Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

2008-05-07 Thread Huw Selley
Hi, On 7 May 2008, at 13:24, James Tyrrell wrote: > 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.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recording sound

2008-05-06 Thread Huw Selley
Hi Norman, On 6 May 2008, at 15:34, norman wrote: > I have bee4n asked to record some speech on a website to do with > Higher > level French. The file is .swf and will not open on the applications I > have with Ubuntu 8.04. Could someone point me in the right direction > please. ffmpeg with th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to Hardy- Trying to make it easy!

2008-05-02 Thread Huw Selley
On 2 May 2008, at 10:14, Huw Selley wrote: > Hi Javed, > > On 2 May 2008, at 09:00, Javad Ayaz wrote: > >> Ok im considering a fresh install of Hardy (note not a upgrade). >> >> I want to have all the apps that i have installed now..including >> firefox addo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to Hardy- Trying to make it easy!

2008-05-02 Thread Huw Selley
Hi Javed, On 2 May 2008, at 09:00, Javad Ayaz wrote: > Ok im considering a fresh install of Hardy (note not a upgrade). > > I want to have all the apps that i have installed now..including > firefox addons and bookmarks If you are happy using a teminal: dpkg- l | awk '{print $2}' >my_pack

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Port 2000 on Ubuntu

2008-05-01 Thread Huw Selley
On 1 May 2008, at 15:02, Seif Attar wrote: > > thanks for the reply, I have mythtv installed, after upgrading to > hardy > and option became avaiable in the mythtv control center, where you can > have the master backend run as a diskless server, I enabled that and > built an image (not knowing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Port 2000 on Ubuntu

2008-05-01 Thread Huw Selley
Hi Seif, On 1 May 2008, at 12:18, Seif Attar wrote: > > 2000 nobody /usr/sbin/tcpd /usr/sbin/nbdrootd /opt/ltsp/images/ > amd64.img That looks like an artifact from LTSP (http://www.ltsp.org/). I suspect someone has installed it into /opt (from parsing that line above). That .img file is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Idea- Torrents!

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
On 29 Apr 2008, at 14:08, Huw Selley wrote: > > One way is to build a small machine using for example the pico-itx > form factor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-ITX). They are fanless, > don't draw much power or dissipate much heat so it should meet your > ecological

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Idea- Torrents!

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
On 29 Apr 2008, at 13:44, Javad Ayaz wrote: > So any ideas then...to make it work? One way is to build a small machine using for example the pico-itx form factor (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pico-ITX). They are fanless, don't draw much power or dissipate much heat so it should meet your e

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Idea- Torrents!

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
Hi Javed, On 29 Apr 2008, at 12:48, Javad Ayaz wrote: OK ill try and clarify…a torrent client running in ubuntu e.g Ktorrent. I start a torrent. The save location is an external usb hard drive. The torrent starts. I happily switch off my pc. The download finishes. I startup my pc (whenever

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Convert to MP4/AAC

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
On 29 Apr 2008, at 10:54, Javad Ayaz wrote: > ok i will look into that also. Is there a difference in output > result if terminal is used as compared to GUI? As long as the GUI is using the same settings as you would use in the terminal the output files will be the same. The GUI simply drive

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Convert to MP4/AAC

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
On 29 Apr 2008, at 10:27, Javad Ayaz wrote: > is this any good? i.e time it takes to convert? Quality of > conversion? etc It's a frontend for ffmpeg so should perform as well as ffmpeg. ffmpeg performance will vary depending on your hardware etc but in general it is considered to be quick.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Convert to MP4/AAC

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
On 29 Apr 2008, at 10:08, Javad Ayaz wrote: > > When you say shelldo you mean using terminal? Yes I did, sorry if I confused you :) Huw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Convert to MP4/AAC

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
On 29 Apr 2008, at 09:46, Javad Ayaz wrote: > Hi, > > Im looking for something to convert my music to good quality mp4 > files in buntu. How can i do this? > Oh yeah you might want to install 'gpac' too, it contains some useful tools for working with mp4. Huw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Convert to MP4/AAC

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
Hi Javad, On 29 Apr 2008, at 09:46, Javad Ayaz wrote: > Hi, > > Im looking for something to convert my music to good quality mp4 > files in buntu. How can i do this? You can try using mencoder or ffmpeg. I can't really suggest a GUI option for you I am afraid as i only ever use the shell for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

2008-04-29 Thread Huw Selley
Hi, Pete Stean wrote: > I've started to observe behaviour over the last couple of weeks that > definitely indicates that BT are throttling torrents at peak times, at > least in my part of London - from early morning right through to early > evening on weekdays, popular torrents will saturat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

2008-04-28 Thread Huw Selley
On 28 Apr 2008, at 16:23, Tony Arnold wrote: >> > > I've always used BitTornado, which has been good enough for my meagre > requirements. I've never been that impressed with bittorrent, direct > downloads have always seemed faster to me. Maybe it's the client I'm > using. I would suspect its

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Huw Selley
On 18 Apr 2008, at 14:52, Tony Arnold wrote: > > I'd do both! Yeah, that gives a better solution. I however am lazy and happy to tail auth.log for a giggle when I am bored ;) Regards Huw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Huw Selley
On 18 Apr 2008, at 14:27, Tony Arnold wrote: > Oh, and if you are allowing ssh, then consider running fail2ban or > denyhosts to stop dictionary attacks via ssh, which are very common. Or only allow key based logins and disable password logins, renders dictionary attacks useless although does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPTABLES

2008-04-18 Thread Huw Selley
On 18 Apr 2008, at 13:15, Andy Smith wrote: >> On a side note, I've added a symbolic link called S95firewall to >> this script >> in /etc/rc2.d/, but it doesn't seem to run this script at startup? >> Any ideas >> what I'm doing wrong? I would use the 'update-rc.d' tool to add the correct sy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?

2008-04-17 Thread Huw Selley
On 17 Apr 2008, at 14:01, Farran wrote: Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to install ubuntu from source, like you would with gentoo (I think that's right), where every package installs itself to work with your hardware perfectly... or does that completely defy the idea of ubuntu