Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB wi-fi adapter recommendation?

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 09 Mar 2017 12:04:56 +
Adam Funk  wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Can anyone recommend a good USB wi-fi adapter for use with Ubuntu?  I
> don't mind if it takes some tinkering to set up the first time, but I
> need high reliability for a non-gearhead to be able to use it after
> that.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adam
> 
> 

Any from tp-link

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongles

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:56:01 + (UTC)
George Tripp  wrote:

> Can anyone recommend a wifi dongle that's plug & play / compatible
> with 16.04. 
> 
> 
> George
> 

Pretty much any will work personally I have tp-link ones that work fine.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automatic check for updates

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:39:20 +0100
Paul Tansom  wrote:

> I've got a new(ish) Ubuntu 14.04 LTS install that I'm preparing to
> replace an older 12.04 LTS one. When I log in on the 12.04 install I
> get a notification in red at the bottom right of my Byobu session
> that notifies me of updates. On the 14.04 one I only ever get this
> after I've manually done an `aptitude update`. It looks as though all
> I need to do is add some configuration to the /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/
> directory, and I'm quite happy with doing this. The thing that
> puzzles me is why I've got this difference. Is it a policy change or
> is there an official way (other than manually crafting a suitable
> script - or copying one from my 12.04 install) to set this up.
> Unfortunately my Google-fu is failing me on this one. Everything I
> find either talks about apticron or cron-apt, or references the
> software manager GUI.
> 

On the whole the check only run weekly so depending on how often you
log into the systems will depend on how often it shows up.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] WifiTransfer app on Ubuntu Phone

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:56:53 +0100
Dave Morley  wrote:

> On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:45:47 +0100
> Tony Pursell  wrote:
> 
> > Hi All
> > 
> > I wonder if anyone can help me.
> > 
> > It has long been difficult to move files on and off an Ubuntu phone
> > as the only way to do it was by USB cable.  Now there is an app
> > called WifiTransfer which uses FTP to transfer files over WiFi
> > which is meant to make it easier.  The problem is, it uses a folder
> > called ~/.local/share/wifitransfer.sil to move files in and out of
> > which is a hidden folder and I can find no quick way to move to and
> > from it without having to type in .local every time.  One of the
> > reviews for it says that you can show hidden files but I don't know
> > how to do this in File Manager on the phone.  Does anyone here know
> > how to do it?
> > 
> > Also, is there a way, in File Manager on the Phone, to copy more
> > than one file for pasting?
> > 
> > And finally, as this seems to me to be a bit of a botch, are there
> > any plans to add SMB network connections to File Manager on the
> > Phone? I've got it on my Android phone and well worth the £1.99 I
> > paid for it.
> > 
> > Tony
> 
> Click on three sqaures with lines beside them, this shows the show
> hidden.
> 
> 

Oh you have to click on the 3 lines on there own and enable Unlock full
access too.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] WifiTransfer app on Ubuntu Phone

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 27 Aug 2015 15:45:47 +0100
Tony Pursell  wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I wonder if anyone can help me.
> 
> It has long been difficult to move files on and off an Ubuntu phone
> as the only way to do it was by USB cable.  Now there is an app called
> WifiTransfer which uses FTP to transfer files over WiFi which is
> meant to make it easier.  The problem is, it uses a folder called
> ~/.local/share/wifitransfer.sil to move files in and out of which is a
> hidden folder and I can find no quick way to move to and from it
> without having to type in .local every time.  One of the reviews for
> it says that you can show hidden files but I don't know how to do
> this in File Manager on the phone.  Does anyone here know how to do
> it?
> 
> Also, is there a way, in File Manager on the Phone, to copy more than
> one file for pasting?
> 
> And finally, as this seems to me to be a bit of a botch, are there any
> plans to add SMB network connections to File Manager on the Phone?
> I've got it on my Android phone and well worth the £1.99 I paid for
> it.
> 
> Tony

Click on three sqaures with lines beside them, this shows the show
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] How did I not know about dovecote sieve

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 08:36:17 +0100
Alan Lord  wrote:

> 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 ?
> >
> 
> 
> 

Nice one Alan, Turns out though I need to wait till wily for 3.12
release of claws-mail to get that plugin for me :)  Stopped using
thunderbird when it start marking all my mail as spam, but I guess I
can possibly use that again now if I so wanted :)

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

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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

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 18 Aug 2015 15:54:12 +0100
Nigel Verity  wrote:

> Hi
> 
> I have a requirement to provide some amplification for a speech. I
> have a good USB microphone and a small performance amplifier. So far
> so good.
> 
> The amplifier has a standard input jack but as far as I can see it is
> not possible to buy a simple adaptor to allow a USB mike to be used.
> Since the USB microphone works fine for recording sound on my laptop,
> and the laptop makes a good audio source for the amplifier, why not
> just use the laptop as an interface unit?
> 
> 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.
> 
> Any suggestions, please?
> 
> Nige

I think the combination of pavucontrol and pavumeter should cover your
needs I could be wrong though.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 13:37:31 +0100
Gareth France  wrote:

> > Probably worth starting from the beginning and stopping when it gets
> > difficult and ask for help at that point.
> 
> Ok, load the SDK, open a new project. Now I'm stuck. I just don't get 
> any aspect of the concept of graphical programming.
> I really do think the only way I'm going to get it is to have some
> time face to face with someone who knows what they are
> doing, tutorials are great until you make a wrong move and get an
> error message, then because you can't ask a tutorial
> page questions you just get stuck.
> 
> > I am not following your logic. You can submit free apps to the
> > archive or a PPA. You can push paid apps to the store.
> 
> In an earlier reply someone said the software centre isn't geared up
> to accept non-graphical commercial applications. Sounded a bit weird
> to me. I have managed to package an earlier version of my program
> before but it was slow, painful and I don't seem to be able to
> replicate it. The guidance given by Canonical is missing huge chunks
> of important information.
> 
> I really do think it would be of benefit for whoever maintains that 
> guide to step me through this and note where I am having problems 
> because it should be so straightforward for a simple program like
> this.
> 

You need to read up on creating a debian package.
https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/publish/other-forms-of-submitting-apps/packaging-commercial-apps-part-1-get-set-up-overview-of-debian-packaging/

https://developer.ubuntu.com/en/publish/other-forms-of-submitting-apps/packaging-commercial-apps-part-2-packaging-software-additional-notes/

If it is a cli tool you can create an application launcher that calls
terminal and then opens the cli app but that is not recommended,
however it is not impossible and takes longer to review.

As for the gui guide follow the many examples on developer.ubuntu.com
there is more than just the hello world example, that should help you
get used to programing 1)in the sdk and 2) in a gui format.

There is no way that someone that wrote a guide can sit down and hand
hold someone through the process, however at the bottom of each page
there should be a link to file a bug if you are confused by a step.
Put the details into the bug.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 27 Apr 2015 11:18:36 +0100
Gareth France  wrote:

> I didn't think you could package commercial pay for software that way.
> 
> On 27/04/15 09:21, Dave Morley wrote:
> > If it's just command line I would suggest just using a ppa on
> > launchpad
> 

Ah not commercial paid, but the store only supports gui apps
technically and then only for 14.04 now.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

[Dave Morley]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2015 23:46:18 +0100
Gareth France  wrote:

> I have written some software I would like to publish in Ubuntu. 
> Following the official guides I can create their demo program which 
> simply prints 'hello world' on the screen. Unsurprisingly I'm looking
> to do much more than that! However the guides miss out a lot of
> important information and just cause more confusion than they solve.
> 
> I have done this once before but it was so long winded and required
> so much back tracking and re-submitting over and over that by the
> time it got approved I had forgotten how I'd got there, so gave up.
> 
> Is there anyone who could help me get a very simple command line only 
> utility submitted to the software centre?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 

If it's just command line I would suggest just using a ppa on launchpad

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

[Dave Morley]

On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:18:17 +
Alan Pope  wrote:

> On 6 March 2015 at 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker
>  wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and
> > why...
> >
> 
> Ubuntu phone because dogfooding.
> 

Ubuntu Phone on a dogfooding android bq device. That and I like it :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Convergence video

[Dave Morley]

On Fri, 27 Feb 2015 13:25:26 +
Barry Titterton  wrote:

> On 27/02/15 13:08, Alan Pope wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I thought some might find this video interesting. It was made by the
> > Ubuntu Desktop Engineering Manager Will Cooke, to demo some of the
> > current convergence ideas we're working on. It might make some
> > things make sense that we've been talking about for a few years
> > now. Hope so.
> > 
> > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3PUYoa1c9M
> > 
> > For those that can't or won't watch it the video, what's shown is
> > Ubuntu Touch based on Unity 8 and Mir on an x86 based tablet. Will
> > demonstrated a few standard things like browsing and video playback,
> > then switched to 'desktop' mode by attaching a bluetooth mouse. At
> > that point the user interface adapts with applications splitting off
> > into windowed mode assuming you want to work with it as a laptop.
> > When the mouse is detached or switched off it reverts back to touch
> > mode.
> > 
> > It's quite a nice demo as it finally shows off an early version of
> > what we're aiming for.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Al.
> > 
> Hi Al,
> 
> Very impressive. I have a question:-
> 
> What about keyboard input? Is there an on-screen keyboard, or do you
> need to connect a bluetooth keyboard as well?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Barry T
> 

There is an osk but the plan will be that if there is a keyboard
present that it will use that.  Initial bluetooth support for keyboards
has landed in vivid but they need to hook in a connected keyboard to
the actual system, not sure if this is done yet.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - UK and/or European Email providers

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:43:29 +
Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:

> On 28/01/15 16:41, Dave Morley wrote:
> > setup your own?
> 
> Unfortunately I don't have the equipment nor the bandwidth to be able
> to do that - as I need to sync mail on at least three devices
> 

So you have 1 imap server you can tie as many accounts to it as you
want, you can also use a tool like fetchmail to pull in mail from other
accounts into your imap account.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - UK and/or European Email providers

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 16:36:05 +
Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:

> Hi,
> Thought I'd harness the knowledge here on a non-Ubuntu issue!
> I currently have email addresses with Gmail and Microsoft.
> I'm looking to ditch those for something provided by a UK
> (preferable) or a European provider.
> I don't want Yahoo, or BTinternet or anything of that sort.
> I've had a look here:
> http://www.ukmailexchange.com/default.aspxordon
> 
> Any other suggestions?
> 
> Cheers
> Gordon
> 
> 
> 

setup your own?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows?

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 22 Jan 2015 13:00:25 +
Barry Drake  wrote:

> Hi there    I quite like this: 
> http://view.email.telegraph.co.uk/?j=fe8917787060077572&m=fe991570766c027975&ls=fe1d1d70766c0d7f7d1176&l=ff051570746503&s=fe1b15767067037a7c1c76&jb=ff991674&ju=fe2615747c610774741c71&r=0
> 
> Pity it doesn't mention Linux though.
> 
> Regards,Barry.
> 

Why would it mention Linux it is a report on the Windows 10 tech review
launch yesterday

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

[Dave Morley]

On Fri, 15 Aug 2014 11:02:22 +0100
Alan Pope  wrote:

> On 15 August 2014 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?
> >
> 
> Does this command offer to remove some?
> 
> sudo apt-get autoremove
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 

I don't think it does.  iirc that only works on dependencies of
packages that are nolonger required.  The kernel is a new install along
side the existing so you can flip back if there are issues.

I think you have to do sudo apt-get purge   and then
autoremove should get rid of any remaining elements aiui.

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

[Dave Morley]

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

> On 30 July 2014 17:36, Alan Lord (News)  wrote:
> > I just hapened to right click on my 14.04 desktop and saw the
> > option to
> >
> > "Alphabetise Desktop Icons"...
> >
> 
> OED says yes :)
> 
> http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/alphabetize?q=alphabetise
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 

S's tend to be Oxford Spellings Z's tend to be Cambridge oh and American

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to software centre

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2014-06-19 at 21:18 +0100, Gareth France wrote:
> Some may recall many, many weeks ago I started attempting to package a 
> simple perl script for publishing in the software centre. The process 
> can only be described as painful, slow and extremely unhelpful. It 
> seemed to take about a week to submit and get any sort of reply back. 
> Over several attempts I dealt with each issue they came up with, 
> returned to me in vague gobbledygook with no real explaination at all.
> 
> Last time I submitted things went very silent, for a very long time. 
> This week I received a random email telling me it was ready to be 
> published when I want to. The thing is, after all that and the long 
> delays I now can't recall what I did to produce an output they were 
> happy with and as a result I quite frankly can't be bothered.
> 
> Why is this process not handled in a sane manner which doesn't put off 
> anyone who doesn't already know it all? I don't physically have the time 
> to go back over everything and refresh my knowledge every time I go back 
> to it and the way this has gone that is exactly what I'd have to do.
> 

It was slow due to the fact that things changed, we needed to put a
whole load of docs in place and there was a backlog of apps that was
huge due to this.  Your app still wasn't 100% correct but after some
fettling I got it build.  The instructions in the links were pretty much
step by step, and others including myself have managed to produce
packages from it.  If you can be more specific about what you had issues
with then maybe we can smooth the process.  In future it should take a
day for the app to land in the store once the last of the backlog is
gone.

It's not perfect, it is painful, and click is way easier which is where
all the development is going due to that being the future.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2014-05-01 at 16:31 +0100, Gareth France wrote:
> My second attempt to submit to the Software Centre has resulted in this 
> extremely unhelpful feedback:
> 
> This package will not build till the following sections are corrected:
> 
> Now running lintian...
> W: cliftontestsuite source: no-section-field-for-source
> E: cliftontestsuite source: debian-files-list-in-source
> W: cliftontestsuite source: debhelper-but-no-misc-depends cliftontestsuite
> W: cliftontestsuite source: debhelper-compat-file-is-missing
> W: cliftontestsuite source: package-uses-deprecated-debhelper-compat-version 1
> E: cliftontestsuite source: package-uses-debhelper-but-lacks-build-depends
> E: cliftontestsuite source: temporary-debhelper-file debhelper.log
> W: cliftontestsuite source: no-debian-copyright
> E: cliftontestsuite source: no-standards-version-field
> Finished running lintian.
> 
> 
> Seriously, do they not want people to bother doing this? Can anyone help with 
> any of this?
> 
> 
> 

They are just missing fields from the control file but all the ones
marked E will prevent the package building I'd already corrected 3
errors when lintian gave me the feedback.
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[ubuntu-uk] Merry Christmas

[Dave Morley]

I wish you all and your families a Very Merry Christmas and Health
Wealth and Happiness for the new year.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug 1251702

[Dave Morley]

On 15/11/13 17:27, Barry Drake wrote:
> Hi there ...   I've just reported Bug 1251702 under Trusty.  I haven't
> checked out Saucy, but I wonder if it's in there too?  It's probably the
> first time I've wanted to burn more than one iso at the same time.  The
> first one burns fine, and Brasero closes with no error message.  I try
> to load another iso using Brasero and nothing happens.  I have to
> re-boot to do the next iso.  I've repeated the bug four times now. 
> Anyone care to confirm it?
> 
> Regards,Barry Drake.
> 

This is a really old bug, the issue is once the first iso is burnt the
process is never closed (bug in brasero/gvfs) the work around is simply
open a terminal and type killall brasero

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual booting Windows 8.1 woth Ubuntu 13.10

[Dave Morley]

On 06/11/13 12:16, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 06/11/2013 12:10, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 6 November 2013 11:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker
>>  wrote:
>>> Hi! Having problems with this. Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI
>>> and Intel Rapid Start. Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the
>>> Windows OS as per normal and allows installing into the prepared
>>> free space. If I try to install 13.10, it doesn't detect Windows
>>> 8.1 at all. I'm reluctant to proceed manually as I'm not sure
>>> what will happen because of this "non-detection". Has anyone
>>> experienced this, and is there a way round?
> 
>> Are you trying the 64 bit version of 13.10?  If not then try that.
>> If it worked with 13.04 (which I guess was 64 bit) then 13.10
>> should be ok.  Of course you could just upgrade your 13.04 to 13.10
>> rather than re-install.
> 
>> Colin
> 
> 
> Yes I am using the 64 bit version - it's only the 64 bit versions that
> have support for UEFI as far as I know.
> I thought about upgrading from 13.04, but was interested as to why
> 13.10 doesn't detect the Windows OS
> 
> Gordon
>

Gordon does it detect the Ubuntu partition?

If so I would image that the Ubuntu side of things is only going to be
installed against that part.

However you could do better diagnosis by logging into the live desktop
session and see for example what drives are visible from 13.10 etc :)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu1 under Trusty ....

[Dave Morley]

On 05/11/13 14:56, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 05/11/13 14:25, Dave Morley wrote:
>> Yes this is correct the nautilus package was remove in Saucy so won't
>> be there in Trusty either.
> 
> According to the file manager launcher in '/usr/share/applications' the
> launcher is still calling Nautilus both under Saucy and Trusty - it uses
> the command 'nautilus %U'.  The problem I mentioned is not there in
> Saucy but appeared in Trusty right at the first testing iso.
> 
> Regards,Barry.
> 
It's the ubuntuone-nautilus package that has been removed not nautilus
itself sorry.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu1 under Trusty ....

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On 05/11/13 14:23, Barry Drake wrote:
> Hi there   There seems to be a bit of strange behaviour in Ubuntu
> One under Trusty.  I no longer get check marks on synchronised items
> when looking at Nautilus.  Neither do I get the option to sync an item
> when I right click it in Nautilus.  Other than that, Ubuntu One is
> working OK.  It's probably too early to report it as a bug, but I wonder
> if there are any settings I might have missed?
> 
> Regards,Barry Drake.
> 

Yes this is correct the nautilus package was remove in Saucy so won't be
there in Trusty either.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy Salamander - [Name]

[Dave Morley]

On 20/09/13 19:44, Bruno Girin wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> On 20 September 2013 18:11, SuperEngineer  > wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 18:01 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > it is that time again, another 6 months another release of our
> favorite
> > operating system. This time it is Ubuntu 13.10 the Saucy
> Salamander, the
> > first release featuring the new Mir display server and the
> unveiling of
> > smart scopes which are like scopes, but smarter. The event is once
> more
> > in a pub in London, this time at the Lord Nelson
> > http://www.lordnelsonsouthwark.com which serves a variety of
> interesting
> > burgers (including their special horse burger) up to 8PM. Once
> again our
> > friends from Canonical will be joining us at the pub and I understand
> > they will be getting a round in and sorting out some snacks which is
> > nice - they might have some tshirts and other swag too.
> >
> > Details are here, feel free to mark yourself as attending, or simply
> > turn up on the night.
> >
> 
> http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/2555-saucy-salamander-release-party/
> >
> > Do join us to celebrate the launch of Saucy, and debate the name
> of the
> > next release (Tenacious Turkey? Talented Termite?)
> >
> > Alan.
> >
> > --
> > I work at http://libertus.co.uk
> >
> >
> 
> or Tremendous Tarantula even?  ;)
> 
> 
> Trusty Trilobite ;)
> 
> 
> 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Deleting unwanted Libre Office Document.

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On 05/09/13 18:45, Michael wrote:
> I have tried the Libre Office site, I want to delete an unwanted
> Libre Office document and can not find a way, can anybody assist
> please. Thanks, Michael.
> 
Libreoffice only creates the document.  It will normally save it in
~/Documents (~ = /home/your_user_name)

So if you open the file nautilus/files (normally the second icon in
the Unity launcher) and goto Documents you will see the file there.

Right click on the file and then delete it.

LibreOffice Doesn't actually remove the file at all it is there it
create and edit doc files only.

Hope that helps.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Toshiba Satellite Wireless Lock-down?

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On 11/07/13 00:12, James Tait wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently my wife's laptop has been experiencing some wireless
> issues - slow performance, drop-outs and the like.  We have
> numerous wireless-enabled devices in the house and although we have
> the occasional blip, none of the other devices seem to be affected
> to the same extent, so I figured it was probably related to the
> laptop itself and set about trying to figure out what the problem
> might be.
> 
> The laptop is a Toshiba Satellite L450-188 running Ubuntu 12.04
> with the LTS backport kernel from Raring.  The original wireless
> card in it is a Realtek RTL8191SE.  I tried replacing it with the
> Atheros-based card from my son's EeePC, but although the card was
> apparently recognised, and the ath5k module loaded, the card was
> disabled:
> 
> jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked:
> no Hard blocked: yes
> 
> rfkill unblock has no effect - no error, but the card remains hard 
> blocked.  The wireless key (Fn-F8) simply toggles the soft block,
> and the laptop has no hardware switch that I can see.  There's a
> setting in the BIOS that doesn't seem to have any effect.  So I
> picked up an Intel IWL4965AGN card on eBay for a couple of quid and
> tried that, but the result was the same:
> 
> jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft blocked:
> no Hard blocked: yes
> 
> I've tried countless "solutions" on ubuntuforums and so on.  Is it 
> possible that Toshiba have decided to lock the laptop down to a 
> specific kind of wireless card?
> 
> JT
> 

Is it a uefi + secure booted laptop?  If so then it might be that the
hardware needs to be registered somehow in order to be valid.  Just
thinking out loud.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] UEFI bios update

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On 29/04/13 12:04, James Morrissey wrote:


This may work flawlessly.  However (and it's a big however) it may not.
To combat this I would suggest that before you did anything you back
up your systems and ensure you have install mediums for both windows 7
and Ubuntu. This would at least mean that the systems can be
reinstalled and your data retrieved if the worst should happen.

Ubuntu 64 bit supports both UEFI and secureboot so in theory there
should be no issues there.  However grub is used differently in uefi
than it is on a normal system and you would need an efi entry for
Ubuntu and for windows 7 so efi acts as your os selector rather than grub.

In saying all that it may work out of the box and you notice no real
different because efi also has a bios compatibility mode,called
legacy, that the system may enable by default and you be none the
wiser for it.

I would also suggest though that if you had no issues on Quantal but
are in Raring that it may be a kernel issue.  Just because it is
stable for everyone else doesn't mean it is for that particular
machine,  So I would file a bug first and see if there is any news
from that before you go all kung-fu on the bios/uefi system.
"ubuntu-bug linux" in a terminal will file most of the information on
a kernel bug for you.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorely disappointed with U1 Music Store

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On 17/04/13 19:57, Bill Baker wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 06:56 -0400, Penelope Stowe wrote:
>> I wonder if it would be useful to file a bug suggesting that
>> error messages in the music store (if possible, only when the
>> error comes during an actual purchase) include a recommendation
>> to check with your bank to see if money has been withdrawn before
>> re-attempting your purchase? I don't actually think many of the
>> target end users for Ubuntu would think about checking to see if
>> the money's been withdrawn before trying again. Most of them
>> aren't going to come say anything on an Ubuntu list or file a
>> bug; they'll just take their money elsewhere. I'm not a
>> programmer so I don't know if it would be feasible to only 
>> include it in errors where someone was in process of purchasing
>> when the error occurred, but it might be worth having in general
>> in the music store if it can't be set more specifically. I've
>> certainly used websites that put that suggestion in when an error
>> occurs during a purchase.
>> 
> Suggestion: "payment has been requested but currently there is an
> error downloading your purchase. Please contact xxx@xxx" might have
> been the the more sane option - and, surely, a programmable error
> check/trap?
> 

Yeah the issue here is we don't own the entire stack so if we don't
receive an error we can't act on it.  However I have suggested adding
the link to the support forms in the error message itself. So thanks
for raising that.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorely disappointed with U1 Music Store

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On 17/04/13 19:53, Bill Baker wrote:
> On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 16:07 +0100, James Tait wrote:
>> I would suggest someone with recent experience of this files the
>> bug and sees where it goes.
> One of my earlier mails did ask: "Under what should I file this
> bug? Ubuntu, Ubuntu One, RhythymBox, 7Digital?"
> 
> As RhythymBox support has/is ceased/ceasing - where would be the
> most productive?
> 
> [and where can I file my boss to stop him doing work as late as I
> do and thinking I'm "available"!]
> 

Your best bet is still the support form.  This will sort out your
refund on the second purchase and unlock the download from the first
purchase. As James and Popey and I will contest to.  P.S. we all work
at Canonical so please listen to us, we have your best interests at
heart :)

But failing that
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntuone-music-store/+filebug Note this
will not get you a refund only the support forms will get that
resolved for you.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

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On 14/02/13 19:24, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 14/02/13 18:28, Dave Morley wrote:
>> On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>>> An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical 
>>> reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it
>>> and tried to install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite
>>> my detailed explanations and warnings about this. She now has
>>> no Windows 8 and no Ubuntu, just a GRUB screen telling her
>>> that Ubuntu can't boot because "Secure Boot" in the UEFI won't
>>> let it. It would be interesting to know whether the
>>> installation direct from the website would have worked if she
>>> had switched off "Secure Boot" first, as I told her she had to
>>> do. The apparent consensus is that it wouldn't: that only the
>>> USB stick method will work. There's no way into the UEFI from
>>> where she is, is there? Before anyone says, "Can't she get into
>>> it by pressing  F2 during start-up?", the answer is no: 
>>> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-access-the-bios-on-a-windows-8-computer/
>>>
>>>
>>
>>> 
Did she install 32bit or 64bit Ubuntu,  Secure boot is only available
>> on 64bit. 64bit quantal +  at that,
>> 
> I understand what you're saying; Only 64-bit Quantal has the
> license key built into it which will cause UEFI to allow the Ubuntu
> package to install itself. I don't have this girl online. I dare
> say she will respond to my suggestions and enquiries in a day or
> two. I know she confirmed that the machine she was buying had a
> 64-bit architecture, because up to that point she was following my
> instructions. I think that she attempted to install 64-bit Quantal
> direct from the Ubuntu website, but failed to switch off "Secure
> Boot" in UEFI beforehand, which should have been done from inside
> Windows 8, this being the way Microsoft (damn them) have built it.
> Thus, the installation proceeded correctly, the license key having
> served its function of getting UEFI to allow the installation to
> occur. She chose the option of replacing Windows rather than the
> option of dual boot (another indication of how foolhardy she is,
> bless her). Thus, Ubuntu Quantal is in fact installed on the 
> machine. But the UEFI boot architecture does not contain the
> traditional point of access by pressing F2 during start-up, so
> there is no way for her now to access it and switch off "Secure
> Boot". So the Ubuntu Quantal can't boot, and she's stuck with a
> GRUB screen telling her so.
> 


No you can access the UEFI it just might not be F2.  You can turn off
secure boot from the UEFI.  But my point is you don't need too, with
Quantal 64bit it is signed so it can install on a machine that has
UEFI and Secureboot in place.

By the way it still normally is F2
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

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On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
>> reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and
>> tried to install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my
>> detailed explanations and warnings about this. She now has no
>> Windows 8 and no Ubuntu, just a GRUB screen telling her that
>> Ubuntu can't boot because "Secure Boot" in the UEFI won't let it.
>> It would be interesting to know whether the installation direct
>> from the website would have worked if she had switched off
>> "Secure Boot" first, as I told her she had to do. The apparent
>> consensus is that it wouldn't: that only the USB stick method 
>> will work. There's no way into the UEFI from where she is, is
>> there?
> 
> Before anyone says, "Can't she get into it by pressing F2 during 
> start-up?", the answer is no: 
> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-access-the-bios-on-a-windows-8-computer/
>
> 
> 
> 
Did she install 32bit or 64bit Ubuntu,  Secure boot is only available
on 64bit

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

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On 14/02/13 18:12, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On 14/02/13 17:57, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> Hi,
>> 
>> An Internet friend of mine (in Denmark, so beyond my physical
>> reach) just bought a brand new machine with Windows 8 on it and
>> tried to install Ubuntu direct from the website, despite my
>> detailed explanations and warnings about this. She now has no
>> Windows 8 and no Ubuntu, just a GRUB screen telling her that
>> Ubuntu can't boot because "Secure Boot" in the UEFI won't let it.
>> It would be interesting to know whether the installation direct
>> from the website would have worked if she had switched off
>> "Secure Boot" first, as I told her she had to do. The apparent
>> consensus is that it wouldn't: that only the USB stick method 
>> will work. There's no way into the UEFI from where she is, is
>> there?
> 
> Before anyone says, "Can't she get into it by pressing F2 during 
> start-up?", the answer is no: 
> http://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-access-the-bios-on-a-windows-8-computer/
>
> 
> 
> 
64bit quantal +  at that

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Ubuntu In Live Mode

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On 07/02/13 10:43, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi
> 
> Having got my fingers burnt a couple of times in the past, I now
> never install a new version of Ubuntu, or any other distro, without
> running it first as a live CD or, more recently, from a USB stick.
> 
> It seems fairly inevitable that my next laptop will have UEFI
> embodied. Does anybody know how this affects the running of Linux
> in "live" mode? Is it simply that if the distro has been designed
> to cope with UEFI, its live mode will work (and vice versa), or is
> there more to it than that?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Nige
> 
> 
You will need 12.10 on and the 64bit version is recommended.  Other
than that there are a couple of things you will need to know.

CD/DVD is more reliable than USB key  you can set the cd/dvd drive to
boot first and it will

Uefi has an annoying habit of trying to speed up the boot process this
means it does a quick scan on boot for a UEFI boot device and
preferably a secure boot instance and continues to boot from it
sometimes before the power has been provided to the usb key so it will
skip it all together.

Once you boot from where ever it will work as normal.  You get the
install or run live option and away you go.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My new computer won't boot Ubuntu ....

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On 05/02/13 19:23, Dave Rice wrote:
> Hi Barry,
> 
> I've just seen your post on the pcs forum too, I'm awaiting a new 
> Optimus IV laptop!
> 
> Have you tried booting the live cd in text only mode?
> 
> on the grub menu, edit the boot command and either change the
> "splash" to "nosplash" or put "nosplash" at the end before the
> double minus signs.
> 
> hit enter to boot from there (i think it's enter)
> 
> it should then boot with lots of messages - like the good old days
> - and see where it hangs!
> 
> cheers
> 
> DJ
> 
> 
> On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 5:48 PM, Simon Greenwood
> mailto:sfgreenw...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> 
> On 5 February 2013 17:33, Barry Drake  > wrote:
> 
> Hi there    I've just got my new computer from pcspecialist. I
> can't get it to boot with any version of Ubuntu later than 10.04.
> It also won't boot with the latest version of Mint although a Jan
> 2011 download boots OK.
> 
> The motherboard is  ASUS® F1A55-M LK R2.0: FM1 A-SERIES, SATA 
> 3.0GB/s and it has 2GiB of RAM.  I've gone through the UEFI 
> settings.  Secure boot is off. The boot process freezes on the 
> live-DVD at about the point when the cursor could appear.  I really
> want to install 13.04.  So far, I can'tseem to get rid of the
> splash screen to see the messages - and there is no message, only
> the splash screen when the freeze takes place.
> 
> 
> Have I wasted my money?
> 
> 
> 
> Which base model is it? My first guess would be that it's a
> graphics card issue and that it's not booting into X. Try booting
> with a server ISO and see if you can get to a command line at all.
> 
> s/
> 
> -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "TBA are particularly glib"
> 
> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com  
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk 
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> 
> 
> 
> 

Barry if you hit any key as soon as you see the keyboard that the
bottom of the screen you will see a menu and along the bottom you
should see some boot options try flipping a few of those and see if it
boots.

The other thing you can try is enable legacy mode and set legacy as
primary boot and see what happens in legacy mode, treat the system
like it still has an old bios rather than UEFI

The other thing as well is that Ubuntu 12.10 on should support UEFI
and secureboot on the 64bit cds so you can try that too.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Error from update-manager

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On 30/10/12 16:55, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I got this message from update-manager: == Please report this bug
> for the 'update-manager' package and try to include the following
> error message:
> 
> 'E:Problem parsing dependency Depends, E:Error occurred while
> processing libtemplateparser4 (NewVersion2), E:Problem with
> MergeList 
> /var/lib/apt/lists/security.ubuntu.com_ubuntu_dists_precise- 
> security_main_binary-i386_Packages, E:The package lists or status
> file could not be parsed or opened.' ==
> 
> System:
> 
> Release 12.04 (precise) 32-bit Kernel Linux 3.2.0-32-generic-pae 
> GNOME 3.4.2 Intel® Celeron(R) D CPU 3.33GHz
> 
> I've posted a bug as instructed, but meanwhile can I do anything to
> get my update-manager working? This was a clean install about two
> months ago, not an upgrade, and I had updates yesterday which
> installed OK.
> 
> Thanks, Dianne
> 
> 
Open a terminal.  Do "sudo apt-get install -f && sudo apt-get
auto-clear && sudo apt-get update"

Then try update manager again and see what happens.

The first command is the standard force anything that didn't install
to install, the second clears the apt cache, the third builds a new cache.

Hopefully that will resolve and issue and get you up and running again.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good general book on Ubuntu/Linux?

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On 03/10/12 15:24, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 3 October 2012 16:21, Gordon Burgess-Parker 
> wrote:
>> I'm a reasonable user of Ubuntu - both on my netbook and
>> dual-booting with Windows 7 on my main laptop. I'm looking for a
>> book on either Ubuntu or Linux in general in the "Windows inside
>> out" type of format, i.e. from simple through to fairly
>> technical, suitable for a general user - me! I'm slightly
>> concerned about forking out £34 for the current Ubuntu 12.04 
>> bible published by Sams  as the interface could possibly change
>> again in 14.04! Can anyone suggest a good general book, or should
>> I buy a general Linux book and if so what would be the
>> recommendations for that, or should I just look for on-line
>> information, and if so where's the best place to look for the 
>> most topics in one place? (I do like big books!)
> 
> Print is dead, man. :-)
> 
> Seriously, I'm not aware of anything decent on dead tree except 
> super-detailed tech refs for pro techies.
> 
> Join the main Ubuntu list. Read it daily. Don't use digest mode.
> 
> Join the fora. Read them too.
> 
> Become glued to OMGubuntu.
> 
> Get on Twitter and follow some interesting Linux people; read their
> links.
> 
> FOSS moves fast. Books don't move at all.
> 
> Don't waste your money.
> 
There are some in the Software Center that you can buy but to be
honest I'd have a look on amazon at the official Ubuntu book.

But it really depends what you are after doing with it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netflix and Love Film

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On 23/08/12 11:49, James Morrissey wrote:
> While its certainly true that stuff is increasingly available on 
> Linux, it looks like Netflix might still be some way away
> 
> This is from February: 
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/netflix-no-plans-to-support-linux
>
>  j
> 
> On 23 August 2012 11:46, Gareth France 
> wrote:
>> On 23/08/12 11:39, Andy Partington wrote:
>>> 
>>> 
 
 Kind of defeats then object of running Ubuntu, if you have to
 install windows doesnt it..is it something that might
 happen in the future, or is it not going to happen...
 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> It's down to the hosts though, Lovefilm and Netflix, I know on
>>> one of the sites ( Lovefilm i believe ) it was one of the most
>>> requested features last year to bring it to XBMC on linux but I
>>> think the response was not at this time.
>>> 
>>> Its the main reason why I use neither of the services at the
>>> moment as I solely use *nix on my media centres and thus can't
>>> use there services.
>>> 
>>> Andy
>>> 
>> In my opinion we've seen a massive shift in how Linux is
>> perceived since I started using it in 2006. When I first
>> installed Feisty nothing worked, a week of banging my head
>> against the screen might bring me sound and webcam, just look at
>> it now. We've seen the recent work with games, the humble bundle,
>> steam and carmageddon's new release being native to us too. I'd
>> say it's only a matter of time before these services have to cave
>> and come over, which will be a big win for us, as Andy says there
>> are people who don't use them because they use Linux. I also know
>> there are people who don't use Linux because they can't use
>> them.
>> 
>> 
>> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com 
>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk 
>> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
> 

You could always try the youtube streaming, I know it's not the
monthly subscription service.  But in Ubuntu if you goto the video
lens and type in the movie you are after many will show up with a 48hr
rental from youtube, I've not tried it myself. But I'm assuming it
just unlocks access and streams as normal.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Global Jam in Coventry?

