On Wed, 2009-11-04 at 07:51 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
The Wassermans wrote:
I currently have Ubuntu 8.04 loaded on a SATA and dual boots with
Windows XP.
Because I needed a clean install of XP, I decided to take the
opportunity to install XP on a spare PATA drive, Fully expecting
I currently have Ubuntu 8.04 loaded on a SATA and dual boots with
Windows XP.
Because I needed a clean install of XP, I decided to take the
opportunity to install XP on a spare PATA drive, Fully expecting to be
able to simply redirect the dual boot instruction to fire up XP on the
PATA drive in
On Wed, 2009-06-03 at 11:48 +1000, Daniel Mons wrote:
The Wassermans wrote:
I have Thunderbird (ver 2.0.0.14 for Windows) on an old PC. I want to
transfer all of that mail to Evolution (Ubuntu 8.04) on my present PC.
There is no apparent export function in T/Bird. (The Internet has
I have recently installed the HP P1005. I have found that unless the
printer in powered on before I boot up (into Ubuntu 8.04) the system
does not recognise the printer when I try to use it.
I tend to forget to turn it on before booting up which forces me to
re-boot when I want to print. Most
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 17:55 +1000, Scott Evans wrote:
As a guess, what version of HPLIP are you using? it may be that you
need
to update it to a newer version as there could be something specific
that needs to be sent to the printer to wake it up (not sure) But I
have
a all in one unit here
Thank you both Andre Scott,
Well, the plugin certainly fixed the print quality. Resolution and
printable area.
But the on/off syndrome remains with me. For the present I have to
remember to make sure the P1005 in turned on before I boot up or I get
the may not be connected error message.
In
Problem #1. How do I delete redundant printers from HH 8.04?
Problem #2. Trying to install a new HP P1005 Laser Jet without success.
I have tried to follow instructions from http://foo2zjs.rkkda.com/ to no
avail. I would like some help please.
Dave W
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On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 15:13 +1030, Callan Davies wrote:
I have loaded the system monitor as you have suggested and now have the
the little window on my panel. Couldn't find Load and Disk but I'll
work that out.
You comments are pertinent and encouraging. Thanks again.
Hi
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 11:10 +1030, Callan Davies wrote:
Simply Backup all goes well to the point of pressing the backup now
button and the A backup run is initiated. The process id is
message is displayed. After that, there is no sign of activity - that I
can see. I presume that it
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 18:24 -0700, daniel sobey wrote:
When thinking about backups you need to ask yourself what you are protecting
against.
Do you want to protect yourself against a hard drive failure?
Though not a backup raid mirroring can help reduce the effects of this.
you could do a
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 09:21 +1100, Dave Hall wrote:
I personally keep the previous kernel for a few days to make sure that
everything works properly.
3. How would I go about deleting them?
Using GNOME go system admin synaptic package manager
Search for linux-image
Don't try to
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 08:46 +1100, Dave Hall wrote:
try running
sudo update-grub
from a terminal/the console.
Sorry for not replying to your previous post, been distracted by work
and the heat :(
No worries Dave. Somebody has to do it!
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 09:21 +1100, Dave Hall
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 11:19 +1030, Karl Goetz wrote:
What does it mean?
Isn't that fairly obvious? :) Your copy of grubs menu.lst has been
changed, and its been changed by something other then the packaging
system.
I guess so, but I still struggle a bit with some of the jargon. I'm
On Fri, 2009-01-02 at 08:57 +1100, Andre Mangan wrote:
3. How would I go about deleting them?
You can either open the boot menu (sudo gedit /boot/grub/menu.lst) and
alter the number of displayed kernels to 2 rather than the default
of All (this will not remove anything but
I am running Ubuntu 8.04. It boots up on Kernel version 22.
However, when booting up I am presented with several lines relating to
older Kernel versions and their respective recovery mode. Obviously
automatically saved as updates are installed.
I read somewhere that old versions should be
.
--- On Wed, 10/12/08, The Wassermans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: The Wassermans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Evolution .jpg attachments
To: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
Received: Wednesday, 10 December, 2008, 7:20 AM
How is it possible to automate the opening
On Thu, 2008-12-11 at 11:04 +1000, Paul Gear wrote:
The Wassermans wrote:
Thanks for the warning Daniel,
I get photo's from friends. Sometimes a dozen at a time. Opening them
one by one is tedious . . .
