Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems
On 26 May 2010 13:41, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Hi, On 26 May 2010 13:36, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: When I run the Update manager and it scan for updates I get this: W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 Google + 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 = Lots of hits! :) http://wan.pengganas.net/entry/keep-your-ubuntu-updated/ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 gpg --export --armor 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 | sudo apt-key add - Should sort it. You can also do this in one command: sudo apt-key adv --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 should do the same as the 2 lines Popey wrote. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On 26 May 2010 16:45, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Reminds me of a relative who phoned me a few years ago and complained his (Windows) PC wouldn't boot. What were you doing when you last used it? Just deleting some files I never use Like what? command.com, something like that You may have a problem there ... LOL :-) I had a friend who also called me with My computer will not start What did you do? Well it said that I was running out of memory, and to close some applications. So I deleted Windows/System32. I don't use a program called System32 so I deleted it. Did I do something wrong? -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Using lsb_release shows some strange things
I saw you suggesting to another person getting the release version by running lsb_release. I tried that and got nothing like what was posted on the OP's e-mail. Here is what i got. LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch I remember a couple of weeks ago, posting about problems with the Grub, showing all those kernels. Would anybody know why I am getting this when using this command, and how I get around it. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using lsb_release shows some strange things
On 27 May 2010 09:48, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I saw you suggesting to another person getting the release version by running lsb_release. I tried that and got nothing like what was posted on the OP's e-mail. Here is what i got. LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch Looks like you missed out the -a.. a...@bishop:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release:10.04 Codename: lucid Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using lsb_release shows some strange things
On 27/05/10 10:04, Alan Pope wrote: On 27 May 2010 09:48, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: I saw you suggesting to another person getting the release version by running lsb_release. I tried that and got nothing like what was posted on the OP's e-mail. Here is what i got. LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch Looks like you missed out the -a.. a...@bishop:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release:10.04 Codename: lucid Cheers, Al. Ah, thanks for seeing that. I tried again, and this is what I get. LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid What is all that stuff at the top. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using lsb_release shows some strange things
On 27 May 2010 10:08, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Ah, thanks for seeing that. I tried again, and this is what I get. LSB Version: core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Release: 10.04 Codename: lucid What is all that stuff at the top. It's just displaying some detail about lsb-* packages you have installed. Explained a bit here:- https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/lsb/+bug/66914/comments/2 Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meego and Ubuntu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am just trying it in a VM, and if I like it, I'll install it on my lenovo ideapad s10e. It looks really good. YaM On 05/26/2010 09:00 PM, Liam Wilson wrote: Hey all; As some of you may know, Meego for Netbooks was released today (http://meego.com/downloads/releases/netbook) and I thinking about dual-booting it with UNE, but was wondering if anyone else has tried it yet, and if you have, how is it? I'm downloading it as I type Cheers; Liam -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJL/kItAAoJEEBptwVRIHVaWUgH/1NapPj8IJNDFTrhlXkTF8NR rNVs5s+JFW/1r/E/lzbh3QENWQyKg44M7j19tsG2JGvHJgLD2IVbAXrN45VcbZV0 8I5DgsTIyMjiZf2ecq/OhxMfX0Gklg/Q+USB3WPG+ETS841IKSFTBkRyJQh26WeT pwEJbnSWP+o2lK8EO2zX1ubnkaLWZie5Wx045YTox1F9Pm8Al6VXdMsCsXKPPRX8 EUEpfaPvVfI27iH+RTpIkafmwO3XvZ9rcaRQ5FoBQs9VCJY3chPYu+kIfSHQC4uE Mbr7DDGqsx3W/KdbSG+feUIT5wWdiyZMO41sfyfszgtY9WjIORXmgP/fTs35VJ0= =ga/L -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems
I am getting this: Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring --secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg --keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com --recv-keys 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 gpg: requesting key CE49EC21 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com gpgkeys: key 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 not found on keyserver gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found. gpg: Total number processed: 0 I have to say that we are behind a nasty firewall and proxy so I might have to provide a user name and password, is it possible to do that inline of the command or how would I do that? -- _ Cornelius Mostert Senior IT Specialist United Kingdom: 075 2233 4818 International: 0044 75 2233 4818 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive unmounted, because I installed Gparted on my internal hard drive, and I imagine it is not present on the Live CD, not being a part of the basic installation (though I assume the Disk Utility is there). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive unmounted, because I installed Gparted on my internal hard drive, and I imagine it is not present on the Live CD, not being a part of the basic installation (though I assume the Disk Utility is there). It is what the installer users to format hard drives so it is present on the live cd. If it wasn't you could still install it anyway in the same manner as you would on installed system -- 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] Using Gparted
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive unmounted, because I installed Gparted on my internal hard drive, and I imagine it is not present on the Live CD, not being a part of the basic installation (though I assume the Disk Utility is there). It is on the LiveCD, it isn't installed by default to the system presumably so users don't mess something up accidentally. Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems
On 27 May 2010 12:15, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.comwrote:
I am getting this:
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring
--secret-keyring /etc/apt/secring.gpg --trustdb-name /etc/apt/trustdb.gpg
--keyring /etc/apt/trusted.gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com--recv-keys
9BDB3D89CE49EC21
gpg: requesting key CE49EC21 from hkp server keyserver.ubuntu.com
gpgkeys: key 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 not found on keyserver
gpg: no valid OpenPGP data found.
