Re: [ubuntu-uk] Skype 2.0 beta
- "Greg K Nicholson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 17:38 +, Mark Fraser wrote: > > I've just done a package update and found I had 2 updates for Skype. > When I > > loaded it I noticed it was version 2.0 (beta), which means webcam > support :) > > Tried it with my Logitech webcam and it detects it, just need to do > a live > > test now. > > Is it still using a proprietary protocol? Yup Johnathon -- Blog: http://www.kirrus.co.uk UK Plone Hosting: http://www.plone-hosting.co.uk RPG: Lt Aieron Peters, XO DS5. http://ds5.brisub.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Skype 2.0 beta
On Sat, 2008-02-09 at 17:38 +, Mark Fraser wrote: > I've just done a package update and found I had 2 updates for Skype. When I > loaded it I noticed it was version 2.0 (beta), which means webcam support :) > Tried it with my Logitech webcam and it detects it, just need to do a live > test now. Is it still using a proprietary protocol? -- Greg -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Skype 2.0 beta
I've just done a package update and found I had 2 updates for Skype. When I loaded it I noticed it was version 2.0 (beta), which means webcam support :) Tried it with my Logitech webcam and it detects it, just need to do a live test now. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Bill Gates Interview/documentary
> > Does anyone have any ideas of information we could pass on (she seemed > > to be woefully lacking in information about Linux and was eagerly > > writing everything I said down in her notebook, even though I don't know > > that much myself)? Hi Thomas, Stephen Fry has written a piece on open source, Linux and the Asus Eee PC here: http://stephenfry.com/blog/?p=39 Personally I think his writing style strikes just the right balance of entertainment and information. Perfect for making the subject palatable to non-nerds. Also, check out the open-source tag over at the Guardian http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/opensource Cheers Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Hard Drive Group Permissions
Andrew Thank you for such an in depth and informative response. Changing the uid= to blank did the trick in the end. Stu - Original Message From: Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: British Ubuntu Talk Sent: Friday, 8 February, 2008 11:25:18 AM Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Hard Drive Group Permissions Stuart Bird wrote: > The first way is to use: gksudo nautilus to access and edit files as > root. The second way is to add myself to the root group which then > allows me full control from my normal users account. > > Can anyone advise if these are viable (ie safe) long term solutions or > should I keep searching for a better way. Are you logged into Gnome when you attach the external drive, or do you have it plugged in when you switch on? If you have it plugged in when you switch on, it won't know who to mount it as, and may default to root; you may need to write an /etc/fstab rule for the external drive with uid=youruserid and/or gid=yourgroup . For example, my username is aoakley, so to mount a FAT external drive at boot time, I might write an /etc/fstab rule like: /dev/sdb /media/mymountpoint vfat rw,uid=aoakley 0 0 Beware that not all external hard drives are VFAT! Some may be NTFS or somesuch. Alternatively I might use umask to make it read/writable to everyone within a particular group: /dev/sdb /media/mymountpoint vfat rw,umask=007 0 0 ...which would make it read/writable to everyone in the root group, or: /dev/sdb /media/mymountpoint vfat rw,gid=aoakley,umask=007 0 0 ...which would make it read/writable to everyone in aoakley's group, or: /dev/sdb /media/mymountpoint vfat rw,umask=000 0 0 ...which would make it owned by root but read/writable to everyone, even guest users (INSECURE!). (Stop reading now if you attach the drive before the machine is switched on, or if you always leave the drive plugged in. The following only apply if you attach the drive AFTER you log in to Gnome.) Newly plugged-in USB drives AFTER you have logged in to Gnome should automatically be mounted as the logged-in user (eg. aoakley for myself) and root as the group. Have you got more than one user logged into Gnome perhaps? This might cause confusion. For example, I log in to Gnome and insert a 1GB USB key, so I get: $ cat /etc/mtab ... /dev/sdb /media/AO\0401GB vfat rw,nosuid,nodev,shortname=mixed,uid=1000,utf8,umask=077,usefree 0 0 $ ls -l /media total 28 drwx-- 10 aoakley root 16384 1970-01-01 01:00 AO 1GB ... The last line shows that the user is aoakley (my local logged-in user) and the group is root. If you aren't getting this, then either you're not using Gnome Automount, or something is wrong with Gnome Automount. Have you written an /etc/fstab entry which is overruling Gnome Automount? If so, try commenting it out. Is automount running? Check for gnome-v* processes, you should see two; gnome-volume-manager and gnome-vfs-daemon . If not, something is wrong with your gnome start-up sequence (too complex to discuss here). $ sudo ps -e | grep gnome-v 5600 ? 