ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 69, Issue 157
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> 1. Re: The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu (Fred A. Miller)
> 2. 10.04 on MSI X320 (SCORP)
> 3. Re: The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu (Florian Diesch)
> 4. Re: [Advice needed] Small Office Backup Solution (Florian Diesch)
> 5. Re: 10.04 failures (NoOp)
> 6. Re: where to make packaging suggestions? the monstrosity that
> is "xmlto" (Florian Diesch)
> 7. Re: Thinking of LTS onto a current Gentoo box (Kevin O'Gorman)
> 8. Re: Ubuntu client authentication using Ubuntu (ebox) - Samba
> Server as pdc (Arun Shrimali)
> 9. Re: The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu (Fred A. Miller)
> 10. Ultimate Edition v2.6 of Lucid 10.04 (Basil Chupin)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 23:00:56 -0400
> From: "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com>
> Subject: Re: The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 05/10/2010 03:16 PM, clintin at linuxmail.org wrote:
> > You might also try what is written here:
> >
> >
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/disable-synaptics-touchpad-while-typing-in-ubuntu.html
> >
> > Instructions are also supplied for completely disabling the touchpad.
> >
>
> That might be a good idea, IF 10.4 used xorg.conf but it doesn't.
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 11:03:55 +0800
> From: SCORP <scorpiocn at gmail.com>
> Subject: 10.04 on MSI X320
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Any one sort out the GMA 500 driver issue and wireless? really a big
> headache.
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 05:34:03 +0200
> From: Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net>
> Subject: Re: The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <877hn9vln8.fsf at scenic.florian-diesch.de>
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> Ioannis Vranos <cppdeveloper at ontelecoms.gr> writes:
>
> > On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 16:23 +0300, Ioannis Vranos wrote:
> >> I had previously disabled the touchpad system-wide by creating the
> >> following file:
> >>
> >>
> >> /etc/hal/fdi/policy/touchpad.fdi:
> >>
> >>
> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
> >> <deviceinfo version="0.2">
> >> <device>
> >> <match key="input.x11_driver" string="synaptics">
> >> <merge key="input.x11_options.TouchpadOff" type="string">1</merge>
> >> </match>
> >> </device>
> >> </deviceinfo
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> You may try that.
> >
> >
> > ... if you have Ubuntu 9.10 or previous.
>
> For 10.04 you need to write udev rules for that, see
> <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input>
>
>
> Florian
> --
> <http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/pdfrecycle/>
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>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 05:57:09 +0200
> From: Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net>
> Subject: Re: [Advice needed] Small Office Backup Solution
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> writes:
>
> > I have a few customers with very small offices (up to 10-15 users). They
> > have a mixed network (Windows XP Pro clients, Linux server).
> >
> > I a looking for a backup solution with the following requirements:
> >
> > * Linux based Server
> > * Simple to set up and deploy
> > * Cross Platform: A windows client (preferably hidden service style)
> > * A way for the management to monitor the backups without accessing the
> > Linux Server directly.
> > * Incremental / Delta support.
> > * CLI interface for me to be able to manage remotely over ssh
> > * No Tape support needed - most of them use an external USB hard drive
> >
> > I'll appreciate any recommendations for suitable external hard drives
> (like
> > the WD Passport series?)
>
> Have a look at http://www.amanda.org/ and http://www.bacula.org/
>
>
>
>
> Florian
> --
> <http://www.florian-diesch.de/software/shell-scripts/>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:01:25 -0700
> From: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: 10.04 failures
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 05/11/2010 05:26 PM, Karl Larsen wrote:
> > This morning after some updates I discovered 10.04 would let me use
> > the USB ports, use my memory stick device and look at movies.
> >
> > Now I have 3 fully updated 10.04 partitions and all three will not
> > do any of the three. Most serious is the USB port. I can no longer do
> > anything with them. I can't even back up this computer since my backup
> > system uses the USB port!
> >
> > This makes 10.04 a very poor version.
> >
> > 73 Karl
> >
>
> Give it up Karl. Start a blog. Do something, but *please* stop polluting
> this list with your insistent ramblings about your issues with your
> system. If you have a _valid_ problem post with the details like
> everyone else.
>
> I'd recommend that you file a bug report but most of your past "reports"
> tend to pollute launchpad as well.
>
> Look at what you've written in just the past few days... one moment you
> praise 10.04, the next you blame 10.04. The same as you have done for
> just about every other Ubuntu version since joining this list. I hate to
> say it & I'm pretty tolerant about most things, but if you keep this up
> I'd vote to send you back to the moderators bin.
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 06:04:33 +0200
> From: Florian Diesch <diesch at spamfence.net>
> Subject: Re: where to make packaging suggestions? the monstrosity that
> is "xmlto"
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Message-ID: <87y6fpu5ny.fsf at scenic.florian-diesch.de>
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> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> writes:
>
> > in the process of setting up my 10.04 box for
> > typesetting/publishing, and went to install the "xmlto" package --
> > sadly, it insists on dragging in dozens and dozens of "tex"-related
> > packages and requiring 757MB of extra disk space. so, a thought or
> > two.
> >
> > 1) given that people might want to use "xmlto" for generating
> > simple HTML, it's not clear that every xmlto user needs all that
> > tex-related crap. can it be repackaged to make all of that only
> > *suggested*?
> >
> > 2) given that FOP is now a viable (if still incomplete) XML to PDF
> > translator, that argues even more strongly for making tex stuff
> > optional, since FOP might -- for many people -- be perfectly adequate.
> >
> > is this a reasonable suggestion to make to the appropriate parties?
>
> Looks like you already have the choice between TeX and FOP:
>
> $ apt-cache show xmlto|grep ^Recommends
> Recommends: libpaper-utils, dblatex | fop
>
> So if you have FOP installed the TeX stuff shouldn't get installed.
>
>
> Florian
> --
> <http://www.florian-diesch.de/misc/mitte.html>
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 21:20:55 -0700
> From: "Kevin O'Gorman" <kogorman at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Thinking of LTS onto a current Gentoo box
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
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> On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:36 PM, Tom H <tomh0665 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 1:04 AM, Kevin O'Gorman <kogorman at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> > > Being tired of spending days recompiling rather than working, I'm ready
> > to
> > > turn my main machine from Gentoo into Ubuntu LTS.
> > > The problem is that I've been seeing horror stories about a fresh
> install
> > > when there are raid drives, and it's a partition on a
> > > hardware raid mirror set that I want to install into -- it's already
> > labeled
> > > 'ubuntu' and there's plenty of space.
> > >
> > > In the light of all the stories, is this likely to work at all?
> >
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/parted/+bug/191119
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/partman-md/+bug/542210
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/568183
> >
> >
> > Thanks. That helps somewhat. There are enough differences between what
> is
> described and my actual setup to
> make it worth trying. I have some of the new-fangled terrabyte SATA
> drives,
> so I've got room to back up a complete image
> of everything. (Not contents or partitions -- image the whole drive).
>
> But I've gotta get out of Gentoo one way or another...
>
> --
> Kevin O'Gorman, PhD
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> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 10:16:44 +0530
> From: Arun Shrimali <arun.reso at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Ubuntu client authentication using Ubuntu (ebox) - Samba
> Server as pdc
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> On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 5:57 PM, Arun Shrimali <arun.reso at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Hi, i need some help.
> > I have a lan with some pc working as clients.
> > Server is running on ebox 1.4 and Samba as pdc.
> > I have a domain and xp clients using accounts from the samba server
> working
> > perfectly.
> > I replaced xp with ubuntu 9.10 in some clients, but i don't know how to
> > force ubuntu clients to authenticate thrugh samba - server, like win-xp.
