2010/1/7 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
Quick question guys...If i install a hard drive on to my Ubuntu pc will it
be detected and useable or will i need to reinstall Ubuntu?
A second hard disk?
If you already have a disk and you're adding a second one then it can
be accessed from Ubuntu. If
Hi,
I was lucky enough to attend the Ubuntu Developer Summit (UDS) at the
end of last year. Probably the most inspiring of the lightning talks
was one called Ubuntu Hour by Fabián Rodríguez. In it Fabián discussed
the problems of organising major events with venues and other
facilities, and
Hi Isabell,
2010/1/18 Isabell Long isabell...@gmail.com:
I would like to hear your views on this, the general consensus was that it
was a good idea from what I caught up on of last night's meeting... if anyone
feels the need to
elaborate on what I've said or contribute some more
2010/1/16 Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk:
I've put up an idea in the ideas pool[0], and started an etherpad[1].
Does anyone else have any experience of running these kind of things who
would like to lend their expertise? What do people think would work best
in this scenario?
Please
2010/1/20 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net:
I have seen several references to registered ubuntu user e.g # but
how do i register as a ubuntu user, adn get such a number, I have
registered with the Linux counter (about 8 years ago + at least)
Google + registered ubuntu user + I'm feeling lucky
Hi Norman,
2010/1/20 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
My granddaughter has just acquired an ipod and wants me to make her able
to use it on her Ubuntu 9.04 machine. This modern technology is way over
my head and I would very much appreciate some help, please.
I've used Banshee with
2010/1/21 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk:
Is anyone looking for a wireless nas box if so try
http://www.serversplus.com/product.asp?s=NPACE-STEASUK642utm_source=SP_Eshotutm_medium=emailutm_content=NasBoxutm_campaign=sp_nasbox_eshot
Looks like a nice box, I don't know though. Maybe people
Hullo Andrew!
2010/1/22 Andrew Seyes andrew.se...@gmail.com:
I have been looking for a low power server to replace an old machine I
run at home (a pentium II running hardy). In my search I came across
the Aleutia T1 fanless PC [1] which seems to fit the bill and comes
with Karmic
2010/1/22 Guy Thouret li...@thouret.co.uk:
Also worth consideration is the Fit-PC[1]. Made by Israeli outfit
CompuLab, the version I'm evaluating came with 8.10 and a custom kernel
(I think this is for HD video support?).
I'd avoid that device completely on the grounds that it has a poulsbo
This is happening online in #ubuntu-classroom and
#ubuntu-classroom-chat starting at 12:00 midday today.
Find out more here:-
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UserDays
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Date: 14 January 2010 04:13
Subject: [UCLP]
http://twitter.com/ivanka/status/8235927094
Looking for London-based #ubuntu users to participate in some user
research. Please get in touch!
ivanka.majic @ canonical.com
Cheers,
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2010/1/26 CShadowRun li...@cshadowrun.com:
Any more information on what kind of research?
You have her email address.
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2010/1/26 Dave Rice d...@ricey.co.uk:
Does she actually mean London itself, or UK based?
The Canonical head office is in London. The stuff is happening there.
Cheers,
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On 31 January 2010 12:27, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote:
Perhaps there could be a way to put this up on the Ubuntu UK wiki, either as
a project, or just he image, that the team and other Ubuntu users can
download to spam their local areas with?
It would be better to put it in a
On 31 January 2010 13:16, CShadowRun li...@cshadowrun.com wrote:
As a suggestion (My video editing skills certainly arn't up to par, and
I'm not exactly rolling in money) we could get a TV advert. Looking at
this page,
http://www.itvmedia.co.uk/advertising-on-itv/cost-of-advertising a
On 31 January 2010 23:13, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote:
IF we are going to make this video, ideally, it would be better to think
about actual content first.
I disagree. The very first thing is to look at what the goal is. Only
once you know the goal, target audience, approach,
On 31 January 2010 23:46, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, looking at the perspective you've put it at Alan, I guess you're
right.