gpg: Total number processed: 0
I have to say that we are behind a nasty firewall and proxy so I might have
to provide a user name and password, is it possible to do that inline of the
command or how would I do that?
Depending on which tool you use to install packages, you can define a proxy
server and port. The proxy may need your login and password details too...
From the article http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-1575.html
Proxy support for apt-get package management:
In a terminal window and edit the apt configuration file
gksudo gedit /etc/apt/apt.conf
Add the following lines to this configuration file and save it:
ACQUIRE {
http::proxy http://username:pa...@host:port/;
}
If you run any apt-based command then hopefully they will pick up this
setting. Try open a new terminal if it does not work after you saved the
file.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meego and Ubuntu
On 27 May 2010 10:58, YaManicKill mailingl...@10people.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am just trying it in a VM, and if I like it, I'll install it on my lenovo ideapad s10e. It looks really good. What VM are you using? I have tried it in Virtualbox on a Windows machine, but it complains about missing framebuffer -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meego and Ubuntu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tried it in Vbox also, but it doesn't seem to work. So, I'm currently popping it on a usb stick to run on my netbook. Yam On 05/27/2010 02:22 PM, Philip Stubbs wrote: On 27 May 2010 10:58, YaManicKill mailingl...@10people.co.uk wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am just trying it in a VM, and if I like it, I'll install it on my lenovo ideapad s10e. It looks really good. What VM are you using? I have tried it in Virtualbox on a Windows machine, but it complains about missing framebuffer -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJL/nYTAAoJEEBptwVRIHVabzYIAI/rz8HqOc4v9ZS4otr4dcQs r9CmAj9fNa8qLSBzEV1E02DH9/Y2sKvhoYMj18NqFKoQWLZ1FeRKJxGmktS3yTgp ZNjzJIlbWRczJSv3tSUCPd2M68/rUPCUAGDY894a84aab415VyXdCoAlYCZDq5OT fEG1+vXAywQLkccbj1/SmruvQUyihw3X3c4tALIX5p13q3z4dYGao5y1kgJd7y9K C8bU3/MyN57S/USMfLkyjGuf7LsDKbtGdNFf8i2UuVN/QpMrgvynStei5HO/CD78 63vXTLOdIqGeE5fklURNFCq/J3GD+FQ6OWaHTf397Kryle9PfWtI6/hWuy5Udzk= =xWYj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...
Hi all This is off topic but I am not sure where to go. My site got killed and state: *The selected file could not be copied, because no file by that name exists. Please check that you supplied the correct filename.*** I tried to reload all the modules but no luck!! How do I check WHAT files were missing so I can try to replace them... My Site: www.cjmITsystems.com thanx -- _ Cornelius Mostert Senior IT Specialist United Kingdom: 075 2233 4818 International: 0044 75 2233 4818 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...
it seems to work here, even if the css is not good at all :p Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:00:32 +0100 From: corneliusmost...@googlemail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed... Hi all This is off topic but I am not sure where to go. My site got killed and state: The selected file could not be copied, because no file by that name exists. Please check that you supplied the correct filename. I tried to reload all the modules but no luck!! How do I check WHAT files were missing so I can try to replace them... My Site: www.cjmITsystems.com thanx -- _ Cornelius Mostert Senior IT Specialist United Kingdom: 075 2233 4818 International: 0044 75 2233 4818 _ Klicka här! http://new.windowslivemobile.msn.com/SE-SE/windows-live-hotmail/default.aspx-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...
