Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password Requirement On Automatic Updates

2020-06-12 Thread James Tait
On 2020-06-12 13:12, Nigel Verity wrote: 123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345 Most days I get a notification dialog informing me of pending updates. Sometimes I install immediately, other times I'll click the "Remind Me Later" button. I've noticed an inconsi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 19.10 release Get Together

2019-10-22 Thread James Thomas
I was on holiday. Shame. I used to really enjoy these events! :) I wonder whether holding other events are in order? Like the Science museum one or the Real Ale Train et al... Be good to reconnect with peeps. :) Cheers JT On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 15:37, Alan Pope wrote: > > > > > *Hi all,Tomor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu laptop

2016-04-07 Thread James Morrissey
untu-uk > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > >> > > > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > htt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wine bug - new package?

2015-03-29 Thread James Morrissey
On 25 March 2015 at 08:28, Tony Pursell wrote: > There is a ppa for up-to-date Wine versions, if you can enable it in Mint. > > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-wine/+archive/ubuntu/ppa > > Doesn't seem to fix the problem mentioned in the bugs offered by Barry: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

2015-03-06 Thread James Tait
now I have to think about what I'm doing. JT - -- - ---+---- James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel: +44 (0)8

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2015-02-06 Thread James Morrissey
o/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- James Morrissey (PhD) Researcher Extractive Industries and Governance | Oxfam America Junior Research Fellow in Refugee Studies | Lady Margaret Hall | University of Oxford Public PGP Key <http://pool.sks-keyservers.net:11371/pks/l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2015-02-03 Thread James Morrissey
Thanks, i can only look at this during my evenings (i am currently in the US). On 3 February 2015 at 07:09, Stuart Ward wrote: > > On 3 February 2015 at 04:35, James Morrissey > wrote: > >> I am trying to do this, but it is difficult to identify when the shutdown >> beg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2015-02-02 Thread James Morrissey
Hi Colin, Thanks for getting back to me. On 1 February 2015 at 16:43, Colin Law wrote: > On 1 February 2015 at 20:47, James Morrissey > wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > Following up on this again as the issue persists in 14.10. > > > > To recap: When i go to s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2015-02-01 Thread James Morrissey
be very grateful. Thanks, James. p.s. running 14.10, 64bit on an Intel Thinkpad x131e. On 24 May 2014 at 10:38, James Morrissey wrote: > Hi all, > > A recent (installed in the last week) update to Trusty has caused this bug > to reappear. > > To recap: the bug is tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reverse engineering data files

2014-11-24 Thread James Tait
test files that could be shared? Many eyes on the problem may aid quicker progress. Also, the make and model of the device might help. JT - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Program

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choice of laptop

2014-11-07 Thread James Tait
bout PCSpecialist on this list, I configured a similarly-spec'd laptop, and the price came in roughly £500 cheaper, and obviously without the £200 import tax. -- ---+

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing files and folders between two 14.04 machines

2014-10-16 Thread James Morrissey
That is frustrating. If you need a quick fix try dukto: http://www.msec.it/blog/?page_id=11 j On 16 October 2014 13:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Two 14.04 machines on the same LAN. > I am having THE MOST ridiculous time trying to share files and folders > across the LAN between these two

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-05-24 Thread James Morrissey
existed in 12.04., 12.10, 13.04, 13.10 and then was fixed in 14.04. Now some update has broken things. Can anyone help me identify what might have caused the problem? Thanks, james On 24 April 2014 05:31, James Morrissey wrote: > Since people are reflecting on their experiences with Trusty

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
point plus now you can also learn from this thread and of course if you hit your own problems just mail us all and we will do our best to help you. Thanks, Alan Jenkins On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:50, Peter Smout wrote: > On 24/04/14 14:43, Gareth France wrote: >> On 24/04/14 14:41, A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Yeah no worries mate it happens to all of us =). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:43, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to >> sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
No problem mate =) glad its sorted. On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:41, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Hey Gareth, >> >> Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this >> builds an unsigned source package: &

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: > Hey Gareth, > > Just looked up how to build a package without signing and suppos

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Hey Gareth, Just looked up how to build a package without signing and supposedly this builds an unsigned source package: debuild -i -us -uc -S and this builds the binary: debuild -i -us -uc -b Give that a try =) On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:22, Gareth France wrote: > >> Looks like some other err

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
11:35, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 11:31, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the >> plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu >> community as you can become a package ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Agreed, Give us the contents of the files in debian/ so we can try figure out what its choking on. (I am not an expert on debian packaging but I will do my best to help you). On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:31, Gareth France wrote: > On 24/04/14 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 24 April 2014 11:24, Gareth

