[Bug 991707] Re: Mouse pointer (touchpad) gets stuck often

2013-07-24 Thread Chris Rowson
Hitting escape seems to free up my touchpad when it sticks. Still not a great solution though. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/991707 Title: Mouse pointer (touchpad) gets stuck often

[Bug 955918] Re: sysfs settings not applied at boot

2012-11-24 Thread Chris Rowson
Same problem here. Set the following in my /etc/sysfs.conf file devices/system/cpu/cpufreq/ondemand/up_threshold = 40 Works if I issue 'service sysfsutils start' - doesn't work at startup. Running Ubuntu 12.10 - Gnome Classic. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O/TTablet security!

2011-11-24 Thread Chris Rowson
On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Pete psmo...@live.com wrote: Hi all, Probably a mute point, and I have no wish to feed a troll, but on TV earlier they were advertising 'Norton Tablet Security' for Android tablets, given the close similarity between Android and LINUX / UNIX based systems (I

[ubuntu-uk] Open Source Procurement Toolkit

2011-11-19 Thread Chris Rowson
I thought some of you might be interested in this recent guidance released by the Cabinet Office on Open Source Software: http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/resource-library/open-source-procurement-toolkit It's publicly accessible so you don't need a .gov.uk address to get access, and it might be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source Procurement Toolkit

2011-11-19 Thread Chris Rowson
The 'All About Open Source' document is particularly interesting because it explains why UK.gov can't mandate Open Source software. It's not entirely straight forward; I'm not entirely sure, but I think it means to say that UK.gov considers 'Open Source' a product (perhaps like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source Procurement Toolkit

2011-11-19 Thread Chris Rowson
I can also understand a general unwillingness to disconnect software from the license under which it is made available; I don't see what's gained from splitting them. Why would you wish to be able to ban non-Open source products from tendering? You wouldn't want to ban non-open source

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Source Procurement Toolkit

2011-11-19 Thread Chris Rowson
On Sat, Nov 19, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Alan Bell alan.b...@libertus.co.uk wrote: On 19/11/11 20:33, Chris Rowson wrote: I did wonder if anyone on the list had responded to the Cabinet Office consultation :-) I am kind of involved in the process (funny how Ubuntu ended up on the list isn't

[Bug 874361] Re: Oneiric introduces severe flickering when adjusting brightness

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
.tmp.unity.support.test.0: ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3 Architecture: i386 CompizPlugins:

[Bug 874361] BootDmesg.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: BootDmesg.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568531/+files/BootDmesg.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361 Title:

[Bug 874361] BootLog.gz

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: BootLog.gz https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568532/+files/BootLog.gz -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361 Title:

[Bug 874361] CurrentDmesg.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
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[Bug 874361] Dependencies.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: Dependencies.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568534/+files/Dependencies.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361

[Bug 874361] GconfCompiz.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: GconfCompiz.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568536/+files/GconfCompiz.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361

[Bug 874361] Lspci.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: Lspci.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568537/+files/Lspci.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361 Title: Oneiric

[Bug 874361] Lsusb.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: Lsusb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568538/+files/Lsusb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361 Title: Oneiric

[Bug 874361] ProcInterrupts.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
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[Bug 874361] ProcModules.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
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[Bug 874361] UdevLog.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevLog.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568543/+files/UdevLog.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361 Title:

[Bug 874361] UdevDb.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: UdevDb.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568542/+files/UdevDb.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361 Title:

[Bug 874361] Re: Oneiric introduces severe flickering when adjusting brightness

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
I thought I'd add some info to this report. I'm seeing similar issues after doing a fresh install of 11.10 onto a Samsung NC10. This netbook does not use an ATI card however. It uses the i915 driver so it's an Intel integrated video card. Not so sure this bug relates to ATI video. My screen

[Bug 874361] UnitySupportTest.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: UnitySupportTest.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568544/+files/UnitySupportTest.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu.

