Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world
Maidenhead. We use Linux as our weapon of choice at work (RHEL5); we design (and simulate. Oh yes, we simulate a _lot_) silicon chips. -- Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire
On Sat, 2010-10-16 at 19:42 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: As for choice of server - if you get tired of Openfire I couldn't not recommend the one I work on, Prosody. It's in the repos :) Matthew can hardly be considered an impartial judge, as he works on Prosody. I however do not work on Prosody, and can be considered impartial: Prosody is the dogs. Trivial to set up and configure, and in my experience bullet proof. I also believe it has pretty high performance and low resource requirements, but since my instance only had 5 users, I am not able to give a particularly exhaustive analysis... (but it did easily fit into a VM with only 112MB of physical memory that was also running Apache, MySQL, Postfix and Dovecot) Regards, Matthew -- Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal
Also the dangers of trying to reply via a mobile phone that does not do proper quoting: On 18 August 2010 16:55, Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com wrote: The dangers of using a US based dictionary / thesaurus on a UK based list: From WordNet (r) 2.0 : feisty adj 1: showing courage; the champion is faced with a feisty challenger [syn: plucky, spunky] Imbued with involuntary night time emissions?eference in popular culture. Enough ranting. I'll leave you with this: From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 : narwhal it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. You're just having a bit of a rant, aren't you? YES! OH GOD YES! Did the bit where I said enough ranting give you a clue? Doh! And apologies for any confusion about attribution. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Quick Perl question...
Rather than removing the solar, /solar pair as separate actions it might be easier to use them to 'anchor' the start and end of text you want to extract. Try: $solar_info =~ s/solar([^]*)\/solar/$1\n/; This matches everything between the solar ... /solar pair, and replaces it with the text in between- it also sticks an extra newline on the end for where you have 'joined' lines - it should be easy to remove blank lines later. I'm a bit rusty: you might want to stick a 'g' on the very end (after the replacement expression) to make it match more than once on the same line. $solar_info =~ s/solar([^]*)\/solar/$1\n/g; Let us know how you get on. -- Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com Sorry about the top posting- am replying from my phone. -Original Message- From: LeeGroups Sent: 12/07/2010 22:55:38 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Quick Perl question... $solar_info =~ s/\/solar.*/,/; From my tinkerings, this should find the string /solar in the string $solar_info, and then remove it and any number of following characters (the .*) and then replace them with a ,. Except that it doesn't. It hacks out the /solar and replaces it with a , but leaves the rest of the string intact... Much to my annoyance... :| What's the input string? The following code simply prints , for me not ,abcdef as you suggest it would: $test = /solarabcdef; $test =~ s/\/solar.*/,/; print $test; This input solar8,27.31,28.68,28.81,0.00,0.00,0/solar It need to be -- 8,27.31,28.68,28.81,0.00,0.00,0 Another line chops off the solar. The problem is that occasionally there is rubbish on the end of the line, or even another line appended to the end of the first... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Quick Perl question...
I'm pretty sure you need to avoid matching the start of the 2nd tag, otherwise text of the form: solarabcde/solarsolarfghij/solar Will be extracted as: abcde/solarsolarfghij E.g. Use a character class that avoids matching the start of a tag: $solar_info =~ s!solar([^]*)/solar!$1!g; -- Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com Sorry about the top posting- am replying from my phone. -Original Message- From: Matt Wheeler Sent: 12/07/2010 23:46:32 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Quick Perl question... [some pruned text] You could remove both the start and end tags with something like $solar_info =~ s!solar(.*)/solar!$1!; (note I'm also using ! instead of / so I don't have to escape the /) -- Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell UK now offers netbooks and laptops ...
On 16 June 2010 09:47, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: [...] the only ones I manage to configure with Ubuntu are the Latitude 2100 and 2110 but they only come with 9.10, not 10.04. [...] That doesn't sound very committed to Ubuntu to me. Shame because I would be on the market for a top of the range Vostro 3300 if the specs that say it comes with Ubuntu were actually true. It's doubly frustrating because Dell seem to be one of the few vendors who have a 13 laptop with decent specs (the other one I know of being Sony but I have no hope in hell of running Ubuntu on a Sony, let alone getting it Windows free). Try the Latitiude V13; I searched for Ubuntu, starting at the http://www.dell.co.uk page, and this was one of the hits. If you ask to personalise the cheapest version, it is offered with Ubuntu 09.10 (I seem to remember). Not as cheap as a mini, but it looks pretty slick... The wierd thing is depending on which web page you start at (for instance starting with http://www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu) seems to get you different search results (searching from the aforementioned http://www.dell.co.uk/ubuntu did not lead me to any ubuntu machines at all). It appears that Dell UK are actually aiming their Ubuntu offerings at businesses rather than individuals. Might have to have a chat with the wife about whether I can be allowed to buy a Latitude rather than one of the cheaper netbooks (and it will surely be much more expensive if I can't resist the lure of a faster CPU, more memory and an SSD drive...) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Increasing start up problems since upgrade to 10.04
Rob: minor suggestion, but if you are using GMail then have you considered accessing your email via IMAP? This would then give you full access to your entire email archive on GMail, plus any gmail label assignment (although GMail labels are mapped to IMAP folders, not as nice as using IMAP keywords but workable). (NB GMail itself might not map IMAP keywords to GMail labels, but it does preserve IMAP keywords) On 15 June 2010 08:51, Bob Giles thecorf...@gmail.com wrote: Liam, Alan, Tyler, Rob and Silner (+anyone else that I may have forgotten), Many thanks for all of your observations and suggestions. I have learned a couple of things. Firstly the pae kernel! (I should point out that I was aware of the limitations re memory and the 32 bit version. I had upgraded my memory since the 10.04 upgrade. I considered the 64bit option but had been put off by some of the adverse comments that I had read.) I can confirm that the PAE option is automatically used upon installation subject to it detecting in excess of 3Gb RAM. I would have replied sooner but things finally came to a head when Thunderbird started messing me about and I ended up losing all emails back to last January. I decided that a total reinstall was in order! Again I learned something! I had recently made a brief foray back to the UK (I live in Greece) and had taken my netbook for company! Before leaving, I had synched my email which meant that upon my return on 20th May I had a backup to that date. As I use GMail to access my additional accounts, I was able to use the 'recent' attribute to download the last 30 days email. (I didn't know about that until I went searching for ways to download archived Gmail!) I know it's no substitute for a daily backup but hey! I *know* that I am not perfect! The long and the short of it is that after a total reinstall, things are fine. I new I should not have gone with the upgrade option! I still can't bring myself to go 64 bit! Thanks everyone yet again. You are a credit to a great list! Bob Giles Corfu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell says Ubuntu safer than Windows
On 14 June 2010 20:29, Barry Titterton barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote: It's official: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=usl=encs=19 But not in the UK apparently :( I have been trying to find a Linux pre-installed netbook to purchase in the UK since the beginning of the year, and Dell were my first stopping point since purchasing an Inpsiron laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed a couple of years ago... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell says Ubuntu safer than Windows
On 15 June 2010 09:50, Mary Mooney memoo...@gmail.com wrote: Have you tried the Linux Emporium www.linuxemporium.co.uk Based in the Midlands (of England) Mary -- Mary Mooney DEUK'05 I've been waiting for them to get hold of something with better battery life than the Lenevo IdeaPad S10-2-3 (like, for instance, a Lenevo IdeaPad S10-3...) After portability, battery life is my main criteria. Unfortunately my best bet at the moment seems to be a Samsung N220, but I can't bring myself to purchase something pre-installed with windows (... it will only encourage them to carry on doing it). ZaReason will export to the UK, but that seems a bit extreme... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell says Ubuntu safer than Windows
On 15 June 2010 10:04, Gordon Allott gord.all...@canonical.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 09:25 +0100, Matthew Bassett wrote: On 14 June 2010 20:29, Barry Titterton barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote: It's official: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=usl=encs=19 But not in the UK apparently :( There is a reason for that! right now dell are only selling the mini 10 netbook which is a terrible terrible machine that won't work well on ubuntu because of the nasty gpu (closed source drivers, only works with old kernels). the last word i heard on it was that dell are spinning up a new line of netbooks or something and ubuntu will be offered on that -- Gordon Allott That's very interesting... (Though they do already sell a Dell Mini 10n in the States) I'll wait then. It's a race. Between Linux Emporium (Lenevo IdeaPad S10-3?) and Dell UK (Mini 10n? Or maybe that is the machine with the bad GPU?) getting something new. A very slow race. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell says Ubuntu safer than Windows
On 15 June 2010 10:09, Bruce Beardall bruc...@gmail.com wrote: You can also try www.pcspecialist.co.uk. I haven't used them myself but you can select No Operating System when you configure your choice (same goes for MS Office and Anti Virus). They do netbooks, laptops, PCs etc. Thanks. I'll take a look: the only issue there is being able to get enough information about the chipset to find out if it is really, truely, supported (Poulsboro?) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......
On 11 June 2010 01:36, jakewc2 jake...@sky.com wrote: Ok, I cant sleep, and have found that file you wanted, http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/66604 Hope that helps. John OK: Comparing the normal boot to the recovery it looks like they are both the same. I'm wondering if the issue could be the vga=791 option? There might be an issue with the kernel framebuffer; you might not notice this on a normal boot up since an X-server starts anyway and takes over the display (so the recovery kernel might have booted ok, other than the fact it might not be able to display anything) You can check this in a non-permanent way by selecting a recovery kernel from the grub boot menu, hitting the 'e' key to temporarily edit the boot options and deleting the vga=791 option, and for good measure add a nofb option. Press enter to commit those options, and then 'b' to boot. If the above works, you might want to try without adding the nofb option. For reference: vga=791 option selects a 16bit color, 1024x768 pixels frame buffer; nofb option explicitly disables the frame buffer. References: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/FrameBuffer (but note that this deals with using an older version of grub, so the directions for editting the grub configuration are not correct for the version installed currently) Assuming this fixes your issue, then I _think_ the place to make these changes permanent is the file /etc/default/grub; remove text of the form vga=791, and then run the command sudo update-grub to regenerate the grub configuration (sorry, I am not so familiar with the new version of grub so someone else might have to step in if I have this bit wrong). Let us know how you get on. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
