Re: [ubuntu-uk] Happy New Year UK LoCo

2024-01-18 Thread Paul Tansom
On 15/01/2024 11:12, Alan Pope wrote: Heya, Wakey, wakey, everyone! :D Well that frightened the life out of me. I was just going through my list folders and wondering whether this one still existed or had been closed and moved to Discourse! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automatic check for updates

2015-11-15 Thread Paul Tansom
** Dave Morley <davm...@davmor2.co.uk> [2015-09-30 16:44]: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:39:20 +0100 > Paul Tansom <p...@aptanet.com> wrote: > > > I've got a new(ish) Ubuntu 14.04 LTS install that I'm preparing to > > replace an older 12.04 LTS one. When I log

[ubuntu-uk] Automatic check for updates

2015-09-30 Thread Paul Tansom
a suitable script - or copying one from my 12.04 install) to set this up. Unfortunately my Google-fu is failing me on this one. Everything I find either talks about apticron or cron-apt, or references the software manager GUI. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | https://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automatic check for updates

2015-09-30 Thread Paul Tansom
** Dave Morley <davm...@davmor2.co.uk> [2015-09-30 16:44]: > On Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:39:20 +0100 > Paul Tansom <p...@aptanet.com> wrote: > > > I've got a new(ish) Ubuntu 14.04 LTS install that I'm preparing to > > replace an older 12.04 LTS one. When I log

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How did I not know about dovecote sieve

2015-08-24 Thread Paul Tansom
is worse, probably Outlook I think on reflection. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | https://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Vice Chair, FSB Portsmouth SE Hampshire Branch | http://www.fsb.org.uk/ = Registered in England

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

2015-03-06 Thread Paul Tansom
for the £35 I paid for it! A bit more memory and I may have gone for one myself. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 = Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyobard issues in 14.10

2015-01-18 Thread Paul Tansom
that there will be a fix from Lenovo one day. I may go back to 14.04 as I don't remember any issues with that - 14.10 is the first time I've really regretted upgrading (bar pushing my netbook too far going to 13.10 which it couldn't cope with - it and my servers are safely on 12.04). -- Paul Tansom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Utopic Release Party London

2014-10-23 Thread Paul Tansom
it was being released today?! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 = Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Ralls House, Parklands Business Park, Forrest Road

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04.5 on server

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Tansom
. Am I reading this wrong? [1] https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2014-August/000189.html [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04.5 on server

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Tansom
** Alan Pope a...@popey.com [2014-08-08 17:31]: On 8 August 2014 17:06, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: Looking at the packages available it looks as though this is aimed at desktop installs as there doesn't appear to be any matching packages for the server kernels. Am I reading

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.04.5 on server

2014-08-08 Thread Paul Tansom
** Daniel Llewellyn diddle...@gmail.com [2014-08-08 17:30]: On 8 August 2014 17:06, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: I've just seen teh LTS update release notice [1] and noted the kernel updates for new installations. From looking at details on the LTS Enablement Stacks [2] I see

[ubuntu-uk] Code Pub Meet near Portsmouth

2014-06-09 Thread Paul Tansom
looking for support on the new computing curriculum we now have Code Club Pro: http://www.codeclubpro.org/ -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 = Registered in England | Company

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One and Software Centre

2014-04-17 Thread Paul Tansom
; and FileExpert on my phone is listed as 27th Jan when, again, I used it yesterday. Perhaps this feature no longer works, or already stores data elsewhere. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

2014-04-02 Thread Paul Tansom
installed (not a major issue as I rarely use Windows). More significantly the Linux client (in beta) doesn't support 32 bit (there goes support for my netbook) or Ubuntu 12.04 (another problem for my netbook). Off to investigate Owncloud and SpiderOak I think! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A precise favour

2013-04-12 Thread Paul Tansom
to match the description to me (ignoring the specifics of the monitor references). If so then it seems to be working as it should after installing the precise-proposed stuff. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Paul Tansom
anyone done this and could comment? Did it go smoothly?! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Paul Tansom
** Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com [2012-11-27 14:49]: On 27 November 2012 14:13, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... ...anyway, this server is currently running Ubuntu

[ubuntu-uk] Changing duplicate RAID UUID

2012-10-05 Thread Paul Tansom
the drive and move it back again? My Google FU is not helping today unfortunately :( -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing duplicate RAID UUID

2012-10-05 Thread Paul Tansom
** Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com [2012-10-05 18:01]: I have a RAID mirror in a machine that has ended up with the same UUID as another one - which is causing a few issues with the fact that I was mounting via fstab with the UUID. Is there a way of resetting the UUID without destroying the data

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPv6

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Tansom
** Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com [2012-06-07 19:41]: On 7 June 2012 18:55, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: A couple of very quick questions on IPv6 that people may be able to cast light on. 1. Does anyone know why IPv6 doesn't come up on boot with Ubuntu 10.04? I can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPv6

2012-06-07 Thread Paul Tansom
** Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com [2012-06-07 21:33]: On 7 June 2012 21:02, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com [2012-06-07 19:41]: On 7 June 2012 18:55, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: snip I have a static address allocated in a range

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 upgrade failure

2012-05-27 Thread Paul Tansom
** alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com [2012-05-26 16:43]: On 25/05/12 11:22, Paul Tansom wrote: I don't have full info on this failure yet as I've not been to the machine, but in preparation has anyone had a similar issue to this? The only info I have at the moment is: Now when I switch

[ubuntu-uk] 12.04 upgrade failure

2012-05-25 Thread Paul Tansom
by the GUI prompt. All seemed to go well until the reboot as far as I know. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Paul Tansom
can say 'yes to all'. Of course the other thing about my setup is that it is Unity 2D which never seems to be as good as teh 3D version. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Tansom
:( -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Paul Tansom
to configure through, I haven't tried a 12.04 live CD yet, although I am running 12.04 now having installed 11.10 and upgraded a few months back (different graphics card on install, but also ATI Radeon). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 Registered in England

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Plans

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Tansom
that Ubuntu, or any Linux, can be installed on though. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ancient hardware - was Ubuntu Plans

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Tansom
wanted to do programming the last thing you should have studied was anything related to computers. All the companies wanted people that had humanities degrees so they had no outdated experience and were a blank canvas to train up. I work with Linux now, so I mustn't grumble :) -- Paul Tansom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Plans (marketing)

2012-03-07 Thread Paul Tansom
L40sx laptop). I shouldn't grumble too much though, OS/2 saved me from too much reliance on Windows and made Intel hardware bearable. Being and Amiga user Windows was such a major step down I couldn't understand how anyone could consider it any more than a toy! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mutt oddity

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Tansom
** Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com [2012-01-17 15:48]: On 17 January 2012 14:03, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: I generally use Mutt for my email as it is orders of magnitude quicker to use than a GUI client for large volumes of mail. It does fall short in handling HTML mail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Passwords in Gnome keyring

2012-01-26 Thread Paul Tansom
** Robert McWilliam r...@allmail.net [2012-01-17 15:47]: On Tue, Jan 17, 2012, at 03:02 PM, Paul Tansom wrote: Following reading a recent blog post [1] I decided it really is time I sorted out a better way of logging into my email with Mutt. My plan was/is to store the password in the Gnome

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Books on Ubuntu

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Tansom
** Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk [2012-01-12 15:26]: On 12/01/12 15:20, Paul Tansom wrote: Does anyone have any recomendations on Linux books, specifically Ubuntu based? I'm looking for something for an end user who is comfortable with computers (DOS/Windows) but is switching

[ubuntu-uk] Mutt oddity

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Tansom
the gnome-www-browser and x-www-browser links in /etc/alternatives and checked that Firefox is not referenced in /etc/Mutt or my personaly .mutt/muttrc file. I've also checked that sensible-browser is also set to Chromium. What have I missed? -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com

[ubuntu-uk] Passwords in Gnome keyring

2012-01-17 Thread Paul Tansom
-- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] Books on Ubuntu

2012-01-12 Thread Paul Tansom
to make some older books out of date. It should also be usable by someone with no computer experience, but with the assistance of the aforementioned other reader :) No need to suggest websites, or online resources, I have been specifically asked for a hard copy book to look at. -- Paul Tansom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas Revelation

2011-12-27 Thread Paul Tansom
Linux?. The second came about a week later I think, when he was heard to say I'm going to use Linux because it is faster, more reliable and has lots of cool games. Some things just make you feel warm all over and consider that it is worth it and there really is hope :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas Revelation

2011-12-27 Thread Paul Tansom
** Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com [2011-12-27 20:39]: On 27 December 2011 19:25, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com [2011-12-25 10:25]: Dear All Santa brought my daughter her first laptop for Christmas. In common with most 11-year olds she appears

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

2011-12-05 Thread Paul Tansom
haven't been there for a while, but a college friend of mine is involved with it. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford

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

2011-12-04 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk [2011-12-03 00:42]: On 2 December 2011 23:36, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Alan Pope a...@canonical.com [2011-12-02 11:03]: On 01/12/11 23:52, thegeeksquad...@ymail.com wrote: Is Ubuntu going in the wrong direction? I personally

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

2011-12-04 Thread Paul Tansom
** Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com [2011-12-03 09:59]: On 2 December 2011 23:36, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ... I want to add parameters to the launcher icon, or add my own application to the launcher (I really must find the configuration file to do this), but this doesn't

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

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Tansom
that by providing support rather than simply shifting boxes in quantity and reselling Canonical support I was to some extent stepping on their toes! Having seen the reference to the trademark license I may try that as getting me half way towards what I was looking for. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to use AskUbuntu, was: Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Tansom
not suited to more technical issues, just end users new to Linux / Ubuntu. I guess I should have dug further, but my first impression was that I wouldn't find any meaty technical stuff there so I went elsewhere! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

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

2011-12-02 Thread Paul Tansom
without actually moving distro. ** end quote [Alan Pope] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop not loading at startup

2011-11-08 Thread Paul Tansom
survive a reboot initially, but when I made the change, logged out and back in immediately after and then rebooted straight away it stuck! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Linux heads to smartphones, tablets, and smart tv's

2011-11-01 Thread Paul Tansom
guts to the OS used, and given that it can use iPlayer direct from the TV using Freesat and an ethernet connection a cut down Linux made things easier. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

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

2011-09-26 Thread Paul Tansom
package. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+ Gwibber [Pidgin Empathy even]

2011-07-11 Thread Paul Tansom
authority to it so my Jabber server throws up an error each time I connect (and I'd rather do it properly than just ignore the error - these things annoy me!). -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

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

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Tansom
** alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com [2011-07-01 14:17]: On 01/07/11 13:38, Paul Tansom wrote: Diaspora*, if it ever gets going, will likely be much like Identica, preferred by techies, but always the also ran to Twitter purely on user base. I have an account, to support it. It would

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

2011-07-04 Thread Paul Tansom
** Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com [2011-07-02 13:48]: On 1 July 2011 16:58, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Dino T. d...@dinot.co.uk [2011-07-01 14:37]: I didn't realise you could associate Hotmail or Yahoo addresses with your Google account, I'm curious now - not that I use them

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

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Tansom
, Gallery, Jabber or etc. using RSS / Planet so the actual service being used for each contact is largely irrelevant. Then it wouldn't matter what blogging, instant messaging, picture sharing, 'tweeting' services were used. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

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

2011-07-01 Thread Paul Tansom
that seems to match you. ** end quote [Dino T.] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's In A Name?

2011-06-13 Thread Paul Tansom
in one of the labs to do coursework on I could work at home on my trusty Amstrad CPC6128 with Protext on ROM and Turbo Pascal transferred from 5 1/4 to 3 disks - happy days :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

[ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

2011-06-06 Thread Paul Tansom
. programming and more in depth knowledge rather than just how to use MS Office. It is available online at http://bbc.co.uk/click and for the moment is the top item. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

2011-06-06 Thread Paul Tansom
. If ICT is not required in the correct form by the curriculum then it will only be covered if there is time to broaden the scope, and then only if the teacher has the skills and interest to choose that as being of value and within there scope. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User experience survey

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Tansom
round to reinstalling it I think it will likely be installed from an image, but that may be taking things too far!! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User experience survey

2011-05-25 Thread Paul Tansom
** Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com [2011-05-25 12:24]: On 25/05/11 12:14, Paul Tansom wrote: ** Avi Greenburyli...@avi.co [2011-05-25 09:05]: It's a bit weird that I can pick several different versions of Ubuntu (Unity, Gnome, KDE, XFCE etc.) but only one install medium... ** end quote [Avi

[ubuntu-uk] HP Mini (BCM4312 wifi) 11.04 lockup

2011-05-03 Thread Paul Tansom
/community/WifiDocs/Driver/bcm43xx#b43%20-%20Internet%20access -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/

2011-02-12 Thread Paul Tansom
are not a dire loco - or at least not all the time ;) I'm running Firefox on a 1280x768 netbook screen, but there is plent of space to the right for the rest of the word. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-23 Thread Paul Tansom
, for example, along with a bit about how to get involved with Ubuntu there could be a piece on Unicef, Oxfam, Amazonwatch or etc. An A4 or US Letter page should have plenty of space for both, and there's no need for it to take huge amounts of ink. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless print server or wireless printer

2011-01-09 Thread Paul Tansom
driver only does printing and nothing else - I guess I should be thankful it works at all! I must get the Linux boot working so I can use all my hardware without problems :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

2011-01-03 Thread Paul Tansom
at the requirements for running a server, but decided I didn't really want to start messing with Ruby as there's nothing else on my server that uses it. If it had been Perl (or PHP?!) I might have taken a closer look. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Tansom
like a pirated copy!!! The moral of the story is that any software has problems, you get them solved by perseverance, patience, giving plenty of detail and a little bit of luck - whichever side of the divide you fall. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Tansom
** Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com [2010-10-14 14:34]: snip With my brand new build for my dad I have the joy of sorting out his scanner, which has no Windows 7 driver. It does, however, have a transparency adaptor that he wants to use, and I don't think new scanners have this feature - so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread Paul Tansom
** Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net [2010-10-14 18:51]: On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: Support wise, I can sympathise, although based on experience when asking questions on Windows forums. The first one that comes to mind is Experts Exchange (now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Off topic - UK vendor cheeplinux?

2010-09-15 Thread Paul Tansom
which is even less so :( -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Sponsor me in the Moonlit Memories Walk for Rowans Hospice A 12 mile walk along Southsea seafront starting midnight 19th June Visit

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

2010-08-26 Thread Paul Tansom
often say that if it wasn't for Linux I would no longer have any interest in computers. There's a massive amount of potential in education to make use of the flexibility and openness of Linux. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Paul Tansom
://www.samknows.com/ -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Sponsor me in the Moonlit Memories Walk for Rowans Hospice A 12 mile walk along Southsea seafront starting midnight 19th June Visit: http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Tansom
a techy, and increasingly Ubuntu seems to be aimed at non-techies. Server side I use aptitude all the time since you never need a GUI on a server - obvious to anyone except Microsoft ;) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

2010-06-07 Thread Paul Tansom
** Johnathon Tinsley kir...@kirrus.co.uk [2010-06-07 15:06]: On 07/06/10 14:30, Paul Tansom wrote: ** Tony Arnoldtony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk [2010-06-07 11:18]: On 07/06/10 08:51, Neil Perry wrote: I've just been pointed out, that for Maverick they have removed aptitude being install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook Battery Problem

2010-05-10 Thread Paul Tansom
issue, that is likely to be the same. The only difference in symptoms I have is that my netbook doesn't shutdown, even though it does report that the battery is critically low. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband dongle ...

2010-04-30 Thread Paul Tansom
purged the patch package and it is still automatically identified as a modem without problems :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for a Speccy

2010-03-26 Thread Paul Tansom
and start playing! I really must visit the museum some time, although I'd likely want to bring everything home :) Probably as well I don't live closer!! -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Canonical Design Team looking for London based volunteers..

2010-01-26 Thread Paul Tansom
are a completely different breed to the rest of the country. Actually that may go for other large cities too I guess - so as not to seem to be singling out London alone ;) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Low power server

2010-01-22 Thread Paul Tansom
. With a bit of investment I may be able to tweak that down a bit, but not by enough to recoup the cost in a sensible time frame. Some of the newer low power boards on the way with the better chipsets should improve things too - for when I next upgrade. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What the Dell?

2008-09-05 Thread Paul Tansom
:( - -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -BEGIN PGP

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

2008-04-21 Thread Paul Tansom
:) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Tansom
little I've seen of it I'd actively avoid it, and I've not been enthusiastic about what little experience I've had of Contribute. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England

[ubuntu-uk] Broken Synaptic

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Tansom
leave me wondering what else may be broken. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Synaptic

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Tansom
** Alistair Crust [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-18 11:58]: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 11:47 +, Paul Tansom wrote: Does anyone have any ideas why Synaptic and add/remove programs would both be insisting on using a proxy that is no longer configured? I've not only disabled, but removed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Synaptic

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Tansom
** Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-18 12:23]: Have you tried... $ sudo apt-get clean $ sudo apt-get update ...and see if that makes any difference... ** end quote [Sean Miller] No, but I have now and it makes no difference :( -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Synaptic

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Tansom
** Andrew Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-18 13:33]: Paul Tansom wrote: Does anyone have any ideas why Synaptic and add/remove programs would both be insisting on using a proxy that is no longer configured? Is there a proxy set in gconf? Eg. gconf-editor - system - http_proxy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside

2008-02-18 Thread Paul Tansom
are fulfilled by emulators such as xfuse (spectrum) and mame (arcade) :) Yay for retro ;) ** end quote [Alan Pope] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why some people will never switch

2007-12-22 Thread Paul Tansom
-ish to London without actually having to go there ;) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why some people will never switch

2007-12-22 Thread Paul Tansom
3.1 was the best Windows they've used, and hardware reliability has taken a nose dive too. The 386 is still going strong (on the odd occaision it gets switched on) whereas the newer Dell has had an HD failure (not for once a Maxrot) and an increasingly unreliable CD drive. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with the latest Seagates?

2007-12-09 Thread Paul Tansom
are not compatible with the Open Sauce operating system Linux. Personally I always put the top back on my sauces, so they are rarely left open ;) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Rsync to make incremental backups

2007-11-23 Thread Paul Tansom
of changed files, i.e. keep copies of the files as they were before the change as a historical backup as well you may like to take a look at rdiff-backup: http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/ -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at this and try to help

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Tansom
** Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-11-13 09:21]: Paul Tansom wrote: snip Do you remember Microland in Waterlooville precinct, Paul? And upstairs at the Baytree Bookshop? Ah, those were the days... I started out on a BBC Micro. We had the Graphics Extension ROM, as well as the word

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPv6 - are you using it?

2007-11-13 Thread Paul Tansom
the past few weeks as these things do. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y36fG2Oba0 -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office

Re: [ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at this and try to help

2007-11-12 Thread Paul Tansom
with DOS and Windows started getting popular and took all the fun out of computers. Praise be to Linux, without which I would have given up on computers long ago. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UbuCon UK Ideas

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Tansom
it? It has no member which is a bit sad in some respects!! I've just send a message to the admin to find out a bit more about it. Probably only just setup, but Frappr has no meand of finding out when these were created or who owns the, etc. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UbuCon UK Ideas

2007-10-29 Thread Paul Tansom
? -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What mail client do people use.

2007-10-25 Thread Paul Tansom
, but it isn't a patch on my IIIx for reliability, and the new Graffiti is much harder to use than the original and painfully prone to getting it wrong. Sadly they seem to have tried to stoop to the level of the Windows CE devices :( -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-24 Thread Paul Tansom
the process. I've not actually hooked up my kit yet though, and I'm not LLU (although suspect I will be soon). They were cheap/free for a second backup line though, so I'm not too worried if the service is less than perfect :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

[ubuntu-uk] Gutsy upgrade acpi problems

2007-10-22 Thread Paul Tansom
not counted, but a couple of screenfulls, and I do have a record of them - one of which was acpid). This is pretty much where I've go to since the same 5 packages failed. I'm still digging, but wondered whether anyone had an insight that may save me some time :) -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Tansom
the kitchen sink, or etc. - and I've not yet dug far enough to work out what Nautilus does with drives you mount through it (I often want to dive into the CLI and head to the same directory I'm viewing). ** end quote [Peter Lewis] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-15 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-15 17:57]: On Mon, 2007-10-15 at 17:25 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: through it (I often want to dive into the CLI and head to the same directory I'm viewing). Have you tried the nautilus-open-terminal package? ** end quote [Tony Arnold] I use Thunar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Small TFT monitors....

2007-10-04 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tony Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-10-03 02:03]: Paul Tansom wrote: [...] If you're wanting to have a play and/or are willing to take a risk (I've not checked the status recently) I seem to remember that the Linux BIOS project was able to run from a serial console. I keep thinking

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Small TFT monitors....

2007-10-02 Thread Paul Tansom
at both. I've not investigated the sort of USB cable required though - either just one with the correct connections at each end, or a USB data transfer cable (as used for laplink and the like). ** end quote [Tony Travis] -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001

Re: [ubuntu-uk] For all you BSG fans out there!

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-06 08:33]: On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 23:49 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: Ignoring the fact that I have to open up a port on a desktop machine to the internet (which I'm not that keen on, even on Linux), I really can't leave myself open to the lack

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BitTorrent (was: Re: For all you BSG fans out there!)

2007-09-06 Thread Paul Tansom
** Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-06 11:08]: On Thu, 2007-09-06 at 10:38 +0100, Paul Tansom wrote: What do you mean by 'lack of control'? Just curious. ** end quote [Tony Arnold] When I first looked into Bittorrent you could limit the amount of bandwidth it used

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