Hi all,
as ubuntu Phone is now on sale generally, before deciding whether or not
to purchase, I have some questions.
1. What email, calendar, tasks and contacts apps are available?
2. Does it come with an ODF viewer/editor?
3. Presumably the apps in (1) will sync with Caldav/Carddav servers?
On 15/05/15 10:28, Simon Greenwood wrote:
You might want to hold off until Monday as Meizu look like they are
about to announce theirs.
Thanks for that - the problem is now not so urgent, as I've managed to
sync my Windows Phone (I hate Android!) with Memotoo and so to my two
Xubuntu
On 25/04/15 09:57, Paul Sladen wrote:
Missed it; but there's another Ubuntu UK Party on May 7th in Stoke:
http://www.ubuntuparty.co.uk/
-Paul
With adverts for Microsoft Office 365?
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Just watching the Horizon programme about dark matter from Wed night,
spotted an Ubuntu machine being used at CERN!
https://uk.owncube.com/public.php?service=filest=b548d9ad0d2deb2174535367004de1df
Cheers
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On 14/03/15 11:41, Barry Drake wrote:
On 06/03/15 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and
why...
Mine's currently a Huawei Ascend Y300-100. I got it because it was a
cheap option, with a lot of internal memory (I
I have a 1st gen Nexus 7 - has anyone installed any flavour of Ubuntu on
one of these, and if so how did you do it?
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On 06/03/15 09:11, Gareth France wrote:
Ubuntu phone once it arrives, because it's the first time I've ever
been able to afford to be at the front of the trend!
Unfortunately I'm not in a position to be able to buy one for a couple
of years. :-(
What I have is a Sony Xperia E3, which for some
Hi all,
Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and
why...
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On 28/01/15 16:41, Dave Morley wrote:
setup your own?
Unfortunately I don't have the equipment nor the bandwidth to be able to
do that - as I need to sync mail on at least three devices
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Hi,
Thought I'd harness the knowledge here on a non-Ubuntu issue!
I currently have email addresses with Gmail and Microsoft.
I'm looking to ditch those for something provided by a UK (preferable)
or a European provider.
I don't want Yahoo, or BTinternet or anything of that sort.
I've had a look
On 22/01/15 13:58, George DiceGeorge wrote:
Outlook? Ah yes, I remember
Hard to imagine many using a Microsoft program on an Ubuntu list
though.
hm hm I'm using outlook or liveor express or whatever M$ call it now
on this pc with win7
cos i started with hotmail decades ago
and
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Lenovo U410 - 28GB SSD and 500GB HDD, Windows 8.1, UEFI, Secure boot
and Intel Rapid Start enabled. (That's what the SSD is for)
When I install Ubuntu 14.04 as dual-boot, I can boot into Ubuntu from
GRUB but the Windows option doesn't work. I've
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On 09/12/14 16:50, Barry Titterton wrote:
Hi All,
IMHO members who wish to engage in advocacy need to go to where
the people are. We, in the UK, are surrounded by a population who
are either ignorant or apathetic to FOSS so, in order to reach
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On 05/12/14 05:56, Mike Hingley wrote:
I wonder if advocacy for the Operating System is too narrow a
target. I think it’s fair to say that computers are typically seen
as Windows or Mac. People on a don’t tend to think about the
operating system
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On 04/12/14 19:10, Paul Sutton wrote:
I think the 3 -4 years old thing is marketing tripe, I get the
impression from people like PC world they think that a 3 year old
PC is old and needs a nice new one £££ for them, of course running
On 19/11/14 12:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Hi all,
I’ve just purchased an Acer Aspire E3
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-E3-112-11-6-inch-Notebook/dp/B00NWHUXYGthat
came with Windows 8.1 with Bing.
I have a good bootable USB stick with 14.04 on it, from which I have
installed
On 07/11/14 02:21, Kris Douglas wrote:
I must say HP printers are cracking!
Kindest Regards,
Kris Douglas
I agree. My HP 5525 works perfectly on Ubuntu 14.04 - there's no
function that doesn't work as far as I can see!
Cheers
Gordon
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On 03/11/14 12:57, Gareth France wrote:
I firmly believe part of the problem with Linux adoption is that we
all go out, buy Windows machines and then wipe them. This sends out
the message to manufacturers that we want Windows on our machines and
so the cycle continues.
I'm looking to
I have a Netbook with Ubuntu 14.04 (x86) installed as a fresh install,
all patched up to date.
Nixnote 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 install correctly - obviously not all at the
same time! (I can't see any i386 versions after those)and open
correctly, but the option ToolsSynchronise with Evernote is greyed
(This has been posted to Ubuntu Forums - not a lot of help on this so far!)
Fresh install of 14.04 on a Eee PC1001P.
I used the automatic install and chose to use LVM and encrypt the whole
of the drive.
I've just noticed that the automatic install did NOT create a Swap
partition.
I can't
On 17/10/14 14:39, J Fernyhough wrote:
Check free -m:
me@pc ~ free -m
total used free sharedbuffers cached
Mem: 7680 4660 3019221 3 1141
-/+ buffers/cache: 3515 4164
Swap: 9398 0
On 17/10/14 15:28, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 17 October 2014 15:20, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote:
Output of blkid:
/dev/sda1: UUID=ba8d370e-f29c-4c18-ae93-650b7fe5f2a2 TYPE=ext2
/dev/sda5: UUID=f114109b-288a-432e-85bb-ba6be511ad58 TYPE=crypto_LUKS
/dev/mapper/sda5_crypt: UUID
On 17/10/14 15:36, J Fernyhough wrote:
sudo mkswap /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1
sudo swapon /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1
Looks like that's it.
Swap is now showing up in System Monitor as available with 1GB of space.
As I'm going to add another GB of RAM shortly, will it expand
Two 14.04 machines on the same LAN.
I am having THE MOST ridiculous time trying to share files and folders
across the LAN between these two machines.
I've installed Samba on each machine - won't connect.
I've tried installing ssh server and client on each machine, when I
choose connect to
On 16/10/14 19:15, James Morrissey wrote:
That is frustrating.
If you need a quick fix try dukto: http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11
j
Hi,
Thanks for that, works great!
However, IMHO if Windows users are going to be tempted into using Ubuntu
then this should be something that is built
How do you find the battery life on your Lenovo x?
I have a Lenovo U410 and the battery life, even with TPL installed never goes much over 3 hours...which is a pita
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On 07/10/14 13:35, Liam Proven wrote:
Cool. Well, I hope it's all right and that you have no problems with
it. It is a bit bigger than my old netbook, it's true, so a bit less
portable, but it is /so/ much better as a computer -- better keyboard,
better screen, much faster -- that I don't
The only bad tunable I have is
Bad Wireless Power Saving for interface wlan0
If I press Enter I get this:
iw dev wlan0 set power_save on
Is that a command I should issue, or is that what the setting is currently?
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On 08/10/14 23:46, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 8 October 2014 13:35, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com
mailto:gordo...@mail.com wrote:
Hi gurus,
I currently triple-boot my Lenovo U410 with Ubuntu 14.04, Windows
8.1 (which came pre-installed) and Windows 10 tech preview
Hi gurus,
I currently triple-boot my Lenovo U410 with Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 8.1
(which came pre-installed) and Windows 10 tech preview.
There is an SSD used for Intel Fastboot (AFAIK) and the three OSs are
all installed on the main 500GB HDD.
My question is this - if I decide to wipe out all
Not as far as I know - it's a Lenovo U410 ultrabook. There is what I think
is called GPT?
On 30 June 2014 21:15, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote:
On 30 June 2014 21:07, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk
wrote:
Is there any way of permanently removing the unknown display
Hi,
I downloaded 14.04, checked MD5, burned to a USP stick using unetbootin.
Booted from the USB stick, ckecked disk, all OK.