I'm just a guy with an opinion.
You mentioned spending the time/money on other things, but what like?
Whatever takes your fancy, the project has
On 2 February 2010 16:12, Harry Rickards ha...@linux.com wrote:
I'd be interested in helping wherever I can. Perhaps we should have a
seperate mailing list to discuss this on?
Why not use the resources we have. There is a marketing list and a
marketing irc channel.
Cheers,
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On 3 February 2010 10:24, Johnathon Tinsley kir...@kirrus.co.uk wrote:
Should we create a helper program, with a launcher on the desktop, (or
favourites list in UNR) which offers to guide users through the basics
of getting their system online, and then getting help from the ubuntu
community?
2010/2/3 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
In the PC Pro newsletter today, these two items caught my attention.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/355246/arm-our-netbooks-will-fly-with-or-without-windows
One significant barrier to ARM CPUs in netbooks is Windows' lack of
support for the company's
From: Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org
Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] Event - BCS OSSG 'Question time on Open Source'
http://ossg.bcs.org/
“Question Time” on Open Source – Bournemouth 17/03/10
In the style of the BBC program “Question Time”, join us for an evening of
Q A on Open Source software.
BCS
On 10 February 2010 20:58, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote:
Out of curiosity, can I ask why it's worse to package software in a .deb
file in the long run?
I think Anton was saying that it's worse to package binary debian
packages, not debian packages as a whole. We create source
From http://identi.ca/notice/22072786
Season 3 Episode 1 recording tonight! Nearly 2 months since our last
episode. Did we miss anything? Any news or events we should know
about?
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On 18 February 2010 16:37, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
ok, I hope I can explain this. In my Terminal it has
jake...@jakewc2-desktop:~$.
this is your username
@ ^ is your hostname.
You hostname is jakewc2-desktop.
/home/jakewc2/Desktop is a folder in your home
Hi Rik,
On 18 February 2010 22:15, Rik Boland rik_bol...@btinternet.com wrote:
I know you can do this and that there is a package out there but I can't
recall what it called. Please help!
Winff.
http://winff.org/html_new/
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Hi,
Googling for the error...
On 19 February 2010 15:45, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote:
j...@jonr-laptop:~$ sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.0.3/PUBLIC /media/fnd/
-o username=jonr
mount: Cannot allocate memory
On 19 February 2010 23:46, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote:
If this really is Linux - isn't this contrary to the GPL license?
They seem to have their own app on top of Linux, and as such they can
license it as they see fit.
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On 14 March 2010 20:11, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote:
Good to see we've got some interest in this. I've now created a team
at http://pyweek.org/e/ubuntu-uk/ so if you want to join you'll need
to register as a user and then send me your username so I can add you
to the team.
On 14 March 2010 21:21, Daniel Bell daniel.b...@saraclan.com wrote:
Instead of coding directly into a etherpad instance or saving our work into
an etherpad instance, how about we use Bzr and launchpad, and use IRC and
etherpad as a way of communicating. This way we can work on our own branches
On 17 March 2010 23:27, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:
There is no Ubuntu One icon any more in my system tray, and when I click on
the
menu entry under Applications/Internet, it will not work, and gives an
error:
What release of Ubuntu are you running?
If Lucid then I'd expect there
Hi Joe,
On 24 March 2010 11:58, Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote:
I just wanted to let you all know that I have been in contact with the
Science Museum (for issyl0's organised outing there in April), and they have
free WiFi access available.
I can't help but feel that a 'day out'
On 24 March 2010 13:55, Joseph O'Dell 09jod...@samwhit.org.uk wrote:
Alan - I can understand, but i'm sure there is going to be something that
makes us go I wish we'd bought laptops, so it's just a safe guard!
Sure, I just have experience of attending a fair few events. At 'geek'
events where
On 25 March 2010 11:12, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote:
But she really doesn't have a clue bless her. The basic principles of
what a password is and what it is for and how her email username and
password isn't what the entire Internet is asking her for just doesn't
sink in.
On 25 March 2010 11:52, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote:
Yeah I try to explain things to her, but I think it is a
combination of falling deaf ears and simply not getting it. My mum is 66 this
year, has been using a computer a lot more in the last 4 or 5 years as she
has
Hi,
On 25 March 2010 12:37, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote:
Are these personalised screencasts or are they freely available?
I'm not sure whether to make them public or not to be honest. I've
made some decisions about her desktop which people might disagree
with. For example
On 25 March 2010 14:01, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote:
The thought of giving screencasts a go had crossed my mind, but then I
don't have a tidy Windows setup on which to make them. Really must
convince her to try ubuntu.
Mines using Ubuntu, but I set the machine up to
Hi John,
On 27 March 2010 19:02, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
Would you all still be interested on a simultaneous London event or would
you prefer the following weekend?
Personally (given I'm one of the organisers and attendees of OggCamp)
I'd prefer if it was a different weekend,
OggCamp http://oggcamp.org/ is a free software / free culture unconference
organised by the presenters of the Ubuntu UK
Podcasthttp://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/and Linux
Outlaws http://linuxoutlaws.com/. This year's OggCamp will take place at *The
Black-E http://theblack-e.co.uk/ in Liverpool, UK* on
Hi Tony,
On 31 March 2010 15:12, Tony Scott tonyscott...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Am I being slow, but I can't find out how you can book a ticket?
There is no ticket booking for OggCamp, only for the Rat Hole Radio
gig on the Friday.
http://ratholeradio.org/gig
Cheers,
Al.
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No, not that Apple thing, but the O2 Joggler.
50 quid (for 14 days from 2nd April) and free delivery gets you a 7
inch touch screen device with:-
1.3GHz Intel Atom CPU
1GB storage
512MB RAM
Wired ethernet
Broadcom b/g/n WiFi
Audio + headphone jack
USB port
http://shop.o2.co.uk/joggler
It seems
On 6 April 2010 00:09, David Murdoch fers...@ymail.com wrote:
Bit of a joke compared to the iPad... But not bad.
Humour was intended.
Maybe I'm to subtle.
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On 6 April 2010 00:22, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote:
On 6 April 2010 00:09, David Murdoch fers...@ymail.com wrote:
Bit of a joke compared to the iPad... But not bad.
for 50 quid sounds like a great little hack project.
Yeah it's got my imagination running :)
Cheers,
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On 6 April 2010 14:16, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
Just got mine now, last one too, after checking 5 shops in 4 differant towns
-.-
Fantastic news :)
I ordered mine last night just _before_ sending the mail ;)
I'l be having a good look when i get home tonight, quite
On 7 April 2010 01:28, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
I just got myself an iPhone today, and was wondering, is there software
fort it on Ubuntu? If so can somebody point me in the right direction?
Hopefully for a novice to install.
The nice little bot in our irc channel says:-
08:53:08
On 7 April 2010 18:55, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote:
I'm sure it'll be cheaper to buy a blackmarket gun you know ;)
I appreciate this was meant as humorous, but lets not go down this direction.
Cheers,
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On 7 April 2010 19:33, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have also got telnet to work, had a look around the files, it seems
like it supports SSH too, not sure how to start it though.
I've made some notes on the etherpad..
http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/Joggler
I have sshd running
On 8 April 2010 12:51, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
Just to let everyone know, i have UNR working, and i have backed up
the current system, byte for byte, so if anyone needs any testing
doing and doesnt want to brick it, im here.
