By wireless bridging, you intend to bring up multiple MAC addresses on
the interface, one for the host and one for each VM. That simply won't work
on many wireless chipsets, which won't allow multiple MAC addresses.
You'll need to use one of:
1. A physical Ethernet interface.
2. A software
Try making your .com's DNS be a CNAME record pointing to your no-ip DDNS
name. This should work with any DDNS provider.
Regards,
Tyler
On 2014-11-09 02:38, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
friends, I have just regiestered my domain name which ends in .com
I am looking for _free_ DDNS service.
tried:
that.
regards.
Rajeev
On Monday, November 10, 2014 5:43 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com
wrote:
Try making your .com's DNS be a CNAME record pointing to your no-ip DDNS
name. This should work with any DDNS provider.
Regards,
Tyler
On 2014-11-09 02:38, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
friends, I
On 2013-11-15 17:27, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there ... I've just reported Bug 1251702 under Trusty. I haven't
checked out Saucy, but I wonder if it's in there too? It's probably the
first time I've wanted to burn more than one iso at the same time. The
first one burns fine, and Brasero
On 2013-11-08 00:44, Alan Bell wrote:
odd, do you get something different to this?
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat hello.py
print Hello, World!
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ time python hello.py
Hello, World!
real0m0.248s
user0m0.180s
sys0m0.050s
On 07/11/13 20:06, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Alan
Hi Alan,
Please add make Python not suck on Raspberry Pi to your list of requests.
Execution time for python is so bad I had to rewrite a number of my tools
as shell scripts. Since many tools in Ubuntu are based on Python, I expect
that'll be on your list anyway.
Hopefully that's just an issue
postGRES) and set up a company in
it over the course of an evening.
Alan.
On 07/11/13 16:19, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Hi Alan,
Please add make Python not suck on Raspberry Pi to your list of requests.
Execution time for python is so bad I had to rewrite a number of my tools
as shell
On 2013-10-28 11:12, Nigel Verity wrote:
All the stock Xfce applications look modern and easy on the eye -
curved button corners, bevelled surfaces, etc. However some, though by
no means all, non-Xfce applications have an appearance more akin to
Windows 3 - dark grey flat
On 2013-09-27 09:45, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
my ubuntu server has a Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708
Gigabit Ethernet (rev 12).
lspci should show 4 entries for this card but actually only one entry is
listed.
The same network card is installed on a debian server, lspci output
On 2013-09-13 17:10, Kris Douglas wrote:
I get my handsets from Three. They come with about 1 app and once Android
is rooted you can remove it or put a custom ROM on.
I also benefit from quick, easy replacement of the handset should something
go wrong, rather than dealing directly with the
On 2013-09-13 13:39, Neil Greenwood wrote:
On 12 Sep 2013 11:29, Pete Smout smoutp...@gmail.com
I don't know anyone who buys their handset, they are bundled up with
their service contract.
Umm, me.
And, me too.
Step 1: Buy handset for cash.
Step 2: Replace crappy default OS with
On 2013-09-02 13:21, Simon Swaysland wrote:
I'm trying to set-up the calibre server for my eBook management and access
to it's web front-end, but I don't seem to be able to get it working.
Any advice would be appreciated.
My advice would be to use Calibre locally, then just synchronise the
That's precisely the idea. My home is in London. My server is in Germany.
Why run Calibre, with a full GUI, on the server?
Tyler
On 2013-09-02 14:58, Simon Swaysland wrote:
There doesn't really work, my server is remote.
On 2 September 2013 11:40, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com
On 2013-08-03 23:06, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote:
Thanks for the insight. I have declined the offer. Also mentioned you
(tyler) on twitter, I hope you do not mind.
Not a problem. I'm @tolaris.
In similar lines I found this interesting:
http://ubuntu.virginmedia.com/releases/
That is indeed
On 2013-07-20 21:54, Rob Beard wrote:
As far as I'm aware Virgin are upgrading 20Mbit customers to 60Mbit anyway,
but if you've got the old separate modem and router then you might need one
of their Super Hubs. I'm not sure what the latest Super Hub is like, but
the originals are fairly poor.
On 2013-07-21 17:41, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
The Virgin Super Hub is absolute shite. I really miss my old Scientific
Atlanta modem. I'm not sure the 60 mbit update was worth the change.
