[ubuntu-uk] Mega Slow Bootup
Morning All, I've also posted to my blog, but I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at a bootchart image from today, and hazard a guess as to why my computer takes (metaphorically) 3 days to boot? http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk/images/gutsy-20080202-1.png Image is fairly large, so apologies! It looks like modprobe udev are taking the time, but I have no idea how to find out why, so guidance would be appreciated! TIA -- Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mega Slow Bootup
Stephen Stephen Garton wrote: Morning All, I've also posted to my blog, but I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at a bootchart image from today, and hazard a guess as to why my computer takes (metaphorically) 3 days to boot? http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk/images/gutsy-20080202-1.png Image is fairly large, so apologies! It looks like modprobe udev are taking the time, but I have no idea how to find out why, so guidance would be appreciated! Remove the package evms with your favourite package manager. 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/
[ubuntu-uk] Network problems Realtek 8168 card
Hi folks. I wasn't sure if anyone was aware of this so I figured I'd post about it. I've recently upgraded my PC with a new CPU and motherboard (MSI P35 Neo2-FR with Pentium Dual Core E2160). Before I upgraded I was able to stream videos using Samba to my XBOX perfectly, however after the upgrade the streaming appeared to stop after about a minute. At first I put it down to not reinstalling Ubuntu (I had a 32-bit installation, and it wasn't recognising that I had 4GB memory in there, it was only picking up 3.3GB). So I installed a fresh copy of Ubuntu 7.10 AMD64. The installation went through fine, everything appeared to work okay but I still had this issue with the network. Browing the internet was fine. I couldn't work out at first what we wrong (I tried running an fsck on the drive, and it came up okay). After a bit of searching this morning I found that a few people have been having issues with these Realtek on-board network cards. It seems that Ubuntu is using the RTL8169 driver rather than the RTL8168 driver which works but not very well. The solution to this was to download and compile the Realtek drivers (which are infact GPL'd :-). There's a post on the Ubuntu forums about the issue here: http://ubuntu-utah.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=671614 I figured it may come up again (I didn't expect the driver to be causing these issues), so if you're like me and have a motherboard with a Realtek 8168/8111 Gigabit network adaptor on board then you might be worth trying the other driver if you see any funny issues like this. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mega Slow Bootup
On 02/02/2008, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Remove the package evms with your favourite package manager. Already been done, I'm afraid: sudo apt-get remove evms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package evms is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Back when Gutsy was released, so it can't be that. -- Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] affuse: FUSE support is disabled (Ubuntu 7.10) (RESOLVED)
All sorted now. Turns out I needed the fuse dev packages (and fuse.h) installed before afflib was compiled. Once I had everything installed I re-compiled afflib and it all worked. Stu - Original Message From: Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Friday, 1 February, 2008 10:02:28 AM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] affuse: FUSE support is disabled (Ubuntu 7.10) On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:56:37AM +, Stuart Bird wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/stu# affuse /home/stu/case_work/testing/aimage/aimage_test-1.aff /mnt/aff Tsk tsk root :) I get this error: affuse: FUSE support is disabled. Have you isntalled the fuse-utils package? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ __ Sent from Yahoo! Mail - a smarter inbox http://uk.mail.yahoo.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mega Slow Bootup
Tony Arnold wrote: Stephen Stephen Garton wrote: Morning All, I've also posted to my blog, but I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at a bootchart image from today, and hazard a guess as to why my computer takes (metaphorically) 3 days to boot? http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk/images/gutsy-20080202-1.png Image is fairly large, so apologies! It looks like modprobe udev are taking the time, but I have no idea how to find out why, so guidance would be appreciated! Remove the package evms with your favourite package manager. Hello, Stephen and Tony. I think Tony is right, but LVM problems might just be a symptom of the underlying trouble, not the cause. Modprobe is in i/o wait state while vol_id is probing your disks, looking for volume labels. If there are read errors on a faulty hard disk, for example, it can take a long time for the kernel drivers to give up. Have you run any disk diagnostics? Another possibility is that you might have corrupted partition tables and/or you are waiting for non-existent UUID's to be discovered. The fstab entries in Gutsy now use UUID's instead of device names and these UUID's are intended to be persistent across changes to the BIOS-derived device names caused by adding/removing disks. BTW, Thanks for introducing me to bootchart :-) Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rowett Research Institute, |http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK.| fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] problems with miro!-keeps closing
Hi, I just installed Miro...but everytime i open it..it opens for a few seconds, loads and then closes again!! how can i fix this please? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems with miro!-keeps closing
