Something I'ld really like to see is full system cloud backups for multiple platforms. Do some hash checking like sendspace does so you don't store duplicates. Would make full system image backups crazy fast(well fast-er)
Sort of, I'm talking like windows users too. And not just one computer.
Like backup your corp office to cloud
Or clone an entire office for another deployment. And you only have to download each file once from the backend(with an index of which stations get which checksums etc)
For 12.04
You can choose to not show display the user's wallpaper in Lightdm using dconf-editor .
To install that, run the following command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Then, navigate to com → canonical → unity-greeter → draw-user-backgrounds → Untick the check box.
I use a non-default wallpaper and it is a different folder than the default wallpapers. By default, the permissions on this are not readable by Unity-Greeter. With the new unity-greeter switching, I would expect that if I choose a wallpaper, it would get copied somewhere (~/.background ?) with the correct permissions for Unity-Greeter or some other mechanism that gets me the added Unity-Greeter functionality.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.2.2-2ubuntu6
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-14.23-generic 3.2.3
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-14-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia wl
ApportVersion: 1.91-0ubuntu1
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Feb 8 09:58:23 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-02-01 (6 days ago)
usr_lib_gnome-control-center:
deja-dup 21.2-0ubuntu4
gnome-bluetooth 3.2.1-1ubuntu5
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Octavian D about it or annoy the mods. :D
He can't get around that easily, and it'll take him long enough to do it that he'll (hopefully) get caught before then, or i'll have imploded the /home dir by then
@jokerdino Backups. And then I get to yell at my sister for stealing my stuff without asking.
@jokerdino Yes. Primarily so we can see trolls. However, like all the mod tools, its logged and I think there is someone at SE with a tail -f /var/log/moderators.log on a big screen tv.
Hi I am switching from fedora to ubuntu. In fedora one of the core developers (jbwillia) puts up an updated image with all the patches regularly. so you don't have to update the installation immediately after installing. Is there any such "updated, patched and current" image for ubuntu
And I'm going to use that script now that I know what you're talking about. Trying to do markdown > pdf on my own was a pain, since I was trying to do everything with any libraries.
@jrg would LOVE an updated build. I am sure others would too. downloading 300MB after installs is no fun. @aking1012 that's a good idea but not if your connection is choked on bandwidth. @gajdipajti interesting point. never thought of betas of LTS being any different than non-LTS
If anyone does end up building the images with the updates incorporated, it has the potential to become hugely popular. Afterall, isn't ubuntu also targeted at providing modern computing solutions to low-bandwidth coverage regions? Having to install lesser updates and patches after a fresh installation would be a time and bandwidth saver. With more mobile android devices now able to run main ubuntu, bandwidth could be a crucial issue - as many of them are on data-restricted 3G networks
@Ariel the material for an LTS is not pulled from the debian experimental/unstable, but from the testing branch. So the developers focus more on fixing than new features
yeah, something like that. the only thing i worry about with something like that is an automated build system not catching something like the oversized CD-iso bug that evidenced this go-round
@jokerdino to make things clear, we are talking about having updated iso images for current stable versions so that users who want an updated system right away dont need to wait for hours or days (exaggeration?? i doubt it.. :P) for the installation to finish.
@aking1012 bt what if an update fails or so; or the size becomes too much.. we need a lil work on this. Probably gonna be easy, but SOMEONE needs to look at it, right?
it has some issues with 3d and you can't send a ctl-alt-f1. but that's about the only issue i have had until you try doing differencing disks from the same base image. THAT gets buggy fast
@jrg Well, I think there is a lot of interest. Posting a formal question on the main site would probably be a way to tell how many more might be interested in such an effort. As @aking1012 points out, it probably is technically feasible though a bit time and space consuming. If you could get people interested in this effort, it definitely would be worthwhile.
@jrg There is also the issue of 12.04 coming out in 13 days as was pointed out earlier. So maybe starting on the updates projects for 12.04 could be a richer investment of time?
"Shared Folders" Feature Is Not Working In VirtualBox http://askubuntu.com/questions/121682/shared-folders-feature-is-not-working-in-virtualbox?atw=1 #virtualbox
This is correct. One thing to add is that the way you created the pbuilder tarball put it in /var/cache/pbuilder/ If you don't want to go through building it all over again (as it takes some time), you can manually copy it to ~/pbuilder making sure it is named precise-base.tgz pbuilder-dist should then be able to find it correctly. — andrewsomething15 mins ago