James Grabham wrote:
> OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
> books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language there. I
> started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about Computer Science,
> and It's really interesting, Im learning ab
You still have your 2GB of RAM.Just gfx is stealing some of it, and probably
putting it to better use.;)
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Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Please can you check it, comment if it matches your experience (in
> particular, state that it happens on your Thinkpad, not just my Dell)
> and mark the bug as Confirmed. Thanks,
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ht
Agree with Matthew.
I've been coding for years now (most often in that piece of called
VBScript for ASP pages), but only just started a proper course, which goes all
the way from machine code to PIC to ARM to Pascal.
It's given me much more insight as to what I've been doing all this time.
gdgd, - I finally feel like a reel geek now XD
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Matthew Wild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> >
> > James Grabham wrote:
> > > OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
andylockran wrote:
> Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
> last 20 years.
>
> I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
> the motherboard dying (albeit through some kin
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> James Grabham wrote:
> > OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
> > books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language
> > there. I started reading, and the first 3 c
James Grabham wrote:
> OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
> books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language
> there. I started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about
> Computer Science, and It's really interesting, Im learning a
Chris Smith wrote:
> Well I found another issue. With the "reduce backlight brightness"
> option ticked for battery power. If I remove the AC cord it dims, plug
> it back in again it gets brighter. If I keep repeating the 2 states get
> progressively less bright after doing this 4 times battery is
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language there. I
started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about Computer Science,
and It's really interesting, Im learning about octal and hex, and other
ma
Is it not just that its stealing a bit for the Graphics?
I have had a mobo die on me, but it was my fault, I'd been using a 300W PSU
on a dual-core system (too lazy to go buy a new one)... didnt stop me
claiming a new one off the warrenty though ;]... though I did get round to
getting a 600w PSU =
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:29 +0100, Farran Lee wrote:
> slightly off the motherboard branch: just checked my system info, and
> it now says I have 1.9GB memory instead of 2! Definitely sending it
> back now...
sysinfo doesn't report the correct size anyway, on my 768MB system it
reports 757MB
Ste
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 18:43 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
> andylockran wrote:
> > Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
> > last 20 years.
> >
> > I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
> > the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 19:58 +0100, Farran Lee wrote:
> stupid, trivial question: where's my smileys gone? I have
> "automatically insert smileys" ticked, but they don't how
You may not have 'compose in html' ticked, which would have this effect
(I checked).
In any case, I think quite a few peopl
stupid, trivial question: where's my smileys gone? I have "automatically
insert smileys" ticked, but they don't show.
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On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 19:52 +0100, Tan, Xuan wrote:
> Farran: been there, done that. =)
>
> When I was 15 I single-handedly fried three motherboards because I
> failed to notice the dark spot on the video card that had just toasted.
> I swapped the video card out to test (didn't have a spare vid
Farran: been there, done that. =)
When I was 15 I single-handedly fried three motherboards because I
failed to notice the dark spot on the video card that had just toasted.
I swapped the video card out to test (didn't have a spare video card,
but had a few spare mobos with AGP slots in them around
Andrew Oakley wrote:
> This bug needs reporting. Can you check whether it is one of these
> existing bugs:
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/163678
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/164527
>
> If so, please comment there, and if required change the sta
andylockran wrote:
> Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
> last 20 years.
>
> I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
> the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a
> couple of cases).
>
> So how common is it? Have y
Farran Lee wrote:
> okay, so I definitely won't have to change anything? Somebody mentioned
> it somewhere... not here though.
I've changed totally CPU, Motherboard and chipset and still had Ubuntu
booting first time. Windows however...
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Farran Lee wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>> Farran Lee wrote:
>> > I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
>> > and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
>> > different one. If I did, would I have to complet
okay, successful update eventually... where's my two new compiz plugins?
Screensaver and aquarium? Also, i have never had the 3d windows plugin
either.