On 02/02/2008, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed Miro...but everytime i open it..it opens for a few seconds, loads and then closes again!! how can i fix this please? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Can you try running it from a terminal, then post us an output here, thanks. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mega Slow Bootup
Stephen, Stephen Garton wrote: On 02/02/2008, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Remove the package evms with your favourite package manager. Already been done, I'm afraid: sudo apt-get remove evms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package evms is not installed, so not removed 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Back when Gutsy was released, so it can't be that. In which case, I'm stuck! Removing evms did it for me! 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] problems with miro!-keeps closing
how would i run it from terminal? On 02/02/2008, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/02/2008, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I just installed Miro...but everytime i open it..it opens for a few seconds, loads and then closes again!! how can i fix this please? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Can you try running it from a terminal, then post us an output here, thanks. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- 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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems with miro!-keeps closing
Javad Ayaz wrote: how would i run it from terminal? Click on Applications, then Accessories and select Terminal. When the terminal window opens, try entering miro and then press enter. Hopefully it should come up with some text in the terminal window which you should be able to copy and paste into an e-mail. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems with miro!-keeps closing
On 02/02/2008, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javad Ayaz wrote: how would i run it from terminal? Click on Applications, then Accessories and select Terminal. When the terminal window opens, try entering miro and then press enter. Hopefully it should come up with some text in the terminal window which you should be able to copy and paste into an e-mail. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Beat me to it :) Sorry I didn't get a chance to reply, I'm sorting a laptop out for my sister's birthday. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems with miro!-keeps closing
Kris Douglas wrote: On 02/02/2008, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javad Ayaz wrote: how would i run it from terminal? Click on Applications, then Accessories and select Terminal. When the terminal window opens, try entering miro and then press enter. Hopefully it should come up with some text in the terminal window which you should be able to copy and paste into an e-mail. Rob Beat me to it :) Sorry I didn't get a chance to reply, I'm sorting a laptop out for my sister's birthday. A laptop running (k)Ubuntu? :-) That reminds me, I still have to sort my other half's PC out. I'm reluctant to do it because she wants *cough* Windows XP *cough*. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?
Hi all, Hope everyone's having a good weekend. I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want to put heads together and work on an entry. For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the development of a game in Python. It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other necessary bits and bobs. I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians, artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and documentation roles to fill. Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can get done when we pull together. :) For more details check out their site and look back through some previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at. http://pyweek.org/ - Site http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden' - http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat - http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/ Anyone else interested? Cheers, Al. 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] New to the list
Is any body there? I have some questions on getting my new Kubuntu properly sorted. Chas -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New to the list
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:56 +, charles wrote: Is any body there? At the last count there were 457 (you being the 457th) :) I have some questions on getting my new Kubuntu properly sorted. Fire away and we'll see what we can do. However I feel compelled to point you in the direction of the 'official' support channels just in case we can't. http://www.ubuntu.com/support http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/webforums http://www.ubuntu.com/support/community/chatirc https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu Cheers, Al. 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] Ubuntu Server, oidentd and eggdrops
Hey, I have been trying to get an identd daemon running on my Ubuntu Server so they can identify with IRC servers (some of which require it to connect). I run a miau IRC bouncer and some eggdrops, each with their own account. I tried out oidentd as it gets mentioned a lot in the threads I have seen, but installation, running and configuration has not seen any results. Has anyone got any tips? Or managed to get it running themselves? I hear there are issues with identd because I use a router that includes a firewall (the port is forwarded to the correct machine). Is spoofing an option? How do I spoof? Many thanks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Video Editing - AVID?
