[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu and UEFI
Hi all, Thought this might be of interest! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PyOYsQmetQ -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing:http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXMLhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf or pdf documents by email -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?
Hi Doug, I am not sure exactly what you mean by access to the file, but since you are talking about readers, have you tried Okular (http://okular.kde.org/)? Best, James. On 28 November 2012 08:16, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 27/11/12 23:47, doug livesey wrote: Is the geek gestalt aware of anywhere where I can buy the latest books in a form that I can then either read on the Kindle, or convert to read on it? Does this article help? http://arstechnica.com/**gadgets/2012/10/drm-be-damned-** how-to-protect-your-amazon-e-**books-from-being-deleted/http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2012/10/drm-be-damned-how-to-protect-your-amazon-e-books-from-being-deleted/ Cheers Al -- Libertus Solutions http://www.libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/**mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-ukhttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/**UKTeam/ 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] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!
On 2012-11-27 18:39, Liam Proven wrote: I think what would put me off KVM slightly is that it means installing a Linux system, installing KVM on it, configuring the whole thing, updating it, locking it down... and then building a VM on top of that. ESXi is 32MB of code. Install it, connect to it, create VM, done. It was one of those tools where I did it right the first time myself, unaided, and was pleasantly surpised at how very straightforward it was. I agree with you that task #1 would mean more effort on your part. But I do hope you aren't assuming that ESXi is necessarily more secure or stable than KVM on Linux. Also, there's no locking down to do. Ubuntu is very secure by default. Install Ubuntu server, install openssh-server, install libvirt-bin, create a VM. The only listening port is SSH. KVM's virt-manager supports doing everything over SSH tunnels. Which means you get SSH key auth for free, instead of configuring a user/password system. Regards, Tyler -- By definition ... alternative medicine ... has either not been proved to work, or has been proved not to work. You know what they call alternative medicine that’s been proved to work? Medicine. -- Tim Minchin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?
On 27/11/12 23:47, doug livesey wrote: If you can buy EPUB books, and then have access to the actual file, it's pretty trivial to then convert that to the Kindle format. However the problem I've had is even getting to the actual file. I don't seem to have the problem you have. I use Calibre with the un-DRM plugin so if I buy books from Amazon they are converted automatically to mobi and I back them up. I've bought thousands of good books on DVDs from e-bay sellers and have even bought a book from Barnes and Noble and un-DRM'd it and converted it to mobi ... so I'm really no seeing the problem. There seems to be a hack available to make any format work OK. Oh - I never have the Kindle wi-fi turned on - if I buy a book I download the file to my desktop Regards,Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?
On 27 November 2012 23:47, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote: Is the geek gestalt aware of anywhere where I can buy the latest books in a form that I can then either read on the Kindle, or convert to read on it? Cheers, Doug. Hi Doug, There's Project Gutenberg (http://www.gutenberg.org/) for a massive collection of books that are out of copyright, and I also know that any http://oreilly.com/ books are DRM free if purchased through their website (and their Amazon versions too). Cheers, Mark PS -- Bound to be a tonne of people get a cross-posted email, there, so sorry about that. -- 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] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?
On 28/11/12 10:24, doug livesey wrote: How did the one from Barnes and Noble work? Did you have to extract it from a horrible proprietary e-reader, or was that just available for you to convert? It's so long ago I can't remember the details. I paid for it and downloaded the file from the BN website and it was in a proprietary format with DRM locking. I just searched around until I found a way of unlocking it and used Calibre to convert it. From memory, I think the original was in epub format for Kobo but I could be wrong. Regards,Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://www.ubuntu.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] OT Linux based anti virus cds
Hi I am looking into LInux based anti virus cd's and found the following site http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-av-cd.html just wondered if anyone had an experience in this area and perhaps some suggestions. I would assume cd's being read only makes them more immune from the type of virius that may try and infect a flash drive type device that are generally read / write. Basically looking for something like the system rescue cd, but for anti virus. This may benefit others here too, esp those with friends who use Windows but also complain of getting viruses. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Linux based anti virus cds
I have downloaded and used proprietory anti virus from well known AV companies, e.g. Avira. It was based on linux but was not customisable and intended to disinfect Windows PCs. David Sent from my android device. -Original Message- From: paul sutton zl...@zleap.net To: l...@dcglug.org.uk, British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2012 21:54 Subject: [ubuntu-uk] OT Linux based anti virus cds Hi I am looking into LInux based anti virus cd's and found the following site http://www.dedoimedo.com/computers/linux-av-cd.html just wondered if anyone had an experience in this area and perhaps some suggestions. I would assume cd's being read only makes them more immune from the type of virius that may try and infect a flash drive type device that are generally read / write. Basically looking for something like the system rescue cd, but for anti virus. This may benefit others here too, esp those with friends who use Windows but also complain of getting viruses. Paul -- -- http://drupal.zleap.net skype : psutton111 http://www.linkedin.com/pub/paul-sutton/36/595/911 http://www.raspberrypi.org http://www.ubuntu.com -- 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/
