[ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello, First of all a brief apology for not sorting this out sooner, moving house has taken somewhat longer than I originally intended. I'm hoping to start getting things back on track now. Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly awful) talk at Oggcamp on this subject. Next

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 71

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: snip Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning here. This is very true. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better idea,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 71

2010-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:57 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: snip Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning here. This is very true

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia Settings (was Media Centre Advice)

2010-05-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 15:01 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 20 May 2010 14:57, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Reading peoples comments here has just made me think. Will the revo be configurable to a 40 inch screen? My revo is attached to a 42 screen. Cheers, Al. Show off :p -Matt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Re : Re : Running From USB

2010-05-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 14:10 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 19 May 2010 14:05, Tony Travis a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk wrote: I've been plugging a 'persistent' live USB stick into lots of different computers too and one problem I've encountered is that udev creates a new 'eth' device and remembers it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-13 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 10:15 +0200, Alan Pope wrote: Hi all, I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help. snip The task is to test the Ubuntu ISO (CD) images at certain points through the cycle. This

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update from 9.10 to 10.4 problem

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 13:50 +, Michael Daniels wrote: My notebook is set for auto updates, LTR, but have not been offered the option to upgrade to 10.4 yet, am I doing something wrong ? Thanks, Michael Hi Michael, If you go System-Administration-Update Manager, and click check. At the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: Hi all I have posted the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776 but got no response yet so I wonder if anyone on the list can help me? It seems that the only way I can get at my partitions is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: Hi all I have posted the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776 but got

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot boot after upgrade to Lucid

2010-05-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 19:13 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: On 3 May 2010 at 18:47, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 18:34 +0100, Tony Pursell wrote: Hi all I have posted the following bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/573776 but got

[ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Next meeting Today @ 20:00 BST in #ubuntu-uk-meeting

2010-04-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hi all, The next Ubuntu-UK Team meeting will be held via IRC at 20:00 BST (that's 19:00 UTC) today in #ubuntu-uk-meeting. We encourage everyone who is a member of the UKTeam to attend whether to take part or merely watch from the sidelines. If you have anything in particular you would like to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for a Speccy

2010-03-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
Thanks for everyones help :) I've now located one that suits my needs perfectly :D (Waterdamaged unit from ebay) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Looking for a Speccy

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello! Does anyone have a ZX Spectrum 48k+ kicking around they don't want anymore? I don't mind if it doesn't run up, largley I'm after the case and keyboard. I'm willing to evict the moths from my wallet, definatley am not scrounging ( too much :) ) Apologies for a bit of spam to the list for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for a Speccy

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
with the rubber keys that you need? cheers Dave On 26 March 2010 15:04, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: Hello! Does anyone have a ZX Spectrum 48k+ kicking around they don't want anymore? I don't mind if it doesn't run up, largley I'm after

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for a Speccy

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
LOL, I've got a breadbin style C64 in the loft, I'm undecided if I should leave it as is (it's dead), bung a MiniITX board in there or wire up one of those C64 joysticks to it. The wife isn't too happy though with my 'collection of junk'. Well it's not really a collection as such,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for a Speccy

2010-03-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 22:41 +, Rob Beard wrote: That's it - I'm reporting you two to the League Against Cruel Sports! Dianne But if the machines are dead, I guess you could say it's kind of like resurrection. I guess a bit like being cryogenically frozen when you die and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello! Sorry for leaving this for so long, but life has been excessively busy. However, after reading through all the feedback from the list, and having sat down and had a bit of a think, I'd like to attempt a training event at Oggcamp. I have two ideas I'd like bounce past people. The first is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just noticed something..not sure if its an error.....

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 16:37 +, John Matthews wrote: ok, I hope I can explain this. In my Terminal it has jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$. but in Places, desktop is spelt with an Uppercase D. Does that make any difference. Can somebody explain what jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$ is/means? Maybe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just noticed something..not sure if its an error.....

2010-02-18 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 18:08 +0100, jim.came...@buhlersortex.com wrote: Matthew Daubney The $ shows that you /don't/ have root priviledges, and the : is just a seperator :) Sorry to be pedantic, but the missing word is quite important :) Indeed, apologies for that! -Matt Daubney

[ubuntu-uk] Global Jam, Southy Middly Region

2010-02-10 Thread Matthew Daubney
Since the Global Jam is at the end of March, I'd quite like to see one run in the South, in the Berks/Hants/Wilts-ish area. I'm a bit useless at organising these things, and have no idea where to start looking for venues. Does anyone have anywhere we can use in this area? Obviously this area

[ubuntu-uk] Some Apologies

2010-02-05 Thread Matthew Daubney
In lieu of Sundays meeting, as I will not be able to attend, I thought I'd post my apologies (and a progress report) here. The discussion about the training event stuff seems to have come to it's natural conclusion now, but I have been deluged with stuff from work, so haven't had a chance to put

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Please help.I've lost my partitions

2010-01-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 24/01/10 22:48, javadayaz wrote: yes it does give me this: Disk /dev/sda: 400.0 GB, 400088457216 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 48641 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Disk identifier: 0x2ab32ab3 Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 00:38 +, Bruno Girin wrote: On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 18:43 +, Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip] Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest starting with some moderately advanced topics like how to package an app for Ubuntu. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 11:34 +, Alan Pope wrote: 2010/1/16 Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk: I've put up an idea in the ideas pool[0], and started an etherpad[1]. Does anyone else have any experience of running these kind of things who would like to lend their expertise? What do people

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 18/01/10 21:47, Isabell Long wrote: Hello there, As decided at last night's meeting, I am now emailing the list about my idea of a group trip to the Science Museum in London at Easter. So, as I just mentioned, I was thinking of things to do at Easter and came up with Science Museum!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 18/01/10 16:06, Bruno Girin wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 +, Matthew Daubney wrote: On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote: [snip] In terms of material, I agree that there's no point in having a slide deck as trainees will promptly forget the content. Furthermore

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Possible Training Events

2010-01-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 17/01/10 12:37, alan c wrote: Tony Pursell wrote: Conversion is a marketing job. +1 Surely by educating users we will help stem a lot of the negative press and the uneducated retail staff problem though? Training can only be aimed at people who are already converts, or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour in the UK

2010-01-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
In the interest of experimentation, I'll be at Costa Coffee on Northbrook Street in Newbury (Berkshire) this Saturday from 2PM-3PM. I've stuck this on the Hour wiki and will try it for a couple of weeks, see what kind of response I get. Feel free to come say hello, I'll take a stuffed Penguin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote: snippy snip snip I've given technical training in the past and would be happy to help. The first question is what type of training are we aiming for? It may be easier to start with short sessions that can be done over a few hours, either in the evenings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 17/01/10 13:20, Colin Law wrote: 2010/1/17 Steveyorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com: On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:32:33 -, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Joe wrote: However, it may be difficult to convince whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu

[ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-16 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hey All, This was discussed at the last meeting, but I'm slow and should have put this up sooner. One thing that was discussed was the idea of doing some real life training for people who are new to Ubuntu, through to those who consider themselves experts. I've put up an idea in the ideas

[ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Meeting Minutes from 03/01/10

2010-01-06 Thread Matthew Daubney
Thanks to all who attended. This turned out as a slightly over long, but very productive meeting. The minutes can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20100103 . No doubt over the next week or so people will start sending out emails following up their actions :) The next

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Next meeting 03/01/10 @ 19:30 GMT in #ubuntu-uk

2010-01-02 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 23/12/09 11:49, Matthew Daubney wrote: Hi all, The next Ubuntu-UK Team meeting will be held via IRC at 19:30 GMT (that's 19:30 UTC) on Sunday 3rd January 2010 in #ubuntu-uk. We encourage everyone who is a member of the UKTeam to attend whether to take part or merely watch from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Laptop Time

2009-12-29 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 29/12/09 09:24, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote: Personally I'd just refuse the EULA and get a refund on Windows. Not enough people do this. If manufacturers saw quite a few more EULAs being refused they would have to take more notice. Normally I would do so, but now I'm starting to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Laptop Time

2009-12-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
Just a quick note to say thanks to all for advice and opinions. I've ended up getting a Lenovo Thinkpad SL500 after reviewing everyones opinions. I'm unsure what to do with the windows licence it comes with, but may keep it to enable me to test things like Wubi properly. Thanks again to all,

[ubuntu-uk] New Laptop Time

2009-12-23 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello, It's that time of year again when everything will briefly become a bit cheaper (and I'm trying to avoid VAT returning to normal again as well). So am looking around for a new laptop. As far as specs go, I'd like a core 2 duo branded chip, something like a T6600 would do. 2-4 GB of RAM,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Laptop Time

2009-12-23 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 23/12/09 11:05, Rob Beard wrote: One of my old customers had some Novatech laptops, they're basically generic rebranded laptops, I believe manufactured by the likes of Mitac. Wasn't very impressed myself, the build quality was poor and they all either failed or fell to pieces within a

[ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Next meeting 03/01/10 @ 19:30 GMT in #ubuntu-uk

2009-12-23 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hi all, The next Ubuntu-UK Team meeting will be held via IRC at 19:30 GMT (that's 19:30 UTC) on Sunday 3rd January 2010 in #ubuntu-uk. We encourage everyone who is a member of the UKTeam to attend whether to take part or merely watch from the sidelines. If you have anything in particular you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [LUG] OT: #!/bin/santash

2009-12-09 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 22:30 +, Steve wrote: On Tue, 08 Dec 2009 22:21:04 -, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Hi folks, This was posted on the Devon Cornwall LUG and made me chuckle, I thought some of you folks might like it too... |better !pout !cry better watchout

Re: [ubuntu-uk] TV connected to ubuntu pc via ethernet

2009-12-09 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 10:15 +, Andy Partington wrote: Also the 360 is bloody noisey! I have one and tried using it as a media centre but the fans are just to much, PS3 is much quieter. Which 360 model do you have? I've got a new (circa 2 weeks ago) Elite, and thats not too bad playing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] accessing Windows 7 shares

2009-11-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2009-11-19 at 12:28 +, Gordon wrote: etali wrote: Gordon wrote: This may be anecdotal or not! I cannot access any Windows Home Premium shares from my 9.10 Netbook. However, I am in correspondence with someone who CAN access shares (including Admin shares) on Windows 7

[ubuntu-uk] Weird NFS behaviour with Windows Clients and Ubuntu server

2009-11-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hey all, Bit of an odd question as I'm certain it's a fault in the windows clientside, but in case anyone here has seen this problem before I'm trying to transfer some large files (250GB + ) onto a raid set using NFS. When I used a Linux or Mac NFS client I can sustain a fast transfer at a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update-manager Not Displaying New Release for Karmic

2009-10-14 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 20:02 +0100, jakewc2 wrote: 2009/10/14 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net From Ubuntu site... To upgrade from Ubuntu 9.04 on a desktop system, press Alt+F2 and type in update-manager -d (without the quotes) into the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Having problems with making Firefox 3.5 default

2009-09-16 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:18 +0100, John Matthews wrote: Daniel Drummond wrote: John Matthews wrote: Daniel Drummond wrote: Hi Dan, thank you for the commands, I got all the way to the last command, adding the 3.5 in, and it says command refused. I think its because

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where did g++ go?

2009-08-02 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 11:23 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: Harry Rickards wrote: What if you do (sudo) apt-get update first? I always update before installing packages. Doesn't make a difference to installing g++. I have checked my software sources, and they all seem fine. I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mailto links won't call Thunderbird

2009-08-01 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2009-08-01 at 14:26 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: Assuming you're using Firefox, Edit, Preferences, Applications. Search for Mail. Change the drop-down to whichever application you want to use. Hi, hanks for that. There's nohing in that drop-down

Re: [ubuntu-uk] card reader not recognised

2009-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 16:12 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote: Looks good:- Jul 22 14:19:56 digital-darkroom hald: mounted /dev/sdc1 on behalf of uid 1000 That line indicates it's mounting fine. So perhaps this device doesn't like being on a USB hub, or the hub is overloaded?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] card reader not recognised

2009-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 17:29 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote: It's amazing what you find when given a clue, your mention of driver prompted me to look in Google and see what I found:- http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1136196 So, do I have to get a new card reader or what? Norman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] card reader not recognised

2009-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 17:41 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote: Reading around a bit, I think the problem is from the device requesting USB 1.1 instead of USB 2.0. One workaround seemed to be very daft in that it removed the use of USB 2.0 from your system, so I wouldn't recommend it. Since

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 05:16 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: snip And I'm not quite sure what the objections to the music clients are either... are you bemoaning the lack of iTunes, perchance? I certainly don't miss Windows Media Player!! Bloatware of the highest order. Sean I have to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a NAS drive in Ubuntu

