Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Enlightenment

[Matt Wheeler]

On 17 November 2015 at 14:24, Nigel Verity <nigelver...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have arrived at a situation where I have 2 routers in my home network.
>
> Router A provides the connection back to my iSP while router B serves purely
> as a wireless access point. B is connected to A.
>
> I connect wired devices to router A through powerline adaptors and wireless
> devices talk to router B.
>
> There is no real need for the wired and wireless devices to talk to each
> other, so the fact that they don't have sight of each other is not a
> problem.

Are you sure they don't have sight of each other?

I assume your network looks something like this:

  v---(wired devices)
internet <--- (x.x.x.x :router A: 192.168.0.1) <--- (192.168.0.2
:router B: 192.168.1.1) <--- (wireless devices)


You're right that the wired devices can't see the wireless ones, but
the wireless ones in this configuration *can* "see" the wired devices.

The default route advertised by router B's DHCP will be itself, so all
non-local-subnet traffic from wireless devices will go there.
Devices attempting to connect to a device in 192.168.0.0/24 will send
the packets via the default route,
Router B knows its external interface is in 192.168.0.0/24 so it will
happily send packets directly out via the local subnet, and they will
reach the wired devices there.

What won't happen is autodiscovery of SMB/CIFS or zeroconf type things
between the two subnets, but your wired devices aren't really
protected from the wireless ones any more than if your router simply
advertised different subnet ranges to wireless
clients.

> I recently discovered that my Dell laptop routinely had both wired and a
> wireless interfaces active. This means it was accessing both routers
> simultaneously.

One or other (either the one that was connected first or maybe the
wired one, as Simon mentions) of those connections should end up
having a better "metric" which means it will be selected first for
routing requests.

As the two interfaces are on different subnets they will have
different addresses, so even if for some reason the metrics were wrong
and wireless was selected things would still just work, but maybe just
slower.

There wouldn't be any contention at any point, just 2 different possible routes.

> The wireless connection on the Dell is now switched off, but I can't say
> I've noticed any change to internet performance for better or worse. The
> route duplication seems to have been managed perfectly well without any
> explicit configuration on my part.
>
> For my own enlightenment can anybody with more networking knowledge than me
> (which is practically everyone) suggest how my internet traffic is likely to
> have been routed across these two connections? I would have expected
> contention at the very least.

Try running traceroute 192.168.0.1
*(assuming that's your router A's internal IP address)
with each of wired and wireless interfaces connected on its own, that
should show you the different routes taken, but it will probably look
something like:

(wired)
$ traceroute 192.168.0.1
 1  gateway (192.168.0.1) ....

(wireless)
$ traceroute 192.168.0.1
 1  gateway (192.168.1.1) 
 2  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Enlightenment

[Matt Wheeler]

On 17 Nov 2015 18:55, "Stuart Ward"  wrote:
> What you should do is turn off DHCP and NAT on router B and give that
router a fixed IP address on Router A, Then all your devices will be on the
same subnet.

Except Nigel seems to *want* the subnets split, based on his mail, and was
just asking questions about how it worked.

Also bear in mind that if you do want to use 2 home routers on the same
subnet like that you need to connect one LAN port from each router
together, which is not what he or I described (WAN port of router b
connected to a LAN port on router a).
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Spare RAT ticket?

[Matt Wheeler]

Hi T,

I have a spare ticket as I've double booked myself for that weekend, if
you're still looking for one.


Thanks

On Fri, 21 Aug 2015 at 20:57 T T Mooney ttmoo...@ttmooney.com wrote:

 So, I have a houseguest the weekend of the RAT. Anyone have a spare ticket
 I can beg, borrow, or steal? I bought one for myself, but no spares.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Enabling Wake on Lan on Ubuntu laptop

[Matt Wheeler]

On 25 June 2015 at 08:00, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Generally speaking it looks like it isn't possible over wifi for a couple of
 reasons: for one it just doesn't work as the 'magic packet' can't be sent.
 For two, a suspended laptop is effectively off, just with its state saved
 and isn't listening to anything. My laptop certainly needs to connect to
 wifi when woken up and I would assume most others do as well.

There is a wireless version of WoL, WoWLan. Unfortunately the
documentation for it is a bit thin, and a few other people have asked
in various places and not found answers yet, eg:

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/linux-networking-3/wake-on-wireless-lan-wowlan-help-requested-944572/

Here is the page about it on the kernel wiki:

https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/users/documentation/wowlan

Try running `iw help wowlan` to get some more clues, but this might
work (I don't have a system here I can try it on, sorry):

`iw phy`  # to get your wireless device name
`iw ${devname} wowlan enable magic-packet`


Whether it's possible at all will depend on you having a wireless card
that supports it, and using it will use more power than a full
suspend, of course.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre occurrence when attempting to install Ubuntu

[Matt Wheeler]

Hi Gordon,

On Wed, 19 Nov 2014 12:12 Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote:

snip


 
 
  The machine restarts, and goes straight into Windows. No sign of the
Ubuntu install at all.

 It sounds like you've got Ubuntu installed correctly and you're just
having a boot order /priority problem.




 
  If I examine the HDD in Disk management within Windows, there are no
formatted partitions in the unallocated space at all.

This is normal - windows doesn't understand Linux filesystems and chooses
to pretend the partition is empty.
 
  AFAIK Windows 8.1 with Bing is no different at all to “normal” Windows
8.1 so can anyone tell me what’s going on? (I’ve tried both with Ubuntu
14.04 and Xubuntu 14.10 - both had the same result).

Try looking in the thing formerly known as BIOS setup, probably by
pressing an F key when you've just turned it on, maybe F2 or F10, and
looking for settings to do with boot order or priority, or legacy boot

 
  Can anyone shed any light as to what’s going on?

Hopefully there's a clue in there somewhere...
 
  Cheers
 
  Gordon

 Thanks

Matt

Apologies if Gmail on my phone has garbled this message somewhat...
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virtualbox Advice

[Matt Wheeler]

On 3 March 2014 12:56, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
 I did not know that  TBH I can't see why you'd want it; it's going to
 be slow, inefficient and since the main point of x86-64 is access to
 more memory  a 32-bit host cannot provide this, it seems rather
 pointless.

 But I sit corrected, nonetheless. It is possible. Not desirable, but possible.

 I stand by the rest of my points, though.

Actually the way this works is using the proper hardware
virtualisation capabilities of the CPU, so the performance will be the
same as running on a 64bit host OS. It's not possible to run a 64bit
guest on a host system without VT-x or AMD-V (even if the host OS is
64bit)



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Mail set up in Ubuntu 13.10

[Matt Wheeler]

Just a little nitpick...

On 27 January 2014 17:54, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote:
 Change my Exchange  Server account to a plain IMAP account, and use Fruux to
 sync Contacts, calendar and Tasks.
 (Besides which, it's much cheaper than Office 365 and Open Source!)

According to their site, fruux releases some software as open source
(looks like mostly libraries that they use for the service), but that
doesn't mean the service itself is open source.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] DSL provider

[Matt Wheeler]

If you are an EE (or T-Mobile or Orange) customer (either contract or
payg) I would recommend EE's ADSL simply on price. I have been using
them since February and have had no issues. Their cheapest package is
£19/m including line rental (£24/m if you aren't an EE group
customer).

Speeds are pretty decent for ADSL, and they do shape traffic at peak
times, but streaming a film or TV still works fine at any time, in my
experience.

On 7 May 2013 08:36, TT Mooney ttmoo...@dilettantism.com wrote:
 Hi all -

 I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now that Murdoch has
 laid his hands on it, I want to change provider.

 Does anyone have a recommendation? I used to have BT, and they were mostly
 useless. There is a bit of bittorent going on, so I'm looking for an
 uncapped adsl2 service. Virgin Media is not available in my area.

 Kind regards,

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[ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

[Matt Keen]

Hey,

Was just wondering whether this is something that anybody else,has found.
The update manager is installing updates without asking for root password?
It isn 't really a feature I would like. Any ideas on how to stop it?

Regards

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] creating a wireless bridge

[Matt Wheeler]

On 24 November 2012 14:22, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
 I was thinking of connecting the surplus wifi router wireless to my hub and
 then connect to a xbox 360.

I assume you mean you want to connect the two routers together wirelessly

 I saw some tutorial in win7 to create a bridge but id rather run it in
 ubuntu.

Beyond any initial setup I don't see how this involves either Win7 or
Ubuntu, as you're talking about two wireless routers and an xbox...

 I hope this make sense..so can anyone suggest something that will help me
 here?

Really it depends on whether your router has built in support for any
wireless bridging mode, or failing that whether it is supported by
some after-market firmware which can do this for you, for example
openwrt.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/howto/clientmode is openwrt's page on
bridging if you can install that.

http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/start is openwrt's list of supported
devices. There are other options like Tomato
(http://www.polarcloud.com/tomato) although I'm not sure whether they
support bridging in any form...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] creating a wireless bridge

[Matt Wheeler]

On 24 November 2012 14:36, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
 ok so this looks like a bit long winded..
 can i then, connect my laptop to a 360 with an ethernet cable to use its
 connection? Im assuming some sort of share internet option is available in
 Ubuntu?

Yes, click on the networking indicator and click edit (connections),
then edit or add a new connection on the wired tab. Under IPv4
settings you can choose Shared to other computers as the method,
then save.

In theory that should be all you need to do. Not sure what that has to
do with a spare router though ;)

On 24 November 2012 15:29, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote:
 I think I've done what is required.  I have two routers.  One is connected
 straight to my incoming modem, and the other is connected to one of the
 ethernet outlets on the first router.  The Windows idea requires two
 ethernet cards on the same computer and is both overly complicated and a bit
 unreliable.  What I have done 'just works'.

That requires a wired connection to the second router, which seems
like what javadayaz is trying to avoid.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Libreoffice pdf import extension .....

[Matt Wheeler]

On 19 August 2012 22:13, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hmm, odd. That suggests a problem with removing and reinstalling LibreOffice
 that needs to be addressed. Logically, removing LibreOffice and the
 .libreoffice folder and then reinstalling should reset your LibreOffice
 install. You shouldn't have to reinstall your OS to repair a damaged
 application.

To me it sounds more like Barry has manually removed files belonging
to packages that didn't get uninstalled (not just files inside his
home), so dpkg/apt doesn't know it needs to re-install them, and now
libreoffice can't find them. Manually removing stuff that dpkg thinks
is there can be expected to cause problems.

Reinstalling every libreoffice related package should fix the issue.
/usr/lib/libreoffice/program/oosplash is provided by the package
libreoffice-core, for example.

btw, just removing ~/.libreoffice (or even just the plugins directory)
should have been enough to resolve the original issue. It's almost
never necessary to re-install packages to reset their configuration if
they are packages run by a normal user (and reinstalling the package
just doesn't work in all* places).


*I think

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

[Matt Wheeler]

On 1 June 2012 08:02, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
 Time has passed.
 The problem has now matured, and Fedora have accepted defeat and decided to
 pay to be allowed to use Microsoft restricted hardware.

 Implementing UEFI Secure Boot in Fedora Linux
 http://j.mp/KZykUS

According to an update to that article, the money actually goes to
verisign, and anyone can get a signing key from them for $99. So
actually (without having looked into it any further) this looks like
quite a reasonable solution to securing system booting in general.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] O/TTablet security!

[Matt Jones]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Pete psmo...@live.com wrote:
 Hi all,

 Probably a mute point, and I have no wish to feed a troll, but on TV earlier
 they were advertising 'Norton Tablet Security' for Android tablets, given
 the close similarity between Android and LINUX / UNIX based systems (I
 believe Android started out as open source based on LINUX), is it now
 essential to install an Anti-virus / anti malware on our systems?

 Just got me thinking thats all.

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There are no doubt vulnerabilities in Android that could be exploited
by nefarious types(The same applies to iOS/WP too), but I suspect the
Norton package is mostly an attempt to bolster profits on tablet sales
in high street stores.

That would be my explanation as to why it is a wastefully boxed item,
rather than just a download on the Android Market.

M.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Look what I found in waitrose

[Matt Wheeler]

I tweeted an ubuntu cola picture over a year and a half ago (and it's
still on the front page on my twitter profile... shows how much I use
it) ;D

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....

[Matt Wheeler]

On 20 June 2011 12:49, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
 Be careful with Sparkleshare though, it's basically an interface for Github
 and doesn't really provide cloud style storage. There's nothing easy to use
 out there as far as I can see.
[snip]

Actually sparkleshare works with any remote git repository, not just
github, so it's quite simple to set up your own hosting for it (just
ssh access to somewhere will do). It also plays nicely with things
like gitolite if you want share directories with others.

As I understand backends other than git are being worked on (not with
the intention of replacing git, though) as is a web interface.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking if a System restart is required

[Matt Wheeler]

As I've mentioned before on the ayatana list I think this would do more harm
than good. As others have already said, just about everything bar Mozilla
stuff will continue to work fine if it's left running, and warning people
that a particular upgrade will require a reboot is likely to put some of
them off, leaving security holes open for longer.

Perhaps the system reboot required messages just need to be made more
informative :)

(sorry if this reply's a bit broken, I'm writing it on my phone)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bonding 3G connections.

[Matt Sturdy]

On 06/04/2011, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
 On 03/04/11 21:10, Tim Dobson wrote:
 Just wondered, does anyone have any experience or has seen any blogs
 posts of anyone bonding two or more 3G  connections so they can
 aggregate the bandwidth?

 If you've seen or heard of anyone doing this I'd be interested to know
 any hints on how they went about it. :)

 Yeah, I think, it's quite easy*.

 Hook each dongle up to computer and connect with wvdial or whatever.
 Setup VPN over each separate dongle to VPN endpoint.
 Put all the VPN interfaces in a bonded interface locally.
 Perhaps do some clever stuff at the VPN endpoint side.

 kind of:
 client = (3 x VPN = 3x(3G Dongle = network = internet) = VPN
 server) = internet

 Simple right? ;)

 Maybe I should try it and see where it starts breaking.. :P

 Tim

 *everything is easy to do in a theoretical sense!


I think this has already been done, though think it's only for Nokias:
http://www.joikusoft.com/?action=joikuBoost

I already use the joikuspot application on a nokia and it's excellent.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Programming in Python User Interface

[Matt Sturdy]

On 25 March 2011 10:02, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Pythonchallange is probably not the best place for a beginner to start,
 unless they enjoy headaches, mysteries and extremely fast paced learning


That totally depends on the person and how they learn... for me,
pythonchallenge with hints and a little help from a more experienced
programmer friend really helped me to get familiar with the language.

the Euler Project[0] is also good fun if you have more of a maths
background... and the learning curve is not so steep!

After that, learning to google effectively was very important.


[0] http://projecteuler.net
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android Slates/Tablets......

[Matt Sturdy]

On 24 March 2011 11:10, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Hi John,

 According to the review in Linux User and Developer, the best one to go for
 it the Samsung Galaxy Tab at £390. A close runner up was the Dell Streak,
 but that is also priced at £390...



+1 for the galaxy, my colleague has one, and even though a tablet is not for
me...  I was quite impressed with it.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Stuff appearing in Terminal, I dont know what it is......

[Matt Sturdy]

Hi john,

You should also have a backup here:  /var/backups/dpkg.status.0

so the command to move it would be:

*sudo cp /var/backups/dpkg.status.0 /var/lib/dpkg/status*

on my system this is only 3 days old (ie before I updated today)


Matt

On 6 March 2011 12:06, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote:

  On 06/03/11 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:

 Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and (as
 far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it.  Essentially
 it holds details of each package that's installed, and those that have
 been installed and removed (but not purged), etc, etc.

 You may be able to get back to a semi-usable system is the
 file /var/lib/dpkg/status-old is still present - it is (obviously) an
 older version of the file so it may not be completely up to date, but
 if you duplicate that you **should** get a usable system.

 Rule #1: Unless **you** are 100% certain on what you are doing, 
 never**delete** a file on your system that someone else tells you to delete.
 Renaming the file is almost always good enough, and at least if you
 rename it you have a chance of renaming it back again.

 So, try this:
 $ sudo cp /var/lib/dpkg/status-old /var/lib/dpkg/status

 Grant


 Hi, thank you for your message, I really appreciate it. Well, it looks like
 its not going to work, I used the command you gave me, and I still get the

 'InstallArchives failed'

 I get this message when trying to install from synaptic.

 'E: Could not perform immediate configuration on 'libbz2-1.0'.Please see
 man 5 apt.conf under APT::Immediate-Configure for details. (2)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange high CPU usage problem

[Matt Sturdy]

HI Rossen,

I have seen the same problem from time to time.  Once the load average gets
above 4/5 I typically reboot, or kill the process responsible and go make a
cup of tea while everything settles down again.

What browser are you running?  Until recently I was having a real headache
with the flash plugin in Chromium.  I switched to Google Chrome and haven't
suffered nearly as much since.

I have seen that video calls in Skype can be the culprit as well... not much
i can do about that though

Cheers,
Matt


On 24 February 2011 06:37, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:

 Hi Rossen,

 I have had similar problems in the past where having many tabs open in
 firefox would eventually cause the whole DE to freeze up. When this happens
 I would drop to tty1 and kill the firefox-bin process, and that would
 restore things.

 Start with the obvious: run an update, upgrade - to make sure you have the
 latest packages. Ditch compiz effects and try running like that for a while.

 What are your system specs?

 Try to narrow down the issue by recording trends, does it usually happen at
 a certain time of day, does it happen on certain websites etc. - it may be
 worth creating a new user and seeing if it happens on that account.

 Hope this helps,
 Bodsda
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 -Original Message-
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 Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com
 Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:29:07
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UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
 Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Strange high CPU usage problem

 Hi-

 Apologies if this isn't the right place. Having started as a Ubuntu user in
 7.04 I find myself completely baffled by the this one.

 Every now and then an application starts using a lot of CPU. This is
 typically when running Flash or Java typically in a browser but I'm not
 completely sure about what triggers. The strange thing is that once the
 problem occurs all applications become affected. Even simple things like
 opening a file browser or dragging windows around spikes the CPU to 100% for
 10-15 seconds or longer. It's like a gradual melt-down with the system
 becoming unusable even for simple tasks. The only solution at that point is
 powering off the laptop completely, which takes a long time since all
 processes are now really slow to close down.

 Needless to say a very debilitating problem to have and I'm baffled as to
 how to narrow things down. I know how to look up CPU usage by process with
 top but when all applications begin to exhibit this behavior that's pretty
 much useless.

 Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange high CPU usage problem

[Matt Sturdy]

Hi Simon - out of interest, can I ask what BIOS version you have on the
M1330 at the moment?  I'm using my 32bit M1330, and have frequent issues
with overheating.  I'm wondering if a BIOS update might go some way to
resolving it.

Cheers,
Matt


On 24 February 2011 06:46, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:



 On 24 February 2011 09:29, Rossen Stoyanchev rstoyanc...@yahoo.comwrote:

 Hi-

 Apologies if this isn't the right place. Having started as a Ubuntu user
 in 7.04 I find myself completely baffled by the this one.

 Every now and then an application starts using a lot of CPU. This is
 typically when running Flash or Java typically in a browser but I'm not
 completely sure about what triggers. The strange thing is that once the
 problem occurs all applications become affected. Even simple things like
 opening a file browser or dragging windows around spikes the CPU to 100% for
 10-15 seconds or longer. It's like a gradual melt-down with the system
 becoming unusable even for simple tasks. The only solution at that point is
 powering off the laptop completely, which takes a long time since all
 processes are now really slow to close down.

 Needless to say a very debilitating problem to have and I'm baffled as to
 how to narrow things down. I know how to look up CPU usage by process with
 top but when all applications begin to exhibit this behavior that's pretty
 much useless.


 I had that problem with Flash on 64-bit on my Dell XPS M1330. I've now gone
 to a PAE kernel as the only reason I had 64 bit was for memory access and
 that's mostly gone away. A BIOS update has also solved some of the colling
 problems that that model has with its NVIDIA graphics card.

 We would need more information about your setup to come up with a more
 specific solution.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

[Matt Sturdy]

 I've had very few problems with the entire Dell laptop line. My company
 has bought ~30ish laptops from them in the last 5 years. Lessons
 learned:


My Dell M1330 came with ubuntu preinstalled, and worked fine for a while.
 Although after 6 months it suffered from real problems due to the graphics
chip overheating, and caused damage to the screen.

I was in guarantee still, and Dell were excellent about it.  I had a new
motherboard and new screen within 24 hours.

That said, I think there have been many problems with the M1330s, and it may
not be representative of the all Dells.




 3. If you aren't planning to run super-serious video apps, get Intel
 video. For compatibility, especially since the change to Kernel Mode
 Setting, it is:

 Intel  AMD  nVidia



Yes, this.  For a while, with each successive 6 monthly upgrade, the
graphics were totally trashed due to problems with the nvidia drivers (they
are  proprietary drivers I believe)




 4. It's hard to find no OS or Ubuntu pre-loaded. Yes, you may have to
 take the copy of Windows that comes with it, but I doubt you'll find a
 _laptop_ that's cheaper without Windows, whatever you think of the
 retail price of the OS. You can always get the install disc and load it
 as a VM in Virtualbox.



I think I read somewhere that you can claim the cost of the windows license
back from microsoft if you don't use it... I don't know if anyone more
informed can confirm or deny this?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Windows live

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Hi Graham,

you won't have problems accessing the windows site, I do it regularly using
chromium (with no modifications) on ubuntu.

Personally, I have a @live.co.uk account because they won't allow me to sign
up with a @gmail.com one... but it's not that bad.

I use the @live.co.uk account in Empathy (with 1 yahoo, 1 SIP phone and 2
googletalk accounts) with few problems.  Some of my MSN contacts have
commented that I normally appear offline, but it doesn't prevent messages
from getting through.

Matt


On 13 January 2011 14:07, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:

 On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 15:53 +, Graham Smith wrote:
  My better half wants to communicate with a relative in Canada, who has
  told her its easy, you just click on the Windows Messenger icon on
  your desktop
 
 
  However, given that my better half is looking at a Ubuntu desktop, it
  isn't as easy as suggested.  I know nothing about Instant messaging,
  but now have to sort this out.
 
 
  Can I assume that she will need a Windows Live account, can she sign
  up for this from Ubuntu or is Microsoft going to say this isn't
  Windows go away.
 
 
  I gather from what I have read that Empathy will work with Windows
  Live, once she has an account.
 
 
  However, does anyone have any advice that will help me avoid any
  obvious problems, or suggestions of a best approach.
 
 
  Many thanks,
 
 
  Graham
 

 In theory, empathy should be able to work with MSN (aka Windows Live
 Messenger), however, there are problems.

 Firstly, if you go to the Windows Live web site to sign up for an
 account it may tell you to get lost as you are not using Windows.
 However, there are ways for Firefox to fool websites into thinking you
 are using Windows.  Maybe someone will tell us how that's done.

 Then there is the big problem that Empathy does not work well with MSN.
 At least, I have not been able to get it to work with the full video
 experience.  Personally, I think this is one of the major deficiencies
 in Ubuntu at present. However, straight typed chat is no problem.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

[Matt Wheeler]

I feel like I should jump on the bandwagon and ask if anyone has another
spare invite for me :-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

[Matt Thompson]

Hi Ronnie,

On Sun, 2 Jan 2011, Ronnie Tucker wrote:


I've got a couple of invites left if anyone still wants one?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] help seting up alamin

[Matt Sturdy]

On 2 December 2010 18:56, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:

 The situation is basicly that I want to be able to send an e-mail (or maby
 use a M$ Outlook plugin) to be able to send an sms to a number that I can
 specify with the message. the modem is a siemens TC65-T. also, if a message
 is recived I need to send it out in an email along with who it is from. I
 did take a look at kannel but I couldn't seem to get it to work
 Jacob Mansfield
 Programmer



I found that the biggest issue with Kannel was getting my head around the
config.  Fortunately the user guide was pretty good:
http://www.kannel.org/download/kannel-userguide-snapshot/userguide.html#AEN425

you can configure Kannel to fire a notification at a URL when a message is
received (also supports keyword routing).  Then it would be a simple task to
write a PHP script to turn the incoming message into an email.

I have no idea what you have tried already, but in order to operate the
modem and route incoming messages you'll need to configure the following
groups in the config file, and there are examples to help you on the link
above:

core
modems
smsc
smsbox
smsbox-route
sms-service

I think that's all, and really should only take a few hours to get it done.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] help seting up alamin

[Matt Sturdy]

On 30 November 2010 15:08, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:

 would somebody be able to guide me through setting up an alamin IP-SMS
 gateway on a ubuntu 10.10 server?
 thanks in advance
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Jacob,

Alamin does seem to be inactive from their website.

If you're looking at processing relatively low volumes, then perhaps you
could consider gammu?  It's in the repos, and works relatively well for
submitting/receiving through a GSM modem (in the limited tests I ran).

Alternatively, kannel may be the thing you want.  It is mature software (can
be found in the repos) and I have used it to connect to operators over SMPP,
but not through modems.  Kannel supports receipt/submission through GSM
modems.

I have been on their mailing list a while, and it's an active product, with
development ongoing and a good level of email support.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

[Matt Sturdy]

something like this?

http://snurl.com/1ikix7

Matt

On 24 November 2010 09:06, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
 both are good products...but is there anything that would hide the actual
 hds once they have been pushed into the dock?
 some sort of enclosure perhaps...

 On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com
 wrote:

 Here you go...

 http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=enq=dual+hard+drive+dockum=1ie=UTF-8cid=14421675910377248387ei=Tu7sTIarJZGEhQeGjry-Dgsa=Xoi=product_catalog_resultct=resultresnum=3ved=0CDEQ8wIwAg#

 :)

 On 24 November 2010 10:02, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 You guys are the only techies I know...so i hope you will forgive the
 Unubuntuness of this post!
 Can someone recommend a hard drive dock which will take two hard drives?
 I refer to the USB docks that you can stick an internal PC hard drive in
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 11:06 AM, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
 both are good products...but is there anything that would hide the actual
 hds once they have been pushed into the dock?
 some sort of enclosure perhaps...

 On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:53 AM, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com
 wrote:

 Here you go...

 http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=enq=dual+hard+drive+dockum=1ie=UTF-8cid=14421675910377248387ei=Tu7sTIarJZGEhQeGjry-Dgsa=Xoi=product_catalog_resultct=resultresnum=3ved=0CDEQ8wIwAg#

 :)

 On 24 November 2010 10:02, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi all,
 You guys are the only techies I know...so i hope you will forgive the
 Unubuntuness of this post!
 Can someone recommend a hard drive dock which will take two hard drives?
 I refer to the USB docks that you can stick an internal PC hard drive in
 Hopefully something cheap. :)

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A Dual drive enclosure maybe?
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/15957789/CiT-Dual-3-5-inch-SATA-USB-2-0-Hard-Drive-Enclosure/Product.html?_%24ja=kw:{keyword}|cgn:15957789|tsid:13315|cn:15957789|mt:{MatchType}|crid:{creative}

I had something similar and it worked fine.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

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On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:07 PM, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
 well this is what i want to do!
 Buy a laptop.
 reconnect my old hd's ( x2) to the laptop via the usb docks. Then using a
 xbox360 downstairs stream my media downstairs through the docks!
 If that makes sense.

 On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:04 PM, Andy Braben andybra...@gmail.com wrote:

 I have an external hard disk with bootable ubuntu on it, and I can
 boot that and use it perfectly connected only via USB. There is no
 mains power that can be attached to it.

 Regards,
 Andy.

 On 24 November 2010 13:55, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
  can anyone else confirm that?
  maybe there is a device out there that might be able to.?
 
  On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:53 PM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com
  wrote:
 
 
  On 24 November 2010 13:32, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
 
  so all hd docks use an external power source..that i didnt know!
 
 
  In my experience you can *usually* power one hard drive from USB, but
  not
  two.
 
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You can (usually) power Laptop drives over USB, not 3.5 Desktop drives.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam ....

[Matt]

for what it's worth:

I had real webcam problems with my Dell M1330.  From 8.04 until 9.04.
It started intermittently, but then became permanent.  lsusb didn't
show it, and dmesg gave me nothing.

I tried every patch and software solution I could find, and then
resorted to taking it apart to check for loose wires.  Found nothing
of use.

In the end I gave up and bought a £10 USB webcam and plugged it in.

...and then I spent a day installing the microdia drivers and wishing
I'd checked for compatibility first.


Cheers,
Matt



On 17 November 2010 19:22, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
 On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 21:13 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
 If you have an image of a system that didn't work with the webcam, then you 
 get a new webcam and put the old image on and it stops again, that points to 
 an issue with the image.

 That's what I'd have said, but running from the live-CD still cannot
 find the camera - and this was what happened before.  After that, I
 restored the factory image and still got no result. Something has
 definitely destroyed the webcam.  And if the hardware is not found, but
 plugging in an external webcam works, it has to be hardware.

 Back to the same question I guess 

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell netbook webcam ....

[Matt]

On 17 November 2010 20:02, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
 On Wed, 2010-11-17 at 19:38 -0200, Matt wrote:
 In the end I gave up and bought a £10 USB webcam and plugged it in.

 I think that confirms my decision.  It's quite a hassle sending the
 thing back, and I already have a USB webcam that's not very good, but
 good enough.  Maybe it's the camera that Dell use that's ...  how shall
 I put this without using pejorative words like 'crap'?

 Thanks.  I'll not go to the trouble of sending it back again.


yeah, that's pretty much it.

I didn't want to have to carry the thing around with me as I use the
laptop for work... but in the end it was much simpler, and quite
cheap, just to replace it.

good luck  (don't forget to check compatibility first... for the sake
of your mental health)

Cheers,
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[ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

[Matt Darcy]

Hi Ubuntu uk,

This is tricky subject to summerize. I'm pretty confident there isn't a
solution to do what I want, but I need a sounding board, so your it.

I'm looking at using vsftpd as an open ftp daemon, utilising the virtual
user functionality so I don't have to use genuine /etc/passwd or shell
based accounts.

The issue I've got is that I need multiple users (no problem so far) to
then have different read/write access to different directories under the
ftp root.

The virtual users have no awareness or interaction with the Unix file
system permissions, nor do they respect them as they work through the
ftpd process owning account.

I'm looking at clever ways to do this such as a permissions schema
linking into mysql, but it's starting to get a bit over the top. I'm
confident this isn't possible but thought I'd throw it out to the list
to see if any of you have come up with clever solutions.

Thanks,

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mint 9 and Windows 2000 Server

[Matt Darcy]

On 23/10/2010 21:24, Ronnie Tucker wrote:
 I have my EEE PC (with Mint 9) hooked up to a Windows 2000 server at
 work. The server is set to force the user to change their password every
 30 days and the new password mustn't be the same as any of the previous
 dozen or so passwords.

 When the password is due to change my Mint 9 can't log in to the
 network. I have to end up going to a Windows machine, changing my
 password then go back to my Mint9 machine.

 Is there a way I can do the password change within Mint 9?

 Any advice is much appreciated.

 Ronnie



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

[Matt Wheeler]

On 15 October 2010 18:07, Joe Metcalfe joe.metca...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
 I am in Northampton. Not a Linux expert but have lots of varied computer
 experience (programmer by profession) and can usually figure things out.

 Joe

I'm also in Northampton, though probably only for ~ another year
before I head off to university :-)


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cron Help

[Matt Sturdy]

Morning Jon,

Cron is a tool for scheduling repetitive tasks.

Do you think this is coming from your box?  Where does the email come from?


Cheers
Matt



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 Hi,

 Can anyone help me with this please. I get an email every day with the
 following:

Subject: Cron  test -x /usr/sbin/anacron || ( cd /
 run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily )

run-parts: /etc/cron.daily/websvn exited with return code 1

 I am not sure what this means or how to resolve it.

 Thanks in advance

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[ubuntu-uk] Conky doesn't display on XFCE desktop

[Matt Sturdy]

Hi guys,

I recently made the switch to XFCE, and mostly it's working well.  Quick,
clean interface etc.

