Archie Ferrier wrote:
Hi Everyone
I hope someone can help me with a problem that has just reared its ugly
head. When I booted up my Linux box, running Fedora 10, the other day it
just displayed the word GRUB over and over. I have booted it with the
Fedora 10 disc and I can run grub from
Terry Coles wrote:
On Sunday 22 Mar 2009, Sean Gibbins wrote:
I used ATI cards briefly a few years back, but have now returned the
nVidia fold.
So, if you want good 3D performance plus bells and whistles under Linux,
my advice would be to flog the ATI effort while it still has
Sean Gibbins wrote:
Sean Gibbins wrote:
All help appreciated, and I will post the result of my efforts.
This is looking less painful than I thought it might be - phoned MS who
said Acer will handle the refund, am on the phone to Acer now, listening
to some nice music.
It can't
John Carlyle-Clarke wrote:
This came up before with BeOS. Checking Wikipedia and cited links leads to
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/02/20/be_inc_sues_microsoft/
http://www.internetnews.com/ent-news/print.php/3073811/
Short, biased summary: Be Inc. had some agreements to ship dual boot
Hi All,
My daughter has now migrated all of her data off of her desktop machine
and is looking to sell it in order to recoup some of the cost of her new
laptop.
This machine was built by me from branded, good quality components that
I can confirm are Linux-friendly [1] and in good working order.
Peter Merchant wrote:
I have just received a notification that I can upgrade my 8.10 system to
9.04.
Do I want to do it?
My experience of full upgrades like this is not good.
I would appreciate advice on this. Has anyone done it?
Peter M.
Well, we're not exactly like for like,
Simon P Smith wrote:
On Wed, 10 Jun 2009 05:08:51 -0700 (PDT), greg oconnell
greg.oconn...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Does anybody know which printer manufacturers support Linux (Ubuntu
specifically). I know HP does - any others?
Irrespective of the manufactures support you will find a
Peter Merchant wrote:
I just came across the following:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LPI_Linux_Certification/Junior_Level_Linux_Professional
As a relatively new user, I have discovered that (most) of the logfiles
of activity are in /var/log, and I was wondering how I use them to check
up
I receive newsletters from Technet from time to time, which I scan to
see what's occurring in the world of Windows.
This morning's effort kicks off with the following question from
Alexandria Ball, the author of the email:
You may have seen in the news a few weeks back that, in order for
Europe
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Sean- Windows is successful, so it is a target for the Brussels parasites.
If Linux was as successful, it would be hobbled as well, by hook or by
crook, mainly crook.
It would be churlish to deny Microsoft's success was not due in part to
innovation and clever
Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Can you still rip that CD to ogg? What about a different CD that you
may have recently ripped successfully? IOW, try something to ensure
it's a problem with this particular CD plus MP3 and not a new problem
with either the drive or this particular CD. Any chance it's
Peter Merchant wrote:
which do you use?
http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/10things/?p=895
I use Backup Manager [1], a command line tool that is reasonably
intuitive and very configurable, in order to do weekly full backups and
daily incremental backups.
Sean
[1]
Terry Coles wrote:
I *used* to use KBackup, (no 10 in the list) and was perfectly happy with
it.
However, your post prompted me to go and look and I found that I hadn't been
using *anything* since the Kubuntu 9.04 update, because KBackup is no longer
in the Repository. I had regular
Terry Coles wrote:
Well OK. I can live without sound on the games, but it's surprising how
often
sound gets used on web pages.
My Ubuntu 9.04 system is set to 'Autodetect' which seems to work nicely
here, where I disabled onboard sound in favour of my Aureon sound card -
I also have
Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
My understanding was the government weren’t pulling the plug, but that
Bletchley Park wasn’t funded by the government in the first place and
the government had refused to provide funding.
A friend of mine is an archaeolgist who has specialised in WWII
archaeology
Terry Coles wrote:
I'll just have to try to visualise what my mother is seeing and help her that
way. Otherwise, it's a quick trip to the Midlands this weekend.
Next time you're up there you might want to install VNC on there Terry,
might save you a trip in future.
Sean
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Andrew Drapper wrote:
Hi,
I have several old computers, all beyond it. a P2 and a dead Celeron 2.2 I
have very little spare cash. Should I upgrade the main-board and
and processor or by something second-hand from ebay?
What's your budget Andrew?
Sean
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Ted Frater wrote:
You havnt read any of this, so dont mention it to anyone.
