Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd
On 29/06/10 11:29, Alan Pope wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one female lead character who is portrayed as ditzy and clueless. I suspect that marrs her enjoyment of the show. Cheers, Al. I would argue that Jen (in ITC) was portrayed as ditzy clueless too (remember the episode where she won Employee of the Month?) Steve Garton blog.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choosing a new phone
Michael G Fletcher wrote: On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM, David Jones djones.dan...@googlemail.com wrote: Following what Darren has said, I've got an htc magic on vodafone and can't fault it. Syncing with gmail is simple and works brilliantly for email, contacts etc. I was concerned about only having a 500mb data allowance, but in my first month of setting up, installing applications, getting on irc, browsing, email etc I only used 50mb. I also found that I was able to put an orange aim in the phone and it wasn't network locked. Dave +1 for the HTC Magic from Vodafone My thoughts on it - http://www.ilovemylinux.com/node/107 video - http://www.ilovemylinux.com/node/108 _ Michael Fletcher Interested in Linux? Then visit - http://www.ilovemylinux.com Follow me at - http://twitter.com/big_fletch My +1 for the HTC Magic too. Literally Everyone else in my office has an iPhone of some description (I used to have), and the number of faults/problems/missing features they have compared to the Magic is unreal. Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thanks!
On 2 Jun 2009, at 23:14, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: On 2 Jun 2009, at 23:09, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: I've found in the past that having Pidgin if your sound is not working can result in a memory leak, or at least it can start to really take resource - might be worth turning off sound in Pidgin until you resolve the issue. Sean OK - I'll use meebo (web-based) for now. Thanks for letting me know ;-) James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ How about trying empathy (in the repos). I'm sure I read somewhere that it is a strong candidate to replace pidgin as default messenger in Karmic. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Audio books and wget
On 29 May 2009, at 22:59, michael ubu...@bigmassiveheed.co.uk wrote: Hi, I am trying to automate the downloading of audibooks from podiobooks.com Instead of clicking each link to download each mp3 chapter I am trying delvelop a sript that can be cron'ed. Now the problem: Example link to mp3 file: www.podiobooks.com/blahblahblah-03.mp3 using the following: *wget --convert-links -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.mp3 -erobots=off http://podiobooks.com/blahblah * to download the file results in the following being downloaded: *www.podiobooks.com/blahblahblah-03.mp3?moreblahblahblah * this file is then deleted due to the accept list not recognising it. Is there any way for wget to ignore or delete everything after the ? to the end of the line Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Hi Micheal, It's been a while since I used podiobooks, but IIRC you can set it to release all chapters 'now' and it gives you an rss feed with all the chapters as enclosures. You could use this in any podcatching software, or parse the feed manually if that's your bag! Should be simpler than spidering the site using wget? Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software Media Player Recommendations (iPod sync)
On 22/04/09 07:27, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/4/22 Stephen Gartonsheepeating...@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk: If I am doing it wrong with any of the above players, please let me know! Podcatching ability would be nice, but not essential, as I also have an iphone which will download them over the air (and currently is being used for this). My wife has the same ipod as you, and I use banshee to sync it. It pretty much just works. What version of banshee are you using? The more recent versions are more stable and reliable. One nice feature that banshee has which I dont think the others do is that it transcodes audio to a format the ipod understands. For example I have Ogg audio files in my collection, and dragging them to the ipod icon causes them to be converted to mp3 as they are copied. Keeping the original Ogg version on my disk. Cheers, Al. Cheers Al, I'll take a look when I get home. I Probably have done something daft like not activated a plugin! Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] commands to navigate a windows network for a script - fstab and domains...
On 15/04/09 09:06, Dave Morley wrote: [SNIP] Push comes to shove you could always try the likewise open AD package I have never managed to get Likewise to work with our (W2000) domain at work. Not sure if it is our Domain that is screwy, or the fact that it is W2000, but still: YMMV. Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Viglen 'Review' (Was: Re: downloading slow torrents energy consumption)
On 09/04/09 11:14, Jamie Bennett wrote: Alan Pope wrote: 2009/4/9 alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com: I have a machine on 24/7 gently seeding various torrents and my pragmatic solution is to choose the oldest slowest machine that can cope, in my case a PII 350MHz. I have not done any measurements but my guess is that such a machine will consume relatively low power, obviously I turn the monitor off. You might be surprised if you check it. I have an old Dell optiplex desktop PC which currently functions as my firewall - running IPcop. I checked the power consumption and it's ~90W. I also have a viglen which I will use to replace the Dell, and that consumes 8W. I also have a viglen running rtorrent[1], rsstorrent[2], e.t.c. Its on 24/7 and consumes around 20W. The extra 10W-12W over the standard viglen is because I also have a 1TB usb drive connected to it. Great machines if your worried about power consumption. Cheers, Al. Regards, Jamie. -- http://www.linuxuk.org [1] http://libtorrent.rakshasa.no/ [2] http://www.linuxuk.org/rsstorrent Would a Viglen have enough grunt to run something like boxee (www.boxee.tv)? Boxee has rtorrent integrated, but it is mainly a media centre (a fork of xmbc I believe). I currently have it running on an old (~5 year old) PC in the living room (as a proof of concept to my wife), but would like to move to a cheap, small, quiet machine in future. Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] gmail downtime (was: is list working?)
Simon Wears wrote: It cut out at 9.30am GMT this morning. I didn't notice it. Simon Wears munkyju...@gmail.com | http://munkyju...@gmail.com MunkyJunky on irc.freenode.net On 24 Feb 2009, at 13:20, Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I think I'd have noticed, I use gmail. Robert Flatters wrote: There could be another reason and that is Google e-mail was down.but not since Thursday. Regards Bob On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com mailto:thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote: Mark White wrote: I haven’t had any emails from this list since last Thursday. Ha ve I done something stupid? Mark The list is working fine. There have been two other replies to your original message. I've cc'ed you on this one, so you should definitely get this. If you haven't also received the other messages then something's wrong, whether you've done something stupid or not is hard to tell... Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com mailto:ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Robert Flatters, AMBSC -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I did, but we use gmail apps at work, so it became real obvious, real quick :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing PGP Keys
Graham Binns wrote: On 21/01/09 10:24, Ciaran Mooney wrote: Both computers are laptops, but I am the sole user for both. One is my personal laptop, the other is for work. If you hand the laptop back at any point then I would, scrub the hard drive thoroughly. But as long as you trust both computers then it should be fine. PGP is all about trust. The other option is to have one GPG keypair but keep it on an encrypted USB key or something similar. That way you can mount the key when you start using the laptop and unmount it when you're done and you don't need to worry about leaving your keys lying around. You can symlink ~/.gpg to the directory on the key where your keypair is stored. Of course, if you lose the key or it gets stolen you'll still need to revoke the keypair, but it it's encrypted at least you're protected from casual snooping. I Like this idea. It looks similar to a page I found when googling this: https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UsbAuthentication It means I can add multiple identities to a single key, and carry that key around with me. Off to investigate! Cheers Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Iplayer download on Linux
mac wrote: Alan Pope wrote: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/install/bbc_iplayer_desktop Requires Flash and Adobe Air. On my 8.04 system, the page says I need the latest Flash. (I'm using flashplugin-nonfree 10.0.1.218+10.0.0.525ubuntu1~hardy1+really9.0.124.0.0ubunut2). When I try to install the latest Flash from the Adobe site, I get an error saying that I'm attempting to install a version that's older than the in the repository. The Adobe version is 10.0.15.3-1hardy1; the Hardy repo version is 10.0.15.3-1hardy2. Have you folks who've tried iPlayer-desktop come across this issue? How did you deal with it? Mac Mac, On intrepid, there's a package called adobe-flashplugin which I had to install to get the iplayer installer to work. My problem is now there is nothing in iplayer to download. I'll RTFM on it tonight I think! Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile broadband modems - using them on multiple networks
Rob Beard wrote: What attracts me to T-Mobile is that it's 3GB per month and I don't have to pay £10 for the month, I can pay £2 for the day as and when I need it (I probably wouldn't use it much as I have normal broadband at home). Rob That sounds a really good deal, but I can't see it on their website. Do you have a link, as I'd be interested in that! Steve Garton -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile broadband modems - using them on multiple networks
Or you could ignore me, as the link is http://www.t-mobile.co.uk/shop/mobile-broadband/pay-per-day-options/ /me needs to open my eyes! Steve Garton -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
