Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude question
On 01/04/11 20:34, Neil Greenwood wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to get aptitude to do a full-upgrade while installing a new package? I just had a situation where I was trying to install mumble after doing an 'aptitude update', and got into a conflict state because libqtcore4 was going to be upgraded *as well as* being installed as a dependency of mumble. Hmm, not sure I explained that very well... The version of mumble I was about to install depended on the new version of libqtcore4, but all the other Qt apps installed depended on the previous version. So the best suggestion of the 'aptitude install mumble' command was to leave everything unchanged! So, what I want is something like 'aptitude full-upgrade and install mumble' - does such a thing exist? Not sure that it does exactly, but... the ~U search-pattern matches installed and upgradeable packages, so 'aptitude install mumble ~U' should do the job, as install is also the aptitude command to upgrade a package if possible. Failing that, 'aptitude full-upgrade aptitude install mumble' will work, of course. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude question
On 02/04/11 17:46, Neil Perry wrote: I would suggest using safe-upgrade. Don't use unless you want a broken packages. Thanks Neil True enough. I stuck with full-upgrade because the other Neil asked the question with it: On Apr 2, 2011 5:43 PM, Vinothan Shankar neversaymon...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/04/11 20:34, Neil Greenwood wrote: Hi all, Is there any way to get aptitude to do a full-upgrade while installing ...but I concur. Safe-upgrade is, as the name suggests, the safer thing. Shame it can't be replicated by search pattern as full-upgrade can, though. a new package? I just had a situation where I was trying to install mumble after doing an 'aptitude update', and got into a conflict state because libqtcore4 was going to be upgraded *as well as* being installed as a dependency of mumble. Hmm, not sure I explained that very well... The version of mumble I was about to install depended on the new version of libqtcore4, but all the other Qt apps installed depended on the previous version. So the best suggestion of the 'aptitude install mumble' command was to leave everything unchanged! So, what I want is something like 'aptitude full-upgrade and install mumble' - does such a thing exist? Not sure that it does exactly, but... the ~U search-pattern matches installed and upgradeable packages, so 'aptitude install mumble ~U' should do the job, as install is also the aptitude command to upgrade a package if possible. Failing that, 'aptitude full-upgrade aptitude install mumble' will work, of course. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 19:16 +, Tim Dobson wrote: snip I have a few invites left if anyone wants thinks they want be willing to give it a try and I was hoping that other people with invites might also be willing to donate a few to interested parties. snip I've been following Diaspora* for some time, so if anyone has invites and is willing to give me one, could I have one please? I realise Tim is almost certainly out now, but anyone else? Cheers Vin -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, the intended recipient 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on usenet and/or IRC. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 19:58 +, Neil Perry wrote: I've invited you Vin. Thanks Neil Perry snip Wow, that was fast. Thanks, Neil! Vin Shankar -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, the intended recipient 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on usenet and/or IRC. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora handles
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 20:08 +, Neil Perry wrote: Good Idea that man. snip Seconded! I'm darael (at) joindiaspora.com I'm darael everywhere, except a few odd places where it's inexplicably taken. Vin Shankar -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, the intended recipient 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on usenet and/or IRC. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 20:21 +, Steve Fisher wrote: When did they start coming out? I signed up, but haven't seen anything (unless it got spam binned in error). I wouldn't mind an invite if there is one going :) On its way! Vin Shankar -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, the intended recipient 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on usenet and/or IRC. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 20:23 +, John Stevenson wrote: On 2 January 2011 20:11, Andrew Savin andrew.sa...@blueyonder.co.uk wrote: On 02/01/11 20:08, Andrew Savin wrote: On 02/01/11 19:16, Tim Dobson wrote: You've all seen the comings and goings of the likes of Google Wave, Plaxo, Plurk, Virb, Friendfeed, Friendster, Myspace... Well there's a new effort out there called Diaspora: http://join-diaspora.com in alpha right now with very limited numbers of invites. I have been waiting to try Diaspora out for a while too, so if someone could send me an invite that would be most appreciated. On its way! Thank you You're very welcome. Vin Shankar -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, the intended recipient 2. All information in the email is mine to do with as I see fit and make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it lends itself to. In particular, I may quote it on usenet and/or IRC. 3. I may take the contents as representing the views of your company. 4. This overrides any disclaimer or statement of confidentiality that may be included on your message. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's the best...
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:55 +, Alan Pope wrote: snip Anyway, I was thinking of making it a little home office server with a few roles (listed below). It's for play initially, imagine an office of 5 people or so, doing typical file etc sharing, but as it's in the home, maybe chuck a couple of fun things on there too. I have some idea what I'd use, but wonder what selections people would make, and maybe what additional things you'd do with such a box? I don't want to get into religious debates about which mail server is best, just what you'd choose and maybe why. I'm thinking of probably doing a very basic Ubuntu Server 10.04 LTS install and trying to use packages from the repositories, but happy to use 3rd party repos, or PPAs, compiling from source is not an attractive proposition to me :) Mailserver:- Postfix Do you intend to do IMAP or POP3? If so, I prefer Dovecot over cyrus, but that's a personal quirk. Webmail:- Roundcube webmail I like the look of Roundcube, but Squirrelmail has GPG support and RC still doesn't (as of last time I looked), so (depending whether you think emails should be signed by default) you might want Squirrel. File sharing:- SAMBA (with some config fu) Webcam monitor:- Webcam (part of xawtv) Media server (music/photo/video):- ??? Mediatomb appears to have a pretty good reputation VOIP server:- ??? What am I missing / what would you do? Stick nethack on it, just because you can? Also, if you've got several Ubuntu machines in the house, set it up as a caching apt proxy and save yourself some downloads. Cheers, Al. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 18:50 +, danteash...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all! I'm Dante, Project Leader of the Ubuntu Advert Team, and WE need YOU! We are creating advert(s) for Ubuntu, for a non-technical audience. These adverts will be on the radio, at cinemas and (when we get enough funding together) on the TV. We need literally everyone, from graphics artists to actors to animators to writers and translators. This material will be also be given to the LoCo teams. We are acquiring studio access in Gloucester (Gloucestershire College) and our work will also find it's way onto the Ubuntu homepage. I don't think I need to stress that this is very important; this is Ubuntu making itself known to the public for the first time. Please, help us make it great. Join us if you can/want to help. Spread the word! http://ubuntuadverts.org/ https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising Hi. I joined the team the day before yesterday, but I think I'll chip in here, too. Of the things you've listed, the only one I'm any good at is acting, but hopefully I can still be useful. Vinothan Shankar signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:53 +, Liam Wilson wrote: Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' snip If you're interested, reply to this message. I'd be happy to help with any video projectv Vin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email url
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 01:41 +, Matthew Wild wrote: 2010/1/28 red rik_bol...@btinternet.com: snip On the Microsoft browser I can email the page straight to some one. How do I do this in firefox? Firefox: File-Send Link... Epiphany: File-Send link by email...: snip Alternatively, if you need to send a copy of the page rather than a link, you can go file-save page as and then save the page, then attach the resulting file to an email. Should work in any browser. Vin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams
2009/11/7 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk snip On the other hand, do the BBC offer Windows Media streams, as if they do you might be able to feed them into mplayer. Rob They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux media players (including mplayer!) that can play Windows Media DRM'd files and b) no way of stripping the DRM without using Windows. Vin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] bootable USB drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Perry wrote: sudo aptitude installusb-creator Is installed by default, needs the .iso :) Neil Perry ...Or will work off a live CD (Jaunty or later, I think, might have been on the Intrepid disc?) using the live CD itself, if you are in the position of having a disk but not the .iso - just thought it might be useful to know. 2009/10/28 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk javadayaz wrote: Hi, I am going to resurrect an old pc. Its already running ubuntu but i would like to install xubuntu on it as its very old...PIII i think. So i am thinking of installing the lighter xubuntu on it! I have run out of discs but i do have a usb thumb drive lying around. Is there a utility that will help me make this into a bootable usb drive? I have seen alot of these apps but most of them are for windows. I am no longer a windows user apart from work!!! So this app needs to work in ubuntu...something with a nice easy GUI would also help! Any ideas? -- Regards Javad You should be able to do it within Ubuntu. Click on the System Menu on the top bar, select Administration and then USB Startup Disk Creator. You'll need to download the Xubuntu ISO (if you haven't already) and select it, then it should be able to create a bootable USB stick. However, it will also rely on support in the PCs BIOS to boot from USB. It might work, then again it might not (USB booting wasn't really included in BIOSes until about the Athlon XP/P4). Still you may be lucky. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkr1wccACgkQKYNUyjOGQGSZ8ACfdx8EVBhQ2k/+DsK3aBIlsOoC xaAAoLkHBxXODbitWCufNLQXMsKsEz3k =+DIL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Random lock ups in Jaunty
Barry Titterton wrote: On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:53 +0100, Vinothan Shankar wrote: Barry Titterton wrote: Has anyone experienced random hard lock ups since upgrading to Jaunty? I am running Jaunty on an elderly Toshiba S1800 laptop (1GHz P3 with 512M of ram)and since upgrading to Jaunty last August I have been getting random hard lock ups; the cursor vanishes off the screen and the laptop becomes completely unresponsive. It can happen after five minutes or five hours, once or several times per day. I have not been able to find a key combination (Ctrl+Alt+Del etc) that will do anything; the mains button is the only option. The problem does not seem to be linked to any particular software as I have had two lock ups while only the desktop has been active. The common factor is that they only occur while I am moving the cursor across the screen. I do not think it is a hardware problem as the laptop ran Intrepid for six months with no problems, except for the traditional Toshiba over heating which always resulted in the machine shutting itself down rather than locking up. I have Googled this but have not found anyone with exactly the same symptoms. I am hanging on to see if Karmic will solve the problem before reverting to Intrepid. Does anyone have any suggestions? Barry I had an issue quite recently with Jaunty locking up to the extent that ctrl+alt+1 wouldn't frop to a text terminal, and ctrl+alt+backspace wouldn't restart the X server even though I disabled DontZap... I was still able to alt+sysrq+REISUB, but that's not something I wanted to do... It seemed to be a problem with window managers. I tried Enlightenment and it became stable, so I'm sticking with E for now. I don't know if it's relevant, but you may want to see if you get the same issue if you install and use E16 (or E17, but that requires adding another repo and key, which you mayb not want to do...) E is also a _lot_ lighter than GNOME, and E17 at least provides most of its features despite being a window manager rather than a desktop environment. Hope that helps, even though it's slightly tangential. Vin Thanks Vin, This all sounds quite scary for a newbie like me. Can you please explain what Enlightenment is, and how I go about installing it? Cheers, Barry Barry, What I did is probably not the best method for new users, though giving it a go can't do any harm. The best way to see if it will help you would be as follows: -Install the e16 package. You can do this with Synaptic or by running sudo aptitude install e16 in a terminal. -log out -at the login screen, select options-settings and choose Enlightenment (GNOME) or similar. -log in -don't set it as default this time. -things will look slightly different, but should be familiar. See how things go. If the crashes still occur, you can remove E16 with sudo aptitude remove e16. As for what Enlightenment is, it's... complex. On linux (and many other unix-like) systems, there are several layers to the graphical desktop. There's the X server, which provides a framework for drawing to the screen, there's the applications, which you use, and between them is the window manager. Enlightenment is a window manager. Window managers handle the actual display of windows, moving them around, and so on. However, Enlightenment is also a bit like a Desktop Environment, which provides a window manager and a set of tools and apps. The desktop environment you're probably using right now is GNOME. Hope that helps... vin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Random lock ups in Jaunty
Barry Titterton wrote: Has anyone experienced random hard lock ups since upgrading to Jaunty? I am running Jaunty on an elderly Toshiba S1800 laptop (1GHz P3 with 512M of ram)and since upgrading to Jaunty last August I have been getting random hard lock ups; the cursor vanishes off the screen and the laptop becomes completely unresponsive. It can happen after five minutes or five hours, once or several times per day. I have not been able to find a key combination (Ctrl+Alt+Del etc) that will do anything; the mains button is the only option. The problem does not seem to be linked to any particular software as I have had two lock ups while only the desktop has been active. The common factor is that they only occur while I am moving the cursor across the screen. I do not think it is a hardware problem as the laptop ran Intrepid for six months with no problems, except for the traditional Toshiba over heating which always resulted in the machine shutting itself down rather than locking up. I have Googled this but have not found anyone with exactly the same symptoms. I am hanging on to see if Karmic will solve the problem before reverting to Intrepid. Does anyone have any suggestions? Barry I had an issue quite recently with Jaunty locking up to the extent that ctrl+alt+1 wouldn't frop to a text terminal, and ctrl+alt+backspace wouldn't restart the X server even though I disabled DontZap... I was still able to alt+sysrq+REISUB, but that's not something I wanted to do... It seemed to be a problem with window managers. I tried Enlightenment and it became stable, so I'm sticking with E for now. I don't know if it's relevant, but you may want to see if you get the same issue if you install and use E16 (or E17, but that requires adding another repo and key, which you mayb not want to do...) E is also a _lot_ lighter than GNOME, and E17 at least provides most of its features despite being a window manager rather than a desktop environment. Hope that helps, even though it's slightly tangential. Vin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] windows 7 features comparison
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/9/19 Vinothan Shankar neversaymon...@googlemail.com: Maximum CPU chips: probably 64 (standard in Linux kernel, I believe) I thought it could scale to 4096 now? (Or was that just an xkcd comic? I forget...) I'm pretty sure that's just XKCD. And it's certainly not in 2.6.28, which is what we're using in Ubuntu. Not that it wasn't a good XKCD! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] windows 7 features comparison
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sutton wrote: Hi the following wiki pedia page http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions there is a comparison of windows 7 versions, just wondered if anyone could imagine there was a column for ubuntu which features (or equilvent ) would be ticked, for example, ubuntu would have compiz for aero sort of thing, i guess multilingual is covered in ubuntu anyway, but just to make rough comparison. This is not about bashing microsoft, i want to try and make a fair comparison based on those features, to help our argument for open source / ubuntu Paul Apologies for the not-quite-complete list. Right, let's see (below is just for Ubuntu): 32- and 64-bit versions: both Maximum physical memory (64-bit mode): Approx 64TiB Maximum CPU chips: probably 64 (standard in Linux kernel, I believe) Home Group (create and join): Must be a windows concept - I don't know what the equivalent would be. Backup and restore center: Equivalent not installed by default but available Multiple monitors: Yes (hardware dependent) Fast user switching: yes Desktop Window Manager: Compiz (hardware dependent) or Metacity Windows Mobility Center: no equivalent centraliser. Windows Aero: Compiz (+emerald, maybe) Multi-touch: unknown (anyone?) Premium Games Included: N/A (no premium games!) Windows Media Center: Not immediately after install but MythTV in repos. Windows Media Player Remote Media Experience: ...say wha? Encrypting File System: If you use the alternate CD, with encrypted LVM Location Aware Printing: Not AFAIK Remote Desktop Host: not as standard; in repos (for RDP as it's what the system we're comparing to uses) Presentation Mode: No? Windows Server Domain Joining: Yes Windows XP Mode: No - though VM's are possible Aero glass remoting: I don't know what's meant by this! AppLocker: no BitLocker: Encrypted LVM again BranchCache: no (AFAIK) Subsystem for UNIX-Based Applications: N/A - _IS_ a *nix system Multilingual User Interface: yes Virtual Hard Disk booting: I believe so. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkq05r4ACgkQKYNUyjOGQGT+ZwCeOcyOXYr+C5RSf5cLkr6LpX0g 6bAAn1IVR++rb1VsYdlkbfJgDFSzAXYc =YKd6 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution's compulsory GPG routine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rowan Berkeley wrote: On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:36 +0100, vinu wrote: Assuming it IS gnome-keyring, somewhere in the repositories is a package that will unlock your default keyring on login and lock it again when you log out, to defeat this very problem. I've been using it for quite a while, now. If, on the other hand, it's the GPG, you can disable it in your Evo preferences. It's just Evo; every time I start it, it says more or less the application 'evolution' wants to access the GPG keyring but it is locked. I have looked a good few times at the Evo preferences but I