Re: [ubuntu-uk] We are more than 1%

2010-10-08 Thread Jacob Mansfield
there are lots more people on this list http://counter.li.org/ Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 8 October 2010 20:26, bu...@wp.pl wrote: With this initiative, we intend to refute the statistics of certain press organizations that ensure that the use of GNU/Linux does not exceed 1% and has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-07 Thread Jacob Mansfield
try plugging the monitor into the on-bord VGA socket, that should get your screen back On 7 October 2010 09:58, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: your right. its not an ubuntu (or mint) issue anymore considering cant even see the screen anymore. Although your post has triggered a thought.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-06 Thread Jacob Mansfield
songbird have a ppa on launchpad On 6 October 2010 14:52, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 06/10/10 13:58, Alan Pope wrote: But if everyone just says music player X is broken with large music collections and then _nobody_ files a bug about it, how will that status quo ever change?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
rythmbox keeps crashing, but I'll try songbird On 5 October 2010 09:39, George MacLeod bhalt...@gmail.com wrote: On 4 October 2010 21:26, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: can't find that in synaptic. AmorK can only import individual files, banshee duplicated everything

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
you said you fidled with the usb settings, could you be a little more specific On 5 October 2010 09:25, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: i get a screen which flashes with weird graphics. Like from an 80's video game. On Tue, Oct 5, 2010 at 9:21 AM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
are there any other options? what was the setting called? On 5 October 2010 12:47, Dan Attwood danattw...@gmail.com wrote: This is the kind of issue that local LUG meets are really good at solving. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
banshee crashes every 10 seconds, due to the fact that I have 103.7GB of music On 5 October 2010 14:28, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 05/10/10 12:33, Jacob Mansfield wrote: rythmbox keeps crashing, but I'll try songbird On 5 October 2010 09:39, George MacLeod bhalt...@gmail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
On 5 October 2010 14:28, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: (Amarok is painfully slow, especially on GNOME and Exaile is also very slow and crashes a lot). There's your answer -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
of your library, but could possibly its location or more likely locations. Simon On 5 Oct 2010 16:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 5 October 2010 16:26, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: banshee crashes every 10 se... What leads you to believe the volume of music files

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound effects ....

2010-10-05 Thread Jacob Mansfield
songbird has a pretty good start latency On 5 October 2010 21:22, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote: On 4 October 2010 16:07, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 4 October 2010 15:58, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Just spent a long time searching through fora with no result. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-04 Thread Jacob Mansfield
must be a drivers problem On 4 October 2010 11:04, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 04/10/10 10:23, javadayaz wrote: Well it was working fine before...and i havent disabled anything! i will have to check if its somehow manage to disable itself!!! On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 10:20 AM,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] warning: Non ubuntu thread! Fwd: Transcript of 4 Oct 2010 7:25:17. Visitor: javad. Operator: Jessica Waynick.

2010-10-04 Thread Jacob Mansfield
so more woman in russia stealing your monies On 4 October 2010 13:35, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: the lady got a bit defensive when i asked her if she was a man in africa trying to steal my monies!!! I guess HRH prince mabubu was busy! On Mon, Oct 4, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Vince

[ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-04 Thread Jacob Mansfield
could anybody recommend a good music player/manager, I've just spent 4 hours clearing up after banshee, amorak and rhythmbox and I'm not happy. it has to be able to consolidate my music library using move, NOT COPY. use 'smart play-lists' get album art. manage the content on my mp3 player based on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-04 Thread Jacob Mansfield
can't re-rip them, I never had the CDs in the first place. my boss sent me most of this stuff On 4 October 2010 21:12, Grant Sewell dcg...@thymox.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 4 Oct 2010 21:03:43 +0100 Jacob Mansfield wrote: could anybody recommend a good music player/manager, I've just spent 4

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-04 Thread Jacob Mansfield
:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 4 Oct 2010 21:04, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: could anybody recommend a good music player/manager, I've just spent 4 hours

