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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
:
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
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,
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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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,
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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,
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
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 ?
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
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
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
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,
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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