On 23/05/11 23:24, tridecet...@gawab.com wrote:
I installed Natty a few days ago and I must say I can't stand it.
I sympathise - I know the feeling :-( .
I have been experimenting with LXDE and other options (because GNOME 3
is nearly as bad as unity)
The key word here is nearly as bad.
On 23/05/11 23:07, Peter Kukums wrote:
Hi folks,
I was concerned about the Unity desktop for use by PC beginners, but
having used it for a while now I find it is not as bad as previously
discussed on this forum.
However, I find one behaviour which would be confusing for beginners.
Opening
On 13/04/2011 22:33, Robert Parker wrote:
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Basil Chupinblchu...@iinet.net.au wrote:
Just a question aimed at all such proposed Whoopee Parties in Australia:
are you also going to inform everyone that the gnome DE is to be replaced by
Unity in 6 months time (and
On 13/04/2011 09:22, peter baker wrote:
hey guys
here is my suggestion for a natty release party here in melbourne
(sorry if someone has already suggested a time/place)
if there are no objections I will update
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam/Projects/NattyReleaseParties
when: 3pm sat
On 11/04/2011 10:30, Peter Watts wrote:
I have read somewhere that MINT will not be using Unity, This an other
distros built on Ubuntu my be a better option.
Thanks
Peter
Mint is simply a re-work of Ubuntu.
However, I also did read somewhere that it will have a fork which will
maintain and
On 10/04/2011 11:02, Peter Kukums wrote:
This issue concerns me greatly as I have spent the past few years
converting beginners frustrated with Windows crashing, virus attacks
and other concerns to the peaceful, stable world of Ubuntu.
As beginners they would have no idea of how to change
On 09/04/2011 09:08, Adrian J de Bruyn wrote:
G'day all
Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I tried to
install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all right, I
think, but when booting it reverts back to Windows without giving me a
choice.
What am I
On 09/04/2011 09:54, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 09/04/2011 09:08, Adrian J de Bruyn wrote:
G'day all
Being a newbie I might be asking for something resolved long ago. I
tried to
install 10.10 alongside windows7. But no success. It installs all
right, I
think, but when booting it reverts back
On 07/04/2011 23:43, IKT wrote:
Heya,
Has anyone been mucking around with 11.04?
What do you think of it so far?
- ikt
If you stay away from Unity then it is acceptable.
BC
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On 08/04/11 14:04, Boden Matthews wrote:
Unity, bloody Unity! It's ugly, horrible and naff, get rid of it! If
you install GNOME and remove Unity at the same time, GNOME works
perfectly.
Regards,
Boden Matthews
Sent from my DET craptop
Gnome is not QUITE the same as in Maverick but it is
On 07/01/2011 20:01, Basil Chupin wrote:
...and are using VoIP service and have tried to call in the past month
or so a 13XX phone number, check your Invoice from iinet for your
VoIP account to see if they are charging you 20c for calls to 13X
numbers which never ever got connected (ie
...and are using VoIP service and have tried to call in the past month
or so a 13XX phone number, check your Invoice from iinet for your
VoIP account to see if they are charging you 20c for calls to 13X
numbers which never ever got connected (ie, all you got was an engaged
tone).
I
On 22/11/2010 11:12, Paul Whipp wrote:
Hi there,
I have an annoying Ubuntu problem:
I use my Ubuntu desktop for work and for good quality VOIP I use a
Logitech wireless headset that works very well. I also have the usual
sound card/speakers connected.
If I get a skype call and I am not
LINUX guru will see this as a challenge and come up with
the answer.
Cheers
David
On 03/11/10 20:32, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 03/11/2010 18:58, David Bowskill wrote:
Hello All
I was cleaning up when I came across some old floppies with stuff I
wished to read.
Ubuntu 10.04 would
On 03/11/2010 18:58, David Bowskill wrote:
Hello All
I was cleaning up when I came across some old floppies with stuff I
wished to read.
Ubuntu 10.04 would not mount the floppy although the drive light cam on
for a short while and the drive 'clicked'.
The file /etc/fstab includes the
On 03/11/2010 23:16, David Bowskill wrote:
Thanks Basil
I can't seem to find the previous correspondence (have searched back as
far as May).
There seems to be some very basic bug since according to fstab anyone
can mount the floppy - and it seems to partially achieve this.
I'm sure some
On 05/09/2010 17:43, Rob Dawson wrote:
On 05/09/10 14:58, James Takac wrote:
Hi Terry
On Sunday 05 September 2010 13:48:51 Terry Brock wrote:
I use ubuntu on both of my computers and except for normal hicups I have
found it to work every time I think that whoever started this
On 03/09/2010 23:26, Mark Hill wrote:
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Once only have I actually had Ubuntu install cleanly and run (dual
boot with Win XP). The Ubuntu version was from memory, 8.04 and not a
serious contender to Windows in my humble opinion.
