Re: [ubuntu-uk] new mail notification in system tray?
Mac wrote: Adam Bagnall wrote: I think mail-notification might be what you're after. It's in the repositories. The only thing to watch out for is the repository version doesn't have ssl support if you need it. Rats! Just remembered my gmail pop3 uses ssl. I'll try the repo version to see if it works OK for me, then think about getting a tarball elsewhere if it does. Thanks for warning me about this -- might not have spotted it, and then spent ages trying to fix it when it didn't work! Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] SSH question
On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 07:04:08PM +, Sean Miller wrote: He wanted a sshd listening on port 22 for his tomboy or whatever, yet didn't want it exposed to the internet. Actually he only wanted port 22 used becasue he could not figure out how to tell tomboy what port to use. Now Chris and I have both pointed out how to tell the client what port to use there is no requirement to run ssh on port 22. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] new mail notification in system tray?
Mac wrote: Mac wrote: Adam Bagnall wrote: I think mail-notification might be what you're after. It's in the repositories. The only thing to watch out for is the repository version doesn't have ssl support if you need it. Rats! Just remembered my gmail pop3 uses ssl. I'll try the repo version to see if it works OK for me, then think about getting a tarball elsewhere if it does. Thanks for warning me about this -- might not have spotted it, and then spent ages trying to fix it when it didn't work! Mac mail-notification supports gmail separately without going through pop3 or imap. If you want the tarball you can get it from http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/ sudo apt-get build-dep mail-notification This will grab most of the dependencies sudo apt-get install libssl-dev This will grab the necessary files to enable ssl support. then the usual ./configure make followed by sudo make install You have to log out and back in again for it to work otherwise you get an error message. Regards, Adam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?
lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not damage any of their files. But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has come back with errors, although I have never personally witnessed them. Can anyone confirm that this is not the cd please? Note: I did not install anything while running it live. === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?
Farran Lee wrote: lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not damage any of their files. But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has come back with errors, although I have never personally witnessed them. Can anyone confirm that this is not the cd please? Note: I did not install anything while running it live. === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P Have you checked the ISO image checksums using the md5sums file? (you can get it from the Ubuntu mirrors) What happens when you run the CD media check from the CD boot menu? Do you know what error messages your friends and family were getting? Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?
Farran, Farran Lee wrote: lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not damage any of their files. But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has come back with errors, although I have never personally witnessed them. Can anyone confirm that this is not the cd please? Note: I did not install anything while running it live. Do you mean you ran the live CD and then sometime later the owners reported problems with Windows? What sort of problems? Are the consistent? My understanding is that the live CD does not touch the hard disk so should not affect any already installed system. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote: lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not damage any of their files. But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has come back with errors, although I have never personally witnessed them. Can anyone confirm that this is not the cd please? Note: I did not install anything while running it live. === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P i would be careful, its likely that something has gone wrong with windows because... well its windows.. and that they are blaming this strange thing you put on the computer once that they are unfamiliar with. live cds are very careful not to do anything that could hurt the currently installed systems (if they did there would be an outcry) -- gord [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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/
[ubuntu-uk] Init Level.
Is there a way to change the init level of Ubuntu? I used to use Mandriva and changed the init level in /etc/inittab to '3' instead of '5'. This made the machine boot up into a bash terminal with no GUI invoked. If you then wanted a GUI you simply ran it with the command 'startx'. Often when I switch my laptop on I just want a terminal but have to go through all the logon and GUI to get there. Andy Jenkins. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] KMail crashing
On my Ubuntu Gutsy my KMail has now started to crash, even though I've been using it since full release. I have all my filters and lists nicely placed! The application will start up but when I go to download mail it locks up, the kmail window stops responding and I have to kill the application. I thought that deleting the .lock file would help, but it didn't. I have also, through Synaptic, 're-installed' and also 'completely uninstalled + installed afresh' without finding a cure. What log files do I start to look at to try and figure out the problem? Starting KMail from a terminal gives :- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ kmail [1] 8591 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 1) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 2) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 4) suspended. WeaverThreadLogger: thread (ID: 3) suspended. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name move_message_to_folder kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name copy_message_to_folder kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name jump_to_folder kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name jump_to_folder kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name cancel kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name inc_current_folder kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name dec_current_folder kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name select_current_folder kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name inc_current_message kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name dec_current_message kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name select_current_message kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name delete kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name edit kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name use_template kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel(): call to deprecated action. kdecore (KAction): WARNING: KAction::plugAccel( kacc = 0x8060f80 ): KAccel object already contains an action name display_message *** KMail got signal 15 (Exiting) Does this give any clues? Hope someone can help. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Init Level.
