Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dear Ubuntu Community

On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 12:20, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 09:25, Mark Dorrington > wrote: > >> I live in Canterbury Kent >> >> I own a ubuntu touch smartphone an lg nexus 5 >> >> I am currently having issues with my pho

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dear Ubuntu Community

On Thu, 30 Sept 2021 at 09:25, Mark Dorrington wrote: > I live in Canterbury Kent > > I own a ubuntu touch smartphone an lg nexus 5 > > I am currently having issues with my phone > the screen occasionally flickers i keep having a weak signal > and signal cutouts. > > Could anybody do some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB DVD/CD Drive

On 6 July 2017 at 11:56, Simon Greenwood <sfgreenw...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On 6 July 2017 at 11:31, Tony Pursell <tony.purs...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> >> On Thursday, 6 July 2017, Steve Mynott <steve.myn...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB DVD/CD Drive

On 6 July 2017 at 11:31, Tony Pursell wrote: > > > On Thursday, 6 July 2017, Steve Mynott wrote: > > I'm looking for a cheap external DVD/CD USB drive (mainly to rip my > > own CDs and maybe burn some DVDs). > > > > Can anyone recommend a model

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gnome 3 with a docking station

On 28 April 2017 at 18:13, Jim Price <d1vers...@hotmail.com> wrote: > On 27/04/17 18:36, Simon Greenwood wrote: > >> I've switched my primary laptop Xubuntu install to Gnome 3 what with all >> this sudden interest in it and I'm quite pleased with how it all hangs

[ubuntu-uk] Gnome 3 with a docking station

I've switched my primary laptop Xubuntu install to Gnome 3 what with all this sudden interest in it and I'm quite pleased with how it all hangs together, especially with the availability of extensions. There is one tweak or extension that I haven't found yet: I frequently plug my laptop into a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shock announcement

Just as I got Ubuntu Touch running on a Nexus 4 too​. There has been a distinct feeling recently that alternative phone OSes are becoming more of a niche (if that's possible). ​It shouldn't take much for Gnome to look like Unity, but then again the question may be how far Canonical go with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB wi-fi adapter recommendation?

On 9 March 2017 at 12:04, Adam Funk wrote: > Hi, > > Can anyone recommend a good USB wi-fi adapter for use with Ubuntu? I > don't mind if it takes some tinkering to set up the first time, but I > need high reliability for a non-gearhead to be able to use it after > that. >

[ubuntu-uk] Chromium packages out of date in 16.10

This may be of interest to some people. This morning I started getting a NET::ERR_CERTIFICATE_TRANSPARENCY_REQUIRED error for amazon.co.uk in Chromium. This is due to a recent Google feature that requires HTTPS certificate chains to be transparent and affects a few other large sites - I noticed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongles

On 30 November 2016 at 12:03, Dave Morley wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 11:56:01 + (UTC) > George Tripp wrote: > > > Can anyone recommend a wifi dongle that's plug & play / compatible > > with 16.04. > > > > > > George > > > > Pretty much any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Entroware contact?

If you're interested, PC Specialist (pc.co.uk) sell the same Clevo machines for considerably less with similar configurations - they just don't support Linux officially, although there is plenty of community support. I'm using one with what has now become a combination of Xubuntu and Cinnamon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No 16.04 USB audio Thread Closed

On 5 August 2016 at 20:49, Michael <michael.penllerg...@btinternet.com> wrote: > > > On 05/08/16 18:59, Michael wrote: > > > > On 05/08/16 18:34, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > > On 5 August 2016 at 18:20, Michael <michael.penllerg...@btinternet.com> >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No 16.04 USB audio

On 5 August 2016 at 18:20, Michael wrote: > Both 12.04 and 14.04 supported USB audio, 16.04 does not. Why not ? was > there a file conflict presented by USB audio that caused its omission > from16.04 ? I have tried to find a "repair", nothing obvious seen. Is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Messed up upgrade from 14.04 to 16.04

On 1 August 2016 at 10:00, Michael wrote: > Alan, Barry, or anybody who can help with an upgrade problem. I f the > helper need to take over my computer to resolve, I'm happy with that. > > The update14.04-16-04, was writing updated files when it stopped, a >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Hostnames

On 12 July 2016 at 15:10, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I'm after a bit of enlightenment from anybody who knows more about > networking than I do - which is probably most of you... > > I have a home network which connects to a radio-based broadband service > (very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

On 22 June 2016 at 08:44, Pete Smout wrote: > > On 22 Jun 2016 06:13, "Gareth France" > wrote: > > > > > > > > On 22/06/16 01:10, Liam Proven wrote: > >> > >> Do you have the FB client on your smartphone? Did you let it access > >> your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seeing double with new hard drive

On 19 June 2016 at 19:57, Gareth France wrote: > I have a dual hard drive setup in my laptop thanks to a secondary cradle > where the DVD rom should be. I have decided to replace my primary hard > drive as it is virtually dead. I have installed the new drive in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

On 18 June 2016 at 21:53, Mark Fraser wrote: > > > On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: > > > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT > > > partition > > > table and a 3TB ext4 partition. This completed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New hard drive errors

What did you use to create the partition? The only thing that I have found that works properly is gdisk. s/ On 18 June 2016 at 16:21, Mark Fraser wrote: > Bought a new 3TB hard drive this week onto which I created a new GPT > partition > table and a 3TB ext4

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SFTP Problem

On 27 March 2016 at 09:35, Paul Waring <p...@xk7.net> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 08:41:22AM +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: > >Filezilla is very strict about SSL/TLS support. If the server says it > >supports TLS then Filezilla tries to use it and will re

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SFTP Problem

On 26 March 2016 at 20:24, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I've just installed Xubuntu 15.10 on an Acer netbook. I've installed > Xubuntu many times before but not 15.10. It works fine. > > My standard routine is to next install openSSH-server and SSHFS, then > start the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

As Robert says, the installation process has failed as it assumed that initctl was there and probably created an upstart service but as initctl isn't available it won't work, so it's probably a case of converting the upstart service to systemctl, which I'm sure is possible but I don't know how off

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

of the second statement with 'if', which should fire the application's systemd script, and maybe pass that back to the devs. On 27 February 2016 at 11:57, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 26/02/16 20:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: > >> That's the ans

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

browser. On 26 February 2016 at 19:45, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 26/02/16 18:21, Simon Greenwood wrote: > >> It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which >> you should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My gues

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange problem with Firefox in 15.04 and later ...

It looks like there should be something listening on port 59234, which you should be able to identify from sudo netstat -nlp. My guess is that it's an ssh tunnel if the application is bash based. It may not have been shut down previously or there might be something else on that port. On 26

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

There is a known issue with the Audacity package in 15.10 in that it was built against the wrong version of wxWidgets so this may be related. The Audacity devs advise using their PPA and release. On Wed, 13 Jan 2016 20:15 Colin Law wrote: > On 13 January 2016 at 18:07, Barry

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

I remember you saying it was a Lenovo - there is an application called tpb that enables the special keys in Thinkpads which might be installed on Lenovo hardware - that's worth a check. s/ On 16 December 2015 at 09:57, Barry Drake <ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com> wrote: > On 16/12/15 08:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

It may be specific to your model or make as Ctrl-F3 doesn't do anything on my Asus S400CA by default. I would suspect that a keyboard driver for your make has been installed so finding that and disabling it might work. On 16 December 2015 at 07:40, Barry Drake wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] $5 Computer

On 26 November 2015 at 13:28, Colin Law wrote: > On 26 November 2015 at 13:17, Alan Lord wrote: > > Slightly OT but I thought it interesting in case anyone missed the > > announcement this morning: > > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Enlightenment

I found due to a similar query recently that wired connections take precedent over wifi connections in Network Manager so all traffic should have been going across the wired connection. s/ On 17 November 2015 at 14:24, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I have arrived at a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

On 22 September 2015 at 19:49, Steve Mynott wrote: > Anyone any recommendations for very cheap laptops (ideally netbook > like form factor) with good linux support? > > I assume netbooks themselves are pretty dead (which is a pity since > some had decent keyboards). > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] High Capacity SD cards

Mechanically I can't see any reason why not as the cards should be broadly compatible with any reader although if you're running 32-bit I assume you have older hardware which might not. However, at the current price I'm not sure if it's worth it as a backup solution. On Tue, 8 Sep 2015 08:23

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with one mailbox in Thunderbird

One thing that occurred to me is that the time might be wrong somewhere, which can confuse the relationship between a server and a client and it could be that Thunderbird thinks that the messages are dated incorrectly. You might see something to that effect in the debug logs. s/ On 4 September

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Enabling Wake on Lan on Ubuntu laptop

On 25 June 2015 at 06:53, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, Posting after a very long time.. :) Ive run into a bit of a problem trying to wake my laptop (connected via wifi) from suspend using my Android phone. Ideally I would like it to wake as soon as my phone is connected to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Enabling Wake on Lan on Ubuntu laptop

On 25 June 2015 at 08:31, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Sounds like im stuck then! Any other way of enabling that laptop to auto wake once I get home? I'm going to have a play with this on my desktop, which is on ethernet, as it would be cool to have it power up from my phone or from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Enabling Wake on Lan on Ubuntu laptop

On 25 June 2015 at 08:05, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Absolutely. But can i not set the wifi to On even though the laptop is suspended? That might work if you can enable it in BIOS or the laptop has a physical switch for WLAN but usually if it's on a keyboard key it's a kernel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

I came across PeppermintOS[1] recently, which is an LXDE based distribution but a nicely designed one that replaces Firefox with Chromium and has an inbuilt system for Chrome app integration. I'm running it on a four year old Lenovo AMD netbook which was starting to struggle with Xubuntu and it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gnome Color Chooser

On 23 June 2015 at 16:22, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I'm so impressed with Ubuntu MATE that I've finally abandoned Xubuntu as my go-to distribution. The MATE desktop has tools for tailoring the colours so you have a high level of control over its appearance. However some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

On 23 June 2015 at 09:56, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 19/06/15 08:29, Stuart Ward wrote: Wednesday evenings it is open to the public. Yesterday, I collected a computer from someone the local Freecycle group. It had no power supply or hard drive, but otherwise is OK. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Pre installed - HP 'standard images' 'may not work' WTF

It's probably more about the training that HP's support teams have been given. Until very recently the support cycle of most PCs would assume that they had the same OS throughout their lifespan because few people even upgrade the version of Windows they use, so to allow the people on the phones to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Phone questions

You might want to hold off until Monday as Meizu look like they are about to announce theirs. However, there is a thread about experience on this list and the general consensus suggests that it isn't quite ready for primetime. On 15 May 2015 at 09:56, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 3 May 2015 at 10:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: With a little help from Paul Sladen I got it sorted thanks. My only issue now is that the installed package only runs if you call it using the full path /opt/cliftontestsuite/primetest. Just typing primetest an any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Issues packaging software

On 3 May 2015 at 10:55, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: The packaging tutorial ends with: Basic DOs and Dont's for packaging for Commercial Applications DOs Please use /opt/application_name/ as your application root directory I have no idea if it is in $PATH but this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Implications Of Secure Boot Lockout

The point of the statement is that Microsoft and Microsoft alone have relaxed the option for OEMs, that is hardware makers, to allow Secure Boot to be disabled. I can see that this might lead to appliance-type machines such as cheap Windows with Bing laptops being shipped 'locked' because they are

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

On 6 March 2015 at 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonbp@owncube.email wrote: Hi all, Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here and why... Cheers Gordon Motorola Moto G, cheap, unlocked, 4G and backed by Google for a couple of years, although the promised upgrade

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Minor SSH Issue

Check that avahi-daemon is installed and running. Make sure that the machine knows its own name (try 'host machinename.local' from a terminal. I recently updated my laptop to 14.10 and the name service stopped working on it. It turned out that my network favours IPv6 as I have it configured, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

On 29 January 2015 at 09:01, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 January 2015 at 23:01, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: I have just tested filling out a form using Evince (aka Document Viewer) and it seems to work OK, but only if you download the form. If the PDF

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

On 29 January 2015 at 10:53, 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 hammers home

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Icons go missing ...

On 12 January 2015 at 10:32, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there I'm running 15.04 testing 64bit, on a desktop pc. For month or two now, the Unity launcher bar loses icons after (usually) the second launch of a particular program during a session. Firefox and

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: How old is your computer?

On 5 January 2015 at 17:28, TT Mooney ttmoo...@ttmooney.com wrote: On 05/01/15 16:46, TT Mooney wrote: I'm in the process of founding a startup, and even though I've kept my current company as Linux on the desktop shop for 10 years, the startup is going Mac. Because it's easier to maintain

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building module ....

On 20 December 2014 at 15:37, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there ... I want to use a fax on my desktop computer. I'm running 15.04 testing. I bought a USB fax modem with Conexant chipset - Linux compatible. The enclosed disk has a .deb driver package. So far so good

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

On 6 December 2014 at 15:51, George Tripp luggeo...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: - Original Message - From: Barry Titterton titterton.ba...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com; lubuntu-us...@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: Sent: Thursday, 4 December 2014, 15:26 Subject: [ubuntu-uk] How old

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

On 4 December 2014 at 15:26, Barry Titterton titterton.ba...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, How old is the oldest computer that you have in regular use? I was prompted to ask this question by a comment that I over heard while doing some Linux advocacy at my local community centre. They run

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reverse engineering data files

On 24 November 2014 at 08:03, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I was led to believe by a rep of the company who makes these that this is not the case. He was happily discussing with my other companies who have done the same. Something just occurred to me about the format:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre occurrence when attempting to install Ubuntu

On 19 November 2014 12:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote: Hi all, I’ve just purchased an Acer Aspire E3 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acer-Aspire-E3-112-11-6-inch-Notebook/dp/B00NWHUXYGthat came with Windows 8.1 with Bing. I have a good bootable USB stick with 14.04 on it, from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screenshot: can't clear old image files, where are they

On 15 November 2014 14:44, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/11/14 14:25, Bill B. wrote: On Sat, 2014-11-15 at 12:50 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: I haven't been using Print Screen, I have been using the Screenshot application Rowan, pardon my naivety, but have you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help with perl

On 8 November 2014 23:28, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I posted about choosing a new laptop recently and have settled on a machine, set it up and I'm just getting settled in. I use a perl script for work and have discovered it doesn't work any more. It is asking for the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing files and folders between two 14.04 machines

On 17 October 2014 14:23, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 October 2014 15:19, Alan Lord alansli...@gmail.com wrote: That's a fair question, but to be honest I don't really use anything else but ssh/sftp - anywhere. If I need to move a *massive* amount of data then I'd probably

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

On 13 October 2014 18:43, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 13 October 2014 13:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote: How do you find the battery life on your Lenovo x? I have a Lenovo U410 and the battery life, even with TPL installed never goes much over 3

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question re cloning and partitioning

On 8 October 2014 13:35, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote: Hi gurus, I currently triple-boot my Lenovo U410 with Ubuntu 14.04, Windows 8.1 (which came pre-installed) and Windows 10 tech preview. There is an SSD used for Intel Fastboot (AFAIK) and the three OSs are all installed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

7dayshop.com have some refurbished Acer Aspire One notebooks at £179.99 which might fit the bill. They're nice little machines - I have a similarly specced Lenovo Edge for mobile use, and they happily run Xubuntu. I would find a cheap 64GB or 128GB SSD to improve battery life if you were going to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

PCSpecialist machines are essentially the same ones that System 76 use so they should be fine, and if not the System 76 drivers should help. s/ On 4 October 2014 17:01, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 04/10/14 16:24, Mark Fraser wrote: There's the 11.6 Mirage II from PC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

On 16 September 2014 21:08, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Not ubuntu related but I'm hoping someone may have the answer I need. Today I discovered my webspace has been hacked and several sites now contain additional code at the start of every single PHP file. Looking at my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

On 16 September 2014 23:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Quoting from my 1979 Unix manual Brian W Kernigan (who is the K in awk) says 'there is nothing sacred about slashes' so you can do s?http:// ?https://? In other words 'any character can be used to delimit the pieces

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard error after upgrade to 4/2014

On 9 September 2014 15:29, Michael h...@ukcentre.com wrote: I can not find a way of making the change from American keyboard layout to UK permanent. The @ and symbols Reverts to American after shutdown, a fix holds for a session only. Any suggestions, please ? Thanks, Michael Have you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba

There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (http://freedos.org), which is available in floppy and CD images. s/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba

On 6 September 2014 20:56, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 6 September 2014 19:54, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: There is a free DOS called, predictably FreeDOS (http://freedos.org), which is available in floppy and CD images. In case anyone else thinks the site

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Need advice (Devs?) Urgent - HP printer duplex not fully op with Libre Office

LibreOffice has its own print drivers so the problem will almost certainly be there so have a good look at the printer configuration within LibreOffice. You could also try community support on the LibreOffice website to see if there are any workarounds or if anyone is prepared to pick up the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels .....

This command will remove all but your running kernel from the command line: sudo apt-get remove --purge $(dpkg -l 'linux-*' | sed '/^ii/!d;/'$(uname -r | sed s/\(.*\)-\([^0-9]\+\)/\1/)'/d;s/^[^ ]* [^ ]* \([^ ]*\).*/\1/;/[0-9]/!d') Source is here:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers

On 30 July 2014 10:22, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I'd like to pick people's brains, if I may, on connecting to remote servers. My goal is to mount a remote server (another PC in my house) to a folder so that its contents can be used as if it were local data. SSHFS does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

On 3 July 2014 17:28, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: The last entries from the error log are: [Wed Jul 02 22:20:53.066457 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 19928] AH00169: caught SIGTERM, shutting down [Wed Jul 02 22:20:54.519873 2014] [mpm_prefork:notice] [pid 20002] AH00163:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

On 2 July 2014 22:24, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I have installed Drupal 7 into Ubuntu 14.04, following instructions from https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Drupal I got as far as the bit that says Complete the Drupal Installation through a Browser and clicked on the links for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Drupal 7 installation - php file not found/not opening in browser

On 2 July 2014 23:09, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I get 404 error for http://localhost/drupal/install.php so must be something wrong with LAMP, although I have no idea what. It sounds like it's serving but that the document root is wrong or something isn't running correctly. Run

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Freezing apps .... was in connection with Thunderbird

On 6 June 2014 15:22, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there . There were some recent posts about Thunderbird freezing. This morning, I had a similar experience with Gparted. I wanted to shrink the partition on a 32 GiB SD card and make an EXT3 partition in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone

On 2 June 2014 15:08, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: See http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-27660366 It seems that the Ubuntu phone will be too late into the market if all the manufacturers start bring out their own OS. Few have the resources or will to create their

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Fwd: Re: Ubuntu phone

On 2 June 2014 16:27, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Tony Pursell tony.purs...@gmail.com Date: 2 Jun 2014 16:25 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone To: Ubuntu UK ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Cc: On 2 Jun 2014 15:27, Simon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Constant crashing

On 1 June 2014 20:50, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I was lucky enough to be given a PC today, also a P4 but with 2Gb RAM. It's running Lubuntu like a dream. I'll tinker with the old on in my own time. However I now find their printer isn't supported on Linux at all! A Canon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing from Android device

On 25 May 2014 16:37, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Hi everyone, I have a Android smart phone. Does anyone know if I can print from it to a printer attached to an Ubuntu PC. The Ubuntu version is 14.04. The Android version is 4.4.2 and the HP Print Service Plugin is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Adobe digital editions

On 17 May 2014 23:38, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.es wrote: Hi all, After reading this (0) I gave installing adobe digital editions a try with wine. This would enable reading ebooks purchased in waterstones with the likes of sony e-reader. The adobe installer claims it needs .net (3.5 i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First impressions on Trusty

I upgraded my Acer S400C laptop to Xubuntu 14.04 on Sunday and it's generally been good in terms of performance. There is a bug with iBus which relates to language settings and left me with a US English keyboard map after reboot and which was fixed by selecting UK English in keyboard settings.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

If you're just running in a local directory and it's chmodded 755, you have to execute it with slashdot: ./seaward s/ On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/04/14 10:36, Alan Pope wrote: On 23 April 2014 10:31, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote:

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

On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread My thoughts confirmed, and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in stores it's temp files. I've looked in /tmp and can see nothing that looks like a .flv video

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

On 18 April 2014 11:20, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout smoutp...@gmail.com mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread My thoughts

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

Seems to be http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/02/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/now Hmm, maybe it's time to build my own owncloud... On 2 April 2014 14:07, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: I'd recommend any users who use Ubuntu One file services read this blog post from our CEO,

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

On 2 April 2014 15:26, YaManicKill mailingl...@10people.co.uk wrote: Spideroak allows you to sync any file of folder anywhere on your computer. It is also encrypted with your password. Very nice. I'd recommend that, the rest of them just sync a folder, which is a bit annoying. Spideroak

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

here: http://l.bitcasa.com/n6j02kWQ s/ On 2 April 2014 15:29, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 April 2014 15:26, YaManicKill mailingl...@10people.co.uk wrote: Spideroak allows you to sync any file of folder anywhere on your computer. It is also encrypted with your password

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot: XP partiton question

On 12 March 2014 19:42, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote: As an aside [ to continue with the original mail] I have just finished a build of my own desktop pc [started with a Zoostorm cheapo and replaced/added/donated some parts from old pc - an ageing Dell Dimension]. The original XP

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

On 13 February 2014 20:05, Peter Maddison ponchorat1...@hotmail.com wrote: What stickers are you after as I am system76's UK outlet for 'Powered by Ubuntu' and an alternative to the Window$ logo key. The free stickers come from System 76 according to the Linux Emporium site so they could be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

On 13 February 2014 22:45, Peter Maddison ponchorat1...@hotmail.com wrote: -- Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 22:05:55 + From: sfgreenw...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website? You get 4 of each,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Data Center Infrastructure Migration Project

On 3 February 2014 18:13, Ramu Iyer ramu.ti...@gmail.com wrote: *Apologies is this question is somewhat off-topic for this mailing list. * I am searching for pointers for a playbook that describes a working checklist of some (if not all) of the steps in successfully executing a Data Center

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

On 2 February 2014 12:33, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

That's a Magento error so it's a problem with the shop software. I wouldn't jump to the conclusion that they've stopped trading from that. s/ On 31 January 2014 11:46, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 31/01/14 11:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Is there a problem? Trying to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem with Linux Emporium website?

Canonical sell stickers. I have them on my laptop right now. s/ On 31 January 2014 12:02, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.ukwrote: On 31/01/14 11:46, alan c wrote: My conclusion has been that - they have ceased trading? Eeek! Any idea on where we can get Ubuntu stickers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual-Boot Issue

On 2 January 2014 13:45, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I dual boot Xubuntu with Windows 7, but use the Windows partition mainly as additional storage. I am generally running out of disk space on both Linux and Windows partitions. I do have occasional need for Windows, so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

Chrome does occasionally have trouble with ancestry.co.uk (as it does with other forms to varying degrees in my experience) but you shouldn't have to do anything to fix it, and if the instructions are from 2010 then they are very out of date so just ignore them. These things eventually either come

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11 - 13 Notebook Recommendations?

On 11 December 2013 18:19, Deryk Foote deryk.fo...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu is great at a lot of things, but keeping my cinder block of an old Dell from kicking the proverbial bucket isn't one of them. Alas...I suppose it's time to move on. I'm trying to find the most practical,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing a photo album without SAAS

On 7 November 2013 07:39, Andres a75...@alumni.tecnun.es wrote: Hello, I was thinking of doing a photo album and then having it printed at my local reprographics shop. All of it avoiding SAAS and using free libre open source software (floss). How would you go about it? Use something like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 1000 commands

On 5 November 2013 17:18, Steven Roberts cwmbranmathstu...@gmail.comwrote: I just discovered that, as a default, only the last 1000 commands are stored in the bash history file. Pretty horrified! A quick bit of googling gave me the fix to increase the limit etc. Not sure if this is just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 103, Issue 2

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 reckon) as I forget things - the command history is a reminder of

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

On 13 September 2013 13:39, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.comwrote: Umm, me. I haven't bought a handset on contract for more than 5 years now. I have a SIM-only contract with 3, and got my last few handsets from amazon or eBay. There are about a dozen others in my office who do

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