Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MP3 players

2009-10-12 Thread Seif Attar
On Sun, 2009-10-11 at 22:22 +0100, Martin Meredith wrote: On Sun, Oct 11, 2009 at 10:11:56PM +0100, Michael G Fletcher wrote: Hi Guys, This is more of a philosophical question... I'm looking for a new mp3 player, about 4 - 10GB, but not over the top when it comes to features, I have a

[ubuntu-uk] MPD and Icecast2

2009-07-27 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, I have MPD setup to output to icecast, entry in mpd.conf: audio_output { typeshout nameMPD stream hosthostname port8000 mount /low.ogg password

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MPD and Icecast2

2009-07-27 Thread Seif Attar
On Mon, 2009-07-27 at 18:38 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: Seif Attar wrote: Hello, snip Any ideas what the problem could be? or how I should go about figuring it out! Best Regards, Seif I've seen this before with Icecast, when the song stopped the stream would stop. Can't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-05-01 Thread Seif Attar
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 17:41 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Seif Attar wrote: I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-28 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 15:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: 2009/4/26 Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series graphics chip in it.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-28 Thread Seif Attar
On Tue, 2009-04-28 at 11:59 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 11:08 AM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Seif Attar wrote: I have a laptop with an ATI 200m xpress video card, I tried upgrading to Jaunty, but before the upgrade I got

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-11-19 Thread Seif Attar
Ian -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Rob Beard Sent: 01 October 2008 11:53 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure? Seif Attar wrote: me again, it crashed, so it's not the graphics card, and the noapic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Call for a new leader

2008-11-10 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, Alan Pope wrote: Hi, As I previously mentioned [0], I'll be stepping down from stewardship of the good ship Ubuntu UK LoCo at the end of November. The first part of the process starts now, which is where we identify those individuals who would like to be considered for the role.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] TV Out from Mythbuntu not in colour

2008-11-07 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, Seif Attar wrote: piskie wrote: not sure then - I'm fairly positive that was all I needed to add, but I could be mistaken. The only other difference being that I use seperate x screens rather than clone Als my tv seems to show 2 outputs from svideo input - av2 and yc2 - av2

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Intrepid release party, Waxy O'Connors, London - who's coming?

2008-10-30 Thread Seif Attar
Andrew Oakley wrote: Prior to the Hardy release party, I kept up-to-speed over IRC. Unfortunately my new employer blocks IRC so I've no idea what social arrangements are being made. Who's coming to the Canonical-organised Intrepid release party at Waxy O'Connors, London on Thursday night?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-10-02 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, The rams are not the cause of the freeze, as it froze with each of them separately. Rob, I dont know why, for some reason I assumed that there is no warranty on the thing, I contacted the seller, my warranty runs out in november! and he

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-30 Thread Seif Attar
Stephen O'Neill wrote: Seif Attar wrote: any other suggestions on how to troubleshoot this? maybe benchmarking software for ubuntu? My immediate suspicion is that your PSU isn't up to scratch. Try putting in another or if you can't try removing superfluous hardware like drives and cards

[ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, I have had problems with ubuntu freezing on gutsy and it's still freezing with hardy, thought it was x64 problem, so i switched to x32 ubuntu, but it's still crashing! then i realised it might not be ubuntu at all. so I ran a memtest, that froze as well, I assume that if the memtest froze

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardware failure?

2008-09-29 Thread Seif Attar
On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:31 +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 22:13 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: Hello, I have had problems with ubuntu freezing on gutsy and it's still freezing with hardy, thought it was x64 problem, so i switched to x32 ubuntu, but it's still crashing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Skype video on Ubuntu 8.04

2008-09-26 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, Graham Smith wrote: Adam Thanks for the response When I test the video in skype, Skype shuts down. If I leave it enabled, as soon as the recipient of a call picks up. Skype disconnects (but you do see the video stream briefly) Initially, this was a problem with a Logitech

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Post install additions

2008-06-24 Thread Seif Attar
Hello Alan, Alan Pope wrote: Hi, Here's a question for the group. If you install a clean Ubuntu system for yourself (or perhaps someone else), what are the key things you add to the system after, to get a works for me desktop? Here is my list: ubuntu-restricted-extras skype avant

[ubuntu-uk] Article for Local newspaper

2008-06-08 Thread Seif Attar
hello, I remember someone posting this https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKMarketing/ArticleForLocalMagazine1 a while back, so that we can submit it to local newspapers. Ubuntu-jo are organising an event, and I thought it'd be good marketing to publish in one of the magazines in Jordan, to let people know

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shuttleworth interview in today's Technology Guardian

2008-05-22 Thread Seif Attar
Michael Wood wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 04:04:20PM +0100, John Levin wrote: SABDFL's got a beard now. I bet Jono Bacon had something to do with it. No he doesn't. We just interviewed him

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SSH through FIrewall

2008-05-11 Thread Seif Attar
On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 11:13 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: Iain Lane wrote: Adam Bagnall wrote: On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 09:37 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: Hello, ... Is there a way to gain access to that machine through the firewall? is there something she can do on her machine (like connect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to hardy. Now WinFF doesnt work!

2008-05-05 Thread Seif Attar
On Mon, 2008-05-05 at 14:33 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: ok i typed this in terminal ffmpeg -fflags and i got this FFmpeg version SVN-rUNKNOWN, Copyright (c) 2000-2007 Fabrice Bellard, et al. configuration: --enable-gpl --enable-pp --enable-swscaler --enable-pthreads --enable-libvorbis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] My Hardy problems and their fixes

2008-05-03 Thread Seif Attar
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:21 +0100, Gavin Ford wrote: I've had a few problems since upgrading to Hardy, now I've got most of them sorted I thought it would be helpful to share the solutions I've found. Broadcom WiFi was slow and unreliable This was down to defaulting to the Open Source

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to Hardy- Trying to make it easy!

2008-05-02 Thread Seif Attar
Javad Ayaz wrote: :) yes...that is cool!!! And how bout bookmarks and addons in firefox? if you copy your home directory (including hidden folders) that should have all the bookmarks, as for the addons, it depends how you installed them, if you installed them while running firefox as normal

[ubuntu-uk] Port 2000 on Ubuntu

2008-05-01 Thread Seif Attar
hello, I installed nessus on one ubuntu machine, and set the target to another ubuntu machine on the lan, after it finished, the report had a lot of warning and threats, but I assume they are ok, as they are services i know, and that i want running, one thing worried is a service running on port

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Port 2000 on Ubuntu

2008-05-01 Thread Seif Attar
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 12:02 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Seif, Seif Attar wrote: I installed nessus on one ubuntu machine, and set the target to another ubuntu machine on the lan, after it finished, the report had a lot of warning and threats, but I assume they are ok

Re: [ubuntu-uk] was idea-Torrents- Now- Suggest low power consumption silent PC

2008-04-30 Thread Seif Attar
Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 14:07 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: So i guess this is next logical question! So what do you suggest!!!? http://efficientpc.co.uk/ http://search.ebay.co.uk/search/search.dll?from=R40_trksid=m37satitle=nslu2 http://www.tranquilpc.co.uk/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Idea- Torrents!

2008-04-29 Thread Seif Attar
Javad Ayaz wrote: anyone have any experience with this.? surely im not the first one to think of this? How can i run this in buntu thou? i dont wana dual boot with anything...im happy with my buntu!!! :) ok, if i understood what you want correctly, you want a device that will doenload

Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

2008-04-23 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: | On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 09:29 +0100, Kat Kinnie wrote: | Stick it in your diary and feel free to bring along friends and family | too, the more the merrier. You can see it on the wiki page for Ubuntu | release parties

Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

2008-04-23 Thread Seif Attar
On Thu, 2008-04-24 at 00:52 +0100, Tim Dobson wrote: Josh Blacker wrote: Alan Pope wrote: Show of hands... Who's going to this? Why wouldn't I? An 8 hour round trip by train? ;) is that a yes or a no? ;) signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Competition starting on the Ubuntu UK Podcast

2008-04-16 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: | Episode 4 is going to feature a new item. A competition with rather awesome | prizes! Stay tuned! | | (feel free to speculate wildly as to what it might be) | ~ are we speculating what the competition might be? or the prize???

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where is everyone?

2008-03-04 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: | On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:47:49PM +, Gavin Ford wrote: | On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:35:39PM +, alan c wrote: | Is it me, or something at my end here, but things seem uncommonly | quiet on this list for the last several

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Synch Nokia N73 with Gutsy using USB Cable

2008-02-18 Thread Seif Attar
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 22:26 +, Chris Rowson wrote: Given the fact that Nokia uses so much FOSS. You'd think that they'd release a synchronisation manager for Linux. I was wondering actually, is it possible to sync an Ubuntu Mobile Edition with Ubuntu installed on a machine?? is so, i'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC news site

2008-02-06 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 | BBC, Sky, ITN all suck big time. Try watching Al Jazeera, there's always | something fairly important or interesting on there, and no | entertainment news (a contradictory term in itself). I like the jazeera news (I get it from the Sky News

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Crashing

2008-02-06 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Seif Attar wrote: | Hello, | | Thanks for the email, somehow Michael's email slipped though my | fingers! :S and your email made go back to look for his email! | | On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 21:57 +, Neil Greenwood wrote: | On 05/02/2008, Michael

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Crashing

2008-02-06 Thread Seif Attar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Holloway wrote: | Ok, morning came and that machine hadn't crashed, so I started the | unison sync again to force the machine to crash, and something happened | while I had an ssh session open, the server didn't crash as it usually | does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Crashing

2008-02-05 Thread Seif Attar
Hello, Thanks for the email, somehow Michael's email slipped though my fingers! :S and your email made go back to look for his email! On Tue, 2008-02-05 at 21:57 +, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 05/02/2008, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A log file that might help you diagnose is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Repos

2007-07-28 Thread Seif Attar
to go. but I see advantages in Ian's idea. Peace, Seif Attar -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Window XP on Ubuntu

2007-07-14 Thread Seif Attar
at the moment! but i remember trying different sync modes (assuming it's a WM5, under connections in the settings, there's active sync mode) try both, dont remember which one worked for me. you might need to enable the device after it's connected from the vmplayer menu. hope this helps, Seif Attar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] celebrating Fiesty

2007-04-12 Thread Seif Attar
For those of you in the London area, you might want to stop by the upcoming mini-bar event on 20 April to help celebrate the release of Ubuntu 7.04. Canonical is sponsoring the event, and Mark Shuttleworth will be speaking. Other Ubuntu folks (including Matt Zimmerman, me, others from