I've just worked it out! If I save all to a folder called, say,
emailed
How is it possible to automate the opening of .jpg attachments as I
peruse my incoming mail?
Dave W
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This extract from my personal mail may be useful for other newbies to
the wonderful world of Linux:-
He said:
I noticed your question on the ubuntu-list. Whenever I want to
know something, what I write into the Google searchbar is this:
creating slideshow with
Please suggest appropriate Linux DVD burning program(s) to enable me to
create a 1400 photo slide show to which I want to add background audio.
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On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:28 +1000, Karl Bowden wrote:
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:32 PM, The Wassermans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I gave up on trying to get a Lexmark to work in Ubuntu.
I bought the above HP C5280. It is an all in one printer/scanner etc
It worked straight out of the box. I
On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 17:28 +1000, Karl Bowden wrote:
On Sun, Aug 3, 2008 at 1:32 PM, The Wassermans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I gave up on trying to get a Lexmark to work in Ubuntu.
I bought the above HP C5280. It is an all in one printer/scanner etc
It worked straight out of the box. I
I gave up on trying to get a Lexmark to work in Ubuntu.
I bought the above HP C5280. It is an all in one printer/scanner etc
It worked straight out of the box. I am delighted. (Cost $130 - $50
Cash back.)
My choice of printer was influenced by it's ability to print direct to
an inkjet
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 15:11 +1000, Null Ack wrote:
Dave its in the system menu not the application menu, cheers
Oh thanks. Its called System Profiler not HardInfo like I
expected. That's tricky!
Thanks again.
Slowly I learn
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On Wed, 2008-07-23 at 22:45 +1000, Null Ack wrote:
Gnome has an app called HardInfo
I found and downloaded HardInfo from Symantic. I went into add/remove
applications to install it but can't find it anywhere there.
I obviously have a fundamental lack of understanding of the Ubuntu
process.
I have loaded and installed z600 driver which variuos sources assure me
will drive my Lexmark x1195 printer.
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Lexmark-X1195 says
it will work perfectly.
SystemAdministrationprinters Sees both the printer and the z600
driver. I have configured
I am a new Ubuntu user still trying to ditch the vestiges of my
dependence on Windows.
There are a few very useful utilities that I will miss very dearly if I
can't replace them with a Linux equivalent:-
*A keyboard generated macro which is very useful for inputting certain
strings of text. This
I have inherited a Lexmark x1195 printer. I used to use it in Windows.
Ubuntu recognises the printer but, of course it doesn't work as is in
Linux.
The printer comes with an installation disk for Macintosh. I recall
someone saying that it may be possible to use Mac drivers to run that
printer
On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 12:42 +0930, ishwor wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jul 2008 12:17:46 pm The Wassermans wrote:
On Sun, 2008-07-06 at 21:12 +1000, Martin Visser wrote:
I would disagree here. For display photographic images, almost no work
is being done by the graphics card. Any basic card running
On Sat, 2008-07-05 at 15:21 +1000, The Wassermans wrote:
Thank you all for your attention. You can see, no doubt, what a
sheltered life I have led.
The video card I am using is an Model: RADEON 9250. Chipset RADEON 9200
Series AGP (0x5960). It has a DVI port! I'll connect that to see
I have recently switched to Ubuntu 8.04. Am a new convert still trying
to configure my computer.
At issue is my Samsung SyncMaster 205bw (lcd) monitor.
I have noticed that my photographs and videos are appreciably fuzzier
than they are using the same monitor in XP. I am presuming that it must
Thank you Kim for your considered questions. Answers follow:-
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 16:07 +0930, Kim Hawtin wrote:
Hi Dave,
The Wassermans wrote:
I have recently switched to Ubuntu 8.04. Am a new convert still trying
to configure my computer.
=)
At issue is my Samsung SyncMaster
On Fri, 2008-07-04 at 01:21 +0930, ishwor wrote:
While I understand ocassional M$ bashing, what I do not understand is why
linux / GNU(moo)/Linux users have to criticise Microsoft Windows all the
time? Haven't we got something that's original of our own? I mean can't we
just let it alone?
Finally I have, with everyone's help, had the problem resolved.
Both Synaptic and Picasa are working beautifully.
I am very much wiser and very happy. I will be a little more careful
what I do in future.
Thank you all,
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I'm a very new Ubuntu 8.04 user . . ..
I tried to install Picasa from some instructions I found somewhere on
the web. It failed and I gave up!
Today I went in to Synaptic to have a look but was presented with this
error message:
E: Type '!DOCTYPE' is not known on line 1 in source
list
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 10:10 +1000, William Grant wrote:
It looks like you saved an HTML file as a sources.list entry - that was
never going to work. To recover, remove the file
/etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list.
Thanks William,
Where will I find the file?
Is it just a matter of
On Sat, 2008-06-28 at 12:39 +1000, William Grant wrote
Simply run 'sudo rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list' in a terminal.
Okay done. Now I get the following error message from Synaptic:-
You have 1 broken package on your system!
Use the Broken filter to locate it.
Where do I find
Just out of curiosity, why did you do that? (I don't know anything
about Evolution, so i can't help you with the actual problem.)
I've tried to migrate from Thunderbird to Evolution a couple of times
(because people told me i should), and both times it has driven me
crazy. I gave up trying
Having migrated from Thunderbird to Evolution I miss the convenience
of
the auto-complete function when addressing an e-mail.
I would like to set up auto-complete in the To: in Evolution. I can't
find the switch for that.
Dave W
Okay I worked it out.
The auto-complete only begins to
Thanks Mark,
I obviously didn't explain myself very well.
My problem is that I want to stop the header from printing on page 1.
Dave W
Mark M Lambert wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 2008 17:56:05 +1000, The Wassermans
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
OO spreadsheet . . . .
Please tell me how to suppress
Trying to fly gParted without success.
Please:
1.Interpret the partition information in the attached file.
2.Do I already have a free partition that I can adapt to pool data
files created and accessible to Ubuntu and Windows, as the case may be.
What steps from here to achieve that?
I am trying to import Quicken data into GnuCash.
Quicken ver 2008 doesn't offer to create QIF files in it's export
function. (They obviously want to prevent any desertion!)
Anyone have some experience on how best to transfer data between the two.
If all else fails I might have to create own
I am attempting to recover a Thunderbird (Windows version) address book
and emails from a HDD which has been installed as a slave. The HDD
comes from a system where XP crashed. I can access all of the files on
the HDD but can't, for the life of me, find where the address book and
emails are
I'm used to and the way I like to work. I am
going to try Evolution one of these days and see how I feel about that.
Regards
Dave W
Simon Pascal Klein wrote:
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 16:13 +1100, The Wassermans wrote:
Okay, so now I have downloaded Thunderbird as recommended.
I am
I successfully downloaded Thunderbird and have been using it. IE closes
down when confronted with a subsequent attempt to download a dictionery
for Thunderbird. So I figured that I should download Firefox and use it
to download my requirements but IE jacks up at that too!
I am sure that if I
Thanks everyone. I got it resoved. Eventually I found the FF dialogue
box hidden under the IE Closing Down warning. This time I ignored it
and dragged it aside to discover FF was indeed downloading. I don't
know why but That really doesn't matter anymore!
Dave W
The Wassermans wrote:
I
This is a configuration test. I found a setting in Thunderbird that
will enable Text font only to designated domains.
My default setting remains html.
If this works it will allow me to appease both the Ubuntu list purists
and my own preference for HTML for others . . . .
Hope this
Message -
From: Sridhar Dhanapalan
To: The Wassermans
Cc: ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: Friday, January 25, 2008 10:38 AM
Subject: Re: emails open as attachments?
I would strongly suggest that you use a better mail client. Outlook
Express has many flaws, and it isn't even
received from the community.
And then I will begin the quest of working with, and learning the Ubuntu
religion.
Thank you so much everyone for your help.
Dave W
- Original Message -
From: Gregory Storer
To: The Wassermans
Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 12:13 PM
Subject
wrong.
Dave W
- Original Message -
From: Gregory Storer
To: The Wassermans
Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 4:26 PM
Subject: Re: Chicken and Egg
Dave,
As always, check and double check your settings.
Remember you might have to change the hard drive jumper to slave
Having only recently loaded Ubuntu 7.1 on a spare computer, I am striving (on
and off) to come to grips with it. I plan, ultimately, to switch completely to
Ubuntu if I can learn to live with it. I have decided that the best way to
determine it's suitability is simply to use it as much as I
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