[ubuntu-uk] Changing ownership.......

2009-08-13 Thread John Matthews
Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change the folders ownership, but not everything inside. the script I used was sudo chown www-data:www-data and filename I think I need to add the -R some where to make it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing ownership.......

2009-08-13 Thread John Matthews
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/8/13 John Matthews jake...@sky.com: Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change the folders ownership, but not everything inside. the script I used was sudo chown www

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?

2009-08-12 Thread John Matthews
That is odd that you mention that. I had problems initially with the Shiretoko version, and it wouldn't install addons and I couldnt get other bits of it to work, since it got the final update, the addons now work, but its still called Shiretoko 3.5.2. I quite like the idea of being able to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox or Shiretoko?

2009-08-12 Thread John Matthews
Sorry, posted my last e-mail, before I got these two e-mails through. Thanks for the explanation. John. David Jones wrote: Paul Webster wrote: Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 7 in a Virtual Machine?

2009-08-06 Thread John Matthews
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 06/08/09 08:53, Sean Miller wrote: On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 8:15 AM, Alan Lord (News)alansli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway - it looked quite pretty; if you like the child-friendly blue hues and very shiny buttons, but £219.99 for a locked down, proprietary

Re: [ubuntu-uk] information manager for ubuntu / gnome

2009-07-27 Thread John Matthews
I use Thunderbird, with Lightening attached and goosynch. It synchs all my computers and it synchs to my phone, so I have everything on all computers and phone that's both windows and Ubuntu. John Dale Clarke wrote: I use Gmail with Gcal as it now has Google Docs enabled in which you can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-26 Thread John Matthews
A bit of good news, I managed to break my Gallery last night, doing something I was able to do before, but since Gallery updated, it stopped the gallery from working and broke it and it took the site offline. Took me ages to work it out, but I discovered that the file I had changed had the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread John Matthews
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 17/07/09 13:33, John Matthews wrote: snip / I got down to the permissions page, and it just looked like a lot of stuff, that made no sense at all. I am sorry that I have had to ask, I will try from now on to not bother you. Thank you again, John

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread John Matthews
Robert McWilliam wrote: I was thinking about better ways to help you through this earlier but then forgot about it when you went quiet. The ideal would be someone who knows what they're doing to sit next to you and take you through the procedures you want to do and explain them. If you can't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-17 Thread John Matthews
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 17/07/09 06:45, John Matthews wrote: Ok, this is some good news, I have a question to ask, I need to change the permissions of a file in one of my folders, on my site, it has to be read only, as it is its 777. I have gotten into the folder and have the list

[ubuntu-uk] Pop up window too long......

2009-07-17 Thread John Matthews
I have a program that needs to use a pop up window to transfer folders to my Gallery from nautilus. The pop up window is too long, and I cannot get to all of the files in it. Is there any way I can get it so that the pop up window fits and I can scroll up and down the list of files. Its an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-16 Thread John Matthews
Same issue as that John fella, with his difficulties understanding shell. As there are currently more people using Windows by Linux (by quite some way) then those who need friends to come around to help would probably be better with Windows. But I'd probably suggest Linux to those people

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-16 Thread John Matthews
Ok, this is some good news, I have a question to ask, I need to change the permissions of a file in one of my folders, on my site, it has to be read only, as it is its 777. I have gotten into the folder and have the list of files and their permissions, and I can see the file I need to change,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-15 Thread John Matthews
danattwood wrote: John wrote: On 15/07/2009 02:10, William Anderson wrote: John Matthews wrote: Hi its me again, it seems I might be having a few problems with my Ubuntu, as I cant get my files recognised when trying to use commands. Most likely me not understanding

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-15 Thread John Matthews
darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote: Hi thank you for your message, well that sort of defeats the object for me really as I want to learn the commands. Its kind of frustrating that there isnt something available for beginners to read for ssh. I know people have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-15 Thread John Matthews
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 15/07/09 09:05, danattwood wrote: snip / You could try using a program like filezilla which works just like a standard ftp program but will let you use sftp so it's nice and secure. This will let you naviagte the 'tree', move files around and set permissions

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-15 Thread John Matthews
Robert McWilliam wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:44:03AM +0100, John Matthews wrote: This is something that I came across last night, whilst trying to upload a file from my Dektop to my website using shell commands, or at least trying to. Something that I found out after a while

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-15 Thread John Matthews
with the same contents as the one on your desktop. (~ is Linux shorthand for your home directory) Sean On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 5:01 PM, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: Robert McWilliam wrote: On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 10:44:03AM +0100, John Matthews wrote: This is something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-15 Thread John Matthews
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 15/07/09 17:53, John Matthews wrote: Hi, thank you for your message. So as I understand it then, if I have a folder on the desktop called title, that is called a directory then yes? I wanted to copy that folder to the home directory. Yes, in Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-14 Thread John Matthews
Hi its me again, it seems I might be having a few problems with my Ubuntu, as I cant get my files recognised when trying to use commands. Most likely me not understanding how its done. I have been really grateful for the support so far, but I was wondering, would somebody be willing to go

[ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-13 Thread John Matthews
Hi everybody, I am so sorry to ask this, but I was wondering if somebody would be willing to give me some help with ssh and commands for running a website via a terminal. I have been trying to learn from the websites, but I am not finding it easy. If somebody could just start by showing me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-13 Thread John Matthews
William Anderson wrote: John Matthews wrote: Hi everybody, I am so sorry to ask this, but I was wondering if somebody would be willing to give me some help with ssh and commands for running a website via a terminal. Echoing others, knowing more about what you mean by running

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-13 Thread John Matthews
to browse the remote server over the ssh session and do pretty much anything on it as if it were local. Alan. John Matthews wrote: Hi everybody, I am so sorry to ask this, but I was wondering if somebody would be willing to give me some help with ssh and commands for running a website

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Daniel Drummond wrote: John Matthews wrote: Hi, thank you for the information. I was just wondering, how do I get it to work, and become my default browser so that I dont have both, and I dont loose my profile info? John. Not sure if this is the best way to do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: OOo bashing was Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Rob Beard wrote: Sean Miller wrote: I concur... Openoffice is bloatware of the highest order. If I could be bothered to get an older version of Office working on wine I would - but I don't use office suites enough to do so. It's a shame, really, that Sun decided to go down the bloated

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Rob Beard wrote: Paul Webster wrote: Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Hi Paul, It's not obvious how to do it,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Rob Beard wrote: Paul Webster wrote: Hi Can I expect Word 2002 to run under Wine (on Jaunty)? I tried to install it, but came to a standstill during the installation, as the Word installer demanded a restart I couldn't provide. Paul W. Hi Paul, It's not obvious how to do it,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

2009-07-10 Thread John Matthews
Daniel Drummond wrote: John Matthews wrote: Hi, thank you for the information. I was just wondering, how do I get it to work, and become my default browser so that I dont have both, and I dont loose my profile info? John. Not sure if this is the best way to do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

2009-07-09 Thread John Matthews
David King wrote: Thanks for the reply. I recognise some of the podcast titles as Doctor Who episodes, I guess some of the others are from very old episodes I have long forgotten. David King Alan Pope wrote: Hi David, Thanks for the mail. 2009/7/8 David King

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

2009-07-09 Thread John Matthews
I tried to upgrade to FF3.5 on my netbook, but it didnt happen, it installed it seperately, but I couldnt get the Addons section to work, and a few other things as well, that was without the addons themselves, they just didnt transfer from the 3.0.11. So how do I go about it without having

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

2009-07-09 Thread John Matthews
Steve Cook wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Matthews wrote: I tried to upgrade to FF3.5 on my netbook, but it didnt happen, it installed it seperately, but I couldnt get the Addons section to work, and a few other things as well, that was without the addons

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

2009-07-09 Thread John Matthews
Daniel Drummond wrote: John Matthews wrote: Well, it might be because I am just not used to Ubuntu enough or understand it enough, but I am thinking along the the same lines as Windows, when you update FF it automatically updates to the next Version, and keeps your profile. I tried

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

2009-07-09 Thread John Matthews
Daniel Drummond wrote: John Matthews wrote: Um, isnt FF3.5 final release now, I thought I saw it on the internet they were saying it was final release and if you look in windows it doesnt have beta after it. I'm not sure about that though. My apologies, checking on http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a graphics card

2009-07-08 Thread John Matthews
Vinothan Shankar wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Bagnall wrote: If you're not planning on gaming, just using HD for video and compiz then a low powered nvidia card would be fine. An nvidia 8400gs only costs about £25 from ebuyer and most of them have passive

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-07-07 Thread John Matthews
Sean Miller wrote: European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules, Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm That could be quite a turning

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