I'm guessing that was meant to go off-list?
Either way Ted, my lips are sealed!
:-)
Sean
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Dan Dart wrote:
Hi LUGs
I am Dan Dart, and I am the current administrator of the Glastonbury LUG.
I am primarily a LAMP developer, and second, a GNU Linux administrator.
I felt it was necessary to introduce myself around, since I have a few years
experience with Linux et al. So I can
Sean Gibbins wrote:
Terry Coles wrote:
It may be that our discussions about finding pubs which provide Wi-Fi may be
pointless if the pup operators take the next logical step after this case:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-10405824-83.html?part=rsssubj=newsamp;tag=2547-1_3-0-5
'A pub
Peter Merchant wrote:
Now, Take the university, with it's 250-300 Wireless access points and
16,000 students, and tell me that none of them have ever downloaded
anything not legit. And it all comes over JANET (Joint Academic
Network).
There's a lot of money there for someone if they can
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Word to the wise- I noticed the HP2133 getting warm, although there have
been no troubles. On the web, certain people suggested that overheating was
an issue. It has been replaced by the 2140, with a change from the Via chip
to the Atom.
IIRC the VIA chips were
I have just read this piece on Sci Fi author Charles Stross' blog:
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/imbeciles.html
-and-
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2009/11/imbeciles_the_second_round.html
It seems the rot goes far deeper than simply the three-strikes thing,
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
As the Australians would say, that's a bloody disgrace!
Well, disgrace is something Mandelson is intimately acquainted with, so
perhaps that's why he got this job!
Sean
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Simon O'Riordan wrote:
My curiosity was piqued by the Ubuntu 9.10 Netbook UNR edition, so I
installed it this afternoon on my netbook.
It is appalling.
The visuals are expanded and detailed so as to give a clearer set of options
on small screens, but they consume so much graphics and
Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I'm running it on the HP 2133 Mini. That's the one with the Via chipset.
Funny thing is, it works fine with the Desktop version; maybe it is
optimised to be an 'un-netbook' netbook?
I may be wrong here, but isn't UNR optimised for Intel Atom CPUs?
It might explain
John Cooper wrote:
On 17/12/09 22:15, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I'm running it on the HP 2133 Mini. That's the one with the Via chipset.
Funny thing is, it works fine with the Desktop version; maybe it is
optimised to be an 'un-netbook' netbook?
Simono
I had the same problem on my HP
Victor Churchill wrote:
2010/1/5 Ralph Corderoy ra...@inputplus.co.uk:
Hi Marti,
I won't be there, but I am laughing at your predicament... We've had
almost non-stop snowfall since New Years' Eve
http://www.cbc.ca/ottawa/traffic/FrameSet.htm
I went to Dorchester's
Terry Coles wrote:
On Tuesday 30 Mar 2010, Peter Merchant wrote:
http://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/view/8357/digital-economy-bill-protest
s-spread-across-the-uk/
Yes, but that report is nearly a week old, so the momentum has been lost.
The
LibDems were the only major party
Terry Coles wrote:
What is it about the US legal system that makes litigious companies like SCO
continue to the bitter end. BTW, their share price was down to $0.10 at the
close having dropped from $0.46 after the verdict. It looks like the
entertainment continues, but they're going to
On 04/04/10 11:00, Mark Elkins wrote:
Heres something from recent dealings I've had with other Free and Open Source
groups that LUG members might find interesting:
http://votegeek.org.uk/
Hi Mark,
rant
I've resigned myself to the fact that most politicians don't give a damn
about
On 07/04/10 10:53, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Keith,
Point out to her that this is still (allegedly) a democracy, and her
job is to represent her constituents' views in Parliament rather than
to represent her party's views to you. In other words, if she has
three letters against the DEB
On 19/04/10 23:45, David wrote:
Hello Folks,
I finally tired of having 150 GB of Vista 'operating system' which kept
on unstarting, so I blatted my main PC with 9.10 which took 15 minutes
including Ext4-ing the drive(in case the international paedos had been
using the 150GB as an illegal
On 04/05/10 08:50, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 02:51 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 02:30 +0100, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
1)Takes longer to boot up
2)Boot up sequence looks like a chinese-made plastic toy. Crap.
3)Uninstalls opencv, cannot
On 04/05/10 11:11, greg oconnell wrote:
I have recently purchased a couple of home plug devices to network my two PCs
(both Ubuntu 9.10). They work fine but I wondered how safe the data is
whizzing round my ring main. Can anyone eavesdrop on this type of wired
network and live?
