Re: [ubuntu-uk] Italian ubuntian in Exeter
I think there could be a problem with WiFi standards... isnt european wifi incompatible with UK WiFi 2009/4/8 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: m.pal...@tiscali.it wrote: Dear Folks, I am an Italian ubuntian who came to Exeter for a course. I brought my notebook with me, I was hoping to use it wireless, but I cannot. Maybe If you have a ubuntu community center, or a pub we can meet there and you can teacdh me how to connect wifi with my notebook here. My version is the 8.10 I have a Compaq presesario with atheros device for the wifi. I stay here for 10 days, maybe you can help. Thank you Marco You can conntact me viua email, I can chack the email once a day. Thank you. Hi Marco, Unfortunately the Exwick Community Centre in Exeter isn't ready yet as this would have been an ideal location. There are some other options though, there are a couple of Weatherspoons pubs in Exeter as far as I'm aware, one The Imperial is near the Exeter St Davids railway station and near the Exeter College and Universities. There is free wifi available there. I'll cc this into the Devon Cornwall Linux User Group list as there are a few members in Exeter who may be able to help you out (I'm in Torquay and at the moment I haven't had much opportunity to get to Exeter). Hope this helps and I hope you enjoy your visit to Exeter, with any luck the weather will stay nice while you're staying here. Regards, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop
I bought an inspiron 6400 with ubuntu preloaded back in the ubuntu feisty days (about 1.5 years ago). I'm afraid I'm gonna have to agree - their build quality is poor, as is their support. I'm not going to deny that my laptop does take a bit of a beating being carried to and from school every day, but this is a bit ridiculous: the left speaker doesnt work, I've had to replace the keyboard after several keys stopped working, the clip at the top of the screen jams, the screen's hinges wobble, the CD drive keeps falling out, the xD card reader doesnt work, the power cable fell apart (had to buy a new one), the hard drive failed once - devouring my maths coursework (luckily i had an only slightly out of date backup), the battery's at 63% and falling of its nominal capacity (55.3 Wh compared to the 86.6 Wh that i payed for), the bluetooth doesnt work, the carry bag's disintegrated, and the heatsink has a kinder bueno wrapper in it. Ok maybe the last one's my fault, but you get the idea When i phoned customer suppeort for a replacement hard drive, i think i spent a total of about an hour on hold, and got sent from department to department... ubuntu support, hardware support, ubuntu support again, back to hardware support, please hold, ubuntu support... etc etc Eventually the replacement hard drive came, in a cardboard box sandwiched between two bits of foam. Good thing i'm a techie sort of person. I know a lot of people who, if they were given a hard drive in a box, wouldnt have a clue what to do with it. Perhaps thats because its an ubuntu laptop? The idea that all linux users know how to replace a hard drive, upgrade ram, reformat a disk or whatever needs to stop if linux is to be accepted by the wider community, and not just geeks. 2009/3/4 David King linux...@avoura.com: It is a real shame that Dell no longer sell the 1525 with Ubuntu. I bought one for a friend and she loves it. Now it is either a mini laptop or a much more powerful one, with the mini one being about the same price as the old 1525. Also, off topic, why has Dell gone all American on their UK site, putting lots of weights of laptops in lbs? Everywhere else vendors are describing theirs in kilograms. I doubt if I will ever buy a Dell laptop again. David King Andrew Turner wrote: Hello, Just got myself one of the new Dell Inspiron 15 laptops (unfortunately with Vista - they no longer do the Ubuntu pre-installed 1525). Thought I'd let the list know that Intrepid runs out out the box with no problems (wireless, bluetooth, compiz etc all work without any configuration). I seem to remember a thread a while back about getting a refund from Microsoft for unwanted OEM copies of Windows - can anyone enlighten me? Andrew -- 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] Can somebody help with manual command
Stick sudo in front and run it in the terminal sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a Sudo makes you administrator and allows you to run commands which affect the entire system. Itll ask you for your password 2009/2/20 John jake...@sky.com: Sorry again, for asking, but I tried to use a different Terminal, and it says I cant use it, until I run that. So I'm rather stuck at the moment. :( Sorry again. John -- 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] Can somebody help with manual command
You need libdvdcss2, which allows you to watch DVDs with CSS (content scrambling system) copy prevention. If you're using ubuntu intrepid x86, get it here: http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.2medibuntu1_i386.deb If youre using amd64, use this one: http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.2medibuntu1_amd64.deb 2009/2/20 John jake...@sky.com: Alec Wright wrote: Stick sudo in front and run it in the terminal sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a Sudo makes you administrator and allows you to run commands which affect the entire system. Itll ask you for your password 2009/2/20 John jake...@sky.com: Sorry again, for asking, but I tried to use a different Terminal, and it says I cant use it, until I run that. So I'm rather stuck at the moment. :( Sorry again. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Thank you, I think I got that fixed now, at least the terminal seems to be working, and I updated the files and things that came up. What it is, I bought an Acer DVD player, and I have been trying to play films using it. It keeps telling me that I am missing some codecs. I followed the instructions, but it doesnt get you anywhere. Would anybody know the codecs that are needed to use with Totem Movie PLayer, as that seems to be my player. Or is there another player that I can use that would play the DVD's? Thank you again for your help. :) John -- 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] Can somebody help with manual command
uname -m in the terminal. If it sayd i686, you're running x86. If it says anything else, post it here. 2009/2/20 John jake...@sky.com: Alec Wright wrote: You need libdvdcss2, which allows you to watch DVDs with CSS (content scrambling system) copy prevention. If you're using ubuntu intrepid x86, get it here: http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.2medibuntu1_i386.deb If youre using amd64, use this one: http://packages.medibuntu.org/pool/free/libd/libdvdcss/libdvdcss2_1.2.10-0.2medibuntu1_amd64.deb 2009/2/20 John jake...@sky.com: Alec Wright wrote: Stick sudo in front and run it in the terminal sudo dpkg --reconfigure -a Sudo makes you administrator and allows you to run commands which affect the entire system. Itll ask you for your password 2009/2/20 John jake...@sky.com: Sorry again, for asking, but I tried to use a different Terminal, and it says I cant use it, until I run that. So I'm rather stuck at the moment. :( Sorry again. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Thank you, I think I got that fixed now, at least the terminal seems to be working, and I updated the files and things that came up. What it is, I bought an Acer DVD player, and I have been trying to play films using it. It keeps telling me that I am missing some codecs. I followed the instructions, but it doesnt get you anywhere. Would anybody know the codecs that are needed to use with Totem Movie PLayer, as that seems to be my player. Or is there another player that I can use that would play the DVD's? Thank you again for your help. :) John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Thank your for your message. I dont think its the x86 but not sure about the other one. Just for reference, how can I find out what version of Ubuntu I'm using? Thank you. John. -- 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] Help get Windows out of schools (UK Marketing!)
