Re: Laptops

2009-03-19 Thread Sebastian Spiess
supported by Linux (list, is that correct or did I remembered it wrong?). I'd suggest the live CD test in the shop, that way you can spot the mayor glitches. good luck, sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-16 Thread Sebastian Spiess
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:14 +1100, Dave Hall wrote: On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought about this a bit and while I wanted to give my mum the latest bling of jaunty I honestly don't think she will care that much

beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-15 Thread Sebastian Spiess
the possibly latest daily live and hope that less packages change or does that not matter? Thanks, Sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: beta-live CD vs daily live CD

2009-03-15 Thread Sebastian
/no major changes but still resulting in big downloads) 2009/3/15 Sebastian Spiess sebastian.spi...@gmail.com: Hi all, I'm looking into installing a new xubuntu box for my mum next week. I want to give the latest 9.04 xubuntu a spin on her 'new/refurbished' hardware. As I will be away from

add buttons in Evolution

2009-02-03 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Hi all, is there a way to add additional buttons to the Evolution toolbar? I have a 16:9 screen and lots of space where I would like to put some additional buttons. Or is there a keyboard-shortcut command list? Cheers, Sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message

move to Evolution

2009-01-29 Thread Sebastian Spiess
themselves? Are filters automatically applied to new incoming mail? Is there a way to add more buttons to the menu bar? Cheers, Sebastian signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https

Global Bug Jam

2009-01-14 Thread Sebastian
participate. So how is the mood out there AUS LoCo? Cheers, Sebastian [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-au/2009-January/004543.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) Comment: http://getfiregpg.org iD8DBQFJbmHiMuBzgG5z7F8RAhuzAJ4gI35WrYBWukzOu3L3NGvpH

Re: AUS LoCo status?

2009-01-13 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Not sure if you heard or read about it, and yes I know it's not Ubuntu only but the SLUG team have monthly meetings which are open to everyone to join in. I agree with Paul that AU is a huge, vast country and it might be just difficult to meet in large groups more often. (Maybe not in Sydney

'Create a USB startup disk' killed my memory stick

2009-01-03 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I'm a bit confused but I think my memory stick got killed while creating a USB startup disk with the new Ubuntu tool. I started the usb creator and wanted to create a xubuntu USB dongle, for this I purchased a 4 GB stick. As I wanted it

Re: How to save a webpage as PDF? (where is it?)

2008-12-20 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Callan Jefferson Davies wrote: (I have no printer.) The Print dialogue box shows 'Print to file', and I select the only option that's there, PDF, and click on Print. I can't work out where the PDF file is (what folder) - gives no indication of

Re: How to save a webpage as PDF? (where is it?) - Thanks Callan, found it!

2008-12-20 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David wrote: And I will check out adding that PDF printer (at the moment I don't see any field where I can specify filename and destination). Dave There is no option for the name. The PDF will be names as the site is names in the title bar

Re: Stickers and case badges?

2008-12-01 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Jason Allen wrote: Hi All, I've managed to miss the availability of Ubuntu stickers and case badges over the last couple of years and after seeing a sticker on laptop in an office today, it's reminded me that I really want some and feel 'naked' without any. Are they available from

Re: xubuntu upgrade/install

2008-11-04 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Mons wrote: Sebastian Spiess wrote: Hi Dan, I hope you can help me in some way... Yesterday I spend some time on IRC http://irclogs.ubuntu.com/2008/11/02/%23xubuntu.html time starting at 09:01 _sebastian1 and we went though all

Re: skype

2008-11-04 Thread Sebastian
I can confirm that. I am running hardy and Skype from the medibuntu repo. I remember it took me a while to find the right setting so my mic was working but ever since it just works. seb 2008/11/5 Andre Mangan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hardy and Skype 2.0.0.72 are working together very well here.

Re: xubuntu upgrade/install

2008-11-03 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Daniel Mons wrote: Sebastian Spiess wrote: Hi Dan, I had the same thought that the alternate intaller would be better. Well, the installation went without problems - some things took a while but still. After the installation the reboot got stuck at the same spot again - 'starting GNOME

Re: xubuntu upgrade/install

2008-11-02 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Mons wrote: Sebastian Spiess wrote: So donwloaded live CD and booted from it and it always gets stuck whith 'starting GNOME desktop manager' I've had a few people tell me the same, and upon investigation the system did eventually get

xubuntu upgrade/install

2008-11-01 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, yes it is upgrade time again. I want to do a fresh install on a old dell laptop. until now it ran xubuntu gusty. the notebook has ~380 RAM So donwloaded live CD and booted from it and it always gets stuck whith 'starting GNOME desktop

9.04 will be Jaunty Jackalope

2008-09-09 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Hi all, I am sure most of you have read the news about the name for 9.04. Mark Shuttleworth announced [1] the name for the +2 release being Jaunty Jackalope. Just a few days ago I read though https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames and was thinking of nice names for the future versions.

Re: DVD - CD BURNING

2008-08-24 Thread Sebastian Spiess
David Ryder wrote: On Wed, 2008-07-30 at 21:11 +1000, Sebastian Spiess wrote: David Ryder wrote: Hi everybody, HARDY I have 100% failure on burning DVDs and CDs. The programs installed are Audio CD Exctractor, Brasero Rhythmbox. However, if I install Wine and use Imgburn http

Re: GLSlideshow preferences under 8.04

2008-08-24 Thread Sebastian Spiess
goes bright again as if I had moved the mouse... Any idea how I can make it work properly? Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

cut and edit JVC Everio HDD cam videos

2008-08-20 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-camcorder action and it did all I needed despite is was a MS thing so I am looking for something similar simple but free. I did some search and found this [1] kino forum post, so did anyone have the same problems with the JVC mod files? Any help is appreciated Sebastian [http

Re: cut and edit JVC Everio HDD cam videos

2008-08-20 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Matthew Rossi wrote: I wouldn't know as i've never used one of those cameras. I don't really like the JVC camcorders because it uses a strange video codec for it's recordings. Good luck. On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 9:25 PM, Sebastian Spiess [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote

Re: NAS - recommendations please

2008-08-16 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Sebastian wrote: Hi all, for a while now I've been looking into buying a NAS for the growing amount of data. I was thinking of something like QNAP TS-209 Pro [http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/content/view/30181/75/] but as funds are short and the need for storage is pressing I

Re: How to load korganizer at boot up?!?

2008-08-15 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Peter Williams wrote: Hi All, I've been running Linux Ubuntu all years, and then some. However, I've only been running Kubuntu for a few months. Basically, the more I use it, the more I like it. ;-)) My question is this: How do I make korganizer load each time I boot up my Kubuntu

Re: DVD - CD BURNING

2008-07-30 Thread Sebastian Spiess
mode thing. :-\ Cheers, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: IE in wine

2008-07-25 Thread Sebastian Spiess
experience of the 2008 version. I installed it recently and when I want to select y profession the drop down menu is empty... well done Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

zombie after startup

2008-07-25 Thread Sebastian Spiess
can I investigate what causes this zombie and how can I kill it. I would prefer the shot gun which worked well on zombies in some games but here in my system probably not :-) Thanks, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: zombie after startup

2008-07-25 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Peter Garrett wrote: On Fri, 25 Jul 2008 22:03:52 +1000 Sebastian Spiess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi all, for quite a while now I've been having one or sometimes 2 zombie processes showing in my system monitor I tried to kill them using the system monitor. I tried killall and PID

Re: Slashdot-like aussie website

2008-07-07 Thread Sebastian
2008/7/8 ishwor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, 8 Jul 2008 08:52:26 am Daniel Mons wrote: ishwor wrote: | On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 01:49:25 pm Daniel Mons wrote: | Morgan Storey wrote: | | I find www.overclockers.com.au http://www.overclockers.com.au good | | as well, it aggregates and has very active