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On 21/08/12 14:28, Martin Meredith wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Looking to see if it's worthwhile setting up a Global Jam session
> in Coventry ...
> 
> Who'd be interested in this ? (September 7th through 9th)
> 
> 
I'm up for that :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloning my current install to a new HDD

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On 13/08/12 13:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> I've looked at various solutions for cloning - they all assume that
> the new HDD is installed in the computer. I need to clone via a USB
> HDD as I'm replacing the HDD in my laptop (160GB instead of 80GB -
> that's all the BIOS will take!) and so cannot install the new HDD
> alongside the old! I am also looking at the possibility of
> dual-booting with Windows 7 (hence the bigger HDD - as my wife is
> being moved to Win 7 with her work laptop and as usual, I suspect
> that her IT dept will not do it properly) and thus my second
> question is this: If I install Win 7 first on a partition of the
> new HDD would I then be able to restore the clone to a second
> partition and how would that affect Grub?
> 
> 
Clonezilla

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[ubuntu-uk] Python Training at Thyme software/Linux Emporium

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So for the past 3 days I been on a python course and I thought it a
good opportunity to explain why and what I got from it.

My past:
Unlike many at Canonical I'm not from a technical software, coding
or office back ground.  I drove lorries (rigid trucks the size of
semis) for a living. I had a shoulder injury that meant that I was
unable to do that any more, while I was off I worked at testing the
iso images for the entire Ubuntu family.  Every QA manager got me a
contract for the end of a release and worked hard to get me a full
time position with Canonical.

The Present:
Heno got in touch to let me know there was a QA position I'd be ideal
for within ISD at the time , now Commercial Applications (online
services) and I got it, woohoo.  Since then I've worked hard breaking
nearly every piece of software I touch (only to make it better
honest).  However it is getting more and more imperative that there
are good automated functional tests in place for regression, not
coming from a programming background I read what I could on python and
I've fudged together some basic scripts that work as much as they need
to, but was coming to the end of my knowledge very quickly.

The Course:
I wanted to get on a course that would not get me programming as such
but understanding what python was and did with code. I wanted to
understand how to write better code with a greater ease.  To that end
I booked a course with Thyme Software (John Pinners Company).  The
Training was refactored slightly to help me with the goals above.

Day 1: Normally there is a brief intro with a description of the
differences with the language you are currently coding in.  However
for me John started with a whole heap of small examples that taught me
what python did with items in memory and how objects could be link to
that byte code in memory, he showed me where I could get good examples
of code that showed how commands worked rather than the more technical
stuff that you see in man pages, python help, and pythons online docs
(1).  Because day one was basically made up of understanding how
python worked it meant that day 2 and 3 then made a whole lot of sense
all of a sudden.

Day 2: Covered all the basics tuples, dicts, lists, strings, numbers
and then went onto functions and basic modules info as I had an idea
about them already. Now the stuff I spent an entire day on in Day 1
suddenly made a whole heap of sense, it meant I could look at the
basic example code and mostly predict the behaviour correctly by just
looking at the code.  This then lead onto running the Gotcha code
examples to give me a better understanding of that, and then a video
on unicode!!! (that if you haven't seen it GO DO IT NOW! (2))

Day 3: Got mind bending with OO concepts, classes, file operations,
functional programming, generators and finally unittests and exception
handling.  However a lot of it was easier to follow as I could at
least understand roughly what python was likely to do with it.  This
lead onto writing a bunch of small functions to grab data from a basic
module and a basic text file and interact with it to give different
results.  Finally John covered a small amount on Gui application
creation for QT in python with a few basic peices of example code.

All in all it was a really good course that has helped me a great
deal.  John has done a free one day extension for me to cover some
more complex stuff that we ran out of time for, due to spending so
much time get me to understand what python does with code.  I heartily
recommend this course to anyone that needs to learn python

(1) http://www.doughellmann.com/PyMOTW/ shows basic code examples over
a technical description on how it works
(2)
http://pyvideo.org/video/948/pragmatic-unicode-or-how-do-i-stop-the-pain

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Clonezilla to image thinkpad hard drive before installing Ubuntu

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On 08/06/12 16:53, kpb wrote:
> Hello All
> 
> One for any Thinkpad owners using Ubuntu
> 
> Just bought a second hand Thinkpad X200s, and it runs Ubuntu 12.04
> from a USB stick really nicely, with the basics working fine (I
> mainly need suspend to ram).
> 
> I'd like to be able to restore the hard drive including the
> recovery partition to its original state in case I want to pass the
> laptop on (came with Vista Business).
> 
> I've used clonezilla to image the whole drive including the mbr,
> using these shortform instructions
> 
> http://www.forwestmedia.com/resources/how-to-guides/using-clonezilla-to-create-and-restore-disk-images/
>
>  I have reason to believe the result will be restorable, see
> 
> http://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=75378
> 
> especially the last post on that page.
> 
> Anyone done this? Had any issues restoring?
> 
> Cheers
> 
I used Clonezilla all the time, for me I just use the builtin options
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

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On 08/06/12 14:21, Alan Bell wrote:
> On 02/06/12 14:06, Nigel Verity wrote:
>> Hi All
>> 
>> If anybody can get a key from Verisign for $99 that makes a
>> mockery of having secure boot in the first place.
> no, that isn't how it works at all. It is possible for some people
> to get a binary signed by Microsoft by paying $99 which goes to
> verisign. You don't get the key and it isn't clear who can do it
> and what binaries will get signed.
> 
>> We can take it as read that there are long term plans by
>> Microsoft to tighten up the secure boot spec in the future in
>> their favour.
> yup, on ARM. Devices running Windows 8 on ARM will be pre-bricked
> at the factory.
>> 
>> To my mind, this first pass is just to establish the principle
>> and getting all OEMs to adopt the spec. Making keys readily
>> available will help MS to respond to legal challenges from
>> non-tech savvy legislators.
>> 
> Possibly. I would imagine they are expecting and preparing for
> antitrust action. As a slightly pedantic point, legislators don't
> tend to make legal challenges.
>> I suspect that the secure boot technology will be hacked pretty 
>> quickly enabling we enthusiasts to stay up and running. Having
>> to apply a hack as a fundamental part of Linux installation will
>> not exactly help with promoting wider adoption, though.
>> 
> disabling it on Intel isn't a hack, it would be a checkbox option
> in the place you currently call the BIOS. ARM would require a
> hack.
>> Regards

But only devices Running Windows, those running android linux etc by
default would have the switch disabled which to my mind means that
Microsoft will basically try and undercut everyone and then you are
stuck with a device that can only ever have Windows on it.

However I can see Microsoft actually losing out here, they are already
the minority share in the phone market, they are worse off still in
the tablet market and with the release of ICS and the Latest Ios
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Praises and a question.

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On 31/05/12 12:05, Toby Satchell wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the info, I tried Gedit, but I couldn't find a plugin
> that would enable connection to a remote and local site, similar
> to dreamweaver. I am not interested in the check in and out, just
> being able to set up multiple websites, each with a separate local
> (actually a different machine to the install program) backup and
> the remote server the website is hosted on. I am happy using
> dreamweaver in the windows VM. I'll explore the option of the other
> IDEs later, a bit busy to experiment now.
> 
> Thanks gain,
> 
> Toby.
> 
> 
> 
> On 30 May 2012 18:18, Gibbs  wrote:
>> On 30/05/12 13:03, Toby Satchell wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hey,
>>> 
>>> I have been using Xubuntu, with a xfce session, at home and it
>>> is working great.
>>> 
>>> I have now managed to use it at work as well, also working very
>>> well. I currently run windows 7 in a virtual machine to use
>>> office + access databases.
>>> 
>>> I would like to thank those who work hard to improve and
>>> prefect the distribution.
>>> 
>>> A question, is there anything that is similar to Dreamweaver so
>>> I can replace that? The requirement is mostly based on the site
>>> set-up and colouring of the code in the IDE.
>>> 
>>> Thanks,
>>> 
>>> Toby.
>>> 
>> A lot of editors such as Eclipse (and  variants such as Aptana),
>> Netbeans and others already have syntax highlighting that is
>> identical to Dreamweaver or you can download them easily from
>> somewhere.
>> 
>> Personally I find myself using gEdit a lot of the time and the
>> only issue I ever have is with large compressed files.
>> 
>> What do you mean about the set-up of the site? Are you referring
>> to the (awful) check-in/check-out system? All that does is create
>> a .LCK file (or something similar).
>> 
>> Gibbs
>> 
>> 

I use geany for my coding it's just gedit on steroids but has syntax
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

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On 24/05/12 09:25, Gibbs wrote:
> On 24/05/12 09:01, Philip Stubbs wrote:
>> I have been using Ubuntu quite happily for a few years. It has
>> been great having a stable system. However, it seems that the
>> good times are over.
>> 
>> Look at the graph at [1]. That is if the machine has not crashed 
>> again. It can be seen how unreliable this machine is since the
>> upgrade to 12.04.
>> 
>> If this was the only machine I had, then I would not think too
>> much about it. Unfortunately I have two other machines that have
>> also been upgraded to 12.04 that also no longer have the same
>> stability as before.
>> 
>> I am now torn. On the one hand, it would be good to wipe the
>> machines clean and try with a fresh install instead of an
>> upgrade. On the other hand, if I am going to wipe the computers
>> clean, it would be an ideal time to jump ship, and possibly
>> revert to using Debian again.
>> 
>> This dilemma will probably result in me doing nothing until the 
>> 12.04.1 upgrade.
>> 
>> [1]http://stuphi.co.uk/serverstats/graph.php?graph=0&start=-31536000&title=Year
>>
>>
>
>> 
What did you upgrade from? From personal experience I always do a fresh
> install when upgrading from LTS to LTS as there are years worth of 
> differences between them. Saying that I still haven't upgraded
> from 10.04 at work.
> 
> Gibbs
> 

Are you actually experiencing crashes or is it that you get lots of
there is a problem report it dialogs?

The reason I ask is there is a new system in place that detects every
error rather than crash and reports them to error.ubuntu.com so the
devs can clean up their code and get their apps out of the top 10 and
in the process clean up the code for everyones use.

So it might be that the devs knew the code threw up an error but muted
the output and the user never knew where as this new system exposes
all of that, so you will initially see a lot of these error boxes, the
plan being that they will slowly but surely ease off as the devs fix
the code.

I hope that answers the question.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New install 12.04 Ubuntu One error

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On 11/05/12 11:30, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 11/05/12 11:16, Daniel Case wrote:
>> On 11 May 2012 08:55, Gordon Burgess-Parker > > wrote:
>> 
>> New clean install of 12.04. Installed Ubuntu One and keep getting
>> this error: Credentials Error
>> 
>> 
>> This may be a silly question, but are you sure you got your 
>> username/password right? It looks like a credentials error..
>> 
>> 
> This error appears even before I get the opportunity to log
> in.
> 
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> 
> Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's alternative computing:
> http://gbplinuxfoss.blogspot.com/ Say No to OOXML
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8 I only accept odf
> or pdf documents by email
> 
> 
> 

Did you do a fresh install, or did you do a keep my home folder fresh
install?  If it's the letter then it might be that it still has the U1
creds for the old system in place.  You can check in seahorse to see
for sure.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Update Manager not informing Me of LTS upgrade

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On 04/05/12 19:48, Pete Smout wrote:
> Hi, I have 1 remaining machine to upgrade to 12.04 (my main desktop
> / server) and it is running 10.04 lucid (fully updated as of now),
> yet the graphical update manager is not informing me that an
> upgrade is possible even though I have it set to show LTS versions
> only.
> 
> If I set it to 'normal releases' it shows 10.10 as available but
> no mention of the 11's or the new LTS. When switched back to show
> LTS versions only it still shows 10.10 as being available?
> 
> Is this normal?
> 
> Please note if I wish I can do a dist upgrade via teminal I know
> but less knowledgeable(?!?) users who are relatively new to the
> LINUX world may be unaware / scared of this way of doing it.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
You can do "update-manager -d" However I would wait till there is a
clear upgrade path, or do a fresh install to get around it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best way to contribute to Ubuntu? - was Re: 12.04 has locked me out of my account

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On 04/05/12 17:05, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 04/05/12 07:16, Gareth France wrote:
>> I have to admit I gave up trying to report bugs a long time ago.
>> It always seems that any attempt to get involved results in me
>> getting shouted at by people.
> 
> What does this tell you? :)
> 
> I'm happy to help people file bugs and help gather the "right" 
> information to make them the best bugs they can be.
> 
> The easiest way to file bugs is most often dropping to a terminal
> and running the following:-
> 
> ubuntu-bug unity
> 
> (replacing "unity" with whatever package has the issue)
> 
> Then follow the prompts on the screen.
> 
> Cheers,
> 

I'd like to second Popey here if I know I'm happy to share the
important thing is that you either confirm someone elses bug or write
one of your own.

With the best will in the world we can't hope to test on every piece
of hardware known to man.

If yours has a problem report it and lets see if we can get it fixed.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My 12.04 experience

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On 23/04/12 19:59, Pete Smout wrote:
> On 23/04/12 18:52, Dave Morley wrote:
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>> On 23/04/12 18:37, Pete Smout wrote:
>>> Hi, Just thought I'd feedback my 12.04 experiences so far.
>>> 
>>> Ubuntu will not install on any of the 3 machines tried on so
>>> far! Gets as far as asking for user name / psswd and then says
>>> error! tried 2 different downloads so I think its the system
>>> not the .iso image
>>> 
>>> Xubuntu 12.04 (Beta 2) installs first time no trouble at all
>>> and although I haven't tested everything yet my first
>>> impressions are 'Wow why would anybody use Unity on a PC or
>>> Laptop!'
>>> 
>>> I hope this situation is not the same for first time installers
>>> as if it was my first experience I would probably still be a
>>> Windoze user!
>>> 
>>> Still unsure weather or not to upgrade my main machine from
>>> 10.04 as I personally cannot see the benefit of unity on a PC
>>> (and two years on I have Lucid set just how I want it!)
>>> 
>>> Reagrds
>>> 
>>> Pete
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
>> Pete,
>> 
>> Hi bugs like that are really important to report.  There are lots
>> of things it could be that cause the system to die but without
>> your machines to try it out on nobody will know for sure.
>> 
>> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> At this late stage of Beta testing (release only about 1 week away)
> I would expect my fairly standard machines to be ok, machine specs
> are
> 
> PC - Dual core (AMD) 3gb ram Lappy - Dual core (intel) 2gb ram Old
> PC - Pentium 4, 1.5gb ram
> 
> the makes of the motherboards are unmemorable / unremarkable
> 
> With the exception of the 'Old PC' (which may be too old now ,
> although I doubt it, this is Linux not windoze) surely IT SHOULD
> JUST WORK! If it was still Alpha I would of course report the
> bug(s) but it is too late now to effect the release (I believe).
> 
> I will of course try when the release is official (on 29th I think)
> but surely these machine specs are not so new as no-one else in the
> world has them, if the machines were brand new core i7's or the
> latest 'gadget' machines I may well expect a few issues, but I am
> neither wealthy enough, or that bothered by the 'lack of
> performance' of my aging hardware to worry about 'keeping up with
> the metaphorical Jones's'.
> 
> Regards
> 
> Pete
> 
> 
That would normally be the case however this is supported for 5 years
on the desktop and there will undoubtedly be a lot of SRU's and fixes
going into the release so I see no reason why it would be looked into.
 And maybe a fixed release in the standard update process, I hope that
makes sense.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] My 12.04 experience

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On 23/04/12 18:37, Pete Smout wrote:
> Hi, Just thought I'd feedback my 12.04 experiences so far.
> 
> Ubuntu will not install on any of the 3 machines tried on so far!
> Gets as far as asking for user name / psswd and then says error!
> tried 2 different downloads so I think its the system not the .iso
> image
> 
> Xubuntu 12.04 (Beta 2) installs first time no trouble at all and 
> although I haven't tested everything yet my first impressions are
> 'Wow why would anybody use Unity on a PC or Laptop!'
> 
> I hope this situation is not the same for first time installers as
> if it was my first experience I would probably still be a Windoze
> user!
> 
> Still unsure weather or not to upgrade my main machine from 10.04
> as I personally cannot see the benefit of unity on a PC (and two
> years on I have Lucid set just how I want it!)
> 
> Reagrds
> 
> Pete
> 
> 

Pete,

Hi bugs like that are really important to report.  There are lots of
things it could be that cause the system to die but without your
machines to try it out on nobody will know for sure.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cant open brasero

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On 13/03/12 10:01, scoundrel50a wrote:
> I am running 11.10 and I'm trying to burn an image using brasero
> but when I click on the icon, nothing happens.can somebody
> help?
> 
> John
> 
Had you already burnt an image?  Brasero seems to me to of picked up
an issue of no close correctly once a burn is complete, if it happens
again try running "killall brasero" in the terminal if that fixes it
then it could be this issue causing the fault

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity is not working.

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On 22/02/12 13:56, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 22 February 2012 13:49, James Morrissey
>  wrote:
>> Without stating any preferences on a thread which is likely to
>> bring forth opinions: As i understand it, the current Unity
>> Interface is (at least in part) the result of the sort of testing
>> you are describing:
>> 
>> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/mark-shuttleworth-explains-dodge-ditch-decision-in-precise/
>>
>>
>> 
https://lists.launchpad.net/unity-design/msg07682.html
>> 
>> j
> 
> Hello James,
> 
> That is entirely related to the fact the bar dodged windows, and
> yes I believe that is to be discontinued. However, that is not the
> problem to be honest, the the "iconfication" and hiding of menus
> and maximising each window... etc etc.
> 
Kris

I'm confused could you not say click on the big ubuntu logo, in the
search field type in the name of the application you are after?

Also now in 12.04 if an application is installed via Software-center
and it has a valid .desktop file it is automatically added to the
launcher bar which it wasn't before so then you get to manually remove
any you don't want.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

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On 30/01/12 16:03, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 30/01/12 15:28, Alan Bell wrote:
>> and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on
>> and talk about Ubuntu instead.
> 
> Thank you Alan  -  that says it all!
> 
Hmmm Sandwich

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[ubuntu-uk] The next Wolverhampton Workspace/Co-Workers day

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THe next wolverhampton Co-workers/Workspace day is scheduled for the
26th at the Lighthouse Cinema complex.  It starts at 09:00 ? 17:00 any
home workers welcome.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Books on Ubuntu

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On 12/01/12 15:20, Paul Tansom wrote:
> Does anyone have any recomendations on Linux books, specifically
> Ubuntu based? I'm looking for something for an end user who is
> comfortable with computers (DOS/Windows) but is switching to
> Ubuntu. Nothing too under the cover, and it would have to cover
> Unity given the changes that have happened to make some older books
> out of date. It should also be usable by someone with no computer 
> experience, but with the assistance of the aforementioned other
> reader :) No need to suggest websites, or online resources, I have
> been specifically asked for a hard copy book to look at.
> 

You can buy some pdf versions from Software Center.  I recommend the
Official Ubuntu Book, it is a mix of informative enough without being
patronising

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shut down button missing on upgrade

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On 05/01/12 12:32, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 05/01/12 12:24, David King wrote:
>> 
>> This happened recently to my girlfriend's Ubuntu laptop, so she
>> had to do the same to get the shutdown option back.
> 
> As an emergency measure when this happens, you can do
> 'ctrl+alt+F2' which gives you a command prompt and then do 'sudo
> shutdown now' to turn off properly rather than the brute force
> method.
> 
> Regards,Barry.
> 

If you have Unity ie Ubuntu 11.04 up you can click on the dash and
type in shutdown and click on the icon that appears.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

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On 02/12/11 12:20, Gareth France wrote:
> 
> I just can't imagine that a single person's mind will be changed
> by this thread. If the original post is taken at face value then
> it's clear that a strong opinion has already been formed.
> 
> 
> Absolutely, the only person who can change their mind is them, in
> their own time, on their own.
> 
> 
Oh my look at that, I hate to disagree with you all nay sayers but erm
http://www.linuxjournal.com/slideshow/readers-choice-2011  that'll be
readers voting :)

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[ubuntu-uk] Why start emails I don't want to .....

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Why do people say I don't want to start a . (normally flame war)
and then continue with BUT!

In other words you knew it was going to start whatever. So why not be
honest and say this will probably start a whatever, but I'm just
stating my opinion and wonder what yours was too.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnosing Faulty HDD

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On 29/11/11 10:00, Steve Fisher wrote:
> Also download an antivirus rescue live USB/CD e.g.
> http://www.avg.com/gb-en/avg-rescue-cd-download
> 
> Steve
> 
> 
Trinity rescue kit and hirens boot cd my friend.

If you get the iso burn it boot from it and run the command in the
instructions you get an updated version with all the different
Antiviruses on.

TRK is a linux distro designed to run from cd and resolve Windows
issues and should be part of any Sys admins tool box if they have to
deal with Windows.  There are infact dd tools, ntfs clone tools etc to
salvage what you can on there too if it needs blowing away.

My suggestion is to run the basic av tools at least 3 of them from trk.

Then try the drive again finally running the diag tools after.  The
diag tools can take a life time to run but you'll find them on the
hirens boot cd.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer

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On 23/11/11 11:31, Ted Wager wrote:
> Looking for a new printer possibly laser & not to dear. My Samsung
> has gone on the blink after 2 years of use.
> 
> Sent from my android device.
> 
> 
> 
Your options are HP, Samsung or Lexmark.  For lexmark double check it
has the Penguin on the box but all their printers should be supported.

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[ubuntu-uk] Work Spaces Event

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So just a reminder to all those that can make it to the Work Spaces
Day next Thursday 17th in Wolverhampton England's Lighthouse Cinema.
It Starts at 9 am and finishes at 5 pm.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source VOIP

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On 25/10/11 10:08, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> 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/
> 

I use telepathy-sofiasip with empathy.  THe only issue I have is
having to open the the addition features everytime to get the dialpad,
 I minor grievance,  but as it tool it works fine.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

[Dave Morley]

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On 19/10/11 09:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 19/10/11 09:03, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 19 October 2011 08:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker
>> mailto:gbpli...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> On 18/10/11 18:49, Dave Morley wrote:
>>> If it's things that are missing the likelihood is it's only a 
>>> package away,  what you'll find is java can't be shipped by
>>> default and a lot of the packages can't ship without full java
>>> in place.
>>> 
>>> The online version comes with java builtin as LO and OO can
>>> ship it. What you'll find is there are several addition
>>> packages you can add to get the online version.
>>> 
>>> 
>> So how come prior versions were able to use Evolution
>> Addressbook by default then?
>> 
>> 
>> At one point StarOffice had a built in email client which I
>> *think* shares a fair bi t of architecture with Evolution. It was
>> dropped in version 4, before Sun bought it, but the address book
>> remained so it would appear that when Evolution and its data
>> storage system were integrated with Gnome, the API was still
>> there.
>> 
>> The change to Unity also includes a change to Desktop Couch as
>> the storage engine, principally because Evolution is still owned
>> by Novell. However, LibreOffice is still the same codebase as in
>> the pre-Oracle days so I would think it's not going to be
>> straightforward to introduce a new storage engine as a plugin. I
>> have this terrible feeling that at first it might have to be an
>> ODBC data provider...
>> 
>> 
>> 
> 
> OK so why don't Canonical just provide the version of LO that
> comes direct from the LO website?
> 
> 
> 

Gordon,

I redirect your attention to the post I made earlier, Ubuntu can't
ship java runtime by default, so it can't include all the parts that
are installed by default by the online version,  the packages are
available in the repos you just need to install java (via
ubuntu-restricted-extras it's just the easiest way) then install the
missing parts if you goto LO in Software Center you can open the main
LO package and see all of the missing parts.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

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On 18/10/11 18:41, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> 
>> On 18/10/2011 17:48, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
>>> Can I suggest that you either file a bug report or dust your 
>>> programming books off and fix it yourself?
>>> 
>>> 
>> But it's been like this for years and I think I may well have
>> filed a bug years ago, but it's obviously not even been on
>> Canonicals radar at all...
> 
> Well, no. If there's but on abandoned bug report I can quite
> understand the limited resources instead being directed at bugs
> that're affecting a large number of users, or even just
> particularly useful users
> 
>> To me it's the one thing that will stop people using Ubuntu and 
>> preferring Windows
> 
> *everything* appears to be "the one thing" that keeps people away
> from Ubuntu right now. You're the only person I've seen to have
> come across this, and I can present a list of several other reasons
> people stick with Windows if you like.
> 
>> - MS Office does this automatically and so does the version of
>> LO that you can get from the LO website
> 
> So at least there's an easy workaround. I'm afraid that, too, will 
> lower the priority of fixing the bug itself.
> 
>> but if the software is supplied as part of the install shouldn't 
>> people expect ALL the functions to be there? Why do they miss one
>> of the most important out?
> 
> I don't know. That's the sort of thing you'd find out from the bug 
> tracker.
> 
>> Unfortunately I am not a programmer
> 
> It's not hard to find one.
> 
> 
If it's things that are missing the likelihood is it's only a package
away,  what you'll find is java can't be shipped by default and a lot
of the packages can't ship without full java in place.

The online version comes with java builtin as LO and OO can ship it.
What you'll find is there are several addition packages you can add to
get the online version.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

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On 18/10/11 17:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 18/10/2011 17:48, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> Can I suggest that you either file a bug report or dust your 
>> programming books off and fix it yourself?
>> 
>> 
> But it's been like this for years and I think I may well have filed
> a bug years ago, but it's obviously not even been on Canonicals
> radar at all... To me it's the one thing that will stop people
> using Ubuntu and preferring Windows - MS Office does this
> automatically and so does the version of LO that you can get from
> the LO website but if the software is supplied as part of the
> install shouldn't people expect ALL the functions to be there? Why
> do they miss one of the most important out?
> 
> Unfortunately I am not a programmer
> 
> 
Mostly because it's nothing to do with canonical, this is an issue
with LibreOffice.  Have you tried their site for a plugin?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

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On 18/10/11 13:36, Kris Douglas wrote:
> Are there known problems with severe slowdowns with the PAE Kern?
> 
> If that's a pretty good contender to being the problem I will wipe
> the machine in a heartbeat.
> 
> Sent from my Desire HD running CM7 On Oct 18, 2011 1:33 PM, "Dave
> Morley"  wrote:
> 
> On 18/10/11 13:31, Kris Douglas wrote:
>>>> On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood
>>>>  wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas
>>>>>  wrote:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a
>>>>>> problem with it at the moment that is beginning to drive
>>>>>> me a bit mad.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I
>>>>>> am seeing graphical artefacts every so often, which is
>>>>>> new, but they do go away after I have logged in. The
>>>>>> worst problem I am having, is after around 6-10 hours of
>>>>>> use, the system begins to run slowly, and by that I mean
>>>>>> the interface becomes a lot less responsive, etc.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> I have tried downgrading and upgrading my Nvidia 9600GT
>>>>>> card's drivers and it has had little effect.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> This is denting my productivity now and I was wondering
>>>>>> if anyone had a solution to the problem I am
>>>>>> experiencing?
>>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> Which architecture are you using? Which drivers are you
>>>>> using at the moment? Does the system seem to start to
>>>>> labour? Does the GPU fan spin up? Open a command line and
>>>>> run top, is anything taking a lot of CPU? I had similar
>>>>> problems on my Dell XPS M1330 running 64-bit a couple of
>>>>> years ago and while never getting to the bottom of the
>>>>> problem apart from identifying it as something to do with
>>>>> java and flash in Firefox, the usable solution was to run 
>>>>> 32-bit with PAE.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> I am running 32 bit with PAE, 6GB RAM, 9600GT running NVidia 
>>>> 280.13
>>>> 
>>>> Latest version of Ubuntu running Unity 3D, same problem
>>>> happened with gnome 2.
>>>> 
>>>> Happens if I have programs open or not, there are no rogue 
>>>> processes and no excessive memory usage when the slowdown
>>>> occurs.
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> 
> It maybe an issue with the pae kernel have you though about trying 
> 64bit at all?
> 

Currently I have 32bit non pae and 64bit running neither are slowing
down for me, the other thing you can try is running in unity2d or
leave top running and see what is happening memory wise.

I'm only assuming pae may be the cause I'm not saying it is,  you
maybe running apps that have memory leaks and that is the issue hence
the leaving top on all day to monitor it.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feeling tortured by Ubuntu

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On 18/10/11 13:31, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 18 October 2011 13:08, Simon Greenwood 
> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>> On 18 October 2011 12:49, Kris Douglas 
>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Hello, I use Ubuntu in the workplace, I am having a problem
>>> with it at the moment that is beginning to drive me a bit mad.
>>> 
>>> I have upgraded to the latest version this week, and I am
>>> seeing graphical artefacts every so often, which is new, but
>>> they do go away after I have logged in. The worst problem I am
>>> having, is after around 6-10 hours of use, the system begins to
>>> run slowly, and by that I mean the interface becomes a lot less
>>> responsive, etc.
>>> 
>>> I have tried downgrading and upgrading my Nvidia 9600GT card's
>>> drivers and it has had little effect.
>>> 
>>> This is denting my productivity now and I was wondering if
>>> anyone had a solution to the problem I am experiencing?
>>> 
>> 
>> Which architecture are you using? Which drivers are you using at
>> the moment? Does the system seem to start to labour? Does the GPU
>> fan spin up? Open a command line and run top, is anything taking
>> a lot of CPU? I had similar problems on my Dell XPS M1330 running
>> 64-bit a couple of years ago and while never getting to the
>> bottom of the problem apart from identifying it as something to
>> do with java and flash in Firefox, the usable solution was to run
>> 32-bit with PAE.
> 
> 
> I am running 32 bit with PAE, 6GB RAM, 9600GT running NVidia
> 280.13
> 
> Latest version of Ubuntu running Unity 3D, same problem happened
> with gnome 2.
> 
> Happens if I have programs open or not, there are no rogue
> processes and no excessive memory usage when the slowdown occurs.
> 
> 
> 
It maybe an issue with the pae kernel have you though about trying
64bit at all?

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[ubuntu-uk] Midlands Home Workers Unite

[Dave Morley]

So we Yesterday we tried out the lighthouse in Wolverhampton for a
possible work place for home workers.

It was a good experiment, and to that end we are going to try and make
it a monthly get together.  The next one is on the Thurs 17th of
November.

If you work from home and would like to come along then feel free to do
so.

The venue facilities are free as long as you buy food and drinks from
the cafe.

I'll be sending out a reminder close to the time but if you know you'll
be free and want to come along then let me know :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Certification [Free]

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 12:17 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote:
> Does anyone know of a reputable free certification I can acquire to
> say I'm a proficient Ubuntu user, ideally server administration?
> 
> 
> I'm trying to build up some qualifications and I'm not prepared to pay
> the £1000+ for the one from the Ubuntu shop.
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> Dave Hanson
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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Nope!

Certification always costs,  What you can do though is book at a pearson
view center that is local to you and just take the exams, LPI 101 etc
and the Ubuntu module cost about 80 quid plus per exam.

The one on the shop is the full course plus exam and not just the exam.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:54 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On 27 September 2011 08:47, Dan Attwood  wrote:
> >>
> >> > Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all the
> >> > desktop GUI libraries on the server,
> >>
> >> >Yes, because HDD space is expensive these days!
> >
> >  My understanding is is not about space. Extra libraries means extra attack
> > vectors, extra things to update and to go wrong.
> > Even Microsoft seems to have grasped this with Windows server 8 having the
> > desktop as an optional extra.
> 
> Again, you seem to be thinking this would go into places where people
> have a clue. The kind of target market for these kind of things is a
> small office with maybe 4-10 people or a slightly technical person at
> home with a couple of machines. They'd probably have someone else plug
> it into their network behind their ADSL router, and have someone else
> come and quickly explain how to connect machines to it and look after
> it. It's already behind a firewall (at the router) and it's very
> unlikely you'd have something like this directly connected to the net
> doing router like tasks. It may be issuing DHCP/DNS whatever to the
> network, but it would not route network traffic.
> 
> If you where putting something in place where people where worried
> about that kind of thing you'd use the standard Ubuntu server, as
> they'd probably have an IT staff who could be trained. Not just the
> admin person who also gets the job of doing what the guy on the end of
> the phone says.
> 
> Again, we're back to people thinking of a server as "a big thing that
> runs lots and lots of services, has to be lightweight, fast and more
> secure than anything else ever" when really, they're not!
> 
> -Matt Daubney
> 
Matt I still think a full blown desktop is a faff.  If you're not in the
office and need to access the box forwarding x over a hotel network is
not going to be fun in any shape or form.

Hence my daft but functional ncursor suggestion.  I've used the like of
MC over a dodge network to swap around some files and that functions at
a similar speed to if you have direct access to the box.

I think in all honestly if you are running the box headless then the
concept of a desktop becomes less useful.  I do however agree the your
average SOHO user is going to panic the minute he/she sees the terminal
and nothing else.

I think a welcome screen, byobu for general info, and a page of ncursor
buttons that do the bulk of the essential duties would be more than
enough.  On the whole this is a box that the average SOHO user is going
to want to setup once and then not tinker with again after that.

They have wordpress/drupal/wiki style web pages that they will care
about the most which is ermm web based admin and it's this that will
have the most changes applied to it.

For the SOHO user this is a box that sits in the corner and does what is
required of it with the minimum of fuss or admin.

  
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

[Dave Morley]

On 26/09/11 22:18, Bruno Girin wrote:

On 26/09/11 21:35, Matthew Daubney wrote:

On 26 September 2011 21:17, Alan Pope  wrote:



Ahh, SoHo server... a perennial "want" of many (including myself).
I'm getting so annoyed by this being missing it's starting to become 
an itch :(



I'll refer you to this spec:-

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEasyBusinessServer

Ah, lovely. I agreed with it largely until this
"The interface will be web based"
And then I wanted to curl up in the foetal position and cry.

BEWARE RANT AHOY!


Why do people always want these things web based? I'd much rather
prefer something that works simply in a nice easy gui that I could
VNC/whatever into. In order to make things like this web based, you
either have to lose some flexibility and/or can make it really hard to
report back to the user what actually is going on. I've never really
found a web based configuration gui I liked (and I write them for
work).
Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all the 
desktop GUI libraries on the server, which means that the server stays 
a server and can be a fairly lean machine that doesn't burn CPU to 
paint a desktop (important for a small office where running a powerful 
server 24x7 can be prohibitively expensive and/or noisy). And 
considering the size and complexity of GUI code these days, adding a 
GUI to a server is likely to increase the potential for bug several 
folds.


I hear what you say about web front-ends but balancing the pros and 
cons, I would still go for a web front-end, mainly to keep the server 
lightweight. This doesn't preclude a standard GUI front-end on client 
machines though.


Bruno



Daft suggest possibly.

How about a simple ncursor based cli interface.  Light enough for ssh 
forwarding gui enough for a novice user to click on buttons.  I know 
it's not as pretty as some *cough* light *cough* desktops but should 
suffice.




