Re: [ubuntu-uk] Creating 'root' account.

2007-08-04 Thread Andrew Price
On 04/08/07 18:56, Andrew Jenkins wrote: I've been a Mandrake/Mandriva user since I ditched the dreaded MS four or five years ago. I just thought I'd try Ubuntu (7.04) alongside my Mandriva 2005 on my laptop. Hi Andrew, welcome to the Ubuntu community :) I'm used to the Mandriva way (as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seamonkey

2007-06-25 Thread Andrew Price
On 25/06/07 17:37, John Taylor wrote: I have installed Seamonkey within VISTA with no problems just downloaded and it installed, no agro or other problems - but I cant seem to do it within ubuntu any ideas? Hi John, could you expand on I cant seem to do it - what did you try, what happened,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Audio Apps

2007-06-19 Thread Andrew Price
On 19/06/07 21:52, David Morley wrote: Go to getdeb.org and download Jokoshe0.9 Why getdeb? There are Ubuntu packages for feisty on the Jokosher site http://www.jokosher.org/download That said, Jokosher is still pretty young (although looks very promising) - Jono doesn't even use it for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backgrounding shell commands

2007-06-01 Thread Andrew Price
On 01/06/07 23:30, Chris Rowson wrote: When I run this command on a remote server however 'scp -r foldername [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/foldername' and background it (either by starting it with , or suspending then bg'ing it) and then close the terminal, when I then log back in again, the process

Re: [ubuntu-uk] WEP key

2007-05-30 Thread Andrew Price
On 30/05/07 20:51, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 30/05/07, Andrew Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm sure someone will mention this next bit so I'll get there first: WEP has been found to be quite easy to circumvent, so it's not that good a way of securing a wireless network, but it's better than

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Who writes this stuff

2007-05-23 Thread Andrew Price
Peter Scargill wrote: I look forward to hearing from your colleague - I hope however that his communication is more reasoned and less insulting. Charlie, I'm not aware of what was in your e-mail to Mr. Scargill (although I'd like to see it) but it seems you touched a nerve. Please could we

[ubuntu-uk] Tories want open source Whitehall

2007-03-08 Thread Andrew Price
I usually stay away from politics as much as possible but I found this interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/6430069.stm The government could save more than £600 million a year if it used more open source software, the shadow chancellor has estimated. I'm not quite sure what to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Curve-fitting program or package (a gnuplot example)

2007-02-24 Thread Andrew Price
On 24/02/07 17:54, Robin Menneer wrote: I have a problem with fitting a curve to some data and would like help please. The data are: x=375, 375, 375, 355, 315, 268,195, 110, 0 y=2500, 2150, 1920, 1600, 1250, 936, 624, 312, 0 I need a program that will draw a line of best fit (for me to

[ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [SWLUG] Open government IT projects]

2007-01-22 Thread Andrew Price
Slightly off-topic I'm afraid. Thought this might be interesting to some of the Ubuntu UK team members... Original Message Subject: [SWLUG] Open government IT projects Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 12:35:24 + (GMT) From: Steve Hill [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] World of Warcraft

2006-12-22 Thread Andrew Price
On 23/12/06 02:32, baza wrote: Hi, has anyone ever managed to get World of Warcraft running under Wine? I don't play it myself but the WINE app db says: http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=5606 -- Andy Price http://andrewprice.me.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GTK and C

2006-11-15 Thread Andrew Price
On 15/11/06 15:24, Greg Dash wrote: gcc `gtk-config --cflags` -Wimplicit gtk2.c -lgtk` gtk-config --libs` -o gtk2 gtk-config is provided in libgtk1.2-dev but you want to use libgtk2.0-dev, which provides .pc files for pkg-config to use. Hence you probably need to use pkg-config instead of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Newcomer to ubuntu - some questions.

2006-10-30 Thread Andrew Price
On 30/10/06 14:03, John wrote: 1. How can I get verbose boot messages back? The only way I know that solves this problem is removing the 'quiet' option from the kernel boot options (either editing the command in grub every time you boot or poking a stanza in /boot/grub/menu.lst to make it