Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-03 Thread Stephen Garton
My work laptop is a reasonably new (2 years old) dual core unit, and regularly runs at 70C (normally when running Java apps or converting video. I have to set the CPU frequency to 2/3 to get it to cool down! sheepeatingtaz 71C is still way too high, my system is currently creating backups of my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Basic network gateway server setup

2010-09-01 Thread Stephen Garton
On 31 August 2010 23:10, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: Quoting Eddie B edd...@gmail.com: Hi everyone My hunch is that it's something to do with the routing tables, or maybe the DHCP on eth0, but I can't find a proper answer anywhere on Google. I was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logo Vote

2010-08-25 Thread Stephen Garton
On 25 August 2010 08:26, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/08/10 08:04, Martin Jernberg wrote: I just voted, simply as a member of this list; but I did not get an email with a link in it, so I may not have met an eligibility criterion. I wonder which, and how

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Code management systems

2010-08-19 Thread Stephen Garton
On 19 August 2010 14:09, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.comwrote: Hi The company I work for has outgrown their Change Management Solution. They have developers in US, Canada, India and maybe soon in China and I was wondering what solutions are there for: 1. a global

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell says Ubuntu safer than Windows

2010-06-15 Thread Stephen Garton
On 15 June 2010 10:12, Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com wrote: On 15 June 2010 10:09, Bruce Beardall bruc...@gmail.com wrote: You can also try www.pcspecialist.co.uk. I haven't used them myself but you can select No Operating System when you configure your choice (same goes for MS Office and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell says Ubuntu safer than Windows

2010-06-15 Thread Stephen Garton
On 15 June 2010 16:19, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 15 June 2010 16:11, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote: I managed to get the poulsbo 'stuff' running on my Dell Mini 10 (running Lucid) last night. It was a lot of faff as the system had some dregs of stuff from getting

[ubuntu-uk] Feature or Bug: accessing localhost with no network connection

2010-06-08 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon All, This morning I was working at a location where I had no network connection. I was trying to do some development work, but I couldn't access localhost in my browser. I ended up getting around it by tethering my phone so I had a network connection! Is this experience the desired

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feature or Bug: accessing localhost with no networkconnection

2010-06-08 Thread Stephen Garton
On 8 June 2010 15:19, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: Untick work offline in the file menu of firefox Alan Bell The Open Learning Centre Check out our Libertus servers at http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/libertus.html -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-03 Thread Stephen Garton
On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Ubuntu UK Team! Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas but with similar layouts. Mockup 1: 

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Garton
On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-25 Thread Stephen Garton
On 25 May 2010 15:50, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 25/05/10 13:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:44, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I bought the HTC Desire phone this week, and I am wondering will it connect to Ubuntu? Thank you. I would use Google sync tools

[ubuntu-uk] Running From USB

2010-05-19 Thread Stephen Garton
Good Morning All, It's very early, but this has been on my mind for a while. I currently have Lucid as a live usb, which is fine and dandy. My problem with it is although the packages installed on it are persistent, the user and other security on it is still the LiveCD standard (ubuntu with no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running From USB

2010-05-19 Thread Stephen Garton
On 19 May 2010 07:41, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 19 May 2010 07:18, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com wrote: Is there a way I can secure the Live USB? Do other people do this? Would I need to roll my own live cd (e.g. No, just install onto a usb stick rather than copy the cd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Media Centre Advice

2010-05-11 Thread Stephen Garton
On 11 May 2010 12:18, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm after some advice as to which system to buy and any issues I should look out for when setting it up. I have a budget of around £300 for a media box which will be directly connected to a TV. I would prefer to buy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Media Centre Advice

2010-05-11 Thread Stephen Garton
On 11 May 2010 13:33, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote: I want it to support as many video formats as possible, mp4, avi etc I hadn't thought of Boxee, I've used it in the past on my AppleTV What media are you going to be using it for? I am currently running Boxee

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Media Centre Advice

2010-05-11 Thread Stephen Garton
On 11 May 2010 14:18, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Dan Fish d...@fishms.org wrote: I'd certainly vouch for XBMC on a revo. I'm using a 'generic' windows MCE remote from Maplin with it. Watching 1080p with no probs and the wife and kids are very happy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with facebook/photouploads/plugin in Google Chrome

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen Garton
On 26 April 2010 11:40, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi John, I seem to remember seeing talk of a plugin for F-Spot for facebook. I just had a google around for fspot facebook and found a few promising leads. I dont use FB myself so I couldnt check any out. It might serve as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with facebook/photouploads/plugin in Google Chrome

2010-04-26 Thread Stephen Garton
On 26 April 2010 12:58, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 26/04/10 11:45, Stephen Garton wrote: On 26 April 2010 11:40, Markiemark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com  wrote: Hi John, I seem to remember seeing talk of a plugin for F-Spot for facebook. I just had a google around for fspot

[ubuntu-uk] Replacement for Gnome-do

2010-04-21 Thread Stephen Garton
Good Morning All, I have been using gnome-do for some time for all my launching needs, but since upgrading to Lucid it has caused me nothing but pain - and as of this morning it will not start, or allow me to use apport to report bugs with it! Does anyone have any recommendations for other

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Replacement for Gnome-do

2010-04-21 Thread Stephen Garton
On 21 April 2010 10:28, Jon Spriggs j...@spriggs.org.uk wrote: Is it something that appears across the top bar of the screen, reducing commands down by typing in a few letters? If so, again, I don't recall the package name, but it was in use in the Cruncheee release of Crunchbang... so we can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Gmail mute thread was: DEB again

2010-04-12 Thread Stephen Garton
On 12 April 2010 16:30, Harry Rickards ha...@linux.com wrote: On 12 April 2010 16:21, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote: On 12 April 2010 16:06, Tommy Pyatt tommy.py...@googlemail.com wrote: Since I see you are using gmail, assuming that you are accessing your mail through the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 1 hour Meeting reminder

2010-01-17 Thread Stephen Garton
Anyone know of an Irc app for Android? Am waiting for the RAC to come rescue me, so it's the only way I'll be able to join today! sheepeatingtaz On 17 Jan 2010 18:32, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: just to remind you all that we have an Ubuntu-uk meeting on IRC channel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/12/14 Alan Pope a...@popey.com: Hi, 2009/12/14 Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com: I finally realised I needed to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used: ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi ceilidh_item.avi You sure

Re: [ubuntu-uk] vodafone- free internet

2009-11-27 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/11/27 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: hi, just to let all mobile users know that vodafone are offering free wifi todayhttp://www.reghardware.co.uk/2009/11/27/vodafone_free_mobile_web/ Hope you make the most of it... Although it would be nice if they told us where to find a vodafone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu tethering

2009-11-25 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/11/25 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: Hi, I would like to tether my laptop and phone.(so that i can use the wifi on my phone..to connect the laptop to connect to the internet)I have no wirless router. Its connected via a wire. Is this possible? -- Regards Javad --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu and MS domain servers

2009-11-18 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/11/18 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Is Ubuntu capable of joining an MS Active Directory Server domain? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Take a look at http://www.likewise.com/ (it's also in the repositories

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Dell Mini 10

2009-11-01 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/11/1 Neil Perry npe...@gmail.com: Only thing I can find which might make a little bit of difference, not sure how much though. http://www.yugatech.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/atom-z530-vs-n270.gif Hope this helps Neil Perry 2009/11/1 Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

2009-10-23 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/10/23 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net: Since yesterday's Jaunty update Firefox appears to have lost its history, refresh etc. buttons and only has the original domain in the address bar (ie. if I go to http://sitea.com and click on links within the address bar does not change, even if I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

2009-10-23 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/10/23 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Liam Wilson wrote:  Yeah, the speed on chrome compared to Firefox really is unreal, isn't it? Firefox seems horribly slow and clunky and unstable compared to the google-chrome-unstable build. Is Flash and Java supported by Chrome? I'm interested in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

2009-10-23 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/10/23 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Stephen Garton wrote: 2009/10/23 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Liam Wilson wrote:  Yeah, the speed on chrome compared to Firefox really is unreal, isn't it? Firefox seems horribly slow and clunky and unstable compared to the google-chrome-unstable

[ubuntu-uk] Chromium (Was Bizarre Firefox behaviour)

2009-10-23 Thread Stephen Garton
On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 11:32 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote: 2009/10/23 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Stephen Garton wrote: 2009/10/23 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Liam Wilson wrote: Yeah, the speed on chrome compared to Firefox really is unreal, isn't it? Firefox seems horribly slow

[ubuntu-uk] Changing account names in Empathy (Karmic)

2009-10-17 Thread Stephen Garton
Hi There, Tootling along nicely with the Karmic beta at the moment. I did a completely fresh install to get the full experience, and am trying my hardest to get used to using empathy instead of pidgin. Couple of things that I can't seem to work out: 1) How do I change the name of accounts (they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing account names in Empathy (Karmic)

2009-10-17 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/10/17 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com: 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

[ubuntu-uk] VIdeo recommendations

2009-10-17 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon All, I have a hitachi HDD video camera that can record in 4:3 or 16:9 ratios. I can attach the camera to my PC via USB and browse the files, they are .VRO file. I can copy these files to /home and they are essentially mpeg files, which is fine. When I record in 4:3 format, they come

[ubuntu-uk] [OT] MySQL Help Required

2009-10-08 Thread Stephen Garton
Apologies for cross posting on both the planet and the mailing list, but I could really do with some help on MySQL if there are any experts out there! In an effort to reduce the cross-posting noise, I'll just point in the direction of my blog post:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MySQL Help Required

2009-10-08 Thread Stephen Garton
Sean, That's great. Don't know why I didn't think to do it in the php in the first place, so thanks. Steve On Oct 8, 2009 6:27 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: $dt = date(y-m-d,s... that will need, I think, to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Synching calendars, contacts and tasks with mobile phone

2009-09-22 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/9/22 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: On 22/09/09 15:58, Jon Reynolds wrote: Perhaps if there is a way to sync your desktop software with gmail, then you can sync your mobile device to gmail. I sync my WinMob device with gmail, contacts and calendar. snip / This what we do now.

[ubuntu-uk] Podcast on Google Listen

2009-09-20 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon all, I've just installed Google Listen on my Android phone, and I can't find the ubuntu-uk podcast on it :-( Does anyone know if it (Listen) is like itunes, and feeds have to be 'submitted'? I've found a couple of the BBC podcasts I listen to on there, but not sure how the search

[ubuntu-uk] External Monitor Questions

2009-09-17 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning All, My work Laptop dual boots Intrepid WinXP. I do most of my work in Ubuntu, and have recently started plugging in an external monitor, as we had a couple of spares knocking around the office! The laptop is a Lenovo 3000 N200, Graphics chipset is reported by lshw as a GM965. 1) The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First generation iTouch in 9.04?

2009-08-11 Thread Stephen Garton
IIRC there is a way to do it, I used to sync my iphone with amarok. From memory, (Google will be your friend) the ubuntu package was called ipod-convenience I think. Apologies for top post, my phone doesn't give me any other option :-( Steve On Aug 11, 2009 7:08 PM, David Stansby

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choosing a new phone

2009-08-05 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/8/5 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com: Sorry, I missed the D off. It's Darren :) Yeah I've got a Pioneer car stereo with Bluetooth and hands-free built in. Bluetooth audio works through the stereo and calls just stop the music playing to come through the hands-free and resume

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote start torrents

2009-07-23 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/7/21 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: javadayaz wrote: its a cable connection. with virgin. its a linkys router. not sure of what model. i will check and revert back. Ahh in that case I assume the modem is the standard cable modem that Virgin supply? In that case you'll just need to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] install just the command-line

2009-07-23 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/7/23 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com: Hi -- I have a laptop that is really struggling to display anything, as something that handles display in both windows the Ubuntu loader is very gone. (Trying to install Xubuntu, I get as far as clicking next on the keyboard layout chooser, then

