Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy

[Sean Miller]

> Upgrading the memory of the computer will improve performance, but may not
> be required.


Ubuntu, like Windows but to a lesser extent, becomes more memory hungry each
release... that isn't, to be fair, really Ubuntu's fault but rather the
packages therein... Openoffice, for instance, is becoming absolutely huge
and tools like Firefox, Thunderbird, Evolution etc. don't get any smaller
(!)... that said, a lot more things are being loaded by default (because
they can!) and that takes memory too...

128MB of RAM really isn't enough... with so little memory you're going to
get a lot of swapping onto disk which is obviously going to slow the machine
down a lot... the drive itself may also be, to put it nicely, "slightly
short of bleeding edge" which would mean swapping should be avoided if
possible.

It's probable that if you are running Feisty with 128MB you will be able to
upgrade and run Gutsy but it is likely you will see a deterioration in
performance.   Memory is very cheap these days, have you thought about
perhaps buying some extra RAM to breath a bit of new life into the old
beast?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just ordered an iPod.. Have I just made a big mistake?

[Robert McWilliam]

On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 23:29:38 +
"Kris Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, a while ago I noticed a thread going on about the iPod Classic
> 160GB... Now I know, they're expensive and all that, so lets forget
> all that flaming...
> 
> I was just wondering what the support in Ubuntu was like... Are there
> any things I need to look out for when I'm using the device on Ubuntu?

I'm thinking about getting one myself at the moment so have been
reading up on the linux support: doesn't seem to be any problems using
the ipod but a few of the docs I've found say you need a windows or mac
machine to set up the ipod initially (formatting the disk, updating
firmware etc.)

Before I do buy an ipod does anyone know of any other music players
with 60Gb or more of storage? Every other player I can find with that
kind of storage is aiming more at video so is bigger, has worse battery
life and costs more than an ipod. If it plays FLAC and/or ogg it gets
bonus points. 

Robert


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Daniel Lamb]

For lemmings clone there is pingus, which works very well not tested it on 
ubuntu just another os :-(.
Daniel
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Subject:Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme
From:   Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date:   11/11/2007 00:07

Adam Bagnall wrote:
> Dianne Reuby wrote:
>> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
>> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
>> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
>> Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme? 
>>
>> Dianne
>>
>>
>>   
> I second what others have said about tux racer, however planetpenguin 
> racer is a more up to date version and is in the Ubuntu repositories. 
> Supertux is a mario type platform game with a snowy theme. Tuxtype is a 
> typing tutor type game also with a snowy theme and yet another snow 
> themed game is frozen bubble. There are also games called snowballz 
> (which I havent tried) and Icebreaker (which is quite basic).
> 
> One other thing to install is xsnow. It's not a game but displays 
> snowflakes and santa on your background. Perfect for Christmas :)
> 
> Regards,
> Adam.
> 

LOL, just tried xsnow, thats pretty cool.  Makes my desktop icons 
disappear :-)

What would make my evening complete though is finding a Linux version of 
  Workbench Lemmings (which was a small app for the Amiga which made 
Lemmings walk down windows on the Amiga Workbench Desktop).

Ahh, maybe I should get out more :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another happy Ubuntu user :-)

[Alan Pope]

Hi Chris,

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 00:32 +, Chris Rowson wrote:
> She preferred it to Ubuntu because the 'start menu' was located in the
> bottom left where she expected it to be; and that by having only one
> panel, the interfaces took up less screen real estate (which is
> important on her old 1024x768 laptop display.
> 

I have never quite understood this argument, or the "it's brown" one.
The panels are very configurable, so you could have exactly what Linux
Mint gives you with standard Ubuntu and a dozen or so mouse clicks.

Cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just ordered an iPod.. Have I just made a big mistake?

