27;t use
dist-upgrade, it's not the correct way to do it. For a desktop use
"update-manager -c -d", for a server use "do-release-upgrade -d"
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use it).
upgrade to gutsy, then apt-get install wengophone. It's not perfect, but
it is GPL, based on open standards, it's in our archive and it works
with webcams.
I've been using it for some time to make daily video calls to my girlfriend.
(they have clients for other platfor
ckages in feisty.
Given that adding the repository will encourage apt and friends to
upgrade everything in -backports, I would either cherry pick the debs I
want, or configure apt to treat -backports as lower priority than the
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Chris Rowson wrote:
> Linux is free.
modulo hardware costs, of course.
> Wouldn't that create some difference in how well the servers are
> looked after.
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[0] MS are getting very good at annoying people into installing updates.
Most Linux server installs don't even try to make you install updates.
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Adam Bagnall wrote:
> In Feisty and later you can get away without the fat32 partition. If you
In gutsy (beta is out today) ntfs write support is enabled by default afaik.
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sonally I would always reinstall a server by
hand. For a desktop machine though, OEM pre-installs are clearly the way
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Kris Douglas wrote:
> No windows in the European union?
No it's just a very misguided suggestion that no PC should ship with an
OS pre-installed.
It just means more pain for users and no gain for anyone else.
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e near the internet, "fine" is
not a word I would use ;)
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HDMI and DVI should be easily converted, since
HDMI's video is just DVI. FWIW I have the HDMI port of my PS3 connected
to a DVI monitor (a Dell thing) and it works perfectly.
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; many people don't realise the difference...
Which is probably because most people either don't care or really don't
have very good eyesight, so the issue could be said to be not very
important ;)
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STONE COLD wrote:
> and furthermore if i beamed any files to that headset could i save them on my
> pc?
No. a headset is just a dumb headset. no storage or anything like that.
You need a bluetooth adaptor i your PC and something like a bluetooth
phone to send files to.
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STONE COLD wrote:
> so does that mean ubuntu is telling me the right temp?
> or should i believe my bios.
>
> Id be happy if it was ubuntu that was right :)
It's possible that both are right, but I'm not sure if you can trust
either of them without a way of checki
the CPU at full speed. I'm
not sure if it would climb up to 60 quickly enough to see it in the bios
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to have
their current working directory be some random UNIX directory that
exists outside of C: ;)
Check the wine options, but there is a way to specify a working
directory - set that to the path where the .exe is
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would remove v1, but apt wouldn't (since installing the two in parallel
was possible and in some cases useful, so the packages couldn't be made
to Conflict).
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Kris Marsh wrote:
> and then try update-manager -d again?
running it with -c as well may help
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synaptic.
Yes, you can exit it and get a regular desktop. Most of the media centre
things are just regular applications.
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Hi
Kris Marsh wrote:
> You may like to give Elisa a go - http://elisa.fluendo.com/
Elisa is shaping up very nicely indeed, but to be fair it's still a
little basic at the moment.
Most people seem to use MythTV (or the version of Ubuntu specifically
tailored to it, MythBuntu).
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Hi
Pete Stean wrote:
> graphical environment, I would go down the 'compiz-fusion' route rather than
> using the preinstalled "desktop effects" - you will *require* the
Surely that's just asking for the upgrade to gutsy to break horrifically?
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http://www.ubuntu.com/testing/tribe5
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STONE COLD wrote:
> Could it something to do with the nvidia drivers?i tried clicking on enable
> desktop effects but screen just blankd out!
Possibly. Are you using the binary nvidia driver or the free nv one?
Either way I'd try and avoid desktop effects.
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years time (also note that
HDCP is unlikely to fully block content, it'll just require it to be
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is usually something that can be enabled when necessary, but isn't
always used. I've not come across an onboard HDMI before, but I do know
of others with nvidia cards with HDMI outputs that functioned entirely
normally.
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y unmount the drive with "umount /mnt/tmp"
Then put the usb drive into a working computer and mail the output. It's
probably a good idea to send it directly to me rather than post the
whole log to the list. I will reply to the thread with the appropriate
errors from the log.
C
Hi
Matthew Wild wrote:
> PS. Someone once told me that you don't get the grub menu if it is not a
> dual-boot. How do you get to the recovery mode in this case?
You get prompted to press Esc if you want the boot menu. This shows the
normal grub menu with the recovery option.
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telling you that it didn't work. What would be much more useful
is a copy of /var/log/Xorg.0.log after X has failed to start. If you
have a USB stick you should be able to mount it manually and copy the
log file there.
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.0.log, there's really not a lot more that can be said to help!
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or.
(I speak here for myself, not my employer)
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Gutsy, but I expect it'll work with Feisty for
the remaining month or two that anyone should care about Feisty ;)
It uses the same chipset.
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Chris Rowson wrote:
> Makes you wonder why there isn't a "works with Ubuntu" program for
> hardware manufacturers to sign up to...
http://www.ubuntu.com/partners/hardwareprogramme
like that one? :)
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Court Road in London where
the guy behind the counter had not only heard of Linux, but was
perfectly happy to open a box so I could look at the card in detail and
compare it to my notes.
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NIXy things, so maybe "exceedingly"), but
otherwise that's great :)
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n, making infection by viruses or spyware exceedingly
difficult (to date there are no known cases)."
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an test things like hardware and report back to
launchpad if they are still broken or if they are fixed and work fine :)
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- stripping html tags out isn't hard.
Having said that, HTML email is just plain wrong and to be discouraged
at all times :)
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$20 from a vending machine in a US hotel and
is very natty)
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hich have a
plastic earth pin whose only function is to move the plates covering the
live/neutral holes.
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to Linux (along with a host of other games -
the guy is a porting machine).
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Josh Blacker wrote:
> nostalgia of Worms :) I boot into XP to play Unreal Tournament, but
> wouldn't mind being able to play it from Ubuntu...
Isn't it available? I have the Linux version of UT2004 and it works fine
(shame it's not much fun ;)
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unded genomics project. I've put up a demo
cool :)
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rface, but it seems to use what sounds to me like a lower bandwidth
codec, so it sounds all muddy and horrible.
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Tony Travis wrote:
> I use 6.06.1 LTS for the reasons you state.
> I rest my case ;-)
I was only disagreeing with you in the situation where the user's
hardware is too new for the current LTS release, sorry, I wasn't
especially clear about that.
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se is perfect.
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and they are far less tested than main
repositories.
> latest release of Ubuntu to inexperienced users unless they have help
> available from colleagues or friends who do know about Linux, and they
That's not always true, e.g. Dapper is already old enough that it
struggles on newer ha
those codecs, you still might not be
legally entitled to use them in Ubuntu, but IANAL.
FWIW, the excellent chaps at Fluendo now sell a licenced codec pack
which includes most of the popular windowsy formats (although only for
gstreamer, obviously).
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I for one am glad we have a top notch security team who respond quickly
enough that we are almost always amongst the first to patch holes :)
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rudely shocked by some failure or other and feel isolated by it.
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or writing data locally?
It sounds like a serious mess. Perhaps Fedora's SELinux/PolicyKit stuff
can do a better job.
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ng the user that the operation was blocked. They can then add the
site as trusted in order to continue (although of course they can save
the XPI locally and install it from there).
It should *never* *ever* *ever* install an extension without a warning.
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rosoft deal with Linspire.
(FYI, despite my address, this is all my own opinion - it's just easier
to keep all the ubuntu lists in one account :)
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Only if they can edit the PDFs afterwards.
PDF really isn't geared up to that kind of thing. You can make
modifications, but it is a pain and is usually pretty limited.
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Lee Tambiah wrote:
> I hope Ubuntu never signs a deal like this either, but I think we are safe,
> I don't think Mark Shuttleworth is that gullable.
From: http://mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=6672
"So you wouldn’t do a deal?
No, absolutely not."
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ut thankfully that doesn't happen very often ;)
It might be worth using the forums though - you'll probably find more
gutsy users in the gutsy form than anywhere else (maybe #ubuntu+1 on
freenode)
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Windows - why release all your fixes once a month, why not when
Mostly because of all the pain windows updates create. You wouldn't want
to be doing that every week! ;)
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em as it is and live with it
Windows depends on being a known target, not a highly moving target, so
I would always advise against deviating from the expected footprint any
more than is necessary.
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ished. Your filesystem should be read-write during
the first half of rcS.d, so it should certainly be fine by rc2.d, let
alone sendmail.
What's the error you're seeing exactly?
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chmod +x /tmp/alsa_info.sh
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linux-sound.info - I skipped it to stop the line from wrapping)
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an readable. How many people do you know who carry
round man fstab in their heads? ;)
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really solid desktop without wanting to keep upgrading every six
months, it means you get 3 or 5 years (desktop/server respectively) of
security updates.
"Support" means "Canonical will sell support for" and "Ubuntu will
release security and critical bug updates for
nt plan is to switch from maintaining
their own IDE to integrating excellent PHP support into Eclipse,
although whether this will be Free remains to be seen.
Just another option :)
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Hi
On Sun, 2006-10-08 at 15:32 +, STONE COLD wrote:
> I still need help with KDETV! i am unable to watch tv. its connected via a
Do you have the right settings for things like the region? Specifically
look out for PAL/NTSC options - you want PAL.
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On Sun, 2006-10-01 at 16:52 +0100, Richard Downing wrote:
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> I suggest English-Speaking-Europeans. (Ducks)
May I suggest better quoting of emails, we already all had the previous
one and only need quoting of the part relevant to your reply ;-p
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On Sat, 2006-10-07 at 19:48 +0100, Albert Vilella wrote:
> Does anybody know how to start Firefox (Bon Echo) up without restore session?
Edit->Preferences->Main tab->"When firefox starts"
controls the behaviour at startup. Change it to "Show my home page"
d in Ubuntu and other distros (indeed it was enabled
for a while, but was later removed, istr)
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powering it off. Linux (or more specifically in this case,
gnome-volume-manager) just unmounts the filesystem. However, I'm not
100% sure about that, but I have noticed similar behaviour on my various
removable devices and they are always fine.
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device, but this is basically what the dapper unmount progress window is
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On Tue, 2006-09-05 at 18:56 +0100, nik wrote:
> Well Count me in ( and Ill go sign up )
likewise :)
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