2009-07-11 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2009-07-11 at 10:04 +0100, David King wrote: I am trying to connect to my NAS drive in Ubuntu 9.04. I used to be able to do it when running Ubuntu 8.04, but now when I mount the NAS drive, the group is set to 501, and the owner is set to 501 - User #501 and thus I cannot access

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

2009-06-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2009-06-27 at 17:14 +0100, John wrote: I run a website, and there's about 2.5 gigs of information on there. The whole lot got deleted and the hackers put a picture of advertising who they were. I have managed to get the host to restore as much as they can back, well, they way they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

2009-06-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
snip Hi Matt, oh dear, he comes some more of my ignorance, what is a VPS. My host is called EUKHost, and I have a shared server. I cant get them to open up about this, but some of the things that I have on there such as the MODX CMS and Wordpress conflict with mod_security, and it has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two things I wanted to ask about.....

2009-06-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 14:03 +0100, John wrote: The second thing I wanted to ask was, I am hopeless at picking things up by reading, I'm from the old school, where I learn better being shown. Are there any courses I can go on, that can help me learn Linux better? Thanks for your help.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two things I wanted to ask about.....

2009-06-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-06-24 at 17:40 +0100, John wrote: snippy snip snip Hi Neil, thank you for the links, they are really useful, I keep forgetting about those. I do already have those, and have looked through a few of them. I learnt how to add Root Nautilus Launcher to the panel, and a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Churning hard disk, glacial startup

2009-06-21 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sun, 2009-06-21 at 08:29 +0100, Paul Webster wrote: Hi (again)! I'm a relative newcomer to Ubuntu, a refugee from the Windows Wonderland, and I like it very much. However, lately the hard disk churns and churns, almost all the time, and startup is very slow. Even writing this email has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Add/remove... NOTHING

2009-06-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2009-06-20 at 07:16 +0100, Paul Webster wrote: Add/remove programs has gone completely blank. No application found. Synaptic has no problem. I'm running 9.04. Can anyone help? Paul Hi Paul, This is a known issue, did you just install the BBC iPlayer adobe air app by any chance? Thats

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Last Barrier!

2009-06-10 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 06:58 +0100, Gordon wrote: The last barrier to ditching MS completely is two-fold. One - updating my Garmin Nuvi Satnav (the web updatyer apparently is only for Windows) and secondly back-up and restore of my Nokia mobile via Nokia PC Suite. There seem to be one or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scrambled screen

2009-06-10 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 16:30 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: Greg Herdman wrote: snip Now I haven't used Gramps personally but what you can do to make sure you don't loose your Gramps data is to install Gramps whilst running on the live CD, go into the home directory on your hard drive, press CTRL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scrambled screen

2009-06-10 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-06-10 at 19:14 +0100, ged byrom wrote: I've just run: sudo dpkg-reconfigure -phigh xserver-xorg to reset my xorg.conf file automatically. I had followed instructions to get graphics stable. The instructions had worked but I had giant font in login windows and some apps. Is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sony Walkman Enticing Again?

2009-06-08 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-06-08 at 11:55 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Will it pick up Medium Wave? I don't want all that music rubbish... I need Radio 5 Live... Sean Founder Memory (just now ;-)): Society for the preservation of AM Radio. you get radio 5 live on digital radio, as well as 5 live sports

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost network access in Ubuntu 8.04

2009-06-02 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-06-02 at 15:48 +0200, David King wrote: I have a further problem now. After having successfully installed Ubuntu 9.04, when I try to boot into 8.04, it stops part way through saying the file system check died, and I have to press CTRL-D to continue. When it loads the login

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus and Microsoft sitting in a tree....

