Re: [ubuntu-uk] NFSv4 on new 12.04 server? Now USB issues...
Lee, What's the brand of the USB drive? Sounds like it's running as a USB1.1 device rather than USB2. -Matt Daubney On 25 November 2012 19:19, LeeGroups mailgro...@varga.co.uk wrote: Simon/Matt, You are indeed correct, the speed of the USB drive appears to be the issue rather than the speed of the NFS share. Copying a 250MB file takes nearly 8 minutes... very poor... I've had a quick google which seems to suggest this issue has been around since 8.04. The suggested remedies do not seem to work however (adding grub options of pci=routeirq or pci=apci, yes I did update grub). Watching 'top' on another SSH session during the copy shows that the CPU use is around 5%, but the one minute load average is nearly 3, which I really don't understand... And this new server was going so well :( Lee On 24/11/12 19:41, Simon Greenwood wrote: My immediate response would be to check the speed of the USB drive against a share on the internal disk (assuming you still have the USB drive attached). Also make sure that DNS is resolving correctly and that the Eee knows about the client end. Also check the speed of your network interfaces. s/ -- 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] NFSv4 on new 12.04 server?
Need more information :) How are you connecting to the server (Wired/Wireless N/G), what is the drive you're writing too, how fast does it copy internally? What is the exports line? -Matt Daubney On 24 November 2012 19:41, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: My immediate response would be to check the speed of the USB drive against a share on the internal disk (assuming you still have the USB drive attached). Also make sure that DNS is resolving correctly and that the Eee knows about the client end. Also check the speed of your network interfaces. s/ -- 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] Museum outing
Ooooh! I'd be interested if you go after the 12th of next month :) On 20 June 2012 23:43, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Anybody fancy a geeky museum outing one weekend to go see the Codebreaker exhibition at the Science Museum? http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx Bruno -- 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] 12.04 has locked me out of my account
On 4 May 2012 09:42, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry to say that we're not going to get an answer to this one. I made a bit of a mistake. I found that I've now got 2 seperate issues, first that my grafted home folder naturally has permissions issues preventing logon and second the original profile does indeed contain a corrupted file. However at some point I copied the entire folder forgetting to reveal hidden files so I now only have half a profile and I've lost all my bookmarks, email settings etc. Thank god for Ubuntu One! But it does mean the rogue file has been lost. Hi Gareth, I've found that to debug these issues if you just move the .something folders one at a time to .something-backup and then find which one is causing the login problem. It's normally something in .gnome or .gnome2. Hope that helps if you still have the original profile. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reading meetup tomorrow evening
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1600/detail/ :) On 29 March 2012 09:11, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: What meet is this? It seems to have escaped my attention. On 28/03/12 18:53, Alan Bell wrote: On 28/03/12 18:05, Matthew Daubney wrote: Who'll be along? I should be there for a bit, but might have to vanish to collect the missus from some work do, but am looking forward to seeing people again! -Matt Daubney I am going to try to arrange things to get there, my travel plans may be a bit complex though! -- 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] Reading meetup tomorrow evening
Who'll be along? I should be there for a bit, but might have to vanish to collect the missus from some work do, but am looking forward to seeing people again! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Booklets?
On 23 December 2011 07:52, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: snip I'm also less convinced of the use of the QR code on the front. Personally I've never used one for anything other than proving they work. I am pretty sure most normal people don't use them either. They have them on train station platforms now, providing a link to timetables for trains :) Was the first major use I saw for them. Also noticed them on a few bus stop type advertising bill boards for games (again giving a link for more information, though one was a link to phone backgrounds and stuff) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Booklets?
On 23 December 2011 11:21, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 23/12/11 11:14, Matthew Daubney wrote: They have them on train station platforms now, providing a link to timetables for trains :) Was the first major use I saw for them. Also noticed them on a few bus stop type advertising bill boards for games (again giving a link for more information, though one was a link to phone backgrounds and stuff) -Matt Daubney Right. So you're walking past something and don't have a pen or paper to hand it makes sense to snap a picture of a QR Code to note it for future perusal. The product in question (timetables, pictures, sounds etc) is not tangible it's electronically delivered and the QR code is just a shortcut to get it. Indeed! I brought it up just to counter the normal people don't use them point. They're starting to see some uptake now that smartphones are everywhere. Its very different for tangible products like DVDs where you have the thing in your hand. I am unconvinced that someone would even notice the QR code on each and every product. Maybe if there was a banner up people could take a picture of the QR code, but it seems overkill on the product itself. I agree in principle. Having a small one somewhere to take you to some more relevant information that might not be on the packaging would be nice (like the manual, or a Welcome to the Ubuntu community) type page, or, of course, the Ubuntu-UK website :) Anyway, that's all an aside. I think it's great that someone is taking Ubuntu and packaging it up for people using his own resources. More people should do this :) Seconded! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Booklets?
snip other stuff I agree in principle. Having a small one somewhere to take you to some more relevant information that might not be on the packaging would be nice (like the manual, or a Welcome to the Ubuntu community) type page, or, of course, the Ubuntu-UK website :) Thinking about this, a page that does some geolocation magic and poitns them to their nearest loco would be better still. /slap on hand for replying to himself -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu
On 21 December 2011 00:09, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: Liam Proven wrote: The main think I like is the notification system. When logged in with Empathy, if I receive a message a small notification appears at the bottom of the screen with the message, which I can then click to reply straight away or ignore and allow it to disappear like a normal notification. Does anyone know of any way to get this sort of feature or anything similar? I'm puzzled. Unity does this already. The notifications are translucent boxes at top right of the screen. The daemon is called ayatana-notify, IIRC. No it doesn't. Empathy in Unity presents that pop-up at the top, in response to which you need to hunt down the appropriate Empathy window and type into it. Any attempt to interact with the notification causes it to become invisible. Let me know if I'm wrong (which is possible as I don't use empathy anymore) but do you not get a thing in the messaging menu that you can click on to bring the message to the front? That's how it works with email. I know it's not as convenient as clicking the notification, but it's not much slower (the icon should be just above the notification). -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Upcoming job opportunity
Hello! I have an upcoming job opening for someone to essentially do the technical support for a small company in Aldermaston. The technical support process at the moment is that the problem lands on my desk and I try and sort it out while doing other things. As the business has grown this has now become a very dumb way of doing things and it would be your job to take the problem away from me and design the processes for dealing with support problems as they arise, and documenting them when they do! You'll be part of a small team of developers where decisions can be made relatively quickly and help is just a nerf dart away. Support would be your main task, dealing with problems from resellers installing high performance NAS systems in video environments. Site visits will be required at times, mostly in the London area. 90% of the problems you deal with will be down to the end users network, so a knowledge of networking is a must. Internal training will be given where required. Most of the code we produce is written in python, parts of it using django, and you may be expected to write small patches to fix issues when they arise. A knowledge of python is essential, but training can be given when necessary. You wouldn't be expected to deal with the majority of problems on your own for the first couple of months, but learning quickly is pretty essential and documenting things as you learn them would help me immensely. Aside from the what the job entails, the company is a rapidly growing manufacturer of high speed storage devices for the video industry. We have developed custom solutions for several high profile clients, all using various forms of Linux. Internally we use a mixture of Mac and Linux systems (all the dev stuff is done on Linux, but the sales people seem to like their macs for some reason). If you would like any more information, feel free to drop me an email off list at matt at gblabs with co in the uk :) stupid spam. This hasn't been 100% confirmed yet, but if we find the right person it will become confirmed very very quickly! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open source in schools ....
On 5 December 2011 11:16, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there Received a reply from my MP this morning about open standards in schools. In the reply was the following link which you might find of interest: http://opensourceschools.org.uk Regards, Barry. I seem to remember them being interviewed on the podcast, but I might have dreamed it. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?
On 2 December 2011 13:55, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: paul sutton wrote: I am sure if you got to Microsoft or Apple or any other BIG player you get a fast response. This is the business world i guess people want a quick response. Only if you pay them for it; Canonical sell that sort of support contract, too. You have to remember as well that the response may just be No, or It's not supported and you have no option on getting that changed. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?
On 2 December 2011 14:04, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: There NEEDS to be a quick response, even if that response is 'you have to subscribe', 'you have to upgrade', 'you're supposed to look there'! The lack of replies from Canonical is causing me major headaches. snip old replies Welcome to the business world :) I get this with suppliers everywhere, from Supermicro to Myricom to Areca to Intel to Hitachi to Quantum and so on and so forth. It's not something that ever surprises me. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?
On 2 December 2011 14:11, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: The difference with someone like Intel or Quantum is that they don't need to establish their brand wheras Ubuntu has a long way to go and alienating anyone, be it OEM, support or end user is going to cost them dearly. snip old replies Surely it has the same problem for people further down the chain? While going through the struggling to make a brand thing recently everyone else in the supply chain causes problems. Just because they're a big name doesn't make the problem go away for others. This is, however, just how the universe works at the moment. The only way to change it is to become a big name yourself. I'd also argue about Ubuntu having a long way to go with the brand. I've seen it crop up in the national news a couple of times, and it's in the trade mags quite frequently. It's got someway to go to get full household recognition, but not as far as many people would think. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu in a networked workplace
On 17 November 2011 07:03, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: - Mensaje original - On 16/11/11 21:54, Andres wrote: Curiosity question: If ubuntu was installed in a company with around 1600 desktops and laptops that need to be networked with shared server drives and need to be backed up daily. I guess antivirus and normal security would also be needed. What would be the boot up time of a computer that normally takes 5 to 10 minutes to boot up with XP? The servers run on linux, btw. I've generally found that the reason these kind of installs are slow is because of the fabric connecting the shared storage. If you're my documents, Desktop and etc are hosted on a RAID (I've seen these on a 4 drive RAID 5 for 1000 people.) then the speed of that RAID and the fabric to it tend to be massive bottlenecks. I remember my Uni was hosting all the Desktops for every student on a single 8 bay raid that was connected to the network by a single GbE connection. Was not pretty, and 15 minute login times where not fun. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!
