Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04

2010-07-28 Thread David King
Thanks for the replies, I only just saw some of them today. My email provider, 1&1, on its mail server, had somehow decided recently that about 95% of mail sent to this account was spam (I only use this address for a few linux related things) and so after going into the 1&1 webmail, I managed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu for small business

2010-07-28 Thread pmgazz
Great! By the way, just bought some Ebuyer extra value (Clevo) laptops which they're selling without preinstalled OS (Pentium Dual Core T4300 2.1GHz, 2GB RAM, 320GB HDD, 15.6" HD*)*. I put Lucid on without any hassle - touchpad a bit annoying but overall a nice sturdy machine with OK keyboard

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu for small business

2010-07-28 Thread James Tait
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 12:05:43 +0100, pmgazz wrote: > Worse, it can be really hard to migrate from Google - I've had people > whose sites have broken because Google changed their architecture and I > realised there was no export tool - we had to hand copy the content > page-by-page - to name but on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rsync Problems

2010-07-28 Thread Jon Reynolds
Thanks Liam, They are in aluminium enclosures, which are hot to the touch, so I guess they are pretty effective heat sinks in themselves. I did think about making a small enclosure to hold both HDDs with a fan at one end, but I'm not sure which is best: - Individual aluminium enclosures, good hea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rsync Problems

2010-07-28 Thread Jon Reynolds
Well I worked thru all the 'fixes' that fsck threw up, saying yes to all... I performed another rsync and no errors! I have set my automatic backup to run again tonight, so will see what happens. Cheers for the advise. Jon Reynolds (j0nr) On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:41:49PM +0100, Jon Reynolds w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] London Hackspace spacewarming party - 2pm Sunday 1st August 2010

2010-07-28 Thread John Stevenson
On 28 July 2010 13:22, Alan Pope wrote: > Hello, > > If you're in/near London and into making things and/or want to learn > some new skills, come to the London Hackspace spacewarming party to > celebrate the lease of new premises! > > http://london.hackspace.org.uk/ > http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rsync Problems

2010-07-28 Thread Liam Proven
On 28 July 2010 08:12, Jon Reynolds wrote: > Hello all, > > I have set up an old laptop to act as a small home server at home, the > idea being that it is quiet and low powered to be left on basically > 24/7. > > Storage was an issue as I wanted it to act as a file server for music > and somewhere

[ubuntu-uk] London Hackspace spacewarming party - 2pm Sunday 1st August 2010

2010-07-28 Thread Alan Pope
Hello, If you're in/near London and into making things and/or want to learn some new skills, come to the London Hackspace spacewarming party to celebrate the lease of new premises! http://london.hackspace.org.uk/ http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Laboratory_24 It's on Sunday 1st August and start

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rsync Problems

2010-07-28 Thread Jon Reynolds
Thanks Ian, Running fsck now, seems to be throwing up lots of errors... will work thru it and see what happens. Cheers. Jon Reynolds (j0nr) On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 09:13:12AM +0100, Ian Pettitt wrote: > Jon > > I had I/O errors on my external hdd which I backup my machines to, using > rsnaps

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Renaming The Home Folder

2010-07-28 Thread pmgazz
Years ago, a user complained that Win 98 wasn't booting properly - in the C: root I found a user-created folder called 'scary stuff' with the .bat and config.sys files in it ;) Paula On 27/07/10 09:14, Alan Pope wrote: I had a user rename c:\windows once. Just once. -- ubuntu-uk@lists

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu for small business

2010-07-28 Thread pmgazz
Besides the obvious issues with privacy and proprietary etc - small orgs have all sorts of practical problems with Google - stuff just not working very well and being frustrating. Also sync not working properly etc. Better to pay an expert (and opensource) provider of groupware services? But it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rsync Problems

2010-07-28 Thread Ian Pettitt
On 28/07/2010 08:12, Jon Reynolds wrote: > Hello all, > > I have set up an old laptop to act as a small home server at home, the > idea being that it is quiet and low powered to be left on basically > 24/7. > > Storage was an issue as I wanted it to act as a file server for music > and somewhere

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Ubuntu Party Weekend…

2010-07-28 Thread Tim Dobson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/07/10 07:15, Lucy wrote: > Last time we held our first ever Global Jam at the MadLab. It was > great to meet up with people and it would be good to hold it there > again. Thoughts? Unfortunately, this sounds like the first weekend of my holiday

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu for small business

2010-07-28 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Hi I have started to investigate SME Server: http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_PageThis seems like an awesome project including Ldap, It also contain many "plugins" like CRM/ERP group ware etc called Contribs: http://wiki.contribs.org/Category:Contrib As a standard it manages IPTables act as a DHCP, R

[ubuntu-uk] Rsync Problems

2010-07-28 Thread Jon Reynolds
Hello all, I have set up an old laptop to act as a small home server at home, the idea being that it is quiet and low powered to be left on basically 24/7. Storage was an issue as I wanted it to act as a file server for music and somewhere to store my photos, videos etc. So in the end I have 2 ex