Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-11 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
to 8. Further I can use up to 5.5 GBytes before, they say, 'if higher, memory swapping may occur'. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Losing wireless Connection - off topic

2011-04-17 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
the frequency but no difference. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 15 Apr at 12:37, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: On 15/04/11 12:31, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewartkate.stew...@canonical.com wrote: snip on inability to upgrade to Beta 2 Has anyone else had this problem? I think those

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanning old photographs

2010-08-30 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
. It did the job on the ancient slides I had to take copies of and continues to work well (on both Windows and Mac, not sure about Ubuntu). This scanner is now out of date but I think EPSON has produced successors that do the same job. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was Apps for kids)

2010-08-07 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
paragraph. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was Apps for kids)

2010-08-07 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 7 Aug at 8:54, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: For the record, on my android phone I cache choose to quote the entire message, or none of it. I get no choice about top posting. If you happen to know who in Google wrote this great Obviously: an android. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on Dell (revisited) ....

2010-05-29 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
machines in the UK is false, much as it might be very few Ubuntu machines. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

[ubuntu-uk] More on Joggler

2010-05-29 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
the Ubuntu desktop. Any help would be much appreciated. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Success! was Re: O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-24 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
the smallest RISC OS (Acorn) machine on the market - but not the first as others have done this before me, indeed it was seeing their results last Monday that prompted me to say I would like to try this too. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-23 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
of=/media/C/joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin bs=10M count=365 and this got the response of: 365+0 records in 365+0 records out 3827302400 bytes (3.8 GB) copied, 707.077 s, 5.4 MB/s As above, I put the stick in the Joggler and nothing useful resulted on a reboot. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
can work out what to do, though it really does look simple. Watch this space. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
in the interests of brevity -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-19 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
had had no problem, ditto for one bought last Saturday.) I know there are a few web sites to discuss Joggler but I find web sites cumbersome and much prefer mailing lists. Is there a Joggler-Ubuntu mailing list anywhere? Or is it OK to continue here? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-19 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 19 May at 13:04, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: On 19 May 2010 12:41, Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@southfarm.plus.com wrote: On 14 May at 8:27, David david.lut...@gmail.com wrote: snip about abtaining Joggler boxes (a) I plugged the USB stick into my normal Ubuntu machine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mailing list etiquette, Was Hard drive- Bad sectors

2010-04-20 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
idea to replace removed text with a brief indication that something has been removed, like [snip]. Seconded. Well-written! -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux meets?

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
in Banbury, complete with delicious Hook Norton (or so I remember that ale from a barge trip a decade or two back down the Oxford canal). -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
of Open Source? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is There a problem with digests

2009-09-11 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
with a normal mail system, an average of 5 posts a day over the last 20 days. So it sounds as if web-mail or digests have some problem. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automatically moving mail from a specific sender to a certain file?

2009-08-16 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 16 Aug at 20:23, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: This message is being sent to Newsgroup: gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british Surely not a 'Newsgoup' in the set of accessed through usenet? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org

Re: [ubuntu-uk] first edition

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 18 Jun at 21:15, norman nor...@littletank.org wrote: Searching through some old CDs I came across Ubuntu 4.10. Is this a record? Only if it is made of vinyl or, even, shellac. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thanks!

2009-06-03 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
before you complete the scenic route through 8.10, you might be lucky? I could not get sound working on 8.04 and 8.10 either. Nor would it work when I upgraded to 9.04. But it did work when I did a separate install into a new partition (on VMWare Fusion on a Mac) of 9.04. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed computer prices

2009-03-25 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
Eddie Bernard edd...@gmail.com wrote: Good morning everyone First off, a declaration of interest, I'm in business selling desktop PCs. However, to avoid accusations of spamming, I won't give further details (unless you actually want them!) My reason for contacting you all is a sort of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty Jackalope

2009-03-21 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
. And what else? -- Tim powys-lybbe  ...@powys.org  For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
will be disconnected'. It continues to do this with Firefox disabled both within Ubuntu and within the host Mac. Finally a few pulseaudio updates arrived today but even after installation and restarting I still get the Sould will be Disconnected message. -- Tim powys-lybbe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] sound problem

2008-12-27 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
, under Fusion 2 on a Mac, the sound disconnects itself when I start up. I reset the settings but it just disconnects on the next startup. Sound on 8.04 is fine, same Fusion 2. -- Tim powys-lybbe  ...@powys.org  For a miscellany of bygones: http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit or 32-bit, Was BBC Iplayer download on Linux

2008-12-21 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
to the OS, whether it's 64-bit or 32-bit. No such problem here. -- Tim powys-lybbe  ...@powys.org  For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit or 32-bit, Was BBC Iplayer download on Linux

2008-12-21 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 21 Dec, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: 2008/12/21 Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@southfarm.plus.com: In message of 21 Dec, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: 2008/12/21 David King linux...@avoura.com: I do not see why more people do not use 64-bit operating systems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The I'm Linux Video Contest

2008-12-21 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
to be done with this video? It can't be put on the TV channels as that costs big bucks. Or have some channels indicated thay will give free air-time? Or will it just end up on U-tube? And who will own the winning item? -- Tim powys-lybbe  ...@powys.org

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 8 Nov, gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +, Bruce Beardall wrote: I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I can't really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory glance at KDE 4 but I think this leads to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] System hosed during network upgrade to 8.10

2008-11-02 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 2 Nov, keith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In message of 1 Nov, Tim Powys-Lybbe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed it as an upgrade to 8.04 64 bit Hello Tim, Have you abandoned RiscOS, or are you just dallying? ;-) No. (To whichever question it applies to.) I have always

Re: [ubuntu-uk] System hosed during network upgrade to 8.10

2008-11-01 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 1 Nov, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I intend to run the 8.10 version in a virtual machine first. Always best to test a new system before deploying it live. However, not many people are seeding the Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 DVD, which I am downloading via bittorrent from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Windows Dual Boot

2008-09-06 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 5 Sep, Andrew Nixon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok strange question but i have a ubuntu system that is running only ubuntu, and i could do with doing a dual install with windows, however i am not keen to have to format. I really need the dual boot with windows for performance

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bracknell Software Freedom Day 20th Sept

2008-09-01 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 1 Sep, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (Surrey, Hampshire, uk ubuntu lists) Bracknell has a Software Freedom Day Event! If you happen to be in our neck of the woods and are passing on the day, please stop by and say hello? If you are able to actually come and lend a hand

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Age and gender

2008-08-28 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 28 Aug, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Much relates to necessity and opportunity. As most management is male, then there will be fewer opportunities given to women. But I know several