Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 14 November 2010 00:04, Alan Pope  wrote:
> On 13 November 2010 22:42,   wrote:
>> I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't 
>> remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
>
> It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature.
>
>> and if you were doing it manually and didn't specify a mount point for /home 
>> and didn't format / then would anything actually happen?
>>
>
> If you were doing manual partitioning over the top of an existing
> linux install (i.e. a filesystem exists which contains /bin /etc /var
> /usr /home and so on, and you choose not to format that filesystem,
> and you choose to install on it, then it will recursively delete all
> files in /bin /etc /var /usr and so on, but _not_ touch /home within
> that filesystem.
>

Huh. I reinstalled from scratch yesterday due to upgrade issues with
10.10, and I wanted to use this feature, but I couldn't find out how
to do it. So I created a new partition and resized the old one, giving
me the chance to copy anything across I needed. Eventually I will
delete the old partition and expand the new one.

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[ubuntu-uk] Udevadm trigger not permitted when udev not configured error

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi all,

After the latest kernel updates, I am getting the error in the subject
line at boot up. Initially it wouldn't boot up at all and dropped to
some sort of minimal shell, but I could still boot to the old kernel
and I found a workaround which was to turn off UUID in grub. Does
anyone know what might be causing this and how to fix it? My boot up
time has almost tripled as it sits at the error message until timing
out now.

Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Quick Perl question...

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 12 July 2010 21:12, LeeGroups  wrote:
> $solar_info =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/;
>
>  From my tinkerings, this should find the string  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  and replaces it with a
> , but leaves the rest of the string intact... Much to my annoyance... :|
>
> Any clues?

What's the input string? The following code simply prints "," for me
not ",abcdef" as you suggest it would:
$test = "abcdef";
$test =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/;
print $test;

Tom
p.s. I don't know perl but I thought I'd have a play anyway

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using computer's internet connection on phone via bluetooth

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 5 July 2010 14:16, Paul Morgan-Roach  wrote:
> Not sure about Bluetooth, but with a second wifi adapter you should be able
> to configure an ad-hoc network from the Ubuntu machine.  You'd need to
> configure the Ubuntu machine as a DHCP server and configure IP forwarding -
> this might be a breach of terms though as this would technically make the
> Ubuntu machine a Wireless router

That's certainly an option, and I have set up an ad-hoc network.
However the Nexus One can't connect to ad-hoc networks, to make that
work would require rooting my phone and fiddling with it. I'd rather
not go down that path unless absolutely necessary.
>
> I'd be interested to find out if this is possible using bluetooth...although
> if bluetooth devices are assigned an IP address then it should be possible
> to route traffic from bluetooth over the Ubuntu box.
>
> P
>

Given you can do it the other way round, I thought it must be
feasible. Somehow I get the feeling that even if it was possible it
would probably still require me rooting my phone.

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[ubuntu-uk] Using computer's internet connection on phone via bluetooth

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi,

I have a Nexus One, but I don't have a wireless router in my college
accommodation and I'm not allowed to install one. I was wondering if
anyone knew a way to connect my phone to my computer's internet
connection via bluetooth. I know you can do the opposite, i.e. allow
my computer to use my phone's internet connection, but I think I'm the
only person in the world who wants to do it the other way round. It's
impossible to find anything by searching, as everything I find is for
connecting my computer to my phone. I know network-manager can handle
bluetooth networks, but I can't find a way to set one up that my phone
can connect to.

Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64 bit lucid install

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 26 April 2010 14:45, ian pettitt  wrote:
> Hi All
>
> With the upcoming release of 10.04, I have decided to reinstall my work
> machine and move from 32 to 64 bit. I need to run multiple virtual
> machines and this will mean that if everything works as hoped I will be
> able to replace the second machine I have running windows XP - I work in
> a Windows only organisation. I have increased my RAM to 6 gig in
> preparation!
>

Hi,

I'm running 64-bit Lucid with 4GB of RAM, however Lucid is only seeing
3.1GB. It may be I have to set something in BIOS I haven't had time to
look into it fully yet, but be aware that it might not just see your
6GB straight off.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Planning Ubuntu release party in London for developers

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 20 April 2010 12:49, John Stevenson  wrote:
> Hello all,
> As I am not able to make OggCamp, I am planning a release party on the
> afternoon of 1st May aiming at people who want to use Ubuntu as a productive
> environment, eg. developers of JVM and FOSS applications.
>
> Most of the afternoon would be about getting Ubuntu installed and talking
> about the great applications you can use on Ubuntu, so would be interesting
> for non-developers too.
>

This sounds like a great idea, I'd like to chat with people about
developing stuff on Ubuntu. However, I don't think I'll be able to
make it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 16 April 2010 15:26, David King  wrote:
> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>>
>> I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for
>> years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly backups)
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
> I have had a Hitachi DeskStar go bad recently. They are even nicknamed
> DeathStar due to a high failure rate years ago when the brand was still
> owned by IBM.
>
> Samsung drives have so far been good for me.
>
>
> david
>
Does anyone know how SSDs compare in terms of lifetime? I know
theoretically they have a shorter lifetime than conventional hard
drives, but in practice?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Gmail mute thread was: DEB again

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 12 April 2010 16:33, Stephen Garton  wrote:
> On 12 April 2010 16:30, Harry Rickards  wrote:
>> On 12 April 2010 16:21, Thomas Ibbotson  wrote:
>>>
>>> I use GMail and I see no option to 'mute' threads. A quick google
>>> search shows that this is possible using the 'm' key. However I apply
>>> filters to all my mailling lists so they skip my inbox immediately. It
>>> would be nice to automatically mark threads as read if they are
>>> 'muted' but I imagine this feature is not available.
>>
>> It's under More Actions > Mute.
>>
>
> Or if you have keyboard shortcuts turned on - 'm'
>
> Steve Garton
> http://blog.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk

It only appears if the thread is in the inbox. Given that none of the
mailling lists I subscribe to go into my inbox, they are automatically
filtered to their own 'labels', this is not useful for me. I still see
all threads come up as unread (just not in my inbox) and don't have a
way to 'mute' them. I guess I'm just using GMail differently to most
people.

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[ubuntu-uk] [OT] Gmail mute thread was: DEB again

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 12 April 2010 16:06, Tommy Pyatt  wrote:
> Since I see you are using gmail, assuming that you are accessing your mail
> through the standard interface, there is a function to 'Mute' conversations
> if you prefer to be excluded from responses to the thread. I use the
> function frequently with mailing lists. You may already know about it, just
> pointing it out.

I use GMail and I see no option to 'mute' threads. A quick google
search shows that this is possible using the 'm' key. However I apply
filters to all my mailling lists so they skip my inbox immediately. It
would be nice to automatically mark threads as read if they are
'muted' but I imagine this feature is not available.

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 9 April 2010 16:58, mac  wrote:
> Andy wrote:
> 
>> 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe).
>> There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote.
>
> Worse yet, according to press reports many of those who voted did not
> attend the preceding debate.
>
> mac

Granted this is bad, but how bad is it? This is the only vote I've
ever followed closely so I have no idea whether this is normal or
whether it is out of the ordinary.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 8 April 2010 16:12, Dan Fish  wrote:
> I got UNR 9.10 working OK last night.
>
> http://www.ossmedicine.org/joggler1.jpg
>

That "screenshot" alone has now made me want one, but I really can't
justify getting one, even though it's only £50. It is my birthday on
Saturday, but I've already ordered myself a new computer and all my
family presents have been bought :(

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 8 April 2010 11:38, John Matthews  wrote:
> On 08/04/10 11:35, Paul Taylor wrote:
>> When does this get put before the Lords?  Is there enough time for the bill 
>> to be passed?
>>
>> If not, is this something that will persist until the next Parliament?
>>
>> Paul
>> _
>> http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/
>> Do you have a story that started on Hotmail? Tell us now
>>
> As I understand it the Bill has been passed, that was what the vote was
> yesterday. Its now law.
>
> John
According to the Telegraph link I posted earlier:

"As the Bill originated with the House of Lords, it will now go back
to the Lords for final approval – which it is expected to get as this
procedure is a largely viewed as a formality. After this stage the
Bill will have completed all of its parliamentary processes and is
expected to receive Royal Assent before passing into law."

So it's not yet law, but only formalities remain.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 7 April 2010 22:33, Martin Topping  wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 10:49 +0100, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ashley Whetter
>>  wrote:
>>          I've also emailed my MP. A good site for messaging your MP
>>         was on the Ubuntu uk podcast: www.writetothem.com. The third
>>         hearing of the bill should be on BBC Parliament today but I'm
>>         not sure what time it is on.
>
> So does anyone know where/when we can find out what actually happened
> wrt the Bill?  I've emailed my MP on this subject a few times, and all
> I've had in return is saccharine non-committal burblings about taking my
> comments "into consideration".
>
A quick google gave several news reports about the bill being passed
after its third reading e.g.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/7566427/MPs-pass-Digital-Economy-Bill.html

So, the question is: what can we do to continue fighting this?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] More bug triagers wanted to talk about your experiences

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 7 April 2010 15:00, Rob Beard  wrote:
> On 07/04/2010 14:37, Matthew Revell wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm looking I want to learn more about how and why people triage bugs,
>> whether that’s in Launchpad or another bug tracker.
>>
>>
> Sorry I'm possibly being a bit thick here, when you say triage bugs, do
> you mean just reporting them or does it mean testing and fixing the bugs?
>
> Ta,
>
> Rob
>
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/HowToTriage has a good explanation of
what Bug Triage is and how to do it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 6 April 2010 23:18, doug livesey  wrote:
> And if you're as appalled as other people, this may come in
> handy: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/extremeinternetl
> You never know -- democracy might actually work.
> I know, I know ...
>
Ok I've emailed my MP.

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[ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

[Thomas Ibbotson]

I'm surprised no-one's pointed this out yet:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8605648.stm

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[ubuntu-uk] PyWeek last call

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi everyone,

PyWeek starts on Sunday at 00:00:00 UTC (don't forget that the clocks
change!). We have a team consisting of myself, Neil Perry and Daniel
Bell and we're on launchpad (http://launchpad.net/~pyweek2010), if
anyone else would like to join us, now is the time! There's a
scratchpad page at http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010 we're we are
collecting our ideas. If you want to join us then join the launchpad
team and register at http://pyweek.org and ask me to add you to the
ubuntu-uk team. We might have some stiff competition from the London
Python Code Dojo team, who have 6 members so far (I've been meaning to
go to the code dojo on several occasions but never found the time,
London's just a bit too much effort to get to), but I'm sure we can
beat them with a bit of dedication!

I'll be hanging out on IRC in #ubuntu-uk all next week in the evenings
if you want to see how it's going.

Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mums, Was: Ubuntu UK Science Museum Visit - WiFi Available!

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 25 March 2010 12:26, Alan Pope  wrote:
>
> That way she can go over what I've told her. I've also planned to make
> some screencasts for her which get automatically delivered to her PC
> when she's online. That way she can watch the video multiple times so
> it does 'sink in'.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>

Are these personalised screencasts or are they freely available? I've
had a look on screencasts.ubuntu.com, but most of the screencasts on
the front page are not relevant for "mums". I've just fixed an Ubuntu
installation for my girlfriend's grandparents. They might be
interested in watching screencasts to tell them how to do simple
things. In particular they would like to use their digital camera with
Ubuntu. Currently this is the only thing they reboot into windows for.

How do you automatically deliver the screencasts?

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 14 March 2010 21:21, Daniel Bell  wrote:
> Instead of coding directly into a etherpad instance or saving our work into
> an etherpad instance, how about we use Bzr and launchpad, and use IRC and
> etherpad as a way of communicating. This way we can work on our own branches
> of the code (a good advantage of the distributed version control) and use
> the code-review and merge tools within launchpad to merge our changes into
> the branch.

Ok there's now a pyweek team on launchpad: https://launchpad.net/~pyweek2010
and a pyweek project: https://launchpad.net/pyweek2010 (note the
subtle differences in URL.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 14 March 2010 20:15, Alan Pope  wrote:
>
> Consider using our Etherpad instance instead of gobby. It's browser
> based and as such requires no software install. It's also cooler ;)
>
> http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/
>
> If you visit that page you'll get an automagically generated new
> document, just share the URL with people and you're off and running.
>
> If you want a friendly-named pad then add the page name on the end like this:-
>
> http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010

This page now exists. In terms of actually writing the code, I guess
we could have pages like: pyweek2010_main, pyweek2010_library etc.
given that we'll probably want more than one source file.

>
> ..and it will prompt for new page creation. Then pass that URL around.

As you suggested: http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/pyweek2010

>
> Massive thanks to Dave Walker for setting it up and maintaining it.
>
Indeed :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

[Thomas Ibbotson]

> On 10 March 2010 10:00, Thomas Ibbotson  wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have
>> to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days.
>> Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it
>> might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's
>> been some interest in this before, but it never happened. I have some
>> spare time in the week in question, so I'd like to do this. Anyone
>> else interested?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>

Good to see we've got some interest in this. I've now created a team
at http://pyweek.org/e/ubuntu-uk/ so if you want to join you'll need
to register as a user and then send me your username so I can add you
to the team. It would be good to have a trial run before the
competition to see how we can collaborate. If anyone's got any ideas
that would be good, IRC, Gobby, a wiki etc. I was thinking of putting
up a small wiki page for people to give their availability. I'm only
available in the evenings for example.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Python Books

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 11 March 2010 19:19, Neil Perry  wrote:
> Thank you all! Two great ideas, going to have a flick through!
> Thanks Again!
> Neil Perry
>

Hi,

If you want to try out your newly developed python skills you might
like to join the Ubuntu-uk pyweek team. I sent an email about it
recently. I'll be doing a bit more organisation next week when I've
got more time.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] keycombo to restart gdm?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

On 10 March 2010 22:40, Markie  wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Before 9.10 you use to be able to restart gnome by pressing
> CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. This seems to have been disabled now, ...

Yes that's right.

> Now Im guessing I hit a different key combo or something, but how can I tell
> from the logs whether its a user requested shutdown or a unscheduled restart
> of gdm?
>

I'm not sure about the logs, but if you managed to type AltGr + SysRq
+ K that would do it. See:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key

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[ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi,

PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have
to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days.
Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it
might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's
been some interest in this before, but it never happened. I have some
spare time in the week in question, so I'd like to do this. Anyone
else interested?

Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] register ubuntu

[Thomas Ibbotson]

I've registered too, but looking at the stats it looks a bit outdated,
according to the website there are still 13368 machines running
Dapper...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

[Thomas Ibbotson]

2009/12/14 Alan Pope 

> Hi,
>
> 2009/12/14 Thomas Ibbotson :
> > I finally realised I needed
> > to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used:
> > "ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi
> > ceilidh_item.avi"
>
> You sure you want flac as your audio codec when uploading to youtube!?
>
> Hi Al,

No that was one of my last desperate attempts to get something to work.


> One option would be to use a frontend to ffmpeg to let it get the
> parameters right for you. WinFF is a nice frontend.
>

I've just tried WinFF, and that's worked for me, magic. I have no idea what
ffmpeg invocation it used, as none of mine seemed to work, but I'm glad it
did. Thanks!
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

[Thomas Ibbotson]

2009/12/14 Anthony Burton 

> Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was
> > recorded with a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file
> > (335MB) to YouTube but it failed twice. So I decided to try and
> > convert it. Firstly I tried Kdenlive, but the output file had about
> > 1/2 a frame of video and 1 sec of audio and then cut out. Then I tried
> > command line ffmpeg, but it complained about me not having audio
> > codecs for mp3 or aac. I finally realised I needed to use libfaad as
> > my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used: "ffmpeg -i
> > dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi
> > ceilidh_item.avi" and got this error: "[mpeg4 @ 0x1786350]timebase not
> > supported by mpeg 4 standard
> > Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect
> > parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height". So I tried to
> > have a go in Avidemux, but that seg faulted. So having listened to
> > Shotofjaq recently I installed PiTiVi and gave that a go. That got the
> > best results so far in that I got a full video but the sound kept
> > skipping and got out of sync with the video.
> >
> > I am incredibly frustrated, this shouldn't be that hard should it? Can
> > anyone provide suggestions for what I might want to try next?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Tom
> Hi Tom,
>
> Try this: ffmpeg -i your_video.avi -f flv -s 640x480 -b 128 -acodec copy
> your_new_video.flv
>
> increase -b if the quality is not upto standard.
>
> Hi Anthony,

Thanks for the suggestion but that didn't work for me I get the error
message:

 Output #0, flv, to 'ceilidh_item.flv':
Stream #0.0: Video: flv, yuv420p, 640x480, q=2-31, 0 kb/s, 90k tbn, 30
tbc
Stream #0.1: Audio: pcm_u8, 11024 Hz, mono, s16, 88 kb/s
Stream mapping:
  Stream #0.0 -> #0.0
  Stream #0.1 -> #0.1
[NULL @ 0x6d3950]flv does not support that sample rate, choose from (44100,
22050, 11025).
Could not write header for output file #0 (incorrect codec parameters ?)

I tried with "-ar 11025" but that didn't work either I got the exact same
error message.
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[ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi all,

I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was recorded with
a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file (335MB) to YouTube but
it failed twice. So I decided to try and convert it. Firstly I tried
Kdenlive, but the output file had about 1/2 a frame of video and 1 sec of
audio and then cut out. Then I tried command line ffmpeg, but it complained
about me not having audio codecs for mp3 or aac. I finally realised I needed
to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used:
"ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi
ceilidh_item.avi" and got this error: "[mpeg4 @ 0x1786350]timebase not
supported by mpeg 4 standard
Error while opening codec for output stream #0.0 - maybe incorrect
parameters such as bit_rate, rate, width or height". So I tried to have a go
in Avidemux, but that seg faulted. So having listened to Shotofjaq recently
I installed PiTiVi and gave that a go. That got the best results so far in
that I got a full video but the sound kept skipping and got out of sync with
the video.

I am incredibly frustrated, this shouldn't be that hard should it? Can
anyone provide suggestions for what I might want to try next?

Thanks,
Tom
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Stephen Garton wrote:
> 2009/10/23 Sean Miller :
>   
>> Since yesterday's Jaunty update Firefox appears to have lost its
>> history, "refresh" etc. buttons and only has the original domain in
>> the address bar (ie. if I go to http://sitea.com and click on links
>> within the address bar does not change, even if I go to other sites -
>> rather like framed content).
>>
>> Anybody else had this?  If so, how do I resolve it?
>>
>> Sean
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>
> Sean,
>
> Not much help I'm afraid, but I regularly get this. It has what's
> turned me into using chromium for most of my browsing.
>
>
> Steve Garton
> http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk
>
>   
Yep, I too use Google Chrome now for all my browsing. The difference in 
speed means I cannot go back to firefox, it seems to take an age to do 
anything. I installed it by following the instruction in this page:

http://lazyubuntu.com/how-to-install-google-chrome-dev-build-on-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope.html

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote:
>> On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote:
>>> That page got right up my nose
>>>
>>> --
>>> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a
>>> "television programme".
> 
> Not to be picky but "spelt" is a type of wheat grain used to make flour 
> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spelt).
> 
> A word is 'spelled' incorrectly.
> 
> And in this sentence:
> 
> "Given Dells position in the market place and it's support of Ubuntu, 
> the contents of this page appear to be somewhat skewed in Microsofts 
> direction."
> 
> Dells should be Dell's, it's should be its[1] and Microsofts should be 
> Microsoft's.
> 
> If you are going to criticise spelling I would suggest getting your own 
> in order would lend more weight to your argument.
> 
> Al
> 
> [1] http://www.future-perfect.co.uk/grammartips/grammar-tip-its.asp
> 
> 

Now everyone replying to this thread will be ultra-self-conscious about 
their spelling (and grammar) -- lol.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Bell wrote:
> Paul Sutton wrote:
>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Linux got a mention on the lunch time news,  well it showed tux, and the
>> google and apple logos, as alternatives,  but didn't say much about em
>>   
> well it is Microsoft's big day (well it is tomorrow, they seem to have 
> jumped the gun slightly) so it is natural they are talking about it. We 
> too are celebrating the launch of Windows 7 with a special upgrade 
> promotion. http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/windows-7-upgrade-promotion
> Next week with the launch of Karmic Koala is the time to talk about 
> Linux, hopefully the BBC will join in the conversation.

Quoting from the website:
-Spend lots of money for Windows 7 for every computer in your organisation,
-First you will need to take very careful backups of everything (not 
just files but emails, favourites, settings etc),
-Format your machine's hard disk and install Windows 7 as a fresh 
installation,
-Then you'll have to find those drivers for your hardware (if they 
exist) and install them,
-Re-install all your application software (if it still works on Windows 
7 and you have the CDs and license keys etc),
-Activate and register your computer on your network,
-Copy back all that carefully backed up data and make sure it goes into 
the right places.

It seems to me that you are suggesting that these steps would not be 
necessary with Ubuntu, but if you were to migrate to Ubuntu from Windows 
XP you would still have to perform steps 2,3,5,6?? and 7. With the added 
problems of trying to import your data to new, different programs and 
learning an unfamiliar desktop environment.

I'm all for Ubuntu and FOSS, but this just struck me as a bit dishonest. 
  I'll just go and get my ceramic shield

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Paul Webster wrote:
> Hi
>
> Not using any email client. I'm using gmail, and attachments are downloaded
> in Firefox.
>
> Paul
>   
There's a bug in firefox, not just restricted to Ubuntu, in that it 
doesn't open a "Preferred Applications" dialog, but simply an "Open 
With..." dialog. This is particularly frustrating in linux as programs 
are scattered everywhere, but they are mostly in "/usr/bin".

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wacom tablets

[Thomas Ibbotson]

norman wrote:
> Continuing my research I came across something very interesting from a
> contributor to  http://forum.meetthegimp.org/index.php in response to my
> wish to have a button for shift and one for Ctrl. The author, who uses
> openSUSE 10.3 thought the following code, to be entered into xinitrc,
> would work in Ubuntu.
>
> # Define the Bamboo buttons
> #
>  if [ -x /usr/local/bin/xsetwacom ]; then
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Pad AbsWDn "Button 5" 
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Pad AbsWUp "Button 4" 
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Pad Button1 "Button 1"
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Pad Button2 "CORE KEY  SHIFT"  
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Pad Button3 "Button 3"
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Pad Button4 "CORE KEY  CTRL"  
>
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Stylus TPCButton "off"
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Stylus mode "Absolute"
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Stylus Button1 "Button 1" 
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Stylus Button2 "Button 3" 
>/usr/local/bin/xsetwacom set Stylus Button3 "Button 2" 
>  fi
>  
> I checked and found that, in Ubuntu 9.04, we have xinitrc but not
> xsetwacom. I presume there must be the equivalent to wsetwacom somewhere
> and probably not in /usr/local/bin.
>
> I would be grateful for comments from anyone who understands this code
> and how it would need to be modified to work in Ubuntu 9.04.
>
> Norman
>
>   
Hi Norman,

This script will probably not work as in Jaunty the names "Stylus" and 
"Pad" are no longer recognised: you have to use the full names of the 
devices instead. For example on my tablet PC the name for "Stylus" is 
"Wacom Serial Tablet PC Pen Tablet/Digitizer". To find out what the 
names of your devices are you need to run "xinput --list" in a terminal. 
Then you will have to change the above script to use those names (make 
sure you enclose the names in quotes " ").

Personally I hope this will all get easier to configure in a future 
version of Ubuntu. It's pretty horrible at the moment.

HTH,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Safari on Ubuntu

[Thomas Ibbotson]

John wrote:
> Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>   
>> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>>   
>> 
>>> On 16/06/09 02:06, John wrote:
>>>   
>>> 
>>>   
>>>> Hi everybody,
>>>>
>>>> thank you so much for your messages. I like Safari because of the way it
>>>> looks. I love Apple GUI, and anything that I can find with that I like.
>>>> 
>>>>   
>>>> 
>>> 
>>>
>>> Hi John,
>>>
>>> then you might like to try out Mac4Lin. It is supposed to make Linux 
>>> look like a Mac: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin
>>>
>>> Version 1 has just been released: 
>>> http://nancib.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/mac4lin-1-0-is-out/
>>>
>>> HTH
>>>
>>> Al
>>>
>>>   
>>> 
>>>   
>> Just installed Mac4Lin to give it a try. I have to say it does all fit 
>> together very nicely and looks pretty good. I feel a bit wrong making my 
>> desktop look like a Mac though, so I'm going to change back now...
>>
>>
>>   
>> 
> OOhh, I like this. I am not sure if I installed this right, I clicked on 
> the Mac4Lin_install_v1.0_sh and clicked Run. I did look to see where the 
> install instructions were but couldnt find anything, is that the right 
> way to install it? Unfortunately, even though Apple are a bit on the 
> weird side, I really like their products, and if I could afford it, I 
> would get one of their computers.
>
> I need to change a few things, but I like, thanks for putting it forward 
> as an option. :) I know this is probably going to be taken as sacrilege, 
> but please dont be offended when I say this, but Ubuntu reminded me a 
> bit of Apple when I first came across it. That's why I liked it so much, 
> and why I use it now. I am really sorry for saying that. I know now its 
> nothing like it, and I am glad it isnt.
>
> John
Hi John,

This is probably not the best way to install it, as the install script 
requires you to answer some questions. I would recommend installing it 
via the command line:

cd /path/to/Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0  [on my computer that was 
~/Downloads/Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0]

then to run the installer type:

./Mac4Lin_Install_v1.0.sh

and the installer will run and ask you some yes/no questions.

You can uninstall by typing:

./Mac4Lin_Uninstall_v1.0.sh

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Safari on Ubuntu

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 16/06/09 02:06, John wrote:
>   
>> Hi everybody,
>>
>> thank you so much for your messages. I like Safari because of the way it
>> looks. I love Apple GUI, and anything that I can find with that I like.
>> 
> 
>
> Hi John,
>
> then you might like to try out Mac4Lin. It is supposed to make Linux 
> look like a Mac: http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin
>
> Version 1 has just been released: 
> http://nancib.wordpress.com/2009/06/14/mac4lin-1-0-is-out/
>
> HTH
>
> Al
>
>   
Just installed Mac4Lin to give it a try. I have to say it does all fit 
together very nicely and looks pretty good. I feel a bit wrong making my 
desktop look like a Mac though, so I'm going to change back now...


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[ubuntu-uk] Google wave (was: Ubuntu stickers!)

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Harry Rickards wrote:
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> 
> On 05/31/09 23:44, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>> James Milligan wrote:
>>> Good old popey.com ;-)
>>>
>>> Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper  
>>> etiquette' to reply to a list email below the quoted text? If so I  
>>> apologise.
>>>
>> Wikipedia has an article on posting style 
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style)
>>
>> Of course, this issue will be irrelevant with Google wave as you can 
>> replay the conversation. Looking forward to that!
>>
>> Tom
>>
> But will Google Wave's open protocol be like the open sourceness of
> Google Chrome (ever tried running Chromium on Linux?)
> 
I have high hopes. I'm always a little dubious about trusting Google, 
but they just keep coming up with great ideas and I can't help but get 
excited about them. I have run Chromium on Ubuntu, and it worked much 
better than I was expecting given that it came with the caveat that it 
wasn't even close to being ready yet. I'm happy to wait for now.

I was impressed by the Google wave demo, in fact I had not long before 
been thinking about how best to collaborate with my colleagues on a 
paper I am writing, as soon as I watched that demo I thought "that's 
it!". We currently send things back and forth via email, discussion 
about technical aspects of the paper, a copy of the paper with comments 
annotated on it, and a wiki with some of the more well thought-out 
arguments put down. It seems to me that Google wave would be a far 
better way to organise all this. The only thing I'm not sure about is 
how we could collectively edit a LaTeX document using it, but as it's 
all open, I'm sure that an extension could be written.

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

[Thomas Ibbotson]

alan c wrote:
> Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>> James Milligan wrote:
>>> Good old popey.com ;-)
>>>
>>> Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper  
>>> etiquette' to reply to a list email below the quoted text? If so I  
>>> apologise.
>>>
>> Wikipedia has an article on posting style 
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style)
>>
>> Of course, this issue will be irrelevant with Google wave as you can 
>> replay the conversation. Looking forward to that!
> 
> ?
> I use thunderbird with the view set to see threads. I can 'replay' the
> sequences at will. How does google wave differ from this?

I also use thunderbird with the view set to see threads. I also 'replay' 
the thread by clicking on each message in turn. I find that big threads 
can get quite unwieldly in thunderbird (i.e. when the subject line is 
indented past the end of the subject column). With google wave you would 
just have one 'wave' with everybody's edits, which you could replay by 
clicking the replay button, and scrolling through the timeline. This 
seems much cleaner and intuitive to me than the thunderbird thread view, 
so I'm looking forward to trying it out when they release it.

There is also no need for bottom posting if you use thunderbird with 
thread view, as everyone could simply not include the previous messages 
assuming everybody had all the messages in the thread, but it's much 
nicer to have all the relevant information for the post in it, so you 
don't have to go through each message in turn to get the relevant 
information.

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

[Thomas Ibbotson]

James Milligan wrote:
> Good old popey.com ;-)
> 
> Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper  
> etiquette' to reply to a list email below the quoted text? If so I  
> apologise.
> 
Wikipedia has an article on posting style 
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style)

Of course, this issue will be irrelevant with Google wave as you can 
replay the conversation. Looking forward to that!

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] bbc listen again anomaly

[Thomas Ibbotson]

alan c wrote:
> Most of bbc radio listen again is flash based I think, and it works ok
> for me.
>
> However, just lately I find that some programmes do not play and a
> message appears that I need to 'install real player'.
>
> In a machine which has an older install - an asus 900 which is still
> running the original xandros offering - such programmes play ok.
>
> just for the record - in one machine with 9.04 on it, I did actually
> install RealPlayer  from a deb an dalso on 8.04 machine from a binary.
> Neithe rworked for the problem item.
>
> A particular example is the michael bentine show
> for example
> http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bv2gw/episodes/player
>
> strangely, shows with this problem do work sometimes. It is as if
> firefox (3) or th eplugins are not fully working with bbc iplayer
>
> any ideas please?
>
>   
I don't have any ideas, but I also have this problem with the radio 4 
"Elvenquest" series.

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Sean Miller wrote:
> Well, I now have a driver.
>
> But that evil little icon top right insists on a WPA key when I want
> to put in a WEP one.  It has a "dropdown" but only one option.
>   
I came across this problem and ended up using Wicd instead to fix it.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tablet PC right-click

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/5/11 Thomas Ibbotson :
>   
>> I'm trying to get right-click to work on my tablet pen on my tablet pc
>> in Jaunty. I used to set some options in xorg.conf to do this, but now
>> when I try to do this I get errors in X. Here's my xorg.conf:
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/169401/ and here's the Xorg log:
>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/169402/
>>
>> 
>
> Seen https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom ?
>
> You seem to have chunks of the wacom config missing.
>
> In 9.04 my tablet pc works with no wacom stuff in xorg.conf, just the
> bog standard "empty" file.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
>   
Thanks for the link. I've got it working by setting a custom 
/etc/hal/fdi/policy/custom_wacom.fdi

Makes me wonder what else I can set. Could I possibly get auto-rotate 
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[ubuntu-uk] Tablet PC right-click

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi all,

I try not to use ubuntu-uk as a support channel, but every time I ask 
for help #ubuntu I don't receive a reply, and every time I ask on 
ubuntu-uk, I do! Anyway, here's the problem:

I'm trying to get right-click to work on my tablet pen on my tablet pc 
in Jaunty. I used to set some options in xorg.conf to do this, but now 
when I try to do this I get errors in X. Here's my xorg.conf: 
http://paste.ubuntu.com/169401/ and here's the Xorg log: 
http://paste.ubuntu.com/169402/

Any ideas?

Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty available

[Thomas Ibbotson]

mac wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
> 
>> A niggly thing I found was that the display was slow (I have Intel 
>> video) although reading the Ubuntu Wiki I found a couple of options to 
>> speed it up although I haven't done the hack to enable Compiz, I'll just 
>> wait for the bug fixed drivers.
> 
> 
> Rob >>> I'm having similar issues with my Dell Inspiron 6400 laptop, 
> which ran compiz fine under 8.04 and 8.10, but is very clunky now with 
> 9.04.  I've been trying to find the fixes you alluded to, but can't seem 
> to get the search right.  I'd be grateful if you could give me some 
> pointers to where this material is.
> 
> TIA
> 
> mac
> 
> 

This page gave me all the info I needed to fix the issues I was having:

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/X/Troubleshooting/IntelPerformance

The MigrationHeuristic greedy option didn't work for me, but switching 
to UXA did.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

[Thomas Ibbotson]

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Farran Lee wrote:
> the graphics bit has got stupid now... different packages that depend on
> each other, or aren't listed as conflicting, are trying to remove each
> other. I have nvidia-180-kernel-source, nvidia-settings, nvidia-xconfig,
> nvidia-180-modaliases and xserver-xorg-video-nv installed. But I think I
> need nvidia-glx-180. Which tries to remove nvidia-xconfig, which I
> obviously need.
> 
> ay ideas? Thanks
> ===
> Farran Lee
> I'm only 16 :P
> 

Personally I use the drivers from the NVidia website. Unfortunately that
means I have to re-run the install script every time I get a new kernel,
and it often gets confused, and I have to some manual moving of files.
So it's not a great solution, but it works for me.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast season two

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Pope wrote:
> Just a quick mail to let you know that episode 1 of season 2 of the
> Ubuntu Podcast from members of the UK LoCo team is out.
>
> http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2009/04/01/s02e01-the-return/
>
> Feedback and suggestion as ever are always welcome!
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>   
I was surprisingly excited to find out the podcast was back. I lost an 
hour of work today (don't worry I'm a PhD student, I often find ways to 
lose an hour or two during the day), and now have the theme tune going 
round and round in my head. Even whistled it in the corridor earlier :-S 
Good job, very interesting as always, keep up the good work!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] sound issues - fixed

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Paul Sutton wrote

> as for the cutting out i just put up with it,  as its not application
> specific.
>   
Me too. I hope it gets sorted out soon, it's been bugging me ever since 
the change to PulseAudio was made. It seems that a lot of people suffer 
from this problem too.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting / spotted

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Alan Pope wrote:
> Somewhat round the other way this time.
> 
> I'm currently sat in the waiting room at Redhill train station waiting
> for my train home. I have Ubuntu stickers on my laptop. Some guy just
> opened the door to the waiting room and leaned in..
> 
> "Hey! Good to see someone else running a proper operating system!"
> 
> Made me smile :)
> 
> So whoever you are, thank you, you brightened up my dull wait.
> 
> Cheers,
> Al.
> 

I was doing a pub quiz tonight wearing my Hardy Heron T-shirt. One of
the questions was about a hat and the answer was "Fedora". A random guy
tapped me on the shoulder on the way out and asked me whether I got the
one about the hat right. I was completely confused until someone in my
group pointed out my t-shirt to me!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Test

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Steve Flynn wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Toby Satchell  wrote:
>   
>> I did this because on the mailing list options it says do you wish to
>> receive a copy of emails you send to the list.
>> I have it selected as yes, yet I don't see a copy of my emails sent.
>> 
>
> This is because you're posting from your gmail address. You won't see
> your own posts in Gmail.
>
>   
This is good to know. I have this problem with a lot of mailing lists I 
use. Out of interest I do receive some of my own emails, but perhaps it 
is only the ones where I've replied to someone else's e-mail.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] linking laptop to video projector

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Howard Berry wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am giving a talk on the open source movement to a group next week.
> There is a video projector which works well when I tried it with
> Windows on my Vaio laptop. In windows you can toggle the display by
> pressing Fn+F7.
> I want to use Ubuntu Intrepid on the same laptop for my presentation.
> How do I get Ubuntu to send images to the video projector?
>
> Regards,
> Howard
>
>   
Hi Howard,

To get this to work with my laptop I have to plug the external 
monitor/projector in to my video out port, go to System -> Preferences 
-> Screen Resolution where it is detected and select the resolution and 
position of the screen. Unfortunately the only way I can then get output 
to that screen is by restarting my laptop with it plugged in. Fn+F7 (or 
in my case Fn+F5) does not work for me.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zut, alors!

[Thomas Ibbotson]

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mac wrote:
> Some of you may already have seen this heartening story.  (Let's hope 
> the lads at the Met have, too!):
> 
> Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu
> http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/gendarmes-saves-cash-ubuntu
> 
> mac
> 
> 

Firepanther and Thunderchicken??
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] desktop 1 and 2

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Rowan wrote:
> One of the first things I did with my new machine was switch it to one 
> desktop only, because as long as it was set to two, I found that it 
> would skid from one desktop to the other every time I tried to drag the 
> pointer across the screen. This is presumably the result of a default 
> pointer behaviour that can be specifically turned off, but personally I 
> don't feel a need for more than one desktop anyway.
>
>   
I agree that this default behaviour is very annoying, and I have to 
change my compiz settings every time they get reset (which appears to be 
quite often). I guess I should probably have a look on launchpad and see 
if there's anything about this...

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[ubuntu-uk] Free PDF of latest Linux Format magazine

[Thomas Ibbotson]

This just came up on my local LUG mailing list. Thought I would spread 
the word:

http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] process control charts! Chart software

[Thomas Ibbotson]

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javadayaz wrote:
> looks like it is command line based. so probably not for me then ! :(
> 

Don't be so scared of the command line, it's not so hard to learn to use
gnuplot. If you didn't know how to use a GUI application you would have
to spend some time learning, the only difference being with a GUI you
can guess which buttons to press.

So to get you started:
To start gnuplot, just type "gnuplot" at a terminal, then you'll get a
prompt looking something like this:

G N U P L O T
Version 4.2 patchlevel 3
last modified Mar 2008
System: Linux 2.6.27-11-generic

Copyright (C) 1986 - 1993, 1998, 2004, 2007, 2008
Thomas Williams, Colin Kelley and many others

Type `help` to access the on-line reference manual.
The gnuplot FAQ is available from http://www.gnuplot.info/faq/

Send bug reports and suggestions to



Terminal type set to 'wxt'
gnuplot>

To plot a graph of sin(x) here's what you'd type:
gnuplot> plot sin(x)

and a graph of sin(x) should pop up in a window.

If you have a file with data in it, as long as they are in columns
gnuplot can plot them easily for you:
gnuplot>plot "data.txt"

where data.txt looks something like:
1  1
2  4
3  9
4  16
5  25

If you have more than one column, you use the "using" modifier i.e.
gnuplot> plot "data.txt" using 1:3

which tells gnuplot to plot columns 1 and 3 from the data.txt file.

The other important thing to know is how to write something to a file.
First you need to decide what type of file you would like to output,
such as "png" or "postscript". So here are the commands you would type:

gnuplot> set terminal png
[This sets the file to be of type "png"]
gnuplot> set output "mygraph.png"
[This opens the file for writing to it]
gnuplot> plot "data.txt"
[This plots the graph and puts the output into the file]
gnuplot> unset output
[This closes the file]

This is all just straight off the top of my head, so it's really not
hard to use once you've played with it a bit. There's plenty of good
information on the web for using gnuplot, but if you find yourself
stuck, don't hesitate to ask. As you might have noticed I quite like
gnuplot and would be willing to help...

Of course you can always type "help" at the gnuplot command line for
some interactive help.

gnuplot> help

Tom
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] A relatively quick £100 for anyone i n London who can do this

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Rowan wrote:
> As I have explained, I have a brand new machine with ubuntu 
> pre-installed, which was assembled in the USA. A kernel update caused 
> the driver to become inoperable because it is not the default driver 
> expected by the update. I am trying to find someone in London who for a 
> fee of say £100 will undertake to recompile the driver, and also to 
> install the utility called DKMS, which is apparently able to monitor and 
> control these conflicts. Anyone in London who wants to earn a relatively 
> quick £100 is invited to contact me via this thread or by email:
> rowan.berke...@gmail.com 
>
>   
I don't know if you're aware of the paid support from Canonical: 
http://www.canonical.com/services/support

and I also don't know whether it would be what you are looking for, but 
I thought I'd point it out. Obviously they won't send someone round to 
your house, but you get telephone and email support.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] is list working?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Mark White wrote:
>
> I haven’t had any emails from this list since last Thursday. Have 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...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] A thank you and a quiery....Re: A thank you and a quiery....

[Thomas Ibbotson]

John wrote:
> Hi everybody, you have been so helpful, I really appreciate it, but its 
> not working. The Lightning 0.9 wont work on my machine for some reason. 
> I wonder if its the version I am using. Which version is the best?  I 
> have everything everybody has suggested, and nothing.  One thing that 
> doesnt appear is the log in box for google. Plus I still get that 
> message with Google Provider saying there is something missing. I am 
> going to have another try tomorrow,  I just dont know what else I can do.
>
> John
>
>   
Hi John,

Your initial email got me interested in Lightning, which I didn't know 
about, and I have since installed it along with Google provider on my 
laptop and desktop, so thanks for introducing it to me! I also had the 
problem that when I installed lightning from the repositories google 
provider would not work. It turned out that the version in the 
repositories was lightning 0.8 and not 0.9 which google provider 
requires. So I had to uninstall that version and get the latest version 
of lightning from the Mozilla add-on page. Once I did that I was able to 
use google provider.

I am not sure from your email what problems you are having exactly. You 
say that lightning 0.9 does not work, but I get the impression that it 
might just be Google Provider that isn't working as you say: "One thing 
that doesn't appear is the log in box for google." Do you mean by this 
that when you try to add a new calendar you don't get the "Google 
Calendar" option in the "Format:" field of the "Create New Calender" 
dialog? Could you be more specific about what exactly isn't working? For 
example do you get the calendar and task views, or does nothing at all 
happen when you install Lightning?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Chris Rowson wrote:
> http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Is-it-Windows-7-or-KDE-4-/0,139023769,339294810,00.htm
>
> Chris
One of the applications they showed off there was Amarok. Personally I 
don't find that easy to use. I installed it to have a play, decided I'd 
like to randomly play all my tracks, and couldn't find a button to do 
that. The only way I could find to do it was to Ctrl-A to select all the 
tracks in the collection and add them to the playlist. I then spent a 
while finding the button to turn random on. Found it pressed it, pressed 
play and some time later realised that my tracks were playing in order, 
not randomly. At that point I did just what one of those women did: got 
"het up" and turned it off. Went back to Rhythmbox which I find much 
more easy and intuitive to use.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logitech Quickcam Chat in 8.10

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Dianne wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 20:59 +, Russell Green wrote:
>> Have you done anything that *might* have effected it?
> 
> Not as far as I know - in fact it's a clean install of 8.10 as I've
> replaced my hdd.
> 
> Dianne
> 
> 
> 

There are issues with webcams in Intrepid. I had a webcam working in
Hardy, but when I upgraded it stopped working. There is an open bug
report #260918 (https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/260918) in launchpad.
Have a look at that and see if it is relevant to your problem.

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[ubuntu-uk] [OT] The Matrix runs Windows

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Just saw this on my local LUG mailing list. I like the last 3 seconds of 
the video the best!


Tom

 Original Message 
Subject:[OxLUG] Thursday fun
Date:   Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:06:56 +
From:   Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To:   Oxfordshire Linux User Group Discussion List 
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Oxfordshire Linux User Group Discussion List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yX8yrOAjfKM

bad Windows, bad...

:-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wirelessly exchanging files

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Bruce Beardall wrote:
> Hi All
>
> A friend and myself at work are looking to exchange files between our 
> two laptops wirelessly. Security concerns at work mean we can't 
> necessarily use the network and it would be a bit laborious to use 
> burn discs and pass them back and forth constantly. He's using Vista 
> and I'm running Hardy. Wireless on both laptops works fine but it's 
> not something I've done before. 
>
> Any suggestions on how I should go about it?
If I understand correctly you probably want to set up an ad-hoc network, 
information on doing this can be found here:

https://help.ubuntu.com/community/WifiDocs/Adhoc

I tried to do this at home once, it didn't work and I never worked out 
why. Apparently only some wifi cards support creating ad-hoc networks.

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[ubuntu-uk] Novatech ubuntu laptop

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Novatech are advertising a laptop as "Works with ubuntu" on this week's 
newsletter:

http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/e-weekly.html

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Tim Dobson wrote:
> ==
> RMS Video:
> ==
>
> The video of last week's Manchester Free Software, (in collaboration 
> with the BCS and IET) talk by Richard Stallman has been released, thanks 
> to Andrew John Hughes.
>
> You can find a torrent and http mirrors for the video on the Manchester 
> Free Software Website.
> Where possible, please use the torrent. :)
>
> For more information please visit:
>
> http://manchester.fsuk.org/blog/2008/05/06/free-software-in-ethics-and-society-richard-stallman-manchester-1st-may/
>
> Please forward this to any other lists where you think it might be of 
> interest.
>
> =
> Next Meeting:
> =
>
> The next Manchester Free Software Meeting is on the 20th of May at 
> Manchester Digital Development Agency.
>
> See you there!
>
>   
> | Manchester Free Software Group |
> |   http://manchester.fsuk.org   |
>   
>
>   
Thanks for this. I've finally had the time to watch it, I found it very 
entertaining and interesting. I've never heard a talk by Richard 
Stallman, he clearly does that sort of thing a lot and has some very 
well laid out and convincing arguments.

I am interested in particular in the relationship between software 
freedom, copyright and patenting. There seems to be a problem here in a 
clash between the rights of the users and the rights of the 
creators/inventors. I agree that it is right for users to be in control 
of the software that they own, and that a part of that is the 
requirement that they should be able to obtain the help of others in 
getting that control by providing copies of the code both modified and 
not to allow others to help them modify it to do what they want (if it 
doesn't already!).

However, I am also in favour of credit being given where it's due, and 
allowing creators/inventors to profit from their work. If someone has 
put in the time and effort to create or improve something that other 
people would like to use, surely they should be allowed to profit from it.

Now I know free software does not mean "free as in beer", so it is 
perfectly possible for creators/inventors to profit from their work by 
charging a fee for it initially. However once it has been bought by one 
person, who is then free to distribute it and modify it, there is no 
guarantee that the original creator can obtain anything further.

So, in order for the effort to be worthwhile for the original creator 
and consequently to encourage other people to try and create/invent 
things that other people want to use/enjoy there has to be some 
mechanism for them to profit from their work.

In his talk Richard mentions several ways that this could be achieved 
for free software. He mentions the fact that developers could provide 
support, at cost, for the software, much like canonical do for ubuntu. 
However this is not rewarding the original work, this is rewarding the 
additional effort of supporting the software, expended above and beyond 
the original effort to develop the software in the first place.

So copyright and patenting has been developed to ensure that 
creators/inventors can profit from their work. I agree that this has 
probably gone too far, in that it is restricting users' freedoms in the 
case of software. So Richard's solution to ensure people's freedom is to 
reject the idea of copyright, but that leaves us in a situation that 
prevents us from being able to ensure that creators get what they deserve.

I have no solution for this, I have a dilemma in that I agree in the 4 
freedoms Richard defines in his talk, they are based on good fundamental 
principles, but I also can see that those freedoms could prevent the 
creators from duly profiting from their work, which I also think is 
important. I believe that useful work should not go unrewarded, it 
allows the originator to go on and produce more good work and provides 
an incentive for others to attempt to produce good work.

So, if any of you got this far, what are people's opinions on this? 
Should I just accept that creators/inventors need to find other ways of 
earning money and only work on these things as a hobby as Richard seems 
to suggest? Or should the apparent conflict between the freedoms and my 
view that the creator should profit from their work cause me to reject 
some/all of them? Is there a solution I have missed? Is there a 
reasonable compromise?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[Thomas Ibbotson]

James Tyrrell wrote:
>
>
> 2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>:
>
> Hi all,
>
> Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to
> me in
> the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my
> laptop. I
> think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time
> although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram
> in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard
> reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.
>
>
> Hey when you say crashed were you still able to move your mouse? Or 
> was that a no go, I've had a similar problem where the system just 
> locks, no keyboard commands do anything and while I can move the mouse 
> the system needs a hard restart to fix the problem. Usually 
> (suspiciously...) if I have OpenOffice open.
>  
>
>
No, I wasn't able to move my mouse either, it was a complete freeze.

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[ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi all,

Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in 
the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I 
think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time 
although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram 
in totem. It was a hard crash, I couldn't do anything except do a hard 
reboot, CTRL-Backspace and CTRL-ALT-F1 did not do anything.

I have hardy-proposed active btw.

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

[Thomas Ibbotson]

peter wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:43 +0200, Chris Rowson wrote:
>   
>> Although it would seem that some people are finding the opposite to be
>> true to be fair!
>>
>> On 4/29/08, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 
>>> I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more efficient
>>> and more stable than Firefox 2.
>>>
>>>   
> I was finding that to be the case (firefox 3 being rubbish) but have
> found that disabling the "attack site" and "forgery site" detection in
> the security tab in preferences has completely cured all problems with
> slow, or miss loading of pages, sudden "greying out" of firefox and the
> burst of 5 - 10 mins of constant disk activity about 5 mins into firefox
> usage. In fact I have been given permission by the other half ("Don't
> know why you have to keep upgrading it was fine before!!") to remove
> firefox 2 from the system...yay
>
> Peter
>
>   
I've just realised that firefox has stopped annoying me by greying out. 
I followed the above advice and forgot about it, so it seems to have 
worked, thanks!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bacteria in your PC

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Sean Anderson wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:35 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
>   
>> Oh, for heaven's sake. A new keyboard is two quid from a computer fair. 
>> You're really not saving any money, and wasting considerable effort, if 
>> you need to clean your keyboard more than once or twice a year.
>>
>> -- 
>> Andrew Oakley
>> 
>
> Yes, a lovely cheap, RSI-inducing plastic board of clackity wrist
> strain... not quite in the same league as a svelte laptop-style keyboard
> from Apple or Logitech :)
> 
> Re: the dishwasher method. I've never tried it, but is there any reason
> for it not to work if you leave the keyboard to dry properly afterwards?
>
> Sean.
>
>
>   
There's a link to "How to clean your keyboard" at the end of the 
article, and I quote:
"Don't pop your keyboard in the dishwasher to clean it. This is an 
internet myth. Your keyboard may sparkle but it probably won’t work."

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bacteria in your PC

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Eddie Armstrong wrote:
>  (Which Report: Bacteria in your PC 
> 
>  
> )
>
> Should we install those hand-washing facilities they use in hospitals by 
> our PCs?
> Makes you wonder what kind of trojans and worms you're getting too :-)
>
> Forgot this bit:
> "If you look at what grows on computer keyboards, and hospitals are 
> worse, believe it or not, it's more or less a reflection of what's in 
> your nose and in your gut,"
>
> Luvverly - ice cream with that?
>
> (The Enquirer link 
> )
>
> Eddie
>
>   

After reading this I managed to bite into a grape a squirt juice all 
over my keyboard. Shows how much I learnt.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to torrent on a remote machine

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Next, install GNU Screen, so that programs you run on the command line 
> can continue to work even when you close the terminal window:
>
> sudo apt-get install screen
>
> Learn how to use GNU Screen here:
>
> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935
>
>   
I often SSH to my home computer and want to run and monitor certain 
programs (like bittorrent), and find VNC slow, and have had troubles 
with NX. From previous posts I have seen that screen is really what I 
want, so thanks for the link, I now have somewhere to start learning.

Just a side note, it's great to have such lengthy detailed posts in 
reply to questions that are brought up. I'm sure many more people than 
just the original poster benefit from them (I guess this is the point of 
a mailing list!).

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

[Thomas Ibbotson]

George McLachlan wrote:
> I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't 
> remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all 
> should be fine and good, but the performance of firefox has dropped like 
> a stone.
>
> As I type this it is using 101% of the CPU (dual cores so top doesn't 
> pick it up correctly) but it almost unusable. Performance was way better 
> in the earlier releases. Now it brings everything to a halt.
>
> Has anyone else experienced this. I just wonder if it's because I never 
> done a clean install of hardy (just kept applying updates)
>
> George
For me firefox frequently "greys out" and I cannot use it for a few 
seconds until it becomes resposive again. It is very frustrating. I have 
the problem on both my laptop and desktop. On my laptop I started with a 
fresh install of Hardy beta and on my desktop I upgraded from Gutsy to 
Hardy beta.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Tony Arnold wrote:
> Tom,
>
> Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>   
>> Unfortunately I can't be there as I am working on an experiment at RAL 
>> (the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) and will be preparing to accelerate 
>> electrons to energies >1GeV using a LWFA (Laser Wakefield Accelerator)*. 
>> 
>
> Don't forget the lead underpants:-)
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
>   

There is in fact a toilet directly in the beam line, although there's 
plenty of lead sheilding in the target area, I think I'll walk a bit 
further if I need to go when we're firing...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Pope wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 09:29 +0100, Kat Kinnie wrote:
>   
>> Stick it in your diary and feel free to bring along friends and family 
>> too, the more the merrier. You can see it on the wiki page for Ubuntu 
>> release parties https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseParties
>>
>> 
>
> Show of hands... Who's going to this?
>
> o/
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>   
Unfortunately I can't be there as I am working on an experiment at RAL 
(the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) and will be preparing to accelerate 
electrons to energies >1GeV using a LWFA (Laser Wakefield Accelerator)*. 
However, at the moment I am still at the stage of writing code to 
interface with our instruments, so if anyone wants to have a #ubuntu-uk 
IRC release party, I can be there!

Tom
*I know most of you probably don't care about the details, but I think 
it's pretty cool, so maybe someone else will too...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> Paul Mellors wrote:
>>
>> Hi Tom,
>>
>> what about attaching it to a mini-itx board and have something like
>> mythtv running on it or some other PVR?
>>
>> Cheers
>> MooDoo
>>
>>
>>   
>
> I'd totally forgotten about mini-itx. I remember looking through the 
> different projects a while back and considering doing something 
> myself. This seems like the perfect opportunity... as soon as I 
> remembered what mini-itx was I got excited, which is a good sign (for 
> me, not my girlfriend).
>
> Tom
Looking into it, it might be a bit expensive for a whim, but I'm 
certainly keeping it in mind...

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

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Philip Stubbs wrote:
> On 21/04/2008, Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>   
>> I guess this is a little off topic, but a bit of random googling didn't
>>  really inspire me. I have a spare laptop hard drive and I want to do
>>  something with it. I could of course buy a USB casing for it and have
>>  yet another external hard drive, but I don't really need it. Some sort
>>  of custom made media device might be cool, but it would probably end up
>>  being pretty hefty.
>>
>>  Any ideas welcome.
>> 
>
> You could make a Hard Drive Clock
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJlcRKu2mtQ
>
> Well you did ask for _any_ ideas :-)
>
>   
And that's a pretty cool idea too, thanks! I really did mean *any* ideas.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Paul Mellors wrote:
>
> Hi Tom,
>
> what about attaching it to a mini-itx board and have something like
> mythtv running on it or some other PVR?
>
> Cheers
> MooDoo
>
>
>   

I'd totally forgotten about mini-itx. I remember looking through the 
different projects a while back and considering doing something myself. 
This seems like the perfect opportunity... as soon as I remembered what 
mini-itx was I got excited, which is a good sign (for me, not my 
girlfriend).

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[ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

[Thomas Ibbotson]

I guess this is a little off topic, but a bit of random googling didn't 
really inspire me. I have a spare laptop hard drive and I want to do 
something with it. I could of course buy a USB casing for it and have 
yet another external hard drive, but I don't really need it. Some sort 
of custom made media device might be cool, but it would probably end up 
being pretty hefty.

Any ideas welcome.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Farran Lee wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>> Farran Lee wrote:
>> > I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb, 
>> > and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a 
>> > different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the 
>> > system? Or would it just need certain fixes?
>> >
>> > ===
>> > Farran Lee
>> > I'm only 15 :P
>> >
>>
>> When I swapped my motherboard, almost everything miraculously just 
>> worked. I did have to reconfigure my graphics card but that was all.
>>
>> Tom
>>
>> 
>
> okay, so I definitely won't have to change anything? Somebody 
> mentioned it somewhere... not here though.
>
> ===
> Farran Lee
> I'm only 15 :P
>
I'm afraid I can't comment any further than "it worked ok for me" as I'm 
not really very experienced in these kind of things. I just went ahead 
and did it because I had no other choice as my computer wasn't booting 
with the other motherboard. Of course changing your motherboard is a 
fairly big operation and so there's obviously lots of potential for 
unseen changes to occur that might require you to reconfigure things. I 
doubt you'll have to reinstall from scratch though.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Farran Lee wrote:
> I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb, 
> and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a 
> different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the 
> system? Or would it just need certain fixes?
>
> ===
> Farran Lee
> I'm only 15 :P
>

When I swapped my motherboard, almost everything miraculously just 
worked. I did have to reconfigure my graphics card but that was all.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Andrew Oakley wrote:
>
> Finally, if everything else is fine, then your motherboard is probably 
> b0rked, sorry (rare, but I have seen it happen twice in 20 years).
>
>   

I'm pretty sure the last motherboard I had died. It would take many 
attempts to boot up (it would spin up the CD drives over and over again 
before booting). Then recently it stopped booting altogether. I replaced 
it with a new motherboard, and now everything is fine.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek theme vote

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Pope wrote:
> I previously suggested that people in Ubuntu-UK might be interested in 
> entering for pyweek..
>
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2008-February/010892.html
>
> Well the vote is now on for the theme of the competition.
>
> http://pyweek.org/d/1315/
>
> The options are:-
>
> * Robot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSdhDyPhyiU
> * Shuffle - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jkqDr8T1Qo
> * Mashed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQBKpV9emKc
> * Jig - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ga6T-DxOGwA
> * Formation - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GE5cnDPnn6k
>
> (with those videos being for inspiration)
>
> So if you fancy joining in you might want to sign up to the pyweek site and 
> cast your vote:-
>
> http://pyweek.org/p/9/
>
> Also think about some ideas based around those themes :)
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
>
>   
Ok so here are some ideas off the top of my head. I haven't thought any 
of them through, just thought it might be a good way to get some 
brainstroming going.

Robot - 2-D picture of a Robot, with main playing area being its body. 
You would have to fit cogs or parts in it to make it work, with the 
number of parts increasing and the difficulty of putting them together 
correctly harder as the levels increase.

Shuffle - A card game (boring idea).

Mashed - A single screen with platforms, a mashed potato would bounce 
around the screen collecting little bits of mashed potato, avoiding the 
peas and carrots (weird idea).

Jig - I'm a Scottish dancer, so a Scottish dancing game! Press the right 
keys at the right time to perform the correct formation for the dance. 
(niche, hard to implement).

Formation - Sheep/children/charactors wander randomly round the screen, 
player's charactor has to round them up into a certain formation, with 
the formations getting more challenging with increasing levels.

I'm really busy at the moment, I have some serious problems with the 
code I am writing for an experiment that starts in 2 weeks, and I'm not 
here this weekend. I'm in Glasgow Scottish dancing, but as you can 
probably tell I'm quite enthusiastic about PyWeek. So I'll help when I can.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual boot with Vista

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Sean Miller wrote:
> Folks,
>  
> I've just got a new laptop, bright and shiny with loads of memory and 
> gratuitous amounts of hard disk space...
>  
> It runs Vista, every rose has its thorns...
>  
> What's the latest on dual boot issues?  Are there any?  Am I likely to 
> cause issues with Vista if I go for a default Ubuntu install, or not?
>  
> Any advice/experience much appreciated.
>  
> Sean
I dual boot Ubuntu and Vista. You can repartition your hard drive live 
in Vista if you go to Computer Management->Disk Management, which is 
what I did, and then installed Ubuntu onto that partition. I had no 
problems and now rarely boot back into Windows.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: OT: Small tremor just now? Earthquake?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

I didn't feel it here in Oxford, I was awake at the time.

Michael Rimicans wrote:
> I'm in Huddersfield in W.Yorkshire.
>   
How is Huddersfield? It's my home town, but now that I'm doing a PhD I 
don't get back very often (maybe twice a year).

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

[Thomas Ibbotson]

While wandering down one of the corridors near my lab the other day, one 
of the lab doors was open, revealing a monitor with the Ubuntu login 
screen peering out into the world. It made me smile at least. Quite a 
while ago we were giving our end of 1st year presentations and one guy 
plugged his laptop into the projector to reveal an ubuntu desktop. (If 
only I could get my dual monitor set up working smoothly...)

Tom

Josh Blacker wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
>   
>> I'm thinking about starting a new sport called Ubuntu Spotting. Using your 
>> keen eye, look out for indications of Ubuntu use in every day life. Points 
>> are awarded for spotting:-
>>
>> * Machines running Ubuntu
>> * Articles about Ubuntu in mainstream press
>> * Official Ubuntu "shipit" CDs
>> * Overhearing people talking about Ubuntu
>> * Spotting references to Ubuntu on other peoples computers
>> * (suggestions?)
>>
>> Of course points can only be awarded if you happened upon these things, and 
>> not if you personally influenced their use or placement. I guess many of us 
>> play this game subconciously really, but I think we should be more active in 
>> this sport, and promote its play.
>>
>> I had one of these today..
>>
>> I got called into a workshop style meeting at $work where a representative 
>> from $large_software_vendor came in to talk about their $fantastic_product. 
>> He put up his laptop PC on the projector and in amongst the mess of icons on 
>> his Windows XP desktop I spotted an Ubuntu ISO image.
>>
>> Probably not worth many points in this game, but still, a spot is a spot!
>>
>> "Have you spotted today?"
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Al.
>>
>>   
>> 
> Can we get half-points for general linux spots? I've seen an eee around 
> uni somewhere, not sure if it was just running xandros or not.
>
> Josh
>
>
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Matthew Daubney wrote:
> Next year though I'll make a concerted effort to pitch in!
>
>   

No need to wait until next year, it happens twice a year. The next one 
should be in September (by which time I'll have more time to contribute 
more myself).

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

For information, I just found this message on the Pygame mailling list:

 Original Message 
Subject: PyWeek 6 is coming!
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:11:34 +1100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], 
[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Newsgroups: gmane.comp.python.general,gmane.comp.python.pygame

PyWeek 6 will run from 00:00 UTC on March 30th through to 00:00 UTC on 
April
6th.

Registration is NOT OPEN YET. It will open on Friday 2008/02/29.

If you're new (or even coming back again) please have a look at the 
rules and
help pages at http://www.pyweek.org/

The PyWeek challenge:

   1. Invites entrants to write a game in one week from scratch either as an
  individual or in a team,
   2. Is intended to be challenging and fun,
   3. Will hopefully increase the public body of game tools, code and
  expertise,
   4. Will let a lot of people actually finish a game, and
   5. May inspire new projects (with ready made teams!)

Entries must be developed in Python during the challenge, and must 
incorporate
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[ubuntu-uk] BBC Bill Gates Interview/documentary

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Hi all,

I was out this evening with some people from my lab, and my supervisor 
brought his new girlfriend along (I didn't even know my supervisor had a 
social life, he's in the lab a lot!). It turns out that his girlfriend 
works for the BBC and she is part of a team which a planning a 
documentary about Bill Gates. They want to present a balanced opinion of 
Microsoft and I was very happy to present my "balanced" opinion (I'd had 
a couple of pints), anyway I mentioned slashdot.org as a website for her 
to find some anti-microsoft sentiment, and talked about Linux and Ubuntu 
and mentioned about the BBC iPlayer and its incompatibility with Linux. 
She said that the BBC would support Macs 'soon', but didn't know 
anything about Linux.

Anyway, I thought that this would be a good opportunity for 
advertisement of Ubuntu, and I wonder if anyone has any ideas for 
sources I could pass on to her via my supervisor. Of course I think she 
would get a bit tired of a barrage of anti-microsoft propoganda. However 
I think it might be good to pass on information about FOSS and FUD and 
other acronyms she might not know about.

Does anyone have any ideas of information we could pass on (she seemed 
to be woefully lacking in information about Linux and was eagerly 
writing everything I said down in her notebook, even though I don't know 
that much myself)?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] I _NEED_ one of these...

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Pope wrote:
> Oooh, we're having a wishlist day are we? :)
>
> Right, I want one of these:-
>
> http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad
>
>   
I had been wanting something like that for years, initially for writing 
notes in my school classes and then in lectures. In the 3rd year of my 
degree I finally came across Tablet PCs and had to get one. I've now 
finished my degree and don't attend lectures anymore. If only this had 
been around earlier

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

Alan Pope wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Hope everyone's having a good weekend.
>
> I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming
> up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want
> to put heads together and work on an entry.
>
> For those that don't know pyweek is a regular competition that runs for
> a week (this year it's 30th March till 6th April) and involves the
> development of a game in Python.
>
> It's not specifically Linux/Ubuntu based, but clearly we have a viable
> development platform given we have Python / Pygame and all the other
> necessary bits and bobs.
>
> I just wondered if anyone else might be interested in contributing. At
> first glance we would be in need of one or more programmers, musicians,
> artists and testers, along with maybe project management (!) and
> documentation roles to fill. 
>
> Personally I know a little python but not enough to make a nice polished
> game in a week, so I know I can't do this kind of thing on my own. I'd
> see this as a great way to promote our community and show what we can
> get done when we pull together. :)
>
> For more details check out their site and look back through some
> previous entries to get an idea of the level we're aiming at.
>
> http://pyweek.org/ - Site
> http://pyweek.org/6/ - March 2008 competition
> http://www.pyweek.org/d/1282/ - Announcement
> http://media.pyweek.org/static/rules.html - Rules
>
> The two previous entries which I quite like are 'Nelly's Rooftop Garden'
> - http://www.pyweek.org/e/rushed/ , and Trip on the Funny Boat -
> http://www.pyweek.org/e/Pekuja/
>
> Anyone else interested?
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>   
I've wanted to enter PyWeek for 2 years now, but it always passes me by. 
Unfortunately this year will probably be the same as I have an 
experiment scheduled to start 31st March. It has been delayed by 2 
months already, and there's a good chance it will be delayed further. 
Pencil me in, and I'll see what availability I have nearer the time. I 
learnt python 5 years ago, and have programmed bits and bobs in it ever 
since. I have also written one or two half games in PyGame, but nothing 
complete or even promising.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Seasonal Song

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Thomas wrote: 
> It's Boxing day and I'm bored, so here's my attempt at an Ubuntu 
> flavoured Auld Lang Syne:
>
> Verse 1:
> "Should auld programming be forgot
> and replaced with something new?
> Should auld programming be forgot,
> and install ubuntu?"
>
> Chorus:
> "Install ubuntu, my dear,
> install ubuntu,
> we'll tak some open source software,
> and install ubuntu"
>
> Verse 2:
> "And there's support, my trusty fiere!
> At no more cost to you!
> We'll give you help both day and night,
> when you install ubuntu."
>
> I would go on, but perhaps it's best if I stop there. Try singing that 
> at the top of your lungs on New Year's eve!
>
> Tom
>

On second reading it scans better if some of the 'and's are removed, 
like at the end of the 1st verse and the end of the chorus. Of course 
anyone may freely modify and distribute these lyrics ;-)

Tom

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Seasonal Song

[Thomas Ibbotson]

James Tait wrote:
> Farran wrote:
>   
>> On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 17:45 +, Sean Miller wrote:
>> 
>>> Fairy Tale of New York would be fun...
>>>
>>> "It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk tank, an old man said to me
>>> won't see another one
>>>  And then he sang a song, 'The Rare old Mountain Dew', I turned my
>>> face away and dreamed about you.. bunt... u..." ;-)
>>>
>>> "And the boys of the NYPD choir were singing out their best, as the
>>> drunks just finished up their install fest"
>>>
>>> Sean
>>>   
>> very good... '',
>> how about "...and dreamed ubuntu..."?
>> 
>
> Flows better that way. :)
>
> I did consider Fairy Tale of New York and would love to do it, but I
> think we're looking for something more specific to New Year, and I
> suspect it would be too long for this purpose (there's a challenge for
> you!).  Auld Lang Syne (my recording) came in at 30 seconds, FToNY would
> be a good couple of minutes. :)
>
> Having said all of that, I've failed to come up with anything at all.
>
> JT
>   
It's Boxing day and I'm bored, so here's my attempt at an Ubuntu 
flavoured Auld Lang Syne:

Verse 1:
"Should auld programming be forgot
and replaced with something new?
Should auld programming be forgot,
and install ubuntu?"

Chorus:
"Install ubuntu, my dear,
install ubuntu,
we'll tak some open source software,
and install ubuntu"

Verse 2:
"And there's support, my trusty fiere!
At no more cost to you!
We'll give you help both day and night,
when you install ubuntu."

I would go on, but perhaps it's best if I stop there. Try singing that 
at the top of your lungs on New Year's eve!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu media centre

[Thomas Ibbotson]

STONE COLD wrote:
> i asked this q before but couldnt really get a satisfactory answer so 
> here goes again!
>  
> Does any know when the ubuntu media centre project will be 
> launched/released?
See http://www.mythbuntu.org

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Branching Threads

[Thomas Ibbotson]

> And finally  a tale of note.
>
> I was off air for three unrelated but serial faults - line fault on my BB;
> local network fault for entire town; and lastly the important bit.
>
> I found out on Monday after watching a rather interesting electrical storm
> that my router wasn't plugged into my mains conditioning gubbins and had got
> FRIED!  Luckily the internals stopped it going any further or I could have
> had a couple of fried PCs as well.
>
> The moral?  Make sure all your sensitive electrical equipment is fed through
> at least a spike suppressor or such like.
>
> Ian
>
> Ian
>
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My housemate fried my computer by dropping the kettle base into the
sink and blowing the power to the house. I now have a new computer and
a new surge protector. It can and will happen to you. It did however
have the side effect that Ubuntu is now my only operating system, so
possibly not all bad.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

[Thomas Ibbotson]

> Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of
> resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them that there is a

It's viruses, we don't speak Latin in this country, we speak English,
and to pluralise in English you add 's' or 'es'. Sorry to go off topic
there.

I use Ubuntu because I'm a student and can't afford windows, but also
I like to program and I like to fiddle with and tweak my computer. I'm
not a techie, but I do like to program and have had a couple of
programming summer jobs. There's no barrier in linux for tweaking, you
can do whatever you like, sometimes with disastrous consequences.
Ubuntu is so easy to reinstall though it doesn't worry me about
breaking it, but most of the time I can fix it without having to go
that far. I couldn't do the same with windows, my last computer didn't
even come with a windows CD, and anyway it's much more difficult to
mess about with windows.

I like the regular release system, I started on Dapper with a dual
boot system, and was excited when Edgy came out, and even more so when
Feisty came out, as it then became my sole operating system (that
choice was motivated by finance, I built a new computer and wasn't
prepared to pay for windows).

The only thing I miss is playing my old games, but I've got a nintendo
Wii console now, and I don't have much time to play games with doing a
PhD and seeing my girlfriend.

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