[ubuntu-uk] Mini-success story
Now this is something that's definitely going to help tomorrow! My PC with XP on has today started throwing blue screens every time it starts up i.e. I can't use it - which is a nightmare because I'm using a website online for some revision help. With the Ubuntu 8.10 live cd I've got, I can now go online for however long I want! The only thing I have to do is install flash player and that's it!!! Oh I'm so using Ubuntu full time as soon as I can! James PS - the BSOD error was machine check exception - mainly associated with CPU but it seems to be running fine. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] System apps crash on LiveCD (WAS: Mini-success story)
OK perhaps not as easy as I first thought Running from a live cd: For some reason every system app crashes. Firefox etc work fine, yet whenever I try to install flash (any of the 3 available) terminal or the installer app crashes. I'm restarting with the live cd again to see if it works this time otherwise I think I might have faulty memory (will try the memory test if it fails again) Has anyone got anything else I can try? James On 29 May 2009, at 14:19, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: Now this is something that's definitely going to help tomorrow! My PC with XP on has today started throwing blue screens every time it starts up i.e. I can't use it - which is a nightmare because I'm using a website online for some revision help. With the Ubuntu 8.10 live cd I've got, I can now go online for however long I want! The only thing I have to do is install flash player and that's it!!! Oh I'm so using Ubuntu full time as soon as I can! James PS - the BSOD error was machine check exception - mainly associated with CPU but it seems to be running fine. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] System apps crash on LiveCD (WAS: Mini-success story)
Sorry for the third email in as many minutes! It worked fine after a restart, so it's all good again ;-) James Ps - I'll stop emailing now - sorry for the spam! On 29 May 2009, at 14:28, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: OK perhaps not as easy as I first thought Running from a live cd: For some reason every system app crashes. Firefox etc work fine, yet whenever I try to install flash (any of the 3 available) terminal or the installer app crashes. I'm restarting with the live cd again to see if it works this time otherwise I think I might have faulty memory (will try the memory test if it fails again) Has anyone got anything else I can try? James On 29 May 2009, at 14:19, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: Now this is something that's definitely going to help tomorrow! My PC with XP on has today started throwing blue screens every time it starts up i.e. I can't use it - which is a nightmare because I'm using a website online for some revision help. With the Ubuntu 8.10 live cd I've got, I can now go online for however long I want! The only thing I have to do is install flash player and that's it!!! Oh I'm so using Ubuntu full time as soon as I can! James PS - the BSOD error was machine check exception - mainly associated with CPU but it seems to be running fine. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Wiki problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For me, either using my VPS (66.71.252.*** IP) or main PC (81.174.154.*** IP) the Ubuntu Wiki and Launchpad seem to time out about 2 out of 3 times. Is anyone else having the same problem, or is it just me? - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkof8KIACgkQ1kZz3mRu0GqOdQCg7eei25ritcJUY5CvTzoctHUJ jGIAoMI7LwM/wwfR5wqZO9COL9VjM0QE =QvEy -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wiki problem
Harry Rickards wrote: For me, either using my VPS (66.71.252.*** IP) or main PC (81.174.154.*** IP) the Ubuntu Wiki and Launchpad seem to time out about 2 out of 3 times. Is anyone else having the same problem, or is it just me? It timed out a couple of times for me, but it seems to have sped back up again. I guess that probably there was a break in UDS, or something... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament? One (three, five) more player(s) wanted!
where about can i add my name i intrested Right here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ChessTournament Mailing List! Sign up here: http://mail.bluefirestorm.net/listinfo/ubu-chess Email address is ubu-ch...@mail.bluefirestorm.net Well, the games have begun, but we've currently got an uneven number of players. We can work around this, but I wanted to see if anyone else would like to join? Go on, you know you want to have a few games of chess ;) :) Johnathon signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wiki problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/09 15:46, Christopher Swift wrote: Harry Rickards wrote: For me, either using my VPS (66.71.252.*** IP) or main PC (81.174.154.*** IP) the Ubuntu Wiki and Launchpad seem to time out about 2 out of 3 times. Is anyone else having the same problem, or is it just me? The wiki is working fine for me and at the moment I am really throttling my bandwidth downloading an ISO so I would actually expect a time-out even if it was functioning perfectly on the server end. Regardless I have no problems with it thus far. Perhaps it's an issue on your end? Seems to be working fine at the moment for me, so I'll just see if the problem returns later. Thanks for the help everyone. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkof9fQACgkQ1kZz3mRu0Grf9wCcCUW/zCOd3CzGe8ZVwA46zqb4 ReEAn1KBX2Cy7msCDudqOjmUKxXoVilo =YZjT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mini-success story
Would creating a USB startup disk work off a partition on an external hard disk? If so that'd be brill. James On 29 May 2009, at 15:46, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: James Milligan wrote: Now this is something that's definitely going to help tomorrow! My PC with XP on has today started throwing blue screens every time it starts up i.e. I can't use it - which is a nightmare because I'm using a website online for some revision help. With the Ubuntu 8.10 live cd I've got, I can now go online for however long I want! The only thing I have to do is install flash player and that's it!!! Oh I'm so using Ubuntu full time as soon as I can! James PS - the BSOD error was machine check exception - mainly associated with CPU but it seems to be running fine. That's good, I find it's always handy to have an Ubuntu Live CD kicking around for those times when something like that happens. What you could do is also create an Ubuntu USB stick (should be under System - Administration - USB Startup Disk creator) which hopefully you'd be able to boot from. I believe it should be possible then to install Flash on there too so you can simply boot and start working straight away. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wiki problem
I was about to ask the same thing - was running very slowly before. Also does anyone else have styling issues with the shipit site? It just displays plain text for me, and runs extremely slowly for me. James On 29 May 2009, at 15:49, Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/29/09 15:46, Christopher Swift wrote: Harry Rickards wrote: For me, either using my VPS (66.71.252.*** IP) or main PC (81.174.154.*** IP) the Ubuntu Wiki and Launchpad seem to time out about 2 out of 3 times. Is anyone else having the same problem, or is it just me? The wiki is working fine for me and at the moment I am really throttling my bandwidth downloading an ISO so I would actually expect a time-out even if it was functioning perfectly on the server end. Regardless I have no problems with it thus far. Perhaps it's an issue on your end? Seems to be working fine at the moment for me, so I'll just see if the problem returns later. Thanks for the help everyone. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (GPG Key ID:646ED06A) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkof9fQACgkQ1kZz3mRu0Grf9wCcCUW/zCOd3CzGe8ZVwA46zqb4 ReEAn1KBX2Cy7msCDudqOjmUKxXoVilo =YZjT -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wiki problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Milligan wrote: I was about to ask the same thing - was running very slowly before. Also does anyone else have styling issues with the shipit site? It just displays plain text for me, and runs extremely slowly for me. James On 29 May 2009, at 15:49, Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote: On 05/29/09 15:46, Christopher Swift wrote: Harry Rickards wrote: For me, either using my VPS (66.71.252.*** IP) or main PC (81.174.154.*** IP) the Ubuntu Wiki and Launchpad seem to time out about 2 out of 3 times. Is anyone else having the same problem, or is it just me? The wiki is working fine for me and at the moment I am really throttling my bandwidth downloading an ISO so I would actually expect a time-out even if it was functioning perfectly on the server end. Regardless I have no problems with it thus far. Perhaps it's an issue on your end? Seems to be working fine at the moment for me, so I'll just see if the problem returns later. Thanks for the help everyone. You're not alone on that one, shipit has no theme/style over here too. It is just plain text for me in Firefox. I guess someone slipped up somewhere! - -- Christopher Swift http://launchpad.net/~chris PGP Key: 0x10A0B8E ch...@chrisswift.eu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkof+WAACgkQYckxdhCgq478VACdFlM4zn2R2ihqjsJySkOWnbyA jxsAn0mVlScRVMhbvai8ret4J3WE6IfL =I4ie -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wiki problem
