On 3 Mar 2011, at 07:54, ** johnbrid...@yahoo.com wrote:
I have an old Dell Latitude D600 and since a recent update, the
maximum screen
resolution I can select is 800x600. Card and display details are:
***
jbrid@jbrid-Latitude-D600:~$ lspci | grep VGA
01:00.0 VGA compatible
On 19 February 2011 15:54, Barry Titterton
barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote:
I recently created a persistent live USB for the first time. It worked
perfectly but there is one aspect of its behaviour that I do not
understand:
I used a 4Gb stick. After creating the stick in 10.10 using
On 16 February 2011 11:45, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 16 February 2011 11:36, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I'm particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online storage
solution is and why,
Dropbox because it's cross platform, just works, is easy to install
On 8 February 2011 11:20, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Thing is I use LTS versions, so shan't be upgrading until 12.04.and am
trying to decide which way to go now.
If you're sticking with LTS because of the stability, don't risk the
stability - keep the default
On 29 January 2011 08:51, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
I've been tinkering with this local file folder option, and I've noticed
two things. Note: my system is vanilla 10.04 with all online updates.
(1) Thumbnail preview preference alterations on any file folder will
affect
On 27 January 2011 19:57, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Windows 7 and dual boot is going to be a problem anyway unless you
re-format and re-install Windows before installing Ubuntu. But in any
case it isn't difficult to reinstate a boot sector before installing
grub... I would have
On 16 January 2011 21:23, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 21:19 +, Bruno Girin wrote:
Good point! I'll bring one just in case and a patch cable or two.
Just make sure it's PAT tested!
--
If it's not PAT tested, you should find that PAT testing is not
On 14 January 2011 10:55, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
This is a slight tangent, but I'd like to see this but don't fancy upgrading
this installation this early in the process... under WUBI can I have two
versions of Ubuntu?
ie. when I boot can I have Ubuntu 10.04 AND 11.04 (and
Maybe try forcing a reinstall in Synaptic? Or aptitude will do it at
the command line, not quite sure of the command if you don't have
aptitude.
On 8 January 2011 21:36, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 08/01/11 21:34,
On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear All
[snip]
I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as
not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces.
You should change the number of workspaces to 1, in case the keyboard
On 17 December 2010 22:24, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:
I don't know the answer to your question, but that old error message no
keyboard detected, press F1 to continue is one of my old favourites
from years ago in the old days of DOS-based 286 PCs.
I still wonder why anyone thought
On 14 December 2010 11:25, Will Bickerstaff will.bickerst...@gmail.com wrote:
[snip]
There's also a built in utility
that enables configuration of a system wide policy for periods between
breaks and duration of breaks, can't remember the name of it though.
I use Workrave to do something
On 9 December 2010 23:06, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Great post Alan C,
I agree, it was good and covered the main points.
I did rather like RedHat manuals... they summed up how Linux operated so
well, especially Red Hat 9 who produced a wonderful manual...
Key is that you don't
On 8 December 2010 21:01, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
I thought the GPL specified that it had to be distributed freely?
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer
Nope. You can charge whatever you like for GPL software. You just have
to give away the source when you sell it. That way, the
On 9 November 2010 19:53, richard rjs1...@u.genie.co.uk wrote:
On 09/11/10 15:40, Neil Greenwood wrote:
On 9 November 2010 13:13, pmgazzpmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Most of all, I'd love to know how it is that digital book production and
distribution - which has to be much cheaper than print
On 9 November 2010 13:13, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Most of all, I'd love to know how it is that digital book production and
distribution - which has to be much cheaper than print surely - wants £16
per copyrighted book when I can get a print copy physically mailed to me for
less than
On 27 October 2010 00:12, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello All,
New to this mailing list
Welcome!
[snip]
Is the people nearby account in epifany supposed to help?
Doubt it. It searches the local LAN, rather than looking at
geographical location.
Cofion/Regards,
On 24 October 2010 09:31, Dan Attwood danattw...@gmail.com wrote:
I can't say i've used it but there is a package called likewise in the
Ubuntu repos that allows you to join an active directory domain. It might be
worth playing with this.
--
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
On 23 October 2010 21:24, Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk wrote:
I have my EEE PC (with Mint 9) hooked up to a Windows 2000 server at
work. The server is set to force the user to change their password every
30 days and the new password mustn't be the same as any of the previous
dozen
On 23 October 2010 07:59, Ted Wager t...@trufflesdad.plus.com wrote:
When using this application it goes through the motions of installing
but after a few minutes it tells me segmentation fault..I know
the stick is ok as I can run both Fedora and Debian on it..
Wonder if anyone else has this
On 20 October 2010 06:58, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote:
On 20/10/10 00:07, Chris Coulson wrote:
Well, the LTS *will* get a new version of Firefox in the future (once
3.6 is end-of-life), although it will most likely skip 4.0.
Regards
Chris
no, don't think 10.04 LTS will get a new
On 19 October 2010 13:55, Adam Bagnall a...@geekygeek.co.uk wrote:
On 19 October 2010 13:36, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Plus it's got nice things like a parallel port,
and I still have a couple of nice printers that I could use hmmm
I'm going to re-read the spec a few times
On 16 October 2010 16:02, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
On 16 Oct 2010 15:19, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys
Since clean-installing Xubuntu 10.10 on an Acer 1410 laptop, the system is
freezing up once or twice during a daily 8 hour session. The mouse and
On 11 October 2010 11:08, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote:
On 10 October 2010 23:13, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys
I'm running Xubuntu 10.4. A couple of days ago I downloaded a routine
update which required a reboot to complete. After that I had no wireless
On 5 October 2010 19:11, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote:
On 5 Oct 2010 18:55, Glen Mehn glen.m...@oba.co.uk wrote:
On 04/10/10 20:25, Neil Greenwood wrote:
Hi all,
I have a couple of matched USB hard drives that I use as part of my
backup strategy. At the moment they both have
On 4 October 2010 13:35, Roy Jamison xtee...@googlemail.com wrote:
If you look at the registered address it is 57th Park Avenue
New York, NY 10022... that's a road intersection lol
http://www.merchantcircle.com/business/Digital.Switch.800-305-9203
That's fairly normal for US addresses in an
On 4 October 2010 19:34, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok so everything seems fine but I can't seem to boot up..I'm getting a
screen with some options as follows;
Linux mint 8 helena, linux 2.6.31-22-generic
, linux (recovery mode)
Memory
Hi all,
I have a couple of matched USB hard drives that I use as part of my
backup strategy. At the moment they both have the same label, so they
end up mounted at /media/backup. But this means I can't easily tell
which drive is which, and when I plug the second in, it gets mounted
at
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 first?
Not really used to setting these sort of things up under Windows...
Thought I would maybe ask
Hi all,
Is anyone else seeing the countdown banners on
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/countdown showing the wrong number of
days?
I can force a refresh in Firefox and it will show the correct number,
but I can't get chromium to show the correct number without using some
very convoluted steps
On 17 September 2010 01:27, David D Lowe daviddlowe.fl...@gmail.com wrote:
On 16/09/10 22:02, Tommy Pyatt wrote:
You may be able to compress it first into a .tar.gz or other compressed
archive of some sort, then you could store it anywhere. I think I've
done that before, but i'm not certain.
On 15 September 2010 19:44, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
surely I could just put the live CD onto my working ubuntu desktop and do a
PXE boot to it
You would need to set up the infrastructure that will supply the PXE
boot information to the netbook.
I've not done this, but I
On 16 September 2010 10:29, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 16 September 2010 10:24, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
Which distro installers support this?
It's a feature of Ubiquity. I do not know if the alternate CD also has
the feature because I've not tried it recently.
For
Hi All,
The Beta of Maverick Meerkat (what will be Ubuntu 10.10) is now out,
so it's a good time to test the ISOs and find as many bugs as possible
before the final release.
Popey wrote some details about what's involved, and I've included his
mail below in case you've deleted it.
P.S. Yes, I
On 7 September 2010 16:21, Andrew Seyes andrew.se...@gmail.com wrote:
If you dont fancy making a permanent change you can (according to [1])
just hold down the shift key as the computer boots to reveal the menu.
Not tried that myself though.
Works. I've done it a few times (although I am
On 7 September 2010 11:29, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I've suddenly got problems with Flash - it was working fine until a few
days ago.
I have Flash 10.1.82.76ubuntu0.10.04.2 on Ubuntu 10.04, but YouTube and
other flash sites tell me I need to upgrade to the latest Flash version
On 7 September 2010 13:39, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
On 07/09/10 11:50, Neil Greenwood wrote:
Do you have a proxy server between you and the internet. If so there's
a bug that prevents the download of the new Flash version (although
the package says it has installed successfully
On 1 September 2010 17:10, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Alan,
Excellent advice, I shall do just that I think :)
Daniel
Also, consider tagging your wiki page for ProfileRoulette! That way,
more people are likely to see your page, make comments on it and help
improve it or
Sounds more like the disk is pretty much dead, not just the MBR. If
you can't make changes to the disk, either the controller or the disk
are broken. If the disk doesn't work on a different PC, it sounds like
it's the disk.
I suggest you try a different HDD in your main laptop.
Cofion/Regards,
On 20 August 2010 08:25, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
minutes are now in the traditional place
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting
Next regular meeting is on the 1st at 9PM, but we have an additional
meeting on the 26th of August specifically for the project to
On 15 August 2010 13:46, A J Binnie gus.bin...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
On 15 August 2010 09:02, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 15 Aug 2010, at 08:27, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
I would recommend sudo apt-get dist-upgrade not
to every message. Please don't assume
everyone is lazy! :-)
Cofion,
Neil.
On 8/7/10, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
On 7 August 2010 07:49, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. Sorry for the top post.
Has anybody ever told you that it's worse to top post
As I understand it, OP wants to, in effect, be able to get Meld
running on another person's machine without them having to select the
documents.
Or to put it another way, he's got the comparisons between the 2 (3?)
files, and wants to share those in a GUI.
John, the only solution I can think of
Edubuntu is still going. Also GNOME runs perfectly on my 1GHz desktop,
so I don't think you *need* to look at Xubuntu. Just make sure you
have a decent amount of RAM.
Cofion,
Neil
P.S. Sorry for the top post.
On 8/7/10, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 06/08/10 23:41, Chris Rowson wrote:
On 5 August 2010 15:58, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:26:58 +0100, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 04/08/10 12:26, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I looked at the SMART data, and the only warning entry was that
overheating has occurred in the past, which
On 27 July 2010 07:57, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys
Some advice please
In order to minimise the differences between working at home and away, my
desktop and laptop have very similar folder structures. This has proven to
be a little counter-productive since, when
Hi all,
I reported a bug in meld (a GUI file comparison tool), and then
forwarded it to the upstream bugzilla. The bug is here in case anyone
is interested: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meld/+bug/570553
I've now found out that the bug has been fixed in the latest upstream
version,
On 22 July 2010 08:31, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 22/07/10 06:18, Barry Drake wrote:
On Wed, 2010-07-21 at 13:32 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
Some scanners will work fine straight out of the box, some will maybe
need a firmware file and others may need drivers. Just one of those
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-10701101
Well done Rob! Nice interview.
Cofion/Regards,
Neil.
--
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
On 20 July 2010 10:19, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20 July 2010 10:07, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:
Colin Law wrote:
Does it work for another user on the PC? If you have not other user
add one using System, Administration, Users and Groups. A second user
On 29 June 2010 22:59, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
Thanks Al,
I managed to get it working. I had to add the --user and then the
username the process was running under to stop it. Basically it now
starts the process as root, then changes to a different user.
All seems to be working
On 23 June 2010 21:45, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
I'm trying to setup Shoutcast on a VPS server for a mate of mine as a
favour. The VPS server is running Ubuntu 8.04 AMD64.
[snip]
The thing is, I can't figure out how to do it. At first I thought of
creating an init script, but
On 4 June 2010 07:31, ByteSoup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/06/10 15:36, Liam Proven wrote:
In case of minor APT problems, the first things I do are a clean
followed by purging the cache. This means:
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
If that doesn't help then I also nuke the APT package
On 3 June 2010 20:06, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I'm getting this error on update:
W: Duplicate sources.list entry http://archive.canonical.com/ubuntu/
lucid/partner Packages
(/var/lib/apt/lists/archive.canonical.com_ubuntu_dists_lucid_partner_binary-i386_Packages)
I've looked
On 2 June 2010 15:10, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
Since I upgraded to 10.04 - 64bit I noticed i couldnt install from untrusted
sources in the software centre, I can however on command line. The error
message I see is
The action would require the installation of
On 26 May 2010 13:41, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Hi,
On 26 May 2010 13:36, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com
wrote:
When I run the Update manager and it scan for updates I get this:
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following
signatures
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk
wrote:
This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with
partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted.
On 26 May 2010 12:40, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
I have checked this several times. According to the settings it
should show
On 24 May 2010 08:56, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
mac wrote:
I've just upgraded my Dell 6400 laptop from Karmic to Lucid...
Since the upgrade, there is no wired connection at all.
Still only have wireless, despite trying a couple of poorly-understood
fixes I came across.
On 21 May 2010 11:23, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 20 May 2010 14:53, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 20 May 2010 14:30, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
I've sorted it out, by running 'sudo nautilus', navigating to the
disk, and changing the
On 18 May 2010 18:11, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 18 May 2010 15:41, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
Easy. Using Gparted, shrink the NTFS partition to half the drive. (Say).
Make a new extended
On 14 May 2010 12:18, Samuel Toogood sam_toog...@athsoc.org.uk wrote:
First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been
lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before.
I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if packages
could be distributed
On 5 May 2010 07:03, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 20:53 +0100, LeeGroups wrote:
Cpu11 : 4.5% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.2% id, 0.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3%
si
Now that's just showing off Alan... :)
Heh, I didn't notice that before!
On 5 May 2010 13:45, Dino T. dinot1...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi guys
About a week ago I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my HP Presario laptop. I did
this because the laptop wouldn't boot up due to a corrupt dll file. I have
since upgraded to Lucid Linux, however I want to install Windows 7 as well
to
On 4 May 2010 13:57, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Hi,
I am not sure about hacking, the fact that so many things can go wrong, and
I dont have enough experience to work things out, it makes me kind of
worried. I am still having problems playing flash videos. Still cant get
some types
On 26 April 2010 15:08, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
[snip]
You can backup and re-instate your previous apps via command line;
To backup
Code:
sudo dpkg –get-selections myPackages
To re-instate
Code:
sudo dpkg –set-selections myPackages sudo apt-get dselect-upgrade
Does 'locate grub.cfg' tell you where the file is? Otherwise, try the
find command.
I've only tried the telnet hack on my Joggler so far - it didn't work
for me. I'm putting together a UNR usb stick now, to give that a go.
On 4/22/10, Simos Xenitellis simos.li...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Thu,
On 21 April 2010 13:49, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
Thank you very much, method 1) solved the problem.
On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 12:14 +0100, John Stevenson wrote:
You can lock items to the panel to stop you accidentally dragging them
into a different position - right click
On 12 April 2010 16:56, Cornelius Mostert
corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hello all
I am getting this every time I do an Update from Update Manager
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not
On 13 April 2010 10:36, Cornelius Mostert
corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote:
sudo apt-key adv --recv-keys --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com
9BDB3D89CE49EC21
This is not working...
Executing: gpg --ignore-time-conflict --no-options --no-default-keyring
--secret-keyring
On 13 April 2010 10:52, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410
Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6
That is what I am using, and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that
Firefox window will now open, but it fails to
On 7 April 2010 10:06, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 08:15 +0100, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
I got the same - so Online appears to be the way forward, if they're
fulfilling orders on a next-day delivery basis :)
I must have been unlucky then. I ordered it online
On 30 March 2010 13:32, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
[snip]
Basically what I could deduce from the errors was that a file I had ftp-ed
onto the machine yesterday was pointing to the same disc block as one of the
gdm log files.
This can happen sometimes when, for example,
On 18 March 2010 13:12, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Markie wrote:
Hi John, have you got the restricted-extras package installed? Search
for restricted in the ubuntu software center
Mark
Hi Mark,
I have the restricted package installed. I had a problem like this a few
months back,
On 16 March 2010 14:44, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
Hi Guys
I've recently discovered scp and sftp as a means of transferring files
between computers. I have a desktop and a laptop, both running Xubuntu 9.10.
They are connected to a common router; the desktop via ethernet cable
2010/1/25 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
The only problem is i dont think the hard drive is mounted, even though
fdisk -l does show it as /dev/sda.!!
It won't be mounted correctly, since it's lost the details of the
partition table (i.e. the list of partitions on the drive).
Do what Matthew
2010/1/21 Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com:
I've registered too, but looking at the stats it looks a bit outdated,
according to the website there are still 13368 machines running
Dapper...
Tom
Possibly just means that people (like me!) haven't updated their details...
/me goes to
2009/12/14 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Steve wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:18:47 -, Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
I've come across this problem before in previous versions of Ubuntu (now
using 9.04 and OO 3.0.1).
Set Thunderbird as preferred Email client, uninstalled Evolution, and
2009/12/16 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Neil Greenwood wrote:
2009/12/14 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Steve wrote:
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:18:47 -, Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
I've come across this problem before in previous versions of Ubuntu (now
using 9.04 and OO 3.0.1).
Set
2009/12/14 Johnathon Tinsley kir...@kirrus.co.uk:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
snip
Have you tried using the Magic SysRq key on the keyboard?
...
The meanings of the keys, IIRC:
R - raw keyboard mode (stop X grabbing the key presses)
E - send SIGTERM to all processes
I
2009/12/11 Alex Birchall a.birch...@mdx.ac.uk:
Hi,
I've emailed this list before regarding my Hardy Heron 8.04 server and
it's worrying propensity to shut itself down.
When this happens I lose all remote access to the server, but I can
still ping it and get a speedy reply. And when I go
2009/12/6 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com:
2009/12/6 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on
every upgrade I've kept saying Well, it is an oldish computer. Now
I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a
2009/11/28 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
On Sat, 2009-11-28 at 19:13 +, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
That's probably the key; change your Yahoo! login password. There's
likely nothing wrong with your machine.
I've done that, thanks for the advice. Yahoo has been a real pain
recently,
2009/11/23 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
I have a relatively old desktop machine on which I have run many
versions of Ubuntu. Having just upgraded from Ubuntu 9.04 to Ubuntu
9.10, most things appear to be working very well and faster than before.
However, the Power Management
2009/11/17 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
snip
As you imply, it's hard to be sure that all the bits
of 1.6 have been removed (and you can't trust sudo aptitude remove
--purge liferea to get everything).
If you find it's left anything, that sounds like a bug to me.
'aptitude purge' or
2009/11/18 Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com:
2009/11/17 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
snip
As you imply, it's hard to be sure that all the bits
of 1.6 have been removed (and you can't trust sudo aptitude remove
--purge liferea to get everything).
If you find it's left
2009/11/16 Ged Byrom ged.byrom...@googlemail.com:
Hi Steve,
That's the one.
Bye
Ged
That's one of the advantages of subscribing to this list through a
GMail account! I've never deleted any of the list's messages, they're
all archived away on Google's servers.
If I'd seen the
2009/10/21 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com:
Apologies - sent that a little early!
He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and
don't have to fuss about with it.
All in all, I do have to say that
2009/10/14 John Matthews jake...@sky.com:
[snip] The Other Software updates
didnt work, at least its showing they are all disabled on upgrade.
Problem is, I cant remember what software I added. Funny thing is
though, some of the things I did add seem to be working. How do i find
out what
2009/10/6 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
Tried to install an application this morning, and kept getting segfault.
Same issue whether I used apt/aptitude or synaptic. A look at the
logs showed entries (first starting yesterday) of the form
Oct 6 09:09:27 mac-desktop kernel:
2009/8/19 Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk:
Only problem now is that I can't unmount the iPod (aka: iTouch) as the
user, I have to unmount it as root.
Does:
fusermount -u
work?
It said I had to be in the 'fuse' group, which I am, so I'm not sure
what's wrong there...
Did you
2009/8/14 David King linux...@avoura.com:
[snip]
It is also kind of ironic, given that MS threatened to sue the open
source software community for undisclosed infringements on its patents.
Maybe they need a taste of their own medicine.
Since Microsoft are seen as having such deep pockets,
2009/8/11 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com:
So you might want to stick to a VM for now, enabling USB passthrough.
Remember to get the download from the website rather than through
apt-get, so you might want to do this before you get to the computer (as
you said that there was no internet, IIRC
2009/8/13 William Anderson ne...@well.com:
John Matthews wrote:
Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my
server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change the folders
ownership, but not everything inside.
the script I used was
sudo chown
2009/8/2 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com:
Thank you, Neil, but I wouldn't have the foggiest idea how to set up a VM
(Virtual Machine?). Can you point me in the right direction?
Paul
Sure thing Paul.
Probably the easiest way is to use VirtualBox, as described here:
2009/8/2 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com:
Likelihood is the apt cache is corrupt.
$ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/pkgcache.bin
should do it, unless you have deb-src enabled in which case you'll also need:
$ sudo rm /var/cache/apt/srcpkgcache.bin
HTH
Well, what do you know? I
2009/7/31 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com:
Hi. I recently read about Globalmenu, used to make Ubuntu have a single menu
bar (panel) at the top of the screen, as on the Mac, instead of having its
own menu in addition to the menu of whatever window is open. This saves
screen space and
Hi all,
I'm on 8.10, and had a few problems when trying to update to 9.04 (it
failed to download some packages). I restored my backup, and now have
a different problem.
I think I managed to do some updates after restoring the backup, but
I'm not 100% on the timing since I've been on holiday. Now
2009/7/17 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Regarding my problem with uncorrectable audio filenames, here is a
closely related blog post:
I recently noticed that Rhythmbox was behaving strangely when reading
the ID3 tags of my MP3 collection. No matter what ID3 tag editor I used
2009/7/17 John Matthews jake...@sky.com:
[snip]
I got down to the permissions page, and it just looked like a lot of
stuff, that made no sense at all.
I am sorry that I have had to ask, I will try from now on to not bother
you.
I hope you won't stop asking. Especially if you've read the
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