Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug 1251702

2013-11-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-11-15 17:27, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there ... I've just reported Bug 1251702 under Trusty. I haven't checked out Saucy, but I wonder if it's in there too? It's probably the first time I've wanted to burn more than one iso at the same time. The first one burns fine, and Brasero

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-08 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-11-08 00:44, Alan Bell wrote: odd, do you get something different to this? pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat hello.py print Hello, World! pi@raspberrypi ~ $ time python hello.py Hello, World! real0m0.248s user0m0.180s sys0m0.050s On 07/11/13 20:06, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Alan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Hi Alan, Please add make Python not suck on Raspberry Pi to your list of requests. Execution time for python is so bad I had to rewrite a number of my tools as shell scripts. Since many tools in Ubuntu are based on Python, I expect that'll be on your list anyway. Hopefully that's just an issue

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
postGRES) and set up a company in it over the course of an evening. Alan. On 07/11/13 16:19, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Hi Alan, Please add make Python not suck on Raspberry Pi to your list of requests. Execution time for python is so bad I had to rewrite a number of my tools as shell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xfce Appearance

2013-10-28 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-10-28 11:12, Nigel Verity wrote: All the stock Xfce applications look modern and easy on the eye - curved button corners, bevelled surfaces, etc. However some, though by no means all, non-Xfce applications have an appearance more akin to Windows 3 - dark grey flat

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

2013-09-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-09-13 17:10, Kris Douglas wrote: I get my handsets from Three. They come with about 1 app and once Android is rooted you can remove it or put a custom ROM on. I also benefit from quick, easy replacement of the handset should something go wrong, rather than dealing directly with the

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

2013-09-13 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-09-13 13:39, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 12 Sep 2013 11:29, Pete Smout smoutp...@gmail.com I don't know anyone who buys their handset, they are bundled up with their service contract. Umm, me. And, me too. Step 1: Buy handset for cash. Step 2: Replace crappy default OS with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Calibre Server

2013-09-02 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-09-02 13:21, Simon Swaysland wrote: I'm trying to set-up the calibre server for my eBook management and access to it's web front-end, but I don't seem to be able to get it working. Any advice would be appreciated. My advice would be to use Calibre locally, then just synchronise the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Calibre Server

2013-09-02 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
That's precisely the idea. My home is in London. My server is in Germany. Why run Calibre, with a full GUI, on the server? Tyler On 2013-09-02 14:58, Simon Swaysland wrote: There doesn't really work, my server is remote. On 2 September 2013 11:40, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virgin broadband from 20 to 60 megas

2013-08-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-08-03 23:06, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: Thanks for the insight. I have declined the offer. Also mentioned you (tyler) on twitter, I hope you do not mind. Not a problem. I'm @tolaris. In similar lines I found this interesting: http://ubuntu.virginmedia.com/releases/ That is indeed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virgin broadband from 20 to 60 megas

2013-07-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-07-20 21:54, Rob Beard wrote: As far as I'm aware Virgin are upgrading 20Mbit customers to 60Mbit anyway, but if you've got the old separate modem and router then you might need one of their Super Hubs. I'm not sure what the latest Super Hub is like, but the originals are fairly poor.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virgin broadband from 20 to 60 megas

2013-07-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-07-21 17:41, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: The Virgin Super Hub is absolute shite. I really miss my old Scientific Atlanta modem. I'm not sure the 60 mbit update was worth the change. Sorry, please allow me to qualify that rant: 1. Wireless disassociations. Several per week per workstation

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Code sharing

2013-07-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-07-03 23:43, Tony Pursell wrote: I think you are misunderstanding what it says. It talks about encryption software, that is software that encrypts data, and an obligation to tell the US government about it. I suppose that is because such software can be used for all sorts of illegal

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SSH/Filezilla Problem

2013-06-17 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Please consider using Unison or rsync for this. Both can use block-level checksums to make updates far more efficient. And unison handles the issues with merging changes very well. Regards, Tyler On 2013-06-17 11:08, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi I use Filezilla a lot to transfer data between a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] native resolutions

2013-05-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-04-21 09:01, pete smout wrote: Thanks for the info, it raises a question where's xorg.conf these days? It no longer appears in /etc/X11. If it is not there if I were to create 1 would it be 'called' by X on start-up? If not how would I get X to read / call xorg.conf on start-up?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VIA Neheima CPU and Ubuntu Server

2013-05-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-05-14 13:34, J Fernyhough wrote: The C3 doesn't have PAE support [1]. This means the more recent kernels (IIRC quantal and up) won't boot as their config has PAE as a requirement. You'll either need to compile your own, or use a distro that retains support for those older non-PAE

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dixons/PC World response .....

