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811.
by cmsj 16y ago
Google is a search engine which can be used to find information about particular topics of interest ;) (Ubuntu One == cloud services product for Ubuntu users. Banshee == media player, kinda like iTunes. Amazon store == mp3 store)
812.
by cmsj 16y ago
I did not know that! Unfortunately I missed it this time, but I will do that next time :)
813.
by cmsj 16y ago
hit post too early...other notes: - yes, I do sender verification. no, I am not prepared to debate it with you, live with it ;) - I've always been a bit surprised that there aren't more malware rejections. Either ClamAV sucks or people a
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by cmsj 16y ago
My mail server does primary MX for a couple of small domains (5 or so people) and relays a few domains for friends to gmail. I've been doing some crude graphing for the last couple of years based on specific text entries in Exim's log: htt
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by cmsj 16y ago
Best of luck Scott :)
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by cmsj 16y ago
http://webapps.ubuntu.com/employment/
817.
by cmsj 16y ago
I wouldn't agree with "but not use it". I tend to explain the difference as being that Open Source places the freedom of people first (e.g. with a BSD licence, developers have freedom to do anything with a piece of code) and Free Software p
818.
by cmsj 16y ago
Now the just need to stop making awful office software ;)
819.
by cmsj 16y ago
http://uec-images.ubuntu.com/query/maverick/server/released.... has the AMI IDs for all the maverick server images, including the released ones.
820.
by cmsj 16y ago
I guess this discussion is dead, with essentially no useful outcomes :(
821.
by cmsj 16y ago
It would seem to me that the outcome would depend a great deal on who was voting.
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by cmsj 16y ago
Firefox would be an obvious example of that. All that happens is that Debian will rename the package and ship it anyway, and users lose even more than they did before. Good job! ;)
823.
by cmsj 16y ago
What does GoodReader have over using iBooks? I've mostly just used it for storing manuals for tech products so far, but it seems like a reasonable way to read PDFs.
824.
by cmsj 16y ago
As of yesterday the font is included in Maverick, so anyone can get it now on maverick with a quick apt-get install ttf-ubuntu-font-family, and it should also be on default new installs and as people upgrade. Since it's in the distro, the s
825.
by cmsj 16y ago
what are you trying to achieve with the voting? and what is the incentive for volunteers to put hours into packaging work if they're being motivated by votes rather than their personal interests?
826.
by cmsj 16y ago
IMHO it's difficult to say "better technically" - for one thing portage is much looser than dpkg. Depending on your goals that may be better or scarier! ;)
827.
by cmsj 16y ago
I got the idea because you seemed to react in a way that suggested you thought any language changes to support better/easier packaging was "crippling". I'm not a skilled packager, so I can't get into a deep discussion of the parts that are
828.
by cmsj 16y ago
Have you seen how many packages there are in Debian/Ubuntu and how many Debian Developers there are? Forking Ubuntu entirely away from Debian would be a massive task and would need a huge injection of skilled people. (Also internet voting
829.
by cmsj 16y ago
RH ships older kernels because they release relatively infrequently, and they've had time to QA them (the RH kernel test suite is huge and they run considerable stress tests). They backport features and drivers and fixes because their custo
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by cmsj 16y ago
I did read it and I see that they are aware that their advertising clause causes problems for distribution and I see them recommending against making GPL software that links to OpenSSL. gem is GPL and links to OpenSSL.
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by cmsj 16y ago
So you're not prepared to change anything? Even if distros make changes as well? Why are these two groups not working together to enable magic for their users? Why would it be so bad, for example, to have something like this in a python scr
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by cmsj 16y ago
Why do people keep representing this as bizarre when C libraries parallel install just fine and you probably all have multiple versions of the same library installed right now? Accept it's a legitimate situation please. What it needs is rad
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by cmsj 16y ago
Have they offered to fix the underlying causes? E.g. Patch OpenSSL out for gnutls? Change the structure/metadata of gems so they are trivial to package? These are the likely prerequisites to a slick experience for their users on any distro
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by cmsj 16y ago
Blasdel: no that's not true. Even OpenSSL themselves acknowledge there is a problem: http://www.openssl.org/support/faq.html#LEGAL2
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by cmsj 16y ago
In FOSS we call this "branch and patch" ;) But seriously, all distros patch things, they have to to make them work well together on the platform in question or to get the features/fixes they need. Look at how much RHEL patches the kernel, o
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by cmsj 16y ago
"imagine".... OpenSSL's incompatibility with GPL is well documented. Check your google :)
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by cmsj 16y ago
Debian is not abusive, some DDs are unfriendly some of the time. Some mistakes have been made. This isn't some conspiracy to ruin your rep. How about users/sysadmins "rise up" against ruby/python/php for having module distribution/loading s
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by cmsj 16y ago
Sorry, I was eating an apple (oh the hilarity) while I wrote that with a spare finger... I want unlimited data, but not because I want to make use of an absurd quantity of data every month - I want it to be unlimited because I don't want t
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by cmsj 16y ago
I've been an O2 iPhone customer since the iPhone 3G launch. I'll happily switch to another network to not have to care about my data usage.