On 20 May 2010 15:04, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
And youve not had any problems displaying it full screen? + whats the
quality of HD playback obviously depending on what it is 720,1080i,1080p etc
?
Works fine for the 720p content I have.
Cheers,
Al.
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On 20 May 2010 15:30, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote:
Did it just work, or did you have to play with settings?
I've installed the nvidia binary driver and vdpau library from the
repository and that was pretty much it. I put a couple of tweaks in my
mplayer config to make it
On 21 May 2010 10:00, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
I wonder if there is a difference between revo's. I have an R3610, does
everyone who has a working revo have the same model?
I have the 3600 which is the single core Atom 230 CPU model. The 3610
has the Atom 330 dual core CPU. I
On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was. However,
even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that I could bring into
use, merging it with the volume that is configured for user files (now
about
On 24 May 2010 09:37, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Out of curiosity I went into Currys Digital on Saturday - they too are
only selling Windows 7 machines and say installing another OS would
invalidate the hardware guarantee.
Company policy or the opinion of clueless Saturday
On 24 May 2010 18:00, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I got several useful emails full of advice from Linux Emporium about the
various partitions on my internal hard disk. Apparently the unused
partition is there so that the user can install two operating systems
side by
On 25 May 2010 06:48, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm not quite clear about the process of switching from the old swap
partition to the new one, Aymeric. I expect if the machine finds itself
without any swap partition at all it will die a horrible death
Nope. Most
On 25 May 2010 09:56, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote:
IIRC You also have to make sure that /etc/initramfs-tools/conf.d/resume also
points to the new swap partition and then update initramfs.
Not if you use the method I suggested of moving the swap partition
down the disk rather
On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some
point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'?
Because the operation I described requires you to be changing data on
partitions that
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Ah, right. For some reason I thought you were talking about reinstalling
everything from scratch, from the Live CD. But if I have understood
correctly, I can achieve my purposes without ever having to unmount
sda1, which
On 25 May 2010 13:14, Andrew Turner acturne...@gmail.com wrote:
I believe the live CD automatically mounts the swap partition on the
hard drive, if one exists, so it will still need to be unmounted if
you want to move it etc. At least, it used to.
This is true, but gparted wont let you
I want your one line tips!
http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/UbuntuTips
I'm gathering Ubuntu tips from people to read out on the podcast, and
hoped some of you lot would be willing to contribute. Here's the
skinny:-
* They don't have to be command line tips (in fact command line tips
are discouraged
On 13 May 2010 09:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
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.
Thanks to everyone for responding and volunteering their time/resources!
I'm just working on some
On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should
show LTS releases.
What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps here:-
e.g.
a...@bishop:~$ lsb_release -a
No LSB modules
Hi,
On 26 May 2010 13:36, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote:
When I run the Update manager and it scan for updates I get this:
W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following
signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:
On 26 May 2010 14:46, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Quite so, but all the program files and associated data are in sda1,
which remains mounted. The only things in the partitions that are being
moved are the swap space and the user files. The swap space could
certainly be
On 26 May 2010 16:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I
should look for hidden files in my home directory, that might give me
some idea of what they are.
Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your
On 27 May 2010 09:48, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
I saw you suggesting to another person getting the release version by
running lsb_release. I tried that and got nothing like what was posted
on the OP's e-mail. Here is what i got.
LSB Version:
On 27 May 2010 10:08, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Ah, thanks for seeing that. I tried again, and this is what I get.
LSB Version:
core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-3.0-noarch:core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:core-3.2-ia32:core-3.2-noarch:core-4.0-ia32:core-4.0-noarch
On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote:
This is off topic but I am not sure where to go.
My site got killed and state:
'site got killed' isn't a particularly useful description of the
problem. What were you doing at the time? What has changed recently?
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks.
The Ubuntu Live CD has two main purposes. To allow new users to 'try'
Ubuntu and see if they like what they see, and secondly to install
Ubuntu onto a computer. A side benefit
On 28 May 2010 12:34, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
I also like Unetbootln, however if you want to create a peristent version of
Ubuntu ( to store additional files such as your documents, etc) then the
Ubuntu Startup Disk Creator should be used.
I disagree. If you want a persistent
On 28 May 2010 13:27, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
Surely that depends if you also want to use that image as an installer?
I guess. But that wasn't implied from the assertion made.
Cheers,
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On 29 May 2010 23:20, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
the user. There is no reason, of course, why the installation procedure
should not present a list of recommended applications, from which the user
can make a selection.
