[ubuntu-uk] Open office python as an Ms office alternative.
Hi everyone, Lots of people are forced to use vba and Ms office at work for various reasons. (I am at least) Can we use python and open office? Does anyone use any other ’all in one’ package that can achieve the same results as the boss expects in excel or access? Thanks Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open office python as an Ms office alternative.
Thanks guys, Lots of things to take in there. I'll check all of that out and post back if I find anything else. Thanks Dave On Aug 7, 2012 9:14 PM, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I used to be a fairly serious Access developer and faced much the same issue when I made the move to Linux. In my view OpenOffice/LibreOffice Base is by far the weakest part of the otherwise excellent office suite. Its native HSQL database is slow and the form designer is very limited in functionality compared with Access. Also the form appearance is archaic. Its biggest plus is that is it easy to link to many other kinds of DB such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, but you still don't get very good performance. My other big criticism is that the programming language (a variant of Basic) makes heavy weather of many features which VBA achieves with ease. To manipulate the GUI you have to think more in terms of how Visual C++ does things rather than VBA. My solution is to use the Gambas development tool with a backend database to suit the application requirements. Gambas is very similar to VB in many ways, and better in some. The language syntax is similar. If you've used VB or Access/VBA you'd get used to Gambas pretty quickly. You can create very sophisticated GUIs and also compile to an executable. The executable requires the presence of a runtime library - another similarity with VB - but it means you don't have to deliver the code and form designs along with executable. You can use data-bound controls or write your own code to read/write between form controls and the database, using the Result object, which equates to an Access Recordset. Although it requires a few more lines of code I prefer this latter method as it gives you total control over what gets updated and when. Gambas can natively talk to a number of DB types. If you use SQLite (a file database) the analogy with Access is almost complete. Using Gambas/SQLite I've managed to create 10,000 records in a second during bulk updates. Base/HSQL couldn't come anywhere near this kind of performance. Hope this helps. By all means contact me off-forum if you want to discuss the nitty-gritty that would otherwise cause eyes to glaze over. Nige -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Android
Morning, Does anyone know what's happening with Ubuntu for Android? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Android
On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 11:28 AM, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 06/07/12 10:15, Dave Hanson wrote: Does anyone know what's happening with Ubuntu for Android? It's still under heavy active development. Cheers, -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ Think it's a brilliant concept - can't wait to get my hands on it. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Multiple soundcards
On 19/05/12 08:02, Dave Hanson wrote: Is it possible to trick Ubuntu into thinking it has two sound cards so I can use one for the main channel and one for the monitor channel but both would really be output on my USB headphones? This may be possible with 'jack', but I haven't used it in anger for some time. Thanks Alan - I tried to find useful resources but couldn't, I did make better progress with alsa and created a virtual soundcard - however, I couldn't get both channels through my headphones, they are microsoft lx-3000 ones which I'm guessing may not be able to handle/cope with both channels at once? Cheers, - -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com http://ubuntu.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.11 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ Hi, I also use Mixx and thought I had to spent a fortune on a new sound card until I found a USB sound card such as these http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=* *encp=6gs_id=4jxhr=tq=usb+**sound+cardum=1ie=UTF-8tbo=** utbm=shopsource=ogsa=Ntab=**wfei=tw65T-3jEKbI0QXvi9DiBw** bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qfhttp://www.google.co.uk/#hl=encp=6gs_id=4jxhr=tq=usb+sound+cardum=1ie=UTF-8tbo=utbm=shopsource=ogsa=Ntab=wfei=tw65T-3jEKbI0QXvi9DiBwbav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf .,**cf.osbfp=557c6bcbc8cd691c**biw=1280bih=601 for very little outlay the on-line user guide to Mixx talks you through configuration (very simple really). Mine cost £3.00 and works brilliantly (only limited by my talent) Thanks Pete - I think I may have to purchase one of these and get some standard 3.5mm headphones - can you confirm if then you can actually get the main output and the headphone output through the same set of headphones at the same time please? Have fun Pete -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Multiple soundcards
Morning all, Bit of an odd probably daft question... I use a program called mixxx as a DJ tool. The thing is I currently use USB headphones to listen to the music but would really like to use the same pair of headphones to monitor the 'other' track. Is it possible to trick Ubuntu into thinking it has two sound cards so I can use one for the main channel and one for the monitor channel but both would really be output on my USB headphones? Just trying to establish if it's physically possible before I head off to get an external 5.1 sound card and new headphones which I'm told will do the job - I'd rather not spend a fortune if there's an another solution. Thanks Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Certification [Free]
Does anyone know of a reputable *free* certification I can acquire to say I'm a proficient Ubuntu user, ideally server administration? I'm trying to build up some qualifications and I'm not prepared to pay the £1000+ for the one from the Ubuntu shop. Best Regards, Dave Hanson http://hansonforensics.co.uk *IMPORTANT NOTICE:* This email is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the sender does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu .....
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:21 PM, Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com wrote: On Tue, Oct 04, 2011 at 10:05:11AM +0100, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there Ubuntu 11.10 is set for release later this month and is looking fantastic. The signs are that the following version, 12.04 LTS set for release next April is going to be even more wonderful. Thanks! I'm writing to ask you to consider a review on click after next April's release. I'm not sure what you mean here. What's a review on click? -- Colin Watson [cjwat...@ubuntu.com] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ TV show I think? Best Regards, Dave Hanson http://hansonforensics.co.uk/ *IMPORTANT NOTICE:* This email is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the sender does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Certification [Free]
On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:25 PM, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: Dave Hanson wrote: Does anyone know of a reputable *free* certification I can acquire to say I'm a proficient Ubuntu user, ideally server administration? Running your own servers is a reasonably good way to demonstrate proficiency, and (aside from the cost of the server) is free. I'm trying to build up some qualifications and I'm not prepared to pay the £1000+ for the one from the Ubuntu shop. If you're already proficient, you only need the exams, which are of the order of £100 IIRC (and maybe a £30 book). The Ubuntu course is just the LPI one with an extra exam; I'd imagine that most places that ascribe much importance to the Ubuntu course ascribe much the same to just the LPI bit. On an entirely unrelated note, your signature amused me. I've never seen a company both explain how insecure email is and assume it's secure in the same wall of signature. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Thanks for the advice Avi On an entirely unrelated note, your signature amused me. I've never seen a company both explain how insecure email is and assume it's secure in the same wall of signature. ^^ It doesn't? It's stating that the information maybe *confidential*. i.e. relating to legal proceedings, the insecure email notice acknowledges that during transit or storage the email contents could change and I'm not liable. -- Think forensics. Best Regards, Dave Hanson http://hansonforensics.co.uk/ *IMPORTANT NOTICE:* This email is confidential, may be legally privileged, and is for the intended recipient only. Access, disclosure, copying, distribution, or reliance on any of it by anyone else is prohibited and may be a criminal offence. Please delete if obtained in error and email confirmation to the sender. Internet communications are not secure and therefore the sender does not accept legal responsibility for the contents of this message. The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential and/or privileged material. Any review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Certification [Free]
* * 2011/10/4 Juan J. reid...@usebox.net On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 12:45 +0100, Colin Law wrote: [...] Thanks for the advice Avi On an entirely unrelated note, your signature amused me. I've never seen a company both explain how insecure email is and assume it's secure in the same wall of signature. ^^ It doesn't? It's stating that the information maybe confidential. i.e. relating to legal proceedings, the insecure email notice acknowledges that during transit or storage the email contents could change and I'm not liable. -- Think forensics. So just who is the intended recipient who is allowed to access, disclose, copy, distribute or rely on the contents? All the rest of us could easily commit a criminal offence by so doing, apparently. The amusing part is that instead of signing the mails with any of the available standards (S/MIME, PGP/GPG; any other else?), there's a notice stating that the message (including the notice) may have been modified by a third party :) Cheers, Juan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Okay, Okay. I give in. It could be clearer as to what I mean. I'll re-write it. Best Regards, Dave Hanson http://hansonforensics.co.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Adwords Vouchers
Morning All, I have three adwords voucher codes for £50 each if anyone wants one? I can't use them as you can only use one voucher per account - Over any period of time. I don't think it breaks any sort of rules doing this, does anyone know? Best Regards, Dave Hanson http://hansonforensics.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Python Question
Hello Everyone,
I have scoured the web and can only find half baked answers to my question -
I'm hoping someone here can help?
I know that Python is classed as a portable programming language (it will
run on anything) So I'm wondering how do you code in such a way that your
script can just be 'ported' over to another OS?
I have this code to locate the Firefox directory:
from subprocess import Popen, PIPE
li = Popen(['find', '/', '-iname', '*.default'],
stdout=PIPE).stdout.read().split('\n')
flag = 1
for item in li:
if item.find('firefox') != -1:
print outfile, Firefox Directory: , item
flag = 0
break
It works fine on my Ubuntu machine, It won't run on a Windows machine
(haven't tested) I think because I'm calling the unix version of find and
also my path is /, obviously this would be c: in windows.
I want to search the entire disk of any OS to find the Firefox cache
directory. Is it even possible to do this? I don't particularly need the
code to do it (I don't mind if you want to share though!) What I'm really
after is - Am I wasting my time even trying?
Best Regards,
Dave Hanson
http://hansonforensics.co.uk
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Python Question
Thanks Tyler, I did look at that but saw no way to tell it to use the entire disk. Juanjo/Simon - Thanks, that was the only alternative I could think of but considered it long winded if there was a sort of universal option like Tyler suggested. I'll probably use sys.platform then. It's not much more coding to be fair, the docs show only 8 variations on the output for the different operating systems. I suppose I was more interested in seeing what's possible and trying to understand the language a bit better. Once I'm in the directory I am querying the SQLite files so that shouldn't be platform specific from then on I wouldn't have thought as I would use the sqlite3 python module? Thanks again for the fast responses. I should have just posted here instead of searching for two hours - Doh! Best Regards, Dave Hanson http://hansonforensics.co.uk On Fri, Sep 23, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2011-09-23 15:38, Dave Hanson wrote: I want to search the entire disk of any OS to find the Firefox cache directory. Is it even possible to do this? I don't particularly need the code to do it (I don't mind if you want to share though!) What I'm really after is - Am I wasting my time even trying? The problem is that you're using tools external to python, which are platform-dependent. Consider instead using the os.path python library. Regards, Tyler -- In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act. -- George Orwell -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
LinkedIn Dave Hanson requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: -- Liam, I'd like to add you to my professional network on LinkedIn. - Dave Accept invitation from Dave Hanson http://www.linkedin.com/e/uotj7b-gsvpptgm-2v/5NnxSC07JVySvt_0ERMKPS583KtivL_1Krx4o4Nj/blk/I190978568_11/1BpC5vrmRLoRZcjkkZt5YCpnlOt3RApnhMpmdzgmhxrSNBszYNclYUdzkUdPAMej59bSlopCRQjRxTbP0QcjcPcj8NcPgLrCBxbOYWrSlI/EML_comm_afe/?hs=falsetok=0m_Vj8POh6SAU1 View invitation from Dave Hanson http://www.linkedin.com/e/uotj7b-gsvpptgm-2v/5NnxSC07JVySvt_0ERMKPS583KtivL_1Krx4o4Nj/blk/I190978568_11/34NnPwSdjwTej0VckALqnpPbOYWrSlI/svi/?hs=falsetok=2KWE0IVlt6SAU1 -- Why might connecting with Dave Hanson be a good idea? Have a question? Dave Hanson's network will probably have an answer: You can use LinkedIn Answers to distribute your professional questions to Dave Hanson and your extended network. You can get high-quality answers from experienced professionals. http://www.linkedin.com/e/uotj7b-gsvpptgm-2v/ash/inv19_ayn/?hs=falsetok=0WdTm9Rs96SAU1 -- (c) 2011, LinkedIn Corporation-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Invitation to connect on LinkedIn
I really am sorry. The worst thing for me is that I checked it twice to make sure! Apologies everyone Dave On Sep 22, 2011 2:04 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 22 September 2011 13:22, Dave Hanson via LinkedIn mem...@linkedin.com wrote: Dave Hanson requested to add you as a connection on LinkedIn: I'm sure Dave feels a bit silly for this mail, so lets not start a massive thread about this. I've blocked mails from mem...@linkedin.com to the list so this shouldn't happen again. Thanks, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a computer suitable for Ubuntu
On Tue, Aug 23, 2011 at 3:01 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.comwrote: On 23/08/11 11:12, David Jones wrote: The website mentioned is probably http://nakedcomputers.org/ Both pcspecialist and Novatech each have an active Linux forum in their forums area, and they will supply barebones. There's usually someone (often a staff member) who will know what hardware is OK and what is not. However, a pcspecialist staff member told me that they will get in a batch of laptops and they will be fine. The next batch of the identical model will suddenly have moved over to an unsupported chipset for wifi or something else. This is one reason laptops for Ubuntu are not easy to source. Remember I mentioned Cougar-Extreme? Patrick is a Linux friendly person on their staff. He is willing to source two makes of barebones laptop/netbook. Might be worth a phone-call? He is also willing to install Ubuntu to order on desktops, but will make a charge to cover labour. Might be worth asking if he could do the same for a laptop. I didn't ask that question. Regards,Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ +1 for pcspecialist.co.uk. I got mine from them last year - No trouble what so ever, cheap too. Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu
Hello Everyone, Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which version of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something? Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:02 PM, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.ukwrote: On 18 August 2011 12:27, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Hello Everyone, Is there somewhere that contains data to accurately determine which version of Ubuntu is mostly used? A league table or something? 'Accurately' is an almost impossible task. There may be download figures, but perhaps not stats on how many people upgrade to a new release. Almost no accurate figures of how many people get a CD from a friend or other contact. And so on. Sometimes there are online surveys and I suppose LoCos could survey their members - but these are not very representative of all users. Why do you ask? Tony -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Ah, I see - Thanks Tony. I'm doing a forensic analysis on Ubuntu and Firefox 6, I need to justify what version of Ubuntu I am using. At the minute I'm going for 11.04 as I think it is the most recently released usable and stable version. I thought if I has a list of who uses what I could then write Ubuntu 10.04 has been chosen as it is the most popular version in use at the time of writing Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Most used version of Ubuntu
On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.comwrote: On 18/08/11 14:07, Dave Hanson wrote: I thought if I has a list of who uses what I could then write Ubuntu 10.04 has been chosen as it is the most popular version in use at the time of writing 10.04 is the latest Long Term Support version (LTS) and so is the version most likely to be used by commercial and business operations. LTS versions are released every two years so the next one will be 12.04. The intermediate releases tend to be more cutting edge and may well be more unstable... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Alan - That is quite interesting. Gordon - Yes perhaps 10.04 is the most commonly used on that basis, by the way, Google reported your message with this This message may not have been sent by: gbpli...@gmail.com Learn morehttp://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=enctx=mailanswer=185812 Report phishing Best Regards Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two questions: 64bit live USB problem and dual boot with recovery partition
