Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hello is it possible for me to buy a ubuntu dvd

On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 4:53 PM Mark Dorrington wrote: > Steven where is the best place to purchase a ubuntu dvd as i am on pay as you > go for my internet as i do not like contracts > due to the complexed small print on the contract. Mark, if by "pay as you go", you mean using a mobile PAYG

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to get Ubuntu DVDs?

On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:57 AM wrote: > I need to have an Ubuntu install DVD burned for me... and I don’t have a > burner. > > Can anyone help? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ubuntu-Linux-18-04-4-Latest-Version/dp/B085FS9JQ5 -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New to Ubuntu

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:06 PM Peter Callum wrote: > I am new to this and am having a few problems with what the best way of > getting assistance is. I keep getting messages from livepatch saying that > there is a problem. Could you share what those messages are? -n --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:33 PM Jim Price wrote: > I've ended up in a bit of a bind. I updated from 14.04 to 16.04, which > seemed to go well but then I noticed that VLC was no longer installed. > On trying to re-install it, it could not find its dependency on vlc-nox. > vlc-nox is not in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any reasons why Ubuntu(-MATE) wouldn't work on this laptop?

On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Adam Funk wrote: > I'm shopping around for a new work laptop, & we have to buy it from > Insight. If you can stretch your budget, go for a Thinkpad as others have suggested (albeit from suppliers you've said aren't suitable):

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 - incomplete Lois McNab

On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Michael wrote: > [nothing] ... OK? -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 - incomplete Lois McNab

On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Colin Law wrote: > First a couple of points about protocol on this list. Please don't > top post. Insert your reply into the previous message at appropriate > points. Also please post in plain text not html. Thanks. > [previous message quoted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meetup.com

On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Gareth France wrote: > I am a member of meetup.com and of the Ubuntu meetup group on there. I think > it's a fantastic idea as I'm not personally aware of any regularly meeting > enthusiast group for Ubuntu in the UK. > > However it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu laptop

On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Stuart Ward <stuart.w...@bcs.org> wrote: > On 15 April 2016 at 00:35, William Anderson <ne...@well.com> wrote: >> >> From where?! :) > > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262302223446 [snip] Not too shabby! I notice Dell are doing base

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu laptop

On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Stuart Ward wrote: > On 7 April 2016 at 16:26, Jim Price wrote: >> Any alternatives in a similar price range (£200 after trade-in for this one) >> would be appreciated too. > > I recently got a ex=-corporate thinkpad

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu laptop

On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Jim Price wrote: > Does anyone know of a supplier of Ubuntu laptops who would accept payment by > cheque? I'm told eBuyer don't for this one: I don't mean to derail the conversation, but if you are paying by cheque, is this because you do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Really? What have I said about console repairs during the course of this thread exactly? I think Liam was referring to the fact you said you were an IT technician at first. You only mentioned repairing consoles

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day I got it and it seems to be falling apart very rapidly. I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I'll be using a desktop for the duration the machine is away. I have been looking at incremental backup solutions. What I'd like to do is setup a system where it connects to an FTP server and only backs up the data

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: [snip] I'm not going to persue this 'argument'. Go work it out for your selves. I only pop in here rarely, the conversations from the last couple of threads enforce that. you are totally wrong in lambasting some one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: I'll bare the ftp advice in mind and I agree you do get what you pay for, but that doesn't make it any less frustrating, especially when they treat you like an idiot when you know full well what the problem is. I

[Bug 1164809] [NEW] Install formats partitions and copies files before config is conplete

Public bug reported: when installing Ubuntu 13.04 i386 image downloaded on 4 April 2013, the install asked me what to do with the drive. i choose to keep the existing partitions, but to format the file systems on those drives. The partition manager stated that this action was undoable at this

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

today updated to new kernel version with the update manager. this new version (3.0.0-19.33) works creating big disk image files with no trouble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309

[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

upgraded to new kernel today with update manager. new kernel (version 3.0.0-19.33) works creating big disk image files on encrypted home directory with no trouble. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

This morning, when I checked the available updates in the update manager, I found a new kernel waiting to be installed. I upgraded to this kernel (version 3.0.0-17.30) and successfully booted into it with no problems. william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu

[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

This morning, when I checked the available updates in the update manager, I found a new kernel waiting to be installed. I upgraded to this kernel (version 3.0.0-17.30) and successfully booted into it with no problems. william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-17-generic #30-Ubuntu SMP Thu