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Re: [ubuntu-uk] webmin

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-06-21 at 13:59 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
> 
> 
> It's me again!
> 
> 
> I have just installed webmin on 11.04 server, but I'm having trouble
> logging in. I'm guessing I need to set a password for root [sudo
> passwd root] as that's the only solution I can find on the web - Are
> there any security implications to doing that, I would have thought
> so?
> 
> 
> I only want to try it out really as I'm sure most things can be done
> with a terminal, but if I like it I may keep it, that's why i'm
> concerned.
> 
> -- 
> Best Regards,
> 
> 
> Dave Hanson
> 
> 

If you install the ubuntu webmin package from their site I think it
abides by sudo it's just if you use the debian one that I think it
causes issues I could be wrong though.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Libre Office and Thunderbird Addressbook

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 22:31 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-06-14 at 22:22 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > On 14/06/11 22:14, Colin Law wrote:
> > > On 14 June 2011 22:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:
> > >> I DO NOT BELIEVE THIS!
> > >> Ubuntu 11.04 and Libre Office 3.3.2.
> > >> the Ubuntu version of Libre Office will STILL NOT USE the Thunderbird
> > >> addressbook as an address data source!
> > >>
> > >> WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU CANONICAL?
> > >> WHY CANNOT YOU IMPLEMENT THIS VERY SIMPLE FUNCTION?
> > >> Why do those of us who don't like Evolution have to remove the
> > >> Ubuntu-supplied Office suite (and this has been going on for YEARS) and
> > >> replace it with the suite downloaded directly from the suite site?
> > > Could you provide a link to the bug report please?
> > >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > Colin
> > >
> > It's not a bug, it's the way Canonical add the Office suite to Ubuntu. 
> > It's been going on for years with Open Office and now they've done the 
> > same with LO...
> > If you use Evolution then OO (or LO I presume, I uninstall Evolution 
> > because I never use it) will use the Evolution Addressbook but not 
> > anything else.
> > If you uninstall the Canonical-supplied Office suite and install direct 
> > from OO ot LO then the TBird addressbook can be used as a data source.
> 
> Have you tried to install the mozilla-libreoffice package after you
> install Thunderbird? Note that I don't use Thunderbird so don't know if
> it will fix your problem.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Bruno
> 
> 
> 
Gordon

As a canonical employee I can tell you it is a bug, it is either a bug
in that Ubuntu doesn't package something that is latter relied on by TB
LO or it is a packaging issue with the way LO is integrated.  Either way
it is a BUG!

If it is a software issue and it effects you it is a BUG! Whether it be
something that is missed out intentionally or accidentally, whether it
is an issue with the code or lack of code etc etc etc it is a bug!

Please file a bug then the developers working on OO.o/LO will know about
it until then they don't, their only reference on if they do a good job
of packaging and integrating LO in to Ubuntu is the increase or lack of
bugs.  I can't stipulate this enough if it works with the LO download
and doesn't in Ubuntu it is a BUG, please please please report it on
Launchpad so the developers are aware of it even if it is marked as a
duplicate of an older bug, it is important that someone say it effects
them in Natty.

P.S. When you do the install direct from LO you'll find out that it
included a load of stuff that isn't covered in the Ubuntu package in
order to maintain the package size, for example OO.o couldn't do a html
page layout without installing SUN's (at the time) version of Java there
are plenty of other things too but I think you'll get the drift.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2011-06-08 at 11:47 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> a FOSS alternative to cpanel is ISPConfig

Erm not according to ISP hosting Providers they all want Cpanel but I
understand that ISPConfig is improving.

Ubuntu server is fantastic.  If you use the last LTS 10.04.2 then you'll
get a lamp server setup in a matter of minutes.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rating software in software centre

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 13:48 +0100, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Do any of you use the rating system in the ubuntu software centre?
> 
> I was able to rate many apps but was unable to rate Gwyddion.
> 
> Is there any reason for this? Could you try it?
> 
> Would you go through the effort of saying it also affects you here:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/software-center/+bug/792017
> 
> 
> PS: thanks for the ASUS ubuntu response. true, speed seems to be the
> least of it's problems.
> 
> -- 
> Andrés Muñiz-Piniella
> 
Thank you for bring this bug to my attention.

Ratings and reviews should work on any application you have installed,
it doesn't do package checking of any sort I don't believe.

There is however a daily limit of reviews to try and limit bot -> api
attacks spamming the service to the point of unuse.  It maybe that you
hit your limit but you should of had an error saying that you couldn't
send at that time please try again latter iirc.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why are you removing right-click context menus?

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-05-24 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Scott wrote:
> Hi Alan
> 
> 
> Shouldn't this question be directed to Mozilla?
>  
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> 
> __
> From: alan c 
> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: Tuesday, 24 May 2011, 11:36
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why are you removing right-click
> context menus?
> 
> Ubuntu 11.04 Firefox 4,
> use of Bookmarks drop down menu,
> and trying to use a right click from within the bookmaks list.
> Discussed in this group recently
> 
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> 
The context is still there for me on 11.04 in FF 4.0 so not sure where
the issue actually is!

There are no subtractions from the system on modifications as far as I
can see.

The only right click menu that has changed is in the applets where the
functionality has been move to left clicks instead.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04, Wubi and Windows 7

[Dave Morley]

On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 16:28 +0100, alan c wrote:
> On 21/05/11 15:59, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > Does Wubi now work in Windows 7? I heard there were problems some time
> > ago...
> 
> I had heard that some grub updates had caused problems, and I stopped 
> recommending wubi completely at that time because the fix was way 
> above the likely wubi users heads.
> 
> I would be most interested to know if wubi is now robust against all 
> updates. If confirmed, I will try it again and start recommending it 
> to the many newcomers I see.
> -- 
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> Ubuntu user
> 
It does work on windows 7 I installed it on my win7 box for testing and
my moms for her to have a play with.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft proprietary file types?

[Dave Morley]

On Fri, 2011-05-20 at 11:02 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> 
> 
> On 20 May 2011 10:43, Gordon Burgess-Parker 
> wrote:
> On 20/05/2011 10:18, Simon Greenwood wrote:
> 
> but I couldn't get him to even look at proper
> software, MS Publisher
> The major problem with Publisher is that (AFAIK) there is
> NOTHING that will open a .pub document, except, err,
> Publisher. At least not that I've found in quite extensive
> searching...
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> I agree, Publisher is awful, incredibly out of date too. Possibly the
> last bastion of MS unoperability.
> 
> -- 
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> "Is this your sanderling?"
> 
> 
Two things because there always are:

Point 1: OOXML (ie docx) is an open file format, the fact that even
microsoft that control can't abide by it's rule (hey they created it) is
besides the point.  Also so is the fact that we would argue anything
control solely by microsoft can't true be open.  But suck it up. 

Point 2: You take the job, you do good work, you get rewarded with
repeat custom, and you start to drop the penny that this open standard
would be much better to use, had they thought about the cost saving they
could get with things like Linux.The only issue is once linux is
installed you start to lose work, you know not so many viruses, firewall
built-in and all that milarky.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking towards 12.04

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 16:54 +0100, a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
> Hi folks, 
> 
> Sorry if I sounded dumb - maybe it's too long working with Windows
> which meant that when I saw all the talk about copy/paste being on the
> middle button - I was worried that the CUA methods (Ctrl-C and Ctrl-V)
> were no longer available... and it was going to be one hell of a
> learning curve - and less being able to rely on muscle memory whether
> I was using work or home kit.
> 
> The way Unity has been talked about - with functionality being taken
> away, and completely different usability issues...
> 
> Just concerned me for a mo...
> 
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking towards Unity in 2012... but concerned

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 17:41 +0100, Alex Cockell wrote:
> Umm - there's this talk about "middle-clicking".  What is this
> "middle-clicking" you talk about?
> 
> I use Saitek notebook mice... I see two buttons, and a mousewheel.  On
> my Ideapad, I see two buttons under the trackpad.
> 
> I understand left-clicking.. I understand right-clicking.  
> 
> Granted, I use a Citrix terminal at work, and I bought Ubuntu
> preinstalled.
> 
> I've heard talk of having to press both mouse buttons down together
> why do Canonical have to confuse things?
> 
> OK - granted, I am more of a basic user of Ubuntu, and use Windows at
> work; and I came to Linux as I did NOT want to go with Vista...
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Alex Cockell
> a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk
> 
>  
> 
> 
So middle clicking on a mouse is pressing down on the scroll wheel, on a
laptop you click the left and right mouse button together.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New omputer.......Ubuntu install help

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:50 +0100, scoundrel50a wrote:
> On 07/04/2011 13:46, Dave Morley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:44 +0100, Dave Morley wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:28 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, scoundrel50a  
> >>> wrote:
> >>>> Hi, for now, instead of getting a Slate, I found a computer, that will be
> >>>> better for what I need at the moment.
> >>>>
> >>>> The specs are:-
> >>>>
> >>>> Acer Aspire 5736Z
> >>>> Pentium Dual Core CPU
> >>>> T4500 @ 2.30 GHz
> >>>> RAM 3.00 GB
> >>>> 64 bit
> >>>> Windows 7 Premium
> >>>> I want to install Ubuntu, but i'm a bit concerned about the fact its 
> >>>> 64bit,
> >>>> and having read a few peoples problems when trying to install. Just 
> >>>> wondered
> >>>> would there be any problems with the installation with this computer?
> >>> Processors have been 64 bit for quite some time now! Don't worry -
> >>> that won't cause you a problem.
> >>>
> >>> With this machine, unless you're planning on upgrading the RAM in the
> >>> future, you can jsut install the 32 bit Kernel and you won't see any
> >>> differrence.
> >>>
> >>> -- 
> >>> Steve
> >>>
> >>> When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
> >>> people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
> >>>
> >> I have run 64bit for a while, there are only a couple of apps that ever
> >> play up flash and wine.  Wine is now working well on Maverick and above
> >> and
> > Sorry about that no idea why it sent the full one and a part completed
> > one bad evolution
> 
> Which version should I install, Would it be worth installed the beta 
> version, or Macverick?
> 
> 
> 
Personally if you are unsure I'd download the iso's for both run them in
try me mode (it will be slower) but you'll see how the hardware reacts
and also which you prefer.

It's worth trying beta if only to report bugs and issues so hopefully
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New omputer.......Ubuntu install help

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:44 +0100, Dave Morley wrote:
> On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:28 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote: 
> > On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, scoundrel50a  wrote:
> > > Hi, for now, instead of getting a Slate, I found a computer, that will be
> > > better for what I need at the moment.
> > >
> > > The specs are:-
> > >
> > > Acer Aspire 5736Z
> > > Pentium Dual Core CPU
> > > T4500 @ 2.30 GHz
> > > RAM 3.00 GB
> > > 64 bit
> > > Windows 7 Premium
> > 
> > > I want to install Ubuntu, but i'm a bit concerned about the fact its 
> > > 64bit,
> > > and having read a few peoples problems when trying to install. Just 
> > > wondered
> > > would there be any problems with the installation with this computer?
> > 
> > Processors have been 64 bit for quite some time now! Don't worry -
> > that won't cause you a problem.
> > 
> > With this machine, unless you're planning on upgrading the RAM in the
> > future, you can jsut install the 32 bit Kernel and you won't see any
> > differrence.
> > 
> > -- 
> > Steve
> > 
> > When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
> > people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
> > 
> I have run 64bit for a while, there are only a couple of apps that ever
> play up flash and wine.  Wine is now working well on Maverick and above
> and 
Sorry about that no idea why it sent the full one and a part completed
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New omputer.......Ubuntu install help

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:28 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote: 
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, scoundrel50a  wrote:
> > Hi, for now, instead of getting a Slate, I found a computer, that will be
> > better for what I need at the moment.
> >
> > The specs are:-
> >
> > Acer Aspire 5736Z
> > Pentium Dual Core CPU
> > T4500 @ 2.30 GHz
> > RAM 3.00 GB
> > 64 bit
> > Windows 7 Premium
> 
> > I want to install Ubuntu, but i'm a bit concerned about the fact its 64bit,
> > and having read a few peoples problems when trying to install. Just wondered
> > would there be any problems with the installation with this computer?
> 
> Processors have been 64 bit for quite some time now! Don't worry -
> that won't cause you a problem.
> 
> With this machine, unless you're planning on upgrading the RAM in the
> future, you can jsut install the 32 bit Kernel and you won't see any
> differrence.
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> 
> When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
> people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
> 
I have run 64bit for a while, there are only a couple of apps that ever
play up flash and wine.  Wine is now working well on Maverick and above
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] New omputer.......Ubuntu install help

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 13:28 +0100, Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 1:18 PM, scoundrel50a  wrote:
> > Hi, for now, instead of getting a Slate, I found a computer, that will be
> > better for what I need at the moment.
> >
> > The specs are:-
> >
> > Acer Aspire 5736Z
> > Pentium Dual Core CPU
> > T4500 @ 2.30 GHz
> > RAM 3.00 GB
> > 64 bit
> > Windows 7 Premium
> 
> > I want to install Ubuntu, but i'm a bit concerned about the fact its 64bit,
> > and having read a few peoples problems when trying to install. Just wondered
> > would there be any problems with the installation with this computer?
> 
> Processors have been 64 bit for quite some time now! Don't worry -
> that won't cause you a problem.
> 
> With this machine, unless you're planning on upgrading the RAM in the
> future, you can jsut install the 32 bit Kernel and you won't see any
> differrence.
> 
> -- 
> Steve
> 
> When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many
> people suffer from a delusion it is called religion.
> 
I have run 64bit for a while, there are only a couple of apps that ever
play up flash and wine.  Wine is now working well on Maverick and above
and flash well it's flash it's a 50/50 chance on it working fully or not
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-03-22 at 10:48 +, J Fernyhough wrote:
> On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton  wrote:
> >
> > any suggestions or ideas
> >
> >
> 
> I love my Kindle 3G. However, I'm already running into the limitations
> of the 6" screen with PDFs. Depending on the number of books you need,
> buying the tree copy or just reading on a netbook may work out better
> than shelling out another £100+ for a gadget to do the same thing.
> 
> Try and find someone who has one so you can see it in the flesh,
> sorry, plastic. It won't be difficult. :) Then you can decide if it
> will work well enough for your needs.
> 
> Jonathon
> 
My Mrs loves hers over the normal books.