On Tue, Aug 16, 2011 at 1:03 PM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have just received my new laptop. Its a Thinkpad x121e, with Intel (Core i3). I am trying to put ubuntu on it, but i am having some problems with the 64 bit live USB. When i run the USB i get i get a GRUB-looking screen, with options to: 1. Try Ubuntu without installing 2. Install Ubuntu 3. Check the disk Wanting to repartition my HDD (using GParted) so that i can dual boot, i 'Try Ubuntu without Installing', at which point the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I am then forced into a hard reboot. I get the exact same result when i 'Check the disk'. To check the USB, i tried it on my old laptop (32bit, Celeron M). When i did so i got a purple screen with an image of what looks like a keyboard and a man, and then a message telling me to try a kernel which matches with my machined architecture. I then tried a live USB with 32 bit ubuntu and the live USB works fine - i am sending this email from this live instance. The same can be said for a 32 bit Mint live usb. So i am not sure what is going on. If anyone could tell me why the 64bit install is not working, it would be great as i'd like to get it up and running. The only thing i could think of was that i have downloaded the amd64.iso, and this is an intel machine, but all the sites on the web suggest that this shouldn't make a difference (if it does, where might i get an 64 bit version for intel). In addition i am not sure why, if this was the problem, my old celeron laptop brings up the error message while the new machine just hangs. One more question i have is about dual booting and maintaining my recovery partition (something i have not had to do before). From GParted i see that the recovery partition is located at the end of the hard drive. I am wondering two things: 1. If i resize the windows partition will the recovery partition move next to it? 2. If not would i do well to install ubuntu between the windows and recovery partition, and how do i do this since the 'install into largest continuous space' option seems to have been replaced by the 'install alongside windows' option in the installer. Will the alongside option put the install in the right place? As always, any and all help is very much appreciated. Thanks, James. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Hello James, Perhaps not the most useful response you'll receive but... I had the same issue with the live cd on 64 bit, the only way I could get it on was to start with a 10.04 disk and upgrade. It did go without issue and if you really need to get it on your machine asap perhaps this is the best route? Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble
On Tue, Jul 19, 2011 at 10:58 AM, Simon Redmond si...@sibass.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2011-07-15 at 12:14 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: I will pay one million pounds if someone can help me with this please! (well, maybe just a thank you). I'm trying to install Oracle 11g R2 on Ubuntu Server 11.04, I have installed (I think) all of the pre-requisites and have downloaded the install files from the oracle site, when I come to run the installer I get: oracle@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop,norock /dev/cdrom /media oracle@ubuntu:~$ /media/runInstaller /media/install/.oui: 2: Syntax error: ) unexpected I have no idea what that error means? I ran dmesg | tail but nothing in there? has anyone else tried to do this and found a work around? [The guide I'm following: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2223719tstart=0] Best Regards, Dave Hanson Is this for a multi user type scenario (ie work) or is just an install for you to mess around with? I tried and tried to get an Oracle install up and running in Ubuntu and gave up in the end. I briefly managed to get it running in CENTOS but then I found http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/database/enterprise-edition/databaseappdev-vm-161299.html which is a virtualbox appliance with 11gR2 pre installed and configured which what I'm using now for messing around with -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Thanks guys, Steve - mine starts with #! /bin/sh, which from some 'googling' tells me it's a bourne shell, the Ubuntu variant is bash. So does that mean it cannot be ran on Ubuntu or is it possible to use a different shell? Simon - It is for now a 'messing' about project but I would like an 'always on' stable version if possible, I was quite keen to have it running on Ubuntu server but for now I'll have a look at that VM until I find a solution. Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble
On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Steve Flynn anothermindb...@gmail.comwrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2011 at 12:47 PM, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.ukwrote: I am running it straight from the server edition command line, should I look at adding another shell type do you think then? I'm assuming that's what ksh is? Is there any way of checking what the runInstaller is expecting? Look at the first line of the installer script - the hash bang line... #! /bin/ksh for example. I've only just come into this thread so I've not seen any of the previous commentary. -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Thanks Steve, I'm at work at the minute and so I'll test tomorrow. Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble
On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 1:40 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Do you need to, perhaps, put the shell executable in front of /media/runInstaller ? Perhaps you're running bash and it needs ksh etc. etc. ? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Thanks Sean, Do you mean do ./ before the command because I tried that and I also tried sudo. I am running it straight from the server edition command line, should I look at adding another shell type do you think then? I'm assuming that's what ksh is? Is there any way of checking what the runInstaller is expecting? Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble
I will pay one million pounds if someone can help me with this please! (well, maybe just a thank you). I'm trying to install Oracle 11g R2 on Ubuntu Server 11.04, I have installed (I think) all of the pre-requisites and have downloaded the install files from the oracle site, when I come to run the installer I get: oracle@ubuntu:~$ sudo mount -t iso9660 -o loop,norock /dev/cdrom /media oracle@ubuntu:~$ /media/runInstaller /media/install/.oui: 2: Syntax error: ) unexpected I have no idea what that error means? I ran dmesg | tail but nothing in there? has anyone else tried to do this and found a work around? [The guide I'm following: http://forums.oracle.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=2223719tstart=0] Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+
I'm keen to get on this if anyone could invite me please? Best Regards, Dave Hanson On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 10:03 AM, Dino T. d...@dinot.co.uk wrote: yeah closed already :( backlog of registrations. *Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons)* http://www.ubuntu.com/ On 7 July 2011 10:01, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 July 2011 09:33, Dino T. d...@dinot.co.uk wrote: Registration is open again. Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons) Closed again (unless there's a trick to it). :( If anyone already on would like to add me to a circle I would be forever grateful. :) Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Temperature
Hi Everyone,
Sorry, I've been busy.
I just want to say thanks for your input with this, a couple of excellent
starting points. I'll post back If I get something useful up and running. I
haven't had chance to test any of this yet.
Best Regards,
Dave Hanson
On Mon, Jun 27, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Chris Rowson
christopherrow...@gmail.comwrote:
Might want to change this line
TEMP=$(sensors -u | grep temp1 | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}')
to
TEMP=$(sensors -u | grep temp1_input | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}')
I think the suggested script might return the critical temperature
rather than the actual temp of the CPU ;-)
Chris
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[ubuntu-uk] Temperature
So know I guess is a good time to be thinking about home server temperatures (after the heat of course) Does anyone have a recommendation for a program which could send an email when the machines temp reaches a certain degree. Obviously without a GUI? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dad's Computer - for want of a better subject
On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.comwrote: I have to follow up on my Dad's computer situation. I previously posted about how he bought MS Office rather than use OpenOffice etc. Well his computer then crashed again. He took it to the local shop (a small outfit, which is nice and a bit personal) who eventually diagnosed a faulty motherboard. They offered to rebuild the computer with some spares from another computer. Anyway, when it returned, it had Vista on it! I am just wondering the following: 1. Why on Earth did they choose to put Vista on there?? 2. If the machine was struggling with XP, why put something more demanding on there?? (and if they argue the new bits are more powerful, then why then cripple them again with something more demanding?) 3. Wouldn't he have needed to buy a new license for Vista or would his existing XP license cover him (I somehow doubt it)? 4. If they charge him for a license, they certainly didn't ask him if he wanted Vista! I find this amazing. Suddenly my opinion of these guys has dropped. Shame as they are nice and helpful by the sounds of it, coming out to his house to help. -- Jon Reynolds (j0nr) http://www.jcrdevelopments.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I think it may just be easier for companies like that to do a complete re-install rather than diagnose the actual problem and blame it on dodgy hardware, as for the Vista install, if they did actually take the parts from another PC perhaps they switched the license over and scrapped the other PC - perhaps they thought they were doing him a favour by giving him a more up to date OS. I'd certainly check that the license is valid with someone (Not sure who, Microsoft?) as there may be a load of computers in your area all running the same Vista install - they won't be able to get licences for free will they? -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] webmin
Hello Everyone, It's me again! I have just installed webmin on 11.04 server, but I'm having trouble logging in. I'm guessing I need to set a password for root [*sudo passwd root] *as that's the only solution I can find on the web - Are there any security implications to doing that, I would have thought so? I only want to try it out really as I'm sure most things can be done with a terminal, but if I like it I may keep it, that's why i'm concerned. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reapproval
What time Alan? On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Hi all, we were about to expire as an approved team, but I got the deadline pushed back to the end of this cycle (it wasn't a special dispensation, we are due for renewal some time before Oneiric gets released). We need to do a load of work on our reapproval application, one of the best ways to get started is to see what other teams are doing. Tonight there is a LoCo Council meeting where they will be reviewing applications from Venezuela https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**VenezuelaTeam/ReApproval2011https://wiki.ubuntu.com/VenezuelaTeam/ReApproval2011, Denmark https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**DanishTeam/**RepprovalApplication2011https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DanishTeam/RepprovalApplication2011, Philippineshttps:// wiki.**ubuntu.com/PhilippineTeam/**ApprovalApplicationhttp://wiki.ubuntu.com/PhilippineTeam/ApprovalApplication, Ireland https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**IrishTeam/**IrishTeamReApprovalApplicationhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/IrishTeam/IrishTeamReApprovalApplicationand Japan https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**JapaneseTeam/**ApprovalApplicationhttps://wiki.ubuntu.com/JapaneseTeam/ApprovalApplication. It would be great if a number of folk who want to get involved in our reapproval could follow along the meeting in the #ubuntu-meeting channel on freenode http://webchat.freenode.net/?**channels=#ubuntu-meeting** prompt=1uio=MTE9MzE28http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#ubuntu-meetingprompt=1uio=MTE9MzE28 Thanks, Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] webmin
Well, it would be connected to the outside world, maybe If I add myself to the webmin group? I'll check. On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:10 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 21 June 2011 13:59, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: I have just installed webmin on 11.04 server, but I'm having trouble logging in. I'm guessing I need to set a password for root [sudo passwd root] as that's the only solution I can find on the web I have a box here running webmin and I have not set a root password. I logon with my own username and password. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] webmin
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 13:59 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: Hello Everyone, It's me again! I have just installed webmin on 11.04 server, but I'm having trouble logging in. I'm guessing I need to set a password for root [sudo passwd root] as that's the only solution I can find on the web - Are there any security implications to doing that, I would have thought so? I only want to try it out really as I'm sure most things can be done with a terminal, but if I like it I may keep it, that's why i'm concerned. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson If you install the ubuntu webmin package from their site I think it abides by sudo it's just if you use the debian one that I think it causes issues I could be wrong though. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Yes, I have the Debian one there isn't a webmin user group. I'll re-install and let you know if it runs okay with the version from their site, I didn't even check their site - I just assumed that it wasn't fully supported from what I read on the ubuntu docs pages. Thanks -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] webmin
On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:18 PM, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.ukwrote: On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.ukwrote: On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 13:59 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: Hello Everyone, It's me again! I have just installed webmin on 11.04 server, but I'm having trouble logging in. I'm guessing I need to set a password for root [sudo passwd root] as that's the only solution I can find on the web - Are there any security implications to doing that, I would have thought so? I only want to try it out really as I'm sure most things can be done with a terminal, but if I like it I may keep it, that's why i'm concerned. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson If you install the ubuntu webmin package from their site I think it abides by sudo it's just if you use the debian one that I think it causes issues I could be wrong though. -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Yes, I have the Debian one there isn't a webmin user group. I'll re-install and let you know if it runs okay with the version from their site, I didn't even check their site - I just assumed that it wasn't fully supported from what I read on the ubuntu docs pages. Thanks -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson I've cracked it... The installation source makes no difference as far as I can tell. And the docs I read stating that the root password needs to be enabled are misleading, What you actually need to do is set up a password for a user attached to webmin itself (see below). It does nothing to the system's root account. # cd /usr/share/webmin # sudo ./changepass.pl /etc/webmin/ user password Simple really isn't it. Thanks Everyone, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....
