Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hi there

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 5 December 2013 12:34, Colin Law  wrote:

> You realise this mailing list is about the computer operating system
> Ubuntu, not the concept of ubuntu as a way of life?
>

Perhaps this link might help clear up the ambiguity?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu

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

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 20 September 2013 15:46, Dave Morley  wrote:

> 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:
> > > Do join us to celebrate the launch of Saucy, and debate the name
> > of the
> > > next release (Tenacious Turkey? Talented Termite?)
> > >
> > > Alan.
> >
> > or Tremendous Tarantula even?  ;)
> >
> >
> > Trusty Trilobite ;)
> >
> >
> >
> Terrifying tyrannosaur
>
>

Terrific Terrapin!
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] enough folks

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 14 May 2013 07:24, Liam Proven  wrote:

> Not any more with the Gmail "new compose" feature. The functionality
> you describe has been removed.
>

Hi
Search in the Labs sections of the Gmail settings for the "Quote selected
text" addon and enable it; that works here (with the new gmail interface).
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] network-manager applet menu unresponsive in GUI

[Matthew Sturdy]

> killall nm-applet
> nm-applet &
>
>
Brilliant, that's done it,

thanks for that!
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[ubuntu-uk] network-manager applet menu unresponsive in GUI

[Matthew Sturdy]

Hi,

Just noticed today that the network-manager icon in the top right has
stopped responding.  When I click on it, it opens the normal menu, and I
can see available networks, and the normal options... but when I click on
them, it closes the menu, but does nothing, regardless of the option I
select.

I can't even connect to available networks... though fortunately, it
auto-connects to pre-configured networks ok.

I tried restarting the service ( sudo service network-manager restart), and
it starts fine:

matt@mariachi:~$ sudo service network-manager restart
network-manager stop/waiting
network-manager start/running, process 18520

...however, I can still not use the menus!

I've checked the history of software changes, and I can't see any recent
updates for the network-manager that would have caused this.

I have checked dmesg, syslog, kern.log, /var/log/gdm/:0.log but there's
nothing obvious I can see.  Has anyone else seen this?  Any tips about how
to troubleshoot / fix it?


Thanks
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Skype Log on Ubuntu

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 2 November 2012 20:17, Abduljaber Abdulqader
wrote:

> It works until a 8/08/2012 and then i get the below error message:
> Skype4Py.errors.SkypeAPIError: Skype command timeout
>
>
Hi, I'm sorry, I don't know and this one I can only reproduce if I quit the
skype client while running the script.

It seems as if there was a connection to your Skype client.  Was the client
running the whole time the script was?

If you try again, does it fail at the same place?

I'm pretty stuck as to what could be the cause... it's possible that
someone else might be able to suggest something, but they've been quiet
until now if so!  :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Skype Log on Ubuntu

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 1 November 2012 22:40, Abduljaber Abdulqader
wrote:

> abdul@abdul-OptiPlex-GX520:~$ python skype-info.py
> Segmentation fault
>
> OK, now I've tested this on another box of mine, and also saw seg faults.
 the versions of software on this box is much closer to yours:

$ python --version
Python 2.7.3
$ skype --version
Skype 2.2.0.35
$ python -c"import Skype4Py;print Skype4Py.__version__"
1.0.32.0

Try the attached, I've changed only one line (line 7) to use X11 to connect
rather than DBUS...  in accordance with some advice from StackOverflow [1]
and now it works fine on this box.

hope that helps,
matt

[1]
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7827108/unexplained-segfault-in-python


skype-info.py
Description: Binary data
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Skype Log on Ubuntu

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 1 November 2012 09:33, Abduljaber Abdulqader
wrote:

>  When i try to run the file from the terminal i get a segmentation error
> message.
>
>
> Hi,

Sorry, no idea, it's not a complicated script at all... Was your Skype
client running?

Could you please post the log of the error?  Just copy paste what's in the
terminal from the line where you run the command.  If it is very long,
please use a "pastebin" style site, and just post the link.

What version of Ubuntu are you running?  Please can you also post the
results from these commands

python --version
skype --version
python -c"import Skype4Py;print Skype4Py.__version__"

Thanks
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Skype Log on Ubuntu

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 31 October 2012 11:01, Abduljaber Abdulqader
wrote:

>  Please can anyone shed light on how to print the log of free calls on
> Ubuntu?
>
>
Hi,

You can use the Skype4Py[1] library with python to print the log of calls
very easily... here's a quick example of the script you might want to use:

#!/usr/bin/python
import Skype4Py

skype = Skype4Py.Skype()

for call in skype.Calls():
  if call.RateValue == 0.0:   # check it was free
when = call.Datetime
who  = call.PartnerDisplayName
how_long = call.Duration

print "call at %s with %s for %ss" % (when,who,how_long)


The Skype client must be running, and logged in to the user you wish to see
the log for.

matt

[1 ]http://skype4py.sourceforge.net/doc/html/
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- "low-graphics mode crashes"

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 9 May 2012 21:28, Neil Greenwood  wrote:

> I think if you log into your launchpad page, there's a list of bugs that
> you've raised.
>

nothing showing there... I'm not sure it would be connected to my account
though, I didn't enter any account info
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- "low-graphics mode crashes"

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 9 May 2012 21:02, Philip Stubbs  wrote:

> I also have both installed, but gdm is not used. run this command
>
> sudo dpkg-reconfigure gdm
>
> That should give you the option to set the default.



Cheers Philip, I had just that second made the change... my default was
lightdm, and that was firing at the same time as gdm, and failing.  I have
run a few tests, and lightdm won't start at all.

So: I have used ubuntu-bug to raise a bug from the virtual terminal against
lightdm, and I will stick with gdm for the time being!  Anyone tell me how
to track a bug report retrospectively?  I wasn't able to save the reference
from the virtual terminal.

Thanks again for all the help Philip!!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- "low-graphics mode crashes"

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 9 May 2012 20:31, Philip Stubbs  wrote:

> Not really. The only thing that seems odd. Why are you using gdm? Is
> there a reason why you are not using lightdm?
>

h...  I didn't realise that was weird... I have both installed.  Could
it be that both are starting at the same time and confusing everything?  I
imagine that gdm was installed when I moved to Gnome Shell!

OK, I'll run a few more tests, and see how it goes... If I can live without
one or the other I will aim to remove them!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- "low-graphics mode crashes"

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 9 May 2012 16:28, Matthew Sturdy  wrote:

>
>> You could also look into /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see what X is doing on
>> startup.
>
> Nothing obvious in there.. but I will check next time immediately after
> boot.
>

Nope - there's nothing interesting in there... and it even seems to be
finding the proper drivers:

[   180.874] (II) intel: Driver for Intel Integrated Graphics Chipsets:
i810,
i810-dc100, i810e, i815, i830M, 845G, 854, 852GM/855GM, 865G, 915G,
E7221 (i915), 915GM, 945G, 945GM, 945GME, Pineview GM, Pineview G,
965G, G35, 965Q, 946GZ, 965GM, 965GME/GLE, G33, Q35, Q33, GM45,
4 Series, G45/G43, Q45/Q43, G41, B43, B43, Clarkdale, Arrandale,
Sandybridge Desktop (GT1), Sandybridge Desktop (GT2),
Sandybridge Desktop (GT2+), Sandybridge Mobile (GT1),
Sandybridge Mobile (GT2), Sandybridge Mobile (GT2+),
Sandybridge Server, Ivybridge Mobile (GT1), Ivybridge Mobile (GT2),
Ivybridge Desktop (GT1), Ivybridge Desktop (GT2), Ivybridge Server




>
> One thing I like to try is to stop gdm/lightdm whatever, and then run
>> startx. If it fails it often gives a helpful message.
>
> Good suggestion!  thanks... Will try it next boot.
>

This time when I dropped down to the console I killed the initx process
that was running, and then ran startx.  It started without errors.

It took me straight to my desktop, bypassing the usual login screens...
where it prompted me to unlock the login keychain with my password.
 however, the desktop didn't seem to load properly, and after accepting my
password, it stopped responding to the keyboard.

I return to tty3 and killed the process (CTRL+C).  then I started gdm and
all was ok again.

It seems to be a bug in gdm or unity at this stage.. .but I can't really
raise it without knowing which!

Any other suggestions?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- "low-graphics mode crashes"

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 9 May 2012 14:21, Philip Stubbs  wrote:

> What graphics card do you have? Do you have the correct driver
> installed? Can I suggest you run 'lspci' and make sure that your
> graphics card is seen by Linux.


I have a AMD Radeon HD6630 2GB card, and the processor is: Intel Core
i5-2430M Processor

When I look in lspci I see the following:

matt@mariachi:~$ lspci | grep VGA
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation 2nd Generation Core
Processor Family Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 09)
01:00.0 VGA compatible controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] nee ATI
Whistler [AMD Radeon HD 6600M Series] (rev ff)


Then in "Settings > Details >  Graphics" I see:

Driver: Intel Sandybridge Mobile
Experience: standard


which suggests that it's seeing the inbuilt chip ok...  I think!?


You could also look into /var/log/Xorg.0.log and see what X is doing on
> startup.

Nothing obvious in there.. but I will check next time immediately after
boot.


One thing I like to try is to stop gdm/lightdm whatever, and then run
> startx. If it fails it often gives a helpful message.

Good suggestion!  thanks... Will try it next boot.

Thanks Philip!
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[ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- "low-graphics mode crashes"

[Matthew Sturdy]

Hi all,

I have just _upgraded_ (ie. not clean install) from 11.10 to 12.04 on my
dual-boot Lenovo E420s (Ubuntu 12.04 / Windows 7) using the distribution
upgrade button in the update manager.

I had problems at first, as the remnants of Gnome Shell gave me all sorts
of headaches.  So, I removed all the Gnome Shell repos, and re-installed
the unity packages from scratch.

After a good 6 months away from it, Unity is fantastic.  I am more than
happy to stay with it, and not go back to Gnome Shell.

I have only one issue, unity doesn't actually load properly in the first
place.  I'll try to explain what's happening in the hope that someone can
help me diagnose the issue.

- I start up, and select Ubuntu from the dual boot menu.
- Then the screen goes black, with a non-blinking cursor in the top-right
of the screen.
- Then I see the "low-graphics" mode dialog.  This dialog doesn't respond
to anything.
- I use ALT+CTRL+F3 to drop to tty3. (tty1 and tty2 don't respond)
- I use 'sudo service gdm restart' to bounce the GDM.
- then I see the login pages, and everything is normal from then on.  As
far as I can tell, I am using Unity 3D when I log in.


I have a separate discrete graphics card, which doesn't sit well with
Linux, but the built-in processor is not underpowered.  However, I suspect
that this is confusing gdm when it starts, and so it is showing me this
screen.

Is anyone else having this issue?  Can anyone help me resolve it?  I don't
really know where to start looking unfortunately... but would really
appreciate any advice.

It's not the end of the world... as I have a workaround... but would love
to get it resolved.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 3 April 2012 15:43, Colin Law  wrote:

> On 3 April 2012 13:40, Matthew Sturdy  wrote:
> > well, I have found a "solution" of sorts...  I have deleted all the
> > Helvetica .tff files from
> > ~/.fonts/
> > /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
>
> What did you have there and where did you get them from?  I don't seem
> to have any helvetica, which may explain why I do not see the problem.
>
> haha, yeah - reckon that would do it!   :)  I had a load of files there...
 I had installed the font from a series of .tff files, but it seems like
they were incomplete..
Definitely seems all ok now!

Cheers Colin!
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

[Matthew Sturdy]

well, I have found a "solution" of sorts...  I have deleted all the
Helvetica .tff files from

~/.fonts/
/usr/share/fonts/truetype/

Now the webpages skip past Helvetica and jump straight to the sans-serif
family of fonts (which are installed correctly).

I will wait for the distribution update and then try to install Helvetica
again...

thanks all!
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 3 April 2012 13:03, bouncysteve  wrote:

> I don't have any problem in Firefox (11) with your example page, but there
> is a problem in Chromium.
> It seems that Chromium ignores the character encoding set in the page and
> uses its own encoding.
> Try setting the browser default encoding to UTF-8
>

Tried and tried!  :)  No joy though sadly.

Now I have added a third line to the page, where the font is set to
Arial... The HTML now looks like this

test characters: ç = ç
test characters: ç =
ç
test characters: ç = ç


The 1st and 3rd line show correctly... 2nd shows as in my previous
screenshot.

Matt
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 3 April 2012 11:39, Colin Law  wrote:

> On 3 April 2012 10:28, Matthew Sturdy  wrote:
> >
> So it is not in fact using the html entity.  Having said that it does
> look fine for me (Firefox 11.10 in Ubuntu 12.04).
> I don't know what to suggest I am afraid.
>
>  Thanks Colin!

i have made a simple example here http://msturdy.net/example.html, to
demonstrate what I think is wrong...

...and here is how it looks...
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10355152/example-new.png

Do you think that there is an issue with the installed Helvetica font?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 3 April 2012 10:43, Colin Law  wrote:

> On 3 April 2012 08:43, Matthew Sturdy  wrote:
>
> Can you point us to a web page showing the problem and explain exactly
> what you see wrong?
>
>
Sure, for example: http://sitmobile.com/index.html?request_locale=po
(change language to Portuguese if it isn't already)

here is how it appears on my laptop:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/10355152/character-problems.png

I have highlighted in red two errors, and written the correct words
alongside... Does it make sense?

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[ubuntu-uk] Display problems with foreign characters in browsers.

[Matthew Sturdy]

Hi,

I have had an issue for a while now with the display of certain characters
in both Firefox and Chrome on my laptop.  Example characters are: çõáú

These are presented correctly in the webpages as HTML entities (ç
õ etc)
If I copy and paste them to the terminal, or to a text entry field in the
browser, they display correctly.

Interestingly, it happens identically on both Firefox and Chrome.  This
makes me think that maybe I have some issue with an installed font, but I
don't really know how to check it!

I am running:
- Linux mariachi 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 8 20:45:39 UTC
2012 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
- GNOME Shell 3.3.90
- Google Chrome 18.0.1025.142
- Mozilla Firefox 11.0


It's really frustrating as I use webpages in English, Spanish and
Portuguese.. I've asked on the Ubuntu Forum, but didn't get much help... I
would really appreciate anything that anyone can suggest to try, or some
pointers as to where to investigate!

Cheers,
Matt
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question about Ubuntu One

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 21 February 2012 10:19, Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:

> I can't seem to find out how I use the "Add a folder from this computer"
> function. I know how to click on that to synch a folder which is in a
> location other then the Ubuntu One Folder, but how then do I go to another
> machine and then synch that folder to a folder on the second machine?


Hi Gordon,

You should be able to do it from within the Ubuntu One application
itself... run the Ubuntu One app and then go to the "Cloud Folders" tab to
select which folders to "Sync locally".

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] re-assigning Print Screen key to open right click menu

[Matthew Sturdy]

>
> How would this affect you doing things like using the sysrq functions
> which are also mapped to the same key (ok you need to press alt too)
>
> Paul
>
>
Hi Paul,

I can't see that sysrq is mapped to this key here though to be honest
I've not ever used any of the sysrq functions.

The key is right at the bottom of the laptop keyboard, to the right of the
spacebar, which is my reason for wanting to change it in the first place.

I am still at the same place, the key changes focus, but only opens the
right click (context?) menu when I am in google docs, or libre office.
 Weird!

Cheers,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] re-assigning Print Screen key to open right click menu

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 8 February 2012 15:44, Gareth France  wrote:

>  Also try this:
>
>
> http://askubuntu.com/questions/97748/how-do-i-bind-right-click-to-a-keyboard-shortcut
>
>
Thanks Gareth, this has worked the best so far... adding "xdotool click 3" as
the command works with some applications... but not on all!

It replicates the right click well on OOCalc, but not in
terminator, Chrome, Nautilus.. On these other applications the window takes
focus, but the right click doesn't open the context menu.

Using xev I see this for a normal right click from the USB mouse (trackpad
output is the same):

~
ButtonPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x541,
root 0xae, subw 0x0, time 55611537, (64,83), root:(65,136),
state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x541,
root 0xae, subw 0x0, time 55611981, (64,83), root:(65,136),
state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES
~


and this for a "click" using the Print Screen button with xdotool:

~
ButtonPress event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x541,
root 0xae, subw 0x0, time 55600764, (64,83), root:(65,136),
state 0x0, button 3, same_screen YES

ButtonRelease event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x541,
root 0xae, subw 0x0, time 55600764, (64,83), root:(65,136),
state 0x400, button 3, same_screen YES

FocusOut event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x541,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyPointer

FocusIn event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x541,
mode NotifyUngrab, detail NotifyAncestor

KeymapNotify event, serial 33, synthetic NO, window 0x0,
keys:  4294967214 0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
  0
   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0   0
~

There seems to be additional FocusOut / FocusIn events in there... not sure
if that is relevant!

Any pointers would be gratefully received at this point!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] re-assigning Print Screen key to open right click menu

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 8 February 2012 15:23, Gareth France  wrote:

>  I found a forum thread on this. Hope it helps
>
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=820831
>

thanks Gareth, I'll take a look at that.


I don't understand, if you know how to do in keyboard settings why
> don't you do it there?



Maybe I wasn't clear... I don't know how to do it as I don't know which
command to bind to the key!
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[ubuntu-uk] re-assigning Print Screen key to open right click menu

[Matthew Sturdy]

Hi,

On my laptop's keyboard I have a Print Screen key where I would expect to
find a right click key, and I am trying to make it a Right click key.

I've been googling around, and I can't find the command that I can use to
reassign the key - I do know how to reassign the key in the Keyboard
settings.

I have stopped it from being a Print Screen key at least, and I know that
+F10 does what I want, but does anyone know how to invoke the
context menu using any other arbitrary key?

Matt
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] costume launcher on unity?

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 1 December 2011 16:02, Andres  wrote:

> **
>
>
> I think Matt's script option is the best solution... But if skype updates
> will it be messed up?
>
>
Not that I'm aware of... you'd still be calling the updated skype binary
using the script

the only thing I can think of is that it might cause problems if Skype
updates and you no longer need to preload the v4l lib... I don't think so
though.

Good luck!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] costume launcher on unity?

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 30 November 2011 16:47, Andrés Muñiz Piniella  wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I was having problems to get my web cam working under skype.
> Luckly I found
>
>
> http://community.skype.com/t5/Linux/video-is-not-working-on-Ubuntu-11-10/td-p/216792
>
> I just need to run this in the comand line:
> sh -c 'LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/libv4l/v4l1compat.so
> /usr/bin/skype "$@"'
> What ever that means and the video now works!
>
> But I now need to set it up in a nice button for my wife to use it and to
> get my sister an easy way in.
> Previously I was able to setup a costume launcher but I am new to ubuntu
> 11.10 and I cannot find how to do it.
>
>
> http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-create-desktop-launchers-in-ubuntu-11-10oneiric.html
>
> I tried this. but the shortcut does not show on the desktop.
>
>
hey

I had the same problem a while ago, and I created a short bash script
somewhere in my $PATH to do the same... I think it was in */usr/local/bin/*
*
*
Then running skype from anywhere on the box always preloaded the correct
v4l module and there was no need to make a custom launcher.

Matt
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One broken on 10.04?

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 11 October 2011 08:41, Gordon Burgess-Parker  wrote:

>  On 11/10/2011 14:27, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
> there is a polling interval, which I think is ten minutes.
>
> I did look so see if there was, but couldn't find anything. But how does
> that fit with the website being updated almost immediately, or might that
> just be co-incidence?
>
>
"Meta"-items such as Folders are updated at a different speed to "real"
files (eg .ogg s).  There's more detail here:

https://one.ubuntu.com/help/faq/why-are-only-folders-uploaded-but-not-files-39/

Also, on 11.04 I keep an eye on what is going on using the command line
tool: *u1sdtool*
*
*
"*u1sdtool -s*" for system status
"*u1sdtool --waiting*" to see what is waiting to be uploaded
"*u1sdtool --current-transfers*" to see what is being uploaded or downloaded
at the moment.

I added around 15Gb of content to my synched folders and it took a few days
of me leaving it overnight to get everything online... but once it's there
it recognises new files and file changes almost instantaneously (~ 5s).

matt
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Python Question

[Matthew Sturdy]

On 23 September 2011 09:56, Dave Hanson  wrote:

>
> Thanks again for the fast responses. I should have just posted here instead
> of searching for two hours - Doh!
>

Don't forget the guys at Python IRC [http://www.python.org/community/irc/]...
they've been very helpful to me in the past!
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