[ubuntu-uk] Thunderbird log?

2009-06-12 Thread mac
I can't find a Thunderbird log file. Can anyone tell me where it's hiding? mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] have to start gnome-panel manualy after upgrade to jaunty

2009-06-12 Thread thirstyh2o
Need your help folks, I upgraded my laptop from Hardy to Intrepid and then to Jaunty yesterday. The problem is that gnome-panel never starts upon boot. Executing [killall -v gnome-panels] reports "no process killed". Tried to run [gnome-panel &] but it still dies when I close the terminal. Th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread Farran Lee
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 16:16 +0100, Simos Xenitellis wrote: > Try 'easytag'. There is also an 'easytag-aac' which relates to some > special MP3 files. > If easytag does not work on your MP3 files, look into 'easytag-aac'. > > Simos > easytag-aac adds the function of editing m4a tags and most of t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread William Anderson
Michael G Fletcher wrote: > [id3 tagging app snippage] > > you can try "Picard", it's in the repositories and details can be > found here [1]. Musicbrainz Picard is the mutt's nuts, utterly fantastic. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread mike daniels
There is a detailed report on this thread on computeractive, in their news section, makes a very interesting read, regards, Michael --- On Fri, 12/6/09, Dean Sas wrote: From: Dean Sas Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7 To: a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk, "British Ubuntu Talk" Date: Fr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread Iain Lane
On 12 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies of these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to recognise new additions to the mp3 archive except by recompiling its Music Library completely via 'Im

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Dean Sas
Tony Pursell wrote: > If the EU Competition Commission really had teeth they would make > MS offer all browsers from a 'Install a browser' link on the desktop. A link that worked as you mentioned would probably be better be labelled as "Make the internet work". Is it a good idea to force the use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Tony Pursell
On 12 Jun 2009 at 18:30, Tony Pursell wrote: > > On 12 Jun 2009 at 14:33, Sean Miller wrote: > > > > > Having read the news piece properly I'm now of the view that it's a > > cynical move to pass the responsibility for bundling the browser to > > somebody else. > > > > Perhaps we should campaig

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread Rowan Berkeley
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 at 16:16 PM, Simos Xenitellis > wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies > of these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be > able to recognise new additions t

[ubuntu-uk] Nice little Ubuntu device

2009-06-12 Thread Rob Beard
Hi folks, Someone posted this on my local LUG list and I thought it might be of interest. Looking at the wiki for the device it appears to run Ubuntu 9.04. http://www.plugcomputer.org/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=hackers-weigh-in-mini-server Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool

2009-06-12 Thread thirstyh2o
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009 07:43:27 +0100, doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? Just > something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop up & > annoy me until I deal with them. Take a look at "remind" in Synaptic. It is extremely powerfu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread Michael G Fletcher
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies of > these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to > recognise new additions to the mp3 archive except by recompiling its > Music Library completel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Steve
On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 18:20:21 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > Maybe the OEMs could write a script that lets the user choose which > browser to install (and use) when powering on the PC for the first time. > This of cause, assumes that people want a choice. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Tony Pursell
On 12 Jun 2009 at 14:33, Sean Miller wrote: > > Having read the news piece properly I'm now of the view that it's a > cynical move to pass the responsibility for bundling the browser to > somebody else. > > Perhaps we should campaign to try to shame OEMs into bundling two or > three browsers ont

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/12/09 14:33, Sean Miller wrote: > Having read the news piece properly I'm now of the view that it's a > cynical move to pass the responsibility for bundling the browser to > somebody else. > > Perhaps we should campaign to try to shame OEMs into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread Simos Xenitellis
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies of > these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to > recognise new additions to the mp3 archive except by recompiling its > Music Library completel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread William Anderson
Sean Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, doug livesey wrote: >> Well, no, because Ubuntu comes bundled with FF. > > Even if it didn't. > > There are many in the repos. This is what Windows needs, an easy to use system to install and update apps loaded on a machine. If there were an

[ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies of these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to recognise new additions to the mp3 archive except by recompiling its Music Library completely via 'Import Media', thereby losing any file-name changes I ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Sean Miller
It would be nice to see the OEMs bundling OpenOffice too, instead of trial versions of Microsoft Office. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Sean Miller
Having read the news piece properly I'm now of the view that it's a cynical move to pass the responsibility for bundling the browser to somebody else. Perhaps we should campaign to try to shame OEMs into bundling two or three browsers onto their Windows 7 PCs? Say, Google's Chrome, IE and Firefox

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Sean Miller
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, doug livesey wrote: > Well, no, because Ubuntu comes bundled with FF. Even if it didn't. There are many in the repos. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread doug livesey
Well, no, because Ubuntu comes bundled with FF. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Sean Miller
I hadn't thought of the "won't have a browser with which to download a browser" aspect. If they were sensible and used Ubuntu, of course, they wouldn't need a browser to download a browser would they! Sean On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Rob Beard wrote: > Matthew Wild wrote: >> On Fri, Jun 12,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Rob Beard
Matthew Wild wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Rob Beard wrote: > >> Alan Lord (News) wrote: >> >>> On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote: >>> >>> 2009/6/12 Sean Miller: > "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web > bro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Rob Beard
doug livesey wrote: > A better model would be to let the customer customise their install. > So they can see the price rocketing up as they select Windows & IE & > the like. > Like the way the Dell customise app works. True, I bet a lot of people don't consider how much Windows costs, but then I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Matthew Wild
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Rob Beard wrote: > Alan Lord (News) wrote: >> On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote: >> >>> 2009/6/12 Sean Miller: >>> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, Mic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread doug livesey
A better model would be to let the customer customise their install. So they can see the price rocketing up as they select Windows & IE & the like. Like the way the Dell customise app works. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Rob Beard
Dave Morley wrote: > It maybe a none essential upgrade that MS could have. In Vista they do > this for driver updates. > That's true, they seem to bundle other apps in Windows Update on Vista and Windows 7 and it doesn't use Internet Explorer at all as far as I can tell. Not to mention in IE

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Rob Beard
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote: > >> 2009/6/12 Sean Miller: >> >>> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web >>> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, >>> Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explore

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Rob Beard
Sean Miller wrote: > "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web > browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, > Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip" > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm > > That could be quite a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Dave Morley
On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 12:25 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote: > > 2009/6/12 Sean Miller: > >> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web > >> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, > >> Microsoft Windows 7 will shi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 12/06/09 12:20, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/6/12 Sean Miller: >> "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web >> browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, >> Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip" >> >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Alan Pope
2009/6/12 Sean Miller : > "European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web > browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, > Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip" > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm > > That could be qu

[ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread Sean Miller
"European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip" http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm That could be quite a turning point in the browser w