Good Afternoon All, I'm thinking of creating my own Dropbox type file storage at home (For no other reason than I'm tight!) I did some quick googling but the only thing's I can find are cloud based which seems a bit excessive. To summarise what I'm after: - The storage must be accessible from any browser as many networks block ftp ports etc or only have 80 443 open. - Have individual profile spaces (So, Storage limits can be applied to a particular user, other users cannot access files that are not their own, that sort of thing) - Not have speed restrictions, the transfers must be as quick as the network allows. I wondered if anyone has done anything similar, the 2GB on Dropbox doesn't take long to fill and I don't really fancy having multiple accounts with different companies etc. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....
That looks perfect, I'll shall read some tutorials/reviews on how to get it up and running - Thanks. [Note to self, must research properly before wasting peoples time on here] On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:33 PM, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote: What about: http://www.webupd8.org/2011/06/stable-sparkleshare-02-released-with.html Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....
Oh I see, Thanks Simon. Nothings ever easy though is it to be fair, I'll have to spend some serious time to see what will work for me I think. Dave On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.comwrote: On 20 June 2011 12:38, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: That looks perfect, I'll shall read some tutorials/reviews on how to get it up and running - Thanks. [Note to self, must research properly before wasting peoples time on here] Be careful with Sparkleshare though, it's basically an interface for Github and doesn't really provide cloud style storage. There's nothing easy to use out there as far as I can see. There are things like Walrus, which I *assume* is still in Ubuntu cloud server, and OpenStack Object Storage, which is the open source version of Rackspace Cloud Files, and indeed Twisted Storage, but all need a fair bit of work to set up. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....
Avi, I was thinking of something like that as a basic solution too but didn't know where to start to be honest, I have shellinabox running so I suppose a script which allows a file to be uploaded and transferred would suffice. The storage could then be limited by adding limits per users on the server itself. I have always meant to learn python or similar so I suppose now would be a good time to start, it can't be any worse than doing this lot: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UEC/CDInstall :) Dave On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 12:57 PM, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: Dave Hanson wrote: To summarise what I'm after: - The storage must be accessible from any browser as many networks block ftp ports etc or only have 80 443 open. - Have individual profile spaces (So, Storage limits can be applied to a particular user, other users cannot access files that are not their own, that sort of thing) - Not have speed restrictions, the transfers must be as quick as the network allows. My first, entirely uncloudy, thought is to have sshd listen on port 80, a web server on 443 and write a client (a short bash or perl script) that rsyncs stuff over ssh. I might be highlighting my unfamiliarity with dropbox, however. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....
Thanks - I've been trying to get my head around the horde3 installation, not recommended - It's an absolute nightmare, I've given up I'm afraid. I'll have a look at OwnCloud Dave On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: On 20 June 2011 12:31, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Good Afternoon All, I'm thinking of creating my own Dropbox type file storage at home (For no other reason than I'm tight!) I did some quick googling but the only thing's I can find are cloud based which seems a bit excessive. To summarise what I'm after: The storage must be accessible from any browser as many networks block ftp ports etc or only have 80 443 open. Have individual profile spaces (So, Storage limits can be applied to a particular user, other users cannot access files that are not their own, that sort of thing) Not have speed restrictions, the transfers must be as quick as the network allows. I wondered if anyone has done anything similar, the 2GB on Dropbox doesn't take long to fill and I don't really fancy having multiple accounts with different companies etc. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson Consider one of the following: 1) Apache with mod_dav_svn (pro: uses Subversion to provide versioning of your files, con: uses Subversion, which might be overkill for what you need, also, multi-machine access may be a bit wonky) 2) OwnCloud (a KDE project, exposing WebDav data) (pro: It's a set of PHP scripts, which means you probably will be able to deploy it anywhere, con: relatively new to the game, not all proxies will permit the extended requests needed for WebDav, doesn't give you any version control) 3) Horde's Gollem module, which provides webdav, XMLRPC and a full HTTP interface (pro: Horde is pretty rock solid, having WebDav as well as XMLRPC access should get you over most hurdles, and where it doesn't, you've got HTTP access, It also has drivers for SQL based storage, FTP, SSH, or local file system access which means you can pretty much use any back-end you want as well con: Horde is a bit of a bugger to configure, and Gollem will take some tweaking as well.) None of these will be a drop-in replacement, but they are all things I've toyed with in the past. Hope that helps! -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....
+1 for OwnCloud - perfect, 2 min install. From the wiki it also has an auto sync facility in progress. Thanks for all your help guys. Dave On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: On 20 June 2011 12:31, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Good Afternoon All, I'm thinking of creating my own Dropbox type file storage at home (For no other reason than I'm tight!) I did some quick googling but the only thing's I can find are cloud based which seems a bit excessive. To summarise what I'm after: The storage must be accessible from any browser as many networks block ftp ports etc or only have 80 443 open. Have individual profile spaces (So, Storage limits can be applied to a particular user, other users cannot access files that are not their own, that sort of thing) Not have speed restrictions, the transfers must be as quick as the network allows. I wondered if anyone has done anything similar, the 2GB on Dropbox doesn't take long to fill and I don't really fancy having multiple accounts with different companies etc. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson Consider one of the following: 1) Apache with mod_dav_svn (pro: uses Subversion to provide versioning of your files, con: uses Subversion, which might be overkill for what you need, also, multi-machine access may be a bit wonky) 2) OwnCloud (a KDE project, exposing WebDav data) (pro: It's a set of PHP scripts, which means you probably will be able to deploy it anywhere, con: relatively new to the game, not all proxies will permit the extended requests needed for WebDav, doesn't give you any version control) 3) Horde's Gollem module, which provides webdav, XMLRPC and a full HTTP interface (pro: Horde is pretty rock solid, having WebDav as well as XMLRPC access should get you over most hurdles, and where it doesn't, you've got HTTP access, It also has drivers for SQL based storage, FTP, SSH, or local file system access which means you can pretty much use any back-end you want as well con: Horde is a bit of a bugger to configure, and Gollem will take some tweaking as well.) None of these will be a drop-in replacement, but they are all things I've toyed with in the past. Hope that helps! -- Jon The Nice Guy Spriggs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] On giving people Ubuntu to try.
Martin, I like you enthusiasm. I am planning to distribute a usb based Ubuntu distro to Leeds Met University with an Oracle XE installation on as the admin there don't trust the students to have full admin rights themselves. I shall mention your speed thoughts and report back, it is obviously not as cost effective as a standard usb though I'm sure you'll agree? Perhaps one for the future on mass scale. Live cd's still rule the waves I'm afraid. Dave On Jun 13, 2011 9:50 PM, Martin Houston mhous...@deluxe-tech.co.uk wrote: I have a couple of old Thinkpad T43s that a friend gave to me thinking that he had killed them with a faulty USB device. A bit of googling and a 'deep reset' restored them both to life much to my friends consternation. I offered them him back but was given permission to keep them :) Neither laptop had an internal hard disk so they were ideal experimenting grounds for working with various USB and net booting projects. Something I found that works really well is a 2.5 (i.e. bus powered) USB hard disk. Linux installed onto a 250MB one of these is really quite usable, much more so than a USB memory stick. This is a route that you can use to get your friends to try out Linux you lend to them, without having to go axeing that internal hard disk incumbent just yet. Things will get even more interesting when USB3 ports become common, especially once motherboards can boot from them! USB3 connected hard disks are faster even than eSATA and even cheap USB3 memory keys have performance on the par with old PATA hard disks (but the small extra advantage of zero seek time!). Bootable CDs DVDs only go so far. Telling newbies that they need to be patient because of the very slow seek times is not easy. It does not create a very good impression. Peoples first impressions of Windows are not of having to install it from the media, so why should Linux have that disadvantage of first impression? One of the things we should be doing for others is 'Linux propagation' - if you have a friend who wants to try Linux ask if they have a spare USB hard disk (a smallish one would do!) or can risk the less than 50 quid it costs to buy one. We need to build some logical volume manager based system replication procedures. That 250MB hard disk Linux started life on a memory stick and using just lvm volume replication and expansion moved onto the USB disk and then onto the internal hard disk of another laptop. Having that complete bootable, golden copy of the OS is good insurance even if you do move to the convenience and speed of internal disk in the end. USB -- *Deluxe Technology Ltd* /Linux Consultant/ mhous...@deluxe-tech.co.uk mailto:mhous...@deluxe-tech.co.uk http://www.deluxe-tech.co.uk Mob: 07970 850961 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P Thanks in advance Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
Thanks Simon - very interested! Exactly what speed/core processor do they have in? Dave On Jun 10, 2011 9:40 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P I'm in the Leeds area and have a couple of Xeon machines on eBay at the moment: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874379 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874270 I don't expect them to get a lot so it might be worth bidding (sorry if this contravenes any guidelines by the way) For that matter, HP do occasionally sell the more recent version of those servers for very cheap, probably less than a good barebones package at Maplin. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
Thanks again Simon. Al - thanks to you too, btw are you storing the entire internet in your little black box!? (think i.t crowd) :-) On Jun 10, 2011 10:00 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:49, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Thanks Simon - very interested! Exactly what speed/core processor do they have in? Dave On Jun 10, 2011 9:40 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and steal. It should obviously be compatible with Ubuntu so does anyone have any recommendations as to anywhere else to pick one up? I'm also open to charitable donations in the Leeds area! :-P I'm in the Leeds area and have a couple of Xeon machines on eBay at the moment: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874379 and http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItemitem=310323874270 I don't expect them to get a lot so it might be worth bidding (sorry if this contravenes any guidelines by the way) For that matter, HP do occasionally sell the more recent version of those servers for very cheap, probably less than a good barebones package at Maplin. They're Xeon 2.33Ghz so two cores (but not dual core). They have both been running Ubuntu until recently. Alan's Ebuyer deal sounds quite good though. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: On 10 June 2011 10:50, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=kittensum=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Nhl=entab=wibiw=1920bih=992 Kittens! Thousands of them! Now that was just plain gratuitous! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Simon - I'm not sure if this is appropriate or if you are willing to do it, but, can you take items off of eBay once you've added them? What price were you looking for if so? Alternatively - Do you want to swap for a Joggler? Still boxed as new, it runs Joli OS from a USB stick at the minute hosting my website, but can run pretty much any Linux OS quite well. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.
No problem Simon, Just thought I'd pop the question. Well, thanks for your help and I'll be sticking a bid in shortly so we may get the opportunity to meet in person. Dave On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:14 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.comwrote: Hi Dave - Sorry, I've said to other people that I'd rather do it through eBay (and also that I probably should have offered them on this list, but didn't think to). I think they'll be a bargain and there's only five days to go on them so it might be worth a punt. s/ On 10 June 2011 11:07, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:00 AM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.ukwrote: On 10 June 2011 10:50, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=kittensum=1ie=UTF-8tbm=ischsource=ogsa=Nhl=entab=wibiw=1920bih=992 Kittens! Thousands of them! Now that was just plain gratuitous! :-) -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Simon - I'm not sure if this is appropriate or if you are willing to do it, but, can you take items off of eBay once you've added them? What price were you looking for if so? Alternatively - Do you want to swap for a Joggler? Still boxed as new, it runs Joli OS from a USB stick at the minute hosting my website, but can run pretty much any Linux OS quite well. -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Best Regards, Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.
Does anyone know of an emulator type application which could run native Ubuntu programs on my Samsung galaxy s2, running android? Perhaps even a way to dual boot it to run the desktop edition or maybe meego? Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.
Thanks Tyler. On Jun 6, 2011 2:16 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:12 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: Does anyone know of an emulator type application which could run native Ubuntu programs on my Samsung galaxy s2, running android? Perhaps even a way to dual boot it to run the desktop edition or maybe meego? No such thing exists. The closest possibilities are: 1. Port the Ubuntu ARM release to the S2 hardware. Depending on your definition of fun, that will not be fun. 2. Use a VNC client on the S2 to connect to a normal Ubuntu desktop. Regards, Tyler -- I respect you too much to respect your ridiculous ideas. -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] new business
On 27/05/11 13:00, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Message: 6 Date: Fri, 27 May 2011 07:47:04 +0100 From: Sean Millers...@seanmiller.net To: UK Ubuntu Talkubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] New business Message-ID:BANLkTi=2febwsgg3bjeqqcocho8wjdg...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 If you don't consider you are going to have a huge turnover then merely register as a Sole Trader. You will have to pay additional National Insurance Contributions on a quarterly basis (I think it's about ?10/month) and will have to complete an additional page on your Self Assessment Tax Return stating turnover, costs, profit etc., but apart from that you really don't have to do much at all. Sean Sean, Graham, Thankyou - Very sound advice, I may just call the inland revenue, It will avoid any problems. Thanks Again Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] New business
Hello Everyone, Those of you who follow this list closely may remember I posted asking for advice on how to deal with customers data for my data recovery start up. I'm now up and running (well I've had some quotation requests) - I have a concern about getting locked up for not paying taxes or something else I've overlooked when I do eventually get that 'call'. Could anyone advise on what legally I need in place to start doing data recovery from home via a website taking the requests please? As before when I posted previously, I know this is off topic and I apologise, although the backbone of my set up is Ubuntu based, all the work is going to carried out on my Kubuntu laptop, and my site is served from Ubuntu server. Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction before I end up being force fed porridge! Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Help required! (off topic)
On 23/05/11 21:05, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Help required! (off topic) I'm not sure if lightbox is that customisable? But it may help? Dave -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [LEEDS] Release Party Next Weekend (Alan Bell)
-- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 29 Apr 2011 16:13:13 +0100 From: Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] [LEEDS] Release Party Next Weekend Message-ID: banlktimznuaeuktqd2kpr+tqmxnnlfr...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Guys, Going to be having a release party next weekend (couldn't do anything this weekend as I have been busy) in Leeds, there will be fun, laughter, drinks and Natty! If anyone can suggest a good venue in or around Leeds then please feel free, also let me know if you can come so I know approx numbers (although anyone can drop in on the day!) :) Daniel Hi Daniel, I can't help with the venue but may attend, what time are you thinking? I work weekends but will try my best :) Best Regards Dave Hanson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] GMailfs on Lucid - Any joy?
Hi Everyone, I've been playing with gmailfs all morning and I've managed to get it to mount my gmail space as a drive on Lucid, but the files do not seem to remain intact for some reason after I unmount/reboot. The file size stays the same and all the rest of it but the data inside the files dissapears? Has anyone out there successfully managed to get it working properly? Dave P.S - Here are my rather crude notes as to how I got this far.. *Open a gmail account* *Get the pyhton script* cd /home/.gmailfs wget http://sr71.net/projects/gmailfs/gmailfs.py-v8 nano gmailfs.py-v8* * Change:* if os.environ[IMAPFS_TRASH_ALL] != None: *To* if os.getenv(IMAPFS_TRASH_ALL) != None: *Get the .conf file* cd (location is in gmailfs.conf) wget http://sr71.net/projects/gmailfs/gmailfs.conf nano gmailfs.conf *Change the lines:* [account] username = gmailfsuser12322...@gmail.com password = s33kr1t *To your user details on the gmail account you set up earlier.* *You need lgconstants.py in the /home/.gmailfs folder.* cd /home/gmailfs wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/libgmail/files/libgmail/0.1.11/libgmail-0.1.11.tar.gz/download sudo tar xzf libgmail-*.tar.gz sudo chmod 777 libgmail* cd libgmail-* mv lgconstants.py /home/.gmailfs sudo chmod 777 /home/.gmailfs sudo mkdir /media/Gmail -- *Now to run it* -- cd /home/.gmailfs sudo python gmailfs.py -o allow_root none /media/Gmail The drive should be mounted, and you Gmail account will have created a folder conataining emails with garbled messages, leave these alone. You will need to run these last two commands each time you need to mount your Gmail drive or set up some sort of automount. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.
Hiya Everyone, I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that there are many people on this list who may do something similar? I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote myself through my Wordpress powered blog (shameless plug: hansonforensics.co.uk). - It is on an Ubuntu Server! ;) I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - Obviosly not every job would involve huge amounts of data, but some may. The main problem is that I would prefer to take either the expected amount in full and reserve it until the job is completed, with the option of returning it to the client or take a small diagnostic fee in advance and log what fee came from who/what job number. Could anyone reccomend a plugin or perhaps share how they conduct such transactions? Thanks - And as I say, Apologies in advance for being off topic. Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 11
On 07/04/11 14:04, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: On 7 April 2011 13:54, Lee Williamslee.willy1977.willi...@gmail.com wrote: It's not a problem installing 32bit on a machine with ~3.5GB ram... rather the memory after the ~3.5GB or so is not dedicated to system resources; rather, system resources have used up the remaining memory*addresses*, so the memory cannot be seen nor used by anything, as it has no address. When 2GB RAM is installed, system components taking up 1GB or so of addresses has no effect, as there are 4GB of addresses in total, meaning 3GB of addresses are left available for the 2GB of RAM. I had to read that a few times, and it still makes no sense. Fact is an install of Ubuntu on 32-bit system_can_ see and_use_ all of the RAM. Al. I run 8gb of ram on my laptop (64 Bit) and Ubuntu recognises 7.5gb of it, Not too sure what you guys are getting at to be honest. Won't he be fine with the amounts he intends to add? Dave smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Preferred online storage solution?
I sure you can tell from the subject where this is going :) I'm particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online storage solution is and why, I ask because I am struggling to find one suitable for Ubuntu, here's what I have tried; - Ubuntu One (obviously) The main issue with this for me is that it seems to be ALWAYS doing something in the background even if there is nothing to sync, and when it does do the syncing it's so slw. I'm not moving huge files around but some are a good few MB in size and a the cluttered directory structure I use accompanied with the large amount of small files just don't seem to be suited as it can take an absolute age for the browser based version of Ubuntu One to correspond to what my local folder contains once I have moved something around or added to the folder. - Spider Oak It seemed ideal at first as I study at University, Spider Oak boasts that it will automatically backup my files each time I save and keep a copy for me at no cost to my storage limit, excellent? Not quite, the backup of the files is true but the use of space is not, and I have already run out of my allowance. You can download the files from their site, but you cannot then upload!? - odd. (well, it seems odd to me anyway?) The uploads/syncing also seems to be a lot quicker than One. - Sky Drive/Live Mesh (I know it's a bit taboo talking about MS here, apologies in advance) The best I have tried in my opinion, fast syncing uploads, didn't seem to be doing a huge about in the background wasting resources and the Sky Drive also comes with 25GB of online storage, The drive can also be mounted to windows so it seems like a standard drive. shame it can't be ran on Ubuntu as I have recently made the permanent 'switch' and abandoned Windows all together. So that concludes my (very) shortlist and my experiences, And as I say I'm particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online storage solution is and why. Thanks Everybody. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preferred online storage solution?
On 16/02/11 11:45, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: 1. A friendly hello... (Hassan Haz Williamson) 2. Re: A friendly hello... (Barry Drake) 3. Re: Network traffic monitor that only monitors extra-LANtraffic? (Gordon Burgess-Parker) 4. Re: A friendly hello... (Hassan Haz Williamson) 5. Preferred online storage solution? (Dave Hanson) 6. Re: Preferred online storage solution? (Alan Lord (News)) 7. Re: Network traffic monitor that only monitors extra-LANtraffic? (Jon Spriggs) 8. Re: Preferred online storage solution? (Simon Greenwood) Firstly, Hello and welcome to Haz. If you need a hand with anything or fancy a chat about Ubuntu your definitely in the right place. (and I can't type as quick as this lot eitherso don't worry :) ) @Al - Thanks for that it sounds like my cup of tea really, I'll give your link a try ;) . (now don't shout for the daft question) but, I'm sure I can run dropbox and spider oak along side each other with no issues whilst I 'shop' around? @Simon - I've honestly never heard of that one, Ideally I would like a free service so I will give drop box a try first and see how i get on, I noticed it isn't very much money too use though and so it may still be the right choice for me for backups. @Everyone - Thanks a lot, your all really helpful, it's very much appreciated. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preferred online storage solution?
Just to let you know, I'm already up and running, already uploaded 50% (just under 2gb of stuff) and already loving it. -- DOUBLE THUMBS UP -- Thanks Again Everyone, It's a brilliant recommendation. P.S - Doesn't it integrate well with Ubuntu, I wasn't expecting that! smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preferred online storage solution?
On 16/02/11 12:29, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: On 16/02/11 12:23, Dave Hanson wrote: Just to let you know, I'm already up and running, already uploaded 50% (just under 2gb of stuff) and already loving it. -- DOUBLE THUMBS UP -- Thanks Again Everyone, It's a brilliant recommendation. P.S - Doesn't it integrate well with Ubuntu, I wasn't expecting that! So what did you choose? Sorry - Drop Box. smime.p7s Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk (diaspora)
Hi Dave, I was wondering if you could spare another Diaspora invite? Best Regards Dave Hanson From: ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 25 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 20:20:50 + Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com You can reach the person managing the list at ubuntu-uk-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: Diaspora (Matt Wheeler) 2. Re: Diaspora (Dave Rice) 3. Re: Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu? (Tony Pursell) 4. Re: Linux expo in Feb 2011 (James Thomas) 5. Re: Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu? (Gordon Burgess-Parker) 6. Re: Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu? (Tony Pursell) 7. Re: Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu? (Rob Beard) 8. Re: Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu? (Tyler J. Wagner) 9. Re: Linux expo in Feb 2011 (Alan Bell) -- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:26:33 + From: Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora Message-ID: aanlktiki=7c+9jb90cmocm4wpu=5w3c_9fche3oj1...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 I feel like I should jump on the bandwagon and ask if anyone has another spare invite for me :-) -- Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20110107/d592a4ab/attachment-0001.html -- Message: 2 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:37:10 + From: Dave Rice d...@ricey.co.uk To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora Message-ID: aanlktim4xd6+h1q2kmbyf8tg4vxa3-sffoc1an-ed...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 I'll send you one ;) On 7 January 2011 15:26, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote: I feel like I should jump on the bandwagon and ask if anyone has another spare invite for me :-) -- Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20110107/b10423f7/attachment-0001.html -- Message: 3 Date: Fri, 07 Jan 2011 15:42:07 + From: Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu? Message-ID: 1294414927.10025.10.ca...@osiris Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 15:22 +, Tony Pursell wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 15:11 +, Alan Pope wrote: On 7 January 2011 15:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Sorry if this is common knowledge - I'm after recommendations for a webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a Toshiba Satellite using an Intel 82801H audio device. I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro 9000 which works very nicely. And so does my Logitech C250. Cheap and worked in 10.04 and 10.10. I blogged about how I use it here:- http://popey.com/blog/2010/12/20/my-ubuntu-webcam-setup/ Cheers, Al. Just a couple of points: 1) Make sure any webcam you get is UVC compliant. Logitech list their UVC webcams at http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices There is a more general list at http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#devices 2) Its the device ID that is important. It has been known for manufacturers to use the Model numbers for different ID's, usually in different countries. My C250 has ID 046d:0804 and was bought in the UK. Tony -- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 15:47:44 + From: James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com To: bdr...@crosswire.org, UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux expo in Feb 2011 Message-ID: aanlktimyovs2mvexv0hbg8_zupirl4zqvmtr7d9jt...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Hi Guys, I should be attending and could help on the stall. Cheers JT On 7 January 2011 14:53, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: On Fri, 2011-01-07 at 14:02 +, Alan Bell wrote: I did request a stand, I am following it up with the organisers. I've just looked at my diary. I could come down. If you need
[Bug 633098] [NEW] update-grub shouldn't override the custom section in grub.conf.
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: grub2 update-grub is typed in the terminal and this is overridden. Here: ### BEGIN /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### # This file provides an easy way to add custom menu entries. Simply type the # menu entries you want to add after this comment. Be careful not to change # the 'exec tail' line above. menuentry Plop Bootmanager insmod ext2 set root=(hd0,5) search --no-floppy --fs-uuid --set f8c6fe87-dfe8-4df8-8b99-928b36b7062a linux16 /boot/plpbt.bin ### END /etc/grub.d/40_custom ### Description:Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS Release:10.04 grub2: Installed: (none) Candidate: 1.98-1ubuntu7 Version table: 1.98-1ubuntu7 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe Packages 1.98-1ubuntu5 0 500 http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/universe Packages ** Affects: grub2 (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: custom grub.conf grub2 -- update-grub shouldn't override the custom section in grub.conf. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/633098 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My success and a quick question please!
For those of you trying without any luck to get the O2 Joggler running Ubuntu, I have had success with a Black HP 4GB USB (from PC World, Leeds £9.99) and by using the image linked below, it works a lot smoother than the Netbook Remix image that is floating around, and leaves enough space on the disk to upgrade to Lucid (3 and a half hours wait mind - 2 1/2 to go!). http://fuzzylogic.co.uk/ I do have a question though... The Joggler provides about 1GB of free space internally to copy over images, videos etc, and I was wondering if it was possible to use this free space as swap space due to the Joggler's on board RAM being only approx 500MB - if possible this would surely only help performance?? [Apologies if that is an absolutely insane suggestion, still finding my feet with you Ubuntu pro's ;)] Thanks In Advance, MorleyPotter. attachment: face-wink.png-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My success and a quick question please!
Message: 1 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0100 From: Alan Pope a...@popey.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My success and a quick question please! To: UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: aanlktinizoxqromfxhublxskdo80egdsqvd-unpvw...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 On 4 June 2010 15:42, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: For those of you trying without any luck to get the O2 Joggler running Ubuntu, I have had success with a Black HP 4GB USB (from PC World, Leeds ?9.99) and by using the image linked below, it works a lot smoother than the Netbook Remix image that is floating around, and leaves enough space on the disk to upgrade to Lucid (3 and a half hours wait mind - 2 1/2 to go!). Good luck with that! I haven't seen anyone run Lucid successfully on the Joggler. Be prepared to get a black screen, console or nothing when you reboot to lucid. Cheers, Al. Cheers Al - Yeah it failed, i got a load of messages like this... [134315.948864] ===rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data-length = 443 [134395.949568] ===rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data-length = 443 [134495.948082] ===rt_ioctl_giwscan. 5(5) BSS returned, data-length = 591 [134615.949559] ===rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data-length = 443 [134735.949344] ===rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data-length = 443 [134855.949462] ===rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data-length = 443 [134975.948163] ===rt_ioctl_giwscan. 4(4) BSS returned, data-length = 443 Oh well - Time to start again. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
