Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Beard
On 20/01/2009 00:05, Sean Miller wrote: Anybody got any experience of mobile broadband? I may be moving to rented accommodation shortly and don't know how long I'll be there, so the mobile broadband concept is tempting as it'll allow me to not worry about minimum contracts and so on with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Chris Rowson
Anybody got any experience of mobile broadband? I may be moving to rented accommodation shortly and don't know how long I'll be there, so the mobile broadband concept is tempting as it'll allow me to not worry about minimum contracts and so on with phone lines etc. How supported is it with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread James Thomas
I use the Huawei E220 with T-mobile (contract) It was as easy as plugging it in selecting T-mobile from the dropdown and I was online in minutes. (Ibex) Download a limited but not enforced... Has been excellent. Highly recommended... I have tried to configure an ICON 255 that came with Orange,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scottish Users

2009-01-20 Thread Ken Robson
azmodie, you are right I didn't state where I am ;-).. I live in Galashiels, which is about 80 miles (round trip) to my nearest lug (Edlug). Ken -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Betteridge
An XPS1530, which is a really nice machine. The design of it is nice enough that, having switched from a Mac, it doesn't feel like I've traded down in terms of looks! :) The built-in 3G was a BTO option - I think it added about £40 to the price, which seemed a good deal given that I'm convinced

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Betteridge
IIRC from researching this a while ago, some dongles used to require quite a bit of fiddling to get working. Some of the USB sticks included both the modem itself and a flash drive which contained the Windows (and sometimes Mac) drivers - very convenient on those platforms, but unfortunately not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband; Step by step

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Sean Miller wrote: How supported is it with Ubuntu? 1. Insert dongle into USB port. 2. (one time only) Select United Kingdom-'3' (or Orange/T-mobile/etc) 3. Cruise the interweb. 4. Remove dongle. Repeat Steps 1., 3. and 4. whenever bored. The connection is as good as the

[ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon All, I'm after a gui tool to help me design database queries (primarily for MySQL databases). In the windows world, I can use SQLyog enterprise - http://webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_list.php - (which works under wine) or even MS Access I have also tried Navicat -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread Oliver Marks
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:44 +, Stephen Garton wrote: Afternoon All, I'm after a gui tool to help me design database queries (primarily for MySQL databases). In the windows world, I can use SQLyog enterprise - http://webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_list.php - (which works under wine) or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread azmodie
you could try http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html MySQL Workbench 5.0 - The DBDesigner 4 Successor MySQL Workbench 5.0 has been developed by the Developer Tools Team of Sun Microsystems, Database Group. The team is lead by fabFORCE.net founder and DBDesigner4 implementor Michael G.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread Guy Thouret
You might want to take a look at MySQL Workbench. I have found it the best program I have come across for generating E-R diagrams of your databases and creating MySQL table schemas in that you can then export as SQL structures. As just a query designer, however, it may not be suitable. But for

[ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Adam Funk
I made the mistake of buying a Yuraku 1.5 digital photo-frame keyring, then discovered it not only fails to work as a USB mass-storage device (the obvious standard) but it isn't even compatible with PTP (gphoto). Can anyone recommend something like this that is compatible with either of these

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Adam Funk wrote: I made the mistake of buying a Yuraku 1.5 digital photo-frame The last one I came across only had something like 8MB of flash on it anyway. However I couldn't find any results for searching for this name, could you post the USB ID; output shown by: lsusb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
I am the same issue with a Prolectrix Digitial Keyring. It's a 1.5inch screen to but does not appear to be mounted anywhere. This is my lsusb output below: ch...@chris-laptop:~$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC1 Bus 005

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/20 Christopher Swift chris.r.sw...@googlemail.com: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1908:1320 Via google I found http://tppl.net/cgi-bin/avantify.cgi?url=08/12/29/0155249threshold=3 Second opinion - scanning another 1.5 photo frame (score: 3, Informative) by AYeomans (322504)

[ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/22dc95c395341c679b560a7d0cf14ae4 It doesn't appear to be trojaned unlike the rest of the other installers but that doesn't help me use it properly :D. I believe this to be my dmesg output btw: [ 7372.228059] usb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/22dc95c395341c679b560a7d0cf14ae4 It doesn't appear to be trojaned unlike the rest of the other installers but that doesn't help me use it properly :D. I believe this to be my dmesg output btw: [ 7372.228059] usb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Adam Funk
On 2009-01-20, Paul Sladen wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Adam Funk wrote: I made the mistake of buying a Yuraku 1.5 digital photo-frame The last one I came across only had something like 8MB of flash on it anyway. However I couldn't find any results for searching for this name, could you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyrings compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Christopher Swift wrote: Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1908:1320 From Googling (same URL that Popey also found) /that/ device might first appear as a 1MB CD-ROM (so, read-only), which then contains the special(tm) MS Windows software. Once loaded, the software switches the device

[ubuntu-uk] Sharing PGP Keys

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning All, I'm going through a security conscious phase again, and have just set up a PGP key on one of my laptops. My question is could I should I share this key with another laptop, so that I can use the same key from both computers? If I can and I should, how would I go about it? Links to