Puts
On 08/05/10 20:47, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Further news - I used Transmission to download 'Ice Cold In Alex'(one of
my favourites-no sweat I bought the DVD just they are hobbled)
And no doubt that's /exactly/ how your ISP will see it when they get a
letter from a solicitor informing them
On 08/05/10 21:40, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Sean,
just looked it up; we have until June 12th.
So shag that connection, baby!
Ooerr!
Meanwhile, I'm checking out AcidRip so I don't have to download at all.
I'll let you know how that goes in a few minutes. I've got 98% of my
first file.
On 08/05/10 22:01, weki wrote:
Hi everyone,
I know we are not in Spain ;-) but under the Spanish law you have the right
to do a private copy of any music or film you have bought . So I'm not 100%
sure but I think it should be the same here in England.
It's not if what I have read on
On 24/05/10 18:30, Alex Ross wrote:
I second Robert, it actually seems to be puppy thats getting in the way.
Maybe you could suggest he tries installing it on Ubuntu/Debian server?
There are lots of walkthrough's available.
On 24/05/10 20:25, Terry Coles wrote:
On Monday 24 May 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
We've discussed this and suspect that it isn't able to open up the right
port (6000) in the Windows version
TCP 6000 is the X Window System server. Is TCP 9000 what he wants? I
think Slim stuff
On 30/05/10 14:11, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
I've put on a page.
Still has a rather naff URL.
Maybe somebody knows how to transfer it to somewhere more descriptive?
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:example1
Simono
Not sure if there is a cleverer way but this works:
-
On 30/05/10 14:59, Terry Coles wrote:
OK. I've done a small review of Kubuntu 10.04 at
http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=articles:linux_distribution_comparisons#terry.
I'm still not sure how to delete the old page that Simon did at
On 31/05/10 09:13, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 08:57 +0100, Peter Merchant wrote:
Thanks to everyone for their input. I looked at the reference above to
ubuntumanual, which starts with pwmconfig.
The results of that are:
/usr/sbin/pwmconfig: There are no pwm-capable
On 10/06/10 23:54, Andrew Drapper wrote:
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 my monitor is 1280 x 1024 but Ubuntu is only
letting me have 1024 x 768. How do I change this in 10.04. I believe it is
not as easy as it used to be. no config file to change, or some such.
Any tips appreciated. my monitor is
On 23/06/10 17:29, d-...@hadrian-way.co.uk wrote:
I'll definitely think about an upgrade to UNR.
As I recall UNR was a non-starter for EeePC 700 - slow to the point of
being unusable, possibly on account of it being optimised for other
hardware (Intel Atom?), or simply due to the lack of
On 06/08/10 20:43, Peter Merchant wrote:
Any suggestions?
Backup Manager works for me:
http://www.backup-manager.org/
It's in the Ubuntu repositories and seems to be pretty flexible in terms
of what it will do for you.
Sean
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On 06/08/10 22:01, Tim wrote:
I also use Lucky Backup
Wandering slightly OT here, but does Lucky Backup strike anybody else as
a peculiar name for something most folk wouldn't want to trust to luck?
Despite not knowing the first thing about it, but I have already formed
a slightly
On 06/08/10 22:47, jr wrote:
question to Sean, Dominic, Tim:
Lucky Backup, Backup Manager
.. the best product on the market!
why do you require a 'product' when *nix systems come with s/ware
which fulfills the requirements (I want to backup selected
files/directories from my data
On 12/08/10 08:13, Natalie Hooper wrote:
What else to say in an introduction? I love music, I like different styles
though I don't like r'n'b/hip-hop/urban music much, and I'm trying to find
out about good live music venues in Bournemouth Southampton, so any tip
welcome!
Hi Natalie,
Welcome
On 12/08/10 12:17, Victor Churchill wrote:
Can't add to what Sean has said on the music score really - I don't
actually do much live music (apart from opera!) these days - but for
those with sufficiently long and hazy memories I did notice that
Daevid Allen (Gong etc) is doing a couple of gigs
On 14/08/10 10:19, Natalie Hooper wrote:
That looks like a really cool festival indeed! Too late for this year (we
have other plans that week-end) but maybe another year... I'm not keen on
big festivals - had too many experiences going to a festival wanting to see
a band only to find myself at
On 14/08/10 23:42, Victor Churchill wrote:
Comme t 7 summed up my impression:
Either you commit to open standards or you don't - the BBC seems to
be trying to declare its wholehearted support of open standards whilst
not practising what it preaches.