On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all This is off topic but I am not sure where to go. My site got killed and state: The selected file could not be copied, because no file by that name exists. Please check that you supplied the correct filename. I tried to reload all the modules but no luck!! How do I check WHAT files were missing so I can try to replace them... My Site: www.cjmITsystems.com thanx -- Seems to be working. /s Surely as Senior IT Specialist this should be a piece of cake? :P Do a search on the Drupal forums; if you have the error someone else will have had the error. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...
On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi all This is off topic but I am not sure where to go. Did you not think to look on http://drupal.org/support They even have a 'Help' Forum http://drupal.org/forum Colin More Senior IT Specialist with embedded ability to Google :P -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive unmounted, because I installed Gparted on my internal hard drive, and I imagine it is not present on the Live CD, not being a part of the basic installation (though I assume the Disk Utility is there). On Thu, 27 May 2010 12:30:19 +0100, Daniel M. Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com wrote: It is on the LiveCD, it isn't installed by default to the system presumably so users don't mess something up accidentally. Dan On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 17:06 +0100, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: It is what the installer users to format hard drives so it is present on the live cd. If it wasn't you could still install it anyway in the same manner as you would on installed system. This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks. I shall have to run it just for an exploratory session. Presumably I can just stick it in, reboot, and see what happens. Thinking about it, it can't unmount the internal hard disk completely, it must be using it, in its own way. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: ... This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks. I shall have to run it just for an exploratory session. Presumably I can just stick it in, reboot, and see what happens. Thinking about it, it can't unmount the internal hard disk completely, it must be using it, in its own way. You can run off the live CD with no hard disk at all. As has been mentioned previously it will use the swap partition if it finds one, but that can be turned off in gparted. Then it will not be using the hard disk at all. Also it is not a matter of 'unmounting' the hard disk, it will never be mounted in the first place (apart from swap as mentioned). 'Mounting' is something that the OS does as it starts up, so it is up the the OS on the live CD whether it mounts the disk or not. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...
On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: This is off topic but I am not sure where to go. My site got killed and state: 'site got killed' isn't a particularly useful description of the problem. What were you doing at the time? What has changed recently? Have you installed any additional modules, upgraded the site or have some other system changes been done? The selected file could not be copied, because no file by that name exists. Please check that you supplied the correct filename. Googling for that error message returns some useful hits. You didn't specify what version of drupal you're running or what you did that triggered the error so hard to know which of the hits might be useful to you. http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=chromeie=UTF-8q=The+selected+file+could+not+be+copied,+because+no+file+by+that+name+exists.+Please+check+that+you+supplied+the+correct+filename. Amusingly your very message appears on the first page. To everyone else replying on this thread, please keep it friendly. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks. The Ubuntu Live CD has two main purposes. To allow new users to 'try' Ubuntu and see if they like what they see, and secondly to install Ubuntu onto a computer. A side benefit of it being a live environment is that you can use it for troubleshooting, diagnostics and problem resolution. It's a handy thing to have kicking around. Ubuntu didn't invent the concept of Live CDs, but certainly (along with Knoppix) helped to make it popular amongst mainstream Linux distributions. There are Live CDs and Live DVDs which contain even more utilities and tools. Indeed there are some which are designed to be run from a CD/DVD and not be installed at all. I recall visiting someone about 6 years ago who used a Knoppix live CD as his main desktop. He didn't actually have a fully installed system at all. I shall have to run it just for an exploratory session. Presumably I can just stick it in, reboot, and see what happens. Thinking about it, it can't unmount the internal hard disk completely, it must be using it, in its own way. Stick it in, reboot and you may need to invoke the BIOS or some other boot menu to select the CD to boot from. Many computers ship with the hard disk being the default boot device, and need to be tweaked to boot from CD. Others have a menu which can be invoked with a single keypress at boot time, from which you can select the boot device. More recent devices can be booted not only from the internal hard disk and an optical drive but also from a USB device. As such you can (using special tools) copy a Live CD 'image' to a USB stick and boot from that. This can be quicker than booting from CD, and is more portable. It will auto mount partitions on the hard disk which are FAT/FAT32, but won't automount EXT2/3/4 or NTFS (I think) partitions. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, James Tait wrote: snip Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip!] Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly awful) talk at Oggcamp on this subject. Next time I have a chance to talk about what I'm trying to achieve I _should_ be able to do it better! As a result of that I have some notes I'm slowly going through to gain some ideas of how to move forward, but this moves me onto point three. Well I was in that talk and I thought you did fine, so thank you. Phew, at least someone was listening! Thanks for coming along. So really, what drives you to support people? What, in your own opinion, could be done to help motivate yourself to do better? So many reasons I'm bound to forget as many as I list. * I believe in the software and the people behind it. * I believe in the power of the community - if we each do a little bit we can achieve a lot. * I like sticking it to The Man! * I was that cluebie newless once! * When I first started *really* using Ubuntu a few years ago, Popey was a massive inspiration to me, my hero. As time has gone on, more people have done the same. I hope that I can inspire people and maybe be someone's hero too. * Supporting other users is one way of giving back to a community that has given me so much. * Sometimes that little bit of help makes someone's day. * Sometimes they even thank you! * It's beneficial for me to understand users' problems. * It's beneficial for me to demonstrate that I know the answers to users' problems. * It's beneficial for me to learn from users' problems. * I cannot bear to think of a life where every day I get up, drop the kids at school, go to work, pick the kids up, go back to work, come home, eat, go to bed and start all over again. * Often my day job is so infuriatingly frustrating I like to achieve something with my evening so the day isn't wasted. * I'm a geek. * I enjoy a challenge and don't like to quit. That's quite a long list! Here's an interesting side question, what would help motivate you to improve the way you support people? How do you think it could be improved? There are *loads* more, but that should get you started. It's not all philanthropic, I do stuff that benefits me too - but the beauty of Free Software is that even when I'm scratching my own itch, I'm usually scratching someone else's itch too. Hope this helps, More than you could imagine :) Thanks -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...
you css filepaths look very odd and they aren't loading. I would expect the files to be with the theme they are attached to rather then in files Also there have been a large number of security fixes to Drupal modules recently so I hope you've got the email alerts turned on and been keep them up to date. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...
On 27 May 2010, at 21:41, Dan Attwood danattw...@googlemail.com wrote: you css filepaths look very odd and they aren't loading. I would expect the files to be with the theme they are attached to rather then in files Also there have been a large number of security fixes to Drupal modules recently so I hope you've got the email alerts turned on and been keep them up to date. ATT1..txt I would check the permissions on the cache/files folder, if the webserver can't write to them the css files won't be generated - drupal combines multiple css files into a single file. The required permissions can be found in the installation guide on the drupal website. Thank Ian -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 27/05/10 19:12, Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip!] That's quite a long list! Here's an interesting side question, what would help motivate you to improve the way you support people? How do you think it could be improved? That's a much more difficult question to answer, which is why I neatly side-stepped it! To be honest, I don't know. I can't think of anything that would make me *want* to help more, because I *want* to help anyway - - I'm just restricted by available time between work, family and personal projects. I'm conscious that my contributions are public and open to peer review, which can be a double-edged sword, so I try to make pretty sure that what I'm saying is accurate and correct before I submit it. But I don't think the question of my personal QA is what you're digging at here. At LUG Radio Live 2008, Ben Thorp gave a talk titled Supporting World Domination, where he talked about a system of live support, provided by the community. Chat channels and remote desktops were discussed. Jon Spriggs was involved in the discussion as well. We hashed together a very high-level idea for a technical solution to supporting users, providing a Live Help function or similar which would allow users to talk (more accurately, type) to someone knowledgeable to get assistance. I think we came up with a way of making sure that we didn't end up with just any old Tom, Dick or Harry on the other end and we talked about forwarding VNC over XMPP or similar. If we could work out the potential difficulties, that could be a phenomenal resource. Or how about bringing Launchpad Answers to the desktop? An applet that pops up an indicator periodically inviting me to answer a question. I dunno if we could hook it into popcon or something to filter the questions to those related to my more frequently-used applications? Does launchpadlib hook into Answers? Of course, it doesn't have to be a technical solution - LUGs are a great way to get face-to-face help. Sadly, my LUG isn't particularly active though. Has that sparked anything in anyone? JT - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate | VoIP: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---+ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkv/AiYACgkQyDo4xMNTLiZigwCeLi7fMMiKBGfFVNGNzSkEDOcp xHkAnA+rIkANMKnY83+i4zYYUB/aKxg+ =FB2f -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