Just wondering, looking forward to playing with them :(
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On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> Farran Lee wrote:
> > I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
> > and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
> > different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the
> > s
Farran Lee wrote:
> I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
> and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
> different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the
> system? Or would it just need certain fixes?
>
> ==
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:44 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Farran Lee wrote:
> > lots of people have had problems with the same motherboard.
>
> I'd call that a fairly massive hint, and other than hard drive failure,
> I'd say we're coming to the end of the list of possibilties.
>
> Update the
Farran Lee wrote:
> lots of people have had problems with the same motherboard.
I'd call that a fairly massive hint, and other than hard drive failure,
I'd say we're coming to the end of the list of possibilties.
Update the motherboard BIOS, and if it still won't play, swap it out for
a spare m
Quoting Johnathon Tinsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> - "Farran Lee" wrote:
>> not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the
>> hardware side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not
>> boot at all?
>>
>>
> I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a motherboa
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:31 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Farran Lee wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
> >> So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?
> > not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware
> > side of computin
Farran Lee wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
>> So how common is it? Have you had a motherboard die on you?
> not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware
> side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot at all?
The main proble
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:21 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
>
> - "Farran Lee" wrote:
> > not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the
> hardware side of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot
> at all?
> >
> >
>
> I've seen it once, when the capacators fai
- "Farran Lee" wrote:
> not as far as I know - I'm only just getting to grips with the hardware side
> of computing. Is it obvious? Does the mb just not boot at all?
>
>
I've seen it once, when the capacators fail on a motherboard, its pretty much
useless. You can tell, by if they
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:06 +0100, andylockran wrote:
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> Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
> last 20 years.
>
> I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
> the motherboard dying (albeit
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Andrew Oakley wrote that he'd only had two motherboards die in the
last 20 years.
I've not been so lucky, putting down around 5 of my PCs failings to
the motherboard dying (albeit through some kind of PSU surge in a
couple of cases).
So how common is
Andrew Oakley wrote:
>
> Finally, if everything else is fine, then your motherboard is probably
> b0rked, sorry (rare, but I have seen it happen twice in 20 years).
>
>
I'm pretty sure the last motherboard I had died. It would take many
attempts to boot up (it would spin up the CD drives over
- "Farran Lee" wrote:
> sorry, didn't realise :/
> here's the pastebin http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/7295/
>
>From the looks of that (and I've not had too much practise looking at logs)
>there's a lot of "ata exception"s... which makes me think harddrive... might
>be worth stress test
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:21 +0100, Lucy wrote:
> On 17/04/2008, Farran Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > I sent this just now but it wouldn't go through because the file was too
> > large. Not been moderated yet:
> >
> > I'm back, that was a lot quicker than I expected.
> >
> > Okay, spe
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 16:27 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> Farran wrote:
> > I did actually run a memtest for almost a whole day, passing 8 times
> > with no errors
>
> Therefore I would strongly suspect your CPU is overheating. When most
> modern CPUs overheat, they automatically slow themselv
Farran wrote:
> I did actually run a memtest for almost a whole day, passing 8 times
> with no errors
Therefore I would strongly suspect your CPU is overheating. When most
modern CPUs overheat, they automatically slow themselves down to avoid
permanent damage.
When the PC crashes, immediately
- "Farran Lee" wrote:
> ...
> it also reckons I have no updates, but it's been at least two months since I
> last went on the net :/
Open a terminal, and run "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y"
That will check for updates, and upgrade them (without asking if you really
want
On 17/04/2008, Farran Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> I sent this just now but it wouldn't go through because the file was too
> large. Not been moderated yet:
>
> I'm back, that was a lot quicker than I expected.
>
> Okay, spec: 2GB OCZ SLI approved nVidia memory
> 1024mb SLI nVidia 8600GT
I sent this just now but it wouldn't go through because the file was too
large. Not been moderated yet:
I'm back, that was a lot quicker than I expected.
Okay, spec: 2GB OCZ SLI approved nVidia memory
1024mb SLI nVidia 8600GTS graphics card
Intel core 2 duo q6600 G0
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R motherboa
...
it also reckons I have no updates, but it's been at least two months
since I last went on the net :/
>
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On 17 Apr 2008, at 14:01, Farran wrote:
Anyway, I was wondering if it's possible to install ubuntu from
source, like you would with gentoo (I think that's right), where
every package installs itself to work with your hardware
perfectly... or does that completely defy the idea of ubuntu
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:45 +0100, Lucy wrote:
> On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote:
> > On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one
> > > chip was
On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote:
> On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one
> > chip was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damag
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 15:18 +0100, Lucy wrote:
> On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one
> > chip was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damaged a bit
> > too (don't know if that's posisble ).
On 17/04/2008, Farran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matt: there's the possibilty that there's a problem with the ram - one chip
> was bad, so I can't even use it, but the other might be damaged a bit too
> (don't know if that's posisble ).
If the ram is damaged if can cause lots of random probl
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 14:18 +0100, andylockran wrote:
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> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Are you sure this isn't a hardware issue? Could it be overheating/a
> > drive DOA? What components are you using, as there may be issues
> > relating to drive
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Are you sure this isn't a hardware issue? Could it be overheating/a
> drive DOA? What components are you using, as there may be issues
> relating to drivers that are causing the instability.
>
> As to the Installing Ubuntu
Are you sure this isn't a hardware issue? Could it be overheating/a
drive DOA? What components are you using, as there may be issues
relating to drivers that are causing the instability.
As to the Installing Ubuntu like Gentoo thing I have absolutely no
idea, but I suspect not.
Mj
Quoting Fa
hi everyone
> been having LOTS of issues with my newly built pc - runs smoothly most
> of the time, but does really random things: freezes for no reason,
> compiz dying for no visible reason etc, and it's taken to booting up
> in just under 10 minutes if I'm lucky. 4-core processor, 2GB ram, 1GB
>
Hi Ben,
I tried reinstalling compiz as suggested, even with removing all
libraries and packages listed and reinstalling them, but to no avail.
On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 00:19 +0100, Ben wrote:
> Hi
> i had the same problem and i resolved it by reinstalling compiz did urs
> just start or was it w
On 17/04/2008, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> If anyone's near Manchester, MDDA may be interested in your Ubuntu
> projects, publicity, etc.
>
> http://www.manchesterdda.com/
Thanks Dianne. The Manchester free software group currently use the
MDDA for their monthly meetings, but it ha
If anyone's near Manchester, MDDA may be interested in your Ubuntu
projects, publicity, etc.
http://www.manchesterdda.com/
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Museum of Computing @ Swindon
http://www.museum-of-computing.org.uk
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Chris Smith wrote:
> Well I found another issue. With the "reduce backlight brightness"
> option ticked for battery power. If I remove the AC cord it dims, plug
> it back in again it gets brighter. If I keep repeating the 2 states get
> progressively less bright after doing this 4 times battery is
Chris Smith wrote:
> Just updating now will see what's what afterwards.
Well I found another issue. With the "reduce backlight brightness"
option ticked for battery power. If I remove the AC cord it dims, plug
it back in again it gets brighter. If I keep repeating the 2 states get
progressively le
Stephen O'Neill wrote:
> Chris Smith wrote:
> | - The brightness adjusts itself for power saving I assume but its
> | totally erratic and generally annoying.
> http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=581335
"In power preferences, in AC options the slider is for "Set display
brightness" and it's
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Chris Smith wrote:
| - The brightness adjusts itself for power saving I assume but its
| totally erratic and generally annoying.
Are your symptoms anything like those in this thread? I'm going to have
a look at my laptop when I get home...
http://ub
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| Alan Pope wrote:
|> On Wed, 2008-04-16 at 16:38 +0100, Chris Smith wrote:
|>> - The brightness adjusts itself for power saving I assume but its
|>> totally erratic and generally annoying.
|>>
|> Have you tweaked the settings in Gno
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