Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

2016-09-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 19 September 2016 21:07:13 BST, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 19 September 2016 at 20:13, Neil Greenwood ><neil.greenwood@gmail.com> wrote: >> Sorry for the top post, I'm on my phone. >> >> I think partimage does what you want already. C

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Script to dd from an SD card only partitioned area

2016-09-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
Sorry for the top post, I'm on my phone. I think partimage does what you want already. Clonezilla gives a (very slightly) friendlier front end, but I've not used either for several years... Neil On 19 September 2016 17:49:44 BST, Colin Law <clan...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 19 Septe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Enlightenment

2015-11-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
>Router B >IP 192.168.1.2 >DHCP off > To get this working properly, you might need to configure Router B to forward the DHCP packets to Router A, rather than just disabling DHCP. That's what I had to do with my very similar configuration. Neil >Stuart -- Sent from my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clock settings greyed out

2015-05-27 Thread Neil Stuttard
the previous few days, and I'm sure clock displayed OK since those updates. Thanks for any advice, Dianne Mine does that occasionally. 'Restart' has always cured it for me. I imagine the hardware can sometimes glitch the boot up sequence and not load everything as it should. hth, Neil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Neil Greenwood
a bit of a go. www.saynoto0870.com has a list of alternatives to lots of 08xx numbers. Try that. Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icons go missing ...

2015-01-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 12 January 2015 13:42:57 GMT+00:00, George DiceGeorge dicegeo...@hotmail.com wrote: http://news.softpedia.com/news/Ubuntu-15-04-Gets-Linux-Kernel-3-18-467083.shtml Ubuntu 15.04 (Vidid Vervet) is now under development and this is a time when new features and components are added to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

2014-09-18 Thread Neil Greenwood
into one bigger one, but it can be tricky to split a larger change up into smaller bits. Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comparing installed packages

2014-05-05 Thread Neil Greenwood
suggest ignoring the automatically installed dependencies from the list of packages - aptitude search ~i!?automatic should do the trick... Of course, if you are feeling particularly masochistic, you could try to automate the whole thing in sed! :-) Neil. -- Sent from my Android device with K-9

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

2014-04-18 Thread Neil Greenwood
that it wasn't a confusion caused by a sans font... Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
. Neil -- Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity.-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 11 March 2014 07:08:03 GMT, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2014 16:38:47 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 March 2014 16:38, Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com wrote: dpkg -l | grep '^i' -- dpkg -l (lowercase L) lists all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 103, Issue 2

2013-11-05 Thread Neil Greenwood
man page for history expansion to find lots more shortcuts. Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] fsck during boot

2013-10-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
without problem. It will then take effect on the next boot. Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samsung might be getting rid of Android and using their own Linux based OS

2013-09-14 Thread Neil Greenwood
in the packaging after it arrived. As someone in work put it, you can have great customer service *or* a company that pays UK tax... :-( Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samsung might be getting rid of Android and using their own Linux based OS

2013-09-13 Thread Neil Greenwood
have a SIM-only contract with 3, and got my last few handsets from amazon or eBay. There are about a dozen others in my office who do the same. But then we are gadget geeks! Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] proxy settings with log in for package manager?

2013-09-09 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 8 September 2013 08:07, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.eswrote: El 07/09/2013 21:11, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com escribió: On 6 September 2013 15:51, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I finally came up the solution: looking up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] proxy settings with log in for package manager?

2013-09-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
-get-does-not-work-with-proxy Neil. P.S. Sorry for the delay in replying, I tried sending it yesterday but the gmail app on my phone is playing up... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Saucy and unity-common

2013-07-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
if it was a temporary issue. Should I remove unity-common? I tried Google and came up blank... Thanks for any suggestions, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy and unity-common

2013-07-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
out. Neil On 23 Jul 2013 13:39, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 July 2013 13:29, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else using Saucy yet? A few days ago I was presented with a unity update that won't install because of a conflict

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy and unity-common

2013-07-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 23 Jul 2013 16:26, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: That wants to remove unity and ubuntu-desktop and... I still see a candidate version for unity-common, even though I've just done an update. Hmm, I wonder if it's because I'm using aptitude instead of apt-get. OK

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Deja-dup [lucky] backup

2013-05-31 Thread Neil Greenwood
. But seriously, what do you recommend? It's useful to know before these things are needed. :) J Testdisk and/or photorec. There are even dedicated live distros that specialise i'n disk recovery, as far as I remember. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packages for Java and Postgresql

