On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 10:47 AM, Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com wrote:
Assuming this fixes your issue, then I _think_ the place to make these
changes permanent is the file /etc/default/grub; remove text of the
form vga=791, and then run the command sudo update-grub to
regenerate the grub
Hi Guys
Haven't been on the list in ages! Hope everyone is well and enjoying
10.04 as much as I am :-)
I'm trying to fix a Computer of a friend of mine and it has Windows XP
Home edition on it. I only have a copy of Windows XP Professional.
I'm desperately in need of a XP Home Edition CD. Does
What make is his laptop?
Rob
--
A Dell Inspiron 6000... trying to save his 38GB of music :-(
I got it to the point where it loads the Welcome screen, but when I
logon the user, it just automatically logs me out again. I can get
into the safe-mode with command prompt, and tried to install
Hi Everyone
Please accept my apologies, I posted to the list as I reckoned most
were experienced computer users and would probably have an old copy of
windows floating around which they were no longer using seeing as they
were Ubuntu users.
Alan, please note I was not fully aware of the
On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 5:16 PM, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote:
where should i enter this? Give it a fixed IP - like 10.0.0.1 or
192.168.0.1?
You should be able to set this in teh ipv4 settings, take it off auto (dhcp)
_
Michael Fletcher
Interested in
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to remotely control a machine
not in the same location and not on the same network?
Ta!
I forgot to mention - the person using this remote computer just about
has
I have looked in the hardware database, but would like to buy a
personally recommended model, rather than just pick one from the general
list which is given.
Many thanks for any advice.
Cheers
Keith
Hi Keith, i think has been discussed before, good starting point:
To bring up the buddy list, I click on the envelop icon in the
notification/indicator area in the top right of the screen. That lists
Empathy Evolution mail, just select Empathy and that brings the
contact list for me. Sometimes I do have to do that twice when I've just
started the computer
Some people regard me as a bit of a FOSS zealot/activist, but I do
happily use my Nano, watch Flash based videos on my Ubuntu desktop using
the Adobe Flash player and have other non-free stuff on my computer too;
I know what they are and what they are for though.
It's your free choice.
Al
Hi Guys,
This is more of a philosophical question... I'm looking for a new mp3
player, about 4 - 10GB, but not over the top when it comes to
features, I have a smart phone (HTC-Magic running Andriod) .
If I were to buy an Apple iPod Nano, would I be going against all my
OSS beliefs and values?
Question asked, question answered. I mentioned no political party
name. No party political propaganda points at all. My point in fact
was that whether *any* party supports free and open source software
would not sway my vote.
What a typical British attitude. Any mention of politics and
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 1:01 PM, David Jones
djones.dan...@googlemail.com wrote:
Following what Darren has said, I've got an htc magic on vodafone and can't
fault it. Syncing with gmail is simple and works brilliantly for email,
contacts etc. I was concerned about only having a 500mb data
Mike, I'm sure Bluetooth Audio isn't mono on mine. It certainly sounds
as good as CD's through my car stereo. Are you using Cupcake?
Arren
--
Hi Arren, I'm using cupcake. but to be honest I have only ever
connected to my ear-piece when driving. Glad that it is stereo then!
are you
Larry Wright wrote
I've got a HTC Hero which is Android and the blue tooth is crippled
needs to have to phone rooted to work any easy ways would be appreciated
apart from
that its the bees knees,,
regards Larry
Hi Larry, is your Hero running Android 2.0?
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On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 8:23 PM, Liam Provenlpro...@gmail.com wrote:
I get loads of MSN spim these days. At least 3-4/hr, sometimes dozens
an hour, all the time I'm online.
I meticulously block each one, but sometimes, the same ones keep
spimming me again and again. Blocking seems to do
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 8:00 PM, Ronnie Tuckerron...@ronnietucker.co.uk wrote:
I have the HTC-Magic (G2) through vodafone, love it :-)
I did a review [1] and short video [2] if you are interested. As
David mentioned, I think the fair use policy is 500MB, but I could
imagine hitting that on my
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 9:25 PM, Colin Murphyco...@spudulike.me.uk wrote:
On Thursday 02 July 2009 19:33:09 LeeGroups wrote:
No ones, complained to me yet... And I use the Last.FM app to stream
music, it's brilliant,
For me it's mainly the radio. Beebplayer looks to be the app for me and my
On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Johnjake...@sky.com wrote:
Its as it says in the ubject line really. For some reason, after
rebooting, I cannot now move from Desktop 1. I have 4 available. Would
anybody know how to get this working again please?
John.
Hi John, did you manage to get this
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 11:45 AM, Rowanrowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
-- So, in fact, all these players will open and play MP3 files, or whole MP3
folders (i.e. albums), straight from the Nautilus file browser, if you
right-click and select that -- even if you prevent them from
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 5:03 PM, Michael G Fletchermgfletc...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 4:56 PM, Alan Popea...@popey.com wrote:
2009/7/1 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Sorry - for 'Internet Explorer' read 'Windows Explorer,' which is the
file browser in Windows. I forgot to
On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 11:31 AM, javadayazjavada...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
Are there any apps in ubuntu where i can keep records of daily,monthly
expenses?
--
Javad
Have you looked at GnuCash... http://www.gnucash.org/
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On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rowan
Berkeleyrowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies of
these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to
recognise new additions to the mp3 archive except by recompiling
(admittedly, I don't know if ogg support is standard in Android but at
least the potential to easily install it should be there)
My HTC-Magic (the second Android phone) plays ogg files
out-of-the-box, so hopefully will not too difficult unless sony make
it difficult :-)
--Michael
--
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Julian Burgess auberg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, we just had a MSI AE1900 delivered at work, is it possible to
get multitouch working on it under Ubuntu? (I'm not sure it even has
hardware support)? I've been looking at MPX but am a bit out of my
depth, if
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Michael G Fletcher
mich...@ilovemylinux.com wrote:
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 10:16 PM, Julian Burgess auberg...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello, we just had a MSI AE1900 delivered at work, is it possible to
get multitouch working on it under Ubuntu? (I'm not sure it even
Hi both thank you for your messages, now I'm a bit confused, I dont need
gksudo? Plus what is Policykit? Very much a newbie here.
Thank you again.
John.
John, easiest method I found is to right click on the folder that you
want to share and then select sharing options. Normally sets it
Evening all :-)
Up until 8.10 I was able to press ctrl+alt+backspace to restart the X
server - very useful when something was misbehaving. It appears that
in 9.04 this is no longer a default? Anybody else notice this? Anyway
to manually reset this?
Cheers
--Michael
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:29 PM, Tom Vetterlein t.vetterl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
Try adding this to your /etc/X11/xorg.conf :
Section ServerFlags
Option DontZap off
EndSection
That should do the trick.
Tom
Thanks Tom, that fixed it :-)
I wonder why that was removed -
On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 10:54 PM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
2009/5/5 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com:
I wonder why that was removed - always seemed a great emergency fix
for unruly systems :-)
You can also install the dontzap package to do that manual config for you
On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Ian Pascoe
softy.lofty@btinternet.com wrote:
Cheers Folks, Ian
this may be of some interest, Friend of mine set this up to use WoL
via the internet :-)
http://www.hokemon.com/wordpress/2008/06/14/wake-on-lan-through-the-internet/
Cheers
--Michael
--
I know I'm being a bit picky, but wouldn't it be DHCP (Dynamic Host
Configuration Protocol) that assigns the IP addresses, rather than DNS
(Domain Name System)? DNS might assign local domain names to the IP's
though.
Thanks
Harry
Thanks Harry - spot on, i must have only turned on half my
On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 3:29 PM, doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi -- there was a thread recently during the course of which someone
recommended gitso, and several people appeared to be converted on the spot!
I'm after following the advice there, now, but am stuck on the bit where I'm
Just in case you missed it, the Linux Foundation announced the Winner
last week [1]. I thought the winning video was brilliant [2], not to
mention the spectacular runner up, The Origin [3] :-)
Hope everyone had a great Easter!
--Michael
[1]
quick update: drs305 helped me on the forums with the kernel bit... don't
know what the issue was, but removing the .postinst file from /var/boot/info
and reinstalling linux-image did the trick :D
I thought perhaps that would mean that the graphics driver would install
properly.
And... it
Hi Lucy,
thank you for getting back to me. I posted after you messaged, so I'm a bit
of a mess. I have no connection now. The WICD wouldnt connect, had an
authentication problem, just like in Network manager, wouldnt connect at all
to the internet using any of my wireless connections.
How
Gitso:
Thanks for the heads up! I have used it - and it works! :-)
I will be using it a lot more in future to support friends and family
with ubuntu.
Gitso, I'm in love :-) so simple and easy to use! Just helped John
solve his wireless issues using gitso, very nice indeed :-) Thanks
for
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:35 PM, Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote:
On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 11:46 +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, Apr 06, 2009 at 04:34:09PM +0100, Farran Lee wrote:
hmm the last post i did got grabbed by the list's spamassassin :S I'll
try again:
2009/3/24 Tom Vetterlein t.vetterl...@gmail.com:
Brilliant. I'll try and track down a Logitech I think.
Thanks for your replies everyone.
Tom
2009/3/24 Chris Penston chris_pens...@hotmail.com
I'm using one with Ubuntu 8.04 which I bought direct from Logitec. It
worked straight out of
On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 2:51 PM, John jake...@sky.com wrote:
Just a question, is there any way I can find out if the wireless adaptor
is broken, or is the software has become corrupted in any way? Its not
even showing that there is a wireless on the netbook. I can connect via
the ethernet
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
I know, it's pre-alpha and everything, but has anyone got it working?
For me, I just get:
lpro...@blackbox:~$ chromium-browser
[7638:7638:3687311408:ERROR:common/temp_scaffolding_stubs.cc(214)] Not
implemented reached in
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/20 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com:
On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
I know, it's pre-alpha and everything, but has anyone got it working?
For me, I just get:
lpro
Hi, sorry its taken me so long to get back to you, I just entered that
command into the terminal and got this.
Linux username-laptop 2.6.27 -8-eeepc #1 SMP Sun Nov 16 12:02:12 MST 2008
i686 GNU/Linux
hope that helps. I can only get connected via the ethernet wire, if I look
in the drop
On Tue, Mar 17, 2009 at 3:35 PM, Howard Berry how...@berry-loubaud.com wrote:
Greetings,
I am giving a talk on the open source movement to a group next week.
There is a video projector which works well when I tried it with
Windows on my Vaio laptop. In windows you can toggle the display by
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 13:09 +, John wrote:
Well, that's no good, I noticed that the third option was the eeepc option,
which is what it boots up into, and when I tried the the 5th option, it
doesnt pick up the wireless network at all, its as if its isnt even
installed.
The funny thing,
I noticed that the site was up, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/JauntyReleaseParties
Does anybody know if Canonical will again be organising a release
party in London? Will we have a local server there? I'm keen to bring
my Eee and do an update!
Cheers
--MIchael
_
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 10:09 AM, Andrew Turner acturne...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/3/8 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com:
Andrew, not sure if you have tried yet, but I have a friend that
bought a Dell and had no trouble getting a refund [1] :-)
Good Luck
--Michael
[1] http
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Rowan Berkeley
rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I wouldn't mind installing 8.10, and then I could run all the updates as
and when they appear, and enjoy all the cutting edge improvements. But
it's true that I do not know whether the non-default interface
On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Rowan Berkeley
rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
Indeed, I was laboring under a misconception there. It sounds quite
straightforward, when you explain it like that ...
Great! I think it explains where some of the frustration was creeping
into the list from
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 8:12 AM, Andrew Turner acturne...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello,
Just got myself one of the new Dell Inspiron 15 laptops (unfortunately
with Vista - they no longer do the Ubuntu pre-installed 1525). Thought
I'd let the list know that Intrepid runs out out the box with no
On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 12:55 AM, Jai Harrison j...@jaiharrison.com wrote:
Hey,
I'm interested in talking with a friend who uses Windows over the
internet. I'm going to have to buy a headset and use a service that's
available on Windows and GNU/Linux (I'm thinking Skype). I also need a
On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:54 AM, John jake...@sky.com wrote:
Hi Mike, have finally got the Dongle working, but its not stable, it
crashes now and again. It seems it doesnt like automatically
reconnecting, if the connection has been lost.
On one crash, something changed, and I'm not sure what
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:24 AM, John jake...@sky.com wrote:
Hi everybody,
sorry I havent been around much, I havent been very well, and had to
leave this.
I have managed to work out this page
http://www.pharscape.org/networkmanager-0.7.0-and-3g-wwan-modems.html
till I get to where it
Hi, well, I have been trying everything that you have all suggested, and
I have a few problems. The Lightning 0.9 wont work with this version of
Firefox and Ubuntu 8.10. Doesnt matter how much I've tried it just wont
work. The version in the repositories works, but it wont work with the
--- On Sun, 15/2/09, John jake...@sky.com wrote:
From: John jake...@sky.com
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Orange wireless dongle on Ubuntu 8.10
To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Date: Sunday, 15 February, 2009, 12:46 AM
I wanted to try get Orange Wireless on here, as I
On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 10:22 PM, Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com wrote:
Ever since 8.10 was released, I've carried with me a copy of Intrepid on my
1Gb USB key, since it's bundled along with my flat keys. I was wondering
about making the install a little more customised - at the moment
On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 7:25 PM, Michael Holloway
mich...@thedarkwinter.com wrote:
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 19:08 +, John wrote:
Oh that's odd, I thought it had connected once since being installed. Oh
well. Does anybody have any idea on how get this fixed?
Thank you.
John.
Do you have
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Rik ukubu...@chadwik.net wrote:
This happened to me after installing Adobe-Air and BBC iPlayer,
reinstalling gnome-app-install fixed it:
sudo apt-get --reinstall install gnome-app-install
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:33 AM, Harry
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:58 PM, Robert Longstaff
dreamf...@dreamfish.org.uk wrote:
I just wondered, looking at this, it could be more complicated than I
imagined it. Does anybody live near central London, or within travel
distance that could possibly be prepared to help me out with this? I'd
Evening :-)
I'm not sure what has happened, but I appear to have the same problem
on my desktop and my Eee. When I click Applications Add/Remove...
there is nothing but blank boxes. I also tried selecting all open
source application and all available applications, still getting
nothing.
8.10
On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:10 AM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Stuart wrote:
snip
...the Foxmarks add-on for Firefox lets you synchronize your
bookmarks... They are all stored on a central server.
The privacy issues with this are mentioned in the thread. Here's Eben
Moglen on
On Wed, Jan 28, 2009 at 2:38 AM, Roger Lancefield rlancefi...@gmail.com wrote:
2009/1/28 Roger Lancefield rlancefi...@gmail.com
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 9:10 PM, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
I'm swinging towards an Xilence 480W PSU [1] from aria for £26, but
not sure if it's (a)
Hello :-)
The power supply on my desktop machine seems to have stopped
functioning as normal. It still works, but when I shut my machine
down it no longer stops. The power supply is either on or off. Even
after switching it off at the wall, when I turn the wall power on
again, all the fans
On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 8:29 PM, mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Any thoughts on how Ubuntu plays with the 1.0 release of Songbird?
http://getsongbird.com/
Mac
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https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Just
On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 12:04 AM, David King [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just looking at the subject line, it appears that someone has an awful lot
of issues. :-)
David King
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
Hi Michael,
I got a 901 a few weeks ago and installed eeexubuntu. Working very well
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:18 PM, Michael Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Never mind the US elections, Never mind the by-and-local elections..
This is the election you've all been waiting for !
Seriously though, *Voting opens* [0] at Midnight tonight *00:00 15/11/08
GMT* (approx 40min time) for
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:53 AM, andylockran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
Hi Guys
I remember awhile ago that someone mentioned they received the
powered by... stickers that came with Linux Format. I am trying to
get one of the powered by Linux stickers (the one
Hi Michael,
I got a 901 a few weeks ago and installed eeexubuntu. Working very well
after a bit of fiddling about with the wireless. I haven't had any
issues with the lid sensor. Sounds like a problem with the hardware, so
probably worth sending back for repairs.
All the best,
Tim
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Ron Rhodes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
Hi Guys
I remember awhile ago that someone mentioned they received the
powered by... stickers that came with Linux Format. I am trying to
get one of the powered by Linux stickers (the one with tux
Hi Guys, I picked up an eee 901 last Monday. I charged it and
immediately installed Ubuntu and adamm's kernel from array.org.
Everything works brilliant! However, I appear to be having an issue
with the sensor from the lid. it appears to think that it opens and
closes randomly. see an image
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 1:19 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/11/5 Simos Xenitellis [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Many people make the mistake to install the stock Ubuntu on the EEE.
The specialised version that Yishay mentions below is what people
should be installing instead.
Advanced users
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his seventies, to join the 21st century and he has installed Ubuntu 8.04
(no newfangled stuff like 8.10 for him) along with his XP. Now, big
brother is
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Matt Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Michael G Fletcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 8:52 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
After months of trying I have finally got my little brother, who is in
his
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 3:31 PM, Ken Robson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In reply to multiple posts...
1. I use the dvd drive allot, I view/burn many dvd's and if it is going
to re-insert it on eject then not on.
2. I still have another 2 machines running with 8.04 (xbuntu) and 8.10
(with some
On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 5:21 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/10/28 Andrew Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Who's coming to the Canonical-organised Intrepid release party at Waxy
O'Connors, London on Thursday night?
Yup, I'll be there.
Shall I bring Hello My Name Is... stickers like
Hello,
Could anyone tellme how to use synaptic package manager to remove old and
unused packages etc after an update?
I now have several option in grub, and would like to clean things up.
Many thanks,
SI
When you say several option in grub, do you mean several different
kernels to
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 8:43 AM, Iain Lane [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dave Murphy wrote:
On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:28:56 +0100
Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi there,
Does anyone know what's going on with the look of Intrepid? I did think that
it was supposed to come with a new theme,
On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 11:53 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
snip
This might help you decide...
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/10/16/android_kill_switch/
Rob
ouch... this will be interesting to follow
_
Michael
Hi Guys, slightly off-topic, but I would appreciate your thoughts on this
This was inspired by the news of the G1 phone being released in the UK
on the 30th of October (http://tinyurl.com/48s4gp).
Some questions;
* How free is the OS really?? I know it has a Linux based kernel and
will be
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Ellis Corbie Riley
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just saw this - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseParties#Europe
Can i safely assume we will be at Waxy O'Connors and not De Hems then?
--Michael
_
Michael Fletcher
Visit my
On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Roger Lancefield [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/9/29 John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So, anyone up for a party?
+1 for De Hems. Central location. 12 million or so people within an hour's
train ride (he wildly guestimates). Plenty of good, reasonably priced food
On Sat, Sep 27, 2008 at 1:21 PM, ptaylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
i have tried this inside FF2 and FF3, with the latest flash from the
repos, and x86 8.04.1
i am trying to play scifi.dragonfly.com/renegade/stogamst448
when i clicked to play it, ff2 and ff3 died, so i decided to start
I've been experimenting with a single 8.04 machine running FF3.
Bookmarks work properly if the profile is on the machine itself. When I
move the profile to the network drive, FF3 appears to run OK, but I
cannot add, delete or organise bookmarks - which rather defeats the
whole object!
On Fri, Sep 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM, Chris Oattes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael Holloway wrote:
Is anyone else very confused???
Yes. Sadly, this mental state is in fact normal for me, and not entirely
related to the contents of this thread.
Chris.
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 11:38 AM, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Jai Harrison wrote:
What we really need is a multiplatform messaging protocol + client to
cut into the Microsoft instant messaging market - the younger
generation of Microsoft Windows users.
Isn't that what Pidgin is for or
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 3:17 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 03:00:01PM +0100, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
Seeing as we are discussing a lot of community related things lately,
anybody been (or already registered) an Ubuntu-UK team for the SFD??
I would be keen
What do you think of this? At $250 dollars (about £125) it seems a
winner if the performance is usable...
www.cherrypal.com
--Michael
_
Michael Fletcher
Visit my website here - http://www.mgfletcher.com/blog
Interested in Linux? Then visit -
On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 11:06 AM, George MacLeod [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/7/13 Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Jason Liquorish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Apologies, I seemed to have pasted the address wrong in my last reply.
The correct address for
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On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 12:01 PM, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi all,
We'll be recording episode 10 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast shortly. Have any
of you seen any Ubuntu/Linux/FLOSS related news recently that we might
want to include or talk about?
Cheers,
snip
Given the trouble I'm having installing virtualbox on this machine (and
potential issues about USB and networking), I'm going to research this a
bit more, and either try setting up virtualbox on my Hardy machine, or
checking out the VMware alternative.
Thanks for your advice and
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 11:30 AM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
big snip
Given the trouble I'm having installing virtualbox on this machine (and
potential issues about USB and networking), I'm going to research this a
bit more, and either try setting up virtualbox on my Hardy machine, or
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:30 PM, Mac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
...don't forget you can
also try the binaries directly from Sun (free as in beer)
http://virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads (they appear to have a gutsy i386
version in deb format)
Michael Thanks
On Sat, Jul 12, 2008 at 12:51 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
big snip
Hi Norman, I have just installed VirtualBox in 8.04 from the repos...
where are you getting stuck at the moment?
Sure I can help...
When I try to start a virtual machine I get the message headed Failed to
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 2:14 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I want to run a windows application, which will not run under wine, in
Ubuntu 8.04. There appear to be a number of techniques and I would be
grateful for suggestions as to the most reliable, in your opinion.
Thank you.
Norman
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 6:04 PM, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have hit a snag. Using synaptic, I installed VirtualBox and it
certainly starts up OK. However, after setting things up, I cannot start
the virtual set up but get an error message saying that I am missing
some kernel file. I
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 7:15 PM, Mac
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Michael G Fletcher wrote:
I think you need the kernel modules which can be gotten by doing
sudo apt-get install virtualbox-ose-modules-generic
I've been following the replies to Norman's question, as I've been
thinking of having
did a small howto here - http://www.ilovemylinux.com/node/19 Perhaps
it will help guide you in the right direction.
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Mac wrote:
LeeGroups wrote:
big snip
Ah, sorry, I manually removed firefox-3.0-gnome-support and
firefox-gnome-support too.
snip
Just -
sudo apt-get remove firefox-3.0-gnome-support firefox-gnome-support
and it'll be OK...
Ubufox just tailor FF to Ubuntu, it works with FF2 just
Hi guys
Suddenly last week I started getting errors when running the update in
synaptic, I don't think that I changed anything... here is the error -
Failed to fetch http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/hardy/Release
Unable to find expected entry web/binary-i386/Packages in Meta-index
Javad Ayaz wrote:
Hi,
A bit of a weird one this. I want to rip a DVD and then convert it to
avi.
Only thing is i have media centre pc and in that pc i have a dual core
6600. Coz of lack of space it gets extremely hot..and is automatically
set to shut down when it reaches a certain temp
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