Peter Merchant wrote:
> A colleague wants advice tomorrow about a students computer. This
> student bought a new Laptop, but already had a copy of Vista, so bought
> the laptop with Suse installed. The idea was to then add Vista dual
> boot.
>
> I have my concerns about this.
>
> Does the student
John Cooper wrote:
> Terry Coles wrote:
>
>> On Monday 09 Mar 2009, Terry Coles wrote:
>>
>>> On Monday 09 Mar 2009, Hugh Frater wrote:
>>>
Linux first, vista secong is pretty easy. I did it a few months back
but can't remember the instructions I used. Nothing super technic
John Cooper wrote:
> Err, Yes XP would wipe Linux as it not only wipes the MBR, but the whole
> disk.
>
> Even if Vista can cope, I'd still stick with installing Windows first as
> Linux has had far more experience with working with windoz over the years.
>
> John.
>
>
I'm not entirely convince
Tim wrote:
> I am trying to setup a nas to store my digital pictures and access them with
> digikam. The NAS is a single disk Lacie Network Central Storage device. It
> has
> two available share built in (I don't beleive you can change this) one is
> called openshare which is open to anybody to
C A Wills wrote:
> Hi All
>
> I have just bought a Maxtor Basic 250Gb external HD for storing my
> wife's photo's. It is formated as NTFS and I'd like to format FAT32 (so
> I can see, read/write, the files on both Linux and XP machines).
>
Linux can read and write NTFS these days, can it not
Terry Coles wrote:
> On Tuesday 02 Jun 2009, Victor Churchill wrote:
>
>> I did find myself wondering how well it would hold up in a less
>> favourable network environment: whether the latency might become a
>> problem.
>>
>
> Two things here. First of all, networks are beginning to get fa
Simon P Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:08:51 -0700 (PDT), greg oconnell
> wrote:
>
>> Does anybody know which printer manufacturers support Linux (Ubuntu
>> specifically). I know HP does - any others?
>>
>
> Irrespective of the manufactures support you will find a vast number of
>
Hugh Frater wrote:
> I know that microsoft
> now want to eol CHM support and move to something else (I can't
> remember what exactly though) and this replacement might be easier?
>
>
In vista, looking in %WINDIR%\Help there are quite a few files ending in
".h1s". These appear to be MAML format.
I've used a GUI program called 'fslint' to do this in the past, it works
quite well.
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Terry Coles wrote:
> - I can 'see' an xorg.conf if I do ls X* in /mnt-system/etc
Capital vs. lowercase X? If you really are doing this then I suspect it
is listing the contents of /mnt-system/etc/X11/ which happens to only
contain xorg.conf?
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Hi Terry,
I have just had to do the same thing on my work laptop which is now
running Ubuntu 9.10. I'm not sure if this is the same in Kubuntu but
here's the way I did it:
Install StartUp-Manager. This can be found in Ubuntu Software Centre, or
by running 'apt-get install startupmanager' if yo
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
>> ps. My work laptop shuts down/reboots in about 3-4 seconds! I was
>> amased. But then it isn't much more than a default install + mpd.
>>
>
> Regarding rebooting, in recent times reboot(
I would have to object to any pub move which was to a pub without a
decent size car park without any tolls.
We can't trust councils not to restrict our roads, they do it all the
time, especially since they make money from doing so. (Partially because
of people who don't refuse to pay twice for s
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
> I've got the HP Mini with Suse, but there is(obviously) no optical drive.
> How do you put 9.04 onto it?
>
I have done the installation of Ubuntu on my EeePC using a USB CD drive.
Usually one connected via a USB <> ATA adapter. I'm surprised more
people don't seem to
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
> Thanks Andrew.
> My HP Mini detects extra drives at boot up and offers options by pressing
> F9.
> I would love to buy an external Optical Drive, but I'm doing this on a
> strict budget until I get a job!
> Regarding which, the HP Mini will be an extra tool in my arsenal.
Dominic Lonsdale wrote:
> Is this not getting a bit over complicated ?
>
> I just made a bootable USB thumb drive (or flash drive or whatever they
> are called now) and plugged it in.
>
The CD > USB process used to be complicated, also it requires that you
have a spare USB flash drive which is
C A Wills wrote:
> (Lost the pound sign and seem to have a USA keyboard!!)
>
Press CTRL+Shift+U, then press A, 3, Enter. Does that produce a pound sign?
I haven't seen any snow yet by the way.
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Terry Coles wrote:
> Before I kick it off again can someone confirm that I'm using the right
> incantation? I used cp -rp source destination.
>
What you have there should be fine for anything on NTFS. I would go for
'cp -a source destination' which sets -rp and other options to copy
special
On 25/04/10 12:09, Clive A Wills wrote:
> Information and guidance sort on character encoding in Thunderbird and
> Ubuntu 9.10. (may not just apply on e-mail programs).
>
> For some reason I've started getting strange characters appearing in
> some e-mails, a black diamond with a ? mark in the cent
On 11/09/10 16:38, Peter Merchant wrote:
After reading this, and thinking about the cars speeding up our road, I
wondered how hard it would be to write a speed camera program for a
webcam.
I believe there is a phrase about asking "can I do this" before asking
"should I do this".
Sounds l
On 01/10/10 14:00, Natalie Hooper wrote:
Thanks for the link.
Looking at the timetable, the evening service is pretty bad. There's a bus
(back to Bournemouth) at 20.15 then at 22.15 (
http://www.wdbus.co.uk/uploads/13may10.pdf). And that's it. Not a bus
service you can rely on (I don't call havi
On 11/10/10 22:10, Bryn Jones wrote:
The resolution is fine
Just the window running off screen
In Ubuntu/Gnome there are some useful mouse + keyboard combinations: Alt
+ left button to move a window, Alt + middle button to resize a window.
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If there are video problems then log in to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and
edit "/etc/X11/xorg.conf". Change the Driver in Section "Device" to one
of "nouveau", "nv" or "nvidia", then save and restart gdm.
If there were problems upgrading packages then run 'sudo
dpkg-reconfigure -a'. I've had to d
On 13/11/10 14:10, Peter Merchant wrote:
After reading this article in the telegraph today
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/internet/8126181/UK-will-run-out-of-web-addresses-by-2012.html
About Vint Cerf saying that the Uk will run out of IP (V4) addresses by
2012, I wondered if my Router w
Hi,
The simple answer is FLAC.
A more complex answer is that audio CDs don't actually contain files or
a regular filesystem at all. Some O/Ses allow you to view the CD as if
it contained files, but they aren't files in the normal sense.
OGG, assuming this means OGG/Vorbis, is a lossy format.
On 08/02/11 14:14, chris.b.c...@ntlworld.com wrote:
has anyone got the above printer running on the desktop ? I was
looking at one yesterday and noted windows 7 and MAC OSX on the box.
Earlier laser printers from samsung were linux compatible.
any ideas please.
If it works on Mac OS X then su
On 27/02/11 19:12, greg oconnell wrote:
My PC suddenly, when booted, decided to change the resolution I had set (1280 x
768, I think) to something smaller. I tried to reset but the resolution I had
now seems not to be available. I am running Ubuntu 10.4. The machine is dual
boot so I loaded Wind
I believe keyboards & mice are all USB 1.1. I have some USB 1.1 devices
working on Ubuntu.
If it is a 54mbit (or faster) USB device then I would expect it to be
USB 2, otherwise it is limited to 11 Mb/s or thereabouts.
'lsusb -v' will show you a lot of information. The 'bcdUSB' lines show
yo
On 19/04/11 22:49, Tim wrote:
Thought you might like this
http://test-ipv6.com/
Well, my ISP and router don't support IPv6 but I discovered Miredo
(Teredo) a while ago. It doesn't seem to work if both ends are using
Teredo behind IPv4 NAT, but other than that it does allow you to connect
t
On 20/04/11 00:07, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Andrew,
With Miredo I got 10/10 and 9/10 because my ISP's DNS server doesn't
support IPv6.
Do you get that elusive last point if you switch to 8.8.4.4 and/or
8.8.8.8?
No, still 9/10.
According to the info on the test which fails:
*Confirmation:* |d
On 20/04/11 12:42, Chris Dennis wrote:
Can anyone recommend a suitable wifi-enabled ADSL router for IPV6?
The only one I've used was a 2Wire router, a long time ago. I think BT
were doing an IPv6 test and I was surprised to find I got a real IPv6
address on it.
Your best bet might be somethin
On 21/04/11 20:21, Chris Dennis wrote:
I've just had a couple of emails from Jason Fesler who runs
test-ipv6.com, and he says:
\
Unless you're trying to reach sites that are IPv6-only and have no
way to be reached via IPv4, I'd consider disabling teredo and
miredo. You're intentionally prefer
On 26/06/11 17:40, Tim wrote:
I have a single disk nas which I back up to a external hard disk using
rsync, the total amount of data I backup from the nas is about 235gb.
At the moment I use rsync to copy it from the nas to the external hard
disk, but I am thinking about using the -z option to
On 22/10/11 16:35, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Tim,
Out of interest, are there (no doubt pricey) bits of test kit that
will induce the dialed-up load?
There probably is Ralph but I think were entering into the realms of
expensive and serious testing kit which probably requires a degree of
somethi
I haven't used a GUI to do this, but I have done it for a lot of DVDs*.
Whatever method you use you will need to install libdvdcss2 on your
machine, so it can decrypt the DVD. In Ubuntu, which is what I tend to
use, this isn't simply a package. Installation instructions are here:
https://help.u
On 05/03/12 21:40, Terry Coles wrote:
So I'm looking for a good Windows Backup program than does incremental backups
(not sync) to external drives. My niece is quite switched on, so I'm sure
she'll get the hang of it without too much difficulty, but (like anything) if
using it is too clunky she'
The ideal thing would be a USB keyboard with a built-in hub, Mac style.
The USB wireless keyboard/mice are fine, the computer sees it as a USB
HID device with a battery level monitor. Unfortunatly it will keep
bugging you about low battery within days of changing them if you use
rechargable ba
On 14/06/2012 20:36, Peter Merchant wrote:
Devices
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TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-222BB SB00 (/dev/sr0, CD-R, CD-RW, CD-ROM, DVD-ROM,
DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD-R DL, DVD+R, DVD+RW, DVD+R DL) [DVD-ROM, DVD-R
Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Sequential, DVD-R Dual Layer Jump,
DVD-RAM, DVD-RW Re
On 13 Jun 2012, at 13:48, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> What filesystem to choose for a single partition filling a 64GB SD card
> so it's read/writable on Windows and Linux?
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fat32#FAT32
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExFAT#Support_on_other_platforms
> h
On 06/12/2012 12:27, Jago Pearce wrote:
- update a bios that doesn't always boot; need to add an .img option
to grub2 to get DOS, which is required for the flash
Flashrom might help, if it supports your motherboard (chipset) and flash
chip.
http://www.flashrom.org/
That or write a FreeDOS US
On 29/01/2013 20:27, Peter Merchant wrote:
Well, Perhaps that will bring down the prices of HDMI monitors. I
couldn't find one under £103
P.
There are cheaper ones with DVI, and/or sold as "TVs".
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Hi,
I just thought I'd quickly reply to some of your questions...
On 20/03/2013 15:43, David Smith wrote:
1. Is this the right way to go and if so what distribution would you
recommend? Should I buy DVDs or download?
Everyone will recommend a different distribution. :)
If you are comfortable w
It depends what you're doing. If you want to distribute this as a DVD
then you want to select PAL DVD. The 1080 options are all
high-definition and I rather doubt any DVD players could play this.
Blu-ray players could, but are they common yet? I recently saw a Blu-ray
writer drive for around £6
On 23/05/2013 17:16, Tim wrote:
So I edited the /etc/host file as follows
Do you mean '/etc/hosts'?
It seems from a later post that your ping looked up the correct IP
address, so presumably you did edit the correct file, but I thought it
would be worth checking.
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