http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com guidelines and check if your idea has been posted already! ]]> en-us Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC QAPoll module http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/12762/ Opera for Win- 5to6 Mb; for Ubuntu- 7.5 Mb
Plz use better compression algorithms so that Linux users don't have to download more than there Windows brethen


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For quite long time I was fighting with ssh server. Finally I figured out the eth0 hadn't been set via /etc/network/interfaces (I wonder how my network was set if not in that file - for more see bug 241796 ;/). I'm not sure if was wrong from a very beginning or something happened after installation.

Keeping the /etc/ files in some 'CVS' probably would not help me resolve the issue but for sure help me trace what cause such strange network setting. As a person working in Support I would be really glad to have tool saying that some screw up file that time.

Many of support situation can be describe by following conversation:

Support - Have you changed anything in your system?
Customer - No
Support - Are you sure?
Customer - Yes of course.
Support - by file X looks strange
Customer - Oh yes, I changed my network card. Is it important?

Seeing log with etc changes will be great in such situation.

Interesting links:
inotify - 'cron' like tool working based on changes in filesystem
http://inotify.aiken.cz/?section=incron&page=about&lang=en

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Tilda is available, but frankly its terrible. It's slow to load, it renders funny (and causes other graphical glitches in other apps in my experience), its behaviour is idiosyncratic and crashy, and I just generally hate it. Guake is a much more polished, stable and user friendly terminal emulator, on equal footing with Yakuake IMO.

The program is GPL v.2 and a .deb file is provided on the site (it's technically for Debian Sid, but works fine in Hardy), so it seems like this would be relatively straightforward to do.

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currently it just tells 'n' number of packages to install and resolve all dependencies but does not tell what is the size of that dependencies to download.


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sTevoo

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Unfortunately, eye tracking requires expensive equipment. It would be neat if would work with one or more cheap webcams. Then there could be four point calibration between eye gaze and the screen.

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2242757,00.asp

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The textual installation should also be booted automatically, in case the system doesn't meet minimum requirements to boot the graphic installation program.

This will spare the user of having to switch to the alternate cd.

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There are also plug-ins available from Freemind's site but not from the repositories.

Please update.

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]]> Tue, 14-Oct-2008 00:00:00 UTC http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10795/ http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/10526/ it is automatically world readable, that is its permissions are (output of ls -l)
-rw-r--r-- for a file or
drwxr-xr-x for a directory.
Every user has his own group by default, so the disturbing thing is the file is

world readable.

I suggest setting a safer umask (not the default 0022), to prevent others from reading private files.


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As braaivleis points out, it doesn't have to actually pop up the balloon; it can be like the updates icon that appears, but only shows a balloon when you click on it.

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A list of new Repos could be collated (users suggestions/recommendations for use or avoidance)(and Repos that are not listed in synaptic).

These could categorized by performance and reliability, platforms, and Ubuntu versions.
With comment section for discussion of issues.

New program developers could also submit their repos there.

There could be a section of the Ubuntu web site for discussions and sharing of information on programs used by Ubuntu users, which are not in the current Ubuntu repositories.
This section would be where people who are looking for additional software could go a find some good tips, hints, pointers as to where else to go and what to look out for.
Plus programs in this section that are found to work well with Ubuntu, might then make it onto the Ubuntu Repository, and maybe into an Ubuntu distro.

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Source Download > http://ftp.opera.com/pub/opera/linux/950/final/en/i386/

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The proof of concept has already started.

http://people.debian.org/~seanius/dpkg-sqlite/

sean finney wrote:

I have checked it out, very nice, besides missing a -ldl flag, everything went
according to plan. The speed is simply amazing, here is a small benchmark I did
on my machine:

omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite# time dpkg -S /usr/bin/gcc
gcc: /usr/bin/gcc

real 0m4.778s
user 0m0.252s
sys 0m0.152s
omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite# echo 1 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite# time ./poc /usr/bin/gcc
querying as if listing package /usr/bin/gcc:
querying as if for owner of file /usr/bin/gcc:
gcc: /usr/bin/gcc

real 0m1.306s
user 0m0.240s
sys 0m0.096s
omega3:/home/joe/build/dpkg-sqlite#

The difference is drastic. One of the main concerns now is reliability. Does
anyone here know of any SQLite horror stories they might like to share ?



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* ANts P2P
* Entropy
* Freenet
* I2P
* I2Phex
* iMule
* Marabunta
* MUTE
* OFFSystem
* Rodi
* Syndie
* Turtle F2F
* Mixminion
* Vidalia
* Newspost

Anonymity helps free speech and the avoidance of censorship and government oppression. It is vital for democracy and a free world.

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It can be thought of as a large storage device which uses key based routing similar to a distributed hash table to locate peers' data.

* http://freenetproject.org/
* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freenet

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OpenOffice should ignore the fact that I'm closing the document at a different page than the one it opened to...

Please push this idea upstream to the OOo developers...

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Thanks

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