Re: [ubuntu-uk] mbr removal command

2007-12-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
only one hdd and that is a SATA drive, should I substitute sda0 for hda1 and, secondly, does it matter which comes first bs=512 or count=1, I have seen both and so am confused? It should be sda1 for the first SATA drive and byte size is usually before count. -- Dougie Richardson

[ubuntu-uk] Spam

2007-11-13 Thread Dougie Richardson
people aren't prescribed it. So there we go - any ideas for the best way to defend? Captcha is mostly commercial or inoperative with Wordpress 2.3, I want to allow comments. Cheers -- Dougie Richardson // [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Spam

2007-11-13 Thread Dougie Richardson
. Ambien lethal I mean it ends with lethal for goodness sake. Cheers, -- Dougie Richardson // [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop breathing down my neck! // blog.lynxworks.eu My breathing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Spam

2007-11-13 Thread Dougie Richardson
in a loud clear voice into the monitor to change their channel. Couldn't believe it when I saw him doing it. -- Dougie Richardson // [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop breathing down my neck

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Spam

2007-11-13 Thread Dougie Richardson
On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 18:10 +, Alan Pope wrote: Hi Dougie, On Tue, 2007-11-13 at 17:31 +, Dougie Richardson wrote: No that's what I mean - I find it hard to believe that people click on the links not that spambots send it out. They don't. The spambots put URLs in the comments

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Spam

2007-11-13 Thread Dougie Richardson
trooper X: Oh 4 please, I couldn't possibly manage 6. Cheers, -- Dougie Richardson // [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop breathing down my neck! // blog.lynxworks.eu My breathing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RealMedia streams (rtsp:) in Gutsy

2007-11-11 Thread Dougie Richardson
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This came up on answers - https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/16519 -- Dougie Richardson // [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stop breathing down my neck

Re: [ubuntu-uk] can someone point me in the right direction??

2007-11-04 Thread Dougie Richardson
On Sun, 2007-11-04 at 20:43 +, Pascal Khoury wrote: Hi guys Hope everyone's well. I am new to the forum. I have installed Ubuntu on my Dell Inspiron 6400, and I am trying to configure my screen resolution with no success. The resolution is by default 1024x768, and this is too small for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Freeview

2007-11-03 Thread Dougie Richardson
Cheers, Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do you use the forums...?

2007-11-03 Thread Dougie Richardson
is pretty meaningless as most of the people I've helped either provide information needed in dribs and drabs or ask the same answer to be repeated ad nauseum. Cheers, Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Mint

2007-11-03 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi Chris, On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 11:54 +, Chris Rowson wrote: Hi folks, [snip] Has anyone else used Linux Mint, or have any thoughts? Chris I have used it and it is very polished but I have concerns at the way the distro comes with pre-configured codecs and basically completely ignores

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Mint

2007-11-03 Thread Dougie Richardson
been put to the test yet and it has been argued that codecs aren't software patents but algorithm patents. It is a good drop in, I can't argue about that. Cheers, Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Freeview

2007-11-03 Thread Dougie Richardson
interference because. Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Freeview

2007-11-03 Thread Dougie Richardson
there are signal problems - you either get a signal that works or not. Analogue often gives a poor but usable picture. Cheers, Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Malvern] Fw: [Gloucs] Only 400-600 Linux users of bbc.co.ukwebsite?

2007-11-02 Thread Dougie Richardson
I noticed this earlier (though not the register piece) I have to say though even the new figures are weird, I mean what's the margin of error on a calculation giving a difference of over 6 - twice as high as the lowest figure? How on earth are the calculating this figure? Dougie On Fri,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Load Unload Cycles

2007-11-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
current one is a replacement for an identical Samsung model that lasted only a few months from new, also running Ubuntu. Tom On Wed, 2007-10-31 at 14:48 +, Dougie Richardson wrote: Hi all, While investigating the interesting arguments concerning bug #59695, I noted that a lot

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

2007-11-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi Jai, Would be interested as to why you are interested in C/C++, what are your objectives? Dougie On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 18:11 +, Jai Harrison wrote: Guys, Where is the best place to start with C/C++ development from a Linux (or GTK) perspective? Note that I haven't differentiated

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ballmer screws over Nigerian schoolkids

2007-11-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
Yes I read it this afternoon. I'm sure there about a million spam and scam related jokes that could be made here. Dougie On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 20:24 +, Chris Rowson wrote: I just read this. Sickening isn't it!

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

2007-11-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi Jai, I'll probably get castigated for this but I use both and found Python and GTK much less hassle and easier to get up to speed with quickly. C is what C is - a good strong language, C++ - well many have strong opinions on it (including Linux Torvalds). On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 20:55 +,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ballmer screws over Nigerian schoolkids

2007-11-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
Yes I wondered if that was a coincidence. On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:09 +, Skeg Fast wrote: Well at least now we know why Mr Gates was trying to get into Nigeria when he had his visa application rejected. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/13/212125 Sorry, missed a 0 from

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

2007-11-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi David, On Thu, 2007-11-01 at 21:19 +, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: I wouldn't recommend KR - it's not a book for beginners. My KR is well thumbed but was difficult to follow when I was starting out. I bought C The Complete Reference by Herbert Schildt (McGraw Hill I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ballmer screws over Nigerian schoolkids

2007-11-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
Software as agreed, but we shall replace it by Windows afterward.” Maybe I'm missing something here but surely if they took delivery and paid then he hasn't lost a procurement round. Just my tuppence. Cheers, Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

[ubuntu-uk] Load Unload Cycles

2007-10-31 Thread Dougie Richardson
to say that after disabling in Ubuntu, after 15 minutes there is no increase in load unload cycles. Reboot into Windows and after 15 minutes reboot to Ubuntu and surprisingly the cycles have increased by ten. Cheers, Dougie Richardson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Launchpad and the Slashdot effect

2007-10-30 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi all, There's an interesting piece on bug #59695 (decrease in hard drive life), for anyone who regularly follows Slashdot I should point out its a kdawson submission ;-) Launchpad is suffering the Slashdot effect, but anyone have any thoughts on this - I suspect this is the sort of article

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad and the Slashdot effect

2007-10-30 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi Alan, On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 16:34 -0400, Alan Pope wrote: Which has been all over planet ubuntu for about a week or so. Slashdot is quite behind on this topic. Slashdot has a much wider audience, many of whom are anti-Linux, in fact many who are anti-Ubuntu. My concern isn't the bug, in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - The Next Generation

2007-10-27 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi all, On Sat, 2007-10-27 at 01:08 +0100, Rohan Omard wrote: How many of us have children ( I have 12, 7 still at home) that use computers daily for various things from instant messaging to homework (in that order!) I've noticed that the kids don't seem to care if it's Windows or Ubuntu,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Press Release Idea: Free support on selected Tescos PCs from Ubuntu UK

2007-10-21 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi Alan, On Sun, 2007-10-21 at 20:35 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: There is nothing that says we have to do site visits at all. Free support could be via the traditional methods such as forums, irc and mailing list. If you built a relationship with a customer and said you would like to make a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Voting Processes and Democracy

2007-10-01 Thread Dougie Richardson
The question is quite simply do you want the election to be held again, yes or no? No thank you. Dougie Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.lynxworks.eu/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Restructuring Page Names on the Wiki

2007-09-19 Thread Dougie Richardson
Hi All, On 9/18/07, Dougie Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was reviewing some of the virtualisation topics on the wiki. It occured to me that there are guides covering everything - there just isn't any structure. Would it be possible for me to say: 1. Expand the Virtualisation page

[ubuntu-uk] Linux may void the warranty

2007-09-15 Thread Dougie Richardson
manager who asked the poster to contact him directly. I can't help but wonder if this is in fact more to do with how the case was cracked rather than the software installed. Dougie Richardson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://blog.lynxworks.eu/-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com