Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu & TV licensing

2006-09-23 Thread Sean Miller
Sean Miller wrote: > This link may be of use... > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5081350.stm > The interesting implication of this "you need a licence to watch live streaming but not recorded material" is how would the licensing people tell what you'd watched? In the traditional "TV D

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu & TV licensing

2006-09-23 Thread Sean Miller
john levin wrote: > Interesting question. I think (insert standard IANAL disclaimer here) > that only hardware devices require a license. Given how new both the > provision of 'tv' programs over the net, the spread of broadband, and > the use of computers for tv reception, this is probably a leg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu & TV licensing

2006-09-23 Thread john levin
Sean Hammond wrote: > In reading up a bit on TV licensing in Britain, the phrase "streaming > media" came up a couple of times. > > For example, this site: > > http://www.taith.org.uk/tv/index.html > > seems to be a good site for advice on the TV license. And on there, this page: > > http://www

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu & TV licensing

2006-09-23 Thread Tony Arnold
Sean, On Sat, 2006-09-23 at 19:33 +0100, Sean Hammond wrote: > It seems pretty obvious that if you have a TV card and are using your > computer to watch TV you need a license. What's not clear is whether > in the absence of a TV card software capable of showing you streaming > video over broadban

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu & TV licensing

2006-09-23 Thread Sean Hammond
In reading up a bit on TV licensing in Britain, the phrase "streaming media" came up a couple of times. For example, this site: http://www.taith.org.uk/tv/index.html seems to be a good site for advice on the TV license. And on there, this page: http://www.taith.org.uk/tv/quickguide.htm mention

[ubuntu-uk] York LUG Ubuntu Install fest

2006-09-23 Thread john levin
From Linux Format, I've just found out that York Linux User Group are doing an Ubuntu install day, on November the 4th. Anyone from that group on the list? Any chance of a report back? http://york.lug.org.uk/installday/ John -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reluctant update in Dapper

2006-09-23 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Neil, > Llywelyn, it's reasonably easy to fix the bug, if you find the steps > in the forum. It was as simple as something along these lines: > > sudo sed 's/multiuser/defaults/' > /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.postinst > sudo dpkg --configure -a Do you mean `sed -i ...' to make th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reluctant update in Dapper

2006-09-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 23/09/06, Neil Greenwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've marked about 3 or 4 bugs as duplicates of this. > Sorry to reply to myself, but I forgot. The bug with the correct steps and the reference to the forum topic is not 61404. You need to search Malone for all the bugs that reference flashp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reluctant update in Dapper

2006-09-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 22/09/06, Caroline Ford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 21/09/06, Llywelyn Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 21/09/06, Paul Sladen <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > On Thu, 21 Sep 2006, Llywelyn Owen wrote: > > > > I'm having trouble with updating some packages, > > > > Setting up flashplug

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Intel PRO 3945BG Wireless card under Dapper

2006-09-23 Thread Albert Vilella
Instead of using the network configuration GUI, I find myself a lot of times doing this on a terminal: iwlist eth1 scan sudo iwconfig eth1 essid "myessid" sudo dhclient eth1 Cheers, Albert. On 9/22/06, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 22:55 +0100, Llywelyn Owen w