I don't think I can take much credit for this one! you looked in the
right place and solved it yourself I think
Alan.
ian pettitt wrote:
Thanks Alan - I think you have solved it!
Looking through the bugs I found this:
John Matthews wrote:
Just wondered when Koala was due out. Have tried a forced upgrade using
altf2 it is still showing a beta version. Is that correct or will it be
changed today.
Kojm
it will be announced today, which could mean any time, including times
which are tomorrow in some
Sean Miller wrote:
Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine?
It's simply not true that you can't run Microsoft programs on Ubuntu
-- is the BBC sponsored by Apple and Microsoft or what???
Sean
Well I don't think you can blame the BBC for that one. Chris Kenyon is
Canonical's
mac wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
I have been working with Lotus Notes and Domino for 10+ years...
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Wow! I could hardly have wished for a more comprehensive and
authoritative single reply, Alan. Thanks for taking the time and
trouble to give such a detailed and informed response
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Michael G Fletcher wrote:
Hi Guys,
This is more of a philosophical question... I'm looking for a new mp3
player, about 4 - 10GB, but not over the top when it comes to
features, I have a smart phone (HTC-Magic running Andriod) .
If I were to buy an Apple iPod Nano, would I be going against
well there have been any number of reviews of Linux desktops by
journalists who know about Windows and compare it at every step to
Windows. This just happens to be one coming from the other direction,
which he acknowledges from the start.
I don't think anyone sensible would draw any conclusions
Rob Beard wrote:
Matt Jones wrote:
If he is only going to use it a small amount, then Vodafone offer the
best deal, top up £15 for 1GB. Then use it until it runs out. With
everyone else, your 1GB of data only lasts 30days, even if you haven't
used it all.
Most of the dongles are plug
John Matthews wrote:
I wonder if somebody can hep. I dont have any firewall or virus
protection on my ubuntu partitions. I am a little bit concerned about
this. I did install one Called Firestarter, which messed up everything,
and I had to uninstall it. I just couldnt get around the
, if I have missed any.
Thank you again,
John.
Alan Bell wrote:
John Matthews wrote:
I wonder if somebody can hep. I dont have any firewall or virus
protection on my ubuntu partitions. I am a little bit concerned about
this. I did install one Called Firestarter, which messed
John Matthews wrote:
This time I think it might have been from an update that I had today for
the netbook. Plus amongst all that there wa a box asking for keyring? to
be allowed. With all the boxes open, I clicked on it, and I think I
might have clicked never, so there are no wireless
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alan c wrote:
Any thoughts about why the problem and how to resolve it?
tia
it is either an evil conspiracy, or there is some kind of image or
something on the login page that comes from a site blocked by the
virgin. When you pull out the dongle it stops waiting and just shows you
what
There is a campaign underway and gathering momentum to show IE6 the door
http://www.ie6nomore.com
this site gives you a banner that displays to IE6 users encouraging them
to upgrade to a modern browser. If you have any websites you can add
this to then that would be a service to the world.
who?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Linux_trademark
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Some of you may recall my white elephant 'Linux Certified' machine. I
can't call LC its manufacturers, since they aren't: they just bought a
batch of Compal JHL90
Rowan - this may be the organisation you wish to complain to - was
also partly referenced to by *Alan Pope* earlier:
one of the Alans http://thealans.com, but not the Popey
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Greg Herdman wrote:
Hi Everyone,
Have just initialised our new batch of Toshiba laptops for our village
IT Group. These come with Microsoft Vista 'preinstalled' which has now
been completed. When I tried to use our Ubuntu 8.04 disc in Live User
mode, the laptop seemed to launch Ubuntu in
Hi John,
ssh is a secure way of communicating with a remote server. At the most
basic level it is like having a terminal session on the remote computer,
you can use commands such as cd to change directory, ls to view the
contents of your current directory (same as dir in dos) pwd to print
your
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicRATParty
The Real Ale Train
The Watercress Line http://www.watercressonline.co.uk/ is a small
steam powered railway line in Hampshire. It runs from Alton Station to
Alresford
alan c wrote:
JONATHAN TAYLOR wrote:
Hi all,
as a newbie I'm in the process of switching over to Ubuntu,
and as I run a small business I use MS Visio for my site plans . My
question is what is the equivalent in Ubuntu?
I have never used visio, however in addition to other
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the only remaining question is who will sue them first? Microsoft for
multiple trademark issues, Canonical for the horrible bastardisation of
the Ubuntu logo or the FSF for failing to release source code and
wrapping it up behind a 16 boot crippleware wrapper.
My bet is on Microsoft to take
you can bypass the queue by getting someone to share something with you
. . . you have mail . . .
alan c wrote:
I recently decided to try the proposed Ubuntu One facility, and got
myself on a waiting list.
Any ideas of timescales please, anyone?
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http://nakedcomputers.org/category/europe/uk/ is also a good friend, do
let me know if you find a supplier I don't already have on the list.
Alan.
alan c wrote:
I know that google is a good friend, however it is also nice to talk
about such things.
I have a friend of a friend who wants
Gordon wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
http://nakedcomputers.org/category/europe/uk/ is also a good friend, do
let me know if you find a supplier I don't already have on the list.
here's one: (Can't vouch for it...)
EfficientPC
http://www.efficientpc.co.uk/
already got them http
LeeGroups wrote:
Dell will refund the cost of Windows without you having to send
anything off. But I guess the OP was looking for an Ubuntu
pre-installed machine in order to send a message to the manufacture
showing that there is a demand for such a thing.
Cheers,
Andrew
Let's be
LeeGroups wrote:
hmm, maybe I should start collecting photos of such anti-competitive
practices in a hall of shame on the nakedcomputers.org site.
I don't suppose you have the box still do you?
Still, have the box, yes. But I was so angry at the time, I got my phone
out and took a
alan c wrote:
It is a situation in the shallow end of a probably a much deeper
populist swing away from Windows. The customer is a friend of an
elderly non technical friend of mine. My friend found that their
existing old laptop was grinding to a halt with XP, was happy to try
Ubuntu in
I found that very strange. They did mention the Free software movement
at about 7:30
But the open source concept is not just about Mozilla, it started much
earlier with the so called Free Software Movement in the 1980s. And it
was a Finnish student in his early 20s who created the original
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don't buy hardware, look at renting a virtual private server. You will
get stacks more bandwidth than you could otherwise afford and you get
full root access and the ability to do a hard reboot. The processor will
be very fast but the memory will be a bit limited, perfectly fine for
PHP apps,
Stephen Garton wrote:
I have used gitso (http://code.google.com/p/gitso/) with a reasonable
amount of success, for connecting linux and windows machines in all
configurations (i.e. L-L, L-W, W-L and W-W).
I say reasonable amount of success purely because I don't use it very
often, but
so was this using a fully updated Intrepid or a different version of
Ubuntu? what version of virtualbox did you try to install?
Alan.
David King wrote:
I got the normal graphics settings back by reselecting the nvidia driver
through the system settings, only for it to then remove about half
LeeGroups wrote:
Alan,
I'm actually using OpenDNS's servers (after using the ISP's), what I
really don't understand is how Apt is working perfectly, but Squid and
Wget don't...
I saw that post before, it's what I used to supposedly turn off IPv6.
I can't run FF on the server, no gui
Eddie Bernard wrote:
Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
Surely for the average user a LTS version would be better, such as 8.04?
Development versions and upgrades could raise severe antagonisms to you.
Fair cop, glad you pointed that out. I need to curb my enthusiasm for
always wanting to be
I think from the description the squid thing is actually a red herring.
(to mix a fishy metaphore). It sounds like your proxy server is not
reliably resolving DNS when using IPV6. You will probably see this
problem if you run firefox on the server.
Fantastic to see any entry to the market with a non-windows PC. At the
moment if we want to buy a desktop PC there are only a couple of places
in the UK we can get one without Windows. The commodity desktop PC
market is not a particularly nice place to be right now. The big boys
appear to be
ged byrom wrote:
Is there any special reason for naming this release after a mythical beastie
rather than a real beastie ?
Are we likely to see the haggis release or the even rarer mirk in the future ?
Ged
are you trying to say that the haggis is not a real animal?
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BBC sounds like a great location. For a local repo I would suggest
installing apt-cacher on something and pointing to it as a proxy server
in synaptic. Works a treat. Caches stuff and collects new packages on
demand. You can then remove the proxy settings to be pointing back at
the main repos.
I have tentatively put my name forward to help organise the London
party. Not sure if Canonical have plans, so I sent a couple of emails
this morning. I have a few ideas, but any thoughts on a good venue would
be great. I would prefer something with a bar, but not something that
excludes under
Dave Walker wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
I have tentatively put my name forward to help organise the London
party. Not sure if Canonical have plans, so I sent a couple of emails
this morning. I have a few ideas, but any thoughts on a good venue would
be great. I would prefer something
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