On 19 October 2011 09:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: snip OK so why don't Canonical just provide the version of LO that comes direct from the LO website? snip My guess would be that it might not play nice with the OpenJDK (by default), and since you're not allowed to distribute Oracles Java stuff anymore, it would essentially mean shipping a completley non-functioning product, rather than a very slightly crippled one? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server
Sorry, this is turning into a big rant about web based admin and having a gui on a small office/home server, but this is something that really really pushes the GAH buttons for me. begin more ranting On 26 September 2011 22:18, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: snip me ranting lots Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all the desktop GUI libraries on the server, Yes, because HDD space is expensive these days! Lets have a look shall we, on the front page of ebuyer this, http://www.ebuyer.com/251310-extra-value-desktop-7873-1036 a cheap desktop with 1TB of disk space for less than £200. http://www.ebuyer.com/264274-wd-2tb-3-5-sata-iii-6gb-s-caviar-green-hard-drive-64mb-cache-wd20earx a 2TB HDD for less than £70. This really isn't an argument anymore. which means that the server stays a server and can be a fairly lean machine that doesn't burn CPU to paint a desktop (important for a small office where running a powerful server 24x7 can be prohibitively expensive and/or noisy). Ok, so to run XFCE the minimum spec is a 300MHz CPU and 192MB of RAM (http://wiki.xfce.org/minimum_requirements), again I can see that this adds a massive overhead on the currently underspecced bottom range computers since my eeePC could do that standing on it's head and still be coping ok. Since you could do that on this £60 quid motherboard (http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=60 first one at the top entitled Intel D425KT Fanless Atom Mini-ITX Board) and still have processing power left over, which is passivley cooled so has no need for noisy fans, I fail to see this as an argument in the environments this is aimed at. Most of the small offices I go to use Mac Minis for this kind of thing, you seem to be assuming you'd need a 1U rackmount server! And considering the size and complexity of GUI code these days, adding a GUI to a server is likely to increase the potential for bug several folds. because that's less complicated to debug than a full stack of Webserver/Interpreter (PHP/Python)/Database (mysql/postgres/couch/whatever)/backend services to prevent webserver requiring root privs/ and then the stack of other services you actually want. Of course, if something breaks in a GUI environment, I'd suspect the average person on the end of the phone wouldn't be too scared of being talked through fixing it rather than average bloke on the end of th phone where you say First go to the server and go to the console and do this - Easiest way to destroy sales ever. I hear what you say about web front-ends but balancing the pros and cons, I would still go for a web front-end, mainly to keep the server lightweight. This doesn't preclude a standard GUI front-end on client machines though. On todays hardware I really wouldn't. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server
2011/9/27 Juan J. reid...@usebox.net: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:28 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: [...] I'd suspect the average person on the end of the phone wouldn't be too scared of being talked through fixing it rather than average bloke on the end of th phone where you say First go to the server and go to the console and do this - Easiest way to destroy sales ever. Being able to connect over SSH and fix things is priceless :) Yesterday I spent nearly an hour explaining how to do port forwards to the head of IT at a company I deal with now and again so I could do this. That is hassle that is best avoided in all honesty. snip I know people in a corporate environment that use RHEL basically because the GUI tools. The have the feel of Linux power, but at the same time it's just point click in a dialog window. This is more or less exactley my point really. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server
On 27 September 2011 08:47, Dan Attwood danattw...@gmail.com wrote: Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all the desktop GUI libraries on the server, Yes, because HDD space is expensive these days! My understanding is is not about space. Extra libraries means extra attack vectors, extra things to update and to go wrong. Even Microsoft seems to have grasped this with Windows server 8 having the desktop as an optional extra. Again, you seem to be thinking this would go into places where people have a clue. The kind of target market for these kind of things is a small office with maybe 4-10 people or a slightly technical person at home with a couple of machines. They'd probably have someone else plug it into their network behind their ADSL router, and have someone else come and quickly explain how to connect machines to it and look after it. It's already behind a firewall (at the router) and it's very unlikely you'd have something like this directly connected to the net doing router like tasks. It may be issuing DHCP/DNS whatever to the network, but it would not route network traffic. If you where putting something in place where people where worried about that kind of thing you'd use the standard Ubuntu server, as they'd probably have an IT staff who could be trained. Not just the admin person who also gets the job of doing what the guy on the end of the phone says. Again, we're back to people thinking of a server as a big thing that runs lots and lots of services, has to be lightweight, fast and more secure than anything else ever when really, they're not! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server
2011/9/27 Juan J. reid...@usebox.net: snip We're obviously talking about different users here, but having desktop + GUI tools by default in Ubuntu Server would be a no-go for the technical userbase of Ubuntu. Good, again, we've just ignored the target audience and decided that it's actually aimed at current technical users of Ubuntu. Shall we start again? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server
On 27 September 2011 11:38, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: snip more of me ranting Matt I still think a full blown desktop is a faff. If you're not in the office and need to access the box forwarding x over a hotel network is not going to be fun in any shape or form. Simple question: How many average users do you expect would do this? snip ncurses stuff They have wordpress/drupal/wiki style web pages that they will care about the most which is ermm web based admin and it's this that will have the most changes applied to it. None of these things have been raised as things that would be installed on this box. I'd hesitate to do so simply because there are web services that provide these things for free that would do the security for them and not require any port forwarding setup on a router. I see a SOHO server as providing the following (in various fashions) * LDAP auth stuff * Maybe calendering * Computer control options on a workgroup/per user scale (you laugh, I'm asked for this regularly) * Maybe some NAS functions (very limited in scope, NAS type things should be dedicated boxes) * DHCP/DNS (again in a limited scope) Yes you could provide other things, but that is what I see as a base set of functionality based on what people have asked me for in the past. If you start saying Yes but you could provide this, that and the other too you end up trying to do many things at once, and will end up doing nothing particularly well. For the SOHO user this is a box that sits in the corner and does what is required of it with the minimum of fuss or admin. First you need to define what is required which was the original question, which has ended up in a debate about how best to let users configure the box! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04
On 26 September 2011 13:48, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Now we're perilously close to releasing 11.10 onto the world, it's been asked [0] what things the developers would like to see the focus on for the 12.04 (Long Term Support) release. Personally I would like all core applications to support proxy servers properly. Especially as it's an LTS release which is arguably well-suited to corporate users who are those most often behind proxy servers. (ubuntu one file sync being something that doesn't work behind proxies) I wondered what you lot might desire for 12.04? Cheers, Al. [0] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-discuss/2011-September/012901.html Full LDAP integration (not just auth), complete with some kind of workgroup manager-esque app to control permissions/access on groups of machines and allow things like remote desktop as policy. Seems to be one of the major things that would stop SME take up of Ubuntu. (i.e. I see it on practically every mac/windows network when I go on site visits to SME type companies) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server
So... I've been tinkering with ldap for a few weeks now to get a feel of how it works (and what it does) and keep considering trying to get rid of the hodge podge of bodgy scripts that have cropped up to make things work with it. If such a system was designed, and taking ldap as the base, what features would a people want? My list covers the following: 1) User/permissions management without dealing with blasted ldiffs 2) Automounting of remote storage based on ldap settings 3) Control of what turns up on the Unity dock, bar, whatever 4) Apt sources based on ldap info 5) Global settings that could be overidden on the local level 6) MQTT users dug out from the ldap database :) 7) Email/calender settings from same said database Anything glaringly obvious I've missed that people would want? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server
On 26 September 2011 21:17, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: snip Ahh, SoHo server... a perennial want of many (including myself). I'm getting so annoyed by this being missing it's starting to become an itch :( I'll refer you to this spec:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEasyBusinessServer Ah, lovely. I agreed with it largely until this The interface will be web based And then I wanted to curl up in the foetal position and cry. BEWARE RANT AHOY! rant Why do people always want these things web based? I'd much rather prefer something that works simply in a nice easy gui that I could VNC/whatever into. In order to make things like this web based, you either have to lose some flexibility and/or can make it really hard to report back to the user what actually is going on. I've never really found a web based configuration gui I liked (and I write them for work). In complete honesty, you'd want a home/small office server to have a desktop type gui anyway, as the target audience probably isn't going to be particularly au fait with the console if things break, which is the only place you can go to fix something if your webserver/database provider conks out otherwise. /rant snip Others have worked on similar projects like Zentyal (nee ebox) USM (https://launchpad.net/usm) and so on.. (see above rant on web based things) To be honest, I'd slap a desktop on it and build it with a nice desktop gui toolkit. Probably be easier on the user that way. Otherwise, thanks for pointing me at that, I wasn't at all aware of it, and like sponge cake, it makes a good base. :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernel - missing header.