2013-05-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
/~webupd8team/+archive/java it has instructions on how to install and use the PPA. HTH, Neil On 15 May 2013 16:52, surfer pmul...@gofast.co.uk wrote: I have just updated my system to 12.10. I have been looking for both recent versions of Java and Postgresql, but cannot find a key or lock that I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cranky old Rhythmbox

2013-05-10 Thread Neil Greenwood
Top- posting because the rest of the thread is... I have rhythmbox running fine in 13.04, with 6000+ tracks (not sure how many albums). I've had it open since I booted, about 2 weeks ago. I suspend every night too. Plays fine, although I have seen problems like those mentioned previously. Neil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DSL provider

2013-05-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
speak to are very knowledgeable. They quickly go off-script and aren't phased by Linux clients. Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DSL provider

2013-05-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 7 May 2013 15:12, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 07/05/13 08:36, TT Mooney wrote: I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now that Murdoch has laid his hands on it, I want to change provider. Does anyone have a recommendation? +1 for PlusNet Fibre. Local

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files

2013-05-02 Thread Neil Greenwood
On May 1, 2013 5:49 PM, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On May 1, 2013 5:27 PM, Alan Jenkins alan.james.jenk...@gmail.com wrote: Foxyproxy is a good plugin for firefox if you cannot get the PAC file working. That allows setting exceptions and redirecting to different

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response

2013-05-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
would be installing Linux on a laptop I was considering buying, his response was I wouldn't do that, Sir. Linux has a reputation for burning out hard disks. I hope you complained about that comment! Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

[ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files

2013-05-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
for all the windows machines, so I doubt it's a syntax error but it is a possibility. I downloaded the source for libproxy, but I can't easily see where to start - my C++ is very limited, I'm a Java programmer. Thanks, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files

2013-05-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
On May 1, 2013 4:16 PM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 1 May 2013 16:06, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm having a problem with Ubuntu in work when I try to use a PAC file to configure the proxy. The result is that the http_proxy variable

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files

2013-05-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
On May 1, 2013 5:27 PM, Alan Jenkins alan.james.jenk...@gmail.com wrote: Foxyproxy is a good plugin for firefox if you cannot get the PAC file working. That allows setting exceptions and redirecting to different proxies based on regular expressions. I've used foxyproxy in the past, but I don't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless in 13.04

2013-04-29 Thread Neil Greenwood
Thanks for posting the solution. Neil On Apr 29, 2013 1:24 PM, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I posted a message to the effect that the procedure for reinstalling the Ralink RT3290 wireless driver, which worked on 12.10, doesn't work after online upgrade to 13.04. Since

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
, but I don't think your answer helped the OP. Regards, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] User Testing

2013-03-18 Thread Neil Greenwood
Umm, I'd suggest la...@lczajkowski.com :-) Neil On 18/03/13 17:22, Laura Czajkowski wrote: Aloha folks Wondering if there are 4 people on here who would like to do some user testing in the Bluefinn in London where Canonical is, must be available on the 2nd or 5th April. It's only

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion. The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output. Neil. On Mar 11, 2013 3:31 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
Ok, that works too, but COLUMNS=1000 ps -ef has a unique prefix in the history, so I can rerun it with !C Horses for courses... Neil On Mar 12, 2013 8:30 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-03-12 06:53, Neil Greenwood wrote: With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-08 Thread Neil Greenwood
if you normally want the pager, but not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps command... Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
some google-fodder... Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

2013-02-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
Doesn't look like the swap is thrashing the disk - there's memory and swap free, but I/O is blocking 56% of the CPU time. Next time it happens, try getting the vmstat output that Alan suggested. Neil. On Feb 10, 2013 5:49 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 07/02/13 18:54, Alan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking screen.......

2012-12-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
The Cog In... I hope you were actually asking what it meant now, or I look silly - but that's not unusual! Neil On Dec 3, 2012 9:51 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 03/12/12 21:17, Colin Law wrote: No problem, any time. I always keep up to date with the latest buzz words

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Odp: alien arena problem

2012-12-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
You'll have to log out and back in before that takes effect too. Neil On Dec 3, 2012 11:06 PM, bu...@wp.pl wrote: Hi I am running Lubuntu 12.04 and have just installed Alien arena, psutton@E-machine:~$ uname -a Linux E-machine 3.2.0-33-generic #52-Ubuntu SMP Thu Oct 18 16:19:45 UTC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unable to connect extras.ubuntu.com

2012-11-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
I had a failure earlier, it's now working for me. Neil On Nov 1, 2012 9:26 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 1 November 2012 08:16, Anton Kanishchev antonk20...@gmail.com wrote: Hi everyone, the update worked 20 hours ago-i didn't change anything and now it seems that it cant

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BT speedtester and java

2012-10-21 Thread Neil Greenwood
You may find that you need the java plugin installed too, that's the bit that runs java applets in Web pages. Also, even the BT engineer that came to my house didn't recommend using their speed test! I can't remember which one he did use though... Google should find something. HTH, Neil On Oct

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Royal mail using acrobat

2012-10-21 Thread Neil Greenwood
Maybe it's some DRM that prevents the file being re-used, and is tied to Acrobat. Just a guess, since we still use the stamps you buy in the post office! On Oct 21, 2012 4:48 PM, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: ** - Mensaje original - On Sat, 20 Oct 2012, Andres Muniz wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BT speedtester and java

2012-10-21 Thread Neil Greenwood
For reference, you don't need to remove it and install the other. You can install the new one and mark the old one as automatically installed. On Oct 21, 2012 8:26 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 21 October 2012 18:20, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Colin,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Grsync equivalent

2012-07-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
, there's a Windows version too. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configuring Wammu

2012-07-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
, or by trial-and-error. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Jul 16, 2012 10:36 AM, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/07/12 10:25, Kris Douglas wrote: On 16 July 2012 10:23, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: On 16

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting information in The Register that may be useful in evangelism

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Greenwood
of course! I don't think secure boot would stop you installing VLC, but it may stop you installing Ubuntu. That's my uninformed understanding, anyway. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Neil Greenwood
I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 15, 2012 10:48 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 15/05/12 22:35, Bruno Girin wrote: I found

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Xgnokii to work?

2012-05-15 Thread Neil Greenwood
Since it came from a .deb, you can also run dpkg --listfiles xgnokii Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 15, 2012 4:24 PM, Joe yothsogg...@gmail.com wrote: I don't know anything about the program itself, but as for finding the installation directory you could

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot problem

2012-05-13 Thread Neil Greenwood
(or grub2) page of the Ubuntu wiki, something like http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub. Hope this helps. I followed the instructions about a week ago, and they were easy to understand. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 13, 2012 8:45 PM, Norman Silverstone nor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] My experience with 12.04 upgrade

2012-05-09 Thread Neil Greenwood
I've raised bug 982954 about the intermittent failure to show the launcher, even when the sensitivity is set to high. I'm using Unity 3D though. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 9, 2012 9:34 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 9 May 2012 09:05

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - fails to load automatically -- low-graphics mode crashes

2012-05-09 Thread Neil Greenwood
I think if you log into your launchpad page, there's a list of bugs that you've raised. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 9, 2012 8:27 PM, Matthew Sturdy matt.stu...@gmail.com wrote: On 9 May 2012 21:02, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: I also have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Precise - some thoughts .....

2012-05-08 Thread Neil Greenwood
My wife could install and use an Android app, but she couldn't get to the boot menu without help. Only one data point, I know... Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 8, 2012 1:17 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 8 May 2012 10:25, Sarah Chard sa

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

2012-05-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
If there is a broken user account, it definitely is a config file issue with one of the hidden files in that user's directory. It's not a global config issue though. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 3, 2012 11:33 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 oddities

2012-05-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
Since 8.04 I think, if you choose not to format and install over your previous partition, the /home directory will be left intact. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the top-post and brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 1, 2012 10:20 AM, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: On 01/05/12 02:20, Roy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange question: record audio on time delay.

2012-04-30 Thread Neil Greenwood
Try the sox package. It has utilities to play back and record, which you can then script from cron or at. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 1, 2012 2:38 AM, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote: Ok Guys, This is an end-user question... which is strange because

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Install problems...

2012-04-26 Thread Neil Greenwood
google with the site: option? My connection's rubbish or I'd have a go myself. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Apr 26, 2012 9:58 PM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Tony, I have just tried a Lubuntu 12.04 beta on USB in my old EEEPC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory

2012-04-05 Thread Neil Greenwood
One thing to check - you located the file, but check that it isn't a broken symlink by using ls -l. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Apr 5, 2012 4:26 PM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Try installing the following packages: libqwt5-qt4

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown bug?

