[Ubuntu-ch] IRC meeting tonight

2010-09-16 Thread Tormod Volden
Hi Ubunteros, Just a little reminder, as scheduled on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SwissTeam/Meetings there is the IRC meeting tonight at 20:00. The most important topic will be this weekend's FrOScamp, from what I can see. I just discovered the Sawubona mailing list archive on

Re: [Ubuntu-ch] IRC meeting tonight

2010-09-16 Thread Dirk Deimeke
Answering Tormod Volden lists.tor...@gmail.com (Thu, 16 Sep 2010 16:51:47 +0200): Hi Tormod, Just a little reminder, as scheduled on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SwissTeam/Meetings there is the IRC meeting tonight at 20:00. sorry, I am not able to attend. I have to prepare a few things for

Ubiquity 2.3.18 Pairwise Testing ( Wubi!)

2010-09-16 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello all, As you know, in two weeks is Maverick RC and we will testing the ISOs in a classic milestone testing cycle. But, before that, and to avoid classic last minute problems with ubiquity, we are going to have a Pairwise Ubiquity Testing Cycle starting just now! What is this? We have

Re: Ubiquity 2.3.18 Pairwise Testing ( Wubi!)

2010-09-16 Thread Ara Pulido
Hello again, Due to a major bug in ubiquity 2.3.18 [1] we need to hold the pairwise testing until Evan uploads a new ubiquity and generate new ISOs. I have set the builds in the pairwise tracker [2] as rebuilding to avoid confusion. I will follow up this email when everything is ready. And

Re: [ubuntu-in] Personalising Ubuntu LiveCD

2010-09-16 Thread BR!j!TH
Yes, remastersys is a great tool. I have been using it for 2 years * * On 16 September 2010 11:13, Vishal Rao vishal...@gmail.com wrote: I've seen remastersys being mentioned for such use, try it? -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-in] Personalising Ubuntu LiveCD

2010-09-16 Thread Narendra Diwate
oem-config-remaster Anyone has an idea what this is and how to use it. This there in Synaptic default without adding any 3rd party repos. Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

[ubuntu-in] ubuntu 10.04 wireless problem

2010-09-16 Thread nitheesh kl
i'm using ubutnu 10.04. till recently i had no problem at all, but from a few days back i'm unable to connect to wireless network at all. i can see the wireless connections and when i select the network i want, it asks for authentication. but even after giving the correct password i'm not

Re: [ubuntu-in] ubuntu 10.04 wireless problem

2010-09-16 Thread Mehdi
See that your IP-address is auto. If you see the Broadcast SSID- ( name of wireless) after giving the Pre-Shared Key it should be work..see your IP. On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 1:06 PM, nitheesh kl nithees...@gmail.com wrote: i'm using ubutnu 10.04. till recently i had no problem at all, but from

Re: [ubuntu-in] ubuntu 10.04 wireless problem

2010-09-16 Thread nitheesh kl
thanks for the reply. but i've already tried that. i can see the name of the wireless network, and i've also given the pre shared key.i can see the list of wireless networks available also. but when i select the network i want to connect to, it simple wont connect. it continuously keeps asking

Re: [ubuntu-in] ubuntu 10.04 wireless problem

2010-09-16 Thread Ramnarayan.K
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 9:44 PM, nitheesh kl nithees...@gmail.com wrote: thanks for the reply. but  i've already tried that. i can see the name of the wireless network, and i've also given the pre shared key.i can see the list of wireless networks available also. but when i select the network

[ubuntu-in] General Question About Linux - Would there be any kind of Computer Users you would not introduce to Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Ramnarayan.K
Hi I know , I know this is kind of OT, but please bear For some time now i have been grappling with the feeling that maybe , just maybe its better to leave some users to Wincedows or whatever propreitory OS and hardware they are on. Its been a passion of mine to talk about FLOSS and introduce

[ubuntu-in] Adobe Finally Releases A New Adobe Flash Player 64bit - Yes, For Linux Too!

2010-09-16 Thread Ramnarayan.K
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/adobe-finally-releases-new-adobe-flash.html Flashing a Grin :-) ram -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in

Re: [ubuntu-in] Adobe Finally Releases A New Adobe Flash Player 64bit - Yes, For Linux Too!

2010-09-16 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.comwrote: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/adobe-finally-releases-new-adobe-flash.html Flashing a Grin : Me too. IS it open source? Regards Narendra Diwate -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-in] General Question About Linux - Would there be any kind of Computer Users you would not introduce to Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:40 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.comwrote: So what kinds of people would you not introduce to linux The kind who have a closed mind and dont allow new thoughts, views, opinions to enter. Those that are so stuckup with their views that they think that they

Re: [ubuntu-in] General Question About Linux - Would there be any kind of Computer Users you would not introduce to Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy
I have managed to hand hold and convert some people completely to Linux. Two instances were when they could not afford to buy new laptops, and had to work with their existing systems which came packaged with bloated Vista, which rendered the laptop slow over a period of time. After switching to

[ubuntu-in] Ubuntu/Knoppix on ext2/ext3 FS on usb stick

2010-09-16 Thread Jkhatri
Dear all, Anyone can light on this, I'm installing Linux on my usb 16GB stick , but I'm wondering why only vfat partition is needed to install the Linux on usb stick , why we can't use extX type of FS to install the Linux is it necessary to have vfat partition to install Linux instead

Re: [ubuntu-in] Adobe Finally Releases A New Adobe Flash Player 64bit - Yes, For Linux Too!

2010-09-16 Thread Ritesh Sinha
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 8:27 AM, Narendra Diwate narendra.diw...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 11:42 PM, Ramnarayan.K ramnaraya...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/adobe-finally-releases-new-adobe-flash.html Flashing a Grin : Me too. IS it open source? Nope.

Re: [ubuntu-in] General Question About Linux - Would there be any kind of Computer Users you would not introduce to Linux

2010-09-16 Thread Narendra Diwate
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 9:18 AM, Jagadeesh Krishnamurthy kja...@gmail.comwrote: Snip When his laptop had a hard disk failure, Ubuntu continued to write data on the affected sectors. An exhaustive search didn't yield much, and the only solution was to replace the disk. However, he noted that

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Acer AO721-3922

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Nadeau
Bonjour! je viens de faire la lecture du forum et à première vue tout seemble fonctionner après certaines operations, il y a des commentaires que tout fonctionne bien sous Opensuse111.3 qui est sorti après Ubuntu 10.04, donc dans Ubuntu 10.10 il y a de forte chance que tout soit fonctionnel, en

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Acer AO721-3922

2010-09-16 Thread Famille Defeijt
Bonjour Steve et merci pour ta réponse. je te site: *je viens de faire la lecture du forum et à première vue tout semble fonctionner après certaines operations*. Et bien justement c'est ça qui soulève mes réticences. Comme je le disais, je suis un simple utilisateur. Je ne connais rien dans les

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Support pour Vidétron 3G dans Ubuntu

2010-09-16 Thread frhuot
J'ai transmis votre demande à Vidéotron. frhuot -- View this message in context: http://ubuntu-qc.124361.n3.nabble.com/Support-pour-Videtron-3G-dans-Ubuntu-tp1473737p1488232.html Sent from the Ubuntu-Qc mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Ubuntu-quebec mailing list

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] Acer AO721-3922

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Nadeau
Bonjour! effectivement je comprends votre point... il est toujours important d'identifier notre niveau de connaissance technique, ça aide les autres dans leurs commentaires. en fonction de vos connaissances et pour vérifier le comportement de la machine, il serait bien d'aller faire un essai en

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] problème d'installation de Microso ft Office

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Nadeau
avec plaisir! :) même si iil serait préférable d'utiliser OpenOffice! :) bonne session! 2010/9/16 Maxim Théberge maxthebe...@gmail.com Merci pour la réponse rapide!! j'ai effectivement copié le cd sur mon DD et le problème fut réglé. Je continue par contre de me demander comment je faisais

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] problème d'installation de Microso ft Office

2010-09-16 Thread Maxim Théberge
Je sais bien... Le problème c'est qu'OpenOffice n'est pas absolument 100% compatible avec un document Word bien fourni (tableaux, images, rapports, etc).. Il y a toujours quelques problèmes d'affichage, d'espacements, d'alignement, de numérotation, etc... :( Elle se rabat donc sur la suite

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] problème d'installation de Microso ft Office

2010-09-16 Thread alexandre jodoin
Oups, trop tard... :) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:56:19 -0400 From: Maxim Théberge maxthebe...@gmail.com Subject: [Ubuntu-QC] problème d'installation de Microsoft Office To: Mailing list for the Quebec Team ubuntu-quebec@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID:

Re: [Ubuntu-QC] problème d'installation de Microso ft Office

2010-09-16 Thread Maxim Théberge
merci quand même! Le 16 septembre 2010 18:33, alexandre jodoin jodoin_alexan...@hotmail.coma écrit : Oups, trop tard... :) Date: Thu, 16 Sep 2010 11:56:19 -0400 From: Maxim Théberge maxthebe...@gmail.com Subject: [Ubuntu-QC] problème d'installation de Microsoft Office To: Mailing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 15 September 2010 19:44, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: surely I could just put the live CD onto my working ubuntu desktop and do a PXE boot to it You would need to set up the infrastructure that will supply the PXE boot information to the netbook. I've not done this, but I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread ian pettitt
On 16/09/10 08:58, Norman Silverstone wrote: I frequently read that, before carrying out various operations, one should first backup the home folder. Does this mean simply taking a CD and copying the home folder to it? Assuming that this is correct does it mean that if I mess things up or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber account window spontaneously opening

2010-09-16 Thread Gordon Allott
On Sat, 2010-09-11 at 12:09 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: On 10 September 2010 12:08, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 10.04 Gwibber has suddenly started opening the add account window spontaneously whether Gwibber is running or not. Anyone else getting this? I am getting this as well; I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Pope
On 16 September 2010 09:05, ian pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 16/09/10 08:58, Norman Silverstone wrote: I frequently read that, before carrying out various operations, one should first backup the home folder. Does this mean simply taking a CD and copying the home folder to it? This is absolutely possible although probably not totally necessary.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thursday 16 Sep 2010 09:55:33 Alan Pope wrote: To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to 'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread ian pettitt
On 16/09/10 09:55, Alan Pope wrote: On 16 September 2010 09:05, ian pettittian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Pope
On 16 September 2010 10:24, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Norman Silverstone
I frequently read that, before carrying out various operations, one should first backup the home folder. Does this mean simply taking a CD and copying the home folder to it? This is absolutely possible although probably not totally necessary. Assuming that this is correct does it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Pope
On 16 September 2010 10:29, ian pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk 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.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 16 September 2010 10:29, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 16 September 2010 10:24, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com 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. For

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber account window spontaneously opening

2010-09-16 Thread pmgazz
FYI, the fix for this is to go to the twitter account, authorise it then make sure you press save, have to press save or it'll keep coming back Tried this already - didn't work. Just starts doing it again and when I check Twitter is unauthorised again. Have had to remove Gwibber as it's

[ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread pmgazz
I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with non-profits for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue badly-constructed pdf forms and trying to fill these in with Evince is still a work in progress. I can manage to do it because I know Evince fairly well and what it can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread pmgazz
To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to 'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The installer will go through /bin, /usr, /var, /etc, /lib and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread pmgazz
Reinstalling using the existing home folder is a fabulous idea thanks! But you still need to back up in case of problems. And I back up constantly anyway in case I accidentally delete files myself or am struck by lightning etc etc. I use rsnapshot, which keeps rotating timed backups in a very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-16 Thread Jim Price
On 16/09/10 08:24, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 15 September 2010 19:44, Jacob Mansfieldcyberja...@gmail.com wrote: surely I could just put the live CD onto my working ubuntu desktop and do a PXE boot to it You would need to set up the infrastructure that will supply the PXE boot information

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Glen Mehn
On 16/09/2010 10:33, Norman Silverstone wrote: I frequently read that, before carrying out various operations, one should first backup the home folder. Does this mean simply taking a CD and copying the home folder to it? This is absolutely possible although probably not totally necessary.

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Ubuntu Open Week, request for instructors

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Pope
If anyone would like to _give_ a talk/session, please get in contact with Jorge. See the links below. -- Forwarded message -- From: Jorge O. Castro jo...@ubuntu.com Date: 16 September 2010 15:23 Subject: Ubuntu Open Week, request for instructors To: Ubuntu local community team

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber account window spontaneously opening

2010-09-16 Thread John Matthews
On 16/09/10 13:37, pmgazz wrote: FYI, the fix for this is to go to the twitter account, authorise it then make sure you press save, have to press save or it'll keep coming back Tried this already - didn't work. Just starts doing it again and when I check Twitter is unauthorised

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber account window spontaneously opening

2010-09-16 Thread John Matthews
On 16/09/10 13:37, pmgazz wrote: FYI, the fix for this is to go to the twitter account, authorise it then make sure you press save, have to press save or it'll keep coming back Tried this already - didn't work. Just starts doing it again and when I check Twitter is unauthorised

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
so you're saying I should just be able to put the live cd in one of my machines, then use a network boot over the lan On 16 September 2010 14:30, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 16/09/10 08:24, Neil Greenwood wrote: On 15 September 2010 19:44, Jacob Mansfieldcyberja...@gmail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I currently don't like adobe because of the lack of x64 support for flash no web games/movies On 16 September 2010 13:46, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with non-profits for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Fisher
Don't understand, Lucid64 install, flash works (10.1.82.76) and BBC iPlayer works (Air not installed) what am I missing? Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/000/6b3af6c9.html On 16 September 2010 17:48, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote: Don't understand, Lucid64 install, flash works (10.1.82.76) and BBC iPlayer works (Air not installed) what am I missing? Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] meeting tonight 9PM

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, we have an IRC meeting this evening, it is in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel on freenode which you can get to using xchat or other IRC clients or even a web browser, if you have one of those newfangled things, by going to http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-uk-meeting agenda is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meeting tonight 9PM

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
I'll try and make it On 16 September 2010 18:03, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.comwrote: Hi all, we have an IRC meeting this evening, it is in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel on freenode which you can get to using xchat or other IRC clients or even a web browser, if you have one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Fisher
Well that answers part of it, but not why mine still works, 64bit browser (Chromium) and iPlayer works fine. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-16 Thread Jim Price
On 16/09/10 17:28, Jacob Mansfield wrote: so you're saying I should just be able to put the live cd in one of my machines, then use a network boot over the lan Yes, but this only works for the Edubuntu 10.04 DVD, not the other 'buntus. I know it gets you as far as booting an Edubuntu client

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Tony Pursell
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:13 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote: Well that answers part of it, but not why mine still works, 64bit browser (Chromium) and iPlayer works fine. Steve It seems that what you cannot do is download programs because that needs Air and Air does not install on Lucid. I.e you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
flash doesn't work properly at all on mine, how did you get it to work? On 16 September 2010 18:19, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.ukwrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:13 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote: Well that answers part of it, but not why mine still works, 64bit browser (Chromium) and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
so I can't get ubuntu NBR On 16 September 2010 18:13, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 16/09/10 17:28, Jacob Mansfield wrote: so you're saying I should just be able to put the live cd in one of my machines, then use a network boot over the lan Yes, but this only works for the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Fisher
On 16 September 2010 18:21, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: flash doesn't work properly at all on mine, how did you get it to work? On 16 September 2010 18:19, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.ukwrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:13 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote: Well that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Steve Fisher
This may be of interest: http://www.webupd8.org/2010/09/adobe-flash-player-square-102-64bit.html -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread David D Lowe
Which filesystems are suitable for one's home directory backups? I assume Fat32 is a no-no, but what about NTFS, which supports POSIX case-sensitive filenames and file permissions? Or do I have to use a traditional Linux filesystem like ext3? David D Lowe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Alan Bell
On 16/09/10 13:46, pmgazz wrote: I had a similar heart-searching around Adobe Air - I work with non-profits for whom fundraising is core - most funders issue badly-constructed pdf forms and trying to fill these in with Evince is still a work in progress. I can manage to do it because I know

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread pmgazz
On 16/09/10 18:48, Alan Bell wrote: The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I have it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64 bit. Alan. Nu-uh, I emailed BBC and they said only works up to Karmic. Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Jacob Mansfield
silly bbc On 16 September 2010 19:03, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 16/09/10 18:48, Alan Bell wrote: The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I have it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64 bit. Alan. Nu-uh, I emailed BBC and they said

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread Tommy Pyatt
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 16/09/10 18:45, David D Lowe wrote: Which filesystems are suitable for one's home directory backups? I assume Fat32 is a no-no, but what about NTFS, which supports POSIX case-sensitive filenames and file permissions? Or do I have to use a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Tony Pursell
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:21 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: flash doesn't work properly at all on mine, how did you get it to work? On 16 September 2010 18:19, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:13 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-16 Thread Grant Sewell
On Thu, 16 Sep 2010 19:03:25 +0100 pmgazz wrote: On 16/09/10 18:48, Alan Bell wrote: The adobe air iplayer app works for me on Maverick, pretty sure I have it on a Lucid box too. Works on Maverick in 32 bit and in 64 bit. Alan. Nu-uh, I emailed BBC and they said only works

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-16 Thread Jim Price
On 16/09/10 18:24, Jacob Mansfield wrote: so I can't get ubuntu NBR You can - just install whatever ubuntu 10.04 you can by whatever means, then install the ubuntu-netbook package, which will bring with it the rest of the bits you need for the netbook interface. I've not tried it, so I can't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-16 Thread David King
Alan Pope wrote: On 15 September 2010 09:10, Mark Harrison m...@ascentium.co.uk 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-16 Thread David D Lowe
On 16/09/10 22:02, Tommy Pyatt wrote: You may be able to compress it first into a .tar.gz or other compressed archive of some sort, then you could store it anywhere. I think I've done that before, but i'm not certain. Last time I tried that, it took half an hour before spitting out an

installing maverick beta

2010-09-16 Thread weavermicha
I have noticed same problem with the speech not reading the screen after being asked about updating during installation and about enabling restricted software and I believe previous CDs for Maverick had this problem which I assume may have been got past with some Sighted assistance only none of

Re: ubuntu and talks

2010-09-16 Thread Kyle
AFAIK, the Talks package is just a file that needs to be transferred and installed on the phone. As long as you can transfer the file, either over bluetooth or usb, the file should install once it's on your phone, no matter the OS. I have an old 6682 and transfer files and applications to it

Re: Real-time kernel?

2010-09-16 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 19:38 +0200, tto...@ttoine.net wrote: As I am curious and don't know well the photo and graphics part, could you tell us wich applications are you usi,g for your professional activities with Ubuntu ? Currently my work tools looks like this... Blender Bluefish Dia

Ubuntu Studio daily CD health check

2010-09-16 Thread Colin Watson
This is a daily health check report on the Ubuntu Studio CD images. If you have any questions, contact Colin Watson cjwat...@ubuntu.com. ubuntustudio/daily: Uninstallable packages: hplip 3.10.6-1ubuntu9 produces uninstallable binaries: * hplip (amd64) -- Ubuntu-Studio-devel mailing list

Re: Introducing Myself

2010-09-16 Thread Andrew Euell
Welcome! On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 6:58 PM, Benjamin Turner passionsplaydes...@gmail.com wrote: Hello everyone! My name is Benjamin Turner and I am an artist living and working in Portland Oregon.  Much of my focus has been with painting and sculpture, but over the last few years I have been

Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)

2010-09-16 Thread Louie Queral
This is off-topic, but still, in my mind, a relatively important point. I really don't like the DIY theme for either the OS as a whole or US's website. I think that it makes it look a bit too unprofessional and it may detract people from using US. Would anyone agree? On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at

Re: Putting the cart before the horse. (was: Final Notes on the Ubuntu Studio Website)

2010-09-16 Thread Mike Holstein
what is the 'do it yourself' theme? the current graphics and theming? i quite like the theme of the desktop... when i first saw it, i thought it was the slickest thing since the fedora DNA theme... i like the website too.. i suppose both of these are arguably out-dated, hence the discussion...

Re: Real-time kernel?

2010-09-16 Thread Scott Lavender
Toine, Let me preface this email by thanking you for your involvement with Ubuntu Studio. I've read quite a bit of the mail archives, Ubuntu Forum posts, and wiki/help documentation I have seen your name often. I certainly hope you continue your involvement. On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 12:38 PM,

Re: Real-time kernel?

2010-09-16 Thread tto...@ttoine.net
Le 16/09/2010 20:07, Scott Lavender a écrit : Toine, Let me preface this email by thanking you for your involvement with Ubuntu Studio. I've read quite a bit of the mail archives, Ubuntu Forum posts, and wiki/help documentation I have seen your name often. I certainly hope you

Importing into Launchpad

2010-09-16 Thread Hannie
As I am trying to understand how things work I follow what happens to a file (the Dutch translation of Nautilus) I imported into LP a few days ago. 2010-09-12: check https://translations.launchpad.net/ubuntu/maverick/+lang/nl/ Result: Untranslated: 51 2010-09-13: Nautilus Dutch translation

Translation status of the Ubuntu Server Guide

2010-09-16 Thread David Planella
Hi all, I just read [1] and from it I understand that the server guide will no longer be shipped in the Ubuntu docs. I was aware that there was some discussion going on, but I hadn't realized it would affect translations directly. If I understand it correctly, we should disable the translation

l10n Should Rock On!

2010-09-16 Thread Ahmed Khattab Shams
Hello Ubuntu Translators, We all see that although 'Maverick' Translations is due to 30-Sept, but there's no Real Hard work is being done! For that we all should gather around our work to finish as much as we can till 30-Sept and if we couldn't make it for Maverick, we would make it for the Next

Ubuntu 11.04 Translations Plans

2010-09-16 Thread David Planella
Hi all, In the Community team at Canonical we are now starting to lay out the plans for the 11.04 roadmap for translations. For this, we really value your input and would very much like to take your ideas and feedback into account. One of the key areas I'd like to work on in this cycle, for

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 Translations Plans

2010-09-16 Thread John Barstow
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 5:17 AM, David Planella david.plane...@ubuntu.com wrote: What are your thoughts and ideas? What do you think we should focus on? I would like the ability to easily locate short, non-technical strings to translate. Taking GTK as an example module, the first string people

Re: Ubuntu 11.04 Translations Plans

2010-09-16 Thread Fran Dieguez
I have three ideas for better user experience and for improve getting translations back to upstream. I'm coordinating the Galician translators team of GNOME, and I found a lot of strings that have been changed in Launchpad, some of them were bugfixes unreported upstream. So to improve this I

[no subject]

2010-09-16 Thread Ferri Yanto
Hi Team, I'm a coordinator Ubuntu Translations for Acehnese (ace). This Team Ubuntu Translations are responsible for translate Ubuntu to Acehnese (ace) language. https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-l10n-ace Please give a suggest or motivate to develop this translations team. Regard, Ferri --

[ubuntu-ec] Congreso internacional Bibliotecarios y SL en la ciudad de Machala

2010-09-16 Thread pmfranco
Hola: Por motivos de trabajo y de paso, difusion de software libre, a traves de un proyecto internacional, estamos Gina y Yo, en la ciudad de Machala. Tenemos agendado reunirnos con la principales autoridades de la ciudad y entes del estado, para afianzar procesos de adopcion de software libre

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] erro lubuntu

2010-09-16 Thread nethell
On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:31:39 -0300 recabitas recabitas recabi...@gmail.com wrote: Sou novato na questão de linux... já usei o mandriva, ubuntu 10.04 mas não tenho expêriencia em comandos linux... Quem poderia me ajudar, pois já instalei windows xp, dizinha na minha máquina que tem placa mãe

[Ubuntu-BR] Novo Flash Player 64 Bits para Linux / Mac / Windows

2010-09-16 Thread Daniel Gregório
http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/09/flash-player-square.html http://blogs.adobe.com/flashplayer/2010/09/flash-player-square.htmlfinalmente :) -- Daniel Gregório Ampla Comunicação Adobe Certified Professional -- Mais sobre o Ubuntu em português: http://www.ubuntu-br.org/comece Lista de

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] erro lubuntu

2010-09-16 Thread playerum
tenta com outro drive de CD. Em 16 de setembro de 2010 08:17, nethell neth...@logbin.net escreveu: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 18:31:39 -0300 recabitas recabitas recabi...@gmail.com wrote: Sou novato na questão de linux... já usei o mandriva, ubuntu 10.04 mas não tenho expêriencia em comandos

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Novo Flash Player 64 Bits para Linux / Mac / Windows

2010-09-16 Thread Zandre Bran
Ôlas Gregório. Tudo bem que queira compartilhar com copia e cola noticias sobre o GNU/Linux, mas por favor, normalizamos aqui que para este tipo de mensagem deve ser colocado Dica no assunto. http://wiki.ubuntu-br.org/Listas Obrigado pela compreensão. -- Zandre. 2010/9/16 Daniel