There are plenty of reasons, you just can't think of them
Hi Joe,
On 31 May 2010 18:09, Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote:
Basically, it has all ground to a halt because I have received little to no
response outside of the Doodle Poll, (which has 7 people on it); Editing on
the wiki for ideas fizzled out after the first few days also.
Hi,
On 1 June 2010 09:33, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Does any one know why on the ubuntu site here
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
They say 64-bit is not recommended for daily useage?
It's duff wording but I can see what it's trying to say. If you had 10
Hi All.
(Note I have sent this to Ubuntu UK LoCo mailing list and bcc'ed all
the people who volunteered to help, apologies if you get this twice,
this was intentional, but won't happen again)
I mentioned a while ago that it might be nice to kick off a UK LoCo
Team for doing some essential
Our next team meeting is tonight at 21:00 UK Time in
#ubuntu-uk-meeting on freenode irc. Agenda is below, please add items
before the meeting starts.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda
All are welcome to attend, but we have a packed agenda and a limited
amount of time to discuss each
The podcast team were sent a mockup for the podcast site by a listener
a while ago. In general we liked it, and the designer (without
prompting) went off and created an initial go at the html, css and so
on. I quite like it. He even redesigned our podcast logo, which is
pretty cool.
On 3 June 2010 17:00, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote:
I don't really see much point in reinventing the wheel here. Luckily
the Ubuntu Drupal team has setup a lovely theme and a few extra modules
for Drupal which can design a wonderful website. Here's a mockup of the
site
On 4 June 2010 12:09, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
As a design this gets my vote. This would likely mean using Drupal but
hey - it might make things easier in the long term.
Ooh, that is pretty.
Cheers,
Al.
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Hi Rhys,
Awesome opportunity!
On 4 June 2010 13:49, Rhys Morgan rhysmorgan1...@aol.com wrote:
This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been confronted
with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings of a good Ubuntu
event.
Sounds like it!
· We have to
On 4 June 2010 15:42, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
For those of you trying without any luck to get the O2 Joggler running
Ubuntu, I have had success with a Black HP 4GB USB (from PC World, Leeds
£9.99) and by using the image linked below, it works a lot smoother than the
Hi Barry,
On 4 June 2010 16:13, e-mail b.drake b.dr...@ntlworld.com wrote:
The e-mail I sent to Michael brought a reply from a guy (In Delhi?) asking
for full details. I have this morning received the attached. I think it
clarifies Dell UK position quite well. At least they state in writing
Hi Daniel/all
On 4 June 2010 19:33, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
As long as you use the officially licensed product key, it is legal, i
can post it if you like as i no longer
have a need for it.
Ugh. Remember where you are. This is an Ubuntu list and it's not
really the
On 4 June 2010 22:43, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
(2) The original recovery media or hard-disk based recovery image
associated with the PC.
How is a burnt Windows XP Home CD (your words) sent via post to
someone either 'original recovery' or 'hard-disk based recovery
image'?
On 7 June 2010 20:49, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:
It is running the linux-generic-pae kernel. I wanted the server kernel
as I was worried that the generic one might have kernel preemption
turned on.
a...@wopr:~$ grep CONFIG_PREEMPT /boot/config-2.6.32-22-generic
Hi James,
On 5 June 2010 16:29, James - SJ Computers ja...@sj-computers.com wrote:
I'm pretty sure that Microsoft don't have issues with the duplication of
their disks. It's the licences that matter. After all, Microsoft even offer
an option to download the ISO direct from them:
On 8 June 2010 12:18, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:
ubuntu-10.04-rc-dvd-amd64Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 DVD
ubuntu-10.04-rc-dvd-i386Ubuntu 10.04 i386 DVD
o_O
rc?
Cheers,
Al.
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On 9 June 2010 12:28, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote:
It is just a shame that most of these nice events are held in London...
When can we have an event like this in xyz outside of London maybe closer to
the middle of the county
When someone organises one?
We had an
On 9 June 2010 12:55, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote:
Yeah, I noticed that. To be honest though, if you only install the
core system, you only have to install 80MB or updates or so to bring
it up to date.
Getting owned in the time between the install and you doing updates?
Hi Javad,
On 11 June 2010 10:55, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
I am running linux mint.
.. which is not Ubuntu :) Maybe someone here can help you, but this
isn't the best place to ask this question. I personally don't run
Mint, and don't know what changes they have made to stock Ubuntu
HI Liam/Bob
On 11 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Bob Giles thecorf...@gmail.com wrote:
I am running 32bit Lucid on a Lenovo 3000 N200 laptop with 4Gb ram.
If you have a 64-bit chip - which seems /extremely/ likely if the
machine takes
On 11 June 2010 18:41, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
Actually I was able to use the full 4GB on my notebook with 32-Bit
Ubuntu. IIRC on older versions (I believe 9.04 and lower) I had to use
the server kernel, but on newer versions it just worked.
The newer installers (karmic onwards)
On 15 June 2010 16:11, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote:
I managed to get the poulsbo 'stuff' running on my Dell Mini 10
(running Lucid) last night. It was a lot of faff as the system had
some dregs of stuff from getting the GMA500 chip working properly in
Karmic. I would say it
On 15 June 2010 16:59, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote:
Documented? Yes. In a form that anyone else could understand? Not yet!
:)
Wifey is out tonight, so I was planning on writing up into a blog post
tonight when the little one has gone to bed. Then I can look at
finding out
Hi,
Just a quick note to say I'm upgrading the ubuntu-uk.org VPS from 8.04
to 10.04 today. There will be some disruption to the loco site,
podcast site and the various bots we have from there that hang out in
the IRC channel, and email forwarding setups. We have a snapshot from
before I touch it
On 17 June 2010 15:55, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Just a quick note to say I'm upgrading the ubuntu-uk.org VPS from 8.04
to 10.04 today. There will be some disruption to the loco site,
podcast site and the various bots we have from there that hang out in
the IRC channel, and email
On 20 June 2010 22:45, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
I'm going to try to upgrade my spare Dell Optiplex 740 from Windows to
Ubuntu 10.04 for my daughter. First question: should I go for the 64
bit iso? (The machine has an AMD 64 processor).
No.
:)
Or..
What does your daughter
On 20 June 2010 23:06, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
Has it got more than 4GB RAM? If yes, maybe. If not, use 32bit ISO.
32-bit Ubuntu copes just fine with more than 4GB RAM these days. It
autodetects during the install and installs the PAE kernel. It works
just fine, whatever some
On 21 June 2010 17:24, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
It seems that the powers that be with Chrome and Chromium consider its
not needed any more.
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot...update_17.html
The url got truncated, I guess you mean:-
On 21 June 2010 20:16, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
did you use MS DOS?
I never used a pc till about 10 years ago, and most
of it is self taught.
I think my first PC was 20 years ago :S and also self taught :)
I cant remember having a computer that didnt use a mouse,
The first
On 22 June 2010 14:07, Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Trying to download 10.04 - EXCRUCIATINGLY slow. Anyone know if there's a
server problem today?
Where you downloading from? Seens fast enough for me from releases.ubuntu.com...
a...@bishop:~$ wget
On 23 June 2010 14:56, Andrew Bryant and...@brilyant.org wrote:
A friend has an XP system that no longer boots, and is quite excited at
the thought of installing Ubuntu.
An excellent opening gambit!
Ubuntu running from CD-ROM can mount the XP hard drive, and so far as we
can tell most of
Hi,
We just put out the 50th episode of the Ubuntu UK Podcast!
Get it here, or subscribe in your RSS/podcast downloader of choice.
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2010/06/26/s03e10-the-fresh-air-cure/
Cheers,
Al.
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On 28 June 2010 10:35, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote:
Did anyone spot the Ubuntu logo on the back of Moss’s screen? As most of the
episode focuses on Moss talking from behind his screen, the Ubuntu logo was
visible quite a lot!
http://popey.com/~alan/itcrowd_ubuntu.png
Yup!
Also
On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT
Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly?
I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one
female lead character who is portrayed as
On 29 June 2010 11:35, Jon Spriggs j...@spriggs.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT
Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit
On 29 June 2010 11:32, Steve Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote:
I would argue that Jen (in ITC) was portrayed as ditzy clueless too
(remember the episode where she won Employee of the Month?)
I don't think she likes the IT Crowd either, for much the same reason.
Cheers,
Al.
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Hi,
Just a quick note to say if you haven't already collared a co-worker
and ordered a ticket for the Ubuntu in Business event then you'd
better hurry. There's currently only 32 tickets left for the event on
13th July in London.
See the site for more details!
On 1 July 2010 09:23, ByteSoup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
This package contains the architecture independent files needed
by the evolution-data-server package.
Can this be removed? If so why didnt the software center remove it?
You could try and remove it but other things (panel applets for
On 2 July 2010 13:15, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
What on earth is a Joggler?
It's a computer.
There is this thing called google :)
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=joggler
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/reviews/peripherals/253801/o2-joggler
It's basically a 1.3GHz PC in a small case with
On 2 July 2010 13:43, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
Next time you really want to be sarcastic, Alan, try this:
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=joggler
Whilst I was sarcastic, I also provided a link to a page which fully
explains what the device is, and gave a summary in my mail. :)
Cheers,
On 2 July 2010 13:34, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
I still don't understand... Google comes up with some sort of mobile phone...
It's a PC.
What's it got to do with PCs, or indeed Ubuntu?
It's a PC. PCs can run Ubuntu.
I have Ubuntu Netbook Remix installed and running on mine.
On 6 July 2010 17:05, Paul Willis paul.wil...@me.com wrote:
Can anyone recommend any hardware that would be the equivalent to a Mac Mini
that is guaranteed to run Ubuntu 10.04 LTS as a headless server?
New Mac Mini Spec:-
On 6 July 2010 20:40, Nick Brandon maill...@css-uk.net wrote:
Has anyone got a recommendation on where would be best to promote it so I
could find, say 20 - 30 to make it reasonable, volunteers to try it out?
Only if you specify what the changes are :)
I'd start with a blog, twitter,
On 6 July 2010 22:37, Nick Brandon maill...@css-uk.net wrote:
* Runs ubuntu from memory rather than DVD
Interesting, do you mean USB stick or it loads into RAM? I am guessing
the latter since you recommend 2GB RAM. Doesn't that leave a lot less
RAM for actual applications to use though?
* Up
On 8 July 2010 17:19, Paul Willis paul.wil...@me.com wrote:
Both of which seem to fit the bill regarding power, footprint etc both at
good prices but have either of you (or anyone else) actually run 10.04 on
them okay?
I have two Revos on my desktop side by side. One runs Lucid, one runs
You can never be sure :-)
On 8 Jul 2010 17:44, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
On 08/07/10 17:19, Paul Willis wrote:
Hi
Thanks for the replies Al suggested the..
Dell I...
I'm sure Al has said previously that he has an Acer Aspire Revo, and I'd
guess he's running Ubuntu on it.
Rob
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From: Evan Dandrea e...@ubuntu.com
Date: 15 July 2010 11:12
Subject: Need help getting an Ubuntu Stack Exchange created through promotion
To: loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com
Hi there!
We're trying to get the good people at Stack
Hi,
I previously mailed the list about organising a team in the UK around
ISO testing, but haven't had the time to take it further. Would
someone else like to take this on?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2010-June/024546.html
Cheers,
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Hey!
We seem to be quite good at turning up to technical events such as LUG
meetings, technical conferences and other self-organised events and
telling everyone how great Ubuntu is. However we seem to spend a lot
of time preaching to the converted, speaking to people who already run
Ubuntu or
Anyone fancy doing something for Software Freedom Day?
-- Forwarded message --
From: Frederic Muller f...@beijinglug.org
Date: 19 July 2010 14:45
Subject: [SFD-announce] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!
To: SFD announcements sfd-annou...@sf-day.org, Open discussions
about SFD
On 19 July 2010 11:53, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
What events local to you would you like to see a stand at?
If you know of any specific events near you, maybe you could add them
to this page:-
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/NonTechEvents
Cheers,
Al.
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https
Hi Nigel,
Thanks for the reply ;)
On 19 July 2010 15:58, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
I suspect that there are vast numbers of people to whom the philosophical
and financial aspects of free/open source software would be very attractive.
Trouble is, they've probably never heard
Hi All,
We just finished the latest Ubuntu UK LoCo meeting and the minutes can
be found at the usual place:-
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting
Actions:-
* popey to put the presentations online from UiB
* Danfish to document distributed backup solutions and call for
volunteers on the
On 23 July 2010 10:51, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:
The subject line seems to suggest that the next Ubuntu release will be
the answer to life, the universe and everything?
That's a side-effect, yes. Mark Shuttleworth explained it at his
keynote during the last Ubuntu Developer Summit
On 26 July 2010 16:25, ByteSoup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
I issued a silly command just now
I've seen more daft things typed into a terminal, often by me.
sudo cp filename /usr/share/bin
Missing the trailing / and now instead of the directory
/usr/share/bin, i have a file called bin. Now
On 27 July 2010 07:57, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
My concern is that renaming the home folder will screw up the configuration
of numerous applications. Is it best just to live with things as they are or
is there a clean method of renaming the home folder?
It will, don't do
Lets get planning for jamming!
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From: Daniel Holbach daniel.holb...@ubuntu.com
Date: 27 July 2010 14:59
Subject: Ubuntu Party Weekend…
To: ubuntu-event-plann...@lists.ubuntu.com, Ubuntu local community
team (LoCo) contacts loco-conta...@lists.ubuntu.com
…
On 2 August 2010 13:28, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 02/08/10 13:08, pmgazz wrote:
Looks good - have you tried bolder type, might be more striking?
No, but it's an SVG, open it with Inkscape and have a play ;-)
There were no other comments so I'm not sure if it was that
On 2 August 2010 15:59, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Here a mock up: http://lordies.co.uk/logo6.svg.
That's the nicest I've seen so far.
Thanks to everyone for contributing to this! :D
Cheers,
Al.
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On 4 August 2010 11:25, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have a VPS which keeps crashing down when im using the Wordpress 3.0.1
admin panel, where could i find log files for what keeps happening? Could i
also check for a DoS attack?
I have a VPS running wordpress and mine was
Hi Sean,
Can we please keep this conversation civil.
On 7 Aug 2010, at 08:45, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
It is not rocket science, and if Google are creating Android phones
that are impossible to not top post (or Android apps, assuming it may
be GMail at fault) then surely
On 7 August 2010 11:15, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
Top posting out of spite, for those people, is a bit like going and
mugging an old lady in the street just to prove that muggings in the
street aren't an important issue... hmmm... did it give you a buzz to
top post out of spite,
On 9 August 2010 10:00, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
Changes for the versions:
5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.1
5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.2
That's certainly the latest version according to packages.ubuntu.com.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=base-files
Looks like a security update:-
FLOSS UK Unconference Autumn 2010 - http://unconference2010.flossuk.org/
Saturday, 16th October, Birmingham Midland Institute, England
What is FLOSS UK 2010?
This is our first unconference, and is being held in collaboration
with local FLOSS groups.
What is an Unconference?
An unconference
On 10 August 2010 08:35, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
I would like to make part of the cloud relatively portable and am using an
Acer revo for the controller. Does anyone know of a small(ish) form factor
server that can still hold 3-5 hard drives (3.5), with a cpu that supports
On 11 August 2010 11:01, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving
them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do this?
I have used shred to remove files, but I dont think it can do an entire
disc
On 11 August 2010 11:39, Dan Fish d...@fishms.org wrote:
My only beef with dd is the lack of feedback - nothing appears to be
happening. There's a replacement in the repos called dcfldd. Does a
similar thing and accepts similar arguments but gives back a progress
bar of sorts.
On 11 August 2010 12:15, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
What about hd you are still using, but have deleted stuff on them. Is there
any way to bring that back, or even completely delete it?
http://packages.ubuntu.com/secure-delete
Even if you overwrite a file 10+ times, it can still be
On 11 August 2010 12:47, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
I tried to install it, from the repository, it says its installed, but I
cant find it any where. Where would it install to?
This lists the files in the package:-
http://packages.ubuntu.com/lucid/i386/secure-delete/filelist
On 13 August 2010 11:27, Bruce Beardall bruc...@gmail.com wrote:
For those who don't already know, Oracle has decided to sue Google for using
Java, somehow missing the whole Java is Open Source idea. Is this what
Oracle had in mind when buying Sun? An IP cash cow?
Just because Java is (now)
On 15 Aug 2010, at 08:27, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote:
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade
I would recommend sudo apt-get dist-upgrade not sudo apt-get upgrade.
Al
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On 17 August 2010 21:07, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
2) Promote the product via this name (or codename).
The name is only supposed to be used by developers during the
development cycle. Once it releases it becomes 10.04, 10.10 etc.
3) Wonder why the general public
On 17 August 2010 21:29, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
one more thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames
Janus
Sparta
Snowball
Chicago
O'Hare
Frosting
Detroit
Nashville
Memphis
Dolly
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On 17 August 2010 21:35, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
There was I think I was posting to a UK list. Looks like I forgot the
huge /s tag. Sorry about that. Won't happen again. (/s and a :P)
What version of Linux are you running? 10.04 Oh.
We get people in #ubuntu-uk asking
On 17 August 2010 21:43, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote:
Nothing soft-sounding here either. I'm probably leaving myself open to
the whole Android dessert-based stuff, aren't I? But then, Google has
to be friendly-friendly or you wouldn't give them your data. Android
Cupcake?
On 18 August 2010 09:02, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
The name is only supposed to be used by developers during the
development cycle. Once it releases it becomes 10.04, 10.10 etc.
Assuming what you say is correct then why are the names still used in
the listed Software
On 18 August 2010 09:53, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
There is no evidence, as far as I can see, that 9.04 and 9.10 are any
more similar than 9.10 and 10.04, therefore the accepted rules
regarding release numbers (ie. 1.4 1.41 1.42 1.5 1.51 1.52 denotes
major and minor releases)
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