Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Natalie Hooper wrote: > As for Nokia's decision, it is going to have a major impact on the future > of the industry - either it is going to sink Nokia completely or it is > going to establish Windows Mobile 7 as a serious contender. Seen this: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tech

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Peter Merchant
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 19:49 +, Peter Merchant wrote: > On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 18:26 +, C A Wills wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi Terry > > > > Sorry duff info, it was in the Tools/Add-ons/Plug-ins. Firefox, yes. I > > highlighted the Flash pug-in and checked the update, it's now showing > > u

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 18 Feb 2011, Terry Coles wrote: > I ran the command 'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree' from the page > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaApplications. It appeared to > install something, but it still doesn't work. I just uninstalled everything Flash and reinstalled the

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 18 Feb 2011, Peter Merchant wrote: > I have shockwave flash 10.2 r152 on firefox/kubuntu and everything works > ok. I tried to check for updates, but that failed. Mine says it's Adobe 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1. That isn't working. I ran the command 'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-no

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 18 Feb 2011, C A Wills wrote: > On 18/02/11 13:54, Terry Coles wrote: > > I don't even seem to *have* a plugin for Flash in the Add-ons Window. I > > have the Flash plugin installed through the Package Manager, but it > > doesn't show up in the browser settings. > > > > I assume you're

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:55:27 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said: > Easier, true, but I wanted more accuracy that /usr/bin/time or bash's > time would give. :-) Bash's 'time' command resolves to thousandths of a second. I would imagine that saccadic suppression would make more accurate measurement

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Peter Merchant
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 18:26 +, C A Wills wrote: > > > > Hi Terry > > Sorry duff info, it was in the Tools/Add-ons/Plug-ins. Firefox, yes. I > highlighted the Flash pug-in and checked the update, it's now showing > updated from 9x to 10x. > That was no the laptop, same thing on desktop but

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Keith, > > $ sudo true; foo; sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb >$N; foo > > 31.142709016 > > 35.482519853 > > Next time: > > $ time sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb > > Much easier! Easier, true, but I wanted more accuracy that /usr/bin/time or bash's time would give. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:39:37 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said: > $ foo() { date +%S.%N; } > $ sudo true; foo; sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb >$N; foo > 31.142709016 > 35.482519853 > $ e 35.482519853 - 31.142709016 > 4.339810837 > $ Next time: $ time sudo fdisk -l /de

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread C A Wills
On 18/02/11 13:54, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 17 Feb 2011, C A Wills wrote: I had the same problem earlier this week, I went to Add-ons and highlighted Flash reader and requested an update. It seemed to work after login out and back in. Hope this helps (also got similar problem on friends W

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Peter
On Thu, 2011-02-17 at 20:52 +, C A Wills wrote: > Terry > > I had the same problem earlier this week, I went to Add-ons and > highlighted Flash reader and requested an update. It seemed to work > after login out and back in. > Hope this helps (also got similar problem on friends Win7 Noteboo

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 02:27:43 pm jr wrote: > On 18 February 2011 14:09, Andrew Reid Paterson > > wrote: > > So, I will now wait & see what haappens. > > those settings (probably) won't survive a reboot, you might want to > add a small script to your system start. Funny you should say th

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread jr
On 18 February 2011 14:09, Andrew Reid Paterson wrote: > > So, I will now wait & see what haappens. those settings (probably) won't survive a reboot, you might want to add a small script to your system start. -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana. -- Next meeting

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:39:37 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern > > hard-drive then? > > Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed > this very old 20GB PATA drive. > > $ foo() { date

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 17 Feb 2011, C A Wills wrote: > I had the same problem earlier this week, I went to Add-ons and > highlighted Flash reader and requested an update. It seemed to work > after login out and back in. > Hope this helps (also got similar problem on friends Win7 Notebook, > upgraded Adobe and

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:39:37 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern > > hard-drive then? > > Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed > this very old 20GB PATA drive. > > $ foo() { date

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Andrew, > What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern > hard-drive then? Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed this very old 20GB PATA drive. $ foo() { date +%S.%N; } $ sudo true; foo; sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb >$N; foo 31.14270901

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 08:43:43 am Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > > After spending days(!) fscking and trying to decode all kinds of stuff > > I stepped back and saw the light - I MUST have a duff disk. > > `smartctl -a /dev/sda' can be useful to get the drive's own stats on how

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 07:52:30 am Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:59:22 +, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said: > > Then Nokia puts a spoke in the works and effectively indicates that > > continuing learning QT will be a waste of t!me > > I think you're extrapolating considera

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Andrew, > After spending days(!) fscking and trying to decode all kinds of stuff > I stepped back and saw the light - I MUST have a duff disk. `smartctl -a /dev/sda' can be useful to get the drive's own stats on how things are going. (Does fsck(8) still only check a filesystem's metadata