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kitchehave any of you thought about using fmask or dmask in the docs instead of umask?01:06
crimsunmore context?01:07
kitchewith ntfs and vfat, all files will have the executable bit set because those filesystems don't understand the concept.  The dmask allows you to keep the +x on directories, and fmask to remove it from files.01:09
nixternalkitche: is it possible for you to do a write up on the wiki to help explain further? hopefully we can get it tested and possibly use it for documentation purpuses..that kind of information may be usefull to some users01:12
crimsunfmask and dmask aren't documented in mount(8) for NTFS.01:12
nixternalcrimsun: I have read some ntfs howtos that document what he is talking about I believe01:16
nixternalI am not 100% sure because, opposite of what you and hobbsee believe, I don't have NTFS to test :)01:16
kitcheI think umask needs to be used for mount but it's more for fstab I believe01:17
crimsunmount(8) options are the ones used in fstab(5)01:18
kitchehmm fmask and dmask does seem like fat only but it seems to work for ntfs also01:21
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Tom47not sure if this is the right place but to at least one degree https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Installation/FromWindows needs a change to reflect feisty01:40
crimsunyou may log in using your LP credentials and change it.01:42
Tom47crimsun not certain i would be willing to back my jusdgment01:45
crimsunthen modify it, and ping me to check when you've finished01:46
Tom47crimsun have made the change i noticed .... upon reflection it prob also needs an update to reflect vista (ie beyond XP) but i don't have vista (nor a live XP for that matter)02:06
crimsunI have access to Vista and can check.02:06
Tom47ok ty ... well thats a first for me .... always good to do something new02:07
kitcheI m use to writing documention lol used to write it all the time when I worked on Source Mage02:08
Tom47its many years since i documented systems .... anyoe remember COBOL ;-)02:08
crimsunlooks fine to me.02:08
Tom47ty02:09
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JanCTom47: I learned COBOL at school, writing programs on paper with little squares & some fatter lines to mark the important collumns...02:18
JanCbut that's about it  :)02:18
Tom47ah the joy of sunbmitting it to the keypuch area for cards02:19
Tom47gives me the horrors thinking abt it02:19
JanCthere were no punch cards anymore in my time at school (early 1990s)02:19
Tom47it was 1969 for me sad to say02:20
JanCbut we got the horror stories from teachers who accidentally droped a stack of unnumbered punchcards  ;)02:20
JanC1969 actually sounds like a great time for learning CS :)02:21
JanCyou know, back when some people still understood everything about computers  :)02:22
crimsunback when there were serious operating systems problems to resolve02:22
Tom47its an addiction02:23
crimsunI can only imagine the excitement surrounding semaphores, monitors, etc. - things we take for granted today02:23
JanClike, "we have 2050 bytes of code and only 2048 bytes of memory"?  ;)02:24
Tom47Granite Rockx - tm Stoneage clinkernet start-up02:25
JanCwell, some people still question the usefulness of things like semaphores02:25
crimsunheh, my mentor at IBM (Brian Clark, who's a Fellow) told me lots of neat stories about their systems fixes :)02:27
crimsunJanC: sure, but to date no one has devised as nice a solution.02:28
JanCmany people just (try to) avoid the problem02:29
Tom47Sema4 - tm new-wave communications technologies02:29
crimsunyeah, a lot of programmers fall back to single-threaded solutions02:30
Tom47heheheh02:31
JanCor at least "limited threaded" solutions02:32
Tom47Sema4 have flagged an upcoming micro-warp release02:33
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somerville32Hiya05:33
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bdmurrayshould bug 86058 be opened or fix released?12:02
ubotuLaunchpad bug 86058 in xubuntu-docs "Minor spelling correction - "Add Applications -> Synaptic"" [Undecided,Fix committed]  https://launchpad.net/bugs/8605812:02

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