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Also Gareth, Debian packaging is a pain until you get used to it. But on the plus side its a good skill to have if you want to help out the Ubuntu community as you can become a package maintainer once you get proficient and have the time for it. On 24 Apr 2014, at 11:28, Alan Pope wrote: > O

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on Macs

2014-04-24 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Hey guys, I have been a Ubuntu’er for a long long time (since 4.10 Warty Warthog) and until a few years ago I had Ubuntu on my desktop and my old Dell XPS M170 laptop. However I replaced the ageing M170 with a Macbook Pro so for the last few years I have been using a Macbook Pro and putting up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-04-24 Thread James Morrissey
the problem. Best, j On 18 February 2014 09:42, James Morrissey wrote: > > > On 17 February 2014 23:17, Colin Law wrote: > >> On 17 February 2014 21:03, James Morrissey >> wrote: >> > >> >> > >> >> > Yeah, i was wondering

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Good stuff glad you got it working =). On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:39, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:37, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Also try: >> >> which seaward >> >> If that shows /usr/bin/seaward your terminal is finding the command in your >&

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
/seaward already so dunno why I asked you to do that. If you call the script with its absolute path e.g: /usr/bin/seaward Does it work? On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:33, Colin Law wrote: > On 23 April 2014 15:22, Gareth France wrote: >> On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
OK next command to try: file /usr/bin/seaward On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:27, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:24, Alan James Jenkins wrote: >> Going on what those commands reported you should be good to run seaward as >> the script is in your path, is executable to every

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Going on what those commands reported you should be good to run seaward as the script is in your path, is executable to everyone and has the correct interpreter set in the shebang. Is it not working? On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:22, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:18, Alan James Jenkins wr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

2014-04-23 Thread Alan James Jenkins
Could you please give us the output of these commands: echo $PATH ls -la /usr/bin/seaward head -n1 /usr/bin/seaward Thanks, Alan On 23 Apr 2014, at 15:17, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/04/14 15:15, Stuart Ward wrote: >> >> On 23 April 2014 15:07, Gareth France wrote: >> I have tried renamin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Parties..

2014-04-03 Thread James Thomas
I am certainly up for that. Not that I have missed many release parties... :) On 2 April 2014 21:41, Bruno Girin wrote: > > > On 2 April 2014 14:33, Alan Pope wrote: > >> >> >> Sound like a plan? >> > > Definitely! Count me in and I'm happy to come to the Canonical offices. > That'll be a goo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread James Morrissey
On 17 February 2014 23:17, Colin Law wrote: > On 17 February 2014 21:03, James Morrissey > wrote: > > > >> > > >> > Yeah, i was wondering if someone on here might know what might be > going > >> > on > >> > in the hibernate proc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread James Morrissey
> > > > Yeah, i was wondering if someone on here might know what might be going > on > > in the hibernate process (on lid close), that might interfere with the > > reboot sequence. I'd be happy to google any things that come to the > minds of > > anybody on here. > > I don't think you mentioned tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread James Morrissey
> > > It might be possible to change some ACPI settings in the BIOS to > circumvent this, or pass commands to the kernel in startup parameters, > but if you did it might adversely affect power management. I think > you're stuck with it, then. Sorry to have to say so. > Yeah, i was wondering if som

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread James Morrissey
> OK, which versions? > 12.04, 12.10, 13.04, 13.10. All the same problem > > > No, i haven't done this. Since i have been through a number of versions, > i > > am not sure doing so would help. Possibly a different linux distribution > > would show different behaviour (as windows does), but this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread James Morrissey
>> Yes, as i said this problem has persisted for a while, across a number of >> different installs. >Installs <> different versions! Yes, sorry, different versions. >>What is a parallel install? >[Puzzled blink] >It means you install another version in its own root partition, >alongside Window

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread James Morrissey
>Unfortunately, yes, I believe that's the Saucy Salamander version. >Have you tried a parallel install of 13.10 or even the 14.04 alpha >just for comparison? Yes, as i said this problem has persisted for a while, across a number of different installs. What is a parallel install? j -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread James Morrissey
Thanks Liam, > I've seen that on some machines, but some years ago - before the last LTS. > > > > I cured it by updating the kernel. You know that newer kernels are > > backported to LTS versions? > I think my kernel is up to date. I am currently running 3.11.0-15-generic. If i understand your po

