Canonical calliing home?

[vinnywright]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

From /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf

# Default config file for Debian's popularity-contest package.
#
# Local overrides are in /etc/popularity-contest.conf

witch is ware it seams to be set

vinny@desktop:~$ cat /etc/popularity-contest.conf
# Config file for Debian's popularity-contest package.
#
# To change this file, use:
# dpkg-reconfigure popularity-contest
#
# You can also edit it by hand, if you so choose.
#
# See /usr/share/popularity-contest/default.conf for more info
# on the options.

MY_HOSTID="f2031160xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxde7"
PARTICIPATE="yes"
USEHTTP="yes"
DAY="3"
vinny@desktop:~$

ok so I xed up the ID

SO now I'm in this software popularity contest AND the canonical-census

VINNY

[Yuri sss]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

As long as it's an optional package and everyone can decide for themselves if they want it installed... Don't care.

[MoonRise]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

As long as it's an optional package and everyone can decide for themselves if they want it installed... Don't care.

[Ole Juul]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

As long as it's an optional package and everyone can decide for themselves if they want it installed... Don't care.

Unfortunately you can't decide for yourself because it it release specific. I would like to install it, but it is not available for me.

[Snowhog]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

Unfortunately you can't decide for yourself because it it release specific. I would like to install it, but it is not available for me.

Not so. See “popularity-contest” package in Ubuntu

[Ole Juul]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

Not so. See “popularity-contest” package in Ubuntu

Haha. Thanks Snowhog. It was the first package that I was looking for, but this one will do. I looked in my packet manager and there it is: "popularity-contest". The reason I am laughing is that is says installed! I have no idea how long it's been like that. Go figure.

[Fintan]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

BTHW with canonacal-census installed doing:

sudo update-initramfs -u

will give:

fintan@fintanws2:~$ sudo update-initramfs -u
update-initramfs: Generating /boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-24-generic
.: 6: Can't open /scripts/casper-functions

More here:
http://kubuntuforums.net/forums/inde...113006.new#new

[Snowhog]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

I find that 'interesting.' I 'turned on' the feature (see Reply #26) on August 22, and I've had a kernel update since then (August 26), and I didn't have any problem with the system updating initramfs.

[verndog]

Re: Canonical calliing home?

I voted I like the idea, because I don't see Canonical being an evil company. If I did I wouldn't be using their products.

Now if it were perhaps Microsoft or Google, I would have seconds thoughts. Not that their evil either, just second thoughts.

[mmmmna]

Re: Canonical calling home?

I personally make no bones about my preferences: "Linux FTW", if you ask me directly.

If you read my sigs in forum posts, I usually keep them updated, so there you go again, I'm telling you directly.

OTOH, Nepomuk got yanked because I do not KNOW what is being passed back to .... wherever that semantic desktop data is going, I do not KNOW if every bit is securely transmitted, and finally, I was not ASKED if I wanted this erstwhile feature added to my system.

I left M$ for many reasons, including because I was not liking the 'phone home' thing in Windows Media Player back in my W98SE days (and M$ keeps adding the phone home things to other software), so why in #$%@ would I want to let Canonical just decide for itself what actions are acceptable in my behalf?

Not what I wanted to read tonight.