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The source code is available at SourceForge;
* http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=238655

We can now compile Linux binaries and put it in the repository.

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Also, upon startup the computer says "Press escape to show menu..." and it counts down from 10; maybe removing this would help speed up startup times.

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We can do it better, maybe some black, with some transparency, or anything else, no matter what color, but something less ugly... plz!!!

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In addition, shipping ubuntu without 3d support, as is done now, might give a lot of users the impression that the OS isn't as user friendly as it says on the website (while in fact it is), as you have to install a driver even to get simple desktop effects to work.

Since there is already open-source 3d support for radeon chips, I would recommend the ubuntu developers to help out the nouveau nvidia driver project. I think it would make a lot of difference if there would be fast, stable opensource 3d support for nvidia video cards, by default, and it might help to avoid the problems described above.

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This is helpful on people (like me) used to acidentally used to do chown or chmod on the wrong files or folders, and Gnome starts to stop booting... (GDM and HAL seems to persist having some bugs about this as well)

The tool (with a or inside a system recovery tool GUI) is very simple, as far i could do a simple .sh would do the same - this as tool would be mostly focused for disastrous newbies, like i were...



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When there is an alternative the Ubuntu users can have a media experience without a browser crash like Adobe Flash does.

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Use Case: Enable MP3 playback.
Precondition: MP3s are not currently playable.
1. User logs into the system.
2. User opens the Codec Manager.
3. System displays a list of common audio/video formats.
4. User selects MP3s.
5. System displays some info about MP3s.
6. System displays a list of available codecs.
7. User selects a codec and clicks Apply.
8. System downloads and installs the selected codec.
9. System informs the user when completed.

Other possible features:
- Display a list of audio/video types that are missing codecs.
- An auto-setup function, that grabs the recommended codec for all formats.

Audio and Video formats that should be supported:

Audio:
- MP3
- OGG
- AAC
- FLAC
- Real Audio

Video:
- MP4
- Windows Media
- XVID
- DIVX
- Quicktime
- Real Video

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We could support them in places such as the keychain so that the keychain cannot be decrypted from any computer other then the one you are on. It could also potentially be used for SSH servers, or for HTTPS websites, for signing (and storing the key securely to eliminate MITM attacks later on).

There are many cases where we could greatly increase security by storing our keys in a more secure fashion, because as of now, with root access, servers keys become compromised, but that can be avoided via TCPA.

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It should not. Captchas are not accessible for people with some disabilities and even with a 10/10 vision, it is somewhat tricky to guess what you have to type.

There are solutions. One of them (which works 100% well for me on multiple sites and for years ) :
http://ploum.frimouvy.org/?150-the-invisible-captcha-mechanism-icm-against-form-spam

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In Sweden we have two very worrying laws coming up.

1. The "FRA-law" that gives the Swedish security police the right to wiretapp and datamine ALL international data traveling through Sweden.
2. The "Logging-law". Telco operators will be obliged to collect all information about their users whereabouts and keep that information for a year.

We have to work towards the aim: Security by default - and I'm not talking about the system, but to protect our datastreams from being wiretapped.

Me personally think that PKI is the solution to use here whereever possible. IF a session to/from a Ubuntu-system could be read in clear text the user/administrator should be aware of it.

Postfix is important here, Dovecot as well - all emails should be send over encrypted channels by default.

Mark Shuttleworth with his huge knowledge in Digital Certificates (He sold Thawte remember) would be of great help here.

I would like to see Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu leverage an infrastructure and create services to provide their community with a good, PKI-based solution.

Privacy matters

Sincerely
Niklas Andersson, Swedish TechWorld Open Source

Edit: I've made a proposition of a real-world-implementation of a very viable way to solve the email issue at a user-level.

See http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/12858/

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Pixen can be considered an excellent MacPaint/DeluxePaint/ms-paint replacement, having animation tools, and very targeted to pixel-art - from Pixen we can see what is missing on apps like xpaint

Reptile is a very interesting tile editor (very useful for 2d platform game developers), since it's very hard to find tile editors for Linux, specially good ones

Since those are open-source, and having the sources in objective-c format, and using apple-cocoa libraries, i don't know how hard would be replacing them with GTK or wxWidgets libraries, or alike.

http://opensword.org/Pixen/
http://opensword.org/Reptile/




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If we had support for full read-write access, then we could have better interoperability with BeOS, ZETA, Haiku, SkyOS.

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