Anybody any ideas with OSS and/or Linux for this friend from Glastonbury? Thanks in advance. Sean = i have an external hard drive with a bunch of video footage from the sunrise festival to be edited - it has been captured in avid , the file are not compatable with my editing program - adobe cs3 i have downloaded and installed avid dv to import thyem and export them as an avi file, but it is incompatible with my video card agh its a frustrating week for me computerwise does anyone here use avid and could convert the files for me or have any solution? :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems with miro!-keeps closing
ok here is what i got: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ miro /usr/lib/firefox INFO Starting up Miro INFO Version:1.1.1 INFO Revision: https://svn.participatoryculture.org/svn/dtv/tags/Miro-1.1.1/tv/resources - 6063 INFO Builder:[EMAIL PROTECTED] INFO Build Time: 1201146701.85 INFO Loading preferences... INFO Starting event loop thread INFO Restoring database... INFO Connecting to /home/jman/.miro/sqlitedb TIMING Database load slow: 4.487 TIMING idle (Initializing database) too slow (5.004 secs) TIMING idle (Initializing database) cumulative is too slow (5.004 secs) INFO Spawning auto downloader... INFO Displaying main frame... INFO *** Launching Downloader Daemon INFO Creating video display... WARNING Menu item action RenameVideo not implemented WARNING Menu item action FastForward not implemented WARNING Menu item action Rewind not implemented WARNING Menu item action UpVolume not implemented WARNING Menu item action DownVolume not implemented INFO loaded renderer 'xinerenderer' TIMING gtkAsyncMethod: function initRenderers at 0x8a78e9c took too long: 1.696 TIMING gtkSyncMethod: function getDisplay at 0x8ad9224 took too long: 1.786 INFO First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/ INFO got file:///tmp/tmpmk9Gmr.html TIMING gtkAsyncMethod: function selectDisplay at 0x8ad91b4 took too long: 3.402 TIMING Icon clear: 3.573 INFO Starting movie data updates INFO Finished startup sequence TIMING idle (finalizing startup) too slow (6.018 secs) TIMING idle (finalizing startup) cumulative is too slow (6.018 secs) WARNING: u'None' has no scheme WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: WARNING: u'None' has no scheme WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: WARNING: u'None' has no scheme WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: INFO got file:///tmp/tmpucbn3V.html INFO First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/ INFO *** Daemon ready *** INFO got file:///usr/share/miro/resources/html/guide-navigation.html INFO First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/ INFO got https://www.miroguide.com/ INFO First URL is https://www.miroguide.com/ WARNING: u'None' has no scheme WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: WARNING: u'None' has no scheme WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: WARNING: u'None' has no scheme WARNING: Assuming port 80 for scheme: ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) ** Message: GetValue variable 1 (1) ** Message: GetValue variable 2 (2) /usr/bin/python2.5: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-1.6.0.03/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so: undefined symbol: PR_NewMonitor [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ WARNING downloader: connection closed -- quitting INFO Shutting down downloaders... On 02/02/2008, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javad Ayaz wrote: how would i run it from terminal? Click on Applications, then Accessories and select Terminal. When the terminal window opens, try entering miro and then press enter. Hopefully it should come up with some text in the terminal window which you should be able to copy and paste into an e-mail. Rob -- 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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video Editing - AVID?
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 20:08 +, Sean Miller wrote: i have an external hard drive with a bunch of video footage from the sunrise festival to be edited - it has been captured in avid , the file are not compatable with my editing program - adobe cs3 i have downloaded and installed avid dv to import thyem and export them as an avi file, but it is incompatible with my video card agh its a frustrating week for me computerwise does anyone here use avid and could convert the files for me or have any solution? :) WinFF? It seems to be able to convert pretty much anything to anything. http://biggmatt.com/winff/ It's GPL (based on ffmpeg) and cross platform. Cheers, Al. 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] Real Player
Need help with getting Real Player installed in my new Kubuntu. Charles -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video Editing - AVID?
Sean LWN finished off a video editing series week before last, which I sped read through - it may provide some enlightenment. E -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Sean Miller Sent: 02 February 2008 20:08 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Video Editing - AVID? Anybody any ideas with OSS and/or Linux for this friend from Glastonbury? Thanks in advance. Sean = i have an external hard drive with a bunch of video footage from the sunrise festival to be edited - it has been captured in avid , the file are not compatable with my editing program - adobe cs3 i have downloaded and installed avid dv to import thyem and export them as an avi file, but it is incompatible with my video card agh its a frustrating week for me computerwise does anyone here use avid and could convert the files for me or have any solution? :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown infor goodmeasure)
Rob Sorry mate, going to have to waive the white flag on this one! Thought I had replied back to the person who gave me the link I was thinking of and can't find that darn mail at all. If I find it in the future I will pop it onto the list. E -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 29 January 2008 21:10 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSI on Ubuntu (with LTSP thrown infor goodmeasure) On Tue, 2008-01-29 at 20:59 +, Ian Pascoe wrote: Hi Rob I have desperately been trying to find an article I read last month that would seem to fit your ideal nicely Rob and also keep the geek in you interested. The project was based on LTSP and worked in a kinda clustering sort of way. If memory serves each client on the network as it had spare CPU capacity would allow some of this capacity to be used to bolster up the main servers - obviously the clients being proper PCs together with a high bandwidth interconnect. It may well have been as a result of a posting here as I have a nagging suspision that it was detailed somewhere on schoolforge.net, or similar. I'll have some lubrication later on tonight and see if the grey cells can be bullied into working. E Thanks Ian, this sounds a bit like what I was told about. If you can find the information I'd love to know. Ta, Rob -- 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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems with miro!-keeps closing
