but that there is no obvious warning or help for the non technical
user. Ubuntu is great, it is easy to use and easy to maintain, or is it?
It only needs one bad report, such as my experience, to be publicised
and years of hard work in convincing the sceptics is lost.
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and all seem to be associated
with kernel 2.6.22-15. Some are even carrying out tests to try to
confirm that this may be a kernel problem.
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Hi, I'm developing some code with libsyck but I'm using C++, one issue with the
way that the package is built is that one cannot throw a c++ exception in the
syck error handlers and recover in the c++ code.
Basically what happens is that if you throw an exception in the error handler
(which is
to 8.04. There was a slight problem with sound after
the upgrade but that was soon put right. Apart from that everything else
I needed to do, including the wireless connection, worked without any
problem.
I am impressed with the quality and ease of use.
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to whom I can turn for advice so I am dependant on what I can
read. Could some kind person suggest a good place to find real
comparisons between different suppliers and also tell me how I can
calculate my monthly usage in GB?
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Ubuntu version is 8.04 LTS.
Output of apt-cache policy talkd is:
talkd:
Installed: 0.17-13
Candidate: 0.17-13
Version table:
*** 0.17-13 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe Packages
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Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: reportbug
Reportbug tries to make a direct SMTP connection to a machine in the ubuntu.com
domain.
This strategy is destined to fail when behind restrictive ISPs such as verizon
and comcast,
which block outgoing smtp connections to all servers other
Public bug reported:
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Two problems:
1. The talkd package puts its inetd info into /etc/inetd.conf instead of
/etc/inetd.conf.d
2. The info itself is incorrectly formatted for the inetd that talkd depends
on: talkd is using
a 'user.group' format and inet expects user
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: ytalk
After working around bug in talkd, I attempted to use ytalk between two local
users
on the same machine. Both instances of ytalk hang 'waiting for invitation on
caller's machine'.
I first encountered this bug in the early 1990s; it is
There is a VMware system in the repo, VMware Server, it's free...
Sorry but I am exceeding thick. What do you mean by repo? The only items
I can find with synaptic appear to files needed to enable VMware to work
and not VMware itself which, I understand, is not free.
Norman
Norman
to get VirtualBox working. I am not as
knowledgeable as many of you but I think the problem lies in the kernel
and it is beyond me. It seems to me that VMware is well worth having a
serious look at, there is a 30 day free trial available.
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big snip
Hi Norman, I have just installed VirtualBox in 8.04 from the repos...
where are you getting stuck at the moment?
Sure I can help...
When I try to start a virtual machine I get the message headed Failed to
start virtual machine br. Underneath the heading it starts VirtualBox
fine. Many thanks for your help.
I have just seen this, I will give it a whirl.
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On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 07:56 +0700, taufanlubis wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-10 at 18:04 +0100, norman wrote:
I have hit a snag. Using synaptic, I installed VirtualBox and it
certainly starts up OK. However, after setting things up, I cannot start
the virtual set up but get an error message
I want to run a windows application, which will not run under wine, in
Ubuntu 8.04. There appear to be a number of techniques and I would be
grateful for suggestions as to the most reliable, in your opinion.
Thank you.
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me please.
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shop does not know.
I don't know anything about Wacom tablets but there is a man who is
producing some excellent videos on how to use Gimp with the latest
Ubuntu and he uses such a tablet. He can be contacted at
www.meetthegimp.org and you can mention my name if you wish.
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can suppress all the information, which I do
not understand and just get the bar showing progress, please.
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When setting up Ekiga initially it tested the webcam and indicated that
it was not operating. However, going further, it is operating??
I have registered ann account sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] which was
confirmed (I hope?).
Have called sip:[EMAIL PROTECTED] but nothing happens.
Checked the many
Public bug reported:
there are 38 updates available each one same. could not resolve
za.archive.ubuntu.com.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
Date: Tue Jun 10 14:10:21 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
Package: firefox-3.0 3.0~b5+nobinonly-0ubuntu3
PackageArchitecture: i386
ProcEnviron:
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using a tool such as devede. It is excellent at
creating basic dvd structure with menus. If you become a good user I
understand it is possible to do all sorts with it.
From time to time I have used Devede quite successfully. It is slow but
reliable.
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necessary.
Thank you, simple when you know.
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Could someone please explain why there are two different icons to
indicate that there are updates available one of which is a broad arrow
pointing downwards and the other resembles a gear wheel.
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might just as well have been speaking to next door's cat for
all the help they were.
Has anyone else come across this problem and been able to resolve it?
I realise it is no help but I have never had a problem with LLoyds.
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Thanks folks for your comments which I found of help. I am swayed
towards the Inspiron 1525 because it is supporting Ubuntu.
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Ring dell up to order it, you can usually wangle a bit off, although
this has been for business ones.
Noted with thanks.
