How to launch GNOME Shell Extension Preferences from the Main Menu? http://askubuntu.com/questions/149007/how-to-launch-gnome-shell-extension-preferences-from-the-main-menu?atw=1 #gnomeshellextension
@jokerdino Ok, long and short of that list: Get something up on meta, I'm not touching the delete button willy nilly without community approval and oversight. Not because I'm scared of it, but because I'd need to justify that to SE if/when I trip the mod abuse alarm.
I'll pass the script on to a few others, you might want to post on stackapps.
Possibly. I was talking to George the other day about video streaming via a torrent-like service for live-streaming. There are non-live streaming solutions, but most of the tech is closed source. Someone got a TON of money to try and develop it and failed at one point. Might be something to work on I guess
Yeah. It's interesting to be sure. The re-sharing thing is where I think it falls down. Nobody wants to constantly share their uplink (okay almost nobody)
The only person I've talked to who didn't admit it was broken right off the bat was a patent lawyer.
and that was because he misunderstood what I was talking about - i was talking specifically about software, whereas he thought i was talking about all patents. Once I ironed that out, he was on board.
See, I go the other way. No copyright on software, just limited time window software patent. I think we're trying to get to the same place using different technique
@RamonSuarez no, then we end up with Disney - taking a piece of folk software (if you will allow the analogy) and then holding rights to the version for 45 years, then making a release of it somehow thus allowing them to extend the copyright for another 50 years, and so on and so forth.
(And if you doubt me, I point to the copyright on Bambi. ;P)
What we need to get these darn thinktank people, judges and politicians to acknowledge is that there is no such thing as a original idea in this day and age, and there hasn't really been one since the invention of the printing press.
I agree. I think there should be very rigid protection for highly innovative technology. That being said, the most fair software protection I've seen recently is the NZ requirement that it have a hardware component and do something no other software at the time can do.
Apple tablet/phone patent situation and lawsuits. <-- There should be a mandatory penalty for frivolous lawsuits equal to the damage being sought. It would at least give patent-trolls pause before trying to abuse overly broad patents.
Lets take the PGP encryption system - there is really only one way to do that (via a public key, and a private key).
The whole concept of public key cryptography has been around for so long, and has been shown to be one of the more secure methods that doing anything else is regarded as insane or stupid.
That case is a little different. Saying you hold a patent on asymmetric encryption would be silly, but on a particular implementation I can see it. Like the zrtp implementation (which if memory serves is free for free software anyway)
The whole "Slide to unlock" and "look and feel" stuff that Apple does is stupid. Why? Because when you have a mobile phone, there is only one general shape that will feel good in your hand.
(and while I'd love to continue this debate (or one sided ranting. :P), I have to go do family stuff now. :P Nice chatting with you guys!)
Yes. On the pgp vs gpg thing, I see the difficulty there b/c you can't say "nobody is allowed to make an interoperable client" but they could say this particular arrangement of code is ours.
Guys, a very quick one... I set a cronjob in /etc/cron.hourly that I think worked, but, I added a second line to verify. The full thing is :
ntpdate-debian date > ~/william_tmp
That file doesn't exist and I guess it is because `~` isn't set in cronjobs... so, I was wondering if anyone knows a better way to know if cronjobs have run? Also, just curious, what context do cronjobs run under?
This week, Ubuntu froze completely two times. The screen still displays but mouse doesn't move and I can't access anything.
Ubuntu freezes completely, becoming entirely unresponsive. The only way to use it again is to turn off the power to reboot. Both times the same thing happened. All of the sudden, the wireless connection to the Internet is lost, ubuntu keeps trying to connect and asks for password and some seconds later then it freezes. I don't understand why the wireless connection fails, since it works fine after I reboot PC and I am close enough to router, I never had wireless problem on Windows 7 for example. I also do not understand why this loss of connection implies ubuntu freeze.
One thing at a time:
First let's give you a user based bin folder:
cd ~/ && mkdir bin
You want to use crontab. Let's start with something really simple:
* * * * * touch /tmp/testing.txt
Okay, so that works
Now let's try running a script that does the same
* * * * * /home/usernam...
I manually downloaded and installed Sublime Text 2 (instead of adding the repository and installing via apt-get install) and I'm having some trouble getting gnome to find the high res icons for sublime.
I extracted the application to /usr/lib/sublime-text
Added the following executable script as...
Is is possible to get a patch included in the current release? If so, how? http://askubuntu.com/questions/149176/is-is-possible-to-get-a-patch-included-in-the-current-release-if-so-how?atw=1 #packaging
@MarcoCeppi - I know at some point it was indicated that someone, somewhere was using restricted shells to improve security. I thought you might be interested in this pen-testing.sans.org/blog/2012/06/06/…
sorry, was away - not at all... the file was simply what I wrote above:
ntpdate-debian date > ~/william_tmp
will try to change
ok, changed it to /usr/sbing/ntpdate-debian ... not sure about the second line though... it is still /tmp/william_tmp - thought that should work :( (forget the edit I made in the above example)
I am on Ubuntu 12.04 and installed gnome-shell, but I found the top bar is larger than it normally is, how can I change its size?
One thing at a time:
First let's give you a user based bin folder:
cd ~/ && mkdir bin
You want to use crontab. Let's start with something really simple:
* * * * * touch /tmp/testing.txt
Okay, so that works
Now let's try running a script that does the same
* * * * * /home/usernam...