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unable to install 10.04.1

2010-10-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
the kernel was panicking, about my hard drive dyeing! he told the commanding officer and he broke the hunting ban, by killing a firefox! On 2 October 2010 17:10, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: The lights flashing generally mean that the computer had a kernel panic which can be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
71C is still way too high, my system is currently creating backups of my 3 websites, extracting the text from the backups, synthesising it into a wav and converting it into ogg vorbis while playing music and browsing the web and my CPU core temperature is 45C, and I have a stock fan! On 3 October

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I've got a phenom X4 too, SNAP! On 3 October 2010 12:40, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote: My work laptop is a reasonably new (2 years old) dual core unit, and regularly runs at 70C (normally when running Java apps or converting video. I have to set the CPU frequency to 2/3 to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Join the celebration of Linux Magazine!

2010-10-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I shall enter the comp, please upload and send my winings to cyberja...@gmail.com, :) On 30 September 2010 14:57, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: See below. May be of interest to people in the UK LUG scene. :D -- Forwarded message -- From: Linux Magazine Service

Re: [ubuntu-uk] usb devices and ubuntu 10.04

2010-10-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
sounds like a power problem to me, is it a powered usb hub (with a plug/adapter/transformer) On 29 September 2010 20:54, Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk wrote: Hi Paul, I've had no problems with this from, broadly, 7.x to 10.04/10.10. /media should be dynamically creating folder names to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unable to install 10.04.1

2010-10-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I had a similar problem, It turned out that my hard drive was dieing On 2 October 2010 16:17, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: I have just finished trying to install 10.04.1 onto an old desktop computer belonging to a friend of mine and failed to do so. The installation started

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer Desktop and 10.04

2010-09-28 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I just tried it and AIR fails, says it can't write to the disk. any ideas??? On 28 September 2010 11:51, Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk wrote: On 28/09/2010 07:58, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Anybody got this to install on 10.04? The Adobe Air seems to install OK but the next step just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Streaming Audio - Cross-Platform

2010-09-22 Thread Jacob Mansfield
what about mediatomb? On 22 September 2010 14:28, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.comwrote: On 21 September 2010 21:29, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Hmmm, just trying to set up the Windows binary, however I get a lot of errors. Is there something I need to set up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Streaming Audio - Cross-Platform

2010-09-22 Thread Jacob Mansfield
yeah, I haven't quite worked out how to use that stuff yet On 22 September 2010 20:51, Grant Sewell dcg...@thymox.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 22 Sep 2010 20:41:13 +0100 Jacob Mansfield wrote: On 22 September 2010 14:28, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.comwrote: On 21 September 2010

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommend a small form factor pc

2010-09-20 Thread Jacob Mansfield
any suggestions for a cheep laptop On 20 September 2010 20:52, Mark markymo...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2010 20:23, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 20 September 2010 18:46, Mark markymo...@gmail.com wrote: snip As a Acer Revo user (attached to back of a Wharfdale TV @

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommend a small form factor pc

2010-09-20 Thread Jacob Mansfield
no cd drive to load *nix On 20 September 2010 21:18, Grant Sewell dcg...@thymox.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 21:05:49 +0100 Jacob Mansfield wrote: On 20 September 2010 20:52, Mark markymo...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 September 2010 20:23, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommend a small form factor pc

2010-09-20 Thread Jacob Mansfield
or even NBR On 20 September 2010 21:45, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 20/09/10 21:18, Grant Sewell wrote: http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/detail.asp?ProductID=6203 ;) Grant. B Windows CE!!! Anyone know if this can be coaxed into running Ubuntu (ARM

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Package Installs

2010-09-19 Thread Jacob Mansfield
as my grub.cfg file has not been modified during this mornings upgrade. What happens if you run sudo update-grub? On 18 September 2010 18:34, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: update manager just does the same thing, tries to install the linux-image, and hangs when generating