I tried very recently and again today
*COMMUNICATIONS Minister Stephen Conroy is on the receiving end of
another dishonourable award, after being dubbed Australia's dumbest
politician in a magazine survey. *
/Zoo Weekly/ magazine conducted the online survey of 1200 voters to dub
Senator Conroy the dumbest politician, followed by
On 25/07/10 22:01, Tom Sparks wrote:
if there are 12 million ubuntu users
How many linux users are there?
You asking this because you have a school project to complete or because
you are a seeker of truth and a statistics zealot? :-) .
BC
--
A man kept complaining about not having
On 25/07/10 22:48, IKT wrote:
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 9:49 PM, Basil Chupin blchu...@iinet.net.au
mailto:blchu...@iinet.net.au wrote:
On 25/07/10 22:01, Tom Sparks wrote:
if there are 12 million ubuntu users
How many linux users are there?
You asking this because
On 17/07/10 15:25, Scott Evans wrote:
The main thing is that unless you need ANY ports open on your
modem/router then you are fin behind the NAT you only expose yourself if
you are running a service that requires something/someone to connect to
it. Also unless you are on a fixed IP from your
On 23/07/10 15:22, Tom Sparks wrote:
--- On Fri, 23/7/10, Basil Chupinblchu...@iinet.net.au wrote:
From: Basil Chupinblchu...@iinet.net.au
Subject: Why haven't we seen this?
To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
Received: Friday, 23 July, 2010, 2:18 PM
FWDed from another Ubuntu mail list:
On 23/07/10 17:21, Paul Gear wrote:
On 23/07/10 14:18, Basil Chupin wrote:
FWDed from another Ubuntu mail list:
QUOTE
So much goodness where has this been hiding?
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/07/best-advert-for-ubuntu-you-probably.html?utm_source=feedburnerutm_medium
On 14/07/10 16:49, Tony Addis wrote:
Hi,
I want to run Me TV and am not sure if I have a DVB card on my
computer, how do I find out?
Tony
Tony, I have sent you 3 e-mails (off the list) in response to your
private post to me.
Have you received my posts (or have they gone missing)?
BC
On 15/07/10 17:52, Callan Jefferson Davies wrote:
And now I am absolutely confused and in the state of wonder.
When I went broadband (from dial-up) I bought a Netgear modem/router
Then I went from ADSL to ADSL2+, still with TPG, and was supplied with a
Zyxel ADSL2+ modem/router with 4
On 17/07/10 12:35, Peter Garrett wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 00:07:00 +1000
Basil Chupinblchu...@iinet.net.au wrote:
If a router doesn't respond to an ICMP ping then it does not exist.
Right? Or is this wrong?
From the headers of your mail:
Received: from unknown (HELO
On 15/07/10 00:08, Sam Jackson wrote:
Hiya Basil,
On 14/07/2010, at 10:05 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
The question now is: does anyone know which parameter in this Netcomm
I need to play with - and what are the settings - to stop these
responses to pings, please?
I'm not familiar
On 15/07/10 16:44, Callan Jefferson Davies wrote:
Some time ago when I was dual-booting with XP and used XP on the 'net, I
had Zone Alarm installed. This had a setting where incoming pings from
WAN, but not LAN, were not responded to.
Hi Basil,
That sounds a little weird, unless you
On 14/07/10 16:49, Tony Addis wrote:
Hi,
I want to run Me TV and am not sure if I have a DVB card on my
computer, how do I find out?
Tony
sudo lshw
and look for an entry for a DVB card.
But if you don't know whether you have one then probably you don't.
One other way is to run kaffeine,
In the very early hours of this morning (Wednesday) we had here in
Canberra one hell of a wind 'storm' with the result that one of our
neighbour' trees was bought down and short-circuited 2 phases of the
power lines. The power surge took out my modem's power unit.
Today, as replacement, I
On 15/07/10 10:13, Callan Jefferson Davies wrote:
My advice: ignore grc.com. :-)
I'll pipe up here and agree with that statement - there's absolutely no
need to go blocking pings.
I work for an ISP (Adam in Adelaide) and get this question a lot from
customers, and also talk to a lot
On 15/07/10 11:25, Dale wrote:
On 15 July 2010 10:40, Basil Chupinblchu...@iinet.net.au wrote:
On 15/07/10 10:13, Callan Jefferson Davies wrote:
My advice: ignore grc.com. :-)
I'll pipe up here and agree with that statement - there's absolutely no
need to go blocking
On 07/07/10 17:19, David Bowskill wrote:
Hello All
I have a problem with printing under /Lucid Lynx.