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main requirements will be access to the internet, email and news and
some photographic work and, of course, a means of contacting my wireless
router. I am wondering whether the Inspiron 1525 would be a suitable
machine to get and would welcome helpful comment, please.
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Binary package hint: nautilus
cannot install programs with add/remove. it just hangs.
ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Sun Jun 1 23:29:00 2008
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.04
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/nautilus
NonfreeKernelModules: ath_hal
Package: nautilus
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The problem's fixed with the latest glade update. Thanks.
I can do the bug trace stuff anyway if you'd like, but I don't suppose it will
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in this day in age.
Right, for your information I also run MythTV on a not very special
machine and video is provided by the mother board. Great quality and no
complaints.
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Here's a more thorough explanation for you:
http://my.opera.com/remcolanting/blog/2008/04/14/opera-and-flash-on-
linux
Basically, the most recent release of Flash is incompatible with Opera,
versions 9.2x and below. The 9.50 Kestrel-based betas and snapshots are
compatible with the most recent
I have bee4n asked to record some speech on a website to do with Higher
level French. The file is .swf and will not open on the applications I
have with Ubuntu 8.04. Could someone point me in the right direction
please.
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it. Is that possible?
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). If
it does work, save the file as a .WAV/.MP3/.OGG etc and then burn that
file to disk as an audio CD (not data CD) with K3b, Brasero or insert
favourite CD writing software here.
Thank you I will give it a try.
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It now appears that the Olympus SP500 UZ is recognised in Ubuntu 8.04.
Thanks very much.
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I have noticed that the waste bin icon shows as empty even when it has
items in it, in Ubuntu 8.04. Is it me or is it a bug?
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On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:25 +0100, Jai Harrison wrote:
It seems to be a problem on your end. Everything works fine for me.
Thanks, it was. I deleted the icon and then reinstalled it and it works.
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machines and there is a printer which is attached to my
machine. The windows machine accesses the printer via a wireless
connection. No problems before upgrade, windows machine cannot connect
after upgrade.
Perhaps my set up is non-standard and I am expecting too much or am I?
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is not working. Please, any suggestions on where to look for
help?
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My bad, they're working now. Probably just the servers being hammered, which
is understandable.
Norman
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 4:18 PM, Norman Ma [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I suggest BitTorrent as well. I'm seeding ;)
I have noticed however that updating via apt-get or Synaptic isn't
Issue still exists with Hardy. I attached a screenshot to help you
locate the issue described.
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** Changed in: evolution (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid = New
nope resolution is correct and unchanged. Its just so odd. Me and the
other half spent most of this morning looking at the screen trying to
work it out!
My apologies in advance but could it be because you were seeing beings
with wings and halos (angels).
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obvious
so I'll post this anyway just to see what comes up :D
I had a similar error message and I was told to do :-
sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/install-css.sh
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Is there anyone on this list who may be able to throw some light on the
situation, please?
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I'd try posting this on a EoG devel forum, see if they can help.
I have and so far no result.
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that have been given have you the French
dictionary installed? I know it is not the complete answer but it is
very helpful in lots of cases.
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have watched every one so far, and I have found that
there is a lot of help to be had just by asking.
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Probably the best way to go, Norman.
Was it a national supplier, or one local to you?
I'm in Cheshire.
This company is in Cambridge but, as you now realise, there are lots
about.
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is needed is a small number of dedicated and skillful
persons to set the thing up and get it going and then hand it over to
the masses to get on with it.
Oh dear, what have I written? Isn't this what has happened?
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Quiet.
Too quiet.
I think something sinister is going on and they aren't telling us about it.
There is... see if you can guess what it is :)
Those of you who are paid a monthly salary have not yet recovered from
working an extra day in February without pay.
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Binary package hint: evolution
You make an appointment in one calendar. If you decide you want to move
the appointment to another calendar, open it up switch calendars with
the drop down list. But then select the same calendar to move the
appointment to. After submit the
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, I have not come across an equivalent to Sage working on
Linux. I seem to recall that there was some talk of a software
development in South Africa but know no more.
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On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 18:59 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Norman you mean turbocash, which has now got a much nicer looking port
called osfinancials, however neither run on linux(not even in wine)
although they are opensource, I have spent many hours searching for an
alternative to sage
Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: gthumb
My camera, Olympus SP500UZ, is not recognized and, as far as I can tell,
never has been.
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You received
. As a sort of marker you get
about 2hours of playing time from an ordinary DVD which is about 4.5GB.
Hope this helps.
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you need a lot of patience because processing is rather slow.
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them back
into sync. Hope this helps a little.
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and an error message:-
Invalid or unsupported executable format.
I seem to have done something wrong and hope that some kind reader can
point me in the right direction, please.
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Sorry at the end it should have been chainloader +1
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following instructions from this list or an online how-to?
I cannot remember whether it was from this list or another I must do
some more research.