[ubuntu-uk] Ideas for sharing folders

2009-07-13 Thread Stephen Garton
Evening All, Just want to canvas for ideas... What is the best way to share a folder with multiple users over multiple machines? To put into context, I have been playing with UbuntuOne. I have a Photos directory which is now [in the process of being] syncronised for my user across 3 PC's. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ideas for sharing folders

2009-07-13 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/7/13 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: On 13/07/09 22:21, Stephen Garton wrote: Evening All, Just want to canvas for ideas... What is the best way to share a folder with multiple users over multiple machines? To put into context, I have been playing with UbuntuOne. I have

[ubuntu-uk] Using function keys in screen

2009-07-05 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning all, How can I use the function keys in screen on Ubuntu Jaunty? For example, if I am running htop in screen, and hitF9 (to access the kill menu) I get the screen help menu. TIA Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] permission

2009-07-04 Thread Stephen Garton
Hi Ragia, 2009/7/5 Ragia Ibrahim ragi...@hotmail.com: Hi all I am new linx user (2 weeks ago) Welcome! I need to run[ make install ]   in specific folder but i got the following Error Permission denied how can I change folder permission to make this.. the error is as follow... What are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Videos on BBC News Website

2009-06-27 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/6/27 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Sean Miller wrote: On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Gordongbpli...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone got an answer to playing these? They're Flash. They just played for me out of the box. Sean Hmmm. They just hang up here - what make of flash have you got

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using gmail and google apps in mutt

2009-06-26 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/6/26 Philip Taylor scralion...@gmail.com: Hi ok, how do i use gmail, ie imap, and google apps, which also uses imap.gmail.com, at the same time in mutt. what would be the correct syntax, in muttrc. and how do you switch correctly between both accounts in mutt. any help would be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sony Walkman Enticing Again?

2009-06-09 Thread Stephen Garton
I've just got a magic too, so am very pleased to hear about it's ogg support! (First email sent from it, and it looks like it's going to top post by default, the compose screen is different to 'normal'. If so, apologies in advance!) On Jun 8, 2009 9:28 PM, Michael G Fletcher

[ubuntu-uk] Unlock SSH key on login

2009-06-02 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning All, This has been going on since I upgraded to Jaunty, but is starting to become a bit of an annoyance. On my personal laptop, my ssh key is unlocked when I log in, but on my work machine I either have to enter my passphrase everytime I use ssh, or run ssh-add (and entering my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

2009-06-01 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/6/1 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 05:32 +0100, mac wrote: Anyone seen a physical copy of this, yet? http://www.linuxpromagazine.com/online/news/linux_new_media_launches_ubuntu_user_magazine I've seen it in WHSmith, but at £7.99 I don't know how many buyers

[ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

2009-04-27 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon All, I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32. All of the folders in this drive (automounts to /media/storage) as listed as being owned by root. When I try to change this (I've tried sudo chown -R and sudo nautilus) I get permission denied errors. Any idea why this would

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing File/Folder permissions

2009-04-27 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/4/27 Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 12:57 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote: Afternoon All, I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32. All of the folders in this drive (automounts to /media/storage) as listed as being owned by root. When I try

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-26 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/4/26 Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series graphics chip in it. After having installed Jaunty, I was pleased to see that suspend and resume worked (using the Open Source) drivers. Unfortunately however 3D

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty available

2009-04-23 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/4/23 Simon Wears munkyju...@googlemail.com Do you have a link for the BitTorrent download? I can't find it. try http://releases.ubuntu.com/9.04/ for a list. That's where I got mine from! Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Software Media Player Recommendations (iPod sync)

2009-04-22 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning all, I used to use amarok for my media player when it was back in the 1.4 series. I liked that I could right click all collection and select sync to device, and it would. Try as I might, I cannot get amarok 2 to work this simply. In fact, at the moment, any context menus disappear as soon

[ubuntu-uk] Large Log Files

2009-03-21 Thread Stephen Garton
Evening all, I came home today to find my media centre (running ubuntu 8.10) had run out of disk space. I rotate things on it to keep space free, so it seemed odd. On investigation, I found some large files that I am hoping someone could explain? in /var/log there are 3 files - kern.log, syslog

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Test

2009-03-20 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/3/20 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 10:24 +, Toby Satchell wrote: Test, please ignore. Duly ignored -- Fail ;-) Steve Garton sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Test

2009-03-20 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/3/20 Toby Satchell tsatch...@gmail.com I did this because on the mailing list options it says do you wish to receive a copy of emails you send to the list. I have it selected as yes, yet I don't see a copy of my emails sent. Toby. I think gmail is 'clever', and doesn't store 2 copies.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Adding a second hard drive

2009-03-11 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/3/11 danattwood danattw...@googlemail.com Have you considered using Virtualbox or similar? Virtulization is a great way of running an XP install for thing likes Sage and Word and you won't have to muck about with Grub. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] adding extra hard drive to a Ubuntu machine.

2009-02-26 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning All, I have an ubuntu machine that I am running Boxee on, and I also have a 250GB IDE drive in a network caddy. The caddy is unreliable, so am considering moving the disk into the PC (it just has media on it). If I were to plug the drive into the PC and switch on, would it automount, or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/1/20 Guy Thouret li...@thouret.co.uk You might want to take a look at MySQL Workbench. I have found it the best program I have come across for generating E-R diagrams of your databases and creating MySQL table schemas in that you can then export as SQL structures. As just a query

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/1/20 Oliver Marks oliver.ma...@homedics.co.uk On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:44 +, Stephen Garton wrote: Afternoon All, I'm after a gui tool to help me design database queries (primarily for MySQL databases). In the windows world, I can use SQLyog enterprise - http://webyog.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing PGP Keys

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/1/21 Ciaran Mooney general.moo...@googlemail.com Hi, Only if your trust both computers. Preferably you are the sole user of both computers, ie your desktop at home, and your laptop. Although keeping your keys on a laptop will be a cause for concern, but may be a necessity. As far as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing PGP Keys

2009-01-21 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/1/21 Joseph Walton-Rivers webpig...@googlemail.com snip Hello, You can export keys using the key manager (Applications-Accessories-Passwords and Encryption Keys). Once you have exported your entire key I think you can use that manager to import it onto your laptop. Joseph. --

[ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon All, I'm after a gui tool to help me design database queries (primarily for MySQL databases). In the windows world, I can use SQLyog enterprise - http://webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_list.php - (which works under wine) or even MS Access I have also tried Navicat -

[ubuntu-uk] Sharing PGP Keys

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning All, I'm going through a security conscious phase again, and have just set up a PGP key on one of my laptops. My question is could I should I share this key with another laptop, so that I can use the same key from both computers? If I can and I should, how would I go about it? Links to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-28 Thread Stephen Garton
2008/12/28 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net: On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 8:58 AM, Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com wrote: If I wanted to set up a file / mail server at home, and be able to connect to it through the internet, if the ADSL connection is dynamic, how does the DNS server (I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Program Development

2008-12-24 Thread Stephen Garton
2008/12/24 Renjith Nair renji...@gmail.com: Hi Jai, Eclipse is still a good bet for all these requirements if you are developing in Java. I am not so sure about the PHP support as i haven't used eclipse for editing php. If your are using Subversion Plugin and the necessary connectors for

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server interface

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon all, We have a server (off site) at work that was intially set up with a single user (root). We've created a day-to-day user for logging into the machine, which we do over ssh. My question is, the new user doesn't seem to have any of the 'basics', e.g. tab completion, or arrow keys to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server interface

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Garton
2008/12/18 Dave Walker davewal...@ubuntu.com: snip The most obvious reason I can think that would cause this, is adding a new user using useradd rather than the more useful adduser. Can you confirm how the user was added? Dave, I'm afraid I can't at the moment, the person who set it up has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server interface

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Garton
2008/12/18 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk: Generally an issue with either /etc/profile, ~/.bash_profile or ~/.bashrc If you edit the versions of .bash_profile and .bashrc in /etc/skel then any new users will be given the functionality. Edit the current

