Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - digital TV recorder (Humax) free software.....

2011-07-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
The recent update to Sky+ boxes, which enables networking among other things, also has an open source subsystem, based around busybox. The package can be downloaded from Sky's website. On 3 Jul 2011 18:36, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 03/07/11 16:26, alan c wrote: I have just purchased

Re: [ubuntu-uk] run a script

2011-07-01 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 1 July 2011 11:39, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: When I right click on a folder containing a script and select Open I am offered a choice of either Run or Run in Terminal. When I select the latter a terminal opens and then flashes off again. How do I get to make the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] proxy setup for work

2011-06-30 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 30 June 2011 09:37, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello all, I'm starting to use ubuntu at work and found this page: http://www.ubuntugeek.com/how-to-configure-ubuntu-desktop-to-use-your-proxy-server.html It seems a bit dated. Do I still have to set-up proxy settings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 18 April 2011 08:33, Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com wrote: Hi all I have, very foolishly in hindsight, offered to help my partner to bring order to her tens of thousands of digital pictures. You can guess what the main problem is, one of being able to find that picture of the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] upgrade from 9.10 to 11.04

2011-06-27 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 27 June 2011 15:07, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: I have just completed the three stage upgrade process and now have Ubuntu 11.04 in all its glory except that it appears that my desktop will not run the latest layout and I am stuck with GNOME. Furthermore, the icon for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MeeNee Notebook preinstalled Ubuntu £225

2011-06-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 26 June 2011 22:49, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 26 June 2011 18:14, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 25 June 2011 20:05, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Purchased new notebook laptop 'MeeNee' brand (?) I managed to blag one from the manufacturer to review on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

2011-06-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 June 2011 10:03, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: ** On 24/06/2011 08:52, Sean Miller wrote: On 24 June 2011 08:45, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: As an example - in a quoted UK IT sector company, we (the Group Finance Dept) decided that we wanted a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dad's Computer - for want of a better subject

2011-06-22 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 22 June 2011 09:14, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote: On Wed, 22 Jun 2011 08:59:45 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: Jon Reynolds wrote: 1. Why on Earth did they choose to put Vista on there?? Perhaps because a new board supposedly means a new install of Windows and you're not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] webmin

2011-06-21 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 21 June 2011 13:59, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Hello Everyone, It's me again! I have just installed webmin on 11.04 server, but I'm having trouble logging in. I'm guessing I need to set a password for root [*sudo passwd root] *as that's the only solution I can find on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....

2011-06-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 20 June 2011 12:38, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: That looks perfect, I'll shall read some tutorials/reviews on how to get it up and running - Thanks. [Note to self, must research properly before wasting peoples time on here] Be careful with Sparkleshare though, it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....

2011-06-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 20 June 2011 13:04, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Avi, I was thinking of something like that as a basic solution too but didn't know where to start to be honest, I have shellinabox running so I suppose a script which allows a file to be uploaded and transferred would

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK - where to buy Asus 1001PXD, 1011PX and 1015PX ??

2011-06-17 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 17 June 2011 09:36, David Jones djones.dan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 17/06/2011 09:28, Simon Greenwood wrote: Plenty of people are selling them, but I think it might be an hour with a USB key to get Ubuntu on it. Those machines mentioned are being sold with Ubuntu preinstalled

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Morning all, I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core processor and a gig or so of ram £120, the rest i can beg borrow and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 10 June 2011 09:49, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Thanks Simon - very interested! Exactly what speed/core processor do they have in? Dave On Jun 10, 2011 9:40 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Barebones pc.

2011-06-10 Thread Simon Greenwood
Hi Dave - Sorry, I've said to other people that I'd rather do it through eBay (and also that I probably should have offered them on this list, but didn't think to). I think they'll be a bargain and there's only five days to go on them so it might be worth a punt. s/ On 10 June 2011 11:07, Dave

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kindle and Ubuntu

2011-06-09 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 9 June 2011 15:59, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: I have a friend who has a laptop with only Ubuntu on it, this was a deliberate decision. For various reasons they are now getting very interested in the Kindle, I understand there are models with WiFi of a couple of types (3g?).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAMP SERVER DISTRIBUTIONS

2011-06-08 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 8 June 2011 10:39, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Hi Are there any distributions that set up a lamp server out of the box something similar to this i guess http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=lamppix but lamppix is no longer maintained it needs to be EASY TO SET UP as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.

2011-06-06 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 6 June 2011 14:12, Dave Hanson d...@hansonforensics.co.uk wrote: Does anyone know of an emulator type application which could run native Ubuntu programs on my Samsung galaxy s2, running android? Perhaps even a way to dual boot it to run the desktop edition or maybe meego? XDA hackers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 2 June 2011 17:28, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying complexity. Is there anything wrong with using something simple like this? (except of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] unity gimp

2011-05-30 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 30 May 2011 21:26, Bill B. boo...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 20:50 +0100, George Tripp wrote: Just when I thought I'd got used to unity I can probably live with it I tried using the gimp. Previously with this I have the main window maximised set up toolbox layers as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] whatsapp

2011-05-28 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 28 May 2011 19:26, Andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Maybe not directly ubuntu related but I guess most of you use smartphones and are aware of what is plain bad.. Some friends have been giving me some buzz with http://www.whatsapp.com/seems like a mix of sms and IM. Do any of you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help required! (off topic)

2011-05-23 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 23 May 2011 20:08, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: What worries me more is this one... http://visualartistsuk.com/js/maine.js It looks bespoke, and therefore (presumably) not something can use or - indeed - find out who to ask if I can as there is nothing in the code saying who

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help required! (off topic)

2011-05-23 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 23 May 2011 20:20, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 23 May 2011 20:17, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: There are a few nice JQuery based galleries that are pretty much plug and play but there'd still be some back end functionality. It's not an out of the box solution

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft proprietary file types?

2011-05-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
Pardon my anecdotage but I had a client very recently who would lay out his leaflets in Excel. They looked remarkably good for it but I couldn't get him to even look at proper software, MS Publisher let alone Scribus. I also have a friend whose former boss did everything in an Adobe Illustrator

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft proprietary file types?

2011-05-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 20 May 2011 10:43, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/05/2011 10:18, Simon Greenwood wrote: but I couldn't get him to even look at proper software, MS Publisher The major problem with Publisher is that (AFAIK) there is NOTHING that will open a .pub document, except

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity and Gnome 3

2011-05-09 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 9 May 2011 09:52, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: Simon Greenwood wrote: On 6 May 2011 09:42, Tony Arnoldtony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: I'm wondering why Ubuntu decided to side-line Gnome 3 in favour of Unity? And does this mean Ubuntu may never support Gnome 3? How

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity and Gnome 3

2011-05-06 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 6 May 2011 09:42, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: I'm wondering why Ubuntu decided to side-line Gnome 3 in favour of Unity? And does this mean Ubuntu may never support Gnome 3? How are such decisions made and is it documented anywhere? Personally I'd like to make my own

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [LEEDS] Release Party Next Weekend

2011-04-30 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 29 April 2011 16:13, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Guys, Going to be having a release party next weekend (couldn't do anything this weekend as I have been busy) in Leeds, there will be fun, laughter, drinks and Natty! If anyone can suggest a good venue in or around

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hiya Everyone, I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that there are many people on this list who may do something similar? I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bonding 3G connections.

2011-04-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 April 2011 21:10, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote: Hey hey, Just wondered, does anyone have any experience or has seen any blogs posts of anyone bonding two or more 3G connections so they can aggregate the bandwidth? If you've seen or heard of anyone doing this I'd be interested

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family friends

2011-03-29 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 29 March 2011 11:23, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote: I am surprised no one has created a service like LogMeIn [0] yet for Linux/Ubuntu. I have used it in the past to support Windows machines (as LogMeIn only works on Windows), but the great thing is that you can do the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family friends

2011-03-29 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 29 March 2011 16:36, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 11:59 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: On 29 March 2011 11:52, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: Teamviewer has a Linux client that's free to use. Technically it has a windows client which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Programming in Python User Interface

2011-03-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 25 March 2011 07:03, Ubuntu Forum forum.ubunt...@gmail.com wrote: Hi I've been using Ubuntu for around 1 year now I'm 21 years old Currently I'm jobless and want to help the Linux community with what I can, but I don't think I will be 100% of use, due to the fact that if I get a job

