Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.10 code name

2014-04-22 Thread Chris Coulson
On 22/04/14 17:48, Alan Pope wrote: On 22 April 2014 17:44, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Does anyone know why the name for 14.10 doesn't seem to have been released yet? I've never known this to happen after the release date of the current version before. Nope. Only Mark knows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 and Firefox 4

2011-05-23 Thread Chris Coulson
On Mon, 2011-05-23 at 12:16 +0100, Colin Law wrote: See https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libdbusmenu/+bug/748850 which covers both right and middle click. It was supposed to have been fixed a couple of days ago so presumably the fix will appear soon. Colin Hi, The bug hasn't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LTS or Latest Version??

2010-10-19 Thread Chris Coulson
On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 23:58 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: On 19 October 2010 23:32, Tony Doherty tony.dohe...@zen.co.uk wrote: I am always keen to update to the latest releases of Ubuntu. However, can I ask - if I were to stick with a LTS version such as 10.4 long term - would this version

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disk Full (or nearly full) alert

2009-10-06 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/10/6 Chris Weaver ch...@resonancefm.com Forgot to say thank you for the suggestions regarding disk space alerts. I went with the roll your own option of df, cron and Zenity for a GUI alert. Works really well. - Chris As Alan pointed out though, Ubuntu 9.10 already has a low disk space

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnome panels MIA...

2009-05-13 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/5/13 Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com Hallo all I have a system that has problems to load the Gnome panels, It boots and the moment I log on I get the desk top but no panels In the past I could execute the 2 commandments to load or reload the panels if they frose:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up shared folders using samba

2009-05-07 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/5/7 CiarĂ¡n Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com Hi, I don't have it either. Although you can get the app by opening it from the terminal. gksudo shares-admin Or you can share folders individually by right clicking on them and selecting Sharing options. This will install all the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Socket A (Athlon XP) motherboard

2009-02-25 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/2/25 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk Hi folks, This is a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway. I'm trying to resurrect an old PC which has a faulty motherboard and an Athlon XP (1700+ I think) chip in it. Before I give up and chuck the chip in my box of junk, I just wondered if anyone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] is list working?

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/2/24 Matt Jones m...@mattjones.me.uk I was getting 502 errors from the web interface and the mobile client was timing out. Seems to be working now. Me too. It seems there was a pretty big outage this morning [1]. Regards Chris [1] - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7907583.stm --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sad but true? From the Register

2009-01-15 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/1/15 Ken Robson k...@robsonfamily.co.uk US woman says Ubuntu can't access internet?ui=2ik=b2823687cfview=attth=11edaeec4ecb45a0attid=0.0.1.1disp=embzwCheck out ( http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/01/15/ubuntu_cant_access_net If the above link doesn't work) Interesting quote 'WKOW

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kernal panic

2009-01-13 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/1/13 Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com Was just on my computer running Ibex, when gnome vanished, and the keyboard lights started blinking. After a reboot, Linux tried to load and said Kernel Panic, and now when it boots the machine resets after loading grub. Help? Cheers, Simon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Chris Coulson
2009/1/7 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net I suspect Firefox may be your issue. I sometimes find that if I've done anything involving sound in Firefox then no other applications will get access to the sound. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT CPU Advice

2008-12-01 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/12/1 Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] On 1 Dec 2008, at 10:24, Darren Mansell wrote: I sold my EEE PC about 10 months ago and for (almost) the same money built a very respectable rig with bits from ebuyer. My spec was: Decent Abit mainboard AMD Athlon X2 4200+ 2GB Corsair

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange GDM Problem

2008-11-27 Thread Chris Coulson
On Wed, 2008-11-26 at 07:42 +, Matthew Gadd wrote: I'm not sure which processes these PIDs belong to, I tried doing a 'sudo ps -ef | grep {pid}' on them to see, but I didn't find any processes with PIDs matching those in the logs. The problem I had is that when I turn on the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange GDM Problem

2008-11-25 Thread Chris Coulson
On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 23:12 +, Matthew Gadd wrote: Dunno if anyone got my previous post about a strange problem with GDM, or if it's just that no-one has any idea how to fix it. Anyway, I've tried a few things to see if they make a difference. I tried changing the theme of GDM (you never

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

2008-11-17 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/11/17 Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hey guys, So I just won a copy of Windows Vista Ultimate Edition in a prize draw and figured that it's no use to me as an Ubuntu user. I'm pretty sure that it's the retail version (not OEM) and was just wondering if anyone had any tips on how a FOSS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu 8.10

2008-11-03 Thread Chris Coulson
to enabled=1. Apport should then generate a crash report next time the application crashes, which you will find in /var/crash. Regards Chris Coulson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Coulson
are trying to upgrade to have been superseded). Regards Chris Coulson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update failure

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/10/22 Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 10:56 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/10/22 Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Thanks for clearing that up - is there an argument that the update process should be more clever than that, as I'd guess it'd put off

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7

2008-10-22 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/10/22 norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] My brother, who uses XP on a desktop and Vista on a laptop, has started to ask questions about Ubuntu. Then, today, he sent me this:- http://gadgets.boingboing.net/2008/10/14/microsoft-announces-1.html In return I sent him a CD with Ubuntu 8.04.1 and he

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenOffice 3.0 repositories for Hardy

2008-10-21 Thread Chris Coulson
to Intrepid (and perhaps Hardy) [2]. Regards Chris Coulson [1] - https://launchpad.net/~openoffice-pkgs/+archive [2] - https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuBackports#How%20to%20request%20new%20packages -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nautilus won't 'Display' after upgrade

2008-10-09 Thread Chris Coulson
2008/10/9 mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] Chris Coulson wrote: Have you tried to see if it occurs with a fresh user profile? No, I haven't. Do you mean just do an 'add user', and see if nautilus works for that user? Suppose it did; what then? (= me getting nervous about digging a bigger hole

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypted Directories

2008-10-05 Thread Chris Coulson
On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 12:15 +0100, James Westby wrote: On Sun, 2008-10-05 at 10:13 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: 2008/10/3 Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Evening all A quick question on how the forthcoming encryption will work. Can it be set up to allow root to access the encrypted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] any Electronics experts here?

2008-06-23 Thread Chris Coulson
What sort of questions do you have? Cheers Chris 2008/6/23 Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Any electronic experts here? I have a few questions regarding something...and would like some advice and thoughts on this As this a non ubuntu related topic please email me directly. Thanks Regards

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Coulson
No. 6135915 Registered in England It would be pretty neat if this ran on a virtual Windows and virtual network. You'd only need a single box then Chris Coulson signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman