by kad1r
11. March 2010 18:00
"In this post I’m going to list 16 things that I think could be improved in Lucid. I’m going to try my best to address the issues in detail and offer solutions. Of course, all of this is also a matter of opinion too. The object of this post is to make you think about ways we could improve each one.I’ll try to link to bugs where there are bugs, but a lot of these are quite new design decisions only present in 10.04 and hence don’t have bugs filed.
"All of these screenshots were taken about two hours after I installed Lucid Lynx alpha 3, daily build from Saturday March 6th 2010. Read: after the UI freeze.
"Window Controls"
"There are two things wrong with the new window controls in the Lynx.
"Firstly, the controls are on the left. This is bad because:
* Ubuntu users are used to them being on the right
* Windows converts to Ubuntu will have yet another reason why they don’t want to switch
* There is no particular reason for moving them to the left, it’s change for the sake of change
* It makes windows unbalanced (window controls, window options, window title, sidebars and breadcrumbs etc are now all on the left)"
Orijinal article: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/03/16-things-that-could-be-improved-in.html
by kad1r
27. February 2010 13:07
Affected systems:
Ubuntu 6.06 LTS
Ubuntu 8.04 LTS
Ubuntu 8.10
Ubuntu 9.04
Ubuntu 9.10
It was discovered that sudo did not properly validate the path for the
'sudoedit' pseudo-command. A local attacker could exploit this to execute
arbitrary code as root if sudo was configured to allow the attacker to use
sudoedit. The sudoedit pseudo-command is not used in the default
installation of Ubuntu. (CVE-2010-0426)
It was discovered that sudo did not reset group permissions when the
'runas_default' configuration option was used. A local attacker could
exploit this to escalate group privileges if sudo was configured to allow
the attacker to run commands under the runas_default account. The
runas_default configuration option is not used in the default installation
of Ubuntu. This issue affected Ubuntu 8.04 LTS, 8.10 and 9.04.
(CVE-2010-0427)
by kad1r
22. February 2010 16:18
Sometimes your nfts disk is unavailable. In this stuation you can use ntfsfix command.
You can apply the following commands.
sudo apt-get install ntfsprogs
sudo ntfsfix /dev/your_ntfs_partition
by kad1r
26. January 2010 16:36
Write to the terminal
sudo nano /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy
or press Alt + F2 key combinations and paste this
gksudo gedit /usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.devicekit.disks.policy
Then, find this line
auth_admin_keep
and replace with
yes
Now it's ok. Enjoy.
by kad1r
11. January 2010 10:22
Ubuntu Tweak 0.5 has been released.
Ubuntu Tweak is an application to config Ubuntu easier for everyone. It provides many useful desktop and system options that the default desktop environment doesn't provide.
To install:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/ppa
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install ubuntu-tweak
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
or just download and install manuel.
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