On 27 August 2011 18:49, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there When I tried to re-build the module for my wi-fi dongle, I got the error that smp_lock.h was missing. I eventually found a workaround on a Swedish site! Simply putting a symlink into an earlier set of headers does the trick - this works for me. The file is in /usr/src/linux-headers-[XYZ], and if the earlier one is not available legacy headers can be found in the repo. Might save someone a bit of head scratching. Should I report this as a bug? If so, how? smp_lock.h no longer exists in the kernel. See http://lwn.net/Articles/424677/ specifically the line delete mode 100644 include/linux/smp_lock.h Was part of the BKL :) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Kernel_Lock) so the wifi dongle drivers probably aren't truely compatible with current versions of the kernel. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Oggcamp pictures
Anyone who would like to join in, at lunch we'd like to do a mass photo for the reapproval process. Alan Bell and myself will be just outside the main door, just come say hi :-) - Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oggcamp pictures
On 14 August 2011 11:20, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 14 August 2011 11:16, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: Anyone who would like to join in, at lunch we'd like to do a mass photo for the reapproval process. Alan Bell and myself will be just outside the main door, just come say hi :-) Lunch being 1pm :) Al. Thanks to all who appeared for this picture! http://www.flickr.com/photos/mattdaubney/6041112753/ -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Upgrading to 11.04 Desktop
On 3 August 2011 14:55, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Hi It fails every time with Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gwibber/gwibber-service-facebook_3.0.0.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb 403 Forbidden Any ideas? Regards Jon Jon Farmer Tel 07795 118140 Are you behind a firewall or proxy of somekind? Looks like anything with facebook in the URI get's banned :) I used to have a similar problem at uni when anything with the word torrent in it was banned. Made upgrading a nightmare. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] I'm new
Hi Alan, While it is true the general issue has been stated, in order to properly assess what that specific user may see as technical and not technical really depends on the person. If we can get together some examples of where we have gone wrong we can assess each one and figure out how best to treat that kind of situation in the future. I'm more than happy to try and do a session at some point with interested peeps on how to deal with different levels.of technical people, but before we can quantify where the issue is we can't make that decision properly. I'm not saying there isn't a problem, I'm asking for more.information to properly assess how we can improve this situation. If it didn't come across that way I apllogise. Thanks, Matt Daubney On Jul 28, 2011 11:44 PM, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Mat It has been said *clearly* what went wrong! The chap on the [irc] who's responded to my plea for help has just given me technical jargon answers I simply don't understand and he's putting me off Ubuntu. The subject did not 'understand'. You will not see that from logs, but you will get it, and *have* got if from their own quote. FWIW I am a ferociously active supporter of Ubuntu and currently also paid up in FSF, but I have only four times used irc seriously, only once every two years on average. I use ubuntuforums very frequently, giving and receiving help (more than 1000 posts). I have a number of friends who I 'administer' ubuntu for and not a single one of them is remotely interested nor suited even to use the forums let alone irc. If they need help I use the phone or skype (spit) or teamviewer (spit). At this level I am helping users who are one step away from the 'Any key' situation. Which is ok with me, but this can get unrealistic on IRC. These are 'novice' users. But some have been using Ubuntu for three years now. I think that IRC is a quite difficult medium for beginners. And me (7 years). I also think that support of your average jack and jill user is a fairly unusual and demanding skill, and not all Ubuntu helpers possess this. On 27/07/11 12:56, Matthew Daubney wrote: Hi Paula, I don't suppose you know this persons irc nick? We can have a look in the logs and see where we went wrong. Thanks, Matt Daubney On Jul 27, 2011 12:41 PM, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 24/07/11 18:19, Alan Bell wrote: On 24/07/11 10:58, a.hun...@visuality-group.co.uk wrote: Hi! I'm new to all this, but been reading the discussions coming in through the emails. Is it just me, or is there some sort of petty argument going on? Am I reading it wrong? Love to all! Alex. Welcome Alex, there is indeed a long email conversation going on, I assume you are referring to the Re: [ubuntu-uk] Um, why am I blocked from #ubuntu-uk thread which actually isn't about anyone specific being blocked from the channel, it was accidentally set to only allow registered users for a few hours and is back to open access now. We generally try to keep this mailing list and the IRC channel polite and constructive at all times. This is community support, which means we all help each other, there is no dividing line between those helping and those needing help with an issue, and we all have access to the same information. Sometimes there is no immediate solution to a problem, which can cause frustration from time to time, but we do try to point people in the right direction to find a solution to their problem. Alan. Apropos - and sorry, don't want to whinge to people who're freely giving their time - but thought you'd want to know - I just got an email from one of the people we taught last week to come to the IRC channel for help because BT can't help her as they don't support Linux. This is what she said (and by forum, she means IRC): The chap on the Ubuntu forum who's responded to my plea for help has just given me technical jargon answers I simply don't understand and he's putting me off Ubuntu. This woman is by no means an idiot but she's left a larger organisation, where she had tech support, to start her own non-profit and now has to DIY - she was pretty enthusiastic about Ubuntu at the session we did and the welcome she got on IRC at the session was great - so she has gone ahead and installed her own laptop. But she's bringing the laptop back here for a Fossbox volunteer to look at. It sounds like it's a simple problem with wifi on a BT hub - but she has no prior understanding of networks so she needs simple step-by-step support. This isn't the first time someone boomerangs off Ubuntu-UK back to Fossbox wailing that they don't understand what's been said to them. I know it's often frustrating having to explain the most basic things to people and translate to plain English, but that's what it takes to get beyond the techie-sphere with Ubuntu . . . Again, don't want to carp about the fantastic work done here - I don't know
Re: [ubuntu-uk] I'm new
On 29 July 2011 17:28, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 29/07/11 12:35, Matthew Daubney wrote: Hi Alan, While it is true the general issue has been stated, in order to properly assess what that specific user may see as technical and not technical really depends on the person. If we can get together some examples of where we have gone wrong we can assess each one and figure out how best to treat that kind of situation in the future. I'm more than happy to try and do a session at some point with interested peeps on how to deal with different levels.of technical people, but before we can quantify where the issue is we can't make that decision properly. I'm not saying there isn't a problem, I'm asking for more.information to properly assess how we can improve this situation. If it didn't come across that way I apllogise. Thanks, Matt Daubney Hi Mat Thanks for being so gracious. I think I must have been in particularly controversial mood. :-) alan Hi Alan, It's ok, just highlights the point that some people understand different things :) I do see your point, and it is very frustrating on both sides of the table because this kind of problem is a _hard_ problem because it involves people. Have you seen the support guidelines we put together a little while ago? https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Support_Guidelines I try to poke people when I see them going against them, but I'm not on IRC very much these days. Hopefully this will poke more people to read them and adopt them :) - Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] I'm new
Hi Paula, I don't suppose you know this persons irc nick? We can have a look in the logs and see where we went wrong. Thanks, Matt Daubney On Jul 27, 2011 12:41 PM, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 24/07/11 18:19, Alan Bell wrote: On 24/07/11 10:58, a.hun...@visuality-group.co.uk wrote: Hi! I'm new to all this, but been reading the discussions coming in through the emails. Is it just me, or is there some sort of petty argument going on? Am I reading it wrong? Love to all! Alex. Welcome Alex, there is indeed a long email conversation going on, I assume you are referring to the Re: [ubuntu-uk] Um, why am I blocked from #ubuntu-uk thread which actually isn't about anyone specific being blocked from the channel, it was accidentally set to only allow registered users for a few hours and is back to open access now. We generally try to keep this mailing list and the IRC channel polite and constructive at all times. This is community support, which means we all help each other, there is no dividing line between those helping and those needing help with an issue, and we all have access to the same information. Sometimes there is no immediate solution to a problem, which can cause frustration from time to time, but we do try to point people in the right direction to find a solution to their problem. Alan. Apropos - and sorry, don't want to whinge to people who're freely giving their time - but thought you'd want to know - I just got an email from one of the people we taught last week to come to the IRC channel for help because BT can't help her as they don't support Linux. This is what she said (and by forum, she means IRC): The chap on the Ubuntu forum who's responded to my plea for help has just given me technical jargon answers I simply don't understand and he's putting me off Ubuntu. This woman is by no means an idiot but she's left a larger organisation, where she had tech support, to start her own non-profit and now has to DIY - she was pretty enthusiastic about Ubuntu at the session we did and the welcome she got on IRC at the session was great - so she has gone ahead and installed her own laptop. But she's bringing the laptop back here for a Fossbox volunteer to look at. It sounds like it's a simple problem with wifi on a BT hub - but she has no prior understanding of networks so she needs simple step-by-step support. This isn't the first time someone boomerangs off Ubuntu-UK back to Fossbox wailing that they don't understand what's been said to them. I know it's often frustrating having to explain the most basic things to people and translate to plain English, but that's what it takes to get beyond the techie-sphere with Ubuntu . . . Again, don't want to carp about the fantastic work done here - I don't know if it's an issue to lose people this way but thought you'd want to know the feedback I get here. Paula -- 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] Geeknic+sci-fi at the british library: reminder?
On 22 July 2011 16:10, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to catch up with emails. Can we have a reminder of some sort? Meeting at the benches in front of library? How would we recognize each other? Geeknic before event? Hallo! I believe the plan is to meet at Platform 3 3/4 (outside Kings Cross) where you can run into a wall with your eyes shut if you so wish :) We'll then wander along a bit and have a loverly geeknic before heading to the library where you'll have to beware the Vashta Nerada. Timings will be confirmed tomorrow (when there is a meeting on tomorrow at 21:00 in #ubuntu-uk-meeting on the freenode IRC network where we'll confirm all these things 100%) I think it's 10 or 11 at Kings Cross. I'll be there with a cuddly tux on my shoulder :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Geeknic+sci-fi at the british library: reminder?
On 22 July 2011 16:25, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On 22 July 2011 16:10, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to catch up with emails. Can we have a reminder of some sort? Meeting at the benches in front of library? How would we recognize each other? Geeknic before event? Hallo! I believe the plan is to meet at Platform 3 3/4 (outside Kings Cross) I, of course, meant 9 3/4 (shows I never got into the books doesn't it) where you can run into a wall with your eyes shut if you so wish :) We'll then wander along a bit and have a loverly geeknic before heading to the library where you'll have to beware the Vashta Nerada. Timings will be confirmed tomorrow (when there is a meeting on tomorrow at 21:00 in #ubuntu-uk-meeting on the freenode IRC network where we'll confirm all these things 100%) I think it's 10 or 11 at Kings Cross. I'll be there with a cuddly tux on my shoulder :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Schools
On 11 July 2011 03:34, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: hiyas, sorry I have not been to active of late, life is a little hectic. but I do recall a discussion about the software schools use. In america or canada they can use http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/index.html which is a pretty awesome suite of apps. The only problem being it is not available to UK. Well, after much digging, it may well be :) Hi Phil, I believe the OU use this suite of applications. The wording from their website ( http://www3.open.ac.uk/study/undergraduate/course/tu100.htm - This includes some features in the Google Apps for Education package used to meet some of the learning outcomes. ) suggests it to be true. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] boot time
On 8 July 2011 10:41, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: Is it my imagination or does 11.04 take considerably longer to cold boot than previous, recent versions of Ubuntu? Norman You can measure this with bootchart http://www.bootchart.org/ I think it's in the repos. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam 2nd-4th September
I'd vote on some time being assigned to a set of technical talks as I don't attend enough these days. On a side note, if someone would like to give a tslk on how oAuth works, I'd be all ears :-) Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Facebook page - now with extra vanity
On 1 July 2011 13:18, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote: well we reached the milestone of 25 likes on our Facebook page so now have a sparkly new vanity URL: http://www.facebook.com/UbuntuUK . . . and we got it just in time for Google Plus to be released and render Facebook redundant. Discuss! Alan. Not having had an invite to google plus, the concept both amuses and confuses me. Should anyone wish to help clarify my confusion by sending me an invite (to daubers AT gmail dot co with the dot uk), please feel free :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?