[Josh Blacker]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:29 +, Kris Douglas wrote:
> Hi, a while ago I noticed a thread going on about the iPod Classic
> 160GB... Now I know, they're expensive and all that, so lets forget
> all that flaming...
> 
> I was just wondering what the support in Ubuntu was like... Are there
> any things I need to look out for when I'm using the device on
> Ubuntu? 
> 
> Thanks,
> Kris Douglas

If you don't mind the KDE libraries, I've found Amarok is brilliant for
managing the music on my iPod Nano (1st gen, 4 gig), but as other
replies have said there have been issues with the newer models, but I am
pretty sure these have been remedied.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another happy Ubuntu user :-)

[Chris Rowson]

> > Anyway, that's a nice job you did there, when it comes to people doing
> > as you said, "word processing and email" Ubuntu really sticks out as a
> > green light, mainly because of how suitable it is for that, not all pc's
> > are for the power user *cough Slackware *cough* and it's nice to see
> > someone that is finding Ubuntu a comfortable distro to use.
> >

I recently tested Linux Mint (basically Ubuntu with gnome-main-menu
and all the codecs preinstalled) on a non-techie user (my other half
in fact).

She preferred it to Ubuntu because the 'start menu' was located in the
bottom left where she expected it to be; and that by having only one
panel, the interfaces took up less screen real estate (which is
important on her old 1024x768 laptop display.

I preferred it as I didn't have to worry about installing realplayer,
java etc before handing it over.

All that put me off was that I don't know anything about the
maintainers. Although in Mint's defence, at least it uses Ubuntu
repositories for the good majority of stuff (other than a couple of
native Linux mint progs, and artwork) so if Linux Mint goes pear
shaped, it'll still receive updates!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Alan Pope]

Hi Rob,

On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 00:08 +, Rob Beard wrote:
> What would make my evening complete though is finding a Linux version of 
>   Workbench Lemmings (which was a small app for the Amiga which made 
> Lemmings walk down windows on the Amiga Workbench Desktop).
> 

xpenguins is what you are after :)

> Ahh, maybe I should get out more :-)

You and me both.

Cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Rob Beard]

Adam Bagnall wrote:
> Dianne Reuby wrote:
>> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
>> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
>> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
>> Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme? 
>>
>> Dianne
>>
>>
>>   
> I second what others have said about tux racer, however planetpenguin 
> racer is a more up to date version and is in the Ubuntu repositories. 
> Supertux is a mario type platform game with a snowy theme. Tuxtype is a 
> typing tutor type game also with a snowy theme and yet another snow 
> themed game is frozen bubble. There are also games called snowballz 
> (which I havent tried) and Icebreaker (which is quite basic).
> 
> One other thing to install is xsnow. It's not a game but displays 
> snowflakes and santa on your background. Perfect for Christmas :)
> 
> Regards,
> Adam.
> 

LOL, just tried xsnow, thats pretty cool.  Makes my desktop icons 
disappear :-)

What would make my evening complete though is finding a Linux version of 
  Workbench Lemmings (which was a small app for the Amiga which made 
Lemmings walk down windows on the Amiga Workbench Desktop).

Ahh, maybe I should get out more :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another happy Ubuntu user :-)

[Rob Beard]

Kris Douglas wrote:
> 
> 
> On 10/11/2007, *Philip Newborough* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote:
> 
> 
> Good job Rob.
> 
> Philip

> You're a poet, though you do not know it.
> 
> Anyway, that's a nice job you did there, when it comes to people doing 
> as you said, "word processing and email" Ubuntu really sticks out as a 
> green light, mainly because of how suitable it is for that, not all pc's 
> are for the power user *cough Slackware *cough* and it's nice to see 
> someone that is finding Ubuntu a comfortable distro to use.
> 

Yup, I made sure things were easy to find, I mean it's pretty obvious if 
you're used to clicking on menus, I guess in a way it's like the start 
menu is on the top of the screen.  What is great about Ubuntu is that it 
does the job.

I'm sure Mandriva/Fedora/PCLinuxOS/Debian would have done the job too 
(as I'll probably have pointed out to me on my local LUG mailing list, 
but I prefered to install Ubuntu as I'm familiar with it and it helps 
when I offer support.

Now all I have to do is ask her to pop in an Ubuntu CD with each 
Christmas card she sends out this year :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just ordered an iPod.. Have I just made a big mistake?

[Alan Pope]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:29 +, Kris Douglas wrote:
> Hi, a while ago I noticed a thread going on about the iPod Classic
> 160GB... Now I know, they're expensive and all that, so lets forget
> all that flaming...
> 

Holy cow. I never realised they did iPods that massive. No, stoppit,
must resist!

