Re: [ubuntu-uk] Go on Linux, was Re: Chess Tournament?

2009-05-15 Thread Michael Rimicans
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=311251 http://www.britgo.org/ http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/ Nice linux client here: http://www.pandanet.co.jp/English/glgo/ Neil Greenwood wrote: 2009/5/4 Jim Kissel j...@osml.eu: Johnathon Tinsley wrote: Hello All, For any chess

[ubuntu-uk] Pupils conquer fear of computers

2009-01-08 Thread Michael Rimicans
A report on secondary school students using a computer for the first time Nepal http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7684616.stm -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Teacher claims Linux 'holding back the kids'

2008-12-15 Thread Michael Rimicans
Sorry that its not about Ubuntu but. A US student has landed in hot water with an irate - and apparently ill-informed - teacher for handing out discs of Linux. The teacher swiped the discs and promised to prosecute Linux evangelist Helios for alleged - but unspecified - illegal activities,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Mini 9

2008-09-29 Thread Michael Rimicans
So to start the argument: Which would you prefer? Dell Mini 9 or the Asus Eeepc -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Decisions. Decisions, Decisions

2008-09-29 Thread Michael Rimicans
Hi, I'll be leaving my current employment in the next 12 months and thus entitled to some retraining. I'd like to work in networking. Two courses that have caught my attention are: Comptia Network support and Comptia Network security Hopefully Ill be able to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Decisions. Decisions, Decisions

2008-09-29 Thread Michael Rimicans
for the last couple of years and have got to the point where Im pretty much up to speed on the system. Is there anywhere that provides just the LPI examination after a period of homestudy Rob Beard wrote: Dave Morley wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-29 at 14:50 +0100, Michael Rimicans wrote: Hi

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu for $20

2008-07-10 Thread Michael Rimicans
Just been reading this on that fine source of information, The Register: http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2008/07/10/ubuntu_best_buy_amazon Apparently, Canonical have started selling Ubuntu for $20 in America via Amazon and Bestbuy. It comes in a box, complete with documentation and 60 days

Re: [ubuntu-uk] iplayer downloads

2008-06-16 Thread Michael Rimicans
The script did work but then the beeb clamped down again Javad Ayaz wrote: will a search on google find this out...? key words being firefox iplayer download maybe? On 16/06/2008, *Russell Green* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2008/6/16 Joshua Scotton [EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Online banking

2008-06-05 Thread Michael Rimicans
I did have this problem when I updated to hardy, but now it seems to work fine since I upgraded to the release candidates of FireFox. Using the user agent switcher did solve the problem at first. All you needed it for was the login pages any other page was fine once you had authenticated.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Michael Rimicans
Signed Jai Harrison wrote: Signed :) On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry - left out the URL! http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 3 Mobile USB modem

2008-03-22 Thread Michael Rimicans
Hi, taken from: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=262867 *OK - PRETTY MUCH DISREGARD MOST ALL OF MY ABOVE POSTINGS AS I BRANCHED OFF THE WRONG TRACKS. MY HUAWEI E220 USB IS NOW WORKING*. == = The Huawei E220 is a USB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: OT: Small tremor just now? Earthquake?

2008-02-27 Thread Michael Rimicans
I'm in Huddersfield in W.Yorkshire. Me and the wife slept through it, the wife's father and sister was woken by a bang about 0100hrs. I think that people who live in California will probably be amused by the reaction the event has generated ;-) Kris Douglas wrote: -- Forwarded

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shorewall internet sharing problems

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Rimicans
All sorted. Just me being a mong and not setting up the resolv.conf properly Thanks Michael Tony Arnold wrote: Michael, Michael Rimicans wrote: Greetings. Can any one show me the error of my ways with the following: Have set up shorewall on a gateway system to provide security

[ubuntu-uk] Plugin locations

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Rimicans
Greetings, When you install plugins (eg. gstreamer etc...) are they availible for all users on a system or just for who installed them? Reason I ask is that I have set up a small (5 pc's, one server) network and have a number of users that will be using them. I managed how to set up flash so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Plugin locations

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Rimicans
And also making sure you have got the necessary plug ins installed on your test system helps. :-[ Stops you from getting confused as to why it 'aint working. Ooops Michael Alan Pope wrote: On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 02:09:50PM +, Michael Rimicans wrote: When you install plugins (eg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Central authentication in Ubuntu

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Rimicans
Greetings, Ive just achieved similar us NIS. It took me a few days but I managed to get it working: This helped: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/36 Also there is something called LDAP but thats for another day with me.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Central authentication in Ubuntu

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Rimicans
Sorry, forgot something else: http://www.ltsp.org/ also might be of help. Chris Rowson wrote: Hello folks, I've been wondering for a while, how I could put in place some kind of central authentication for a series of Ubuntu desktops/laptops. At work, I achieve this using Active Directory

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Central authentication in Ubuntu

2007-12-13 Thread Michael Rimicans
It did with NIS I had to give the clients the IP address of the NIS server and edit the user and password files to point there (best way i could think of saying it). This was carried out by editing various text files in /etc In fact looking back on it, apart from some head bang wall moments,

[ubuntu-uk] Shorewall internet sharing problems

2007-12-12 Thread Michael Rimicans
Greetings. Can any one show me the error of my ways with the following: Have set up shorewall on a gateway system to provide security and net sharing duties. After banging my head against a wall it has finally allowed me to connect a networked computer through to the wifi router. Now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email hosts (was Re: (no subject))

2007-12-07 Thread Michael Rimicans
Thanks for all the advice. After looking around I have decided to create an account with http://www.weycrest.co.uk/email-hosting.php Cheers Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Smelly Broadband......

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Rimicans
Greetings, Anyone else seen this: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7104011.stm Just imagine. Boss Erm, The networks down, Be a good chap and check the cabling answers to the normal addess ;) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2007-12-06 Thread Michael Rimicans
Greetings, Can anyone recommend a company that hosts email accounts? Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] NFS problems

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Rimicans
Greetings, setup: Fileserver-server--clients The fileserver is a snap appliances 2200 The server is a pc on the network to centralise control for the clients Problem: I have managed to figure out how to set the home dir on the server to one on the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Squid

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Rimicans
So if squid is running on a server which is connected to the internet and all the computers connect to squid proxy on (for example)port 8000, is squid sharing the internet connection or not? Kris Marsh wrote: On Nov 26, 2007 7:30 PM, Michael Rimicans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Greetings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Squid

2007-11-27 Thread Michael Rimicans
Its funny when you read one item and all of a sudden every thing drops into place. Cheers for the info, it'll proper ding dang do and yep, it is a cheap SOHO router ;) People who I work for would never spend for Cisco switch at my level :( Chris Rowson wrote: I mean. , I guess you

[ubuntu-uk] Squid

2007-11-26 Thread Michael Rimicans
Greetings, Quick question: Can squid proxy server also be used to share an internet connection over a small office network? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Webcams

2007-11-07 Thread Michael Rimicans
Anyone recommend a webcam for use with feisty? Cheers, Michael -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Networks

2007-10-29 Thread Michael Rimicans
Hi all, Situation: One room with ten computers (running Win2k) and network hardware installed. Internet connection running through a old Netpilot proxy box. Users would log into a local desktop and would only be asked for a username and pwd for web connection when firefox started.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Networks

2007-10-29 Thread Michael Rimicans
it be possible to have a centralised usr / password list that each system could query? Darren Mansell wrote: Michael Rimicans wrote: Hi all, Situation: One room with ten computers (running Win2k) and network hardware installed. Internet connection running through a old

[ubuntu-uk] [Ubuntu-UK] Article on theregister.co.uk regarding gutsy

2007-10-24 Thread Michael Rimicans
Just found this article on Gutsy referring to network problems during install and usage: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/24/ubuntu_gutsy_gibbon_ipv6/ Anyone had any problems? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk