Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can someone remove this page on the ubuntu-uk web please?

[Alan Lord]

On 16/11/2020 09:15, Alan Pope wrote:


Sorry about that. I'll take a look. I have nuked the site in the 
meantime until I can look at it. It's all outdated content anyway.


Cheers,
Al.


No need to apologise :-)

Cheers
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[ubuntu-uk] Can someone remove this page on the ubuntu-uk web please?

[Alan Lord]

I got an email over the weekend day from a chap asking if my company was 
still distributing free CDs.


I haven't seen a CD for years and Alan Bell is no longer part of my company.

I tried logging into the ubuntu wiki but can't find an obvious way to 
delete a page.


Does anyone know how to delete this one please?

http://ubuntu-uk.org/free-cds/

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] help on debugging desktop issue?

[Alan Lord]

Just as a follow up on this one. I gave up trying to fix my existing 
user - I couldn't really find much online as to what the issue might 
have been, and not much on the logs either.


So I just created a new user, and then moved all the data I needed 
across to that one. It was a PITA and took ages but at least it works 
now. One bonus is I now have a clean desktop again ;-)


Al


On 07/10/2020 13:02, Liam Proven wrote:

On Wed, 7 Oct 2020 at 10:12, Alan Lord  wrote:


Hi all,


Hi Alan. Long time no see.


At the weekend I upgraded my desktop PC from 18.04 to 20.04. Every
morning after power up when I log in, once the desktop loads, any icons
on the desktop do not get drawn and all of the launcher buttons do not
respond to mouse clicks (nor does the top bar) so I have to CTL+ALT+F5
and login to a shell and reboot. If I move my ~/.config directory out of
the way, before I log in, then the desktop works OK for the rest of that
day. I can copy directories from the moved ~/.config (for things like
Chrome history, nautilus bookmarks, etc...)




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[ubuntu-uk] help on debugging desktop issue?

[Alan Lord]

Hi all,

At the weekend I upgraded my desktop PC from 18.04 to 20.04. Every 
morning after power up when I log in, once the desktop loads, any icons 
on the desktop do not get drawn and all of the launcher buttons do not 
respond to mouse clicks (nor does the top bar) so I have to CTL+ALT+F5 
and login to a shell and reboot. If I move my ~/.config directory out of 
the way, before I log in, then the desktop works OK for the rest of that 
day. I can copy directories from the moved ~/.config (for things like 
Chrome history, nautilus bookmarks, etc...)


But the following day, after being powered down I have the same problem 
when I login in the morning. It's a PITA.


I've also tried removing the ~/.cache dir and that doesn't seem to help 
at all. I am loathe to move ~./local as this has over 70 sub directories 
in it with years of useful metadata in it I guess. It would take ages to 
work out which dir (if there is one) is the cause...



How do I go about debugging this? What log files are likely to be 
relevant? Anyone seen anything similar?



Just FYI, I'm not at home today so no rush  Am on my laptop which I 
upgraded to 20.04 a while ago with no problems at all ;-)



Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Real Ale Train 2020 - date poll

[Alan Lord]

I think I'd take a wait and see approach to be honest.

I don't think you'll struggle to find a room nearer the time - or if 
worse comes to worse you can crash at mine (or popey's) I guess. Both of 
us are _relatively_ local.


Al

On 12/03/2020 13:33, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:

Hi all,

I've left the doodle poll - https://doodle.com/poll/ih8maphziqdvrbt5 - 
running for a month, and it looks like end of September / early October 
are most favoured.


With the recent pandemic we're facing, do people still want to get 
together later this year?


If so, I'll book myself a hotel and keep my fingers crossed.

Cheers,
Iain

On Tue, 2020-02-04 at 15:50 +, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:

Good afternoon everybody,

While I may no longer be a particularly active member of the group, 
it's nice to catch up with friends made over the years.


With this in mind, why don't we have another beer/cider/wine/soft 
drink fuelled evening down in Hampshire aboard a magnificante steam train?


All about the RAT: 
https://www.watercressline.co.uk/product.php/139/real-ale-train-rat


I last ran one was back in 2016, which was as popular as previous events.

As I'm lazy, here's the text from that year's date poll email 
(slightly updated for 2020):



Who likes beer, steam trains, beer, card games, more beer, and a 
bloody good time?


Yes! It's time to think about the Ubuntu UK RAT for 2020!

As it's such a popular activity, we have to book early to make sure we 
get the train we want.


While it's still February, the event will be between late August and 
early October.


To find out the best time for us to book, I've created a quick and 
easy poll I'd like people to fill in for the dates that you think you 
can make.


Please go here -> https://doodle.com/poll/ih8maphziqdvrbt5

Doing so does not guarantee that the date(s) selected will be the one 
we go with. Nor does it secure yourself a place on the train.


Once we have a date agreed, I shall put out another email with more 
details and a link to buying your ticket for the train.


Thanks for reading :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Real Ale Train 2020 - date poll

[Alan Lord]

Fab idea Iain,


Al


On 04/02/2020 15:50, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:

Good afternoon everybody,

While I may no longer be a particularly active member of the group, it's 
nice to catch up with friends made over the years.


With this in mind, why don't we have another beer/cider/wine/soft drink 
fuelled evening down in Hampshire aboard a magnificante steam train?


All about the RAT: 
https://www.watercressline.co.uk/product.php/139/real-ale-train-rat


I last ran one was back in 2016, which was as popular as previous events.

As I'm lazy, here's the text from that year's date poll email (slightly 
updated for 2020):



Who likes beer, steam trains, beer, card games, more beer, and a bloody 
good time?


Yes! It's time to think about the Ubuntu UK RAT for 2020!

As it's such a popular activity, we have to book early to make sure we 
get the train we want.


While it's still February, the event will be between late August and 
early October.


To find out the best time for us to book, I've created a quick and easy 
poll I'd like people to fill in for the dates that you think you can make.


Please go here -> https://doodle.com/poll/ih8maphziqdvrbt5

Doing so does not guarantee that the date(s) selected will be the one we 
go with. Nor does it secure yourself a place on the train.


Once we have a date agreed, I shall put out another email with more 
details and a link to buying your ticket for the train.


Thanks for reading :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 19.10 release Get Together

[Alan Lord]

Gosh - Not been to one of these for *YEARS*

Am unlikely to make it but I will try if I can.

Al


On 16/10/2019 15:36, Alan Pope wrote:

*

Hi all,


Tomorrow is Ubuntu 19.10 release day, our 15th release so far. As is 
customary we’ve found a small London pub in which to celebrate. If 
you’re in the area of SE1 from 6pm, why not drop by and help us 
celebrate the Eoan Ermine :)



*The first few people will get a little ‘party bag’ of Ubuntu swag (and 
possibly a beer) :) Maybe see you there?*



Find out more at 
https://gettogether.community/events/2565/ubuntu-1910-release-party/



Thanks,

popey

*





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source MTD VAT software?

[Alan Lord]

On 21/03/2019 09:26, Paul Waring wrote:

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 09:22:37AM +, Steve Mynott wrote:

Does any open source MTD VAT software exist?

https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/making-tax-digital-software


This question was asked on another list recently and the answer seemed
to be 'no'. The specifications for interacting with HMRC are available
so it does seem to be possible to build open source software for
reporting income tax, VAT etc. - the details are here:

https://developer.service.hmrc.gov.uk/api-documentation/docs/mtd



There is. uzERP:

https://www.uzerp.com/blog/2019/03/13/making_tax_digital/


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] openSUSE conference 2018: fancy a weekend away in Prague?

[Alan Lord]

On 15/05/18 16:00, Liam Proven wrote:

The programme for this year's openSUSE conference has been published.

https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC18/schedule

It's in Prague, Czechia, the last weekend of this month. The event is 
free and Prague is surprisingly cheap -- beer is £1.50 a pint and 
unlimited public transport is £3 a day.


https://events.opensuse.org/conference/oSC18


I can't make this event myself but would recommend Prague to anyone.

We went "en famille" last year (or maybe the year before) for a long 
weekend and thoroughly enjoyed the place.


And there is an amazing Chilli related restaurant too [1] ;-)

Al

[1] http://www.chillipoint.cz/en/


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongles

[Alan Lord]

On 04/12/16 16:43, George Tripp wrote:


The one I recently returned did claim to be raspberry pi compatible. this is 
why I assumed it would be OK.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B019O73AWO/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o02_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

However as I said before I couldn't get it to work. I'm running 64 bit Ubuntu 
on a
AMD Phenom processor.


If you still have the dongle perhaps someone on the list can help you 
diagnose the problem. e.g. what didn't work specifically? What is the 
output of things like the lsub command before and after plugging in the 
dongle? I'm sure others will be better at pointing you in the right 
direction.


In my experience you shouldn't really need to do very much at all. It 
really should be pretty much plug and play for these kinds of devices.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongles

[Alan Lord]

On 01/12/16 11:18, George Tripp wrote:

Thanks for all your replies. The thing is I recently bought one on Amazon. It 
turned out that it definitely wasn't plug and play. It did include a linux driver 
you had to compile. I'm afraid I failed at this and ended up returning it. I wanted 
to avoid repeating this! (I have one I bought years ago from the Linux Emporium 
& that just works.)


I've never needed to compile a driver for a Wifi Dongle. Most all use 
the same chipsets and are well supported.


if you struggle to find one that works try buying one which is supported 
by Raspberry Pi.. If it works on Raspbian (a Debian derivative) it's 
almost certain to work on Ubuntu.


Try searching for "raspberry pi wifi dongle" - that should give you 
loads of compatible options.


Al



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Who's on the RAT this Saturday 10/09/2016?

[Alan Lord]

On 09/09/16 18:26, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:

Loco page updated!
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/3350-real-ale-train-2016/



Thanks for organising Iain.

Had a fab time - was great to catch up with everyone again.

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Who's on the RAT this Saturday 10/09/2016?

[Alan Lord]

On 06/09/16 16:15, Alan Lord wrote:


I'll try and find out what time they are due to open before Sat and post
a message on here if it's not going to work and I'll suggest another venue.


I just wandered passed the pub and the builders are still in there, but 
the sign says open at midday on the 10th so it should be OK I guess.


See you at the Mulberry on Sat afternoon...

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Who's on the RAT this Saturday 10/09/2016?

[Alan Lord]

On 06/09/16 15:55, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:

I'm always up for going to the pub ;)


Me too ;-)


On the loco page
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/3350-real-ale-train-2016/ I put
that we were meeting at The Mulberry as that's what we had done in the
past.


Why didn't I read that first

I'll try and find out what time they are due to open before Sat and post 
a message on here if it's not going to work and I'll suggest another venue.


Cheers

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[ubuntu-uk] Who's on the RAT this Saturday 10/09/2016?

[Alan Lord]

Anyone want to meet in a local hostelry before we head off?

Before we have met in Farnham either at The Mulberry or The Waverley 
Arms... The  get the train from Farnham to Alton before getting on the RAT.


The Mulberry is currently closed for a refurb but is due to open again 
on the 10th Sept.


Al


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] $5 Computer

[Alan Lord]

On 26/11/15 14:03, Alan Pope wrote:


I remember my brother getting music magazines with promo plastic
records on the front :)


lol - *I* remember getting those bendy 45s on the front of magazines...

Al



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[ubuntu-uk] $5 Computer

[Alan Lord]

Slightly OT but I thought it interesting in case anyone missed the 
announcement this morning:


https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-zero/



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] A spot of dinner before the RAT

[Alan Lord]

On 14/09/15 13:29, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:

Right, how about...

Where: The Mulberry
When: 5.30pm-ish?
Who: Anybody who is coming :)

I suggest 5.30-ish as the RAT itself leaves at 7.20pm and we have to get
from Farnham to Alton (buy normal train tickets on the train, if the
guard actually turns up)


Sounds good.

I'll be there (probably a bit earlier than 5:30)

Al



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] A spot of dinner before the RAT

[Alan Lord]

On 13/09/15 21:43, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:


Last year we met at the Waverly Arms, the year before that we were at
The Mulberry.


I thought the Waverley Arms was crap last year. I think I recall Laura 
and Jon having a hard time with their scampi fries ;-)


I'll probably not be eating myself anyway - but will be enjoying a pint 
or two...


I'm not a big fan of the Mulberry for beer (it's a youngster's pub so is 
pretty much a Lager bar in reality) but it's got a decent reputation for 
burgers...


Then there is the William Cobbett in town - it's only a gentle 10 minute 
walk to the station.


I'm easy whatever.

Al



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] How did I not know about dovecote sieve

[Alan Lord]

There's also a convenient Thunderbird plugin to help you configure and 
maintain your scripts from your Desktop.


https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/thunderbird/addon/sieve/

Al


On 23/08/15 15:47, Dave Morley wrote:

Dovecote.sieve filtering mail server side, it's easy, it's fast and done
by the server, how the hell did I not know about this before ?





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Audio Question

[Alan Lord]

On 18/08/15 15:54, Nigel Verity wrote:


The problem I'm having is that I can record sound from the mike and play
it back in separate operations , but I can find no way of monitoring
input from the microphone during the recording.

I am running Ubuntu MATE 15.04 and using the Pulse Audio Volume Control
to select inputs and outputs.


Have you tried Audacity? I think that can play and record at the same 
time if that is what you are after...


Al



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disappearing characters

[Alan Lord]

On 09/03/15 13:35, Bruce Beardall wrote:


For the most part, I'm quite happy, 14.10 runs quite smoothly and Unity
handles the HD display but I've noticed when typing on LibreOffice
Writer, characters disappear. That is to say, that although they're
still there, they don't show on the page. Selecting all and changing the
font makes them visible again but at this point no particular font seems
immune. I haven't yet noticed this happening in any other program which
includes writing. Also, it doesn't happen all the time.


I see this mostly in LibreOffice but also sometimes in Thunderbird too.

I find if you scroll the page back and forward out of the viewport they 
come back :-)


I'm using a fairly old Samsung R320 laptop - I don't recall having this 
issue before 14.10 but I could be wrong. I'm also using the metacity 
fallback window manager after Unity lost all it's settings and the 
launcher failed to display twice. After spending ages fixing it the 
first time I gave up.


I assumed it was a dodgy graphics driver or something similar but it 
doesn't bother me enough to worry about or try and write a bug report...


Al




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

[Alan Lord]

On 06/03/15 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

Hi all,
Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and
why...


Currently I'm still using my old Samsung Galaxy S3 because nothing since 
has made me excited enough to want to change it.


We did however order a couple of the BQ E4.5 Ubuntu Phones on the first 
they day they went up for sale - not received them yet but am looking 
forward to having something a bit different to use.


Al





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Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity doesn't load after kernel update?

[Alan Lord]

On 26/11/14 12:00, Will Cooke wrote:


Hi Alan,  could you try resetting compiz's configuration:

First "rm -rf ~/.compiz-1" if it exists
Then run "gsettings reset-recursively
org.compiz.core:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/ "

Then reboot (or restart lightdm) and see if it makes any difference.


No joy I'm afraid.

I ran those two commands (they returned silently so I guess they ran 
correctly.)


I rebooted and chose Unity from the greeter.

No top bar and no launcher.

I CTL+ALT+F1'd and had a quick look in various log files for anything 
interesting or any errors but found nothing.


I am now back to running the Gnome-fallback (Metacity).

Al



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity doesn't load after kernel update?

[Alan Lord]

On 26/11/14 15:31, Colin Law wrote:


What settings have you changed?  I wonder whether the fact that some
settings are non-standard is a factor in the problem arising in the
first place.  I have never had to reset as far as I can remember,
except when running beta versions once or twice.


Nothing I would think significant (or should be the cause of the problem 
frankly).


I mean adding my applications to the Launcher, changing the menu from 
the one at the top to the one in the applications' window, showing the 
date as well as the time in the calendar ... that sort of thing


Al



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity doesn't load after kernel update?

[Alan Lord]

On 26/11/14 14:53, Will Cooke wrote:


Yes, I'm afraid it will.  It resets everything back to default.


Gah - Oh well, at least I know.

I will let you know once I've had the time to reset it all.

Thanks

Al



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity doesn't load after kernel update?

[Alan Lord]

On 26/11/14 12:00, Will Cooke wrote:

Hi Alan,  could you try resetting compiz's configuration:

First "rm -rf ~/.compiz-1" if it exists
Then run "gsettings reset-recursively
org.compiz.core:/org/compiz/profiles/unity/ "

Then reboot (or restart lightdm) and see if it makes any difference.


Thanks Will,

I'll try and do this later today (I am using my laptop for work right 
now - gnome-fall-back is rather refreshing and quite usable) but can you 
tell me if this will delete my personal settings for the Launcher and 
Unity before I do?



I spoke to the Unity & Compiz maintainers, and they are looking to put
back in a reset option to compiz to make this easier to fix, if indeed
this does fix it.


This has happened to me a few times over the years for no obvious reason 
and is a right PITA to get back as all my settings are invariably lost.


Cheers

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[ubuntu-uk] unity doesn't load after kernel update?

[Alan Lord]

Anyone else seen this?

On my laptop I updated yesterday but didn't restart until this morning. 
When I login I don't get any launcher or top bar on the display?


Linux hrun 3.16.0-25-generic #33-Ubuntu SMP Tue Nov 4 12:06:54 UTC 2014 
x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux


Thankfully, because this has happened several times before I have 
installed the gnome fallback.


Seems like someone else is having a similar issue:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/553624/unity-gone-after-upgrading-14-10-to-latest-3-16-kernel

It's got no special GPU - Just a built in Intel

alord@hrun:~$ lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller 
(rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor 
Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:1a.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 
USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 
High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI 
Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI 
Express Root Port 3 (rev 06)
00:1c.3 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI 
Express Root Port 4 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 
USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)

00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC 
Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 
port SATA IDE Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus 
Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.5 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 2 
port SATA IDE Controller (rev 06)
02:00.0 Network controller: Qualcomm Atheros AR9285 Wireless Network 
Adapter (PCI-Express) (rev 01)
06:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. 88E8040 PCI-E 
Fast Ethernet Controller
3f:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath 
Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
3f:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath 
Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)

3f:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
3f:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core Processor QPI 
Physical 0 (rev 02)
3f:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core Processor 
Reserved (rev 02)
3f:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 1st Generation Core Processor 
Reserved (rev 02)



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reverse engineering data files

[Alan Lord]

On 22/11/14 22:12, Gareth France wrote:


So my question is this, how does one go about accessing a file like this
when they do not know the format? I have worked with text based files,
CSV etc but never something which does not load in a text editor.



I'm sure you are already aware but just wanted to point out that you 
*might* be actually breaking a law or two depending on the way the 
software and data files are licensed etc...


This is a public, and archived, mailing list.

Al



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choice of laptop

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 04/11/14 15:54, Liam Proven wrote:

On 4 November 2014 16:42, Gareth France  wrote:

Thanks. I've seen what I'd like but it's in PC world. I really don't think I
can make a purchase if it is effectively an endorsement of Windows 8! I'm
sure there must be another way.


The real reason doesn't get talked about much.

It costs money to /not/ preload Windows.


Liam is right.

The only way you can "try" to make a point is either by:

1. Buying a machine from somewhere that sells then sans OS or with Linux.
2. Attempting to get a refund for the "Microsoft Tax"...

If you search google you will find cases where suppliers have refunded 
the license cost - and in doing so it arguably gives you an even better 
platform for broadcasting about it rather than just quietly buying a PC 
with Linux or no OS...


(Here's my story from July 2009 - and note the comments):

http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2009/07/getting-your-microsoft-tax-refunded-1010-for-amazon-uk/

But it doesn't always work...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Surrey Drinks

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 27/10/14 19:12, Laura Czajkowski wrote:



Aloha folks

Sorry for the short notice but figured I'd post here also, a few of us
in Surrey ( Surrey LUG) are going to meet up this week if you'd like to
drop by it'd be lovely to catch up and put the face to names.

Date:Wednesday 29th October
venue : Tup Guildford - http://www.theguildfordtup.com/
Time: from 6pm

Has free wifi and food


Free FOOD :-D

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing files and folders between two 14.04 machines

[Alan Lord]

On 17/10/14 14:08, Liam Proven wrote:


I did not know that Nautilus could do that.

But why run ssh on your own internal LAN? What's the point of encrypting it?


That's a fair question, but to be honest I don't really use anything 
else but ssh/sftp - anywhere.


If I need to move a *massive* amount of data then I'd probably use nc 
but those occasions are rare.


If the original enquirer wanted to they could also use sshfs [1] and 
make it more permanent too.


Al

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing files and folders between two 14.04 machines

[Alan Lord]

On 17/10/14 09:33, Liam Proven wrote:

On 16 October 2014 19:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:

Two 14.04 machines on the same LAN.
I am having THE MOST ridiculous time trying to share files and folders
across the LAN between these two machines.
I've installed Samba on each machine - won't connect.
I've tried installing ssh server and client on each machine, when I choose
"connect to server" it won't browse, and if I put the IP address of the
other machine in, the "connect" button is greyed out.

How DIFFICULT can it be to share files and folders between two Ubuntu 14.04
machines on the same LAN?
Gr!



This is the simplest guide a quick Google found:

http://www.howtogeek.com/116309/use-ubuntus-public-folder-to-easily-share-files-between-computers/

Ssh won't help. It's for a secure remote terminal -- letting you type
commands on 1 PC from another -- not for file sharing. (It can do it,
but it's not the primary purpose so it's not trivial.)


Err it is really quite trivial (assumes you already have openssh-server 
installed on the destination host as you said you have).


In the file browser (nautilus) click "Connect to server".

In the Server Address box type:

sftp://othermachinename.local [optionally add /any/path/you/want/to/specify]

If you are connecting as a different user to the other machine enter

sftp://otherusername@othermachinename.local

click connect.

As it is all on your home network, I'd choose the "save password for 
ever" option and once it has connected, click the tool cog thingy and 
choose "Bookmark this location"


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Paging Alan Lord

[Alan Lord]

Hi and thanks,

unfortunately I read mailing lists via gmane and it obfuscates emails as 
you might be able to see below.


You can drop me a line at alan.lord at libertus.co.uk or we have a short 
form on the website too.


Thanks very much.

Al


On 02/09/14 15:11, TT Mooney wrote:

All --

Please forgive the paging post!

Alan --

Drop me an email from your work account, to tra...@talia.net, please. I
might have an OpenERP job for you.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

[Alan Lord]

On 15/08/14 10:59, Barry Drake wrote:

I've gone through an entire development cycle without having to
re-install 14.10 - just amazing!

I now have a very large number of unwanted kernels.  There used to be a
very simple gui tool that let me remove all the ones I didn't want, but
I don't seem to see it anymore.  If I want to do it using apt-get, I'm
going to have to use the command for every one which will take a while.
Is there a tool for automating this just a bit?


Here's a very neat bash command that I stick in ~/bin for this very purpose:

http://www.tolaris.com/2012/07/19/removing-old-kernels-from-ubuntu/

HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] RAT This Saturday

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 02/08/14 11:59, TT Mooney wrote:

Hey all --

First time joining up for the RAT! Looking forward to it. What time does
everyone intend to meet up at Alton? Meeting at Farnham first is a nice
idea, but I don't think I can make it.


The trains from Farnham will get into Alton in about 15 - 20 mins so if 
we make the 18:26 then should be a bit before 7pm.


We won't get out of Alton station so your best bet will probably to get 
to the Watercress line platform by 7pm. If you are early grab some seats 
in the next car to the beer carriage as soon as the train arrives :-)


Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] RAT This Saturday

[Alan Lord]

On 31/07/14 13:40, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:


As I'm not from the area, I'll leave it up to you locals to suggest a
new meeting point.



OK - Let's meet up at The Waverley Arms. It's right next to the train 
station.


http://www.thewaverleyarmsfarnham.co.uk/


I agree that we should get the 18:26 from Farnham. Means we're more
likely to get good seats / carriage.


I'll try and get to the pub between 5 and 5:30pm.

(might be in the garden out back)

Cheers

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[ubuntu-uk] RAT This Saturday

[Alan Lord]

Who's on this list that is going?

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/2745-real-ale-train-2014/

Wondering if we have a plan for a pre-meet anywhere before heading off?

The Mulberry pub next to Farnham Station has some kind of festival thing 
on so we may need to either go to the Waverley Arms other side of the 
railway line, or into Farnham; maybe the William Cobbett?


Trains from Farnham to Alton at 18:26 or 18:56. (the earlier one is 
preferable so we can then grab seating near to the beer carriage)


The other day they had a few tickets for sale, but now the website says 
call for Availability so if anyone wants to come you *might* still be 
able to buy a ticket but will need to call The Watercress Line:


http://www.watercressline.co.uk/product.php/10/real-ale-train-r-a-t

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Alphabetise" != en_GB

[Alan Lord]

On 30/07/14 23:22, Paul Sladen wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014, Alan Lord (News) wrote:

"Alphabetise Desktop Icons"...


   "Sort by name"

There, I shorterised it.

-Paul


Gosh - I'm glad it wasn't only me who didn't like it.

It's just a horrible word. It really grates my head when I read it.

The proposed shorterisationing of it sounds much more natural.

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Alphabetise" != en_GB

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 30/07/14 17:49, Dave Morley wrote:

On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:41:21 +0100
Alan Pope  wrote:


"Alphabetise Desktop Icons"...



OED says yes :)

http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/alphabetize?q=alphabetise

Cheers,
Al.


Oh god. I give up.

Why don't we just 'ise every noun and turn it into a verb then?

The yanks have a lot to answer for.

Bah humbug.

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[ubuntu-uk] "Alphabetise" != en_GB

[Alan Lord (News)]

ONG!

I just hapened to right click on my 14.04 desktop and saw the option to

"Alphabetise Desktop Icons"...

Really?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers

[Alan Lord]

On 30/07/14 10:22, Nigel Verity wrote:


My goal is to mount a remote server (another PC in my house) to a folder so 
that its contents can be used as if it were local data. SSHFS does this, but it 
is command line only.


Just stick the mount point in your fstab:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SSHFS

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing

[Alan Lord]

On 30/05/14 08:30, Barry Drake wrote:

On 30/05/14 08:16, Gareth France wrote:

Unfortunately not, until I return there this afternoon. Being a
desktop it may not even have a model. All I know off hand is that it
is a Pentium 4.


OMG! That's really old by today's standards. No wonder it feels slow. 
Everything will be; memory, disk, dma.


As a guess I'd take a long hard look at the hard drive... Run a few 
sanity checks on it.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Single website issue

[Alan Lord]

On 23/05/14 08:07, Gareth France wrote:

I was wondering if anyone had any idea why suddenly for no apparent
reason the TSB website refuses to load in Chromium? Firefox loads it
fine but Chromium reports:

The connection to*www.tsb.co.uk*was interrupted.


https://productforums.google.com/forum/#!topic/chrome/MZyha2yu_GU

First link from Google. This issue seems to be common as this thread 
started in 2012...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

[Alan Lord]

So does anyone have any ideas about packaging up this script? I now have
information about how to package it for submission but I still need a
way to run the program from the command line without calling perl.


If your script is executable and has the right "shebang" at the start 
you will not need to call perl.



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virtualbox Advice

[Alan Lord]

On 02/03/14 15:18, Liam Proven wrote:

On 2 March 2014 15:11, Nigel Verity  wrote:

I am running 32-bit Xubuntu and use a Virtualbox VM to run 32-bit XP. Since
that is about to go out of support I see the need to replace it





Can anyone advise on whether/how I can run 64-bit W7 in 32-bit Virtualbox?


You can't, AFAIK.


Of course you can (if the host machine is up to it)... VirtualBox has 
supported 64bit guests on 32bit hosts since version 2.1:


https://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch03.html#ftn.idp51313008

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open formats in UK gov?

[Alan Lord]

Interesting Proposal from the Cabinet Office:

http://standards.data.gov.uk/proposal/sharing-collaborating-government-documents

Standards based documents *only*. txt, csv, html4/5, ODF.

:-D

Al


On 29/01/14 21:00, Andres wrote:

I guess this is not news for some of you but thought I'd mention it.
Baby steps it seems:

http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jan/29/uk-government-plans-switch-to-open-source-from-microsoft-office-suite


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 18/12/13 07:36, Paul Mellors wrote:

Hello Norman

Are you having problems with the site, as using a default chrome should
just work fine [after looking at that link], chrome browser is the same
as it would be in windows there really isn't anything to disimilar.


As would be firefox. Both browsers employ a lot of common code across 
all Operating Systems.


Skimming through the "optimising" suggestions I didn't see very much 
that was Windows specific apart from adding a trusted certificate (which 
is a *doddle* in Firefox BTW).


What is/are the issue(s) you are having?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 1000 commands

[Alan Lord]

On 06/11/13 20:23, Alan Jenkins wrote:

There is no problem with keeping a lengthy history per se, just
sometimes those commands are often variations on the same thing in
which case you may be better off creating scripts and aliases to save
yourself time and effort. Always seek quicker and easier ways to do
things as it makes your life easier and means you can spend the saved
time working on other cool things or having fun.


Just as a follow up as I don;t think I actually noticed a reply 
explaining where the limit is configured...


nano ~/.bashrc

# for setting history length see HISTSIZE and HISTFILESIZE in bash(1)
HISTSIZE=1000
HISTFILESIZE=2000

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy Salamander - The Release Party

[Alan Lord]

On 17/10/13 23:18, Bruno Girin wrote:


Yep, got there, met Al who was on his way out. For some reason, that was
the point when people started arriving. Got told off for not wearing an
Ubuntu t-shirt and learnt a lot about touring the USSR with a band in
the 90s (and surviving the experience). Oh yeah and there was beer too.
All in all, nothing unexpected from a release party :-)


I knew I was there for a reason!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wireless mouse

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 19/09/13 14:53, Gary Cordery wrote:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/971321


Well I never...

I guess don't use Microsoft Mice is the easy (but not cheapest) answer.

Thanks

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wireless mouse

[Alan Lord]

On 19/09/13 12:24, Gary Cordery wrote:

This has been a known bug on Ubuntu for a long while now unfortunately.


Huh? I've been using Wireless mice (Logitech MX1000, then the Perfomance 
MX) on Ubuntu with no issues whatsover for *years* (MX1000 came out in 
2004).


What is the bug number you are refering to?

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 LTS

[Alan Lord]

On 29/08/13 13:27, Owen Branley wrote:

Superuser can now only log in as a guest. Old username and password lost
after a crash some time ago. One solution could be to re-install as data
backup is ok. Is there another way?


Short answer: Boot the machine from a USB or CD, mount the machine's 
hard drive and edit etc/passwd.


Google will help with more complete instructions for this commonly 
needed type of recovery ;-)


HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Real Ale Train is next month!

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 19/08/13 10:42, Iain Cuthbertson wrote:


If there are any ticket holders who can't make it, or you have spare
tickets, would you be kind enough to let me know so that others might
acquire your ticket for the evening?



I have one ticket that I will no longer be able to use - having to jet 
off to Italy for a vtiger CRM conference instead - any one want to buy 
it off me they are welcome.


It cost £14 inc. booking fee.

Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Twitter fail on 12.04?

[Alan Lord]

On 13/06/13 22:44, SuperEngineer wrote:

On Thu, 2013-06-13 at 20:46 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote:

Twitter retired API 1.0 yesterday which may have affected some apps. I
use
web TweetDeck for as an application on desktops as it's about the only
thing that works properly.


Hotot (my favourite twitter client by a long way) works fine if you are 
happy to build it from source from the latest checkout from gitbhub:


http://www.samundra.com.np/twitter-api-changes-breaking-hotot-functionality/1224

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] enough folks

[Alan Lord]

On 10/05/13 13:09, Alan Bell wrote:

I think this thread has gone about as far as it needs to, and then a bit
further. Lets move on and talk about something else now.


+1

How about Mono ;-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] os-commerce

[Alan Lord]

On 03/05/13 03:44, Phill Whiteside wrote:

Nah, it is a 'how big are you', 'how many people are you' and 'what is
the turn over' before you can even look at the demo.

Thanks for the hint, but I prefer f/oss at http://oscommerce.com/

Any one got other suggestions?


Prestashop is not bad from what I hear and according to the website is 
Free Software: http://www.prestashop.com/en/osl-license .


And yes, Magento is "Open Core", like Sugar CRM. The basic stuff is Free 
Software but many of the interesting features are not; which renders the 
entire solution proprietary in my opinion...


I'm mainly aware of it because of extensions that integrate it into 
OpenERP...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 13.04 unable to copy folders from a samba share

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 28/04/13 17:02, George Tripp wrote:

Having just installed 13.04 I was a bit surprised to find that I can't copy 
folders / files from my 12.04 machine - nautilus hangs.

This seems to be a known error / bug to do with gvfs. I was hoping there might 
be a simple-ish workround of some sort but so far have failed to find one.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?


Don't know about Samba issues, but there are plenty of other options for 
moving files. Off the top of my head:


* ssh via nautilus
* netcat (command line, very fast, ideal for "big data")
* scp via the command line.

There are probably more too.

FWIW, I mostly use scp.

HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] motherboard and cpu for Ubuntu

[Alan Lord]

On 26/04/13 16:26, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:

On 2013-04-26 12:21, norman silverstone wrote:

If it's Intel (CPU, video, or Ethernet), it'll just work.


+1

I have three home-built systems all running versions of the Corei3 
series processors with integrated graphics, all running Ubuntu no probs. 
I'd just not buy a *brand* new mobo. Buy one that's been out for a few 
months or more.


The latest i3s (especially the ones with the HD4000 GPU) are brilliant 
for the money and just work. My kids PC has the corei3 2125 3.3Ghz chip 
(2nd gen version) and they can play TFT2 from Steam on it and Minecraft 
happily.


when I updated my wife's machine more recently I went for the 3225 which 
has a faster GPU and lower power consumption.