The one thing I can't fix is Conky.  It used to display on the nautilus
desktop... and it still starts up with no errors... but I can't see where it
goes!

starting from the command line gives

m...@alida:~$ conky
Conky: desktop window (1e3) is subwindow of root window (15a)
Conky: window type - override
Conky: drawing to created window (0x4a1)
Conky: drawing to double buffer

and my conf file is fairly standard:

m...@alida:~$ cat .conkyrc

# Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
own_window yes
own_window_type override
own_window_transparent yes
## apparently this is not needed in XFCE
own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

# Stop stuff going to stdout
out_to_console no

# Use double buffering (reduces flicker)
double_buffer yes

# fiddle with window
use_spacer right

# Use Xft?
use_xft yes
xftfont andalemono:size=8:weight=700
xftalpha 0.8
text_buffer_size 2048
uppercase yes

# Update interval in seconds
update_interval 5.0

# Draw shades?
draw_shades no

# Text stuff
draw_outline no # amplifies text if yes
uppercase no # set to yes if you want all text to be in uppercase

# borders
draw_borders no
#stippled_borders 3
#border_margin 9
#border_width 10

# Default colors and also border colors, grey90 == #e5e5e5
default_color black
#default_color white

own_window_colour brown
own_window_transparent yes

# Alignment
alignment top_right

# Gap between borders of screen and text
gap_x 10
gap_y 30

# load lua script(s)
lua_load /home/matt/bin/conky/readfile.lua

# stuff after 'TEXT' will be formatted on screen
TEXT
${voffset -20}${alignc 80}${color orange}${font OpenLogos:size=90}v${font}
${voffset -35}${color orange}$nodename ${hr 2}$color
$sysname $kernel on $machine
Uptime $uptime

${color orange}WORLD TIMES ${hr 2}$color
Time in UK: ${goto 130}${tztime Europe/London %H:%M  %d/%b}
Time in Barcelona: ${goto 130}${tztime Europe/Madrid %H:%M  %d/%b}
Time in Cochin: ${goto 130}${tztime Asia/Kolkata %H:%M  %d/%b}
Time in São Paulo: ${goto 130}${tztime Brazil/East %H:%M  %d/%b}

${color orange}INFO ${hr 2}$color
${if_running banshee-1}${execi 5 BansheeNowPlaying|fold -w 60}${else}Banshee
is not running${endif}

${lua readfile /home/matt/bin/script_data/TheLatestBugle.txt}

${lua readfile /home/matt/Desktop/UPDATES.txt}
${color orange}CPU ${hr 2}$color
${freq}MHz   ${goto 100}Temp: ${acpitemp}°C  ${goto 200}GPU Temp: ${execi 5
nvidia-settings -q GPUCoreTemp -t}°C
Processes:$processes ${alignr}$running_processes running
Load: ${loadavg}
$cpubar
${cpugraph 00 ff}
${goto 15}CPU% ${goto 70}MEM% ${goto 155}NAME ${goto 250}PID${font
andalemono:weight=0:size=8}
${goto 15}${top cpu 1} ${goto 70}${top mem 1}  ${goto 155}${top name 1} ${goto
250}${top pid 1}
${goto 15}${top cpu 2} ${goto 70}${top mem 2}  ${goto 155}${top name 2} ${goto
250}${top pid 2}
${goto 15}${top cpu 3} ${goto 70}${top mem 3}  ${goto 155}${top name 3} ${goto
250}${top pid 3}
${goto 15}${top cpu 4} ${goto 70}${top mem 4}  ${goto 155}${top name 4} ${goto
250}${top pid 4}${font}

${color orange}MEMORY | DISK ${hr 2}$color
RAM:   $memperc%   ${membar 6}$color
Swap:  $swapperc%   ${swapbar 6}$color

Filesystems:  ${fs_free /}  free of  ${fs_size /}
${fs_bar 6 /}$color

${color orange}NETWORK ${hr 2}$color
Address: ${addr wlan0}  on $gw_iface
Down: $color${downspeed wlan0}/s ${alignr}Up: ${upspeed wlan0}/s
${downspeedgraph wlan0 25,140 00 ff} ${alignr}${upspeedgraph wlan0
25,140 00 00ff00}$color
Total: ${totaldown wlan0} ${alignr}Total: ${totalup wlan0}



Has anyone else had/fixed this problem?

Otherwise... some pointers on how to investigate this further would be
awesome.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Conky doesn't display on XFCE desktop

[Matt Sturdy]

On 17 September 2010 10:57, Philip Newborough
corenomi...@corenominal.orgwrote:

 On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Matt Sturdy matt.stu...@gmail.com
 wrote:
  Hi guys,
  I recently made the switch to XFCE, and mostly it's working well.  Quick,
  clean interface etc.
  The one thing I can't fix is Conky.  It used to display on the nautilus
  desktop... and it still starts up with no errors... but I can't see where
 it
  goes!
  starting from the command line gives
  m...@alida:~$ conky
  Conky: desktop window (1e3) is subwindow of root window (15a)
  Conky: window type - override
  Conky: drawing to created window (0x4a1)
  Conky: drawing to double buffer
  and my conf file is fairly standard:
  m...@alida:~$ cat .conkyrc
 
  # Create own window instead of using desktop (required in nautilus)
  own_window yes
  own_window_type override
  own_window_transparent yes
  ## apparently this is not needed in XFCE
  own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

 Hey Matt :)

 Have you tried playing around with the 'own_window' settings/values? I
 use the following when running Conky in Xfce:

own_window yes
own_window_transparent yes
own_window_type desktop
 own_window_hints undecorated,below,sticky,skip_taskbar,skip_pager

 It looks like the only difference is the value given for 'own_window_type'.

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Hey Philip!

You're a star!  Thanks, that's working perfectly now!

I'd tried a few things, but hadn't hit on that... aaah, back to system
monitoring bliss...  :)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

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On 26 August 2010 09:37, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:

 On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 07:10 +0100, alan c wrote:
  or nearly that, anyway.
 
  Article:
  Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech
  Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook:
 
  http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing/
 
  'exam results have shown computing subjects are failing to grab kids'
  attention'
 
  Could it be that a strong bias towards proprietary products is not
  inspiring students?
  Would more appreciation of Free Software in education enable better
  use of talents?
 
  Express your views to the Royal Society soon.
  http://royalsociety.org/Education-Policy/Projects/
 
  --
  alan cocks
  Ubuntu user
 

 My experience of GCSE IT was that it was This is Microsoft Word, write
 a 2 page document including a table, a graphic and a footnote. which is
 _not_ what IT should be about. I lost _huge_ amounts of marks in one
 part because the project was Create 4 linked webpages in Microsoft
 Front Page blah blah blah which would have been a nightmare for any
 sane person to maintain, so I wrote it in PHP with a SQL backend and
 none of the markers understood it :(

 IT should be more about computers less about office work!

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I attended an excellent school for GCSE/A-Level and had a very similar
experience, and consequently had absolutely no interest in computing until
after I had finished my degree.  The thing that got me hooked was problem
solving.  Having an issue, researching it, and then fixing it is one of the
most satisfying things for me, and I guess for a lot of you guys too.
 Furthermore it teaches you to take any problem (even problems IRL!), and
break it down into manageable, logical steps, and I think that's a great
skill to foster.

I don't know, so I'm asking... Is there any time given to this in the
current GCSE syllabus?  In my mind teaching kids an attitude and approach
towards solving a problem is what should be concentrated on.

I think it could be difficult to assess and grade students on, and that is
something that would need to be considered... and I guess there are plenty
of other issues too, but I think it would be an excellent place to start.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logo Vote

[Matt Thompson]

On Wed, 25 Aug 2010, mac wrote:

 Alan Pope wrote:
 On 24 Aug 2010, at 22:37, Alan Bell alanbellt...@googlemail.com
 wrote:
 Voting is now open at http://pollka.libertus.co.uk please vote for
 the logos you like in the traditional fashion by marking the ones
 you like as full of win and those you are not so fussed about as
 meh. You get an extra vote to cast for your most favorite. You will
 get an email with a link in it. If you do not click the link then
 your vote does not count.


 Who is eligible to vote?

 I just voted, simply as a member of this list;  but I did not get an
 email with a link in it, so I may not have met an eligibility criterion.
  I wonder which, and how the voting system knows.  ;-)

 mac

My mail server rejected the mail as the sending host is an end user IP 
which is listed on Spamhaus' PBL.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Irritating balloon notifiers

[Matt Sturdy]

Hi,

These instructions should work for you:

http://www.killertechtips.com/2009/04/26/disable-notifications-in-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope/

http://www.killertechtips.com/2009/04/26/disable-notifications-in-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope/
Cheers,
Matt


On 20 August 2010 18:44, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:

 Hi,
 Does anybody know a way to switch of the semi-transparent balloon
 notifier that appears to say all downloads complete and sits there for
 ten seconds or so at the top right corner of the screen after a pdf, for
 instance, is downloaded from within the Firefox browser? I am not
 talking about the downloads window, which is easily switched off in
 Firefox. I seem to recall getting rid of this balloon notifier somehow
 on the previous build of Ubuntu, but now the only way I can find to
 avoid it is to switch off all visual effects in the 'appearance'
 preferences, which has the irritating side effect of causing a brief
 flash right around the screen when opening the browser.
 Thanks,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server Crashes

[Matt Wheeler]

On 4 August 2010 11:39, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
 Ahhh...Thank you Al,
 how do I control how much RAM ApachePHP can have?
 Daniel

http://hakre.wordpress.com/2010/06/28/wordpress-3-0-memory-requirements-256-mb/
may be of interest to you both.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot with 2 HDDs

[Matt Wheeler]

On 26 July 2010 15:26, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
 Thanks Liam

 snip

  However, I expect that the
  current version of Grub is not the same as the old one and would much
  appreciate it if someone would be kind enough to tell me whether or not
  what I propose is feasible.

 It certainly is and you don't need 2 HDs to do it. A single large one
 will do fine.

 I do understand that and the drive I have is large enough to dual boot
 on that drive the problem is that it already has Ubuntu installed on it
 and I therefore assumed that it would be easier to dual boot by adding
 the extra drive.

 snip

 How does this affect your suggested method?

Installing Windows on the second hard drive then following the instructions here
 https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox not getting focus

[Matt Wheeler]

On 25 July 2010 10:07, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
 Mark Fraser wrote:
 snip
 I haven't been able to get Firefox to gain focus like that since doing a 
 clean
 install of Kubuntu 10.04.

 I don't think the issue is caused by the OS, as I see it on machines
 running Hardy, Karmic and Lucid (and with various versions of Liferea).
  It has only recently started, and I suspect Firefox Ver 3.6.7.

 Now, I know one or two folk here use Firefox.  :-)

 Some also use Liferea;  and I guess at least a few must have Liferea set
 to open items in the browser?  So has anyone else noticed that Firefox
 no longer gets focus after you click the space bar, say, to open a
 Liferea item?  (I can't believe that Mark and me are the only people
 plagued by this change.)

 And if you've also found a fix to restore the previous behaviour of FF,
 it would be really good to hear it.  :-)

I'm also experiencing the same behaviour, but I actually prefer it. I
don't really like apps stealing focus (even if I did click on a link)


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

[Matt Wheeler]

On 12 July 2010 22:55, LeeGroups mailgro...@varga.co.uk wrote:
 This input solar8,27.31,28.68,28.81,0.00,0.00,0/solar
 It need to be --
 8,27.31,28.68,28.81,0.00,0.00,0

 Another line chops off the solar.
 The problem is that occasionally there is rubbish on the end of the
 line, or even another line appended to the end of the first...

You could remove both the start and end tags with something like

$solar_info =~ s!solar(.*)/solar!$1!;

(note I'm also using ! instead of / so I don't have to escape the /)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running daemon at startup as another user

[Matt Wheeler]

On 23 June 2010 21:45, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
 Hi folks,

 I'm trying to setup Shoutcast on a VPS server for a mate of mine as a
 favour.  The VPS server is running Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64.

 Now I gather from reading up, it is recommended that the shoutcast
 daemon is run as a user rather than root (presumably for security purposes).

 The thing is, I can't figure out how to do it.  At first I thought of
 creating an init script, but presumably it'll run as root?

 I also thought about cron, but I guess that would require me to enter a
 start time (so if the server goes down say in the middle of the day then
 it'll have to wait until the start time in the crontab?)

You can specify @reboot instead of the time and date settings in
crontab, which is probably the most straightforward way of doing this

 So I wondered if there was any way of running the shoutcast daemon as
 another user basically from when the machine boots?

Alternatively, you can make /etc/rc.local executable (sudo chmod +x
/etc/rc.local) and then add *before the exit 0 line* « sudo -u
username command » -- the crontab method seems neater to me though.

The only issue you might get with the crontab version is if it runs
before the network is initialised and shoutcast expects an interface
to be there. You shouldn't have this problem with rc.local because it
won't run until after all the other init scripts, but it's probably
worth just trying the crontab method first.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

[Matt Wheeler]

On 4 June 2010 05:37, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
 On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 12:03 AM, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote:
 This is mostly fixable these days using @font-face (supported by
 current versions of all the major browsers) -- the font can simply be
 embedded into the site and downloaded by the browser ⢁).

 I wouldn't rely on that.  IE is still very picky about such things,
 and however much we might hope that people would be using Open Source
 options the fact is that the majority are not.

 Therefore, let's stick to web safe fonts

Actually this works fine in IE8, and if a particular font is what's
wanted I see no reason not to use it. Of course we should make sure it
still looks ok in browsers that don't support @font-face though!



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

[Matt Wheeler]

On 3 June 2010 22:26, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
 I like the mockup image, but for some reason when I go to the site some
 of the fonts come up differently so it looks well, odd. :-(

This is mostly fixable these days using @font-face (supported by
current versions of all the major browsers) -- the font can simply be
embedded into the site and downloaded by the browser ⢁).


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] web hosting recommendation

[Matt Jones]

I use 5quidhost for a couple of sites. I have been with them for a
couple of years and the service has been very stable, I certainly
haven't noticed any downtime. Any issues were sorted quickly over
email(Admittedly most of the problems were a PEBKAC issues!).

Matt.

On Sun, May 9, 2010 at 2:45 PM, ian pettitt (RRes-BB)
ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk wrote:
 Hi

 My webhosting company has let me down again, the mysql server is down for the 
 second time in fortnight and they don't seem to do any support outside of 
 office hours.  Therefore I am looking to move hosts.

 I don't need a very advanced package, just apache/mysql/php, email so I don't 
 want to pay for (or need) a VPS. Does anyone have any good recommendations?

 Thanks

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just noticed something..not sure if its an error.....

[Matt Wheeler]

On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:25 +, Sean Miller wrote:
 Traditionally in Unix $ denoted user, # denoted root.
 
 Dunno how it works in Linux because in Ubuntu I tend to use sudo
 rather than logging in directly, though I'd guess if I were in as root
 I'd get a # prompt rather than a $ one - others can clarify
 whether this is actually the case.

It is the case, assuming you are using the standard bash $PS1. It might
be different if you've customised your prompt or are using a different
shell.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Monitor Resolution Question

[Matt Jones]

On Sun, Dec 6, 2009 at 10:20 PM, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
 Hi

 I run a Compaq desktop which dual boots Xubuntu 9.10 and XP. For both
 operating systems the maximum available monitor resolution is 1024 x 768. I
 would like to replace the current monitor with something more up to date,
 using a 16:9 format. Is the current resolution likely to represent the best
 my hardware can support, or will the resolution of a new monitor be detected
 automatically, so I don't get any stretching or squashing of the image.

 Grateful for any advice before I go and spend any money.

 Thanks

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Unless the system is very old, it should be fine. The reason that the
maximum available resolution is 1024*768 is that you have a LCD
monitor that won't work well in another resolution. Plug in the new
monitor and it should just work.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

[Matt Wheeler]

On Thursday, November 26, 2009, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote:
 I hope you are wearing your foil hat right now

While I do use gmail, I think it's important to consider carefully how
much you trust them to keep your data secure. Have you read the gmail
privacy policy? It basically says we will not put up much of a fuss
if someone asks for your data.
Added to the fact that you are allowing them to store your data in the
US, where data protection laws are not as broad as the UK's.

Before you lump in the google-wary with the tin foil hat wearers,
consider that a government would have a much easier time simply asking
google for your thoughts than attempting to steal them through radio
waves ;)

Yours Hypocritically, ;)
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

[Matt Jones]

On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:38 PM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
 Following the massive e-mail outage (again) at Fasthosts yesterday, I'm
 looking to move my e-mail-only account.  Does anyone have any experience
 / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host?  Their free or
 cheap-as-chips packages look OK.  I'm not fussed about the web space
 aspect, really, more the e-mail service.

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I have a couple of domains hosted with 5 quid, with several email
accounts and it has been nice and reliable, in the two years I have
not noticed any downtime. The webmail is a choice of Horde and
squirrelmail, both are a bit clunky, but work fine.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Liferea: transfer settings from 1.4 to 1.6?

[Matt Wheeler]

2009/11/17 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
 I've just done a clean install of Karmic on a Dell laptop.  I want to
 transfer my Liferea_1.4 settings;  but Karmic uses Liferea_1.6.  It's
 turning out to be a complete PITA.  I don't fancy redoing all the
 settings by hand.  Anyone had success with this?

I did an upgrade, and liferea managed the upgrade fine by itself. So
what you could try is removing all reference to liferea 1.6 in your
home dir (don't know how many places it stores stuff, anyone else?),
putting your liferea 1.4 settings in the right place then just running
liferea, it should prompt you about the upgrade and let you know it's
leaving your 1.4 settings in case of problems, and do the conversion
for you.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Liferea: transfer settings from 1.4 to 1.6?

[Matt Wheeler]

2009/11/17 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
 Just to update this thread and close it, I'm happy to report success.  I
 removed liferea_1.6 with sudo aptitude remove --purge liferea, and
 deleted .liferea_1.6 in /home and the liferea folder in ~/.gconf/apps.

 I then copied .liferea_1.4 from a backup into /home, and reinstalled
 liferea_1.6 from the repos.  When I started liferea, it hung, with 100%
 cpu usage. (?why.)  I restarted the laptop, restarted liferea, and after
 a disconcertingly long pause, but with the cpu usage not getting above
 23%, the application eventually started, and had automatically imported
 the 1.4 settings into the new 1.6 folder.  Phew!

Just a quick note, running aptitude remove --purge liferea probably
made no difference whatsoever. That only has an effect on system files
and system configuration (files inside /etc, specifically), which
liferea doesn't have any of anyway.

This is true for any package for a program that has user-specific
settings, apt has nothing to do with them.

 Thanks to Matt.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

[Matt Jones]

On Sun, Nov 8, 2009 at 9:20 AM, David Restall - System Administrator
d...@restall.net wrote:
 Hi,

 Matt Jones  wrote :-

 On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Restall - System Administrator
 d...@restall.net wrote:
 
  Also can somebody tell me why the BBC are so keen on 'Podcasts' which is
  as proprietary as they come but not so keen on just putting good old
  MP3's on the site to download ?
 

 They do put MP3's for direct download.

 Where ? I can't find them.  I'm interested in stuff on Radio 7 and Radio 4.
 The best I can find on R4 is their 'Podcasts' page and they don't have
 all the programmes available, I can't find anything on R7.

 Rgds,



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If you go to the podcast page, eg
http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/fricomedy , the MP3 download link
is the green box about halfway down on the lefthand side.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Restall - System Administrator
d...@restall.net wrote:

 Also can somebody tell me why the BBC are so keen on 'Podcasts' which is
 as proprietary as they come but not so keen on just putting good old
 MP3's on the site to download ?


They do put MP3's for direct download.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

[Matt Daubney]

On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 22:13:52 +, Chris Rowson
christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my
 Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow
 Leopard.

 It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get
 anything through firefox, thunderbird, synaptic etc. The hardware test
 claims to be able to touch the net.

 Can anyone help with diagnosing these problems?

 TIA

 John
 
 I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad that
 this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is sorted
before
 Thursday.
 
 Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both
machines
 I
 tested it on. :-(
 
 Chris

I've been running Karmic since about Alpha 5 and had very few problems. The
RC (on the 3 machines I'm running anyway) seems to be quite stable. The
performance improvements are quite startling, especially the boot time on
my laptop. 

If you have found some problems, make sure you report bugs! The next
release is an LTS so should be by far more stable on release.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

[Matt Daubney]

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:32:49 +, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net
wrote:
 I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my
 hard drive is dying.
 
 Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know.
 
 Sean

That's one thing I'd definatley want to know! Make sure your backups are
upto date, and use smartmon to find out what exactley is wrong with it.
Just because something doesn't say there's a problem, doesn't mean it'll go
away!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

[Matt Wheeler]

(Sorry for top posting, I'm on my phone)
Reinstalling will probably make no difference. You could try this command:
mv .mozilla/firefox .mozilla/firefox-old

This will move your profile so firefox will create a new one. If it works
with the new profile there is a problem with your original one.

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On Oct 23, 2009 12:23 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:

Hey, to return to my question -- how do I get Firefox to give me back
my buttons?

I could uninstall/reinstall from Synaptic and see if that did the
trick, but just wondering if anybody knew of a less drastic solution?

Sean

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] IBM Ubuntu - but what about Lotus?

[Matt Jones]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:56 AM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
 Paul Roach wrote:
 It's an interesting development and perhaps brings Ubuntu one step
 closer to providing support for an application that can genuinely
 compete with MS Exchange (the sole reason why we still have an Active
 Directory environment here - as everything else for Windows clients
 can be delivered via Samba+LDAP).  IMHO it's the one thing that's
 lacking for Ubuntu and Linux in general.  A cost effective, functional
 and not exclusively web based groupware solution that functions for
 both Windows and Linux clients would then provide a complete migration
 path for corporates to an Open-Source environment.  Unfortunately
 Exchange is, at the moment Microsoft's killer app and is too often
 dismissed as a simple mail server.  The integration it provides with
 the other aspects and features (shared tasks, calendars, public
 folders, journaling, etc) mean that there's nothing out there at
 present that can touch it.

 Thanks for bringing this to attention Mac, and for the detailed
 response Alan.
 Well there is Zimbra.  I tried the Open Source edition and found it to
 work quite well.  After a bit of fiddling I worked out how to import
 Exchange users to Zimbra (there is a Windows tool available) and it has
 a nice web interface, mail, calenders etc.  It can also be expanded with
 the use of Zimlets (I liked the fact I could link it in with Google
 Maps).  It also has Windows and Linux clients, and I believe a Mac
 client too (Zimbra Desktop).

 On the down side though the Open Source edition doesn't have plugins for
 Outlook (I believe that only in the paid for version) and it isn't under
 the GPL, I gather it's some sort of Yahoo licence which is more
 restrictive.  Not to mention the fact it's future appears to be somewhat
 hanging on the balance (Yahoo may or may not sell it according to
 articles I've read on the net).

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Has anyone else seen/used Opengoo? It is a Affero GPL V3 Web office
suite. The online demo was very nice(Although it appears to have
stopped working now. I only found out about it yesterday and was
surprised it hasn't received more attention. I am not sure how it
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] update-manager Not Displaying New Release for Karmic

[Matt Wheeler]

(Sorry for top-posting, awkward mobile client)

update-manager seems to update all of the ppa distro names for you. Not sure
about other third party repos though

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On Oct 15, 2009 9:36 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:

2009/10/15 Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com:

 In the Software Sources applet, click on the Third Party tab.   The
repositories that were disab...
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia phone running open source

[Matt Jones]

On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Jamie Bennett ja...@linuxuk.org wrote:
 Device speed is excellent, you really do have a mini-computer in your
 pocket. Camera is great and of course you can FTP, ssh, and use all
 the other great apps your used to.

 But it's pricy compared to other phone/laptop offerings. If it it's
 heavyly subsidied and you bother little for a great _phone_ experience
 then why not.

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 Thanks Jamie, was just posting a question about how you'd obtained
 yours and then looked at your blog and Alan's comment - all now
 becomes clear!

 Another question though ---how do you compare the Android/Maemo
 platforms in terms of speed and open-ness?  I'm seriously considering
 a new handset as an early Christmas present to myself, and I'd like
 the device to be as productive as possible for me - the ability to use
 SSH etc at reasonable speed

 I've found with recent handsets I use the phone functionality less
 than other features.

 Jamie Bennett wrote:

 IMHO it's the best Internet tablet yet but it's not a great phone
 at the moment.

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I have seen it for free on a £35/mo contract with a pretty decent
usage allowance, and I suspect that an existing customer could get
that down somewhat. I pay a fiver less a month for my N95 8GB. The Sim
free price is comparable to other high end phones, for the
functionality you get. The size doesn't bother me too much as I
currently carry the N95 and an N800 around, so combining them both is
pretty much perfect. I'm just waiting for it to arrive now.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

[Matt Jones]

On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 6:17 PM, John Davis davi...@wanadoo.fr wrote:
 This is not a linux question as such but I know someone will know the
 answer!

 My computers hard drive is full. I have finally persuaded the Missus to have
 a go at Ubuntu. I would like to buy a 500 gig SATA hard drive Partition it
 half for Wind**s and Ubuntu as the main.

 I know I have to get an IDE to SATA adapter. My question is; does my 2 dvd
 drives need to be connected to this adapter or do they connect to the
 motherboard as normal ? Can I also use one SATA hard drive with adapter and
 a normal IDE hard drive connected to the mother board ? In order to empty
 the hard drive already fitted by dragging and dropping?

 The pc is 6 years old and a Hewlett Packard.
 Any tips welcome

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You will need a PCI SATA card, they are £10 on ebay and generally
have 2 SATA ports on the cheaper ones. I have one with a VIA chipset
and it works fine with all flavours of linux I have tried with it.
Leave the other drives as they are, put the SATA PCI card in and
connect the drive data cable to it.  You will probably need an adaptor
cable for the drive power as the newer SATA drives don't use a molex
connector but a slimmer edge connector. The adaptor should only be a
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing clean Ubuntu in VM.....

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 7:17 PM, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
 Hi, I was wondering, I would like to have a clean install of Ubuntu in a
 VM, which I have installed on my machine which is using Ubuntu. Trouble
 is, I cant get it to install. Does somebody have a url to a site, where
 it gives instructions on installing into a VM.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Opening CorelDraw CDR Files

[Matt Jones]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 7:25 AM, James Kemp
james+ubuntu...@somebody.org.uk wrote:
 I've got a couple of CDR files that I want to convert to SVG for use in
 inkscape. Does anyone know how I might go about doing that without having
 either CorelDraw or windows available?

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You can use Uniconverter, or I think that SK1 can open them and then
you could save it as an SVG. I had mixed results when using
Uniconverter, although it was quite a while ago now.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Having problems with making Firefox 3.5 default

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On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:48 +0100, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
 Matthew Daubney wrote:
 On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:18 +0100, John Matthews wrote:

 Daniel Drummond wrote:

 John Matthews wrote:


 Daniel Drummond wrote:



 Hi Dan,

 thank you for the commands, I got all the way to the last command,
 adding the 3.5 in, and it says command refused. I think its because
 my
 FF3.5 says shiretoko on it.

 John






 What does this command output:
 $ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*

 Dan






 Hi Dan,

 this is what I get

 jake...@jakewc2-laptop:~$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2009-09-10 19:52 /usr/bin/firefox -
 firefox-3.0
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-09-13 17:09 /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 -
 ../lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox.sh




 Looks like you've deleted the symlink for firefox-3.0 now.


 That is odd, no mention of shiretoko there, yet when I open it 3.5 it
 has shiretoko at the top of the window.



 The name of the program isn't related to the name in the titlebar,
 this
 is set by the programmer.  Shiretoko is the codename for the firefox
 3.5
 release.

 What was the actual error message when you tried those commands?  Did
 you run them with sudo?

 I have double checked those commands, and none of them should fail. 
 You
 may need to put your password in when it asks.

 Ensure you are running them in the correct directory.

 Dan



 This is really odd, I tried to open firefox in a terminal by using this
 command firefox %s and it says its not installed, and gives me a
 command
 to install it.


 Hi john,

 Open a terminal, type

 cd /usr/bin

 Then type

 sudo ln -s firefox3.5 firefox-3.0

 That should set 3.5 to the default.

 -Matt Daubney



 I just looked at that in the terminal, and the results say
 
 ln: creating symbolic link `firefox-3.0': File exists
 
 So does that mean its created the symlink for version 3.0 not 3.5?
 
 I copied and pasted the commands, btw.
 
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Sorry, my mistake, I misread the output from ls you pasted. The commands
should have been: 
 Open a terminal, type

 cd /usr/bin

 Then type

 sudo ln -s firefox-3.5 firefox

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Having problems with making Firefox 3.5 default

[Matt Daubney]

 Ok, tried that command, this is what I get when I run
 
 ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*
 
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2009-09-10 19:52 /usr/bin/firefox -
firefox-3.0
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2009-09-16 11:59 /usr/bin/firefox-3.0 -
 firefox3.5
 lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-09-13 17:09 /usr/bin/firefox-3.5 -
 ../lib/firefox-3.5.3/firefox.sh
 
 
 does that mean anything? I still cant get a url to open in firefox
though,
 the only way it will open is by copying and pasting, it should work, so I
 dont know why it doesnt.
 
 John

Check your preferred apps now and firefox should have reappeared. It might
just be a simple case of reselcting this in your preferred apps.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] laptops and broadband dongles

[Matt Jones]

If he is only going to use it a small amount, then Vodafone offer the
best deal, top up £15 for 1GB. Then use it until it runs out. With
everyone else, your 1GB of data only lasts 30days, even if you haven't
used it all.

Most of the dongles are plug and play, I'm not sure about the
Vodaphone one though, as the field has developed so quickly, then the
drivers aren't in Ubuntu yet for the most modern ones.

Do you have a link to the laptop?

Matt.

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 Hi all,

 I’m looking for some information. My father in law is looking to buy a
 laptop and broadband dongle. We’ve (sort of) found a laptop that we’re going
 to put Jaunty onto but I’d like to know if there are any ISP’s we should
 look at and also any we should avoid?

 Also are there issues with dongles and Ubuntu or is it going to be plain
 sailing? Please bear in mind that this is going to be for a recently retired
 person who has only ever had MS OS’s so he definitely won’t understand
 terminal or other technical stuff. I’ll probably be the one setting it all
 up for him.

 I’d be really grateful for any advice and/or warnings of potential hazards.

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[ubuntu-uk] Throw a release party to get free software.

[Matt Jones]

I wonder where they got this idea from?
http://houseparty.com/windows7

They do seem to look very excited at installing Windows 7. Then again,
they may be wiping Vista...


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] text to speech apps

[Matt Jones]

On Thu, Aug 13, 2009 at 7:54 AM, javadayazjavada...@gmail.com wrote:
 Hi,

 I want to convert from text to speech. Does anyone know of any free apps in
 ubuntu that can do this?

 Im planning on converting a book from text to speech so i can listen on my
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There is festival in the repositories- It is a command line app, so
you probably want to read about how to use it. You can specify it to
read out a file, there may be an option to output to a file although
it has been a while since I have used it.

Hope this helps,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Good SciFi was: What would Linus Pauling think about 'LinuxCertified'?

[Matt Daubney]

On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 07:22:50 +0100, Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu wrote:
 
 
 Norman Silverstone wrote:
 We are the borg. You will be assimilated.

 Now, now you are starting to show your age.
 That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al
 all the time :)

 My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage
 of good SF?
 
 There is some good SF available?  I must live a sheltered life.  The SF
 I've been exposed to on the small screen seems to be Cowboys and
 Indians c1950 Hollywood.

If you get a chance to watch Dollhouse, that _is_ good SciFi. Weird, and a
little bit freaky, but good none the less. I keep meaning to go back
through the whole of Farscape from my SciFi collection too. That was
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android on iPhone

[Matt Jones]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Daniel Drummonddmdrummo...@gmail.com wrote:

 I haven't watched this yet, but sounds interesting: 
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmDQpfCcMs

 YouTube video of Window 95 on the iPhone. Sourced from Guardian Tech
 Twitter.

 James


 I would take those claims with a pinch of salt.  Surely it is easier to
 get an open source OS which already supports the ARM architecture onto a
 phone, than a closed source 15 year old OS with no ARM support at all.

 Sounds (and looks) more like they wrote an iphone app that looks like
 windows 95.  Or it could even be a video of windows booting.

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I belive the issue is that the bootloader is encrypted and won't boot
anything other than iphoneos, this was certainly the case with newer
ipods and rockbox, I am not sure what the situation with this is now,
it has been a couple of years since I have had one.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] recover deleted files in a window OS system

[Matt Jones]

Just fyi the N95 does come up as a mass storage device. It gives the
option to use pc suite when you plug it in. Matt.

On 7/14/09, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
 ok update. recuva kep t on giving errors. undelete plus seems to have done
 the trick though.
 Thank you all for your help. :)

 2009/7/14 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk

 javadayaz wrote:
  shes tried it and it recovers some files not all of them. The pictures
  were stored on thep phones internal memory. its a nokeia 8gb n95
 
 I've not used the Nokia N95 myself so this is a long shot.  When she
 connects the phone to her PC does it come up as a removable drive at all
 or does she have to use the Nokia PC Suite software?

 If it comes up as a drive letter in Windows then hopefully you should be
 able to use a Windows undelete program such as Freeundelete -
 http://www.officerecovery.com/freeundelete

 However if she has to use the Nokia PC Suite software then she may be
 out of luck.

 I know it's not much help now but she might want to consider in the
 future to get a memory card for her phone (I presume MicroSD) and save
 any photos on the card.  That way if the worst does happen and she
 accidentally deletes any photos, or for instance if the phone dies then
 she could pop out the card and use it in a PC to get the photos back.

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[ubuntu-uk] Film scanning

[Matt Jones]

I have been volunteered to help my gran to scan all her old
slides/negatives etc for safekeeping and as a way of getting cheaper
prints. My current scanner isn't up to the task, despite working
beautifully with Ubuntu. Does anyone have any recommendations for a
suitable unit that will work out of the box? It needs to deliver a
reasonable quality and also cope with quite a lot of material! Cost
isn't too important, but sub £100 would be nice, used is fine if they
don't make the model anymore.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome OS Announced

[Matt Lopez-Dias]

An OS from google can only be a good thing for ubuntu, getting peoples
heads around the idea of alternative OSs. More high profile choices
will equal more progress. Right now almost anyone i speak to has no
idea what the OS is, and that you can even run a non apple computer on
anything but windows.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked..... (now showing online?)

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 10:08 PM, Chris
Rowsonchristopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:

 http://hamstercareforum.co.uk/

 ?? I can see it I think

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Looks like you just got away with it. Making a full site backup
probably isn't a bad idea!
Glad you got it sorted,
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] wacom bamboo

[Matt Jones]

On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Rob Beardr...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
 norman wrote:
 My tablet arrived today and it worked straight out of the box in Ubuntu
 9.04. Now all I have to do is to learn how to use it.

 Norman


 That's great, out of interest, how much was it?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flyers

[Matt Jones]

Just a report back on my findings, I bought a pack of 15cm*15cm paper
bags froom booker, and gave it a go. With my old HP colour laserjet
they printed pretty well, it isn't a photo quality print, but is
suprisingly decent. It probably won't work with a 4 pass system, due
to the layers and folds, although I havn't tried it. I don't think
printing the back will work, I tried a couple of times and it just
jammed. It may be possible in an ordinary BW printer as the paper
path is generally less complicated. You do need to feed them
individually as they are are attached on a plastic loop thing.

Hope this help, I will experiment further when I get some time!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool

[Matt Jones]

Sounds like something you would find in gdesklets, the osx style widget thing.

On 6/11/09, Eddie Armstrong eddie_armstr...@ntlworld.com wrote:
 doug livesey wrote:
 Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu?
 Just something I can quickly  easily set reminders in that will pop
 up  annoy me until I deal with them.
 Cheers,
Doug.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] pre installed ubuntu laptops?

[Matt Jones]

 I just wish that other computer manufacturers did this
 so customers could see that the Windows licence costs a fair chuck (IIRC
 a recent quote I did for some PCs with Windows XP Pro, the Windows
 license was about a third of the cost of the PC, if they'd gone for
 Ubuntu they could have either saved themselves a whole wad of cash, or
 updated the spec).

 Rob


I suspect that Dell, HP etc have a cost per software install of
practically zero, they get a cheap windows licence, and then recover
the cost by installing crapware. This certainly leaves smaller OEMs at
a disadvantage. Microsoft would rather give windows away if it stopped
a competitor, as has been seen with netbooks.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] pre installed ubuntu laptops - now MS refunds...

[Matt Jones]

On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 9:43 PM, Alan
Bellalan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
 LeeGroups wrote:
 hmm, maybe I should start collecting photos of such anti-competitive
 practices in a hall of shame on the nakedcomputers.org site.

 I don't suppose you have the box still do you?

 Still, have the box, yes. But I was so angry at the time, I got my phone
 out and took a photo...
 I've emailed it to you.

 Lee


 wow. That is a very clear notice.

 Quality Seal
 Importants Notice: TOSHIBA Corporation (TOSHIBA) and/or its subsidiaries
 currently sell personal computers with pre-installed Microsoft operating
 system as computing solution. Please note, notwithstanding anything to
 the contrary in the documentation accompanying your computer, TOSHIBA
 and/or its subsidiaries do not accept the return of component parts or
 bundled software, which have been removed from the PC System. Pro-rata
 refunds on individual components or bundled software, including the
 operating system, will not be granted.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wacom Intuos4 - how to install?

[Matt Jones]

As an aside, what do you think of the intuos? I am severely tempted by
the A4 one as an upgrade from my bamboo, which has more than paid for
itself.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wacom Intuos4 - how to install?

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 7:22 PM, macammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk
 If you do get a Bamboo, and get it working, I hope you'll keep some
 notes to share with me!

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I have the bamboo (Not the fun version), and it worked plug and play
in 8.10. However I managed to kill the laptop before I got to upgrade
it to 9.04 so I couldn't say for the latest release.(Unfortunatly I am
windows only at the moment :( ). I assume the difficulties with the
intuos 4 is that it is a newer version of the hardware, so it should
be fixed in the next release.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flyers

[Matt Jones]

On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 2:13 PM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
 Hi folks,
 It looks like it's possible to buy white paper bags (like what small
 independent newsagents and fruit shops may use) for a few quid for
 1000.  I thought it might be possible to put these through a printer (at
 least an inkjet, maybe even a laser) and print the Ubuntu or Tux logo on
 them.  I figured that 21 x 21 cm bags then we could fit a couple of CDs
 and a couple of A5 or A4 folded leaflets in there.  I am tempted to buy
 a pack although it's a shame that they don't seem to do small sample
 packs of say 5 bags just to try (I'd rather not buy 1,000 and find they
 aren't any use).

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You would find those tricky to print as they often have a surface
somewhere between greaseproof paper and ordinary paper, so an inkjet
printer may have trouble with adhesion.Also it is very thin, so if it
does stick then bleeding may also be an issue. I wouldn't laser print
as I imagine they would get stuck in the internals. It is a nice idea,
next time I am in the cash and carry I will try and get some to see
what can be done ,out of interest. 1000 cd sized ones are only £2.40,
it's the postage cost that is the sting. If you have a catering
supplies place near you they might be worth a try, otherwise booker
cash and carry have them, although you do need to be a member, I don't
think you need to be a business anymore though.

Or just nip to the corner shop and see if you can blag a couple ;)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

[Matt Jones]

On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 4:27 PM, Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
 alan c wrote:
 James Milligan wrote:
 Also the CDs you order through shipit come with 4 stickers each I
 think. I've got a fair few here. Need to stick them somewhere actually.

 Car back bumper, bike front mudguard, front window of house,  :-)
 back of laptop lid .
 On a car back bumper they last about 6 months, maybe more if not in
 too much sunshine.


 Anyone know where I can get these? I'm replacing Vista on my laptop and
 it would be good to peel off the Vista sticker and replace with an
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http://shop.canonical.com

You will have to get a mixed pack for 43p, they appear to be sold out
of the ones that come with shipit.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to buy as an Ubuntu web server?

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 10:33 PM, Chris Rowson
christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:
 On Sat, May 23, 2009 at 5:03 PM, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote:

 I appreciate the advice there, and that is definitely the route I take
 with external, client-facing websites (although I use Mampi -- just get a
 recommendation in there!).
 This, however, is for a suite of inter-operating internal apps, so the
 requirement is to have them hosted internally.
 Cheers,
    Doug.

 Hi Doug,

 It's hard to advise specific hardware without knowing the scale or mechanism
 of the application you want to run on it. Additionally other hardware
 options may also depend on any SLA you have with a customer you are
 providing (i.e what level of uptime are they expecting etc).

 Personally if the most important factor is that the server is cheap, I'd go
 with an entry level HP server with 3 years warranty as suggested in my
 earlier post, although as I say, you 'get what you pay for' in terms of no
 proper hardware RAID, non-swappable SATA drives, no redundant PSU etc.

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One caveat with the HP ones is that some retailers only sell them with
a one year warrenty. I bought one of the Quad core opteron ones as a
desktop ubuntu machine for my parents, I couldn't build anything as
cheap at the time and with an extra stick of ram and a cheap graphics
card it works a treat. It is reasonably power efficient, It draws
around 105w at idle, with one hard drive, going up to around 150w
under load. They are very nice little boxes, the core2 based xeons
should use less power. I got mine for £160, but the price seems to
have gone up to around £220, which is still a decent deal.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] how to set up a dial up connection

[Matt Jones]

I would really recommend a router, a wired one is cheap, and will give
a better and more stable connection that the modem. There appears to
be some info here
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UsbAdslModem/EciAdsl but it is quite
old. I know my sagem one didn't work at all when I tried it.

Matt.

On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
 On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote:
 sorry, an extra bit I forgot to mention - it is a BT DSL modem, using
 broadband, but the computer DIALS UP to the connection.

 It doesn't actually.

 It's just that Windows displays it as a Dial Up Networking Connection.

 Doesn't dial up at all -- it's ADSL.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Routers and printers

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Rik Boland rik_bol...@btinternet.com wrote:
 Hi

 I got a router free when I got my broadband but shops sell routers.

 Why and what the difference - r they better?

 Also is there a way to make my wired printer wireless?

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.
The router that ASDL companies give you are often very basic, with
little control of more advanced functions. They can also be a bit
flaky(Depends on who the router was made by), so purchasing a new one
can give you more features such as advanced firewall rules and VOIP
functions. If you are happy with the stability and don't use the
advanced features then the one you have should be fine.