I got the impression that the bloke who
On 16/08/10 15:10, Walter Reed wrote:
My little Acer AOA Netbook model ZG5 has bitten the dust. (1 GBt Ram 120GB hdd
and about 18 months old.) I've had loads of fun out of this model and use it
most days but now it looks like 'curtains'.
It will boot past the Grub choices (LInpus or Ubuntu)
On 19/08/10 16:30, kimd...@tiscali.co.uk wrote:
Hi folks,
Can any of you using Kubuntu Lucid Lynx let me me how it is on
reliability?
My friend is a proficient techie plus long term KDE and Ubuntu user.
However, he gave up on Kubuntu quite a while ago, having tried it over
several
On 20/08/10 14:02, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Sean,
Despite its world read permission being set, you still need the sudo
to get to it on my machine.
Regardless of the permissions on the file, each directory in the path to
the file needs execute (AKA search) permission if the kernel is
On 29/08/10 11:40, Simon O'Riordan wrote:
Incidentally, iTunes won't install on a virtual machine, so maybe it is
another example?
Not true: my daughter runs iTunes in a VirtualBox VM (Windows XP) on Ubuntu.
Sean
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On 29/08/10 19:59, Dan Dart wrote:
Just fri, libdvdcss is region-free. You don't need to set a region
when watching DVDs with it.
If I got the right end of the stick...
I thought that commercially produced DVD discs were region set by the
manufacturer for different markets, and by
On 02/09/10 07:27, Tim wrote:
On Wednesday 01 September 2010 23:09:39 Natalie Hooper wrote:
On 31 August 2010 22:42, Dan Dartdand...@googlemail.com wrote:
I wonder: in twenty years' time, will people look back and say, I
can't believe people used to pay for that kind of software? Or
On 04/09/10 11:40, Peter Merchant wrote:
On Sat, 2010-09-04 at 08:31 +0100, Terry Coles wrote:
On Friday 03 Sep 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
The next release will be 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, to be released on
October 10, 2010 (10/10/10). This is a departure from the traditional
On 12/09/10 10:54, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Sun, 12 Sep 2010 10:36:37 +0100, Sean Gibbins
s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
It's not the same as sending Charles Bronson after them, is it? ;-)
Slippery slope
No more so than standing on a street watching the traffic and thinking
On 12/09/10 12:10, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
Do people speed past the school? What can be done to slow them down?
Bung a camera outside and send them a hefty fine?
Believe me, it works with at least some of the population - a friend was
caught by a camera, fined and had the option of attending
On 11/09/10 19:35, Andrew Morgan wrote:
Now lets get rid of all this spying technology and start treating each
other like humans.
A noble thought Andrew, but it is precisely because of human nature that
we find ourselves in this state. There are humans out there who put
precisely zero value
On 17/09/10 09:35, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 08:25:00 +0100, Sean Gibbins
s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
precisely zero value on your peace of mind or your physical safety
I'll admit I speed at times. This doesn't mean I put precisely zero
value on your safety
On 17/09/10 10:39, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Fri, 17 Sep 2010 10:15:15 +0100, Sean Gibbins
s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
Do we do away entirely with speed limits and leave it to the
individual to judge?
Not quite - but maybe we should have speed limits based on scientific
judgement
On 22/09/10 15:18, Victor Churchill wrote:
Hi Sean,
My wife has worked at So'ton Uni in the past, and said immediately
that you or he should approach the Centre for Assistive Technology,
which is part of the University's Student Support Services. I'll try
and chase up a website ref.
best
On 23/09/10 21:39, Natalie Hooper wrote:
The frequent Ubuntu upgrades are
actually a negative for me, too many risks of things going wrong too often.
Sometimes, it takes up to 2 months to get the system working as well as it
did before the upgrade - in fact, right now, I haven't got mine
On 23/09/10 21:39, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I have found Ubuntu quite unstable at time - the last upgrade was quite
stressful for example. Eclipse, which is an IDE I use fairly often, is a lot
less stable than it was - in fact, it isn't stable at all, it crashes about
once every half hour at the
On 23/09/10 22:25, Dan Dart wrote:
Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-)
Oh, me! me! me! Pick me!
I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM.
