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 wrote: >On 19 September 2016

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Enlightenment

2015-11-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 17 November 2015 18:55:16 GMT+00:00, Stuart Ward wrote: >On 17 November 2015 at 16:34, Matt Wheeler wrote: > >> internet <--- (x.x.x.x :router A: 192.168.0.1) <--- (192.168.0.2 >> :router B: 192.168.1.1) <--- (wireless devices) >> >> >What you should

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 29 January 2015 10:53:10 GMT+00:00, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I have gotten along just fine since 2006 without having to touch a non-Ubuntu system. If it is possible I like to keep it that way. It works for me and every time I am forced to use a Windows system it

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
On 17 September 2014 22:31:28 BST, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 September 2014 20:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Not helpful for solving the immediate problem I know, but for the future the issue would be easy to solve if you kept a master copy of your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comparing installed packages

2014-05-05 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 4 May 2014 13:39:40 GMT+01:00, Joe Alam yothsogg...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, There's probably a far better way that someone with some more experience will suggest, but the first thing that came to mind is to write a little program/script that does the following: - read all the files, into their

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

2014-04-18 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 18 April 2014 11:31:40 GMT+01:00, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/04/14 11:26, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 18 April 2014 11:20, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 17 April 2014

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

2014-03-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
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 packages that are installed or otherwise known to the system (such as those packages you've

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
On 5 Nov 2013 22:59, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: Cheers, guys, maybe you're right, I might need to up my game a bit in the Shell script stakes at least (and with aliases). To answer the question of why I need so much history - I forget stuff! I'd never be a programmer (I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] fsck during boot

2013-10-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 3 Oct 2013 19:44, Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com wrote: I realised the other day that I hadn't seen my computer run fsck during boot for quite a while. Running dumpe2fs I get this: Mount count: 220 Maximum mount count: -1 Last checked: Wed Mar 20

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

2013-09-14 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 14 Sep 2013 07:00, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-09-13 17:10, Kris Douglas wrote: I get my handsets from Three. They come with about 1 app and once Android is rooted you can remove it or put a custom ROM on. I also benefit from quick, easy replacement of the handset

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

2013-09-13 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 12 Sep 2013 11:29, Pete Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I agree, $700 is a lot for untested software, I would happily install alongside Android, even at beta test stage, but I will not pay a months rent for the privalige! I hope the project lives on but feel that a major error of

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
On 6 September 2013 15:51, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: I am using kubuntu 12.04 but it should be a cross platform problem I think. The problem I had was that the proxy was not letting me get online. I changed the proxy settings via the network settings GUI and it was all

[ubuntu-uk] Saucy and unity-common

2013-07-23 Thread Neil Greenwood
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 between libunity-core-6.0-7 and unity-common 7.0.2+13.10.20130705.1-0ubuntu1 The proposed solution is to remove unity-common. I left out a few days to see if it was

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
On 31 May 2013 17:47, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 May 2013 16:14, Grant Phillips-Sewell dcg...@phillips-sewell.co.uk wrote: then there are tools out there [citation needed] which can scan each block/sector of your drive to find the remnants of previous partition

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

2013-05-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
Hi Patrick, To return to your original request about Java, Oracle have prevented it being easily available in distributions' own package managers because of a license change. There's a PPA that gives you easy access to the latest versions of Java 6, 7 and 8. If you go to

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
On 7 May 2013 08:44, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 May 2013 08:36, TT Mooney ttmoo...@dilettantism.com wrote: Hi all - 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

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
On May 1, 2013 1:28 PM, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: When I last mentioned Linux in PC World it was quite obvious that the assistant had never heard of it. Now that most PC World shops are integrated with Currys, there are staff with apparently little experience on the PC side.

[ubuntu-uk] Network proxies and PAC files

2013-05-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
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 is not set, and everything tries to connect directly. Does anyone have any idea how I could try to debug this? By the way, the same file works perfectly for

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
On Apr 23, 2013 9:22 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-04-23 20:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have DKMS packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package manager. As it is, you need quite a bit of

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 for an

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

2013-03-12 Thread Neil Greenwood
: On 2013-03-08 15:14, Neil Greenwood wrote: PAGER=/bin/cat man command Don't include the export. Works a treat if you normally want the pager, but not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps command... In what situation does ps page the output? ps -ef

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
On Mar 7, 2013 10:08 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: man command | cat where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I hope), Put

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

2013-03-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Mar 7, 2013 8:29 PM, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 07/03/13 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: On 7 March 2013 16:49, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: I'm using Gnome terminal in Mythbuntu 12.04 and mouse-wheel scrolling works fine for scrolling back and forward through

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

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
On 20/07/12 19:58, Bill B. wrote: Hi folks, Rather than risk a dodgy download to firms WinXP enforced laptop, does anyone know of a good, *safe* equivalent to Grsync [graphical front end of/for rsync] available for WindowsXP. I want to sync a USB of work tech docs stored on their [enforced

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configuring Wammu

2012-07-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
You can use -i for case insensitivity in grep. But that's the wrong thing to do here. Wammu wants the serial port, not the USB address. This will be something like /dev/ttyS0 or maybe /dev/ttyACM0. You might be able to find the correct address by looking at the last few lines output by dmesg, or

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

2012-05-18 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 18.05.12 20:18, Barry Titterton wrote: It seems that Microsoft will be shipping Win8 without the ability to play DVDs. They justify it by citing the rise in popularity of streaming media such as Netflix. Users who really want it will have to pay extra.

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 a

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
Hi Norman, I think the only mistake you made (for future reference out to help others) was to install grub to the partition rather than the whole of the boot drive. To recover now, you boot the live CD and reinstall grub, as others have suggested. The complete list of instructions is on the grub

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

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

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
Einstein said doing the same thing and expecting different results was a sign of madness - but then he didn't like quantum mechanics and had no experience of PCs! I think there might be a wiki page with a list of boot options you can try if your boot freezes, but I can't remember where it is. Try

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
I think it's by design. It used to shutdown regardless when users were logged in, but this isn't desirable for multi-user systems. Now, it wouldn't matter whether you tried to shutdown as the admin user or the normal user, as I understand it. It will only log you out until no more users are logged

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

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 for

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
On Mar 7, 2012 10:50 AM, Grant Phillips-Sewell dcg...@cornwall-it.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:45:23 + Pete Smout wrote: On 06/03/12 18:15, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:07:08 + Pete Smout wrote: On 05/03/12 21:10, Pete Smout wrote: Hi,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Since my last update

2012-03-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Mar 6, 2012 5:34 PM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Since my last update a number of things have stopped working. 1. Brightness controls no longer work (fn+F8 and fn+F9) 2. Only skip forward works (fn+F12), skip backwards (fn+F10) no longer does 3. Suspend on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.10

2012-02-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Feb 17, 2012 2:38 PM, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote: If it is only Firefox and Thunderbird affected, check the settings of those applications for stray proxy settings etc. Whilst I don't see how such peculiar settings could have come into force, they could have done, and my advice

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

2012-02-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Feb 17, 2012 10:55 PM, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 17/02/12 18:47, Piskie wrote: Never had a partial that way that caused me issues - update manager is prone to causing 'issues' during the dev cycle so I never use it, nor the software-centre. Doing the update from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Precise

2012-01-13 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 12.01.12 23:29, Pete Smout wrote: Hi, Just upgraded the HDD in my laptop and decided to reinstall ubuntu, so I went for the daily build of 12.04. Although this is still in the Alpha test stage and issues are to be expected, the issue I encountered was that it would not install! It

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

2012-01-04 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 04.01.12 20:22, alan c wrote: On 04/01/12 20:00, Andy Braben wrote: 2012/1/4 Juan J. reid...@usebox.net On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 18:10 +, Andy Braben wrote: [...] Is that not worth a bug report? HPLIP package not kept up to date on automatic updates? That's a very good point. There's

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

2011-12-22 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Dec 22, 2011 11:56 PM, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: On 22/12/11 23:00, Andres wrote: i do not get it. At least through facebook/twitter you could use your gwibber. And you'll be able to use G+ through gwibber once Google make the API available no doubt. Since g+, linkedin,

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

2011-12-03 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Dec 2, 2011 11:00 PM, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: I was unable to do the script, lack of knolwdge on how paths, and bash scripts work. For example if my bash is called skype how do i make it call that instead of the normal skype? Ok, paths are quite easy once you understand the

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
On Dydd Gwener 02 mis Rhagfyr 2011 19:56:42 GMT, Michael Daniels wrote: From: clan...@googlemail.com Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2011 15:52:16 + To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer Problem @Michael. If you go to System Settings Printers and right click the printer

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
On Nov 20, 2011 4:24 PM, Bea Groves beagro...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] To reiterate, all the software has to do is: a) Monitor the Documents folder (and all subfolders) on a continuous basis b) If a file or folder is created or modified, then copy the changes to another drive or folder of my

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

2011-11-01 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 31.10.11 15:58, Michael Daniels wrote: I searched Google for ubuntu 10.04 reset gnome panels (without the quotes). Near the top of the results, I found a link to an Ubuntu Forums post[0] that includes a couple of ways to do this, in the terminal. You might want to copy all the contents of

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

2011-10-31 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 29.10.11 22:17, Michael Daniels wrote: Somehow, I have completely wiped my 10.04 headers, even the clock on the right ! I get everything, except maybe the clock using ALT F1, can I restore the headers, without a complete reload, please ? Thanks, Michael Create another user, and log on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meetings tonight

2011-10-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 20.10.11 11:09, Alan Bell wrote: On 20/10/11 10:55, Iain Cuthbertson wrote: Hi Alan, Good to be reminded about the meeting, one I might have been able to attend. Sadly, I shall be in Birmingham watching The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain instead. For those attending via IRC, what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyring password error

2011-10-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 13.10.11 16:58, dianne reuby wrote: I have 10.10 Ubuntu. Used my machine with no problems this morning. Just switched back on and logged on to my account OK. But I get a message that my login password and my keyring password don't match, and to enter the password. Are the admin password

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

2011-10-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 19.10.11 12:22, scoundrel50a wrote: On 19/10/2011 12:02, Alan Pope wrote: On 19 October 2011 12:00, scoundrel50ascoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: I was fiddling with compiz and decided to have a look at what the desktop cube looks like. One of the options said something about turning off the

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 13:03, James Morrissey wrote: Hi all, I have just received my new laptop. Its a Thinkpad x121e, with Intel (Core i3). I am trying to put ubuntu on it, but i am having some problems with the 64 bit live USB. When i run the USB i get i get a GRUB-looking screen, with options

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 the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Laptop

2011-07-25 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 25.07.11 06:44, richard wrote: On Sun, 2011-07-24 at 21:24 +0100, Dino T. wrote: Seen the Fujitsu LifeBook E751? 10 hours battery life. 15.6 inch screen, i5 Core processor. Bit pricey though as VAT runs it to £700+. Acer Aspire Timeline X 4820T is another one. £500 odd but only 14 inch

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

2011-07-22 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 22.07.11 10:57, Alan Pope wrote: Anyone fancy helping out with this. We're looking to make localised en_GB ISO images, at the moment the default ISO is en_US (so American keyboard layout, dictionary etc). Cheers, Al. I'm interested. I'll also look at making some cy_GB images for the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble

2011-07-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 19.07.11 15:00, Dave Hanson wrote: Steve - mine starts with #! /bin/sh, which from some 'googling' tells me it's a bourne shell, the Ubuntu variant is bash. So does that mean it cannot be ran on Ubuntu or is it possible to use a different shell? That might be the problem. On Ubuntu,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] hard disk problem ?

2011-07-08 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Dydd Gwener 08 mis Gorffennaf 2011 17:37:49 BST, alan c wrote: On 08/07/11 10:56, Yorvyk wrote: 'The adoption of compulsory open standards will help government to avoid lengthy vendor lock-in' What does this mean? Are the government's open standards the same as we would understand

Re: [ubuntu-uk] hard disk problem ?

2011-07-07 Thread Neil Greenwood
Ar Dydd Iau 07 mis Gorffennaf 2011 08:11:40 BST, ysgrifennodd john beddard: Linux doesn't seem to give a warning message when the hard-disk is full, instead the system seem to die and shut down. Has anyone come across this before. They said it was their main reason for not using Ubuntu ?

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

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 05.07.11 18:04, alan c wrote: 2) My understanding is that both vista and windows 7 are likely to place system files at the end of the partition, which means that a third party partition editor (such as gparted, as used in Ubuntu etc) may resize the partitons ok, but you may find that the

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

2011-07-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 06.07.11 11:32, Byte Soup wrote: Quoting from the site: An annual licence costs just £500 +VAT a year and includes unlimited use both at school and at home. This price is based on schools with 100-500 pupils. Please contact 2Simple if your school is outside of this range. Does this

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

2011-06-27 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 27.06.11 17:46, Alan Bell wrote: We have pages covering all the diagonal compass points listing people, LUGs and other resources in that general direction. This is awesome, but on a point of terminology they can't be called LoCo teams, the NorthEast page is a good model and I would like to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

2011-06-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
On Jun 11, 2011 2:40 PM, Will Bickerstaff will.bickerst...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 1:33 PM, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] aren't going to spend the time reformatting a newsletter in HTML format once they've made it in Word (or even worse, Publisher). Hence,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 2 June 2011 18:07, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: On Jun 2, 2011 5:50 PM, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I would say it depends on what you mean by 'wrong' I handle the backups for a local government, so yes, that is wrong, very wrong. I know where you're coming from. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft proprietary file types?

2011-05-20 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 20.05.11 07:10, Sean Miller wrote: On 20 May 2011 07:00, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net mailto:roa...@roachy.net wrote: My advice - open the document if you can. If it's something that depends on layout heavily, ask for it as a jpg or pdf. Actually, it's got significantly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Will kernel problems in Maverick mean i have kernel problems in Natty?

2011-04-29 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 28.04.11 12:09, J Fernyhough wrote: Download the three debs appropriate to your architecture (i386 for 32-bit, amd64 for 64-bit. To find out write uname -a in a terminal), e.g. for 32-bit: linux-headers-2.6.38-02063804-generic_2.6.38-02063804.201104221009_i386.deb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless Network Connectivity

2011-04-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
Sounds like an IPv6 problem, probably in Firefox. IIRC, you change this in the about:config settings. I'll look through the archive to check... Cofion/Regards, Neil. On 6 Apr 2011 20:10, Steve Flynn anothermindb...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/04/11 20:00, Phil Wood wrote: To be clear; I can connect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Removing Windows dual boot

2011-03-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 17 March 2011 13:21, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: I have a dual-boot machine - Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. I'm looking to remove the Windows part but unfortunately the Ubuntun install is on an extended partition. Is there any way to convert that extended partition to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quiz Night!

2011-03-06 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 22:58, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: As you may have read in the minutes of the meeting this evening https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20110210 we are going to hold a quiz night at some point in April. Questions will be mostly about Ubuntu, or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-05 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 5 Mar 2011, at 08:14, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: 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

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