Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-13 Thread Jason Liquorish
Count me in :-) -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] change from 9.04 to 8.10

2009-06-18 Thread Jason Liquorish
sibility that some of the configuration files within home from 9.04 would not be compatible with 8.10 due to the fact some applications will be going back a few versions? I am sure I broke Liferea when I tried to feed it a configuration file from a newer version a while back. -- Jason Liquori

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Daily expenses apps in ubuntu. Are there any?

2009-06-18 Thread Jason Liquorish
t may be worth taking a look at http://www.tuxradar.com/content/group-test-home-finance-software as that compares a few pieces of software that may be what you are looking for. -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One - timescale?

2009-06-16 Thread Jason Liquorish
alan c wrote: > I recently decided to try the proposed Ubuntu One facility, and got > myself on a waiting list. > > Any ideas of timescales please, anyone? I signed up a few days after it opened and have not heard anything since so it looks to be a while if you got in late. -- Jas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Last Barrier!

2009-06-09 Thread Jason Liquorish
it.ly/10snx3 [2] http://bit.ly/yRqFQ [3] http://bit.ly/3OLtK9 [4] http://bit.ly/Hh3jW [5] http://bit.ly/qiPU7 -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop

2009-03-04 Thread Jason Liquorish
y could not have a refund. > This is exactly what I got told for my HP laptop, and when I rang MS I got told it was HPs problem. Unless you have the time and patients to take this as far as possible and you document you removing XP etc. then unfortunately I doubt you are going to get far. Reg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Poundland

2009-03-03 Thread Jason Liquorish
e but could not find any sign of USB flash drives. > > > David King Popped into my local Poundland (Nottingham) and could not find anything, nearest thing was a no-name USB hub. Thanks for posting this anyway, good luck to anyone else looking. Regards - -- Jason Liquorish - -BEGIN

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Linux Format have the Knoppix 6 cd this month

2009-02-28 Thread Jason Liquorish
Paul Sladen wrote: > On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Ken Robson wrote: >> And Poundland have Pqi 1Gb mini usb sticks > > For only a Pound? > > -Paul Looks like I am getting myself to Poundland later, thanks =) -- Jason Liquorish - -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice on backing up Ubuntu machine

2009-02-23 Thread Jason Liquorish
the options do, especially with something as important as backups! [0] http://blog.interlinked.org/tutorials/rsync_time_machine.html [1] http://code.google.com/p/flyback/wiki/HowItWorks [2] http://code.google.com/p/flyback/wiki/FAQ [3] http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ [4] http://www2.backup-manage

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting JDK 6 as default Java alternative on Ubuntu

2009-02-23 Thread Jason Liquorish
Jason Liquorish wrote: > doug livesey wrote: >> Hi -- as part of trying to get OpenLaszlo to work on my Ubuntu machine, >> I need to set it up so that the default version of Java it is running is >> a JDK (preferably 6). >> I've found tuts that tell me how to sele

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting JDK 6 as default Java alternative on Ubuntu

2009-02-23 Thread Jason Liquorish
e. Doing that works fine for me and I think the runtime and development packages are just separate for ease of use. Thanks -- Jason Liquorish - -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows Vista Ultimate Edition

2008-11-17 Thread Jason Liquorish
ling it then donating at least a portion of the profits to FOSS. -- Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] video playback

2008-11-02 Thread Jason Liquorish
ty/Medibuntu#Adding%20the%20Repositories Hope that helps you out. -- Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommended Reads

2008-10-22 Thread Jason Liquorish
www.diveintopython.org) > > For Java there's Thinking In Java, part of a whole series by Bruce > Eckel, and is also well worth checking out (even if you're familiar > with the language). It's also available online at > http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/ (with the newer version, not

[ubuntu-uk] Recommended Reads

2008-10-19 Thread Jason Liquorish
and Design, Databases, HCI and Web Design particularly interesting areas/subjects. Thank you in advance for recommendations in any of the subjects listed or other areas =) -- Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] proggrame

2008-09-15 Thread Jason Liquorish
> You could also talk to the dropbox people about having a better system > in place to handle this. > > Thanks, > > James > > I tried the session options but it does not turn up there unfortunately, I think dropbox are planning to add more advanced options soon although it is still in beta. -- Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] proggrame

2008-09-15 Thread Jason Liquorish
I think your only hope here is to hope some clever soul has a suggestion that will make the program only run for specified users from within ubuntu. Regards -- Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Windows Dual Boot

2008-09-06 Thread Jason Liquorish
//help.ubuntu.com/community/RecoveringUbuntuAfterInstallingWindows#Quick%20Start and this is the method I usually use if I have to install windows next to a previous ubuntu install or if windows needs reinstalling and overwrites grub. The other option is to run windows inside a virtual machin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help gord fix his stupid blog

2008-08-09 Thread Jason Liquorish
image hosted on the planet that you use as your little icon is too big. To fix it just reduce the size of the image to something a little more sensible and ask someone (popey?) to replace your image on the planet. Hope that helps. -- Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support

2008-07-12 Thread Jason Liquorish
seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply. The correct address for Radio 2 is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/radio2_nb_e1s1 -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC iPlayer update: better radio support

2008-07-12 Thread Jason Liquorish
o 1 and 2 to Rhythmbox quite easily. The address for the Radio 2 feed is mms://wmlive-acl.bbc.co.uk/wms/radio2/ just add that as a radio station and it should play fine. -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Jason Liquorish
Jason Liquorish wrote: > Keith wrote: >> I've managed to get myself into a bit of a pickle and would appreciate >> any help. >> >> I have a non-Windows machine with two separate hard drives. Ubuntu is >> on one and Kubuntu on the other, They are both part

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Jason Liquorish
nsole then you have full root access. from here you can run "passwd " to change the password of that user. I have had this problem before and it was worrying to find out how easy it was to do this, although if someone has physical access to your computer its as good as compromised any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox?

2008-07-04 Thread Jason Liquorish
efore installing Firefox 2? Or in synaptic marking Firefox as "Mark for Complete Removal" that should remove pretty much every trace of Firefox. I must say for a while I was running Firefox 2 and 3 side by side with no problems. -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wanted: Podcast transcribers

2008-06-25 Thread Jason Liquorish
indows machine to the windows VM. > > Others can help you here... :o) > > M. > I use VirtualBox to do exactly that in Ubuntu, as far as I know it is also available for Windows. One thing to note is the NON open source edition is the one that allows you to share usb devices betw

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] ubuntu web site and variants

2008-04-27 Thread Jason Liquorish
rience is apparently > hidden > > Any one know what the web site intention is? > Am I missing what you are trying to say here or am I right in you are looking for links to the rest of the Ubuntu family on the main page of the site? If so look down the bottom right, they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop screen much clearer with hardy?

2008-04-21 Thread Jason Liquorish
peter wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 11:53 +0100, Jason Liquorish wrote: > >> peter wrote: >> >>> On Sun, 2008-04-20 at 17:48 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: >>> >>> >>>> On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 1:10 PM, peter <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop screen much clearer with hardy?

2008-04-21 Thread Jason Liquorish
Kris Douglas wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 11:53 AM, Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Well I have upgraded my Lenovo to Hardy and given it a test run. I >> cannot say I noticed anything amazingly different, maybe a little >> clearer but it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop screen much clearer with hardy?

2008-04-21 Thread Jason Liquorish
there must be a contrast type thing that > has been altered? > > Peter > > > Well I have upgraded my Lenovo to Hardy and given it a test run. I cannot say I noticed anything amazingly different, maybe a little clearer but it still does not beat the glossy display on my HP. -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop screen much clearer with hardy?

2008-04-20 Thread Jason Liquorish
[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > nope resolution is correct and unchanged. Its just so odd. Me and the > other half spent most of this morning looking at the screen trying to > work it out! > > peter > > > I am upgrading the Lenovo now, was going to hold b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop screen much clearer with hardy?

2008-04-20 Thread Jason Liquorish
notice this too, although my new HP G6065 looks very nice with Hardy. Just on a side note I have not been using ndiswrapper on my Lenovo since Gutsy. -- Jason Liquorish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GRUB

2008-04-12 Thread Jason Liquorish
On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 11:46 +0100, Russell Green wrote: > 1. sudo grub > 2. find /boot/grub/stage1 > 3. root [output of previous command] (hdx,y) > 4. setup (hd0) > 5. quit > > That should do it.;) That was the way I tried first but find /boot/grub/stage1 showed (hd0,1) and (hd0,2) as there is mo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GRUB

2008-04-12 Thread Jason Liquorish
On Sat, 2008-04-12 at 09:25 +0100, Ken Adams wrote: > Hi All > > I have muddled my brain a bit. > > I WAS running 7.04 on my machine. Then to keep a working system I > installed 8.04 Beta on the same HD by resizing the HD etc. This gave > Grub on the 8.04 control of booting. > > Then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The BBC Launches Wiiplayer??? WHAT!?

2008-04-09 Thread Jason Liquorish
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 20:38 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > Jake Bunce wrote: > > Maybe someone should make the BBC aware of their Purpose and Values > > statement. As per http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/purpose/ > > > > > > Public purposes > > > > The BBC is a unique institution, owned by the Britis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Jason Liquorish
tp://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >>> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >>> https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ >>> >>> >> >> > &g

[ubuntu-uk] Petition against BBC iplayer

2007-07-09 Thread Jason Liquorish
lists that may be interested in our campaign. Thanks! -- Jason Liquorish - Bassetts OpenPGP Key - http://www.dropshock.com/jason.gpg http://blog.dropshock.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/