2013-05-09 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-05-09 10:39, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I find it very interesting that nearly four years ago, when I bought my Toshiba Netbook with Ubuntu Remix from Dixons, they were selling like hot cakes, far better than the equivalent Windows machines. Then suddenly, overnight, they

[ubuntu-uk] Seeking Linux/Network Engineer

2013-05-08 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Sorry if this post is unwelcome. Last time we advertised for an engineer, we hired someone who reads this list. I sure hope to repeat that experience. :) We're looking for a new Linux/Network Engineer at my company. This is a junior position. We're looking for someone enthusiastic about Linux,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Re: Lack of Linux support on Advent Touch printers

2013-05-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-05-07 12:05, Barry Drake wrote: On 07/05/13 10:45, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Another reply from Kodak. Interesting to learn that Kodak is leaving the inkjet market. Excellent result! I got no reply at all from Kodak. Maybe you could forward Kodak's reply to the Ubuntu-UK list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unwanted kernels

2013-05-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-05-04 16:47, Colin Law wrote: On 4 May 2013 15:53, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Hi All Has anyone got any advice or tips on how to safely rid oneself of unwanted kernel. I thought this was an issue that had been solved but I'm still left with 5 ver 2.6 and 8 ver

Re: [ubuntu-uk] native resolutions

2013-04-24 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-04-24 09:11, pete smout wrote: Thanks to Tyler for pointing me in the right direction, SOLVED it Thanks again (and sorry for replying to you direct Tyler, my messages dont always reach ubuntu users for some reason) I'm glad I could help, Pete. Could you tell us how you solved it, for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] native resolutions

2013-04-24 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-04-24 10:58, pete smout wrote: Then having completely had enough I decided to put the 2 lines of script in a text file (xrandr --addmode MODELINE)(xrandr --newmode resolution_refreshrate) and make this file executable via the properties menu in nautilus. You can view this at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Locking in the wireless drivers

2013-04-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-04-23 20:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Ah, yes, DKMS again, that explains it. Now if only we could just have DKMS packaged up for automatic installation in the Synaptic package manager. As it is, you need quite a bit of savvy to install DKMS, more than I've got, for sure. You mean, like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] native resolutions

2013-04-20 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Sounds similar to a problem I had with my TV. It's EDID incorrectly lists only one mode (1280x720 50 Hz), but it supports up to 1920x1080 at a variety of refresh rates. I verified this by dumping the EDID and checking it. I wrote up my experience here:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advent Touch Print printer ....

2013-04-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-04-12 13:27, Barry Drake wrote: The new Advent printer is excellent - apart from support. Obviously I have written a strong letter about this to PC World customer support. I don't expect a result, but maybe if enough of us complain to them, they might listen! Last night I sent an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advent Touch Print printer ....

2013-04-17 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-04-10 19:00, Barry Drake wrote: If anyone wants to try, I had to do the following: Add as USB printer - use Kodak ESP C310 driver. Add as network printer - look up network address on printer menu - probably 192.168.2.11 - use Kodak ESP C310 driver. Barry, Thanks for the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-12 06:53, Neil Greenwood wrote: With the ps command, I'm setting COLUMNS, not PAGER. Sorry for the confusion. The java processes I want to monitor have long command lines, so I set the command to show 1000 columns so it doesn't truncate the output. Consider: ps -ef | cat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-11 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-08 15:14, Neil Greenwood wrote: PAGER=/bin/cat man command Don't include the export. Works a treat if you normally want the pager, but not for one command. I frequently use this to get full output from the ps command... In what situation does ps page the output? ps -ef, for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse scrolling in man pages

2013-03-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-07 18:12, Tony Pursell wrote: man command | cat where command is the command you want to browse, will dump everything to the terminal and you can scroll back up through it with the mouse wheel (I hope), Put this in your .bashrc or .profile: export PAGER=/bin/cat Now paging

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto sudo authenticate on 12.10

2013-03-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-03-04 10:35, Colin Law wrote: The terminal commands have not changed as far as I know. No, they haven't. The Ubuntu updater uses PolicyKit. As others have noted, it allows updates to packages without passwords, but not installation of new packages. This is a good design. The CLI

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 13.04 behaves differently...