2009-06-01 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 12:33 +0100, Dave Walker wrote: mac wrote: SNIP Yes, it's what Ghandi said: First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win. mac Well if we are going down that road. We'll fight them on the beaches.. I have my bucket and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] E-mail body as attachment

2009-06-01 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:13 +0100, William Anderson wrote: Rob Beard wrote: Steve Archer wrote: Why is it that when some people send an e-mail to the list I receive the e-mail with no body, but it is instead an attachment? It's driving me nuts... Cheers, Steve Strange, what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] E-mail body as attachment

2009-06-01 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:35 +0100, William Anderson wrote: Matthew Daubney wrote: snip Maybe it's time to go back to Mutt! Bit harsh :) I dunno, I quite like Mutt, main reason I switched was because I wanted a calender along with my emails. I don't understand the fascination with GUI apps

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 13:03 +0100, John wrote: Hi Matt, Sorry its taken me so long to get back to you. I opened FF through a terminal, but nothing happens. I think its because the whole thing crashes so the terminal gets closed when I have to force close the hole thing. Not sure what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] KDE Konqueror problem

2009-05-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 18:01 +0200, Michael Holloway wrote: Most online banking sites don't allow unknown browsers for security reasons. I have just tried Natwest in Konqueror and it says you browser is not supported. If this is the case, Konquerer allows you to change your user agent

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 10:18 +0100, John wrote: Matthew Daubney wrote: Hi John, Sorry about the slow reply, can you send us the contents of the about:plugins page in Firefox? (just type about:plugins into the address bar). For reference mine says something along the lines of Shockwave

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hi John, Just to check something, can you copy your sources.list file into an email and the output from ls -lf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ This will enable us to check your sources fully. Thanks, -Matt Daubney signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hi John, Following from those two emails, I think this can be fixed by doing the following: 1. In a terminal run sudo cp /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.backup just in case we need it 2. Open your sources.list in your favourite editor (sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list) and select

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hi John, That should have been all on one line, sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list Based on that, I'd copy paste from the text file, not the email :) -Matt Daubney signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 14:21 +0100, John wrote: Ok, did what you said, and copied and pasted this list, when I try to do an update though, this is what happens. jake...@jakewc2-laptop:~$ sudo apt-get update E: Type ‘(20090420.1)]/’ is not known on line 3 in source list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 14:45 +0100, John wrote: snip Yay, ok that worked, and I have a picture of what it looks like in the Synaptic package manager. I also use the Medibuntu Repositories for being able to watch vids and things, and this is where things change when I upload them. The Local

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-05-25 at 15:22 +0100, John wrote: snip The list has changed since updating the SynPkgMng. The other problem is, when refreshing the Syn.Pack.Mgr, I get this warning message, == W: Duplicate sources.list entry

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
snip I just took a snapshot of what is in my Software Sources, and the Local Rep isnt there. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=Sofsource01.png Where did that go? John Hi John, I've just checked, and it doesn't appear in mine, even though the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
snip I just took a snapshot of what is in my Software Sources, and the Local Rep isnt there. http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v420/jmatt21/Misc/?action=viewcurrent=Sofsource01.png Where did that go? John Hi John, I've just checked, and it doesn't appear in mine, even though the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing Repositories....

2009-05-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hi John, Sorry about the slow reply, can you send us the contents of the about:plugins page in Firefox? (just type about:plugins into the address bar). For reference mine says something along the lines of Shockwave Flash File name: libflashplayer.so Shockwave Flash 10.0 r22

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thomson router TG585v7 set up

2009-05-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 21:23 +0100, norman wrote: My current router is about to die and I have a router supplied by my ISP which I have been trying to set up. I have followed all the available instructions but the end result is that I cannot make contact to the web set up. I enter the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice needed: Ubuntu on 'Notebook' or Laptop

2009-05-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:04 +0100, lougi...@cromer.demon.co.uk wrote: Hello All, My old Intel box has finally packed up. I see there are 'notebooks' and laptops (what is the difference between a laptop and a notebook??) available with Unbuntu already installed. My needs are simple: to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice needed: Ubuntu on 'Notebook' or Laptop

2009-05-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 13:54 +0100, lougi...@cromer.demon.co.uk wrote: snip Many thanks for your prompt reply Matt: The joys of procastination from revision :) 1). Yes, processor-intensive work 2). Printers: (a) an oldish HP DeskJet 820Cxi (b) newish EpsonStylus DX6000

Re: [ubuntu-uk] contents ubuntu-uk Digest.(Problem}

2009-05-21 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 12:24 +0100, Peter Lawrence wrote: Dear Ubuntu UK; I have lost my most fantastic distro of Ubuntu that I have ever put together. Over 150 working apps. Everysingle thing up to date and I was running Ubuntu 8.04 and the overall size of my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell XPS M1530 fresh install WiFi probs

2009-05-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 21:37 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: snip After hours of messing and a reinstall I still haven't come to a solution for this problem, the wifi still intermittently drops out. I am at a miss, I've never had problems like this on this machine with Ubuntu... Maybe it's a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu using wubi on Vista Home machine.....

2009-05-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hi Neil, Sorry I took so long to answer your message. I lost it in all the e-mail things I have. I have 3 Ubuntu and 2 windows. Gets confusing now and again. No its not the same pc. Its a friends. It seems that Wubi only wants to install the amd version, I have tried to install it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing write-protect tab on Secure Digital SD card causing read-only?

2009-05-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 11:39 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: snip Thanks. I tried the fsck, even after unmounting it failed as the device was considered read-only. Ditto unmounting then attempting to reformat on the Linux box, fails as read-only. I even reformated it cleanly on the MS-Windows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell XPS M1530 fresh install WiFi probs

2009-05-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 13:59 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: 2009/5/20 Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk: So we stop fishing around in the dark a bit, can you send us the output of lspci and the output of dmesg after it drops out? Might also be useful to have an lsmod as well to see which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 11:01 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Should have broadband again today, so going to download an ISO and endeavour to fix my broken Jaunty. Now, a week or so ago somebody said to me that to preserve my data I simply asked it not to format the partition, which would leave

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 17:34 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Well that all worked okay, now got Jaunty working. But I've lost my wireless. Hmmm... Prior to the re-install it was fine, and I don't remember actually doing anything to make it not so. Is there some default option that's been

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell XPS M1530 fresh install WiFi probs

2009-05-18 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-05-18 at 20:41 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: Hello everyone, I've been having some problems with the wireless on my M1530, it seems, every [insert very similar number of minutes] my wireless card just disconnects, it says it is connected to a network, but the machine doesn't actually

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-15 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 10:14 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: Hello All, For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or yahoo's online chess system? Alright chap, Just thought I'd ask how this was going.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with watching training videos on Ubuntu

2009-05-05 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2009-05-05 at 10:51 +0100, John wrote: snip In windows, I dont have any problems watching embeded videos of any form, but in Ubuntu, for some reason, it doesnt even like me going to a page with videos. Can somebody point me in a direction to ry get these to work? snip Hi John, If

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-04 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 10:14 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or yahoo's online chess system?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

2009-04-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:57 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote: Afternoon All, I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32. All of the folders in this drive (automounts to /media/storage) as listed as being owned by root. When I try to change this (I've tried sudo chown -R and sudo

Re: Advice on Packaging

2009-04-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 06:19 +0200, Daniel Holbach wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Daubney schrieb: I'm starting to look into some packaging to help out a bit, and have found my first target to get involved. I want to package libk8055 (http://libk8055

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Welsh] Confirmed Welsh Release Party

2009-04-13 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-04-13 at 03:22 +0100, Christopher Swift wrote: snip I'd like to get a general headcount for the day, so if possible could you email me back to this address either directly or through this mailing list so that I can get a rough estimate and/or give you directions for the (two)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server

2009-04-05 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 07:37 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: Gents So I take it then that for a Server installation the recommendation is to go into the back of those cupboards shudder and find that CD drive. Oh well, it's chucking it down outside and I suppose that's a better use of time than

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server

2009-04-05 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 07:37 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: Gents So I take it then that for a Server installation the recommendation is to go into the back of those cupboards shudder and find that CD drive. Oh well, it's chucking it down outside and I suppose that's a better use of time than

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server

2009-04-04 Thread Matthew Daubney
, as described in the bug report here (https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/318805) (thanks popey!) I did this on my Viglen the other day! It's a small amount of a pain in the bum, but not too bad. -Matthew Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server

2009-04-04 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2009-04-03 at 22:12 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: Guys and Gals Some help please. Had planned this weekend to set up one of those nice little Viglen MPC's, curtesey of the now Series 2 UK Podcast, to act as a File Server connected to my home LAN with a couple of USB drives attached.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow

2009-03-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:10 +, Gordon wrote: Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40. Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but is so slow as to be unusable. Are there any fixes that people know about for this? Hiya, I've got a USB wireless

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow

2009-03-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 10:33 +, Gordon wrote: Matthew Daubney wrote: On Sat, 2009-03-28 at 08:10 +, Gordon wrote: Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40. Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but is so slow as to be unusable

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