Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
We are the borg. You will be assimilated. Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage of good SF? Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
Norman Silverstone wrote: We are the borg. You will be assimilated. Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage of good SF? There is some good SF available? I must live a sheltered life. The SF I've been exposed to on the small screen seems to be Cowboys and Indians c1950 Hollywood. -- Life is too short. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Good SciFi was: What would Linus Pauling think about 'LinuxCertified'?
On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:22:50 +0100, Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu wrote: Norman Silverstone wrote: We are the borg. You will be assimilated. Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage of good SF? There is some good SF available? I must live a sheltered life. The SF I've been exposed to on the small screen seems to be Cowboys and Indians c1950 Hollywood. If you get a chance to watch Dollhouse, that _is_ good SciFi. Weird, and a little bit freaky, but good none the less. I keep meaning to go back through the whole of Farscape from my SciFi collection too. That was another amazing show. -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
On 06/08/09 00:51, Sean Miller wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 12:35 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting. I'm running RC at the moment and am NOT seeing it chock full of those really annoying popups at all. a. I ran it for several months under Virtualbox with 512mb allocated and it was fine b. I don't remember any annoying pop-ups either 'night! sean Hmmm, may be I am just uber-sensitive but trying to set up networking seemed totally over the top to me. I can't recall the exact procedure I remember being led around a recursive loop trying to get a simple LAN interface configured and constantly being sent back to the set up a home (or office) Windows Network wizard thingemy bob. Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat. Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote in message news:h5dvv8$ra...@ger.gmane.org... Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 :-) Getting mine for £44 Still thinking of using it in a VM. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 08:34 +0100, Gordon wrote: Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote in message news:h5dvv8$ra...@ger.gmane.org... Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 Surely that a description of Kubuntu? -- Seek That Thy Might Know http://www.davmor2.co.uk 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.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat. If you pay £219.99 you've been conned. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat. If you pay £219.99 you've been conned. Sean Yep. But if you pay *anything* you've been conned ;-) That is the retail price for the professional edition and after the until December promotion ends. And as there is no upgrade package from XP that is what most mortals will be expected to stump up. Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary OS with virtually no applications doesn't float my boat. If you pay £219.99 you've been conned. Sean Yep. But if you pay *anything* you've been conned ;-) That is the retail price for the professional edition and after the until December promotion ends. And as there is no upgrade package from XP that is what most mortals will be expected to stump up. Al That is what was worrying me about having to upgrade, I only have XP on all my machines, so I will have to pay that out twice. Wont be doing that for a while. I think by the Time Windows 7 comes in proper and they stop the support for XP, I will be using only Ubuntu on all my machines. John. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Yahoo login page hang and VirginMobile internet usb dongle
I have a friend who is just beginning to use ubuntu (9.04), and she is using VirginMobile internet from a usb dongle. The webmail she uses is yahoo. However, just the last few days there have been considerable problems. The yahoo login page has not been completing, but hangs when only half complete. The mobile signal strength is good (3/4 bars) and download speed is usually over 100kbs. The problem is *only* with yahoo sign in, other online stuff is ok and normal on the internet. The browser is Firefox, and I tried before and after a FF ubuntu update 3.0.12, and 3.0.13, I also tried epiphany browser (ubutu repos), the problem stayed, it is not possible to login, most obviously because the login button is not (yet) shown. When I was testing this, I also tried an adsl ethernet connection which happens to be available nearby, yahoo all worked perfectly, no problem, but substitute the usb dongle again for the ethernet and - problem back. During the hang, a particular yahoo machine seemed to be indicated so I wondered if this yahoo machine was a current problem. Also I am aware that yahoo are doing a lot of changes, including to their home page, and a lot more so maybe a bug will get sorted out soon. On one occasion during the firefox hang, I pulled the dongle out and the yahoo page suddenly appeared fully up and ok (??), but maybe offline. I did not get a chance to repeat this action to confirm it or investigate further. I did try a googlemail account, sign-in with no problem. I have emailed to yahoo with the information. I live in hope. Any thoughts about why the problem and how to resolve it? tia -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unison and .prf files
JOn, Jon Taylor wrote: thanks for replying to my problem on the Ubuntu forum and I hope you don't mind me contacting you directly. No problem, although you stand a better chance of getting help if we keep this on the mailing list as you get more than just me looking at your problem. I think you may be expecting a little too much of me! I'm new to Ubuntu (well relatively) and I'm still very much in the learning phase, and so I'm not totally au~fait with command line or getting hold of the .prf file, to be honest I don't even know what that is! OK, we were all at that stage once upon a time! Basically I'm looking at the GUI and I couldn't see a section with any network in it. Is this fire wall related? When you set up the GUI for UNISON you probably created a profile and specified 'Root 1' and 'Root 2' which are the two folders you want to syncronise. What did you put there? I only ask because I have a syncing app on my windows box and it says that the firewall on my laptop is preventing it from communicating. I'm not completely sure. If I recall, one of your folders was on a file server of some description? Unison needs to be installed on both ends of a network connection for it to work, so that may be your problem. This is why I would like to see how you specified the folders to sync. Thanks for your help, it's really appreciated! No problem. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Good SciFi was: What would Linus Pauling think about 'LinuxCertified'?
Hi, On Thu, Aug 06, 2009 at 06:49:27AM +, Matt Daubney wrote: On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:22:50 +0100, Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu wrote: There is some good SF available? I must live a sheltered life. The SF I've been exposed to on the small screen seems to be Cowboys and Indians c1950 Hollywood. If you get a chance to watch Dollhouse, that _is_ good SciFi. http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/may/23/joss-whedon-dollhouse-brooker Charlie For Mayor. Cheers, Andy -- http://bitfolk.com/ -- No-nonsense VPS hosting signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
