On 14 November 2010 00:04, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 13 November 2010 22:42, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda
Hi all,
After the latest kernel updates, I am getting the error in the subject
line at boot up. Initially it wouldn't boot up at all and dropped to
some sort of minimal shell, but I could still boot to the old kernel
and I found a workaround which was to turn off UUID in grub. Does
anyone know
On 12 July 2010 21:12, LeeGroups mailgro...@varga.co.uk wrote:
$solar_info =~ s/\/solar.*/,/;
From my tinkerings, this should find the string /solar in the string
$solar_info, and then remove it and any number of following characters
(the .*) and then replace them with a ,.
Except that it
Hi,
I have a Nexus One, but I don't have a wireless router in my college
accommodation and I'm not allowed to install one. I was wondering if
anyone knew a way to connect my phone to my computer's internet
connection via bluetooth. I know you can do the opposite, i.e. allow
my computer to use my
On 5 July 2010 14:16, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
Not sure about Bluetooth, but with a second wifi adapter you should be able
to configure an ad-hoc network from the Ubuntu machine. You'd need to
configure the Ubuntu machine as a DHCP server and configure IP forwarding -
this
On 26 April 2010 14:45, ian pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk wrote:
Hi All
With the upcoming release of 10.04, I have decided to reinstall my work
machine and move from 32 to 64 bit. I need to run multiple virtual
machines and this will mean that if everything works as hoped I will be
able to
On 20 April 2010 12:49, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
Hello all,
As I am not able to make OggCamp, I am planning a release party on the
afternoon of 1st May aiming at people who want to use Ubuntu as a productive
environment, eg. developers of JVM and FOSS applications.
Most of the
On 16 April 2010 15:26, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for
years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly backups)
Al
I have had a Hitachi DeskStar go bad recently. They
On 12 April 2010 16:06, Tommy Pyatt tommy.py...@googlemail.com wrote:
Since I see you are using gmail, assuming that you are accessing your mail
through the standard interface, there is a function to 'Mute' conversations
if you prefer to be excluded from responses to the thread. I use the
On 12 April 2010 16:33, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote:
On 12 April 2010 16:30, Harry Rickards ha...@linux.com wrote:
On 12 April 2010 16:21, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote:
I use GMail and I see no option to 'mute' threads. A quick google
search shows
On 9 April 2010 16:58, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Andy wrote:
snip
189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe).
There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote.
Worse yet, according to press reports many of those who voted did not
attend the preceding
On 7 April 2010 22:33, Martin Topping mtop6...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 10:49 +0100, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ashley Whetter
ashley.whet...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've also emailed my MP. A good site for messaging your MP
was
On 8 April 2010 11:38, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
On 08/04/10 11:35, Paul Taylor wrote:
When does this get put before the Lords? Is there enough time for the bill
to be passed?
If not, is this something that will persist until the next Parliament?
Paul
On 8 April 2010 16:12, Dan Fish danf...@nhs.net wrote:
I got UNR 9.10 working OK last night.
http://www.ossmedicine.org/joggler1.jpg
That screenshot alone has now made me want one, but I really can't
justify getting one, even though it's only £50. It is my birthday on
Saturday, but I've
On 6 April 2010 23:18, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote:
And if you're as appalled as other people, this may come in
handy: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/extremeinternetl
You never know -- democracy might actually work.
I know, I know ...
Ok I've emailed my MP.
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On 7 April 2010 15:00, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 07/04/2010 14:37, Matthew Revell wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking I want to learn more about how and why people triage bugs,
whether that’s in Launchpad or another bug tracker.
Sorry I'm possibly being a bit thick here, when you say
I'm surprised no-one's pointed this out yet:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8605648.stm
Tom
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Hi everyone,
PyWeek starts on Sunday at 00:00:00 UTC (don't forget that the clocks
change!). We have a team consisting of myself, Neil Perry and Daniel
Bell and we're on launchpad (http://launchpad.net/~pyweek2010), if
anyone else would like to join us, now is the time! There's a
scratchpad page
On 10 March 2010 10:00, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have
to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days.
Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it
might
On 14 March 2010 20:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Consider using our Etherpad instance instead of gobby. It's browser
based and as such requires no software install. It's also cooler ;)
http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/
If you visit that page you'll get an automagically generated new
On 14 March 2010 21:21, Daniel Bell daniel.b...@saraclan.com wrote:
Instead of coding directly into a etherpad instance or saving our work into
an etherpad instance, how about we use Bzr and launchpad, and use IRC and
etherpad as a way of communicating. This way we can work on our own branches
On 11 March 2010 19:19, Neil Perry npe...@gmail.com wrote:
Thank you all! Two great ideas, going to have a flick through!
Thanks Again!
Neil Perry
Hi,
If you want to try out your newly developed python skills you might
like to join the Ubuntu-uk pyweek team. I sent an email about it
Hi,
PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have
to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days.
Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it
might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's
been some interest
On 10 March 2010 22:40, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi All,
Before 9.10 you use to be able to restart gnome by pressing
CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. This seems to have been disabled now, ...
Yes that's right.
Now Im guessing I hit a different key combo or something, but how can I
Hi all,
I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was recorded with
a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file (335MB) to YouTube but
it failed twice. So I decided to try and convert it. Firstly I tried
Kdenlive, but the output file had about 1/2 a frame of video and 1
2009/12/14 Anthony Burton apburto...@googlemail.com
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Hi all,
I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was
recorded with a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file
(335MB) to YouTube but it failed twice. So I decided to try and
convert
2009/12/14 Alan Pope a...@popey.com
Hi,
2009/12/14 Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com:
I finally realised I needed
to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used:
ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi
ceilidh_item.avi
You
Stephen Garton wrote:
2009/10/23 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net:
Since yesterday's Jaunty update Firefox appears to have lost its
history, refresh etc. buttons and only has the original domain in
the address bar (ie. if I go to http://sitea.com and click on links
within the address bar
Alan Bell wrote:
Paul Sutton wrote:
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Linux got a mention on the lunch time news, well it showed tux, and the
google and apple logos, as alternatives, but didn't say much about em
well it is Microsoft's big day (well it is tomorrow, they
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote:
That page got right up my nose
--
Firstly, computer program isn't spelt programme, that would be a
television programme.
Not to be picky but spelt is a
Paul Webster wrote:
Hi
Not using any email client. I'm using gmail, and attachments are downloaded
in Firefox.
Paul
There's a bug in firefox, not just restricted to Ubuntu, in that it
doesn't open a Preferred Applications dialog, but simply an Open
With... dialog. This is particularly
norman wrote:
Continuing my research I came across something very interesting from a
contributor to http://forum.meetthegimp.org/index.php in response to my
wish to have a button for shift and one for Ctrl. The author, who uses
openSUSE 10.3 thought the following code, to be entered into
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 16/06/09 02:06, John wrote:
Hi everybody,
thank you so much for your messages. I like Safari because of the way it
looks. I love Apple GUI, and anything that I can find with that I like.
snip /
Hi John,
then you might like to try out Mac4Lin. It is
John wrote:
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 16/06/09 02:06, John wrote:
Hi everybody,
thank you so much for your messages. I like Safari because of the way it
looks. I love Apple GUI, and anything that I can find with that I like
Harry Rickards wrote:
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On 05/31/09 23:44, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
James Milligan wrote:
Good old popey.com ;-)
Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper
etiquette' to reply to a list email below the quoted text? If so I
James Milligan wrote:
Good old popey.com ;-)
Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper
etiquette' to reply to a list email below the quoted text? If so I
apologise.
Wikipedia has an article on posting style
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style)
Of course,
alan c wrote:
Most of bbc radio listen again is flash based I think, and it works ok
for me.
However, just lately I find that some programmes do not play and a
message appears that I need to 'install real player'.
In a machine which has an older install - an asus 900 which is still
running
Sean Miller wrote:
Well, I now have a driver.
But that evil little icon top right insists on a WPA key when I want
to put in a WEP one. It has a dropdown but only one option.
I came across this problem and ended up using Wicd instead to fix it.
Tom
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Alan Pope wrote:
2009/5/11 Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com:
I'm trying to get right-click to work on my tablet pen on my tablet pc
in Jaunty. I used to set some options in xorg.conf to do this, but now
when I try to do this I get errors in X. Here's my xorg.conf:
http
mac wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
snip
A niggly thing I found was that the display was slow (I have Intel
video) although reading the Ubuntu Wiki I found a couple of options to
speed it up although I haven't done the hack to enable Compiz, I'll just
wait for the bug fixed drivers.
