Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 bookmarks
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 21:18 +0100, Mac wrote: Can anyone advise how best to revert Hardy to Firefox 2? sudo apt-get install firefox-2 ? Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 18:03 +0100, Tim Dobson wrote: Where possible, please use the torrent. :) Which bizzarely contains multiple copies of the video. I am motivated to _not_ use torrent in this situation for this reason. The torrent is considerably larger than one single video. Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 bookmarks
There are a few similar apps... I use one on my desktop with ffx3. I'll get the name when i get home. On 5/7/08, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 21:18 +0100, Mac wrote: Can anyone advise how best to revert Hardy to Firefox 2? sudo apt-get install firefox-2 ? Cheers, Al. -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company No. 6135915 Registered in England And Northern Ireland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video
Tim Dobson wrote: == RMS Video: == The video of last week's Manchester Free Software, (in collaboration with the BCS and IET) talk by Richard Stallman has been released, thanks to Andrew John Hughes. You can find a torrent and http mirrors for the video on the Manchester Free Software Website. Where possible, please use the torrent. :) For more information please visit: http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/2008/05/06/free-software-in-ethics-and-society-richard-stallman-manchester-1st-may/ Thanks for the heads up! It is very informative, also entertaining, and a significant event in my appreciation of free software. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] file conv question: pdf to prc?
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 10:36:15PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: hi anyone know how i can convert a pdf file to a prc file in buntu or online? What do you actually mean by prc file? Some quick googling found three options: corel presentation file, palm resource control (usually an executable, sometimes used for ebooks) and mobipocket ebook file. Any of those is a possibility for what you want I suppose, with the mobipocket ebook being the most probable. I found a couple of programs that would read mobipocket ebooks on Linux but nothing that'll write them, http://www.angelfire.com/ego2/idleloop/mbp_reader.html has some details on the format that might be enough to get a quick script together to wrap some text in the right format for the reader, the more of the formatting you want to keep the more work that'll be. Mobipocket do offer free as in beer creation tools for windows. Is this for getting pdfs onto your phone? If so I had an idea about that: there are tools to convert pdfs to HTML (pdftohtml) or plain text (pdftotext) and some other formats (I use pdftoppm every so often to pull diagrams out of lecture notes) and GIMP can read pdfs and save them in any image format you like. Images are a bit of a pain on a small screen as you'll probably end up scrolling around a lot as the text wont reflow to fit (though you have the same problem with the original pdfs), but dumping the text out to plain text or HTML looses a lot of the formatting. Which is best probably depends on the files you're working with. Hopefully some of that will help, Robert Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED]www.ormiret.com People who think they know what they are doing are especially annoying to those of us who do. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video
On 5/7/08, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 18:03 +0100, Tim Dobson wrote: Where possible, please use the torrent. :) Which bizzarely contains multiple copies of the video. I am motivated to _not_ use torrent in this situation for this reason. The torrent is considerably larger than one single video. I just unticked all the larger video files within my torrent client and just downloaded the low ogg file, which is only about 130mb. But it might be easier to have seperate torrent files for each video quality. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Heron Tee shirts available again (2nd edition)
Heron Tee shirts available again (2nd edition) in the canonical store. I was sad to find I missed the first lot, it is such a nice heron. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] weird login/sudo problem
Hi, I've been running Hardy Heron for a couple of weeks now and am fairly happy with it (apart from PulseAudio, which I am choosing to ignore) but I have just noticed something odd. When I try to run a command with sudo (e.g. sudo apt-get-upate) I am asked for my password. I enter the password, and the command runs with the appropriate sudo'd privileges. On closer inspection, though, it looks like I get a error (literally, 'Error!') right after I enter the password. I assume authentication works ok as the commend still runs just fine. What could the error be? I am also getting a dialog box - empty apart from the word 'Error' - when I log in via GDM. Again, the login works fine so I can;t see what the error dialog relates to. The only thing I can think of is that I installed Likewise to join a Windows domain. Could the system be trying to authenticate against that as well? Thanks in advance for your help. Stuart Houghton Technical Support Officer Amnesty International UK The Human Rights Action Centre London EC2A 3EA image/gifimage/gif-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Re: Firefox 3 bookmarks