/My printer is an HP1200 with 72Mbytes of RAM ( the maximum).
Printing is extremely slow (many minutes a page) and the job often
terminates before completion. I always select 'urgent' and the
On 01/07/10 22:41, Jay wrote:
Dear friends,
I am new to ubuntu and the group. I am seeking help on the
installation of ubuntu and removing suse. Can some body guide me or
help me to install.
Thank you
JAY
You install Ubuntu right over where SuSE is sitting and SuSE will be
removed
On 24/06/10 23:21, Peter Goggin wrote:
My Linux system has developed a problem. It boots to the login stage
but is very unresponsive. Eventually it completes the login but
remains unresponsive. The disk activity light remains on and the
system remains very sluggish. Is this a disk problem or
On 21/06/10 22:14, David wrote:
Hi,
I don't know much about hardware. I'd be grateful for some advice on
what device to buy with which I can play back digital music files
through a conventional hifi amplifier, a device that either has a hard
drive or can be connected to an external hard
On 15/06/10 15:33, Tom Sparks wrote:
--- On Tue, 15/6/10, Paul Schulzp...@mawsonlakes.org wrote:
From: Paul Schulzp...@mawsonlakes.org
Subject: Re: ubuntu for Internet cafe
To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
Received: Tuesday, 15 June, 2010, 10:21 AM
You can install Ubuntu on a USB stick
On 15/06/10 19:26, David Fawcett wrote:
On Tue, Jun 15, 2010 at 6:55 PM, Tom Sparks tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au
mailto:tom_a_spa...@yahoo.com.au wrote:
--- On *Tue, 15/6/10, David Fawcett /omniw...@gmail.com
mailto:omniw...@gmail.com/* wrote:
From: David Fawcett
On 14/06/10 16:20, Paul Gear wrote:
On 14/06/10 15:07, Mitch Towner wrote:
...
currently we use a program called Deep Freeze
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Freeze_%28software%29
) on our windows computers
the close likeness I seen is the ubuntu LiveCD
Is there a ubuntu like
On 14/06/10 16:34, Paul Gear wrote:
On 14/06/10 16:31, Basil Chupin wrote:
...
Deep Freeze is available for Novell's SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop,
so it's likely that it could be hacked (possibly only with Faronics'
involvement) to work with Ubuntu:
http://www.faronics.com/en/Products
around (Corsair) for which you would be
paying ~$31 + freight from Sydney.
BC
Cheers,
Paul
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 4:18 PM, Basil Chupinblchu...@iinet.net.au wrote:
On 14/06/10 16:34, Paul Gear wrote:
On 14/06/10 16:31, Basil Chupin wrote:
...
Deep Freeze
On 13/06/10 19:09, Tom Sparks wrote:
I am wondering if there is a version of ubuntu for an internet cafe?
Is there a installable read-only (liveCD like) version of ubuntu?
I don't understandthe Ubuntu CD is a Live CD using which you can run
Ubuntu to do most, but not all, things or
, Basil Chupin
blchu...@iinet.net.au
wrote:
From: Basil Chupinblchu...@iinet.net.au
Subject: Re: ubuntu for Internet cafe
To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
Received: Sunday, 13 June, 2010, 10:58 PM
On 13/06/10 19:09, Tom Sparks wrote:
I am wondering if there is a version of ubuntu
On 07/06/10 16:21, Peter Kukums wrote:
Hi there,
yesterday my system updated the kernel to version 2.6.32-22-generic-pae
Ever since then the Virtualbox driver won't load and cups won't start
on boot up. I realise that I can start them from the command line each
time, but that is a pain.
On 05/06/10 21:13, Jared Norris wrote:
Good morning/afternoon/evening Ubuntu-AU'ers
As I have been going through and cleaning up a lot of the wiki lately
(https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AustralianTeam) I have had quite a few people
coming to me suggesting that the front page itself was also due for a
I have just downloaded this DVD iso and yet to install but it does sound
interesting.
What is Ultimate Edition 2.6? Ultimate Edition was built off Ubuntu
Lucid Lynx 10.04, I am going to start off with some of the finer points.
It will be my main O/S for some time to come. It is lightning
On 07/05/10 11:51, Kym Mickan wrote:
/is this where I can ask for help as I'm new at this ubuntu stuff and
having some headaches./
Yep, at least one of the places. One other would be the ubuntu mail list
(to which you need to subscribe here:
On 08/05/10 07:36, Robert Parker wrote:
Folks,
I would like to be able to switch between Thai and English in the
system menus if that is possible. I have no problems switching between
Thai and English in the different applications.
Clues anyone?
I don't but a useful URL to have
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