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[ubuntu-uk] Vacancy in Open Source

[Alan Lord]

Hi all,

we have a vacancy.

http://www.libertus.co.uk/about-us/jobs

Cheers

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[ubuntu-uk] gmane vs email [Was Re: User Testing]

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 18/03/13 21:24, Gareth France wrote:

And where did you get that from? The only address attached to her post
is UK Ubuntu Talk 


You're reading the list via gmane NNTP (which I do too). It obfuscates 
email addresses. If you look at the mailing archive itself you will see 
them.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK version of think penguin?

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 17/03/13 16:43, doug livesey wrote:

Hi -- I've been salivating at the notebooks at thinkpenguin.com
, and put together a really nice one with 16GB
RAM and a quad core processor for ~1,200 USD.
Obviously, with that, I imagine I'd have to pay extra VAT or something,
which would drive the price up a fair bit.


You will also, almost certainly, have to pay import duty.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any recommendations for an xhtml editor

[Alan Lord]

On 04/01/13 06:16, Sean Miller wrote:

XHTML is markup... there is not really such a thing as a "WYSIWYG"...
anything you use is gong to, ultimately, give you an inferior end result
to simply writing the XHTML from scratch.


+1

I have tried (in the long and distant past) various so called "wysiwyg" 
editors and all of them made really appalling markup. IMHO it's far 
better to learn the right way and just write clean markup.


Open gedit, open Firefox/Chrome and you are off. :-)

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[ubuntu-uk] Merry Christmas

[Alan Lord]

Hope everyone has a nice break, whatever you get up to.

See you in 2013.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

[Alan Lord]

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/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing post

[Alan Lord]

On 26/10/12 15:14, Alan Bell wrote:

On 26/10/12 13:21, Gareth France wrote:

I posted on here last night about a problem I'm having but it hasn't
shown up. Are we not allowed to attach photos to the email or something?


Stuff over 40k gets held for moderation, I released it this morning. (it
was 65k or so I think)
When a 40k attachment gets mailed to 1000 people that is a distributed
storage load of 40MB, so mailing lists tend to have size limits.


The more normal approach is to use an online pastebin or imagebin of 
some description (or you could use your Ubuntu One account for example) 
and simply provide a URL to the document/image in your message.


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[ubuntu-uk] Fancy a job in Free Software?

[Alan Lord]

Hi all,

I apologise in advance if this is regarded as spam but we have a vacancy :-)

http://www.libertus.co.uk/about-us/jobs/7-free-software-engineer

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] new Laptop

[Alan Lord]

On 27/09/12 19:22, Simon Redmond wrote:

looking at a new laptop that's a pretty nice deal, it has an Intel HD
3000/4000 video card as standard and I was wondering what the support
was like under Ubuntu?


FWIW I just upgraded my kids' PC with a new mobo and an Intel Core i3 
2125 which has the HD3000 GPU and it is running very nicely indeed on 
12.04. It's delivering very agreeable performance for an integrated GPU :-)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 25/09/12 20:17, keith wrote:

On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:18:41 +0100
J Fernyhough  wrote:

[snip]




It will be interesting to see how much referral income you actually get.


I'm surprised people even use the Dash/Lens thing.

I find it rather pointless and slow and almost never have a need to use 
it(them) at all.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

[Alan Lord (Gmail)]

On 17/09/12 00:15, Bruno Girin wrote:


  * Scratch: slightly upset about this one, same issue as EToys.


Hi Bruno,

My kids have scratch installed on their machine:

http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux

"
Debian / Ubuntu Package

You can install the latest Scratch for Debian or Ubuntu (12.04 or later) 
using your favorite package manager provided you have "unsupported 
updates" (backports) enabled in your software sources.

"

Hope that helps.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 26/08/12 17:28, Bruno Girin wrote:


I was planning to upgrade to 12.04 and install Scratch and TurtleArt.
Other than that, I would welcome any suggestion of fun software for a 6
year old.


Numpty Physics.

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[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Python dev job in Somerset (Bath)

[Alan Lord (News)]

Anyone in Somerset looking for a Python/Ubuntu dev job?

http://www.computerfutures.com/en/job/Python-Developer-Somerset-30-000/Somerset/Perm/1/597916/

Saw this and thought I should post it here.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Replacing Linux Mint 13 with Ubuntu 12.04

[Alan Lord]

On 02/07/12 21:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

If I want to replace Linux Mint 13 with Ubuntu 12.04, will it just be a
case of installing over the top, and if so will that affect my Home
directory at all?
In other words if I do this will my Home directory stay intact or do I
need to back it up then restore after installation of Ubuntu?



I would be a little cautious about trying to use a Mint /home on a new 
Ubuntu system. The main reasons are all the hidden configuration files, 
especially for your Gnome setup that will almost certainly be different. 
IIUC Mint has a customised Gnome 3 window manager called Cinnamon or 
something. This will almost certainly not be compatible with Unity.


If I were you, I would just backup your home (sudo tar zcf 
/path/to/somewhere/safe/myhome.tgz /home/username) then install a clean 
Ubuntu and then copy your "real data" back from your backup into your 
new home dir.


I often do this and find I can always copy the important stuff back like 
.firefox and .thunderbird. So although it takes a little while you end 
up with a clean system just with the data you need.


For copying back (after extracting your old home tarball somewhere 
sensible) use cp -a (the -a implies recursion and maintains all file 
permissions/ownerships etc).


FWIW - I tend to create a dir in /home and call it something like 
/home/alord-10.10 so I know what it was. Once I am sure I have copied 
everything I need I can then delete it.


HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ethernet not working after board replacement

[Alan Lord]

On 26/06/12 09:20, James Morrissey wrote:


I was wondering if anyone here could give me some instructions on how
to check for restrictions by MAC and how to check udev.


Just delete (after looking at it) the file 
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and restart - it will be 
created automatically and handles the mapping between eth(x) and MAC 
addresses.


Or you can edit it if you like. Probably just switch eth0 and eth1 
around and the end of the two statements that I suspect will be there. 
If you do that what will then be called eth1 can be removed as that MAC 
will not exist any more...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] copying data from one PC to another PC

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 20/05/12 22:40, Carlos @ FOSSBOX wrote:


For all the Ubuntu UK list... Does anybody know a link or how do I go
about creating the users again? I was told that I they have to be
created in the same order they where on the older system! I guess this
only applies if I want to keep home partition unformatted.


Not quite.

When a user is created, they are assigned (by default) a user id and a 
group id. These are numbers. On Ubuntu they start at 1000 and go up. Go 
into a user's home dir and type ls -n (It will list contents showing 
user and group IDs rather than names.)


You have two choices as far as I can see:

* create the users in whatever order you like and simply "chown" the 
data you copy over for them to the new user (this will change the id to 
whatever it is for say user fred).


* look in /etc/passwd, and optionally /etc/group, and get the id numbers 
for each user and their group. Then create the users on your new machine 
specifying their old group and user ids (obviously checking that there 
are no conflicts with whatever is already present on your new system 
first). See "man adduser" and/or "man useradd" for more details on the 
options.


HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 02/05/12 23:08, Bruno Girin wrote:

On 02/05/12 08:29, Alan Lord (News) wrote:

On 02/05/12 01:15, Alan Pope wrote:


The fix apparently is to fix java to export that data.


That is interesting. Thanks for looking into it.

But it does beg the thought... in earlier versions of Gnome/Ubuntu
(10.10 for me until Sunday morning) this wasn't an issue. I had a load
of buttons along the bottom panel to show me what apps I had running
(minimised or not). And Talend/Eclipse etc. did work. Now they don't.

I doubt Java has changed that much so I would consider this a regression.


Actually it has, especially JDK 7, which has caused untold problems to a
large number of people. There was a very lively discussion at FOSDEM on
that topic. The good news is that the OpenJDK maintainers are quite keen
to fix things. What version of the JDK are you using? If you are using
7, do you have the same problem with 6?


Thanks for the info Bruno,

I installed the OpenJDK Java 7 runtime - I will try the v6 one and see 
if it makes any difference.


Cheers

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 02/05/12 01:15, Alan Pope wrote:


I had a chat with a couple of the developers today. It seems one of
the big issues they have is that java doesn't export any information
about the application running through X. So it doesn't let on what pid
the windows belong to, what application is running in the window etc.
So doing the window matching is incredibly hard.

The fix apparently is to fix java to export that data.


That is interesting. Thanks for looking into it.

But it does beg the thought... in earlier versions of Gnome/Ubuntu 
(10.10 for me until Sunday morning) this wasn't an issue. I had a load 
of buttons along the bottom panel to show me what apps I had running 
(minimised or not). And Talend/Eclipse etc. did work. Now they don't.


I doubt Java has changed that much so I would consider this a regression.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 01/05/12 16:07, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:



However, I then minimised my app and the little arrow disappeared from my 
Talend launcher icon and clicking on it it tries to start a new instance of the 
app.


I really, really hate to suggest this, but log out and in again.


Lol; it's just like being back on Windows ;-)


I've seen that "random" behaviour too. Alt-tab and the arrows on the icons
are inconsistent, and sometimes my hot-corners for Show-Workspaces don't
work. When that happens, logging out and in again, or restarting unity
(unity --replace&) resolves it.


I have quite a bit of stuff open right now. I will grin and bear it and 
see if it improves after my next restart.


Thanks

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 01/05/12 14:35, J Fernyhough wrote:


Does Alt-Tab work to select the minimised window? Does the window show
up in Expo (Super-W)?


Alt-tab doesn;t show it, but - you sir are a star!

The Expo (Super W) does :-)

Thank you!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 01/05/12 14:38, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:


However, you can create a launcher in ~.local/share/applications, give it
an icon, and execute the launcher in nautilus. Then once it is running,
right-click on the launcher icon and "Lock to Launcher". After that Unity
seems to index ~/.local/share/applications (or at least that one application).


Thanks Tyler,

I had already created some desktop files, one for Talend & one for 
eclipse (the deb packaged eclipse won't allow certain updates so I just 
run a clean one from my ~/bin) but hadn't realised that starting it from 
nautilus was the trick.


I appreciate it. I now have a launcher icon for Talend which seems to 
start it ok.


However, I then minimised my app and the little arrow disappeared from 
my Talend launcher icon and clicking on it it tries to start a new 
instance of the app.


This *really* shouldn't be so hard!

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[ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

[Alan Lord (News)]

I've only been using 12.04 for 2 days and am already getting annoyed 
with it.


I use some applications which are not packaged.

For example, Talend. It is an Eclipse based ETL application.

I can run it from the command line, that's OK. But because of the 
stupid, pea-brained Unity interface, if you accidentally minimise an 
application which doesn't have a launcher icon then you can't get it 
back. Or at least I haven't found a way to yet.


Anyone got any workarounds/suggestions for this scenario?


Gah... I'm tempted to go back to 10.10 until it works properly.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Duplicate sources list

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 01/05/12 09:23, scoundrel50a wrote:



Thank you for your replay, I am looking in the sources manager, and one
line is just normal the other line has sources in brackets, should I
remove the line with (sources) at the end of it?


No. That means the repo which contains the source code rather than the 
compiled binaries.


If you look around the various tabs you will see two entries that are 
the same. Remove one of those...


Sorry I can't recall exactly which one but it was fairly obvious when I 
looked yesterday morning.


HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Duplicate sources list

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 01/05/12 08:58, scoundrel50a wrote:

I use the terminal to update and dist upgrade, and since I reinstalled
my kernal, I now have duplicate sources.list errors showing which stop
the terminal from updating, it tells me in the panel that there updates
but I can only update using update manager.

this is one of the errors

W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/
precise/universe amd64 Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise_universe_binary-amd64_Packages)


I had that too.

If you look at the Software Sources manager (from the Edit menu of the 
Software Centre) you will see two that are basically the same. I just 
removed one of them.


HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Plans

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 07/03/12 15:51, Alan Pope wrote:


The 'official' Fedora spin was made by a bunch of guys at a University
in Canada, not as I understand it Red Hat. Their video explains that
they went out and bought a bunch of ARM6 devices (not Pis)  and did
the builds on the bare metal. This could just as "easily" be done for
Ubuntu.


You've got me thinking of "Pi farms" now... Just think - the smell of 
all those pies... Ahhh wrong pie/pi oh blast!


It is British Pie week this week after all:

http://www.britishpieweek.co.uk/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] coding for kids

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 10/02/12 21:38, paul sutton wrote:

Hi

Looking at the coding for kids contacts list there seems to be no one
from the ubuntu community on there

http://codingforkids.org/wiki/Contacts_page


Good idea.

I have added my own name as I did add a pledge too when it first started 
out.


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[ubuntu-uk] Chapter 11 [Was Re: Recommendations for a printer?]

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 22/01/12 19:45, alan c wrote:


Kodak have recently filed for bankruptcy


Technically this is not correct.

Kodak have filed for bankruptcy protection (Known as Chapter 11 in the 
USA) 
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/01/19/kodak-files-chapter-11/.


This gives companies "breathing space" to restructure their 
debts/business. Many businesses successfully come out of Chapter 11 and 
continue afterwards.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] A talk on Ubuntu/Opensource

[Alan Lord (News)]

Hi Simon,

I'm sure that Me or Alan Bell would be more than happy to help.

When would you want to do one?

Disclaimer: We run an Open Source Consulting Business in the South East 
so not only would this be "doing our bit" for the community but it also 
represents a business opportunity for us.


Contact me or Alan via IRC or twitter or G+ or whatever.

Cheers

Al

On 15/01/12 08:31, Simon Watson wrote:

Hi all,

Is anyone interested/willing/able to present a lecture on Ubuntu,
developments in open source, that sort of thing? The talk would
normally be about 45 minutes long, on an evening, and would most
likely be in either Crawley (near Gatwick Airport) or Brighton. The
audience would be engineers, though I may also try and get in touch
with BCS members as well for the widest possible audience.

This would be arranged as part of the IET Sussex
(http://www.theiet.org/local/uk/southeast/sussex/,
http://www.facebook.com/ietsussex) program of lectures.

If anyone is interested, or can put me in touch with people who might
be, please contact me either on or offlist as appropriate.

Many thanks!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 02/12/11 16:29, Barry Drake wrote:

Yes - I was in London last Spring, an felt quite out of place as a Barry
with no less than three Alans .  but they assured me that you don't
have to be called Alan to join the community.


This is true. But being Alan is just cool.


As I've never been on the receiving end of Canonical support, I have no
idea what you get for your money.  I'm sure Alan Bell and Alan Lord will
be able to tell you.  I just wonder if their answers might be different
from one another :-D


I've not been on the receiving end of their support either so can't 
really comment on it's efficacy. I didn't think much of their partner 
programme - it never really did anything - but I think that has changed 
since we were in it...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] how to change icon on main menu?

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 26/11/11 09:34, Alan Gauld wrote:

Also is there an easier way to install T'bird other than extracting the
folder and copying to /usr/local/bin?


If you want support for libnotify etc then I suggest using the 
Ubuntu-Mozilla team PPA: 
https://launchpad.net/~mozillateam/+archive/thunderbird-stable


HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber 3.2.1 and Ubuntu 11.10

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 09/11/11 11:23, Juan J. Martínez wrote:


For example, http://www.hotot.org/ looks great; but I don't know if I
can get rid of Gwibber cleanly or if there will be some "remains" (I
don't use Thunderbird, but I couldn't get rid of it in the indicator).


I've been using Hotot for ages now and I really like it as a Twitter 
client. It doesn't do much else though and, as you say, is not as well 
integrated. But for me on 10.10 Hotot is the best client I have used.


I'm sure that trying it out won't hurt. I doubt you will have to remove 
Gwibber for that; maybe just turn it off or something?


HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source VOIP

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 25/10/11 09:40, Barry Drake wrote:

On 18/10/11 14:42, Tim Dobson wrote:



SoftPhones: I tried and failed with Ekiga. ZoiPer is recommended by
CallCentric and worked well when I installed it, but it crashed and
burned after a while, and unless I re-install, I can't use it. As it
seems to be deprecated in recent Ubuntu releases, I gave up on it.
Twinkle works tolerably well.


The most reliable softphone I have found/use on Ubuntu is SFLphone: 
http://sflphone.org/


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - Rugby World Cup site uses MS Silverlight for videos

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 23/10/11 13:47, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:

I've already complained - anyone else like to?
http://www.rugbyworldcup.com/contact.html


Considering Silverlight is unlikely to be around by the time of the next 
RWC I wouldn't bother frankly.


Or you could probably install Moonlight (or whatever the Mono equivalent 
is called).


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Slightly OT) Standalone databases

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 20/10/11 09:23, Avi Greenbury wrote:


In any case, if the users will have internet access or similar,  the
easiest way to do it (and probably the only way to get guaranteed
cross-platform) is to use a web interface and host it somewhere they
can all get at.



This was my thought too.

Joomla! has a brilliant extension available called Fabrik which is 
essentially a database & form design tool that allows the user to build 
custom storage for pretty much anything (I use it frequently on websites 
we build for customers). As it is a Joomla! extension it runs atop of 
the same MySQL database. Joomla!, being a web cms, allows the developer 
pretty much unlimited ways to present this data for user access and 
search etc.


HTH

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source VOIP

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 17/10/11 22:21, Daniel Case wrote:


I'm looking to move to an open-source alternative to Skype...


Gradwell have a very good reputation; we have several customers using 
them and being delighted with costs and services. Although they are 
really for business services they may have consumer packages too: 
http://gradwell.com/


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[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu promotional video

[Alan Lord (News)]

Despite my personal misgivings with Unity, they have managed to put 
together a very nice and slick looking promotional video:


http://design.canonical.com/2011/10/so-youve-decided-to-make-an-ubuntu-promotional-video/ 



and you can take it, edit it and make your own...

Neat.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04

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On 26/09/11 13:48, Alan Pope wrote:


I wondered what you lot might desire for 12.04?


On the sever, just make, and keep it (for the lifecycle), rock solid, 
lean, mean and energy efficient.


On the desktop, hopefully Unity will be somewhat usable by then, just 
make it not get in my way!



Cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04

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On 26/09/11 19:48, Bruno Girin wrote:



Having said this, it feels a lot bigger than anything that can be done
in a single release. It wouldn't harm to get started though.



That sounds a bit like Zentyal[1] to me.

[1] http://www.zentyal.org/

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems With Thunderbird and Lightning

[Alan Lord (News)]

It might be the old 64bit vs. 32bit issue.

Check you have compatible binaries. Lightning has some pre-compiled 
C/C++ in it and so needs to be built for the correct architecture.


Al

On 26/09/11 10:15, Jon Farmer wrote:

Hi

I am trying to get the lightning pluigin working with Thunderbird.
However every time I try to install it complains it is not compatible
with my version of Thunderbird.

The versions I am using are.

Thunderbird 3.1.13
Lightning 1.0b5.

Google searches seem to suggest this should work but it isn't for me.
Anyone know what to do?

Regards

Jon

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[ubuntu-uk] Marketing [Was Re: efi boot, Windows 8 and Linux]

[Alan Lord (News)]

On 22/09/11 10:50, alan c wrote:


The FLOSS world's lack of competence, or even appetite, for publicity
or marketing is the elephant in the room.

1) FLOSS, GNU/Linux etc, 'marketing' is pretty well non existent
compared to non free products. 'I advertise, therefore I exist'
(apologies to Descartes).

2) Of all things, marketing is -very- unsuited to the free libre,
distributed model.



It isn't "marketing" per se that's the issue. It is, plain and simply money.

I read an article somewhere several years ago about how much money is 
spent on advertising/marketing by commercial software vendors. It was 
something extremely high, like 50% (I think it may have been more) of 
their entire REVENUE was spent telling people why they should buy their 
products, and 10% or so was spent on actually making the product...


To market something successfully costs a great deal of money. Free 
Software, because of how it is produced and delivered, will never have 
the kind of budgets that MS/Oracle/INSERT VENDOR_OF_CHOICE_HERE have to 
spend.




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[ubuntu-uk] Team Meeting Minutes

[Alan Lord (News)]

Hi All,

The minutes from our team meeting held earlier this evening are here:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20110829

The next meeting will be on the 19th Sept at 9pm:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/NextMeeting

The agenda for the meetings is really down to you. Please add any topics 
or ideas you want to discuss on this page:


https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda

If you have any questions or are unsure either ask on here or drop in to 
the main ubuntu-uk irc channel on freenode.


Cheers

Al


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