On 5 October 2010 16:45, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
before I loaded the majority of my music into it, it ran fine
Run it from a terminal and see what error you get? Perhaps there's a
bug filed, if not, you could file one.
Happy to help you file a bug if you're not familiar
On 5 October 2010 16:48, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 5 October 2010 14:28, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
(Amarok is painfully slow, especially on GNOME and Exaile is also very
slow and crashes a lot).
There's your answer
Whose answer? To what question?
Al.
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On 6 October 2010 13:14, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
I have 97 GB of music, works fine for me - must be another reason why it's
crashing. You could try gmusicbrowser, I don't like its interface but it's
designed for big music collectoins.
Be nice to find out why banshee is crashing rather
On 6 October 2010 13:43, Dan Attwood danattw...@gmail.com wrote:
Still not in the repos though?
songbird stopped linux support didn't they?
Yup!
http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/songbird-leaving-linux-behind
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On 6 October 2010 13:54, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Good point! But all the music browsers are a bit temperamental with big
collections
But if everyone just says music player X is broken with large music
collections and then _nobody_ files a bug about it, how will that
status quo ever
On 6 October 2010 13:51, David Houston r...@crankyadmin.net wrote:
songbird stopped linux support didn't they?
Yup!
http://getnightingale.com/ -- Fork
That looks unpromising. A website and forum that has changed twice, no
code, no releases. I'll set my expectations accordingly.
Al.
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On 7 October 2010 09:10, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
would appreciate someone's thoughts on this?
Have you tried the Linux Mint support avenues?
Al.
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Hi,
If anyone is going to any Ubuntu release parties over the weekend (and
beyond) please do take pictures! If you have some good ones you'd like
to share I'm sure we'd all like to see them. I know the Ubuntu News
team are interested in pics too!
Cheers,
Al.
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On 10 October 2010 16:03, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
A quick question I'd like to put to the list. The business web site of
my bank doesn't work with Firefox on Ubuntu anymore (it used to), even
though it works fine with Firefox on Mac. A support query I filed
resulted in an
On 10 October 2010 16:16, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote:
A suggestion use your feet to vote move bank to one that does
support Ubuntu / Linux... there are plenty.
Whilst that's good to know, a list would be even more useful.
http://mjr.towers.org.uk/blog/2007/banking
Thats a
On 10 October 2010 16:55, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
It's very easy:
* Go to www.hsbc.co.uk (so now you know what bank I'm talking
about)
* Click the Log on button in the Business box on the right
At that point, it should take you to a login page but in my case
On 11 October 2010 11:35, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
This is not a specifically Ubuntu query. Sorry if you feel it's off
topic. I bought a 32 GB SD card via e-bay (from China). The price was
too good to be true, and only the first 2 GB works. Pay-Pal came up
trumps, and I
Hi Melv,
On 13 October 2010 10:28, Melv Bailey melvbai...@googlemail.com wrote:
Sorry if this seems a bit of a rant but there is now another new version
Of Ubuntu that STILL does not address the fundamentals of running on a
range of hardware that is fine for Windows.
If we're talking about
On 13 October 2010 12:08, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Those who know, always seem to be those that stand there and say Ubuntu is
easy, easier than windows.
It's easy if you know what you're doing. Same as rocket science or
brain surgery. It's all about perspective. Many people who say
On 13 October 2010 13:46, Melv Bailey melvbai...@googlemail.com wrote:
Your missing the point, the live CD is the way to anyone other than the
computer experts, and if it does not work it ends up in the bin,
together with the concept of Linux.
Which is why you're getting encouraged to file
On 13 October 2010 13:57, Melv Bailey melvbai...@googlemail.com wrote:
Just seen Alan Bell's post and he has mentioned something no one else
has, there is meant to be a failsafe X in low res mode. I didnt know
that and have not in 4 years seen that mentioned before. Has anyone
else ever seen
On 13 October 2010 14:54, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
On 13/10/10 13:49, Alan Pope wrote:
It's easy if you know what you're doing. Same as rocket science or
brain surgery. It's all about perspective. Many people who say 'ubuntu
is easy' are almost always people who have had the pain
Hi John,
You've clearly had problems with Ubuntu, and your problems haven't yet
been resolved. I can understand the frustration you're feeling.
On 13 October 2010 16:19, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Yeh, but there you go, for you, its never a problem, so it shouldnt be a
problem for
On 13 October 2010 17:08, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Options I have tried and got nowhere again with.
I don't know what to suggest then. I know a lot of people get help
with their systems.
To be honest with you, its pissed me off you bought up that thing about
contacting people in
On 14 October 2010 14:33, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com wrote:
I would be happy to help out another time if you run something similar.
Of the back of this, I was wondering if ubuntu-uk could maybe have a
volunteer list by area or is that already in place?
On 18 October 2010 15:15, Isabell Long
isabell121+mailingli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 October 2010 15:09, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote:
The preview of the new website design is at http://beta.ubuntu-uk.org
It just spits out FATAL ERROR, now. Just in case you hadn't realised. :-)
On 19 October 2010 12:48, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
On 19/10/10 10:42, Alan Bell wrote:
Here are some of the pictures from the event last year:
http://picasaweb.google.com/alanbelltolc/UbuntuUK
OMG were there any women at all?
Yes.
At least three in this picture alone.
On 19 October 2010 16:54, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@gmail.com wrote:
Is
1. You have permission to work as Admin on a Lan
and
5. You need to brows to the routers config web page to make some changes
not mutually exclusive? I.e. you're saying you're not allowed to
administer the LAN
On 19 Oct 2010, at 17:21, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
On 19/10/10 17:05, Alan Pope wrote:
On 19 October 2010 16:54, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@gmail.com
wrote:
Is
1. You have permission to work as Admin on a Lan
All of which probably contravenes rule 1 you set out
Hi Simon,
On 22 October 2010 10:31, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote:
Does anyone have any recommendations for powerline adapters? All the power
wiring in my house is 5 years old.
I have Devolo 200s which work quite well. They have a linux app for
enabling encryption so your
On 22 October 2010 10:44, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
I drilled throught the outside wall and have CAT5 all around the
outside. Quick, easy, fast, secure
...almost certainly against building regs.. :)
If it gets struck by lightning (a very real possibility given it's
On 22 October 2010 11:01, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
I would not have thought so (though not an expert), that is how TV
aerial leads are generally wired.
Which is why many people unplug their telly at night :)
Just make sure when you drill that
the drill slopes down to the
On 22 October 2010 11:15, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:37 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
I have Devolo 200s which work quite well. They have a linux app for
enabling encryption so your neighbours can't snoop on your traffic.
Does the Linux app enable encryption
On 22 October 2010 22:29, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
Ahh Sage, I still wake up in a cold sweat over it, WHY anyone wants to
use it I don't know, from my experience of Sage Line 50, it came across
as the worst application ever.
People say the same about SAP, but every big business uses
On 24 October 2010 11:12, David Morris d...@greenacre.no-ip.com wrote:
Is it actually the HDD or my SATA controller since it seems strange for a new
disk to go so quickly with the same problem.
Check/replace the SATA cable. Often they're cheap/nasty and fail.
Al.
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On 25 October 2010 11:11, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
What? That's not true! What's with the FUD?
Steady on there Liam.
I suspect that Matt Darcy wasn't actually implying that Mint is not
based on Ubuntu, but merely that Mint _isn't_ Ubuntu.
We actually disallow Mint support
On 25 October 2010 16:58, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
would anybody know how to get the touchscreen to work on an asus EeePC? I've
just installed NBR but there's a 'no unity driver' error when starting the
NBR version of gnome. all help appreciated.
Which model of Eee PC is
On 28 October 2010 23:34, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
Is anyone else affected by this and can suggest any potential fixes or
workarounds.
Not at all scared of getting my hands dirty. :)
Sadly this sounds like a bug that unfortunately I have memorised the
number of - 410407.
On 1 November 2010 13:29, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
Anyone got a best buy suggestion for a new monitor. Its for Ubuntu 10.10
and I have a Matrox P650 card, as yet not fully rebuilt.
You've had some nice monitor recommendations, but I wonder if you've
considered replacing that
On 1 November 2010 14:29, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
I have had a series of Matrox cards, (when using Windows and dual monitors)
and always been very pleased with them , but I agree that an ATI or Nvidia
seems a better bet for Linux.
Yeah, the Matrox Parhelia triple-head cards
On 4 November 2010 10:14, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote:
I have recently started using Ubuntu Server on a couple of my
production machines. When I log in I get messages saying there are
updates available. So my question is how do I know if the updates are
critical or security updates as
On 12 November 2010 09:57, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
Yes, but *what* particular sequence? Nobody has yet spelled it out,
AFAICS. I'd like to know so I can avoid it!
It's detailed in the bug report linked to in the first mail.
Al.
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On 13 November 2010 16:00, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
I've installed Xubuntu 10.10 on my two laptops (Acer and Dell). Both display
problems with programs crashing that I never encountered on 10.4, though
they're not the same problems on each. I'm tempted to revert to 10.4 LTS.
On 13 November 2010 17:20, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
Your probably aware of this, but if you can set up a seperate partition for
your /home, this saves an immense amount of backup time when reinstalling as
you can choose (advanced mode) to only format the / and just mount the old
/home
On 13 November 2010 19:32, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
Config files shouldn't be an issue. Any half-decent program will sanity check
its config files and recreate them if the current ones are
incompatible/corrupt.
Define half-decent. On upgrading from one release to another many
popular
On 13 November 2010 22:42, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature.
and if you were doing it manually and
On 17 November 2010 21:53, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have just launched a new Linux-based website like Yahoo answers (I got a
free script) and could do with a little bit of feedback with modifications
to make and maybe some Ubuntu/Linux based images for the header (the
On 17 November 2010 22:10, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
I was looking at the Google keyword tool for gaps where people just get
caught in a dead end. 10,000 people search for Linux Problems every month,
but if you search it yourself, you can see that there is nothing that is
On 24 November 2010 13:04, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
its good apart from the power supply bit...
arent there any enclosures which dont use a power supply and still
pleasant!?
Where do you expect the drive to get power from? USB bus isn't enough
to power a couple of desktop hard
On 26 November 2010 09:04, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Every time I start my laptop, it goes gronk... gronk, gronk, gronk...
gronk, gronk, gronk, and flashes the light on the CD drive a few times.
Does it make the noise if you leave the CD-ROM tray ejected?
Is
the gronking
On 30 November 2010 16:36, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
I take this to mean that it would mean compiling a custom kernel to make
use of what is now obviously cobwebby software and a couple of fairly
cobwebby bits of hardware. Is there an easy way of adding what I need?
(Something
Hullo!
I'm installing a little Ubuntu server for home. (AMD 1.3GHz CPU, 1GB
RAM, 160GB disk, low power, low noise)
One of these things:-
http://popey.me/dNBjHT
(112 quid once you get the cash back)
Anyway, I was thinking of making it a little home office server with
a few roles (listed
On 17 December 2010 16:32, Matthew Wild mwi...@gmail.com wrote:
XMPP server:- Prosody :)
Why: Local secure IM and chatrooms, with various fun features.
That sounds fun! Kids would like that too.
Caching APT proxy:- ???
I haven't tried this, but given that I have bandwidth caps and
On 17 December 2010 16:26, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
Media server - it depends on what's going to be at the other end: for other
computers try Firefly Media Server (might be in the repo as mt-daapd). It
shares media over DAAP, which is the sharing protocol in iTunes. It works
On 17 December 2010 16:26, Vinothan Shankar neversaymon...@gmail.com wrote:
Mailserver:- Postfix
Do you intend to do IMAP or POP3? If so, I prefer Dovecot over cyrus,
but that's a personal quirk.
