[ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch
Hello everyone, As the is a nation wide listing, I wondered if my experience was replicated in the rest of the country. The plethora of buy new cool Vista magazines seems to elbowing the three Linux magazines out of existence in Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth. My main concern is that my favourite magazine Linux User and Developer, to which I have subscribed for a couple of years, seems to have gone very ominously silent: no replies to emails, no replies to telephone messages. The web site is still functioning although cobwebs seem to be gathering on it. Is it me that they don't like, or have they gone belly down?? -- Regard, Howard Supporting Open Source Software. http://www.fsf.org/ And Open Standards http://www.oasis-open.org/who/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch
Howard Berry wrote: Hello everyone, As the is a nation wide listing, I wondered if my experience was replicated in the rest of the country. The plethora of buy new cool Vista magazines seems to elbowing the three Linux magazines out of existence in Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth. My main concern is that my favourite magazine Linux User and Developer, to which I have subscribed for a couple of years, seems to have gone very ominously silent: no replies to emails, no replies to telephone messages. The web site is still functioning although cobwebs seem to be gathering on it. Is it me that they don't like, or have they gone belly down?? I've been having similar problems with the WH Smiths in Camberley, Surrey. All three used to be stocked, but when I subscribed to Linux Format, and dropped it from WHS's in-store ordering service, they helpfully dropped all three magazines. Both the in-store ordering service and on the shelves. 3 months and many complaints got Linux Format, and Linux User back on the shelves and back in my folder. Unix UD is been a problem for more than three months. I finally got a helpful sole (WH Smith employee) to dig into the problem. Unix UD was a monthly but apparently has switched to 6x per year. The local WHS informed me that the next issue of Unix UD will be out 29th of June. We live in hope -- Simple effective migration to Open Source based computing Jim Kissel Open Source Migrations Limited w: http://www.osml.eu e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] p: +44(0) 8703 301044 m: +44(0) 7976 411 679 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch
WHSmith in Wells (Somerset) had all three when I went there sometime last week... Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch
** Howard Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-06-22 10:42]: Hello everyone, As the is a nation wide listing, I wondered if my experience was replicated in the rest of the country. The plethora of buy new cool Vista magazines seems to elbowing the three Linux magazines out of existence in Wolverhampton and Bridgnorth. My main concern is that my favourite magazine Linux User and Developer, to which I have subscribed for a couple of years, seems to have gone very ominously silent: no replies to emails, no replies to telephone messages. The web site is still functioning although cobwebs seem to be gathering on it. Is it me that they don't like, or have they gone belly down?? ** end quote [Howard Berry] I can't speak for WHSmith as I am rarely near one to check, but the local Tesco Extra (North Harbour, Portsmouth) carries both Linux Magazine and Linux Format. The local Asda used to have Linux Format, but trimmed down their offerings in general a year or so back now iirc. WHSmith in Havant used to a have the 3 Linux Magazines, but I think the last time I was there to buy one was August last year - nope, I tell a lie, October last year and then January this year; the joys of doing my annual accounts - and I can claim them as expenses :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ Aptanet Ltd. | Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants., PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch
Here in Hull 'the last bastion of the whippet' I've yet to find a shop selling Linux mags. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Unreal Tournament (was Re: suck it and see)
Hi On 6/21/07, Mark Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Which version of UT Josh? UT2004 has a Linux installer on the DVD - it is a shell script which will install the game for youand UT2003 also includes a Linux installer. Earlier versions are catered for either by installing via Wine or, better still, using the Icculus scripts which are obtained from his web site at icculus.org. Those scripts need Wine, but tweak the settings per game for you. Very nice and straightforward. I play the original UT quite often (I find it more fun than the later versions) but occasionally play 2004. Incidentally, Icculus also wrote the installers used on the official UT2003/4 Linux installs and wrote the installers which the now defunct Loki Games used. Mark I've got Unreal Tourmanent (GOTY) installed on an external hard drive and have lost (lots of moving to and from uni this year and now we're packed up to move home, and they're not in any sensible places) the install disks. On windows I don't need the disks to play. Can I use this Loki thing to play from an existing install, do you know? -- Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch
Chris Rowson wrote: Here in Hull 'the last bastion of the whippet' I've yet to find a shop selling Linux mags. Chris We have four shops within 6 miles stocking Linux mags and a small village newsagent withing walking distance stocks Linux Format.. As to Whippets I have one and in our village I have counted a dozen or so. -- Regards Ted Wager G3TPI High Peak UK Using Sidux Linux -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 26, Issue 69
a terminal. Huge mistake, catastrophic mistake, one of the worst things I have ever done in Linux[0]. What did it do? Displayed a message about Braille, displayed some trace backs for something that looked like python (something about get voices failing). And the froze, but not only did it freeze, it froze the terminal and it froze all the commands. I could move my cursor but could not click on anything. Well nuts to this I shall kill it,Ctrl-C in it's terminal. Nothing, hmm Alt-F2 to get a command line, nope nothing. Ok this looks serious time to break out the big guns Ctrl-Alt-F1 to get me console access, wtf that's didn't work either. Push the power button in a hope that at some level the kernel will see it and perform a shutdown, nope, Push and hold and power the system off. Reboot, login and oddly Orca is started for me ands works, well I say works but really I mean it does something. Move my cursor around and hear a garbled voice. I can make out it says something about system settings, as I had my monitor a notice that my cursor is on my System menu. Not wanting to cheat I turn the monitor off. Right now to open FireFox, helpfully I have a shortcut to this on the toolbar. I wave my mouse upwards and get the system menu again, right a bit nothing, right a bit more, nothing until I get what sounds like terminal Ah must be the terminal shortcut. Wave mouse around a bit more I must be near, and for the life of me all I get is the system menu description. NOT HELPFUL. Stuff this, Alt-F2 it mutters something (I forget what) I hit 'f' it says 'f', I hit 'i' it says 'f' (odd), hit 'r' 'e', it says 'fire' ah makes sense, I boot up FireFox. It says something I don't understand, then it says profile chooser, I hit enter. Now It says Welcome to Ubuntu, or something similar and HTML BOX (or similar), that's a fine description of the Ubuntu start page for you. I try to find the URL bar with the tab key, nothing, nothing, toolbar, ah close nothing, something I can't quite work out. type in gmails address, it won't describe the page and hitting tab is not helping. I give in. Turn screen on and it appears I typed the URL in the search box. Oops. Am I doing something wrong here? Andy [0] Other stupid things I have done i Linux: 1) Used ndiswrapper with an unsupported windows driver (hung the kernel) 2) wrote a kernel module for an arm system and did the IO access a bit wrong, crashed the kernel. -- Computers are like air conditioners. Both stop working, if you open windows. -- Adam Heath -- Message: 4 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 02:53:47 +0100 From: Ashley Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying from and supporting Linux Hardware Suppliers To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 http://www.clown-fish.com/shop/ -- next part -- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/attachments/20070622/e9e83a14/attachment-0001.htm -- Message: 5 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:27:18 +0100 From: Robin Hall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying from and supporting Linux Hardware Suppliers To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed bill wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 20 Jun 2007 17:27:28 +0100, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm about to start a job in the real-world (after having been forced to use Windows, I get to sell, support and consult on Linux from the 2nd July!) and one of the things I will need as part of my job is a solid supplier of hardware that I know will run linux and run it well. As dell are refusing to sell Linux-based computers outside of the US (even the redhat/SLED servers seem to only be sold over there), can someone supply me with contact details (a website will do nicely!) of a company that are preferably based in the UK and supply servers/desktops that will run linux or come pre-installed with Linux? Best of luck in your new job. There are, of course, suppliers of computers who sell them without pre-installed systems. Perhaps one of those could be interested. I have had excellent service from World of Computers who are in Cambridge. Thanks for the heads-up, do they have a website? M. Well done! we are all pleased for you, and look at CCL computers they make then without OS installed if required. Bill Smith I have had very good service from Novatech in Portsmith (www.novatech.co.uk) Robin Hall -- Message: 6 Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:40:23 +0100 From: Howard Berry [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch
Chris Rowson wrote: As to Whippets I have one and in our village I have counted a dozen or so. No offence to whippets! - I'm guessing you've not seen Only Fools and Horses 'To Hull and Back'. Perhaps it was a bit of a random joke! Chris NO offence taken...Must have missed that episode...My one regret is that now I am retired I do not have room for a pigeon loft...I do have a flat cap,ferrets and the whippet but a loft would be reet handsome... -- Regards Ted Wager G3TPI High Peak UK Using Sidux Linux -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch
NO offence taken...Must have missed that episode...My one regret is that now I am retired I do not have room for a pigeon loft...I do have a flat cap,ferrets and the whippet but a loft would be reet handsome... Del: ...get me back to Peckham as soon as possible otherwise I'll be saying hey-up and breeding whippets before I'm very much older - come on. http://www.geocities.com/hookyscripts/Episode_31.htm ;-) Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unreal Tournament (was Re: suck it and see)
Hi, On 6/22/07, Mark Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What graphics card are you using ? To play games, you need the correct 3d accelerated driver. Ubuntu will install by default a capable driver for the card, but not one which gives 3d acceleration. I use an Nvidia card, and the commercial 3d driver for that is in the repositories. Not used ATI for many years, so I cannot comment on that. It *should* run as fast as it does (or very close to it) in Windows. If it seems really slow and clunky, then I think you are correct regarding the drivers. It's an ATI Mobility Radeon M300 I think, or something like that. It works fine for Beryl (followed the installation guide at http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty) so I'm not sure why it doesn't function properly. The OpenGL option for UT doesn't work at all, it now won't start apart from in 'safe mode'. The Loki installer is for installing from the disk - as you have discovered, wine is the best option if you have the game already installed on your other drive. Mark Just as soon as I can sort the graphics! Thanks, -- Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP
On Friday 22 June 2007 18:36, Mark Harrison wrote: Hi all, I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not being my friend this afternoon. I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming language that lets me extract info from one and display it with the other (PHP5.) These all run on a nice friendly thing you may have heard of called Ubuntu :-) What I'm after is a free (in both senses) thing (library, probably), that can grab some data, and turn it into a pretty-looking bar graph. I don't mind particularly how it outputs the graph provided it's something that can display within Firefox, so something that could dynamically build a PNG or a Flash, or whatever really. However, Google has let me down - lots of chargeable libraries, but adding the search term free gives me free trial, $69 to buy or the like results. Has anyone any personal recommendations? M. rrdtool - takes a bit of getting the hang of, but will take data e.g temperatures - and output as graphs. Have a look at my brother in laws temperature graphs - http://www.hoagieshouse.com/temperature/ Thats the sort of thing you get - you can of course tweak them a bit too. A cron job gets the data every x seconds and adds the next point to your graph. Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Whippets ( Was What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch)
Hey Ted, You can't beat a bit of bedlington in your whippet. I don't mind a nice terrier about the place myself. Ged -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unreal Tournament (was Re: suck it and see)
On Friday 22 June 2007 14:42, Josh Blacker wrote: Well I got it to run by using 'wine /media/MyBook/.../UnrealTournament.exe' but it's very stilted and certainly isn't anywhere near as fast as it is on xp (I wasn't expecting it to be, but it is considerably slower, to the point that it's painful). It's also very dark, even with brightness up to full. Looking at the terminal afterwards, there's lots (and I mean lots!) of error messages along these lines: fixme:d3d7:IDirect3DDeviceImpl_7_Load (0x1d75f8)-(0x4c16c88,(nil),0x21dba0,(nil),): Partially Implemented! I'm guessing I'll have to change the graphics driver it uses? I downloaded the loki installer, but it asks for me to mount the discs, which I don't currently have! -- Josh Blacker What graphics card are you using ? To play games, you need the correct 3d accelerated driver. Ubuntu will install by default a capable driver for the card, but not one which gives 3d acceleration. I use an Nvidia card, and the commercial 3d driver for that is in the repositories. Not used ATI for many years, so I cannot comment on that. It *should* run as fast as it does (or very close to it) in Windows. If it seems really slow and clunky, then I think you are correct regarding the drivers. The Loki installer is for installing from the disk - as you have discovered, wine is the best option if you have the game already installed on your other drive. Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP
Hi all, I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not being my friend this afternoon. I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming language that lets me extract info from one and display it with the other (PHP5.) These all run on a nice friendly thing you may have heard of called Ubuntu :-) What I'm after is a free (in both senses) thing (library, probably), that can grab some data, and turn it into a pretty-looking bar graph. I don't mind particularly how it outputs the graph provided it's something that can display within Firefox, so something that could dynamically build a PNG or a Flash, or whatever really. However, Google has let me down - lots of chargeable libraries, but adding the search term free gives me free trial, $69 to buy or the like results. Has anyone any personal recommendations? M. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP
I think imagemagick might help, but I'm not sure... On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: Hi all, I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not being my friend this afternoon. I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming language that lets me extract info from one and display it with the other (PHP5.) These all run on a nice friendly thing you may have heard of called Ubuntu :-) What I'm after is a free (in both senses) thing (library, probably), that can grab some data, and turn it into a pretty-looking bar graph. I don't mind particularly how it outputs the graph provided it's something that can display within Firefox, so something that could dynamically build a PNG or a Flash, or whatever really. However, Google has let me down - lots of chargeable libraries, but adding the search term free gives me free trial, $69 to buy or the like results. Has anyone any personal recommendations? M. -- Alec Wright New Mobile Number: 07932 217 288 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP
There's a perl module that makes graphs - I think it's used in the wifidog system I use for wireless auth to create user stats. http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/htdocs/GDGraph/GD/Graph.html Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Marking duplicates in Liferea
On 17/06/07, luxxius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Neil I'd never used Liferea before (thanks, Popey, for mentioning it in another thread some while ago - it's brill!). I didn't realise that the duplicates are only marked as read when you're reading items in the separate feeds, not when you're reading them in the 'Unread' folder. Hmm, that doesn't sound quite like what I see. I tend to read only through the 'Unread' folder. When I first select a message that is duplicated, it gets marked as read and at the same time (I think, it's been a while since I've been on holiday and away from the internet for a week), it marks the duplicate as read too and it disappears from the 'Unread' folder. This is what confused me the first time, since I was expecting to see only one instance of the duplicated message in the 'Unread' folder. Hwyl, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP
Thanks to all who responded - it looks like Alan's suggestion of gd is probably what I need. rrdtool looked interesting, but the home is pretty much all xAP/xPL stuff, not least because the HomeVision connector was the first GPL application I ever released :-) Time was (about 2002) when I logged every telemetry event in the house (temp changes, lights on-off, occupancy sensors, etc) for about 2 months into a MySQL database - trouble was, 1: I couldn't work out what to do with the data set, and 2: we had kids :-) I still have a ludicrous amount of home automation hardware sitting on a shelf in the study awaiting the day when I'll get the fabled Round Tuit and set it up in a child-friendly way. Too many interesting projects, not enough time. GD - good call, though. Seems to be what I need. M. Alan Pope wrote: Hi Mark, On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: What I'm after is a free (in both senses) thing (library, probably), that can grab some data, and turn it into a pretty-looking bar graph. I don't mind particularly how it outputs the graph provided it's something that can display within Firefox, so something that could dynamically build a PNG or a Flash, or whatever really. gd is the library in php that can generate pretty much any graphical output. http://www.partdigital.com/tutorials/bar-chart/ http://www.weberdev.com/get_example-4619.html Also as previously mentioned rrdtool is often used to generate graphs. An example of rrdtool can be seen if you ever view cacti performance and other resource usage graphs. You can see an example on the front page of the cacti site. http://cacti.net/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Whippets ( Was What's happened to all the Linux Mags? WHSmiths Watch)
ged wrote: Hey Ted, You can't beat a bit of bedlington in your whippet. I don't mind a nice terrier about the place myself. Ged I agree...I once had a Bedlington/Greyhound/Whippet cross and it was really fast an ideal rabbiting dog -- Regards Ted Wager G3TPI High Peak UK Using Sidux Linux -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unreal Tournament (was Re: suck it and see)
Update: despite still getting error messages in terminal while I run it, I can now load UT every time. Graphics aren't nearly as good as in Windows but it runs as fast - a small price to pay to run it under Linux, I feel. I might at a later date try and solve the graphics problem, but since everything works at the moment without any *major* issues, I shall leave it as it is. Thanks everyone for the help on this thread. On 6/22/07, Josh Blacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, It's an ATI Mobility Radeon M300 I think, or something like that. It works fine for Beryl (followed the installation guide at http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Feisty) so I'm not sure why it doesn't function properly. The OpenGL option for UT doesn't work at all, it now won't start apart from in 'safe mode'. -- Josh Blacker -- Josh Blacker -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
