Alistair Buxton

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Oct 21	awarded	Revival
Oct 21	comment	Is chroot the right choice for my use case? Perhaps. It depends what kind of abuse you expect from the server admins :) - in either a VM or a chroot, they could install "bad" things, and generally do anything they could do on the main system. It may be easier to clean up after them though, if they are limited. Also note that you can't usually nest VMs, so it's out of the question if you have a cheap VPS; you'd need a dedicated server or a special type of VPS. That limitation does not apply to chroot though.
Oct 21	comment	Is chroot the right choice for my use case? Also, you don't need a full OS with a chroot, which you do with a VM. However, having those extra OS bits around makes it easier to deal with (eg upgrades).
Oct 21	comment	Is chroot the right choice for my use case? Yes, because a chroot shares the same filesystem and memory as the main system. The trade off is that it can exhaust both unless you make extra arrangements to prevent it.
Oct 21	comment	Can't delete file even as root Ah, root can't look into your gvfs, so try without sudo. However, since the file wasn't in that folder, it probably wouldn't have worked anyway.
Oct 21	comment	Using Unity Lenses outside of Unity? Lenses do indeed use D-bus. Try reading this in a mirror: wiki.ubuntu.com/Unity/Lenses Also note the difference between a lense and a scope. I suspect you might want to interface directly to the scopes as they are the bits that return the search results.
Oct 21	answered	Can't delete file even as root
Oct 21	comment	Is there an Ubuntu forum where honesty is permitted? Actually scratch that, seems they don't even have the pretence of talking about Ubuntu since sounder was shut down :P
Oct 21	comment	Gnome extensions stay in the list after being removed Did you log out, and then log in again?
Oct 21	comment	How do I make a .sh file run in terminal by default - problem using .desktop file You can't do this with just a .desktop. However, you could add a context menu item as described here: askubuntu.com/questions/88480/…
Oct 21	comment	What features were lost in 12.10 when the Alternate CD was cut? Maybe someone wants to dig through this and make a list: lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel/2012-August/…
Oct 21	revised	What exactly is a chroot? Is it similar to a simultaneous dual boot? added 530 characters in body
Oct 21	answered	What exactly is a chroot? Is it similar to a simultaneous dual boot?
Oct 21	answered	Is chroot the right choice for my use case?
Oct 20	comment	How to create a local webapp userscript It still applies to 12.04.
Oct 19	answered	How to configure apache / php / postfix website emails when using vhosts?
Oct 19	accepted	How to configure apache / php / postfix website emails when using vhosts?
Oct 19	answered	what's the difference between the various printer connections?
Oct 19	comment	Older GPU: Is it possible to enable Unity 2D in Quantal Quetzal to fix slowness in Unity It uses GPU acceleration where available.
Oct 19	comment	Why does webapps open another browser icon? Probably not without patching + rebuilding unity-webapps-runner, or persuading the developers that adding this as an option is a good idea. The former would probably be easier.