Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-27 Thread Bond, Peter
Re 901 keyboard - Hmm. Turns out it wasn't a sw issue at all, so my astonishment at it needing an OS reinstall was justified. How can anyone return a supposedly repaired system without doing even the most trivial of tests??? Ho hum. Peter ***

Re: [Hampshire] Server Security

2009-03-27 Thread James Courtier-Dutton
Roger, Try to come up with action plans for when a crack attack succeeds. 1) Try to plan the quickest way to recover from a crack attack. I would recommend using a virtual machine that you can take snapshots of so you can do periodic offline integrity scans on it. I.e. Don't do the offline scan fo

[Hampshire] Firefox Title Bar Disappears

2009-03-27 Thread Sean Gibbins
Hi All, Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this annoying issue? Basically, Firefox starts up without its Title Bar leaving the user unable to manipulate the window via any means other than File - Exit. The result is similar to hitting F11 and going to fullscreen mode, but not the same.

Re: [Hampshire] Firefox Title Bar Disappears

2009-03-27 Thread Steve Wesemeyer
On Friday 27 March 2009 10:41:12 Sean Gibbins wrote: > Hi All, > > Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this annoying issue? > > Basically, Firefox starts up without its Title Bar leaving the user > unable to manipulate the window via any means other than File - Exit. > The result is simil

Re: [Hampshire] Firefox Title Bar Disappears

2009-03-27 Thread Chris Dennis
Sean Gibbins wrote: > Hi All, > > Just wondering if anyone else has encountered this annoying issue? > > Basically, Firefox starts up without its Title Bar leaving the user > unable to manipulate the window via any means other than File - Exit. > The result is similar to hitting F11 and going to

Re: [Hampshire] Firefox Title Bar Disappears

2009-03-27 Thread Sean Gibbins
Steve Wesemeyer wrote: > > Does it happen for a new user account as well or is it local to your user > profile? > Hi Steve, I have tried completely nuking the profile and allowing Firefox to rebuild it, but the issue still manifests. > I guess you have already seen this: > > http://ubuntufor

Re: [Hampshire] Firefox Title Bar Disappears

2009-03-27 Thread Sean Gibbins
Chris Dennis wrote: > There are add-ons that make changes to the Firefox window, e.g. for > setting up a 'kiosk'. Are you sure that there are no such add-ons active? > > Running 'firefox -safe-mode' will start Firefox with all add-ons disabled. > Hi Chris, I have just looked at the add-ons s

[Hampshire] F-spot wont start

2009-03-27 Thread Tim
I have installed F-spot via synaptics but when I try to start it, it appears in the taskbar and the mouse pointer changes then after 10 seconds it reverts back to normal and no program start. If I try starting it from a console I get m...@titan:~$ f-spot ** No session dbus found. Starting one *

Re: [Hampshire] F-spot wont start

2009-03-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/3/27 Tim : > m...@titan:~$ f-spot > ** No session dbus found. Starting one ** > /usr/bin/f-spot: line 70: exec: dbus-launch: not found > Do you have a /usr/bin/dbus-launch ? Is the package dbus-x11 installed? Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https

Re: [Hampshire] F-spot wont start

2009-03-27 Thread Paul Stimpson
Hi, My first thought would be to install all the packages that begin dbus. If that doesn't work I'd try some more with dbus in the name. Do you know what language f-spot is written in? If it's something like python then I would make sure the dbus bindings for that language (e.g. Python-dbus)

Re: [Hampshire] F-spot wont start

2009-03-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/3/27 Paul Stimpson : > Do you know what language f-spot is written in? If it's something like python > then I would make sure the dbus bindings for that language (e.g. Python-dbus) > are installed. > F-Spot is a mono app. Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web In

Re: [Hampshire] Firefox Title Bar Disappears

2009-03-27 Thread Greg Auger
I encountered this some time ago. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/compiz/+bug/268253 "(18:50:41) crdlb: fluteflute: that is a compiz problem (18:51:28) crdlb: fluteflute: compiz-fusion-plugins-main provides a Workarounds plugin (18:51:43) crdlb: which you can disable (or just disable 'le

Re: [Hampshire] F-spot wont start

2009-03-27 Thread Tim
On Friday 27 March 2009 12:02:00 Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/3/27 Paul Stimpson : > > Do you know what language f-spot is written in? If it's something like > > python then I would make sure the dbus bindings for that language (e.g. > > Python-dbus) are installed. > > F-Spot is a mono app. > > Cheers,

Re: [Hampshire] F-spot wont start

2009-03-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/3/27 Tim : > Thanks Al, Installed dbus-x11 and it seems to be working now. > Great! > Bit concerned that it was not picked up as a dependency and automaticly > installed, would this qualify as a bug?? > Guess so. I'm not up on Debian bugging. Cheers, Al. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mail

[Hampshire] Book Reviews

2009-03-27 Thread Hants LUG Chairman
Hi, Publisher Apress sent us some books to review. The first two are now on the wiki for everyone to look at. http://www.hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?BookReviews (I've also pasted on some of my earlier reviews to flesh out the section.) If there are any books that Apress have published re

Re: [Hampshire] Restore native Xandros to Eee PC 901

2009-03-27 Thread Owain Clarke
I must admit my Eee 701 has been so much more enjoyable since I eventually managed to get Ubuntu running on it. Apart from anything else, the original setup is incredibly wasteful of space, e.g. Adobe Reader rather than Evince, and the lack of uptodate software is frustrating. No wonder the l