[Bug 49127] Re: Long file names are truncated without warning

2009-01-27 Thread Jeffrey Theobald
Just confirming that while there is a dialog telling you that filenames are too long, it won't tell you which filenames are too long and magically helps you. I also want to second the comment about it truncating filenames that are too short (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-cd-

[Bug 91210] Re: Error during burning iso image on DVD+R

2009-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Theobald
For what it's worth I have found from experience that this problem tends to be load related and affects both K3B and Brasero. For some reason neither of them are getting the priority they need when burning while the system is too heavily loaded. For example I used to have this regularly happen wi

[Bug 295601] Re: Ndiswrapper broken with 8.10 Intrepid

2009-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Theobald
I also had this problem and in the end gave up, because upgrading to Intrepid killed my sound, wireless network and graphics drivers and I spent hours trying to fix them. I ended up re-installing the entire thing fresh and found that ndiswrapper worked more smoothly than it ever has before. Clear

[Bug 288626] Re: Solution Found: Failed to Initiate NVIDIA graphics device on Intrepid Ibex

2009-02-12 Thread Jeffrey Theobald
I spent HOURS working on this, doing all the various guides, uninstalling, reinstalling and purging everything more times than I can count. I tried using envy, using my old configs from before the upgrade and so many more things. In the end I did a clean install (because there were many many hard

[Bug 301189] Re: Vuze's updater will not upgrade to 4.0.0.4

2009-02-13 Thread Jeffrey Theobald
As already stated several times, completely disabling the built in updater is not really a sensible solution. If your definitive answer is to not use the package manager version if you want auto updates, then you really need to think about what package management is meant to do. The whole reason