On 6 August 2012 20:41, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> Ubuntu 12.04.
> I've suddenly lost the clock/calendar on the desktop toolbar - how do I get
> that back?
Have you tried logging out and in again? Or even re-boot. You
probably have but since you do not say then the question has to be
asked.
On 5 August 2012 12:09, Wayne Roberts wrote:
> On 05/08/12 12:07, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 5 August 2012 12:04, Wayne Roberts wrote:
>>> Hi gang,
>>>
>>> Anybody know how to "extract" a ssh public key from ubuntu 12.04?
>> Not sure what you
On 5 August 2012 12:04, Wayne Roberts wrote:
> Hi gang,
>
> Anybody know how to "extract" a ssh public key from ubuntu 12.04?
Not sure what you mean by this. Can you be more explicit?
Colin
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On 18 July 2012 11:36, James Morrissey wrote:
>> If it is a recurrent problem that has been fixed in the past then I
>> don't see how a BIOS upgrade will fix it. What did they do to fix it
>> previously I wonder.
>
> Fan replacement
> System board replacement
> BIOS update.
> Keyboard replacement
On 18 July 2012 11:25, James Morrissey wrote:
> Having spoken to Lenovo, i am rather unsatisfied.
>
> Their story is that they don't know why the windows client won't work.
> They also suggest that i use the live CD as a means for updating the
> BIOS - this is the recommended method. Unbelievably
On 11 July 2012 17:42, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 11/07/12 16:35, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> @Barry: I could not find a relevant bug so have reported it [1]. Could you
>> attach yourself and mark it confirmed? Are you using unity-2d by any chance.
>> I am but I would not ex
On 11 July 2012 16:07, Colin Law wrote:
> On 11 July 2012 12:47, Barry Drake wrote:
>> Hi there 12.04 and previous had a preferences menu item in Nautilus.
>> Among other things, this allows the setting of a delete menu item as well as
>> the 'move to trash'
On 11 July 2012 15:21, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 11 July 2012 14:08, scoundrel50a wrote:
>> Has anybody seen this?
>>
>> http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2012/07/11/backdoor-malware/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=41397d7023-naked%252Bsecurity
>
> A simple use
On 11 July 2012 12:47, Barry Drake wrote:
> Hi there 12.04 and previous had a preferences menu item in Nautilus.
> Among other things, this allows the setting of a delete menu item as well as
> the 'move to trash' item. In 12.10 Quantal, this seems to have disappeared.
> Anyone know if this
On 8 July 2012 22:25, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
> On 8 July 2012 22:12, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 8 July 2012 22:02, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 8 July 2012 21:51, Colin Law wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On 4 July 2012
On 8 July 2012 22:02, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
> On 8 July 2012 21:51, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 4 July 2012 14:10, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>> >
>> >
>> > On 4 July 2012 13:59, Colin Law wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone any
On 4 July 2012 14:10, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
> On 4 July 2012 13:59, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone any experience of running Ubuntu on laptops from PC
>> Specialist [1]? I am particularly interested in the Genesys IV [2].
>> They will supply withou
On 6 July 2012 21:34, David King wrote:
>
>
> On 06/07/12 20:29, Colin Law wrote:
>
>
> Try power cycling the router. May not help but worth a try.
>
> Colin
>
>
> I often do that if internet access disappears or goes slow. But did not help
> with Ubuntu
On 6 July 2012 20:05, David King wrote:
> I should add that the Ubuntu 12.04 can see the router without any problems,
> but nothing beyond that. From the same PC as well, which already had Windows
> Xp and Linux Mint installed, neither of them had these problems.
Try power cycling the router. Ma
On 5 July 2012 10:07, Colin Law wrote:
> On 5 July 2012 09:10, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>> ...
>> Hmm, Insight have the Thinkpad Edge 15 but that's only i3. If you use
>> Lenovo's selection system it gives you the IdeaPad Z580 but that's £600.
