Re: [ubuntu-uk] NTL Cable installation

2006-11-10 Thread Gary Kearley
Dominic, Thanks for your email, it is very informative for me, I am used to a normal Sky/BT/DSL ISP solution, but Cable is all new to me. Can I just ask a few more questions? Hi, I should declare an interest here as I work for ntl:Telewest. The cable installation is fairly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New screencast on installing updates

2006-11-10 Thread alan c
Alan Pope wrote: On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 09:11:47PM +, alan c wrote: agreed yes, an da topic I discuss with real newcomers is about the wonders of installation and partitions. There are many different circumstances, and each can be handled with some text and some screen shots. Install is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread gord
On Thu, 2006-11-09 at 23:30 +, Alan Pope wrote: Ok, so it's a screencast, not a movie. Tonight is Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu. http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!) http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.ogg

[ubuntu-uk] Slide Shows.

2006-11-10 Thread Keith Powell
This is my first posting to this list, and I hope it is OK to post requests for help on this list, rather than asking on the main Ubuntu lists. I would like to make several hundred slides into self-contained slide shows. The idea is to burn them on to a DVD or several CDs so that they can be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Andy
Hi all On 10/11/06, Norman Silverstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a thought. Would it be possible to have a means of pausing and restarting the video? Whatever your viewing the video in should provide that for you. If yo view them in your web browser the plugin may not provide you with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Thu, Nov 09, 2006 at 11:30:43PM +, Alan Pope wrote: Ok, so it's a screencast, not a movie. Tonight is Installing Flash Player 7 and 9 (beta) on Ubuntu. http://quickones.org/videos/20061109_installing_flash.mpeg (70.8MiB) (ouch!)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:05:27PM +, Norman Silverstone wrote: I am most impressed by your work in producing these videos and I would find them most useful as a learning tool. Just a thought. Would it be possible to have a means of pausing and restarting the video? This would then enable

[ubuntu-uk] Screencasts

2006-11-10 Thread Jonathan Roberts
I hope this topic isn't getting old! I just thought I'd point out that I've had a little look around: if any one is interested in doing the installation one it's really simple to install qemu (I didn't look at xen - though I don't believe it would be much harder) and running the installation

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:49:33PM +, Andy wrote: If you use mPlayer in FireFox you may need to right click on the video while it is playing and check 'show controls', it should provide you with play and pause at the bottom of the page Ooo, never knew that. I think I'll have a go at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Slide Shows.

2006-11-10 Thread Keith Powell
Alan Pope wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:40:06PM +, Keith Powell wrote: This is my first posting to this list, and I hope it is OK to post requests for help on this list, rather than asking on the main Ubuntu lists. Yeah, it's fine to ask techy questions here. Others do. I would

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Slide Shows.

2006-11-10 Thread Norman Silverstone
I would like to make several hundred slides into self-contained slide shows. The idea is to burn them on to a DVD or several CDs so that they can be played on a DVD player and viewed on a television. I don't want to have to play them through a computer. Google gives a piece of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Slide Shows.

2006-11-10 Thread alan c
Keith Powell wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:40:06PM +, Keith Powell wrote: This is my first posting to this list, and I hope it is OK to post requests for help on this list, rather than asking on the main Ubuntu lists. Yeah, it's fine to ask techy questions here.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 01:34:56PM +, Norman Silverstone wrote: All that I have done so far is to click on the URL given. This then starts the video. Perhaps there is another way to open the video, I must investigate. Yes, that's as I suspected you might. Over the weekend I'll put a web

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Slide Shows.

2006-11-10 Thread Stephen Garton
Keith Powell wrote: Thanks for the reply. Further explanation: I want something more sophisticated that just photographs on a CD which I select as necessary. I want to start the slide show and the slides change automatically every few seconds. Perhaps with music as well. Although it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 03:11:19PM +, Andy wrote: On 10/11/06, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you using the kqemu (non-free kernel module) accellerator with qemu? It makes a tremendous difference to the performance. no, I just used qemu on its own. This is my first time with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Tony Arnold
Andy, Have a look at the script referred to from this article: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=187413 It worked for me! Regards, Tony. Andy wrote: On 10/11/06, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there are any errors or omissions let me know, I've not updated it for edgy, but i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] un subscribe

2006-11-10 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
On 10/11/06, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: richard merrix wrote: hi, i dont wanna do this n e more as i only want emails from my friends can i please unsubscibe Is there a technical issue with unsubscribing? Has yer man with the top posts finally made it away or is he still fuming

Re: [ubuntu-uk] un subscribe

2006-11-10 Thread Chris Bannister
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Norman Silverstone
All that I have done so far is to click on the URL given. This then starts the video. Perhaps there is another way to open the video I normally right click and choose 'save target as...' this can be used to save to hard disk, then you can open the file with anything you want. I assume

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Andy
On 10/11/06, Norman Silverstone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I assume that I am using a different version of Ubuntu to you. When I right click on the URL I get two possibilities neither of which is the one you quoted. Ah, that was my mistake sorry. I use web based email so I access these messages

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Andy
OK, its official I'm an idiot yet again. There is an easier way to download popey's screencasts. Even though you probably read your email in an email client, the archives are web based, thus if you read the message in the archive you get the FireFox download option! Why I didn't think of this 5

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thursday night movie

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Pope
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 10:06:37PM +, Andy wrote: I think Al said something about making a webpage with the links on them at some point, when that page exists you can right click on it in FireFox. Correct. It's done. http://quickones.org/ Click the title of one you want to download (or