On 24 June 2011 10:11, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: As a team we do stuff for the Ubuntu. Most of this stuff is based on ideas a few people have had within the team. This includes:- * Support * Advocacy * Promotion * Events I figured it's time to get some fresh ideas. So, simple question:- As a team, what should we be doing within the UK? What would be really good is to just brainstorm, get a bunch of ideas, NOT debate each one into the ground, just come up with ideas, the details can follow later. Here's my starter for 10. UK Team should seek monetary sponsorship from companies and individuals, and invest that sponsorship money in Ubuntu related projects and events in the UK Your turn. What happened to good old fashioned install fests? One of them with some training might help I'd have thought. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?
On 24 June 2011 10:11, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: As a team we do stuff for the Ubuntu. Most of this stuff is based on ideas a few people have had within the team. This includes:- * Support * Advocacy * Promotion * Events I figured it's time to get some fresh ideas. So, simple question:- As a team, what should we be doing within the UK? What would be really good is to just brainstorm, get a bunch of ideas, NOT debate each one into the ground, just come up with ideas, the details can follow later. Here's my starter for 10. UK Team should seek monetary sponsorship from companies and individuals, and invest that sponsorship money in Ubuntu related projects and events in the UK Your turn. Oooh oooh ooh!! A really good one!! How about we do some Ubuntu themed geocaches? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?
What about writing letters to local papers such as I would like to raise the profile of event name, a local event where people can come and discuss the possibilities of computing and learn how to help others by using open source software. or somesuch. Did wonder if anyone was going to run an Oggcamp campaign similarly in the Farnham/Basingstokes local rag (no idea which one that is though!) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 30 test drive of Ubuntu: PC world
On 11 June 2011 11:33, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Have you seen Matt Daubneys' attempt at going from Ubuntu to Windows for 30 days? http://daubers.co.uk/2011/06/09/from-linux-to-windows-for-30-days/ It is a nice idea. The elephant in the room is that almost nobody I know who uses Windows has useful experience of preparing to install Windows, and then installing it, and setting it up, nor, dare I say it, often of even 'backing up'. This situation is formalised by not making install CDs available when a PC is purchased. This is a high barrier to changing from a pre installed OS. Once Ubuntu *is* safely installed onto a PC and configured for normal use, there only remains the question of ongoing support. For most Windows users this would be from friends or family member (fofm). Unless the novice Ubuntu user is in an area with a high density of Ubuntu users, then they need a surrogate fofm to watch over them. Ubuntu forums are brilliant, however, they appeal only to users with a certain level of confidence. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user Hi Alan! I did realise that when I started, but I had to get my laptop back to the factory defaults. So it was an interesting (and immensley aggravating) diversion. Has made me think a little bit though. If we assume most laptops these days have 500 or 750 GB disks, then you can get a 1TB USB disk for ~£40. Maybe someone should write a linux installer that backs up the complete HDD state before install onto one of these disks now they're becoming inexpensive. Would take a while I admit but for peace of mind of people doing these installs for the first time would be quite large. Just a thought :) I'm off the install stuff now and onto day to day tasks. Already had to go into the cmd prompt once (oh the irony). There'll be more to come as I find time to write stuff -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users
On 8 June 2011 17:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: snip The major problem (IMHO) in using Linux instead of Windows for ordinary users, is the difficulty with Office 2007 and 2010 documents, which are becoming more and more Email and web browsing is dead easy - it's the incompatibilities of OOXML format documents with the Office suites available on Linux (Open Office, Libre Office and all the others) that would seem to be the problem, particularly as a) prior versions of Office are now being replaced by 2007 and 2010 in which OOXML is the default and b) it would seem to be the norm that Windows hides extensions of known file types by default now such that the average user doesn't even KNOW they are saving and opening OOXML files... Problem with OOXML is that it has incompatibilities between versions of MS Office... if MS can't make compatibility with their own products work, other people have very little chance! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] British Library, Geeknicky fun-ness!
Well, I closed the poll. Based on the results, Sunday the 24th of July looks the best! Spread the word and I hope to see you all there! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] British Library, Geeknicky fun-ness!
On 12 May 2011 21:54, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: As per the meeting the other day, there is a plan to go see the SciFi exhibition at the British Library in London at some point in July/August. If all goes to plan, we'll all head off for a geeknic in a nice green bit nearby afterwards, and maybe other bits and bobs too depending who feels like what. I've thrown up a doodle poll at http://doodle.com/53dpqtd6qgbvdpmp so mark _all_ of the days your free and we'll go on the most popular! Importantly, the exhibition is free... but you'll have to make your own travel arrangements. If anybody feels like bringing food and whatnot for the geeknic, that would be excellent! I'll try and make some cakes :) Hopefully see you all there! Just a quick bump as I'll be closing the doodle poll tonight! If you want to come, get your date votes in now!! http://doodle.com/53dpqtd6qgbvdpmp -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnumeric or librecalc? selecting cells
On 24 May 2011 13:57, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello all,
I'm about to ask questions about software that runs on ubuntu please
tell me if this is out of line (or simply ignore) and I'll go
subscribe myself to the appropriate list.
You're more than welcome to ask these kinds of questions here.
I was using gnumeric up to now but it libreCalc looked very
attractive and i decided to switch. But now I'm a bit lost on the
commands:
For example:
With gnumeric I could select an area of cells (e.g. 256x256) type a
value (e.g. 0) and do ctrl+enter and I could populate the area with
that value. With libreCalc it didn't work but shift+ctrl+enter changed
it to an array ({=0}) (don't know what this is meant to be) and I
cannot change selected values back so it's not good (and it's
difficult to get rid of). I have found out that to do the same thing I
need to type ctrl+alt+enter after entering a value.
(hope this tip helped someone I couldn't find it in the libre office help
menus)
Now my question:
When selecting an area gnumeric would tell me what row and column I'm
at with numbers. I've been looking for a while now and I have no way
of knowing where column 256 is. I managed to figure out it was IV (or
I think it is). But what if I want to select 512 columns?
512 is SR, you can calculate this two ways, the easy way is to just
put a run of numbers in the top row (put 1 in A1 then click the little
box in the corner of the cell and drag it along until you reach the
number you want) and just look up at the top of the column.
The fun way is to take your column number X and then do
First letters index (a=1,b=2...z=26) = the integer part of x/26
second letter index = the fractional part of x/26 * 26
so for 512...
512/26 = 19.6923076923 so first letter is letter 19, which is S
Second letter = 26*0.6923076923 = 18 Which is R
Personally... the first method is quicker when doing a lookup by hand
and I'm sure there's a better way of doing the second method.
-Matt Daubney
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.
On 21 May 2011 09:55, Liam Gallear liam.gall...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 May 2011, at 09:40, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Greetings! My friend had this conversation with her Dad:- Dad: Can you get in contact with Alan and get him to help me with my computer Friend: I'll be honest, he won't touch it with windows on it Dad: Okay, will he install Linux on it for me? Friend: I'll ask. So I have sat in front of me a laptop computer:- Specs:- Dell Inspiron 6400. Intel Dual Core Pentium T2060 CPU at 1.6GHz 2GiB RAM 60GB Hard disk Intel GMA 945 video card DVD Read/write drive The usual other ports you'd expect, VGA, USBxlots, sound, SD etc. Media playback buttons. I agreed to wipe windows off (he doesn't care about what's on there at the moment) and install Ubuntu. I also agreed to a couple of hours of hand-holding to get him started. As far as I can tell he has no experience of Ubuntu or any other Linux distro. I'm currently backing up the Windows XP hard disk to an external drive he provided, and will start a clean install of Ubuntu later. Wondering what to install. 10.04 LTS or 11.04 with Unity 3D or 2D? I'm open to listen to suggestions for what to do, and what extra apps to install. I figured it might be useful for others. I'm keeping track of stuff in an etherpad document:- http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/PCForFriend I welcome discussion / suggestions either here on the list or in that document. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ That's pretty cool. I'd probably say go for 11.04, then he gets the benefits of Unity straight away. If possible, though, why not dual boot the two and let the guy decide which he wants to keep? Thanks and Regards, Liam Gallear I'd stick him on 11.04 with unity if it works with his hardware. Simply because now would be a good time to get used to the new interface, rather than learning old gnome then having to learn new gnome in 6 months time :) I'd leave off Unity 2D on a new persons machine as it's not officially finished yet. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Race Online Official Partner Confirmation
On 19 May 2011 10:05, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote: ick, sorry about the epic long URLS, I started a wiki page for RaceOnline and uploaded the certificate there if people want to see it https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/RaceOnline Alan. Ok... so now we're a partner, what (can/do we want) to do? I'm a bit confused as to what this actually is, and their website confused me a fair amount more. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking towards 12.04
On 19 May 2011 17:05, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 16:54 +0100, a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi folks, Sorry if I sounded dumb - maybe it's too long working with Windows which meant that when I saw all the talk about copy/paste being on the middle button - I was worried that the CUA methods (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V) were no longer available... and it was going to be one hell of a learning curve - and less being able to rely on muscle memory whether I was using work or home kit. The way Unity has been talked about - with functionality being taken away, and completely different usability issues... Just concerned me for a mo... No you're safe that still works :) Middle click paste has been around for a long time. They've been there along with Ctrl-C/V for a while. It is, I must admit, the one thing missing thing that really annoys me when I'm on Windows or OSX :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 PCs shocker!
On 18 May 2011 13:05, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: So what can we do about this, I am currently helping at a youth music project that has now got 4 / 5 ubuntu computers up and running, I am struggling to maintain what we have on zero budget What help do you need and where? if we as a community want to promote Ubuntu and or Linux to the masses we need investment and money overall. I'm not convinced about that statement.. but it has a slight ring of truth to it. User groups want to do something, but may lack the funds to do so, if we find a worth while cause we end up hitting a financial barrier, we need to promote the alternatives and actually BE THERE when people want help, so we can support up to a point then if I am stick i need to be able to get someone who can help there ASAP to sort out the issue, What it sounds like you need here is a way to ask for some help. The groups I know need help are the ones that ask for it (like the recent email around from the Nottingham hackspace) We need to educate people as to what is wrong with MS and word without making us look like some fundamentalist out of touch lunatics, so we need a proper argument, backed with evidence, backed with support, find out the arguments against OSS and create counter arguments and provide a viable alternative. oh and people have full time jobs, so we need to do this when we have time and between other activities. perhaps one of the reasons that MS have jumped on this is because they can, they have the discs, have the books, have the support and can afford the infrastructure. The OSS community can't so we lose out and will continue to do so. did canonical offer to do anything on this. we need to all work together, regardless of distro and really push what we believe in. so the alternative is viable. Absolutley. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy and 11.04
On 16 May 2011 16:27, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: On 16 May 2011 15:48, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 16 May 2011 15:44, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Easiest way to try is move your finger forward and back along the right hand edge when in a scrollable window. So apparently I do. Still a major PITA to use with Empathy though. A total loss of fine control. Regards Jon I'd argue the point on the loss of fine control, you can still drag those little arrows up and down to get to where you want in a document, rather than just clicking on them to go up/down. The only thing that's a bit more difficult is clicking to go direct to a point (feels like the gutter has a smaller margin, but that may be wrong). But then again, different people use things in different ways. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy and 11.04
On 16 May 2011 16:49, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: On 16 May 2011 16:45, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: I'd argue the point on the loss of fine control, you can still drag those little arrows up and down to get to where you want in a document, rather than just clicking on them to go up/down. The only thing that's a bit more difficult is clicking to go direct to a point (feels like the gutter has a smaller margin, but that may be wrong). I'd argue that is a lot harder to do with a touchpad than a mouse. I think this is one of those things. 90% of my time I work with a touchpad and haven't noticed a difference. However, I am not you :) I have noticed my parents really struggle with a touchpad (to the point of using a mouse on the arm of the sofa) so I'm happy to concede the point that to a given subset of users, it may not be optimal. However, I have no idea what the size of that subset is, or what the size of the userbase is. So can't really say it's a good thing for the majority or It's a bad things for the majority. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] British Library, Geeknicky fun-ness!
As per the meeting the other day, there is a plan to go see the SciFi exhibition at the British Library in London at some point in July/August. If all goes to plan, we'll all head off for a geeknic in a nice green bit nearby afterwards, and maybe other bits and bobs too depending who feels like what. I've thrown up a doodle poll at http://doodle.com/53dpqtd6qgbvdpmp so mark _all_ of the days your free and we'll go on the most popular! Importantly, the exhibition is free... but you'll have to make your own travel arrangements. If anybody feels like bringing food and whatnot for the geeknic, that would be excellent! I'll try and make some cakes :) Hopefully see you all there! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Borked my Mac installing Ubuntu 11.04, now blackscreens beeps on restart then takes exactly 4 attempts to boot
On 30 April 2011 01:55, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote: So guess who broke his Mac trying to install the latest Ubuntu? Every now then, I think I'm more of a geek than I really am, and try to do something to make myself feel hardcore, but that ends up just being plain humbling! There follows a cut paste from a post I left on the Ubuntu forums, but basically I've been stung by over-ambitious early-adopter's syndrome (which may or may not be a real term, I've been trying to fix my computer for the last 2 days straight can't remember how humans actually talk to each other). Anyway, in the hope that some local talent may see this know what's going wrong ... Hi -- I've tried to install 11.04 on my Macbook Pro (5,4) today. I had two drives in the machine, an SSD as my main drive, and an HD. I installed rEFIt before attempting to install Ubuntu. I moved my Snow Leopard install to the secondary HD made sure I could boot to it. Then, I used the live CD gparted to clear the 1st drive (the SSD), create the swap space, create the Ubuntu partition, and launch the install, where I used what I had just created on the SSD. The install completed okay (but with no option to select where the GRUB installer went, like some tutorials tell you to look out for). This seemed to go okay, so I went to restart at the end of the install, but the machine didn't come back up. Instead, the power came on I could hear the drives, but the screen stayed black, the battery light flashed a load of times really quickly (too quickly to count, but at least 10 times), and then the machine let out 1 long beep and stayed on the black screen. I forced it to power down tried again, and just got a black screen, the battery light shining steadily, and no beep. I forced it to power down again, and got the same, then again, and got the same, and then a 4th time, which actually allowed me to boot. And this has been the pattern since then. I shut down, and my first attempt to restart gets me the flashing light and the beep, with the black screen. I try 3 more times to power down and restart, and just get the black screen. Then, *every* time on the 4th time, I'm allowed to boot. The same routine will be gone through the next time I power down and try to restart. I've tried totally clearing the disk in gparted, restoring the OSX install from TimeMachine, everything I could think of, but all to no avail. Finally, thinking that maybe the OSX install I had safe on the secondary HD might still be okay (looking at it in gparted showed an EFI boot section everything), I opened up my MBP, swapped the drives around so that the HD is now the main drive, and the SSD the secondary, and renamed the drives so that the primary HD is now called 'Macintosh HD' and is first in the list of drives that appear when I manage to boot each 4th attempt. But, to my great disappointment, I still got exactly the same error. Can anyone offer any advice on how to: 1) Get my machine booting to a safe Snow Leopard install on the (now primary) HD? 2) Safely install Ubuntu on the (now secondary) SSD? Obviously the first is a top priority, as I need my machine in order to work! Then I can concentrate on moving my dev environment to Ubuntu, which I've been dying to do for ages. Thanks very much for any all assistance. Bed, now. I hate going to sleep defeated, but I've no idea what else to do. 'Night! Doug. PS -- apologies to any Geekuppers for the cross post. If you have a time machine backup I'd do the following. 1. Grab the OSX install CD and throw it into the drive 2. Using that CD flatten the OSX drive using the disk utility on the CD 3. Reinstall OSX 4. Attach time machine disk and restore from backup. Hope that helps. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leadership Election Process
Ar me swashbuckling mateys! 'Tis important that ye be remembering this adventure. The treasure be in sight and Cap'n Bell needs to be certain of the course he be chartin. Those blasted NInja's do be runnin amok in this search for the treasure of certainty, those landlubbin' need to be keelhauled afore bein' sent to Daviey's locker. Y'argh! You salty dogs! A decision ye must make, and ye better not be loaded to the Gunwales. Gentlemen of fortune we be, and, matey's, we must stand against those Son's of Biscuit Eater's. Make yer mark! Or the black spot'll find ye when ye least expect it! Now ye Sprogs! Hop to! Or by the powers there'll be no booty for thee! - Pete Bluebeard (See, I promised pirates!) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....