An option would be to use Foxmarks syncronisation from addons.mozilla.org... It was my understanding that Foxmarks has not been migrated to FF3 yet? Sean. It's out in beta. I joined the beta programme, but it converts the existing FM data to a new format, which didn't work for me when I tried it. It may be working now, but given FF3's problems, I went back to FF2 and Hardy has been great every since*. Lee *Well, after removing the evolution-notifier and leaving Tracker to index everything at max speed for a few hours... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing
2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything. Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or was that a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just locks, no keyboard commands do anything and while I can move the mouse the system needs a hard restart to fix the problem. Usually (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice open. I have hardy-proposed active btw. Tom Anyone else had similar issues? James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video
2008/5/7 Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Which bizzarely contains multiple copies of the video. I am motivated to _not_ use torrent in this situation for this reason. The torrent is considerably larger than one single video. The torrent contains: 20080501-rms.ogg 20080501-rms_med.ogg 20080501-rms_low.ogg 20080501-rms.spx Most torrent clients allow you to choose which files you want. Sorry if this wasn't clear Tim -- www.tdobson.net If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 12:48 PM, James Tyrrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or was that a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just locks, no keyboard commands do anything and while I can move the mouse the system needs a hard restart to fix the problem. Usually (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice open. I have seen similar from OpenOffice when using certain GTK themes. To fix I removed openoffice.org-gtk, which results in an ugly OpenOffice.org, but a stable computer. I have no idea if this problem is still there though, I experienced it back with Feisty on my Dad's laptop. Matthew -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing
2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: James Tyrrell wrote: 2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything. Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or was that a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just locks, no keyboard commands do anything and while I can move the mouse the system needs a hard restart to fix the problem. Usually (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice open. No, I wasn't able to move my mouse either, it was a complete freeze. Sounds like a different issue to mine then, I was wondering for both Thomas' and my sake, what is the best way of debugging and finding the cause of these issues, I mean we can't just look at the terminal output as the screen locks. Where should one go after the reboot, or what tool should one set going in the background to log the issue as it occurs, otherwise it's quite difficult to write up a bug report. System hangs isn't that descriptive. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 13:03 +0100, Tim Dobson wrote: The torrent contains: 20080501-rms.ogg 20080501-rms_med.ogg 20080501-rms_low.ogg 20080501-rms.spx Most torrent clients allow you to choose which files you want. Sorry if this wasn't clear Unfortunately the default one in Ubuntu Gutsy and below doesn't. Transmission, the client in Ubuntu Hardy does however. Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing
Hi, On 7 May 2008, at 13:24, James Tyrrell wrote: snip Sounds like a different issue to mine then, I was wondering for both Thomas' and my sake, what is the best way of debugging and finding the cause of these issues, I mean we can't just look at the terminal output as the screen locks. If you have another box handy you can always ssh into the 'frozen' machine (provided it's running an sshd (install openssh-server if not)) and check the system logs (in /var/log). Running 'dmesg' might also give you something more to go on. Cheers Huw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] how do i check what DVD writer i have installed? Hardy!!1
Hi, I have two questions this one leading to anotherboth dvd related :) So how do i check what dvd writer i have installed? system monitor? thanks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Heron Tee shirts available again (2nd edition)
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 11:50 +0100, alan c wrote: Heron Tee shirts available again (2nd edition) in the canonical store. I was sad to find I missed the first lot, it is such a nice heron. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Thanks for the heads up! I was only looking at them a couple of days ago and I too was rather saddened that they were sold out. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] how do i check what DVD writer i have installed? Hardy!!1
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 17:37 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: Hi, I have two questions this one leading to anotherboth dvd related :) So how do i check what dvd writer i have installed? system monitor? thanks Hi, You can try installing gnome-device-manager. It's not perfect, but it'll get you started. For the CLI fans there's lshw or grepping through dmesg output. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Sudden trouble with Hardy repositories
Hi guys Suddenly last week I started getting errors when running the update in synaptic, I don't think that I changed anything... here is the error - Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release Unable to find expected entry web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-updates/Release Unable to find expected entry web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) Failed to fetch http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy-security/Release Unable to find expected entry web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index file (malformed Release file?) Some index files failed to download, they have been ignored, or old ones used instead. Thanks --Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 bookmarks
I use Foxmarks with FF3.. there is a Beta testing team running Works fine Rgds Ken On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 07:30 +0100, Sean Anderson wrote: An option would be to use Foxmarks syncronisation from addons.mozilla.org... It was my understanding that Foxmarks has not been migrated to FF3 yet? Sean. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Re: Re: Firefox 3 bookmarks
LeeGroups wrote: Mac wrote: Can anyone advise how best to revert Hardy to Firefox 2? LeeGroups wrote: remove firefox firefox-3.0 install firefox-2 Mmm... Sounds way too simple... (I wonder what's going to go wrong!) ;-) Mac Nothing, I did it a couple of weeks ago... :) Mmm... So, I tried sudo aptitude remove firefox firefox-3.0 and got ## The following packages are BROKEN: firefox-3.0-gnome-support ubufox The following packages will be REMOVED: firefox firefox-3.0 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 0B of archives. After unpacking 3641kB will be freed. The following packages have unmet dependencies: ubufox: Depends: firefox but it is not installable or firefox-3.0 but it is not installable or firefox-2 but it is not installable firefox-3.0-gnome-support: Depends: firefox-3.0 (= 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3) but it is not installable Resolving dependencies... The following actions will resolve these dependencies: Remove the following packages: firefox-3.0-gnome-support firefox-gnome-support ubuntu-desktop Install the following packages: firefox-2 [2.0.0.14+2nobinonly-0ubuntu1 (hardy)] Score is 248 Accept this solution? [Y/n/q/?] ## Well, I was a not very confident about agreeing to the removal of ubuntu-desktop: it looks a bit important. Anyone got any advice? Of course, perhaps Al's solution avoids the problem: just install Firefox-2 alongside FF3. TIA Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing
Hi I have been having similar problems with 7.1 locks up solid when trying to retrieve mail from talktalk or when trying to watch Utube items on Totem. problem seemed to start after installing the plugin required to view Utube. I have also been trying to configure send mail so this could be conflicting. Any suggestions appreciated. Regards Colum. -Original Message- From: James Tyrrell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Wed, 7 May 2008 12:48 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing 2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hi all, Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything. Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or was that a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just locks, no keyboard commands do anything and while I can move the mouse the system needs a hard restart to fix the problem. Usually (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice open. ? I have hardy-proposed active btw. Tom Anyone else had similar issues? James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] how do i check what DVD writer i have installed? Hardy!!1
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 19:50 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: any command i can use in terminal..without having to install anything? 2008/5/7 Stephen Drake [EMAIL PROTECTED]: For the CLI fans there's lshw or grepping through dmesg output. CLI = Command Linux Interface ~ the terminal. Run lshw or dmesg to discover hardware info. Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Re: Re: Re: Firefox 3 bookmarks
LeeGroups wrote: big snip Ah, sorry, I manually removed firefox-3.0-gnome-support and firefox-gnome-support too. snip Just - sudo apt-get remove firefox-3.0-gnome-support firefox-gnome-support and it'll be OK... Ubufox just tailor FF to Ubuntu, it works with FF2 just fine. Lee See! I said it sounded too simple! ;-) Anyway, I did the manual removal of the -gnome-support stuff, as you suggested, and then firefox / firefox-3.0 removed with no complaints. I now have FF2 up and running in Hardy, and sharing my bookmarks on the LAN with machines running Gutsy and Debian Etch, just as it should. Thanks for your help. Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast Episode 5 out!
Hi all.. We released episode 5 of the podcast today. Here's the link:- http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/05/07/s01e05-everybody-come-aboard/ As always feedback and comments are welcome, both positive and negative. Thanks, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
