Re: [ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

2007-06-06 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:45:23 +0100, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: >> On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:02:06 +0100, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>> Neil Greenwood wrote: >>> check the group for the files that gave errors and one of the fil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

2007-06-06 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:02:06 +0100 luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I can find all the files with the group that's causing the hiccup > using > > find /home/diana/music -group diana > > Is there a simple way to redirect the results to chgrp root and then > chmod them to 664 so that I c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

2007-06-06 Thread Tony Arnold
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:02:06 +0100, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Neil Greenwood wrote: >> >>> check the group for the files that gave errors and one >>> of the files that didn't. Change the problem files to be in the group >>> that isn't causing proble

Re: [ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

2007-06-06 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 07:02:06 +0100, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Neil Greenwood wrote: > >> check the group for the files that gave errors and one >> of the files that didn't. Change the problem files to be in the group >> that isn't causing problems. > > I can find all the files with th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

2007-06-06 Thread luxxius
Neil Greenwood wrote: > check the group for the files that gave errors and one > of the files that didn't. Change the problem files to be in the group > that isn't causing problems. I can find all the files with the group that's causing the hiccup using find /home/diana/music -group dia

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repo's on Demand was repo in a box

2007-06-06 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 21:32 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Alan > > Yep, fair comment on the CD / DVDs. As a matter of interest, obviously the > size of the required disk space will increase as the distro matures - ie > taking in all the updates etc. Can we find out how big Edgy grew before > Fiest

[ubuntu-uk] Lugradio Live, Ubuntu-uk and the Stand.

2007-06-06 Thread Nik Butler
This is a Public Service Announcement on behalf of the Loudmouthman : John Levin , if your out there and available can you get in touch with us we are all desperately trying to contact you. Especially Mrs Trellis. Nik Butler -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

2007-06-06 Thread luxxius
Neil Greenwood wrote: > I haven't used rsync much, but I would guess from the error message > (and where I've seen it before) that the USB drive is formatted using > FAT Neil >>> Yes, it's FAT32, 'cos I need to write to it with both OSs > I'm fairly sure that your conclusion is correct - you cou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Face to Face support on the Ohio

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Just a note folks - there's a page on the wiki devoted to this now... https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/VoiceSupport -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FW: USB Drives

2007-06-06 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hi Folks This is the output from DMESG that's relevant: [ 166.971816] usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 2 [ 167.148024] usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice [ 167.355842] usbcore: registered new interface driver libusual [ 167.521034] Initializing USB Mas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Face to Face support on the Ohio

2007-06-06 Thread Ian Pascoe
My views are: You can't just have a call outbound facility if you want to offer a Service Desk. It has to be both ways even if the inbound call goes to voicemail advising the user that a technician will call them back. Next, whatever is done has to be seen by the person needing support as being

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repo's on Demand was repo in a box

2007-06-06 Thread Ian Pascoe
Alan Yep, fair comment on the CD / DVDs. As a matter of interest, obviously the size of the required disk space will increase as the distro matures - ie taking in all the updates etc. Can we find out how big Edgy grew before Fiesty was launched? Mind you would there actually be cause for such

Re: [ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

2007-06-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 06/06/07, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'd be grateful for a bit of advice about something that's probably > utterly obvious to anyone but a complete noob like me. It sounds like, from your comments below, that you're not a *complete* noob :-) > [snip] > ## > rsync: chgrp "/media/U

[ubuntu-uk] rsync chgrp problem - advice, please?

2007-06-06 Thread luxxius
I'd be grateful for a bit of advice about something that's probably utterly obvious to anyone but a complete noob like me. I'm backing up 3000+ music files to an external usb drive by running sudo rsync -av /home/diana/music/ /media/USBdisc/Music A lot of the material was already on the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy problem

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Jones
Hi Ted wrote: > So all the users on ubuntu+1 who are exchanging advice about their problems > should not be using Gutsy ?? It's great that people test development versions, of course :) it's not great when they say "argh, $release+1 just ate all my hard work!", but thankfully that doesn't happen

[ubuntu-uk] Voice Support (Was Face to Face support on the Ohio)

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi all, It looks like various people have opinions and ideas around a 'face to face' or voice support service delivered over VoIP and or telephone. I've created a page on the wiki here to help organise things: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/VoiceSupport Please feel free to flesh it out ;-) Chr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy problem

2007-06-06 Thread Pete Ryland
On 06/06/07, Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Since the last upgrade I find I cannot use the fkeys to get out of the > >> gui nor back in...I press the ctrl-alt f1 and the screen goes blank and > >> I cannot input to it...I then try to get back to the desktop but screen > >> still stays blank...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy problem

2007-06-06 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Ted, On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 02:39:03PM +0100, Ted wrote: > >> Any tips appreciated.. > > > > "Don't run bleeding-edge development software if you can't fix it". > > > So all the users on ubuntu+1 who are exchanging advice about their problems > should not be using Gutsy ?? You can run what yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy problem

2007-06-06 Thread Ted
Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Ted, > > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:18:01AM +0100, Ted wrote: > >> Since the last upgrade I find I cannot use the fkeys to get out of the >> gui nor back in...I press the ctrl-alt f1 and the screen goes blank and >> I cannot input to it...I then try to get back to the desk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2007-06-06 Thread Pete Ryland
On 04/06/07, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, if you read the links I pasted you would see a section about this > under "additional notes". This could be done over dialup. That's what pay as you go dialup is for. See: http://www.freedom2surf.net/help/tutorials/17/ for one example.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Face to Face support on the Ohio

2007-06-06 Thread Dave Walker
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 09:19 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > > Yes I guess what we could really do with is some sort of webpage which > > would allow us to track support issues and to see which have been > > resolved . If only there was some widely used Voice over IP software > > which enables us to m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy problem

2007-06-06 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Ted, On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 09:18:01AM +0100, Ted wrote: > Since the last upgrade I find I cannot use the fkeys to get out of the > gui nor back in...I press the ctrl-alt f1 and the screen goes blank and > I cannot input to it...I then try to get back to the desktop but screen > still stays

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Face to Face support on the Ohio

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Rowson
> Yes I guess what we could really do with is some sort of webpage which > would allow us to track support issues and to see which have been > resolved . If only there was some widely used Voice over IP software > which enables us to make calls which could be recorded and which could > be provided

[ubuntu-uk] Gutsy problem

2007-06-06 Thread Ted
Since the last upgrade I find I cannot use the fkeys to get out of the gui nor back in...I press the ctrl-alt f1 and the screen goes blank and I cannot input to it...I then try to get back to the desktop but screen still stays blank...I then have to reboot.Any tips appreciated.. -- Regards

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Converting many .jpgs to mpeg4 without using

2007-06-06 Thread Dominic Forrest
Toby Smithe wrote: > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:19 +0100, Martyn wrote: > >> When your perl script runs have it make a working directory and then >> symlink (ln -s) every file that matches the criteria into the working >> directory. Then at the end of the run you'll have a directory with all >> t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Face to Face support on the Ohio

2007-06-06 Thread Nik Butler
> I think it would be interesting to form a 'virtual team' around the > general concept of telephone support (whether it be by call return or > live). How about we start a section on the wiki to begin a bit of > discussion and planning around the matter. > Yes I guess what we could really do wi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Birds Of A Feather Session at Lug Radio Live 2007

2007-06-06 Thread Nik Butler
Thanks for the Support guys, to answer a few questions. Agenda; Well we have a Wiki Page for meetings https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes and yes Ive yet to update minutes for the last meeting ( hey I might get some time today ) but we keep track of the things we discuss and want to d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Face to Face support on the Ohio

2007-06-06 Thread Chris Rowson
> My concerns still apply in exactly the same way. Cost, time, no call > capture, inability to multi-task (I can watch CSI and answer support > email at the same time - that's hard on the phone) and so on. > Yeah, that'd be my major concern too. Nothing worse than reaching the key moment when the