Re: broadband with linux mirror

2008-07-06 Thread Sebastian
2008/7/3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 2008/7/1 Michael Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Do I have to pay phone line rental to telstra when I sign up for phone and net with internode? Not if you go with one of their Naked plans

broadband with linux mirror

2008-06-30 Thread Sebastian
better one? I thought as well about naked DSL as we do not many local calls, if only to calling card services for over seas. By now I have a alder netgear router, am I correct that I can't use this one for ADSL +2 or even VoIP? Cheers, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: broadband with linux mirror

2008-06-30 Thread Sebastian
2008/7/1 Matthew Rossi [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hello Sebastian. On Tue, Jul 1, 2008 at 1:18 PM, Sebastian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: well, it seems that internode has many loyal customers out there. I think I'll have a look if there is a suitable plan for with them. When I am correct they even

Re: DVD does not burn any more.

2008-06-20 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Michael Ritter wrote: To all, Having problem burning DVD's in Ubuntu. Growisofs keeps crashing with an error listed below. :-[ READ TRACK INFORMATION failed with SK=4h/ASC=08h/ACQ=03h]: Input/output error I have found people speaking about it in forums, but no solutions. My

recover thunderbird profiles on ext3

2008-05-24 Thread Sebastian
hi all, I just wasted my evening on trying to recover my deleted Thunderbird profiles. What happened? I was flicking back and forth between a backup and my home folder with gnome commander, I wanted to delete the old backup (have in on disc) but ... wrong folder and gone where my and my

Re: evolution, address book and calendar missing

2008-05-22 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Dave Hall wrote: On Sun, 2008-05-11 at 15:04 +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian, it looks like you used the first copy of the HowTo I sent to you. That copy was flawed because Open Office had enabled by default a feature that shifted any text to the left if followed by a space

hardy heron and truecrypt 5.1a

2008-05-07 Thread Sebastian Spiess
. This problem can be solved by upgrading your kernel to the latest version. Cheers, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

many questions prior hardy upgrade (clean install)

2008-04-28 Thread Sebastian Spiess
key? Cheers, Sebastian A note regarding the migration assistant: I've used the assistant when I installed feisty to import everything into a 'windows' profile. By now I don't even know the password for this profile and I never logged in to use it. I migrated Firefox and Thunderbird myself

AAPT linux mirror?

2008-04-26 Thread Sebastian Spiess
does anyone know about a AAPT mirror for linux distros similar to the iinet one? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: AAPT linux mirror?

2008-04-26 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Karl Bowden wrote: On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 6:44 AM, Daniel Mons [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: does anyone know about a AAPT mirror for linux distros similar to the iinet one? If AAPT is part of PIPE networks, any of the PIPE mirrors will do. eg: 3FL: http://www.3fl.net.au/mirror/

Re: Eee-PC 900 in AU?

2008-04-23 Thread Sebastian Spiess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the Asus eee pc 900 is going to be priced at $900 the only thing that makes it different from other laptops is that it is smaller than a conventional laptop. In my view, the 701 model will be remembered in the history books because it was inexpensive,

strange network problems

2008-04-22 Thread Sebastian
). So I have no idea whats going on or where to start looking... Please help! Thanks, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: strange network problems

2008-04-22 Thread Sebastian
On 22/04/2008, Cary Bielenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like either wrong/no default gateway or incorrect subnet mask. Cary Sebastian wrote: hi all, since yesterday I have network trouble with my feisty installation. I can connect to my router and see that the router

Re: strange network problems

2008-04-22 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Cary Bielenberg wrote: I have seen Ubuntu not add the default gateway in DHCP on some DSL routers, does it show from ifconfig? Cary Sebastian wrote: On 22/04/2008, Cary Bielenberg[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds like either wrong/no default gateway or incorrect subnet mask

Re: strange network problems

2008-04-22 Thread Sebastian
On 23/04/2008, Cary Bielenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sebastian, If you go into windows bring up a command prompt type ipconfig it will give you your IP settings if you write down the default gateway it will probably be 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.0.254 then boot into Ubuntu