00:00:00 gnome-volume-ma 5630 ? 00:00:00 gnome-vfs-daemo Check your Gnome Automount preferences in System - Preferences - Removable Drives And Media - Removable Storage - Mount Removable Drives When Hot Plugged TICKED - Mount Removable Media When Inserted TICKED. Check your Gnome Automount configuration in (Alt-F2) - gconf-editor - System - Storage . Check that there is NOT some special rule for your hard drive. Then check under Default Options - (Your storage type) and make sure that the uid= config is either not present, or blank. For instance, my gconf-editor - System - Storage - Default Options - VFat - mount_options shows: [shortname=mixed,uid=,utf8,umask=077,exec,usefree] The important bit there is "uid=" (uid equals empty) which defaults to the currently logged-in user in Gnome. -- Andrew Oakley -- 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] BBC Bill Gates Interview/documentary
On 09/02/2008, Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > a couple of pints), anyway I mentioned slashdot.org as a website for her > to find some anti-microsoft sentiment No! Slashdot is great but I'm not sure it should serve as a positive advertisement for Linux, most of the time it just seems to be school/college kids having an argument ;) > Does anyone have any ideas of information we could pass on (she seemed > to be woefully lacking in information about Linux and was eagerly > writing everything I said down in her notebook, even though I don't know > that much myself)? It might be worth educating her about free software too. I noticed that in the recent BBC interview with Bill Gates[1] he deliberately bastardised the term to mean software-with-no-cost and in doing so ended up quietly insulting Linux and the whole free software movement. For other 'alternative' views of MS Windows, see [2] and [3]. Have you given your friend an Ubuntu live cd yet? Might be worth doing some research first if possible to make sure it will work out-of-the-box with her machine, but there's nothing like actually trying something out to get a real understanding of it. Finally, have you mentioned the eeePC to her? It sounds like it's going to be the year of the UMPC and linux along with it ;) [1] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7174333.stm [2] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6319845.stm [3] http://badvista.fsf.org/freesoftwarefreesociety/free-software-free-society/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Bill Gates Interview/documentary
Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > Hi all, > > I was out this evening with some people from my lab, and my supervisor > brought his new girlfriend along (I didn't even know my supervisor had a > social life, he's in the lab a lot!). It turns out that his girlfriend > works for the BBC and she is part of a team which a planning a > documentary about Bill Gates. They want to present a balanced opinion of > Microsoft and I was very happy to present my "balanced" opinion (I'd had > a couple of pints), anyway I mentioned slashdot.org as a website for her > to find some anti-microsoft sentiment, and talked about Linux and Ubuntu > and mentioned about the BBC iPlayer and its incompatibility with Linux. > She said that the BBC would support Macs 'soon', but didn't know > anything about Linux. > > Anyway, I thought that this would be a good opportunity for > advertisement of Ubuntu, and I wonder if anyone has any ideas for > sources I could pass on to her via my supervisor. Of course I think she > would get a bit tired of a barrage of anti-microsoft propoganda. However > I think it might be good to pass on information about FOSS and FUD and > other acronyms she might not know about. > > Does anyone have any ideas of information we could pass on (she seemed > to be woefully lacking in information about Linux and was eagerly > writing everything I said down in her notebook, even though I don't know > that much myself)? There is a fascinating item from 2002 containing some grass roots arguments for open source: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/19/ms_in_peruvian_opensource_nightmare/ Equally as powerful, if not more so is Eben Moglen's lecture at Edinburgh 2007. I was particularly struck by the concept of having to buy a sufficient quantity of mathematics to complete my everyday activities. http://www.archive.org/details/EbenMoglenLectureEdinburghJune2007StreamingVideo384kbits These are (long and) full of gold, I trust the researcher will find interest in them. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
