Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/4/27 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: Sorry, I've just re-read your original email. It seems you were using update-manager. Open up your source.list        sudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list It's better if you use 'gksu' or 'gksudo' instead of 'sudo' for a graphical program,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/4/27 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: There's a couple of other changes you might need to make, so I've put an updated source.list for you at http://pastebin.com/f3944dadb. To replace your current one with the updated one, just do the following in a terminal: cd sudo cp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

2009-04-28 Thread mac
Neil Greenwood wrote: I have a similar issue with my ext3 formatted USB hard disk. When hotplugged, it's owned by root and I cannot create files or directories as my normal user. What do I need to change so that all users can create files/directories in the root when it's plugged in and

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04: Wow

2009-04-28 Thread gizbun
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=565 I'm tempted to upgrade my old Via Chrome laptop now :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] to upgrade or not (Macbook 3,1 on Ibex)

2009-04-28 Thread doug livesey
My discipline says leave it, as there was a bunch of stuff to do before I got my system working (mostly) as I like it, and I really don't have time to be mucking about configuring a new system that I use for *everything*, personal stuff, work, everything. But I'm hearing all over the place that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-28 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 15:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: 2009/4/26 Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series graphics chip in it.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] to upgrade or not (Macbook 3,1 on Ibex)

2009-04-28 Thread Rob Beard
doug livesey wrote: My discipline says leave it, as there was a bunch of stuff to do before I got my system working (mostly) as I like it, and I really don't have time to be mucking about configuring a new system that I use for *everything*, personal stuff, work, everything. But I'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

2009-04-28 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/4/28 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Neil Greenwood wrote: I have a similar issue with my ext3 formatted USB hard disk. When hotplugged, it's owned by root and I cannot create files or directories as my normal user. What do I need to change so that all users can create

Re: [ubuntu-uk] to upgrade or not (Macbook 3,1 on Ibex)

2009-04-28 Thread Chris Weaver
I have a Macbook 3.1 and I'm nearly about to press the upgrade button (I'm upgrading a test PC to see how it affects sound and Samba in particular). I have it dual booting with leopard so I'm perhaps in a better position if it goes wrong. I'll report back how it goes. Chris -- Chris Weaver

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The answer will be no!

2009-04-28 Thread danattwood
Rik Boland wrote: This may sound stupid and the answer will be no but just in case. If I get a tower box, could I then use my laptop as it's monitor and keyboard but use the box processing power? Rik You could use VNC, SSH or similar to remote into the tower box --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The answer will be no!

2009-04-28 Thread Tony Travis
Rik Boland wrote: This may sound stupid and the answer will be no but just in case. If I get a tower box, could I then use my laptop as it's monitor and keyboard but use the box processing power? Hello, Rik. Yes, you can use LTSP: http://www.ltsp.org/ Or FreeNX:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The answer will be no!

2009-04-28 Thread Rob Beard
Rik Boland wrote: This may sound stupid and the answer will be no but just in case. If I get a tower box, could I then use my laptop as it's monitor and keyboard but use the box processing power? Rik It's unlikely without a lot of messing around. You could technically use an S-Video

Re: [ubuntu-uk] to upgrade or not (Macbook 3,1 on Ibex)

2009-04-28 Thread Rob Beard
doug livesey wrote: There is not need to upgrade at the moment unless you want to. There's the thing, though -- I've been hearing about how much more fast stable Jaunty is, and surely there's reason enough there to want to upgrade! I'd say it's faster on my notebook but more stable? I'd

[ubuntu-uk] The answer will be no!

2009-04-28 Thread Rik Boland
This may sound stupid and the answer will be no but just in case. If I get a tower box, could I then use my laptop as it's monitor and keyboard but use the box processing power? Rik -- Rik Boland 15 Stanley Place, Lancaster, LA1 5NP 07866439588 --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

2009-04-28 Thread mac
Neil Greenwood wrote: Thanks mac. I was trying to avoid having to run a command every time I plug the drive in though. I don't have to run it every time. Once assigned to the labelled drive, the permissions are persistent. I'm looking at one of mine now, that I just plugged in. It has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-28 Thread Chris Rowson
On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Seif Attar wrote: I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the my hardware will not work on Jaunty (I had mixed feelings of disappointment

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The answer will be no!

2009-04-28 Thread Jamie Bennett
Rik Boland wrote: This may sound stupid and the answer will be no but just in case. If I get a tower box, could I then use my laptop as it's monitor and keyboard but use the box processing power? With some kind of desktop sharing software like vnc you can but direct output from the box to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 904

2009-04-28 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: Does this screen dump help John Taylor Yeah, it does. It looks as though you have broken packages, so if you open a terminal (Accessories Terminal)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-28 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Greenwood wrote: ... If you use the -O (minus sign then capital 'oh', not zero) on the wget command, you can give it the name of the file to write out. That simplifies the following line: sudo mv pastebin.php\?dl\=f3944dadb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-28 Thread Seif Attar
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Seif Attar wrote: I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-28 Thread Tony Pursell
On 28 Apr 2009 at 11:08, Rob Beard wrote: Seif Attar wrote: I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got a message the my hardware will not work on Jaunty (I had mixed feelings of disappointment and happiness that it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banshee ( music players generally)

2009-04-28 Thread Rowan Berkeley
In my own case, virtually all my music files are labelled and tagged according to my own system, which doesn't correspond to anybody's database, so it's a waste of time, and in any case they are mainly grey labels, demos, unreleased tracks, and such. But anyone with a big library of ripped