As soon as they are I use them full time. And make sure everything is
fixed before release day (submitting bug
On 23/09/10 22:38, Bryn Jones wrote:
On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 22:29 +0100, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 23/09/10 22:25, Dan Dart wrote:
Let others volunteer to be guinea pigs. :-)
Oh, me! me! me! Pick me!
I install betas occasionally and see if they're good enough in a VM.
As soon as they are I
On 24/09/10 15:55, Dan Dart wrote:
http://bit.ly/cvIBAp
Looks dodgy - since it was sent to everyone - I'd like a little explanation.
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On 30/09/10 16:08, Bryn Jones wrote:
Anyone know?...
Hi Bryn,
I probably know as much as you now, which is that we are discussing Zero
Insertion Force and Low Insertion Force devices, where ZIFs have a
clamping mechanism to secure a good, accurate connection with the cable
and LIFs gently push
On 02/10/10 18:10, Victor Churchill wrote:
Just called my local : The Broadway, top of Charminster Road,
roundabout with Castle Lane/Broadway Lane.
+ WiFi free
+ On several Bus routes
+ Decent car parking (not huge but probably adequate)
- Karaoke on Wednesdays - however:
+ They have a
On 10/10/10 17:09, Terry Coles wrote:
On Sunday 10 Oct 2010, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Simon,
Wunderbar! I have ABSOLUTELY NO DESKTOP WHATSOEVER. 10.10 is a console!
...angels fear to tread.
Why not wait a week?
I didn't and (so far) I seem to have a pretty good installation.
I did a
On 26/10/10 02:51, Andrew Morgan wrote:
If there are video problems then log in to a console (Ctrl+Alt+F1) and
edit /etc/X11/xorg.conf. Change the Driver in Section Device to
one of nouveau, nv or nvidia, then save and restart gdm.
If there were problems upgrading packages then run 'sudo
On 02/11/10 08:45, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I'd like to know your thoughts about this, what you agree/disagree with,
what you would add etc.
Hi Natalie,
See comment number two!
Sean
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On 02/11/10 13:43, jr wrote:
On 2 November 2010 12:40, John Cooper l...@discoverlinux.co.uk wrote:
packages (DEB is NOT the defacto standard as someone posted).
where did you read that??
Debian packages are standard Unix ar archives that include two
gzipped, bzipped or lzmaed tar archives:
On 02/11/10 14:14, Natalie Hooper wrote:
@Sean - I've been using Linux since 2005, though I didn't use it at all in
2008/early 2009. As stated before, these things don't stop ME from using
Linux/Ubuntu/whatever app I use, but from my experience, they stop new users
from using Linux/Ubuntu.
On 02/11/10 17:26, Natalie Hooper wrote:
I think some of you are really misunderstanding my purpose here. My purpose
isn't to diss Linux, or to complain about it, but to constructively throw
ideas as to how to improve its user-friendliness. Now, if you don't want it
to become more
On 13/11/10 17:12, Dan Dart wrote:
I don't think any ISP anywhere does, for that matter.
I talked to some guy with IPv6 - I can't remember, but I know some ISPs do.
I was testing others' IPv6 connectivity as I had a Miredo tunnel to
give me a global address.
Apparently Andrews and Arnold do:
On 16/11/10 18:23, Nicky Scopes wrote:
hello all,
i have been studying linux and have achieved LPIC level 1 and have done so
using
self study materials from sybex.com
the only problem is that neither sybex or oreilly publish material for the
level
2 exams, i have looked on amazon.co.uk
On 17/11/10 18:49, Peter Jill Harris wrote:
I have tried restoring the last complete backup plus incrementals but
still no files to be found. Can anyone help please?
I guess the question to ask here is /where/ did you restore them to?
Depending on how you went about it they might be lurking
On 22/11/10 18:05, Tim wrote:
I am a cli dunce so please bear with me.
Lets say I am working in the terminal screen in the following folder
m...@computer:~#/folder1/folder2/folder3/folder4/folder5 mv blah blah.
Now I want to go back to work in folder2, what the easy command to get
On 27/11/10 13:41, Terry Coles wrote:
Does anyone know of a tool that can do this?
Hi Terry,
An alternative approach to yours might have been:
- Copy the music directory to an alternative location (i.e. 'cp ~/Music
~/Music_copy')
- Point Sound Converter (or Sound Konverter for KDE types) at
On 27/11/10 14:15, Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 27/11/10 13:41, Terry Coles wrote:
Does anyone know of a tool that can do this?
Hi Terry,
An alternative approach to yours might have been:
- Copy the music directory to an alternative location (i.e. 'cp ~/Music
~/Music_copy')
Sorry
On 27/11/10 17:14, Terry Coles wrote:
---8---
OK. I've started trying to put together a script that will sort my tracks.
I've found two useful scripts on the web; one to create a list of filenames
in
a directory and one to parse out the ID3 tags. I've started with the list of
On 27/11/10 20:43, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
That's enough wandering toff optic. :-)
Not at all Ralph - I was basically repeating something I had stumbled
across that did the trick, and had no idea how it worked, so all this is
very interesting - thanks for taking the time to post it!
Sean
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On 04/12/10 13:14, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
On Sat, 04 Dec 2010 12:32:15 -, Sean Gibbins
s...@funkygibbins.me.uk wrote:
The notion of a community that co-operates and shares while striving for
excellence must surely be alien to our self-serving leaders and captains
of industry.
God damn
On 08/12/10 17:36, Terry Coles wrote:
I think I asked the wrong question (or the right question asked wrongly).
What we really want to do is to burn a disc that consists of the TC ISO
(which
will rarely change) and add some additional scripts/config files (which will
change frequently)
On 13/12/10 18:00, C A Wills wrote:
Done a silly thing and deleted several partitions on an old PC of my
brother, now no boot sequence!
PC used to dual boot WP/Ubuntu but they have not used Linux and WP has
no elbow room so I removed the Linux partitions, expanded WP twice as
large and used
On 09/01/11 10:14, Peter Merchant wrote:
On another front, A friend using XP had his computer fail. It was in
perennial reboot mode. It had 40G hard disk that was full, and I think
they had unplugged it to stop it when it ceased to work for them. Thanks
to Ubuntu disk I was able to boot the
On 14/01/11 20:06, Walter wrote:
When the two connectors are attached to the m 'board and I apply the
front power button all the internal fans run for a couple of seconds
only then stop. The mobo light is now orange flashing until I switch
off rear mains power.
That sounds like it might be
On 30/01/11 20:40, Robert Bronsdon wrote:
Register for interest weren't that sewerage ISP registering for
interest for years?
Yeah, that was just another flush in the pan though!
:-)
Sean
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On 31/01/11 10:00, StarLion wrote:
We got told the same down here in Weymouth, but that was quite some
time ago. It seems way down south, we're not important enough to get
it.
Not even with the Olympics looming large? I would have thought this was
just the sort of benefit the locals might
Hi All,
I'm not sure how newsworthy this is, but since the question of basic
Linux training courses that crops up from time to time I thought I'd
pass it on.
It appears that the Open University are now offering a module that
explores the basics of Linux system administration, and that can
On 28/03/11 20:52, Peter Merchant wrote:
Way back in November '09 we had a discussion about editing the Grub
Menu, which I must have used successfully, but don't think I could have
repeated. Now I have a menu with so many 'old' versions of the kernel
that the bottom entries are off the bottom
On 30/03/11 18:46, Brian Masterman wrote:
I have an old laptop that I wish to install Linux on with audacity for
recording purposes.
All the modern distros fail as the are too heavy on ram and disks etc.
What I need is to setup an auto-login and startup audacity and allow
usb transfer
On 31/03/11 14:40, Mark Elkins wrote:
Alternatively if you don't want to upgrade the memory you could try Ubuntu
Light (Lite?).
I'm currently using Linux Mint Debian which I have found to be
significantly faster than either Linux Mint or Ubuntu.
Sean
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On 02/04/11 12:54, StarLion wrote:
Now, as I understand it, using GParted to resized a Win7 partition
causes it to fail to boot. So firstly, how exactly does one get around
this safely, without having to reinstall Windows itself?
Secondly, can legacy GRUB chainload Windows 7, or do I have to
On 02/04/11 15:04, Natalie Hooper wrote:
When I got my new computer a few months ago, it came with Windows 7 and I
used Windows 7's own Disk Management tool to resize my window partition.
However, I discovered I wasn't able to resize it down to as small as I hoped
I might, due to some data in
Hi Folks!
Just spotted this in the morning mail:
http://www.ebuyer.com/267867-emachine-er1401-desktop-pt-nbzec-004
I'm not familiar with e-machines kit but they seem to be established and
as I recall ebuyer have been stocking their stuff for some time.
However, at £129 for a dual-core
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