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2014-02-17 Thread James Morrissey
Dear all, I am just following up on this minor but annoying issue with my machine (Lenovo Thinkpad x131e (intel)). The core of this issue is that when i go to shutdown my machine it regularly reboots automatically. The problem has persisted across a number of different versions of ubuntu (current

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some installation pointers please

2014-02-14 Thread James Morrissey
Hi David, You appear to have gotten a lot of info already. > having chosen for it to install itself alongside > Windows. I thought it would simply find the Windows partition and roughly > half the available space still left on the drive. >> [Blink] You let it automatically partition on a machi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity Dash fails to find files or folders

2014-02-13 Thread James Morrissey
I'm using 13.10.I have a file called "Shopping.ods". If I type "Shopping" into the Unity Dash search, it finds NOTHING. If I type "Shopping" into Nautilus search it finds the file IMMEDIATELY. Is this a bug in 13.10 Unity? Not sure if the bug is known about, but i have found that disabling 'record

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

2013-09-09 Thread James Morrissey
Following up on this with 13.04. Using the instructions from mindwerks.netto compile the STA driver, does not appear to get my wireless working on > 13.04. I have thus had to resort to using bcmwl-kernel-source. > > Freezes are back when on battery power. I also get the following error > message wh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

2013-09-06 Thread James Morrissey
> > Hi all, > > Good news on this. > > I removed bcmwl-kernel-source, and installed firmware-b43-installer. > However this rendered my wireless useless. > > I then started googling on how i would get my broadcom card working > without bcmwl-kernel-source and came across a post which described build

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

2013-08-28 Thread James Morrissey
> 12.04.3 ships with the kernel from 13.04. See > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/LTSEnablementStack for details. If you > want to use kernel from 12.04 because that worked for you (you still get > updates), then install 12.04.1 and update from there. Instructions on > that wiki page. If you have al

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

2013-08-25 Thread James Morrissey
On 22 August 2013 15:58, J Fernyhough wrote: > On 22 August 2013 14:30, James Morrissey > wrote: > > If i uninstall bcmwl-kernel-source, which of the following packages > > do i need to install in order to get my wireless working: > > firmware-b43-installer, firmware

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

2013-08-22 Thread James Morrissey
On 22 August 2013 15:04, Liam Proven wrote: > > > * does the problem only occur under Linux? > > If you have any other OS on the machine, use that for a while and see > if it suffers the problem as well. Windows is the obvious candidate, > but there are other potential ones as well - Mac OS X, PC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

2013-08-22 Thread James Morrissey
On 22 August 2013 15:00, J Fernyhough wrote: > > On 22/08/13 13:21, James Morrissey wrote: > > > --snip-- > > > > The fact that there was a wireless problem on Broadcom BCM43228 and that > the > > freeze appears to correlate with having the machine on batte

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

2013-08-22 Thread James Morrissey
On 22 August 2013 14:46, Martin Dixon wrote: > Hi James. > > For what it is worth I had a similar problem with 12.04 and 12.10 and > found the only solution was to reinstall 12.10 and refrain from doing any > updates. > 13.04 works OK with all updates loaded, but I used both

[ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

2013-08-22 Thread James Morrissey
the problem is, i would really appreciate it. Thanks, James. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-08-04 Thread James Kemp
On 03/08/13 22:32, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés wrote: El 03/08/2013 22:08, "James Kemp" mailto:james%2bubuntu...@somebody.org.uk>> > So the landscape is changing, albeit by waiting for the big long term contracts to run out. > Hi James, Sounds like good news. Any clues on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

2013-08-03 Thread James Kemp
term contracts to run out. Disclosure: I'm an enterprise architect in a government agency and directly responsible for engaging with GDS on our digital delivery. I'm also trying to get our desktop replacement to be open source software on a linux base. -- James Kemp see Alexander

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Toshiba Satellite Wireless Lock-down?

2013-07-11 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/13 09:12, Dave Morley wrote: > On 11/07/13 00:12, James Tait wrote: >> jtait@mothership:~$ rfkill list 0: phy0: Wireless LAN Soft >> blocked: no Hard blocked: yes > >> I've tried countless "solutions&quo

[ubuntu-uk] Toshiba Satellite Wireless Lock-down?

