Checking a data DVD for errors

Greetings to All Is there a simple way to test a data DVD for errors. The command line utility 'fsck' does not seem to cover ISO 9660 and other filing systems used on DVD's. Can 'fsck' be extended or what else can I use ? Thanks David Bow -- ubuntu-au mailing list

Linux C Compiler to produce windows .EXE files

Hello Folks I have been writing (for fun) a few C programs which I wish to share with friends. All of these friends use MS Windows - although I am working on changing that! What I am after is a C compiler which will run under Ubuntu but produce .EXE binaries. Can any one help ? Thanks David

Starting MySQL

password: NO) Can anybody help? Thanks for listening David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

printing control- again

require you list the pages as 1,3,5,7 etc,then 2,4,6,8 etc.and don't offer the facility of odd/even printing - although a few do. This becomes very wearisome if a large document has to printed. Thanks in anticipation David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https

MS Access from Ubuntu

Hello All I wish to run MS Access 2003 from within Ubuntu. I own registered copies of the full MS Office 2003 suite and also XP Pro. What is the best and easiest way to achieve this ? Advice and experience greatly appreciated. Thanks in anticipation David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing

Database migration from Access to MySQL

guidance. Many thanks David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Email reader for the blind

Hello all I have a friend who is virtually blind and would like to migrate from MS to Ubuntu. He requires a 'text-to-audio' program to read his emails. Does anyone know of an OS program which can run under Ubuntu to achieve this ? Thanks for any help David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing

Hibernating shuts down

Dear all When selecting 'hibernate' the computer shuts down (turns off) instead. On start up it reports a sleep problem, but I am not sure what to do. I am running Ubuntu 9.04 Any ideas ? Many thanks David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Installing X-CD-Roast

- wodim Then checking wodim: da...@djb-p4:/usr/bin$ ls -l ./wodim -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 395784 2009-10-03 08:14 ./wodim I cannot get past this point and cannot see what is wrong with the permissions or ownership. Can anybody help? Thanks David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list

Printer problem

Hello all. I have a printer problem in that when I try to print from any package, I get a message job stopped and the printer prints Unable to open the initial device, quitting. (Ubuntu 9.10) The printer diagnostic facility seems to freeze. Any ideas of where to look ? Thanks David

Printing buffer Size

Dear Ubuntu Users I have an HP 1200 laser printer with 72 Mbytes (the maximum) of internal memory. When printing (especially a large job), I would like to load the complete job into the printer memory in one hit. How do I achieve this ?? I am using Ubuntu 9.10 Many thanks David Bowskill

Printing using HP1200

For the HP1200 laserjet printer, the recommended driver 'pxlmono' would appear to be broken. The CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.5 and hpijs pcl3, 3.10.2drivers both seem to work well. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Peculiar effect with keyboard -solved

as to what 'sandwich' is and how it works? Many thanks David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Suddenly very slow to start

Hello Fellow Ubuntu Users For some strange reason my Ubuntu 10.04 has suddenly become very slow to boot. I tried to repair the system at boot ( pressing escape) and then selected 'repair broken packages'. I have tried the above several times but still keep getting error messages as follows:

Re: Suddenly very slow to start

help David Bowskill On 06/10/10 00:07, David Fawcett wrote: Hey Dave, Do you have an external USB hard drive plugged into the machine? If so can you try unplugging it and rebooting to see if it still starts up slowly? If not can you please open the termal and type: lsusb And please

Re: Suddenly very slow to start

- more strength to his elbow ! Many thanks again David Bowskill On 06/10/10 15:03, David Whyte wrote: On Wed, Oct 6, 2010 at 1:44 PM, David Bowskill david...@tpg.com.au wrote: Thanks for reply Dave. There are no devices plugged into any USB port (apart from the mouse) although the effect did

Question for GCC programmers

Hello Fellow Ubuntu Users I have been writing some programs using GCC and I wish to have a program receive a character from the keyboard immediately upon pressing the key ( not buffered or held until 'enter' is pressed) and with no echoing to the screen. Is there a simple way to achieve this?

Re: Question for GCC programmers

Bowskill On 08/10/10 22:02, Lisa Milne wrote: On Fri, 08 Oct 2010 19:58:34 +1100 David Bowskill david...@tpg.com.au wrote: Hello Fellow Ubuntu Users I have been writing some programs using GCC and I wish to have a program receive a character from the keyboard immediately upon pressing the key

Re: Question for GCC programmers

with MinGW. Regards David Bowskill On 09/10/10 15:25, Lisa Milne wrote: On Sat, 09 Oct 2010 14:26:31 +1100 David Bowskill david...@tpg.com.au wrote: Thanks Lisa for your reply, my requirement I gather is not that unusual. Since you enlightened me on the concepts of 'raw' or 'cooked

