This was posted to Lugmaster and I thought some here might be interested.
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On 8 September 2010 13:07, Sean Miller wrote:
> Don't have one at the moment, but might borrow one and try.
>
> But as the keyboard in WIndows 7 is same as the one in Ubuntu I am not
> sure why that would be the case - are you suggesting it's keyboard
> drivers or something?
>
It could well be do
On 8 September 2010 13:16, Sean Miller wrote:
> Just bought PC Pro which has a Live CD of Ubuntu - may try booting
> from that and see if I exhibit the same symptoms.
>
Worth doing but might not prove much.
> If I don't, will be interesting to know what the potential resolution might
> be.
>
U
On 9 September 2010 11:38, John Stevenson wrote:
> If we still have enough energy (and balance) left then I plan to also join
> the Canonical party in the evening (once they have announced it).
>
Don't presume there will be one on Sunday evening!
:)
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On 9 September 2010 11:49, John Stevenson wrote:
> Following on from the Wayne's World logic of "If you plan it they will
> come.." then if we say its going to happen someone will organise it?
>
We're talking to Canonical at the moment to figure out the best
place/time/date to have it.
Of course
On 14 September 2010 22:23, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> of corse you can do it in OO, why the f**k would you want to use M$
>
Now now, play nice.
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On 15 September 2010 09:10, Mark Harrison wrote:
> 1: I've not used MS Office for about 5 years now, however the one time I
> needed to was in 2007 for a really complex mailmerge, which is one area
> where MSO is still better than OOo :-(
>
I once made the mistake of saying on a LUG mailing list
On 15 September 2010 15:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> Aand *that* is right where I stop trying to offer any help or
>> guidance. HAND. Goodbye.
>
> Is there something we can do to persuade you to stop contributing to
> this list altogether, Liam? If so, please let us know and we shall be
> only
On 16 September 2010 09:05, ian pettitt wrote:
> I think that is correct. I have my /home on a separate partition to the
> system (/), so when I have reinstalled my data, settings, email etc. are
> retained
>
I've lost count of how many times I've said this but it seems many
people don't know.
Y
On 16 September 2010 10:24, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> Which distro installers support this?
It's a feature of Ubiquity. I do not know if the alternate CD also has
the feature because I've not tried it recently.
> They actually "rm -rf" those directories
> first?
Yes.
> If so, this is indeed an
On 16 September 2010 10:29, ian pettitt wrote:
> I was unaware of this useful feature - I am very cautious when using the
> partitioner :-)
>
Some are less cautious, and "discover" the feature by accident.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2010-September/228201.html
(read entire th
If anyone would like to _give_ a talk/session, please get in contact
with Jorge. See the links below.
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,
On 20 September 2010 08:33, javadayaz wrote:
> I know i have put this question to you guys before...but the time has come
> for me buy a small pc to attach to my beautiful 40" lcd tv.
> It has to be able to store my media.
> Be able to run ubuntu (will install Linux Mint on it) (Will install Boxee
On 20 September 2010 09:57, javadayaz wrote:
> I would like something in the less than £100 area...but doubt it. Building
> it myself is out of the question...nothing will be that cheap.
Correct. There's no machines on the market I know of that can do HD
over HDMI and can run a full fat Linux dis
On 20 September 2010 10:01, javadayaz wrote:
> so probably easier just to get the revo!! ? :)
>
Yup, unless you want to build your own, but the price difference would
be (in my opinion) minimal, so hardly worth it.
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On 20 September 2010 11:40, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> In fact Skype sees it as a camera but Ubuntu doesn't see the microphone...
>
Have you looked in the Ubuntu audio mixer to enable the right input device?
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On 20 September 2010 11:49, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> Yes - I did that first. Ubuntu sees it as an input device, but it just
> doesn't seem to work. I tried it in Sound recorder - nothing.
>
I have found sometimes devices appear to have no audio, but toggling
mute on and off whilst having th
On 27 September 2010 22:37, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I plan to demo 10.10 on Saturday 16 October at the Museum of Computing
> in Swindon. I won't be offering CDs, but I'll have A4 flyers about
> Ubuntu (edited from one on Spread Ubuntu) and on how to get help
> worldwide, nationally, and locally, plu
On 29 September 2010 14:02, Vince Marsters wrote:
> I seem to remember it being in Swindon somewhere - either that or I am going
> slightly mad.
>
There's likely to be many events around the place, not just London.
Lets wait for Paula to update the eventbrite page. I'm sure she's
aware that the l
On 29 September 2010 13:35, pmgazz wrote:
> It's not on the right day and has a different 'slant' (the VCS wouldn't
> 'get' an install fest) but we're doing a day workshop showing charities and
> community orgs how to install Ubuntu and do basic admin tasks on the 12th.
> http://fb-resilience.even
See below. May be of interest to people in the UK LUG scene. :D
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On 2 October 2010 13:53, Tony Doherty wrote:
> I have been experimenting over the past few months with Ubuntu 9.10 & 10.4
> running entirely from a 4Gb USB memory stick and with 1Gb of persistence
> (Casper) allocated. I use the Pendrive Linux utility to prepare the memory
> stick.
>
> I tend to f
On 3 October 2010 12:40, Stephen Garton wrote:
> My work laptop is a reasonably new (2 years old) dual core unit, and
> regularly runs at >70C (normally when running Java apps or converting video.
> I have to set the CPU frequency to 2/3 to get it to cool down!
>
My Toshiba dual core 3-year old l
On 4 October 2010 15:53, javadayaz wrote:
>
> and lastly:
Thankfully.
That's a triple-whammy of annoyance you got there with offtopic
rubbish, top posted and non-trimmed. Please think about mail before
you send it to this list.
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On 4 October 2010 15:58, Barry Drake wrote:
> Just spent a long time searching through fora with no result. I want to
> play mp3's of stage sound effects and music tracks. The problem is that
> they have to be on cue.
>
I'm also interested in an application to do this.
Not seen anything on Ubu
On 4 October 2010 19:34, javadayaz wrote:
> Linux mint 8 helena, linux 2.6.31-22-generic
You do realise you're not running Ubuntu there? Linux Mint, whilst
based on Ubuntu, isn't Ubuntu.
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On 5 October 2010 16:26, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> banshee crashes every 10 seconds, due to the fact that I have 103.7GB of
> music
>
What leads you to believe the volume of music files is responsible for
the crash?
I have a similar volume of music and have never seen Banshee crash as a result.
On 5 October 2010 16:45, Jacob Mansfield 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 with it.
Cheers,
Al.
On 5 October 2010 20:02, javadayaz wrote:
> Anyone? I still can't get in..what to do?
>
I don't know anything about Linux Mint, so can't help I'm afraid.
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On 5 October 2010 16:48, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
>
>
> On 5 October 2010 14:28, pmgazz 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?
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On 6 October 2010 13:14, pmgazz 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 than just jum
On 6 October 2010 13:43, Dan Attwood 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 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 change?
Cheers,
A
On 6 October 2010 13:51, David Houston 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 wrote:
> would appreciate someone's thoughts on this?
>
Have you tried the Linux Mint support avenues?
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On 7 October 2010 09:21, javadayaz wrote:
> i havent...thought this would be sufficient...!
> will try there as well
>
Well, consider that if you go to the main #ubuntu irc channel asking
for support with Linux Mint you get told this:-
"Linux Mint is not a supported derivative of Ubuntu, please
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!
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On 10 October 2010 16:03, Bruno Girin 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 answer by email along
On 10 October 2010 16:16, SuperEngineer 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 start.
Al.
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On 10 October 2010 16:55, Bruno Girin 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 it just
> t
On 11 October 2010 11:35, Barry Drake 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 received a full refun
Hi Melv,
On 13 October 2010 10:28, Melv Bailey 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 the 'masses' like my mu
On 13 October 2010 12:08, John Matthews 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 'ubuntu
is eas
On 13 October 2010 13:46, Melv Bailey 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 bugs.
> Why can it not
On 13 October 2010 13:57, Melv Bailey 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 Ubuntu boot in this f
On 13 October 2010 14:54, John Matthews 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
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 wrote:
> Yeh, but there you go, for you, its never a problem, so it shouldnt be a
> problem for anybody else.
I
On 13 October 2010 16:51, John Matthews wrote:
> That doesnt surprise me really, basically what your saying is, go
> somewhere else, we cant be bothered. That brings us right back to what
> the OP said at the beginning. There we are.
>
No, I was giving you _options_.
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On 13 October 2010 17:08, John Matthews 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 the middle o
On 14 October 2010 14:33, James Thomas 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?
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/UKLugMembers
Cheers
On 15 October 2010 23:26, Daniel Case wrote:
> Hi guys, I have a little project to do so that i can access my email and
> some other websites from college, it has a web filter so blocks such things
> which is annoying in 2 hour long 'free' periods. If I didn't have a web
> server running this woul
On 18 October 2010 15:15, Isabell Long
wrote:
> On 18 October 2010 15:09, Alan Bell 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. :-)
>
Doesn't here. Screenshot pls.
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On 19 October 2010 12:48, pmgazz 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.
http://picasaweb.google.c
On 19 October 2010 16:54, Cornelius Mostert 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 but you're going to anywa
On 19 Oct 2010, at 17:21, Tim Dobson wrote:
> On 19/10/10 17:05, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 19 October 2010 16:54, Cornelius Mostert
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is
>>
>>> 1. You have permission to work as Admin on a Lan
>>
>> All of which probably contra
Hi Simon,
On 22 October 2010 10:31, Simon Swaysland 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 neighbours can't snoop o
On 22 October 2010 10:44, Barry Drake 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
grounded via your PC/swit
On 22 October 2010 11:01, Colin Law 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 outside so that condensa
On 22 October 2010 11:15, Tyler J. Wagner 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 ap
On 22 October 2010 11:25, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> Fantastic. A bit of web hunting tells me it is AES-128, which is good
> enough for me. Are you using Devolo dLAN 200 AVeasy?
> http://www.amazon.co.uk/devolo-dLAN-AVeasy-HomePlug-Starter/dp/B0014LGNMS
>
They've had a bunch of different models ove
On 22 October 2010 22:29, Rob Beard 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 it ;)
> It ce
On 24 October 2010 11:12, David Morris 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.
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On 25 October 2010 11:11, Liam Proven 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 questions in the main #u
On 25 October 2010 16:58, Jacob Mansfield 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 that, and what releas
On 27 October 2010 22:33, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On 27 October 2010 00:12, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
>> Is the people nearby account in epifany supposed to help?
> Doubt it. It searches the local LAN, rather than looking at
> geographical location.
>
Once upon a time there was a windows only
On 28 October 2010 23:34, Tim Dobson 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.
https://bugs.launchpad
On 1 November 2010 13:29, Graham Smith 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 card?
The matrox c
On 1 November 2010 14:29, Graham Smith 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 were quite amusin
On 3 November 2010 20:05, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> Do you mean the 19th of November as opposed to October?
You're replying to a month old email..
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On 4 November 2010 10:14, Jon Farmer 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 opposed to just
On 12 November 2010 09:57, Liam Proven 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.
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On 13 November 2010 16:00, Nigel Verity 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. I
> got from 10.4 to
On 13 November 2010 17:20, 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
>
Not necessary.
On 13 November 2010 19:32, 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 programs which we s
On 13 November 2010 22:42, 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 didn't specify a mount
On 17 November 2010 21:53, Daniel Case 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 current
> one is the defaul
On 17 November 2010 22:10, Daniel Case 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
> really of use (Like a
On 24 November 2010 13:04, javadayaz 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 disks.
Al.
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On 26 November 2010 09:04, Rowan Berkeley 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 noise coming from
On 30 November 2010 16:36, Barry Drake 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 silly like adding
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 below
On 17 December 2010 16:32, Matthew Wild 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
> several Ubuntu PC
On 17 December 2010 16:26, Simon Greenwood 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
> with said iTunes
On 17 December 2010 16:26, Vinothan Shankar 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 :) But I do recall o
On 19 December 2010 21:52, Bruno Girin 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 source, I just put li
On 31 December 2010 13:18, Barry Drake 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 missing libraries it's
On 2 January 2011 20:07, Tim Dobson 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
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On 4 January 2011 12:35, Colin Law 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."
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On 5 January 2011 17:26, javadayaz 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 downloads.sqlite
downloads.
On 7 January 2011 12:47, David Hanson 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.
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On 7 January 2011 13:13, Dave Rice 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.
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On 7 January 2011 13:16, David Jones wrote:
> Maybe the advantage to all these invites being passed around are that people
> get the chance to pick their preferred username before it goes into a
> general release & usernames get taken quickly.
>
Not really. My username is po...@joindiaspora.com w
On 7 January 2011 13:50, David Hanson 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 twitter wannabe]) doe
On 7 January 2011 15:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker 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 9000 which works v
On 7 January 2011 22:03, David King 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 cheaper than a pro
On 9 January 2011 14:26, Tim Dobson 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 where you choose w
On 13 January 2011 15:53, Graham Smith 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 Live account, can
On 13 January 2011 21:11, alan c 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
> use a Mac but isn't a
On 13 January 2011 21:33, Tyler J. Wagner 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?
There's plenty of r
On 13 January 2011 23:04, Tyler J. Wagner 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 the wrong
> d
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