[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

if space is not pre-allocated the small image file is created with no trouble. this problem has something to do with the writing of big files and have seen this in other applications including dd and transmission. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs,

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

This morning I found that there is another kernel upgrade available (3.0.0-16.29, up from 3.0.0-16.28). I installed this kernel and booted up into it with no trouble: william@ishtar:~$ uname -a Linux ishtar 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 14 12:49:42 UTC 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

[Bug 952489] [NEW] process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

Public bug reported: On my system, several programs that create gigabyte sized files fail. the process allocates around a gigabyte then goes into a state where no more data is written to the disk, but the process consumes 100% of the cpu. this issue first lead to the reporting of bug #925309,

[Bug 952489] Re: process creating gigabyte files on encrypted filesystem fails with 100% cpu

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[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

I have no problem making bug 913787 a duplicate of this one. I think that the major issue regarding that bug is on the Linux Mint distribution which, while it is based on Ubuntu Oneric, is not actually Ubuntu and it is not unreasonable to expect that the Ubuntu team to not want to support it.

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

I noticed that there is a new kernel in the update manager (3.0.0-16-generic). I installed this and booted into it to see if this bug is still an issue with the updated kernel. qemu-img is now running at 100%, i am unable to kill the process, closing the terminal window that the process was run

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

Hi, Just an added note, running the qemu-img command on a directory that is not encrypted results in a 5gb image file being created so fast that i thought there must have been an error of some sort, but there is a file created. william@ishtar:/home/Books$ qemu-img create -f raw

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

today i caused this bug to come out when i tried moving one of the big image files into my home directory. same 100% cpu, same unkillable. i downloaded and installed the latest mainline kernel ( 3.3.0-030300rc2-generic-pae), booted up into it with only one issue, my wireless network driver is

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

** Tags removed: needs-upstream-testing ** Tags added: kernel-fixed-upstream-v3.3-rc2 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/925309 Title: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time To

[Bug 925309] Re: unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

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[Bug 925309] [NEW] unkillable process consuming 100% cpu time

Public bug reported: creating disk images with either VirtualBox or qemu-img causes the process to stop responding and consume 100% of the cpu of one core of the dual core processor. Kill -9 does not effect the process. the only way to stop it is to reboot the computer. i also encountered this

[Bug 403130] Re: All my desktop icons were rearranged

my icon reset experience This issue occurred on my laptop. I think that this is caused by either a corrupt configuration file or by a version upgrade that does not handle the old versions configuration correctly. At this time i think that the former condition is the cause. I upgraded to

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.10 and found that this problem came back. It is fixed on my laptop by commenting out the two video quirk entries in the file /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm- dell.fdi for the Inspiron 8600. At this point running pm-suspend and pm- hibernate

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Judge bans Microsoft Word sales

Paul Sutton wrote: Alan Lord (News) wrote: I disagree. Making *everything* open source would be pyrrhic panacea. Competition is good. Competition is what has spurned the FOSS movement and proprietary vendors alike. Trying to eradicate the proprietary market is unrealistic and would stifle

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anti-Virus for Ubuntu (Hard Heron 8.04)? Hardware diagnostics?

Alex Birchall wrote: Hi All, Would anyone recommend an antivirus product for an Ubuntu Hardy Heron 8.04 server? Also, I have a suspicion that our server may have a hardware fault. This is because yesterday the server shutdown when I attempted to establish a remote session with Secure

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automatically moving mail from a specific sender to a certain file?

James Milligan wrote: [snip] 5. 'Match any of the following' 6. Subject - Contains - '[ubuntu-uk]' for the Ubuntu UK list (this one) This will fail if someone replies to you directly (i.e. not a reply to the mailing list) using a message you posted to the list, as unless the subject line

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automatically moving mail from a specific sender to a certain file?

Alan Lord (News) wrote: [snip] I use gmane.org for most lists and mozilla provide their lists on a news feed. Filters work fine too, but I find the lists-on-news keeps them out of my inboxes and just suits the way I like to do things. I used to do this a long time ago, but it got

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

Neil Greenwood wrote: [snip] It always works to put the options straight after the command. absolutely, it's the best way. but knowing the cheats are fun too :) -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reminder - DFEY-NW tomorrow :: Young Rewired State Announcements

Tim Dobson wrote: Just a reminder that the DFEY-NW meeting is taking place tomorrow from 12:00pm - ~3:30pm === DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education Youth - North West) is a group aiming to provide a social space for young people interested in technology, issues of

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

John Matthews wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto Mounting Network Shares

Rob Beard wrote: [snip] To get round having to use two different connections for inside the network and outside the network I have setup dnsmasq on my server and added the hostnames of each machine and the DynDNS domain name to the /etc/hosts file so they point to the internal IP

Re: [ubuntu-uk] text to speech apps

javadayaz wrote: i know this is probably a stupid question. But how well does it work? in your personal experience. I've pointed festival at text from news.bbc.co.uk in the past, and it comes out very well; depends on which voice you use, of course. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

Norman Silverstone wrote: We are the borg. You will be assimilated. Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage of good SF? Bravo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android on iPhone

Rob Beard wrote: Daniel Drummond wrote: I haven't watched this yet, but sounds interesting: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmDQpfCcMs YouTube video of Window 95 on the iPhone. Sourced from Guardian Tech Twitter. James I would take those claims with a pinch of salt. Surely it is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choosing a new phone

Not sure how much this has to do with Ubuntu ... :) but anyway: Jai Harrison wrote: Hey everyone, I have been using a Nokia 3220 since around late 2004. Recently I've been doing so over the free Blyk network but as that's now shutting down (in 2 and 1/2 weeks) I'm in need of a new phone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

Norman Silverstone wrote: We are the borg. You will be assimilated. Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution and MS Exchange 2007

Ian Pascoe wrote: Oh dear, the project seems to be manned by Trekkies! See the release names. You'd hate my network then ... http://neuro.me.uk/tech/ :) -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

Liam Proven wrote: [snip] #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its working life as long as possible, you save energy; by replacing working

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where Ubuntu falls short

Steve wrote: [snip] Just wait. October will be even more fun as people try to upgrade from vista to 7. I've already told a few it's going to cost them more than the usual couple of pints to sort the mess out. From what I've heard, upgrading from Vista to 7 RC is pretty straight forward

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

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. Hi John, directories = folders, it's just different nomenclatures. Many

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Daily quiz suggestion

David Jones wrote: Is anybody interested in getting a rolling quiz set up using funtrivia.com? if you hadn't posted here before, I'd have said this was spam ;) what topics would you suggest having in the quiz? There should be a bonus round called Stallman's Beard. -n --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

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 a website would be useful in helping

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

David King wrote: I did not read the whole of the page at http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/index.php/Log_host but it does seem to say that there are Tardises out there that run on Linux. Oh tardis, how i miss thee ... I had a tardis.ed.ac.uk account way back in the day, until they cracked down on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network

Paul Roach wrote: To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the [snip] but at least with smb/cifs, you're not encrypting/decrypting your traffic as you would with ssh/sftp, so if you're confident your

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

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] OT: OOo bashing was Word 2002 under Wine?

Rob Beard wrote: [snip] I just got the general impression that you were saying that Macs were the the be all and end all, guess I read it wrong. You're lucky not to have used Me, I had the annoying task of supporting it once, wasn't fun at all :-( Apologies if that's the way I come

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

David King wrote: Interesting podcast, entertaining as usual. However, I did not hear any references to the Stolen Earth, which title I assume you took from a recent Doctor Who episode. But no mention of the Doctor or the Daleks... I wonder what a Dalek running on Ubuntu would be like?

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

Mike Paglia wrote: I dont understand why use it anyway? Openoffice is just as good and its free! This attitude irritates me somewhat. I prefer MS Office (I currently use Office 2008 on my mac) to OpenOffice.org, as the former works well natively, doesn't consume insane amounts of memory, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

William Anderson wrote: Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote: Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash. I would be surprised if the default shell is bash. /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Dave explained. If you look at a user's default shell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Flame Wars mailing list

Rob Beard wrote: Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour? (If there was some joke intended, I've missed it). Alan was referring to the Monty Python Arguement Sketch:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked..... (now showing online?)

Matt Jones wrote: [snip] Looks like you just got away with it. Making a full site backup probably isn't a bad idea! Glad you got it sorted, And get phpbb and wordpress updated immediately, I suspect these were the attack vectors. I'm sure, if you don't feel confident about doing that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

Alan Pope wrote: [snip] A highly damaging hack at UK-based web hosting company VAserv has taken a tragic turn for the worse after it was revealed that the boss of the Indian firm whose software was at the centre the attack, has hanged himself. General consensus is that he had lost one or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

Lucy wrote: [snip] Like I said in an earlier post, many other sites on the same server were also compromised. It's likely that he'll never find out which one was responsible. Other sites being compromised doesn't necessarily mean they were responsible for the damage to John's site, just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

John wrote: [snip] Hi, what backup options are there that dont require you to download the full site each time. It is some of my fault for relying on the host, I should never have done that. I need to learn more. check out the rsync, sitecopy, and mirror packages -n --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online

Harry Rickards wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/21/09 12:56, Lucy wrote: ... You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that it's running on Windows. Some websites try to detect what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu tribe

You'll be lucky to find anything to download other than the trailer ... it was an entry into a viral marketing competition, and no short film was ever made. -n On 17 Jun 2009, at 17:24, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi there seems to

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

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] No IE in Windows 7

Sean Miller wrote: On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, doug liveseybiot...@gmail.com wrote: Well, no, because Ubuntu comes bundled with FF. Even if it didn't. There are many in the repos. This is what Windows needs, an easy to use system to install and update apps loaded on a machine. If

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

Michael G Fletcher wrote: [id3 tagging app snippage] you can try Picard, it's in the repositories and details can be found here [1]. Musicbrainz Picard is the mutt's nuts, utterly fantastic. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless Networking question: Ps3 or Xbox 360

Rob Beard wrote: javadayaz wrote: I mean primarily to view stuff/media thats stored on the ubuntu pc! sorry should have made that a bit clearer Yeah no problem. Well I don't have either console (I have an original XBOX, PS2 and Wii). I know the PS3 has Linux support and I'm pretty

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadband and hosting reccomendations

John Levin wrote: Hi, I'm looking for reccomendations for broadband suppliers and hosting. First off, I'm getting rid of Entanet (via UKFSN) as they've seen fit to more than double their charges! (Getting ready for long phone session to customer services today) Don't have cable, so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] E-mail body as attachment

Rob Beard wrote: Steve Archer wrote: Why is it that when some people send an e-mail to the list I receive the e-mail with no body, but it is instead an attachment? It's driving me nuts... Cheers, Steve Strange, what e-mail client (or provider if it's webmail) are you using? Matt is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

Michael Douglas wrote: [snip] I understand why magazine's that come with DVD's of movies, or things like SLES on them, but why spend money printing a dual-sided DVD, when you could just use two single sided ones and bring the price down by a couple quid so more people buy it? Because

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

Sean Miller wrote: Just to point out that the £25 subscription is only for 4 issues, so it's still over £6/copy which seems steep to me. All Linux magazines seem incredibly pricey - but this one seems to take the pricyness to a new level. To be fair, it's quarterly, so at least you're not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] E-mail body as attachment

Matthew Daubney wrote: [evolution/mailman attachment snippage] Hmm, thats interesting. I can't see a way around that inside Evolution, as far as I can see Evolution is set to just use Plain Text. Anyone know a way around it? I wasn't criticising evolution to be fair, just more mailman for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

Thomas Ibbotson wrote: [snip] There is also no need for bottom posting if you use thunderbird with thread view, as everyone could simply not include the previous messages assuming everybody had all the messages in the thread, but it's much nicer to have all the relevant information for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] how to set up a dial up connection

Sean Miller wrote: On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote: sorry, an extra bit I forgot to mention - it is a BT DSL modem, using broadband, but the computer DIALS UP to the connection. It doesn't actually. It's just that Windows displays it as a Dial

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell XPS M1530 fresh install WiFi probs

Kris Douglas wrote: Hello everyone, I've been having some problems with the wireless on my M1530, it seems, every [insert very similar number of minutes] my wireless card just disconnects, it says it is connected to a network, but the machine doesn't actually have internet access... What do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell XPS M1530 fresh install WiFi probs

William Anderson wrote: Kris Douglas wrote: Hello everyone, I've been having some problems with the wireless on my M1530, it seems, every [insert very similar number of minutes] my wireless card just disconnects, it says it is connected to a network, but the machine doesn't actually have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] to upgrade or not (Macbook 3,1 on Ibex)

Chris Weaver wrote: I have a Macbook 3.1 and I'm nearly about to press the upgrade button (I'm upgrading a test PC to see how it affects sound and Samba in particular). I have it dual booting with leopard so I'm perhaps in a better position if it goes wrong. I'll report back how it goes. I'm

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

I was able to fix this problem by removing all quirk definitions for this laptop in the /usr/share/hal/fdi/information/10freedesktop/20 -video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi . By default the -quirk-s3-bios and -quirk-s3-mode were enabled. With both the laptop would freeze at a blank screen with a flashing

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

Today I found the Free Desktop .org pages describing how the HAL sleep quirks work and how to debug them. http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/quirk/quirk-suspend-index.html I downloaded the quirk checker script and it recommended that I add the broadcom b44 module to the unload_modules file

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

And the kernel.log section. ** Attachment added: kernel.log http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25576046/kernel.log -- suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/361853 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

Another change, somewhere along the line the sleep/wake system to use, as defined in the file /etc/pm/config.d/00sleep_module, was changed from the explicit tuxonice to the default kernel system. With the kernel sleep/wake system, the command sudo pm-suspend -quirk-s3-bios -quirk-s3-mode gives the

[Bug 361853] [NEW] suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

Public bug reported: Suspend fails to wake up on this laptop. Command pm-suspend causes this as does the gnome power manager in response to acpi events such as lid close. Suspend works, screen goes off, disks and fans spin down, power led throbs, pm-suspend.log lists either “success” or “not

[Bug 361853] Re: suspend fails on dell inspiron 8600 laptop

** Attachment added: this is the pm-suspend.log file http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502365/pm-suspend.log ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502366/BootDmesg.txt ** Attachment added: CurrentDmesg.gz http://launchpadlibrarian.net/25502367/CurrentDmesg.gz

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beards and sandals

David King wrote: I know what you mean about the beard and sandals. Just look at a picture of Richard Stallman -- would you trust a man who looks like that to create your OS? I don't mind his look so much, I just get The Fear when he opens his mouth. IME he's either going to be rude, rip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mac Frustration (was Remote support was Sad but true? etc.)

Sean Miller wrote: [snip] Having grown up in a Unix/VT220 environment to find that there is no ctrl key and everything is done differently is, to say the least, rather alien. I mean, ctrl-c to cancel... been there since time and memorium... how come Steve Jobs gets to redefine it? Hang

Re: [ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

Sorry, catching up with old mail :) Matthew Wild wrote: [snip] 4 would it be best to generate an install list from synaptic so I know what I've got, and do a clean install with a larger partition? (and how would I do this through aptitude command line - I have no gui at all now). dpkg -l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mac Frustration (was Remote support was Sad but true? etc.)

Sean Miller wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Anderson ne...@well.com wrote: Hang on, what do you mean, no Ctrl key? I'm looking at the MacBook Pro keyboard I'm typing on right now, and there it is, a Ctrl key nestling between Fn and Option/Alt. This and the there's no right

Re: [ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

Neil Greenwood wrote: [snip] Have a look at http://blog.hanno-stock.de/archives/50 for a few extra steps that will mark libraries and dependencies as automatically installed (then they get removed when you choose to remove the package you originally installed, instead of becoming cruft).

[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death

I tried installing nvidia-glx-new again on my up-to-date install of Hardy on my XPS m1530. Perhaps rather obviously, it's still not working. Is there going to be any work done on this at all, or do we have to wait for Intrepid Ibex, which IMO would suck. -- nvidia-glx-new driver displays white

[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death

I'd prefer to see progress being made in updating nvidia-glx-new to use the latest, working drivers than advising on how to manually install them. I have a brand new hardy install on my XPS m1530, and I don't want to sully it with a hacky video driver install if I can at all help it! We know the

[Bug 208718] Re: nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death

90 package updates under hardy-proposed? Pass :) -- nvidia-glx-new driver displays white screen of death https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/208718 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] news services was: BBC news site

Tom Bamford wrote: [snip] I guess everyone has their viewing preference; the same 15 minutes of lukewarm headlines over and over again is not for me, nor any US-b[i]ased station. Rolling news channels aren't designed to be watched for extended periods of time, unless something big or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

Jai Harrison wrote: Hey Guys, I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state whether it is ADSL or cable. I use two ADSL connections at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Podcast Test Recording 1

record something. it's definitely very difficult to record alone without a script, or at least a very clear agenda of topics. Without those and without anyone else to keep you in check, it's very easy to drift rapidly off-topic. -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital TV

norman wrote: snip What do you mean by the data required? I have only had a quick look at the setup procedure so far but there seem to be several places where numbers are required. Are you talking about tzap? -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Off the fence and ready to join in!

Ubuntu for the past few years. Cool, where are you in Scotland? -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | cheese platter. U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100

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