Any chance you can document what you did on
On 12 April 2010 09:08, Cornelius Mostert
corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote:
It looks like Ubuntu MID is not live any longer, the last update seems to be
8.04... Now I am wondering what would be a good LIVE/ACTIVE distro to make
use of for MID devices... I am thinking of course of the
On 12 April 2010 16:31, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
Kris, i have had a quick look through the files and they should work with
10.04, but theres only one way to find out ;)
If you do manage it, let me know (also let me know if it breaks and i will
have a look see why) :)
On 14 April 2010 12:39, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
I'm a bit of an audiophile, and have a large collection of music stored in
WAV format to preserve the sound quality. Clearly it's not possible to copy
many of these huge files to a portable player, so they need to be
On 16 April 2010 12:54, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
Quote my brother:
I don't think it's a sector issue because its practically impossible for
every sector to have become corrupt overnight. Rather, I think the mbr may
have got corrupted somehow and needs to be rebuilt but that wud
On 16 April 2010 13:19, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
quote : The problem is that testdisk cant find any partitions at all.. or
even read any data off it
Unlikely to be the mbr then. More likely the circuitry, controller on
the motherboard or disk itself. All of which are hardware
On 16 April 2010 13:40, Dave Smith d...@p3computers.com wrote:
Are there any similar meets for Ubuntu/Linux enthusiasts that are more
accessible to amateur Linux tinkerers?
Not on that scale. There is oggcamp though :)
1st/2nd May in Liverpool. Should be a great weekend!
http://oggcamp.org/
On 16 April 2010 15:47, Adam Bagnall bagna...@googlemail.com wrote:
and presumably a release party somewhere soon...
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LucidReleaseParties
3 in the UK so far. One in London, one Scotland, one IoM.
Cheers,
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I just saw on my CD shelf that I have a few extra Ubuntu CDs and
thought OggCamp might be a good place to get together and swap CDs
with other collectors. I've added it to the OggCamp ideas wiki.
http://ideas.oggcamp.org/activities#cd-collector-swap-shop
So if you're a collector of old releases
Hi Darren,
On 16 April 2010 14:33, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote:
Without wishing to start yet another discussion about top-posting v
bottom-posting I don't think anyone really minds anymore if anyone who
isn't used to or doesn't have the inclination or mailer top-posts.
Hah! There are
Hi Daniel,
Sorry to hear about this. Would you care to expand on some elements
which might help others understand the issue..
On 20 April 2010 19:14, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
Allow guest access button.
What i wasnt aware of, is the fact that it broadcasts on Port 139,
It
On 21 April 2010 08:41, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Are you *sure* they are in plain text?
No, but if someone has access to your entire home directory, and thus
all of .mozilla (and your passwords database) surely all they need do
is pick up that folder and plop it on their own
On 21 April 2010 16:04, Barry Drake b.dr...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I was careful not to use Computer janitor (supplied in Lucid and before)
without having a partition image and a full data backup - but it really
is annoying to find that the stuff it had removed saying they were not
needed
On 21 April 2010 20:40, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
So has mine. I setup my usb stick and it boots into UNR fine. I then did
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
Yeah, don't do that :)
http://jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Ubuntu_Netbook_Remix
A package update broke my
Hi Keith,
On 22 April 2010 11:21, Keith ke...@grumpyface.me.uk wrote:
Perhaps someone could help me my explaining how I can recover the Ubuntu
partition for Windows to use.
Depends how you installed Ubuntu. If you used wubi then just use the
Windows control panel to remove the wubi
On 23 April 2010 11:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Just wanted to ask again, as this seems to have got lost, Does anybody
have any information on how to use these firewalls (e.g. Ubuntu's ufw
and Firestarter). I tried setting one up, and ended up shutting my pc
off to everything, and
On 23 April 2010 11:47, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis
used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was
talking about checking ports to see if they are visible to the outside.
How do you do that?
On 23 April 2010 23:07, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
I have been doing some updates, and everytime now in Lucid, after it
seems a really short period of time, it goes into a log in page. Sort of
locks. I really like that idea, until it comes to doing things like
updates. You have to
On 24 April 2010 08:33, Barry Drake b.dr...@ntlworld.com wrote:
I found that a nuisance as well. I've disabled the lock screen. You
can use configuration editor (desktop-gnome-lockdown and then check
disable_lock_screen). If you don't have configuration editor enabled in
the main menu, you
On 24 April 2010 09:58, Barry Drake b.dr...@ntlworld.com wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
Dunno about _more_ geeky ways. Why not use the less geeky ones?