IMAP probably. I have used dovecot and cyrus in the past, I personally
have no affinity to either
On 19 December 2010 21:52, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
You'll have to compile from source but it uses the classic GNU autotools
steps so it is straightforward. Download the LibRaw-0.12.0.tar.gz file
from the web site and then do the following:
If you don't fancy building from
On 31 December 2010 13:18, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Anyone here know anything about Cinelerra? I tracked down a binary on
the Debian site. It looks impressive. I've taken the latest svn and am
trying to build it, but it's going to take me a long while to get all of
the
On 2 January 2011 20:07, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
This would probably be a good time to start a separate thread for anyone
who would like to share their Diaspora handles;
Nice idea Tim!
I'm po...@joindiaspora.com
Cheers,
Al.
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On 4 January 2011 12:35, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
If there is no keyhole what do you do with the key, just wave it about
and hope for the best? :)
A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.
Al.
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On 5 January 2011 17:26, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
ive tried MS excel, MSword, notepad and wordpad.
The outputted format is gibberish and i cant make out anything
The file command on Linux will tell you what it is.
E.g.
a...@wopr:~/.mozilla/firefox/pv98p4hg.sophie$ file
On 7 January 2011 12:47, David Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
What's so great about this Diaspora whatsit??
Nothing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diaspora_(software)
It's a free software federated facebook wannabe.
Al.
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On 7 January 2011 13:13, Dave Rice d...@ricey.co.uk wrote:
Anyone have a spare invite? Could be interesting! Does it have anything to
do with Ubuntu though?
Not directly, but I guess you could download the source code and (with
luck and a following wind) run your own instance of it on Ubuntu.
On 7 January 2011 13:50, David Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I suppose potentially it could be used within a company as an internal
networking application with tweaks to follow company logo etc?
Yup. The same way status.net (which powers identi.ca [which is the
free software federated
On 7 January 2011 15:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Sorry if this is common knowledge - I'm after recommendations for a webcam
with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a Toshiba Satellite
using an Intel 82801H audio device.
I have a Logitech QuickCam Pro
On 7 January 2011 22:03, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:
I would be interested to know if any of the webcams that work with Ubuntu
also have an optical zoom -- does anyone know of any? Or is that too fancy
for a webcam? I need something more powerful than your average webcam but a
lot
On 9 January 2011 14:26, Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net wrote:
Do built-in webcam mics (that don't output to jack plug for you to plug
into your soundcard) ever work on ubuntu?
Yup. They show up as sound cards. You even get a nice icon of a webcam
in the Pulse Audio sound applet doofer thing
On 13 January 2011 15:53, Graham Smith myotis...@gmail.com wrote:
My better half wants to communicate with a relative in Canada, who has told
her its easy, you just click on the Windows Messenger icon on your desktop
She can use Empathy or Pidgin.
Can I assume that she will need a Windows
On 13 January 2011 21:11, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
The more I have thought about it, the more I come to believe that the people
who I help to take refuge away from Windows, would very much welcome running
a 'toaster', even though it would not be my own personal choice. I do not
On 13 January 2011 21:33, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
Unfortunately, I'll be watching this space from a Mint desktop. It
worries me that so many people will be joining me (or already have).
Eh? You've moved over to mint yourself but you're worried that other
people will too?
On 13 January 2011 23:04, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
I'm running 10.04 now, but will be moving to Mint as of natty.
You know Natty ships with both Unity _and_ the classic GNOME desktop
that you are used to in 10.04?
I'm worried that Unity is one case of Ubuntu pushing design in
On 16 January 2011 22:36, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
Mmm... yes, good point. My equipment is not PAT tested and is more than
12 months old. Is it a requirement of all equipment we bring to the
expo?
No. We have never been asked to provide proof of testing whatsoever.
Al.
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On 17 January 2011 10:45, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote:
So why don't Linux Emporium, then, simply go to PC World, negotiate a deal
for multiple PCs (50 £299 machines I am sure they'd give them for £200 or
thereabouts, maybe £250 at a pinch) and then merely install Ubuntu and put
the
On 17 January 2011 14:23, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Just went through the process and looked at the shipping. A 10.1
Netbook ships to the UK at $130 something - a good percentage of the
cost of the netbook!!!
I didn't say it was value for money :)
I have often pondered setting
On 17 January 2011 14:56, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Ed Bernard at http://www.elpatech.co.uk sells his Ubuntu computers for
the same price as his barebones ones. He says that giving support to
his Windows PC's costs him far more than supporting Ubuntu! Especially
since the
Hi Paul,
I love this idea!
On 18 January 2011 09:56, Paul Sladen ubu...@paul.sladen.org wrote:
* A4 advert I run X/K/Ubuntu
* My Foobar 2700 duplex printer works with Ubuntu, does yours?
* An envelope or magic-folding return-form:
http://www.letterfu.com/index.php [*]
* Some other
On 18 January 2011 10:28, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Here's my suggestions :)
and more..
* A calendar showing public holidays / your own calendar extracted
from Evolution / the LoCo calendar of events in your country
* Your loco team website home page
* To-Do list
* Musical staves
* Dot
On 18 January 2011 11:08, Mark Harrison m...@yourpropertyexpert.com wrote:
Out of interest, why do people think that building a PC without Windows
should be inherently cheaper?
A simplistic viewpoint based on ignorance of common Microsoft OEM
business practice at a guess :)
Is it because
Forwarding from LUG.org.uk...
-- Forwarded message --
From: s.og...@pirateparty.org.uk
Date: 18 January 2011 18:20
Subject: [admin] [Feedback] Pirate Party UK Conference
To: ad...@lug.org.uk
Stephen Ogden sent a message using the contact form at
http://lug.org.uk/contact.
I
On 23 January 2011 05:23, Nick Callaghan nicholas.callag...@gmail.com wrote:
I'm looking to get a headset for using skype. Does anyone have any
recommendations of one that will work nicely in ubuntu with reasonably sound
quality but not too pricey.
Plantronics do some good USB ones. I have the
Some of us are playing Minecraft which is a fun (if potentially time
consuming) game (some would argue it's not a game, in the same way
Lego isn't).
We have a little server running on the end of my home internet
connection where we play.
Other members of the UK Ubuntu community are more than
On 3 February 2011 17:09, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
I just baught the thing, it there any way I can join your epic world?
Mail sent! :D
Cheers,
Al.
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On 3 February 2011 17:54, Ronnie Tucker ron...@ronnietucker.co.uk wrote:
Can I ask how you made the awesome map?
Minecraft is FAB! :)
https://github.com/brownan/Minecraft-Overviewer
Cheers,
Al.
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Here's the minutes from last night's LoCo Team meeting.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting
Next meeting is on 3rd March 2011 at 21:00 GMT
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/NextMeeting
The (currently bare) agenda for the next meeting is on the wiki:-
On 15 February 2011 22:38, Lewis Cawte lewisca...@googlemail.com wrote:
I've just been looking at setting up the weather indicator on my
desktop, however I noticed that its missing anywhere within an hour or
two drive from me. I'm in Brighton, and there there doesn't seem to be
that many
On 16 February 2011 11:36, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
I'm particularly keen to find out what everyones preferred online storage
solution is and why,
Dropbox because it's cross platform, just works, is easy to install
and integrates with the shell on each machine. I use it on
On 16 February 2011 11:56, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote:
P.S. does anyone know if the iPod/iPhone app copies everything to that
device? I've got a lot of files on Dropbox and I only want a couple on
my iPod...
It don't think it copies anything locally, but reads files as
On 16 February 2011 12:05, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote:
@Al - Thanks for that it sounds like my cup of tea really, I'll give your
link a try ;) . (now don't shout for the daft question) but, I'm sure I can
run dropbox and spider oak along side each other with no issues whilst I
On 16 February 2011 12:22, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote:
Hi there Someone (was it you Alan C?) suggested TestDrive as an
easy way of doing regular tests on the Alpha Natty.
If it weren't for the fact that Natty needs 3D for the Unity desktop,
which you won't get out of the box
Hi all,
As you can see by the website, we're returning with Season 4 of the
Ubuntu UK Podcast in 10 days.
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/
We're changing things a little in that we'll record the show live on a
Tuesday evening at ~20:30 and then release it as a podcast the next
day. We'll update
Hullo!
At 20:30 UTC today the Ubuntu UK Podcast goes live with the 4th Season!
If you're around and fancy listening in to us blather on for an hour
about Ubuntu and the community around it then point your browser at:-
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/live/
The icecast stream URL (which is only
On 3 March 2011 13:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
On both my Netbook and Laptop, if I do System-Preferences-Personal File
Sharing the dialog box tells me that This feature cannot be enabled because
the required packages are not installed on your system
NO mention
I posted this on my blog. Am reposting here to reach as many people as possible.
The UK Ubuntu LoCo team has for some years now had a vote to choose a
new leader when the incumbent steps down. Well it’s that time of year
again as Dave Walker stepped down in an announcement to the Ubuntu UK
LoCo
On 6 March 2011 21:49, andres andre...@gmail.com wrote:
I've just plugged in my mobile phone that has some mp3s on it. I simply
hovered the mouse pointer over it and it started playing it. Fairly quickly.
How does it do that?
Is that taking up resources? I've noted pulse audio is in the
On 7 March 2011 22:48, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
5 Star (which I gather is one of the Channel 5 spin off channels, formally
known as Fiver) is showing the US TV show Chuck starting with the first ever
episode tomorrow (8th March 2011) at 9pm.
Set the PVR, thanks!
Cheers,
Al.
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Saw this on another list and thought it might resonate with some of you :)
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/10things/10-reasons-for-quitting-it/2316
Cheers,
Al.
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Hullo.
We're recording episode 2 of season 4 of the podcast tonight in front
of a live studio audience :)
You can listen in whilst we make fools of ourselves:-
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/live/
Where you can also join in the chatter and heckle from at us via IRC
in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on
On 15 March 2011 11:31, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote:
Cool! What time will you be going live at? I'll try and tune in :)
Sorry, should have said, although it is mentioned on the site.
20:30 UTC.
Cheers,
Al.
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On 16 March 2011 14:47, Sarah Chard sa...@streetentertainers.co.uk wrote:
Is it possible to add in the .22 version and then just choose it to use
within base?
You can, but it's easier to set it system wide..
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Java - Choosing the default Java to use
Cheers,
Al.
On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read
normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case
it would be useful.
You can, but PDF rendering is less than ideal. You're better off
On 23 Mar 2011, at 23:13, LeeGroups mailgro...@varga.co.uk wrote:
On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read
normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case
it would be
On 24 March 2011 13:50, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been given some money and I have been thinking about getting an
Android Tablet, but just have no idea what would be worth getting. Anybody
any idea.
What would you use the tablet for?
I recently (December) had a chat with
On 24 March 2011 16:03, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote:
Looks like Asda are selling the Galaxy for £299.99 -
http://direct.asda.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Tab/000504480,default,pd.html. Can't
seem to find out what the RAM size is though.
Click that link then click Specification.
RAM
On 24 March 2011 07:42, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
Do any of you have friends and family not living nearby, who use Ubuntu and
you provide remote support to them. What do you use? Teamviewer, VNC, webex?
What would you recommend and whats your experiences?
At mums house when I
On 25 March 2011 09:41, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote:
You can share the same private key around all the machines you own and
trust,
That's not wise. If you put your private key on all your machines you
trust then I only need to break into one of them to gain access to
every machine your
On 25 March 2011 12:47, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems if you add a new ssh key into seahorse it always generates a file
called id_rsa.pub and id_rsa, renaming old ones to .1 etc, is that
correct?
No idea. I don't use Seahorse.
When you generate your keys is it always done as
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