Sorry, please allow me to qualify that rant:
1. Wireless disassociations. Several per week per workstation
On 2013-07-03 23:43, Tony Pursell wrote:
I think you are misunderstanding what it says. It talks about encryption
software, that is software that encrypts data, and an obligation to tell
the US government about it. I suppose that is because such software can be
used for all sorts of illegal
Please consider using Unison or rsync for this. Both can use block-level
checksums to make updates far more efficient. And unison handles the issues
with merging changes very well.
Regards,
Tyler
On 2013-06-17 11:08, Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi
I use Filezilla a lot to transfer data between a
On 2013-04-21 09:01, pete smout wrote:
Thanks for the info, it raises a question where's xorg.conf these days? It
no longer appears in /etc/X11. If it is not there if I were to create 1
would it be 'called' by X on start-up? If not how would I get X to read /
call xorg.conf on start-up?
On 2013-05-14 13:34, J Fernyhough wrote:
The C3 doesn't have PAE support [1]. This means the more recent
kernels (IIRC quantal and up) won't boot as their config has PAE as a
requirement. You'll either need to compile your own, or use a distro
that retains support for those older non-PAE
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
On 2013-05-09 08:40, Phil Dobbin wrote:
Interesting. ssh was working got all the way to the password prompt
before permission was denied ('password/public key').
That's definitely not a firewall issue, then. Questions:
1. Are you logging in as the root user, or the user you created during
Sorry if this post is unwelcome. Last time we advertised for an engineer,
we hired someone who reads this list. I sure hope to repeat that
experience. :)
We're looking for a new Linux/Network Engineer at my company. This is a
junior position. We're looking for someone enthusiastic about Linux,
On 2013-05-08 20:10, Phil Dobbin wrote:
I enabled the ssh server during install but saw no option to disable ufw
(it may have been there but I wasn't really looking for it). No open
ports by default is fine by me ...
If you enabled SSH during install, then you should have a listening SSH
On 2013-05-07 12:05, Barry Drake wrote:
On 07/05/13 10:45, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Another reply from Kodak. Interesting to learn that Kodak is leaving the
inkjet market.
Excellent result! I got no reply at all from Kodak. Maybe you could
forward Kodak's reply to the Ubuntu-UK list
On 2013-05-04 16:47, Colin Law wrote:
On 4 May 2013 15:53, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
Hi All
Has anyone got any advice or tips on how to safely rid oneself of unwanted
kernel. I thought this was an issue that had been solved but I'm still left
with 5 ver 2.6 and 8 ver
On 2013-04-24 09:11, pete smout wrote:
Thanks to Tyler for pointing me in the right direction, SOLVED it
Thanks again
(and sorry for replying to you direct Tyler, my messages dont always reach
ubuntu users for some reason)
I'm glad I could help, Pete. Could you tell us how you solved it, for
On 2013-04-24 10:58, pete smout wrote:
Then having completely had enough I decided to put the 2 lines of script in
a text file (xrandr --addmode MODELINE)(xrandr --newmode
resolution_refreshrate) and make this file executable via the properties
menu in nautilus. You can view this at
On 2013-04-23 20:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have DKMS
packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package manager. As
it is, you need quite a bit of savvy to install DKMS, more than I've got,
for sure.
You mean, like
Sounds similar to a problem I had with my TV. It's EDID incorrectly lists
only one mode (1280x720 50 Hz), but it supports up to 1920x1080 at a
variety of refresh rates. I verified this by dumping the EDID and checking it.
I wrote up my experience here:
On 2013-04-12 13:27, Barry Drake wrote:
The new Advent printer is excellent - apart from support. Obviously I have
written a strong letter about this to PC World customer support. I don't
expect a result, but maybe if enough of us complain to them, they might
listen!
Last night I sent an
On 2013-04-10 19:00, Barry Drake wrote:
If anyone wants to try, I had to do the following:
Add as USB printer - use Kodak ESP C310 driver.
Add as network printer - look up network address on printer menu - probably
192.168.2.11 - use Kodak ESP C310 driver.
Barry,
Thanks for the
On 2013-03-12 06:53, Neil Greenwood wrote:
With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion.
The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the
command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output.
Consider:
ps -ef | cat
On 2013-03-08 15:14, Neil Greenwood wrote:
PAGER=/bin/cat man command
Don't include the export. Works a treat if you normally want the pager, but
not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps
command...
In what situation does ps page the output? ps -ef, for
On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote:
man command | cat
where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to
the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I
hope),
Put this in your .bashrc or .profile:
export PAGER=/bin/cat
Now paging
On 2013-03-04 10:35, Colin Law wrote:
The terminal commands have not changed as far as I know.
No, they haven't. The Ubuntu updater uses PolicyKit. As others have noted,
it allows updates to packages without passwords, but not installation of
new packages. This is a good design. The CLI
On 2013-02-27 09:18, Alan Pope wrote:
At my previous job where Windows + Outlook was the desktop of choice I've
seen plenty of people do what Tyler described. One of the nice features
Windows has which I've never seen Linux desktops do nicely is dragging and
dropping items from a non-focussed
On 2013-02-26 14:48, Paula Graham wrote:
Agree, hated Unity at first (and there's still things about it,
especially lack of customisability) that are annoying) but now that it
actually works properly - and looks so nice on 13.04 ...
One question: can you raise a window while dragging an
On 2013-02-21 15:10, Colin Law wrote:
In 12.10 this was controlled via Nautilus, Edit Preferences
Behaviour Run Executable Files when opened. Raring includes a major
upgrade to Nautilus and they have removed lots of useful stuff (not
the Ubuntu developers, the Nautilus developers) so it
On 2013-02-21 16:23, Barry Drake wrote:
It's not 'dumbing
down' but rather due to sweeping changes in whatever widget library
Nautilus is built from. (GTK - QT - DUNNO ).
Nautilus is built on GTK and Gnome. And no, the dumbing down has nothing to
do with the widget library. Nemo, built on
On 2013-02-21 05:04, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
It's gone, as of today's Firefox update.
Sorry, could you provide some context? What black square? Is there a bug
report somewhere?
Regards,
Tyler
--
I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are
only an antiquated relic of a
I saw your post to the BackupPC user list. I prefer BackupPC, but it's not
ideal for bare-metal restore. It's ideal for whoops, undelete, and as
poor-man's version control. It can be used for bare-metal restore as well,
but I recommend installing a base OS from the install media, then restoring
On 2013-02-20 23:30, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
I realized that a complete snapshot of the system (my requirement #6),
which can be restored in one go (all OS/Apps/data etc.) is best done using
software like clonezilla (I am looking at clonezilla right now).
For all OS/Apps/Data, you need only a
On 01/02/13 15:54, Paula Graham wrote:
I dunno, doesn't seem a huge burden to me - the driver's in a handy
folder - it takes all of 20 secs to compile - prefer it to opening a
brand new laptop with a perfectly good Realtek chip (and I'm clumsy
with hardware). Will just tolerate mild
On 2013-01-31 18:46, Paula Graham wrote:
I've got the i3 version of the Zoostorm laptop - 12.04 installed
perfectly except wifi chip is a bit of a pain, needs to be hunted down,
compiled and then recompiled every time the kernel upgrades - native
driver should be in kernel 3.8. The current
On 2013-01-29 18:11, Rajeev Prasad wrote:
These are two different servers. Website is production, but can take
downtime of about 1 day (weekend).
I was planning to make a tarball from old server and extract on new one,
and as the last step, move the permanent IP.
I generally use rsync for
On 2013-01-28 07:44, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
This deserves a thread of its own, I think. 'Slow to load' means
approximately a half-second late. During that half-second, the previous
display remains visible in the square. It's approx 250x250 pixels in
size, I should say, ie about the width of a
I use a Logitech C600 for my media PC, as it has a swivel for positioning
it to face one part of the room. On a laptop, the C270 was fine. Both can
be had for £12-£25 on Amazon, which is above your price but of excellent
quality. 720p. No flash, though.
Regards,
Tyler
On 2013-01-23 12:09,
On 2013-01-09 04:15, Chuck Peters wrote:
See http://d.root-servers.org/. I think bind9, and likely other DNS
servers, should be updated to include the correct IPv4 D root
server, http://www.internic.net/domain/named.root, and filed a bug
report,
On 2013-01-03 10:49, Simon Greenwood wrote:
... the reason that Google are
selling the Nexus 4 directly and unlocked is that they had difficulty in
getting the US carriers to accept it, so they decided to go around them.
[cite needed]
Regards,
Tyler
--
[...] freedom is kind of a hobby with
On 2012-12-17 14:31, Philip Stubbs wrote:
There are hacks to enable USB mass-storage, but I have not bothered. With
adb installed it is just as easy to type adb push file location to copy
a file to the device.
It's even easier to install an SSH server and just use sftp:// links in
Nautilus
On 2012-12-13 20:10, Matthew Wild wrote:
But yes, for general usage and even development purposes it works fine
with Linux. I imagine pretty much all Android phones are the same in
this regard.
Modern Android devices (4.0+) don't mount as FAT filesystems:
On 2012-12-12 02:24, Asif Iqbal wrote:
We manage lots of ubuntu LTS 64 bit servers Lucid and Precise.
We are using unattended-upgrades and only have the following
line uncommented in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/50unattended-upgrades file
${distro_id}:${distro_codename}-security;
I am looking
On 2012-12-05 11:34, Anton Kanishchev wrote:
I have got an encrypted partition on my hdd, used alternative cd (encrypted
lvm volume) of ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to back up the entire installation
(i. E. Entire harddrive), would dd work if booted from a live cd?
Yes, as long as the destination
On 2012-11-27 18:39, Liam Proven wrote:
I think what would put me off KVM slightly is that it means installing
a Linux system, installing KVM on it, configuring the whole thing,
updating it, locking it down... and then building a VM on top of that.
ESXi is 32MB of code. Install it, connect
On 2012-11-22 13:41, Matthew Sturdy wrote:
I have checked dmesg, syslog, kern.log, /var/log/gdm/:0.log but there's
nothing obvious I can see. Has anyone else seen this? Any tips about how
to troubleshoot / fix it?
I've seen it. It usually is related to an update, but sometimes it just
I'm responding to both Andres and Alan, because my answers are related.
On 2012-11-17 21:02, Andres Muniz wrote:
wow this shred stuff is really interesting. If i have EXT4 running on a
solid state drive (ssd), does it mean that doing a shred will significantly
reduce the life of the ssd?
It
On 2012-11-18 20:26, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18/11/12 10:16, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
That depends against what you are trying to defend. It is possible, with
specialist tools, to recover data after a single wipe.
People say that a lot. Prove it.
I love being proved wrong:
https://www.anti
On 2012-11-16 15:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was sufficient,
so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
Can you expand on that for a newbie?
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda
You might use bs=1M or
On 2012-11-15 12:55, David Smith wrote:
Supposing I have a netbook loaded with Xubuntu that I want to sell on
(shameless plug, eBay item 290811097220).
If it was running a Microsoft OS, I'd create a new user, remove the old one,
look around for and delete any data lurking in the root and
I have run 64-bit on the desktop for almost 5 years now. Even 32-bit apps
like Skype run just fine now, thanks to multi-arch. Just use 64-bit, and
install what you want from the package manager. It'll work.
Tyler
On 2012-11-14 16:40, Nigel Verity wrote:
Hi
I'm thinking about upgrading to
On 2012-11-14 17:02, Rob Beard wrote:
IIRC if you want to run processes with more than 4GB memory then you need a
64-Bit OS, but even with 4GB Ram you can use all the memory if you enable
the kernel with PAE support.
With PAE you can use the RAM in total. However, each process is still
limited
On 2012-10-28 14:26, C. L. Martinez wrote:
Hi all
I am trying to setup some proxy arp entries in a Ubuntu 12.04 server,
but no go.
My commands are:
arp -i eth0 -Ds 172.25.50.30 eth0 pub
sysctt -w net.ipv4.conf.eth0.proxy_arp=1
I assume you meant to type sysctl, not sysctt.
For
On 2012-10-19 01:48, Gareth France wrote:
Thanks for that. I am aware but seem to have lost the settings in
Thunderbird to change it!! It's not something I have to tinker with very
often.
1. Menu - Account Settings
2. select the account on the left, top level such as gareth.fra...@gmail.com
On 2012-10-10 15:17, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
In tried installing Bandwidthd from here: http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/.
It didn't install properly. On trying the re-install I got this:
Preparing to replace bandwidthd 2.0.1 (using
.../SARGE-bandwidthd_2.0.1_i386.deb) ...
On 2012-10-08 11:06, James Morrissey wrote:
Thanks for this Tyler.
At the moment i only seem able to find the acpi call for the power button,
not for the cog.
Are they the same at:
/etc/acpi/events/powerbtn
Probably, but I don't know what the cog really calls. What happens when you
On 2012-10-07 12:26, James Morrissey wrote:
Following up on this issue:
sudo poweroff
sudo shutdown -h now
I'll give it a try once i have run the machine for a few hours. The
longer i run it the more likely the restart error occurs.