If the printer has an ethernet port, just plug it in to the
router(Which I assume is wireless?) and you can print over the network
wirelessly- Depending on the printer it may take a bit of fiddling
around with, but Ubuntu is usually good at picking up printers- far
better than the windows printer setup. If the printer only has a
USB/Parallel port then you have two options. The cheapest in the short
term is to plug the printer into a desktop machine, and share it
across the network. Printing does require the machine to be switched
on when you need to print though. The second option is to get a print
server, which is basically a box with a USB/parallel port at one end
and an ethernet at the other. Plug the printer in one end and the
router in the other. You can get wireless versions, but they are
pretty expensive. Some routers are also starting to have a built in
printer server, so one of these may be an option. Some printers can be
a bit fussy about this, so it's probably best to have a google before
buying anything to check that it will work.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Routers and printers

[Matt Jones]

On Sat, May 9, 2009 at 11:37 AM, John jake...@sky.com wrote:
 Isnt there something about companies restricting you from buying routers
 apart from theirs. I belong to Sky, and if Sky found out I had a
 different Router than theirs they would cut me off. There is a way to
 get the username and password that comes with my router, but I am afraid
 to actually go into that just in case I mess it up. I am sure that most
 companies wont allow you to change routers. Which is stupid really
 considering the ones they give you are so basic.

 John.

 Steve Archer wrote:
 Hi Rik

 Most routers, both wired and wireless, are pretty much standard models
 that you can buy in the shop.

 The emphasis being on the word standard - if you have some
 fancy-fandangle adapter running an uncertified wifi standard to squeeze
 some more speed out of the connection (supposedly) then its likely
 you'll want a compatible router. Which on the whole wouldn't be a router
 issued by an ISP.

 My advice, if they're giving it away free then give it a go - likely its
 pre-configured and ready to rock-n-roll.

 If you want a bit more out of your wireless, like you're streaming media
 throughout your house and several devices then do some research and get
 the most appropriate router for your needs - be prepared to give your
 wallet a severe bashing.

 And remember, chances are your internet connection is less then 20meg,
 and 802.11g is supposed to be 54meg, so there's really no need to go for
 an all-singing all-dancing super-fast wireless router just for browsing
 the net.

 One caveat to this. If you are running services behind your routers,
 like web hosting, and you want additional control and security then you
 might want to look at a more funtional router.

 As for your printer, I concur with Harry's comments.

 Cheers, Steve



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 Hi

 I got a router free when I got my broadband but shops sell routers.

 Why and what the difference - r they better?

 Also is there a way to make my wired printer wireless?

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Not for most ISPs, they give you a Username/password that you know. I
don't know why Sky does that, do they try to upsell routers?
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viglen 'Review' (Was: Re: downloading slow torrents energy consumption)

[Matt Jones]

On Thu, Apr 9, 2009 at 11:44 AM, Jamie Bennett ja...@linuxuk.org wrote:
 Steve Garton wrote:
 Would a Viglen have enough grunt to run something like boxee
 (www.boxee.tv)? Boxee has rtorrent integrated, but it is mainly a
 media centre (a fork of xmbc I believe). I currently have it running
 on an old (~5 year old) PC in the living room (as a proof of concept
 to my wife), but would like to move to a cheap, small, quiet machine
 in future.

 Not sure. I don't use mine for anything stressful. It downloads torrents,
 streams them to my xbox360, holds a few screen programs (irssi e.t.c) and some
 other general programs. It's a dog to surf the internet on it so video 
 playback
 would probably be out of the question.

 Steve Garton
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Would something like the EEEtop be a better solution, or one of the
plethora of atom based machines. The power consumption wouldn't be
that much greater than the Viglen unit, with more power. You could
also look at a low end core2 machine in a media case. It would be
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Italian ubuntian in Exeter

[Matt Jones]

No?? The US uses a narrower range of channel IIRC, but that's about it.

On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 3:46 PM, Alec Wright ale...@gmail.com wrote:
 I think there could be a problem with WiFi standards... isnt european
 wifi incompatible with UK WiFi

 2009/4/8 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
 m.pal...@tiscali.it wrote:
 Dear Folks,
 I am an Italian ubuntian who came to Exeter for a course.
 I brought my notebook with me, I was hoping to use it wireless, but I
 cannot.
 Maybe If you have a ubuntu community center, or a pub we can meet
 there and you can teacdh me how to connect wifi with my notebook here.
 My version is the 8.10 I have a Compaq presesario with atheros device
 for the wifi.
 I stay here for 10 days, maybe you can help.

 Thank you
 Marco
 You can conntact me viua email, I can chack the email once a day.
 Thank you.



 Hi Marco,

 Unfortunately the Exwick Community Centre in Exeter isn't ready yet as
 this would have been an ideal location.

 There are some other options though, there are a couple of Weatherspoons
 pubs in Exeter as far as I'm aware, one The Imperial is near the Exeter
 St Davids railway station and near the Exeter College and Universities.
 There is free wifi available there.

 I'll cc this into the Devon  Cornwall Linux User Group list as there
 are a few members in Exeter who may be able to help you out (I'm in
 Torquay and at the moment I haven't had much opportunity to get to Exeter).

 Hope this helps and I hope you enjoy your visit to Exeter, with any luck
 the weather will stay nice while you're staying here.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joiku wireless connection......

[Matt Jones]

I use it on my N95, it just works from what I can tell, it asks to
connect to the 3g connection, then sets up an unencrypted acess point.
What phone are you using?

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 8:55 AM, John jake...@sky.com wrote:
 Hi everybody, I have decided that using the orange dongle just isnt
 working, so I am trying something else. Its called Joiku. I just
 wondered if anybody has used it before and got it to work.

 I have set it up according to the instructions, but it keeps asking for
 the encryption key.

 I found this, and just wondered if anybody had any ideas about it, and
 if it has anything to do with the encryption key problem:-

 http://drupal4hu.com/node/172

 If I did what that suggests would it help?

 Thank you.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed computer prices

[Matt Jones]

In the past, that opinion was fairly valid. Now, the celerons are
actually quite speedy little chips, espescially for an Ubuntu box that
is going to run web/openoffice/music all day. As for recommending a
Via over the current (Dual core) celerons, they are quite a long way
behind in performance terms, and not really any cheaper.

I think that the option should be offered to have either LTS or the
most current release as an option. For a consumer use, the new
software available in a non LTS release does offer benefits over the
staid reliability of the LTS.

On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 10:51 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
 2009/3/25 Eddie Bernard edd...@gmail.com:
 I'm looking to offer a base unit, 2GHz dual core Celeron (E1400) with
 2GB DDR2 PC2-6400 RAM, and a 150GB SATA hdd. Graphics, sound and
 ethernet are onboard.

 My only comment - apart from to agree with those who commend that you
 use the LTS version - would be this: I would never buy a Celeron and I
 tell everyone, friends and clients, to avoid them. They are nasty,
 crippled devices and anything with a Celery in it is probably
 rubbish, in my not-at-all-humble opinion.

 I'd rather have a cheap low-end but full-spec AMD or Via chip than a
 Celeron. Yes, I know it's possible to replace a Celeron with a
 full-spec chip, but almost nobody ever does  it's almost never an
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launch Party Manchester

[Matt]

Hi

I personally would prefer the venue not to be a pub. A community setting
would be more appropriate. I would like the launch to promote
meaningfully and not just be a party

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[ubuntu-uk] Introduction

[Matt]

Hello everyone

I just wanted to introduce myself to the group. I am an experienced
Linux user, living in South Manchester. My interest is in the promotion
of free software to the general public. I am an experienced Ubuntu user,
web designer and can program in Java and Python to an intermediate
level.

My hope is to help create a South Manchester Ubuntu group, that could
organise regular meetings providing installation and usage advice as
well as attend events within the local community to promote free
software and help people move away from their usual (and expensive)
OS's.

I have helped a number of people convert to using Ubuntu and the
response has always been positive. I hope this can be broadened to the
wider community in a face-to-face way. I believe that around the
Chorlton area of the city this would be embraced with open arms


Thanks for your time.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] embeddded flash videos in firefox

[Matt Jones]

Which one did you use? I use Adblock plus for firefox and not had any issues.
Mj.

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Rowan Berkeley
rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
 I don't know what I did right, but my Firefox browser is streaming
 embedded .flv videos now. I think I had the wrong Ad Blocker. There are
 a lot of these, and some of them assume all embedded flash material is
 ads. The main lesson I think I get from this is, install and test your
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

[Matt Jones]

On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 10:32 PM, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
 Alan Pope wrote:
 2009/3/15 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk:
 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/11/10/highfield_quits_kangaroo/

 Ashley Highfield (Ex-BBC Iplayer boss) now works for MS.  I seem to
 recall that the latest appointee of the BBC's media division is an ex
 MS UK employee.


 I wonder how many potential recruits to that role, at that level, with
 the necessary experience would also fall into the group have once
 worked at Microsoft.

 If you use Flash (or AIR which seems to run perfectly on Ubuntu for
 iPlayer and Google Analytics) then cross-platform gaming should be easy.


 As a parent I can testify that the _vast_ majority of kids content on
 the BBC website is indeed already in various versions of flash. Some
 older video is real format but that's gone out of fashion of late.

 Of course neither of those platforms are open, but then if you're
 downloading a closed source game from bbc.co.uk, all bets are off in
 terms of 'I only want free software on my computers'. Fail at multiple
 levels there.

 What the BBC _should_ be doing of course is commissioning new Free
 software projects. Rather than having great swathes of code on their
 site that nobody can improve upon, and will eventually die off and
 become unusable when the various versions of flash, air, real (and so
 on) are no longer supported by the vendors.

 Sorry but I have to defend the bbc here.

 firstly bbc.co.uk/opensource  - dirac video codec is free software at
 the beebs hands as is kamelia - the python framework and other things.

 There are people in the BBC who are doing amazing work promoting free
 software and open standards within the organisation - this needs to be
 recognised in discussions like this.

 One example that springs particularly in my mind:
 http://welcomebackstage.com/2008/11/george-wright-responds-to-backstage-questions/

 There are policy makers and content producers who cause big problems for
 free software advocates in the beeb - these are the people who writing
 to people get to (also write to content producers association who are
 equally to blame for DRM and subsequently Adobe Air etc.)

 If you have some cool technical ideas though, you might be interested in
 the BBC Backstage mailing list or the Backstage Idea thingy:

 http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/mailinglists
 http://ideas.welcomebackstage.com/

 There are good people in the BBC, lets try and work with them rather
 than flaming the organisation... :)

 teflon suit :)

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Yes, I don't think all of the flaming towards the BBC is entirely
justifyable in the case of the Adventure Rock game/virtual world. Yes,
it is proprietary, that's bad. Also, it isn't multiplatform, that's
bad. However, would it have been possible to create such a thing in an
entirely FOSS manner? For a start you couldn't use Directx, which many
games are built upon. From looking around a bit it appears to use an
engine shared with a belgian game of a similar style, written by
Larian studios. Now presumably this was used as a basis for the
Adventure Rock game, it certainly looks similar and Wikipedia claims
they were developed in collaboration. How much would it have cost to
write from scratch in a FOSS manner, or using an existing FOSS engine?
There is project darkstar, but that isn't really a complete solution,
and doesn't appear to be ready for primetime. According to various
sources, the cost of the game is £250,000, which is a splash in the
BBC's budget. It is also not that expensive in game terms.



Additionally, according to the BBC, the project seems to be part of a
trial, so spending a large amount of time writing their own would have
been too expensive/difficult.
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