Re: [ubuntu-uk] Low power 2-drive NAS box that can run Ubuntu?

Hi, Andrew Oakley on Thu Sep 02 10:04:39 2010 did scribble :- > I'm looking for a low power NAS box that supports: > > * Two SATA hard drives up to 2TB each in RAID1 mirroring > > * Runs Ubuntu Server or can be flashed/reinstalled to run a variant > of Ubuntu (or failing that, Debian) - in part

[ubuntu-uk] Interesting BBC R4 Program

Hi, I caught the tail of this on the way home on Tuesday :- Inside the Virtual Anthill: Open Source Means Business Gerry Northam goes behind the scenes to investigate 'open source

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cron jobs not running?

Hi Alex, > Hello, > > I should be most grateful for any tips on how to get cron jobs to run on > a Hardy Heron 8.04 server. > > Basically, I want to reboot my server at a preset time once a week. > Currently, when I am logged in as root, crontab -l produces the > following: > > DISPLAY=:0.0 > #

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

Hi, Philip Stubbs wrote :- > 2009/11/7 David Restall - System Administrator : > > I'm not that interested in TV streams (there's not much on TV that > > interests me so I rarely watch it). =A0Where is the get_iplayer script ? > > http://linuxcentre.net/getiplayer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

Hi, Matt Jones wrote :- > On Sat, Nov 7, 2009 at 7:11 PM, David Restall - System Administrator > wrote: > > > > Also can somebody tell me why the BBC are so keen on 'Podcasts' which is > > as proprietary as they come but not so keen on just putting good old

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

Hi Rob, Snip... > > > I gather they are phasing out Real streams. Grrr !! > > It seems as if it's alright for 'doze users, they can download the > > streams in the player provided but for Linux users all we are given is a > > crippled player. > > > > > What player are you using, the one

[ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

Hi, up until a few weeks ago, I was quite happily able to download the real streams from the BBC, convert them to MP3 and play them in the car. What happened a few weeks ago ? Well dear old auntie stopped including a link to the real stream in the iplayer meta data. Does anybody know if they ar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

Hi, > Alan Lord (News) wrote: > > On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote: > >> On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote: > >>> That page got right up my nose > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a > >>> "television p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

John, > LeeGroups wrote: > >>> 412 sites on a shared server is pushing it a bit. > >>> > >>> > >> Really? Depends on the server! > >> > >> > > Absolutely, I know of firms that run upwards of a 1000 websites on a > > single server. > > Admittedly, they are small, low traffic s

[ubuntu-uk] Broadband Modem peer-to-peer

Hi, My mother has an Ubuntu PC and her broadband contract has just expired. She uses the web very rarely (sends the odd email may surf occasionally) but doesn't really use broadband to it's full and, to be quite honest, broadband for her is a waste of her money. I'm going to set her up with a goo

[ubuntu-uk] DOS file undelete

Hi, I have a memory stick that's died. I have managed to do a dd from it and have the contents in a file. I can mount this but some of the files are missing. I can see the contents of the files using strings on the image but they don't show up using ls when I mount the image. I think the files

[ubuntu-uk] ssh dialogue box.

Hi, if I have an ssh key with a passphrase, whenever I use that key, a dialogue box pops up. Why ? What's wrong with asking me from the term I'm using ? Who's idea of policy is this ? It's stupid and breaks the workflow up. Is there any way of disabling this behaviour - apart from setting up m

[ubuntu-uk] Low cost, low usage broadband suppliers

Hi is anybody aware of a UK broadband supplier that has a product to replace a standard dialup ? I'm building a new desktop for my mum and she doesn't have broadband. I'm going to set her up to use dialup but this is not going to be ideal. What would be a better solution would be a low cost, ADS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution irritation

Tony, > Diane, > > Dianne Reuby wrote: > > I've just had an important email bounce because when I typed in the > > email address (which isn't in my contacts list), Evo capitalised the > > first letter. > > I always thought that e-mail addresses were case insensitive, so I would > be tempted to b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy & Dell's DRAC

Hi, > David Restall - System Administrator wrote: > > > has anybody got this working ? I found a thread on the Ubuntu support > > website and it appears that 7.10 doesn't work with the DRAC. When I Snip > > I think I'm missing something like a different

[ubuntu-uk] Gutsy & Dell's DRAC

Hi, has anybody got this working ? I found a thread on the Ubuntu support website and it appears that 7.10 doesn't work with the DRAC. When I try installing the plugin, I get an error in the log file :- Install **FAILED** with error -240 -- 2008-03-19 12:11:33 which I think is permissio

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ham Radio Fldigi

Hi John, > I have down loaded the Fldigi program from a web site. = > This is a digital radio decoder for radio hams. The file is a bin.tar.gz = > file, now resident on my desktop. Do you have a link to the website (See .sig) ? > I have unzipped it using the tar -xvzf filename

[ubuntu-uk] Network traffic analysis

Hi, I want to see where and what the traffic profile is on a server. What I have used in the past is ethereal but this seems like overkill, is there anything else out there. What I would like is something that will give me a simple report showing traffic in, out, IP addresses, ports etc. MRTG i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at this and try to help

Hi, lots of interesting stuff on this subject but I have to disagree with Norman (I think) the best terminal EVER was the DEC VT100 closely followed by the wonderful VT220. DEC lost it after that :-( Best ever printer was the DECWriter III. I've seen cars with smaller starter motors than that p

[ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

~s Re: [ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at this and try to help Hi, lots of interesting stuff on this subject but I have to disagree with Norman (I think) the best terminal EVER was the DEC VT100 closely followed by the wonderful VT220. DEC lost it after that :-( Best ever

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Im Back!

Hi, > ok im back with a gmail add!! > > Can someone tell me if this is ok now? > > everyone happy? :) You can please some of the people some of the time... :-) It's certainly more readable - now all we need is to get you working without the gui and using vi, grep, cut, cat, mailx, sed, awk and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] News Item- Low Cost PC/ Motherboard running on Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy)

Hi, > > I'd be interested to know if anyone finds a supplier. > > http://www.mypcrevolution.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1979 I love the sterling conversion rate :-( TTFN D ubuntu/uk-2007-11-08.4.tx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ubuntu-uk +---

[ubuntu-uk] Apologies for the duplicate post.

Hi, I'd like to blame it on bash's auto completion but I still have to hit return :-( TTFN D ubuntu/uk-2007-11-08.3.tx [EMAIL PROTECTED] ubuntu-uk ++ | Dave Restall, Computer Nerd, Cyclist, Radio Amateur G4

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)now: my messed up emails!

Hi, > i dont know how to...ive looked under all the options in hotmail...i > cant see anything that i should change.! any ideas? CALLING ALL USERS - CALLING ALL USERS - Anybody out there using HOTMAIL REPEAT Anybody out there using HOTMAIL ? If there is can they send a message to the list and s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why did you all ignore me........................

Hi, Has nobody told you about the BO ? :-) > I posted this and no one replied. I've met Alan Pope and Dave Walker > at the gutsy party as well as Mark Shuttleworth who tried to help me > out also. > > Please does anyoen have a clue to the below. > > Ok, some additional infor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why did you all ignore me........................

Hi, Has nobody told you about the BO ? :-) > I posted this and no one replied. I've met Alan Pope and Dave Walker > at the gutsy party as well as Mark Shuttleworth who tried to help me > out also. > > Please does anyoen have a clue to the below. > > Ok, some additional infor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Topic Changed to Stone Cold's Email - was Re: Goodbye

Hi, See - it even b*ggerd up my outgoing mail :-) TTFN D ubuntu/uk-2007-11-02.2.tx ubuntu-uk [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ | Dave Restall, Computer Nerd, Cyclist, Radio Amateur G4FCU, Bodger | | Mob +44 (0

[ubuntu-uk] Topic Changed to Stone Cold's Email - was Re: Goodbye

Hi, I get this :- > > Date: Fri, 2 Nov 2007 19:11:03 > +> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com> Subject: Re: > [ubuntu-uk] Goodbye all Andy wrote:>> On 02/11/2007, STONE COLD > wrote:>>> When did all this happen? I *presum