Infact when we moved she gave all but her favourite books away and is
now buying them all on kindle.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 17:00 +, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 20/02/11 13:54, Liam Proven wrote:
> >
> > The following, although it may seem petter, isn't. It's important. I
> > don't want to seem ungrateful but it's kind of a big deal.
> 
> For you it maybe. For many others I doubt it very much.
> 
> > *Please*, do not use that bulletin-board style "@Liam" thing again, to
> > anyone on any mailing list. I missed your message because it wasn't
> > threaded as a response to me.
> 
> Is that an order to everyone? I'm not sure I like being ordered about 
> how to reply to a mailing list...
> 
> There are *all* kinds of folks on here who have their own motivations, 
> skill levels and experience. I think we all need to be as welcoming and 
> accommodating as possible.
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Al
> 
> 
> PS: I'm reading, writing and replying to this, and many other mailing 
> lists, via nntp on gmane.org - this message will probably be in the 
> right place in my newsgroup thread if I decide to view it threaded; 
> although mostly I view by *date* anyway.
> 
> 

My Thoughts:

I've never got the issue with peoples responses.  The only one I kinda
get is the top posting where it becomes increasingly annoying to follow
on the bulk mails.

I find as long as someone has the answer for me then I'm happy that is
after all why most of us ask questions on the list anyway.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - Office suite choice?

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:19 +, Barry Drake wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 12:04 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > Thanks for that - sensible advice. I use the LTS versions because I've 
> > had occasional glitches with the "bleeding edge" releases before, but 
> > never with the LTS versions.
> 
> My procedure (from now on) will be to clone the present version to an
> ISO with CloneZilla, then copy my entire home directory to a pendrive.
> Install the new version, copy back my home direectory and if I have
> problems, restore the old one.  Quick, easy and safe!
> 
> Regards,  Barry.
> 
> -- 
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> http://ubuntuadverts.org/
> 
> 
Libreoffice and Open office both have there share of flaws.  I think it
depends how you use it.

If this is strictly a work machine and you are producing work related
docs then stick with OO.o  if on the other hand you need a feature that
isn't currently available in the version you have then I suggest going
with libreoffice it seems to have the developer momentum and community
backing that OO.o never quite got.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook Ubuntu v. plain Ubuntu

[Dave Morley]

On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 21:22 +, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> A friend has asked me to look at her husbands netbook, which is running
> Linux. He bought it from Tesco two years ago, so I think it probably
> *is* Ubuntu.
> 
> His problems are mainly that it doesn't recognise USB devices when
> they're plugged in, and it downloads updates but doesn't install them.
> He wants to do more than email and web browsing, which is all he feels
> he can do at the moment (it has shortcuts on the desktop for email and
> firefox).
> 
> If it's two years old, and he hasn't upgraded, will it be pre-Unity? As
> I've never used a netbook, only Ubuntu on desktops and laptops, will I
> be able to find my way around it?
> 
> She thinks his cunning plan is to break it so he can buy a new one, but
> I don't want to be the one that breaks it! :)
> 
> TIA
> 
> Dianne
> 
> 
Is he downloading the updates or is he actually just checking the repos
which in older versions of Ubuntu said downloading updates from x

In which case it might be up-to-date and just not look it.

Are you sure it is Ubuntu try running uname -a in a terminal

Most early netbooks ran linpus lite which obviously isn't Ubuntu.

Try Ubuntu via a usb pen drive if that is working fine there is nothing
wrong with the machine.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:20 +, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> I really like the idea of having an "How to contribute to Ubuntu"
> guide or perhaps a document on "What is Ubuntu", however, it should
> also be configurable to an absolute minimum page (three colours, black
> and corner marks) for office deployment or experts.
> 
> Perhaps when it says "Would you like to print a test page", have a
> pair of radio buttons showing "Normal" and "Expert" test pages,
> defaulting to "Normal" (which has the "How to contribute/What is
> Ubuntu" document as it's source), but have a system policy option to
> change it to Expert via an option somewhere in /etc?
> --
> Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs
> 
> 
> On 18 January 2011 10:48, Alan Pope  wrote:
> On 18 January 2011 10:28, Alan Pope  wrote:
> 
> > Here's my suggestions :)
> >
> 
> and more..
> 
> * A calendar showing public holidays / your own calendar
> extracted
> from Evolution / the LoCo calendar of events in your country
> * Your loco team website home page
> * To-Do list
> * Musical staves
> * Dot to dots
> * A "How to contribute to Ubuntu" guide
> * A "How to file a bug" guide (for if the output isn't
> perfect)
> * An advert (the front page of) the Ubuntu Music Store
> * A diagram showing your network topology
> * A diagnostic printout of your machine (machine make/model
> what video
> card you have, type of network device etc) useful for
> reference later
> 
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux is not a proper OS - it's official.

[Dave Morley]

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 21:20 +, Barry Titterton wrote:
> The French government has decided that a machine using linux is not a
> proper computer.
> 
> http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1847&news=tablet+archos
> +windows+french+france
> 
> You can always rely on the French for a good laugh.
> 
> Barry
> 
> 
I wonder what would happen if the police and citreon/peugeot  point out
they now have to a fortune in taxes after moving over to Ubuntu?  Then
threaten to strike, cause chaos and sue the government.  Maybe we can
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] natty with unity

[Dave Morley]

On Fri, 2011-01-14 at 10:55 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> This is a slight tangent, but I'd like to see this but don't fancy
> upgrading this installation this early in the process... under WUBI
> can I have two versions of Ubuntu?
> 
> ie. when I boot can I have "Ubuntu 10.04" AND "11.04" (and obviously
> Windows) all as options?
> 
> As it's stored in a subdirectory of the windows partition, if the
> answer is "no" I'd ask "why?"
> 
> Sean
I currently am missing the ziestgiest search feature and the various
menus that are missing, but these ar eall addable to the plugin so I'm
not worried about that.

My only current concern is the race condition where by you get no menus
appearing or you get no unity at all.  Again there is a lot going on in
the desktop space and hopefully with all the egghead devs locked in a
hotel all week these issues will be well on there way to being ironed
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 12:48 +0100, pmgazz wrote:
> we could
> > do worse than the odd meet-up and mini installathon, perhaps...?
> > 
> >   
> I'm up for that - and can provide a central space with broadband and a
> kitchen (unless people prefer pubs). 
> 
> Paula

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 14:03 +0100, Keith Powell wrote:
> Thanks for the information.
> 
> To explain a little more thoroughly.
> 
> The Windows7 installation is an OEM version and the main/rescue 
> partitions are as installed by the manufacturer, HP.
> 
> But the use of Wubi is looking promising, so far!!
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
I think the only issue people are having is if there is an update to
grub.  It asks if you want to install the changes to the mbr  you don't
click NO!  Just to clarify that's
NOOO!!

Other than that you should be fine.

If you install to the mbr you effectively gain a dual boot system with
no ubuntu install for grub to mount then removing grub causes the
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Latency on 10.04LTS WUBI

[Dave Morley]

On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 06:59 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> My Compaq laptop, running Ubuntu, died a death last week... so have
> now reverted to a Windows 7 Advent and - as one does - I thought
> "let's dual-boot"... WUBI seemed an option, so that's what I did.
> 
> Alas, I appear to have some issue with latency as if I type some
> characters get missed out... so, for instance, if I was to type (at
> full speed) "I would like to go to the park today to feed the ducks" I
> might get "I wold lik t g totheprk tday tfed thucks"
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Sean
> 
Wubi utilises the hardware directly.  The only latency issues you should
have are with disk i/o.

Wubi basically sets up a virtual partition on the windows HD and and
does a pretty standard install into that virtual drive.

The only things I can think of is that the partition was too small or
there is an issue with the drive itself.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Effects are greyed out

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:36 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 22/07/10 15:35, Dave Morley wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:32 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> >   
> >> I installed 10.04 Remix on my Laptop from a flash drive (because it's
> >> MUCH faster than using the CD) but if I right-click on the desktop,
> >> choose "Change Desktop background" and click on the Visual Effects tab,
> >> it's set to None and all the options are greyed out.
> >> I know that the graphics card is good because it runs Aero on (cough
> >> cough!) Windows 7
> >> How do I enable this?
> >>
> >> 
> > It possible needs 3d gfx drivers for the 3d stuff to work.  Do you know
> > what card is in the machine?
> >   
> 
> I don't. What command in the terminal should I issue?
> 
Fire up hardware drivers from System->Administration.  Although I'm not
sure how reliable it will be running it from USB.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Effects are greyed out

[Dave Morley]

On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 15:32 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> I installed 10.04 Remix on my Laptop from a flash drive (because it's
> MUCH faster than using the CD) but if I right-click on the desktop,
> choose "Change Desktop background" and click on the Visual Effects tab,
> it's set to None and all the options are greyed out.
> I know that the graphics card is good because it runs Aero on (cough
> cough!) Windows 7
> How do I enable this?
> 
It possible needs 3d gfx drivers for the 3d stuff to work.  Do you know
what card is in the machine?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK ISO testing - do or die.

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 11:20 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I previously mailed the list about organising a team in the UK around
> ISO testing, but haven't had the time to take it further. Would
> someone else like to take this on?
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2010-June/024546.html
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 
I'd love to take it on unfortunately my time is too short already.

However I would like to make myself available to whoever does take this
on.  I know most of the iso testing processes ermm  I wrote them. :D
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Blogkt not running 0n 10.04?

[Dave Morley]

On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 15:22 +0100, Gordon wrote:
> I installed Blogkt on my 10.04 Netbook remix, no errors reported, but 
> when I click on the icon, nothing happens.
> Any one had this, and is there a way to fix it?
> 
> 
Try running it from the command line.  This might provide details for
debugging.

If there is an issue try ubuntu-bug blogtk and add the command line info
to the bug report.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

[Dave Morley]

On Mon, 2010-06-07 at 12:19 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:51:19 +0100, Tony Arnold
>  wrote:
> 
> > On 07/06/10 11:22, Neil Perry wrote:
> > > That is what I don't understand either, typically I thought if 
> > > debian would be adopting that apt-get will be getting phased out. 
> > > Unless Ubuntu devlopers maintain apt-get.
> > 
> > Maybe it's a size thing and squeezing what they can on to the CD.
> > aptitude is 2.1MB on my system compared to 115KB for apt-get. I never
> > use it but aptitude will run as a curses application allowing
> > you to select and deselect packages. Which may explain it's size. I
> > tend to use it as a direct alternative to apt-get. Regards, Tony.
> 
> A curses application? Damn, that sounds useful. Maybe I can find the
> space ;-) Rowan
> 
> 
This is down to the fact that currently we have 5 packaging services.  I
believe that it will still be installed on server as it has no gui
counterpart.  but between dpkg, apt-get, synaptic and software center I
think we have enough for the desktop.

That being said I tend to use aptitude over apt-get just cause it fits
in my head easier even though I don't use cli that much now on desktop.
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