> I was just wondering what the support in Ubuntu was like... Are there
> any things I need to look out for when I'm using the device on
> Ubuntu? 

As I understand it banshee supports these devices. Maybe not the version
in the repo, you might need to compile one from upstream, but I'm pretty
sure at UDS the Banshee guys said they supported all iPods now.

Cheers,
Al.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Rob Beard]

Tony Arnold wrote:
> Rob,
> 
> Rob Beard wrote:
> 
>> Where is this Museum of Computing?  Sounds like heaven if it's got loads 
>> of computers and consoles.
> 
> There seems to be at least two places that thus could be:
> 
> http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/ at the University of Bath, Swindon.
> 
> or
> 
> http://www.tnmoc.co.uk/
> 
> which is better known as the National Museum of Computing and is in
> Bletchley Park where you can see an original Enigma machine and loads of
> other stuff. I went there a couple of months ago!
> 
> I think Dianne is referring to the one in Swindon.
> 
> Regards,
> Tony.

Ahh, Swindon isn't that far from me, looks like a good way of using up 
some holiday.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just ordered an iPod.. Have I just made a big mistake?

[Rob Beard]

Kris Douglas wrote:
> Hi, a while ago I noticed a thread going on about the iPod Classic 
> 160GB... Now I know, they're expensive and all that, so lets forget all 
> that flaming...
> 
> I was just wondering what the support in Ubuntu was like... Are there 
> any things I need to look out for when I'm using the device on Ubuntu?
> 
> Thanks,
> Kris Douglas
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As far as I was aware they work fine, but I don't personally own an iPod 
(and I doubt I will unless someone gives me one as a present) so I can't 
be sure if that's correct or not. (I vaguely remember something about 
Apple changing something on the newer iPods so they didn't work on Linux 
but I'm pretty sure it was fixed).

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Adam Bagnall]

Dianne Reuby wrote:
> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
> Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
>
> Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme? 
>
> Dianne
>
>
>   
I second what others have said about tux racer, however planetpenguin 
racer is a more up to date version and is in the Ubuntu repositories. 
Supertux is a mario type platform game with a snowy theme. Tuxtype is a 
typing tutor type game also with a snowy theme and yet another snow 
themed game is frozen bubble. There are also games called snowballz 
(which I havent tried) and Icebreaker (which is quite basic).

One other thing to install is xsnow. It's not a game but displays 
snowflakes and santa on your background. Perfect for Christmas :)

Regards,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another happy Ubuntu user :-)

[Kris Douglas]

On 10/11/2007, Philip Newborough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Good job Rob.
>
> Philip
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You're a poet, though you do not know it.

Anyway, that's a nice job you did there, when it comes to people doing as
you said, "word processing and email" Ubuntu really sticks out as a green
light, mainly because of how suitable it is for that, not all pc's are for
the power user *cough Slackware *cough* and it's nice to see someone that is
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[ubuntu-uk] Just ordered an iPod.. Have I just made a big mistake?

[Kris Douglas]

Hi, a while ago I noticed a thread going on about the iPod Classic 160GB...
Now I know, they're expensive and all that, so lets forget all that
flaming...

I was just wondering what the support in Ubuntu was like... Are there any
things I need to look out for when I'm using the device on Ubuntu?

Thanks,
Kris Douglas
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy

[Kris Douglas]

On 10/11/2007, London School of Puppetry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> >- Hi there- if I have to move to Gutsy, then will I have to
> >increase the memory of my computer?
> >
> > 
> 
>
>
Upgrading the memory of the computer will improve performance, but may not
be required.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Tony Arnold]

Rob,

Rob Beard wrote:

> Where is this Museum of Computing?  Sounds like heaven if it's got loads 
> of computers and consoles.

There seems to be at least two places that thus could be:

http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk/ at the University of Bath, Swindon.

or

http://www.tnmoc.co.uk/

which is better known as the National Museum of Computing and is in
Bletchley Park where you can see an original Enigma machine and loads of
other stuff. I went there a couple of months ago!

I think Dianne is referring to the one in Swindon.

Regards,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy

[London School of Puppetry]

On 10/11/2007, Kirrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello,
> - "London School of Puppetry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Sean
> > It is only 128mb. so I think I'll leave the upgradeFeisty
> > seems fine.  Can you tell me why the upgrade manager will only
> > do a partial upgrade?
>
> It probably needs to remove something in order to complete your upgrades:
> upgrades won't remove anything.
>
> You will at some point need to move to Gusty, as Feisty will reach
> end-of-life security support wise in October next year.
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Kirrus
>
>
>- Hi there- if I have to move to Gutsy, then will I have to increase
>the memory of my computer?
>
>


>- How do I find out what to remove?
>
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Philip Newborough]

On Nov 10, 2007 10:29 PM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:41 +, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
> > we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
> > handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
> > Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
> >
> > Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme?
> >
>
> Enemy Territory with the North Pole map :) It's just about as Christmasy
> as you are going to get (albeit with guns and violence built in).
>
 LOL, sic.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Alan Pope]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:41 +, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
> Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
> 
> Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme? 
> 

Enemy Territory with the North Pole map :) It's just about as Christmasy
as you are going to get (albeit with guns and violence built in).

It's a multi player first person shooter game. You could run a server
internally on your LAN quite easily with only the North Pole map.

It's not "Free" but it is free to download.

Cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[gord]

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:41 +, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
> Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
> 
> Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme? 
> 
> Dianne
> 
> 

pretty much any with the name 'tux' in it ;) hes a penguin! 
also there is pingus (like lemmings if you can remember that.. but with
tux) frozen bubble, tux racer and Super Tux among others. generally
though there arn't many games made with an actual christmas'y theme for
the pc (such as.. iruno, saving Santa from evil reindeer's or som't?)
because pc games are generally played by 'older' gamers. but those have
snow in it n stuff. 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Rob Beard]

Dianne Reuby wrote:
> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
> Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
> 
> Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme? 
> 
> Dianne
> 
> 

Super Tux also has an icey theme.  Not only does it run on Ubuntu, you 
could give copies away for Windows too.

Where is this Museum of Computing?  Sounds like heaven if it's got loads 
of computers and consoles.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Yet another happy user...

[Rob Beard]

Alan Pope wrote:
> A friend of mine pinged me on MSN. I thought I'd share it with you.
> 
> (21:01:15) Matthew: evening!
> (21:01:18) popey: yo
> (21:01:29) Matthew: loving this 7.10
> (21:01:38) popey: :)
> (21:01:49) Matthew: I just received new laptop, it was oh so slow on the
> vista
> (21:01:56) Matthew: so it has now been converted
> 
> This made me smile.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 

Yup, I'd say Vista is slow.  A friend of mine has Vista and Ubuntu 7.10 
on his Athlon X2 3800.  Ubuntu is about 10 times quicker!

Sods law though, he's one of these "I want to install as many adware 
based smileys as I possibly can on MSN" types.  I've given up on that 
one until he screws Vista up so much that it won't work.  He has Ubuntu 
7.10 on his PC, I'll advise him to start using that.

I've also heard about one of my dad's friends who has bought a Celeron 
PC from Tescos which is running Vista (god help it, if a dual core PC 
with 2GB ram can't cope, god knows what a Celeron will be like).  She 
had problems with the McAfee Anti-Virus that Sky supplied with her 
broadband not working, I'm hoping that I can go over and demonstrate 
Ubuntu 7.10 with it's flashy effects.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Philip Newborough]

On Nov 10, 2007 9:41 PM, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
> Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
>
> Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme?
>
> Dianne

Tuxracer, it's a classic http://tuxracer.sourceforge.net/ Only
Christmas related in the fact that there is lots of snow about :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Kirrus]

- "Dianne Reuby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing
> -
> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for
> consoles,
> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show
> off
> Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.
> 
> Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme? 
> 

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[ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

[Dianne Reuby]

We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing -
we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles,
handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off
Ubuntu both to our visitors and to my fellow volunteers.

Can anyone recommend any Linux games with a Christmas theme? 