Clicked on Try Ubuntu and the screen went grey and then this appeared:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B7c0iOOzxM3LRk5HOVRaODRLQ1E/edit?usp=sharing
The computer is a
Nope - got the coloured Ubuntu splash screen, then just a pale grey
blank screen
On 21/05/2014 12:19, Holger Garcia wrote:
Try the install ubuntu option. For me this option boots into the
live environment without problems.
On 21 May 2014 12:15, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonb
:10, Dan Wood wrote:
Can you try a different USB stick, just in case the one you're using
has developed a hardware issue?
If that fails, try downloading the alternate installer.
On 21 May 2014 12:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonb...@gmail.com
mailto:gordonb...@gmail.com wrote:
Nope - got
I've installed the Sync package in order to sync some data from
Evolution to Memotoo.
My question is, does Sync run in the background, or does it need to be
open in order to work?
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On 27/02/14 12:30, Peter Maddison wrote:
I nearly forgot, I am emailing Universities and asking if they will put
up a 'flyer' advertising the fact that I am offering FREE Ubuntu
stickers by return of a SAE.
Maybe you should also mention that Dr Sheldon Cooper of The Big Bang
Theory prefers
I am currently using Evolution as my default email client (I use Memotoo
to sync calendar, tasks, contacts and notes between my devices) and
would like to have the same functionality in the Mail indicator that
Thunderbird has - i.e. it shows new mail in any folder.
Is this possible?
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Haven't received any emails since Monday 24th Feb...is there something
amiss or has no-one posted?
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I installed Everpad to connect to my Evernote account and yesterday I
noticed that it wasn't in the indicator panel.
I tried to launch it from Unity Dash, but nothing happened.
I uninstalled and re-installed using Ubuntu Software centre, terminal,
and Synaptic, still nothing.
I tried launching
Hurrah!
It now seems that there's a version of Euro Office that actually works!
(Only has odt support at the moment, but updates will bring in ods and
odp later)
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On 22/02/14 18:39, Tony Scott wrote:
On 22 February 2014 18:32, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote:
It now seems that there's a version of Euro Office that actually works!
Do we have a link for more info?
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On 14/02/14 12:20, alan c wrote:
On 13/02/14 17:43, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
BTW, it looks like the Linux Emporium website is back up.
thanks!
Why are they still advertising Ubuntu 11.10 on laptops for heavens
sakes? I cannot in conscience link that site to would be Ubuntu
novices
I'm using 13.10.I have a file called Shopping.ods. If I type
Shopping into the Unity Dash search, it finds NOTHING.
If I type Shopping into Nautilus search it finds the file IMMEDIATELY.
Is this a bug in 13.10 Unity?
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On 13/02/14 09:06, Alan Pope wrote:
On 13 February 2014 09:03, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote:
I'm using 13.10.I have a file called Shopping.ods. If I type
Shopping into the Unity Dash search, it finds NOTHING.
If I type Shopping into Nautilus search it finds the file
On 31/01/14 11:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Is there a problem?
Seems like the website is back up and running!
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On 31/01/14 12:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Canonical sell stickers. I have them on my laptop right now.
Do Canonical not ship stickers by normal post?
£2.10 for stickers, £3.90 for postage!!
BTW, it looks like the Linux Emporium website is back up.
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On 3 February 2014 14:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gordon at gbpcomputing.co.uk
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk wrote:
/ Does anyone know whether 14.04 will fix the very short battery life problem
// on laptops?
//
// Example - in 13.10 my Lenovo U410 tells me the battery
On 09/02/14 18:14, Liam Proven wrote:
On 9 February 2014 12:49, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote:
You're sending HTML formatted email to the list, which is a no-no and
breaks quoting. Please turn it off. I suggest you leave it off
globally; formatted email is bad netiquette
Hi,
Does anyone know whether 14.04 will fix the very short battery life problem on
laptops?
Example - in 13.10 my Lenovo U410 tells me the battery will only last just over
2 hours - Windows 8.1 on the same machine, nearly SIX hours! :(
Cheers
Gordon
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On 31/01/14 07:25, Martin Dixon wrote:
Hi. Apology if this is out of order, but if as Windows free at last!
suggests Microsoft may be peeved at LibreOffice etc they might just try
it on.
The US and the EU are on the verge of giving rich corporations the right
to control what we all see
Is there a problem?
Trying to access it and I get this:
There has been an error processing your request.
Error in file:
/home/magento-sites/emporium/app/code/core/Mage/Core/sql/core_setup/mysql4-install-0.8.0.php
- SQLSTATE[42S01]: Base table or view already exists: 1050 Table
On 30/01/14 21:04, Gibbs wrote:
The only files I've ever encountered which I couldn't handle were a
few Microsoft Publisher .pub
Pub files are a right pain in the neck. I had a colleague once who did
EVERYTHING in Publisher - and as we all know, the ONLY app that will
open pub files is
On 31/01/14 11:20, Colin Law wrote:
By the way, it would have saved me googling if you had provided the
url. Colin
Sorry, I assumed people on this list would already have the URL :-)
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On 31/01/14 11:45, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Martin Dixon wrote:
The US and the EU are on the verge of giving rich corporations the
right to control what we all see online -- but we can stop it if we
build the largest call for a democratic and free Internet ever. Join
me in this campaign here:
On 31/01/14 11:46, alan c wrote:
My conclusion has been that - they have ceased trading?
Eeek!
Any idea on where we can get Ubuntu stickers to go on laptops now?
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On 31/01/14 12:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Canonical sell stickers. I have them on my laptop right now.
s/
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Hi,
I have a Lenovo U410 dual booting Windows 8.1 and Ubuntu 13.10 (my main
use I hasten to add - Windows 8 is there purely for support purposes!)
and in the Windows apps, I can select either Maximum battery life (i.e.
full charge) or maximum battery health (only about 60% charge but longer
before
On 30/01/14 16:07, Barry Drake wrote:
I've also been looking at the Open Documents thread. I think it was
the last time we met, at a government consultation about this issue.
Government grinds very slowly Schools are still teaching
Microsoft BUT with kids using Android tablets
Anyone got any thoughts on this?
On 24/01/2014 18:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
I use a Hosted Exchange Email account (Office 365) and am having very
odd problems connecting both in Thunderbird and Evolution.
If I try to set up IMAP email in both Tbird and Evolution, it just
goes
and support article on
the Microsoft website a few months ago and it's working right now on
Thunderbird, Ubuntu 13.10. For some bizarre reason unbeknown to
everyone the settings given in OWA simply don't work.
On 27/01/14 08:51, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Anyone got any thoughts
Yes - and it's open source and it's not American!
(Not that I have anything against Americans per se, but it's nice to see
something like that in Europe!)
On 27/01/2014 22:38, Andres wrote:
Change my Exchange Server account to a plain IMAP account, and
useFruux
https://fruux.com/ to sync
I use a Hosted Exchange Email account (Office 365) and am having very odd
problems connecting both in Thunderbird and Evolution.
If I try to set up IMAP email in both Tbird and Evolution, it just goes into a
circle of an error message saying Cannot connect - is the User name and
Password
I can confirm Lenovo are good - I have a Lenovo U410 which is right at the
top end of your specs - £500 and a 13.5 screen.
All the hardware works just fine with 13.04 and 13.10
Cheers
Gordon
On 11 December 2013 18:19, Deryk Foote deryk.fo...@gmail.com wrote:
Ubuntu is great at a lot of
Just installed 13.10 as dual-boot on my Lenovo U410. Using a Logitech
M235 wireless mouse.
Cursor flickers when email is being downloaded, and when I type.
I've tried all the settings in SetingsMouse and Trackpad but to no
avail.
Can anyone help me with this?
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On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 18:20 +, Deryk Foote wrote:
A little Google-fu turns up a lot of similar issues related to Ubuntu
recognising a non-existent second monitor,
e.g. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2181671
Thanks for that - none of my searches came up with any references to a
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On 6 November 2013 11:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi! Having problems with this. Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI
and Intel Rapid Start. Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the
Windows OS as per normal and allows
Hi!
Having problems with this.
Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI and Intel Rapid Start.
Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the Windows OS as per normal and
allows installing into the prepared free space.
If I try to install 13.10, it doesn't detect Windows 8.1 at all.
I'm reluctant to proceed
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On 6 November 2013 11:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker
gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi! Having problems with this. Machine is Lenovo U410 with UEFI
and Intel Rapid Start. Installing 13.04 works fine - sees the
Windows
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On 6 November 2013 12:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker
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On 06/11/2013 12:20, Dave Morley wrote:
However you could do better
On 21/08/13 17:45, Paul White wrote:
When it comes to IT related matters, whether Windows or Linux based, I
have always considered myself to be an enthusiastic amateur.
Ditto!
In fact I'm quite proud of that bearing in mind that even pocket
calculators didn't exist when I was at school
On 24/07/2013 18:07, Liam Proven wrote:
On 24 July 2013 16:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Can anyone help as to why it still thinks that Windows is hibernated when
I've disabled Rapid Start and re-booted?
Can you disable hibernation altogether?
Ha! Tried that using
I have a Lenovo Ideapad U410 which came with Windows 8 pre-installed.
I'm running into a problem preparing for dual boot with 13.04.
The partition table looks like this:
http://sdrv.ms/1692SMb
I disabled Intel Rapid Start in the BIOS, and re-booted a couple of times.
I booted from the Ubuntu
Hi!
I have a Lenovo U410 on which I would like to dual-boot Ubuntu 13.04.
I've run it up on a live flash drive, everything works OK.
When it comes to the actual install I'm a bit nervous as although I'm
fairly competent with both Linux and Windows, I've never had a machine
with SSD/HDD in a
On 05/06/2013 01:55 PM, Barry Drake wrote:
On 02/05/13 16:14, alan c wrote:
I have often got undesirable responses from almost ANY 'shops' selling
PCs, although I have not tried much now that Android is blossoming so
well, and Chromebooks.
I have posted my actions in full at: Ubuntu bug #1 -
I'm creating images of actions in setting up various items for a
training document using Shutter on 12.04
I can add graphics such as arrows etc to the image, but the Text option
doesn't seem to work. I can add a text box which says new text but
there seems to be no way of entering what I want
On 06/01/13 09:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
No, it won't.
That's probably because your Windows 8 machine has UEFI - aka secure
boot. You need to disable secure boot before you can boot from anything
other than the HDD...
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On 06/01/13 10:47, Gareth France wrote:
And I find bottom posting extremely annoying. It means each post is
slightly more long winded to reply to than the last. So I just follow
the example of the previous poster.
Then people need to SNIP.
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On 01/12/12 14:26, Bruno Girin wrote:
System 76 ship everywhere in Europe now, including the UK, have a
International UK Keyboard Layout option and come pre-loaded with Ubuntu.
Thanks for the info - I looked at System 76 and their range seemed
better than the Linux Emporium
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Hi all,
Thought this might be of interest!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PyOYsQmetQ
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Say No to OOXMLhttp://www.linuxjournal.com/article/9594#mpart8
I only accept odf or pdf documents by email
On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was
sufficient, so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
Can you expand on that for a newbie?
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Say
On 16/11/12 17:00, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2012-11-16 15:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote:
but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was sufficient,
so I just do that from a live CD/USB now.
Can you expand on that for a newbie?
dd if=/dev
Hi!
I'm looking at the inevitable replacement of my 4 year old Toshiba
Satellite laptop in the near future and am looking at purchasing a
laptop pre-installed.
I'm having grave difficulties finding any vendors in the UK other than
Linux Emporium - are there any others?
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On 13/10/12 18:21, Anton Kanishchev wrote:
As far as I am aware there is also system76 that sell laptops with
Linux pre installed. I think it only does ubuntu but not sure myself.
Unfortunately they're in America!
Bearing in mind that laptops with Linux pre installed are not
In tried installing Bandwidthd from here:
http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/.
It didn't install properly. On trying the re-install I got this:
Preparing to replace bandwidthd 2.0.1 (using
.../SARGE-bandwidthd_2.0.1_i386.deb) ...