On 18 March 2011 12:20, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi there .. I'm really scratching my head over this one. My wife's computer has a ALiveNF6P-VSTA motherboard. This has one IDE connector and four SATA ports. It was running Windows 2000 on a SATA drive, so I installed a second SATA drive (250 GiB) and put Ubuntu 10.04 on it. I also installed a 160 GiB IDE drive for backups and all was fine. Last week, the IDE drive gave a SMART report that it was getting flaky so I replaced it with a 500 GiB Hitachi SATA drive. Problems! Could not copy more than 167.9 MB of data (by any means) After that, the partition (ext4) became read only until I rebooted! I tried re-partitioning and re-formatting and the drive appeared to die. A Hitachi boot disk with a diagnostic/repair tool told be that the boot sector had an irrecoverable mechanical error. As a last resort, I popped the drive into my computer, and it re-formatted perfectly and showed no SMART errors. I tried a 160 GiB WD drive in my wife's computer. EXACTLY the same problem occurs. I've now re-formatted it to NTFS and tried booting into the Windows 2000 disk. There is no problem copying files to the WD disk from Windows. But the problem is identical from Ubuntu. I've tried swapping the disks into different SATA slots and I've tried various things in the BIOS. The only clue here is that the Mobo manual tells me: LBA/Large Mode - Use this item to select the LBA/Large mode for a hard disk 512 MB under DOS and Windows; for Netware and UNIX user, select [Disabled] to disable the LBA/Large mode. I've tried this on the WD drive and it makes no difference. I tried it on the Ubuntu drive, but it causes Grub failure and brings up the Grub rescue prompt. I could re-install with the LBA/Large mode turned off, but it's going to be hard for me to do a backup first I think I'd have to re-install an IDE drive to do it. This entire saga doesn't make any sense at all to me. Any thoughts? I have no problem at all with either of the above SATA drives in my own computer which also has three SATA drives installed - and the LBA/Large mode is set to 'auto' on that one. Kind regards, Barry. I'd check if there's an update for the BIOS, I've seen various drives/chipset configurations have weird issues over time :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Team Leadership Election Process
Otherwise known as The Most Important Thing You'll Read This Week! It had been pointed out that there was no documented process anywhere for the LoCo leadership contest. Somehow I seemed to manage with the action of doing this from a meeting I forgot to attend (that'll teach me!) Anyway, can everyone have a read of this etherpad please http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/UUKElectionProcess Please discuss any points of contention you may have. Also, feel free to edit the pad, the worst that will happen is it will get reverted after some discussion :) Now seriously! Go read it! It is full of Ninja's, Pirates and scenes of unparalleled action and bravery[1] -Matt Daubney [1] May not actually contain Ninja's, Pirates and/or scenes of unparalleled action and/or bravery -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot
Hello, I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for doing so would be so that everything is more tidy, but also to reduce wasted space! Any advice would be much appreciated. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 19:58 +, John MM wrote: Ok, I just wondered, can I ask the question again, I have managed to get the computers to see each other, but I cannot get Nautilus to show the directories, from either the Ubuntu partition or the Windows Partition. When I go into PlacesNetwork, I click on the Icon in there, and still get Unable to mount location - Failed to retrieve share list from server. I have searched for that using Google, not much comes up, that I can understand anyway. I am still wondering if it is a Permissions/ownership thing. Is there a command in the Terminal I can use to see why Nautilus camt view the files. Not sure if this will help, but I've never got nautilus to work happily in that manner with SMB, however, if you hit ctrl+l in a nautilus window it will drop you into the address bar. Now just type smb://192.168.x.x/ and hit enter. It should now show you the available shares for that machine. If it doesn't, in a terminal, type nautilus and try again. If you still get any errors, see if it dumps anything into the terminal window and if it does, paste that back to us here. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 10:33 +, John MM wrote: On 05/03/11 08:14, Matthew Daubney wrote: Not sure if this will help, but I've never got nautilus to work happily in that manner with SMB, however, if you hit ctrl+l in a nautilus window it will drop you into the address bar. Now just type smb://192.168.x.x/ and hit enter. It should now show you the available shares for that machine. If it doesn't, in a terminal, type nautilus and try again. If you still get any errors, see if it dumps anything into the terminal window and if it does, paste that back to us here. -Matt Daubney Oh wow, that has bought up a list of the Ubuntu directories on this and if I put in the other IP address of the other machine that one as well. Problem is, I cant log in, it has a box asking for Username, Domain and Password. I just tried a load of different things I think it could be, and its not letting me in. So, at least I can now see the other computers directories, I just have to find a way to work out what to enter into those three things. Funny thing though, it says just above the Username box, How do I find out what the Domain is? Password required for share print$ on 192.168.0x.x is that normal, not sure why it should be about Print$ Thank you for you help. If you've not changed it (based on reading I doubt you have) the domain is probably WORKGROUP. You username/password for your Ubuntu shares will be whatever user you assigned to the shares in the smb.conf file (the valid users = timmy johnny line), I have no idea how any of the graphical tools do this if you've set it to guest ok = yes then you can just login with the Guest user account (no password, username Guest I seem to recall... though there might be a Sign in as guest button. There is on OS X) For your Windows shares, it'll be the username/password of the person who owns the share. So to connect to my Win7 shares I user the username matt and my windows password as the password. Hope that helps you a bit further along the track. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum of Computing events
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 20:09 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: snip May 14 Museums at Night - Overnight Games Programming Challenge 8pm to midnight. Remember the 1980's when the Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 were deadly rivals? This was a time when anybody with a talent for programming could write cool games in their bedroom and make a million! No programming experience is needed, our resident experts will guide you through the process of creating your dream game. Admission is £6 which will include the staple diet of programmers everywhere, pizza and cola. Pre-booking required - i...@museumofcomputing.org.uk or 07834 375628 Dianne That one actually sounds quite cool! What machines will the games be targeted for? Speccys and Commodores? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PS/2 port detection
On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 23:07 +, Jacob Mansfield wrote: not strictly Ubuntu but would anybody be able to explain how the BIOS detects PS/2 devices. I'm setting up a media center PC with no keyboard and keep getting stuck with a 'no keyboard detected, press F1 to continue' message, depending on how the devices are connected this could be as simple to fix as shoving a resistor into the socket. Jacob Mansfield Programmer Check the bios, normally there's an option to not stop on that error. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accessing Shared folders on a Windows 7 machine from Ubuntu 10.04
On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 10:12 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 03/12/2010 12:31, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:05 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I have removed the Homegroup , replaced it with a Workgroup and shared folders on the Windows Machine. I have installed Samba and changed the Workgroup name on the Ubuntu machine to match that of the Windows 7 machine. The Ubuntu machine sees the 7 machine, but all that happens when I try to access the shares is that the log-on screen keeps returning and I can't access the shares. Any thoughts as to what I should be looking at? Have you allowed a user to the share in the smb.conf? And have you added the user to the samba database using smbpasswd? -Matt Daubney This is trying to access a Windows 7 share FROM Ubuntu - I didn't think that involved Samba? Ah, I had the question backwards then. You are using your windows username/password? You may need to prefix it with the machine name i.e. if your Win 7 machine was called bistromath it might be \\Bistromath \Username or somesuch. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accessing Shared folders on a Windows 7 machine from Ubuntu 10.04
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:05 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I have removed the Homegroup , replaced it with a Workgroup and shared folders on the Windows Machine. I have installed Samba and changed the Workgroup name on the Ubuntu machine to match that of the Windows 7 machine. The Ubuntu machine sees the 7 machine, but all that happens when I try to access the shares is that the log-on screen keeps returning and I can't access the shares. Any thoughts as to what I should be looking at? Have you allowed a user to the share in the smb.conf? And have you added the user to the samba database using smbpasswd? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] A chance to say Hello!
Tomorrow afternoon (from about 11:30 - ~12:30/1:00) I'll be in Costa Coffee in Oxford.. (here http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=costa +coffee, +oxfordsll=53.800651,-4.064941sspn=12.478806,43.286133ie=UTF8hq=costa+coffee,hnear=Oxford,+United+Kingdomll=51.751783,-1.259302spn=0.001594,0.005284t=hz=18) If anyone would like to come say Hello, I'll be the one with the cuddly tux and a laptop with an Ubuntu logo on it :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] A chance to say Hello!
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 11:59 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 12/11/2010 10:09, Matthew Daubney wrote: Tomorrow afternoon (from about 11:30 - ~12:30/1:00) I'll be in Costa Coffee in Oxford.. (here http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=costa +coffee, +oxfordsll=53.800651,-4.064941sspn=12.478806,43.286133ie=UTF8hq=costa+coffee,hnear=Oxford,+United+Kingdomll=51.751783,-1.259302spn=0.001594,0.005284t=hz=18) If anyone would like to come say Hello, I'll be the one with the cuddly tux and a laptop with an Ubuntu logo on it :) -Matt Daubney Do you do this frequently? I do come to Oxford several times a year from N Staffs Not really... however I'm intending to potter around a lot in the coming year to try and meet lots of linux peeps :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using VPN in Ubuntu to connect to BT FON or Openzone
On 10 Nov 2010, at 20:33, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: BT have a version of Cisco VPN for Windows only – is there anyone on the list who has used any VPN client in Ubuntu to connect to BT wireless hotspots? You can get cisco vpn for Linux. It's called VPNC in the repos (I believe) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity and Gnome Shell
