I've recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set
it up I had it connected as an external USB drive.
All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a
couple of Gb of files to it.
After I disconnected it and plugged it back into my
machine it suddenly decided to be a read-only file
system. I
Daniel Davies wrote:
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
div class=moz-text-flowed style=font-family: -moz-fixedI've
recently been playing with a NAS drive. To set
it up I had it connected as an external USB drive.
All was going well, fdisk, mkfs, etc. and I moved a
couple of Gb of files
Dianne Reuby wrote:
a) In order to ingratiate myself with all parties, I'll do both.
b) Can any of you hardware experts recommend a modem that will download
chocolate oranges?
On Sun, 2008-01-20 at 23:01 +, Kris Douglas wrote:
I frickin' love chocolate oranges!
Additionally.
Kirrus wrote:
- Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yo Mark
Welcome to the group - as you've been a lurker for a little while now
we'll
expect full participation in all areas - especially those that go
wandering
off at tangent!
E
Wandering off at a tangent? We never
Tony Arnold wrote:
..[snip]..
I guess yours is a new install?
Almost, a new install at 7.0 (upgraded to 7.10).
Andy.
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Dave Morley wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 22:43 +, Chris Rowson wrote:
On Sun, 2008-01-13 at 14:19 +, Farran Lee wrote:
lately I've been showing my friends and family ubuntu, trying to convert
them to it. I promised them that it can't touch windows, and will not
damage any
Tony Arnold wrote:
Andrew,
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
Is there a way to change the init level of Ubuntu?
I used to use Mandriva and changed the init level in
/etc/inittab to '3' instead of '5'. This made the
machine boot up into a bash terminal with no GUI
invoked. If you then wanted
Is there a way to change the init level of Ubuntu?
I used to use Mandriva and changed the init level in
/etc/inittab to '3' instead of '5'. This made the
machine boot up into a bash terminal with no GUI
invoked. If you then wanted a GUI you simply ran it
with the command 'startx'. Often when I
Tom Bamford wrote:
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
Whenever I try to watch any streaming video such
as BBC iPlayer or YouTube things aren't right.
After a few minutes the video will start to pause
and jump in short bursts, the sound is fine. I'm
guessing that my machine cannot cope (or at least
Whenever I try to watch any streaming video such
as BBC iPlayer or YouTube things aren't right.
After a few minutes the video will start to pause
and jump in short bursts, the sound is fine. I'm
guessing that my machine cannot cope (or at least
the video card can't), when this happens the
Farran wrote:
use the shiny graphics on Ubuntu, possibly delve into Video Editing...
and prove to my friends that Linux is better than Windows :P!
You don't need a new motherboard to prove the last bit, just
switch your machine on... that should be enough.
Andy.
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Anyone else seen this yet:
http://www.zonbu.com
Maybe I'm reading this wrongly but from what I can
make out this lot will sell you a nice little machine
for the give-away price of £50 and then charge you £8
a month to keep it's OS and apps up-to-date.
I therefore wish to offer my services. For
Kris Douglas wrote:
We got a few vista laptops, for just general staff at the company I work
at, they crash, always. They have office 2003 and the claims software,
and they constantly crash and fail all the time, we have sent 2 back,
and reinstalled xp on the other 3 C'mon, these
Michael Holloway wrote:
On Tue, 2007-12-11 at 22:25 +, Ian Pascoe wrote:
Andy, which desktop you using?
There appears to be a couple of known problems with Compis and title bar
locking off screen, eithre from launch or after being accidentally moved
there and not being able to drag it
I've been playing around with the Advanced Desktop
Effects Settings. Since this, everytime I open a
window/application it opens with the top of the
window at the top edge of the screen and the 'title
bar' (the bit above the menu bar) off the top edge of
the screen. The only way I can get to it
I would like my Yakuake to run at startup when
using Gnome. I know it does it under KDE (I think
it uses ~/.kde/Autostart to do it) but with
Gnome you have to manually run it.
I remember when I used Mandriva you were able to
get apps to 'autorun' by adding the run command to
a file which was
Mac wrote:
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
snip
...if I wanted to
have an application run at startup which file should
I edit and add the command to?
Could you add it to System/Preferences/Sessions/Startup Programs?
Mac
Thanks both, it never occurred to me to have a look through the
menus
Mac wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
On Thu, Dec 06, 2007 at 04:35:27PM +, Andrew Jenkins wrote:
The first (and only that comes to mind at the moment)
is Nautilus v Konqueror. In Konqueror I always had
a two-pane (left-right) display to allow for very
easy dragging and dropping between any two
Kris Douglas wrote:
On 06/12/2007, *Andrew Jenkins* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've been given the task of creating a bootable
Linux USB drive by a work-mate. Rather than a
pen-drive he's given me a 2.5 drive mounted in
one of these snazzy
I'm starting to become happier with Gnome now I'm
using it more, however there are bits of KDE which
I've become so used to and I'm really missing them.
The first (and only that comes to mind at the moment)
is Nautilus v Konqueror. In Konqueror I always had
a two-pane (left-right) display to
norman wrote:
Some time ago, my wife had a new computer and insisted that she wanted
Windows instead of Ubuntu. Much of her usage was word processing and she
found it difficult to get to grips with Open Office (I don't know why)
or so she said. 30 minutes ago she said to me D... it! I am fed
Michael Rimicans wrote:
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 ;)
This could bring a whole new type of computer virus.
I've been given the task of creating a bootable
Linux USB drive by a work-mate. Rather than a
pen-drive he's given me a 2.5 drive mounted in
one of these snazzy little enclosures, works just
like a pen-drive.
Anyway, I've tried to create the file systems and
have hit a problem. Once I've
Farran wrote:
err... think there's something called gnome-commander. Haven't tried it
though.
Good luck :P
Farran
On Thu, 2007-12-06 at 16:35 +, Andrew Jenkins wrote:
I'm starting to become happier with Gnome now I'm
using it more, however there are bits of KDE which
I've become
Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 08:31:52PM +, Andrew Jenkins wrote:
Now I remember why I use Linux and not some
'other' OS.
It's great isn't it :)
So I plugged it in, went to the Network settings
in Ubuntu and specified the network, IP address,
subnet and gateway
OK here goes,
Using Ubuntu 7.10 for over a year and all works well.
If I plug in a pen-drive when running Gnome it will
automount and place an icon on the desktop, 'mount'
will show the entry:
/dev/sdc1 on /media/kingston type vfat (rw,nosuid,nodev,
Andrew Jenkins wrote:
OK here goes,
Using Ubuntu 7.10 for over a year and all works well.
Sorry, Ubuntu for over a year, 7.10 for a month.
If I plug in a pen-drive when running Gnome it will
automount and place an icon on the desktop, 'mount'
will show the entry:
/dev/sdc1 on /media
Ronnie Tucker wrote:
James Edward Grabham wrote:
Tom Bamford wrote:
That would be better with an End Now... button :p
Alan Pope wrote:
On Sun, Nov 25, 2007 at 05:28:36PM +, Albert Vilella wrote:
Evacuee describes Antarctic rescue
Tony Travis wrote:
Mark Jose wrote:
On Saturday 01 September 2007 21:43, Tony Travis wrote:
I've got a Motorola V220 mobile, and I bought a £2 USB cable for it
[...]
I have used it Tony. A bit fiddly to set up in the first place I recall - I
can't remember exactly what it
of someone else we know.
Andrew Jenkins.
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as tracks that are
on it that were previously loaded with gtkPod still show
centrally, just the Amarok-loaded tracks are affected.
Has anyone else had this or ever better knows how to put
it back in the middle?
Regards,
Andrew Jenkins.
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Hi All,
Newbie Ubuntu-ite here. So far so good, although I
have a few questions, but one at a time.
I've been a Mandrake/Mandriva user since I ditched
the dreaded MS four or five years ago. I just
thought I'd try Ubuntu (7.04) alongside my Mandriva
2005 on my laptop.
I'm used to the Mandriva
Alan Rogers wrote:
Andrew
You missed a potentially important piece of information, being the
hardware revision. Petty, I know, but D-Link used three different
chipsets across the three hardware versions of this USB dongle!
I have Rev B, which I believe is a Ralink chipset, and I couldn't
Hi All,
I have managed to get a friend to convert to Linux
after many years of the 'dreaded other OS'.
He has settled on Ubuntu 6.06 (the KDE version) but
is having a problem with getting it to work with his
D-Link DWL-G122 USB Wireless adapter.
I'm a Mandriva user so am a bit lost and he
Anthony Vickers wrote:
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 16:25 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote:
I've recently started using PenguinTV
(http://penguintv.sourceforge.net/).
Me too. I quite like its simplicity. Copy an RSS feed off the web, paste
it in. Done.
My first delve into Podcasts is
This'll annoy Bill Gates...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/5388182.stm
Andy J.
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