[ubuntu-uk] Package Installs

2010-09-18 Thread Jacob Mansfield
anybody else noticing synaptic/dpgk forcing installation of linux-image2.6.32-24-generic when trying to install a package? well it's happening on my main desktop but whenever it tries to install it always hangs at creating grub.cfg, so effectively I cannot install any packages. this a major

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Package Installs

2010-09-18 Thread Jacob Mansfield
a package? On 18 September 2010 17:31, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: anybody else noticing synaptic/dpgk forcing installation of linux-image2.6.32-24-generic when trying to install a package? well it's happening on my main desktop but whenever it tries to install it always

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-17 Thread Jacob Mansfield
On 16/09/10 23:03, Jim Price wrote: On 16/09/10 18:24, Jacob Mansfield wrote: so I can't get ubuntu NBR You can - just install whatever ubuntu 10.04 you can by whatever means, then install the ubuntu-netbook package, which will bring with it the rest of the bits you need

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
so you're saying I should just be able to put the live cd in one of my machines, then use a network boot over the lan On 16 September 2010 14:30, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 16/09/10 08:24, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 15 September 2010 19:44, Jacob Mansfieldcyberja...@gmail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I currently don't like adobe because of the lack of x64 support for flash no web games/movies On 16 September 2010 13:46, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with non-profits for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html On 16 September 2010 17:48, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote: Don't understand, Lucid64 install, flash works (10.1.82.76) and BBC iPlayer works (Air not installed) what am I missing? Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meeting tonight 9PM

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I'll try and make it On 16 September 2010 18:03, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.comwrote: Hi all, we have an IRC meeting this evening, it is in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel on freenode which you can get to using xchat or other IRC clients or even a web browser, if you have one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
flash doesn't work properly at all on mine, how did you get it to work? On 16 September 2010 18:19, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.ukwrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:13 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote: Well that answers part of it, but not why mine still works, 64bit browser (Chromium) and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
so I can't get ubuntu NBR On 16 September 2010 18:13, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 16/09/10 17:28, Jacob Mansfield wrote: so you're saying I should just be able to put the live cd in one of my machines, then use a network boot over the lan Yes, but this only works

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
silly bbc On 16 September 2010 19:03, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 16/09/10 18:48, Alan Bell wrote: The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I have it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64 bit. Alan. Nu-uh, I emailed BBC and they said

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
what's that ment to do On 15 September 2010 03:51, Tommy Pyatt tommy.py...@googlemail.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 14/09/10 17:55, Jacob Mansfield wrote: toshiba portage R100 On 13 September 2010 22:04, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk mailto:m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non Ubuntu help please- Add info from Excel into MS word

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
*whines* but M$ started it On 14 September 2010 22:50, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 14 September 2010 22:23, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: of corse you can do it in OO, why the f**k would you want to use M$ Now now, play nice. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot On 15 September 2010 08:33, Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk wrote: On 15/09/10 07:30, Jacob Mansfield wrote: what's that ment to do Hi Jacob, That should, I assume, bring up the boot menu, which means you should be able to boot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
yep, I used the usb disk creator on my desktop with the nbr image On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Did you have a bootable USB stick

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
September 2010 09:53, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Please don't top-quote on this (or any other) mailing list. Your reply should go /under/ the text to which you're responding. You do realise that it won't show options

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time? It will only show you what it detects (and the standard CDROM/Hard disk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I couldn't see the option to install inside windows, anything else I could try, other than using PXE On 15 September 2010 15:42, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 15 September 2010 15:40, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Aand *that* is right where I stop trying to offer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Jacob Mansfield
...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 September 2010 14:04, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: I just type where it puts the curser by default, I can type where I like. yes I did try with a USB cd drive and if you actualy read my posts rather than yelling at my grammer will know that I did try

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-14 Thread Jacob Mansfield
it with GRUB. You can then boot both Windows and Linux from there :) Daniel On Mon, 2010-09-13 at 21:17 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the whole reason I used wubi in the first place is because I am installing on a netbook with no CD/DVD drive and no ability to boot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non Ubuntu help please- Add info from Excel into MS word

2010-09-14 Thread Jacob Mansfield
of corse you can do it in OO, why the f**k would you want to use M$ On 14 September 2010 17:55, Joe Metcalfe joe.metca...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Hi Javed, Mail merge is definitely the answer. it shouldn't be too complicated to sort out - I've taught 13 year old school pupils to do it. Word has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-13 Thread Jacob Mansfield
how do you get rid of the windows bootloader, I used wibi but want to fully switch over to ubuntu now On 12 September 2010 22:51, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: On 12 September 2010 21:50, Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk wrote: Will work just fine. If you install via wubi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-13 Thread Jacob Mansfield
the Windows bootloader and replace it with GRUB. You can then boot both Windows and Linux from there :) Daniel On 13 September 2010 10:01, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: how do you get rid of the windows bootloader, I used wibi but want to fully switch over to ubuntu now On 12

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 Pssword request each 6 minutes

2010-09-12 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I might just have to get that, get my pc addicted to caffeine as well as me On 12 September 2010 21:53, Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk wrote: Alternatively you can install caffeine-- when you click it (and it's full of coffee), it'll temporarily disable the video timeout. Best, Glen On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu release and 42 day celebrations

2010-09-12 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I'd come but they'd probably kick me out of the pub, lol On 10 September 2010 09:08, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 September 2010 12:31, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote: On 9 September 2010 12:24, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 September 2010 12:06, John

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISO Testing - Getting Started

2010-09-10 Thread Jacob Mansfield
Mg_bob On Fri, Sep 10, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 September 2010 00:20, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: I've just spent 3 days solid getting 10.04 onto my toshiba portege R100, I've still not finished Um. That is not really relevant

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash problems in 10.10

2010-09-09 Thread Jacob Mansfield
Do you use the 64 bit version of ubuntu, if so that may well be the problem: http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html On 8 September 2010 12:10, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 10:40 +0100, John Matthews wrote: On 08/09/10 10:08, Glen Mehn wrote: On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISO Testing - Getting Started

2010-09-09 Thread Jacob Mansfield
Unless theres the netbook version I can't do it On 9 September 2010 11:56, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote: On 9 September 2010 08:34, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.comwrote: Hi All, The Beta of Maverick Meerkat (what will be Ubuntu 10.10) is now out, so it's a good time to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISO Testing - Getting Started

2010-09-09 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I've just spent 3 days solid getting 10.04 onto my toshiba portege R100, I've still not finished On 10 September 2010 00:10, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote: On 9 September 2010 23:34, Craig Peden cpe...@cogigo.com wrote: I'm interested to see if canonical have developed the global menu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Does a hard shutdown actually damage anything?

2010-09-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
using CTRL+ALT+DEL would work, just kill the power when the bios runs again On 3 September 2010 11:21, Andy Braben andybra...@googlemail.com wrote: Having had someone mention this problem to me and solved it via a hard shut down, my advice was to NEVER hard shutdown, but to press

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samba Shares

2010-09-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
try running sudo chmod 777 * on the directorys and files On 3 September 2010 01:48, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: Further more: -- Loged in as the cAdmin user on the command prompt $ smbclient -L //rs0002 Enter

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Basic network gateway server setup

2010-09-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
the firestarter firewall has this built in, and so would be verry easy to use On 1 September 2010 10:07, Jon Spriggs j...@spriggs.org.uk wrote: On 1 September 2010 09:29, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi 1 thing that no one mentioned as yet that might be obvious

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Does a hard shutdown actually damage anything?

