[ubuntu-uk] Fiddling with System

2008-08-18 Thread Ken Adams
Just thought I'd post the results of a small bit of fiddling I have done on my system, To see if I can do it!!! in the true spirit of the Linux world. I have a GeForce FX 5500 graphics card with 256Mb ram running on my system with an Acer AL1702 monitor running 1280x1024 resolution. On the back

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fiddling with System

2008-08-18 Thread Rob Beard
Ken Adams wrote: I now have a fully working second desktop on the Dell Monitor, Fully functional with its' own taskbar etc. Very handy for watching video files and still having a fully functioning EMPTY desktop on my main monitor. Just thought I'd pass on my findings to show it can be down

[ubuntu-uk] UKTeam parts exchange proposal

2008-08-18 Thread Philip Wyett
Hi all, Having a bit of a clear out of smaller PC hardware... I thought better than throwing things away, could I offer good working components for other UKTeam members who may make good use of it? Thanks to Ging for the initial idea of using the team wiki for parts exchange! :-) I would like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fiddling with System

2008-08-18 Thread Andrew Ball
Hello Rob, RB I also tried this and I could get as far as getting things like mplayer working by specifying which desktop to use but I wasn't able to get independent mouse/keyboard control on that desktop using a USB mouse keyboard. If you have a VNC server instance

Re: [ubuntu-uk] stickers free with Linux Format Magazine this month

2008-08-18 Thread James Edward Grabham
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 09:19:40PM +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: As a subscriber I also received the stickers, and was very impressed and very, very happy. Sean Miller wrote: two back the man said blimey! £5.95? that's expensive -- and it is, ... I don't actually NEED any of the stuff

Re: [ubuntu-uk] stickers free with Linux Format Magazine this month

2008-08-18 Thread Martin Meredith
On Fri, 2008-08-15 at 18:48 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Anyone lament the days when you used to have multiple options for magazines? CD edition or DVD edition, magazine itself still the same. When I bought a copy of Linux Format at Paddington Station a year or two back the man said blimey!

[ubuntu-uk] Advanced vi/vim command - commenting out a large section

2008-08-18 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, We sometimes need to quickly comment out a, for example, vhost config in vi. Now, I've worked out that you can add the first comment #, ESC and then hit DOWN, FULL-STOP, DOWN, FULL-STOP etc to quickly comment out multiple lines. But, what I'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advanced vi/vim command - commenting out a large section

2008-08-18 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Quoting Johnathon Tinsley [EMAIL PROTECTED]: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, We sometimes need to quickly comment out a, for example, vhost config in vi. Now, I've worked out that you can add the first comment #, ESC and then hit DOWN, FULL-STOP, DOWN, FULL-STOP etc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advanced vi/vim command - commenting out a large section

2008-08-18 Thread DarkOtter
But, what I'd love, is a way I can type say 11 command and get it to turn 11 lines into a comment. Does anyone know of a nice way to do that in vim? It's a little bit hacky, but the way I do that is to do a substitute with the 'start of line' token in the regexp. That way you can use a

[ubuntu-uk] transcriber question

2008-08-18 Thread Mac
Made curious by the podcast transcribing thread, I've installed Transcriber to try it out. I find the sound crackly, and the playback speed too fast - both of which reduce intelligibility quite badly - but can't see a way of adjusting either. Am I missing something? Mac --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advanced vi/vim command - commenting out a large section

2008-08-18 Thread LeeGroups
But, what I'd love, is a way I can type say 11 command and get it to turn 11 lines into a comment. Does anyone know of a nice way to do that in vim? CTRL-v (number), DOWN ARROW, SHIFT-i, #, ESC, DOWN ARROW works for me... And people wonder why VIM has a bad reputation LOL...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advanced vi/vim command - commenting out a large section

2008-08-18 Thread DarkOtter
It's a little bit hacky, but the way I do that is to do a substitute with the 'start of line' token in the regexp. That way you can use a standard vim range e.g. 1,10 to do lines 1 to 11 EDIT: I forgot, if you want to do a range from the current cursor position you can do it as '.,+x' where x

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UKTeam parts exchange proposal

2008-08-18 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 12:46 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: Hi all, Having a bit of a clear out of smaller PC hardware... I thought better than throwing things away, could I offer good working components for other UKTeam members who may make good use of it? Thanks to Ging for the initial idea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UKTeam parts exchange proposal

2008-08-18 Thread Daniel Lamb
Looks good, I shall list some of my hardware on there also. Regards, Daniel Philip Wyett wrote: On Mon, 2008-08-18 at 12:46 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: Hi all, Having a bit of a clear out of smaller PC hardware... I thought better than throwing things away, could I offer good working

[ubuntu-uk] DFEY Meeting :: 31st August :: Manchester :: Digital Freedom in Education and Youth - North West

2008-08-18 Thread Tim Dobson
Please forward this to any other lists or people who you think might be interested. === DFEY-NW[1] (Digital Freedom in Education Youth - North West) is a group focusing on young people and issues of freedom in the digital