Good luck sorting the issue out,
Thank you
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norman wrote:
( snip )
I don't know if it helps at all, but my menu.lst is set up with this at
the end (automagically added, not manually by me, I might add):
title Microsoft Windows XP Professional
root (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader
On Wed, 2008-01-02 at 15:09 +, Michael Holloway wrote:
Norman.
is suspect something the following would work, but i dont have a dual
boot machine around to have a look at the settings...
title Windows
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
root (hd0,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
New to Ubuntu and all things Linux. Just learned today that sudo is
typed as a command line using the Terminal Program in Accessories. And I
thought terminal was just for connecting to other servers
Anyway, I think the problem above maybe the result of not expanding the
Update Options and
On my system the error message was
The topic that you have requested is not available. The link may be
wrong, or you may not have the corresponding product feature installed.
This online help only includes documentation for features that are
installed.
This seems to be a fairly generic error
use print screen to create your jpgs or pngs.
On the face of it that seems a very good idea but, when I try to rename.
I can change the identity like item5 but I cannot change the
extension. Perhaps there is some other crafty method that I am not aware
of.
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can process. Perhaps, if there is no way to do this with
Ubuntu I must look to Windows.
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shall pass your message to my son whose CD it is.
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anyone help me please?
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If you can sit by it as it is running vlc will allow you to get
screenshots from it, or frozen frames.
That sounds a good idea, I will install vlc and try to run it. Have you
any words of wisdom or is everything straightforward?
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wait awhile and see if anything else will
work, if not, I will be back.
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received.
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things would any of these be of
any use to sorting things out?
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On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 20:28 +, Dave Morley wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 20:20 +, norman wrote:
snip
Go into synaptic. Highlight all the lib files you find by typing vcd
into the search bar. Then try again.
Thanks, did that still no joy. Amongst the things I have tried
will slowly slide down in my chair and snooze.
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On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 20:52 +, Dave Morley wrote:
On Sun, 2007-12-30 at 20:20 +, norman wrote:
snip
Go into synaptic. Highlight all the lib files you find by typing vcd
into the search bar. Then try again.
Thanks, did that still no joy. Amongst the things I have tried
Similar problem in Gutsy, although it's using Ghostscript: some pages fail to
print on my Epson Stylus C60 under CUPS,
with error message: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed. Most
importantly, some CUPS printer maintenance pages fail:
I got that error with the Clean print heads page...
So,
still in Gutsy
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Clicking Clean Print Heads returns with message
/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed
then nothing happens.
** Affects: cupsys (Ubuntu)
Importance:
is as much to do with that as anything else. I will
leave it to more statistically minded persons to analyse the results
when the pole is finished, next year.
Wishing a happy and prosperous festive season to all our readers.
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software and hardware (approaching 80 years).
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on. There was power to the gadget shown by a little
LED but that was all. I could not even get the BIOS screen to come up so
that I could check if the drive was seen. I have put my thinking cap on
but, so far, my brain is dormant.
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LED on the gadget but that was all.
I conclude that my efforts to recycle old and rather decrepit hard
drives is not going to work and that if I want another drive it will
have to be a new one.
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once the necessary changes or additions required are made
to the booting up procedure.
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That is most helpful, thank you.
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diagram of the motherboard. I would
like to know whether the connections are labelled 1 to 4 or is it just a
case of first come first served?
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these bl...y messages that stop me getting on with my work and, if
Ubuntu will stop that happening, then get rid of Windows and replace
it. Needless to say, I am busy downloading Ubuntu 7.10.
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toying/fiddling with dual booting after
Chrismas
What an excellent idea, could be useful for lots of people.
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+1
after which re-attach the Windows drive and reboot.
One question, please do I use hd0 and hd1 or do I use sd0 and sd1?
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for the motherboard, and there were no numbers
indicated for the SATA connections. So, as has been suggested, I must
assume that any ordering will be done via the BIOS settings.
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Ah, right. Like Norman, I'm a bit of an old-timer (/pace/, Norman!),
and was used to setting jumpers on IDE drives for masters and slaves;
so I guess I just transferred this habit to SATA, and assumed it was a
hardware thing there, too. Never thought of checking for BIOS settings
when
the Windows drive and reboot.
One question, please do I use hd0 and hd1 or do I use sd0 and sd1?
Norman
I don't think you'll need the map (hd0) (hd1) or map (hd1) (hd0)
commands. You can change the mappings of the drives in the file
/boot/grub/device.map
My device.map
You'll need the following:
title Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
chainloader +1
Just leave out the map lines. I would have thought that would do the job.
When the time comes a bit of the old trial and error should sort things
out.
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date with security downloads. Now let's see
how long it will be before calamity strikes again.
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will be
completely bald, which is not a good thing with the winter upon us.
Please, please help me get things sorted.
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Does the machine have on-board graphics?
Yes it does. I have sent another more detailed description under 'I'm
stuck'.
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