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Segmentation faults

2011-03-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 March 2011 14:54, Ian Pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk wrote: Hello I have been experiencing a number of errors recently, with programs crashing reporting seg faults. I have run a memory test and removed what I thought was a suspect stick of ram, but the errors have increased. Are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mail hosting

2011-03-12 Thread Simon Greenwood
Google Apps for Domains. It's free for up to 50 users. s/ On 13 Mar 2011 06:54, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I'm looking for a cheap, reliable mail hosting service (and, no, I don't want to run my own server!). Any recommendations? mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 4 March 2011 07:37, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 04/03/11 07:09, Simon Greenwood wrote: Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is set up on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has pointed out, and you'll have to search for Samba

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 11:01, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 09:22, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 03/03/11 08:51, John MM wrote: what is smbtree? Open a terminal and type man smbtree NAME smbtree - A text based smb network browser SYNOPSIS smbtree [-b] [-D] [-S]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 11:34, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 11:44, Simon Greenwood wrote: A quick Google would also show that there isn't much more to know than what is in the man page. Smbtree prints a list of available servers and devices in your domain in the same way

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 12:23, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote: OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using Samba. The people who replied suggested

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 12:08, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote: OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using Samba. The people who replied suggested that you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 12:26, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote: OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using Samba. The people who replied suggested that you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 13:23, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 13:19, Simon Greenwood wrote: running 'smbtree -D domain How do I find out what domain is, is it my IP address or what? A Windows domain is the name given to an office network that is managed by a domain controller

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 13:46, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 13:54, Simon Greenwood wrote: The lock means that they are owned by root or another user, but most likely root. I think I need to do this with a machine running Ubuntu in front of me, so I'll get back to you tonight

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 19:38, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 18:50, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 3 March 2011 13:46, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 13:54, Simon Greenwood wrote: The lock means that they are owned by root or another user, but most likely root

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange file sharing problem

2011-03-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 3 March 2011 21:17, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote: No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange high CPU usage problem

2011-02-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 February 2011 09:29, Rossen Stoyanchev rstoyanc...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi- Apologies if this isn't the right place. Having started as a Ubuntu user in 7.04 I find myself completely baffled by the this one. Every now and then an application starts using a lot of CPU. This is typically

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange high CPU usage problem

2011-02-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 February 2011 12:05, Rossen Stoyanchev rstoyanc...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi- Thanks for your responses. I will try to answer in one rather than individually. I have a Dell M2400 laptop, Nvidia graphics card (http://dell.to/fqyD5M). I run updates regularly. I am currently using the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange high CPU usage problem

2011-02-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 February 2011 12:30, Matt Sturdy matt.stu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Simon - out of interest, can I ask what BIOS version you have on the M1330 at the moment? I'm using my 32bit M1330, and have frequent issues with overheating. I'm wondering if a BIOS update might go some way to resolving

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LibreOffice vs OpenOffice

2011-02-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 20 February 2011 10:30, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 19/02/11 06:05, Hassan Haz Williamson wrote: @Mac, Thanks for that. Interesting read. Personally I'm going where the developers are, I have a feeling that Oracle might try to swing things to their favour and might close

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preferred online storage solution?

2011-02-16 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 16 February 2011 11:36, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I sure you can tell from the subject where this is going :) I'm particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online storage solution is and why, I ask because I am struggling to find one suitable for Ubuntu,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Web server help please!

2011-02-16 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 17 February 2011 07:15, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: Nice to know cheers - I guess I'll look into that and stop paying 123reg for my emails Also check what your ISP does: for example, O2's basic plan prevents you from using any mail servers but their own. Having said that, if you have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ntlmaps and ISA server.

2011-02-15 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 15 February 2011 15:31, ** johnbrid...@yahoo.com wrote: Hi, I have put ntlmaps on one of my work machines (Ubuntu 10.04) in order to authenticate to the work ISA proxy server. Synaptic, apt-get, etc all work fine, and many websites also work. There are however some web sites that will

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lubuntu

2011-02-11 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 11 February 2011 09:19, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 11/02/11 08:56, Scrase, Eddie wrote: Chromium gets on my nerves but I thought I'd try Midori which seems OK. Personally I quite like Chromium, and it's screen space saving design is really useful on the EEE's 7

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - Office suite choice?