Imho, a great place to advertise would be the morning star newspaper: http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk Its socialist/communist, so it would be good targeted advertising (since socialism/communism=no to capitalism eg big companies like Microsoft) The circulations not bad at about 50,000 copies sold per day, compared to the guardians 350,000 Advertising rate are (quote the contact us page) from £1.42 plus VAT per line or £5.17 plus VAT per column centrimetre. Ie a reasonable sized ad would probably be about 25 quid, towards which i wouldnt mind contributing 2009/2/9 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You could probably go with having MS on the admin network, then Linux or fre softare on the academic network, eventually people will filter through who can and want to use alternatives, then chance will come problem is MS seem to have a huge marketing budget, and are Marketing! Marketing is the key skill with a company such as MS. It is also the weakest point with FOSS. Marketing has short term obvious goals and also much longer term, subtle, goals. The trick that MS have and probably will continue to pull is a long term very wide game. Even huge resources such as US national or European systems find difficulty with bringing the monopoly wagon to heel, once it is successfully rolling along, seemingly downhill. There has been a very successful heavy momentum built up, a very heavy wagon, rolling downhill. I have believed for a long time and I still believe that the least we can do in the UK is to have a UK list focussed on UK marketing Ubuntu. Not a shared list, a specific and focussed list. If it turns out that there are not many subscribers then at least the problem is clear to see! It can be addressed. Very few FOSS enthusiasts are keen on marketing, and I think a UK specialist list will get the best from what little resource we have. At the local Computer Fair yesterday that I am fortunate to display at, a lad of about 10 years took a Parted Magic CD, his father was there in support. The intended action was to resize a Windows partition or similar, with FOSS, for FOSS. It will take at least another 10 years before that particular lad gets close to a position of influence in an organisation, perhaps 15 years. *That* is the time scale of change, and much longer if it is not driven hard by focussed, determined people. *Now* is a good time to start! -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- 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] £7 laptop in india - runs Linux
Read about this in the guardian a while back. I agree with chris - any laptop would probably be worth more than that even as scrap. 2009/2/9 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yay http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1134609/India-set-launch-worlds-cheapest-laptop--7.html Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Support Open and ISO standard file formats ISO 26300 odf http://www.odfalliance.org Next Linux User Group meet : March 7th : 3pm, Shoreline Cafe Paignton -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkmQl6gACgkQaggq1k2FJq0toACdHneha2M68D86o77VX+aiRXxk ZaAAnjylmJHCTeouiPZyz/xDZ6HBh86N =El/U -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook.....
I got myself one of those. It's got a very dated an unattractive looking interface, and firefox 2 beta. It runs a 2.4 kernel on a MIPSEL processor. You cant reach the TTY or a graphical shell, andthe pacakge management/upgrade system doesnt work. The OS is a lockdown so you cant install anything else, except xenium linux which is hacked to work on it. When I tried xenium, it made it permanently unbootable. Then the battery exploded/melted. After a lot of arguing, i got a refund, but only for the notebook itself, and not the 16 quid postage both ways. 2009/2/2 Dr James Stevens-Turner ja...@btguk.org: John, Maplin are offering a laptop at £99.99 plus one at £129.99, with Linux on! James. - Original Message - From: John To: British Ubuntu Talk Sent: Monday, February 02, 2009 1:56 PM Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Buying a Acer Notebook. I finally found a relatively cheap notebook with what seems like good specs, and was wondering what people though of it. The only thing it hasnt got is a dvd/cd player. I cant even find one that has. If anybody knows of a notebook that has one can they let me know? The specs are Acer Aspire One A150-Aw Netbook, Linpus Linux Lite version, 512MB DDR2 RAM, 120GB HD with a Kingston Technology 1GB 667MHz DDR2 Non-ECC CL5 SODIMM Insert as an extra, the whole package costs £200. I wondered if that was a good deal, also I wondered how easy it would be to install Ubuntu on it. As it doesnt have a dvd/cd player, would Ubuntu work on it, and how would I install it? Thank you. John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page
Its doing that for every single website. Its a bug, they should have it fixed soon. 2009/1/31 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com Hi -- is there a good reason for Google warning me away from the Ubuntu site?It's telling me that the site may harm my computer, then throwing me a 502 when I look for details. Cheers, Doug. -- 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] Clearing home directory at logout
Not sure about clearing it on logout, but i expect clearing it on login will do? SystemPrefsSessions AddCommand: rm -fr $HOME/* ; cp /etc/skel/* $HOME/ That deletes everyhting in the come dir and then copies the default home dir 2009/1/29 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear out the home directory on Ubuntu when a user logs out? Basically what I to achieve is have a script run to automatically when a user logs out of their Gnome session so it resets everything back to the default. I've tried putting a couple of commands into .bash_logout to see it that works but it doesn't seem to run on a Gnome session logout. I just wondered if anyone knew how I could specify a script to run at logout for specific users? Ta, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clearing home directory at logout
*come=home sorry 2009/1/29 Alec Wright ale...@gmail.com Not sure about clearing it on logout, but i expect clearing it on login will do? SystemPrefsSessions AddCommand: rm -fr $HOME/* ; cp /etc/skel/* $HOME/ That deletes everyhting in the come dir and then copies the default home dir 2009/1/29 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk Hi folks, I was wondering if anyone knew how to clear out the home directory on Ubuntu when a user logs out? Basically what I to achieve is have a script run to automatically when a user logs out of their Gnome session so it resets everything back to the default. I've tried putting a couple of commands into .bash_logout to see it that works but it doesn't seem to run on a Gnome session logout. I just wondered if anyone knew how I could specify a script to run at logout for specific users? Ta, Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] df and du give different results
Its probably because the filesystem itself takes up some space. On 03/01/2008, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I'm running a Dapper webserver and I'm having terrible problems with du and df giving different results: df -h gives me. FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/Ubuntu-root 29G 27G 347M 99% / varrun252M 52K 252M 1% /var/run varlock 252M 4.0K 252M 1% /var/lock udev 252M 52K 252M 1% /dev devshm252M 0 252M 0% /dev/shm //172.18.0.13/linuxbackups 1.4T 710G 671G 52% /media/netbackup /dev/sda5 228M 14M 203M 7% /boot sudo du -hs /* gives me. 3.1M/bin 9.4M/boot 0 /cdrom 172K/dev 2.6M/etc 39M /home 4.0K/initrd 0 /initrd.img 76M /lib 48K /lost+found 263G/media 4.0K/mnt 4.0K/opt 514M/proc 20K /root 8.1M/sbin 4.0K/srv 0 /sys 12K /tmp 263M/usr 14G /var 0 /vmlinuz Now that just doesn't add up. I wondered if it might be a problem with open files, so I've tried lsof | grep deleted and lsof | grep DEL They showed Apache2 and MySQL had some files open so I restarted them. This didn't help so I restarted the server. Still no joy!! Please help me :-O Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Starting a PSU
