Re: [ubuntu-uk] Passwords need prior to updates?

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SecurityTeam/FAQ#Update_Manager_doesn.27t_prompt_for_security_updates regards piskie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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

hfile for instance apport-bug /var/crash/_usr_bin_software-properties-gtk.1000.crash Piskie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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

On 04/05/12 15:16, Gareth France wrote: I have to admit I gave up trying to report bugs a long time ago. It always seems that any attempt to get involved results in me getting shouted at by people. I have posted on forums for pre-release versions, the intention being to say 'I'm having this i

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

On 04/05/12 08:12, Alan Pope wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/05/12 00:06, Piskie wrote: How would you do it Alan ? I wouldn't upgrade now. Cheers, - -- Alan Pope Engineering Manager Canonical - Product Strategy +44 (0) 7973 620 164 alan.p...@canonical.com

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

On 04/05/12 08:04, Alan Pope wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/12 23:21, Piskie wrote: You can upgrade now - I have a 12.10 partition up. I use these commands to do so sudo sed -i 's/precise/quantal/g' /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update&&a

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

0 partition up. I use these commands to do so sudo sed -i 's/precise/quantal/g' /etc/apt/sources.list sudo apt-get update&& sudo apt-get dist-upgrade I follow the u+1 sub-forum on ubuntuforums as well - tend to have a look prior to any updates after that. http://ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Youtube colour is wrong

On 09/04/12 20:34, Andres Muniz wrote: hi, looks like you tube shows in shades of blue. Really wierd. i was able to see a bbc film alright though. I'm using firefox on ubuntu 11.10. Probably some configuration that my toddler pressed that i have no way to find out. By the way: if you want t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS-DOS not being added to GRUB menu (Lubuntu 12.04)

On 17/03/12 15:13, Liam Proven wrote: Just FYI - that worked a treat. My thanks once again. Also, today has provided kernel 3.2.0-19 which seems to boot more reliably (so far) & now the graphical boot screen works. Lubuntu FTW! Excellent - glad it worked :) Kev -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS-DOS not being added to GRUB menu (Lubuntu 12.04)

On 17/03/12 12:15, Liam Proven wrote: On 17 March 2012 02:43, Piskie wrote: On 17/03/12 01:47, Liam Proven wrote: I asked this on the other list, possibly by mistake. I have installed beta 1 of Lubuntu 12.04 on an old PC I'm planning to give away. The only thing that is not flawless

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS-DOS not being added to GRUB menu (Lubuntu 12.04)

On 17/03/12 01:47, Liam Proven wrote: I asked this on the other list, possibly by mistake. I have installed beta 1 of Lubuntu 12.04 on an old PC I'm planning to give away. The only thing that is not flawless about it is that GRUB2 has not picked up that the primary partition on hard disk 0 cont

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Happy Hour Reading 29th March

make the Hobbit on Southampton when it get's there piskie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubiquity and ubuntuforums

e" link at the top. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubiquity-slideshow-ubuntu/+bug/894112 Thanks, Bodsda Ubuntu Beginners Team Thanks bodsda I did so. Piskie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dig out your old computers...

On 04/03/12 19:56, Jim Price wrote: On 03/03/12 22:51, Phill Whiteside wrote: I have some old machines. How do I tell if they are non PAE? Try running this in a terminal sudo dmidecode |grep PAE If it has the PAE flag it'll show up I believe. regards piskie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Precise .....

I'm sure there are reasons why I shouldn't but previously I did sudo aptitude update &&sudo aptitude safe-upgrade After installing aptitude ... sigh Recently sudo apt-get update &&gksudo synaptic Good luck ;) regards piskie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Dependencies 10.04

On 09/01/12 13:47, Michael Daniels wrote: Date: Mon, 9 Jan 2012 13:22:51 + From: sfgreenw...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Dependencies 10.04 On 9 January 2012 13:10, Michael Daniels > wrote: I have the "no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using an Nvidia MX440

xorg attached I hope - if not I'll post it it's the one I was using when I had the card - pretty sure that when I had the card I was caught up in all that Michael alludes to - I know I had to use proposed at the time to get it. I looked at my nvidia thread - I think that in the end I did a cl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using an Nvidia MX440

Yes I did - up to Intrepid, though it took some fiddling then - I can't remember quite what I needed to do, nor did I ever try it wine. Originally I did have some odd font problems but they seemed to be caused by an oddity in my /home. I do have copy of my old xorg if that's of any use Kev St