On 02/02/2008, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Douglas wrote: On 02/02/2008, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javad Ayaz wrote: how would i run it from terminal? Click on Applications, then Accessories and select Terminal. When the terminal window opens, try entering miro and then press enter. Hopefully it should come up with some text in the terminal window which you should be able to copy and paste into an e-mail. Rob Beat me to it :) Sorry I didn't get a chance to reply, I'm sorting a laptop out for my sister's birthday. A laptop running (k)Ubuntu? :-) That reminds me, I still have to sort my other half's PC out. I'm reluctant to do it because she wants *cough* Windows XP *cough*. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Gutsy 7.10 :) -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] problems with miro!-keeps closing
On 02/02/2008, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 02/02/2008, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Kris Douglas wrote: On 02/02/2008, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Javad Ayaz wrote: how would i run it from terminal? Click on Applications, then Accessories and select Terminal. When the terminal window opens, try entering miro and then press enter. Hopefully it should come up with some text in the terminal window which you should be able to copy and paste into an e-mail. Rob Beat me to it :) Sorry I didn't get a chance to reply, I'm sorting a laptop out for my sister's birthday. A laptop running (k)Ubuntu? :-) That reminds me, I still have to sort my other half's PC out. I'm reluctant to do it because she wants *cough* Windows XP *cough*. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Gutsy 7.10 :) -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ubuntu. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu
I've just installed Kubuntu Should I have installed ubuntu instead ? charles -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu
On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 20:52 +, charles wrote: I've just installed Kubuntu Should I have installed ubuntu instead ? Hi, Just so you know, this mailing list is not exactly real-time. People read their mail as and when they can, sometimes hours or days after you send it. So don't necessarily expect replies uber promptly. If you want to talk to people in realtime I'd recommend getting on irc. Open an irc client such as konversation or kopete or maybe xchat. You'll find some of us hanging out in the #ubuntu-uk irc channel there. Onto your actual question though.. That's a tricky question to answer. Some people prefer KDE/Kubuntu, others prefer GNOME/Ubuntu. For a new user I'd suggest trying them both out and see which one you prefer. Cheers, Al. 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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu
On Saturday 02 February 2008 21:00, Alan Pope wrote: That's a tricky question to answer. Some people prefer KDE/Kubuntu, others prefer GNOME/Ubuntu. For a new user I'd suggest trying them both out and see which one you prefer. Thanks very much Al charles -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?
I'd be willing to join in with the programming. I started python last year and this would great fun. Josh On Sat, 2008-02-02 at 19:54 +, Alan Pope wrote: Hi all, Hope everyone's having a good weekend. I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want to put heads together and work on an entry. For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the development of a game in Python. It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other necessary bits and bobs. I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians, artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and documentation roles to fill. Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can get done when we pull together. :) For more details check out their site and look back through some previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at. http://pyweek.org/ - Site http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden' - http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat - http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/ Anyone else interested? Cheers, Al. -- My PGP public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x3E4E0E21 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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu
You can, of course, use the install CD to go for the default Ubuntu install and then use Synaptic to install KDE as well... there will then be an option when signing in to alter which desktop you choose... would also thoroughly recommend installing Kfce which is the one used in Xubuntu. You then have three different windows managers and can switch between, which is very liberating. I chose Gnome... look forward to your opinions :-) All the best, Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?
Alan Pope wrote: Hi all, Hope everyone's having a good weekend. I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want to put heads together and work on an entry. For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the development of a game in Python. It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other necessary bits and bobs. I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians, artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and documentation roles to fill. Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can get done when we pull together. :) For more details check out their site and look back through some previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at. http://pyweek.org/ - Site http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden' - http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat - http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/ Anyone else interested? Cheers, Al. I'd certainly be willing to provide graphics using GIMP if you need any. Not done bitmap graphics in a while but I was a whizz with DPaint on my Amiga A500 :D That Rooftop Garden idea is awesome, just goes to show that a good game CAN come from a kinda 'technology demo'. :) -- Ronnie Tucker [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.RonnieTucker.co.uk Skype : ronnietucker Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux User # 456627 Registered Ubuntu User # 18227 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu
Sean Miller wrote: You can, of course, use the install CD to go for the default Ubuntu install and then use Synaptic to install KDE as well... there will then be an option when signing in to alter which desktop you choose... would also thoroughly recommend installing Kfce which is the one used in Xubuntu. You then have three different windows managers and can switch between, which is very liberating. I chose Gnome... look forward to your opinions :-) All the best, Sean It's actually Xfce ;) If you want to try out Kubuntu (KDE) and/or Xubuntu (Xfce) side-by-side with Ubuntu (GNOME), install the kubuntu-desktop or xubuntu-desktop packages in your favourite package manager. Iain -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