cannot see any way to disable this, so, Vinu, please tell me specifically how to do it. Also, I have gone and deleted the Evo applet from the Gnome panel, and so I am not getting new email notifications (except for a momentary balloon). I would like to put the applet back, but it isn't listed in 'add/remove from panel.' Can anyone tell me how? Sorry, it's nagging when it opens? I've never encountered this with the GPG keyring, though it has been known to ask to unlock the default keyring each time it opens (not *quite* the same). If it's asking about the default keyring, this is due to having automatic login enabled - - It unlocks the keyring when you type your login password, which doesn't happen if you have auto-login enabled. The only thing you can do about this, as far as I know, is to disable automatic login. You'll need to go into the settings for each of your mail accounts (if you have more that one) and unset everything relevant on the security tab. That includes removing the key fingerprint from the box. As far as I recall, this will prevent Evo interfacing with GPG at all. Thunderbird is much easier to use than Evo, anyway, so I shall scrap Evo and use Thunderbird. I would like to add that because I arrived at a similar conclusion a couple of weeks ago, I'm working form memory about Evolution. Vinu PS apologies for the delayed response. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpXWn0ACgkQKYNUyjOGQGSWHACgz6IPu2XIX4qAxeoYNE+0pqV3 RFsAnA0V4BJYh/HOLB5qXPH1VWhlDDDI =haqB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution's compulsory GPG routine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciarán Mooney wrote: Hi, What you describe sounds more like the Gnome Keyring rather than any GPG-based program. They keyring is what stores your passwords etc, it is used for WEP/WPA keys along with any other password in the system. I'm guessing that you have passwords in Evolution to your email accounts etc, and these are protected by the Gnome Keyring application. Evolution has to request access in someway to be able to download your email. This is a guess, hope it points you in the right direction. Ciarán Assuming it IS gnome-keyring, somewhere in the repositories is a package that will unlock your default keyring on login and lock it again when you log out, to defeat this very problem. I've been using it for quite a while, now. If, on the other hand, it's the GPG, you can disable it in your Evo preferences. Vinu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpV5WsACgkQKYNUyjOGQGSraACgq2vM3IbvtyiaPUMAOn6hP/DZ kDYAnRLkg2EMQgR+Y4aRw5ew4VfJ5K7Q =0JPd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a graphics card
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Bagnall wrote: If you're not planning on gaming, just using HD for video and compiz then a low powered nvidia card would be fine. An nvidia 8400gs only costs about £25 from ebuyer and most of them have passive cooling (no fan and therefore silent). With these nvidia cards you can playback HD video with very little cpu usage and they are power efficient too. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=articleitem=nvidia_vdpau_gpunum=1 Regards, Adam. javadayaz wrote: I am thinking of installing a graphics into my machine finally. Can you please suggest a cheap graphics card? It must: PLAY NICE WITH UBUNTU. (easy to set up. no problem with compiz) display HD for a screen size of at least 37. Not require extra cooling. Looking forward to your comments! -- Javad Don't talk to me about the 8400GS. I've got one in my machine, and while it's fine using its VGA output, there's something wrong with the DVI when using NVidia's Linux driver (it was fine when I was still on Windows and it's fine with the free drivers...). Even when I set the DVI output to a resolution and refresh rate that my monitor specifically says is supported in its manual, I get a picture mode not supported message - and i've tried with a TV with a DVI-in as well, just to make sure. The usual workaround of disabling DynamicTwinView doesn't help either. In short, beware if you want to use DVI. Vinu PS this is _not_ a request for help with it - I can live with VGA. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkpVGB8ACgkQKYNUyjOGQGSdvwCeLJPyRB+gUDzABxe9Eg993NVb dGUAoKReiGOYtnE/k9moXBPUqDS119A1 =JpRA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mp3 players, again
Michael G Fletcher wrote: snip Also, I never have to rebuild the library, i just put new music into my music folder and it automatically updates the database. Ditto Songbird. Vinu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Churning hard disk, glacial startup
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: Sean Miller wrote: Okay, missed that. I find atop rather good because it lists used memory against committed memory, and if the latter is actually more than exists (ie. physical+virtual memorycommitted memory) it's a sure sign that there's something eating memory like there is no tomorrow - and it paints it in red too, in order to highlight the issue. Worth a shot in diagnosing the issue. At least it will rule out some memory issue. Sean Hi, I hope you dont mind me asking, but where is atop when installed, I cant find it anywhere. I have been following this thread as its something to learn. Where do I look for it? Thanks John. John, Like top, atop is a terminal app. Open a terminal and type atop (no quotes) and it should open, assuming it's installed. Once it's running, you can exit by hitting q. Vinu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAko/j7wACgkQKYNUyjOGQGSWOgCfeBJi4R5uiqYRdO8saHQtIVTW mvMAn1YcUluzIIubN+RAk+0ioWehZjSQ =9Okj -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scrambled screen and reinstalling
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Herdman wrote: Thanks to everyone who has contributed to my scrambled screen issue. I've almost come to the conclusion that the quickest way to get everything back to full functionality would be to reinstall Ubuntu 8.04. I've taken on-board two key issues (I think) that ought to retain all of the information still on my machine: 1. Backup /home - including all of the system objects revealed by CTRL-H. 2. When reinstalling, to not reformat my /home partition - in fact that is my ONLY partition as far as I know, given that my system is Ubuntu-only, rather than a dual boot setup. If anyone can foresee any possible potholes for the unwary (me) please do tell before I go down this route. Many thnaks to all who have and continue to contribute - as a newbie, I'm finding reading everyone's postings really helpful in getting familiar with Ubuntu. One final query; how do I go about making a copy of my Live DVD? Thomas Sicam in their book almost insist on users duplicating their DVD and spreading it around. I have a number of interested parties keen to sample Ubuntu but can't see a way to copy the disc since it auto runs. Regards Greg Hello, Greg. If you want to have a separate /home in case you need to reinstall there's a tutorial for migrating to one at One trap you must be careful not to fall into is that you must create the first user when setting up in your reinstall with the same name as the first user in your existing install, so that it uses the existing home folder. If you have multiple users, try to re-create them in the same order or you may get permission issues. With regards to copying your live DVD, you should be able to if you insert it _after_ booting, when you have a running system that doesn't depend on it. If you get any form of autorun then, you can simply cancel/close/etc it and copy the disc. Vinu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAko8/k4ACgkQKYNUyjOGQGT87gCaA2uR1n9uas4ZF5AQeaqShdFq 4sEAoL0ODnMTrwy4d5OWbpjZVFZPR2Td =JqgX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] GRUB on LiveUSB
Because of the way that particular live USB creator works, it uses the ISOLINUX (or is it SYSLINUX?) bootloader rather than Grub. If you want to bypass the live CD menu, and have Grub on your stick, I suggest using the Portable Linux app from http://rudd-o.com/new-projects/portablelinux to re-create it. It works in the same way in terms of generating a USB stick from the ISO but drops the actual contents of the CD on a separate partition of the stick, uses Grub, and is generally tidier. If you've got a persistent memory stick, you can copy of the casper-rw persistence file and drop it back on after recreating the stick. If you use the live USB creator I mention it's configured by default to bypass the CD splash screen and the login window that the use of the persistent flag can introduce. Hope that helps. Vinu On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 09:14 +0100, James Hooker wrote: Hi Everyone - I was wondering if anyone knew how to change the GRUB menu on a live USB made on usb-creator on ubuntu? I use this as my everyday OS at the moment, and want to get rid of he English try ubuntu from this computer menu I tried /boot/grub/menu.lst... but it doesnt exist? Any ideas? Jim -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments Please send me html, plain text or PDFs instead of MS Office files - though OpenDocuments are welcome! signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Help get Windows out of schools
I've created a petition to the Prime Minister to make the primary OS in schools free and open source - it can be found at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools. To anyone that points out I should have suggested Ubuntu for Education, the first submission did, but was rejected on the grounds that it was promoting commercial products or services. The petition should probably also have pointed out that schools could keep the same hardware, but petitions there are restricted to 1000 characters including spaces. Please sign. signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