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[Matthew Daubney]

Mac wrote:
> Friends >>> Following the surprisingly few responses to some recent 
> questions about wifi, I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are 
> actually using Ubuntu wirelessly on laptops.
>
> So here's a quick poll:
>
> Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?
>
> And, if you do, do you use
>
> no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2
>
> with ESSID broadcast / hidden?
>
>
> Mac
>
>   
I can now now pass on some info about Fiancees machine. She's using an 
ipn2220 card through ndiswrapper. I believe her access point is using 
WPA with ESSID broadcast on.

-Matt Daubney

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[taufanlubis]

My laptop doesn't have Wifi support(Zyrex, PIV, local assembly). So, I
bought the Wlan PCMCIA card bus when I used XP before.
I have to work hard until I can use it in Ubuntu, because the only
information that I got is the MAC ID stick on the card.
http://taufanlubis.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/how-to-install-wlan-pcmcia-ieee-
80211b-wilan-card-in-ubuntu/

I used no encryption.

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Friends >>> Following the surprisingly few responses to some recent 
questions about wifi, I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are 
actually using Ubuntu wirelessly on laptops.

So here's a quick poll:

Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?

And, if you do, do you use

no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2

with ESSID broadcast / hidden?


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[ubuntu-uk] Yet another happy user...

[Alan Pope]

A friend of mine pinged me on MSN. I thought I'd share it with you.

(21:01:15) Matthew: evening!
(21:01:18) popey: yo
(21:01:29) Matthew: loving this 7.10
(21:01:38) popey: :)
(21:01:49) Matthew: I just received new laptop, it was oh so slow on the
vista
(21:01:56) Matthew: so it has now been converted

This made me smile.

Cheers,
Al.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting form USB Hard Drive.

[taufanlubis]

> Its so I can carry it around and have all my stuff in one place but plug
> it into any PC I find.
> 
> Would it, in theory, work? My guess is yes, but I'd be interested in
> everyone else's opinions. Thanks very much!
> 
Yes, you can do that.
But, every PC that you want to plug in must support booting from USB flash
disk. (You have to check it out from BIOS setup when you turn the computer
on. I'm not sure if someone will let you do these steps).
You can check the tutorial from Google. I suggest you to create the bootable
flash disk from Linux not from XP.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another happy Ubuntu user :-)

[Philip Newborough]

On Nov 10, 2007 8:39 PM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Just got back from helping out a work colleague's Mum with her fresh
> install of Ubuntu.  I can't remember if I mentioned but he asked me a
> couple of weeks ago if I could 're-install' Windows XP on her PC.
>
> Basically her PC was his old one which had a dodgy copy of XP & Office
> on it.  It was coming up with messages saying it wasn't a valid copy.  I
> said I'd happily install XP if he wanted to fork out £60 for a licence.
>   I also mentioned Ubuntu as an alternative as all his Mum does is write
> letters and read her e-mails.
>
> Anyway, he decided to let me install Ubuntu.  I backed up the old data,
> installed Ubuntu and copied the data back over.  I put icons for Open
> Office and Firefox on the desktop (I named the icons Word Processor,
> Spreadsheet, Internet etc) and made sure that OpenOffice was pointing in
> the right location for her data.
>
> This evening I went over to her house to set the printer up (HP Deskjet
> 720) and show her how to do a Mail Merge (for labels) in OOo.  When I'd
> finished I asked how she was getting on with Ubuntu compared to what she
> had before.  She actually said she thought it was easy to use and she
> was getting on okay.  This was promising news as she was wasn't a really
> experienced user, all she wanted to do was write letters and browse the
> internet/check her e-mail.
>
> So, there we have another happy Linux user.  Her PC does everything she
> wants it to and she didn't have to fork out for a Windows XP licence or
> MS Office.
>
> I'm hoping that she'll now tell her friends about Linux and how it just
> works.  I didn't get much time to explain about the benefits of Linux
> (secure by default, not as much worry about Spyware/Viruses), but I'll
> probably send her a follow up e-mail in a week or two to make sure she's
> still getting on okay.
>
> Rob
>

Good job Rob.

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[ubuntu-uk] Another happy Ubuntu user :-)

[Rob Beard]

Hi folks,

Just got back from helping out a work colleague's Mum with her fresh 
install of Ubuntu.  I can't remember if I mentioned but he asked me a 
couple of weeks ago if I could 're-install' Windows XP on her PC.

Basically her PC was his old one which had a dodgy copy of XP & Office 
on it.  It was coming up with messages saying it wasn't a valid copy.  I 
said I'd happily install XP if he wanted to fork out £60 for a licence. 
  I also mentioned Ubuntu as an alternative as all his Mum does is write 
letters and read her e-mails.

Anyway, he decided to let me install Ubuntu.  I backed up the old data, 
installed Ubuntu and copied the data back over.  I put icons for Open 
Office and Firefox on the desktop (I named the icons Word Processor, 
Spreadsheet, Internet etc) and made sure that OpenOffice was pointing in 
the right location for her data.

This evening I went over to her house to set the printer up (HP Deskjet 
720) and show her how to do a Mail Merge (for labels) in OOo.  When I'd 
finished I asked how she was getting on with Ubuntu compared to what she 
had before.  She actually said she thought it was easy to use and she 
was getting on okay.  This was promising news as she was wasn't a really 
experienced user, all she wanted to do was write letters and browse the 
internet/check her e-mail.

So, there we have another happy Linux user.  Her PC does everything she 
wants it to and she didn't have to fork out for a Windows XP licence or 
MS Office.

I'm hoping that she'll now tell her friends about Linux and how it just 
works.  I didn't get much time to explain about the benefits of Linux 
(secure by default, not as much worry about Spyware/Viruses), but I'll 
probably send her a follow up e-mail in a week or two to make sure she's 
still getting on okay.

Rob


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[Neil Greenwood]

Hi Mac,

On 08/11/2007, Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I'll boost the response rate a little.

>
> Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?

Gutsy on a laptop with Linksys WPC54GX4, using ndiswrapper.

> And, if you do, do you use
>
> no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2

Either WPA or WPA2, I'm not sure.

> with ESSID broadcast / hidden?

Broadcast.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[Alan Pope]

Hi Mac,

On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 14:04 +, Mac wrote:
>   Twenty five.  What proportion of the whole membership is that, Al? 
> About 20% (guessing)?
> 

We have about 450 members right now. 

5% response rate.

Cheers,
Al.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy

[Kirrus]

Hello,
- "London School of Puppetry" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Sean
> It is only 128mb. so I think I'll leave the upgradeFeisty
> seems fine.  Can you tell me why the upgrade manager will only 
> do a partial upgrade?

It probably needs to remove something in order to complete your upgrades: 
upgrades won't remove anything. 

You will at some point need to move to Gusty, as Feisty will reach end-of-life 
security support wise in October next year.

Kind regards,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Elisa MC- config question

[Javad Ayaz]

thats what i meant...i put it in the location youve just specified...but
nothing happened!!

On 09/11/2007, James Dalley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> If it pics i'd put it here:
>
> [base:image_activity]
> # the picture media locations
> locations = []
>
>
>
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> Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2007 18:26:57 +
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Elisa MC- config question
>
> ok i tried putting in the media locations...
>
> for example:
>
> /media/sdb1/Desktops/Wallpapers
>
> is the location of a pic...but nothing came up. in fact it elisa didnt
> even ..i took the location and it opened again!!!
>
>
>
> On 09/11/2007, *Javad Ayaz* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ok indeed i will use the bin next time...
>
> ill try yur tip now ...thank you :)
>
> On 09/11/2007, *Alan Pope* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
>
> Hi Javad,
> On Fri, 2007-11-09 at 17:20 +, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> > ok sorry im gona do the ultimate sin and copy and paste! sorry guys!
> >
>
> In the future you can paste large gobs of text to the pastebin and just
> provide a link to it. http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/
>
> > This is what i have in the elisa conf file
>
> In my previous mail I suggested you edit this section:-
>
> > [base:video_activity]
> > # the video media locations
> > locations = []
>
> You might want to try that.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[Mac]

London School of Puppetry wrote:

> Hi there I am using Ubuntu wirelessly on my lap top- but I don't know the
> answer to your list of techy questions, but I can ask a friend. What is the
> survey for?


