On 26 May 2010 16:16, alan c wrote:
> I hope that an elegant method of LTS to LTS version upgrade will
> emerge because LTS tends to be used by people who include those less
> confident.
As I understand it LTS to LTS upgrades don't get enabled in
update-manager until the point 1 release. So that
On 26 May 2010 16:06, Rowan Berkeley 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 home directory. Press
CTRL+H
On 27 May 2010 09:48, John Matthews 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:
> core-2.0-ia32:core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-ia32:core-
On 27 May 2010 10:08, John Matthews 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
> Distributor ID:
On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert 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?
Have you installed any additional
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley 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 of it being a live envir
On 28 May 2010 12:34, John Stevenson 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 version of Ubu
On 28 May 2010 13:27, Matthew Daubney 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.
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On 29 May 2010 23:20, Nigel Verity 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 :)
> It would enable
Hi Joe,
On 31 May 2010 18:09, Joe O'Dell 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.
>
This is perfectly normal
Hi,
On 1 June 2010 09:33, Markie 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
seconds to explain to someon
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 testing
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 ite
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.
http://popey.c
On 3 June 2010 17:00, Christopher Swift 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 http://img2.pict.com/3e
On 4 June 2010 12:09, Jonathon Fernyhough 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.
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Hi Rhys,
Awesome opportunity!
On 4 June 2010 13:49, Rhys Morgan 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 provide a section de
On 4 June 2010 15:42, Dave Hanson 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
> Netbook Remix image tha
Hi Barry,
On 4 June 2010 16:13, e-mail b.drake 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 that
> they ARE p
Hi Daniel/all
On 4 June 2010 19:33, Daniel Case 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 done thing for us to be dis
On 4 June 2010 22:43, Daniel Case 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'?
I'm not after an argume
On 7 June 2010 20:49, Chris Rowson 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
CONFIG_PREEMPT_NOTIFIERS=y
# CONFI
Hi James,
On 5 June 2010 16:29, James - SJ Computers 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:
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/downl
On 8 June 2010 12:18, Chris Rowson wrote:
> ubuntu-10.04-rc-dvd-amd64">Ubuntu 10.04 x86_64 DVD
> ubuntu-10.04-rc-dvd-i386">Ubuntu 10.04 i386 DVD
o_O
rc?
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On 9 June 2010 12:28, Cornelius Mostert 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 event in Liverpool last month
On 9 June 2010 12:55, Chris Rowson 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?
Surely a machine should be
Hi Javad,
On 11 June 2010 10:55, javadayaz 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 which
may cause this
HI Liam/Bob
On 11 June 2010 13:44, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 7:54 AM, Bob Giles 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 4GB - then assuming that you actu
On 11 June 2010 18:41, Rob Beard 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) detect when you
On 15 June 2010 16:11, Stephen Garton 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 is not something for t
On 15 June 2010 16:59, Stephen Garton 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 how to get back on pla
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 s
On 17 June 2010 15:55, Alan Pope 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 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 plan to do with
On 20 June 2010 23:06, Bruno Girin 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 people might say :)
On 21 June 2010 17:24, John Matthews 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:-
http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.com/2010/06/dev-c
On 21 June 2010 20:16, John Matthews 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 mouse I bought
On 22 June 2010 14:07, Gordon 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
http://releases.ubuntu.com/10.04/ubuntu-10.04-desktop-i38
On 23 June 2010 14:56, Andrew Bryant 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 the filesystem is
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,
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On 28 June 2010 10:35, 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 spotted an Ubuntu mug in the k
On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz 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 ditzy and cluele
On 29 June 2010 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz 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 sitc
On 29 June 2010 11:32, Steve Garton 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,
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ht
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!
http://ubuntuinbusiness.eventbrite.c
On 1 July 2010 09:23, ByteSoup 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
example) depend
On 2 July 2010 13:15, Sean Miller 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 a touch screen an
On 2 July 2010 13:43, Tyler J. Wagner 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,
Al.
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On 2 July 2010 13:34, Sean Miller 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.
Cheers,
Al.
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On 6 July 2010 17:05, Paul Willis 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:-
http://store.apple.com/uk/browse/home/shop_mac/family/mac_mini?mco=MTAyNTQzNTk
2.4GHz :
On 6 July 2010 20:40, Nick Brandon 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, identica, facebook, irc
On 6 July 2010 22:37, Nick Brandon 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 to date packages (a
On 8 July 2010 17:19, Paul Willis 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
Maverick. Both ru
You can never be sure :-)
On 8 Jul 2010 17:44, "Rob Beard" 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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See the mail below..
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From: Evan Dandrea
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 Exchange to create a
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 some
Anyone fancy doing something for Software Freedom Day?
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From: Frederic Muller
Date: 19 July 2010 14:45
Subject: [SFD-announce] SFD 2010 registration is OPEN!!!
To: SFD announcements , Open discussions
about SFD
Dear all,
This is with a lot of struggles t
On 19 July 2010 11:53, Alan Pope 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,
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Hi Nigel,
Thanks for the reply ;)
On 19 July 2010 15:58, Nigel Verity 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 of it. Where do we go
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 li
On 23 July 2010 10:51, David King 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 in Brussels.
htt
On 26 July 2010 16:25, ByteSoup wrote:
> I issued a silly command just now
>
I've seen more daft things typed into a terminal, often by me.
> sudo cp /usr/share/bin
>
> Missing the trailing "/" and now instead of the directory
> /usr/share/bin, i have a file called "bin". Now is this as I suspe
On 27 July 2010 07:57, Nigel Verity 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 it.
I had a user rena
Lets get planning for jamming!