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Nova lista de discussão

2010-09-16 Thread Zandre Bran
2010/9/15 João Santana joao.abo.sant...@gmail.com: Ôlas Santana. Pegando sua mensagem para escrever, não é uma resposta; mas sinta-se livre para conversar :) Fazer fork para pasar por cima de certas regras (quais?)  e certos procedimentos (quais?) seria então a solução? Adorei o fork,

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Nova lista de discussão

2010-09-16 Thread Paulo de Souza Lima
Olá, Zandre. Adorei o fork, pescou este termo com tamanha precisão. Para a lista temos apenas 7 normalizações que por incrível que pareça está sendo complicado para muitos. São elas: 1. Não enviar conteúdo comercial, sexual, religioso, ... 2. Não alterar o assunto. Para novas questões,

[Ubuntu-BR] Ubuntu Brazilian Documentation Team

2010-09-16 Thread Zandre Bran
Ôlas Lista, Doc Team. O time de documentação foi alterado e agora sou o líder do time de documentação do Ubuntu no Brasil. A um tempo atrás surgiu a necessidade de termos novamente um time para escrever sobre Ubuntu na wiki. Alguns participantes aqui da lista perceberam esta mesma

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Problemas com Audio

2010-09-16 Thread Markos
Foi mal galera, Peço desculpas... Graças a esse link: http://monespaceperso.org/blog-en/2009/05/09/upgrade-alsa-1020-on-ubuntu-jaunty-904/ Seguindo o tutorial... consegui resolver o problema de audio... referente ao som sair nos alto-falantes do notebook mesmo com os fones plugados

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] [Ubuntu-br-doc] Ubuntu Brazilian Documentation Team

2010-09-16 Thread Paulo de Souza Lima
Em 16 de setembro de 2010 09:41, Zandre Bran zandreb...@ubuntu.comescreveu: ... Enfim, são estas minhas principais sugestões e quero convidar a todos que estejam afim de participar de uma forma mais dinâmica. Vou esperar até segunda para que os novos interessados tenham tempo de ingressar no

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Ubuntu Brazilian Documentation Team

2010-09-16 Thread Fábio Lima
É uma oportunidade de todos colaborarem. Eu, sei nem todos são profundos especialista em ubuntu. Mas vez ou outra a agente tem na mão uma dica, um tutorial, algo que possa ser útil pra outros. Então o lance é cada um dar uma olhada no seu material, ver o que pode ser útil, passar um crivo de

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] [Ubuntu-br-doc] Ubuntu Brazilian Documentation Team

2010-09-16 Thread Ricardo Stock
Ola Paulo, tudo bem... Recebi este email seu em PVT isto é um convite ? no aguardo Ricardo Stock ricardost...@bol.com.br Skype: ricardostock - LinuxUser 243128. - Original Message - From: Paulo de Souza Lima paulo.s.l...@gmail.com To: Zandre Bran zandreb...@ubuntu.com Cc: _LISTA

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Ubuntu Brazilian Documentation Team

2010-09-16 Thread Rui
Parabéns pela iniciativa! Já estou me cadastrando. Rui Ogawa Atenção! Caso haja documentos de escritório anexados neste e-mail, eles poderão estar no formato ODF, um padrão aberto, gratuito e homologado pela ISO e ABNT. Para abrir e editá-los, basta baixar e instalar o BrOffice.org em

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Ubuntu Brazilian Documentation Team

2010-09-16 Thread Ursula Junque
Olá Zandré, muito obrigada por colocar-se disposto a ajudar a tocar este time tão carente que é o Doc team. Discordo de quase tudo que propos como propos, mas claro, construtivamente. :) 2010/9/16 Zandre Bran zandreb...@ubuntu.com Ôlas Lista, Doc Team. O time de documentação foi

Re: [Ubuntu-BR] Ubuntu Brazilian Documentation Team

2010-09-16 Thread Ursula Junque
Em tempo: 2010/9/16 Ursula Junque ursi...@ursinha.net Olá Zandré, muito obrigada por colocar-se disposto a ajudar a tocar este time tão carente que é o Doc team. Discordo de quase tudo que propos como propos, mas claro, construtivamente. :) 2010/9/16 Zandre Bran zandreb...@ubuntu.com

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >