Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron Release Party
Would giving out a WEP key on an individual basis help at all ? Andy - Salisbury Dianne Reuby wrote: That's weird - the first half of my email vanished, so the second half didn't make much sense! I was saying that we may not have wireless access, but hope to have wired access for the demo machines through our router, which links to the Uni's internet. Dianne Reuby Collections Manager Museum of Computing @ Swindon http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadband
Micro Mart were slagging off Tiscali in the Feb edition I think that Tiscali do this, when a wrong address is typed, it brings up a page of ads, like this :http://results.ispconnect.co.uk/main?AddInType=BdnsVersion=1.3.0FailureMode=1ParticipantID=iu4dlszggyivxb0k1g8afi94imr4lkbtClientLocation=ukReferer=FailedURI=http%3A%2F%2Ffwrjgjrngwrnbwf.com%2FSearchQuery= I am now looking for a new ISP, also the tiscali service seems to be getting slower, I know they use traffic shaping. Mj -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Printer sharing
Hi Guys We have 2 PCs in the house and l'd like to be able to print from this one. The printer is installed on my wife's PC which runs Win2KPro. l have a wired router and am not sure what is required to be setup. Hopefully there's a FAQ lurking somewhere :) Andy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?
Hi Guys many thanks for the suggestions, they have all been passed on to She who must be obeyed :) Andy - Salisbury Andy Watts wrote: Hi People l'm interested to know whether there is a Linux alternative to Sage.. l might be able to get my wife to start using Ubuntu if there's something available that will allow her to import customers data properly. __ Andy - Salisbury The wrong side of 40 but having fun with Linux Thanks http://ubuntuforums.org/post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_addp=4401348 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives
Many many thanks for the information :) It was humourous and informative.. Andy Andrew Oakley wrote: Andy Watts wrote: Chris Rowson wrote: l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with Ubuntu on it. l've tried having them both connected to the same ribbon and rebooting with either of the 2 hard drives powered. Sadly it doesn't seem to work so l wonder whether there's a solution..Both drives are set as masters.. l don't want to have both OSs on the same hard drive Okay, that tells us what you DON'T want to do. ;-) What is it that you DO want to do? * Dual boot using separate hard drives? * Have removable drives? * Something else? What? Also... are you using IDE/ATA drives (wide flat ribbon) or SATA (thin cable)? I'm assuming you've got a boot loader (Windows - NT loader I think? - or GRUB for Linux) installed on one of the hard drives. You'll need this on the bootable drive so that your PC knows where the operating system resides. I think Andy might be trying to switch off (electrically) one or other IDE hard drives... if so, a boot loader on only one of those drives won't help. I suspect Andy is fundamentally misunderstanding the relationship between master/slave and boot options. I suspect Andy thinks a drive has to be master to be bootable (which is incorrect). l did try setting both to masters, installing a switch on the -ve rail of the 2 molexes. Sadly it didn't work :( Yeah, that really won't. Why have you set them both as masters on the same cable? * You want removable drives (because you're clever, and you might want to move the drive to another PC one day), or you want to be able to entirely switch off a drive (because you're trying to run on the absolute minimum current draw, perhaps because your machine is running from 12V DC battery such as a car or van, or because you're just REALLY stingy with the electricity bill) In this case, buy a removable drive caddy or a USB external drive enclosure. Removable caddies are about ten quid and fit into a 5.25 CD/DVD slot. (Note that the environmental cost of manufacturing the caddy will vastly exceed the environmental cost of leaving the second drive switched on, in case you think this is some kind of green option; unused drives will switch into low-power mode anyway) * You want to dual boot in the traditional manner Set one as master and put your boot loader on it, such as GRUB. Configure this one boot loader to offer the option to boot off either drive. See the GRUB documentation or ask here for more help configuring GRUB across two drives (clue: HD0, HD1). Set the other as slave. You won't need a boot loader on the slave, since the boot loader on the master drive will be able to boot off either drive (and indeed off any other connected bootable device). * You want to dual boot through BIOS (because you hate configuring boot loaders, and your BIOS offers a simple boot menu such as Dell's F12 option, and you're just a bit awkward like that) Set one as master and the other as slave. The BIOS boot options will allow you to boot off drive 0, drive 1 etc. Note that this still won't allow you to switch off the unused drive whilst the PC is running. But it will allow you to remove/disconnect the slave drive (but not the master) once the PC is switched off. * You don't want removable drives but you are determined to have two bootable drives that are masters (because both of the hard drives have had their master/slave jumpers permanently forced into the master position in an unfortunate but surprisingly selective accident with a soldering iron / tube of superglue / welding rod, OR, your hard drives are set to master by default and you've lost the jumpers) Install the drives on separate cables. Change the jumpers on your CD/DVD drive to be a slave. (I have some spare hard drive jumpers if you want one? Send an SAE to A Oakley, 7 Frampton Cottages, GL20 8NX) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives
Chris Rowson wrote: Hi people l do hope that this hasn't been asked too many times before.. l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with Ubuntu on it. l've tried having them both connected to the same ribbon and rebooting with either of the 2 hard drives powered. Sadly it doesn't seem to work so l wonder whether there's a solution..Both drives are set as masters.. l don't want to have both OSs on the same hard drive Please could someone offer a solution I'm assuming you've got a boot loader (Windows - NT loader I think? - or GRUB for Linux) installed on one of the hard drives. You'll need this on the bootable drive so that your PC knows where the operating system resides. Chris Many thanks for the info Guys.. l did try setting both to masters, installing a switch on the -ve rail of the 2 molexes. Sadly it didn't work :( Andy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?
Hi People l'm interested to know whether there is a Linux alternative to Sage.. l might be able to get my wife to start using Ubuntu if there's something available that will allow her to import customers data properly. __ Andy - Salisbury The wrong side of 40 but having fun with Linux Thanks http://ubuntuforums.org/post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_addp=4401348 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives
Hi people l do hope that this hasn't been asked too many times before.. l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with Ubuntu on it. l've tried having them both connected to the same ribbon and rebooting with either of the 2 hard drives powered. Sadly it doesn't seem to work so l wonder whether there's a solution..Both drives are set as masters.. l don't want to have both OSs on the same hard drive Please could someone offer a solution __ Andy - Salisbury The wrong side of 40 but having fun with Linux Thanks http://ubuntuforums.org/post_thanks.php?do=post_thanks_addp=4383223 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] External drive.... Grrr
Hi Tom l will try a different drive later. The one l'm trying to use is a small Hitachi 2.5 drive which is a few years old although l do have a brand new 80gig maxtor that l could try. The USB caddy works with XP on my wife's machine although not with Win 2K pro. GParted tells me: mount_point cannot contain the following characters: newline, G_DIR_SEPERATOR (usually /) Thanks, Andy On Wed, 2008-02-06 at 19:41 +, Tom Bamford wrote: Hi, It looks similar to messages generated on machines I've had problems with USB. If you have another drive to test, can you tell if it's just that device with a problem or all USB storage devices you try to use? Is it an optical drive you're trying with? Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] I _NEED_ one of these...
On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:37:57 + Keith Bowerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 13:19 +, Alan Pope wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 01:19:05PM +, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: http://www.tuxisalive.com/ Oooh, we're having a wishlist day are we? :) Right, I want one of these:- http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad Popey, I was bought one for my (special) birthday (regrettably neither 18th nor 21st) last July and it's proved to be one of the best gadgets I've ever had (and I've had a lot)! Cheers, Keith. Looks good to me.. Kinda reminds me of Star Trek Andy - Salisbury -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] External drive.... Grrr
Hi people could some kind soul desipher the following dmesg output for me please. it's a drive that XP recognises ok [11226.398993] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 18 [11226.578921] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [11226.862848] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [11227.142763] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 19 [11227.322706] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [11227.606619] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [11227.886534] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 20 [11228.294392] usb 2-3: device not accepting address 20, error -62 [11228.470354] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 21 [11228.878213] usb 2-3: device not accepting address 21, error -62 [11229.182136] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 22 [11229.362080] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [11229.645982] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [11229.925890] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 23 [11230.105851] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [11230.389770] usb 2-3: device descriptor read/64, error -62 [11230.669676] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 24 [11231.077533] usb 2-3: device not accepting address 24, error -62 [11231.253484] usb 2-3: new full speed USB device using ohci_hcd and address 25 [11231.661356] usb 2-3: device not accepting address 25, error -62 [11595.778861] UDF-fs: No VRS found [11596.570292] ISO 9660 Extensions: Microsoft Joliet Level 3 [11598.002033] ISO 9660 Extensions: RRIP_1991A Many thanks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] HI
Hi there, yes it's a lovely system.. On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 07:46:35 + Robert Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HI New to Linux/UBUNTU and happily amazed how friendly everyone is. Wish I knew about this YEARS AGO. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site
Many thanks guys l also found the answer at http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/nonfree lt's up and running now, just wish the news wasn't so depressing :) On Tue, 5 Feb 2008 11:51:33 + Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 05, 2008 at 11:38:33AM +, Andy Watts wrote: What player would be best when trying to view the video clips under Firefox ? l guess there are alternatives to Realplayer .. This is a bit of a FAQ:- https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2007-July/005825.html Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Hi from Salisbury
Hi People Recently joined the mailing list.. Have experimented with Xubuntu, Mandriva and SuSe but have finally settled with Ubuntu with the Claws mailer.. The name is apt as my wife spent most of her life living in Zimbabwe Andy -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