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From: Daniel Holbach
Date: 27 July 2010 14:59
Subject: Ubuntu Party Weekend…
To: ubuntu-event-plann...@lists.ubuntu.com, "Ubuntu local community
team (LoCo) contacts"
… also known as Ubuntu Global Jam is coming up swiftly,
Hello,
If you're in/near London and into making things and/or want to learn
some new skills, come to the London Hackspace spacewarming party to
celebrate the lease of new premises!
http://london.hackspace.org.uk/
http://wiki.hackspace.org.uk/wiki/Laboratory_24
It's on Sunday 1st August and start
On 2 August 2010 13:28, Alan Lord (News) 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 popular.
> Mind
On 2 August 2010 15:59, Alan Lord (News) 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,
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On 4 August 2010 11:25, Daniel Case 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 also experiencing issues.
Hi Sean,
Can we please keep this conversation civil.
On 7 Aug 2010, at 08:45, Sean Miller 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 somebody should go
On 7 August 2010 11:15, Sean Miller 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", Tony? Did
On 9 August 2010 10:00, Byte Soup 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:-
http://changelogs.ub
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 i
On 10 August 2010 08:35, John Stevenson 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
> virtualisation (
On 11 August 2010 11:01, Byte Soup 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 (i.e. some previ
On 11 August 2010 11:39, Dan Fish 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.
http://linuxcommando.blogsp
On 11 August 2010 12:15, John Matthews 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 recovered.
T
On 11 August 2010 12:47, John Matthews 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
/usr/bin/sdmem
/usr/
On 13 August 2010 11:27, Bruce Beardall 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) under a free-
On 15 Aug 2010, at 08:27, John Stevenson 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 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 (general ignorant audience)
On 17 August 2010 21:29, Alan Bell 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 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 for help. Th
On 17 August 2010 21:43, Jonathon Fernyhough 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? Cakes can't be bad.
On 18 August 2010 09:02, Norman Silverstone 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 Sources?
>
That
On 18 August 2010 09:53, Sean Miller 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) don't apply so 1
On 18 August 2010 16:15, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> Missed the giant /s tag too... I've got to start putting that in.
Or explain the real meaning of the mail and don't rely on obscure
"tags" that readers won't notice, or understand.
I have no clue what "/s" means.
Al.
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See the mail below from Mark Shuttlworth. Might be interesting to some
people here who are into video stuff and advocacy.
Cheers,
Al.
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From: Mark Shuttleworth
Date: 20 August 2010 11:01
Subject: [ubuntu-marketing] Maverick Movies!
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On 22 Aug 2010, at 08:21, Sean Miller wrote:
> Do we HAVE to lose the union flag colours in UK?
>
> I rather liked it...
>
If someone comes up with a design there's no reason it can't be included in the
vote.
Al.
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On 22 Aug 2010, at 12:32, "Alan Lord (News)" wrote:
> On 22/08/10 08:27, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 22 Aug 2010, at 08:21, Sean Miller wrote:
>>
>>> Do we HAVE to lose the union flag colours in UK?
>>
>> If someone comes up with a design there&#x
On 24 Aug 2010, at 22:37, Alan Bell wrote:
> Voting is now open at http://pollka.libertus.co.uk please vote for the logos
> you like in the traditional fashion by marking the ones you like as full of
> win and those you are not so fussed about as meh. You get an extra vote to
> cast for your
On 27 Aug 2010, at 14:20, Alan Bell wrote:
> All the pending votes have now been approved, if you have voted already
> and didn't get a mail, don't worry about it, your vote got counted. If
> you really want you can email me off list and I can confirm I have your
> email address in the list of
On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 16:21 +0100, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote:
> I'll try to be sucinct as possible, but also explain as fully as I can.
>
> Booting up, I get the grub menu. Choosing any of the 4ish(?) Ubuntu
> choices (exept restore versions) results in hung system. Choosing XP
> results in hun
On 31 August 2010 23:18, Yorvyk wrote:
> Is there a good reason why we are the UK and not GB team?
>
We cover mainland England/Scotland/Wales and Ulster. If we were GB
then we wouldn't cover Ulster.
Since the Ubuntu-UK LoCo was started a separate Welsh LoCo
(Ubuntu-CYM) has been started, but the
On 31 August 2010 23:36, Tony Pursell wrote:
> UK = United Kingdom of GB & Northern Ireland. Ulster is the old region
> of Ireland which contains all the counties of N Ireland but also others,
> like Donegal which remained part of Southern Ireland on Partition.
>
My apologies, I used Ulster as sh
On 2 September 2010 20:39, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> I don't believe you can instruct a suspended laptop to wake itself up. That
> would take at least a BIOS feature, I think.
>
ACPI RTC Wake :)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_clock_alarm
Cheers,
Al.
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On 2 September 2010 22:03, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> but can it be invoked by the kernal???
>
Yes, see this page which explains how it's done.
http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/ACPI_Wakeup
Al.
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On 3 September 2010 10:09, Steve Fisher wrote:
> I am a Mandriva refugee! I know rpm inside out, but not apt. When I issue
> the above, sometimes I see e.g.:
> 26 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 132 not upgraded. (KDE
> updates coming down).
> If I use the gui or synaptic, it will le
On 3 September 2010 12:50, Liam Proven wrote:
> You don't even need to do that much. Switch to a vconsole with
> Ctrl-Alt-F1 to F6 and then just press Ctrl-Alt-Del. This will force a
> reboot with no need to login or anything. When the machine reboots,
> just turn it off.
>
Or just tap (not hold
On 3 September 2010 17:06, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> but what would you do on a server, when the physical power button does
> nothing?
>
That's not the case on all servers, but on those where it is, any of
the other methods outlined will work.
Cheers,
Al.
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