[ubuntu-in] [OT] Debian Wheezy release Party on 12th May, 02:00 pm at FSMK Office in Wilson Garden, Bangalore

2013-05-09 Thread VIGNESH PRABHU
Hi, Free Software Movement Karnataka is going to celebrate the latest release of Debian 7.0 codenamed Wheezy on 12th May at 02:00 pm at FSMK office, Wilson Garden. This will be another event as part of sunday school that FSMK is conducting every sunday. I would request all of you to join us and

[Ubuntu-QC] ★ ubuntu-quebec, David Giard a laissé un message pour toi...

2013-05-09 Thread Badoo
David Giard a laissé un message pour toi... L'expéditeur et le contenu seront visibles seulement par toi et tu peux le supprimer à tout moment. Tu peux aussi y répondre directement au travers du messenger. Pour découvrir le message, suis simplement ce lien :

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy Salamander testing ....

2013-05-09 Thread Alan Pope
On 08/05/13 16:27, Barry Drake wrote: On 08/05/13 15:38, Liam Proven wrote: Is this on your live work machine? If so, that was, er, brave of you. Sounds like it could be a theme problem. Try resetting the theme in Appearance. Work machine yes - but as always, I have the testing version dual

[ubuntu-uk] Dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 8 on a Lenovo U410

2013-05-09 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Hi! I have a Lenovo U410 on which I would like to dual-boot Ubuntu 13.04. I've run it up on a live flash drive, everything works OK. When it comes to the actual install I'm a bit nervous as although I'm fairly competent with both Linux and Windows, I've never had a machine with SSD/HDD in a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 05/06/2013 01:55 PM, Barry Drake wrote: On 02/05/13 16:14, alan c wrote: I have often got undesirable responses from almost ANY 'shops' selling PCs, although I have not tried much now that Android is blossoming so well, and Chromebooks. I have posted my actions in full at: Ubuntu bug #1 -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-05-09 10:39, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I find it very interesting that nearly four years ago, when I bought my Toshiba Netbook with Ubuntu Remix from Dixons, they were selling like hot cakes, far better than the equivalent Windows machines. Then suddenly, overnight, they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-booting Ubuntu 13.04 with Windows 8 on a Lenovo U410

2013-05-09 Thread Avi Greenbury
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: When it comes to the actual install I'm a bit nervous as although I'm fairly competent with both Linux and Windows, I've never had a machine with SSD/HDD in a false raid like this before, it's only two months old, and I've never had a machine where I didn't have a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread pete smout
On 09/05/13 10:51, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On 2013-05-09 10:39, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I find it very interesting that nearly four years ago, when I bought my Toshiba Netbook with Ubuntu Remix from Dixons, they were selling like hot cakes, far better than the equivalent Windows machines.

[ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day I got it and it seems to be falling apart very rapidly. I have been trying to get it looked at but it's like pulling teeth! Oddly enough

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Colin Law
On 9 May 2013 11:53, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day I got it and it seems to be falling apart very rapidly. I have been trying

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
On 09/05/13 12:07, Colin Law wrote: On 9 May 2013 11:53, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day I got it and it seems to be falling

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread scoundrel50a
On 09/05/2013 10:39, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 05/06/2013 01:55 PM, Barry Drake wrote: On 02/05/13 16:14, alan c wrote: I have often got undesirable responses from almost ANY 'shops' selling PCs, although I have not tried much now that Android is blossoming so well, and Chromebooks. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread pete smout
On 09/05/13 13:00, Paul Sutton wrote: On 09/05/13 11:09, pete smout wrote: On 09/05/13 10:51, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On 2013-05-09 10:39, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I find it very interesting that nearly four years ago, when I bought my Toshiba Netbook with Ubuntu Remix from Dixons, they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread Barry Drake
On 09/05/13 13:00, Paul Sutton wrote: Taking on the big boys is a big job, helping the smaller shops expand what they offer may be the way forward. and it helps local small shops which the high street needs too. If a small store offers something unique then it helps them generate new customer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread pete smout
On 09/05/13 13:35, Barry Drake wrote: On 09/05/13 13:00, Paul Sutton wrote: Taking on the big boys is a big job, helping the smaller shops expand what they offer may be the way forward. and it helps local small shops which the high street needs too. If a small store offers something unique then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Liam Proven
On 9 May 2013 11:53, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day I got it and it seems to be falling apart very rapidly. I have been trying