2011-02-08 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 8 February 2011 09:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I'd ask this here as I'm more likely to get a variety of opinions! Now Libreoffice has released the first stable version, (3.3) and Open Office also has released 3.3, which flavour would people suggest I use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook Ubuntu v. plain Ubuntu

2011-02-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 4 February 2011 21:22, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: A friend has asked me to look at her husbands netbook, which is running Linux. He bought it from Tesco two years ago, so I think it probably *is* Ubuntu. His problems are mainly that it doesn't recognise USB devices when

Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

2011-01-17 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 17 January 2011 11:23, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 17 January 2011 11:15, Andy Braben andybra...@gmail.com wrote: Advertising has certainly been missed which is expensive. And also who would buy these products? Members on this list might, but as most people know nothing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

2011-01-17 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 17 January 2011 14:32, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 17 January 2011 14:23, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Just went through the process and looked at the shipping. A 10.1 Netbook ships to the UK at $130 something - a good percentage of the cost of the netbook!!! I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

2011-01-17 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 17 January 2011 15:24, gazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On Mon, 2011-01-17 at 14:51 +, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 17 January 2011 14:32, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 17 January 2011 14:23, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Just went through the process and looked

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NetBook issue #2

2011-01-14 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 14 January 2011 15:35, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi again Back to this conference. It was at the High Leyes conference centre. They offered wi-fi which gave a good signal. Unfortunately it was one of these annoying systems that presents as a domain (1.1.1.1/login)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Editing .db files

2011-01-05 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 5 January 2011 17:20, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, My podcast app on my android phone- Google Listen, saves any user data, playlists etc as a .db file. Is there anything i can use to open this file and edit the contents? Also if no options are available in the ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

2011-01-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 4 January 2011 10:15, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 08:02:03 +,Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 4 January 2011 07:45, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: I have the file itself, and the default OpenSSL packages for 10.04,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora handles

2011-01-02 Thread Simon Greenwood
sfgreenw...@joindiaspora.com I'm sfgreenwood in most places. Like below. -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood Is this your sanderling? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virgin- Tivo

2010-12-22 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 22 December 2010 08:08, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, As you probably know...Virgin are coming out with a Tivo pretty soon. Does anyone know if the box will have wifi so that it can be possible connected to a ubuntu pc and maybe media can be streamed from the pc to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS

2010-12-21 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 21 December 2010 10:41, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote: My notes from 2008! say to mount my NAS by runnng this command sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.10/Public http://192.168.1.11/Public /media/public -o user=QNAP/username%password BUT I am getting an error that media/public

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corrupted User Accounts?

2010-12-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 20 December 2010 14:47, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: I see loads and loads of posts on the MS forums of the type I am the sole user and administrator and my account is corrupted how do I access my data? with various answers being given, including the setting up of an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corrupted User Accounts?

2010-12-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 20 December 2010 15:17, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/12/10 15:08, Simon Greenwood wrote: The issue with Windows is that there is a database at the core of the authentication mechanism, and this database can get damaged. Unix and Linux are essentially based

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corrupted User Accounts?

2010-12-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 20 December 2010 15:26, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 December 2010 15:17, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 20/12/10 15:08, Simon Greenwood wrote: The issue with Windows is that there is a database at the core of the authentication mechanism

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's the best...

2010-12-17 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 17 December 2010 15:55, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Hullo! I'm installing a little Ubuntu server for home. (AMD 1.3GHz CPU, 1GB RAM, 160GB disk, low power, low noise) One of these things:- http://popey.me/dNBjHT (112 quid once you get the cash back) Anyway, I was thinking of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's the best...

2010-12-17 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 17 December 2010 16:35, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 17 December 2010 16:26, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: Media server - it depends on what's going to be at the other end: for other computers try Firefly Media Server (might be in the repo as mt-daapd). It shares

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OOO Base - Recent Poor Performance

2010-12-10 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 10 December 2010 07:07, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Guys I use OOO Base to provide a user interface to a MySQL database. Until a couple of weeks ago the performance was excellent then, last weekend, I noticed it started taking best part of a minute to populate a simple

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OCR ....