2013-02-27 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-02-27 09:18, Alan Pope wrote: At my previous job where Windows + Outlook was the desktop of choice I've seen plenty of people do what Tyler described. One of the nice features Windows has which I've never seen Linux desktops do nicely is dragging and dropping items from a non-focussed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 13.04 behaves differently...

2013-02-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-02-26 14:48, Paula Graham wrote: Agree, hated Unity at first (and there's still things about it, especially lack of customisability) that are annoying) but now that it actually works properly - and looks so nice on 13.04 ... One question: can you raise a window while dragging an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 13.04 behaves differently...

2013-02-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-02-21 15:10, Colin Law wrote: In 12.10 this was controlled via Nautilus, Edit Preferences Behaviour Run Executable Files when opened. Raring includes a major upgrade to Nautilus and they have removed lots of useful stuff (not the Ubuntu developers, the Nautilus developers) so it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 13.04 behaves differently...

2013-02-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-02-21 16:23, Barry Drake wrote: It's not 'dumbing down' but rather due to sweeping changes in whatever widget library Nautilus is built from. (GTK - QT - DUNNO ). Nautilus is built on GTK and Gnome. And no, the dumbing down has nothing to do with the widget library. Nemo, built on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] They've fixed the black square in Firefox

2013-02-20 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-02-21 05:04, Rowan Berkeley wrote: It's gone, as of today's Firefox update. Sorry, could you provide some context? What black square? Is there a bug report somewhere? Regards, Tyler -- I have come to the conclusion that executions solve nothing, and are only an antiquated relic of a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

2013-02-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 01/02/13 15:54, Paula Graham wrote: I dunno, doesn't seem a huge burden to me - the driver's in a handy folder - it takes all of 20 secs to compile - prefer it to opening a brand new laptop with a perfectly good Realtek chip (and I'm clumsy with hardware). Will just tolerate mild

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zoostorm laptop at ebuyer.com

2013-01-31 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-01-31 18:46, Paula Graham wrote: I've got the i3 version of the Zoostorm laptop - 12.04 installed perfectly except wifi chip is a bit of a pain, needs to be hunted down, compiled and then recompiled every time the kernel upgrades - native driver should be in kernel 3.8. The current

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

2013-01-28 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-01-28 07:44, Rowan Berkeley wrote: This deserves a thread of its own, I think. 'Slow to load' means approximately a half-second late. During that half-second, the previous display remains visible in the square. It's approx 250x250 pixels in size, I should say, ie about the width of a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] suggest a usb webcam for under £10

2013-01-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
I use a Logitech C600 for my media PC, as it has a swivel for positioning it to face one part of the room. On a laptop, the C270 was fine. Both can be had for £12-£25 on Amazon, which is above your price but of excellent quality. 720p. No flash, though. Regards, Tyler On 2013-01-23 12:09,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu operating system comes to Android smartphones

2013-01-03 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2013-01-03 10:49, Simon Greenwood wrote: ... the reason that Google are selling the Nexus 4 directly and unlocked is that they had difficulty in getting the US carriers to accept it, so they decided to go around them. [cite needed] Regards, Tyler -- [...] freedom is kind of a hobby with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sony Experia

2012-12-17 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-12-17 14:31, Philip Stubbs wrote: There are hacks to enable USB mass-storage, but I have not bothered. With adb installed it is just as easy to type adb push file location to copy a file to the device. It's even easier to install an SSH server and just use sftp:// links in Nautilus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sony Experia

2012-12-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-12-13 20:10, Matthew Wild wrote: But yes, for general usage and even development purposes it works fine with Linux. I imagine pretty much all Android phones are the same in this regard. Modern Android devices (4.0+) don't mount as FAT filesystems:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Copying encrypted volume dd

2012-12-05 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-12-05 11:34, Anton Kanishchev wrote: I have got an encrypted partition on my hdd, used alternative cd (encrypted lvm volume) of ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to back up the entire installation (i. E. Entire harddrive), would dd work if booted from a live cd? Yes, as long as the destination

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-28 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-11-27 18:39, Liam Proven wrote: I think what would put me off KVM slightly is that it means installing a Linux system, installing KVM on it, configuring the whole thing, updating it, locking it down... and then building a VM on top of that. ESXi is 32MB of code. Install it, connect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] network-manager applet menu unresponsive in GUI

2012-11-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-11-22 13:41, Matthew Sturdy wrote: I have checked dmesg, syslog, kern.log, /var/log/gdm/:0.log but there's nothing obvious I can see. Has anyone else seen this? Any tips about how to troubleshoot / fix it? I've seen it. It usually is related to an update, but sometimes it just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Securely delete data

2012-11-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
I'm responding to both Andres and Alan, because my answers are related. On 2012-11-17 21:02, Andres Muniz wrote: wow this shred stuff is really interesting. If i have EXT4 running on a solid state drive (ssd), does it mean that doing a shred will significantly reduce the life of the ssd? It

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Securely delete data

2012-11-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-11-18 20:26, Alan Pope wrote: On 18/11/12 10:16, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: That depends against what you are trying to defend. It is possible, with specialist tools, to recover data after a single wipe. People say that a lot. Prove it. I love being proved wrong: https://www.anti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Securely delete data

2012-11-16 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-11-16 15:36, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 16/11/12 14:55, Alan Pope wrote: but then discovered dd'ing zeroes over it from a live CD was sufficient, so I just do that from a live CD/USB now. Can you expand on that for a newbie? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sda You might use bs=1M or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Securely delete data

2012-11-15 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-11-15 12:55, David Smith wrote: Supposing I have a netbook loaded with Xubuntu that I want to sell on (shameless plug, eBay item 290811097220). If it was running a Microsoft OS, I'd create a new user, remove the old one, look around for and delete any data lurking in the root and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit vs 32-bit

2012-11-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
I have run 64-bit on the desktop for almost 5 years now. Even 32-bit apps like Skype run just fine now, thanks to multi-arch. Just use 64-bit, and install what you want from the package manager. It'll work. Tyler On 2012-11-14 16:40, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi I'm thinking about upgrading to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit vs 32-bit

2012-11-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-11-14 17:02, Rob Beard wrote: IIRC if you want to run processes with more than 4GB memory then you need a 64-Bit OS, but even with 4GB Ram you can use all the memory if you enable the kernel with PAE support. With PAE you can use the RAM in total. However, each process is still limited

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Quantal Quetzal takes flight - the London release party for Ubuntu 12.10

2012-10-19 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-19 01:48, Gareth France wrote: Thanks for that. I am aware but seem to have lost the settings in Thunderbird to change it!! It's not something I have to tinker with very often. 1. Menu - Account Settings 2. select the account on the left, top level such as gareth.fra...@gmail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installation of package failed - now I can't remove it!

2012-10-10 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-10 15:17, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: In tried installing Bandwidthd from here: http://bandwidthd.sourceforge.net/. It didn't install properly. On trying the re-install I got this: Preparing to replace bandwidthd 2.0.1 (using .../SARGE-bandwidthd_2.0.1_i386.deb) ...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-08 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-08 11:06, James Morrissey wrote: Thanks for this Tyler. At the moment i only seem able to find the acpi call for the power button, not for the cog. Are they the same at: /etc/acpi/events/powerbtn Probably, but I don't know what the cog really calls. What happens when you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-07 12:26, James Morrissey wrote: Following up on this issue: sudo poweroff sudo shutdown -h now I'll give it a try once i have run the machine for a few hours. The longer i run it the more likely the restart error occurs. Using: sudo poweroff

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing duplicate RAID UUID

2012-10-06 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-05 18:13, Paul Tansom wrote: Aha, my Google FU has returned :) For anyone curious about the answer it was: tune2fs /dev/md8 -U random to assign a random new UUID to /dev/md8 That is the filesystem UUID, which yes, can be changed with tune2fs. You can also change the swap UUID

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-05 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-04 21:11, James Morrissey wrote: All of this takes place when shutting down via the cog in the top right of the panel. Do you get the same behaviour with this at the command line? sudo poweroff sudo shutdown -h now Technically they should all be calls to ACPI, but I'd start by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Poor performance with Ubuntu on my laptop

2012-10-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-04 16:05, Liam Proven wrote: On 4 October 2012 15:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Both have the Pentium P6200 processor. Unfortunately, Intel is rather addicted to selling cheap, crippled CPUs which have been hobbled to fit a low price point by disabling most of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good general book on Ubuntu/Linux?

2012-10-03 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-03 15:21, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I'm looking for a book on either Ubuntu or Linux in general in the Windows inside out type of format, i.e. from simple through to fairly technical, suitable for a general user - me! This does not fit your use case, and I do not recommend you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Triaged and Fix Committed in Launchpad

2012-10-02 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Hi Phill, After reading the wiki documentation, it seems that your summary doesn't match it. You said Fix Commited means that some one has decided that bug needs to be fixed. The wiki says: Fix Committed: Ubuntu bug task: the changes are pending and to be uploaded soon (it's what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new Laptop

2012-10-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-09-29 14:03, Alan Pope wrote: model name: Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2450M CPU @ 2.50GHz Is there a way to verify the video model number? Google the model number, first hit:- http://ark.intel.com/products/53452/Intel-Core-i5-2450M-Processor-3M-Cache-up-to-3_10-GHz I was hoping to

[ubuntu-uk] Triaged and Fix Committed in Launchpad

2012-10-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-09-26 10:57, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: On 2012-09-25 23:20, Alan Pope wrote: On 25/09/12 16:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in capitalisation

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Triaged and Fix Committed in Launchpad

2012-10-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-10-01 15:55, Colin Law wrote: On 1 October 2012 15:51, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: very quickly, from confirmed moving to triaged means there is enough information to fully investigate. Fix Commited means that some one has decided that bug needs to be fixed. I thought

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new Laptop

2012-09-29 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-09-28 21:38, Bruno Girin wrote: Same here. My laptop is a Lenovo with a Core i5-2520M (2nd gen Intel Core) which has HD3000 graphics too and it has run 11.10, 12.04 and now 12.10 amd64 with no problem whatsoever. I wonder if I'm missing a way to identify my video chipset. My new laptop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new Laptop

2012-09-27 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-09-27 19:41, Simon Redmond wrote: Doh, sorry should have included that info... its not really a known brand, its made by PC Specialist. A colleague has a desktop PC built by them and is very happy. http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/notebooks/genesisIV/ My advice would be to take an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ayatana / Lens searches for tokens only

2012-09-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-09-25 23:20, Alan Pope wrote: On 25/09/12 16:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in capitalisation. Is there a bug filed about these issues you outlined

[ubuntu-uk] Ayatana / Lens searches for tokens only

2012-09-25 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in capitalisation. For instance, I have Handbrake installed. The desktop file gives a description of HandBrake. The capital letter B is significant. If I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update BIOS with dual boot

2012-07-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-07-17 21:57, James Morrissey wrote: Just tried that but still nothing seems to happen and the BIOS remains on version 1.15. When I updated my BIOS (from a FreeDOS-formatted USB stick), it continued to report the older version until I physically unpowered it and repowered it after a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update BIOS with dual boot

2012-07-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-07-18 11:25, James Morrissey wrote: Having spoken to Lenovo, i am rather unsatisfied. Their story is that they don't know why the windows client won't work. They also suggest that i use the live CD as a means for updating the BIOS - this is the recommended method. Unbelievably (to my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Replacing Linux Mint 13 with Ubuntu 12.04

2012-07-03 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-07-03 02:21, Daniel Case wrote: Is your /home directory on another partition or the same as the Mint system? Either way, take a backup somewhere to be sure nothing happens (I've had my power go out in the middle of an install before... it happens!) If your /home is separate, it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ethernet not working after board replacement

2012-06-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-06-26 14:38, Mark Fraser wrote: On Jun 26, 2012 10:38 AM, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com mailto:morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Great, Thanks for the help. Deleting /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and restarting seemed to do the trick. Thanks again.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] virtualbox problems

2012-06-15 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-06-15 09:08, Simon Greenwood wrote: Some OEM disks check for something in the system that identifies the hardware as belonging to a maker so it really might depend on the vendor. You could test it by installing Virtualbox in Windows as by default Virtualbox identifies itself as a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very cheap webcam

2012-05-31 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-30 19:08, Simon Greenwood wrote: [2.298444] generic-usb 0003:0C45:7428.0001: input,hidraw0: USB HID v1.00 Mouse [SONiX USB Device] on usb-:00:1a.0-1/input0 Hmm, looks like some Sonix devices are supported but not that one. No, that's a mouse. Use lsusb as michael

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NFS shares permanently

2012-05-28 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-27 18:45, Ron Wellsted wrote: I append the relevant lines to my /etc/fstab file. e.g.: nfs.srv.ip.adr:/home/common /home/commonnfsdefaults 0 0 noatime is better than defaults. http://gnorman.org/index.php?option=com_contentview=articleid=154Itemid=164 Or go it a step

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-24 09:25, Gibbs wrote: What did you upgrade from? From personal experience I always do a fresh install when upgrading from LTS to LTS as there are years worth of differences between them. Saying that I still haven't upgraded from 10.04 at work. I have upgraded servers from 10.04 to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 failing for me.

2012-05-24 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-24 15:43, Philip Stubbs wrote: I know that I should dig and get more details, but Ubuntu is supposed to be Linux for Humans. These days I just want to get on and use the machine, not spend hours just keeping them going. I think your problem is that it is Linux for Humans, not Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NFS shares permanently

2012-05-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-12 10:52, mac wrote: Does your NAS only support NFSv3? I doubt the NFS version is the issue: I've got four 10.04 systems mounting these same NFS shares at startup perfectly correctly. I asked that because the Ubuntu Setup guide I linked to refers to NFSv4. If you follow that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NFS shares permanently

2012-05-11 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-10 16:10, mac wrote: I mount NFS shares (served by a ReadyNAS) on my Ubuntu clients - all five of which were, till recently, running 10.04. As a means of getting familiar with Unity, etc, I recently put 12.04 on to one machine. (A clean install, as the attempted upgrade a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best way to contribute to Ubuntu? - was Re: 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-04 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-05-04 08:59, Alan Pope wrote: It's funny you should ask that. I'm at a Canonical product sprint this week and one of our tasks was to review the 12.04 release and make suggestions for how things could be improved. Good luck this week,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-01 15:29, Colin Law wrote: Anyone got any workarounds/suggestions for this scenario? If you open the dash and search for the app does it find it? If so then run it that way, and you can pin it to the launcher if you want to. If not then create a .desktop file to launch it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-01 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-05-01 16:35, Alan Lord (News) wrote: Does Alt-Tab work to select the minimised window? Does the window show up in Expo (Super-W)? Alt-tab doesn;t show it, but - you sir are a star! The Expo (Super W) does :-) However, I then minimised my app and the little arrow disappeared from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server 11.10 -- how do I enable remot access via Putty?

2012-03-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-03-12 17:01, Alexander Birchall wrote: I thought I was quite experienced at administering a Ubuntu Server, but I am totally confused by the graphical desktop for Ubuntu Server 11.10. I don't believe there is a GUI for server by default. Are you sure you used the server disk? I need to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Plans

2012-03-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-03-07 11:33, Simon Greenwood wrote: It's slightly different to the PC platform in that the assumption, rightly or wrongly, is that customers don't generally install custom operating systems on their phones and tablets, and indeed I think there would be some reticence on behalf of the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home networks, running different devices, OSes and backing up

2012-02-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-02-04 09:39, Byte Soup wrote: Id like to hear opinions, experience and advice from those of you who have a home network with multiple devices from iPods to PCs, and what you do to back them up and centralise the data but also make the data available in places where you need it. I use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [virgin media] double broadband

2012-02-03 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2012-02-03 14:26, Alan Pope wrote: It's a Super Hub. I have one. It's just a custom netgear device with a cable modem internally. Some people have had issues with it, but that's nothing to do with Linux. So it's a router+modem? Has NAT and all that? Can it present a public IP to my own

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam problem

2011-12-07 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-12-07 17:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I purchased a Logitech C270 HD Webcam which according to this site http://www.ideasonboard.org/uvc/#devices is compatible with Linux. I ran up a Live CD of Ubuntu 11.10 and connected the camera. the camera works but the microphone does not work

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Boot/Grub problem

2011-10-31 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-10-31 20:04, Tony Pursell wrote: I've got a problem with booting after I removed my old 1GB swap file and created a new bigger swap file. The upshot of this seems to be that /boot is now on /dev/sda6 instead of /dev/sda7. (That's because the old swap was before it on the disk). What

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configure Network Manager from Command Line

2011-10-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-10-18 16:12, Philip Stubbs wrote: Yes, it is my home server. It did have a GUI installed but that failed after the Oneiric upgrade. Can't complain about that as it did give a warning. So, what is the best way to disable Network Manager? List the interfaces in /etc/network/interfaces,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configure Network Manager from Command Line

2011-10-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-10-18 16:00, Philip Stubbs wrote: Poking around, I found the /etc/resolv.conf file had nothing in it except a not saying it was managed by network-manager. Manually adding a nameserver here fixed my problem, but I am going to guess that it will disappear again next reboot. How do I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04

2011-09-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-09-26 13:48, Alan Pope wrote: I wondered what you lot might desire for 12.04? I'd like to see the issues of power consumption on Intel chipsets (since 11.04) resolved. Regards, Tyler -- If we confuse dissent with disloyalty — if we deny the right of the individual to be wrong,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Python Question

2011-09-23 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-09-23 15:38, Dave Hanson wrote: I want to search the entire disk of any OS to find the Firefox cache directory. Is it even possible to do this? I don't particularly need the code to do it (I don't mind if you want to share though!) What I'm really after is - Am I wasting my time even

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a small, cheap, ubuntu staging computer/server?

2011-09-16 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-09-16 11:48, Alan Pope wrote: On 16 September 2011 11:40, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi -- what box would people recommend for setting up a small, cheap staging Ubuntu web server? This:-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] asus transformer

2011-09-13 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-09-13 15:56, javadayaz wrote: Cyanogenmod 7. An Android rom for your android phonebut with added goodies baked in! Install procedure: http://wiki.cyanogenmod.com/index.php?title=HTC_Desire_HD:_Rooting Tyler -- [...] freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Use Of Filezilla

2011-08-26 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-08-26 15:28, Nigel Verity wrote: I use Filezilla on a regular basis to transfer files between devices via my home router. It's a great utility which I would highly recommend. From time to time it would be useful to access files on devices located at home when I am away. Could anyone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.04 Server text mode problems

2011-08-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-08-21 20:51, Rob Beard wrote: I've just got a HP MicroServer which I am installing 64-Bit Ubuntu 10.04 on to (I believe it was the 10.04.3 Server ISO I used). I just wondered if there was any way of tweaking it to get it back to bog standard VGA mode? We probably have similar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcams again

2011-08-12 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On 2011-08-12 09:48, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote: I’ve just bought a Logitech C270 HD from Amazon for £17.99. It’s excellent and works flawlessly in Ubuntu Natty. Thanks for the tip. I've been looking for a replacement for my simple 640x480 generic Logitech attached to my television . Can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kindle and Ubuntu

2011-06-09 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 08:17 -0700, John Stevenson wrote: 3G option allows you to download books when you are not connected to a WiFi network, it is not intended for use for browsing the Internet. Yet there is a browser, if you don't mind browsing the web on an e-ink display. A friend of mine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.

2011-06-06 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:12 +0100, Dave Hanson 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? No such thing exists. The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.

2011-06-06 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:16 +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: No such thing exists. The closest possibilities are: Oh sure. And now even a casual web search turns up several hacked up phones running Ubuntu. Madness. :) Tyler -- The map is not the territory. -- Alfred Korzybski -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

2011-05-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 12:11 +0100, alan c wrote: I have no hesitation to say to use Ubuntu 10.04.2 (LTS) if it works on that hardware, (probably will). If any hardware that I support have any problesms with the LTS (a few do) then 10.10 seems ok. It will. I've run 8.04, 9.10, 10.04, and

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