Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why not contribute to Ubuntu Manual

2012-05-10 Thread James Thomas
Hi Alan, For me, and it was some time ago (years), it was mentoring. There documents were out there, at least in part, but it was a daunting prospect to just dive in to code. Things are possibly different now. For me, now it is time... I find it difficult now to lurk in the IRC channels to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why not contribute to Ubuntu Manual

2012-05-10 Thread Paul Mellors
Hi Got to agree, time is the issue, however i suppose i should make time, as it's quite and important manual Paul [MooDoo] On 10 May 2012 08:26, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Alan, For me, and it was some time ago (years), it was mentoring. There documents were out there,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Acroread 64 bit Ubuntu 12.04

2012-05-10 Thread Mark Fraser
On Thursday 10 May 2012 10:46:43 Tom Ellis wrote: On 09/05/12 11:45, Mark Fraser wrote: I upgraded my laptop to the 64 bit version of Ubuntu 12.04 at the weekend and noticed that the package for acroread is still at version 9.4.7-1oneiric1, but the 32 bit is at 9.5.1-1precise1. Looks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why not contribute to Ubuntu Manual

2012-05-10 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 9 May 2012 19:52, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: So my question to you is:- If you have considered contributing to Ubuntu Manual, but haven't, what's stopped you? Some reasons might include:- * Lack of time * Lack of motivation * Lack of skill * Difficult to use tools Yep,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-10 Thread alan c
On 09/05/12 21:34, Barry Titterton wrote: I have noticed that the reveal does not happen if the cursor is 'gently' taken to the (left) side, it only works for a fairly vigorous 'hit'. Even when sensitivity is turned up. There are many times when I am simply not feeling like hurling the

[ubuntu-uk] Simple EXIF tag editor

2012-05-10 Thread Philip Stubbs
Hi, I have a large quantity of scanned images that I would like to tag somehow. I could use a program like Shotwell, but the tags etc are stored in a database and not in the files. What I really want to be able to do is have a program that will load the image and display it, and have a couple of

[ubuntu-uk] Mounting NFS shares permanently

2012-05-10 Thread mac
Friends I've been going round in circles with this, finding some old bug reports that may be related, but no answers at all. I mount NFS shares (served by a ReadyNAS) on my Ubuntu clients - all five of which were, till recently, running 10.04. As a means of getting familiar with Unity, etc,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple EXIF tag editor

2012-05-10 Thread mac
On 10/05/12 16:22, alan c wrote: On 10/05/12 16:06, Philip Stubbs wrote: I have a large quantity of scanned images that I would like to tag somehow... If I cant find a program that can do it directly, I am thinking it may not be too difficult to have write a script.. I have a similar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless inkjet printer?

2012-05-10 Thread Bertie Coopersmith
Like Rob Beard, I too have Epson SX435W. I have not tried it over WiFi from Ubuntu. It works via USB from Ubuntu 12.04 and over Wifi from Windows 7. I think that a Linux wireless driver for it MIGHT be available. I don't wish to experiment with that myself but I'll be pleased to hear from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple EXIF tag editor

2012-05-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 May 2012 16:06, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: Hi, I have a large quantity of scanned images that I would like to tag somehow. I could use a program like Shotwell, but the tags etc are stored in a database and not in the files. What I really want to be able to do is have a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple EXIF tag editor

2012-05-10 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 10 May 2012 16:53, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: I believe Shotwell can be set to write the data back to the images rather than saving in its db. Well there is certainly a tick box to that effect. I need to do some tests, but if that works, then I am sorted. Thanks! -- Philip