Andrew, Andrew Jenkins wrote: Is there a way to change the init level of Ubuntu? I used to use Mandriva and changed the init level in /etc/inittab to '3' instead of '5'. This made the machine boot up into a bash terminal with no GUI invoked. If you then wanted a GUI you simply ran it with the command 'startx'. Often when I switch my laptop on I just want a terminal but have to go through all the logon and GUI to get there. Ubuntu has the default init level set to 2. 1 is used for single user mode which you get to if you select recovery mode from the grub menu. That logs you in as root at the console. Hitting Ctrl-D will cause the system to continue bootting fully. I think setting the default init level to something other than 2 (it's set in /etc/inittab) will require you to check which levels all the init scripts are configured to start up. Could be messy. Alternatively, you could just remove gdm (or kdm) from the starting up by using the update-rc.d command. Check the man page for details. More simply you could just hit Control-Alt-F1 after you've booted to switch to a virtual console. Just my thoughts! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu cd damaging windows paritions?
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote: lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not damage any of their files. But every computer I've run it on, the owner has reported it has come back with errors, although I have never personally witnessed them. Can anyone confirm that this is not the cd please? Note: I did not install anything while running it live. === Farran Lee I'm only 15 :P i would be careful, its likely that something has gone wrong with windows because... well its windows.. and that they are blaming this strange thing you put on the computer once that they are unfamiliar with. live cds are very careful not to do anything that could hurt the currently installed systems (if they did there would be an outcry) -- gord [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Hi Faran Can you be a little more specific about the errors your friends/family have seen? At a guess, the only thing I can think of is Windows invoking the chkdsk utility. Perhaps this could be caused mounting the NTFS partition, and Windows detecting that 'it' (as in Windows) hadn't shut it down properly hence invoking chkdsk. I don't think that you should see any real damage to a PC. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again
One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or something? The particular clip I want is entitled 'Rufus' review' and is not far down in the main article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm I am using gutsy, with mplayer (plugin) in firefox. The clip plays ok in the browser, I just want to capture the clip. I have looked in the mozilla cache, video does not seem to be cached it seems, not there anyway (firefox 2.0.0.11) The url of the target clip seems to be rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C) British Broadcasting Corporation and using cl (in a test of playing it prior to using dumpstream etc etc) I obtain: == [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer -playlist rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C) British Broadcasting Corporation [1] 11374 [2] 11375 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ MPlayer 2:1.0~rc1-0ubuntu13.1 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz (Family: 15, Model: 2, Stepping: 9) CPUflags: MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 0 3DNow2: 0 SSE: 1 SSE2: 1 Compiled with runtime CPU detection. Resolving rm-acl.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET6... Couldn't resolve name for AF_INET6: rm-acl.bbc.co.uk Resolving rm-acl.bbc.co.uk for AF_INET... Connecting to server rm-acl.bbc.co.uk[212.58.227.102]: 554... Cache size set to 640 KBytes == and at this stage it just does nothing more, apparently waiting (??) Any ideas please? Tia. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +, alan c wrote: One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or something? The particular clip I want is entitled 'Rufus' review' and is not far down in the main article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm I am using gutsy, with mplayer (plugin) in firefox. The clip plays ok in the browser, I just want to capture the clip. I have looked in the mozilla cache, video does not seem to be cached it seems, not there anyway (firefox 2.0.0.11) The url of the target clip seems to be rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C) British Broadcasting Corporation and using cl (in a test of playing it prior to using dumpstream etc etc) I obtain: == [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer -playlist rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C) British Broadcasting Corporation and at this stage it just does nothing more, apparently waiting (??) Any ideas please? Tia. The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try it in single quotes like this: mplayer 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C)British Broadcasting Corporation' -Gav -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again