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Liam Proven
On 9 May 2013 12:14, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have anything 500gb in size to do a full backup onto I am sorry, but - WTF? And you call yourself an IT technician? If you don't have anything to backup onto, you're not a pro. Secondly, any pro with 10% of a clue

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Michael Holmes
I can also attest to issues with Packard Bell support. After having to RMA a laptop 3 times for the same issue (hard drive failures, all within the warranty period), I was finally placated when I got a full refund as compensation... for them losing my laptop at the service center. Avoid at all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Nigel Verity
Gareth While I think that Liam Proven's robust manner does him no credit, his advice is largely valid. If you don't allow Packard Bell, or any company acting on their behalf, access to the computer in its original physical configuration then you are not enabling them to comply with the terms

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Avi Greenbury
Gareth France wrote: I don't have anything 500gb in size to do a full backup onto and I'm not comfortable handing out my business' data at all. I don't understand this. Surely if you need it backed up it already is, and if you don't need it backed up you can just blitz the drive and send the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
With the price of my favourite gizmo at a rediculously low price [1] (I have two of them). Just go and grab a 2.5 / 3.5 drive of your need. The device is an awesome addition to any 'tool kit'. Regards, Phill. 1.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
On 09/05/13 15:13, Liam Proven wrote: On 9 May 2013 12:14, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I don't have anything 500gb in size to do a full backup onto I am sorry, but - WTF? And you call yourself an IT technician? If you don't have anything to backup onto, you're not a pro.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
On 09/05/13 16:34, Avi Greenbury wrote: Gareth France wrote: I don't have anything 500gb in size to do a full backup onto and I'm not comfortable handing out my business' data at all. I don't understand this. Surely if you need it backed up it already is, and if you don't need it backed up you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
Just to update everyone. I've had a further look at [1] and seems to have several reports of the PSU setting alight. Thankfully, the model I got is now back in stock from my original supplier [2] It pays to read the reviews! Regards, Phill. 1.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Liam Proven
On 9 May 2013 16:36, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: 884 I have used saynoto0870 and got nowhere. Calling the numbers listed resulted in me being told to use the website support, which I have been. I have been an IT technician however insulting my technical ability based on my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Liam Proven
On 9 May 2013 16:25, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Gareth While I think that Liam Proven's robust manner does him no credit Yeah, I get that a lot. :¬D -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
On 09/05/13 18:03, Liam Proven wrote: On 9 May 2013 16:36, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: 884 I have used saynoto0870 and got nowhere. Calling the numbers listed resulted in me being told to use the website support, which I have been. I have been an IT technician however insulting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Liam Proven
On 9 May 2013 18:06, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 09/05/13 18:03, Liam Proven wrote: On 9 May 2013 16:36, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: 884 I have used saynoto0870 and got nowhere. Calling the numbers listed resulted in me being told to use the website

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
I am not looking down upon you. I am a fairly penniless freelancer myself, as my business has suffered dramatically from the credit crunch. But what I am trying to point out to you is that you are acting in an irrational and unfair fashion. The company is trying to help you, but you are not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day I got it and it seems to be falling apart very rapidly. I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
On 09/05/13 18:38, William Anderson wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day I got it and it seems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
On 09/05/13 18:38, William Anderson wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day I got it and it seems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread pete smout
On 09/05/13 18:46, Gareth France wrote: On 09/05/13 18:38, William Anderson wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread SuperEngineer
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 09:39 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I find it very interesting that nearly four years ago, when I bought my Toshiba Netbook with Ubuntu Remix from Dixons, they were selling like hot cakes, far better than the equivalent Windows machines. Then suddenly, overnight,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/rsync On 9 May 2013 19:27, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: For updating a backup, rsync[1] may be of help. (I'm a tester so use zsync but I believe that is better tuned for us updating iso's as it has a separate link). Rsync is pretty much

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
For updating a backup, rsync[1] may be of help. (I'm a tester so use zsync but I believe that is better tuned for us updating iso's as it has a separate link). Rsync is pretty much ideally suited for you need. It will only update files that need updating. Regards, Phill. On 9 May 2013 19:04,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
On 09/05/13 19:27, Phill Whiteside wrote: For updating a backup, rsync[1] may be of help. (I'm a tester so use zsync but I believe that is better tuned for us updating iso's as it has a separate link). Rsync is pretty much ideally suited for you need. It will only update files that need

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be using a desktop for the duration the machine is away. I have been looking at incremental backup solutions. What I'd like to do is setup a system where it connects to an FTP server and only backs up the data

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
speaking of which (I have kimsufi) I think I need to have tidy up :) Alloc PE / Size 454400 / 1.73 TiB Free PE / Size 19842 / 77.51 GiB How could I EVER use up the best part of a 2TB disk!!! Regards, Phill. On 9 May 2013 19:51, William Anderson ne...@well.com wrote: On Thu,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Gareth France
On 09/05/13 19:51, William Anderson wrote: On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be using a desktop for the duration the machine is away. I have been looking at incremental backup solutions. What I'd like to do is setup a system where it connects to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
scp[1] is more powerful than ftp. sftp (which most can support) or better vsftp (which some servers support) are about as safe. ftp is akin to when we used rcp with no encryption and little check of 'who' that is why it supports anonymous. That is a very quick 101 on ftp, so before ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Avi Greenbury
William Anderson wrote: Don't use FTP unless you plan to pre-encrypt the backup first (since you will be sending the data in the clear; Even if you encrypt the data, you'd still be sending credentials in the clear if you use FTP. But, fortunately it's not the 1970s any more and so you can use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Avi Greenbury
Phill Whiteside wrote: sftp (which most can support) or better vsftp (which some servers support) are vsftp is an FTP daemon, it's got nothing much to do with sftp. -- Avi -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread SuperEngineer
The problem with not resolving bug #1 stares me in the face. That being the fact that EEC, UsA? etc are prepared to force Microsoft to offer more than their own browser... but are not prepared to take on the real monopoly. That being the fact that manufactures should offer a dual boot at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread alan c
On 09/05/13 12:34, scoundrel50a wrote: On 09/05/2013 10:39, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 05/06/2013 01:55 PM, Barry Drake wrote: On 02/05/13 16:14, alan c wrote: I have often got undesirable responses from almost ANY 'shops' selling PCs, although I have not tried much now that Android is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread SuperEngineer
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 21:51 +0100, alan c wrote: It was a relaxed conversation. He simply asked 'Can I sell it?' Back to basics... he believed his company made money by selling Windows... what if he were told he could sell his machines for less by not paying/forcing Ms licenses? A can of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread Barry Drake
On 09/05/13 21:51, alan c wrote: A few years ago, I requested, and was granted, a chat with the Manager of PCWorld (Reading). I asked if I could do a small demo of (Ubuntu) near the door one weekend, and hand out leaflets. I showed one of my (computer fair) leaflets. It was a relaxed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread alan c
On 09/05/13 19:16, SuperEngineer wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 09:39 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I find it very interesting that nearly four years ago, when I bought my Toshiba Netbook with Ubuntu Remix from Dixons, they were selling like hot cakes, far better than the equivalent Windows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread Sean Miller
If you extended this to the open market as a whole, then every washing machine should have alternative operating systems. No, it's not something I subscribe to. If a manufacturer wishes to go with Windows, then that's fine. If Ubuntu wants to become the OS of choice then let's PERSUADE rather

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread SuperEngineer
On 09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote: let's PERSUADE rather than force Sean - an excerpt from another post related to this sent my moi... I occasionally go back to same store - not a Linux machine in sight. Those in the know at the store share my disappointment - but the average comment is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UEFI bios update

2013-05-09 Thread James Morrissey
Hi all, just following up on this post: I would also suggest though that if you had no issues on Quantal but are in Raring that it may be a kernel issue. Just because it is stable for everyone else doesn't mean it is for that particular machine, So I would file a bug first and see if there is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread SuperEngineer
On 09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote: If you extended this to the open market as a whole, then every washing machine should have alternative operating systems. No, it's not something I subscribe to. If a manufacturer wishes to go with Windows, then that's fine. If Ubuntu wants to become the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread alan c
On 09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote: If Ubuntu wants to become the OS of choice then let's PERSUADE rather than force people to provide an option Pre installation is a significant factor, as is investment, and risk, and several other aspects too, in the story. A head-on confrontation with a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread SuperEngineer
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 22:38 +0100, alan c wrote: I would suggest that -public- lists where strategy is formulated to take over the world, or whatever, might be seen as just a little, well, naive, when the competition is such as we find. It is more than easy to steer (a very polite way to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
:: SIGH :: start at https://help.ubuntu.com/13.04/serverguide/ftp-server.html and then continue on? I'm not going to persue this 'argument'. Go work it out for your selves. I only pop in here rarely, the conversations from the last couple of threads enforce that. you are totally wrong in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread John Oliver
I suppose it depends what's available on the platform. Looking at schools and colleges on the UK the vast majority run Windows XP or 7. That's not necessarily because of the technical staff who are often perfectly capable of using and managing a GNU/Linux system or set of systems, not is it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread Phill Whiteside
XP is going to be dead, no security updates. Lubuntu has realised this, we are asking xubutu and kubuntu to come on board. The initial one was just lubuntu, it is now open to all the flavours to get on board with this, For schools / colleges? Use Edubutnu, or is there no one in UK who knows of it?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: [snip] I'm not going to persue this 'argument'. Go work it out for your selves. I only pop in here rarely, the conversations from the last couple of threads enforce that. you are totally wrong in lambasting some one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I'll bare the ftp advice in mind and I agree you do get what you pay for, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating, especially when they treat you like an idiot when you know full well what the problem is. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-09 Thread Pete
On 09/05/13 22:30, SuperEngineer wrote: On 09/05/13 22:18, Sean Miller wrote: If you extended this to the open market as a whole, then every washing machine should have alternative operating systems. No, it's not

Re: Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

2013-05-09 Thread Bohdan R. Rau
W dniu 2013-05-07 14:28, Kyle napisał(a): Android voices should be even easier than SAPI voices to make work with speech-dispatcher, since x86 builds of Android are now available, and the voices need to be built for it, making them one step closer to x86-based desktop Linux. Question is: are

Re: Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

2013-05-09 Thread Peter Vágner
Hello, Most likelly you have been working with kobaspeech voices as this is the way to get the realspeak voices as sapi5. They are however implemented slightly differently than most other voices e.g. acapella. There was also an issue with loading kobaspeech voices in NVDA. I will try to look

Re: Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

2013-05-09 Thread Hammer Attila
Ethanak, thank you your answer. Future what research need doing if longer time period would like prowide hungarian users alternate hungarian voices any speech sinthesis? If this is possible, better prefer opensource solutions. Now, only Espeak awailable with supports good hungarian language

Re: A few questions concerning Ubuntu 13.04

2013-05-09 Thread blind Pete
Robert Cole wrote: Hello, everyone. I have enjoyed using fedora over the past year or so, but I just do not have time to solve the big problems which I am having with the system. My wife and family who use my system have run into quite a number of issues, and it makes their experience

RE: Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

2013-05-09 Thread Don Raikes
What about using the libpicotts voices since I believe they are the same as the svox voices on android? -Original Message- From: Bohdan R. Rau [mailto:etha...@polip.com] Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2013 11:51 PM To: ubuntu-accessibility@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: Anyway possible using

Re: Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

2013-05-09 Thread Hammer Attila
Hy Don, I am not full sure, but I think Pico TTS doesn't support Svox Classic TTS voices, but possible this is already changed with newest Ubuntu versions. Currently Svox Pico TTS supports following languages (I looked with Ubuntu 12.04 the /usr/share/pico/lang directory): German, english (GB and

Re: Anyway possible using Svox Classic TTS engine with Ubuntu?