> > and use the user/password and profile as defined at ebox server.
> >
> > arun
> >
> >
> This means that ubuntu does not have the perfect client application for the
> Samba PDC. Where as Windows works perfectly as client to samba ??
>
> Arun
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> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 01:09:29 -0400
> From: "Fred A. Miller" <fmiller at lightlink.com>
> Subject: Re: The best way to disable touchpad in Ubuntu
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> On 05/11/2010 11:34 PM, Florian Diesch wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> >>> >> You may try that.
> >>>
> >> >
> >> >
> >> > ... if you have Ubuntu 9.10 or previous.
> >>
> > For 10.04 you need to write udev rules for that, see
> > <https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Config/Input>
> >
>
> 'Beyond what I feel confident doing. 'Guess I'm stuck with it. :(
>
> Fred
>
>
>
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> Message: 10
> Date: Wed, 12 May 2010 15:13:15 +1000
> From: Basil Chupin <blchupin at iinet.net.au>
> Subject: Ultimate Edition v2.6 of Lucid 10.04
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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> What a BRILLIANT adaptation/transformation of Ubuntu Lucid (10.04)!
>
> This is how I always imagined Linux to look when done professionally
> (with no offence to current developers). The desktop of gold and melted
> chocolate, with a gold rotating arrow head for the cursor, is stunning
> (and you can change the wallpaper if you want).
>
> Many thanks, Graham Todd, for mentioning this in one of your messages
> (in a totally unrelated thread :-) ).
>
> OK, for some this may be a just a bit "over the top" but for myself - I
> am enjoying it and am enjoying playing around with it. I also know a few
> people who would just LOVE this version.
>
> Some nice things to start with:
>
> Ubuntu Tweak is installed by default;
>
> WINE is installed by default;
>
> vlc, xine and amarok are installed by default, but not kaffeine;
>
> the medibuntu source is in the repo sources and all you need to do is to
> 'activate' it - no need to go chasing this in Ubuntu wiki or wherever;
>
> gimp is installed by default;
>
> the list can go on.......
>
>
> However, nothing is perfect.....
>
> When you insert the DVD (2.4GB) it will boot into LIVE mode even though
> - at least with me - it gives the option to Install from DVD it simply
> boots into Live mode. That's OK but just something to watch for.
>
> During the installation stage it retains the most annoying statement in
> Ubuntu that "the installation will finish shortly", or words to this
> effect, but it doesn't and takes quite a while to install - it took
> overall an hour last night to install. I suspect that the reason for
> this is that even though your language may be, say, English, the install
> process downloads the language packs for all sorts of unwanted languages
> (and then also tries to upgrade them!) like, for me Spanish, German,
> and, would you believe, Xhosa :-) . On top of this, the progress bar
> slowly progresses from 0% to 100%.....but then keeps going until, I
> think, it reaches 180% :-) .
>
> Just one other thing to bear in mind. Installing the nVidia "proppa"
> video driver has a repurcussion: the golden rotating arrow-cursor turns
> into an ugly duckling of a big black arrow head :-( (and the splash
> screen on boot goes into EGA mode). Way out of getting the gold arrow
> back (but not the splash screen on boot) is to deselect Visual Effects
> in Appearance - that is, you lose the ability to use Compiz. I believe
> that this hassle is being looked at as the emphasis was to get this UE
> working for ATI/Radeon.
>
> Oh, yes: the Adobe Flash plugin for Firefox is not installed by default
> so you need to install it (from Synaptic Package Manager for example).
>
> After playing around for a bit longer on my test-bed I think I will
> switch my main system over to Ultimate Edition - it's so nice to look at
> :-) .
>
> As Graham advised, Ultimate Edition can be downloaded from
>
> http://ultimateedition.info/ultimate-edition/ultimate-edition-2-6/
>
> a 2.4GB download of a DVD iso.
>
> BC
>
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>
> The best defence against logic is ignorance.
>
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