>
> The PC S
On 5 July 2012 09:10, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
> On 5 July 2012 08:48, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 4 July 2012 21:24, Alan Pope wrote:
>> > On 04/07/12 13:59, Colin Law wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Has anyone any experience of running Ubuntu on la
On 4 July 2012 21:24, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 04/07/12 13:59, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> Has anyone any experience of running Ubuntu on laptops from PC
>> Specialist [1]? I am particularly interested in the Genesys IV [2].
>> They will supply without Windows with a reduct
Has anyone any experience of running Ubuntu on laptops from PC
Specialist [1]? I am particularly interested in the Genesys IV [2].
They will supply without Windows with a reduction of £80.
I believe they are based on Clevo laptops.
Colin
[1] http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/
[2] http://www.pcspec
On 3 July 2012 02:21, Daniel Case wrote:
> Is your /home directory on another partition or the same as the Mint
> system? Either way, take a backup somewhere to be sure nothing happens
> (I've had my power go out in the middle of an install before... it
> happens!)
>
> If your /home is separate, i
On 8 June 2012 12:13, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> On 08/06/12 12:08, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 8 June 2012 12:00, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/06/12 11:38, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8 June 2012 11:31, Norma
On 8 June 2012 12:00, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> On 08/06/12 11:38, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 8 June 2012 11:31, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/06/12 10:57, Colin Law wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 8 June 2012 10:52, Nor
On 8 June 2012 11:31, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> On 08/06/12 10:57, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 8 June 2012 10:52, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>>>
>>> I frequently watch the BBC web site and recently have noticed that, when
>>> scrolling, text chan
On 8 June 2012 10:52, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> I frequently watch the BBC web site and recently have noticed that, when
> scrolling, text changes from black to blue and back again when scrolling
> stops. Has anyone else seen this and has anyone any ideas what could be the
> cause? OS is Xubuntu
On 30 May 2012 03:52, Keith Madill wrote:
> I have a slight issue with the HuD it will only show me desktop entries
> nothing from the active application. I have tried almost any application
> installed to no success. Has anyone, seen this problem before / know
> where the problem would likely be
On 20 May 2012 22:40, Carlos @ FOSSBOX wrote:
> Thank you very much Ivan, lucky enough I only have like 10+ users... I guess
> I have to back them up one by one... Thanks for the tip on Firefox too...
>
> For all the Ubuntu UK list... Does anybody know a link or how do I go about
> creating the us
On 19 May 2012 14:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> 12.04, clean install this morning, fully updated.
> In File manager, with sidebar enabled, if I highlight a folder and click on
> Bookmarks - Add Bookmark, nothing happens.
> If I drag the folder to the sidebar, again nothing happens.
> How do I
On 10 May 2012 16:06, Philip Stubbs 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 program that wil
On 9 May 2012 21:27, Barry Titterton wrote:
>
>>
>> The bug mentioned just says that there is no way back if you forget
>> the correct key to use. I don't use rhythmbox so don't know what the
>> key is, but presumably someone does. It is a pity that the bug does
>> not mention which key it is.
>
On 9 May 2012 09:05, alan c wrote:
> On 09/05/12 07:56, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> > 2. The launcher will not 'reveal' if there is an application, such as
>>> > Firefox, set to maximum size. The launcher will 'reveal' once all
>>> &
On 9 May 2012 08:09, scoundrel50a wrote:
> On 05/05/12 16:46, Alan Pope wrote:
>>
>> On 05/05/12 01:46, scoundrel50a wrote:
>>>
>>> > Ok, did that, and as soon as the laptop started a crash report box
>>> > appeared, blueman applet, so I went through the process again, and
>>> > nothing happene
On 8 May 2012 22:58, Barry Titterton wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Last weekend I decided to upgrade my spare laptop. It is an elderly
> Toshiba Satellite Pro A120 running 32 bit 11.10 and Unity in 2D mode.
> The upgrade went smoothly and here are the problems that I have found so
> far:-
> [snip]
> 2. T
On 8 May 2012 10:25, Sarah Chard wrote:
> ...
> At the moment we are compiling a database so we can create an android app to
> help people - they can put in their make and model of pc/laptop and it will
> tell them how to get into the boot menu - we feel this will be useful not
> only to our proj
On 5 May 2012 16:46, Alan Pope wrote:
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> On 05/05/12 01:46, scoundrel50a wrote:
>> Ok, did that, and as soon as the laptop started a crash report box
>> appeared, blueman applet, so I went through the process again, and
>> nothing happened, how do
On 4 May 2012 20:18, scoundrel50a wrote:
> Since I had to do the reinstall, I keep getting crash reports, a lot more
> than what I was getting when it was running beta 1.I click on the crash
> report logo, it brings up the box, which shows what has crashed and where it
> says submit, I click a
On 3 May 2012 21:07, Gareth France wrote:
> A few minutes ago my system started accessing the hard drive frantically for
> about 5 minutes, then logged out while I was hald way through writing an
> email. Now every time try to log back in it says:
>
> Plymouth command failed
> mountall: Disc
On 2 May 2012 17:44, Tony Pursell wrote:
>
>
> On 2 May 2012 17:21, Alan Pope wrote:
>>
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>> On 01/05/12 14:23, Andres Muniz wrote:
>> > Lately my ubuntu 12.04 has been finding problems that i did not
>> > know i had and asking me if i wanted t
On 2 May 2012 14:01, Paul Tansom wrote:
> I seem to
> be forced into Unity 2D - some suggest you should be able to run 3D on 2
> screens, but I've had no luck so far :(
It is likely that you have a chipset (intel 945 for example) where 3d
is not supported by the chipset if the virtual desktop is
On 1 May 2012 14:12, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> I've only been using 12.04 for 2 days and am already getting annoyed with
> it.
>
> I use some applications which are not packaged.
>
> For example, Talend. It is an Eclipse based ETL application.
>
> I can run it from the command line, that's OK. But
On 1 May 2012 11:37, paul sutton wrote:
> On 01/05/12 11:09, Anton Kanishchev wrote:
>> Have you ever run windows on the netbook/ do you have access to the
>> manufacturers website with drivers? This might be worth a shot if you
>> can find some drivers:
>> http://techtips.salon.com/convert-window
On 1 May 2012 11:31, scoundrel50a wrote:
> On 01/05/12 09:34, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>>
>> On 01/05/12 09:23, scoundrel50a wrote:
>>> Thank you for your replay, I am looking in the sources manager, and one
>>> line is just normal the other line has sources in brackets, should I
>>> remo
On 30 April 2012 22:21, Gareth France wrote:
> On 30/04/12 21:43, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 30 April 2012 21:32, Gareth France wrote:
>>>
>>> On 30/04/12 21:22, Barry Drake wrote:
>>>>
>>>> On 30/04/12 21:12, Gareth France wrote:
>>
On 1 May 2012 00:13, Alan Pope wrote:
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> On 30/04/12 11:20, paul sutton wrote:
>> on the partition page i choose set up and tried to partition as
>> follows
>>
>> / 50mb
>
> That's not big enough.
I think the guy probably meant GB (GigaBytes) not
On 30 April 2012 21:32, Gareth France wrote:
> On 30/04/12 21:22, Barry Drake wrote:
>>
>> On 30/04/12 21:12, Gareth France wrote:
>>>
>>> Today my system (12.04) started bringing up the crash error message every
>>> 10 seconds or so. I tried to do updates and it says: Requires installation
>>> of
scope of this page" and links to a set of pages that the
vast majority of non-geek users would be completely baffled by. Most
of them probably don't even know what a partition is.
Colin
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 30 April 2012 18:17, Colin Law wrote
On 30 April 2012 13:33, MS wrote:
> SNIP
>
>
>
>> Update = minor updates to existing software, no big changes.
>>
>> Upgrade = major upgrade of the whole system, including new software
>> versions, possibly significant changes in UI, needs a lot more time to
>> do, etc. If worded correctly, it cou
On 30 April 2012 13:32, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> I think that the passage
>
>> When upgrading from a previous release, it is always a good idea to
>> [[https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Partitioning/Home/Moving | move /home]],
>> it gives additional safe guards for your own data. In any case, taki
On 30 April 2012 11:15, Andy Braben wrote:
> ...
> Backing up is important and vital at all times - not just for an upgrade. I
> do not have a lot of sympathy for users who never ever backup, and never
> enters their heads to do so. To me it is vitally important - I keep backups
> off site as well
On 30 April 2012 09:35, Alan Bell wrote:
> ...
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/upgradepics/offer.png
> http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/upgradepics/confirm.png
Perhaps it would be worthwhile to have a warning on one of these that
all important data should be backed up before proceeding.
C
On 29 April 2012 11:12, Alan Bell wrote:
> On 24/04/12 23:12, Bruno Girin wrote:
>>
>> On 24/04/12 23:04, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
>>>
>>> El jue, 19-04-2012 a las 12:00 +, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
>>> escribió:
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re:
Fwd: [Ossg-anno
On 19 April 2012 08:24, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 19/04/12 07:42, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> HOWEVER if the above command is put into /etc/rc.local then 'sudo rfkill
>> unblock bluetooth' will do a proper restart, and restart will also take
>> place from the Blue
On 18 April 2012 22:56, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 18/04/12 17:16, Phill Whiteside wrote:
>>
>> AFAIK, bluetooth is the same across all flavours, have a look at
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Lubuntu/Documentation/FAQ/Guides#Disable_Bluetooth
>> to see if that successfully blacklists it for you
On 18 April 2012 17:11, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
> On 18 April 2012 16:51, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 18 April 2012 16:44, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>> > [snip]
>> > In a good 15 years of using Linux, I've never had an upgrade in place
>> > wor
On 18 April 2012 16:44, Simon Greenwood wrote:
>
>
> On 18 April 2012 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
>>
>> I've just put 12.04 on my Samsung N150 netbook. Previously, I've had to
>> do various tweaks to get things fully working, but with 12.04, everything
>> worked out of the box. Fantastic.
>>
>> T
On 18 April 2012 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
> I've just put 12.04 on my Samsung N150 netbook. Previously, I've had to do
> various tweaks to get things fully working, but with 12.04, everything
> worked out of the box. Fantastic.
>
> The only problem was starting off with the 'upgrade' option on
On 9 April 2012 19:20, Steve wrote:
> On Mon, 9 Apr 2012 15:16:31 +0100
> Colin Law wrote:
>
>> On 9 April 2012 14:37, Alan Bell wrote:
>> > On 09/04/12 11:20, Steve wrote:
>> >>
>> >>
>> >> The problem is not with the journalist but,
On 9 April 2012 16:18, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On 09/04/12 15:16, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 9 April 2012 14:37, Alan Bell wrote:
>>> On 09/04/12 11:20, Steve wrote:
>>>>
>>>> The problem is not with the journalist but, Ubuntu. The explanations as
>>>
On 9 April 2012 14:37, Alan Bell wrote:
> On 09/04/12 11:20, Steve wrote:
>>
>>
>> The problem is not with the journalist but, Ubuntu. The explanations as
>> to what is going on with these settings can best be described as vague.
>> Until Alan's explanation I wasn't sure what they're for. I've
On 8 April 2012 16:59, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> Followed instructions and everything worked like a charm.
Thanks goodness for that, I am always a bit nervous giving out advice
like this in case it all goes wrong.
Colin
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On 8 April 2012 12:55, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>
>> >
>> >> > snip >
>> >> >>
>> >> >> You are right, I am seeing that too. The side by side option seems
>> >> >> not to be there.
>> >> >> Do Something Else takes one to the manual setup page.
>> >> >
>> >> > I would be quite happy to do a manu
On 8 April 2012 11:43, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>
>> > snip >
>> >>
>> >> You are right, I am seeing that too. The side by side option seems
>> >> not to be there.
>> >> Do Something Else takes one to the manual setup page.
>> >
>> > I would be quite happy to do a manual set up if I could be su
On 8 April 2012 11:22, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> snip >
>>
>> You are right, I am seeing that too. The side by side option seems
>> not to be there.
>> Do Something Else takes one to the manual setup page.
>
> I would be quite happy to do a manual set up if I could be sure not to
> ruin everyt
On 8 April 2012 10:45, Norman Silverstone wrote:
> < snip >
>>
>> Boot off the USB stick or CD/DVD and then follow the prompts. one of
>> the options is to install side-by-side with your existing
>> installation. Choose that, job done.
>>
>> Other options will allow you to "upgrade" or "overwrite"
On 7 April 2012 23:34, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Colin Law wrote:
>> On 7 April 2012 17:10, Alan Pope wrote:
>> > Boot off the USB stick or CD/DVD and then follow the prompts. one of
>> > the options is to install side-by-side with your existing
>> > installat
On 7 April 2012 17:10, Alan Pope wrote:
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> On 07/04/12 15:40, Norman Silverstone wrote:
>> I would like to have a go but need a little helpful advice, please.
>> I have Ubuntu 11.04 on my desktop computer and wondered if there is
>> a simple way t
On 7 April 2012 13:28, John wrote:
> On 05/04/12 11:39, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 5 April 2012 11:10, scoundrel50a wrote:
>>>
>>> I am running in a partition Ubuntu 11.10, and today I got a rather large
>>> update. and after rebooting, Google chrome st
On 5 April 2012 11:10, scoundrel50a wrote:
> I am running in a partition Ubuntu 11.10, and today I got a rather large
> update. and after rebooting, Google chrome stopped loading. The window
> appeared for about 2 seconds after you click on the GC logo, and it then
> closes.anybody have any id
On 3 April 2012 13:40, Matthew Sturdy wrote:
> well, I have found a "solution" of sorts... I have deleted all the
> Helvetica .tff files from
>
> ~/.fonts/
> /usr/share/fonts/truetype/
>
> Now the webpages skip past Helvetica and jump straight to the sans-serif
> family of fonts (which are instal
On 3 April 2012 11:18, David King wrote:
> On 02/04/12 09:12, James Tait wrote:
>
>
> I'm pretty sure it's not Ubuntu One. The semantic part makes me think of
> something like Zeitgeist, perhaps? Which version of Ubuntu is this?
>
> JT
>
>
>
> I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared agai
On 3 April 2012 10:28, Matthew Sturdy wrote:
>
>
> On 3 April 2012 10:43, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 3 April 2012 08:43, Matthew Sturdy wrote:
>>
>> Can you point us to a web page showing the problem and explain exactly
>> what you see wrong?
>>
On 3 April 2012 08:43, Matthew Sturdy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have had an issue for a while now with the display of certain characters
> in both Firefox and Chrome on my laptop. Example characters are: çõáú
>
> These are presented correctly in the webpages as HTML entities (ç
> õ etc)
> If I copy and
On 23 March 2012 21:25, Colin Law wrote:
> On 23 March 2012 21:16, Daniel Case wrote:
>> On 23 March 2012 21:11, Colin Law wrote:
>>> It doesn't have to be there all the time, there is an option to hide
>>> it. It then appears when the mouse is pushed agains
On 23 March 2012 21:16, Daniel Case wrote:
> On 23 March 2012 21:11, Colin Law wrote:
>> It doesn't have to be there all the time, there is an option to hide
>> it. It then appears when the mouse is pushed against the edge of the
>> screen (on 12.04)
>
> I noti
On 23 March 2012 21:06, Daniel Case wrote:
> On 23 March 2012 20:16, Hakan Koseoglu wrote:
>>But the new users don't discover Linux all by themselves, in
>> most cases someone shows them and I don't want to show and talk about
>> Ubuntu to anyone anymore.
>
> I discovered it myself, but I agree t
On 22 March 2012 12:01, Colin Law wrote:
> On 22 March 2012 11:01, John MM wrote:
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>>
>>> On 13 March 2012 10:01, scoundrel50a wrote:
>>> > I am running 11.10 and I'm trying to
On 22 March 2012 11:01, John MM wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 13 March 2012 10:01, scoundrel50a wrote:
>> > I am running 11.10 and I'm trying to burn an image using brasero but
>> > when I
>> > cli
On 22 March 2012 11:48, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 22/03/12 11:01, Andy Braben wrote:
>>
>> That is a duplicate of
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/961141, which says
>> it affects 4 people, so you are not alone.
>
>
> I reported it as an ubuntu-desktop rather than a nautilu
On 22 March 2012 10:19, Colin Law wrote:
> On 22 March 2012 10:08, Barry Drake wrote:
>> On 21/03/12 12:13, Barry Drake wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi there This morning I am faced with the desktop icons showing the
>>> description and the tool-tip as well - see att
On 22 March 2012 10:08, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 21/03/12 12:13, Barry Drake wrote:
>>
>> Hi there This morning I am faced with the desktop icons showing the
>> description and the tool-tip as well - see attached screenshot. This was
>> after yesterday's updates to Precise.
>
>
> I did try re-
On 16 March 2012 17:10, Liam Proven wrote:
> ...
> Just FYI - I downloaded & burned Lubuntu 12.04 beta 1 x86-32 today. I
> can't install it on my main Lubuntu box. Ubiquity crashes consistently
> - 3 reboots, 3 times. It makes no odds if I choose an update, include
> or exclude updates or restrict
On 13 March 2012 10:01, scoundrel50a wrote:
> I am running 11.10 and I'm trying to burn an image using brasero but when I
> click on the icon, nothing happens.can somebody help?
What happens if run it from a terminal (just type brasero)
Colin
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On 7 March 2012 22:01, Barry Drake wrote:
> On 07/03/12 21:48, paul sutton wrote:
>>
>> Ohh i am sure I have a few games on 3,5" floppy that ran on an acorn
>> risc/os machine, in fact I may have a manual for the Acorn Archimedes
>> somewhere :) Paul
>
>
> I've still got my Sinclair ZX81 and the m
On 7 March 2012 13:49, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 7 March 2012 13:38, Alan Pope wrote:
>>
>> On 07/03/12 13:33, Colin Law wrote:
>>> Out of interest, in what way is it not open?
>>
>> It needs a binary blob for the GPU and to boot apparently. They also
>&g
On 7 March 2012 13:38, Alan Pope wrote:
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> On 07/03/12 13:33, Colin Law wrote:
>> Out of interest, in what way is it not open?
>>
>
> It needs a binary blob for the GPU and to boot apparently. They also
> "
On 7 March 2012 13:28, Liam Proven wrote:
> On 7 March 2012 13:21, Alan Pope wrote:
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>> On 07/03/12 13:08, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> It's a *very* low-spec £25 computer. 256MB of non-expandable RAM,
>>> no local storage or storage interface, just
On 24 February 2012 09:30, surfer wrote:
> When 11.04 was introduced, I read a lot of discouraging comments about
> Unity, especially concerning its stability.
>
> Is it now stable or would I be better off remaining with 10.10.
I would suggest not upgrading yet, 12.04 (in April) will have a numbe
On 19 February 2012 11:08, Andres Muniz wrote:
> Tried today's build and it will not load. Anybody else having same problem?
Some questions:
What do you mean by 'today's build'. If you downloaded an iso image
then which one?
Have you successfully burned other images to usb and booted from them?
On 16 February 2012 14:56, Barry Drake wrote:
> Hi there following the latest Precise batch of updates, I can't turn
> the num-lock off. Any thoughts? And how should I report it? I've know
> idea which bit of the system is responsible for handling this.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/
On 13 February 2012 18:58, Tony Pursell wrote:
> Hi all
>
> I have found a use for my old EEEPC with a 7" screen, 4GB SSD, 512MB and
> Celeron processor running lubuntu as a sort of WiFi webcam.
>
> Currently I put it in the window to watch the birds in the garden by running
> guvcview on it then
On 8 February 2012 15:17, Matthew Sturdy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On my laptop's keyboard I have a Print Screen key where I would expect to
> find a right click key, and I am trying to make it a Right click key.
>
> I've been googling around, and I can't find the command that I can use to
> reassign the k
On 28 January 2012 16:27, Ted Wager wrote:
>
> I am not bothered. abt the data..All I want is for the machine to boot
> from the hdd so the buyer can install an os. If they want a Linux system
> I will install it but if they want Windows they are on their own.
To install an OS it is not necessary
On 20 January 2012 13:53, ** wrote:
> I have a Python based app (TFTPGUI) that I can launch fine from the command
> line but when I paste the same command [ python ~/pathto/theapp/tftpgui.py ]
> into a launcher nothing happens. I have launched other Python based
> applications in the past so what
On 6 January 2012 09:43, John MM wrote:
> So how do we figure out why it isn't running?
Start by using the Log File Viewer to look in syslog to see if there
are any errors related to it. If it is crashing there may well be
something there.
Also when you run it from a terminal does it ever disap
On 4 January 2012 22:11, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi
>
> I use Filezilla to transfer files around my home network. Normally, when
> setting up a transfer, I can identify each target device in the "Server
> Name" field by its host name. However I've recently acquired a new PC and,
> when running Filez
On 24 December 2011 12:10, David Smith wrote:
> I have supplied a second hand PC to a friend, dual booting XP and Ubuntu
> 10.10 from one HD. Somehow, he's made a mess of his XP and I need to do
> either a repair-over-the-top install or a full XP wipe and reload. Since it
> is the XP registry
On 22 December 2011 23:39, Andres wrote:
> ...
> i do not know what regression is but some one beat me to reporting the bug.
>
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity-greeter/+bug/903306
A regression is when something used to work but no longer does (as
opposed to something new not work
On 22 December 2011 22:43, Andres wrote:
> ...
> Thanks for recomendation on not doing hard power off. I thought it only
> mattered after login.
Even before login various log files and so on are being written to.
It is not a good idea to power off when there is the possibility of
writing going on
On 22 December 2011 09:09, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> Hello,
>
> It used to be the case, at least I seem to remember, that if I was in the
> log in of ubuntu (now light dm I think) if I pressed the shutdown button (on
> the hardware) it will give me 60 seconds to shutdown but would eventually
On 10 December 2011 08:12, Barry Titterton
wrote:
> ...
> My Toshiba running 11.10 takes five times longer to shut down compared
> with when it was running 11.04. Start up times are about the same.
If the majority of the delay is caused by logout rather than the
actual shutdown (try logging out t
On 9 December 2011 20:42, scoundrel50a wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 20:40, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> I have just tried synaptic on 11.10 and it allows me to select any of my
>> users.
>>
>> Colin
>>
> I wish I could.do you know how I might be able to correct
On 9 December 2011 20:26, scoundrel50a wrote:
> On 09/12/2011 19:48, Avi Greenbury wrote:
>>
>> scoundrel50a wrote:
>>
>>> have tried a couple of times on ubuntu-uk but not got anywhere there,
>>> so thought I would try here.
>>
>> This seems to be ubuntu-uk :)
>>
>>> I had a problem with a deskto
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