2010-12-06 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 6 December 2010 15:39, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi there I rarely need OCR, but one of my slight disappointments is the lack of a really accurate OCR engine for Linux. I've tried all the ones that exist (that I've found so far), and apart from being a bit awkward to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

2010-11-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 November 2010 10:02, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, You guys are the only techies I know...so i hope you will forgive the Unubuntuness of this post! Can someone recommend a hard drive dock which will take two hard drives? I refer to the USB docks that you can stick an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

2010-11-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 November 2010 10:38, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: thats great and exactly what i need! Are there any docks that look a bit more prettier once the hard drives are in? On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:09 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.comwrote: On 24 November 2010 10:02

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

2010-11-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 November 2010 13:32, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: so all hd docks use an external power source..that i didnt know! In my experience you can *usually* power one hard drive from USB, but not two. s/ -- My CV: http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv Linkedin:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.4 on optiplex 760

2010-11-22 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 22 November 2010 12:08, Toby Satchell tsatch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have tried a live CD on a Dell optiplex 760 but i can't seem to get a GUI. The live cd doesn't show the ubuntu logo with the dots neither does it display the desktop. The machines chipset is Intel® Q43 Express

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheese on netbook

2010-11-05 Thread Simon Greenwood
There is a hardware information tool that should be able to detect what is visible to the kernel in a bit more meaningful way than dmesg but its name escapes me at the moment. Have a search for 'hardware' in Software Centre. s/ On 5 Nov 2010 20:59, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
I believe that vsftpd is PAM aware so it will use any authentication method that can use PAM so the obvious answer is to use something that can provide authentication and access control lists, which would suggest LDAP to me. I was looking at this recently and it seems to apply to virtual users,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

2010-10-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 26 October 2010 21:09, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 26/10/10 20:50, Paul Willis wrote: Hi I set up Ubuntu 10.04 LTS server on a Mac Mini and shipped it off to our other office (too far for me to go and troubleshoot) where they plugged in a screen configured the network

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting Up Postfix

2010-10-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 October 2010 23:51, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi guys, I can't seem to set up Postfix, dpkg keeps returning an error, was wondering if anyone can share any insight? I am running Ubuntu 10.04 server: Get:1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Edu-buntu 10.04

2010-10-23 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 23 October 2010 20:55, Pottar Muzamba pott...@gmail.com wrote: Is there anyone with Edubuntu 10.04 CD? Kindly assist. -- Pottar Muzamba Here: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/edubuntu/releases/10.04/release/ -- My CV: http://bit.ly/sfgreenwood_cv Linkedin:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apache not correctly running php scripts

2010-10-22 Thread Simon Greenwood
You might need to install suphp or set a mime type in Apache to handle suphp. s/ On 22 October 2010 21:35, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: still nothing I'm afraid Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 20 October 2010 23:42, Marc Deslauriers marcdeslauri...@videotron.cawrote: On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dictionary of English words

2010-10-21 Thread Simon Greenwood
Apropos of anything do any checking you do against a whois database very carefully as most providers recognise dictionary scans and block them pretty quickly. Eeeh, I can remember when you could *download* the whois database... s/ On 21 Oct 2010 18:20, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] TC65T gsm/gprs modem

2010-10-19 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 19 October 2010 16:46, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: I have just purchased a TC65T to use with my monitoring server to send out text alerts. I've tried using the serial port terminal to communicate with it but there is no response. I think that the PC's serial port is not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire

2010-10-16 Thread Simon Greenwood
Ah, hadn't tried Empathy. Will explore some time. s/ On 16 Oct 2010 00:47, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 23:11 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: Only in the same way as you. Jabber and ... Last time I tried it, Empathy supported video chat with Jabber

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-15 Thread Simon Greenwood
I'm based in west Leeds,and I know about the WYLUG list, but nothing else in that vein. I've been using Linux as server and desktop at varying times for 15 years now, and Ubuntu for about four. I'd be happy to set something up when I have the time. Simon On 15 Oct 2010 08:59, Paul Jones

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire

2010-10-15 Thread Simon Greenwood
Only in the same way as you. Jabber and video isn't that well integrated as yet and there isn't a dedicated client that does that apart from maybe Google Talk. Simon On 15 Oct 2010 22:18, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondered if anyone on the list is using the Openfire

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banks and Ubuntu support for business users

2010-10-10 Thread Simon Greenwood
The HSBC website used to cause problems with my wife's PC running Firefox 3 on Windows. 3.5 seems to be happier. s/ On 10 Oct 2010 17:38, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: the fact that you are using ubuntu has nothing to do with it. I suggest that you write a complaint to your bank

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Simon Greenwood
Most music players just show the location of a music file as stored in a database, not the music file itself. It shouldn't be the size of your library, but could possibly its location or more likely locations. Simon On 5 Oct 2010 16:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 5 October 2010 16:26,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free space is less than 200MB

2010-09-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 26 September 2010 18:23, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.ukwrote: Today when ripping some CDs with Audex, I started to get the error: Free space on /home/mfraser/Music/ogg... is less than 200MB. Problems with low space possible. df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] saving 2mb file to Windows network is sloooowww!

2010-09-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 25 September 2010 15:03, Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk wrote: I've hooked up my little EEE 701 PC (with Linux Mint 9) to a Windows 2000 (server) network so that I can use OOo, but when I ask OOo to save a (measly 2mb) spreadsheet to the Windows 2000 server it takes about five

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cron Help

2010-09-23 Thread Simon Greenwood
There's a script called websvn running daily and failing. Try running /etc/cron.daily/websvn from the command line and see what's happening. If you just want to suppress the mail, append /dev/null to the command line in anacron or remove root from the MAILTO environment variable in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommend a small form factor pc

2010-09-20 Thread Simon Greenwood
If you're building a Boxee player, D-Link's Boxee Box is scheduled to be out in November. No UK price as yet but they're 199.99 in the States. s/ On 20 Sep 2010 10:08, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: revo it will have to be! On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 10:05 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Installing Ubuntu 10.04.1 Desktop

2010-09-10 Thread Simon Greenwood
That sound like something being able to create an ext3 partition on an NTFS+ partition, but not swap. You might need to size and format the partitions manually. s/ On 10 Sep 2010 11:53, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Hi I tried to install from CD on a machine running Windows 7 Enterprise.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Leeds Surrounding Area - IT Businesses

2010-09-03 Thread Simon Greenwood
Might be worth asking this on GeekUp. I'm in Leeds and would be interested in getting involved. Simon On 3 Sep 2010 15:12, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi there, Do you guys know of any businesses willing to sponsor a Ubuntu Installfest in Leeds City Center? The total costs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bind9

2010-08-25 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 25 August 2010 19:54, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Guys, Can someone please help me understand how to set a nameserver up? At the moment I set it to park in my domain registrar then change the A-Record to point to my server but it would be better if i could just point

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown mysql with cron

2010-08-11 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 11 August 2010 00:13, Paul Willis paul.wil...@me.com wrote: Hi I'm trying to shutdown MySQL on an Ubuntu 10.04 server for half hour everyday using cron but I can't get it to work Using sudo crontab -e I entered the line... 15 19 * * * root /etc/init.d/mysql stop In the syslog I can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FTP Server Problems - Help?

2010-08-09 Thread Simon Greenwood
That sounds really familiar but I haven't done anything with ProFTPD for a long time. How do you set up the chroot? S On 9 Aug 2010 23:05, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi There guys, I have a little server that I use for testing purposes and im having some problems with FTP. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04

2010-07-26 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 26 July 2010 21:58, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: I have had a few more times of not being able to access the Internet from 9.04. So I decided to have a look at what was running via the System Monitor, and then decided to uninstall tor to see if that would help, and the moment I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distributed Backup Proposal

2010-07-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 24 July 2010 09:04, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 08:40 +0100, Dan Fish wrote: Hi This is a call for help for a project that I've set up after a discussion on IRC. The general idea is this - we all have data we'd rather like to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distributed Backup Proposal

2010-07-24 Thread Simon Greenwood
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