Printing queue not visible

Hello Fellow Ubuntu's I have just installed 10.04 on a Toshiba Satellite Pro laptop and all works fine except that the printing jobs do not show on the 'Document Print Status' monitor. The printing itself is perfect. Any ideas? Thanks David BTW for those with an HP1200 laser printer, the

Suddenly failed to connect

Dear Ubuntu Users My wife and I share a four port router and we both are running 10.04 My Internet connection is fine but she is now receiving 'unable to connect to server' There is no hardware fault as the machine is dual boot and MSwindows connects OK I have checked /etc/resolv.conf and that is

Re: Suddenly failed to connect

to be as clear as possible. Let us know how it goes. Ryan Macnish On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 11:53 AM, David Bowskill david...@tpg.com.au mailto:david...@tpg.com.au wrote: Dear Ubuntu Users My wife and I share a four port router and we both are running 10.04 My Internet connection

Mounting Floppies

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 following entry: /dev/fd0/media/floppy0 auto

Re: Mounting Floppies

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 not mount the floppy although the drive light cam on for a short

Re: Mounting Floppies

/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 LINUX guru

Re: Bug 1

G'day All I completely support the view point of Colin McDermott and Alan Kerns that We have missed our target audience. We are aiming for tech savvy Mac users when we need to pitch at Granny's using rusty PC's David Bowskill On 10/04/11 04:11, Alan Kerns wrote: On 09/04/11 22:14, colin

Warning Messages when installing updates

*** Can anyone tell me what these warnings mean and are they serious ? Thanks David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Critical warning messages

Hello All Could some kind soul(s) please tell what the following (below) mean and what I can do about them. These came up when I asked for help in the Archive Manager. Thanks David Bowskill *** (file-roller:3227): atk-bridge-WARNING

NetworkManager Applet 0.8 Icon

G'day All I am running Ubuntu 10.04 I seem to have lost my tool bar icon for the NetworkManager Applet 0.8 (up/down arrows) which makes it difficult to see what is going on. Can anyone tell me how I can recover this icon ?? Thanks David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: NetworkManager Applet 0.8 Icon

. On Wed, June 1, 2011 8:41 pm, David Bowskill wrote: G'day All I am running Ubuntu 10.04 I seem to have lost my tool bar icon for the NetworkManager Applet 0.8 (up/down arrows) which makes it difficult to see what is going on. Can anyone tell me how I can recover this icon ?? Thanks David

Missing Ethernet Port

Hello All I have a problem when installing Ubuntu 10.04 on a Friends Laptop. I have already installed 10.04 with no trouble on my desk top and lap top. In a terminal ifconfig eth0 shows 'eth0' to be present on both my machines but absent on the Friends laptop (there is also no eth1 etc). The

Installing Open Office 3.3.0 in Ubuntu 10.04

Hello All I downloaded the following from 'Ubuntu Geek' - it specifically deals with the installation of OOo3.2, but I have downloaded but not installed the similar file for OOo3.3.0 I now have a file 'OOO330_m20_native_packed-1_en-US.9567' after unpacking. Every thing below is clear except for

LibreOffice Tab Stops

Hello All Can anyone tell me how to fix the tab stops in LibreOffice such that they ignore the tab stop settings in an imported document. I wish to force my fixed tab stop settings on to a document which has tab stops already in it - that is override the existing tab stop info. Thanks David --

LibreOffice Tab Stops

Hello All Can anyone tell me how to fix (lock) the tab stops in LibreOffice such that they override the tab stop settings in an imported document. Thanks David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Window Managers for Kubuntu and Ubuntu

anyone else out there feel this ? Hope that this does not put too many noses out of joint. Cheers David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Selecting Window Managers

Hello All Is it possible on boot-up (11.10) to select from a choice of window managers - such as lxde, xfce etc ? Thanks David Bowskill -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

BASH Scripting

Hello All Could someone kindly please tell me how to write a BASH script, which opens up a terminal (easy) and, in that opened terminal, runs a pre-existing program. Thanks David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: BASH Scripting

Thanks Paul - very simple when one knows how. Cheers David On 28/02/12 22:03, Paul Gear wrote: -t Window Title -e command to run -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

printer applet

Dear All I may just be stupid but I am having trouble in getting the printer applet together with it's icon ( as in 10.04) installed in 12.04. Any suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com

Youtube Audio Files

Hello All Can anybody please tell me how to store the audio on a downloaded youtube video to a file ? Thanks David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Gnome 2 window manager

Hello All Can anybody please tell me how difficult it is to replace the window manager(s) in the latest Ubuntu with Gnome2 from Ubuntu 10.04 ? Thanks David -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Files in /dev

Hello all I have a simple question - why are there more files in the /dev directory then actual existing devices on a particular machine ? In particular, on start up, why does not the system interrogate the hardware and only create files corresponding to the actual hardware present ? - in