2012-03-29 Thread Neil Greenwood
in. As Daniel said, you can force it with the right command. I guess it could be clearer that there is still someone logged in, and I believe this used to be clearer than it is with unity. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 30, 2012 1:14 AM, Daniel Case danielcas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] libreoffice

2012-03-27 Thread Neil Greenwood
Just to correct the assertion below: /tmp is writable for all users, typically files downloaded there might have their permissions set to read-only though. Sorry I can't help with the original question! Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 26, 2012 6:56 PM, John

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....

2012-03-24 Thread Neil Greenwood
Well, you can volunteer to support it, and put the option back in. Or pay someone to do it if you don't have the skills yourself. That's the joy of free software. However, Canonical decided they weren't going to keep paying to support it. That's their right too. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Does AV chat work with Jabber?

2012-03-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
My day job is testing VoIP/SIP, and I've not had much luck with Empathy, but I have more success with Linphone for A/V and Twinkle for just voice is hard to beat for its configure-ability Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity and top-post, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 22, 2012 11:57 PM, James

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....

2012-03-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
It's policy. The decision was made after usability testing, where users got confused when first maximising a window. where's the launcher gone now? And because the option was being removed, the decision was also made to remove the code to reduce the maintenance requirements. Neil. P.S. Sorry

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....

2012-03-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
were the opposite of what he first thought before the testing. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On Mar 23, 2012 8:17 PM, Hakan Koseoglu ha...@koseoglu.org wrote: On 23 March 2012 19:54, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: It's policy. The decision

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Since my last update

2012-03-10 Thread Neil Greenwood
It is very possible that temperature is the problem. It's not a bug though, it's a hardware issue. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg high CPU usage

2012-03-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
/xorg.conf.d/ directory that should be checked to see if it has an override for the auto generated file. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Since my last update

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
You don't say what version of Ubuntu you're using. Was it an update between versions, our just a daily/monthly update within a version? Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.10

2012-02-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
is to check the network settings in Firefox/Thunderbird preferences. Regards, John Oliver And of course, if it's from behind the firewall in work, you might need to tell it about your proxy server! Cofion/regards, Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Precise .....

2012-02-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
with the state of the repository at that time. Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Precise

2012-01-13 Thread Neil Greenwood
and there seems to be some package breakage. I installed perfectly from the Alpha 1 ISO a few weeks ago. I'd try that, and complete the install before trying to update. HTH Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a printer? HPLIP

2012-01-04 Thread Neil Greenwood
was that the update scripts in the .deb package are not included in the archive that he downloaded, so it wasn't correctly removing the currently installed version. Hope that clears any confusion. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu one and google +

2011-12-22 Thread Neil Greenwood
. Now he has over 400K followers on Google. More in ~3 months than it took 2 _years_ on twitter. https://plus.google.com/u/0/100193529331792590881/ Google+ is mainstream. Is it, or is it a reflection of how much more popular he is now? Just playing devil's advocate! Neil. Al. -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] costume launcher on unity?

2011-12-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
you're replacing - otherwise your replacement calls itself again and again! To find out what the path is, so you can find where to put your replacement, you can look at various scripts that are run when you log in, but it's easier to open a terminal and type the following: echo $PATH HTH Neil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] costume launcher on unity?

2011-12-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 03.12.11 18:27, Andres wrote: Neil: in, but it's easier to open a terminal and type the following: echo $PATH Thanks! That just made it very clear! i understand that if I get /usr/bin:/bin it will check /usr/bin first and later /bin I'll give it a go. Glad it helped. You might

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Problem

2011-12-02 Thread Neil Greenwood
to Authenticated. HTH Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Authentification

2011-11-30 Thread Neil Greenwood
Hi Michael, There's an option to require authentication on the printer sharing settings, if I remember correctly. You can see this either through the printer configuration applet, or through the local cups interface on http://localhost:631 HTH, Neil On Nov 30, 2011 9:09 AM, Michael Daniels

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Authentification

2011-11-30 Thread Neil Greenwood
Sorry, I've just realised I didn't make it clear that these settings might apply locally too. Worth a try anyway. Neil On Nov 30, 2011 5:43 PM, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, There's an option to require authentication on the printer sharing settings, if I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Watch and backup folder

2011-11-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
and a script to run when something under that path changes. I don't have access to my config file at the mo. I think the man page is good though. HTH, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Team Google+ page?

2011-11-12 Thread Neil Perry
On 12 November 2011 15:10, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 12/11/11 14:57, Colin Law wrote: On 12 November 2011 14:47, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 12/11/11 14:05, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Alan, On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 12:35:03PM +, alan c wrote: I am

Re: [ubuntu-uk] That annoying lock-screen ....

2011-11-08 Thread Neil Perry
No, ignore me. It's under screen. Neil. On Nov 8, 2011 10:18 PM, Neil Perry npe...@gmail.com wrote: I am mobile at the moment, but I believe you need to install gnome tweak tool. Neil On Nov 8, 2011 10:16 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there A couple

Re: [ubuntu-uk] help needed testing upstream kernel

2011-11-07 Thread Neil Perry
F On Nov 7, 2011 10:21 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 07/11/11 22:07, alan c wrote: Can somebody please offer some off list support to guide me through 'testing using the upstream kernel'? I found a bug re a particular webcam, which is being diagnosed, and I have been asked if I can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loss of 10.04 headers.

2011-11-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
of the .gconf directory beforehand in case it goes wrong or you lose some customisations. Open the terminal and type (without the quotes): cp -a .gconf backup.gconf to do this. HTH, Neil. [0] http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1520623 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loss of 10.04 headers.

2011-10-31 Thread Neil Greenwood
a couple of ways to do this, in the terminal. You might want to copy all the contents of the .gconf directory beforehand in case it goes wrong or you lose some customisations. Open the terminal and type (without the quotes): cp -a .gconf backup.gconf to do this. HTH, Neil. [0] http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 0 bytes free

2011-10-22 Thread Neil Perry
it a couple of times. Has un-mounting and re-mounting done anything? Thanks, Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meetings tonight

2011-10-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
... I'll try to be there next month. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyring password error

2011-10-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
give the email program its memory back... HTH Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop after messing with Compiz.....

2011-10-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
that I would have to set up a new account again.thank you so much... John Setting up a new user account probably wouldn't have fixed that - it's a system setting rather than a user setting as I understand it. Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] asus transformer

2011-09-13 Thread Neil Perry
http://www.cyanogenmod.com/ Thanks Neil On Sep 13, 2011 3:54 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 September 2011 00:22, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: Oh so good. Sent from my Desire HD running CM7 A Desire HD owner writes to ask: what is CM7? -- Liam Proven • Info

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two questions: 64bit live USB problem and dual boot with recovery partition

2011-08-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
the Advanced or Manual partitioning option, you can make the changes you want and then select the partition into which Ubuntu will be installed. As always, any and all help is very much appreciated. Thanks, James. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two questions: 64bit live USB problem and dual boot with recovery partition

2011-08-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 16.08.11 15:15, James Morrissey wrote: Hi Neil, Thanks for the response. Wanting to repartition my HDD (using GParted) so that i can dual boot, i 'Try Ubuntu without Installing', at which point the screen goes blank and nothing happens. I am then forced into a hard reboot. I get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Laptop

2011-07-25 Thread Neil Greenwood
version in between that and 11.04. So, your mileage may vary. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Call for creating and testing localized ISO images

2011-07-22 Thread Neil Greenwood
for the Welsh translations. Neil. PS. Is this why Canonical stopped Ship-it? :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble

2011-07-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
. HTH Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] hard disk problem ?

2011-07-08 Thread Neil Greenwood
: that's the standard. Other open standards (although not being referred to in this policy) include things like TCP/IP, HTTP, POP and IMAP for email, etc., etc. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] hard disk problem ?

2011-07-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
it a couple of times while I was dual-booting this work PC, but then I removed the Windows partition and I haven't seen it since! Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question on dual-booting 11.04 and Windows 7

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
be fine. 3) Consider and prepare for a reinstall or full recovery if things go badly for you, just in case. This is *very* *good* *advice*! Especially when you're dealing with proprietary filesystems, make sure you have a copy of anything you couldn't bear to lose. Cofion/Regards, Neil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Education software - purplemash anyone?

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
this seem expensive if there are foss alternatives? That sounds very reasonable to me. Think of how many developers that will pay for... The bit I object to is that with FlashBlock and NoScript, I see no content on the front page. :-) Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

[ubuntu-uk] Regional pages was Re: Ubuntu South west loco team page

2011-06-27 Thread Neil Greenwood
in here? Possibly the south Wales team could fit in the SouthWest page. Or maybe there ought to be a separate page for Wales, like Scotland has. WDYT? Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

2011-06-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
software - our children brought home a note before half-term apologizing that the Welsh language school cannot do dinner money statements in anything other than English. The software only does English. Cofion/Regards, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Neil Greenwood
maintaining them... Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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