Re: Easier and more reliable ISO downloads, with error correction

2007-11-06 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
Phillip Susi escribió: Anthony Bryan wrote: Hi, Have you thought about using Metalinks for your ISO downloads? It's an XML format used by download apps, and contains the ways to get a file (mirrors/P2P) along with info for automatic error detection/recovery (checksums) and other stuff.

Re: Appropriateness of posts to this list (Was Re: evince crash)

2007-10-22 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, (``-_-´´) -- Fernando [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What we need is a DIGG alike system for LP. Either by counting the number of subscribers/comments, thumbs up/down (digg alike), or an hybrid way of all this. What do you guys think? A digg thumb up for that idea :) -- Nicolas --

Re: How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, yueyu lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to download sometimes. But synaptic seems seldom to do this. I wanna know why? In fact, it will not be difficult to modify

Re: How about to patch synapatic to make it actively download packages using multiple threads?

2007-10-21 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, yueyu lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/22/07, Nicolas Alvarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/21/07, yueyu lin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you noticed, sometimes, synaptic downloads packages slowly. I noticed that apt-get in fact can use multiple threads to download

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Martin Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I really really would like to see BACKSPACE as BACK working in Firefox. I think this is the kind of polish bug that makes a lot of people stay away from ubuntu (beyond hardware problems of course).

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Aaron C. de Bruyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I installed Ubuntu just yesterday, and backspace not mapping to 'back in history' is the main annoying thing I found. It happened once or twice (in a year) that I went one page back when I wanted to delete text, because I wasn't

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like Windows, IMO, probably want to run Windows. Windows does is really an irrelvant argument from my perspective. Should I throw away absolutely all advantages of

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 20 October 2007 18:30, Nicolas Alvarez wrote: On 10/20/07, Scott Kitterman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Users overly concerned with using something that looks and feels like Windows, IMO, probably want to run Windows. Windows

Re: A tricky situation in malone bug 60995

2007-10-20 Thread Nicolas Alvarez
On 10/21/07, Martin Olsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nicolas Alvarez wrote: It's the wrong way to fix it. You can lose data by clicking enter while a link is focused too, should we disable the enter key? The right solution has been mentioned multiple times in multiple places: prompt