Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install
2009/3/14 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: In fact I think I have managed to locate the gnash 0.8.4 and swfdec 0.8.0 packages in synaptic and remove them after all, so I won't have to re-install the whole of firefox. Re-installing applications actually rarely fixes anything. There are a few exceptions to this, but not many. They have their own little dependencies, which are still in there but non-removable, so maybe I should have used the 'complete removal', rather than just 'removal' buttons, or maybe I should have ticked every one of them rather than the principal ones alone, but I shall see how I get on with embedded flash videos in future, anyway, and if necessary do some more experimentation in synaptic. thanks. If you don't know what something is or what it does, don't remove it. If you do, you'll get into the same situation you did previously when you changed repository settings. On a new install of Ubuntu I generally recommend people find and install the ubuntu-restricted-extras package in synaptic. This will install the non-free (but working - mostly) Adobe Flash player, Sun Java, video codecs and fonts - and a few other bits and bobs. It's a great one stop shop to get the usual stuff many people need for a fully working system. It will install non-free stuff so if you're the kind of person who only wants Free software then you might want to avoid it. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] embeddded flash videos in firefox
2009/3/16 Matt Jones m...@mattjones.me.uk: Which one did you use? I use Adblock plus for firefox and not had any issues. Mj. I use flashblock to block flash content, and allow it on a per-site basis, and adblock plus to block ads. Very handy. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] embeddded flash videos in firefox
2009/3/16 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: As well as AdBlock Plus, you can use AddArt to replace the ads removed with art. What a lovely idea. Thanks. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux
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. Even if the games were developed as closed source but cross platform that would be a step in the right direction, although not far enough. Games such as World of Goo, Darwinia, DEFCON: Everybody Dies and simpler games such as Neverball show that it is possible to create compelling cross platform games which don't require the budget of EA/Warner/Sony etc to do it. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux
2009/3/16 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net: Sorry but I have to defend the bbc here. I wasn't knocking the BBC, merely musing on the current situation and where I'd like to see them go in the future. There was no ill intent meant on my part towards the BBC. 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/ I am registered user number 4 on that site :) There are good people in the BBC, lets try and work with them rather than flaming the organisation... :) I fail to see how I was flaming, but hey ho. teflon suit :) I suspect you were to quick to slip that on. Maybe another day. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games
2009/3/17 red rik_bol...@btinternet.com: Is there any Linux gamers out there? My house mate plays pc games and I doubt that there is but any good games? http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=list+of+linux+games There's a fair few lists of games online. Personally I've played Warsow (which is in the repository), Darwinia and Defcon, but not many others. I use consoles for gaming rather than PCs personally. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just another dumb question from me
2009/3/17 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net: Just go to the directory it's in and type sudo chmod 755 whatever.bin If it's in your own directory then you shouldn't need sudo. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Test
2009/3/20 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: Many servers think that gmail and googlemail are two different things, so if your emailer sends out your return address as googlemail and you personally send it out as gmail, this can cause problems. That's not the servers fault, but googles. Anyone who signed up for a Google Mail account before the court case in which it was revealed GMail was a trademark held by another company would have an @gmail account. Those who registered after would have an @googlemail account. The problem comes in that google still accept mail addressed to @gmail to people with @googlemail accounts. However when people with @googlemail accounts send email it appears to come from @googlemail and not @gmail. This means that people with @googlemail accounts believe falsely that they have a @gmail account. So they sign up for mailing lists (like this one) as foo@gmail.com and then wonder why their mail to the list bounces because they're not subscribed. The reason being that mailman will send the confirmation mail to @gmail but any mails the user sends to the list will appear to come from @googlemail and as such mailman spits it out complaining that the @googlemail is not subscribed to that mailing list. In my mind that's googles fault for not educating the users about their address and the implications of having an @googlemail account, and not rejecting @gmail mail for @googlemail accounts. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Test
2009/3/20 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com: Wow. Were you a scriptwriter on Yes, Minister? ;) That's the nicest thing anyone has said to me today :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launch Party Manchester
2009/3/20 Guy Thouret li...@thouret.co.uk: Count me in for the launch party. I think a party-type celebration and get together is the way to go. I doubt there will be anyone attending to promote to - the attendees are going to be there for the specific reason that they are Ubuntu users. It's not just about beering it up, even in a pub. At the last release party a few of us spent about an hour chatting to some random strangers who asked why we were there. They voluntarily hung about for a bit learning about Ubuntu and Canonical. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium
2009/3/20 David King linux...@avoura.com: I have it working, although there are bugs in it. I downloaded and installed soon after it came out, so not sure if the latest version might be different. Are you able to run Wine or Crossover or any other Windows programs via those? The windows version under WINE/Crossover would be _chrome_ the product from Google. I suspect Liam was meaning the Open Source version _chromium_. I tried building it and decided I have better things to do with my time, especially when the official site asks people not to file bugs. I figured my time was better spent testing software that's further down the development line and _wants_ my bug reports :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium
2009/3/20 David King linux...@avoura.com: I was referring to Chromium, a project by Codeweavers using Wine to make Chrome run on Linux. Unless there is another program called Chromium? Chromium is _not_ a project by codeweavers, it's an open source google project. http://code.google.com/chromium/ Chrome is googles branded browser which is currently only available from Google for WIndows. http://www.google.com/chrome Codeweavers packaged _chromium_ for windows and wine together. http://www.codeweavers.com/services/ports/chromium/ However there's a native Linux version - which is currently very unstable. When using the Chromium browser, if I right click on the title bar, the bottom option on the menu is About Wine. Only if you use the Windows version of chromium under wine/codeweavers. The native version doesn't. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting / spotted
Somewhat round the other way this time. I'm currently sat in the waiting room at Redhill train station waiting for my train home. I have Ubuntu stickers on my laptop. Some guy just opened the door to the waiting room and leaned in.. Hey! Good to see someone else running a proper operating system! Made me smile :) So whoever you are, thank you, you brightened up my dull wait. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joiku wireless connection......
2009/3/25 John jake...@sky.com: 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'm typing this mail whilst sat on the train connected via wifi to my phone which is running the pay-for version of Joikuspot. I have set it up according to the instructions, but it keeps asking for the encryption key. I had a similar issue when I tried to use WEP passphrase, but instead use WEP open, and it works fine. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joiku wireless connection......
2009/3/25 John jake...@sky.com: Forgot to ask, on your netbook, is the Mode set to adhoc? Or something else? I'm still not able to connect, its still asking me for encryption key. I just click on the network in network manager - it has an ad-hoc icon, but I don't have to explicitly tell it that, network manager figures that out. You might want to right click network manager and get in the connection editor get rid of the existing entry for your phone and add a new one from scratch. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joiku wireless connection......
2009/3/25 Matt Jones m...@mattjones.me.uk: 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? I used to have my one unencrypted, but too many people on trains started using it which slowed it down for me. On one occasion someone using a mac started using it, so I opened up Pidgin and enabled the bonjour protocol, knowing that the Mac iChat program supports it. I could then see in pidgin the person using my wifi. I sent them a message along the lines of.. Hello, Yes, you can use my wifi :) Yay open protocols. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joiku wireless connection......
2009/3/25 John jake...@sky.com: I bet he was surprised when you said hi, lol. She was :) Conversation with a...@macintosh-6 at Tue 24 Feb 2009 18:32:03 GMT on po...@mother (bonjour) (18:32:05) po...@mother: hello! (18:32:14) po...@mother: No, I don't mind you using my wifi (18:32:19) po...@mother: It doesn't work in bridges though (18:32:31) abigail: i thought it was the trains (18:32:35) po...@mother: I wish (18:32:36) abigail: sorry (18:32:38) po...@mother: no probs (18:32:40) abigail: ill go off (18:32:44) po...@mother: its fine, honest (18:32:57) abigail: sure cool (18:33:01) abigail: thanks (18:33:06) abigail: my battery is going to die (18:33:15) po...@mother: can't help you there I'm afraid :) (18:33:23) abigail: yeah know (18:34:29) abigail: where are you on the train? (18:34:33) po...@mother: behind you (18:34:46) abigail: ah i saw you laughing at me (18:34:52) abigail: thats why (18:34:59) abigail: :-D (18:35:07) abigail: wont be long promise (18:35:12) po...@mother: yeah, sorry, I'm not some insane wierdo who laughs at people on trains (18:35:23) abigail: ah ha well you do get em (18:35:28) po...@mother: I'm sure you do :) etc Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed computer prices
Hi Eddie, I don't believe you're breaking any rules as such on this mailing list. I personally think we should foster and encourage UK based companies/individuals who seek to supply Ubuntu based computers. I'd like to see more of this kind of discussion. 2009/3/25 Eddie Bernard edd...@gmail.com: My reason for contacting you all is a sort of market research, if you'll be kind enough to allow that. I am interested in your opinion on pricing for a computer with Ubuntu pre-installed, as it's a market I am currently looking into. I would recommend you contact the OEM Team at Canonical. There are some restrictions on the use of the Ubuntu brand when selling machines. Rather than me misquote them I'd suggest you contact them directly. 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. Like I said, I would install Ubuntu 8.10 (and, of course, ubuntu 9.04 when it's released!) and run through the update utility. I understand there are issues regarding selling a Ubuntu PC with non-free applications pre-installed (e.g. medibuntu) so I assume I will have to leave them off, but perhaps give advice to those who need it. As I understand it, if you want to officially sell Ubuntu branded computers, you will have to omit the medibuntu repository from being pre-configured. I believe you can (for a fee to Canonical) license some codecs which you _can_ supply with the computers you deliver. But as I said, contact Canonical for the full details. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed computer prices
2009/3/25 Eddie Bernard edd...@gmail.com: Cheers for the heads up. I'm just reading their website now... I assume I would need to register for their system builder programme. I don't suppose you know if that costs money? You'd need to check with them, but I believe it does cost per-pc sold, a little more if you include the codecs. Again, confirm with them. That's interesting, as, to be honest, I think in order to convince people that Ubuntu is a serious and easy-to-use alternative to Windows, ideally the system needs to be able to just work out the box. If there are ways to do that then this can only be a good thing. Will definitely look into that. I'm sure people can come up with creative solutions for that :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
2009/3/25 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com: I'm pleased to announce that Ian Forrester (from BBC Backstage) has booked us the BBC Manchester Bar on Friday 24th April for the Ubuntu-UK Manchester release party. The party will start at 7pm and go on until late (although after 10pm we may have to move to another pub on Oxford Road). Awesome work! Wish I could come, but I have a prior engagement with some beer. I have added it to the Jaunty Release Party page on the wiki.. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseParties Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release party speaker or link up
2009/3/25 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com: If not, assuming that the London party is on the same night, would it be possible to arrange a live link up, just so we can say hello to everyone? Usually the party in London is on release night, which is Thursday. Don't know about this year. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
2009/3/25 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: Just noticed that on the above page, Manchester also has a proposed released part. Is this the same one (just not updated)? Fixed. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joiku wireless connection......
2009/3/31 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: If there is a problem with network manager, you could use wubi, an You mean WICD, not WUBI. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] great-grandma-takes-internet-shopping-by-storm-with-ubuntu
2009/3/31 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: Dianne Reuby wrote: I've Stumbled it. Thanks Dianne Do yuo have a link I could refer to? I am not into stumble, does it work like that with a link? Stumbleupon works by people having a toolbar in their browser. Two things happen. 1) People submit stuff they 'find' but clicking a little thumbs up icon. They give it a description, tags etc and that's it, it's in the stumbleupon database. 2) People get bored, and click the 'stumble' button in the toolbar, if their profile matches the tags on that submitted page they may get to see it, and they can then (optionally) thumbs up or thumbs down the article. You can visit stumbleupon and find the link to the submitted site but that's generally not how it's used. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast season two
Just a quick mail to let you know that episode 1 of season 2 of the Ubuntu Podcast from members of the UK LoCo team is out. http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2009/04/01/s02e01-the-return/ Feedback and suggestion as ever are always welcome! Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast season two
2009/4/3 Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com: Yey, I am glad the podcast is back and I enjoyed it. The theme tune made me smile as I had missed that. :) Thanks for the kind words. About 6 months ago in the pub on a Friday a cow-orker left his phone on the table as he went to the loo. I sent the podcast theme to his phone and set it as his ringtone whilst he was away. Now there's 4 phones in the office that use it as their ringtone. Quite bizarre. Also, as I told popey, I was holding my breath at the beginning awaiting the Sounds like a fun packed show! and it never happened!!! We were a bit rusty, it being the first recording for ~12 weeks or so, so I think we can be forgiven this minor faux pas. :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell
2009/4/5 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: Well, the mp3 player (Rhythmbox Music Player) really is a bit of a pig. It has no re-tagging facility, it catalogues your mp3 files from their existing tags only, and it is case-sensitive, so woe betide you if you have carelessly used capital letters inconsistently in the tags you do have. Try Banshee as an alternative. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell
2009/4/5 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com: oh, does Banshee tag properly now? I know pre-v1, it only changed its internal database and didn't affect the actual files... It does if you tick the box that says to save meta data to the files in the preferences dialog :) I found this out the hard way. I retagged loads of music, then moved the music to another machine only to discover my changes were lost. I asked in the #banshee channel on irc and was told to do the following on the first machine, the one that has the up to date banshee database. 0) In banshee, edit - preferences - general - write metadata to files (tick that!) 1) Select all files in the library 2) Right click and edit track information 3) Change something minor like the comment field 4) Press the little icon to ripple that change to that field to all tracks (this takes a while) 5) Hit save. What it will then do is flush out _all_ the meta data in the database to the files. That way you can then move the collection to another location and the meta data will go with it. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banshee annoyances - was: Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell
2009/4/5 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com: cool thanks It didn't used to work though... I'm sure of it. Did you tick the box as in step 0? If not then it wont write to the files. Simple as that. The only reason I don't use Banshee atm is because of the filter box. It doesn't work. sometimes I can type something in and it finds it. Other times, I can be LOOKING AT the album, then I type it into the filter (doesn't matter which field I have it set to), and it says no results found. I haven't noticed any banshee updates recently, so I haven't checked it out... do you have this problem with it? Nope. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell
2009/4/6 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: http://nicotine.thegraveyard.org It looks as if it needs a certain amount of compiling savvy to install and run, and I would be very interested to know whether anyone has Nope. Just download the bz2 file, double click it and unpack it somewhere. Navigate to where you unpacked it and double click the nicotine file. Job done. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nicotine
2009/4/6 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: Thank you, Al, but tell me, do you mean I don't need to worry about getting Nicotine's dependencies, namely Python-2.2.0 or newer, GTK+-2.0 or newer, and PyGTK-1.99.16 or newer, like the man says? Do you mean I can assume I have these utilities or their equivalents already, in my Ubuntu 8.10 package? Yup. You could of course check in Synaptic package manager or http://packages.ubuntu.com/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Announcement: Manchester Release Party
2009/4/8 Lucy lucybrid...@gmail.com: 2009/4/8 Gordon Allott gordall...@gmail.com: On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 10:00 +0100, Lucy wrote: Can someone forward this to ubuntu-event-plann...@lists.ubuntu.com and ubuntu-l...@lists.ubuntu.com (if appropriate), please? Forwarded to ubuntu-event-planners - I'm not quite sure who you are after with 'ubuntu-loco' is that an actual list? (I'm not familiar with the address). It was the list the London event was forwarded to earlier today ;) I don't know who has access to it though. I think you mean loco-contacts, which I have forwarded the mail to. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joiku wireless connection......
2009/4/8 John jake...@sky.com: How can I get any network manager, to be able to connect now. Ok, from the top, on my phone Joikuspot is configured like this:- Network name: Haha! Access point: Orange Internet 802.11 Channel: Automatic Encryption: WEP Open Encryption key type: ASCII Encryption key length: 128bit Encryption key: 1234567898765 (yes, that really is my key, hack me if you can find me) Battery threshold: Lowest setting Landing page: No GPS positioning: No In Network Manager:- Connection name: Auto Haha! Connect automatically: Ticked Wireless Tab:- SSID: Haha! Mode: Ad-hoc BSSID: blank MAC address: blank MTU: automatic Wireless Security Tab:- Security: WEP 40/128-bit Key Key: lots of black blobs IPV4 Settings Tab:- Method: Automatic (DHCP) DHCP Client ID: blank Routes button:- All fields blank. Hope that helps. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] downloading slow torrents energy consumption
2009/4/9 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: i raised this topic of torrents and low powered green machines a while ago if anyone remembers! Indeed, and I'm also using another Viglen for doing exactly that. A viglen running torrentflux is perfect for this task. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] downloading slow torrents energy consumption
2009/4/9 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: I have a machine on 24/7 gently seeding various torrents and my pragmatic solution is to choose the oldest slowest machine that can cope, in my case a PII 350MHz. I have not done any measurements but my guess is that such a machine will consume relatively low power, obviously I turn the monitor off. You might be surprised if you check it. I have an old Dell optiplex desktop PC which currently functions as my firewall - running IPcop. I checked the power consumption and it's ~90W. I also have a viglen which I will use to replace the Dell, and that consumes 8W. As the viglen has only one ethernet port I plan to use a USB ethernet adapter to supplement that. Unfortunately the one I have maxed out at 6Mb/s which is useless when my broadband is 20Mb/s. Apparently the Apple branded USB ethernet adapter is better, so I'll probably get one of those instead. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] downloading slow torrents energy consumption
2009/4/9 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com: So these Viglen machines are recommended as low consumption options? Depends what you want to do with them. I know a few people who have them, and they seem to be pretty useful for non-intensive server type tasks. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comic strip creating software
2009/4/9 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: Im thinking of creating some comics. I know there online creators.but does anyone know of software that will work in the ubuntu environment? http://lunduke.com/?p=311 Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] downloading slow torrents energy consumption
2009/4/9 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com: Cool -- and these are laptops? They could be perfert servers, with their battery as a UPS. Is there any particular model people recommend? The Viglen is a tiny desktop computer. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ViglenMPC http://www.viglen.co.uk/viglen/Products_Services/Product_Range/Product_file.aspx?eCode=XUBUMPCLType_Info=DescriptionType=Desktops Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] downloading slow torrents energy consumption
2009/4/9 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com: Wow. If you could spec up the RAM, would that run as a decent web server? 512MiB is the maximum RAM it will take. It runs just fine as a webserver with that much :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernel deleted and I don't think I can reboot...!!! :/
2009/4/9 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com: now I remember why I tried to fiddle with the kernels... cos the graphics driver won't install properly because of them. Exactly the same error message as the kernel error is returned when I try to install them. Can you do the following and pastebin the output:- sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install linux-image-generic Paste the results to http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommended pod/screencast client
2009/4/17 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com: Hi -- I use iTunes on my OSX partition for most of my podcasts, but there are some technical ones I'd like to start collecting on my Ubuntu partition -- usually screencasts. So what does the wider, great british ubuntu community recommend as a podcast collector? I use miro to download video podcasts on Ubuntu. I use hpodder for audio ones. I use two separate apps because I do different things with the content, so like to keep it separate. The video ones I watch in miro after they download. The audio ones I tend to sync to my mp3 player or phone. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommended pod/screencast client
2009/4/17 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: Dumb question :) No such thing :) Is there a difference between video podcasts and any other videos (eg YouTube and similar)? In simple terms, a podcast of any kind (audio or video) is in essence a media file delivered over http as a downloadable 'enclosure' item listed within an RSS feed. A podcatcher (such as miro) is given a bunch of those RSS feeds (which are xml text files also delivered over http) and scans them for any new enclosures not yet downloaded. The software then (based on your preferences) will download the enclosures completely so you can play them 'offline'. Compare that to youtube which is designed to be streamed. You visit their site and watch the video in a browser based flash plugin as opposed to downloading them. That said there are ways and means to download video from youtube, and indeed miro can do that too. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server Power Management
2009/4/19 Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com: I'm thinking that a Krone job could be used to turn it off, but don't know which commands to use to ensure that it shuts down properly. I suspect that for turning on, I need to set something in the BIOS so that as soon as the power is turned on by the timer, the server comes up too. Yeah, the Wake On Lan option is what you need, or WoL. Although some BIOSs put it in odd places and call it strange things. I leave my viglen on 24x7 and when I want to wake other machines up at home (remotely or otherwise) I use the etherwake command:- sudo etherwake 00:1B:FC:XX:XX:XX It wakes up the other machine and a few mins later I can get to it via whatever protocol I need. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software Media Player Recommendations (iPod sync)
2009/4/22 Stephen Garton sheepeating...@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk: If I am doing it wrong with any of the above players, please let me know! Podcatching ability would be nice, but not essential, as I also have an iphone which will download them over the air (and currently is being used for this). My wife has the same ipod as you, and I use banshee to sync it. It pretty much just works. What version of banshee are you using? The more recent versions are more stable and reliable. One nice feature that banshee has which I dont think the others do is that it transcodes audio to a format the ipod understands. For example I have Ogg audio files in my collection, and dragging them to the ipod icon causes them to be converted to mp3 as they are copied. Keeping the original Ogg version on my disk. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty available
2009/4/23 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: jaunty became available - from canonical's machines at least, about 20 minutes ago Tsk tsk, naughty naughty. Before the release announcement.. :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04
2009/4/26 John Taylor john.68tay...@btinternet.com: Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade any ideas? never happened before! How did you try to upgrade? Can you attach your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics
2009/4/27 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net: Lucy wrote: Certainly, I don't remember so much positive buzz around the last Fedora release and the last Debian release seemed to create plenty of negativity. With all due respect, I do not agree with this at all. While I was at FOSDEM this year, in the build up to the Debian Lenny release, I hung out with a load of Debian Devs. Despite declaring Lenny stable being more of a formality for the developers than anything else, the atmosphere was electric.. You were at a Free and Open Source Developers Meeting, where I am not surprised there was some excitement around the Lenny release. I didn't see that translate into the real world in the way it did with Ubuntu, and I haven't seen many reports of Fedora release parties either. There's a big difference between insular excitement ad a developer conference and real world excitement involving users of the software. In two-three years time, when I expect Squeeze will be released, I for one will be celebrating the release, and I hope many Ubuntu users will join me. :) In the mean time you're welcome at the 4 or more release parties Ubuntu will have between now and then :) It goes both ways. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso
2009/4/27 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster connection than I have. Which ISO did you grab? Whats the filename? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Performance Issue
2009/4/29 Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com: A few days ago I upgraded to 9.04 but was, frankly, disappointed. The application I use most of all is OpenOffice. The upgrade certainly sees boot times reduced, but OOO Base takes approx 10 times as long to load, Calc 5 times and Writer 3 times. Similarly, they take much longer to unload. I wonder if this is a wubi specific issue. I find Ubuntu tremendously faster on my machine, installed on the bare metal. How full is the filesystem that Ubuntu is sat on? Is there a mad amount of IO going on? Maybe run top and iotop (available to install in the standard repository), and see what's at the top of the list when you notice slowness? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with watching training videos on Ubuntu
2009/5/5 John jake...@sky.com: I have tried playing the Ubuntu vids again, and all it does when you click the start button, is pixilate inti small squares and crashes. It doesnt crash the system, just the vid. What URL are you visiting? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with watching training videos on Ubuntu
2009/5/5 John jake...@sky.com: This one http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/ Ugh, that would be my fault then. Was hoping it would be some other random website. You can grab the videos directly from the server in a more open format if that's preferable:- http://static.screencasts.ubuntu.com/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with watching training videos on Ubuntu
2009/5/5 John jake...@sky.com: Oh right, is there something wrong with that page then? I ill have a go at grabbing them and watching them. Thank you. I am wondering if it might be also affecting other sites with that type of video, id it is can you tell me how I get around it? Thank you for the help. :) The page you mention is flash based, and that should work, indeed it does work here, with the flash plugin installed. You wont need any additional codecs, just the flash plugin. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with watching training videos on Ubuntu
2009/5/5 John jake...@sky.com: Its just not working I can take a print screen to show you what happens if you like? I have to go out now, I am just getting ready, but I can do it when I get back in. Sure, send it to me. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ctrl+alt+backspace
2009/5/5 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com: I wonder why that was removed - always seemed a great emergency fix for unruly systems :-) You can also install the dontzap package to do that manual config for you. It was disabled because some it was figured that it's a bad idea having a key combo which basically crashed all your apps. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard not being enabled in Jaunty
2009/5/6 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net: Unfortunately the recovery mode is no different, they're disabled in that mode too. Can you boot an older kernel from pre-upgrade? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tablet PC right-click
2009/5/11 Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com: I'm trying to get right-click to work on my tablet pen on my tablet pc in Jaunty. I used to set some options in xorg.conf to do this, but now when I try to do this I get errors in X. Here's my xorg.conf: http://paste.ubuntu.com/169401/ and here's the Xorg log: http://paste.ubuntu.com/169402/ Seen https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wacom ? You seem to have chunks of the wacom config missing. In 9.04 my tablet pc works with no wacom stuff in xorg.conf, just the bog standard empty file. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall
2009/5/12 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com: Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather than to run the upgrade? What makes you think they do? Perhaps these people are used to Windows/Fedora/Red Hat where upgrading in the past has been notoriously unreliable? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade vs Reinstall
2009/5/12 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com: The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly. Not really. You can reinstall over the top these days and it will wipe everything except /home - even if it's all on one partition. This gives you the benefit that having /home in a separate partition has, but with the added benefit of not having to maintain extra partitions, and the possibility of having space in the wrong part. Not for everyone, some people like separate partitions for /home, just pointing out you don't have to, to get that benefit. This is a step towards Mac OS X's Archive Install option, which leaves all your user settings (in /users rather than /home) and applications (in /Programs) intact but archives all the system boot, Unix binaries and settings directories into Previous Systems for you to root through and delete later. This would be a good feature for Ubuntu to copy sometime, I reckon. There is talk (and prototypes) of an inplace upgrade which is reversible. You do the upgrade in a test mode which mounts the filesystem in such a way that changes are written temporarily, in such a way that you can undo it, taking you right back to your state before the upgrade. It's quite a neat way to do upgrades, but rough round the egdes at the moment. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell mini 10v costs more with Ubuntu than with XP
2009/5/31 Paul Broadhead pjbr...@twinmoons.clara.co.uk: Needless to say, I'm not buying one. If you wanted one, get the xp one, dont accept the license, send it back and ask for a refund. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell mini 10v costs more with Ubuntu than with XP
2009/5/31 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com: How can they charge more? They get the thing for free! They don't. It doesn't cost Dell much as I understand it, but they do pay for Ubuntu. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell mini 10v costs more with Ubuntu than with XP
2009/5/31 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com: Boom! That's me out of the water lol. Are they made to pay for it or out of 'generosity'? As I understand it (i.e. this may be factually inaccurate) any OEM wishing to sell Ubuntu branded as Ubuntu needs to pay a license to Canonical for the use of the trademarked name. I believe there are also restrictions upon what you can do, for example you can't pre-install skype, but can pre-install some codec bundles (which are an additional license cost). Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell mini 10v costs more with Ubuntu than with XP
2009/5/31 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com: Would a small independent store (like I've been asking about) need to pay that as well? You'd need to check with the OEM team at Canonical about that. I suspect the answer is yes, assuming the store is selling machines in the same way that Dell is. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!
2009/5/31 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: Car back bumper, bike front mudguard, front window of house, :-) back of laptop lid . I have a Debian sticker on the back of my car. It's been there for ... let me see... http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/v/bbq3/Img_309.jpg.html Date: 16/08/04 Nearly 5 years. :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus and Microsoft sitting in a tree....
2009/6/1 Christopher Swift ch...@chrisswift.eu: Lets not jump ahead of ourselves here. I highly doubt that either ASUS nor Microsoft are officially behind this campaign. Asus link to the site from the main marketing page for their current flagship laptop product. Whether they are behind it or not is irrelevant, they condone it by linking to the site in question. Really guys do a whois on the domain name, it is registered by GoDaddy.com for crying out loud! It's been well researched. The guy who made the site is a Microsoft SharePoint Consultant based in the US. In short it looks like you guys have been ultimately trolled. Be nice. Now lets pimp out itsbetterwithubuntu itsbetterwithlinux .coms! Personally I'd like to see more original content and ideas than a copycat campaign. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu sme server
2009/6/2 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: You might try looking at the SME Server for some ideas: http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page .. and ebox .. http://ebox-platform.com/ .. and Ubuntu Server Manager .. http://ubuntuservermanager.org/ :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] burning discs in virtual machines
2009/6/4 Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk: You should be able to access the host machine's CD/DVD writer from within VirtualBox. On the Details tab, double click CD/DVD-ROM and then select Host CD/DVD Drive. Checking 'Enable Passthrough' should mean that you can write from the guest system's normal CD writer programs. Pretty sure VB doesn't support writers. I vaugely recall a message from VB saying this just a few hours ago.. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7
2009/6/12 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net: European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm That could be quite a turning point in the browser wars. As far as I understand it, the vast majority of people obtain windows as a pre-installation on a new computer. Most don't install it themselves (although they may re-install it when it goes sour some time later). From what I've read OEMs will be able to select the browser on behalf of the user and pre-install it for them Net result, users get a machine with IE8 pre-installed. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] My 'snazzy Korean laptop' has conked out
Hi Rowan, 2009/6/14 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: Hi. My 'Linux Certified' (Compal JHL-90) just died on me. First the display froze, then when I force-restarted it, it wouldn't go past the first Intel splash screen (with no boot options strip at the bottom), and now it just generates no display at all, though the screen is backlit normally. The fan runs for two or three seconds then stops, which is its normal behaviour, so this seems like a hardware fault that stops the Operating System from booting. My Dell did something similar. Turned out to be lack of cooling causing the video card to go pop. It could just be that the CPU is loose in its socket. Is there anyone reading this list or recommended by those who do, that I can take it to in central London? I shall pay any repair cost and get 'Linux Certified' to refund me (since it's still under hardware guarantee). Does the hardware guarantee cover you in the UK? Didn't you get the laptop from the US? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] brief flashing cursor prompt then blank screen
2009/6/15 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: Hi. I sent a message yesterday saying my (4-month-old) Linux Certified laptop had died. However, I tried it again this morning and saw a brief flashing cursor prompt (like the one you get briefly during Ubuntu closedown), followed by a blank screen. This happened three times, then it gave up. What should I do during this flashing cursor prompt to get it started again? Can you get to the BIOS settings? Will it boot off of a live Linux CD such as an Ubuntu desktop CD? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scheduling a reboot of Ubuntu?
2009/6/15 Alex Birchall a.birch...@mdx.ac.uk: I'd like to schedule a reboot of my Ubuntu server. Out of interest, why? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu tribe
2009/6/17 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net: there seems to be a movie called ubuntu tribe, a trailer is here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZGZlXpHB2g the url for themovie is meant to be www.ubuntutribe.com this fails as its a phamacy site, any know what the proper url is to download the movie. yes I have tried google and it comes up with lots of links which is not helpful http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.ubuntutribe.com Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] change from 9.04 to 8.10
2009/6/18 norman nor...@littletank.org: I am seriously considering going back to 8.10 or even 8.04 Why? What specific issues are you encountering? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] change from 9.04 to 8.10
2009/6/18 norman nor...@littletank.org: have no problems with all I need except with the workings of the Wacom Bamboo and all the help that seems to be available to me that I can manage to do and understand will not work with 9.04. There was a promise of a GUI for the setting up of Wacom tablets, to be released with 9.04, but I understand that this did not happen due to lack of development time. Which how-tos did you follow, and in what exact way did they fail? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] banshee and devices..?
Hi, 2009/6/19 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com: not sure if this is my pc or is the current state of banshee, but atm, as far as devices go, it only detects/shows cds. No other device is shown, What specific devices are you plugging in? Banshee supports a number of media players, but there are some very recent models which are not yet supported by the version of Banshee that is in the Ubuntu repository. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] first edition
2009/6/19 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: I wonder if anyone has a complete set of shipit CDs for all 10 releases? That would definitely be a collectors item. http://popey.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UbuntuCDCollection My collection so far. :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] first edition
2009/6/19 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: Of course there's always http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/4.10/ Nothing like owning the original pressed CDs in their envelopes though.. :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fresh install of ubuntu/linux mint
2009/6/22 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: Does anyone know if i can install Linux Mint ( from a usb drive) ? All i have to do is set the periperal as first boot right? You can use unetbootin (which is cross platform) to copy an iso to a USB stick and make it all nicely bootable. So long as your computer supports booting from USB then you're set. Out of interest how many people here prefer mint over the normal ubuntu flavour? Not I. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fresh install of ubuntu/linux mint
2009/6/22 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: I have a USB stick on which i plan on dropping a Linuxmint/ubuntu iso...and then boot/install from there! You can't just copy an iso to the USB stick. It needs to be unpacked in a certain way, hence me suggesting you use unetbootin. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?
Hi Tony, 2009/6/22 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: I read in the weekly news letter this week that there is a plan to replace Pidging with Empathy as the default IM client in Karmic. Where can I a) find the reasoning behind this From the link in the UWN:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue147#Empathy%20to%20replace%20Pidgin%20in%20Karmic%20Koala Links to:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DesktopTeam/Specs/Karmic/MessagingAndCommunicationSelection and b) register my objection? https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?
2009/6/22 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk: As far as I can tell the main reasoning is the fact that they can lose 2 apps (ekiga and pidgin) thus saving space and also the empathy upstream were working on bugs faster than pidgin were. this should give you more idea https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-messaging-and-communication-selection Easy video calling is a very compelling argument. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two things I wanted to ask about.....
2009/6/24 John jake...@sky.com: Oh wow, that would be really useful. I have not been to one before. Would it be in London, or somewhere else. We're hoping for there to be more than one. See this mail I sent to the list. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2009-June/019439.html Sadly no replies yet. hint size='large' type='subtle' Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] App to discover networked printer IP?
2009/6/26 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Ubuntu 9.04. I know the IP of my networked printer but it would be helpful to have an app that would find the IP of a networked printer if I joined some other network The add printer wizard thing does this already. System - Administration - Printing - New. It can scan for both local and networked devices. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] App to discover networked printer IP?
2009/6/26 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Uhh amend thatif I type in 192.168.0 in the Host box then it DOES find it. Not OVERLY intuitive, is it? How queer. Is the printer on the same network subnet as you? If not that might be why. I don't think the printer scan thing traverses from one network to another, if it did it might scuttle off out of your network onto 0.0.0.0 - and that might take $time to finish. I may be wrong about that though. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....
2009/6/27 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Harry Rickardshricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote: exploit in their control panel (the story even made it to slashdot, as the dev of the control panel hanged himself). My VPS was restored from Erm, that's a bit beyond the call of duty, isn't it? I feel bad when sites get hacked (and over the years some have, though seldom ones I've written bespoke), but I've never felt obliged to end it all... what was the story behind this? I seriously doubt he hanged himself because of his panel being hacked, that doesn't make any sense. Google + Hanged Himself + hacked http://www.google.com/search?q=hanged+himself+hacked http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?newsID=117342 A highly damaging hack at UK-based web hosting company VAserv has taken a tragic turn for the worse after it was revealed that the boss of the Indian firm whose software was at the centre the attack, has hanged himself. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Duplicate music file finder
2009/6/30 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: Does anyone know of any apps that can do this? fdupes - identifies duplicate files within given directories Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Listing applications and utilities installed post-installation
2009/6/30 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Ubuntu 9.04 Is there a way of producing a list of all applications and utilities installed by me post-installation from the Ubuntu CD? dpkg -l | grep ^ii Will list all packages that have been installed. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Listing applications and utilities installed post-installation
2009/6/30 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Will that just show what *I* have installed or will it list the whole dam lot? All of them. I don't think there's an easy way to see what you added yourself. One bodged way to do it would be to.. 1) Get the package list (as per my previous mail) and save it to a file 2) Boot from a stock 9.04 3) Run the same command on the live cd 4) Compare the two files You'll see many packages have been updated since you installed, and also new packages that you installed since. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Use of apt-url - a request for help
Hi, Please see this blog post for context http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/06/27/apturl-quick-links-for-ubuntu-application and this wiki page for more information https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptUrl . We're trying to identify any websites or applications which do not currently support apt-url. If you come across any such applications, could you please either maintain the following page on the wiki, or reply to this mail so someone else can. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptUrl/ToMigrate Many thanks, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mp3 players, again
2009/7/1 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: Dear all: is anyone aware of an MP3 player for Ubuntu which will play MP3 audio files directly from Ubuntu's own files, without the necessity of compiling its own library first? Yes, all of them. You don't need to _compile_ anything to play MP3s on Ubuntu. Simply navigate to a folder containing MP3 files, double click one and it should (by default) open with the default media player 'Totem'. If the necessary codec isn't installed then Totem will prompt you to go and get it. It will do that for you. There is no compilation, it's just a case of installing libraries (codecs) to make the MP3 playback work. More information about this can be found here:- https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mp3 players, again
2009/7/1 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Alan Pope wrote: 2009/7/1 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: Dear all: is anyone aware of an MP3 player for Ubuntu which will play MP3 audio files directly from Ubuntu's own files, without the necessity of compiling its own library first? Yes, all of them. ...Simply navigate to a folder containing MP3 files, double click one and it should (by default) open with the default media player 'Totem' There are two things going on here, aren't there? You can simply play any old MP3 file with Totem, Rhythmbox, VLC media player or whatever: navigate to the file, right click on it, and choose from 'Open With'. Ah yes, looks like I misunderstood the term compile :) Sorry. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mp3 players, again
2009/7/1 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: Sorry - for 'Internet Explorer' read 'Windows Explorer,' which is the file browser in Windows. I forgot to mention that all these music players 'populate' their 'libraries' from the tags rather than the titles on the audio files, which is why one needs a re-tagger and a lot of patience. The players create new folders for any discrepantly tagged files, and dump untagged files into 'unknown' folders or leave them loose, even if on your file browser they appear coherently organised into albums etcetera. Which is arguably the right way to do things. It shouldn't matter what the filename is, what's important is the metadata. For example it's impossible to represent the artist, song, compilation name (if applicable), genre, year of release, rating etc in a sensible way in the filename, that's what the ID3 tag is for. Personally I use Banshee, which has a great tagging system. For tracks which are part of the same album it's possible to select multiple tracks, enter the Album name once (and other details such as genre) and have that data replicated to all selected tracks. By default however Banshee saves the metadata to its own database, however there is a simple preference setting which can be set to force it to save meta data to the mp3 files themselves. Works a treat. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mp3 players, again
2009/7/1 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com: i've always just used rhythmbox, and it does not re-arrange any of the actual files as far as I know. Banshee can also do this, although it's not the default behaviour. Just go to Edit-preferences and there's an option to _not_ move the data when importing. Also, I never have to rebuild the library, i just put new music into my music folder and it automatically updates the database. Ditto with Banshee.. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] linux kernel update
2009/7/2 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com: David, just checked mine in synaptic, and it looks like an upgrade from 2.6.28-13.44 to 2.6.28-13.45 Yes, an incremental patch rather than an ABI bump (which I believe would have bumped the 13 to 14). so yes, modified version with security patches (you can see the changes made if you look at the bottom of update manager) Or subscribe to the security mailing list so you get a mail when these things happen.. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-security-announce/2009-July/000925.html Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Flame Wars mailing list
2009/7/3 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: Does anyone know if there's a flame war mailing list? I don't enjoy starting flame wars, but IMHO arguing your side in an existing war can help you let off steam. Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Flame Wars mailing list
2009/7/3 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: (If there was some joke intended, I've missed it). I was thinking a list with a few threads with hundreds/thousands of messages in (like there was in GLLUG a couple of months back about emacs/xemacs/vi/vim vs ed.) Oh dear, losing geek credentials by not recognising a Monty Python sketch from orbit. Tsk Tsk. I'm not sure how actively seeking out flames is a productive use of time, but each to their own. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] virtualBox
2009/7/4 David King linux...@avoura.com: You also need to install libcurl3 if you do not have it already before installing VirtualBox 3.0. That depends how you install it. If you either use the repository Innotek/Sun/Oracke/Whoever provide and install via apt/aptitude/synaptic then it will resolve that dependency for you. Dependency resolution is also done if you double click the deb file once downloaded from the site as that will open with gdebi. The only way it would not work is if you downloaded the deb and tried to install using dpkg. Cheers Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Flame Wars mailing list
2009/7/4 Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com: Post to a Windows mailing list commenting on how great Linux is, or vice versa. Or, setup a blog which lambasts Ubuntu using wild and inaccurate accusations, whilst (not very) secretly concealing the fact that you're just annoyed that your distro of choice isn't number one. Oh, no, too late, already been done. http://www.linux.co.nz/journal/2009/7/3/cloned-distros-why-ubuntu-sucks-and-should-be-banned.html Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] permission
2009/7/5 Ragia Ibrahim ragi...@hotmail.com: Hi all I am new linx user (2 weeks ago) I need to run[ make install ] in specific folder but i got the following Error Permission denied how can I change folder permission to make this.. the error is as follow... /usr/bin/install: cannot create regular file `/usr/local/bin/gift-old-to-new-url2fts.pl': Permission denied gnuift-perl is in the standard ubuntu repository, you should be able to install it using Synaptic package manager rather than compiling from source. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] virtualBox
2009/7/5 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: http://ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/04/howto-install-virtualbox-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron-with-usb-support-in-5-easy-steps.html I should say that I did this with VB 2.0.6; do you still need to use this procedure with later versions of VB? They have a very comprehensive manual on their website in pdf form. I've found it clearly describes every configuration option I've needed. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tonido
2009/7/5 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: According to the CodeLathe blog (http://www.codelathe.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/13/the-tonido-platform-is-going-open-source/) they're going to release an SDK soon. I'm no expert, but I thought the actual source of the application, not just an SDK, had to be released to be GPL'd? In any case there's a mailing list at If you have obtained a copy of the program and it's licensed under the GPL then you should reasonably expect to be able to get the source. If you haven't got the code, or you have the code before it was GPL'ed then you can't reasonably expect a copy of the source. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