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Rickards wrote: For me, either using my VPS (66.71.252.*** IP) or main PC (81.174.154.*** IP) the Ubuntu Wiki and Launchpad seem to time out about 2 out of 3 times. Is anyone else having the same problem, or is it just me? The wiki is working fine for me and at the moment I am really throttling my bandwidth downloading an ISO so I would actually expect a time-out even if it was functioning perfectly on the server end. Regardless I have no problems with it thus far. Perhaps it's an issue on your end? - -- Christopher Swift http://launchpad.net/~chris PGP Key: 0x10A0B8E ch...@chrisswift.eu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkof9S8ACgkQYckxdhCgq47UFgCdGcyW1GWfp7ZCfi1704ECSn5g Tt0AnAzUOGh/5zuyXCLdVuxWQUPXbp1+ =+CuM -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Kier Thomas and Jamie Sicam
W.H.Smith Direct (internet) are curenly offering the third edition of Beginning Ubunto Linux for £23-97, delivered. Mine arrived next day, before 12, by TNT. Please note, this is the internet price, instore price is more expensive. The DVD provided has, Kubuntu, Xubuntu,Edubuntu, Ubuntu alternate installer,Ubuntux86-64, Ubuntu Power PC and Ubuntu main release 8.04. Written for first time users and experts alike, the book serves as both an instruction manual and a knowledge base. I write this e-mail in the spirit of Ubuntu, helping each other, I have no connection with W.H Smith beyond that of being a customer. The £23-97 price is the best I have found so far. Regards, Michael.D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Kier Thomas and Jamie Sicam
I can also vouch for this - I have the second edition and helped me loads gettig started at least with some of the basics (it does have detailed bits as well) James On 29 May 2009, at 22:20, mike daniels mikezz1...@yahoo.com wrote: W.H.Smith Direct (internet) are curenly offering the third edition of Beginning Ubunto Linux for £23-97, delivered. Mine arrived next day, before 12, by TNT. Please note, this is the internet price, instore price is more expensive. The DVD provided has, Kubuntu, Xubuntu,Edubuntu, Ubuntu alternate installer,Ubuntux86-64, Ubuntu Power PC and Ubuntu main release 8.04. Written for first time users and experts alike, the book serves as both an instruction manual and a knowledge base. I write this e-mail in the spirit of Ubuntu, helping each other, I have no connection with W.H Smith beyond that of being a customer. The £23-97 price is the best I have found so far. Regards, Michael.D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Kier Thomas and Jamie Sicam
I bought the Ubuntu Linux for Dummies book a while back, sorry cant remember what the price was, but that came from the USA, and arrived within 5 days. I was quite surprised to get it so quickly. It wasnt that expensive. Is this book any good, it has helped me a bit, but it is very basic. Is this book you mentioned worth getting as well as? I am looking for something that deals more with the Terminal, and how to use that now. Anybody know of any books that deal with Terminal basics? Thank you. John. James Milligan wrote: I can also vouch for this - I have the second edition and helped me loads gettig started at least with some of the basics (it does have detailed bits as well) James On 29 May 2009, at 22:20, mike daniels mikezz1...@yahoo.com mailto:mikezz1...@yahoo.com wrote: W.H.Smith Direct (internet) are curenly offering the third edition of Beginning Ubunto Linux for £23-97, delivered. Mine arrived next day, before 12, by TNT. Please note, this is the internet price, instore price is more expensive. The DVD provided has, Kubuntu, Xubuntu,Edubuntu, Ubuntu alternate installer,Ubuntux86-64, Ubuntu Power PC and Ubuntu main release 8.04. Written for first time users and experts alike, the book serves as both an instruction manual and a knowledge base. I write this e-mail in the spirit of Ubuntu, helping each other, I have no connection with W.H Smith beyond that of being a customer. The £23-97 price is the best I have found so far. Regards, Michael.D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....
