Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions
Thomas Steffen wrote: On 4/30/07, Stephen Garton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip 2. How much space do I _need_ for /? A normal installation of Ubuntu (most of Ubuntu, Kubuntu, some of edubuntu, development tools, TeX and some simulation software) tends to come out at 5GB for me. You can get a away with a lot less if you choose your packages careful, but I think 10GB of the 80GB you have is not a bad start. I'm about to install Fiesty on a new 500Gb drive (to boot first in a dual boot set up with XP on a 160Gb drive in same box). I'm going to keep things simple: partitions for /, /home, and /swap, following advice in this thread. But how big should I make /, given that, if I wanted to, I could give it 100+Gb. How much is 'plenty enough for all contingencies', given that this is a home desktop box doing fairly routine stuff, plus acting as a music server to stream FLAC files to a couple of Slim Devices Squeezeboxes (hence the need for a big disc to hold the music files). TIA -- Ian -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Viewing Flash with totem-xine
I was just watching a Flash video about Ubuntu which I found amusing and decided to download a copy. Found the videodownloader plugin for Firefox and downloaded it and tried to play it back with the default Movie Player Toten 2.16.2 (xine-lib 1.1.2 Ubuntu Edgy 6.10) Playback is fine, but there is no sound. Sound works ok in Firefox from the original and the youtube versions via the web. Video can be found at: http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS5207234119.html or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWIrxuF5NSo There is a reference to the problem in debian https://develop.participatoryculture.org/trac/democracy/ticket/3927 and a number of suggestions to use ffmpeg to convert it, but I would prefer to get Toten/Xine fixed if possible. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 07:12 +0100, I C McNab wrote: I'm about to install Fiesty on a new 500Gb drive (to boot first in a dual boot set up with XP on a 160Gb drive in same box). I'm going to keep things simple: partitions for /, /home, and /swap, following advice in this thread. But how big should I make /, given that, if I wanted to, I could give it 100+Gb. How much is 'plenty enough for all contingencies', given that this is a home desktop box doing fairly routine stuff, plus acting as a music server to stream FLAC files to a couple of Slim Devices Squeezeboxes (hence the need for a big disc to hold the music files). I recommend 15-20GB for / (my / is 15GB on a 250GB), 1-3GB for swap (just to be safe... i have 3GB on my 250GB) and make the rest /home But 20GB and 3GB are a bit excessive; you could easily get away with 10GB and 1GB (or even less!) Heres my partition table in case you're interested, I'm dual booting with windows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Password: Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 12611209728267 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda22612 30401 2232231755 Extended /dev/sda52612456915727603+ 83 Linux /dev/sda64570 29627 201278353+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 30010 30401 3148708+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Ubuntu-UK hits 200 users !
Congratulations to Steve Belcher who became Ubuntu-UK's 200th member on launchpad[1]. All in a matter of 8 Months and 8 days, well done everyone for spreading the love. [1]https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk/+members -- /\/\ichael [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] \/\/ood [ http://michaelwood.me.uk ] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Ubuntu-UK hits 200 users !
Congratulations to Steve Belcher who became Ubuntu-UK's 200th member on launchpad[1]. All in a matter of 8 Months and 8 days, well done everyone for spreading the love. Here, Here -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Ubuntu-UK hits 200 users !
Here, Here Or in fact hear, hear in one of my less language-challenged moments!! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Ubuntu-UK hits 200 users !
I think we all knew what you ment... -- Regards Steve Morrish... AKA Pendragon ICQ 112 044 096 On 5/12/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here, Here Or in fact hear, hear in one of my less language-challenged moments!! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream
Hello Again, So, It's the Eurovision song contest tonight, It's going to be streamed from http://www.eurovision.tv using a plugin that you can get from here: http://www.octoshape.com/files/octosetup-linux_i386.bin run the octosetup-linux_i386.bin file in a terminal via the command: sh octosetup-linux_i386.bin Now make sure you have the following packages installed: ia32-sun-java5-bin libstdc++6 mplayer Open up your favourite editor and put in it: JavaExec=/usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so PlayerExec=gmplayer -nocache $url save this file as setup.cfg inside the octoshape directory. To run it cd to the directory and type: ./OctoshapeClient -url:EBU.esc07 EBU.esc07 is the url for eurovision, output in the terminal should look something like this: http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/142 More urls/streams at: http://www.octoshape.com/play/play.asp Linux FAQ at: http://www.octoshape.com/faq/faq.asp?faqtype=Linux - Michael -- /\/\ichael [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] \/\/ood [ http://michaelwood.me.uk ] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream
Michael Wood wrote: Hello Again, So, It's the Eurovision song contest tonight, It's going to be streamed from http://www.eurovision.tv using a plugin that you can get from here: http://www.octoshape.com/files/octosetup-linux_i386.bin run the octosetup-linux_i386.bin file in a terminal via the command: sh octosetup-linux_i386.bin Now make sure you have the following packages installed: ia32-sun-java5-bin libstdc++6 mplayer You will need to enable multiverse to install mplayer and ia32-sun-java5-bin Open up your favourite editor and put in it: JavaExec=/usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so PlayerExec=gmplayer -nocache $url save this file as setup.cfg inside the octoshape directory. To run it cd to the directory and type: ./OctoshapeClient -url:EBU.esc07 EBU.esc07 is the url for eurovision, output in the terminal should look something like this: http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/142 More urls/streams at: http://www.octoshape.com/play/play.asp Linux FAQ at: http://www.octoshape.com/faq/faq.asp?faqtype=Linux - Michael -- /\/\ichael [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] \/\/ood [ http://michaelwood.me.uk ] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream
Michael Wood wrote: Hello Again, So, It's the Eurovision song contest tonight, It's going to be streamed from http://www.eurovision.tv using a plugin that you can get from here: http://www.octoshape.com/files/octosetup-linux_i386.bin run the octosetup-linux_i386.bin file in a terminal via the command: sh octosetup-linux_i386.bin Now make sure you have the following packages installed: ia32-sun-java5-bin libstdc++6 mplayer you will need to enable multiverse for these packages snip A couple more people have tried this. via IRC i have the following update: on 32bit machines (most people) (ie non 64bit ubuntu you know who you are) the java package is called: sun-java5-bin and the location of the libjvm.so in the setup.cfg should be: JavaExec=/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so After installing mplayer you may get this error: Error opening/initailzing the selected video_out (-vo) device. You will need to change the video driver which it uses do this by: right click select preferences, select the video tab, you will see a list: xmga, xv, x11, gl, gl2, dxr3, xvidix, xvmc change it to xv If this does not work try a different one ! Michael -- /\/\ichael [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] \/\/ood [ http://michaelwood.me.uk ] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Win TV
norman wrote: Following on from a suggestion made by Roberto Sarrionandia some days ago I have bought a WinTV Nova-T Stick/DVB-T USB2 XP/MCE which is a Hauppauge USB freeview device. Roberto, if you read this, or anyone else who knows about these things, could you tell me please which Linux packages I need to make it work. there's a quick guide on the forums on how to get the firmware for these devices: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=241431 Tried this most carefully and, although it appeared to apply to the version of stick that I have, it did not do the job. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream
Hello Again, So, It's the Eurovision song contest tonight, It's going to be streamed from http://www.eurovision.tv using a plugin that you can get from here: http://www.octoshape.com/files/octosetup-linux_i386.bin run the octosetup-linux_i386.bin file in a terminal via the command: sh octosetup-linux_i386.bin Now make sure you have the following packages installed: ia32-sun-java5-bin libstdc++6 mplayer Open up your favourite editor and put in it: JavaExec=/usr/lib/jvm/ia32-java-1.5.0-sun-1.5.0.11/jre/lib/i386/client/libjvm.so PlayerExec=gmplayer -nocache $url save this file as setup.cfg inside the octoshape directory. To run it cd to the directory and type: ./OctoshapeClient -url:EBU.esc07 EBU.esc07 is the url for eurovision, output in the terminal should look something like this: http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/142 More urls/streams at: http://www.octoshape.com/play/play.asp Linux FAQ at: http://www.octoshape.com/faq/faq.asp?faqtype=Linux I'm an avid supporter of Linux and now Ubuntu... but that email just sums up a lot of peoples frustrations with Linux. On Windows it would have been a click to download, a double click to run the installer and a click to accept the TCs... Roll on Gutsy... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 20:53 +0100, LeeUKHA wrote: SNIP On Windows it would have been a click to download, a double click to run the installer and a click to accept the TCs... Roll on Gutsy... There is no reason why this couldn't be wrapped up into a 'double click' fashion using either debs/rpms or 'autopackage'. Compare the installation instructions between windows and linux: http://www.octoshape.com/plugin/get.asp http://www.octoshape.com/plugin/linux.asp This isn't linux's fault - it's octoshape's. The only differences is that they have 'packaged' the windows to make it easily installable. Can't complain too much, as at least they have bothered to make it multi-platformed. Maybe next year Octoshape's plug-in will be in a repository - then it will be easier to install than any other OS. :) Kind Regards, Dave Walker signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