Good Morning :) On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 21:23 +0100, Les Cunningham wrote: rant I have been looking at reviews of Gnome Shell, and I do not like what I have seen. (I have also tried running it, without success so far.) The screenshots show lots of white text on a black background, which I dislike as I find it difficult to read, although I suppose that there will be themes available in due course which I will find more acceptable. More importantly, I suspect that for some uses it will be more awkward than Gnome 2. If I am understanding it correctly, if there are two or more maximised windows open on one desktop, switching between them will take 2 or 3 mouse clicks, rather than just one as at present. However, I dare say if I used it for a while once it has been more fully developed I could get used to it. Gnome Shell is an interesting project, but has a few usability issues at the moment, it's also what Gnome 3 intends to be using. I have also tried using Unity, which is apparently to be the default for 11.04. The first problem was that it was unacceptably slow, taking several seconds to respond to mouse clicks, and therefore I quickly uninstalled it. However, I saw enough of it to decide that there is no way I want to use it; the whole concept seems totally unsuitable for desktop computers. I do not think I would be happy using it even on a netbook. If, when I first tried Ubuntu, I had been faced with someting along the lines of Unity, I would probably still be using Windows. Ah, now you've hit the button. Unity is designed for netbooks, the challenge over this coming release is threefold really. 1. Make Unity useable on a big screen 2. Improve unity's performance (They're moving the compositing from mutter to compiz to aid this) 3. Fix the fact that some peoples hardware has oddities and fix/work around where necessary You could aid number 3 by filing a bug report on Unity with your hardware configuration. It would help the developers understand what hardware has issues. The decision to move the window controls from the right to the left would have been annoying, but it is easy to move them back. I doubt if I will be installing any version of Ubuntu which includes Unity, unless it is possible to replace it easily with Gnome 2 or an improved Gnome Shell. I guess I will be sticking to 10.4 and 10.10 for a while, and then if Canonical are still touting Unity I will just have to switch to Debian. /rant Les. Unity will be the default for new users, however you will be able go back to original gnome as well. It will be either an apt-get away, or an option on the login screen, this is still unclear. Hope that's helpful. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! Does anyone have any recommendations for powerline adapters? All the power wiring in my house is 5 years old. Cheers, Simon I did notice the other day that someone is doing one of these that terminates in a switch instead of a single socket. I've been tempted to grab a pair to add on to the Devolo's I've got. Can't remember who made them, there was a review in the register about them recently though. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! Does anyone have any recommendations for powerline adapters? All the power wiring in my house is 5 years old. Cheers, Simon AH! Found it (sorry for not replying to myself) http://www.reghardware.com/2010/08/25/wd_livewire/ - Four port ones. If anyone has any of these I'm interested to know how well they work. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time? It will only show you what it detects (and the standard CDROM/Hard disk thing) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:49 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: yep, I used the usb disk creator on my desktop with the nbr image On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time? It will only show you what it detects (and the standard CDROM/Hard disk thing) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ If you go into the bios with it plugged in, it should be a selectable boot option in there. I have noticed some bios's now decide that a USB key is in fact a hard drive, so you have to choose it as the first hdd in the list of hard drives, which is just silly really. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine
On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time? It will only show you what it detects (and the standard CDROM/Hard disk thing) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:49 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: yep, I used the usb disk creator on my desktop with the nbr image Actually reading around, it seems Toshiba really are that dumb! There is a workaround here http://crunchbanglinux.org/forums/post/39955/#p39955 Seems to boot a toshiba r100 from an image you need either a toshiba cdrom drive or a toshiba floppy drive. Which is an emensley bad design decision, as if the HDD conks out, you need one of those to recover your system! Bonkers, truely truely bonkers! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine
On 13 September 2010 20:09, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Jacob, Just install Ubuntu to a separate partition and it will wipe out the Windows bootloader and replace it with GRUB. You can then boot both Windows and Linux from there :) Daniel On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 21:17 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the whole reason I used wubi in the first place is because I am installing on a netbook with no CD/DVD drive and no ability to boot from usb Jacob, What netboot do you have? I really do doubt it can't boot from USB, and would be surprised if it was otherwise. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash problems in 10.10
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 10:40 +0100, John Matthews wrote: On 08/09/10 10:08, Glen Mehn wrote: On 08/09/10 07:00, Xiamen wrote: im using 10.10 , chromium on a macbook 2.1. when I watch flash movies (youtube youku tudou ...) the plug in crashes all the time... /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so . is anyone else getting this? happens more when I open the ubuntu SC. I get it too. I have to close Chrome down, then reboot and it comes back. Installed from .deb or from the browser (i.e., direct from Adobe) http://www.liberiangeek.net/2010/09/install-adobe-flash-player-ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat/ Have you tried firefox? Does it still crash (even if you don't use it, handy to know) 64-bit or 32? -g I dont use FF anymore, just Google Chrome and Chromium, and the same thing happens in Chromium. Hi John, Can you test it in Firefox please? We're trying to localise the issue to either Chromium or the Flash plugin. Chrome is essentially chromium, so it's not a particularly good comparator. Thanks :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu release and 42 day celebrations
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 11:38 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: Hello all, During the day of 10th October (101010 / 42 day) I am planning an Ubuntu release / install party in London, merging into the the celebrations of 42 Day with the people from ZZ9.org, revelling in the life and works of the late great Douglas Adams. If we still have enough energy (and balance) left then I plan to also join the Canonical party in the evening (once they have announced it). If you are interested, there is the usual sign-up form on the Ubuntu LoCo site. If you have any comments or questions, please let me know. -- John Stevenson Lean Agile Consultant / Coach jr0cket.com | leanagilemachine.com Could we get some Maverick styled towels printed? That would be ace! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disk Rescue!
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:24 +0100, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote: Many thanks for the various pieces of advice. Have just finished booting up an old WIN98 setup CD, using the F8 key managed to get to a shell prompt where it had loaded a few utils into a RAMDISK. FDISK /STATUS showed some partitions. Deleteing them appeared to work, but then when trying to write a new partition it just hung again. Re-booted and tried again. Similarly the status still showed the partitions being there - even though I thought I had deleted them. Realised, they were just marked for deletion and cos the new partition hadn't worked they were still there. This time I deleted and then exited from FDISK only to receive a disk write error. Your disk is dead. Time for a new one. All similar symptoms to other methods used so far. Conclusion:- Either the disk is well and truly busted OR for reasons I cannot explain or fix is that the MBR is opened read-only and it is busted also. This would not give you write errors when you try and write a filesystem to disk. If you can boot a live CD, don't try and install to the HDD, just see if you can partition the disk with gparted. If you get more write errors in dmesg or the system log, new disk time. Is'nt there some form of low-level utility which would merely zap the disk with zeros or something regardless whether it has some form of protection on it? I don't need the data and I don't need any software - I can install o/s afterwards. Lessons for others to learn: - if you haven't backed up your MDR and/or taken an image of your disk and it is important to you - do it regularly before it is too late. Lesson is always, always, always backup! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt
On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 01:22 +0100, Daniel Case wrote: Hi there, One of my servers has recently been attacked, it has one remote SSH user which cannot run 'sudo', i made it like that so that if it was comprimized, no-one would be able to do much. However, someone managed to gain the password to that account on the server then used vi /etc/passwd to gain a list of users, then launched a bruteforce using su against my admin account. (that's what I can gather from the logs) This did not get very far before I saw and kicked the user off and changed all of the passwords, but I would like to know how to prevent this sort of thing happening again. I need to know mainly how to stop the SSH user running su in the first place and how to stop the user seeing files like /etc/passwd Anyone have any suggestions? Denyhosts is quite useful in stopping brute force attacks. After so many failed attempts it just blocks the attacking IP. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 07:10 +0100, alan c wrote: or nearly that, anyway. Article: Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing/ 'exam results have shown computing subjects are failing to grab kids' attention' Could it be that a strong bias towards proprietary products is not inspiring students? Would more appreciation of Free Software in education enable better use of talents? Express your views to the Royal Society soon. http://royalsociety.org/Education-Policy/Projects/ -- alan cocks Ubuntu user My experience of GCSE IT was that it was This is Microsoft Word, write a 2 page document including a table, a graphic and a footnote. which is _not_ what IT should be about. I lost _huge_ amounts of marks in one part because the project was Create 4 linked webpages in Microsoft Front Page blah blah blah which would have been a nightmare for any sane person to maintain, so I wrote it in PHP with a SQL backend and none of the markers understood it :( IT should be more about computers less about office work! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reminder: Support Meeting Thursday Evening!
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:11 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: Quick reminder to everyone,there will be a meeting about improving support on Thursday evening at 7pm in #ubuntu-uk-meeting on irc.freenode.net :) Agenda up here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/SupportMeetingAgenda all welcome, even if you just want to see what's going on. Thanks, -Matt Daubney Just to punch this back to the top of the list :) Hopefully will see lots of you at 7pm this evening! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Dv camcorder]
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:54 +0200, John wrote: e-mail message attachment, Forwarded message - Dv camcorder snip loads of output j...@john-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe raw1394 [sudo] password for john: j...@john-desktop:~$ This returning you to a prompt shows that it has worked with no errors :) Once you've done this can you send us the output of lsmod (simply type lsmod in a terminal and hit enter) If that driver has loaded, we can then look at the permissions problem if you still get it on using the camera in kino (or whatever program you're using) I have followed the Duncan Lithgow work round butwhen I enter~$ grep 1394 /var/log/kern.log ,the terminal returns to j...@john-desktop and it seems that the system does not recognize the the kernel. The web cam is usb and the dv camera is JVC. Hope this helps John Thanks, -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Reminder: Support Meeting Thursday Evening!
