Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Ubuntu Users

2013-01-12 Thread Samuel Toogood
On 12/01/13 22:52, Dan Fish wrote: Dear All, A good friend of mine has taken up the offer of becoming a medical officer on the Falkland Islands for a 2 year contract. Having spent time on many remote locations I'm actually very jealous as the Falklands and surrounds are a stunning place to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-03 Thread Samuel Toogood
On 3 May 2011 13:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker gbpli...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/11 13:04, Avi Greenbury wrote: Besides, I don't buy this thing about Windows users being scared of the command line. When I was doing Windows (admittedly XP) desktop support about 80% of my calls started 'press

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Low power 2-drive NAS box that can run Ubuntu?

2010-09-02 Thread Samuel Toogood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/09/10 14:43, David Restall - System Administrator wrote: snip Might blow the budget a bit but I've just ordered QNAP TS210 (£168 inc VAT Delivery from www.cclonline.com http://www.cclonline.com/product-info.asp?product_id=41794. It's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-14 Thread Samuel Toogood
On 14 May 2010 01:26, Steve Pearce stevepearce@gmail.com wrote: I would like to participate in Ubuntu desktop and server ISO testing, sign me up :) Steve. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ +1 Sam --

[ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Samuel Toogood
First post for a while, and I don't usually start threads, but I've been lurking, and I don't think this has appeared before. I recently had an idea for improving ubuntu: Wouldn't it be good if packages could be distributed in a peer to peer manner, as .isos can be? This would have several

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up the web interface for VLC in ubuntu/Linuxmint?

2010-04-14 Thread Samuel Toogood
On 14 April 2010 09:10, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kris Douglas wrote: On 13 April 2010 12:34, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: yep exactly that...lol its pretty awesome. :) On 13 April 2010 12:26, Jon Reynolds

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

2009-10-24 Thread Samuel Toogood
--- Original message --- From: Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 24.10.'09, 10:50 Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one can just boot into the live environment and then mount the host computer's hard

Re: [ubuntu-uk] text to speech apps

2009-08-13 Thread Samuel Toogood
--- Original message --- From: javadayaz javada...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 13.8.'09, 7:54 Hi, I want to convert from text to speech. Does anyone know of any free apps in ubuntu that can do this? Im planning on converting a book from text to speech so i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] text to speech apps

2009-08-13 Thread Samuel Toogood
--- Original message --- From: javadayaz javada...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 13.8.'09, 8:50 have you used this? are the results any good? As its a book that i want to use this for ...i dont want it to sound too robotic!! 2009/8/13 Samuel Toogood sam_toog

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scheduling a reboot of Ubuntu?

2009-06-15 Thread Samuel Toogood
Alex Birchall wrote: Hi, I'd like to schedule a reboot of my Ubuntu server. When I type sudo crontab -l at the prompt, the following is displayed: #m h dom mon dow command 40 12 * * 0-7 eprints reboot As I understand it, this should mean that at 40 minutes past 12 each day the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using rsync (or something) to remotely backup a windows drive

2009-04-24 Thread Samuel Toogood
doug livesey biot...@gmail.com wrote Hi -- I have a drive that gets a weekly backup of a Windows network stored to it, and I would like to have that backed up in turn remotely. When you say 'a drive', is that on a windows box, or a linux box or a NAS? To that end, I have an IP address that I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Realtek 8187b Wireless VERY VERY slow

2009-03-30 Thread Samuel Toogood
Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote Quoting Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: ... Thanks - the major problem is that the internet connection is SO slow that I can't install packages. Is there somewhere I can download the *.deb file on another machine and install it that way? ... If

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RAID 1 with three drives

2009-03-02 Thread Samuel Toogood
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/3/2 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: The idea I had was if this is possible, I could attach one of the drives externally via eSATA so it can be taken off site and in the event of a server failure this off site backup could be plugged in and the server could be back up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] N.H.S

2009-02-10 Thread Samuel Toogood
Simon Wears wrote My mum is a home care NHS nurse, and when I was talking to her about her work computers a while back, she told me they use a mixture of systems. I know they use MS computers for things such as creating documents, but they also use something else (I think a specialist *nix

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Single Ubuntu instance both bootable AND virtual?

2008-11-05 Thread Samuel Toogood
Andrew Oakley wrote: I have a new PC which has Windows XP. I am already very familiar with repartitioning/resizing and dual-booting so that I can have both XP and Ubuntu on the same machine. Is it possible to have the same one single Ubuntu partition bootable as BOTH: * Dual boot AND *

Re: [ubuntu-uk] synaptic

2008-11-04 Thread Samuel Toogood
norman wrote: The other day I installed a piece of very effective software using synaptic. But, stupid me, I forgot to note down what I had done. Is there any way I can check to find the name of the installation, please? Norman If you start synaptic, and navigate to the File menu, there

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Copying files from a reiser3 partition to LVM problem

2008-06-29 Thread Samuel Toogood
Rob Beard wrote: Mark Allison wrote: I'm creating an ext3 filesystem with a block size of 1024. Hopefully the smaller block size will reduce wastage as I have lots of small files. Thanks for your time. Will let you know tomorrow how this one works out. Yay! Using a 1024 byte block size on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Idea- Torrents!

2008-04-30 Thread Samuel Toogood
Alan Pope wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 11:46 +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote: whats a nslu2? Google can help you with that question. Debian...but nothing in gnome hence ubuntu then? Well I'm sure you could put Ubuntu on it, but lots of people have already put debian on them and made lots of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-14 Thread Samuel Toogood
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lucy wrote: I just wondered if any one else had experienced this behaviour. Cheers Seoras This happened to me when running an Alpha version with the nVidia driver, however it is now fixed for me at least with the driver installed via the new

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New boy.

2006-10-25 Thread Samuel Toogood
? How is it connected to your PC? Kind regards, Sam -- Samuel Toogood -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/