2013-05-09 Thread B. Henry
The svox voices were donated I thought, or was this only for Windows usage? I don't like pico svox at all for English, but found them quite listenable in French, and a much better alternative to espeak for Spanish; and at the moment the only alternative for Spanish in Linux that's of quality

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [Pentium M] Poll

2013-05-09 Thread Lance
Why do we need a poll? The bug report shows 93 effected + 13 duplicates: https://bugs.launchpad.net/baltix/+bug/930447 Lance --- On Thu, 5/9/13, Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.com wrote: From: Ali Linx (amjjawad) amjja...@gmail.com Subject: [Lubuntu-qa] [Pentium M] Poll To: lubuntu user

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [Pentium M] Poll

2013-05-09 Thread Ali Linx (amjjawad)
Hi, Simply because NOT everyone on Launchpad who are actually aware of that bug :) We need to have an estimate figure/number of those with Pentium M :) Launchpad will not show everyone. To achieve that, you need to reach to those who does not even know about Launchpad ;) Thanks! P.S. I have

Re: Number of bugs in Ubuntu 13.04

2013-05-09 Thread Gabor Toth
Thanks a lot. On 05/09/2013 02:36 AM, Istimsak Abdulbasir wrote: This is a good article from debian's website. You can use dpkg to find the package name and version of an application that you want to file a bug against. http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 6:10 AM,

Re: [Lubuntu-qa] [Pentium M] Poll

2013-05-09 Thread Javier P.L.
On 09/05/13 at 03:22pm, Ali Linx (amjjawad) wrote: Hi, Simply because NOT everyone on Launchpad who are actually aware of that bug :) We need to have an estimate figure/number of those with Pentium M :) Launchpad will not show everyone. To achieve that, you need to reach to those who

Re: alsa mixers

2013-05-09 Thread Len Ovens
Alsa question... aplay -l gives: card 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], device 0: ES1370/1 [ES1370 DAC2/ADC] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 card 0: AudioPCI [Ensoniq AudioPCI], device 1: ES1370/2 [ES1370 DAC1] Subdevices: 1/1 Subdevice #0: subdevice #0 alsamixer (any of them :)

Re: App installer design: click packages

2013-05-09 Thread Jos van den Oever
Hello Colin, I read you ubuntu-devel mail about research into packaging. You asked for pointers, so I'm mailing you one. Many of the points you are looking for in a package manager are covered by Nix. Nix is a distro independent package manager that is very different from the standard package

Re: App installer design: click packages

2013-05-09 Thread Thomas Leonard
On 2013-05-08 11:14, Colin Watson wrote: There've been many discussions of late about the challenges of scaling app installation to a very large number of apps, including making app packages much easier to automatically audit and sandbox, and making them safer and quicker to install without the

Re: App installer design: click packages

2013-05-09 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, May 08, 2013 at 03:25:42PM +0200, Matthias Klumpp wrote: Disclaimer: As developer of Listaller, AppStream and PackageKit, I am of course biased on this topic ;-) Thanks for your mail. I'm looking over Listaller at the moment, and expect to have some more comments once I've done that.

Meeting, UDS Meeting and Roadmap for Saucy Salamander. We need you!

2013-05-09 Thread Pierre Slamich
I'm cc-ing ubuntu-translators.* Most people will want to read from the 4th point.* The first 3 are for David :-) It's basically about *preparing this week's meeting and the virtual Ubuntu Desktop Summit next week, which is our chance to grab developer attention and push forward the big issues for

Accessing devs

2013-05-09 Thread Tom Davies
Hi :) I'm not sure about this http://blog.freedomsponsors.org/ The idea is for individuals or organisations to pick a bug-report or requested functionality or whatever and then write a promise to pay $£xx to whoever does the work.  Then if a dev does manage to solve the problem or add the

Re: Jack Ardour updates

2013-05-09 Thread Tim Krone
KXstudio repos are safe. I have never had any problems and ardour updates are coming really fast after release. I sometimes do the same (recording guitar) with my Lenovo N500 laptop. For this purpose I only use ardour which starts also jack. If I need some other stuff I first run qjackctl then

Re: Jack Ardour updates

2013-05-09 Thread Pablo Fernandez
El 09/05/2013 02:46, leo le...@yahoo.com escribió: I use Patchage as well as Jack because I get confused with the names of interfaces, etc., used in jack setup and the connections diagram is easier to see and understand in Patchage. I like patchage too. True, I noticed the order of devices do

Re: Jack Ardour updates

2013-05-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 09:10 +0200, Pablo Fernandez wrote: El 09/05/2013 02:46, leo le...@yahoo.com escribió: An update may help. I just don't know if Tim's advice would work with my version of Ubuntu or break it I don't think it will break it but it won't help automagically solve jack

Libreoffice spellcheck languages?

2013-05-09 Thread edmund
Sorry that I have to ask but anybody knows how to find and how to install additional spellcheck language packages. Filing a bug to libreoffice hangs, modifying a comment fails too, links for more dictionaries show nothing... aspell/hunspell doesn't do anything. Edmund --

Re: Libreoffice spellcheck languages?

2013-05-09 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 12:23 +0200, edmund wrote: Sorry that I have to ask but anybody knows how to find and how to install additional spellcheck language packages. Filing a bug to libreoffice hangs, modifying a comment fails too, links for more dictionaries show nothing... aspell/hunspell

Re: Libreoffice spellcheck languages?

2013-05-09 Thread edmund
On Thu, 09 May 2013 12:31:22 +0200 Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.net wrote: On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 12:23 +0200, edmund wrote: Sorry that I have to ask but anybody knows how to find and how to install additional spellcheck language packages. Filing a bug to libreoffice hangs, modifying

Re: Libreoffice spellcheck languages?

2013-05-09 Thread Tormod Wien
I've been a linux enthusiast since slackware 3, but for the desktop (e.g. office) -I'm sorry to say - it's so far away from industry grade (professional use) SW that I have given up and cannot see how in oversee-able future I can be converted. tormod On 09-05-13, edmund edmund...@gmail.com

Mastering tools

2013-05-09 Thread Abhayadev S
Hi, Please suggest a good mastering tool (other than JAMIN). Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs -- Ubuntu-Studio-users mailing list Ubuntu-Studio-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-studio-users

Re: Mastering tools

2013-05-09 Thread Tim Krone
Calf has good plugins that you can use for mastering. Regards Tim Abhayadev S abhayad...@gmail.com schrieb: Hi, Please suggest a good mastering tool (other than JAMIN). Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs

Re: Mastering tools

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Holstein
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 10:55 AM, Abhayadev S abhayad...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Please suggest a good mastering tool (other than JAMIN). it really depends on what you need... mastering can be a broad term with lots of different needs per user or use case. mastering can be complex or as simple

Re: Jack Ardour updates

2013-05-09 Thread Abhayadev S
ok, thanks to all. I am just upgrading my distro from kx-studio. Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 2:18 PM, Ralf Mardorf ralf.mard...@alice-dsl.netwrote: On Thu, 2013-05-09 at 09:10 +0200, Pablo Fernandez wrote: El 09/05/2013 02:46, leo

Re: Mastering tools

2013-05-09 Thread Abhayadev S
thanks, yes.. i am also looking for something like the JAMIN. but its sometimes buggy (EQ drawings) so just wanted to see any other options are open or not. Me too use different tools as per my needs (mostly discrete tools). Regards, Abhayadev S http://sites.google.com/site/abhayadevs On Thu,

Re: Mastering tools

2013-05-09 Thread Mike Holstein
On May 9, 2013 1:29 PM, Abhayadev S abhayad...@gmail.com wrote: thanks, yes.. i am also looking for something like the JAMIN. but its sometimes buggy (EQ drawings) so just wanted to see any other options are open or not. Me too use different tools as per my needs (mostly discrete tools). I have

