Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 07:52:30 am Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 17 Feb 2011 21:59:22 +, andy.pater...@ntlworld.com said: Then Nokia puts a spoke in the works and effectively indicates that continuing learning QT will be a waste of t!me I think you're extrapolating considerably

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 08:43:43 am Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andrew, After spending days(!) fscking and trying to decode all kinds of stuff I stepped back and saw the light - I MUST have a duff disk. `smartctl -a /dev/sda' can be useful to get the drive's own stats on how

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Andrew, What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern hard-drive then? Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed this very old 20GB PATA drive. $ foo() { date +%S.%N; } $ sudo true; foo; sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb $N; foo 31.142709016

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:39:37 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andrew, What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern hard-drive then? Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed this very old 20GB PATA drive. $ foo() { date +%S.%N; }

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Thursday 17 Feb 2011, C A Wills wrote: I had the same problem earlier this week, I went to Add-ons and highlighted Flash reader and requested an update. It seemed to work after login out and back in. Hope this helps (also got similar problem on friends Win7 Notebook, upgraded Adobe and all

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 12:39:37 pm Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Andrew, What kind of spin-up times do you think are normal for a modern hard-drive then? Second or two? Purely from very limited experience. Have just timed this very old 20GB PATA drive. $ foo() { date +%S.%N; }

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread jr
On 18 February 2011 14:09, Andrew Reid Paterson andy.pater...@ntlworld.com wrote: So, I will now wait see what haappens. those settings (probably) won't survive a reboot, you might want to add a small script to your system start. -- regards, jr. time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Andrew Reid Paterson
On Friday, February 18, 2011 02:27:43 pm jr wrote: On 18 February 2011 14:09, Andrew Reid Paterson andy.pater...@ntlworld.com wrote: So, I will now wait see what haappens. those settings (probably) won't survive a reboot, you might want to add a small script to your system start. Funny

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread C A Wills
On 18/02/11 13:54, Terry Coles wrote: On Thursday 17 Feb 2011, C A Wills wrote: I had the same problem earlier this week, I went to Add-ons and highlighted Flash reader and requested an update. It seemed to work after login out and back in. Hope this helps (also got similar problem on friends

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 12:39:37 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said: $ foo() { date +%S.%N; } $ sudo true; foo; sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb $N; foo 31.142709016 35.482519853 $ e 35.482519853 - 31.142709016 4.339810837 $ Next time: $ time sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Keith, $ sudo true; foo; sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb $N; foo 31.142709016 35.482519853 Next time: $ time sudo fdisk -l /dev/sdb Much easier! Easier, true, but I wanted more accuracy that /usr/bin/time or bash's time would give. :-) Cheers, Ralph. -- Next

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Peter Merchant
On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 18:26 +, C A Wills wrote: Hi Terry Sorry duff info, it was in the Tools/Add-ons/Plug-ins. Firefox, yes. I highlighted the Flash pug-in and checked the update, it's now showing updated from 9x to 10x. That was no the laptop, same thing on desktop but that's

Re: [Dorset] disk problems

2011-02-18 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Fri, 18 Feb 2011 18:55:27 +, ra...@inputplus.co.uk said: Easier, true, but I wanted more accuracy that /usr/bin/time or bash's time would give. :-) Bash's 'time' command resolves to thousandths of a second. I would imagine that saccadic suppression would make more accurate measurement

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 18 Feb 2011, Peter Merchant wrote: I have shockwave flash 10.2 r152 on firefox/kubuntu and everything works ok. I tried to check for updates, but that failed. Mine says it's Adobe 10.2.152.27ubuntu0.10.10.1. That isn't working. I ran the command 'sudo apt-get install

Re: [Dorset] Flash Player Plugin

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 18 Feb 2011, Terry Coles wrote: I ran the command 'sudo apt-get install flashplugin-nonfree' from the page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/MultimediaApplications. It appeared to install something, but it still doesn't work. I just uninstalled everything Flash and reinstalled the

Re: [Dorset] Nokia announcement

2011-02-18 Thread Terry Coles
On Friday 11 Feb 2011, Natalie Hooper wrote: As for Nokia's decision, it is going to have a major impact on the future of the industry - either it is going to sink Nokia completely or it is going to establish Windows Mobile 7 as a serious contender. Seen this: