On 04/10/11 10:26, Alan Pope wrote:
On 4 October 2011 10:05, Tony Travis wrote:
I second that, but can we take this opportunity to call it FLOSS instead
because this more accurately reflects what Ubuntu is about.
FLOSS is (in my opinion) the worst of all the labels we give to this
stuff we
On 04/10/11 09:40, Colin Law wrote:
On 4 October 2011 09:35, ** wrote:
I've just had a questionnaire from Which about their magazine and I took the
opportunity to suggest they should do a proper evaluation of Ubuntu (and/or
Mint) rather than their usual dismissal that it's only used by techies.
On 12/08/11 19:17, Barry Drake wrote:
Overall, I'm pleased that the next release goes back to Thunderbird - I
think it has better possibilities. But, one area I miss is the apparent
lack of control over the sending fields. On Evolution, I was able to
set my sending to use another server than the
On 26/07/11 14:58, Chris Rowson wrote:
I thought I'd just put this out there because I can't seem to find any
information... Hopefully one of you good people will know :-)
Does smbfs run any kind of error checking/correction on during
transfer of data to SMB shares on Windows machines? I'm backi
On 12/06/11 07:45, john beddard wrote:
I guess everyone is aware of the Ubunchu Manga comic for young people
new to Ubuntu : https://seotch.wordpress.com/2009/04/04/ubunchu01/
The Michigan LoCo have been using this Manga to really good effect.
Hi, John.
I've not seen it before - Brilliant!
B
ied by Dan Swan for Bio-Linux 2.0 17/3/2003#
# Updated for Bio-Linux 5 by Tim Booth 1/8/2008 #
# Updated to perform Quarterly ETOH backups by Tony Travis 17/7/2009 #
# Updated to dump ext4 fileystems by Tony Travis
On 08/05/11 13:46, Liam Proven wrote:
[...]
He has a whole bunch of machines like this:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fujitsu-Siemens-Celsius-R610-Xeon-3-06GHz-648MB-RAM-/270743834477?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item3f09970f6d
... for just £30, and for even less:
Hi, Liam.
Yes, these are real
On 13/03/11 17:36, mac wrote:
On 13/03/2011 15:28, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
I've used 1 and 1 for some years now - £0.69 per month for 5 mailboxes,
IMAP supplied AND they use Linux to host it on...
Thanks for the info, Gordon, and thanks to everyone for the help and
information. I've be
On 13/02/11 11:51, Sean Miller wrote:
[...]
When it actually came to costings, including support, there really
wasn't ANY difference at all in the total cost of ownership.In fact,
a supported JBOSS worked out to be FAR from the cheapest, as other
vendors offered free support alongside the "li
On 18/01/11 16:40, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
it's the new version of slapd in the repos, there isn't a
/etc/ldap/slapd.conf
Hi, Jacob.
OK, but...
Using slapd.conf
It is possible to fall back to the old config method with a slapd.conf config
file. The default init script of Ubuntu 10.04.1 does
On 14/01/11 22:31, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
I have been trying to set up an LDAP server for some time now. when I
finally found an up-to-date tutorial at
http://www.zarafa.com/wiki/index.php/Zarafa_LDAP_cn_config_How_To the
first step of this has worked fine however when running the command
ldapad
On 10/10/10 16:55, Bruno Girin wrote:
> [...]
> It's very easy:
>* Go to www.hsbc.co.uk (so now you know what bank I'm talking
> about)
>* Click the "Log on" button in the "Business" box on the right
>
> At that point, it should take you to a login page but in my case it ju
On 04/08/10 11:29, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I wonder what caused the file directory to disintegrate in the first
> place? As I said, when I looked at the loading dialog, it said "dev/
> (some long hex number) does not exist."
Hello, Rowan.
The hex number is the UUID of the filesystem, which is use
On 16/07/10 21:18, Rob Beard wrote:
> [...]
> Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files? (I found
> something about this when googling about EXT4).
>
> I wonder too if it's possible to go back to EXT3 from EXT4 like it is
> possible to go back from EXT3 to EXT2 (how I understand it, EX
On 16/07/10 20:53, Rob Beard wrote:
> [...]
> Now at the moment I've got my drive formatted to EXT3, I gather I can
> convert from EXT3 to EXT4 (but I'm going to reformat the drive anyway)
> but I wondered basically if I might be better going for EXT4 this time?
Hello, Rob.
Yes, you can convert f
On 19/05/10 23:22, Tony Pursell wrote:
> [...]
> Can anyone think of why I cant boot Lucid? I would be grateful of any
> suggestions.
Hello, Tony.
Have you tried "acpi=off" on the kernel command line?
Bye,
Tony.
--
Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition
and He
On 19/05/10 13:36, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 19 May 2010 13:21, Pallottini Aymeric wrote:
>> Your solution seems a lot better than what I am doing as you have a full
>> install that you can update easily. I was just worried about the ability to
>> boot on different systems but you answered that.
>>
>
On 27/04/10 12:34, Paul Sutton wrote:
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> Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>>[...]
>> I'm running 64-bit Lucid with 4GB of RAM, however Lucid is only seeing
>> 3.1GB. It may be I have to set something in BIOS I haven't had time to
>> look into it fully yet, b
On 26/04/10 17:54, Markie wrote:
> [...]
> Are you using TB3.x ? Its much better than the previous releases imo. Im
> running 3.04. Are you saying the lightning extension does not work on
> 64-bit?
Hello, Mark.
Yes, I'm using TB 3.0.4 - The 64-bit version in the repo's seems to be
for icedove +
On 26/04/10 18:26, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> On 26 April 2010 17:25, Tony Travis wrote:
>>
>> I'm still not able to get Thunderbird running 'Lightning' in 64-bit,
>> though - Anyone else succeeded? I've installed the ia32 libraries.
>>
>
&g
On 26/04/10 15:08, Markie wrote:
> [...]
> Im going to be doing exactly the same thing, I wasnt sure about 64 bit
> since I only have 2GB but it seems to make better sense
Hello, Markie.
I'm running the 10.04-rc-desktop-amd64 in 2GiB on my Asus A6K laptop:
I've just upgraded to the rc today: I'v
On 12/04/10 13:14, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 12/04/10 13:10, pa...@fossbox.org.uk wrote:
>> Yes, I know - I shouldn't rant either cos I'm an NGO and not supposed to
>> be political ;)
>
> I'm not sure what the "rules" are for this mailing list but it seems to
> me this thread has left the discus
Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Is this real?
>
> http://www.commodoreusa.net/index.html
>
> A revamped C64 running Win7 or Ubuntu.
Hello, Dianne.
Seems like it's just a badge-engineered version of one of these:
http://www.cybernetman.com/en/products/zero-footprint-pc/zpc-gx31.cfm
Bye,
Tony.
--
Rik Boland wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am wanting to create a real simple network between 2 unbuntu machine
> where sould, I start?
Hello, Rik.
Have a look at:
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/EasyUbuntuClustering
Bye,
Tony.
--
Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition
and Hea
Rob Beard wrote:
> Tony Travis wrote:
>> Rob Beard wrote:
>>
>>> [...]
>>> I've been mulling over getting a netbook but keep holding out to see
>>> what the ARM offerings will be like. I've not been too impressed with
>>> the MI
Rob Beard wrote:
> [...]
> I've been mulling over getting a netbook but keep holding out to see
> what the ARM offerings will be like. I've not been too impressed with
> the MIPS based netbooks, but I've got high hopes for these netbooks.
Hello, Rob.
Have you tried a MIPS-based netbook, or are
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> David King wrote:
>> When trying to copy video files to a USB flash drive, once the file has
>> copied over, the original gets smaller, down to either 96 bytes or 0
>> bytes. The copy also sometimes shrinks to the same size
Steve wrote:
> On Sat, 19 Dec 2009 21:32:33 -0000, Tony Travis
> wrote:
>
>> Steve wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> Not had any serious problems with Thunderbird 3 once it finally got my
>>> IMAP folders synchronized. The only problem has been waiting for some of
&
Steve wrote:
> [...]
> Not had any serious problems with Thunderbird 3 once it finally got my
> IMAP folders synchronized. The only problem has been waiting for some of
> the addons to become compatible. I know there are ways round this but it
> hasn’t been to bad.
Hello, Steve.
I tried the PPA T
Kris Douglas wrote:
> [...]
> The PS3 is perfectly powerful enouugh for playing HD videos, but they
> DELIBERATELY crippled linux in order for only PlayStation games to
> work. As far as I know, you have full access to the CPU, but graphics
> and BR are a no-go. Format a hard drive with Fat 32, i t
Rob Beard wrote:
> [...]
> Is anyone on here running Ubuntu on the PS3?
Hello, Rob.
I was quite keen to run Ubuntu on a PS3 too until I found out about the
*severe* memory constraints of this computer: The main CPU can only
access 256MiB of the *maximum* 512MiB RAM that can be installed, but th
Steve wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:51:29 -, Tim Dobson wrote:
>
>> Hey there,
>>
>> I wonder if anyone can help as this isn't exactly something I have a lot
>> of experience doing and I can either start off in the direction I think
>> looks best and possibly regret it later or I can ask fo
alan c wrote:
> [...]
> on a more serious note, *I* looked at a stallman video recently, and
> learned a number of useful things...
>
> (14 videos each 10 minutes)
>
> Richard Stallman On FOSS GNU And Freedom 1 of 14 (to 14 of 14)
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6LsfnBmdnk&feature=PlayLis
etali wrote:
> [...]
> If you have the luxury of powerful hardware, and enough knowledge to do
> things both ways, then of course - use what works for you. I do think
> that newbies should learn things "the hard way" though. In the past few
> months, on test machines, I've had Webmin throw a fit
Chris Ray wrote:
> Thanks for all the comments guys. As I see it then; in answer to the
> specific question, the majority opinion is to add the GUI to the server
> install rather than the other way around..
>
> In answer to the more general question "why do I want to do that", my
> experience is
Rob Beard wrote:
> [...]
> The only time I would install a complete desktop on a server is if it is
> to run as an LTSP server. Then it can need everything a desktop
> requires. When I last installed an LTSP server I was also pleased to
> see that FreeNX works with it as well. :-)
Hello, Rob.
I
Chris Ray wrote:
> [...]
> So, as I see it, either I missed something in the Server setup, or I
> have to choose between adding server stuff to a Desktop install, or
> adding GUI stuff to a server install.
Hello, Chris.
I seem to be a bit of a lone voice here in advocating adding server
packages
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> [...]
> # sudo tasksel install lamp-server
>
> To see what is available try:
>
> # tasksel --list-tasks
Hello, Alan.
OK, thanks for reminding me about tasksel :-)
I have used it before, from the command line and via Synaptic "Mark
Packages by Task", but I stopped usi
Andy Smith wrote:
> [...]
> Will this package need to be installed to maintain support on hardy after
> 2011?
Hello, Andy.
Oops! I install "ubuntu-desktop" + "linux-server", not "ubuntu-server":
There was discussion about an "ubuntu-server" metapackage, but it never
made it into the repositorie
Andy Smith wrote:
> [...]
> On a related note, can someone tell me officially what defines an
> install of Ubuntu Server? I ask because this page:
>
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
>
> says that 8.04 LTS has an EOL date in 2011 for desktop or 2013 for
> server.
>
> Assuming I installed it fr
Steve wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 10:13:37 -, Alex Birchall
> wrote:
> [...]
> You can’t/shouldn’t miss versions out when upgrading. You’d really have to
> upgrade to 8.10 then 9.04 to get to 9.10. As 8.04 is a LTS release I’d
> wait until next year for the 10.04 LTS release. Or you could do
Steve wrote:
> [...]
> Thank you Liam :-)
> I never thought to try that, it works on an old P4 machine I have. Sadly
> that option, or any other USB boot option, isn’t available on any of the
> PIII machines I have.
Hello, Steve.
You can boot Ubuntu on a USB-stick indirectly from a CD:
http:
Tony Arnold wrote:
> [...]
> Having said, that Linux is not immune from the hackers. My experience is
> that most incidents with Linux machines have been down to week or
> default passwords. Hackers can then get in and use the machine to scan
> other machines for weaknesses. My guess is if you put
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> Hi
>
> Is there an equivelent of a calender / personal information manager (so
> I can store what I am doing at a time / date and get reminders) for
> gnome as I am usign ubuntu,
>
> Doing a search I know kde has one kpim,
Tony Travis wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Ubuntu 9.04
Is there a way of producing a list of all applications and utilities
installed by me post-installation from the Ubuntu CD?
Hello, Gordon.
I've got a script that compares the packages installed on two different
machines, or between one machin
Gordon wrote:
Ubuntu 9.04
Is there a way of producing a list of all applications and utilities
installed by me post-installation from the Ubuntu CD?
Hello, Gordon.
I've got a script that compares the packages installed on two different
machines, or between one machine and a list of packages.
Christopher McDade wrote:
> [...]
> Thanks Tony, Rob and Steve, appreciate the responses, sorry to take so
> long to get back to you. Will be great to plug the gap with the Ubuntu
> x86 ones.
Hello, Chris.
OK, but where do you want the CD's to be sent?
Bye,
Tony.
--
Dr. A.J.Travis, Univer
Christopher McDade wrote:
> I was wondering if anyone on the list has any spare Ubuntu ship-it discs
> from 5.04 to 6.10 inclusive.I am trying to fill in the gaps and hoping
> to complete the set. If anyone can help please let me know.
Hello, Chris.
I've got a 5.10 that you can have: Decided no
Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
> On 18 Jun at 21:15, norman 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.
Hello, Tim.
Norman beats me - I've got the 5.10 'shippit' version, but it's in
pristine condition r
doug livesey wrote:
> Hi -- I run Ubuntu dual-boot with OSX on a Mac, and I love it, and hate
> having to duck out to use OSX for things like iTunes, etc.
> So would it be possible for me to run the OSX partition from inside
> VirtualBox, or something like that?
> I've had a bit of a google, and
Eddie Bernard wrote:
>> [...]
> In other words, it's a question of branding, rather than getting
> permission to use the software. If you don't use the branding, you
> don't pay anything.
Hello, Eddie.
What if you sell the PC's pre-loaded with Ubuntu, and give your
customers an Ubuntu sticker as
norman wrote:
> Thank you Mark and thank you Tony for both your patience and advice. I
> followed the instructions and the magic worked.
Hello, Norman.
I'm glad that we were able to help :-)
Bye,
Tony.
--
Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition
and Health, Gree
Mark Fraser wrote:
> [...]
> I find it easier in cases like this to simply rename 70-persistant-cd.rules as
> 70-persistant-cd.rules~ and reboot, Ubuntu will create a new set of rules when
> it discovers the file missing.
Hello, Mark.
Good advice - I should have thought of suggesting that, becaus
norman wrote:
>>> [...]
> I suppose it would help if I understood what it was all about. Forgive
> me but I am not very bright about these things. However, let's assume
> that something has changed but the software I am using doesn't know that
> and, therefore, is still looking for the old /dev/dvd
norman wrote:
what happens if you try to PLAY a DVD?
>>> It plays, no problem.
>> Surely then the device must exist?
>
> On the face of it you must be correct. I have been reading to find a
> solution and opened a terminal and tried ls -l /dev/dvd. There was no
> response so I tried with /dev
Alan Bell wrote:
> At this point in the cycle the 8.04 LTS has only a little more
> support time than the non LTS 9.04 so I would go Jaunty and be nice
> and new. Particularly for a desktop to get the notifications and
> UbuntuOne working
Hello, Alan.
I'm supporting a lot of Ubuntu systems runnin
Hello, Ubuntistas.
I've been struggling for a while trying to work out what is wrong with
the DVD writer on my Asus A6K laptop under Ubuntu 8.04 LTS: Seems that
the answer is there is nothing wrong with the hardware, but the Gnome
DVD burning libraries can only write to virgin DVD media, or DVD
Kris Douglas wrote:
> Hello, I'm updating an Ubuntu machine to 8.10 and then 9, but during
> the update, update-manager crashed with an IOError (number 30) the
> filesystem became read only, the whole system is now read only, I
> can't create a folder anywhere, as root or as a normal user...
>
> A
Rik Boland wrote:
> This may sound stupid and the answer will be no but just in case.
>
> If I get a tower box, could I then use my laptop as it's monitor and
> keyboard but use the box processing power?
Hello, Rik.
Yes, you can use LTSP:
http://www.ltsp.org/
Or FreeNX:
http://groups.googl
Chris Rowson wrote:
> [...]
> So, it looks like a choice of either stay with an older version of
> Ubuntu with proprietary driver support (but loose the ability to
> suspend/resume) or stick with Jaunty, but loose 3D acceleration features
> because of the pretty poor Open Source drivers.
>
> So
Michael Holloway wrote:
> There is a command line tool for windows i think called "robocopy" (im
> not in the office to check). On my network I use a scheduled task of
> robocopy to backup windows machines to a local samba share, and then
> rsync that to replicate remotely. I do an incremental back
doug livesey wrote:
> [...]
> I'd really appreciate any advice that folks could give me on this -- am
> I wrong in my ideas? would this even work? are there any hideous
> pitfalls awaiting me? is there a better way to do it? etc.
Hello, Doug.
I manage a network of 31 Ubuntu-based bioinformatics
Cornelius Mostert wrote:
> Thanx but I am familiar with / in Linux and \ in windows... i saw a
> script use \ as i did and naturally I assumes (incorrectly though)
> that it is also | (pipe) but backward pipe like <, come to think of it
> the path the person wanted to append to the variable a path
Ian Pascoe wrote:
> [...]
> 2. What can be connected to the Home Hub USB ports? Most mass storage
> devices will work "out of the box". Apparently the Home Hub has SAMBA
> built in to aid with this. IP address 192.168.0.253
Hello, Ian.
Thanks for the Jungle tip! I'd no idea the HomeHub could
Tony Travis wrote:
> Hello, I'm struggling to boot Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10 on an IWill Zmaxd2:
> The kernel hangs after loading the tg3 (Broadcom) driver module. There
> are lots of reports about problems with the tg3 module on the web but,
> so far, none of the suggested fixes works
Hello, I'm struggling to boot Ubuntu 8.04 or 8.10 on an IWill Zmaxd2:
The kernel hangs after loading the tg3 (Broadcom) driver module. There
are lots of reports about problems with the tg3 module on the web but,
so far, none of the suggested fixes works for me. My Zmaxd2 boots fine
under Ubuntu
Gordon wrote:
> Installed 8.10 using WUBI on my Toshiba Satellite L40.
> Realtek 8187B Wireless card will see the network and connect to it, but
> is so slow as to be unusable.
> Are there any "fixes" that people know about for this?
Hello, Gordon.
I had a similar problem with the Broadcom WiFi c
Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
> Embarrassingly, for a one-time biologist, it took me years to work out
> /why/ Microsoft became "Vole".
>
> The British common field vole, you see, is technically called
> /Microtus agrestis/.
> [...]
Hello, Liam.
Well, I'm a biologist turned bioinformatician and I
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> But I would have lost all my applications if I had done what Tony
> suggested earlier, here is what he said:
>
> "Did you try my advice of booting the kernel originally supplied by LC?
> [...]
Hello, Rowan.
No you wouldn't!
You can boot different kernels under the same '
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> If all LinuxCertified did was buy a batch of snazzy Korean executive
> laptops, with Windows Vista already installed on them, and then install
> out-of-date and un-updatable versions of ubuntu on them, then tweak them
> to make it work as long as they weren't updated, then I
alan c wrote:
> 'Tempers Flare as Recession Creeps into Tech Industry'
> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/03/tempers-flare-as-recession-creeps-into.html
>
> Extract:
> "It's _ hippy freaks like you that are costing us our
> jobs. You got any idea how many people are getting pink sli
Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
> VAXen ran Unix - indeed, Unix was developed on VAXen. But the native
> VAX OS, although much much later rated POSIX-compatible, was VMS which
> is nothing like Unix in any way.
Hello, Liam.
Wrong! - Unix was developed on pdp11's: I used it on a pdp11/23 + 11/34.
Howe
Rowan wrote:
> Oh, absolutely, the applications are all in the repositories, they have
> said so several times. But you can imagine how much angst I would
> generate trying to do it that way. I suspect that the trick is to catch
> one of the boot options when first powering up, before it goes into
Rowan wrote:
> Excellent stuff, Tony, thanks again.
>
> uname -a gives
> Linux ubuntu 2.6.24-23-generic #1 SMP Mon Jan 26 00:13:11 UTC 2009 i686
> GNU/Linux
>
> administration/system monitor/system gives
> Ubuntu Release 8.04 (hardy)
> Kernel Linux 2.6.24-23-generic
> GNOME 2.22.3
Hello, Rowan.
Rowan wrote:
> I typed that in exactly as you gave it, Al, and got no output at all.
>
> How do I check which ubuntu version I have? I know it goes by very fast
> during the boot sequence, I think it's 24 something.
> [...]
Hello, Rowan.
To find out which kernel you are running type:
u
Rowan wrote:
>
> Al, this is exactly the sort of thing that made me ask over and over for
> hands-on help - which would not only be more likely to succeed but would
> be faster than all this online discussion.
> [...]
Hello, Rowan.
Have you tried booting from a 'live' CD - e.g. the Ubuntu 8.10 C
Rob Beard wrote:
> [...]
> The idea I had was if this is possible, I could attach one of the drives
> externally via eSATA so it can be taken off site and in the event of a
> server failure this off site backup could be plugged in and the server
> could be back up and running in minutes rather than
Rowan wrote:
> I would certainly want to make it clear to anyone considering starting
> with Linux that unless they are already online with another machine (I
> am using a beat-up old sony running WinXP) it will be absolute hell for
> them to find anyone who can help them get started.
> [...]
Hel
Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> This is a long shot but I thought I'd ask anyway. I'm trying to
> resurrect an old PC which has a faulty motherboard and an Athlon XP
> (1700+ I think) chip in it. Before I give up and chuck the chip in my
> box of junk, I just wondered if anyone possibly had an
Rowan wrote:
> well - thank you for all your advice, gentlemen. I shall get back to you
> as soon as I have digested and applied the apprpriate sections of this:
> https://help.ubuntu.com/
> I realise that it would be impractical to provide a printed user manual
> when Ubuntu is constantly evolving
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> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> | [0] saves having to wait for another 200 posts and a flamewar on this
> | subject before someone uses the N word... :oP
>
>
> Novell?
Hello, Stephen.
Let's not forget that Ubuntu *
Sean Miller wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 4:45 PM, William Anderson wrote:
>> Where it counts, it does exactly what you'd think a Ctrl key does. If I
>> fire up a shell, Ctrl+C, +Z, +S, etc does what you think it would. You
>> quickly get used to the difference between Ctrl and Cmd, in fact i
Tony Travis wrote:
Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hey all,
I've got a lot of old computers lying around and have been considering
setting up an Ubuntu cluster. I've previously cheated doing this now
and again and used OpenKnoppix, having got a PC with SATA hard drives,
OpenMosix now doesn&#x
Alan Pope wrote:
> 2008/12/21 David King :
>> I do not see why more people do not use 64-bit operating systems. The
>> CPUs on all new PCs are now 64-bit, so why not have 64-bit OS?
>
> Because (on my laptop) there's zero benefit to running 64-bit version
> of the OS and there are some gotchas wit
Paul Sutton wrote:
> [...]
> contents of /sda5/ have been copied over with cp -a
> [...]
> With this 2nd fstab file i get as far as the login screen (gdm)
>
> log in and get a message
>
> cannot enter home directory using /
Hello, Paul.
It's possible that your mistake was:
cp -a /home
Rob Beard wrote:
> Tony Travis wrote:
>> I'm interested in the PS3 as a cheap way of getting my hands on a Cell
>> processor (PowerPC + 8SPE's). Ubuntu runs on it, and I'm interested in
>> finding out how good it is for bioinformatics. I nearly bought one at
&g
Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
>> I've found that laptop screens have quite a short life, so I use my
>> laptop with an external monitor and keyboard most of the time when I'm
>> at work or at home. I do use the LCD display when I'm travelling, or if
>> there is something interesting on TV ;-)
>
> Wha
Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
> Ouch. I have my machine set to sleep when the lid is closed, so this
> doesn't happen. I don't like running laptops with the lid shut, even
> when using an external screen - it often can cause overheating
> problems, in my experience.
Hello, Liam.
I've found that lapt
Liam Proven wrote:
> [...]
> These aren't fatal problems, they're just awkward. Sometimes I have to
> click on a window to activate it before typing, as I can't tell which
> one is "in front". Sometimes I can't move windows, as the frame's
> gone. And to move a window from one screen to another, I
Chris Rowson wrote:
> [...]
> I've always used 32bit edition on servers myself. I've heard horror
> stories about perl scripts using twice as much memory under 64bit etc,
> etc I've never tested PAE with more than 4GB of RAM - I had heard
> about the single process limitation, but as I only
David King wrote:
> [...]
> I have changed to a different screensaver (SlideScreen) to stop the
> problem in case it is Helios. Also I changed the setting for Power
> Management to not switch off the screen (it was previously set to switch
> off after 40 minutes). I wonder if perhaps the more fancy
Chris Rowson wrote:
> [...]
> Doesn't the Hardy server kernel have Physical Address Extensions support
> enabled by default? That'd grant support for up to 64GB RAM on the 32
> bit version of Ubuntu.
Hello, Chris.
Yes, we're running 8.04.1 LTS with PAE enabled on servers with 8GB RAM
and I've
Ian Pascoe wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Somewhat OT, but I'm hoping someone here can help.
>
> My Desktop MB is on the way out, intermittent strange behaviour, and it
> being some 8 years old and well used, I'm not really that surprised.
>
> Now, as I hate wasting money I thought I'd get myself a new MB
Alex Birchall wrote:
> [...]
> The output of "sudo parted /dev/sda3 print unit s print unit chs print"
> is:
>
> Disk /dev/sda3: 5355MB
> Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
> Partition Table: loop
>
> Number Start End SizeFile system Flags
> 1 0.00kB 5355MB 5355MB ext3
Tony Travis wrote:
> Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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>> Tony Travis wrote:
>>> Ciao, Michael.
>>>
>>> È la versione Italiana ;-)
>>
>> DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?
Hello, Stephen.
Sorry,
Stephen O'Neill wrote:
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> Tony Travis wrote:
>> Ciao, Michael.
>>
>> È la versione Italiana ;-)
>
>
> DO YOU SPEAK ENGLISH?
>
> - --
> Stephen O'Neill
> w: http://www.thefloating
Michael Holloway wrote:
> Actually it seems its power by "Linux Ubunto".
>
> Wonder if that's any good :)
Ciao, Michael.
È la versione Italiana ;-)
Tony.
--
Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition
and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, S
Chris Rowson wrote:
>>> [...]
> The hardware controller you mention. Does that support Ubuntu? I
> wouldn't mind buying a hardware RAID card as long as it came with some
> kind of monitoring application (so I could tell remotely if the RAID
> fell over) and it managed to come in at the sub 100 quid
Chris Rowson wrote:
> [...]
> So, before I give the server company a bell. Does anyone know if this
> definitely looks like an error caused by a failed disk drive, or is it
> an Ubuntu bug (which I seem to have hit a few when using Hardy - more
> than you'd expect for an LTS - that are already repo
John Levin wrote:
> Rob Beard wrote:
>
>> I'm with Vivaciti who are an Enta reseller. I can highly recommend
>> Enta. You might want to give www.ukfsn.org a look as they are Enta
>> re-sellers who fund Open Source development with the profits, plus
>> they're Linux friendly.
>>
>
> I'm with
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