Re: Feedback Request for Prototype Package Tool

2007-08-05 Thread William Tracy
that repository. I hope I'm not beating a horse that someone else already killed. :-) However, my variation on the concept seems to solve *some* of the security concerns that have already been voiced. -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm right now looking for a summer

Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository

2007-05-29 Thread William Tracy
Eek, once again, I managed to accidentally reply off-list. :-P -- Forwarded message -- From: William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: May 29, 2007 5:46 AM Subject: Re: I'd like to discuss how difficult it is to add a third party repository To: Christopher Halse Rogers [EMAIL

Re: RFC: alias tar=tar --backup ?

2007-05-20 Thread William Tracy
On 5/20/07, Jan Claeys [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://fuse.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/FileSystems Includes at least 3 versioned filesystems... Ooh, somebody's implementing ZFS over Fuse as well! http://www.wizy.org/wiki/ZFS_on_FUSE -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

RFC: alias tar=tar --backup ?

2007-05-17 Thread William Tracy
of gotchas with that idea, but it would be really cool. -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever the missing mass of the universe is, I hope it's not cockroaches! -- Mom -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Whatever the missing mass

Re: Bug #96084

2007-04-27 Thread William Tracy
installation. Is there any reason that the standard Ubuntu images don't? -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Someday, in the future, a computer the size of a small room will be possible! And it will be as powerful as today's most advanced videogames... -user Psydeshow on Slashdot

Re: Proposal: Ubuntu Metadistribution

2007-04-26 Thread William Tracy
What you are describing is not an Ubuntu derivative at all. You are describing creating your own user friendly derivatives of different OSes. That's great, but it's not Ubuntu. -- William Tracy [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Evil Bash script for today: while true; do fortune | write

Re: Error in wiki page DebuggingProgramCrash?

2007-03-29 Thread William Tracy
The debi command is more correct. $ debi bash: debi: command not found This is on KUbuntu/Edgy. -- 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: Looking Glass and Summer of Code

2007-03-20 Thread William Tracy
What are the benefits of having this kind of menu except animation? What kind of usability improvements we can expect? The key idea is the menu history displayed on the left. Rather than having cascading menus spreading all over the screen, the most recent menu is displayed along with a list of