Question of image. Linux people are SUPPOSED to be geeky.
An image that should be smashed into a pulp, burned, buried, dug up,
shot, burned again
On 24 April 2010 17:09, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
I am trying to get remote desktop sharing working with my O2 Joggler
running Karmic UNE. I had to install vino and it works in the sense
that I can connect, see the screen, move and click the mouse and type
things, but the screen
On 28 April 2010 10:27, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
I'll be at the London release party tomorrow[1]. Will anybody else be
there apart from the already confirmed attendees?
[1] http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/121/detail/
The London party is usually very well attended. :)
On 28 April 2010 17:49, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
I note that the package wacom-tools is not listed in Ubuntu 10.04 RC.
Without this package I presume that it will not be possible to use Wacom
tablets to their full potential. Should this be reported as a bug?
On 3 May 2010 12:43, Anthony Coyle coyle.anth...@gmail.com wrote:
On running sudo apt-get I still got malformed line 55 in sources list
It's quite self-explanatory really. Line 55 of the file
/etc/apt/sources.list makes no sense to apt-get.
You probably pasted a line in and it was either
On 4 May 2010 14:05, Stuart Bird stuart.bi...@googlemail.com wrote:
Basically I need to ensure that Ubuntu is multiprocessor aware and that it
is making use of all the processors and/or cores when a program designed to
use them all is run.
I think that makes sense :)
Easiest way to see if
On 5 May 2010 10:34, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Ok, Its now been four days since I started this. Am I being completely
ignored here.
Perhaps people don't know what the problem is?
I see other people getting help as soon as they ask a
question. I'm just getting a message here and
On 5 May 2010 11:43, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
What else can I explain. I explained in my first e-mail that I did the final
upgrade to Lucid from the last release. It didnt finish.
It didn't finish in that it crashed out?
Did you use update manager or do-release-upgrade to perform
On 5 May 2010 13:13, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
I can get to a recovery mode kernal yes. What should I do when I get to one?
dpkg --configure -a
Which should attempt to finish configuring any packages that have not
yet finished being installed/configured.
If that finishes to
On 5 May 2010 15:08, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
well, I really have no clue why this should be happening, but it wont
allow me to go into any covery more, it just as soon as you click on the
grub, it goes whoosh, like lots of frying and freezes. That didnt happen
before.
That's
On 5 May 2010 15:18, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
If you boot of an Ubuntu live CD or USB stick, then you can mount the hard
drive partition you have your root ( / ) partition on and change the path
that is your root from the live partition to your hard drive partion using
chroot.
On 5 May 2010 15:42, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
When you do the screen cast, when viewing, how do you get the screen
bigger so you see the writing and what is going on more easilly. if
there is any writing. I watch some of the screencasts and what I see is
so small I cant get what is
On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote:
Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 things:
1) Why am I being blocked from running .exe's on my computer?
So you dont accidentally run virus.exe. It makes it more of an
intentional thing to execute
On 6 May 2010 11:41, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote:
I would guess it's a tri-core with hyperthreading.
2x Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2425 HE
:)
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On 6 May 2010 11:51, Paul Morgan-Roach roa...@roachy.net wrote:
Hmmm.that's some serious processing powerthe CPU's in your machine
cost more than my car!! and probably go faster ;)
Sadly not mine.
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Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the
Italian LoCo Team have been doing some great work contributing to
Ubuntu and I
On 13 May 2010 10:21, Dan Fish danf...@nhs.net wrote:
Sounds like a good idea - is this using testdrive by any chance?
Maybe. For those that don't know, testdrive is a fantastic application
which makes it easier to download and boot up an Ubuntu ISO. It uses
KVM and VirtualBox or Parallels (on
On 13 May 2010 10:21, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
Have the Italian LoCo got a testing procedure? (i.e. it boots, it fails
and so on) Also is this burning ISO to CD or could we just throw it onto
a USB stick to test?
They do! As does the QA team. We can link into all that good
On 13 May 2010 10:21, Hugh Saunders h...@mjr.org wrote:
I'd be happy to help with that.
Excellent, thanks.
Is this testing done with KVM/test drive or actual boots?
Either and both :)
None of my personal machines support KVM yet, but if actual boots are
useful, I could test some 32bit x86
On 13 May 2010 12:33, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Do we have a wiki to point people to to show some of the special effects
shortcut keys? The help files as installed in 10.04 does mention some but
not others, for example:
Google + ubuntu + keyboard + shortcuts =
Hi Samuel,
On 14 May 2010 13:18, Samuel Toogood sam_toog...@athsoc.org.uk wrote:
I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if packages
could be distributed in a peer to peer manner, as .isos can be?
Unsurprisingly you're not the first person to think this is a good
idea.
On 18 May 2010 09:03, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
You could try the Linux Mint 64-bit Flash package:
http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/import/m/mint-flashplugin-x64/mint-flashplugin-x64_10.0.45.2-mint1_amd64.deb
Would we happen to have this in our ubuntu repos?
We don't
On 18 May 2010 10:16, Jonathan Davies jonathan.dav...@canonical.com wrote:
If I'm already using archive.ubuntu.com while on Virgin, will it use the
Virgin mirror? Or do I need to manually specify it?
You have to specify it manually:
-
On 18 May 2010 18:50, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
On 18 May 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
In this case yes because Rowan is resizing an external USB based
partition rather than the root one.
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On 18 May 2010 19:22, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I thought that Dell sold machines with Ubuntu?
They can do, but it's not something they do in all regions, and not
all models are available.
Their website says so,
and so does the Ubuntu site. But apparently they don't:
On 19 May 2010 07:18, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote:
Is there a way I can secure the Live USB? Do other people do this?
Would I need to roll my own live cd (e.g.
No, just install onto a usb stick rather than copy the cd onto it.
Boot off an ubuntu cd, put a usb stick in and run
On 19 May 2010 07:54, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote:
Excellent. Can I then just install Ubiquity so I can still use it to
Install ubuntu?
Dunno. Depends how you made the USB stick in the first place.
Cheers,
Al.
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On 19 May 2010 10:41, Pallottini Aymeric paillom...@yahoo.com wrote:
Creating a live USB with the installer, can you still boot on computers with
different video cards than the system you used for the install?
There's two things to note here. The short answer is yes.
However you don't install
Unmount the usb disk first. You can do that in gparted.
Al.
Sent from my phone. Sorry for top-posting and typos.
On May 19, 2010 11:38 AM, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com
wrote:
On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
drive, but on the laptop's
On 19 May 2010 14:05, Tony Travis a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk wrote:
I've been plugging a 'persistent' live USB stick into lots of different
computers too and one problem I've encountered is that udev creates a
new 'eth' device and remembers it for every NIC it encounters. You can
avoid this behaviour
On 20 May 2010 12:55, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi,
Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard
memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I
have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk drive. There is
On 20 May 2010 13:51, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
Who sells the dell zino HD? and which one is better specs wise...the revo or
the dell?
Dell?
http://www.google.com/search?dell+zino+hd
On 20 May 2010 14:40, Bill Cumming b...@s0l.co.uk wrote:
Since it's the BIOS, think you have to wait till you get hands on the box to
check.
The output is configurable with pulseaudio. Click the speaker icon in
the notification area, choose Sound Preferences, click the output tab,
click the
On 20 May 2010 14:57, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
Reading peoples comments here has just made me think. Will the revo be
configurable to a 40 inch screen?
My revo is attached to a 42 screen.
Cheers,
Al.
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