Re: [ubuntu-uk] NFSv4 on new 12.04 server? Now USB issues...

2012-11-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
Lee, What's the brand of the USB drive? Sounds like it's running as a USB1.1 device rather than USB2. -Matt Daubney On 25 November 2012 19:19, LeeGroups mailgro...@varga.co.uk wrote: Simon/Matt, You are indeed correct, the speed of the USB drive appears to be the issue rather than the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NFSv4 on new 12.04 server?

2012-11-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
Need more information :) How are you connecting to the server (Wired/Wireless N/G), what is the drive you're writing too, how fast does it copy internally? What is the exports line? -Matt Daubney On 24 November 2012 19:41, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: My immediate response

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum outing

2012-06-21 Thread Matthew Daubney
Ooooh! I'd be interested if you go after the 12th of next month :) On 20 June 2012 23:43, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Anybody fancy a geeky museum outing one weekend to go see the Codebreaker exhibition at the Science Museum?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-04 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 4 May 2012 09:42, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry to say that we're not going to get an answer to this one. I made a bit of a mistake. I found that I've now got 2 seperate issues, first that my grafted home folder naturally has permissions issues preventing logon and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reading meetup tomorrow evening

2012-03-29 Thread Matthew Daubney
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1600/detail/ :) On 29 March 2012 09:11, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: What meet is this? It seems to have escaped my attention. On 28/03/12 18:53, Alan Bell wrote: On 28/03/12 18:05, Matthew Daubney wrote: Who'll be along? I should

[ubuntu-uk] Reading meetup tomorrow evening

2012-03-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
Who'll be along? I should be there for a bit, but might have to vanish to collect the missus from some work do, but am looking forward to seeing people again! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Booklets?

2011-12-23 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 23 December 2011 07:52, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: snip I'm also less convinced of the use of the QR code on the front. Personally I've never used one for anything other than proving they work. I am pretty sure most normal people don't use them either. They have them on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Booklets?

2011-12-23 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 23 December 2011 11:21, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 23/12/11 11:14, Matthew Daubney wrote: They have them on train station platforms now, providing a link to timetables for trains :) Was the first major use I saw for them. Also noticed them on a few bus stop type

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Booklets?

2011-12-23 Thread Matthew Daubney
snip other stuff I agree in principle. Having a small one somewhere to take you to some more relevant information that might not be on the packaging would be nice (like the manual, or a Welcome to the Ubuntu community) type page, or, of course, the Ubuntu-UK website :) Thinking about this, a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Attractive Features for Ubuntu

2011-12-21 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 21 December 2011 00:09, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: Liam Proven wrote: The main think I like is the notification system. When logged in with Empathy, if I receive a message a small notification appears at the bottom of the screen with the message, which I can then click to reply

[ubuntu-uk] Upcoming job opportunity

2011-12-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello! I have an upcoming job opening for someone to essentially do the technical support for a small company in Aldermaston. The technical support process at the moment is that the problem lands on my desk and I try and sort it out while doing other things. As the business has grown this has now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open source in schools ....

2011-12-05 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 5 December 2011 11:16, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there   Received a reply from my MP this morning about open standards in schools.  In the reply was the following link which you might find of interest: http://opensourceschools.org.uk Regards,        Barry. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 2 December 2011 13:55, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: paul sutton wrote: I am sure if you got to Microsoft or Apple or any other BIG player you get a fast response.  This is the business world i guess people want a quick response. Only if you pay them for it; Canonical sell that sort

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 2 December 2011 14:04, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: There NEEDS to be a quick response, even if that response is 'you have to subscribe', 'you have to upgrade', 'you're supposed to look there'! The lack of replies from Canonical is causing me major headaches. snip old

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

2011-12-02 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 2 December 2011 14:11, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: The difference with someone like Intel or Quantum is that they don't need to establish their brand wheras Ubuntu has a long way to go and alienating anyone, be it OEM, support or end user is going to cost them dearly. snip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu in a networked workplace

2011-11-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 17 November 2011 07:03, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: - Mensaje original - On 16/11/11 21:54, Andres wrote: Curiosity question: If ubuntu was installed in a company with around 1600 desktops and laptops that need to be networked with shared server drives and need to be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LO in 11.10 STILL CANNOT USE TBird addressbook as an address data source!!!!!!!!!

2011-10-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 19 October 2011 09:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: snip OK so why don't Canonical just provide the version of LO that comes direct from the LO website? snip My guess would be that it might not play nice with the OpenJDK (by default), and since you're not allowed to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
Sorry, this is turning into a big rant about web based admin and having a gui on a small office/home server, but this is something that really really pushes the GAH buttons for me. begin more ranting On 26 September 2011 22:18, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: snip me ranting lots Well

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
2011/9/27 Juan J. reid...@usebox.net: On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:28 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: [...] I'd suspect the average person on the end of the phone wouldn't be too scared of being talked through fixing it rather than average bloke on the end of th phone where you say First go

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 27 September 2011 08:47, Dan Attwood danattw...@gmail.com wrote: Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all the desktop GUI libraries on the server, Yes, because HDD space is expensive these days!  My understanding is is not about space. Extra libraries means

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
2011/9/27 Juan J. reid...@usebox.net: snip We're obviously talking about different users here, but having desktop + GUI tools by default in Ubuntu Server would be a no-go for the technical userbase of Ubuntu. Good, again, we've just ignored the target audience and decided that it's actually

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

2011-09-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 27 September 2011 11:38, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: snip more of me ranting Matt I still think a full blown desktop is a faff.  If you're not in the office and need to access the box forwarding x over a hotel network is not going to be fun in any shape or form. Simple

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04

2011-09-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 26 September 2011 13:48, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Now we're perilously close to releasing 11.10 onto the world, it's been asked [0] what things the developers would like to see the focus on for the 12.04 (Long Term Support) release. Personally I would like all core applications to

[ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

2011-09-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
So... I've been tinkering with ldap for a few weeks now to get a feel of how it works (and what it does) and keep considering trying to get rid of the hodge podge of bodgy scripts that have cropped up to make things work with it. If such a system was designed, and taking ldap as the base, what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home/Small Business Server

2011-09-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 26 September 2011 21:17, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: snip Ahh, SoHo server... a perennial want of many (including myself). I'm getting so annoyed by this being missing it's starting to become an itch :( I'll refer you to this spec:- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuEasyBusinessServer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] kernel - missing header.

2011-08-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 27 August 2011 18:49, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there  When I tried to re-build the module for my wi-fi dongle, I got the error that smp_lock.h was missing.  I eventually found a workaround on a Swedish site!  Simply putting a symlink into an earlier set of

[ubuntu-uk] Oggcamp pictures

2011-08-14 Thread Matthew Daubney
Anyone who would like to join in, at lunch we'd like to do a mass photo for the reapproval process. Alan Bell and myself will be just outside the main door, just come say hi :-) - Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oggcamp pictures

2011-08-14 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 14 August 2011 11:20, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 14 August 2011 11:16, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: Anyone who would like to join in, at lunch we'd like to do a mass photo for the reapproval process. Alan Bell and myself will be just outside the main door, just come say

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Upgrading to 11.04 Desktop

2011-08-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 3 August 2011 14:55, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Hi It fails every time with Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gwibber/gwibber-service-facebook_3.0.0.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb 403  Forbidden Any ideas? Regards Jon Jon Farmer Tel 07795 118140 Are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] I'm new

2011-07-29 Thread Matthew Daubney
helpers possess this. On 27/07/11 12:56, Matthew Daubney wrote: Hi Paula, I don't suppose you know this persons irc nick? We can have a look in the logs and see where we went wrong. Thanks, Matt Daubney On Jul 27, 2011 12:41 PM, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 24/07/11 18:19

Re: [ubuntu-uk] I'm new

2011-07-29 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 29 July 2011 17:28, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 29/07/11 12:35, Matthew Daubney wrote: Hi Alan, While it is true the general issue has been stated, in order to properly assess what that specific user may see as technical and not technical really depends on the person

Re: [ubuntu-uk] I'm new

2011-07-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hi Paula, I don't suppose you know this persons irc nick? We can have a look in the logs and see where we went wrong. Thanks, Matt Daubney On Jul 27, 2011 12:41 PM, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 24/07/11 18:19, Alan Bell wrote: On 24/07/11 10:58, a.hun...@visuality-group.co.uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Geeknic+sci-fi at the british library: reminder?

2011-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 22 July 2011 16:10, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to catch up with emails. Can we have a reminder of some sort? Meeting at the benches in front of library? How would we recognize each other? Geeknic before event? Hallo! I believe the plan is to meet at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Geeknic+sci-fi at the british library: reminder?

2011-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 22 July 2011 16:25, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On 22 July 2011 16:10, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I've been trying to catch up with emails. Can we have a reminder of some sort? Meeting at the benches in front of library? How would we recognize each other

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Schools

2011-07-11 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 11 July 2011 03:34, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: hiyas, sorry I have not been to active of late, life is a little hectic. but I do recall a discussion about the software schools use. In america or canada they can use http://www.google.com/apps/intl/en/edu/index.html which is a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] boot time

2011-07-08 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 8 July 2011 10:41, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: Is it my imagination or does 11.04 take considerably longer to cold boot than previous, recent versions of Ubuntu? Norman You can measure this with bootchart http://www.bootchart.org/ I think it's in the repos. -Matt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam 2nd-4th September

2011-07-08 Thread Matthew Daubney
I'd vote on some time being assigned to a set of technical talks as I don't attend enough these days. On a side note, if someone would like to give a tslk on how oAuth works, I'd be all ears :-) Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Facebook page - now with extra vanity

2011-07-01 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 1 July 2011 13:18, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote: well we reached the milestone of 25 likes on our Facebook page so now have a sparkly new vanity URL: http://www.facebook.com/UbuntuUK . . . and we got it just in time for Google Plus to be released and render Facebook redundant.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?

2011-06-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 24 June 2011 10:11, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: As a team we do stuff for the Ubuntu. Most of this stuff is based on ideas a few people have had within the team. This includes:- * Support * Advocacy * Promotion * Events I figured it's time to get some fresh ideas. So, simple

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?

2011-06-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 24 June 2011 10:11, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: As a team we do stuff for the Ubuntu. Most of this stuff is based on ideas a few people have had within the team. This includes:- * Support * Advocacy * Promotion * Events I figured it's time to get some fresh ideas. So, simple

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?

2011-06-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
What about writing letters to local papers such as I would like to raise the profile of event name, a local event where people can come and discuss the possibilities of computing and learn how to help others by using open source software. or somesuch. Did wonder if anyone was going to run an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 30 test drive of Ubuntu: PC world

2011-06-11 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 11 June 2011 11:33, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Have you seen Matt Daubneys' attempt at going from Ubuntu to Windows for 30 days? http://daubers.co.uk/2011/06/09/from-linux-to-windows-for-30-days/ It is a nice idea. The elephant in the room is that almost nobody I know who

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

2011-06-08 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 8 June 2011 17:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: snip The major problem (IMHO) in using Linux instead of Windows for ordinary users, is the difficulty with Office 2007 and 2010 documents, which are becoming more and more Email and web browsing is dead easy - it's the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] British Library, Geeknicky fun-ness!

2011-05-31 Thread Matthew Daubney
Well, I closed the poll. Based on the results, Sunday the 24th of July looks the best! Spread the word and I hope to see you all there! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] British Library, Geeknicky fun-ness!

2011-05-30 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 12 May 2011 21:54, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: As per the meeting the other day, there is a plan to go see the SciFi exhibition at the British Library in London at some point in July/August. If all goes to plan, we'll all head off for a geeknic in a nice green bit nearby

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnumeric or librecalc? selecting cells

2011-05-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 24 May 2011 13:57, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm about to ask questions about software that runs on ubuntu please tell me if this is out of line (or simply ignore) and I'll go subscribe myself to the appropriate list. You're more than welcome to ask these

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

2011-05-21 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 21 May 2011 09:55, Liam Gallear liam.gall...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 May 2011, at 09:40, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Greetings! My friend had this conversation with her Dad:- Dad: Can you get in contact with Alan and get him to help me with my computer Friend: I'll be honest,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Race Online Official Partner Confirmation

2011-05-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 19 May 2011 10:05, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote: ick, sorry about the epic long URLS, I started a wiki page for RaceOnline and uploaded the certificate there if people want to see it https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/RaceOnline Alan. Ok... so now we're a partner, what (can/do we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking towards 12.04

2011-05-19 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 19 May 2011 17:05, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2011-05-19 at 16:54 +0100, a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi folks, Sorry if I sounded dumb - maybe it's too long working with Windows which meant that when I saw all the talk about copy/paste being on the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 PCs shocker!

2011-05-18 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 18 May 2011 13:05, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: So what can we do about this, I am currently helping at a youth music project that has now got 4 / 5 ubuntu computers up and running, I am struggling to maintain what we have on zero budget What help do you need and where? if we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy and 11.04

2011-05-16 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 16 May 2011 16:27, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: On 16 May 2011 15:48, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 16 May 2011 15:44, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Easiest way to try is move your finger forward and back along the right hand edge when in a scrollable window. So

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy and 11.04

2011-05-16 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 16 May 2011 16:49, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: On 16 May 2011 16:45, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: I'd argue the point on the loss of fine control, you can still drag those little arrows up and down to get to where you want in a document, rather than just clicking

[ubuntu-uk] British Library, Geeknicky fun-ness!

2011-05-12 Thread Matthew Daubney
As per the meeting the other day, there is a plan to go see the SciFi exhibition at the British Library in London at some point in July/August. If all goes to plan, we'll all head off for a geeknic in a nice green bit nearby afterwards, and maybe other bits and bobs too depending who feels like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Borked my Mac installing Ubuntu 11.04, now blackscreens beeps on restart then takes exactly 4 attempts to boot

2011-04-30 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 30 April 2011 01:55, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote: So guess who broke his Mac trying to install the latest Ubuntu? Every now then, I think I'm more of a geek than I really am, and try to do something to make myself feel hardcore, but that ends up just being plain humbling! There

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leadership Election Process

2011-03-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
Ar me swashbuckling mateys! 'Tis important that ye be remembering this adventure. The treasure be in sight and Cap'n Bell needs to be certain of the course he be chartin. Those blasted NInja's do be runnin amok in this search for the treasure of certainty, those landlubbin' need to be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SATA drive problem .....

2011-03-18 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 18 March 2011 12:20, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi there .. I'm really scratching my head over this one. My wife's computer has a ALiveNF6P-VSTA motherboard. This has one IDE connector and four SATA ports. It was running Windows 2000 on a SATA drive, so I installed a

[ubuntu-uk] Team Leadership Election Process

2011-03-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
Otherwise known as The Most Important Thing You'll Read This Week! It had been pointed out that there was no documented process anywhere for the LoCo leadership contest. Somehow I seemed to manage with the action of doing this from a meeting I forgot to attend (that'll teach me!) Anyway, can

[ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

2011-03-10 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello, I'm looking at quad booting my laptop (Win 7, Ubuntu (dev), debian(stable) and LFS) and wondered if it was possible to use a shared /boot partition across the 3 linux distros. The main reason for doing so would be so that everything is more tidy, but also to reduce wasted space! Any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-05 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2011-03-04 at 19:58 +, John MM wrote: Ok, I just wondered, can I ask the question again, I have managed to get the computers to see each other, but I cannot get Nautilus to show the directories, from either the Ubuntu partition or the Windows Partition. When I go into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-05 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2011-03-05 at 10:33 +, John MM wrote: On 05/03/11 08:14, Matthew Daubney wrote: Not sure if this will help, but I've never got nautilus to work happily in that manner with SMB, however, if you hit ctrl+l in a nautilus window it will drop you into the address bar. Now just type

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum of Computing events

2011-03-01 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 20:09 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: snip May 14 Museums at Night - Overnight Games Programming Challenge 8pm to midnight. Remember the 1980's when the Sinclair Spectrum and Commodore 64 were deadly rivals? This was a time when anybody with a talent for programming could

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PS/2 port detection

2010-12-11 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 23:07 +, Jacob Mansfield wrote: not strictly Ubuntu but would anybody be able to explain how the BIOS detects PS/2 devices. I'm setting up a media center PC with no keyboard and keep getting stuck with a 'no keyboard detected, press F1 to continue' message, depending

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accessing Shared folders on a Windows 7 machine from Ubuntu 10.04

2010-12-05 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 10:12 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 03/12/2010 12:31, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:05 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I have removed the Homegroup , replaced it with a Workgroup and shared folders on the Windows Machine. I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accessing Shared folders on a Windows 7 machine from Ubuntu 10.04

2010-12-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 16:05 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I have removed the Homegroup , replaced it with a Workgroup and shared folders on the Windows Machine. I have installed Samba and changed the Workgroup name on the Ubuntu machine to match that of the Windows 7 machine. The

[ubuntu-uk] A chance to say Hello!

2010-11-12 Thread Matthew Daubney
Tomorrow afternoon (from about 11:30 - ~12:30/1:00) I'll be in Costa Coffee in Oxford.. (here http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=costa +coffee,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A chance to say Hello!

2010-11-12 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 11:59 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 12/11/2010 10:09, Matthew Daubney wrote: Tomorrow afternoon (from about 11:30 - ~12:30/1:00) I'll be in Costa Coffee in Oxford.. (here http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=qsource=s_qhl=engeocode=q=costa +coffee, +oxfordsll

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using VPN in Ubuntu to connect to BT FON or Openzone

2010-11-10 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 10 Nov 2010, at 20:33, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: BT have a version of Cisco VPN for Windows only – is there anyone on the list who has used any VPN client in Ubuntu to connect to BT wireless hotspots? You can get cisco vpn for Linux. It's called VPNC in the repos (I believe) -Matt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity and Gnome Shell

2010-10-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
Good Morning :) On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 21:23 +0100, Les Cunningham wrote: rant I have been looking at reviews of Gnome Shell, and I do not like what I have seen. (I have also tried running it, without success so far.) The screenshots show lots of white text on a black background, which I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! Does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:31 +0100, Simon Swaysland wrote: Hi, I need to connect a server to my home LAN, but it's too far for a reliable wireless connection. Ideally I would like to use CAT5, but I don't think the wife would apprecite me pulling up the laminate floor to lay it! Does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time? It will only show you what it detects (and the standard CDROM/Hard disk thing) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 13:49 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: yep, I used the usb disk creator on my desktop with the nbr image On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the F12

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-15 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 15 September 2010 10:36, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 09:53 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: the F12 options are PCMIA cdrom, hard disk and network boot Did you have a bootable USB stick in at the time

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-13 Thread Matthew Daubney
On 13 September 2010 20:09, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Jacob, Just install Ubuntu to a separate partition and it will wipe out the Windows bootloader and replace it with GRUB. You can then boot both Windows and Linux from there :)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash problems in 10.10

2010-09-09 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-09-08 at 10:40 +0100, John Matthews wrote: On 08/09/10 10:08, Glen Mehn wrote: On 08/09/10 07:00, Xiamen wrote: im using 10.10 , chromium on a macbook 2.1. when I watch flash movies (youtube youku tudou ...) the plug in crashes all the time...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu release and 42 day celebrations

2010-09-09 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-09-09 at 11:38 +0100, John Stevenson wrote: Hello all, During the day of 10th October (101010 / 42 day) I am planning an Ubuntu release / install party in London, merging into the the celebrations of 42 Day with the people from ZZ9.org, revelling in the life and works of the late

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disk Rescue!

2010-08-30 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 20:24 +0100, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote: Many thanks for the various pieces of advice. Have just finished booting up an old WIN98 setup CD, using the F8 key managed to get to a shell prompt where it had loaded a few utils into a RAMDISK. FDISK /STATUS showed some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt

2010-08-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Sat, 2010-08-28 at 01:22 +0100, Daniel Case wrote: Hi there, One of my servers has recently been attacked, it has one remote SSH user which cannot run 'sudo', i made it like that so that if it was comprimized, no-one would be able to do much. However, someone managed to gain the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

2010-08-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 07:10 +0100, alan c wrote: or nearly that, anyway. Article: Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing/ 'exam results have shown

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reminder: Support Meeting Thursday Evening!

2010-08-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-08-24 at 22:11 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: Quick reminder to everyone,there will be a meeting about improving support on Thursday evening at 7pm in #ubuntu-uk-meeting on irc.freenode.net :) Agenda up here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/SupportMeetingAgenda all welcome, even

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Dv camcorder]

2010-08-25 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-08-25 at 07:54 +0200, John wrote: e-mail message attachment, Forwarded message - Dv camcorder snip loads of output j...@john-desktop:~$ sudo modprobe raw1394 [sudo] password for john: j...@john-desktop:~$ This returning you to a prompt shows that it has worked with no

[ubuntu-uk] Reminder: Support Meeting Thursday Evening!

2010-08-24 Thread Matthew Daubney
Quick reminder to everyone,there will be a meeting about improving support on Thursday evening at 7pm in #ubuntu-uk-meeting on irc.freenode.net :) Agenda up here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/SupportMeetingAgenda all welcome, even if you just want to see what's going on. Thanks, -Matt Daubney

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team meeting this evening at 9PM UK Time

2010-08-20 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-08-20 at 09:31 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 20 August 2010 08:25, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: minutes are now in the traditional place https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting Next regular meeting is on the 1st at 9PM, but we have an additional

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04

2010-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:14 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 22/07/10 18:11, Daniel Case wrote: Right click a folder you would like to share, click Share Folder then tick a few boxes. It will ask you to install packages, click yes and it will install them for you. I've done

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Personal Filesharing problem in 10.04

2010-07-22 Thread Matthew Daubney
Scratch that, there is a bug report for this already.. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-user-share/+bug/536766 Looks like it wants Apache2 for some reason. Must be done using webdav or something. -Matt Daubney On Thu, 2010-07-22 at 18:50 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Thu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04

2010-07-14 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 23:22 +0100, David King wrote: In my Ubuntu 9.04 installation, just a few days ago, I lost my usage of the internet. I still had internet access. Firstly though, there was a problem with the router, so I tried a friend's router (both Netgear DG834) and the friend's one

[ubuntu-uk] PLN! (for improving support)

2010-07-13 Thread Matthew Daubney
Yes, thats PLN, with a P an L and an N. I've been a bit absent recently, for which I apologise, but shall explain why in a moment. I have finally come to a plan for improving support and now need some willing volunteers. There will be a small perk for those volunteers... but more on that later.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PLN! (for improving support)

2010-07-13 Thread Matthew Daubney
Apologies for replying to myself, quick wiki page for Volunteers (if they feel like, feel free to come along to the meeting before putting your name down) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/CoreSupportVolunteers -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommended small server hardware

2010-07-08 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-07-08 at 17:19 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: Hi Thanks for the replies Al suggested the.. Dell Inspiron Zino:- and John recommended the... Acer Aspire Revo Both of which seem to fit the bill regarding power, footprint etc both at good prices but have either of you (or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 14:41 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Matt, On 29/06/10 12:53, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] ubuntu-uk.org site downtime

2010-06-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 17:32 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 17 June 2010 15:55, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Just a quick note to say I'm upgrading the ubuntu-uk.org VPS from 8.04 to 10.04 today. There will be some disruption to the loco site, podcast site and the various bots we have from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Learn Linux with CompTIA and LPI

2010-06-08 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Tue, 2010-06-08 at 09:25 +0100, Bill Quinn wrote: snip good stuff To enter, simply click here, http://www.comptia.org/global/en-GB/misc/linuxpluslpi.aspx and fill in the form as well as answer the following question: What date was the Linux kernel made open to the public? Remember, you’ve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:24 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: On 3 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jun 3, 2010 at 1:38 PM, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: I vote 'no' to a London skyline. Why, because it's London? No, because I see it all over the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 14:30 +0100, micheal harker wrote: snippety Could the community Provide their Mockups? We can work at a design we all like. Right, I had a go. Not particularly good.. but since LoCo = community, thought we should be a bit more people orientated.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-03 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hello all, In order to get as much input as possible and get things rolling, we've started an Etherpad here http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/NewUKSite feel free to edit/add stuff and get your tuppence in now :) -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 12:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 28 May 2010 12:34, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote: I also like Unetbootln, however if you want to create a peristent version of Ubuntu ( to store additional files such as your documents, etc) then the Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-28 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:30 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 28 May 2010 13:27, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: Surely that depends if you also want to use that image as an installer? I guess. But that wasn't implied from the assertion made. Cheers, Al. I have a 16GB USB stick

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-05-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, James Tait wrote: snip Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip!] Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly awful) talk at Oggcamp on this subject. Next time I have a chance to talk about what I'm trying to achieve I _should_ be able to do it better

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk

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