Rob I'm
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Farran Lee wrote:
the graphics bit has got stupid now... different packages that depend on
each other, or aren't listed as conflicting, are trying to remove each
other. I have nvidia-180-kernel-source, nvidia-settings, nvidia-xconfig,
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Alan Pope wrote:
Somewhat round the other way this time.
I'm currently sat in the waiting room at Redhill train station waiting
for my train home. I have Ubuntu stickers on my laptop. Some guy just
opened the door to the waiting room and leaned
Steve Flynn wrote:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Toby Satchell tsatch...@gmail.com wrote:
I did this because on the mailing list options it says do you wish to
receive a copy of emails you send to the list.
I have it selected as yes, yet I don't see a copy of my emails sent.
Howard Berry wrote:
Greetings,
I am giving a talk on the open source movement to a group next week.
There is a video projector which works well when I tried it with
Windows on my Vaio laptop. In windows you can toggle the display by
pressing Fn+F7.
I want to use Ubuntu Intrepid on the same
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mac wrote:
Some of you may already have seen this heartening story. (Let's hope
the lads at the Met have, too!):
Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/gendarmes-saves-cash-ubuntu
mac
Rowan wrote:
One of the first things I did with my new machine was switch it to one
desktop only, because as long as it was set to two, I found that it
would skid from one desktop to the other every time I tried to drag the
pointer across the screen. This is presumably the result of a
This just came up on my local LUG mailing list. Thought I would spread
the word:
http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only
Tom
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javadayaz wrote:
looks like it is command line based. so probably not for me then ! :(
Don't be so scared of the command line, it's not so hard to learn to use
gnuplot. If you didn't know how to use a GUI application you would have
to spend some
Rowan wrote:
As I have explained, I have a brand new machine with ubuntu
pre-installed, which was assembled in the USA. A kernel update caused
the driver to become inoperable because it is not the default driver
expected by the update. I am trying to find someone in London who for a
fee
Mark White wrote:
I haven’t had any emails from this list since last Thursday. Have I
done something stupid?
Mark
The list is working fine. There have been two other replies to your
original message. I've cc'ed you on this one, so you should definitely
get this. If you haven't also
John wrote:
Hi everybody, you have been so helpful, I really appreciate it, but its
not working. The Lightning 0.9 wont work on my machine for some reason.
I wonder if its the version I am using. Which version is the best? I
have everything everybody has suggested, and nothing. One thing
Chris Rowson wrote:
http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Is-it-Windows-7-or-KDE-4-/0,139023769,339294810,00.htm
Chris
One of the applications they showed off there was Amarok. Personally I
don't find that easy to use. I installed it to have a play, decided I'd
like to randomly play
Dianne wrote:
On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 20:59 +, Russell Green wrote:
Have you done anything that *might* have effected it?
Not as far as I know - in fact it's a clean install of 8.10 as I've
replaced my hdd.
Dianne
There are issues with webcams in Intrepid. I had a webcam working
Just saw this on my local LUG mailing list. I like the last 3 seconds of
the video the best!
Tom
Original Message
Subject:[OxLUG] Thursday fun
Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:06:56 +
From: Martin Hepworth [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Oxfordshire Linux User
Bruce Beardall wrote:
Hi All
A friend and myself at work are looking to exchange files between our
two laptops wirelessly. Security concerns at work mean we can't
necessarily use the network and it would be a bit laborious to use
burn discs and pass them back and forth constantly. He's
Tim Dobson wrote:
==
RMS Video:
==
The video of last week's Manchester Free Software, (in collaboration
with the BCS and IET) talk by Richard Stallman has been released, thanks
to Andrew John Hughes.
You can find a torrent and http mirrors for the video on the Manchester
Sean Anderson wrote:
On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:35 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
Oh, for heaven's sake. A new keyboard is two quid from a computer fair.
You're really not saving any money, and wasting considerable effort, if
you need to clean your keyboard more than once or twice a year.
Andrew Oakley wrote:
Next, install GNU Screen, so that programs you run on the command line
can continue to work even when you close the terminal window:
sudo apt-get install screen
Learn how to use GNU Screen here:
http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935
I often SSH to my
Eddie Armstrong wrote:
(Which Report: Bacteria in your PC
http://www.which.co.uk/reports_and_campaigns/computers_and_internet/reports/computers/computer_advice/How%20to%20clean%20your%20PC/How_to_clean_your_PC_657_136984_3.jsp
)
Should we install those hand-washing facilities they use in
George McLachlan wrote:
I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't
remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all
should be fine and good, but the performance of firefox has dropped like
a stone.
As I type this it is using 101% of the CPU
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 https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseParties
Show of
Tony Arnold wrote:
Tom,
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Unfortunately I can't be there as I am working on an experiment at RAL
(the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) and will be preparing to accelerate
electrons to energies 1GeV using a LWFA (Laser Wakefield Accelerator)*.
Don't forget
Philip Stubbs wrote:
On 21/04/2008, Thomas Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess this is a little off topic, but a bit of random googling didn't
really inspire me. I have a spare laptop hard drive and I want to do
something with it. I could of course buy a USB casing for it and have
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Paul Mellors wrote:
Hi Tom,
what about attaching it to a mini-itx board and have something like
mythtv running on it or some other PVR?
Cheers
MooDoo
I'd totally forgotten about mini-itx. I remember looking through the
different projects a while back
I guess this is a little off topic, but a bit of random googling didn't
really inspire me. I have a spare laptop hard drive and I want to do
something with it. I could of course buy a USB casing for it and have
yet another external hard drive, but I don't really need it. Some sort
of custom
Paul Mellors wrote:
Hi Tom,
what about attaching it to a mini-itx board and have something like
mythtv running on it or some other PVR?
Cheers
MooDoo
I'd totally forgotten about mini-itx. I remember looking through the
different projects a while back and considering doing something
Andrew Oakley wrote:
Finally, if everything else is fine, then your motherboard is probably
b0rked, sorry (rare, but I have seen it happen twice in 20 years).
I'm pretty sure the last motherboard I had died. It would take many
attempts to boot up (it would spin up the CD drives over and
Farran Lee wrote:
I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the
system? Or would it just need certain fixes?
Farran Lee wrote:
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Farran Lee wrote:
I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb,
and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a
different one. If I did, would I have to completely
I didn't feel it here in Oxford, I was awake at the time.
Michael Rimicans wrote:
I'm in Huddersfield in W.Yorkshire.
How is Huddersfield? It's my home town, but now that I'm doing a PhD I
don't get back very often (maybe twice a year).
Tom
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While wandering down one of the corridors near my lab the other day, one
of the lab doors was open, revealing a monitor with the Ubuntu login
screen peering out into the world. It made me smile at least. Quite a
while ago we were giving our end of 1st year presentations and one guy
plugged his
Matthew Daubney wrote:
Next year though I'll make a concerted effort to pitch in!
No need to wait until next year, it happens twice a year. The next one
should be in September (by which time I'll have more time to contribute
more myself).
Tom
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For information, I just found this message on the Pygame mailling list:
Original Message
Subject: PyWeek 6 is coming!
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:11:34 +1100
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi all,
I was out this evening with some people from my lab, and my supervisor
brought his new girlfriend along (I didn't even know my supervisor had a
social life, he's in the lab a lot!). It turns out that his girlfriend
works for the BBC and she is part of a team which a planning a
Alan Pope wrote:
Oooh, we're having a wishlist day are we? :)
Right, I want one of these:-
http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad
I had been wanting something like that for years, initially for writing
notes in my school classes and then in lectures. In the 3rd year of my
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi all,
Hope everyone's having a good weekend.
I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming
up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want
to put heads together and work on an entry.
For those that don't know pyweek is a
James Tait wrote:
Farran wrote:
On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 17:45 +, Sean Miller wrote:
Fairy Tale of New York would be fun...
It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk tank, an old man said to me
won't see another one
And then he sang a song, 'The Rare old Mountain Dew', I turned my
Thomas wrote:
It's Boxing day and I'm bored, so here's my attempt at an Ubuntu
flavoured Auld Lang Syne:
Verse 1:
Should auld programming be forgot
and replaced with something new?
Should auld programming be forgot,
and install ubuntu?
Chorus:
Install ubuntu, my dear,
install ubuntu,
Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of
resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them that there is a
It's viruses, we don't speak Latin in this country, we speak English,
and to pluralise in English you add 's' or 'es'. Sorry to go off topic
there.
I use Ubuntu
And finally a tale of note.
I was off air for three unrelated but serial faults - line fault on my BB;
local network fault for entire town; and lastly the important bit.
I found out on Monday after watching a rather interesting electrical storm
that my router wasn't plugged into my
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