Re: Evince not opening PDF

On 18/07/12 22:01, Rob Dawson wrote: I can't say why its hanging but I tried it on my 12.04 (64bit) machine and it took a fair while to open in Evince - 60 seconds. It opened instantly in Firefox (using the Adobe plugin) and also instantly in Acrobat Reader. I always install AR on my new

Re: LEADERSHIP and a ROADMAP

Daniel Sobey wrote: ...snip... We do need to change, but just adding 3 layers of bureaucracy will not help, perhaps in 5 or 10 years when our community has grown it will be needed but not now. So the question is if the current system is not working, or not working as well as it should why

Re: Ubuntu Rebuild plus Music Importing and Mixing

Paul Gear wrote: Rob Farquhar wrote: So is there a program of similar function to MAGIX that will run on Ubuntu? If so, what other programs would Dave need to consider should he get serious about mixing? How is Ubuntu overall with music creation / manipulation? I haven't used it for

Re: Simply Backup help

Callan Davies wrote: I've found it works really well, but I can't say I've ever tried a restore. I really would try that ;-) That is probably the biggest problem with backups - people find they can't restore. This could be for a variety of reasons (media, setup ...). You should be able to

Re: Vmware on 64bit ubuntu

daniel sobey wrote: Yes you can run a 64 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run a 32 bit os on a 64 bit vmware, you can run 64 bit os on a 32 bit os. I believe quemu, virtualbox, kvm, xen can also do this. I know that with VMWare Workstation and VMWare Server you need a 64 bit CPU to run

Re: Launcpad as a developer.

Hi Michael, Michael Ritter wrote: To whom it may concern, For those of you who are developers, I would like to know you experiences joining Launchpad and then joining a team of developers. After viewing 1,000 projects from 7,900+ available I still don't know what one I should join.

Re: windows tax refund

Paul Gear wrote: I personally bought my Dell Latitude D830 with the Windows Vista license and install Linux. Then i can legally run XP or Vista in a VMware VM. I know it's not the right thing in terms of sending the right message to Dell and MS, but the fact is that i need both Linux and

Re: printer software

JHi James, ames Takac wrote: Hi Guys Am wondering if there's some software equivalent of fineprint for ubuntu. Basically it allows one to print so you can fit up to 8 pages per side of paper, as booklets, etc Take a peek at the psutils (psnup command) and a2ps (a2ps command) packages.