2010-09-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
but what would you do on a server, when the physical power button does nothing? On 3 September 2010 13:41, Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk wrote: when you do the power pull, you could have data corruption for anything that's not written to the filesystem (the details of this are a) very boring

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samba Shares

2010-09-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
ah, so that's why my server broke when I got annoyed and did sudo chmod 777 /* On 3 September 2010 17:03, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote: On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.comwrote: try running sudo chmod 777 * on the directorys and files Arghhh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Does a hard shutdown actually damage anything?

2010-09-03 Thread Jacob Mansfield
works :) On 3 September 2010 17:51, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/09/10 17:06, Jacob Mansfield wrote: but what would you do on a server, when the physical power button does nothing? What's a GUI doing on a server in the first place? ssh m...@server.com sudo halt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
so whan does the ubuntu-TheExactSpotIamStanding/Sitting/HaveMyPC/ServerInRightNow LoCo start? On 1 September 2010 23:52, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-01 at 23:20 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Quite confused... I thought that the TLD for our country was UK?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] It Hibernate better than switching off?

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
why not set it so that if you close the lid it will suspend for, say an hour and then shut down if it takes longer to come out of hybernation than a cold start On 2 September 2010 19:25, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 02/09/10 13:54, javadayaz wrote: Ive recently started to put my pc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Northern Installfest

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
don't worget the south-west, what about Bristol as well? On 1 September 2010 22:32, Dave Rice d...@ricey.co.uk wrote: I agree, perhaps somewhere such as Leeds, York, Newcastle perhaps? I'm not sure if I would be able to attend, it depends on my return date from the desert! Cheers On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I agree, can we make that change and have another (sub)vote? On 2 September 2010 20:52, David D Lowe daviddlowe.fl...@gmail.com wrote: On 01/09/10 23:52, Tony Pursell wrote: UK for Ukraine is wrong! I think there's a misunderstanding. This is what is how I classify things: UK: United

Re: [ubuntu-uk] It Hibernate better than switching off?

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
in RAM. Regards, Tyler On Thursday 02 Sep 2010 19:30:01 Jacob Mansfield wrote: why not set it so that if you close the lid it will suspend for, say an hour and then shut down if it takes longer to come out of hybernation than a cold start On 2 September 2010 19:25, Rob Beard r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Northern Installfest

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
you're right, we just have a massive VR session with users from all over the country :) my ubuntu server can host On 2 September 2010 20:05, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:36:15 +0100 Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: don't worget the south-west

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
It was ment to be a joke On 2 September 2010 21:48, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: To all those who are not happy with results, remember that we all had a chance to vote. Although the design I voted for did not win, I am happy that I was given a chance to vote. Companies like Microsoft

Re: [ubuntu-uk] It Hibernate better than switching off?

2010-09-02 Thread Jacob Mansfield
but can it be invoked by the kernal??? On 2 September 2010 22:01, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 2 September 2010 20:39, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: I don't believe you can instruct a suspended laptop to wake itself up. That would take at least a BIOS feature, I think.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-08-31 Thread Jacob Mansfield
sounds good to me On 31 August 2010 12:24, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.comwrote: There were 85 voters and the results in order of the options are: 1) 35 Bold UK scaled down to the height of the lower case ubuntu 2) 21 Bold UK with a circular hyphen 3) 10 Normal caps UK scaled

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt

2010-08-28 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I have vnc to my servers, but it's locked down to my work and internal home addresses only using firestarter. would this be an option for you? On 28 August 2010 15:24, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: Quoting K.de Jong k.dej...@undifined.nl: If ssh is rarely

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt

2010-08-28 Thread Jacob Mansfield
how do I do that? On 28 August 2010 15:30, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: Quoting Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com: I have vnc to my servers, but it's locked down to my work and internal home addresses only using firestarter. would this be an option

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt

2010-08-28 Thread Jacob Mansfield
any way to do that through putty? On 28 August 2010 18:13, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 28/08/10 17:37, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: If the VNC Server is on the same machine that you are ssh'ing into, then the command would look as follows: ssh -C -L

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

2010-08-27 Thread Jacob Mansfield
Windows 3.11 for crappy RM workstations. Sent from my Android powered HTC Hero. On 26 Aug 2010 23:08, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: I still could, I just need to run sudo apt-get nitroglycerine sudo apt-get install timer tar bomb package sendmail bomb b...@rm.shithead.iddiot from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

2010-08-27 Thread Jacob Mansfield
have you herd about the new M$ virtualisation system On 27 August 2010 09:23, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: VMWare is a bit of a pain. We use xenserver at work, it is the dog's danglies for what we need. I use VirtualBox on my work desktop tor testing stuff though, its nice.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

2010-08-27 Thread Jacob Mansfield
will the RS rm -r rm? On 27 August 2010 09:32, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 26/08/10 07:10, alan c wrote: Express your views to the Royal Society soon. http://royalsociety.org/Education-Policy/Projects/ I am a bit perplexed. There have been approximately 20 entries in this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logo Vote

2010-08-27 Thread Jacob Mansfield
54/2=27 27-1=voters that clicked the link + ME On 27 August 2010 14:20, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.comwrote: All the pending votes have now been approved, if you have voted already and didn't get a mail, don't worry about it, your vote got counted. If you really want you can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

2010-08-26 Thread Jacob Mansfield
GCSE IT must always be done the boring and monotonous way, instead of the fun and interesting way that the markers can't be bothered to learn it properly On 26 August 2010 09:37, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 07:10 +0100, alan c wrote: or nearly that,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School Curiculum WAS: Royal Society... IT is boring?

2010-08-26 Thread Jacob Mansfield
here's a good title for a lesson: how to command anon to destroy M$ in 3 easy steps! On 26 August 2010 11:01, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/08/2010 10:43, Mark Harrison wrote: The Royal Society do, at least, appear to have someone on their advisory board who seems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

2010-08-26 Thread Jacob Mansfield
apparently A lever IT is better, I'll find out in a year On 26 August 2010 12:48, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Matt Sturdy matt.stu...@gmail.com [2010-08-26 09:50]: On 26 August 2010 09:37, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: snip My experience of GCSE IT was that it was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

2010-08-26 Thread Jacob Mansfield
when I was in primary school I made plans to send a large bomb to RM On 26 August 2010 22:31, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/08/2010 22:27, Kris Douglas wrote: On 26 August 2010 22:24, Gordon Burgess-Parkergbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 26/08/2010 19:25, Kris

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

2010-08-26 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I still could, I just need to run sudo apt-get nitroglycerine sudo apt-get install timer tar bomb package sendmail bomb b...@rm.shithead.iddiot from s...@google.xxx can't wait for it---^^^ On 26 August 2010 22:55, Grant Sewell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Dv camcorder]

2010-08-25 Thread Jacob Mansfield
what are you trying to grep, and from what? On 25 August 2010 06:54, John davi...@wanadoo.fr wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: John davi...@wanadoo.fr To: ubuntu-uk-request Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 07:51:26 +0200 Subject: Dv camcorder j...@john-desktop:~$ lsusb Bus 011

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logo selection

2010-08-24 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I'm still on a live CD, somebody else? On 23 August 2010 21:48, Alan Bell alanbellt...@googlemail.com wrote: Yes, please do, I was planning to start the vote tomorrow but if you want a bit more time to draw an additional variant then do let me know. If you could put up at least a .png about

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dv camcorder

2010-08-23 Thread Jacob Mansfield
you have a firewire webcam??? On 23 August 2010 15:14, Andy Partington andy.parting...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 August 2010 14:18, Grant Sewell dcg...@thymox.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:06:33 +0200 John Davis wrote: Hi, I have done a clean install of ubuntu 10.4 I have 3

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logo selection

2010-08-22 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I would do it but i'm still running my entire system from a live CD :) On 22 August 2010 08:41, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 22 August 2010 08:27, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: If someone comes up with a design there's no reason it can't be included in the vote. Alas I am

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