Quick reminder to everyone,there will be a meeting about improving support on Thursday evening at 7pm in #ubuntu-uk-meeting on irc.freenode.net :) Agenda up here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/SupportMeetingAgenda all welcome, even if you just want to see what's going on. Thanks, -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team meeting this evening at 9PM UK Time
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 09:31 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 20 August 2010 08:25, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: minutes are now in the traditional place https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting Next regular meeting is on the 1st at 9PM, but we have an additional meeting on the 26th of August specifically for the project to improve support processes chaired by Matt Daubney Alan. What time is the meeting on the 26th? Cofion/Regards, Neil. Hi Neil, That meeting will start at 8. hopefully it should only be an hour long (as usual) but there's a fair amount to discuss... See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/SupportMeetingAgenda for more info :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:14 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 22/07/10 18:11, Daniel Case wrote: Right click a folder you would like to share, click Share Folder then tick a few boxes. It will ask you to install packages, click yes and it will install them for you. I've done that. The Share files over the network in System-Preferences-Personal File Sharing is STILL greyed outI wonder what the point of it is... I suspect you'll need to install Samba, however I can't test this at the moment (on a mobile connection). Shall have a look when i get home though. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04
Scratch that, there is a bug report for this already.. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-user-share/+bug/536766 Looks like it wants Apache2 for some reason. Must be done using webdav or something. -Matt Daubney On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:50 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:14 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 22/07/10 18:11, Daniel Case wrote: Right click a folder you would like to share, click Share Folder then tick a few boxes. It will ask you to install packages, click yes and it will install them for you. I've done that. The Share files over the network in System-Preferences-Personal File Sharing is STILL greyed outI wonder what the point of it is... I suspect you'll need to install Samba, however I can't test this at the moment (on a mobile connection). Shall have a look when i get home though. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:22 +0100, David King wrote: In my Ubuntu 9.04 installation, just a few days ago, I lost my usage of the internet. I still had internet access. Firstly though, there was a problem with the router, so I tried a friend's router (both Netgear DG834) and the friend's one worked. But in Ubuntu, I could not access any web pages or email. Skype works. I tried using my netbook and that could access web pages okay. So then I booted my main PC into the old installation that I kept there of Ubuntu 8.04, which I am using now. And in this the internet works just fine, I can access websites and download and send email. But in Ubuntu 9.04, it seems like something is blocking my access. I do not recall installing anything new, although something may have been updated recently. What is the likely cause of the Internet being blocked for websites and email (but not Skype)? Hi David, It's possible you may not be recieving DNS information. If you right click on the wirless icon (the one near the clock) and select Connection Information it should mention primary DNS and secondary DNS, are there IP addresses next to these? Thanks, -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] PLN! (for improving support)
Yes, thats PLN, with a P an L and an N. I've been a bit absent recently, for which I apologise, but shall explain why in a moment. I have finally come to a plan for improving support and now need some willing volunteers. There will be a small perk for those volunteers... but more on that later. What I would like to do is get a core group of support people together to help spread the support love. If you have an expertise in a given area that would be very useful too. The purpose of this is to get people who need help with _difficult_ problems, which may not be easily solved by the groups general knowledge, in contact with the person who might be able to help. This does have a small time (and patience) commitment, but if you can help act as third (or even fourth) line support, for a few people who have difficult problems, or even mentor someone on an area (wireless, raid, mythtv, video, and so on) that can help. I'm willing to throw resources and time at this (with a caveat, again related to my absence) in order to get those volunteers the resources they think they need. If you want to help, but think that the core team need a voice chat server, I can supply that (thanks popey and dutchie for helping me test that the other day). If you think we need some form of jabber network or somesuch, I can supply that. What would be even better is if those volunteers can make a lot of noise about any support they give. i.e. blog it, tweet it, make sure any relevant info on the wiki is upto date, liase with various teams to get bugs pushed and so on. Once whatever broke is fixed, it would be good to get it onto the web and up the google rankings if possible Now, I'd like to run a meeting in the second week of August about this. Most likely the Wednesday or Thursday (please complain if you'd like to help but that is not a good time). The reason for the delay is that I'm getting married at the end of the month, so time is a bit of a non-existant commodity for me until that week! Now, perks.. apart from the obvious perk of being able to help others and help give back to the community, any volunteer who turns up to an OSS event that I happen to be at (say Oggcamp next year), there will be all kinds of free cake. As always, I'm open to ideas, suggestions and volunteers :) Thanks, -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PLN! (for improving support)
Apologies for replying to myself, quick wiki page for Volunteers (if they feel like, feel free to come along to the meeting before putting your name down) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/CoreSupportVolunteers -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommended small server hardware
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:19 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: Hi Thanks for the replies Al suggested the.. Dell Inspiron Zino:- and John recommended the... Acer Aspire Revo Both of which seem to fit the bill regarding power, footprint etc both at good prices but have either of you (or anyone else) actually run 10.04 on them okay? I know I sound a bit paranoid but the Mac Mini we bought was originally going to be used and we wasted a lot of time (and expense) before we realised Ubuntu wasn't yet compatible. We really just need to buy something that we know will work. Luckily the Mac has found a new home so it's not all a waste. Regards Paul Hi Paul, I have 10.04 (desktop) running quite happily on my revo. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one female lead character who is portrayed as ditzy and clueless. I suspect that marrs her enjoyment of the show. That's not strictly true - there was the other girl (Leslie) in the first series who dated Leonard and hated Sheldon (played by Sara Gilbert)... but to be fair, she's only been in 8 episodes over 3 years. There was also Bernadette who dated Howard for a while. Not sure how many episodes she's been in though. BTW, does anyone know any real people like Sheldon? Yes -Daubers -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 14:41 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Matt, On 29/06/10 12:53, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one female lead character who is portrayed as ditzy and clueless. I suspect that marrs her enjoyment of the show. That's not strictly true - there was the other girl (Leslie) in the first series who dated Leonard and hated Sheldon (played by Sara Gilbert)... but to be fair, she's only been in 8 episodes over 3 years. There was also Bernadette who dated Howard for a while. Not sure how many episodes she's been in though. BTW, does anyone know any real people like Sheldon? Yes Wow! Surely not exactly like Sheldon? I can see bits of him in various people I know but no-one who has all his strange quirks. Not the same quirks, but lots of them and similar in some manners. There really are _all_ kinds of people in the world. Also, I was on a Physics degree for 4 years, so you meet lots of people like that. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] ubuntu-uk.org site downtime
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 17:32 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 17 June 2010 15:55, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Just a quick note to say I'm upgrading the ubuntu-uk.org VPS from 8.04 to 10.04 today. There will be some disruption to the loco site, podcast site and the various bots we have from there that hang out in the IRC channel, and email forwarding setups. We have a snapshot from before I touch it so if it breaks we can roll back. Will report back when it's all done. Done. Had a couple of minor issues, but these were unique to it being a Xen domain and having a quirky kernel rather than it being an LTS-LTS upgrade. Also had an issue with a php script used by the podcast half of the site, but all sorted thanks to google. Job done. Cheers, Al. Well done to all involved. Nice to see things like this being maintained properly :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Learn Linux with CompTIA and LPI
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 09:25 +0100, Bill Quinn wrote: snip good stuff To enter, simply click here, http://www.comptia.org/global/en-GB/misc/linuxpluslpi.aspx and fill in the form as well as answer the following question: What date was the Linux kernel made open to the public? Remember, you’ve got to be over 18 years of age, live in the UK and be a member of the CompTIA UK Facebook Page. What??? Seriously? I'd be interested if it wasn't for the fact I dislike Facebook and the whole idea of forcing someone to sign up with a particularly untrustworthy 3rd party to enter is something that's quite wrong. snip -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:24 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? No, because I see it all over the place, and I don't think that it looks very nice. Also, it represents only a small area of the UK. If a city sky-scape is required, how about having a selection of different cities and rotate them? People may not recognise them by sight, but they could be watermarked. Then when others view the sight, they can learn what Manchester, Bristol or Edinburgh looks like. You get the idea? Don't let me put you off. I know what I don't like, but find it much harder to imagine what I do. I admire anybody's ability to pull a design together. Have fun. Surely this is a community group, we should have pictures of the LoCo doing stuff rather than pictures of places? Just my 2p. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:30 +0100, micheal harker wrote: snippety Could the community Provide their Mockups? We can work at a design we all like. Right, I had a go. Not particularly good.. but since LoCo = community, thought we should be a bit more people orientated. http://daubers.co.uk/~matt/mockup.png -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
Hello all, In order to get as much input as possible and get things rolling, we've started an Etherpad here http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/NewUKSite feel free to edit/add stuff and get your tuppence in now :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 12:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 28 May 2010 12:34, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote: I also like Unetbootln, however if you want to create a peristent version of Ubuntu ( to store additional files such as your documents, etc) then the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator should be used. I disagree. If you want a persistent version of Ubuntu you should install onto the USB stick, not copy the Live image on. Cheers, Al. Surely that depends if you also want to use that image as an installer? -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:30 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 28 May 2010 13:27, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: Surely that depends if you also want to use that image as an installer? I guess. But that wasn't implied from the assertion made. Cheers, Al. I have a 16GB USB stick with one partition a persistant live cd (so it can contain some standard conf file I keep for installs) and the other half of it a _real_ install. That way I can do both from one stick! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, James Tait wrote: snip Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip!] Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly awful) talk at Oggcamp on this subject. Next time I have a chance to talk about what I'm trying to achieve I _should_ be able to do it better! As a result of that I have some notes I'm slowly going through to gain some ideas of how to move forward, but this moves me onto point three. Well I was in that talk and I thought you did fine, so thank you. Phew, at least someone was listening! Thanks for coming along. So really, what drives you to support people? What, in your own opinion, could be done to help motivate yourself to do better? So many reasons I'm bound to forget as many as I list. * I believe in the software and the people behind it. * I believe in the power of the community - if we each do a little bit we can achieve a lot. * I like sticking it to The Man! * I was that cluebie newless once! * When I first started *really* using Ubuntu a few years ago, Popey was a massive inspiration to me, my hero. As time has gone on, more people have done the same. I hope that I can inspire people and maybe be someone's hero too. * Supporting other users is one way of giving back to a community that has given me so much. * Sometimes that little bit of help makes someone's day. * Sometimes they even thank you! * It's beneficial for me to understand users' problems. * It's beneficial for me to demonstrate that I know the answers to users' problems. * It's beneficial for me to learn from users' problems. * I cannot bear to think of a life where every day I get up, drop the kids at school, go to work, pick the kids up, go back to work, come home, eat, go to bed and start all over again. * Often my day job is so infuriatingly frustrating I like to achieve something with my evening so the day isn't wasted. * I'm a geek. * I enjoy a challenge and don't like to quit. That's quite a long list! Here's an interesting side question, what would help motivate you to improve the way you support people? How do you think it could be improved? There are *loads* more, but that should get you started. It's not all philanthropic, I do stuff that benefits me too - but the beauty of Free Software is that even when I'm scratching my own itch, I'm usually scratching someone else's itch too. Hope this helps, More than you could imagine :) Thanks -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted. Having been building storage systems for the past 8 months, I've dealt with things in terrible states, one of the causes being people believing that repartitioning with a volume mounted is a good idea. Matt Daubney Thank you Matt for telling me that you have actually seen drives messed up in this way. I still wonder why it should be so incredibly dangerous but you have convinced me that it is. Rowan The why is because other programs could be trying to update bits of the disc as gparted tries to move it. It's a bit like trying to change the wheel on a car that doesn't have the handbrake on - it *might* not move... Cofion/Regards, Neil. Quite so, but all the program files and associated data are in sda1, which remains mounted. The only things in the partitions that are being moved are the swap space and the user files. The swap space could certainly be called on while one was moving it, but there are special procedures to cope with this, namely making a new swap space where you want it, then somehow setting the machine to switch over from using the old swap space to the new swap space next time it starts up, thus avoiding any overlaps. At least, I assume that is the idea. The user files (My Documents, My Music, etc.) are not updated by anything. The whole essence of this is that one is not talking about unmounting the entire internal hard disk; each partition can be separately mounted and unmounted, hopefully without affecting the others. type 'ps axf' in a terminal while you're doing nothing. How many of those running processes do you know enough about to guarantee none of them won't try and access the partition you're monkeying with? 1,2? I'd really be surprised if it was all of them. Running from a live CD reduces this risk significantly. Seriously, I believe in the idea of For every problem that I can think of, there are 10 I can't. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
