[Bug 631395] Re: When upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10, exchange mail accounts no longer work in Evolution. When clicking the account, the folder structure won't expand and the account does not send or r

2010-10-10 Thread Paul Roach
For 64 bit versions copying the plugin from the debian repos seems to work as per Sergio's instructions. You need to get the 64 bit version though: http://packages.debian.org/sid/amd64/evolution-exchange/download -- When upgrading from 10.04 to 10.10, exchange mail accounts no longer work in

[ubuntu-uk] Is Ubuntu getting too bloated?

2010-05-29 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 First of all, let me say this isn't a troll, but a genuine question with regard to the direction of the project as someone who's been on-and off using Ubuntu since Dapper... I've used a fair few distros over the years and have enjoyed some more than

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is Ubuntu getting too bloated?

2010-05-29 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/05/10 11:15, Daniel M. Drummond wrote: Tom's Hardware had an interesting articles comparing Lucid with Hardy http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/ubuntu-10.04-lucid-lynx,2634.html and this showed a general trend of an increase in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is Ubuntu getting too bloated?

2010-05-29 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 29/05/10 11:55, Harry Rickards wrote: On 29 May 2010 11:52, Paul Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote: snip Unfortunately it wasn't a scientific test...but on Ubuntu I'd estimate about 50 seconds to login screen and a further 20 seconds to get GDM up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] media centre remote

2010-04-16 Thread Paul Roach
On 16/04/10 11:19, richard wrote: i want a remote to use with a revo running xbmc and boxee on mint, do they all work or are some better than others? tia richard If you enable the http server within XBMC you can use any cellphone with Wifi and a browser... Can't comment on using an

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

2010-02-18 Thread Paul Roach
Just to emphasise - hostnames aren't case sensitive - file and foldernames are :) On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:17 PM, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: Sorry to be pedantic, but the missing word is quite important :) Indeed, apologies for that! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

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

2010-02-18 Thread Paul Roach
..oh and a # denotes root - $ denotes anything else so if you sudo -i you'll see the prompt replaced with # :) On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 5:23 PM, Paul Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote: Just to emphasise - hostnames aren't case sensitive - file and foldernames are :) On Thu, Feb 18, 2010

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

2010-01-25 Thread Paul Roach
On Mon, Jan 25, 2010 at 10:06 AM, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Can you please point towards an article regarding re creating the partition table? I'd strongly recommend getting another drive of the same size or larger and dd'ing the broken drive. Then you can work on a copy if the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recreating home folder?

2009-12-11 Thread Paul Roach
You can just recreate the folder...but remember to assign the folder to the corresponding user and group with chown On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 2:17 PM, Alex Birchall a.birch...@mdx.ac.uk wrote: Hi, For some reason (maybe a slip of the wrist?), a home folder for an ordinary user on my Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] photo organizer

2009-12-01 Thread Paul Roach
You can use f-spot to generate html pages that you can then drop on to a web server running htpasswd/htaccess. On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:40 AM, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Does any one know of a photo organizer in ubuntu which could upload to a web app? The web app has to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on PS3?

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Roach
On Fri, Nov 27, 2009 at 12:30 PM, i...@seifattar.net wrote: A friend of mine tried installing both ubuntu and yellow dog on PS3, his plan was to play HD content from linux, but it couldn't handle it, and performence was way too slow (guessing it's because of the limitations sony have on

[Bug 473616] Re: Copying contacts from Google to CouchDB (Ubuntu One) gives a non-specific error

2009-11-27 Thread Paul Roach
This also affects me - although my contact data in evolution is from an Exchange 2003 Server. It seems to simply be an issue copying data from one Evolution address book to the CouchDB address book. Don't mean to hijack the bug report but saw inactivity and am experiencing the same bug. Output

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendation for SIP phone wanted

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Roach
I appreciate you're not really in the market for pure SIP phones, but if you change your mind the call quality is phenominal on the Polycom range - we use them in an office environment and they're excellent -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mac wrote: Mmm... a comfortable abdication only if the innocent never come to harm. But, even so, you don't have to hand over your wallet to The Man *before* he holds you up at knife point, do you? mac Of course it is possible to have the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu and MS domain servers

2009-11-18 Thread Paul Roach
Likewise open is indeed in the repos - although it is possible to join a domain manually, using Likewise is infinitely quicker! sudo apt-get install likewise-open then sudo domainjoin-cli join yourdomain.local administra...@yourdomain password :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Desktop or Server?

2009-11-15 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: So now I generally just install the server components (and not always Ubuntu, sometimes I install the CentOS based SME Server). Interesting Rob - I've recently set up Ebox on Ubuntu for one of my boss's businesses.and found it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Exchange 2007 Support in Karmic

2009-11-13 Thread Paul Roach
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 6:14 PM, Jon Spriggs j...@spriggs.org.uk wrote: Just out of interest, what boxes did horde fail to tick? I've been very enthusiastic about their systems in the past, and I'm fairly confident that having the IMAP set up properly behind the scenes should give you a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Desktop or Server?

2009-11-12 Thread Paul Roach
I'm afraid to say I follow the rest of the herd with this - and I've not come across an administrative function yet that requires a gui on an Ubuntu server. If I need to move files around and i feel it will be quicker graphically I just ssh://ipaddress within nautilus and copy files around that

[ubuntu-uk] Exchange 2007 Support in Karmic

2009-11-12 Thread Paul Roach
Wondered whether anyone on the list has had any joy/luck with Evolution and MS Exchange 2007. I've read a lot online about incompatibility due to MS sacking WebDAV - which is effectively how Evolution-Exchange and Exchange 2003 talk to each other, but haven't been able to find (m)any success

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Roach
A quicker and easier way is to look in Nautilus preferences and change the default icon size there - experiment until you find a suitable size. This will affect the icon size throughout your system. Hope this helps P On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 10:01 AM, Luke-Jennings ubuntujenk...@googlemail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tutorial on PC to PC support?

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Roach
Gitso is great for this. It creates a reverse VNC tunnel - meaning that the end user whose machine you wish to control has to establish a connection back to you. This means that they are in control of the session and it gives them assurances that you cannot just login again at a later date.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tutorial on PC to PC support?

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Roach
I suppose a reverse SSH tunnel to your home machine and then a second tunnel forwarded through the home machine to the destination would (in theory) work, although I can't test this where I am at the moment. You might want to have a look at this article - it sort of covers chaining SSH tunnels

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using a 3G modem as a fallback

2009-11-11 Thread Paul Roach
LeeGroups wrote: LoL - That's what a mate of mine said a couple of years ago when he moved to a new estate in Milton Keynes... Nice shiney house, but his ADSL connection is now a breathtaking 450 *K* Bits/sec... Yes, that's correct - less than 1/2 MBit... It's usually worth having a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Not a good press

2009-11-04 Thread Paul Roach
Just to reply to the original thread - followup to the register article on slashdot this morning. Lots of positive feedback there (although not exactly an average user demographic, usually pretty scathing)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Not a good press

2009-11-03 Thread Paul Roach
On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Ed Morgan ejr.mor...@gmail.com wrote: Is is possible that the Karmic release is getting something of a higher profile in the mainstream press due to it's release pretty much coinciding with Windows 7, and the hype that's been generated about it? I think it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting Up an Ubuntu network?

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Roach
On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 9:40 AM, Jon Spriggs j...@spriggs.org.uk wrote: My personal preference is to use SSHFS. A fast and dirty way of accessing another machine through Nautilus incidentally is to type ssh://yourmachineip in the nautilus address bar if you wish to use the gui quickly :) NFS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.10 won't connect to Windows shares on network

2009-10-30 Thread Paul Roach
Likewise with a fresh install here - works fine. Were the problem machines upgrades by any chance? On Fri, Oct 30, 2009 at 10:16 AM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.comwrote: On 30/10/09 08:04, Gordon wrote: 9.04 connected to windows shares both on XP and Win 7. Upgraded to 9.10

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samba Timeout?

2009-10-27 Thread Paul Roach
On the XP Box, right click on My Computer, and then select Manage. In there you should be able to see Shared Folders and Sessions. Check that the number of sessions does not exceed 10 - as I've seen smbclient not release connections previously, and XP will only allow 10 concurrent

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

2009-10-27 Thread Paul Roach
The moral I take from this is - the more Ubuntu is used, anywhere, the closer we get to the tipping point. I have introduced three friends in recent months to Linux Emporium, because they wanted an Ubuntu only Laptop from a retail friendly source. Three purchases. LE is giving an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] linux viruses

2009-10-22 Thread Paul Roach
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 2:48 AM, Matt Wheeler m...@funkyhat.org wrote: 2009/10/21 Peter Adam Kelly pe...@thatwilldo.com: Thanks loads for the info, I am brushing up on my knowledge of network security, I have some Ubuntu dedicated and VPS servers and of course I want them as strong as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IBM Ubuntu - but what about Lotus?

2009-10-21 Thread Paul Roach
It's an interesting development and perhaps brings Ubuntu one step closer to providing support for an application that can genuinely compete with MS Exchange (the sole reason why we still have an Active Directory environment here - as everything else for Windows clients can be delivered via

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia phone running open source

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just been talking to my account manager with O2, and they have stated they have no plans to test/release the N900 handset on their network at this time (and usually they get loads of hype and release dates well in advance of a launch) Gutted, as the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia phone running open source

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks Jamie, was just posting a question about how you'd obtained yours and then looked at your blog and Alan's comment - all now becomes clear! Another question though ---how do you compare the Android/Maemo platforms in terms of speed and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia phone running open source

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matt Jones wrote: I have seen it for free on a £35/mo contract with a pretty decent usage allowance, and I suspect that an existing customer could get that down somewhat. Matt. Matt - can you advise what network/reseller that was with? Thanks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia phone running open source

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Roach
://www.linuxuk.org On 14 Oct 2009, at 15:29, Paul Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote: Thanks Jamie, was just posting a question about how you'd obtained yours and then looked at your blog and Alan's comment - all now becomes clear! Another question though ---how do you compare the Android/Maemo platforms

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia phone running open source

2009-10-14 Thread Paul Roach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Never mind - found it on mobilephonesdirect.co.uk on Vodafone and T-Mobile, free on a 24 month contract :) Matt Jones wrote: I have seen it for free on a £35/mo contract with a pretty decent usage allowance, and I suspect that an existing customer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising, searching and emailing

2009-09-18 Thread Paul Roach
You could probably get either SugarCRM or Vtiger to do all of the above...although you'd need to install a webserver. You can test with VMware though...there's definitely a Sugar virtual appliance out there and probably a vtiger one to get a test platform up quickly... Hope this helps... On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless File Server

2009-08-10 Thread Paul Roach
Another option would be to configure an AP in Bridge Mode - I do this at home for an un-cableable part of the LAN (my office), it then connects to a switch for the office and then to the main switch downstairs that is connected to the media-centre. The AP's maintain the connection and the client

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread Paul Roach
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I am now finding it frustrating because I cant copy and paste from my desktop to the file plus saving what I have done, cant work that one out yet, its probably very simple, but I am trying. But at least I have got that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread Paul Roach
If you're just talking about copying and pasting text, then absolutely... It's ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v in gnome-terminal - or alternatively highlight text with the mouse and use the middle mouse button to paste (which also works with anything else in gnome...not sure about kde!) On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-17 Thread Paul Roach
Just to add to thisthe $ or # denote the type of access you have... $ means that you have standard shell access, whereas if you see # at the start of a command you have (or should have) root access. Obviously in Ubuntu if you are looking for help somewhere and see a command written as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Roach
When you say running a website? Doi you mean going to a website via the command line, using say, lynx, or are you looking to set up a site. To ssh, just ssh u...@ipaddress Then you will have a console on the remote machine. From there, you can edit files using nano nano filename There are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-13 Thread Paul Roach
Hi John, Other useful commands could include df (shows disk usage) pwd (print working directory) mkdir (makes a directory) I also find lynx really useful for testing websites from remote locations and for W3C compliance - just apt-get install lynx then you should be able to use lynx

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network

2009-07-12 Thread Paul Roach
To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the address bar type ssh://usern...@ipaddress You'll then be asked to log on with credentials on the remote machine (assuming you don't use key-based

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Friend managed to start virtual box kernel with grub

2009-07-10 Thread Paul Roach
To install and run virtualbox, you need the appropriate kernel modules in order for it to run correctly, although this should just add hardware compatibility for his VM's and shouldn't remove any hardware support. Was there any unusual content in /var/log/messages? Did he use any guides when

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

2009-07-09 Thread Paul Roach
On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 5:47 PM, Johnathon Tinsley kir...@kirrus.co.ukwrote: If only I had the time, money, and knowledge, it would be so cool to build a Darlek actually running Ubuntu. Fit-pc[1], plug pc, or something like that... That and my 9 year old cousin would love it if he could make