Re: script on unmount

2008-04-19 Thread Sebastian Spiess
option. Cheers, Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: script on unmount

2008-04-19 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Jackson Cooper wrote: Sebastian, The way I'd do it is create a daemon with an infinite loop (I don't know much about udev though) that looks for the folder /media/nameofusbdongle, and if it exists execute the rsync line, then an umount line. Something like... CODE while true; do

hardy release party

2008-04-19 Thread Sebastian Spiess
hi all, anyone for a hardy release gathering? When I am correct release is on the 25th. I liked how it went last time when mark took the lead to organise but it seems like no one in the Sydney are is interested :-( Cheers Sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https

sbackup to DVD

2008-04-11 Thread Sebastian Spiess
hi all, a while ago I installed sbackup and set it up. I think this link was the inspiration for this http://maketecheasier.com/backing-up-data-in-ubuntu-using-sbackup/2007/12/08 By now sbackup did perform his task very well. As my free disk is getting less and less I was wondering how I can

Re: Hardy release party

2008-03-02 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Sridhar Dhanapalan wrote: On Sun, 2 Mar 2008, Harrison Conlin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 3/2/08, Sridhar Dhanapalan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Considering that Hardy is an LTS release, all the more reason for a release party. Of course, we don't know the release date yet, but it might at least

f-spot and the tags, will it get messy

2008-02-29 Thread Sebastian Spiess
Hi all, lately I was playing with fspot and a couple of pictures from two or tree events. I started tagging the pictures. People Family Brother People Family Sister People Friends ... Places AUstralia ...Uluru Places Germany ... Events holiday 1 Events holiday 2 other ugly people

script in ~/bin

2008-02-20 Thread Sebastian Spiess
is is correct that I have to replace #!/bin/sh with #!/bin/dash in scripts so that they work? I am running feisty. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Super L vs windows key

2008-02-20 Thread Sebastian Spiess
hi all, for a while i've been using the keyboard shortcut alt+e to replace the windows behaviour win+e to start nautilus in my home dir (similar to windows behaviour). I would like to switch the shortcut to win+e but as soon as I try to instate the shortcut I can't add the e to the

automate echo command on usb event

2008-02-20 Thread Sebastian Spiess
hi all, I have a FreeAgendGo external 2.5 hdd. the hdd is running fine exept that before I can use it without problems I always have to do the following dmesg|tail which gives me something like [ 1280.152000] sdb: assuming drive cache: write through [ 1280.152000] sdb: sdb1 sdb2 [

Re: Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking

2008-02-01 Thread Sebastian Spiess
David Whyte wrote: Hi All, I have found that when I try and access the internet banking site on either of my Gutsy machines it causes firefox to crash. The ANZ home page is fine, the internet banking login popup is fine, but when I enter my credentials and hit the login button, firefox

build f-spot 0.4.1 with feisty

2008-02-01 Thread Sebastian Spiess
and f-spot_0.4.1.orig.tar.gz I assume the last one carries NO modification for ubuntu and the first two files do. so how do I combine them? where can I read about this _ thing _ I need to do next and what is the process called? Thanks for help sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu

Re: Thunderbird address book/email recovery

2008-02-01 Thread Sebastian Spiess
/username/Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles though not sure about this one see http://www.mozilla.org/support/thunderbird/edit#profile for the official paths, ubuntu varies here! cheers sebastian -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: Wireless network card won't connect to router

2008-02-01 Thread Sebastian Spiess
David Whyte wrote: Hi, I installed Gutsy on my brothers laptop tonight and everything went OK, except the wireless network card doesn't seem to work too well. It can detect my network and when I select my router using Network Manager it pops up the encryption key dialog. I enter the key (i

Re: Ekiga, Skype, Messenger video calling

2008-01-16 Thread Sebastian Spiess
or the windows HD video... something with logitec cams... seb newcr wrote: Thanks Sebastian My version is 2.0.0.13. Audio was OK and I could do a video test call, but when trying video with family Skype crashed after about 3 seconds (consistently). Maybe Version 2.0.0.27 has sorted that issue