I've got an old PSU from a computer that died, and im trying to start it, does anyone know how? Do I just poke a wire between the purple wire (which it calls PG SIGNAL) and the black wire on the motherboard cable? I've already tried putting a 100R resistor across it, to no avail. I'll try putting a wire across it though if people think that'll work. I'm trying to use it as a non-computer power supply. Cheers -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Starting a PSU
Replace all purple with grey. Sorry On 20/12/2007, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an old PSU from a computer that died, and im trying to start it, does anyone know how? Do I just poke a wire between the purple wire (which it calls PG SIGNAL) and the black wire on the motherboard cable? I've already tried putting a 100R resistor across it, to no avail. I'll try putting a wire across it though if people think that'll work. I'm trying to use it as a non-computer power supply. Cheers -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Starting a PSU
Actually dont worry, ive sorted it now =] I had to short green to ground On 20/12/2007, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an old PSU from a computer that died, and im trying to start it, does anyone know how? Do I just poke a wire between the purple wire (which it calls PG SIGNAL) and the black wire on the motherboard cable? I've already tried putting a 100R resistor across it, to no avail. I'll try putting a wire across it though if people think that'll work. I'm trying to use it as a non-computer power supply. Cheers -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mp3 to Ogg Conversion
Converting between 2 lossy formats loses quality. If you converted MP3FLAC, you'd get the same quality as the original MP3, but it would take up about 10x as much space. Or even better, re-rip everything as ogg vorbis. On 18/12/2007, Stuart Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi All I have a large music collection which is probably 95% mp3 format. I would like to move it all to an open format such as Ogg Vorbis (or any other alternatives that I am unaware of). So I have a couple of questions: Are there any tools that will help me achieve this? Will there be any sound quality reduction as a result of the conversions? I'm vaguely aware of lossy, lossless issues but not really that clued up on audio formats and any issues that they have with each other. I would therefore appreciate any information before I start. My collection runs to nearly 160 Gb so starting from scratch would not really be an option unless absolutely necessary. Thanks in advance. Stu Sent from Yahoo! - a smarter inbox. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stop Ubuntu
On Sat, 2007-12-15 at 06:04 +, Dennis Holdroyd wrote: I have constant messages downloading to my e-mail I only asked a question with regard to my new ubuntu download not one answer did I get yet a load of rubbish with stupid abbreviations that only the senders are in the know about. How do I get rid. I will dump ubuntu of my machine if I do not get more sense out of the so called community. I have never ever had a reply to any question asked. Please observe the CoC when posting on the list: http://www.ubuntu.com/community/conduct -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] boot problem
On Sun, 2007-11-25 at 12:39 +, norman wrote: I have recently installed windows 2K and Edubuntu to give a dual boot set up for my granddaughter. Edubuntu is great and she is really enjoying using it. However, I am unable to boot the windows system. When I select it from the starting menu the usual start bar appears followed by the dreaded blue screen and a message saying that it could not boot. Please, could some kind person advise me on how to overcome this difficulty. Norman As Sean said, it seems that the partition is corrupted. Do a chkdsk/fsck or something on it to fix it. If that only fixes it temporarily, do it again, capy all the files off of the windows partition , reformat it and put them back on. Or just reinstall =] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] wireless adapter
On Sun, 2007-11-18 at 13:15 +, norman wrote: That would be very helpful. Got it: DWL-G112 Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.uk/D-Link-DWL-G122-54Mbps-Wireless-Adaptor/dp/B0002DQUHC/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8s=electronicsqid=1195337134sr=8-1 It doesn't say its linux compatible though Maybe its only the version my mate got. -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] wireless adapter
On Sat, 2007-11-17 at 21:17 +, norman wrote: I am assembling a basic desktop PC and want it capable of wireless connectivity. I would be grateful for any practical advice you can give me about adaptors, whether USB or PCI card, suitable for Ubuntu 7.10. I have tried Google but much of the advice is out of date. Norman My friend got a d-link usb adapter the other day (54mbps). It worked like a charm on windows and ubuntu. It even said that it works with linux on the box. I'll try and get the model number next time I talk to him. Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Linux Comaptible Hardware
I've noticed recently that more hardware manufacturers are saying if their hardware works with linux lately? I can think of 3 examples: 1GiB pen maxell drive form asda (£7, bargain!) about a week ago. It said on the packet, requires windows 98 or later, mac os (insert an irrational number here) or linux 2.4 My friend got a new d-link USB wireless gadget, also about a week ago. It said on the box that it worked on linux. And work on linux it did. My school got a new printer. They left a label on it which boasted all of it's exciting new features. One was Postscript compatible - runs on linux and it had a picture of tux on it =] The ict staff still insisted on plugging it into a windows computer though =[ Has anyone else noticed this? -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just ordered an iPod.. Have I just made a big mistake?
On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:29 +, Kris Douglas wrote: Hi, a while ago I noticed a thread going on about the iPod Classic 160GB... Now I know, they're expensive and all that, so lets forget all that flaming... I was just wondering what the support in Ubuntu was like... Are there any things I need to look out for when I'm using the device on Ubuntu? Thanks, Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might be interested in rockbox: http://www.rockbox.org/ It makes your iPod work like a generic audio player. It isnt avaiable for iPod classic yet, but I expect it will be soon. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just ordered an iPod.. Have I just made a big mistake?
On Sun, 2007-11-11 at 13:39 +, Kris Douglas wrote: On 11/11/2007, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 23:29 +, Kris Douglas wrote: Hi, a while ago I noticed a thread going on about the iPod Classic 160GB... Now I know, they're expensive and all that, so lets forget all that flaming... I was just wondering what the support in Ubuntu was like... Are there any things I need to look out for when I'm using the device on Ubuntu? Thanks, Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You might be interested in rockbox: http://www.rockbox.org/ It makes your iPod work like a generic audio player. It isnt avaiable for iPod classic yet, but I expect it will be soon. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Ooh that's interesting... So this is a replacement os for the device that allows you to extend the functionality? Yep that's exactly what it is. I've got it on my iPod video 30gb -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] can someone point me in the right direction??
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:43 +, Pascal Khoury wrote: Hi guys Hope everyone's well. I am new to the forum. I have installed Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 6400, and I am trying to configure my screen resolution with no success. The resolution is by default 1024x768, and this is too small for my screen. I wonder if someone can help. I had this same problem with the same laptop. There are two solutions: 1. Upgrade to gutsy or 2. Install the 915resolution package -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)
sOn Wed, 2007-11-07 at 22:39 +, STONE COLD wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:26:52 + Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject) On Wed, 2007-11-07 at 21:57 +, STONE COLD wrote: I cant write to an ext2 partition, what should i do? Provide more details? Contrary to popular opinion, we're not psychic. :) If we spend all our time working out the possible reasons for your problem then we'd never get any work done. If you have a problem and you want it fixed I recommend providing as much detail as you can including but not limited to:- What version of Ubuntu you are using. What you were doing when the problem occured. Did it work previously, and now doesn't, or has it never worked What changed that stopped it working (if it previously worked). And so on.. Cheers, Al. Sorry! :) im using gutsy! its upgrade from fiesty using update manager. i only found it wasnt working i.e saving, when i tried to save something to it! yup it did work previously havnt tried to write anything since i upgraded to gutsy! i also get this when i right click in properties... this: owner: root Folder access : create and read files group: root folder access: access files others: folder access: access files SElinuxcontext: unknown last changed: unknown sudo chown -R yourusername affected direcory/mountpoint -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Freeview
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 12:11 +, norman wrote: No one seems to have mentioned it so I will. Make sure that you have digital quality cable from your aerial to the box. Norman Normal cable worked fine for me, and I'm in a no signal area, using an analogue aerial. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu CD cover
On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 13:54 +, Stephen Drake wrote: Are there any good CD covers like the one provided by the Open Disc project? Preferably using the same origami style template. I think it looks really good and would be better than just handing out a plain CD. http://www.theopendisc.com/latest-version/cover-art/ I know there's been talk of getting some CDs printed professionally, but I think this is also a great, fast, cheap solution. Regards, Steve https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/DVDCover and https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Marketing/CDWallets Most of the ones in the latter were made by me and are very out of date -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Freeview
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 00:49 +, Jai Harrison wrote: Hey guys (and girls), snip I have absolutely no clue what I'm doing. I figured that some people on the mailing list would have a better idea than I do. Thanks for any help any of you can provide me with :) Jai We were diagonsed with this as well. We got a box and it worked perfectly. No messing about with aerial replacements etc. Thing is, with freeview, you cant get bad reception. You've either got reception or nothing. It's digital, so if there;s any packet loss, something's gonna go badly wrong. Eh? How did i manage to make TV sound so geeky!? Packet loss!? -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Hardy?
Is anyone using Hardy yet? Am I right in thinking that it will be fairly stable, because Hardy's gonna be an LTS release? I used gutsy since the feisty release, so am i likely to be able to use hardy? Cheers Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Linux mysteriously broke my computer!
Or so Evesham tech support say... Here's what happened: Whenever I switched my computer on, it would switch off within five seconds or so. If I switch it on again, it will switch off again even more quickly. It doesn't even get to detecting disk drives, let alone booting an operating system. It even does it with all of the disk drives unplugged. I phoned Evesham tech support, and they immediately said it was a windows driver problem. When I told him it didn't have windows on it, but had Linux on it, he put me on hold for a few minutes. When he got back, he told me that he couldn't fix the HARDWARE problem because it runs Linux. He told me to reinstall windows and phone back... Well that's gonna be fun when it cant stay on for more than five seconds... Just thought you guys might be interested -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux mysteriously broke my computer!
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 15:03 +, Mark Harrison wrote: Hi, I'm calling back. Your tech support guy told me to re-install Windows, but the PC is switching off before it starts the install... Suggested that to my dad (whos making the calls now) too Thanks -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux mysteriously broke my computer!
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 15:34 +, Dougie Richardson wrote: It may be worth reading this http://www.dti.gov.uk/consumers/fact-sheets/page38311.html carefully so you know all your rights before going any further. From the warranty terms and conditions: 1. Cover provided by this contract: ... (e)Unless otherwise agreed specifically in writing by the company in relation to a particular item, the company has no responsibility under this contract in relation to any of the following items, namely: (i)Software, storage media, data retrieval ... --So that seems to say that what OS/software is on my computer is none of their business :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux mysteriously broke my computer!
On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 16:01 +, Pete Stean wrote: That Slashdot article is certainly worth a read btw, although it doesn't help the OP. Yep I read it quite a while ago. That's where i got the inspiration for the title of this shred - one of the new articles about the hinge was titled Linux broke my laptop's hinge! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] PDF file ADOBE alternative...in Ubuntu and windows
On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 12:46 +, STONE COLD wrote: that is fine...but what bout in a windows environment where openoffice is not a choice!? OpenOffice.org for windows =] http://download.openoffice.org/2.3.0/contribute.html?product=OpenOffice.orgos=winwjrelang=en-USversion=2.3.0 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu TV Advert
On Sun, 2007-10-28 at 10:07 +, Darren Mansell wrote: I'm thinking now is about the right time to really introduce the uninitiated to Ubuntu. We are at about critical mass where software and hardware companies can't just ignore Linux so lets take it a step further. I think the majority of people will have heard Ubuntu either subliminally or consciously so I think a TV advert will have a far greater effect than it may seem. Does anyone have any information on how much a TV advert on mainstream TV would cost? How much it costs to place it at certain times? (e.g. in the middle of the Gadget Show on five). And how much does it vary between channels like Bravo / MenMotors and ITV / Ch4? I'm wondering if we could start a donation fund then ask Canonical to match what we raise or go directly to Mark Shuttleworth or something. Think about what we could do with the advert, the talent of the Open-Source community coming together with ideas and contributions. We could show Compiz Fusion against Aero. Make a joke about the cost, something like a fake shopping channel where the orange guy shows off this fab Operating System and the cost is on the screen as £0.00 and all hell breaks loose with people ringing in for it etc. and they think the price must be wrong on the screen. You get the idea. What do you think? I think TV would be a bit expensive (toyed with the idea myself) Maybe a newspaper or radio ad? eg The Times: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/tools_and_services/services/advertising/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting BBC Poll Choices
On Fri, 2007-10-26 at 15:32 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: Think their polls work on ip addresses? Or think you could sit there and continually click linux? Daniel You can vote more than once - I accidentally voted 3 times when i was resfreshing the page to see how the results had changed -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tesco Selling Ubuntu 6.06 Machines - Good value.
On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 21:16 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote: Is there a page on the wiki / ubuntu main for links to these manufacturers? Regards, Do you mean of companies who sell pcs with ubuntu preinstalled? If so, I just started one: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/UbuntuPreinstalled -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ports UK Mirror
On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 12:31 +0100, Andrew Barber wrote: Hey all, I wondered if anybody knows of any UK based mirrors of the 'ports' ubuntu folder. I am trying to download Gutsy for my PPC and I am getting extremely slow download speeds, and I think the server is US based. Surly there is somebody in the UK mirroring this vital part of the Ubuntu distro? Currently using http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.10/release/ I think it's in London actually, but oh well http://gb.cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.10/release/ will guarantee you UKness -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to delete all .m4a files from music library
On Tue, 2007-10-16 at 18:48 +0100, Mac wrote: I've got a mixture of .flac and .m4a files of the same music scattered through the multiple sub directories in ~/music. I want to delete all the .m4a files from which ever subdirectory they happen to be in, leaving the .flac files in their current directories. (It would be nice to delete any directories that have become empty because they only had .m4a files in them - but that would be a bonus!) I'd be grateful for advice about how to do this 'selective recursive delete' - I can't work out a terminal command with this effect. Sorry if this is dead obvious - I can't see how to do it. TIA Mac Try: rm -R *.mp4 *.m4a -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy or Feisty for install party?