Gavin Ford wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +, alan c wrote: One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or something? The particular clip I want is entitled 'Rufus' review' and is not far down in the main article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm I am using gutsy, with mplayer (plugin) in firefox. The clip plays ok in the browser, I just want to capture the clip. I have looked in the mozilla cache, video does not seem to be cached it seems, not there anyway (firefox 2.0.0.11) The url of the target clip seems to be rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C) British Broadcasting Corporation and using cl (in a test of playing it prior to using dumpstream etc etc) I obtain: == [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer -playlist rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C) British Broadcasting Corporation and at this stage it just does nothing more, apparently waiting (??) Any ideas please? Tia. The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try it in single quotes like this: mplayer 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C)British Broadcasting Corporation' Thanks, however that does not seem to work. Also a similar thing happens even when the title part is omitted entirely. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wrote: The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try it in single quotes like this: mplayer 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C)British Broadcasting Corporation' Thanks, however that does not seem to work. Also a similar thing happens even when the title part is omitted entirely. Weird, it's working fine for me here with the same setup. Looks like an article about the XO machine. Make sure you're entering it all on one line, leave out the -playlist option and any line wrapping symbols your mail client may be inserting. Easiest way to do it I find it to enter the: mplayer ' then copy/paste the URL and enter the final: ' If it's not that, I'm not sure what's up with it. -Gav -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again
I think these things are to stop indepth news analysis. For example the police operation Ore was stopped when they turned up at Downing Street. The story was on bbc site but I can't find it anymore. If you can't save the evidence then you can't make a case. On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 23:27 +, alan c wrote: Gavin Ford wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +, alan c wrote: One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or something? The particular clip I want is entitled 'Rufus' review' and is not far down in the main article at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7140443.stm I am using gutsy, with mplayer (plugin) in firefox. The clip plays ok in the browser, I just want to capture the clip. I have looked in the mozilla cache, video does not seem to be cached it seems, not there anyway (firefox 2.0.0.11) The url of the target clip seems to be rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C) British Broadcasting Corporation and using cl (in a test of playing it prior to using dumpstream etc etc) I obtain: == [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mplayer -playlist rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C) British Broadcasting Corporation and at this stage it just does nothing more, apparently waiting (??) Any ideas please? Tia. The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try it in single quotes like this: mplayer 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C)British Broadcasting Corporation' Thanks, however that does not seem to work. Also a similar thing happens even when the title part is omitted entirely. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- Confidentiality notice: This email (and any documents attached to it) is confidential and is intended for use only by the named recipients. Information contained or attached may not be disclosed to any person who is not a named recipient without the prior written consent of Christopher L Chatfield, Cheltenham. If you are not a named recipient, then please notify us, destroy this email and keep no copies. Thank you for your co-operation. .. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] freephone: 44-800-0-664-813 from UK 0800-0-664-813 ICQ= 424376924 Google Instant Messaging = [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC video clip capture - again
If you use Xvidcap with a good graphics card, would it work? I cant capture totem images with it but can record screenshots. I have seen video captures from games on linux, how is that done? On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 23:46 +, Gavin Ford wrote: On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wrote: The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try it in single quotes like this: mplayer 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=BBCauthor=BBCcopyright=(C)British Broadcasting Corporation' Thanks, however that does not seem to work. Also a similar thing happens even when the title part is omitted entirely. Weird, it's working fine for me here with the same setup. Looks like an article about the XO machine. Make sure you're entering it all on one line, leave out the -playlist option and any line wrapping symbols your mail client may be inserting. Easiest way to do it I find it to enter the: mplayer ' then copy/paste the URL and enter the final: ' If it's not that, I'm not sure what's up with it. -Gav -- Confidentiality notice: This email (and any documents attached to it) is confidential and is intended for use only by the named recipients. Information contained or attached may not be disclosed to any person who is not a named recipient without the prior written consent of Christopher L Chatfield, Cheltenham. If you are not a named recipient, then please notify us, destroy this email and keep no copies. Thank you for your co-operation. .. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] freephone: 44-800-0-664-813 from UK 0800-0-664-813 ICQ= 424376924 Google Instant Messaging = [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