Neil Greenwood wrote: 2009/5/28 Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk: On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:03 +0100, John wrote: Hi Matt, Sorry its taken me so long to get back to you. I opened FF through a terminal, but nothing happens. I think its because the whole thing crashes so the terminal gets closed when I have to force close the hole thing. Not sure what else I can do for this. My laptop is a crap laptop, it maybe that it just wont work in a VM, which is a shame because I quite like using it that way. I will keep trying though, to see if I can get it to work. John. Hi John, No worries about the time, I'm not entirely sure why firefox is doing that. The only suggestion I can think of is try a slightly lighter browser, such as Epiphany (it's in the repos) and see if you get the same problem. Sorry that's not much help! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Just to point out - don't install the package called 'epiphany' and expect it to be the web browser! I got caught by that once. The package you want is called 'epiphany-browser'. Cofion, Neil. Hi, well I tried the Epiphany browser, no luck at all. It crashed/froze worse than the FF browser does. I dont know if this has anything to do with it, but the VM keeps loosing the Internet wi-fi connection, when trying to view the vids, something I just found out. Could that be a cause for the browsers to crash/freeze? It doesnt loose the connection at all in Windows. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Audio books and wget
Hi, I am trying to automate the downloading of audibooks from podiobooks.com Instead of clicking each link to download each mp3 chapter I am trying delvelop a sript that can be cron'ed. Now the problem: Example link to mp3 file: www.podiobooks.com/blahblahblah-03.mp3 using the following: *wget --convert-links -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off http://podiobooks.com/blahblah * to download the file results in the following being downloaded: *www.podiobooks.com/blahblahblah-03.mp3?moreblahblahblah * this file is then deleted due to the accept list not recognising it. Is there any way for wget to ignore or delete everything after the ? to the end of the line Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beginning Ubuntu Linux, Kier Thomas and Jamie Sicam
Yep this book does. On 29 May 2009, at 22:46, John jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the Ubuntu Linux for Dummies book a while back, sorry cant remember what the price was, but that came from the USA, and arrived within 5 days. I was quite surprised to get it so quickly. It wasnt that expensive. Is this book any good, it has helped me a bit, but it is very basic. Is this book you mentioned worth getting as well as? I am looking for something that deals more with the Terminal, and how to use that now. Anybody know of any books that deal with Terminal basics? Thank you. John. James Milligan wrote: I can also vouch for this - I have the second edition and helped me loads gettig started at least with some of the basics (it does have detailed bits as well) James On 29 May 2009, at 22:20, mike daniels mikezz1...@yahoo.com mailto:mikezz1...@yahoo.com wrote: W.H.Smith Direct (internet) are curenly offering the third edition of Beginning Ubunto Linux for £23-97, delivered. Mine arrived next day, before 12, by TNT. Please note, this is the internet price, instore price is more expensive. The DVD provided has, Kubuntu, Xubuntu,Edubuntu, Ubuntu alternate installer,Ubuntux86-64, Ubuntu Power PC and Ubuntu main release 8.04. Written for first time users and experts alike, the book serves as both an instruction manual and a knowledge base. I write this e-mail in the spirit of Ubuntu, helping each other, I have no connection with W.H Smith beyond that of being a customer. The £23-97 price is the best I have found so far. Regards, Michael.D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Audio books and wget
On 29 May 2009, at 22:59, michael ubu...@bigmassiveheed.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am trying to automate the downloading of audibooks from podiobooks.com Instead of clicking each link to download each mp3 chapter I am trying delvelop a sript that can be cron'ed. Now the problem: Example link to mp3 file: www.podiobooks.com/blahblahblah-03.mp3 using the following: *wget --convert-links -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off http://podiobooks.com/blahblah * to download the file results in the following being downloaded: *www.podiobooks.com/blahblahblah-03.mp3?moreblahblahblah * this file is then deleted due to the accept list not recognising it. Is there any way for wget to ignore or delete everything after the ? to the end of the line Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Hi Micheal, It's been a while since I used podiobooks, but IIRC you can set it to release all chapters 'now' and it gives you an rss feed with all the chapters as enclosures. You could use this in any podcatching software, or parse the feed manually if that's your bag! Should be simpler than spidering the site using wget? Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