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server interface

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Garton
Thanks for all the help so far! the user now has a .bashrc and a .profile (copied from /etc/skel) 2008/12/18 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: As well as the advice about bashrc etc., I would also check that the user has the right shell. Login and type 'echo $SHELL' and make sure that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server interface

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Garton
2008/12/18 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: Steve, Stephen Garton wrote: Thanks for all the help so far! the user now has a .bashrc and a .profile (copied from /etc/skel) 2008/12/18 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: As well as the advice about bashrc etc., I would also

[ubuntu-uk] gradual Distribution update

2008-12-10 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon All, I look after my mother in laws's ubuntu box - currently running hardy. She only has a 512 broadband connection, and a full upgrade needs to download ~1.8GB of packages. I have ssh access to the machine, when it is turned on. What I would like to do is log on when I know the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] medibuntu keys missing?

2008-05-24 Thread Stephen Garton
Alan, 2008/5/24 alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED]: after adding medibuntu repository as https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Medibuntu and specifically (7.10) sudo wget http://www.medibuntu.org/sources.list.d/gutsy.list -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/medibuntu.list I then do sudo apt-get update and

[ubuntu-uk] Server Setup - Help Needed With Email

2008-05-20 Thread Stephen Garton
Evening All, Firstly, some background: I work for a small company, on a mainly windows network. For historical reasons, we use a webhost who only provide POP3 accounts. I have a need to share a POP3 mailbox between multiple users (specifically support@). We have recently installed a machine on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] watch tv on ubuntu!

2008-05-12 Thread Stephen Garton
2008/5/12 Chris Oattes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm afraid that this isn't the case: Do I need a TV Licence if I only watch programmes online? It makes no difference how you watch TV - whether it's on your laptop, PC or mobile phone or through a digital box, DVD recorder or TV set - if you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] take a look at my system!!

2008-05-09 Thread Stephen Garton
Javad, 2008/5/9 Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Ok further to my last email about DVD (DVD Lite on ) problems and the reply i got as stated below Run lshw or dmesg to discover hardware info. I was wondering, if its ok with everyone to post the output to what i got ...to the above command?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

2008-04-28 Thread Stephen Garton
2008/4/28 Stephen O'Neill [EMAIL PROTECTED]: What do others think? - am I being needlessly paranoid, will I do the 'fresh install' and end up being disappointed given that everything currently seems to 'work'? Maybe 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'? -- After going GutsyHardy, I got the

[ubuntu-uk] Laptop Battery

2008-04-28 Thread Stephen Garton
Since upgrading to Hardy, all of the available 'battery' applets report that my battery is at 0% charge. If I unplug the mains, the battery light turns from green to orange to signify discharging, as I would expect, and always has done previously. The charge indicators report that it is still at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Hardy: Fail!

2008-03-12 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning all, On 11/03/2008, James Westby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The error messages that you get before being dropped in to the shell would help us to diagnose the problem and try and fix it. Can you transcribe at least the last few lines in to an email? I'm not getting any error

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade to Hardy: Fail!

2008-03-11 Thread Stephen Garton
Evening all, I wanted to help log bugs etc in Hardy, but have hit a bit of a snag- I can't do anything apart from boot into recovery mode from grub! If I choose(or let grub choose) the default kernel, I get nothing. I can manually start up eth0 from the recovery console, is there any way I can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Brainstorm site

2008-02-28 Thread Stephen Garton
On 28/02/2008, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting... http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ A digg/ dell idea storm type site.. I'm just worried it will go the same way as the Number 10 Petition site, in that there may be some genuine good ideas, they will be lost in the swarthes of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Forum

2008-02-13 Thread Stephen Garton
On 13/02/2008, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Snip] Yeah, I guess so. 50 is a lot of users, although I'd be willing to bet a significant chunk of those users don't actually ever visit the forums, and probably don't subscribe to entire forums either. That would be me! I've subscribed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadband Advice

2008-02-05 Thread Stephen Garton
On 05/02/2008, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like the idea, however I cringe when I think about using AOL, does anyone have any advice? Cheers, My boss has signed up for this offer. I've had a play with the laptop in question, and IMHO it's a bit of a shed. Low spec

[ubuntu-uk] Mega Slow Bootup

2008-02-02 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning All, I've also posted to my blog, but I would appreciate it if someone could take a look at a bootchart image from today, and hazard a guess as to why my computer takes (metaphorically) 3 days to boot? http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk/images/gutsy-20080202-1.png Image is fairly large, so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mega Slow Bootup

2008-02-02 Thread Stephen Garton
On 02/02/2008, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Stephen Remove the package evms with your favourite package manager. Already been done, I'm afraid: sudo apt-get remove evms Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Package evms is not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email Disclaimers (was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 33, Issue 51)

2008-01-27 Thread Stephen Garton
On 27/01/2008, Martyn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you are not a named recipient, then please notify us, destroy this email and keep no copies. snip Well I received it, and I'm not a named recipient (neither is anyone on this list) so what do we do now? Let him know, destroy the e-mail and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] video editing

2008-01-27 Thread Stephen Garton
Hi Javad, On 27/01/2008, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, quick q. The size increase is because Kino converts everything into DV format so you can edit it first. Once you have edited it and exported it, the size will decrease rapidly. I tried this the first time and it convert it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] video editing

2008-01-21 Thread Stephen Garton
On 21/01/2008, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i tried this cat /dev/sda5/nuzhet shadi/mehndi edited/mehndi1.vob /dev/sda5/nuzhet shadi/mehndi edited/mehndi2.vob /dev/sda5.vob but it didnt work!! any ideas? Javad, Try cat /dev/sda5/nuzhet shadi/mehndi edited/mehndi1.vob

[ubuntu-uk] SSH question

2008-01-12 Thread Stephen Garton
On a box at home, I have ssh running on a non-specific high numbered port. Is it possible to also have it (ssh) listen on port 22, but limit it to computers on the local network? The reason for asking is that I'd like to do things like synchronise my tomboy notes over ssh, but there is nowhere in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SSH question

2008-01-12 Thread Stephen Garton
On 12/01/2008, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Couldn't you use port forwarding on your router? So have the sshd running on port 22 but expose it to the world at large on port, say, 2000 ? Sean That will do nicely, cheers! -- Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SSH question

2008-01-12 Thread Stephen Garton
Hi Al, On 12/01/2008, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 09:13:56AM +, Stephen Garton wrote: On a box at home, I have ssh running on a non-specific high numbered port. Is it possible to also have it (ssh) listen on port 22, but limit it to computers on the local

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source video recorder

2008-01-08 Thread Stephen Garton
On 08/01/2008, LeeGroups [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They can be, but there are two causes, the cooling fan and the harddrive. For the engineers, the best answer is to replace both, a 70mm fits with a bit of trimming and a bigger hard is always handy... For the software types, XBMC can be set

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source video recorder

2008-01-07 Thread Stephen Garton
On 07/01/2008, Matthew Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have had one for months... I love it :-) Got it because I finally got tired of VHS. Where can one buy one from in the UK? -- Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source video recorder

2008-01-07 Thread Stephen Garton
On 07/01/2008, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Not bad I guess, pity it doesn't do HD video. I still think I'd go for the cheaper software modified XBOX option though. Rob I've thought about it but the xbox is a wee bit big and ugly isn't it? And Loud! (Or is that just mine?).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Burning videos

2008-01-07 Thread Stephen Garton
Hi John On 08/01/2008, davisjo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Group, I have downloaded a film in NTSC format using aMule. The film plays really well on the download computer. The film is just under the 700 megabyte limit for a normal cd. I have tried burning the film to disc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Why some people will never switch

2007-12-23 Thread Stephen Garton
HI Jai, On 23/12/2007, Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My grandmother uses Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon and has done so since sometime in August. The reason is simple, really. I provide her with all the technical support she needs and I decided that I shouldn't have to provide her with support

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