Thanks to everyone for your advice and help. I have managed to set up
the ubuntu server as a transparent caching proxy with web content
filtering. This is what I did:
Bought a netgear gigabit wireless router and a gigabit network card
for the ubuntu server. I configured the network as follows
Int
Sean,
Sean Miller wrote:
> Re. being warned about "corrupt" disks... how does this happen if you're
> booting from CD? Surely it would never get near Vista?
I presume he meant he put the disk into a running Vista system, perhaps
prior to asking the machine to reboot.
> Have Microsoft infiltrate
Andy,
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
> Umm, there is no inittab file in my Ubuntu (7.10), that's what I
> originally went looking
> for. That was how Mandriva did it.
Ah! The startup system was changed from the old SysV rc.d system to
something else (upstart, I believe). My system has been upgraded all
alan c wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
>> alan c wrote:
>>> Lexmark 4300
>>>
>>> I help an elderly person with their PC use and they run two dual boot
>>> machines - a dell desktop XP/Kubuntu and a newer Dell laptop
>>> XP/Kubuntu. (7.10)
>>>
>>> Some time ago, with a lot of good intentions this person
alan c wrote:
>
> Yes, there is a driver or two there and I will revisit that, however
> so far the popular lexmark drivers are not working. I just wondered
> that since the MAC is unix based then something in the MAC install CDs
> might prove useful. Does this ever happen?
Hmm, I'd say it's
On 13/01/2008, Colin Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On my Ubuntu Gutsy my KMail has now started to crash, even though I've
> been using it since full release. I have all my filters and lists
> nicely placed!
>
> The application will start up but when I go to download mail it locks
> up, the k
Rob Beard wrote:
> alan c wrote:
>> Lexmark 4300
>>
>> I help an elderly person with their PC use and they run two dual boot
>> machines - a dell desktop XP/Kubuntu and a newer Dell laptop
>> XP/Kubuntu. (7.10)
>>
>> Some time ago, with a lot of good intentions this person spotted a
>> good al
alan c wrote:
> Lexmark 4300
>
> I help an elderly person with their PC use and they run two dual boot
> machines - a dell desktop XP/Kubuntu and a newer Dell laptop
> XP/Kubuntu. (7.10)
>
> Some time ago, with a lot of good intentions this person spotted a
> good all in one printer copier sca
Lexmark 4300
I help an elderly person with their PC use and they run two dual boot
machines - a dell desktop XP/Kubuntu and a newer Dell laptop
XP/Kubuntu. (7.10)
Some time ago, with a lot of good intentions this person spotted a
good all in one printer copier scanner deal, and snapped it up.
Adam Bagnall wrote:
> mail-notification supports gmail separately without going through pop3
> or imap. If you want the tarball you can get it from
> http://www.nongnu.org/mailnotify/
>
> sudo apt-get build-dep mail-notification This will grab most of the
> dependencies
>
> sudo apt-get i
Hi folks,
I had an e-mail earlier on today from Intel about a webcast they're
running. I usually delete them but this one caught my eye.
It's about Getting Started with Ubuntu.
http://www.intel.com/cd/channel/reseller/asmo-na/eng/381118.htm
From what I can tell it's aimed at Intel Channel Pa
Re. being warned about "corrupt" disks... how does this happen if you're
booting from CD? Surely it would never get near Vista?
Have Microsoft infiltrated the BIOS?
Sean
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alan c wrote:
>
> just remembered another thing - I also found a comment in the forums
> that removal of totem-mozilla helped someone, so I saw it was
> installed here and un installed it too. It did not seem to do anything
> detrimental in removing it, but maybe it helped also!
You may find
Tony Arnold wrote:
> Andrew,
>
> Andrew Jenkins wrote:
>
>> Is there a way to change the init level of Ubuntu?
>> I used to use Mandriva and changed the init level in
>> /etc/inittab to '3' instead of '5'. This made the
>> machine boot up into a bash terminal with no GUI
>> invoked. If you the
gord wrote:
> i would be careful, its likely that something has gone wrong with
> windows because... well its windows.. and that they are blaming this
> strange thing you put on the computer once that they are unfamiliar
> with. live cds are very careful not to do anything that could hurt the
> cu
Dave Morley wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:43 +, Chris Rowson wrote:
>
>>> On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote:
>>>
lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert
them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will n
alan c wrote:
> Gavin Ford wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wrote:
>>> > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it,
>>> > try it in
>>> > single quotes like this:
>>> >
>>> > mplayer
>>> > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/
Gavin Ford wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wrote:
>> > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try
>> > it in
>> > single quotes like this:
>> >
>> > mplayer
>> > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/b
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:10:08AM +, C L Chatfield wrote:
> If you use Xvidcap with a good graphics card,
> would it work?
>
> I cant capture totem images with it but can record screenshots.
You don't need to with mplayer, you can add the -dumpstream option and it will
dump the content to a
> Thanks for all your input. As far i understand it: jeOS is a lightweight
> distro that does not include any unnecessary software, drivers and
> kernel modules that are normally included for compatibility. I.E. They
> do not need to include compatibility for 1000s of NIC cards, because all
> it n
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:43 +, Chris Rowson wrote:
> > On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote:
> > > lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert
> > > them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not
> > > damage any of their files
On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 14:27 +, Tom Bamford wrote:
> I've just installed JeOS 7.10 on VMware Workstation 6.0.2 on an Ubuntu
> 7.10 i386 host. It installed perfectly using an IDE emulated hard disk
> and now it's updated. One cool thing I noticed is that the VMware guest
> kernel modules ar
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