Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Ubuntu Users
On 12/01/13 22:52, Dan Fish wrote: Dear All, A good friend of mine has taken up the offer of becoming a medical officer on the Falkland Islands for a 2 year contract. Having spent time on many remote locations I'm actually very jealous as the Falklands and surrounds are a stunning place to bring up a family. What's not so stunning are the broadband costs http://www.cwfi.co.fk/images/cwfi/bbposteroct12.jpg Admittedly the link is via a standard CW satellite link which is always expensive. Anyhow, he's a keen ubuntu user and I'm pretty sure there's no Falklands ubuntu community group! This is my question - His broadband is damn expensive and sometimes sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get -y dist-upgrade may well use up much of his monthly allowance. Ironically, it's very cheap to post via snail mail a usb stick back and forth! Any ideas how I can keep him up to date (albeit at monthly intervals) via this method? My google-fu has failed me. Thanks Dan AptonCD (http://aptoncd.sourceforge.net/) maybe of use. HTH, Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)
On 3 May 2011 13:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/11 13:04, Avi Greenbury wrote: Besides, I don't buy this thing about Windows users being scared of the command line. When I was doing Windows (admittedly XP) desktop support about 80% of my calls started 'press Start+R; now enter CMD'. Even with Windows 7, there's still a fair bit of CL stuff still being used in the MS Forums... -- My Alternative Computing Blog -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Command line methods are good for giving for supporting other people (particularly over the phone) because it's much more unambiguous to say 'type lsusb' and then ask the person to read back the response than to say 'click on the menu button, then find the control panel item and click on it, then look for an icon labelled hardware'... Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Low power 2-drive NAS box that can run Ubuntu?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/10 14:43, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: snip Might blow the budget a bit but I've just ordered QNAP TS210 (£168 inc VAT Delivery from www.cclonline.com http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=41794. It's just been delivered and I'll be sorting it over the weekend. It has an external PSU and runs ~14W. Will take 2TB drives and provides loads of other stuff. The installed OS is Linux - don't know what flavour but I suppose it will be replaceable with Ubuntu. snip I suspect getting ubuntu on to it may be a challenge, but debian is certainly possible, see: http://www.cyrius.com/debian/kirkwood/qnap/ts-219/ HTH Sam -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkx/vBcACgkQ5OkJa9KnDaPXogCeMPtswjr0mkBkUWEOnxlWMB7b jfUAoKSUfEGHiOR4fU5BFXz3Eph37+za =1BvM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing
On 14 May 2010 01:26, Steve Pearce stevepearce@gmail.com wrote: I would like to participate in Ubuntu desktop and server ISO testing, sign me up :) Steve. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ +1 Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt
First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before. I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if packages could be distributed in a peer to peer manner, as .isos can be? This would have several advantages, including: 1. If you have more than one ubuntu machine, no need to download everything multiple times, and no need to maintain an apt-mirror, it all just happens. 2. There are times, such as when a release first comes out, when the repositories get huge spikes in demand, this would help with that. The potential downside would be the threat of packages containing malware being propagated around, but this can be got around by checksumming etc. Like most of my ideas, it appears someone else got there first. There is a package in the repositories called apt-p2p which appears to be what I am talking about. Its homepage is at http://www.camrdale.org/apt-p2p/ . Has anyone used this? What do people think of the concept? Could it be integrated into the GUI for managing sources? Hope that makes sense. Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up the web interface for VLC in ubuntu/Linuxmint?
On 14 April 2010 09:10, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Douglas wrote: On 13 April 2010 12:34, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: yep exactly that...lol its pretty awesome. :) On 13 April 2010 12:26, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote: And so VLC is running on a computer somewhere...so the music or video comes out of that computer, not the client you are using to access the web interface? That sounds good! On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 08:55:42AM +0100, javadayaz wrote: bascially now using the wifi on my phone...i am able to control vlc. I am now using my phone as a remote control for VLC. Stopping, pausing, playing, choosing to play a song or a film from my pcI can even adjust the volume. This is brilliant!! On 13 April 2010 08:52, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote: Hi, This sounds interesting, but what do you do with a web interface for VLC? Cheers Yeah, it's basically turning a computer, or MID or Phone into a remote control for your VLC, as you would with a TV. Saves you having a keyboard and mouse plugged into a media machine, for example. Pretty cool. MID Please explain what this means, thanks Paul http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_Internet_device - Not particularly a good article, but it'll do. HTH Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!
--- Original message --- From: Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 24.10.'09, 10:50 Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one can just boot into the live environment and then mount the host computer's hard drive and browse its contents. Isn't that a really bad security issue? Jon Reynolds No that's perfectly correct. It's one of the reasons Ubuntu offers home directory encryption. Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] text to speech apps
--- Original message --- From: javadayaz javada...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 13.8.'09, 7:54 Hi, I want to convert from text to speech. Does anyone know of any free apps in ubuntu that can do this? Im planning on converting a book from text to speech so i can listen on my DAP. -- Regards Javad https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TextToSpeech should set you on your way. HTH, Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] text to speech apps
--- Original message --- From: javadayaz javada...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 13.8.'09, 8:50 have you used this? are the results any good? As its a book that i want to use this for ...i dont want it to sound too robotic!! 2009/8/13 Samuel Toogood sam_toog...@athsoc.org.uk --- Original message --- From: javadayaz javada...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 13.8.'09, 7:54 Hi, I want to convert from text to speech. Does anyone know of any free apps in ubuntu that can do this? Im planning on converting a book from text to speech so i can listen on my DAP. -- Regards Javad https://help.ubuntu.com/community/TextToSpeech should set you on your way. HTH, Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Regards Javad Not for a while. I think there are different voices etc. available. I would try it out and see if it meets your needs. Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scheduling a reboot of Ubuntu?
Alex Birchall wrote: Hi, I'd like to schedule a reboot of my Ubuntu server. When I type sudo crontab -l at the prompt, the following is displayed: #m h dom mon dow command 40 12 * * 0-7 eprints reboot As I understand it, this should mean that at 40 minutes past 12 each day the user eprints will issue the command reboot. The problem is, nothing appears to be happening. Do I need to specify the user? Should the entries be separated by spaces, or tabs? Any advice gratefully received. Best regards, Alex Birchall Library Systems Manager The Sheppard Library Middlesex University The Burroughs London NW4 4BT UK Tel: +44 (0)20 8 411 5235 Mob: 07765 237 570 Hi Alex, no, you shouldn't specify the user in the crontab entry. Each user has their own crontab. You can specify the user using 'crontab -u $user'. HTH, Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using rsync (or something) to remotely backup a windows drive
doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote Hi -- I have a drive that gets a weekly backup of a Windows network stored to it, and I would like to have that backed up in turn remotely. When you say 'a drive', is that on a windows box, or a linux box or a NAS? To that end, I have an IP address that I wish to sync it to, and can setup any machine/OS behind it that I want to. What I was hoping to do was to have the backup drive synced each week, in a manner similar to TimeMachine's, so that after an initial sync, only the changes get sent, but that allows us to access any week's synced backup image if needed (TM lets you browse them amazingly, but as long as it could be done, it wouldn't have to be that posh). My thoughts so far have been to setup a linux box running rsync to remotely access the backup drive, for the following reasons: 1) I beleive that rsync has the functionality I require (though I could be wrong). 2) If our Windows network gets taken out by a virus or something, having the backup be on a different OS would provide extra security. 3) I'm more confident in setting this up on a linux machine than a Windows one (though still not exactly cocky about it). I'd really appreciate any advice that folks could give me on this -- am I wrong in my ideas? would this even work? are there any hideous pitfalls awaiting me? is there a better way to do it? etc. Cheers for any all input, Doug. I'd suggest rsnapshot, which uses rsync and allows you to browse incremental backups as though they are full. If you're backing from a windows box, DeltaCopy looks like it is what you want (http://www.aboutmyip.com/AboutMyXApp/DeltaCopy.jsp) though i've not used it personally. HTH, Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow
Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote Quoting Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: ... Thanks - the major problem is that the internet connection is SO slow that I can't install packages. Is there somewhere I can download the *.deb file on another machine and install it that way? ... If you search packages.ubuntu.com, you should be able to download it. Build-essential is avaliable for 8.10 Intrepid Ibex at http://ubuntu.blueyonder.co.uk/archive/pool/main/b/build-essential/build-ess ential_11.4_i386.deb for i386. Harry I think build-essential is a meta-package, a package which doesn't contain any programs itself but which causes other packages to be installed. You'd have to download all these as well. Your best bet might be to install packages from the cd you originally installed ubuntu with if you have it. HTH Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] RAID 1 with three drives
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/3/2 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: The idea I had was if this is possible, I could attach one of the drives externally via eSATA so it can be taken off site and in the event of a server failure this off site backup could be plugged in and the server could be back up and running in minutes rather than a good few hours of re-installation (I was thinking of having two external drives so they can be alternatively swapped every day). You'll need a script to re-add the disk into the array to start the sync, and yank it from the array before being unplugged, which is of course easily do-able with mdadm. Of course as soon as you add the disk back into the array you're going to cause a boatload of IO as the array resyncs from the internal disks back out to the external one, and that's going to happen _every_ time you plug the disk(s) in. Cheers, Al. Are you thinking of this as the only backup? Recovery of accidentally deleted files might be a bit fiddly if so. Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] N.H.S
Simon Wears wrote My mum is a home care NHS nurse, and when I was talking to her about her work computers a while back, she told me they use a mixture of systems. I know they use MS computers for things such as creating documents, but they also use something else (I think a specialist *nix system of some kind) to store patient records and other medical notes on, for security reasons. 2009/2/10 Alan Pope a...@popey.com 2009/2/10 Matt Jones m...@mattjones.me.uk: Please can we refer to Microsoft by the proper name, it looks childish and goes against the image that is needed to win these contracts that are viewed as important use cases. +1 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com | http://MunkyJunky.com As someone who has worked in hospital IT and is married to a doctor, I can tell you that NHS software varies hugely from hospital to hospital. Much of the specialist software where I worked was in the form of badly written java apps which all required differently old versions of the JVM. Getting them to co-exist on the same machine was a nightmare at times! Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Single Ubuntu instance both bootable AND virtual?
Andrew Oakley wrote: I have a new PC which has Windows XP. I am already very familiar with repartitioning/resizing and dual-booting so that I can have both XP and Ubuntu on the same machine. Is it possible to have the same one single Ubuntu partition bootable as BOTH: * Dual boot AND * A virtual machine within Windows XP? (using the same Ubuntu partition) If so, how? Pointers to howtos much appreciated; my google attemps thus far reveal only how to do the opposite (dual boot plus same XP virtualised within Ubuntu; I want Ubuntu virtualised inside XP) I realise this will complicate hardware drivers under Ubuntu, so for the first stage I'm not trying to use any fancy 3D graphics nor worry about network connectivity. Note that this is my third machine, mainly used only for gaming. I only boot Ubuntu on my other machines. It appears from the manual that virtualbox can do this (as an experimental feature). I've no idea how well it works in practice though. HTH, Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] synaptic
norman wrote: The other day I installed a piece of very effective software using synaptic. But, stupid me, I forgot to note down what I had done. Is there any way I can check to find the name of the installation, please? Norman If you start synaptic, and navigate to the File menu, there is an option entitled History, which I imagine might tell you. HTH, Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Copying files from a reiser3 partition to LVM problem
Rob Beard wrote: Mark Allison wrote: I'm creating an ext3 filesystem with a block size of 1024. Hopefully the smaller block size will reduce wastage as I have lots of small files. Thanks for your time. Will let you know tomorrow how this one works out. Yay! Using a 1024 byte block size on ext3 worked! I still don't understand why the original config didn't work. Oh well thanks for your help. That's good. I can't remember which distro it was that has the option to set block sizes depending on what each filesystem will contain such as big files, small files, a mixture of the two etc. Rob Debian (and, I think, ubuntu alternate and server installs) Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Idea- Torrents!
Alan Pope wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:46 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: whats a nslu2? Google can help you with that question. Debian...but nothing in gnome hence ubuntu then? Well I'm sure you could put Ubuntu on it, but lots of people have already put debian on them and made lots of lovely documentation to make it easy. Cheers, Al. I was about to email to point out that actually you couldn't put Ubuntu on it, because the NSLU2 has an ARM processor, but then I found this: http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS2097004728.html . They're not there yet though. Sam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lucy wrote: I just wondered if any one else had experienced this behaviour. Cheers Seoras This happened to me when running an Alpha version with the nVidia driver, however it is now fixed for me at least with the driver installed via the new restricted drivers manager.. Maybe the transfer of the driver wasn't picked up into the new Driver manager...? I had exactly the same problem when upgrading to 7.04, the nvidia driver seemed to be installed correctly and 'enabled' using the restricted drivers manager (assuming that's the new program with the pci card icon that pops up next to the clock?). The X config seemed okay and as a temporary fix I dropped back to using the nv module. I'll try having another look this weekend. Maybe some updates have been released since then? Same thing happened to me (could only get a resolution of 800x600 using nvidia drivers), but I tried it again a week or so ago, and issue has been resolved. Sam -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFGSDs85OkJa9KnDaMRAvXeAKCtCxl8SgvkENu7sW3FzpumVrskZwCgixGT VNPhKvbt+aumr00hm89SSDM= =qWF3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006 14:42:00 +0100 (GMT Standard Time), Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I just joined today. Although not new to computer by a good many years of use I am new to Linux. I installed to the slave drive with no trouble, but am still having difficulty setting up the broadband. Any help would be gratefully received. Ian -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Welcome! What is your physical setup? Are you using a broadband modem or a router? ADSL or cable? How is it connected to your PC? Kind regards, Sam -- Samuel Toogood -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