Caroline >>> For me!  And I'm very grateful for all the interest shown 
by friends on this list.  I hadn't had much response to a couple of wifi 
questions, and I began to wonder whether the idea that Ubuntu was great 
on the desktop should be taken literally:  widely used on desktops;  not 
much on laptops.  And I was also aware of the many and various issues 
people on forums have always had with wifi:  not just with drivers for 
interfaces, but with getting encryption to work, and hiding ESSIDs

Anyway, I hope everyone has been interested to see that about twenty 
five of us reported having wifi operational (some on desktops;  many on 
laptops).  And most people have their wifi encrypted - either WEP or WPA 
- with pretty much everyone broadcasting the ESSID.

Twenty five.  What proportion of the whole membership is that, Al? 
About 20% (guessing)?

Anyway, thanks again, everyone, for bothering to reply!

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[London School of Puppetry]

On 10/11/2007, Alec Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:24 +, Mac wrote:
> > Friends >>> Following the surprisingly few responses to some recent
> > questions about wifi, I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are
> > actually using Ubuntu wirelessly on laptops.
> >
> > So here's a quick poll:
> >
> > Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?
> >
> > And, if you do, do you use
> >
> > no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2
> >
> > with ESSID broadcast / hidden?
> >
> >
> > Mac
> ESSID broadcast.
> I used to have no security until 10 minutes ago, when I enabled either
> WPA or WPA2 (not sure which), with 128 bit passphrase. My lappy with
> intel 3945abg wireless connects fine, as does my brother's desktop with
> an rt61. Both of the above run gutsy. I haven't tested my desktop with
> bcm4306 yet. Since there's noone in the house who has any sort of idea
> about windows wireless at all, my parents' XP MCE 2005 with bcm4311
> isn't connecting. If you use the windows utility, it says the passphrase
> isn't the right length (it says it'll only accept 5 or 13 characters and
> mine's 12) and if you use the belkin utility, it cant decide whether ive
> got security enabled or not.
> --
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>
> Hi there I am using Ubuntu wirelessly on my lap top- but I don't know the
> answer to your list of techy questions, but I can ask a friend. What is the
> survey for?



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy

[London School of Puppetry]

On 10/11/2007, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I have not had a lot of issues with processors (am successfully running
> Feisty on a P500 without issues), but memory is important.
>
> You don't actually give a specification, but I'd say that 256MB was a
> minimum for Gutsy and probably 512MB would be preferable as it will give the
> OS room to breathe... if you are only on 128MB or less then I'd upgrade the
> memory before I upgraded the OS.  Obviously you also need some hard drive
> space... a 10GB partition would probably be the minimum.
>
> Sean
> It is only 128mb. so I think I'll leave the upgradeFeisty seems fine.
> Can you tell me why the upgrade manager will only do a partial upgrade?


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey

[Alec Wright]

On Thu, 2007-11-08 at 17:24 +, Mac wrote:
> Friends >>> Following the surprisingly few responses to some recent 
> questions about wifi, I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are 
> actually using Ubuntu wirelessly on laptops.
> 
> So here's a quick poll:
> 
> Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?
> 
> And, if you do, do you use
> 
> no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2
> 
> with ESSID broadcast / hidden?
> 
> 
> Mac
ESSID broadcast.
I used to have no security until 10 minutes ago, when I enabled either
WPA or WPA2 (not sure which), with 128 bit passphrase. My lappy with
intel 3945abg wireless connects fine, as does my brother's desktop with
an rt61. Both of the above run gutsy. I haven't tested my desktop with
bcm4306 yet. Since there's noone in the house who has any sort of idea
about windows wireless at all, my parents' XP MCE 2005 with bcm4311
isn't connecting. If you use the windows utility, it says the passphrase
isn't the right length (it says it'll only accept 5 or 13 characters and
mine's 12) and if you use the belkin utility, it cant decide whether ive
got security enabled or not.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Open Hosting project

[Sean Miller]

I agree... I think there are plenty of places you can get free hosting if
you really want it... space and the like tends to be limited, but most
people don't need huge amounts of space and if they do the cost is
peanuts... the days when you payed megabucks for hosting are long gone...

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