2013-07-10 Thread James Tait
iba have decided to lock the laptop down to a specific kind of wireless card? JT - -- - ---+---- James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-10 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/05/13 15:59, Byte Soup wrote: > On 10 May 2013 10:02, James Tait <mailto:james.t...@wyrddreams.org>> wrote: > > On 09/05/13 23:04, SuperEngineer wrote: >> just one final word (sentence)- my word "educate"

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The problem with Bug #1

2013-05-10 Thread James Tait
nse to that would be "Why, isn't it?" JT - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407 -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UEFI bios update

2013-05-09 Thread James Morrissey
ng part of the solution. When i manage to get round to calling Lenovo i will follow this email up with info about the EUFI and BIOS update. Thanks, j On 29 April 2013 16:24, alan c wrote: > On 29/04/13 12:45, James Morrissey wrote: > >> Hi Dave, >> >> Thanks for getting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ipod

2013-05-07 Thread James Morrissey
To get the ipod working as an ipod, not just as an external drive, try GTKPod or try transferring songs through Rhythmbox. Just a note, when you plug into GTKPod it sets up the device so that it reads as an iPod. I am not sure what will happen to your data which is already on it, so you might want

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DSL provider

2013-05-07 Thread James Tait
package offers a real (no NAT) IPv4 address, a /48 native IPv6 block and 50GB any time downloads for £25 a month. After that, it's up to you to choose what add-ons you need. HTH, JT [0] http://aa.net.uk/ - -- - ---+---

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No new mail notifications from Thunderbird in 13.04

2013-05-03 Thread James Tait
ly, you should be able to prompt Thunderbird to present the Profile Manage on startup with Alt-F2 > thunderbird -P Create a new profile and see if it works there - if so, the problem is related to your existing profile. HTH, JT - -- - ---+-----

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UEFI bios update

2013-04-29 Thread James Morrissey
l 2013 13:21, Dave Morley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 29/04/13 12:04, James Morrissey wrote: > > > This may work flawlessly. However (and it's a big however) it may not. > To combat this I would suggest that before you did anything

[ubuntu-uk] UEFI bios update

2013-04-29 Thread James Morrissey
Hi all, I posted this in the forums, but have yet to get a response. I was wondering if anyone here could help. I'm trying to update my bios, but it looks like, in doing so, the update wants to enable EFI. I am looking to update my bios, because i keep having random system freezes in 13.04 (ever

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorely disappointed with U1 Music Store

2013-04-17 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 17/04/13 19:53, Bill Baker wrote: > On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 16:07 +0100, James Tait wrote: >> I would suggest someone with recent experience of this files the >> bug and sees where it goes. > One of my earlier mails did ask: "U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorely disappointed with U1 Music Store

2013-04-17 Thread James Tait
ns will be on public record. Thanks! JT - -- - ---+---- James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorely disappointed with U1 Music Store

2013-04-16 Thread James Tait
OOPS report and still have useful logs to possibly [0] fix it. Cheers, JT [0] http://goo.gl/ZTE17 - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---+--

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorely disappointed with U1 Music Store

2013-04-12 Thread James Tait
in. Cheers, JT [0] https://one.ubuntu.com/help/faq/ [1] https://one.ubuntu.com/help/contact/ - -- - ---+---- James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel

[ubuntu-uk] Video for dual-boot with UEFI Secure Boot

2013-02-26 Thread James Tait
a lot of the UEFI Secure Boot nonsense. - ---8<--- Cheers, JT - -- - ---+---- James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

2013-02-07 Thread James Tait
. Or, and I realise this means running another process on a system that's already struggling, maybe give conky a try: apt://conky-std https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpConky JT - -- - ---+---

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu unusably slow

2013-02-07 Thread James Tait
7;ve been unable to offer any useful information. JT - -- - ---+ James Tait, BSc|xmpp:jayte...@wyrddreams.org Programmer and Free Software advocate |Tel: +44 (0)870 490 2407 - ---+ -BEGIN

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencast a presentation with Impress and webcam

2013-02-07 Thread James Morrissey
a bit of a fiddle but it worked out in the end. Conference happened last night in Australia and the video went off without a hitch. Thanks for all the advice that different people gave me. All the best, James. www.peliteracy.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencast a presentation with Impress and webcam

2013-01-23 Thread James Morrissey
nks for the tip. I've been recording Ubuntu and Linux related screencasts for the past couple of years on Youtube. Feel free to take some inspiration: http://www.youtube.com/quidsup Nice work. Thanks for the link. j -- James Morrissey www.peliteracy.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencast a presentation with Impress and webcam

2013-01-23 Thread James Morrissey
ittle beyond me for now so i think i'll try kdenlive as Ivan suggested. I will however try and work this out. Thanks, James. On 22 January 2013 17:46, Bruno Girin wrote: > On 22/01/13 17:17, James Morrissey wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am trying to put together a pre

[ubuntu-uk] Screencast a presentation with Impress and webcam

2013-01-22 Thread James Morrissey
press window? Is there something i could do to get a decent recording of a previous video running on my desktop? Two important notes in all this: i've been using recordmydesktop and my machine is only an i3 - but with 8GB of RAM. Thanks, James. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Default Kernel Issue

2012-12-05 Thread James Morrissey
On 5 December 2012 14:05, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I have just installed Xubuntu 12.10 on an HP laptop. It worked fine until > I succumbed to the invitation to perform the 100+ updates in the queue. > This included a new kernel version. After completion and rebooting, the > screen remained bl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non-proprietary EPUB (or even MOBI) bookstore?

2012-11-28 Thread James Morrissey
Hi Doug, I am not sure exactly what you mean by access to the file, but since you are talking about readers, have you tried Okular (http://okular.kde.org/)? Best, James. On 28 November 2012 08:16, Alan Lord wrote: > On 27/11/12 23:47, doug livesey wrote: > >> Is the geek gest

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless problem in 12.10

2012-10-19 Thread James Morrissey
better connection through some further tweaking. Thanks for you effort on this. james. On 19 October 2012 21:14, David Bissett wrote: > Sorry I can't help with this. Hope you find a solution. > > d > > > On 19/10/12 20:51, James Morrissey wrote: >> >> Thanks f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless problem in 12.10

2012-10-19 Thread James Morrissey
source" installed and without it i get no wireless whether or not i have "b43-fwcutter" and "firmware-b43-installer" installed. Any ideas? James. On 19 October 2012 20:39, David Bissett wrote: > bTry uninstalling broadcom-sta > Install b43-fwcutter and firmware-b43

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless problem in 12.10

2012-10-19 Thread James Morrissey
At some > point you will have to uninstall the default. I think I then installed > firmware-b43-installer rebooted, Any idea how i uninstall, i can't seem to find it in synaptic. Also, why did this work on the live usb? james On 19 October 2012 19:45, David Bissett wrote: &g

[ubuntu-uk] Wireless problem in 12.10

2012-10-19 Thread James Morrissey
about trying to uninstall and then reinstall the driver but couldn't find it in synaptic. At the moment i am sending this tethered to my router, sitting on the stairs. So if anyone has any ideas, that would be great. James. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joining wav files in ubuntu

2012-10-16 Thread James Morrissey
Looking now, this may be .mp3 specific: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/625/using-cat-to-join-mp3-files-what-is-this-black-sorcery j On 16 October 2012 12:04, James Morrissey wrote: >> 'cat' is designed for text files. I'm not sure it will do what you >> expe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joining wav files in ubuntu

2012-10-16 Thread James Morrissey
> 'cat' is designed for text files. I'm not sure it will do what you > expect it to do with wav (audio) files. I am not sure about .wav files, but know that it works for .mp3 files. j -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joining wav files in ubuntu

2012-10-16 Thread James Morrissey
I know you mentioned that you wanted a GUI, but that 'cat' (concatenate) command in the terminal is pretty straightforward to use - and very fast compared to anything else i have used with a GUI. I think its just: "cat file1 file2 > file3" http://www.softpanorama.org/Tools/cat.shtml It joins the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Additional Recruitment of Telford

2012-10-15 Thread James Leivesley
Hi paul, i am looking to source a number of ubuntu specialists for sales and presales roles and wondered if i could send details to your nerwork. Thanks, james Sent from Galaxy S3 on ThreePaul Sladen wrote:On Mon, 15 Oct 2012, James Leivesley wrote: > a very blank message, with a bl

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2012-10-15 Thread James Leivesley
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-11 Thread James Morrissey
Hmm, it seems that the problem persists even with "sudo poweroff" Any thoughts? j On 8 October 2012 15:22, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On 2012-10-08 11:06, James Morrissey wrote: > > Thanks for this Tyler. > > > > At the moment i only seem able to find the a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-08 Thread James Morrissey
2012 22:31, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > 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 t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-07 Thread James Morrissey
to stop the restart issue from happening. Does > this mean that there is a software problem in the shutdown process via the > cog? > > James. > > > On 5 October 2012 10:10, James Morrissey wrote: > >> > Do you get the same behaviour with this at the command line? >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-05 Thread James Morrissey
r updates. > Is this problem new or has it been present for a while? > Could you check whether it restarts instead of shutdown on both battery and > main, some similarly if there are any programs that are running when you > shutdown. > > On Oct 4, 2012 9:45 PM, "Simon Greenwo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-05 Thread James Morrissey
ny advice i'd appreciate it. j On 4 October 2012 21:44, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > On 4 October 2012 21:11, James Morrissey wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> I have been having a problem with a new machine. >> >> Occasionally when i go to shut it down,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-04 Thread James Morrissey
Sorry, its a Thinkpad x131e, running 12.04. j On 4 October 2012 21:11, James Morrissey wrote: > Hi all, > > I have been having a problem with a new machine. > > Occasionally when i go to shut it down, it restarts instead. If i try > and shut it down again, once it has reboot

[ubuntu-uk] Computer restarts on shutdown

2012-10-04 Thread James Morrissey
hing has really come up. Someone suggested looking at the logs, but i am not sure where i'd be looking or what i'd be looking for. I was wondering if anyone on here might have any ideas. James. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

2012-09-24 Thread James Thomas
On 25 September 2012 00:08, Alan Pope wrote: > On 24/09/12 23:51, J Fernyhough wrote: > >> Ohhh, this could open up a can of worms. Does this mean everything I >> (hypothetically) type into the Dash is being transmitted to Canonical? >> >> > Hmmm.. You are writing from a google mail account that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netflix and Love Film

2012-08-23 Thread James Morrissey
While its certainly true that stuff is increasingly available on Linux, it looks like Netflix might still be some way away This is from February: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2012/02/netflix-no-plans-to-support-linux j On 23 August 2012 11:46, Gareth France wrote: > On 23/08/12 11:39, Andy Partin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thinkpad x130e

2012-08-03 Thread James Morrissey
I see, Thanks. That is a useful utility. Best, James. On 1 August 2012 09:32, Stuart Ward wrote: > On 27 July 2012 14:57, James Morrissey wrote: >> Thanks for this Stuart, but i haven't yet got the machine and was >> hoping to find out compatibility issues before order

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thinkpad x130e

2012-07-27 Thread James Morrissey
then copy the output to the input box on > that page. It will look through the devices and see if there is a > Linux driver support for each device. > > -- Stuart Ward M +44 7782325143 > > > On 26 July 2012 14:26, James Morrissey wrote: >> BCM943228 > > -- > ubu

[ubuntu-uk] Thinkpad x130e

2012-07-26 Thread James Morrissey
x121e but i am not sure if there might be some compatibility problems. My worry is mainly about the wireless which i see is now Broadcom. Can anyone tell me if these specs will be a problem and if the wireless is likely to work. Thanks, James. Specs: MTM: *Topseller* Model: Lenovo ThinkPad X131e

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Grsync equivalent

2012-07-20 Thread James Thomas
On Jul 20, 2012 8:19 PM, "Simon Greenwood" wrote: > > > > On 20 July 2012 19:58, Bill B. wrote: >> >> Hi folks, >> Rather than risk a "dodgy" download to firms WinXP enforced laptop, does >> anyone know of a good, *safe* equivalent to Grsync [graphical front end >> of/for rsync] available for Win

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Grsync equivalent

2012-07-20 Thread James Thomas
Hi there, I take it this is more data than economically possible with a service like Dropbox? JT On Jul 20, 2012 7:59 PM, "Bill B." wrote: > > Hi folks, > Rather than risk a "dodgy" download to firms WinXP enforced laptop, does > anyone know of a good, *safe* equivalent to Grsync [graphical fron

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on Dell (in the US)

2012-07-19 Thread James Morrissey
This talks about the machine in the US. Not sure if it'll be coming to the UK, but thought people on this list would be interested nonetheless. http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/18/dell-gives-linux-laptops-another-chance/ james. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

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

2012-07-18 Thread James Morrissey
Thanks Kris, i'll have a look at that. j On 18 July 2012 11:44, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 18 July 2012 11:39, James Morrissey wrote: >>> Wny not use any one of the USB-creator tools to turn a live CD image into a >>> Live USB image? Or do you not have that as an ISO

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

2012-07-18 Thread James Morrissey
out of it and use that to update? j > On 18 July 2012 11:34, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: >> 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 w

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

2012-07-18 Thread James Morrissey
lin Law wrote: > On 18 July 2012 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 up

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

2012-07-18 Thread James Morrissey
I really am rather disappointed, especially as Lenovo's thinkpad range is meant to be pretty good for linux and have pretty good support in general. j On 18 July 2012 09:09, James Morrissey wrote: > Hi Anton, > > -contacting lenovo about that matter may be a good starting point >

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