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beards and sandals

Ta - done that now :) Hope to get there and say hello piskie Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/16 piskie : >> Well - that's all good then, from an off the cuff remark I also find >> that the hants lug meeting is during the day - so I might manage it >> after all, if I can work

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beards and sandals

Well - that's all good then, from an off the cuff remark I also find that the hants lug meeting is during the day - so I might manage it after all, if I can work out how to get my name on the door list :) piskie Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/16 David King : >> I know what you mean a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hampshire

Cool - anyway maybe see you next time in Soton then :) Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/16 piskie : >> heh - I own neither myself - and as I said "I hasten to add a long time >> ago" - a long time before I'd looked at Ubuntu, it was very cliquey and >> 'if yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hampshire

l the same way now and have been happily using buntu and various other distros for a couple of years and while I've not been very present on the mailing list - I am on the forums and IRC. piskie Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/16 piskie : >> I didn't even know about it to be honest

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hampshire

le to make this one - but once I get a bit of time, I'll try to make the next soton one. piskie Alan Pope wrote: > Whist the list is mentioning Hampshire, I thought I'd mention that > Hampshire LUG are having a meeting on Saturday at Southampton > University. All are welcome to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unsuscrib

I am s glad, I thought I was alone Dr James Stevens-Turner wrote: > I resemble that remark, coming from Ampshire! > > I am a Ampshire Hogg!! > > > - Original Message - > From: "piskie" > To: "British Ubuntu Talk" > Sent: T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unsuscrib

Move to Hampshire - there are very few H's making an appearance Lizzeh Rodriguez wrote: > To my credit, I'm starting to pronounce the "H" in herbs. :| > I've betrayed my New Yawk roots! > > > BinaryDigit on UbuntuForums.org > Lizzeh.com > Support Open Source! > > > > > > On 15 Jan 2009

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound inaudible on TFT speakers.

Hey - thanks for the reply - I've tried direct feed to the tft unfortunately. No volume available on the hardware - volume has to be full up on the software mixer to make speech at all audible. Nothing that I've tried has, apart from plugging it into a pc running xp, made any noticeable differenc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound inaudible on TFT speakers.

I've swapped the outputs on the box about, changed cables - the same box feeds the tv with no problem. I don't think that it's hardware related as that has all been checked. Ken Robson wrote: >> Output from the soundcard to an amp - using tape output of amplifier to >> feed a small switch box for

[ubuntu-uk] Sound inaudible on TFT speakers.

But fine everywhere else. To expand - I have a Creative Audigy which works fine in almost everyway. Sound works everywhere but doesn't appear to drive the speakers in the monitor. Output from the soundcard to an amp - using tape output of amplifier to feed a small switch box for the tft input, o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: First time user I still have a dual

At a guess I would say that you have Ubuntu Ubuntu (recovery mode) Ubuntu memtest perfectly normal - when you get a kernel update you'll get 2 more If that is not what you're seeing then can you give us a biot moredetail of what you're seeing Kris Douglas wrote: > -- Forwarded message

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PCI Tv tuner cards

Thanks for the link - yea - I'll be wanting a digital one. Thanks for the replies everyone. piskie Rob Beard wrote: > piskie wrote: >> Hey people - a little bit of help or misdirection needed - :) >> >> Looking for recommendations for a PCI tv tuner card which works w

[ubuntu-uk] PCI Tv tuner cards

difference. Thanks piskie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] TV Out from Mythbuntu not in colour

Hi -1 last try - firstly I have the same deal as you and my svideo cable is plugged into an adaptor Try adding this to xorg Section "Extensions" Option "SVIDEO""Enable" Option "Composite" "Enable" I don't know if you've attached your xorg anywhere pr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] TV Out from Mythbuntu not in colour

: > I tried those options in the xorg.conf file, but it made no difference, > I am still left with just a black and white output on the TV. > > I also tried > > Option "TVOutFormat" "COMPOSITE" > > but that did not help either. > > > Davi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] TV Out from Mythbuntu not in colour

>From memory only and a quick look I believe I added similar to this into xorg in the device section Option "TVStandard" "PAL-I" Option "TVOutFormat" "SVIDEO" I never needed to use nvtv - not sure what card you're using but I have and had tvout on an old Geforce4 I never tried nvtv so can't help

Re: [ubuntu-uk] TV Out from Mythbuntu not in colour

Usually it's in System Admin - you should be able to run it from terminal - gksu nvidia-settings I did use to need to add the PAL or PAL/I option to xorg. Kev David King wrote: > From the same PC, which already had Ubuntu 7.10 installed, when I boot > into that old Ubuntu installation, I canno