Re: [ubuntu-uk] Router reccomendations

2009-02-27 Thread colum phillips
I am using a Belkin which has been OK so far (about eighteen months) Regards Colum. On Fri, 2009-02-27 at 22:13 +, London School of Puppetry wrote: 2009/2/27 John Levin j...@technolalia.org Hi all, I've been having terrible router problems; one is near death,

[ubuntu-uk] Laptop

2008-05-13 Thread colum phillips
Hi all in reply to Jai Harrison`s question I have just bought a dell inspiration 1525 loaded with 7.10. It works fine my wife is very happy using it,she was a Windows user and seems to have settled down to using it very well. I ordered it with some upgrades to the screen and hard drive and the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

2008-05-07 Thread colum . phillips
Hi I have been having similar problems with 7.1 locks up solid when trying to retrieve mail from talktalk or when trying to watch Utube items on Totem. problem seemed to start after installing the plugin required to view Utube. I have also been trying to configure send mail so this could be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-29 Thread colum . phillips
Will try that, thanks Colum -Original Message- From: Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:19 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 type sudo passwd then type in your USER password and then type in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-29 Thread colum . phillips
Thanks Paul I will give that a go. Regards Colum -Original Message- From: Paul Mellors [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 23:20 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10 On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:18 -0400, [EMAIL

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-28 Thread colum . phillips
Hi I have just installed and started using 7.10 so far it is very good and easy to use. I am having a problem, I want to login as root so that I can change the permissions on a hard drive. I have set a root password but it refuses to recognise it.? Any help would be gratefully received. I have