[Maverick] linux kernel 2.6.34-4.11 uploaded (ABI bump)

2010-05-25 Thread Leann Ogasawara
We have uploaded a new Maverick linux kernel. This enables the -omap kernel flavor, some config and delta review changes, and also some kernel hardening security bits. Please note the ABI bump: https://www.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/2.6.34-4.11 Thanks, Leann -- Ubuntu-mobile

Re: Testing/Laptop

2010-05-25 Thread Ara Pulido
On 05/21/2010 09:42 PM, Martin Webster wrote: Hello, I'd like to contribute to the Laptop Testing Project. This is just a quick note to say hi. I can test the following laptops: * HP Mini 5102 * HP Compaq nx 6125 (while it lasts) * Toshiba Satellite L300-1AP I've followed the

Re: Testing/Laptop

2010-05-25 Thread Sergio Zanchetta
2010/5/25 Ara Pulido a...@ubuntu.com: On 05/21/2010 09:42 PM, Martin Webster wrote: Hello, I'd like to contribute to the Laptop Testing Project. This is just a quick note to say hi. I can test the following laptops: * HP Mini 5102 * HP Compaq nx 6125 (while it lasts) * Toshiba Satellite

Re: Hello

2010-05-25 Thread Vince Marsters
Hi, Just adding my introductions and hellos... Like Andy I am from the UK but left education a long time ago. I have been an active Microsoft Technical beta tester (the ones that get releases not pushed to the public) in the past but have been following Ubuntu for years. Finally with Lucid I

Re: [ubuntu-in] open office crash

2010-05-25 Thread Shri L Mundada
The shortcuts do not get deleted. I only delete .openoffice.org (hidden) folder from my home folder. You can then start openoffice from the menu. On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:16:06 +0530 wrote Really surprise/wonder. when you deleted the openoffice.org folder - everything including short-cut

Re: [ubuntu-in] open office crash

2010-05-25 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Thanks for the clarification. hidden means marked as ~ openoffice.org? On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:04 PM, Shri L Mundada mundadas...@rediffmail.comwrote: The shortcuts do not get deleted. I only delete .openoffice.org (hidden) folder from my home folder. You can then start openoffice from the

Re: [ubuntu-in] main ibus se hindi use karta hoon aur inscript keyword use karta hoon.

2010-05-25 Thread Nitesh Mistry
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:04:06PM +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: Yes, you did a great job. Can you send some sweets we will distribute these sweets on this great occasion That was very sarcastic. Please understand the the original poster may be a new-comer and not conversant with the

Re: [ubuntu-in] main ibus se hindi use karta hoon aur inscript keyword use karta hoon.

2010-05-25 Thread Nitesh Mistry
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Nitesh Mistry mail...@mistrynitesh.netwrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:04:06PM +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: Yes, you did a great job. Can you send some sweets we will distribute these sweets on this great occasion That was very sarcastic. Please

Re: [ubuntu-in] Indian Languages on Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Narendra Diwate
@Ram: Thanks a ton. That was helpfull. How do we type in Indic Languages on a standard keyboard. Do we need to use a overlay on the keyboard to show the various charecters or any other way. Also whats SCIM, IBUS etc ? Regards Narendra Diwate On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 23:12, Ramnarayan.K

Re: [ubuntu-in] Indian Languages on Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Sriranga(77yrsold)
Yes SCIM - where phonetic keyboard layout for each lang available to choose. SCIM is installed in ubuntu as default. On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.comwrote: @Ram: Thanks a ton. That was helpfull. How do we type in Indic Languages on a standard

Re: [ubuntu-in] main ibus se hindi use karta hoon aur inscript keyword use karta hoon.

2010-05-25 Thread Narendra Diwate
-BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GB/J/IT/OTW d+(-) s+:+: a- C+ UL+++ P? L+ E? W++ N? o? K? w--- O? M-- V? PS+() PE(++)(-) Y+ PGP+ t 5? X- R tv+ b+ DI D G e+++ h-- !r y? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- Pardon my Ignorance. But what is this GEEK CODE? -- ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Indian Languages on Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:54 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: @Ram: Thanks a ton. That was helpfull. How do we type in Indic Languages on a standard keyboard. Do we need to use a overlay on the keyboard to show the various charecters or any other way. Welcome and glad to be

[ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Narendra Diwate
I am just reading the latest DW weekly and in it a interview they say that deleting the contents of /usr directory will give the base system as was installed or something close to it. I just checked my /usr and ITS BIG. 1.8GB and 115000 files in it. I do not have too many programs installed, have

Re: [ubuntu-in] main ibus se hindi use karta hoon aur inscript keyword use karta hoon.

2010-05-25 Thread Nitesh Mistry
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 02:58:56PM +0530, Narendra Diwate wrote: -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GB/J/IT/OTW d+(-) s+:+: a- C+ UL+++ P? L+ E? W++ N? o? K? w--- O? M-- V? PS+() PE(++)(-) Y+ PGP+ t 5? X- R tv+ b+ DI D G e+++ h-- !r y? --END GEEK CODE BLOCK--

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan
On 25 May 2010 15:27, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: I am just reading the latest DW weekly and in it a interview they say that deleting the contents of /usr directory will give the base system as was installed or something close to it. I just checked my /usr and ITS BIG.

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Nitesh Mistry
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 03:27:00PM +0530, Narendra Diwate wrote: I am just reading the latest DW weekly and in it a interview they say that deleting the contents of /usr directory will give the base system as was installed or something close to it. I just checked my /usr and ITS BIG. 1.8GB

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Narendra Diwate
To all: This is just an academic exercise and I am not running out of space on my HD. So advice on the lines of unistall apps, clear apt cache, computer janitor are already known to me. Just keep the focus on What will happen if /usr is cleared. Pardon me if this comes across as rough. That is

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: Just keep the focus on What will happen if /usr is cleared. Simply enough all the programs which are in the /usr will not be available anymore. To know what type of data are usually stored in /usr have a look at

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Onkar Shinde
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: I am just reading the latest DW weekly and in it a interview they say that deleting the contents of /usr directory will give the base system as was installed or something close to it. I just checked my /usr and

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Ritesh Sinha
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: To all: This is just an academic exercise and I am not running out of space on my HD. So advice on the lines of unistall apps, clear apt cache, computer janitor are already known to me. Just keep the focus on

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 16:44, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: I am just reading the latest DW weekly and in it a interview they say that deleting the contents of /usr directory will give the base

Re: [ubuntu-in] Sarcasm Software (was main ibus se hindi use karta hoon aur inscript keyword use karta hoon.)

2010-05-25 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hah finally something to make us even more sarcastic *** Just what we need: sarcasm software http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18956-just-what-we-need-sarcasm-software.html?DCMP=OTC-rssnsref=online-news On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Nitesh Mistry mail...@mistrynitesh.net wrote: On Tue,

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: I just checked my /usr and ITS BIG. 1.8GB and 115000 files in it. I do not have too many programs installed, have only one user on the

Re: [ubuntu-in] main ibus se hindi use karta hoon aur inscript keyword use karta hoon.

2010-05-25 Thread narendra sisodiya
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Nitesh Mistry mail...@mistrynitesh.netwrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:04:06PM +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: Yes, you did a great job. Can you send some sweets we will distribute these sweets on this great occasion That was very sarcastic. Really ?

Re: [ubuntu-in] main ibus se hindi use karta hoon aur inscript keyword use karta hoon.

2010-05-25 Thread Nitesh Mistry
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 07:23:17PM +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 2:30 PM, Nitesh Mistry mail...@mistrynitesh.netwrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 01:04:06PM +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: Yes, you did a great job. Can you send some sweets we will distribute

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Narendra Diwate
Excuse me please the following is my /usr /usr - 9.2 GB /usr/Share - 5.6 GB (of which icons only are 1.9 GB) /usr/lib - 2.5 GB /usr/src - 601 MB my entire root directory is /dev/sda712G am using Ultimate edition 2.5 (based on 9.10) and i laid my hands on 30 gig of

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: I just checked my /usr and ITS BIG. 1.8GB and 115000 files in it. I do not have too many programs installed, have only one user on the

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Mehul Ved
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: Excuse me please the following is my /usr /usr - 9.2 GB /usr/Share - 5.6 GB (of which icons only are 1.9 GB) /usr/lib - 2.5 GB /usr/src - 601 MB This is how my ubuntu's /usr looks like $ du --si --max-depth=1 /usr

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Ignore last mail, sent by mistake due to a temporary internet outage ram On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Onkar Shinde onkarshi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Narendra Diwate

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: Excuse me please the following is my /usr /usr - 9.2 GB /usr/Share - 5.6 GB (of which icons only are 1.9 GB) /usr/lib - 2.5 GB /usr/src - 601

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Srihari k
@narendra interesting experiment.. *Rename your /usr* and give it a try. I am going to do that once i get to my computer. On 25/05/2010, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:11 PM, Mehul Ved mehul.n@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 10:01 PM,

Re: [ubuntu-in] Deleting contents of /usr directory - Implications

2010-05-25 Thread Carthik Sharma
If you're thinking of doing away with /usr - don't. At least /usr/lib/ will make sure you regret it. /usr/local is expendable if you dont have any software installed in it. /usr/share has icons, fonts, and a whole lot of other things that you need. /usr/bin and /usr/sbin are essential too. Just a

[ubuntu-in] Problem with Places

2010-05-25 Thread Moz
Hi All, I recently upgraded from Hardy to Lucid on my desktop (2 GB RAM, 64 bit). I have separate / and /home partitions. When I started the machine, things worked fine except that it had older themes and so on. However, the biggest problem is when I click on Places and then some folder from

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Ubuntu vanille - non-vanille

2010-05-25 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
On 10-05-25 12:18 AM, Michael Faille wrote: [...] En effet, je me questionne a savoir pourquoi /usr/local est sous utilisé dans ubuntu. Voila une idée je vais soumettre à http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ car cela doit etre une norme pour ubuntu quand un dépot tierce ou personnel est utilisé.

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
On 10-05-25 01:07 AM, Steve Nadeau wrote: Bonjour Gilbert! avez-vous essayé en installant le module: linux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic ??? Petit détail, le CD ne contient pas la dernière version du kernel... Même avec backports, le CD live ne permet pas de rebooterpour tester

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] WARNING à répétition

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Nadeau
Bonjour Gilbert! Il faut faire attention avec les outils Ubuntu Tweak et Ailurus et Bleachbit, tu laisses entre les mains de logiciels faire des choses automatiques dans ton système, à part modifier des caractéristiques visuelles et ajouter des logiciels, je me méfierais de les utiliser pour

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Ubuntu vanille - non-vanille

2010-05-25 Thread Michael Faille
Tu sembles avoir des exemples concrets d'applications qui ne suivent pas ces normes. Lesquelles ? Si tu veux faire avancer ça, je suggère de soumettre un rapport de bug dans ces applications. Sur Brainstorm ta suggestion telle que je la comprends aura peu ou aucune chance d'être validée. En

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Gilbert Dion
Qu'est-ce que c'est au juste les backports et qu'est-ce que ça fait? J'ai pas encore compris ça... Gilbert = Membre de FACIL Pour l'appropriation collective de l'informatique libre Le 25 mai 2010 07:32, Fabian Rodriguez magic...@ubuntu.com a écrit : On 10-05-25 01:07 AM, Steve

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Nadeau
Bonjour Gilbert! il faut activer toutes les cases à cocher dans les dépôts sous l'onglet ACTUALISATION (je suis en espagnol, je ne suis pas sûr de ce qui est écrit en français...) c'est le 3e onglet, j'ai aussi de coché tous les éléments du premier onglet à l'exception du code source. bonne

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] WARNING à répétition

2010-05-25 Thread Gilbert Dion
Ouais, je ne sais plus dans lequel c'était, les indications n'étant pas très claires (mal traduites), je suis parvenu à supprimer le noyau courant et à préserver les anciens... Je me sers d'UTweak comme second magasin de logiciels (et encore, on y va une fois ou deux au début, puis c'est tout).

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Gilbert Dion
Même les logiciels en pré-version (lucid-proposed)? C'est pas courir au-devant de problèmes? En tout cas, lucid-backports est coché, j'ai installé inux-backports-modules-wireless-lucid-generic, mais ça n'a rien changé. C'est toujours Mot de passe erroné. Un backport, c'est appliquer des

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Steve Nadeau
Bonjour Gilbert! moi en tous cas, je n'ai pas de problème et j'ai toujours tout coché car je veux avoir les dernières versions... Pour wireless, ça doit s'intégrer au noyau, je n'en sais trop rien, mais anciennement je devais compiler MAD-WIFI qui faisait la même chose pour mon mini portable...

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Gregory Eric Sanderson
Quelques affaires a essayer et verifier : network-manager a la mauvaise tendance d'essayer de prendre autorité totale sur la carte sans-fil. Ese-ce que netowrk-manager et wicd sont partis en même temps ? Pour arrêter le daemin network-manager, on peut tapper dans une console : sudo stop network

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Fabian Rodriguez
On 10-05-25 05:30 PM, Gregory Eric Sanderson wrote: Quelques affaires a essayer et verifier : network-manager a la mauvaise tendance d'essayer de prendre autorité totale sur la carte sans-fil. Ese-ce que netowrk-manager et wicd sont partis en même temps ? Normallement ce n'est pas possible

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Gilbert Dion
J'ai désinstallé network-manager. sudo stop networking me dit: stop: Unknown instance Pour la première fois en 10 jours, ma carte s'et connectée... 10 secondes. Misère. Je dois quitter la maison, mais je reprendrai les essais en soirée. Gilbert = Membre de FACIL Pour

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] K8055, Lazarus et Free Pascal sous Kubuntu 9.10 32 bits

2010-05-25 Thread Etienne Goyer
Québec Web .org wrote: Ça existe encore le langage Pascal ? Delphi était un IDE très populaire dans les années 80 basé sur le language Pascal. Une version Linux, Kylix, a vu le jours en 2001, mais n'as jamais vraiment levée. Sur Ubuntu, apt-cache search pascal retourne plusieurs résultats.

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Gregory Eric Sanderson
2010/5/25 Fabian Rodriguez magic...@ubuntu.com On 10-05-25 05:30 PM, Gregory Eric Sanderson wrote: Quelques affaires a essayer et verifier : network-manager a la mauvaise tendance d'essayer de prendre autorité totale sur la carte sans-fil. Ese-ce que netowrk-manager et wicd sont partis

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Wi-Fi et Lucid Lynx ne font pas bon m énage?

2010-05-25 Thread Gilbert Dion
Le 25 mai 2010 22:41, Gregory Eric Sanderson gzou2...@gmail.com a écrit : 2010/5/25 Fabian Rodriguez magic...@ubuntu.com On 10-05-25 05:30 PM, Gregory Eric Sanderson wrote: Quelques affaires a essayer et verifier : network-manager a la mauvaise tendance d'essayer de prendre autorité

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Colin McCarthy
Smart Technologys the makers of 'SmartBoards' one of the two popular interactive whiteboards already do a linux client. Its almost exactly the same as the windows version and works perfectly. I have used to many times at our LUG meeting which occasionally meets in a school. Capita recently

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Pope
On 24 May 2010 18:00, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I got several useful emails full of advice from Linux Emporium about the various partitions on my internal hard disk. Apparently the unused partition is there so that the user can install two operating systems side by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 67

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Pope
On 25 May 2010 06:48, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm not quite clear about the process of switching from the old swap partition to the new one, Aymeric. I expect if the machine finds itself without any swap partition at all it will die a horrible death Nope. Most

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Bell
Colin McCarthy wrote: Smart Technologys the makers of 'SmartBoards' one of the two popular interactive whiteboards already do a linux client. Its almost exactly the same as the windows version and works perfectly. I have used to many times at our LUG meeting which occasionally meets in a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 25/05/10 07:44, Colin McCarthy wrote: Smart Technologys the makers of 'SmartBoards' one of the two popular interactive whiteboards already do a linux client. Its almost exactly the same as the windows version and works perfectly. I have used to many times at our LUG meeting which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 24 May 2010 22:00, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have no idea what sort of software a school needs but I suspect something like:      * Office software; They use MS Office because they pay for it. If they don't buy something they lose the money.      * Some sort of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Bell
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: snip - other sensible sounding stuff I think what I'm saying is that schools are just like any other SME and should be treated the same, not as their own special, idealised, case. yeah, they have the same issues as any SME, and we have solutions for them. We

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Holder
Hi all, I work for a secondary school in the Midlands as an ICT Technician. I saw the news regarding BECTA and was rather shocked to see it go (in fact only two months back I applied for a job with them - I feel for the people who will lose their jobs, but I'm glad I wasn't offered one)! The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 67

2010-05-25 Thread Mark Fraser
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 08:13:19 Alan Pope wrote: On 25 May 2010 06:48, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm not quite clear about the process of switching from the old swap partition to the new one, Aymeric. I expect if the machine finds itself without any swap partition

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 67

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Pope
On 25 May 2010 09:56, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: IIRC You also have to make sure that /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume also points to the new swap partition and then update initramfs. Not if you use the method I suggested of moving the swap partition down the disk rather

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 08:53 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: You could boot from a live Ubuntu CD and use gparted to:- Delete sda2 (the unwanted partition). Move sda3 down (to the left, nearer the start) of the disk Move sda4 down the disk Grow sda4 up the disk Grow sda5 inside sda4 up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Pope
On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'? Because the operation I described requires you to be changing data on partitions that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Joe Metcalfe
I worked as an ICT teacher last year and we mostly taught based on MS Office - it seemed that this was mostly driven by the Head of Department. I was allowed to teach Python to Year 9 for a term though. At GCSE level we mainly taught OCR Nationals, which required all work or evidence to printed

[ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello, First of all a brief apology for not sorting this out sooner, moving house has taken somewhat longer than I originally intended. I'm hoping to start getting things back on track now. Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly awful) talk at Oggcamp on this subject. Next

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 10:22, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'? Because the operation I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the disk, and expanding partitions to allow them to use the newly available space made by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Pope
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: Ah, right. For some reason I thought you were talking about reinstalling everything from scratch, from the Live CD. But if I have understood correctly, I can achieve my purposes without ever having to unmount sda1, which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the disk, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gnome Shell

2010-05-25 Thread Markie
This might only work however if you set it as your default gnome-panel provider? I get the notifications in the top right corner when I get a new email. Thanks, and how do you go about setting that? Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Lord (News)
Here's a pretty well researched post by Glyn Moody on why he thinks Becta was really bad for FOSS in schools. http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14entryid=2978 Al -- The Open Learning Centre http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without affecting an existing system. It is always wise to ensure backups are up to

[ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread John Matthews
I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Garton
On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread javadayaz
I have the Google G1, also made by HTC. There a few music apps which will detect your phone...and sync as well On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. John -- Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 25 May 2010 12:05, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Here's a pretty well researched post by Glyn Moody on why he thinks Becta was really bad for FOSS in schools. http://www.computerworlduk.com/community/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=14entryid=2978 Al He's broadly correct but in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. I would use Google sync tools with Evolution or Thunderbird and Lightning for desktop, and possibly Songbird with FolderSync for music

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Andrew Turner
On 25 May 2010 13:06, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: It won't be mounted, when you boot off the live CD nothing on your hard disk will be mounted.  It will not be using the swap there.  You can boot off the live CD with no disk at all, or even one with Windows on it! Colin I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Alan Pope
On 25 May 2010 13:14, Andrew Turner acturne...@gmail.com wrote:  I believe the live CD automatically mounts the swap partition on the hard drive, if one exists, so it will still need to be unmounted if you want to move it etc. At least, it used to. This is true, but gparted wont let you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 71

2010-05-25 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:06 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Hang it, I forgot to change the subject line yet again. This is such a nuisance. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Dave Morley
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:36 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hang it, I forgot to change the subject line yet again. This is such a nuisance. If you go to the list below you can change the option from digest to all mail (or something similar) Then if you set TB or Evo group by threads it'll be a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 71

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 13:34, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:06 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread javadayaz
updates for what exactly? On 25 May 2010 15:50, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 25/05/10 13:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread David Jones
On 25/05/2010 15:50, John Matthews wrote: Snip Hi Everybody, thank you so much for your help. That worked, I was able to upload the pics to my HD via the filesystem using the USB. It still means though that you have to use windows for updates and things, yes? John -- Ubuntu User

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 25 May 2010 15:50, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 25/05/10 13:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. I would use Google sync

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Garton
On 25 May 2010 15:50, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 25/05/10 13:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. I would use Google sync tools

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Ashley Whetter
Hi If you mean update the phone then you will get notifications on the phone for app and android updates and it will update them using 3G/wifi if you let it update, therefore no you won't need windows to update the phone. Ashley On 25 May 2010 15:50, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread javadayaz
or you can use dropbox on box the andoid phone and ubuntu pc...no need to connect! On 25 May 2010 15:54, David Jones djones.dan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 25/05/2010 15:50, John Matthews wrote: Snip Hi Everybody, thank you so much for your help. That worked, I was able to upload the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread John Matthews
On 25/05/10 15:56, Stephen Garton wrote: On 25 May 2010 15:50, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: On 25/05/10 13:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better idea, if

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Daniel Drummond
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:11 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com wrote: Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to date system,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Joe Metcalfe
AFAIK the iso is a LiveCD - I'm sure I've used it in that way before now. Joe -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Rowan Berkeley Sent: 25 May 2010 16:12 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re:

[ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-25 Thread Dianne Reuby
Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid? I can play pre-watershed items, but others give another flash window which lets me choose whether I want a PIN or not. Whichever option I choose, it tells me my security settings don't allow me to store flash cookies, and do I want to modify

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
On 25 May 2010 17:38, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid? I can play pre-watershed items, but others give another flash window which lets me choose whether I want a PIN or not. Whichever option I choose, it tells me my security settings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-25 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:14 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: Confirmed, I've got the same problem. Is the program you want on seesaw.com? No, but thanks for the link - haven't seen that one before. Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:14 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 25 May 2010 17:38, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid? I can play pre-watershed items, but others give another flash window which lets me choose whether I want a PIN or not.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 71

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: snip Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning here. This is very true. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better idea,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-25 Thread Harry Rickards
On 25 May 2010 19:05, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:14 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 25 May 2010 17:38, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid? I can play pre-watershed items, but others give another

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 19:17 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 25 May 2010 19:05, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:14 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: On 25 May 2010 17:38, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 19:56, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: ... The w32codecs package seems to not be in Lucid anymore. I think it is in medibuntu. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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