Re: [ubuntu-uk] C/C++ Development

Hi Jai, > Guys, Don't forget the gals/dolls !!. > Where is the best place to start with C/C++ development from a Linux > (or GTK) perspective? Note that I haven't differentiated between C and > C++. This is because I do not mind which I use. I've been looking on > GNU's website and they feature

[ubuntu-uk] Gutsy Install Success

Hi, Installed Gutsy Gibbon on Acer Aspire 3004WLMi laptop. Went very smoothly - much smoother than the original install on machine which was Dapper Drake. Only 'awkwardish' bit was the wireless card. If you can install with a wired LAN do it. I had to plug the wires in, edit /etc/apt/sources.l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

Hi, > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a > pleasure. > > So I just wondered what everyone else uses? It's probably totally irrelevant but I use nail & vi. The one true path to idiosyncrasy :-

[ubuntu-uk] Upgraded mother..

Hi, I upgraded my mum's PC the other day using the auto update feature - very smooth and my mum said she likes the new colour scheme in some places and not in others so I talked her through changing the background. The upgrade took a few hours to do - basically because I kicked the process off and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

Hi, > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. I use Eclipse for home and bus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fsck forced on boot up due to date problems after update

Hi Rob, > I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e > notebook this evening with not much luck. Snip... > I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained > about not having a disk check for about 49,710 days. It ran through the > disk check and reb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SORTED: It's the simple things that baffle me...

Hi, > Good to hear it's working, but the message you sent was as an attachment > "attachment.dat", i'm guessing that wasn't the intention? Thanks for that Dave. No - it certainly wasn't. My fault for being too clever and doing a direct include of the .exrc file. The perl command had a couple o

[ubuntu-uk] SORTED: It's the simple things that baffle me...

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[ubuntu-uk] It's the simple things that baffle me...

Hi, every now and then I get an email and I want to reply. I save the message and edit it using vim. The text, instead of having spaces in it has =20 (equal sign two zero in case that gets interpreted), this equals escape sequence isn't always followed by 20, it can have other characters or just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Petition against BBC iplayer

Hi Alan, > Matthew Larsen wrote: > > signed > > > > I am trying to sign it but do not seem to have received the contact > email. Did yours arrive in timely fashion? I signed the petition a few minutes ago - the receipt email came in within seconds. My name was on the bottom of the petition to

[ubuntu-uk] The final straw

L&G, I've just unsubscribed - the miserable responses to what should be humour was more than I could bear. I'd like to say thanks but the there's a horrible taste in my mouth at the mo. Cheers. Dave ubuntu/uk-2007-03-20.txubuntu-uk +

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EDM179: Response From Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education and Skills

Hi, > Even worse: it's exactly the same response I got from Jim Knight, which > you can read at > http://tibsplace.co.uk/blog/index.php/2006/12/20/free-software-in-schools/ > > That's terrible! It may be terrible but is it surprising. They bleat on about voter apathy and low election turnout wh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Freecom DVB-T USB stick

Hi Alan, thanks for your reply. > On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 09:36:44AM +0000, David Restall - System > Administrator wrote: > > I got this working on Dapper - it was a bit fiddly basically because > > I was expecting it to just go in and everything I needed would > > be

[ubuntu-uk] Freecom DVB-T USB stick

Hi, I got this working on Dapper - it was a bit fiddly basically because I was expecting it to just go in and everything I needed would be apt-gettable. It isn't you do need to download the kernle headers and install the dvb stuff as described on ubunto help

Re: [ubuntu-uk] acronyms?

From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue Nov 07 09:10:05 2006 Hi, > >>> 1.a word formed from the initial letters or groups of letters of > >>> words > >>> in a set phrase or series of words, as /Wac/ from /Women's Army Corps,/ > >>> /OPEC/ from /Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries,/ or /lor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC and open formats??

Hi, > > Maybe the tabloids would take an interest? ROTFL. > I doubt it has the level of scandal required for tabloid newspapers. > Tabloids are primarly populist & will not print something which is a > minority interest. Unfortunately that means us. Technology coverage in > tabloids is very limi