Re: Jack Ardour updates

2013-05-09 Thread Tim Krone (Linux DAW)
Hey Leo, your version of jack is confusing to me. If I look at packages.ubuntu.com, I can't find that version... whatever. Try sudo apt-get install jack2. Than jack should be version 1.9.9.5. I'm using ubuntu studio 12.04 with some kxstudio repos (main ppa, kernel, plugins, latest, kxstudio). Do

Re: Mastering tools

2013-05-09 Thread T. Krone
I like most of the Calf plugins. Because I didn't send a link in my last mail, please have a look right here: http://calf.sourceforge.net/plugins.html Abhayadev S abhayad...@gmail.com hat am 9. Mai 2013 um 19:28 geschrieben: thanks, yes.. i am also looking for something like the JAMIN. but

Re: Jack Ardour updates

2013-05-09 Thread Pablo Fernandez
leo le...@yahoo.com hat am 9. Mai 2013 um 19:47 geschrieben: I just received this email today. Last night I already performed the updates via Tim Krone's suggested link to https://launchpad.net/~kxstudio-team/+archive/ppa The result was I now have a choice of loading (from the menu popdown

Re: Jack Ardour updates

2013-05-09 Thread leo
leo@leo-desktop:~/Desktop$ ulimit -r -l real-time priority  (-r) 95 max locked memory   (kbytes, -l) unlimited leo@leo-desktop:~/Desktop$ From: Pablo Fernandez pablo.f...@gmail.comleo@leo-desktop:~/Desktop$ ulimit -r -l real-time priority 

Ubuntu Studio 10.04 LTS and 11.10 reached EOL

2013-05-09 Thread Ho Wan Chan
Dear Ubuntu Studio users, With reference to the Ubuntu release schedule and announcements made by the Ubuntu Release Team ([1] and [2]), I'm announcing the official End of Life (EOL) for Ubuntu Studio 10.04 LTS and Ubuntu Studio 11.10. Users of the above releases will not be able to receive any

Re: Jack Ardour updates

2013-05-09 Thread leo
Hooray!! I have now succeeded making my first guitar recording with Ubuntu Studio via Ardour!!! Thank you all for all the help. I was so elated that I exported the track to my YouTube and Facebook accounts, by using the open source OpenShotVideo Editor (which took me 1/2 hour to learn and

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] 4 workspaces, 4 Firefoxes, 4 sites

2013-05-09 Thread Robson Dantas
Tecla super (aquela com a imagem do logo do windows) + a letra S Em 08-05-2013 22:36, Pedro escreveu: Me interessei pelo cubo rodando automaticamente, como vc fez? Mesmo que nao seja cubo, como fez para alternar entre os workspace automático? Att Pedro Viana On Monday, April 29, 2013,

[Ubuntu-BR] Teste

2013-05-09 Thread Sergio Pereira
Desculpem pelo teste. Não estou recebendo e-mails da lista e preciso fazer um teste. []'s Sérgio Pereira -- Linux User #426387 / Ubuntu User #13964 Linux: A liberdade da escolha. A escolha da liberdade. The freedom of choice. The choice of freedom. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Teste

2013-05-09 Thread Thiago Nalli Valentim
Teste Ok Em 09/05/2013 09:24, Sergio Pereira stgpere...@sein.com.br escreveu: Desculpem pelo teste. Não estou recebendo e-mails da lista e preciso fazer um teste. []'s Sérgio Pereira -- Linux User #426387 / Ubuntu User #13964 Linux: A liberdade da escolha. A escolha da liberdade.

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Teste

2013-05-09 Thread Sergio Pereira
Em 09-05-2013 09:26, Thiago Nalli Valentim escreveu: Teste Ok Em 09/05/2013 09:24, Sergio Pereirastgpere...@sein.com.br escreveu: Desculpem pelo teste. Não estou recebendo e-mails da lista e preciso fazer um teste. []'s Sérgio Pereira -- Mais sobre o Ubuntu em português:

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