Re: Shouldn't update-manager's check for updates setting have an hourly option?

2010-06-22 Thread Tim Hawkins
million machines hitting the update servers every hour. hm On Jun 23, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Nathan Dorfman wrote: Personally, I would prefer it, and I think it's quite reasonable. Thoughts? -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings

Re: aptitude vs. apt

2010-06-14 Thread Tim Hawkins
or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss Windows - The only OS you can buy from TOYSrUS http://www.toysrus.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3896283 Tim Hawkins tim.hawk...@me.com -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: karmic trashed in Tomshardware.com

2009-12-07 Thread Tim Hawkins
I dont know if it is relevant, but looking at the specs of the two unstable machines listed in the article, both had nVidia chipsets The one machine (netbook) that they said worked perfectly had an Intel Graphics chipset. Given the amount of discussion relating to problems with the nVidia

Re: Ubuntu Domain Server

2009-10-28 Thread Tim Hawkins
Or give complex video recording and playback devices to consumers, or provide tools for publishing your own content, or advanced 3d modelling tools to amateurs. All these things where at one time considered to be the realm of the professional only, but are now commonplace commodity items. I

Re: eclipse packages in karmic

2009-10-18 Thread Tim Hawkins
Is there any chance we can get the pdt in there as a plugin too, its glaringly missing On 19 Oct 2009, at 00:32, Benjamin Drung wrote: Hi, we have now an up-to-date, working eclipse package in karmic (3.5.1-0ubuntu6). It's even better than the one provided by upstream. There is only one

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Hawkins
Would the production of a system similar to the Yahoo Answers approach help with some of this, Yahoo Answers awards points to answers that are chosen as top answers for various questions, and in essence becomes a living FAQ. Its more task orientated than the wiki, as its based on a

Re: Standing in the street trying to hear yourself think

2009-07-03 Thread Tim Hawkins
: On 03/07/09 08:00, Tim Hawkins wrote: Would the production of a system similar to the Yahoo Answers approach help with some of this, Yahoo Answers awards points to answers that are chosen as top answers for various questions, and in essence becomes a living FAQ. Its more task orientated than

Re: WRONG ARCHITECTURE 'I386'

2009-05-12 Thread Tim Hawkins
Or wait until mozilla / webkit release html5 media objects and make the whole add-on thing redundant. On 12 May 2009, at 10:37, Christopher James Halse Rogers wrote: On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 03:52 -0400, Mackenzie Morgan wrote: On Sunday 10 May 2009 4:55:26 pm Jonas wrote: (section message is

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2009-01-07 Thread Tim Hawkins
Connecting and transferring data online during an offline media install is not an expected activity, it is the kind of phone home activity that is derided of other OS's such as Microsoft windows. It is especially bad given that the user does not know its going to happen, and does not know

Re: You lost a new Ubuntu user

2009-01-07 Thread Tim Hawkins
Fedora 10 provides a USB disk image, which can just be DD'd onto a blank key. With the rapid rise in the numbers of compact netbooks with no optical media readers included, perhaps this makes more sense, most machines now will boot from a usb key. while there are tools like unetbootin