[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,
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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 instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop
 and am set to go. Do I file reports for 10.04 or wait for the next
 development releases?

The purporse of the project is to test the development release, but
testing against 10.04 in the mean time won't do any harm.

I think that we should cleanup the wiki now to:

 1. Testing/Laptop pointing to Maverick reports
 2. Having subpages per release:
/Testing/Laptop/Lucid
/Testing/Laptop/Karmic

Anyone have time to do it?

Thanks,
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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 L300-1AP

 I've followed the instructions at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/Laptop
 and am set to go. Do I file reports for 10.04 or wait for the next
 development releases?

 The purporse of the project is to test the development release, but
 testing against 10.04 in the mean time won't do any harm.

 I think that we should cleanup the wiki now to:

  1. Testing/Laptop pointing to Maverick reports
  2. Having subpages per release:
    /Testing/Laptop/Lucid
    /Testing/Laptop/Karmic

 Anyone have time to do it?


Thanks Ara, I'm sorry for the late reply but I've been a bit busy these days.

Anyway, I'll do the cleanup ASAP and I'll let you know when finished.

Sergio.


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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 found a release that I felt
confident to use full time in place of Windows. I am now using it on 2
laptops (Acer 8930G and Acer 6935G) and 2 Acer Aspire Revo 3600 units
running as XBMC media centers.
Along with this move to Ubuntu I am also moving most of my personal
testing to Ubuntu as well, hence my presence here. Looking forward to
getting to grips with Maverick when builds are pushed out. My main
method of testing is to try using the builds as a normal user (since my
experience tells me a user will find many more bugs than anyone doing
specific testing) although I also follow testing requests and scripts as
necessary.

I also plan on doing some testing on my Aspire One and on some VMs
running under VMWare and VirtualBox.

Regards

Vince Marsters

On 22/05/10 11:46, Andrew Bancroft wrote:
 Hi,

 Just joined the Testing mailing list, I'm a student in the UK and use
 Ubuntu for most things, and at the moment just learning CLI to make me
 feel like a proper Ubuntu user! I would like to get involved testing
 Ubuntu and its software, so I need to find out how :p

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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 icon moved to trash - in that situation, 

how to open openoffice in the absence of icon(shortcut)?





On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Ramnarayan.K  

wrote:







On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Shri L Mundada 

 wrote:







Hi Nikhil,







I have faced this issue a lot of times.



What we do is delete the .openoffice.org folder in users home folder.



Opening openoffice after that will recreate the deleted folder.



Interesting solution 



I have never faced this particular problem so would like to know what 

may be the causes. 





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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 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 icon moved to trash - in that situation,
 how to open openoffice in the absence of icon(shortcut)?


 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 11:52 AM, Ramnarayan.K
 wrote:



 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Shri L Mundada
 wrote:



 Hi Nikhil,



 I have faced this issue a lot of times.

 What we do is delete the .openoffice.org folder in users home folder.

 Opening openoffice after that will recreate the deleted folder.

 Interesting solution

 I have never faced this particular problem so would like to know what
 may be the causes.


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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 generally accepted mailing
etiquettes. These comments may only drag him away from Ubuntu and other
FOSS community. Also while being on the ubuntu list, we should try to 
observe the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.

@shashi, Please follow the mailing list etiquettes (GIYF). It is
desirable that you describe the problem you are facing in the body of
the message. Just mentioning something you did in the subject line
serves no purpose. It seems that you wanted to reply to another post in
a thread you started regarding unicode hindi fonts. In that case, you
should have replied to the same message with your comment below the
relevant text to which you are replying.

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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 understand the the original poster may
 be a new-comer and not conversant with the generally accepted mailing
 etiquettes. These comments may only drag him away from Ubuntu and other
 FOSS community. Also while being on the ubuntu list, we should try to
 observe the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.

 @shashi, Please follow the mailing list etiquettes (GIYF). It is
 desirable that you describe the problem you are facing in the body of
 the message. Just mentioning something you did in the subject line
 serves no purpose. It seems that you wanted to reply to another post in
 a thread you started regarding unicode hindi fonts. In that case, you
 should have replied to the same message with your comment below the
 relevant text to which you are replying.



The community document at
http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/mailinglists/etiquette sums it quite
'lucidly' ;-)


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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 ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote:

 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Narendra Diwate
 narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote:
  The posts over the past few days and a TV advert for the Indian version
 of
  Linux named BOSS have prompted me to write this query.
 
 BOSS has been around for some time its the CDAC linux version check
 out http://www.bosslinux.in/

 have never used it so no comments on that

 However on the language front.
 Actually in Ubuntu its quite easy

 The first place to choose is right at setup - where Ubuntu allows you
 to choose installation in the n number of languages (am not sre how
 many) but a fair bit of indian languages are present

  Though i know a couple of Indian languages, i have used the computer only
 in
  English like most if not all on this list and computer users in India in
  general. Though i know Ubuntu and a lot of other Linux OS's support use
 of
  Indian languages, I frankly have no Idea how to use it and to what extent
 is
  it developed.
 
 am snipping the rest of your post and will run through the mainpoints

 To install and enable additional Language support go to
 System - Administration - Language Support and go to the install /
 remove languages and then just select any (or many) of the languages
 you want and then proceed with install. After the installation is
 successful (am not sure if a reboot is required) then you will be able
 to choose your login language at the time of login.

 Thats it you are ready to रोक एण्ड़ रोल

 ***
 additional notes are below
 First choosing the language to install is quite easy (as mentioned
 first at the fresh install phase) . This choice by default will enable
 your computer to boot up in your preferred language of choice, However
 this is not final at any stage later on you can install any (repeat
 any) and any number of other languages and the the login in time one
 can choose which language to boot into (as far as i know in windows
 one must buy separate versions for different languages)

 In most of the supported languages the basic software that comes the
 menu's and interface are  much translated into the language you may
 have chosen. However not all the software has every thing translated.

 Depending on what your default keyboard choice was (which can wildly
 vary - if you want, from your language of choice) , the OS (Ubuntu)
 will keep that choice irrespective of which language you choose and
 one must choose an additional keyboards (language input) to begin
 typing in a particular language (System - Preferences --Keyboard --
 Layouts)

 In case you have already installed say english language and US english
 keyboard its just a matter of a decent net connection to install the
 additional language packs

 enjoy
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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 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 ramnaraya...@gmail.comwrote:

 On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 8:14 PM, Narendra Diwate
 narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote:
  The posts over the past few days and a TV advert for the Indian version
 of
  Linux named BOSS have prompted me to write this query.
 
 BOSS has been around for some time its the CDAC linux version check
 out http://www.bosslinux.in/

 have never used it so no comments on that

 However on the language front.
 Actually in Ubuntu its quite easy

 The first place to choose is right at setup - where Ubuntu allows you
 to choose installation in the n number of languages (am not sre how
 many) but a fair bit of indian languages are present

  Though i know a couple of Indian languages, i have used the computer
 only in
  English like most if not all on this list and computer users in India in
  general. Though i know Ubuntu and a lot of other Linux OS's support use
 of
  Indian languages, I frankly have no Idea how to use it and to what
 extent is
  it developed.
 
 am snipping the rest of your post and will run through the mainpoints

 To install and enable additional Language support go to
 System - Administration - Language Support and go to the install /
 remove languages and then just select any (or many) of the languages
 you want and then proceed with install. After the installation is
 successful (am not sure if a reboot is required) then you will be able
 to choose your login language at the time of login.

 Thats it you are ready to रोक एण्ड़ रोल

 ***
 additional notes are below
 First choosing the language to install is quite easy (as mentioned
 first at the fresh install phase) . This choice by default will enable
 your computer to boot up in your preferred language of choice, However
 this is not final at any stage later on you can install any (repeat
 any) and any number of other languages and the the login in time one
 can choose which language to boot into (as far as i know in windows
 one must buy separate versions for different languages)

 In most of the supported languages the basic software that comes the
 menu's and interface are  much translated into the language you may
 have chosen. However not all the software has every thing translated.

 Depending on what your default keyboard choice was (which can wildly
 vary - if you want, from your language of choice) , the OS (Ubuntu)
 will keep that choice irrespective of which language you choose and
 one must choose an additional keyboards (language input) to begin
 typing in a particular language (System - Preferences --Keyboard --
 Layouts)

 In case you have already installed say english language and US english
 keyboard its just a matter of a decent net connection to install the
 additional language packs

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

2010-05-25 Thread Narendra Diwate

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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 of some help

More Answers
1. Depending on the language you want to type in and the keyboard
options available (some languages may have more than one like Hindi
/Devnagari has Hindi Typewriter, Inscript and Bolnagari Keyboard
Layouts) you could choose to get stickers and stick them on your
keyboard. In my case i use inscript and have made a file that show me
the layout and in the meanwhile have memorized the inscript keyboard
(its quite simple one you begin using it)

If its a desktop there is space on th keys for stickers , on  a laptop
it makes it look cluttered.

(for Inscript keyboard users i can send you the keyboard file as a pdf
- i was supposed to keep in on the Ubunt wiki but have not done so so
till then who ever wants please mail me off line will send it)

Personally i prefer inscript because its intuitive and is far easier
to remember than hindi type writer (and even if you know the type
writer is a matter of a week to unlearn and relearn)


 Also whats SCIM, IBUS etc ?

Have no idea and would also like to know

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[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 only one user on the system and am
very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.

What will happen if I decide to delete my the contents of the /usr dir? Now
i know i will lose the user installed apps. What else will happen? Will the
sys be still bootable and importantly usable?

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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:
 
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  Pardon my Ignorance. But what is this GEEK CODE?

hehe :D Its just trivial.
It is a way to identify yourself - the geeky way. 
Check out
http://www.geekcode.com/geek.html

This is where the rules for your 'GEEK CODE BLOCK' are laid out. Form
your geek code and let the world know about it.

And further discussions about this topic on another thread please. Or I
will be accused of hijacking the thread. ;-)


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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. 1.8GB and 115000 files in it. I do not
 have too many programs installed, have only one user on the system and am
 very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.

 What will happen if I decide to delete my the contents of the /usr dir? Now
 i know i will lose the user installed apps. What else will happen? Will the
 sys be still bootable and importantly usable?

Deleting the usr directory will not be fatal, but your system will be
rendered unusable. usr/ does not only include user installed apps but
also the other apps which makes up your working OS (they are in the
/usr/bin). I don't recommend deleting the /usr directory to make
space. Instead try removing applications you don't need. Also,
sometimes the apt cache gets too big and should be cleaned up to free
space. You can do it manually if you know what you are doing or you
can use some app to do that like 'Computer Janitor' (preinstalled) or
I suggest 'Ubuntu Tweak' (try this).


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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 and 115000 files in it. I do not
 have too many programs installed, have only one user on the system and am
 very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.
 
 What will happen if I decide to delete my the contents of the /usr dir? Now
 i know i will lose the user installed apps. What else will happen? Will the
 sys be still bootable and importantly usable?

Ever tried booting the computer in to 'recovery mode'? AFAIK, if you
delete the contents of /usr directory, it will look very much like that
(i.e. just the command prompt and a barebones linux install - no
graphical stuff)



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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 just not the intention.

Regards

Narendra Diwate




On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 15:38, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan 
ashutoshrish...@gmail.com wrote:



 Deleting the usr directory will not be fatal, but your system will be
 rendered unusable. usr/ does not only include user installed apps but
 also the other apps which makes up your working OS (they are in the
 /usr/bin). I don't recommend deleting the /usr directory to make
 space. Instead try removing applications you don't need. Also,
 sometimes the apt cache gets too big and should be cleaned up to free
 space. You can do it manually if you know what you are doing or you
 can use some app to do that like 'Computer Janitor' (preinstalled) or
 I suggest 'Ubuntu Tweak' (try this).



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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
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard and then you can always peek into all
the files in the /usr directory of your system.

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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 ITS BIG. 1.8GB and 115000 files in it. I do not
 have too many programs installed, have only one user on the system and am
 very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.

You have Ubuntu desktop system installed right? That is approx 1500
packages installed. In terms of number of programs (apps/libs etc) I
would say that is at least 800.
1.8G is not 'a lot of space'. A desktop install for Ubuntu takes
around 2 GB total. Consider what all applications you get in base
install - browser, IM, email, media players, games, complete office
suite, CD/DVD burning tool, photo manager, scanning/printing out of
box, PDF reader, torrent client. Do you still think you are wasting
too much space? :-)
By the way, number of users does not affect the content in /usr. Users
have their own content in /home.


 What will happen if I decide to delete my the contents of the /usr dir? Now
 i know i will lose the user installed apps. What else will happen? Will the
 sys be still bootable and importantly usable?

bootable - perhaps
usable (from a normal users point of view) - no

/usr contains data related to almost 95% of applications. So if you
delete the content try imagining what will be state of the machine.
I am not sure why DW weekly gave advice about deleting the data form
this directory. By the way what is DW weekly?


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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 What will happen if /usr is cleared.
 Pardon me if this comes across as rough. That is just not the intention.

Interesting experiment! Could someone try this on a snapshotted VM and
let the list know?

 Regards

 Narendra Diwate




 On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 15:38, Ashutosh Rishi Ranjan
 ashutoshrish...@gmail.com wrote:


 Deleting the usr directory will not be fatal, but your system will be
 rendered unusable. usr/ does not only include user installed apps but
 also the other apps which makes up your working OS (they are in the
 /usr/bin). I don't recommend deleting the /usr directory to make
 space. Instead try removing applications you don't need. Also,
 sometimes the apt cache gets too big and should be cleaned up to free
 space. You can do it manually if you know what you are doing or you
 can use some app to do that like 'Computer Janitor' (preinstalled) or
 I suggest 'Ubuntu Tweak' (try this).




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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 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 only one user on the system and am
  very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.

 You have Ubuntu desktop system installed right? That is approx 1500
 packages installed. In terms of number of programs (apps/libs etc) I
 would say that is at least 800.
 1.8G is not 'a lot of space'. A desktop install for Ubuntu takes
 around 2 GB total. Consider what all applications you get in base
 install - browser, IM, email, media players, games, complete office
 suite, CD/DVD burning tool, photo manager, scanning/printing out of
 box, PDF reader, torrent client. Do you still think you are wasting
 too much space? :-)
 By the way, number of users does not affect the content in /usr. Users
 have their own content in /home.

 @onkar: Thanks for reply. I am using Lucid x86_64. I agree 1.8GB is not a
lot of space, just meant for apps i installed, 1.8GB is a lot (because i
thought (wrongly) /usr contains only user installed apps). Now i know even a
fresh install would have quite a lot of files in /usr.


 
  What will happen if I decide to delete my the contents of the /usr dir?
 Now
  i know i will lose the user installed apps. What else will happen? Will
 the
  sys be still bootable and importantly usable?

 bootable - perhaps
 usable (from a normal users point of view) - no

 /usr contains data related to almost 95% of applications. So if you
 delete the content try imagining what will be state of the machine.
 I am not sure why DW weekly gave advice about deleting the data form
 this directory. By the way what is DW weekly?


Distrowatch Weekly http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?issue=20100524 - An
interview with NimbleX as given here
*DW: *Your operating system is based on Slackware. What sort of features
does NimbleX offer over plain Slackware?

*BR: *I like that Slackware doesn't make strange things with packages as
I've seen in some of the other distros and I like that Slackware is meant to
be a pure Linux that doesn't bring very specific tools. Thus far it has been
a very good starting base for NimbleX which works as live Linux under the
hood. The way NimbleX works means that you can't really break it. *Even if
you decide to save the changes in a file or in some other way, if you delete
the whole /usr directory, at next reboot you'll still have everything there*.
If someone chooses to save changes and overwrites important files with
something not OK, just deleting the changes will bring back a system that
worked exactly as it did when it was installed.

Is this behavior specific to Slackware/NimbleX ?


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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, 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 generally accepted mailing
 etiquettes. These comments may only drag him away from Ubuntu and other
 FOSS community. Also while being on the ubuntu list, we should try to
 observe the Ubuntu Code of Conduct.


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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 system and am
 very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.

 You have Ubuntu desktop system installed right? That is approx 1500
 packages installed. In terms of number of programs (apps/libs etc) I
 would say that is at least 800.
 1.8G is not 'a lot of space'. A desktop install for Ubuntu takes
 around 2 GB total. Consider what all applications you get in base
 install - browser, IM, email, media players, games, complete office
 suite, CD/DVD burning tool, photo manager, scanning/printing out of
 box, PDF reader, torrent client. Do you still think you are wasting
 too much space? :-)

 /usr contains data related to almost 95% of applications. So if you
 delete the content try imagining what will be state of the machine.
 I am not sure why DW weekly gave advice about deleting the data form
 this directory. By the way what is DW weekly?

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 repos so have tonnes installed.
 I think in the upgrade will have to be a bit rational ;-)

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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 ? I do not thing so, I was trying to generate humor. and in Hindi
this is very common saying--  mithai batana 


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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
  these
   sweets on this great occasion
 
  That was very sarcastic.
 
 
 
 Really ? I do not thing so, I was trying to generate humor. and in Hindi
 this is very common saying--  mithai batana 

I am very sure you didn't think so or meant so. You may have only tried
to bring some humor but from the third person perspective, it looked
sarcastic and may be even the original poster might have felt a little
humiliated.

Lets close this topic, I apologise if my words made you feel humiliated.
And let us try help the fellow looking for solutions.

:-)


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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 repos so have tonnes installed.
  I think in the upgrade will have to be a bit rational ;-)

 ram

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with me playing with Mini Linux distros a bit too much and expect the same
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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 system and am
 very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.

 You have Ubuntu desktop system installed right? That is approx 1500
 packages installed. In terms of number of programs (apps/libs etc) I
 would say that is at least 800.
 1.8G is not 'a lot of space'. A desktop install for Ubuntu takes
 around 2 GB total. Consider what all applications you get in base
 install - browser, IM, email, media players, games, complete office
 suite, CD/DVD burning tool, photo manager, scanning/printing out of
 box, PDF reader, torrent client. Do you still think you are wasting
 too much space? :-)

 /usr contains data related to almost 95% of applications. So if you
 delete the content try imagining what will be state of the machine.
 I am not sure why DW weekly gave advice about deleting the data form
 this directory. By the way what is DW weekly?

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 repos so have tonnes installed.
 I think in the upgrade will

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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
247M/usr/src
2.4G/usr/lib
13k /usr/lib32
239M/usr/local
400M/usr/bin
23M /usr/include
881k/usr/i486-linux-gnu
1.9M/usr/games
40M /usr/sbin
4.1G/usr/share
95k /usr/lib64
7.3G/usr

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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
 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 system and am
 very conscious of how much space my OS occupies. That is a lot of space.

 You have Ubuntu desktop system installed right? That is approx 1500
 packages installed. In terms of number of programs (apps/libs etc) I
 would say that is at least 800.
 1.8G is not 'a lot of space'. A desktop install for Ubuntu takes
 around 2 GB total. Consider what all applications you get in base
 install - browser, IM, email, media players, games, complete office
 suite, CD/DVD burning tool, photo manager, scanning/printing out of
 box, PDF reader, torrent client. Do you still think you are wasting
 too much space? :-)

 /usr contains data related to almost 95% of applications. So if you
 delete the content try imagining what will be state of the machine.
 I am not sure why DW weekly gave advice about deleting the data form
 this directory. By the way what is DW weekly?

 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/sda7                12G

 am using Ultimate edition 2.5 (based on 9.10) and i laid my hands on
 30 gig of repos so have tonnes installed.
  I think in the upgrade will


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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 MB

 This is how my ubuntu's /usr looks like

 $ du --si --max-depth=1 /usr
 247M    /usr/src
 2.4G    /usr/lib
 13k     /usr/lib32
 239M    /usr/local
 400M    /usr/bin
 23M     /usr/include
 881k    /usr/i486-linux-gnu
 1.9M    /usr/games
 40M     /usr/sbin
 4.1G    /usr/share
 95k     /usr/lib64
 7.3G    /usr

**
thanks so am not too bad ;-) but need to investigate why icons is 1.9 GB hmmm

also thanks for the command will use that now and this is what it
looks like again
-$ du --si --max-depth=1 /usr
463M/usr/bin
48M /usr/include
152k/usr/X11R6
1.6M/usr/local
2.7G/usr/lib
95k /usr/lib64
6.1G/usr/share
637M/usr/src
13k /usr/man
37M /usr/sbin
3.9M/usr/games
10G /usr


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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, 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
 247M    /usr/src
 2.4G    /usr/lib
 13k     /usr/lib32
 239M    /usr/local
 400M    /usr/bin
 23M     /usr/include
 881k    /usr/i486-linux-gnu
 1.9M    /usr/games
 40M     /usr/sbin
 4.1G    /usr/share
 95k     /usr/lib64
 7.3G    /usr

 **
 thanks so am not too bad ;-) but need to investigate why icons is 1.9 GB
 hmmm

 also thanks for the command will use that now and this is what it
 looks like again
 -$ du --si --max-depth=1 /usr
 463M  /usr/bin
 48M   /usr/include
 152k  /usr/X11R6
 1.6M  /usr/local
 2.7G  /usr/lib
 95k   /usr/lib64
 6.1G  /usr/share
 637M  /usr/src
 13k   /usr/man
 37M   /usr/sbin
 3.9M  /usr/games
 10G   /usr


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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 thought!

__ Carthik.

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 9:59 PM, Srihari k harisult...@gmail.com wrote:
 @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, 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
 247M    /usr/src
 2.4G    /usr/lib
 13k     /usr/lib32
 239M    /usr/local
 400M    /usr/bin
 23M     /usr/include
 881k    /usr/i486-linux-gnu
 1.9M    /usr/games
 40M     /usr/sbin
 4.1G    /usr/share
 95k     /usr/lib64
 7.3G    /usr

 **
 thanks so am not too bad ;-) but need to investigate why icons is 1.9 GB
 hmmm

 also thanks for the command will use that now and this is what it
 looks like again
 -$ du --si --max-depth=1 /usr
 463M  /usr/bin
 48M   /usr/include
 152k  /usr/X11R6
 1.6M  /usr/local
 2.7G  /usr/lib
 95k   /usr/lib64
 6.1G  /usr/share
 637M  /usr/src
 13k   /usr/man
 37M   /usr/sbin
 3.9M  /usr/games
 10G   /usr


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[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 there, VLC
starts and tries to play every file in that folder. I tried to find how to
change that, but could not. Could someone suggest a way to rectify this?

Regards

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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.


Je ne te suis pas. C'est déjà une norme établie. On ne peut forcer aucun 
éditeur de logiciels à la suivre, sauf ceux qui appliquent pour être 
inclus dans les dépôts officiels. Dans ces cas s'il ne suivent pas ces 
normes leurs package sont simplement refusés...


 [...] Si les apllications compilé manuellement sont isolé dans /usr/local
 par defaut, le systeme ne pourra alors pas etre tricoté. Une
 désinstalation à la mitaine est alors accessible du a  un besoin peu
 fréquent de logiciel custum.


Les options de compilation dépendent de chaque auteur/éditeur de 
logiciel.. étant donné que le support technique n'est pas un service de 
révision ni d'audit de code, ces incidents sont parfois refusés. Je 
dirais que dans la plupart des cas on fournit quand même un effort 
minimum pour aider + comprendre mais il y a des limites.

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.

 Concernant, les logiciels tierces, voici une autre suggestion que je
 veux faire évoluer pour http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/:

 Pour l'instant, il y a trop d'info caché dans les forum ou dans la
 listes des bug de launchpad (ou tierce) qui peuvent influencés l'avis
 de la communauté sur un logiciel disponnible avant de
 l'installé/l'utilisé. D'autant plus que je ne vois pas nécéssairement
 les logiciel non-supporter officielement par ubuntu comme un risque.

Tant qu'on ne comprends pas cet aspect clé de n'importe quelle 
distribution (la gestion des logiciels par package) on risque d'avoir un 
système instable.

J'en ai même fait un billet:
http://www.fabianrodriguez.com/blog/2008/12/08/the-single-most-important-thing-you-should-know-about-ubuntu/

Encore une fois, le propriétaire du système écoute bien qui il veut ;)

 En effet, j'opterai plutot pour un systeme de cote public pour classer
 sur 10 ou sur 100 la qualité d'un logiciel (par pupularité, stabilité,
 download) avec une gestion des commentaire basé sur la pertiance dont
 la pertinance est voté par mr. tout le monde.  Cela doit etre fait
 dans ubuntu software center a mon avis.

C'est déjà prévu quoique j'ignore pour quand:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareCenter#Ratings%20and%20reviews
[...]
 Ultimement, cela permetra à la communauté de percevoir de façon plus
 autonome et rapide la qualité d'un logiciel dans les dépots. Je
 constate que parfois un logiciels publiés dans les dépots
 communautaire et meme officiel ne sont pas bien intégré  (je pence à
 eclipse pour lequel je devait prendre le package officiel du
 fournisseur ou alien arena il n'y a pas tres longtemp).

Difficile de te suivre quand tu cites des problèmes qui n'en sont plus.

 Tandis que les
 derniere version officiels peuvent l'etre mieu. Bref, la communauté
 doit etre au courant plus faciliement des bug ou de la stabilité avant
 dessayer un logiciel. Peut-etre qu'alors les fournisseurs seront plus
 concéquent de la qualité de leurs packages/logiciels. Une meilleurs
 accecibilité (+ user-firendly) à la collaboration pour la communauté
 en général serait aussi intéressant pour les dévloppeurs [...].

Pour reprendre ton exemple d'Eclipse, de la documentation officielle, 
des bug report et des discussions bien nourries existent. Les sites 
Launchpad, wiki.ubuntu.com et les forums sont assez bien faits pour 
exposer tout ça aux moteurs de recherche.

Si on cherche Eclipse problems Ubuntu ou d'autre combinaisons 
semblables dans Google le premier lien est la doc de communauté (qui une 
fois révisée devient officielle):
http://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntuchannel=fsq=eclipse+problem+ubuntuie=utf-8oe=utf-8

Pour peu qu'on essaie de trouver ces informations sans les moteurs de 
recherche on les retrouve aussi rapidement. Quand on ne la trouve pas le 
reflexe devrait être de demander dans les canaux habituels (mailing 
list, IRC..) puis de partager ce qu'on trouve. Ça aussi ça se retrouve 
dans les moteurs de recherche et c'est aussi utile de trouver des 
questions sans réponse - ça valide un problème qui n'aurait pas de 
solutions (ou pas encore) et on peut décider de se joindre à l'effort, etc.

Euh.. en vérifiant c'est ce qui est arrivé ici même en octobre l'an passé:

[Ubuntu-QC] Ubuntu 9.10: Workaround pour Eclipse 3.5 dans Karmic
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-quebec/2009-October/002412.html

Bref, je crois que ta perception sur des problèmes qui n'en sont pas ou 
qui ont toutes les chances d'être rêglés et un peu faussée. J'espère que 
j'apporte 

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 
un nouveau kernel...

BOnne chance.

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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
faire du ménage...
ça risque d'amener d'autres problèmes...
à faire attention!

Bonne journée!

Steve

2010/5/23 Gilbert Dion gilbertd...@gmail.com

 Lorsque je fais un apt-get update, il s'affiche une série de messages dont
 j'aimerais bien me débarrasser. Les voici:

 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ailurus-10.03.2.egg-info is linked
 but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/gdm2setup-0.5.1_karmic.egg-info is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/gnome_activity_journal-0.3.2.egg-info
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntutweak/ScriptWorker.py is linked
 but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntutweak/network/parser.py is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntutweak/conf/settings.py is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntutweak/common/settings.py is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.2.egg-info/PKG-INFO
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.2.egg-info/SOURCES.txt is linked but
 does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.2.egg-info/dependency_links.txt is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.2.egg-info/top_level.txt is linked but
 does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ailurus/ubuntu/controversial_apps.py
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ailurus/fedora/controversial_apps.py
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ailurus/fedora/controversial_repository.py is linked but
 does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.0.egg-info/PKG-INFO
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.0.egg-info/SOURCES.txt is linked but
 does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.0.egg-info/dependency_links.txt is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.0.egg-info/top_level.txt is linked but
 does not belong to any package.

 Que signifient-ils et comment m'en défaire?

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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 fait, la plupart des ppa sur lauchpad ne suivent pas ces norme
(python, pidgin,). Du moins, le role que Canonical peu jouer, c'est de
mettre d'avantage l'enphase sur l'idée d'évaluer le /usr/local dans la
documentation officiel (https://help.launchpad.net/Packaging/PPA).

D'autant plus que lorce que l'on installe un logiciel avec make, il
est tres facile de mettre a jour la destinaton
http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Directory-Variables.

 Pour l'instant, il y a trop d'info caché dans les forum ou dans la
 listes des bug de launchpad (ou tierce) qui peuvent influencés l'avis
 de la communauté sur un logiciel disponnible avant de
 l'installé/l'utilisé. D'autant plus que je ne vois pas nécéssairement
 les logiciel non-supporter officielement par ubuntu comme un risque.

Tant qu'on ne comprends pas cet aspect clé de n'importe quelle
distribution (la gestion des logiciels par package) on risque d'avoir un
système instable.

Dans ce paragraphe et ce qui suivait (ce qui suivait mon idées), je
parle de tous les logiciels disponibles dans ubuntu (packet officiels
ou pas). En effet, meme si Canonical na pas approuver le packet, la
communauté peu l'avoir fait.

L'idée revenais plutot à ça--

 En effet, j'opterai plutot pour un systeme de cote public pour classer
 sur 10 ou sur 100 la qualité d'un logiciel (par pupularité, stabilité,
 download) avec une gestion des commentaire basé sur la pertiance dont
 a pertinance est voté par mr. tout le monde.  Cela doit etre fait
 dans ubuntu software center a mon avis. Je percois dans cette
 optique, une collaboration similaire aussi proactive que wikipedia.
 Meme qu'il pourrais y avoir une extention launchpad à ce system (pour
 les bugs). Dans le cas du support offert par cannonical, les logiciels
 supporté pourra etre que ceux que cannonical validera avec l'aide
 d'une communauté plus réactive grace à l'accecibilité. Cela aumentera
 la réactité potentiel de la communauté car pour l'instant, seul les
 gens plugguer ont la capacité de le faire bien qu'ils représente la
 communauté (j'entent par la mr.tout le monde + dévloppeur.)


 Difficile de te suivre quand tu cites des problèmes qui n'en sont plus.
Quand il y a un bug/manque de fonctionnalité, c'est agrable le savoir
avant d'utiliser un logiciel. C'est impossible qu'il m'y en ait pas
d'autre.

 Pour peu qu'on essaie de trouver ces informations sans les moteurs de
 recherche on les retrouve aussi rapidement. Quand on ne la trouve pas le
 reflexe devrait être de demander dans les canaux habituels (mailing
 list, IRC..) puis de partager ce qu'on trouve. Ça aussi ça se retrouve
 dans les moteurs de recherche et c'est aussi utile de trouver des
 questions sans réponse - ça valide un problème qui n'aurait pas de
 solutions (ou pas encore) et on peut décider de se joindre à l'effort, etc.

L'objectif de ma suggestion dans mon mail précédant suggère de
facilité l'acces à cette information de sorte a contourné ce labyrinth
de solution. C'est intéressant parfois étant donné qu'il peu y avoir
des culs de sac. Cela pourrait meme etre fait pour les
problemes/solutions secteurs du support matériels dans Ubuntu.
L'accesssibilité de l'information est tres importante. Cela dit,
centralisé le tout, l'organisé, l'intégrer dans le Ubuntu Software
Center, la crittiquer, évaluer les critique à l'image de
http://www.google.com/support/forum/; et en la rendant plus
accessible suffirait pour favoriserait une adoption plus efficaces du
systeme d'exploitation.

Pour finir, je constate que des amélioration possibles et non des
corrections comme mon ton aurait pu etre perçu.

Sur ce, j'ai un exam d'equation différentiel et intégral :-| pour
aller travailler a mon club par la suite :).
---
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Étudiant au baccalauréat en génie des technologies de l'information
Université du Québec - École de technologie supérieure, Montréal (Québec)
Responsable TI du club étudiant CAPRA



2010/5/25 Fabian Rodriguez magic...@ubuntu.com:

 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.

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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

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Le 25 mai 2010 07:32, Fabian Rodriguez magic...@ubuntu.com a écrit :

 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
 un nouveau kernel...

 BOnne chance.

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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 journée!!!


2010/5/25, Gilbert Dion gilbertd...@gmail.com:
 Qu'est-ce que c'est au juste les backports et qu'est-ce que ça fait? J'ai
 pas encore compris ça...

 Gilbert

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 Le 25 mai 2010 07:32, Fabian Rodriguez magic...@ubuntu.com a écrit :

 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
 un nouveau kernel...

 BOnne chance.

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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). Les autres, j'ai cessé de m'en
servir.
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Le 25 mai 2010 08:48, Steve Nadeau steven...@gmail.com a écrit :

 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
 faire du ménage...
 ça risque d'amener d'autres problèmes...
 à faire attention!

 Bonne journée!

 Steve

 2010/5/23 Gilbert Dion gilbertd...@gmail.com

 Lorsque je fais un apt-get update, il s'affiche une série de messages dont
 j'aimerais bien me débarrasser. Les voici:

 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ailurus-10.03.2.egg-info is linked
 but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/gdm2setup-0.5.1_karmic.egg-info is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/gnome_activity_journal-0.3.2.egg-info is linked but does
 not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntutweak/ScriptWorker.py is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntutweak/network/parser.py is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntutweak/conf/settings.py is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntutweak/common/settings.py is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.2.egg-info/PKG-INFO
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.2.egg-info/SOURCES.txt is linked but
 does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.2.egg-info/dependency_links.txt is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.2.egg-info/top_level.txt is linked but
 does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ailurus/ubuntu/controversial_apps.py
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ailurus/fedora/controversial_apps.py
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ailurus/fedora/controversial_repository.py is linked but
 does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING: /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.0.egg-info/PKG-INFO
 is linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.0.egg-info/SOURCES.txt is linked but
 does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.0.egg-info/dependency_links.txt is
 linked but does not belong to any package.
 WARNING: WARNING:
 /usr/share/pyshared/ubuntu_tweak-0.5.0.egg-info/top_level.txt is linked but
 does not belong to any package.

 Que signifient-ils et comment m'en défaire?

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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 correctifs actuels à des versions
précédentes d'un logiciel, si j'ai bien compris? De quelle manière ce
backport aurait-il pu régler le problème?

Gilbert

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Le 25 mai 2010 09:25, Steve Nadeau steven...@gmail.com a écrit :

 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 journée!!!


 2010/5/25, Gilbert Dion gilbertd...@gmail.com:
  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
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  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 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
  un nouveau kernel...
 
  BOnne chance.
 
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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...

j'essaierais quand même en cochant tout et en mettant à jour, si ça règle le
problème c'est pas mal plus simple que de courrir des patches ailleurs, ça
fait parti de Ubuntu standard!

bonne journée...



2010/5/25 Gilbert Dion gilbertd...@gmail.com

 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 correctifs actuels à des versions
 précédentes d'un logiciel, si j'ai bien compris? De quelle manière ce
 backport aurait-il pu régler le problème?

 Gilbert

 =
 Membre de FACIL
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 de l'informatique libre


 Le 25 mai 2010 09:25, Steve Nadeau steven...@gmail.com a écrit :

 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 journée!!!


 2010/5/25, Gilbert Dion gilbertd...@gmail.com:
  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 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
  un nouveau kernel...
 
  BOnne chance.
 
  F.
 
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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

Lors du party d'ubuntu, pour règler le problème avec une autre carte atheros
sous 10.04, j'ai dû éteindre et rallumer la carte sans fil, et 'réactiver'
l'interface pour la carte sans fil. Pour essayer :

sudo stop network #Si c'est pas déja fait
sudo ifconfig wlan0 down
sudo ifconfig wlan0 up

Et ensuite essayer de se reconnecter au réseau avec wicd

2010/5/25 Steve Nadeau steven...@gmail.com

 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...

 j'essaierais quand même en cochant tout et en mettant à jour, si ça règle
 le problème c'est pas mal plus simple que de courrir des patches ailleurs,
 ça fait parti de Ubuntu standard!

 bonne journée...



 2010/5/25 Gilbert Dion gilbertd...@gmail.com

 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 correctifs actuels à des versions
 précédentes d'un logiciel, si j'ai bien compris? De quelle manière ce
 backport aurait-il pu régler le problème?

 Gilbert

 =
 Membre de FACIL
 Pour l'appropriation collective
 de l'informatique libre


 Le 25 mai 2010 09:25, Steve Nadeau steven...@gmail.com a écrit :

 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 journée!!!


 2010/5/25, Gilbert Dion gilbertd...@gmail.com:
  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 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
  un nouveau kernel...
 
  BOnne chance.
 
  F.
 
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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 car wicd et NM sont marqués en
conflit et l'installation de l'un provoque la désinstallation de l'autre.

Pour arrêter le daemin network-manager, on peut
 tapper dans une console :
 
 sudo stop network
 
[...]

C'est plutôt
sudo stop networking

et ça arrête tous les services réseaux (pas seulement NM).


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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.

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Le 25 mai 2010 17:36, Fabian Rodriguez magic...@ubuntu.com a écrit :

 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 car wicd et NM sont marqués en
 conflit et l'installation de l'un provoque la désinstallation de l'autre.

 Pour arrêter le daemin network-manager, on peut
  tapper dans une console :
 
  sudo stop network
 
 [...]

 C'est plutôt
 sudo stop networking

 et ça arrête tous les services réseaux (pas seulement NM).


 A+

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

2010-05-25 Thread Etienne Goyer
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 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.
Notament le package fpc, Free Pascal, et gpc, le GNU Pascal Compiler.



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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 en même temps ?

 Normallement ce n'est pas possible car wicd et NM sont marqués en
 conflit et l'installation de l'un provoque la désinstallation de l'autre.


eh bien je dois avoir des talents cachés pcq'en installant wicd sur un 10.04
frais avec aptitude, network-manager était encore présent.  j'ai dû le
déinstaller avec aptitude. Quoi que j'avais pas encore fait un aptitude
update  aptitude upgrade, donc p-e le problème venait du fait que les
paquets était pas à jour.


 Pour arrêter le daemin network-manager, on peut
  tapper dans une console :
 
  sudo stop network
 
 [...]

 C'est plutôt
 sudo stop networking


Une erreur de ma part, j'avais tappé la commande de mémoire sans vérifier
avant, je m'en excuse


 et ça arrête tous les services réseaux (pas seulement NM).


ce qui n'est pas toujours une mauvaise chose. Quand on veut tester/isoler
une composante il est mieux de ne pas avoir d'autre processus connexes
partis en même temps. Mais je l'accorde, les services réseaux filaire n'ont
d'habitude pas d'impact sur les services réseaux sans fil



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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
  totale sur la carte sans-fil. Ese-ce que netowrk-manager et wicd sont
  partis en même temps ?

 Normallement ce n'est pas possible car wicd et NM sont marqués en
 conflit et l'installation de l'un provoque la désinstallation de l'autre.


 eh bien je dois avoir des talents cachés pcq'en installant wicd sur un
 10.04 frais avec aptitude, network-manager était encore présent.  j'ai dû le
 déinstaller avec aptitude. Quoi que j'avais pas encore fait un aptitude
 update  aptitude upgrade, donc p-e le problème venait du fait que les
 paquets était pas à jour.


Ça s'est passé comme ça pour moi itou. Une fois Wicd installé via synaptic,
les deux ont roulé côte à côte. J'ai cru bon débarquer (toujours via
synaptic) network-manager.

Mai bref, rien de tout cela n'a réglé mon problème. Quand même curieux que
sur le netbook, ça fonctionne. La seule différence, c'est que sur le
netbook, il s'agit d'un upgrade, tandis que sur le laptop problématique,
c'est une installation fraiche (avec /home sur partition distincte tout de
même).

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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 bought Ramesys (a large education IT provider) so there is 
little chance of BFS, Building Schools for the Future, schools to have any 
local control and choose Open Source software.

FOSS does stand a chance in private or indepenent schools.

Mark Thomas and SiruisIT do a lots of FOSS stuff in schools.  Maybe they could 
be on the Ubuntu UK podcast to talk about it.

Colin



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

BECTA was championing open source whiteboard software and had a project
under way but I can't remember what it was called off the top of my head.
Moodle is becoming quite popular as a VLE but doesn't have much support in
the schools IT support business, which is dominated by RM, who are very much
a Microsoft house these days.

A lot might depend on how school management goes on. I can see that the IT
budget might be decentralised. My partner works in a PFI school and has told
me that the city infrastructure provider has doubled their intranet bill
this year, so there might be space to shop around for savings in future.
Office tools are fairly standard though and I can't see MSOffice being
replaced by OpenOffice or similar any time in the future

On 25 May 2010 00:03, Mark Brocklehurst dragon-ri...@o2.co.uk wrote:

On 24/05/10 23:24, Chris Rowson wrote:


 Hi all,

 Just a thought I wanted to put to the li...
Hi,

I know I've not contributed to the list before, but I thought say a little
something about this as I work as an IT Technician at a sixth form college.
Not quite the same as a school, but would still look to someone like Becta
for guidance at least.
I have to admit to not knowing a lot of detail about certain things,
however:

Yes, a lot of schools use SIMS, but there are alternatives that do the same
thing with varying success rates, and yes I believe they are expensive - my
college are on at least their fourth alternative since leaving SIMS behind
many years ago.  Who's to say an Open Source alternative can't be created?

The same goes for Interactive Whiteboards - I've not tried plugging one into
my Linux box, but from a programmer's perspective, it's another peripheral
with either serial or USB connectivity, the only problem really is the time
it might take to write such software.

As far as most software is concerned, the majority we use is proprietary,
usually MS or Adobe.  I believe this is mostly due to staff being afraid to
try something new - the students do use alternatives like OpenOffice at
home.
There are a few teachers happy to use Open Source, but to try and persuade
the entire college to do the same would prove difficult.  Also, at college
level I'm not sure what the situation might be with computerised exams
where an examination board provides files to be used during the exam - from
experience most such files are MS orientated, (eg. MS Databases).
Having said that, with budgets being cut recently it may be give more weight
to the Open Source alternative.

I do agree that the support staff delivering IT solutions are the ones who
drive a lot of what's used, but I think they should also listen to the
requirements of the teachers themselves.  Maybe teachers themselves should
also be made more aware of the possibilities of Open Source.

Mark.


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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 side if they so wish. They say I could dispense with this and
 add it to my user space, but between it and the large user space I
 already have is a swap partition of 3GB. So, if I wanted to merge the
 user spaces into one, I would first have to build a new swap partition
 at the bottom of the space. I have no idea how you format a partition as
 'swap', and perhaps all this is not really worth while just to gain 22GB
 of extra user space. But it's very interesting.


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 the disk

Then you'd have reclaimed all the space that extra partition uses.

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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 computers can run just fine with no swap at all. The issue
comes when you run out of memory as you load big programs and data.
Eventually there will be no more space in memory to load stuff and the
kernel will start killing off programs (the OOM [out of memory] killer
does this).

It's perfectly possible to run with no swap during the process of
moving / recreating swap temporarily.

 and be
 completely unrecoverable except by using another machine to re-write the
 hard disk contents, so I don't want any risk of that. Could you explain
 how the hibernate command works? Is the idea that on the next start-up,
 the machine will switch to using the new swap partition? How can I be
 certain it is no longer using the old one, after the next start-up? I
 have to be 100% of this before deleting the old swap partition.


swapon -s will list the swap partitions in use:-


a...@ubuntu-uk:~$ swapon -s
FilenameTypeSizeUsedPriority
/dev/sda2   partition   262136  97792   -1

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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 school.

 Capita recently bought Ramesys (a large education IT provider) so there is 
 little chance of BFS, Building Schools for the Future, schools to have any 
 local control and choose Open Source software.

 FOSS does stand a chance in private or indepenent schools.

 Mark Thomas and SiruisIT do a lots of FOSS stuff in schools.  Maybe they 
 could be on the Ubuntu UK podcast to talk about it.

 Colin
   
it is Mark Taylor (@Mark_Antony on twitter, Antony is his middle name)
and yes, he would be a good interviewee for the podcast. Becta have done
some good stuff relating to Open Source, if you look through the 152
downloadable publications they have produced several are advocating open
source technologies and they have made several advisories about the
risks of being locked in to high cost proprietary software. I think they
were influential in getting Microsoft to offer an alternative site
license to the one that means that you have to pay by the total number
of computers in the building, regardless of what they were running
(under the standard scam if you install a media suite of 30 Apple
computers you would have to pay Microsoft for each and every one of them
even if they run no Microsoft software). Becta also set up the Open
Source Schools project and you can read more about the Becta close there
http://opensourceschools.org.uk/bectas-closure.html Ultimately I don't
think Becta did enough to justify their cost, and that seems to be the
view of the new government too.

The interesting question is what, if anything, fills the void. Stuff
like the home access program will go or be managed by the department of
education (no great loss if it goes). Publications and advisories will
be pumped out from all directions. Not sure how good this is going to
be. Schools will have to make up their own minds a little bit more
(which they did anyway, but could just point at a Becta publication to
abdicate responsibility for poor purchasing decisions). Microsoft may
put up their prices in the absence of a collective bargaining point (a
role which Becta tried to do with limited effectiveness) personally I
think Microsoft prices going up would be a good thing, too much effort
has been put to saving pennies in that direction rather than looking
about for real savings.


Just to clarify a few points made:

BSF schools can tell their system integrator what they want and that can
include open source software. A few have done so to a limited extent (I
think just insisting on Moodle).

SIMS is a problem, Capita do not appear to be interested in supporting
open standards at this time. It is a big application, it was big when I
was using it 18 years ago on Novell Netware 3.1.1 and it must be huge by
now. There are alternatives, but I don't think anything with the level
of maturity that would be required for deployment. Schooltool is the one
I would look to, and interestingly enough that is supported by the
Shuttleworth foundation.

RM is quite Microsoft focussed, but they have been around forever and
used to actually build their own computers, remember the 480Z? They also
were one of the largest suppliers of the eeePC running Xandros. I had an
RM branded one for a bit. They are actually less dependent on Microsoft
marketing money than the regular box shifters.


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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 occasionally meets in a school.

As do mimio [1]. At BETT for a couple of years they have been 
demonstrating their IWB running on Linux (Ubuntu), Mac OSX and Windows.

 Capita recently bought Ramesys (a large education IT provider) so there is 
 little chance of BFS, Building Schools for the Future, schools to have any 
 local control and choose Open Source software.

SIMS has a terrible reputation when you talk to teachers. It does, 
unfortunately, tie you into to a complete MS stack from the desktop 
(Outlook/MSO) through to the server backend.

There are some projects to build a FOSS alternative, but as of today I 
am unsure of their level of completeness.

 FOSS does stand a chance in private or independent schools.

FOSS *should* not need to stand a chance. The whole ethos of FOSS is 
such a perfect fit for education, it is, quite frankly, an abomination 
that we in the UK have such a poor level of take up.

It is easy to level blame at certain organisations etc. but it is really 
up to *us* to fix it... That means all of us.

 Mark Thomas and SiruisIT do a lots of FOSS stuff in schools.  Maybe they 
 could be on the Ubuntu UK podcast to talk about it.

Do you mean Mark Taylor perhaps? Yes, Sirius[2] were the first (and 
only) Becta approved supplier on their accredited list who specialise in 
Open Source Technologies.

Without any IT steering/guidance from Becta there is now an opportunity 
(and also a threat) to get more FOSS into schools. Sites like Open 
Source Schools[3] and School Forge[4] are useful places to guide 
teachers and IT support staff. Also do remind them that there are more 
professional companies available to provide support and services than 
just Sirius. Mark Taylor discussed this with us at BETT this year, he 
wants/needs there to be more competitors in this space so the Open 
Source model proves itself to be sustainable and our customers have choice.


Cheers

Al

[1] http://www.mimio.com/global/em/index.asp
[2] http://www.siriusit.co.uk/
[3] http://opensourceschools.org.uk/
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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 basic ERP;
SIMS. Vendor lock-in at its best; blame Capita.

      * Basic document management;
A network. What more do they need?

      * Course management software;
Generally Moodle, mostly LA-managed, though some do use private
company-run Microsoft Learning Services (Sharepoint-based thing).

      * Central user management with mass updates once a year when
        pupils change.
SIMS again.


Education would be an ideal place to get FOSS introduced. However,
schools have huge inertia when it comes to change. Even installing
Linux on one laptop caused problems with a Novell network, for
example (though I would suspect this was down to poor configuration
and a creaking network).

Teachers use what they know; Microsoft applications. Even IT
teachers still don't have the skills or knowledge you would expect
(yes, there are a few of us who do, but let's be realistic).

Pupils save their work in whatever format their software defaults to.
This means a fair number now expect the school software to open Office
2007 files and unless you know what the difference is they (or the
teacher who can't open their work) complain to school IT support who
promptly install the compatibility pack for Office 2003.

Even as a teacher I have no input as to the software the school runs;
I have even less say over infrastructure. I can promote FOSS all I
want but as in the last xkcd [1] noone really cares. School management
go off the recommendations of the LA and their own IT
support/services; if they know MS products they will use MS products.
If they know Novell networks they will use Novell. If they know Citrix
they will use Citrix.

Plus, they have money to spend so they have to spend it. The only way
around this is to make FOSS cost money which pretty much defeats half
of the argument on cost savings!

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.

Jonathon

[1] http://xkcd.com/743/

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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 just can't trade with them as easily as we can with other SME
organisations. It is insanely hard to do business with a school unless
you are big.
 Jonathon

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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 school I am at are an RM school. See further comments embedded below:

On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 8:29 AM, Alan Bell
alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
 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 school.


eBeam is a device that sticks to a standard whiteboard. This projects
an IR grid and where the grid is broken is interpreted as the position
on the screen. They do a mac client, so a Linux client certainly
shouldn't be difficult.

 Capita recently bought Ramesys (a large education IT provider) so there is 
 little chance of BFS, Building Schools for the Future, schools to have any 
 local control and choose Open Source software.

 FOSS does stand a chance in private or indepenent schools.


As far as MIS systems go Integris is another large player in the
field. This handles timetabling, student information, staff
information, behaviour records, assessment data, exam entry and much
more. Integris has now moved to be web based, and will work currently
on Firefox and IE. I'm not currently sure of how well it works using
Chrome. This MIS software ties in VERY closely these days with any
sort of online system. There was a government mandate that states that
by September of (I believe) this year, any parent / carer should be
able to access details of their child online at any time. Systems such
as RM's Kaleidos, which is based on Sharepoint provides this link to
the school's MIS system. This would be a massive stumbling block for
any school moving away from their local council's plans.

Personally I do agree that Moodle is an excellent platform for online
learning, and should be used as a separate thing to parents gaining
access to their child's data.

Another interesting point is that some local authorities own the
computing equipment and software licenses that school purchase. A
school will then effectively pay their authority appointed supplier
for this sort of managed equipment and then basically loan it from
the local authority.

While I would ADORE a situation where we have FOSS everywhere in
schools I struggle to see schools / authorities going so far. I can
however see the basic infrastructure being MS Windows Desktops, MS
Windows Server and then as many Open source tools as possible.

I argue this as for a large number of users and stations active
directory is quite possible the best way of managing all of the PCs
and User requirements with software deployment, GPO's etc.

I would however use open source video editors, open office, etc, etc, etc

Other areas that schools could save cash are behind the scenes. The
Xibo project is an excellent digital signage solution. If software
exists that can be used to organise lettings in the school would be a
good area of saving also. Inventory software would also save a nice
amount of cash.

Matt

 Mark Thomas and SiruisIT do a lots of FOSS stuff in schools.  Maybe they 
 could be on the Ubuntu UK podcast to talk about it.

 Colin

 it is Mark Taylor (@Mark_Antony on twitter, Antony is his middle name)
 and yes, he would be a good interviewee for the podcast. Becta have done
 some good stuff relating to Open Source, if you look through the 152
 downloadable publications they have produced several are advocating open
 source technologies and they have made several advisories about the
 risks of being locked in to high cost proprietary software. I think they
 were influential in getting Microsoft to offer an alternative site
 license to the one that means that you have to pay by the total number
 of computers in the building, regardless of what they were running
 (under the standard scam if you install a media suite of 30 Apple
 computers you would have to pay Microsoft for each and every one of them
 even if they run no Microsoft software). Becta also set up the Open
 Source Schools project and you can read more about the Becta close there
 http://opensourceschools.org.uk/bectas-closure.html Ultimately I don't
 think Becta did enough to justify their cost, and that seems to be the
 view of the new government too.

 The interesting question is what, if anything, fills the void. Stuff
 like the home access program will go or be managed by the department of
 education (no great loss if it goes). Publications and advisories will
 be pumped out from all directions. Not sure how good this is going to
 be. Schools will have to make up their own minds a little bit more
 (which they did anyway, but could just point at a Becta 

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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 at all it will die a horrible death
 
 Nope. Most computers can run just fine with no swap at all. The issue
 comes when you run out of memory as you load big programs and data.
 Eventually there will be no more space in memory to load stuff and the
 kernel will start killing off programs (the OOM [out of memory] killer
 does this).
 
 It's perfectly possible to run with no swap during the process of
 moving / recreating swap temporarily.
 
  and be
  completely unrecoverable except by using another machine to re-write the
  hard disk contents, so I don't want any risk of that. Could you explain
  how the hibernate command works? Is the idea that on the next start-up,
  the machine will switch to using the new swap partition? How can I be
  certain it is no longer using the old one, after the next start-up? I
  have to be 100% of this before deleting the old swap partition.
 
 swapon -s will list the swap partitions in use:-
 
 
 a...@ubuntu-uk:~$ swapon -s
 FilenameTypeSizeUsed   
 Priority /dev/sda2   partition   262136 
 97792   -1

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.
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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 than dropping/recreating it.

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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 the disk
 Then you'd have reclaimed all the space that extra partition uses.
 Most computers can run just fine with no swap at all. It's perfectly
 possible to run with no swap during the process of moving / recreating
 swap temporarily. Cheers, Al.

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'? I have an
up-to-date Karmic Koala installation, with the desktop and panels
adapted to my peculiar tastes, and the only CDs I have are for Intrepid
Ibex. I can't see any need to destroy everything I have installed. My
idea would be simply to:
Make the new swap partition;
Switch the machine over to using that;
Make a giant new partition from the top of the new swap partition up to
the top of the disk;
Format that with ext3 and mount it as '/home'. (Do you do this just by
changing the indicated mount point on the properties tab?)
Restore the contents from my external hard disk backup.
I still would like a clearer explanation of the necessity for the
command to 'hibernate' the new swap partition, and what exactly the
sequence of events and commands should be during the change-over,
though, please. And since I intend to end up with just three partitions,
why not just call them sda1, sda2, and sda3, and forget about sda4 and
its extension, sda5?


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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 cannot be mounted whilst you do it. Booting to the
live CD means that the hard disk is not mounted, not in use as you
move partitions around.

 I have an
 up-to-date Karmic Koala installation, with the desktop and panels
 adapted to my peculiar tastes, and the only CDs I have are for Intrepid
 Ibex. I can't see any need to destroy everything I have installed.

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 deleting an unused partition.

Cheers,
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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 out; at
A level work was required to be submitted in open formats so Office
documents were mostly converted to PDF. In the absence of a VLE from the
local authority the ICT department implemented one in Moodle but it looked
like this would be overtaken eventually.

I think that the most important aspect is to teach using FOSS tools, partly
for the future but also so that students/parents who want compatible
software at home aren't forced to pay out £100's or 'pirate'.

Joe

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

Hi all,

Just a thought I wanted to put to the list. Considering today's news [1] and
in particular the demise of Becta, the government's technology agency for
schools, is there an opportunity for FOSS to replace some or all of what
Becta used to provide?

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[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 time I have a chance to talk about what
I'm trying to achieve I _should_ be able to do it better! As a result of
that I have some notes I'm slowly going through to gain some ideas of
how to move forward, but this moves me onto point three.

What drives you to help support random strangers for no reward? Someone
pointed out to me at Oggcamp that understanding this may be the crux of
being able to actually help drive people to improve. 

I've had a sit down, a cup of tea and a bit of a think on this and will
put hand to keyboard this evening and lay out why I help people, but I
want to see if I can get a better understanding of why others do so
without influencing their decisions. 

So really, what drives you to support people? What, in your own opinion,
could be done to help motivate yourself to do better?

I'd be very appreciative of any responses.

Thanks,

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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 described requires you to be changing data on
 partitions that cannot be mounted whilst you do it. Booting to the
 live CD means that the hard disk is not mounted, not in use as you
 move partitions around.

 I have an
 up-to-date Karmic Koala installation, with the desktop and panels
 adapted to my peculiar tastes, and the only CDs I have are for Intrepid
 Ibex. I can't see any need to destroy everything I have installed.

 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 deleting an unused partition.


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 date before embarking on this sort of operation however.  One
never knows when one is going to hit the wrong key or click the wrong
partition.  Also I imagine that granny tripping over the power lead in
the middle of moving a partition might be unfortunate for the data
integrity as well as granny.

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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 deleting an unused partition. Cheers, Al.
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 is the boot volume. I can demount, delete, recreate and
remount all the other partitions without having any effect on sda1. 


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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 is the boot volume. I can demount, delete, recreate and
 remount all the other partitions without having any effect on sda1.


I personally wouldn't.

Cheers,
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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 expanding partitions to allow them to use the newly
 available space made by deleting an unused partition. Cheers, Al.
 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 is the boot volume. I can demount, delete, recreate and
 remount all the other partitions without having any effect on sda1.

By booting from the live CD and running gparted from there, the
partitions are not mounted in the first place, so there is no need to
unmount them.  There is no need to delete and re-create the
partitions, just move and resize them.

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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?

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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

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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 date before embarking on this sort of operation however.  One
 never knows when one is going to hit the wrong key or click the wrong
 partition.  Also I imagine that granny tripping over the power lead in
 the middle of moving a partition might be unfortunate for the data
 integrity as well as granny. Colin
But that wouldn't work with the swap partition, would it? I can't just
unmount that, move it down the disk, and mount it again?


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[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.

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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.

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To succinctly answer your question - Yes.

However, you may want to specify what you mean by 'connect to', to get
a fuller answer an perhaps some guidance.

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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
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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 the end BECTA could only advise and advocate. On
the ground it is Capita and RM and the like who effectively decide what is
supported. I know of several situations in different places in the country
where schools have wanted to run none-standard servers, specifically Apple
Xserves in a couple of cases, and have been prevented from doing so by their
IT providers simply because they don't have the expertise to support them,
even when all they required was an IP address.

If the promises to give more autonomy to schools come to fruition, then they
might be able to do different things with their IT budgets, but also
centralisation and co-operation produces economies of scale and I wouldn't
doubt that it will be the same businesses that will be advocating software
and support in schools that have been for the last 13 years.

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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 and photos and
things at the moment. The Desire's SD card will mount as a filesystem over
USB.

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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
 affecting an existing system.  It is always wise to ensure backups are
 up to date before embarking on this sort of operation however.  One
 never knows when one is going to hit the wrong key or click the wrong
 partition.  Also I imagine that granny tripping over the power lead in
 the middle of moving a partition might be unfortunate for the data
 integrity as well as granny. Colin
 But that wouldn't work with the swap partition, would it? I can't just
 unmount that, move it down the disk, and mount it again?

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!

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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 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.

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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 monkey with it whilst it's
mounted, and will offer the option to unmount it.

Cheers,
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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 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 date before embarking on this sort of operation
  however. One never knows when one is going to hit the wrong key or
  click the wrong partition. Also I imagine that granny tripping over
  the power lead in the middle of moving a partition might be 
  unfortunate for the data integrity as well as granny. Colin
  But that wouldn't work with the swap partition, would it? I can't 
  just unmount that, move it down the disk, and mount it again?
 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
Quite so, but I meant, not using a Live CD, just working from the
computer's own resident OS, which is all in sda1, the boot volume. My
idea was that while, necessarily, leaving that volume mounted, I can
unmount and delete, recreate -- or, as I thought you were suggesting,
move -- the other volumes without any difficulties.

It does occur to me though that if I were to rename the new partitions,
there might be files other than fstab and resume that would need
altering accordingly. There might be other files that assume that the
swap partition is sda3, and that the Home folder is in sda5, and would
not be able to find them. So I would need a complete list of files that
point to either the partition names or the UUIDs of the swap partition,
and the Home folder, and its menu contents such as Documents, Music,
Pictures, Video, etc.


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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
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Dave Morley
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 Hang it, I forgot to change the subject line yet again. This is such a
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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
  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 date before embarking on this sort of operation
  however. One never knows when one is going to hit the wrong key or
  click the wrong partition. Also I imagine that granny tripping over
  the power lead in the middle of moving a partition might be
  unfortunate for the data integrity as well as granny. Colin
  But that wouldn't work with the swap partition, would it? I can't
  just unmount that, move it down the disk, and mount it again?
 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
 Quite so, but I meant, not using a Live CD, just working from the
 computer's own resident OS, which is all in sda1, the boot volume. My
 idea was that while, necessarily, leaving that volume mounted, I can
 unmount and delete, recreate -- or, as I thought you were suggesting,
 move -- the other volumes without any difficulties.

 It does occur to me though that if I were to rename the new partitions,
 there might be files other than fstab and resume that would need
 altering accordingly. There might be other files that assume that the
 swap partition is sda3, and that the Home folder is in sda5, and would
 not be able to find them. So I would need a complete list of files that
 point to either the partition names or the UUIDs of the swap partition,
 and the Home folder, and its menu contents such as Documents, Music,
 Pictures, Video, etc.

I can't understand why you don't want to use the live CD.  Then none
of this is a problem.

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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.


  I would use Google sync tools with Evolution or Thunderbird and Lightning
 for desktop, and possibly Songbird with FolderSync for music and photos and
 things at the moment. The Desire's SD card will mount as a filesystem over
 USB.

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 have to use windows for updates and things, yes?

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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?

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I've had a HTC Magic running Android for about 12 months, in all of that 
time, I've only ever connected it to a windows machine to transfer 
e-books to it.

Any updates/application installs are done over the air using the phones 
normal 3G internet connection.

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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 tools with Evolution or Thunderbird and Lightning
 for desktop, and possibly Songbird with FolderSync for music and photos and
 things at the moment. The Desire's SD card will mount as a filesystem over
 USB.

  s/
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 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?


Android is designed to upgrade over the air so you shouldn't have to connect
it to a computer at all.

YMM, of course, V. My Milestone has just been updated to Android 2.1 but I
needed to connect via wi-fi rather than over my T-Mobile 3G connection but
it should be dependent on the hardware maker rather than the phone company.

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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 with Evolution or Thunderbird and Lightning
 for desktop, and possibly Songbird with FolderSync for music and photos and
 things at the moment. The Desire's SD card will mount as a filesystem over
 USB.
 s/
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 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

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Android updates come over-the-air IIRC (I've rooted my HTC Magic and
am running cyanogenmod instead of the deafault so I can't be 100% sure
on the way it 'normally' works)

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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 25/05/10 13:03, Simon Greenwood wrote:



 On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.c...
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?

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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
  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
 
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 I've had a HTC Magic running Android for about 12 months, in all of that
 time, I've only ever connected it to a windows machine to transfer
 e-books to it.

 Any updates/application installs are done over the air using the phones
 normal 3G internet connection.

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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 Ubuntu?

 Thank you.


 I would use Google sync tools with Evolution or Thunderbird and Lightning
 for desktop, and possibly Songbird with FolderSync for music and photos and
 things at the moment. The Desire's SD card will mount as a filesystem over
 USB.
 s/
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 Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/in/simonfgreenwood
 Twitter: @sfgreenwood

 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

 --
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 Android updates come over-the-air IIRC (I've rooted my HTC Magic and
 am running cyanogenmod instead of the deafault so I can't be 100% sure
 on the way it 'normally' works)

 Steve Garton
 http://blog.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk




Oh, ok, that is interesting. that makes it a lot easier to use then. 
Good phone though, I like it. much better than my iPhone a lot faster.

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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 purely for any bugfixes that may be present in the up to date
 system. Just back up your data before you do it.  Worst case scenario
 then is a reinstall, which with Ubuntu takes about 20 mins, during
 which you can choose your partitions to be laid out exactly how you
 want.  Then of course you have to configure the system, but if you
 have backed up your home directory (which will store much of the
 configuration), then it's just installing programs and updates. Daniel

Thank you Daniel :-) In fact, I ought to make myself an up to date Live
CD, anyway. By 'up to date' I suppose I mean 10.4 LTS, though I am still
running 9.10. I have wanted to know for ages, though: when you download
the whole thing from the Ubuntu site and burn it to disk, is what you
are getting the entire 'Live CD', including the ability to run the thing
from the disk and check it out before installing it (or, as we are
discussing, use it as a maintenance platform)? Or does 'Live CD' refer
to some special compilation over and above what you get in the
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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, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better
  idea, if purely for any bugfixes that may be present in the up to date
  system. Just back up your data before you do it.  Worst case scenario
  then is a reinstall, which with Ubuntu takes about 20 mins, during
  which you can choose your partitions to be laid out exactly how you
  want.  Then of course you have to configure the system, but if you
  have backed up your home directory (which will store much of the
  configuration), then it's just installing programs and updates. Daniel
 
 Thank you Daniel :-) In fact, I ought to make myself an up to date Live
 CD, anyway. By 'up to date' I suppose I mean 10.4 LTS, though I am still
 running 9.10. I have wanted to know for ages, though: when you download
 the whole thing from the Ubuntu site and burn it to disk, is what you
 are getting the entire 'Live CD', including the ability to run the thing
 from the disk and check it out before installing it (or, as we are
 discussing, use it as a maintenance platform)? Or does 'Live CD' refer
 to some special compilation over and above what you get in the
 download? 
 
 
A Live CD is a disc which has the ability to run without installation to
a computer's media.  The standard Ubuntu CD you download from the Ubuntu
website http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu/download is a Live CD, and
contains everything it needs to run from the CD, and it includes an
installer.  The alternate text-based installer cd is not a Live CD, as
it's primary task is just as an installation medium.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_CD for more info.

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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 

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[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 Gparted

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 purely for any bugfixes that may be present in the up to date 
 system. Just back up your data before you do it.  Worst case scenario 
 then is a reinstall, which with Ubuntu takes about 20 mins, during 
 which you can choose your partitions to be laid out exactly how you 
 want.  Then of course you have to configure the system, but if you 
 have backed up your home directory (which will store much of the 
 configuration), then it's just installing programs and updates. Daniel

Thank you Daniel :-) In fact, I ought to make myself an up to date Live CD,
anyway. By 'up to date' I suppose I mean 10.4 LTS, though I am still running
9.10. I have wanted to know for ages, though: when you download the whole
thing from the Ubuntu site and burn it to disk, is what you are getting the
entire 'Live CD', including the ability to run the thing from the disk and
check it out before installing it (or, as we are discussing, use it as a
maintenance platform)? Or does 'Live CD' refer to some special compilation
over and above what you get in the download? 


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[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 them. Again, whether I choose yes or no makes no
difference.

And I only want to watch a programme about sailing around Cornwall - my
mother would be happy for me to watch, I'm sure. :)

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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 don't allow me to store flash cookies, and do I
 want to modify them. Again, whether I choose yes or no makes no
 difference.

 And I only want to watch a programme about sailing around Cornwall - my
 mother would be happy for me to watch, I'm sure. :)

 Dianne


Confirmed, I've got the same problem. Is the program you want on seesaw.com?

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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.

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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. Whichever option I choose, it tells
  me my security settings don't allow me to store flash cookies, and do I
  want to modify them. Again, whether I choose yes or no makes no
  difference.
 
  And I only want to watch a programme about sailing around Cornwall - my
  mother would be happy for me to watch, I'm sure. :)
 
  Dianne
 
 
 Confirmed, I've got the same problem. Is the program you want on seesaw.com?

Similar problem with the Eurosport player. It will play the demo video
but not the live feeds. And obviously, they only tell you that *after*
you pay a subscription and contact support.

Bruno




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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, if
 purely for any bugfixes that may be present in the up to date system.
 
snip

This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with
partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted. 

Having been building storage systems for the past 8 months, I've dealt
with things in terrible states, one of the causes being people believing
that repartitioning with a volume mounted is a good idea.

Save yourself some grief, for the sake of downloading and creating a
live CD, you'll probably save yourself having to reinstall the whole
system. 

When I do this on customers machines the process is 
1. Boot Live CD (or in my case USB as it's a touch quicker)
2. Make backup of entire drive (overnight usually due to this being on
xxTB systems) onto some external storage
3. Use gparted to sort out partition
4. Check everything is fine, system boots, data is intact
5. Return system to customer
6. After a couple of weeks of no problems, remove the image.

This would obviously need to be modified for your needs. 

_DO_ backup your important data.
_DO NOT_ repartition a mounted device

Using a liveCD provides you with a clean environment. There is far less
that can go wrong.

Just my 2p worth of course. But taking time to do things properly is
usually far quicker than having to undo things done badly.

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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 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 them. Again, whether I choose yes or no makes no
  difference.
 
  And I only want to watch a programme about sailing around Cornwall - my
  mother would be happy for me to watch, I'm sure. :)
 
  Dianne
 

 Confirmed, I've got the same problem. Is the program you want on seesaw.com?

 Similar problem with the Eurosport player. It will play the demo video
 but not the live feeds. And obviously, they only tell you that *after*
 you pay a subscription and contact support.

 Bruno



People on the forums have had success by installing
ubuntu-restricted-extras and w32codecs. Some people have also had to
change their user agent to an IE one. Alternatively you could use
http://www.m0sand.com/henningms/?p=58 to play Eurosport in VLC.

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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 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 them. Again, whether I choose yes or no makes no
   difference.
  
   And I only want to watch a programme about sailing around Cornwall - my
   mother would be happy for me to watch, I'm sure. :)
  
   Dianne
  
 
  Confirmed, I've got the same problem. Is the program you want on 
  seesaw.com?
 
  Similar problem with the Eurosport player. It will play the demo video
  but not the live feeds. And obviously, they only tell you that *after*
  you pay a subscription and contact support.
 
  Bruno
 
 
 
 People on the forums have had success by installing
 ubuntu-restricted-extras and w32codecs. Some people have also had to
 change their user agent to an IE one. Alternatively you could use
 http://www.m0sand.com/henningms/?p=58 to play Eurosport in VLC.

The w32codecs package seems to not be in Lucid anymore. As for
maskerading as IE, I had a look at the page's source code and I can say
I'm not surprised. Coded by Cowboys R Us Ltd.

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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.

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