Using: sudo poweroff
On 2012-10-05 18:13, Paul Tansom wrote:
Aha, my Google FU has returned :) For anyone curious about the answer it was:
tune2fs /dev/md8 -U random
to assign a random new UUID to /dev/md8
That is the filesystem UUID, which yes, can be changed with tune2fs. You
can also change the swap UUID
On 2012-10-04 21:11, James Morrissey wrote:
All of this takes place when shutting down via the cog in the top
right of the panel.
Do you get the same behaviour with this at the command line?
sudo poweroff
sudo shutdown -h now
Technically they should all be calls to ACPI, but I'd start by
On 2012-10-04 16:05, Liam Proven wrote:
On 4 October 2012 15:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:
Both have the Pentium P6200 processor.
Unfortunately, Intel is rather addicted to selling cheap, crippled
CPUs which have been hobbled to fit a low price point by disabling
most of
On 2012-10-03 15:21, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
I'm looking for a book on either Ubuntu or Linux in general in the Windows
inside out type of format, i.e. from simple through to fairly technical,
suitable for a general user - me!
This does not fit your use case, and I do not recommend you
On 2012-10-03 03:45, Scott Kitterman wrote:
On Tuesday, October 02, 2012 04:58:37 PM Neal McBurnett wrote:
If a package upgrade includes a change to a conffile (a configuration file
managed by dpkg) compared to the version installed by the old version of
the package, and you have made changes
On 2012-10-03 14:05, Scott Kitterman wrote:
It's not a question of fair or not fair. The policy is what it is for good
reasons. It does not say that external packages are not allowed to change
configuration, but that they have to do so via a program provided by the
package. This gives a
Hi Phill,
After reading the wiki documentation, it seems that your summary doesn't
match it.
You said Fix Commited means that some one has decided that bug needs to be
fixed.
The wiki says:
Fix Committed:
Ubuntu bug task: the changes are pending and to be uploaded soon (it's
what
On 2012-09-29 14:03, Alan Pope wrote:
model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz
Is there a way to verify the video model number?
Google the model number, first hit:-
http://ark.intel.com/products/53452/Intel-Core-i5-2450M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz
I was hoping to
On 2012-09-26 10:57, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2012-09-25 23:20, Alan Pope wrote:
On 25/09/12 16:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire
words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in
capitalisation
On 2012-10-01 15:55, Colin Law wrote:
On 1 October 2012 15:51, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote:
very quickly, from confirmed moving to triaged means there is enough
information to fully investigate. Fix Commited means that some one has
decided that bug needs to be fixed.
I thought
On 2012-09-28 21:38, Bruno Girin wrote:
Same here. My laptop is a Lenovo with a Core i5-2520M (2nd gen Intel
Core) which has HD3000 graphics too and it has run 11.10, 12.04 and now
12.10 amd64 with no problem whatsoever.
I wonder if I'm missing a way to identify my video chipset. My new laptop
On 2012-09-27 19:41, Simon Redmond wrote:
Doh, sorry should have included that info... its not really a known
brand, its made by PC Specialist. A colleague has a desktop PC built by
them and is very happy.
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/genesisIV/
My advice would be to take an
On 2012-09-25 23:20, Alan Pope wrote:
On 25/09/12 16:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire
words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in
capitalisation.
Is there a bug filed about these issues you outlined
Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire
words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in
capitalisation.
For instance, I have Handbrake installed. The desktop file gives a
description of HandBrake. The capital letter B is significant. If I
On 2012-09-06 14:03, Jesus arteche wrote:
Hey guys,
I am trying to create a ha infrastructure. I would like to have my
infrastructure in a cloud/vps provider in europe and a replica in USA. I
will create load balancers in a HA mode. My problem comes up when I think
how to share the floating
Hi Dean,
I agree; a 100 MB boot is just silly. So, run a daily script with this in it.
http://www.tolaris.com/2012/07/19/removing-old-kernels-from-ubuntu/
That purges any kernel that isn't either the highest-versioned one, or one
which is currently running.
Regards,
Tyler
On 2012-09-05 14:44,
On 2012-07-17 21:57, James Morrissey wrote:
Just tried that but still nothing seems to happen and the BIOS remains
on version 1.15.
When I updated my BIOS (from a FreeDOS-formatted USB stick), it continued
to report the older version until I physically unpowered it and repowered
it after a
On 2012-07-18 11:25, James Morrissey wrote:
Having spoken to Lenovo, i am rather unsatisfied.
Their story is that they don't know why the windows client won't work.
They also suggest that i use the live CD as a means for updating the
BIOS - this is the recommended method. Unbelievably (to my
On 2012-07-03 02:21, Daniel Case wrote:
Is your /home directory on another partition or the same as the Mint
system? Either way, take a backup somewhere to be sure nothing happens
(I've had my power go out in the middle of an install before... it
happens!)
If your /home is separate, it
On 2012-06-26 14:38, Mark Fraser wrote:
On Jun 26, 2012 10:38 AM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com
mailto:morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote:
Great,
Thanks for the help. Deleting
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and restarting seemed to do
the trick.
Thanks again.
On 2012-06-15 09:08, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Some OEM disks check for something in the system that identifies the
hardware as belonging to a maker so it really might depend on the vendor.
You could test it by installing Virtualbox in Windows as by default
Virtualbox identifies itself as a
On 2012-05-30 19:08, Simon Greenwood wrote:
[2.298444] generic-usb 0003:0C45:7428.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID
v1.00 Mouse [SONiX USB Device] on usb-:00:1a.0-1/input0
Hmm, looks like some Sonix devices are supported but not that one.
No, that's a mouse.
Use lsusb as michael
On 2012-05-27 18:45, Ron Wellsted wrote:
I append the relevant lines to my /etc/fstab file. e.g.:
nfs.srv.ip.adr:/home/common /home/commonnfsdefaults 0 0
noatime is better than defaults.
http://gnorman.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=154Itemid=164
Or go it a step
On 2012-05-24 09:25, Gibbs wrote:
What did you upgrade from? From personal experience I always do a fresh
install when upgrading from LTS to LTS as there are years worth of
differences between them. Saying that I still haven't upgraded from 10.04
at work.
I have upgraded servers from 10.04 to
On 2012-05-24 15:43, Philip Stubbs wrote:
I know that I should dig and get more details, but Ubuntu is supposed
to be Linux for Humans. These days I just want to get on and use the
machine, not spend hours just keeping them going.
I think your problem is that it is Linux for Humans, not Linux
On 2012-05-12 10:52, mac wrote:
Does your NAS only support NFSv3?
I doubt the NFS version is the issue: I've got four 10.04 systems mounting
these same NFS shares at startup perfectly correctly.
I asked that because the Ubuntu Setup guide I linked to refers to NFSv4. If
you follow that
On 2012-05-10 16:10, mac wrote:
I mount NFS shares (served by a ReadyNAS) on my Ubuntu clients - all five
of which were, till recently, running 10.04. As a means of getting
familiar with Unity, etc, I recently put 12.04 on to one machine. (A clean
install, as the attempted upgrade a few
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On 2012-05-04 08:59, Alan Pope wrote:
It's funny you should ask that. I'm at a Canonical product sprint
this week and one of our tasks was to review the 12.04 release and
make suggestions for how things could be improved.
Good luck this week,
On 2012-05-01 15:29, Colin Law wrote:
Anyone got any workarounds/suggestions for this scenario?
If you open the dash and search for the app does it find it? If so
then run it that way, and you can pin it to the launcher if you want
to.
If not then create a .desktop file to launch it
On 2012-05-01 16:35, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
Does Alt-Tab work to select the minimised window? Does the window show
up in Expo (Super-W)?
Alt-tab doesn;t show it, but - you sir are a star!
The Expo (Super W) does :-)
However, I then minimised my app and the little arrow disappeared from
On 2012-03-12 17:01, Alexander Birchall wrote:
I thought I was quite experienced at administering a Ubuntu Server, but I
am totally confused by the graphical desktop for Ubuntu Server 11.10.
I don't believe there is a GUI for server by default. Are you sure you used
the server disk?
I need to
On 2012-03-07 11:33, Simon Greenwood wrote:
It's slightly different
to the PC platform in that the assumption, rightly or wrongly, is that
customers don't generally install custom operating systems on their phones
and tablets, and indeed I think there would be some reticence on behalf of
the
On 2012-02-04 09:39, Byte Soup wrote:
Id like to hear opinions, experience and advice from those of you who have
a home network with multiple devices from iPods to PCs, and what you do to
back them up and centralise the data but also make the data available in
places where you need it.
I use
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