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:19 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote: I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your opinions on which version to take along? Gutsy. When I'm installing Ubuntu for anyone else, I use a beta if it's available. I'd never give anyone anything pre-beta (eg RC1) though. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy or Feisty for install party?
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:31 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote: Well I was going to download the Beta tonight while at work, however it appears to have been pulled from the servers to make way for the release candidate. Oh well. Daily builds work just as well: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily/current/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] sunkeyboard not welcome
On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 05:49 -0700, tryo tas wrote: hoi, has anybody an idea why my sun keyboard type 5 from an old ultra5 is not recognised by the lovely ubuntu server? cheers shen __ Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. Please dont reply to a message sand wipe the text to start a new message, it comes up wierdly in some mail clients. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Tag Lines?
On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 17:32 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: Ubuntu is an ancient African word which means 'Slackware is too hard for me...' Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning I can't configure Debian -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Who's got/ordered Dell Ubuntu Laptops?
Title says it all really. I just ordered one three minutes ago xD -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:40 +, andylockran wrote: We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing Virtual Richard Stallman on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were installed. Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for something to waste their time.. let's all take turns in uploading our results. (If you haven't got it already, just : sudo apt-get install vrms, then run vrms. Please append your results to the list below: andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed packages. Regards, Andy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ vrms Non-free packages installed on Jupiter eawpatchesNon-free (and more complete) patch set for MIDI audio human-icon-theme Human Icon theme linux-generic Complete Generic Linux kernel linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.22 modules on x86/x86_64 linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.22 modules on x86/x86_64 linux-restricted-modules- Non-free Linux 2.6.22 modules helper script linux-restricted-modules- Restricted Linux modules for generic kernels nvidia-glx-newNVIDIA binary XFree86 4.x/X.Org 'new' driver p7zip-rar non-free rar module for p7zip sun-java6-bin Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture sun-java6-jre Sun Java(TM) Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 (architecture tangerine-icon-theme Tangerine Icon theme 12 non-free packages, 0.8% of 1445 installed packages. Not too bad =] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows Home Server
On Thu, 2007-10-04 at 20:03 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: Could Ubuntu not develop a more user friendly home server ie just with samba and maybe amanada or bacula for backups? Not all the extras. What I think would be great is if the server just sits there, being serverish, but you have a graphical manager for almost everything (HTTP, FTP, SAMBA, DHCP, netboot etc), but this isn't run on the server. It's run on a client, and this administrator communicates with the server, sending simple commands, perhaps hell commands over SSH. Comments? If people like it, I'll make an LP blueprint. -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] EU-topia? No Windows in EU ? Should we contribute?
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 12:28 +0100, Eddie Armstrong wrote: Having read the submission by the Global Institute (PDF) http://www.globalisation.eu/publications/unbundlingmicrosoftwindows.pdf and this scary bit of nonsense Linux to finally kill Windows' http://diary.bluemango.in/?p=110(who wrote this - anybody know?), I'm wondering if Ubuntu-UK should add it's weight to this argument and submit an 'informed' opinion to the debate. What do we think about this proposal? My personal, unbiased opinion (to be qualified later): Is Yes! Yes! Yes! Go for it, Yerp but then I've always been the quiet type :-) Eddie I haven't read the rest of the thread, so i don't know if this has already been suggested, but I think OEMs should be allowed to ship the free, unlicensed 30 day trial of windows with computers, but that they should have to sell actual licenses separately. Then we're happy because we don't have to pay for windows, and windows users are happy because they only need to type in a registration key. Oh and we're also happy because it makes windows users realise just how much they're actually paying for windows. Shops are happy because they can advertise the computer at a lower price. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] creation of a dual boot desktop from scratch
On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 20:02 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought I'd install XP first (the online tutorials I've found seem to assume that windows is installed before creating a dual build machine - which is logical enough as so many are sold with it pre-installed) and create partions on the single hdd as follows: an ntfs partion (for XP) a system partion for ubuntu a swap partion for ubuntu a small fat32 'shared partion' in case I want to move any files between I'd get rid of the FAT32. Ubuntu has almost perfect read/write NTFS support and windows (with added drivers) has almost perfect ext2/3 (the main Linux filesystems) support. Or if you want to be really safe, you can make the NTFS partition FAT32 itself. XP can run off of either NTFS or FAT32. But if you want vista (yeuch), you'll have to use NTFS. -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repositories for Breezy
Its at: http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 16:55 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: I need to install another package on an otherwise-working-fine-and-stable breezy server. I notice that they've gone from gb.archive.ubuntu.com are they still out there somewhere? M. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top Posting: a request.
On Wed, 2007-09-26 at 18:55 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote: *** Please stop Top-Posting *** Two is fine How many sugars? I'd rather have coffee if possible. Coffee or tea? I was just about to ask what this list's policy on top/bottom posting was... Thanks for clearing that up -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Document Storage
100DPI JPEG is usually fine for me - if you can, adjust the quality to get the best compression while still leaving it readable. On Sun, 2007-09-16 at 12:10 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: Morning Folks In the list's opinion which is the best way to store documents? In particular, as my own filing system is, well non existant, I was thinking about scanning all necessary documents and then storing them eithre to HD or CD / DVD. I've been trying to work out in my own mind what would be the better way to store these scanned documents that will maintain the clarity and be of minimal size. So far it's looking like storing them as a tiff image, but I'm not sure whether it's worth the time to push them through an OCR tool and into an appropriate document format. Either raw or compressed through something like 7Zip into a self extracting file, or such like It is not necessary for the stored images to be legal copies but are merely there for my own reference. Thoughts, apart from sorting out my paper filing system! E -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Music playback in rhythmbox
Go to edit, preferences, playback and tick the use crossfade box, but uncheck the other. Put the first slider on 0. Restart rhythmbox. The only problems (which i know of) with this are htat it cant paly AAC or seek in MP£ =96kbit HTH On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 11:58 +0100, Stuart Saunders wrote: Hello I'm a completely new to Ubuntu/Linux and am very impressed but their is a problem when i play music. When i am playing an album in rhythmbox after every track their is a brief pause. I listen to a lot of mixed compilations and the music is meant to be played through continually so this is a problem for me. Thanks Stuart -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio
Is that the right URL? It's an ad farm. On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:41 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote: Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on www.helpmechill.co.uk to work. Thanks in advance. -- Must go; places to be, people to do, stuff to, err, stuff. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio
I seems like you need to play this in windows media player: http://mediaweb.musicradio.com/playlist.asx?streamid=55 But there's one small problem with that: /windows/ media player.. Maybe it might be a good idea to send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] an email about linux support On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:54 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:45 +0100, Alec Wright wrote: On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:41 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote: Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on www.helpmechill.co.uk to work. Is that the right URL? It's an ad farm. Sorry again, s/be www.helpmechill.com -- Must go; places to be, people to do, stuff to, err, stuff. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BIttorent Clinets (was iPod Management)
On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 12:34 +0100, Dave Murphy wrote: The other day I discovered Deluge - http://deluge-torrent.org/ - which provides most features anyone will want, and it has become my standard client. It's not in the repositories (yet), but the developers provide .debs for Feisty i386 and amd64. It's not very stable though, so you shouldn't recommend it to linux illiterates I prefer Azureus, although it requires Java. It's stable and has pretty much every feature imaginable. Btw I think I've heard that java's going open source is that true? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
Sounds great. If i buy a PC through you, will I be able to customise it? On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 15:16 +0100, Nik Butler wrote: [ SALES PITCH ] As many may already be aware Dell will be shipping Ubuntu preinstalled kit to the UK market. I am ( to the best of my knowledge ) uniquely positioned to have a very long term working and purchasing arrangement with Dell on behalf of all my customers. Depending on the models and volumes I can usually arrange a good margin on the order value ( read discount ). I will be posting some quotes and thoughts about this range tomorrow as well and if people are interested in a collective buying power position then I will be happy to mediate ( of course for a small percentage ) . Dell are really committed to supporting Ubuntu on their product lines and now is the opportunity to show an interest and a commitment to helping them deliver and generate a productive revenue stream in our market. I will of course be blogging about this as well and detailing any offers I can provide at the time , including how to buy and what sort of support we can expect in terms of hardware. Thanks for taking time to read and heres looking forward to tommorow when Freedom comes to the European and UK markets. Nik Butler -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [SALES PITCH ]Dell hardware and Ubuntu.
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 23:25 +0100, James Grabham wrote: Alec Wright wrote: Sounds great. If i buy a PC through you, will I be able to customise it? As in the hardware? I would expect that would void the warranty Yes, as in the hardware. But no, it wouldn't. Dell let you customise it before you buy. That's the customisation I mean. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] DELL w/Ubuntu available in the UK
Oops I've just realised i replied to your email, Pete, rather than Dave's original one. Sorry! On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 15:37 +0100, Pete Stean wrote: This represents real progress - fantastic. Although I build my own desktop machines, finding an appropriate laptop to slap a distro on has always been difficult, now we might have a solution. Wonder how they're getting on with enabling all the features on the laptop though - power management etc - are there any caveats I wonder? Pete On 07/08/07, Darren Mansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-08-07 at 14:18 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 07/08/07, Neil Greenwood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shame the laptops aren't included yet... Oops! I got that backwards - the Inspirons *are* the laptops, not the desktops! 1 laptop, 1 desktop. They both look very tasty too. I'll be ordering one. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Migrating from MS Windows
On Mon, 2007-08-06 at 20:56 +0100, Bill Culshaw wrote: I have moved my business and home computing over to Ubuntu,with very little problems. with the exception of 3 little niggles. Are there drivers available for a 2Wire usb wireless adapter. Do you know what chipset it uses? -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help with custom live CD please?
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 15:58 +0100, alan c wrote: I have a window of opportunity to attract attention in a large charity I have helped in the past, and I could very much use a custom (Ubuntu) live CD with a only a few differences from the standard: Just out of interest, what charity is it? Or are you not saying? I think I might remember you saying that you wouldn't say Or that might have been someone else (I'm not searching through 400 emails to check!) -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] This came in on the local Freecycle
On 02/08/07, John Dow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 8/2/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: CDs for Library: Are these ones you have burned, and what packaging have you used, wit any instructions or commentary? Yeah, I burned a pile of copies of the Edgy Live CD and printed out a little quickstart guide I wrote, along with links to the various faq sections of the ubuntu forums. John Any chance you could show your quick-start guide to the list? 'Cause there's been a lot of talk about leaflets lately. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why not fix this?
On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 08:30 +, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Chris, On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:45:40AM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: This bug has been driving me round the bend now for three releases of Ubuntu. Edgy, Feisty and Gutsy. I really don't know why it isn't getting fixed, any ideas? Get a better supported network card? :S But surely we want to encourage as many people as possible to use ubuntu. You wouldn't want to get a new network card for linux, would you? It's easier to add a few lines to code to network manager. -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two operating systems
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 08:39 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote: 4) type in 'root' followed by the info you got in 3 (ie if you got returned HD(1,1) type 'root (HD1,1) I think it's case sensitive so that should be root (hd1,1), not root (HD1,1). I'm not entirely sure, but do it in lowercase just to be safe. -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two operating systems
On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 08:39 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote: 5) type in 'setup hd(0,0) Oh and that should be setup (hd0), or setup (hd0,0), probably the former. -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two operating systems
You would just need to set the Ubuntu one as master and the XP one as slave (not the other way round like you suggested) and when you reinstall Ubuntu, it should automatically add an entry in GRUB for XP. If not, post back on this list and I'll tell you what you need to do to add a GRUB entry. On Thu, 2007-07-26 at 20:18 +0100, Keith Powell wrote: For some time now, I have had two hard drives, each in its own plug-in mobile hard drive caddy. One has XP on it (which I still need :-( and the other has Ubuntu on it. So I have just plugged in whichever OS I wanted. I'm thinking of doing away with the hard drive caddies and installing both drives inside the computer. For ease, XP would remain on its existing drive and be plugged into the 'master' plug on the ribbon cable. The Ubuntu drive would be plugged into the 'slave' plug on the IDE ribbon cable. Ubuntu would probably be a reinstall on a new, larger hard drive, but I've not decided yet. I see that, if I press F8 during the BIOS boot, I can select what I boot from (different DVD drives or different hard drives). Selecting the appropriate hard drive from F8, I think, would be better than messing about setting GRUB up for dual booting. (Something which I don't know how to do at the moment!) It would mean that I don't have to do anything to the XP drive. Is what I want to do, using F8 feasible, or would I be better setting GRUB up? With two hard drives, how are the jumpers set up? One master and one slave, both master, or how? I also have two DVD drives, one is just a player and one which will record. Any advice will be very gratefully received. Many thanks Keith -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:15 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know the kind of sizes the repos are? About 30GB, or so I was told... I dunno about individual versions and architectures, but its about 170GB for all currently supported (ie. which have not reached EOL: Dapper LTS, Edgy, Feisty, Gutsy) versions in all architectures (AMD64, i386, PPC (=Edgy), Sparc (limited selection of packages) -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:57 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy across the latest image. That just gave me an idea... (if you're sane you'll stop reading now) Canonical could sell external hard disks with version(s), architecture(s) and (what do you call those things which main, restricted, universe and multiverse are?)(s) which you choose on them. After you've chosen what you want (eg main and restricted for feisty and dapper), they recommend the right size hard drive for you. They put the repos on the hard drive and send it to you. Then perhaps you could send it back to them and them pay them a bit to update it... Except there'd probably not be much demand for this. It would only be useful in large businesses, which would almost undoubtedly have an internet connection. Oh well... My idea sucks... Live with it. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [uk-marketing] Article for local mag
Pretty good, but: Ubuntu doesn't get viruses should be Ubuntu rarely gets viruses. You should point out that antivirus firewalls slow down your computer. Linux runs the entire internet should be Linux runs about half of the internet as about 50% of websites are hosted on linux. Also, you should recommend that people download CDs if they have fast internet, rather than getting them off of shipit, but still state that shipit is an option if you have slow/no internet. On Mon, 2007-07-23 at 13:57 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: As promised, I've had a bash at writing something which would be suitable for inclusion in a local magazine. As always please correct, suggest and improve :-) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ArticleForLocalMagazine Cheers Chris -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflet sheet (SHHIPT content) for CDs
On Fri, 2007-07-13 at 09:51 +0100, Dave Murphy wrote: * The 'grass' image used on the leaflets - is that the actual Microsoft image? If so we can't use it. No, it's from a website and under a free license, but I think it looks too windows anyway. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows makes PCs cheaper to buy! ... we need to respond [Dell crapware]
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 13:11 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: I think we ought to be making a far bigger play of the whole Crapware thing, which has done a great job of introducing hidden costs to running Windows I expect people will start making crapware for ubuntu soon, with ads on the desktop. Or maybe a seperate crapware submenu in the apps menu :) Or: Make the smallest windows installation possible on the hard drive, and completely fill it with crapware. Make ubuntu reformat that partition to swap on first boot up :) -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Ubuntu - gradually looking more hopeful
On Sat, 2007-06-30 at 20:21 +0100, Anders Jacobsen wrote: Why not just buy the laptop, then refuse the license and get your money back? That way, you can't be assured of hardware compatibility, which would be the main reason why I want a laptop with ubuntu preinstalled. -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] FLOSS solution for graphing in PHP
I think imagemagick might help, but I'm not sure... On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: Hi all, I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not being my friend this afternoon. I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming language that lets me extract info from one and display it with the other (PHP5.) These all run on a nice friendly thing you may have heard of called Ubuntu :-) What I'm after is a free (in both senses) thing (library, probably), that can grab some data, and turn it into a pretty-looking bar graph. I don't mind particularly how it outputs the graph provided it's something that can display within Firefox, so something that could dynamically build a PNG or a Flash, or whatever really. However, Google has let me down - lots of chargeable libraries, but adding the search term free gives me free trial, $69 to buy or the like results. Has anyone any personal recommendations? M. -- Alec Wright New Mobile Number: 07932 217 288 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] getting epiphany with apt
On Wed, 2007-06-20 at 20:18 +0100, michaelweaver wrote: I do not seem to be having much luck with text web browsers for one reason or another because of how speech works. Somone has apparently used Epiphany with Orca and I tried to download it only it did not show up under the Internet menu in Feisty or any of the menus I tried and doing a search on my computer did not find the filder where apt installed it to. Where do certain applications get put by apt when they do not seem to appear in the menu you expect ie Epiphany not appearing in the Internet menu which would be obvious place to look? Did you do either sudo aptitude install epiphany or sudo apt-get install epiphany? If so, that's not the right package name. It should be either sudo aptitude install epiphany-browser or sudo apt-get install epiphany-browser (depending on whether you prefer aptitude or apt-get). -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernels and releases
On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 10:09 +0100, luxxius wrote: After a Dapper Edgy Feisty upgrade on my old Dell Inspiron laptop, I had a problem with very slow booting, as described in https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/8390. (This looks like a bug in kernel 2.6.20 that's gone on for a while.) I fixed it by editing grub to default to kernel 2.6.17, which works fine. What I'm wondering is how the kernel versions relate to the Ubuntu releases. Specifically, my resources.list file still refers to feisty repositories. Now that I've downgraded my laptop to 2.6.17-11 (IIRC), will this matter, or do I need to change it to ?Edgy repositories? Sorry if this is a stupid question with a dead obvious answer! As long as the first 2 digits (2.6) are the same, everything should still run fine. No new features will be added to the kernel until 2.7, which I expect is a long way off. -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leaflets
On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 14:36 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: Oh yeah - sorry heres a link https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Leaflets?action=AttachFiledo=gettarget=leaflet2_withgraphics_chris_rowson.pdf Another link you might want to add is http://screencasts.ubuntu.com - Alan Pope's Ubuntu screencasts. If you want to download them via bittorrent, you can get the torrent files from here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ScreencastTeam/Torrents but don't put that link in the leaflet :) There's mainly only me and Al seeding, so when youve finished downloading, please seed! -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Searching for a Killer App
On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 12:56 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Hi all, I've managed to convince my parents that Ubuntu is for them (My mum just got a new laptop with Vista and Office 2007 and thinks that it is completely unintuitive!) however there is one issue. They use Microsoft Publisher. Whilst there are many tools out there that will act as a replacement, I am unable to find a program that will load and save MS Pub files. Can anyone help? Thanks, M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Lug-Master (http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk), Dad (http://www.helpmeimadad.com/), Ubuntu User( http://www.ubuntu.com/) You could use both publisher and scribus/OOo draw, slowly making the change. Carry on using publisher for the pubs you've already got, but make all new ones in scribus/OOo draw :) that way, you'll eventually have everything in scribus/OOo. -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 08:50 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: It may not be about price to YOU. It certainly is about price for a lot of people. M. Well, to me, £30 extra or whatever it is is worth it if you're getting compatible hardware, and not having to go through the hassle of installing ubuntu etc. -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 13:51 +0100, Gary Kearley wrote: /me wants to see one with a BSOD :-) I was just thinking exactly the same thing! -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Web forum software for Ubuntu (Edgy server) - recommendations wanted
