2007-03-05 Thread Michael R Head
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 15:45 -0800, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:16:44PM -0500, Michael R. Head wrote: > > I just came across www.getdeb.net today. The goals appear to be similar > > to those of the backports project (to provide the latest versions of >

GetDeb.net vs. Backports...

2007-03-03 Thread Michael R. Head
ww.getdeb.net/contact.php Just a user concerned about duplicate packaging work being done... mike -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http://suppressingfire.livejournal.com smime.p7s Description: S/MIME cryptographic signature -- Ubuntu-devel-di

Re: hidden error messages

2007-02-23 Thread Michael R. Head
~/.xsession-errors. Please file > bugs if that doesn't happen for a particular case. At least it works > fine for me with f-spot under Gnome. It works fine until there's too much output and .xsession-errors starts being truncated: ...Too much output, ignoring rest... mike > T

Re: Allowing passwordless login via GDM

2007-02-22 Thread Michael R. Head
quot;DDR" account that just runs pydance (or perhaps a mythtv frontend). My preference is that a casual visitor should be able to come by, click the DDR user's icon and play. The current solution is to simply make the account's password be the same as its username. > -- &g

Re: [GNOME Menus] Synaptic and other programs

2007-02-20 Thread Michael R. Head
references in the System menu to regain the ability to access synaptic and other preferences dialogs in seconds. > Matt > -- > http://www.mdke.org > gnupg pub 1024D/0E6B06FF > > > -- Michael R. Head <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.suppressingfire.org/~burner/ http:/