/etc/init.d/bandwidthd: 19: /etc/init.d/bandwidthd: Syntax error:
On 10/10/12 14:17, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
In tried installing Bandwidthd
Sorry, that should have included the fact I am using 12.04
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On 10/10/12 14:19, Phill Whiteside wrote:
Hi,
here's a set of notes created and saved a while ago :)
http://forum.phillw.net/viewtopic.php?f=4t=87
Regards,
Phill.
Thanks very much - seems to have done the job!
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According to this page
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/10/libreoffice-3-6-2-maintenance-update-released/
LO 3.6.2 is in the libreoffice ppa repository.
When I attempt to do the upgrade I get the message that there is nothing
to install as I already have the latest version - 3.6.0.2.
Can anyone
On 05/10/12 08:58, daniel wainwright wrote:
Just a thought...
Do you need to apt-get purge libreofice* and apt-get autoremove before
trying to install latest version?
Didn't need to do that when going from 3.5 to3.6 via the same method -
I'll give it a try though...
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On 05/10/12 09:02, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
According to this page http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/10/
libreoffice-3-6-2-maintenance-update-released/ LO 3.6.2 is in the libreoffice
ppa repository.
When I attempt to do the upgrade I get the message that there is nothing
On 05/10/12 09:14, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 05/10/12 09:02, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
According to this page http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/10/
libreoffice-3-6-2-maintenance-update-released/ LO 3.6.2
On 05/10/12 09:20, Mark Fraser wrote:
On Oct 5, 2012 9:04 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com
mailto:gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 05/10/12 09:02, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
According to this page http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/10/
libreoffice-3-6-2
On 05/10/12 09:51, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
1:3.6.0~rc4-0ubuntu3~ppa1~precise1 (/var/lib/apt/lists/
ppa.launchpad.net_libreoffice_ppa_ubuntu_dists_precise_main_binary-i386_Packages)
(/var/lib/dpkg/status)
File: /var/lib/apt/lists
On 03/10/12 22:27, paul sutton wrote:
try http://ubuntu-manual.org/
Thanks - I have the pdf of that thanks to another responder. Problem is
I know most of what's in that - the only really useful section would
seem to be the troubleshooting one at the end!
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On 03/10/12 15:21, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
I'm a reasonable user of Ubuntu - both on my netbook and dual-booting
with Windows 7 on my main laptop.
I'm looking for a book on either Ubuntu or Linux in general in the
Windows inside out type of format, i.e. from simple through to
fairly
I'm a reasonable user of Ubuntu - both on my netbook and dual-booting
with Windows 7 on my main laptop.
I'm looking for a book on either Ubuntu or Linux in general in the
Windows inside out type of format, i.e. from simple through to fairly
technical, suitable for a general user - me!
I'm
Ubuntu 12.04
Am I correct in thinking that the Search function on the Dash should
search all of the documents/applications on the machine, or does it only
search the Recently Used lists?
Because if it's the former, then it doesn't. Is there some sort of
indexing parameter that needs to be set?
I upgraded to LO 3.6.2 using the ppa via these instructions
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/08/libreoffice-3-6-lands-in-its-official-ppa-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/
and have discovered a slight niggle.
An open document does NOT show by the little arrow on the (say) Writer
icon in the
On 10/09/12 11:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
I upgraded to LO 3.6.2 using the ppa via these instructions
http://www.liberiangeek.net/2012/08/libreoffice-3-6-lands-in-its-official-ppa-in-ubuntu-12-04-precise-pangolin/
and have discovered a slight niggle.
An open document does NOT show
On 10/09/12 12:51, Alan Pope wrote:
On 10/09/12 11:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Solved by a Re-boot.
Didn't think that re-boots applied in Linux apart from Kernel
upgrades! ;-)
Logout/login would have fixed it,
Yes - had a mental blackout. Just been doing some Windows work, so still
On 10/09/12 13:10, Alan Pope wrote:
On 10/09/12 12:57, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
How do I restart Unity?
ALT+F2, type unity, press enter.
Thanks for the info!
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