On Wed, 2009-03-18 at 07:19 +1100, David Ryder wrote:
Hi,
I'm after a notebooks which I will only put Ubuntu (8+) on. I want the
internet camera and mic built in (Ekiga, Skype).
I went to JB Hi-Fi and Powerhouse yesterday. To my amazement, I was told
that all notebooks will take linux
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 18:14 +1100, Dave Hall wrote:
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 14:46 +1100, Sebastian wrote:
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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.
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 next week I can't install her the final release
so it will be either the latest alpha or a daily live build.
What
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
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Hi all,
I recently decided to move from Thunderbird to Evolution.
The two main reasons where better integration into GNOME (I run
Intrepid) and address book supporting birthdays.
While I was searching on how to do the move as painless as possible I
found many who wanted to move from Evolution
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
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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
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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
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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
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
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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
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
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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
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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
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.
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
Paul Gear wrote:
Junin Toiro wrote:
2008/8/21 Paul Gear [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi folks,
Can anyone explain to me how set preferences for GLSlideshow under
gnome-screensaver? Since i upgraded from 7.10 to 8.04, GLSlideshow's
defaults have changed and i no longer see more than about 60% of my
Hi all,
the last couple of weeks a fried was with us. She brought a JVC Everio GZ-MG67E.
She did some serious filing over the weeks and before she left I connected the
camcorder to my ubuntu hardy. It was soon
mounted as a storage device and I could browse the folders on the cam.
I found the
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
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 was
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
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://www.imgburn.com/ then
I get 100% success - which I was used to in Windows.
But I
Chris Jones wrote:
Apparently ATO software developers are working on a linux version of
etax for future.
Fingers crossed for next year!
Regards
Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Yea while they work on a linux version they worsened the linux/wine
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 but
everything I tried did not work.
After reboot the zombie is back.
PID is always 6000 if that matters.
How
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
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
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 or
a
hi all,
still reinstating after clean install I came across this IMPORTANT message
while installing truecrypt.
Has anyone had problems with the hardy kernel?
$ sudo dpkg -i truecrypt-5.1a/truecrypt_5.1a-0_i386.deb
Selecting previously deselected package truecrypt.
(Reading database ... 106555
hi there,
I want to do some changes to partition sizes and a clean install with hardy on
my notebook which runs feisty by now.
Before I start my upgrade to hardy I have some questions and I am hoping for
answers :-)
- By now my root dir is 5.2 GB big and now after a year filled to 3.6GB. I
does anyone know about a AAPT mirror for linux distros similar to the iinet
one?
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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/
[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,
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.
Jackson Cooper wrote:
True..
So then perhaps you could do something if umount's exit status isn't
0... It'll still fail when the device is busy, but won't be stuck in
an infinite loop.
eg.
CODE
while true; do
if [[ -d /media/nameofdongle ]]; then
rsync -switches
in the terminal to find out more.
- Jackson
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 7:55 PM, Sebastian Spiess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
hi all,
I want to sync some of my USB dongle folders when I plug it in. I think I
worked that out: create a rule
/etc/udev/rules.d/85-usbstick.rules and call the script
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
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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
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
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
is is correct that I have to replace
#!/bin/sh
with
#!/bin/dash
in scripts so that they work?
I am running feisty.
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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
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
[
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
Hi all,
I want to start sorting my pictures with f-spot.
the thing is I am still running feisty and want to use the latest f-spot
version 0.4.1.
I downloaded the source from http://f-spot.org - f-spot-0.4.1.tar.bz2
now comes the config, make, make install... am I right.
But my real question
The Wassermans wrote:
I am attempting to recover a Thunderbird (Windows version) address book
and emails from a HDD which has been installed as a slave. The HDD
comes from a system where XP crashed. I can access all of the files on
the HDD but can't, for the life of me, find where the
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
out. Worth
a try again.
Chris
Sebastian Spiess wrote:
This might come a bit late but still...
I had a good experience with Skype Linux to windows video calls.
both parties had a simple logitec web-cam and I am running the latest
Skype beta.
the other party runs WinXP, which
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