Hi Caroline,
> Email is ideal if you have access to the address at work, and have an
> always on internet connection.
(As an aside, I've only dial-up access, and a 33.6kpbs modem at that.
Email's much preferably to interactive web access.)
> Complaints about top-posting etc make me wonder who w
Hi Ted,
> I realise it was spoken about some week ago, but I really do feel that
> perhaps we should re-visit the possibility of an online discussion
> forum. A simple website, with nothing more than a discussion forum if
> we want.
> ...
> Personally, I prefer discussion forum layout much more t
Hi,
Olly wrote:
> On 02/10/06, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Great Britain is England, Scotland and Wales. The United Kingdom
> > also brings in Northern Ireland and represents the territory
> > governed by those merry folks in Westminster.
Since we're being a bit pedantic in the fi
Hi Tony,
> You've confused me and at the risk of starting the argument you want
> to avoid, isn't UK short for 'United Kingdom of Great Britain and
> Ireland', i.e., everything except the republic of Ireland. Doesn't
> this imply that UK==GB??
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Isles_%28te
Hi Neil,
> Llywelyn, it's reasonably easy to fix the bug, if you find the steps
> in the forum. It was as simple as something along these lines:
>
> sudo sed 's/multiuser/defaults/'
> /var/lib/dpkg/info/flashplugin-nonfree.postinst
> sudo dpkg --configure -a
Do you mean `sed -i ...' to make th
Hi Llywelyn,
> I'm trying to locate the directory where Dapper stores it's fonts.
> Specifically, where I can get my hand on the Dingbat font so that I
> can copy it to another installation. I'm getting very frustrated with
> this seemingly simple task. At least Windows keeps everything in the
>
Hi Steve,
> I want a directory for files shared between users on the same machine
> (music, photos etc.). Is there a convention for where that should be?
No. I use /home so users files are still under /home even if they're
shared, e.g. /home/joint, or /home/lab.
> Should I be using NFS (bear
Hi Caroline,
> > > /me awaits inevitable comments about booth babes .
> >
> > what?
>
> *Bewildered*
I think he meant the modern-day equivalent of a scantily-clad girl in a
fur coat draped across the bonnet of a Ford Capri at a 1970's car show.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Booth_babe
C
Hi Chadwick,
> > However, on friends' machines running MS Windows on doing the
> > `safely remove ...' option (whatever it is) the light goes off and
> > stays off.
> >
> > I think that's good. It helps confirm it's ready to pull out. Do
> > others experience this difference?
>
> the light is
Hi Chris,
> When you right click on a removable device in Dapper and tell it to
> unmount/eject, you get another progress window that shows the actual
> writing (and if you have a removable device with an LED on it that
> shows accesses, you'll notice that this is when it does most of its
> blink
Hi Robert,
> A friend for whom I've installed Ubuntu complained to me that his one
> major problem with Ubuntu is not knowing whether a product he wants to
> buy - external DVD drive, printer/scanner, wifi card - will work in
> Ubuntu. I think being able to point him to a site which says "this
>
Hi,
Matthew East wrote:
> Grant, the point being made isn't that a website might not be useful,
> but simply that there is no point creating something like this before
> we have collected any names.
>
> Let's work on collecting some support volunteers first, then we can
> think about doing somet
Hi Ted,
> Thanks Steve, I am excited to be part of a bigger Ubuntu 'project'. I
> have added my details to the Wiki page as you suggested. I see our
> numbers are growing :-)
Welcome aboard.
> on 14/6/06 6:50 AM, ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
[Snip 401 lines of digest quote.]
Can people, n
Hi Baza,
> > sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
>
> I get a message telling me I don't have the package 'linux-image' ?
Cut and paste what you typed and all the output to give us more to work
with.
Cheers,
Ralph.
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Hi Nick,
> > http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12168 picks up on some
> > incorrectly spelt words in aspell's British English dictionary. I
> > opened it, and Mark Florian has added a couple more.
> >
> > It would be nice if a British English speaker could confirm our
> > spelling and m
Hi,
http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12168 picks up on some
incorrectly spelt words in aspell's British English dictionary. I
opened it, and Mark Florian has added a couple more.
It would be nice if a British English speaker could confirm our spelling
and move the bug on from Unconfir
Hi Baza,
> OK, here's the story so far. Installed kstars, it only works if I run
> it as root. If I do that next boot the ownership of .ICEauthority has
> to be changed from the failsafe terminal via chown back to me from
> root.
So root can do something you can't.
> This is what terminal show
Hi Baza,
> > > anyone managed to get kstars working in hoary?
> >
> > Yep. I just used Synaptic or `apt-get install kstars', can't
> > remember which, to install it and it appeared in the Applications ->
> > Edutainment menu.
> >
> > $ apt-show-versions -p kstars
> > kstars/unknown uptod
Hi Baza,
> anyone managed to get kstars working in hoary?
Yep. I just used Synaptic or `apt-get install kstars', can't remember
which, to install it and it appeared in the Applications -> Edutainment
menu.
$ apt-show-versions -p kstars
kstars/unknown uptodate 4:3.4.0-0ubuntu1
Give us
Hi Keith,
> Unfortunately I have several versions of Linux on my machine and log
> in using Xandros' menu, so I don't have access to the Ubuntu boot
> menu.
>
> Am I snookered?
The `recovery' grub menu item is mainly adding `single' to the kernel's
arguments.
$ awk -v RS= -v 'ORS=\n\n' '/
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