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 20:02 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for some web forum software to run on Edgy. Can you recommend me something? My requirements (in order of importance, most important first) are: - Free as in beer - Free as in speech (I might need to write a username registration handler at some point) - Has a backend that can live in PHP 5 - Has a backend that can run on a different server from the front-end, and cope with multiple webheads - Has an admin model that allows me to authorise a few other people to be user admins to weed out the obvious SPAM - Ideally, an anti-spam plugin (also free) that sort of works like Askimet :-) And please note that, yes, I really mean forums, not mailing-list-server. Normally I hate web-only forums, but this particular job has a customer base who are actually calling for them. M. phpBB: http://phpbb.com Or sudo aptitude install phpbb -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnash, was Audio/Video sync on YouTube
On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 22:07 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Although not packaged, snip Actually, its available in edgy backports, feisty and gutsy :) http://packages.ubuntu.com/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?searchon=namesversion=allexact=1keywords=gnash -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dells with Ubuntu
On Sat, 2007-05-26 at 11:28 +0100, LeeUKHA wrote: Why bother? I just compared a Vista vs. Fiesty Inspiron laptop and the answer is It's (like for like*) $29 cheaper to buy a Vista laptop and install Fiesty on it yourself... Jeez... only Dell could replace a $40 OS with a free one and make it $69 more expensive... I really despair sometimes Lee *The headline Ubuntu laptop comes with half the memory and integrated graphics... It's not about the price. It's about not giving money to Microsoft for something you're not going to use. It's about not having to bother about installing Ubuntu yourself. It's about being guaranteed Ubuntu compatible hardware. -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] technical question
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:42 +0100, norman wrote: What would I expect to have to be aware of, if I changed the kernel from 2.6.20 to 2.6.17, when working with Ubuntu 7.04? Nothing, as far as I know, except that you might need to do something to make the nVidia binary drivers work again (if you use them). I'm using 2.6.20 on Ubuntu gutsy (7.10) here. -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 07:12 +0100, I C McNab wrote: I'm about to install Fiesty on a new 500Gb drive (to boot first in a dual boot set up with XP on a 160Gb drive in same box). I'm going to keep things simple: partitions for /, /home, and /swap, following advice in this thread. But how big should I make /, given that, if I wanted to, I could give it 100+Gb. How much is 'plenty enough for all contingencies', given that this is a home desktop box doing fairly routine stuff, plus acting as a music server to stream FLAC files to a couple of Slim Devices Squeezeboxes (hence the need for a big disc to hold the music files). I recommend 15-20GB for / (my / is 15GB on a 250GB), 1-3GB for swap (just to be safe... i have 3GB on my 250GB) and make the rest /home But 20GB and 3GB are a bit excessive; you could easily get away with 10GB and 1GB (or even less!) Heres my partition table in case you're interested, I'm dual booting with windows: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Password: Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 * 12611209728267 HPFS/NTFS /dev/sda22612 30401 2232231755 Extended /dev/sda52612456915727603+ 83 Linux /dev/sda64570 29627 201278353+ 83 Linux /dev/sda7 30010 30401 3148708+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ -- Alec Wright -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] An Introduction
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 19:08 +0100, Matthew J Smith wrote: However, if you can afford it, I would get an ethernet DSL modem as they really do work out of the box, with no drivers necessary. If your network card is supported. -- Alec Wright New Mobile Number: 07932 217 288 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feisty default package list
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 14:56 +0100, Michael Erskine wrote: I can't seem to find a list of packages installed by default on Feisty. Could someone point me at one? It's ubuntu-minimal and ubuntu-desktop I think -- Alec Wright M: 07749884274 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feisty 7.04 restart problem (shutdown)
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 23:12 +0100, alan c wrote: I have 7.04 on a laptop and the restart works ok. However on a desktop (which works with any other distro I have tried) the restart does not complete - it seems to hang before shutdown (no screen display at that stage) and I have to force power off. This actually causes file systems to be 'not clean' to show at restart. Shutdown works ok on both machines. I have not tried options other than restart, I only ever use shutdown or restart, but finding 'restart' to be a problem like this is a bit of a surprise. Is there anything I can do to ensure a proper shutdown within the restart function? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 A bug has been filed about this: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/43961 (or at least I think that's the same thing) -- Alec Wright M: 07749884274 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loading Ubuntu on to a Mac mini
If it's an old PowerPC mac, you'll need this image: http://gb.cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.04/release/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-powerpc.iso (http://gb.cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/7.04/release/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-powerpc.iso.torrent for the torrent) If its a new intel one, you'll need this one: http://gb.releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso (http://gb.releases.ubuntu.com/7.04/ubuntu-7.04-desktop-i386.iso.torrent for the torrent) On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 18:50 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote: It seems likely that I will acquire a new Mac mini, What's the procedure for using Ubuntu on it and can I run it at the same time as Tiger. Do I get a disc or do I download it from the web ? Would a different version of Linux suit Mac better, if so what ? I have no interest in electronic music or games and spend most of my time in OOo, dull but essential for life. As a thickie, ought I to surrrender and get someone else to do it for me. -- Alec Wright M: 07749884274 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loading Ubuntu on to a Mac mini
On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 19:22 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote: It'll be a brand new basic intel version. Sorry but wot's an image and wot does one do with it. Surely it is nothing to do with a mirror which I understand issues programs on the web. Download the image (about 600-700MB) and burn it as described here: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto I recommend using bittorent to download it if you know how. Otherwise, don't worry; just use the normal download. -- Alec Wright M: 07749884274 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 7.04 upgrade tool crash - how to assess next action?
In the terminal, do this command: sudo aptitude update ; sudo aptitude upgrade Then you'll be using proper ubuntu feisty. To confirm this, do this command: lsb_release -sc And it should say feisty On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 20:13 +0100, alan c wrote: I upgraded kubuntu 6.10 to 7.04 via the automatic upgrader, and things seemed to go ok for pretty well the full 2 1/2 hours (approximately), but near the end when it looked as if files were being re written, the crash notification appeared. Internet connection did not seem to be effective at that time (or I might have tried to file a report), so I rebooted. It appears to be a functioning installation but- I am not now sure about what I should do. I am tempted to wipe and reinstall a clean 7.04. I would usually use a clean install for an upgrade anyway, but this time I thought the upgrade tool was worth a try since it popped up and invited itself! How do I assess if I am now running a good 7.04? tia -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- Alec Wright M: 07749884274 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Linux Survey (until 23rd March)
On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 01:56 +, alan c wrote: Let Dell know what you want and how you want it! http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/global.aspx/corp/linux?s=corp -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 Done :D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hi / Forum
Welcome! Yes, there is a forum at http://www.ubuntuforums.org but not an Ubuntu UK specific one. --- Alec Wright On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 12:18 +, Kirrus wrote: Hello! I'm a newbie onto this list.. thought I might as well say a bit about me. I'm a trainee web designer in Wales. My Primary home and work O.S. is Ubuntu. I switched to Ubuntu in summer last year, and haven't looked back. (Apart from running Guild Wars Starcraft :) on windoze.) I run a startek pbem rpg in my spare time, along with trying to keep my blog up to date. (I will redesign the look when I get round to it...) A quick question, do you have a forum? I ask, because I spend most of my time on forums, and find email lists annoying, as I have enough emails coming in anyway, I have to set them into digest mode, Which limits their effectiveness. Regards, Kirrus -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