[Bug 874361] xdpyinfo.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
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[Bug 874361] ProcCpuinfo.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
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[Bug 874361] Xrandr.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
apport information ** Attachment added: Xrandr.txt https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361/+attachment/2568547/+files/Xrandr.txt -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/874361 Title:

[Bug 874361] DpkgLog.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
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[Bug 874361] XorgLog.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
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[Bug 874361] XorgLogOld.txt

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
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[Bug 874361] Re: Oneiric introduces severe flickering when adjusting brightness

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 810093 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810093 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 810093 The new (2.6.39+) samsung_laptop kernel module causes serious backlight flickering - makes the desktop unusable -- You received this bug

[Bug 756509] Re: N130 flickering backlight on startup

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 810093 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810093 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 810093 The new (2.6.39+) samsung_laptop kernel module causes serious backlight flickering - makes the desktop unusable -- You received this bug

[Bug 810093] Re: The new (2.6.39+) samsung_laptop kernel module causes serious backlight flickering - makes the desktop unusable

2011-10-23 Thread Chris Rowson
I've marked bugs #776637 #876775 as duplicates. A few people subscribed to those too (so the problem is probably rather widespread). -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810093 Title: The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Seeking Linux/Network Engineer

2011-08-27 Thread Chris Rowson
Sorry if this is unwelcome. We're looking for a new Linux/Network Engineer at my company. This is a junior position. We're looking for someone enthusiastic about Linux, who has experience in general administration tasks, is comfortable on the command line, and who has a good understanding of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed

2011-08-08 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there .  Last week at the local LUG meet, I was talking to a guy who told me about Cougar Extreme: http://www.cougar-extreme.co.uk/ who sell barebones computers.  I have been talking to Patrick at Cougar, who tells me they are quite willing to supply pre-installed and to test with

[ubuntu-uk] smbfs error handling

2011-07-26 Thread Chris Rowson
I thought I'd just put this out there because I can't seem to find any information... Hopefully one of you good people will know :-) Does smbfs run any kind of error checking/correction on during transfer of data to SMB shares on Windows machines? I'm backing some stuff up to a Window machine and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] smbfs error handling

2011-07-26 Thread Chris Rowson
On 26/07/11 14:58, Chris Rowson wrote: I thought I'd just put this out there because I can't seem to find any information... Hopefully one of you good people will know :-) Does smbfs run any kind of error checking/correction on during transfer of data to SMB shares on Windows machines? I'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus x52f performance

2011-07-07 Thread Chris Rowson
On Jul 7, 2011 7:52 AM, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/07/11 21:58, Chris Rowson wrote: Hi all, I recently bought an Asus X42F laptop computer with a Nehalem Core i3 M330 CPU with integrated Intel HD GPU. I'm finding that it works somewhat better under Windows 7 than

[ubuntu-uk] Asus x52f performance

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi all, I recently bought an Asus X42F laptop computer with a Nehalem Core i3 M330 CPU with integrated Intel HD GPU. I'm finding that it works somewhat better under Windows 7 than under Ubuntu. For example: My son play flash games on the Internet. I've seen a bit of graphical corruption on a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus x52f performance

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi all, I recently bought an Asus X42F laptop computer with a Nehalem Core i3 M330 CPU with integrated Intel HD GPU. I'm finding that it works somewhat better under Windows 7 than under Ubuntu. For example: My son play flash games on the Internet. I've seen a bit of graphical corruption

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?

2011-07-06 Thread Chris Rowson
On Jul 6, 2011 11:20 PM, andres andre...@gmail.com wrote: Hello, I've been working on the lines as to how to help out in a local way. http://www.openclipart.org/detail/148519/ I did this clumsy flyer and was thinking of posting it on post office, bakers,tescos, etc. I deliberately did

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Facebook page - now with extra vanity

2011-07-01 Thread Chris Rowson
I can send google+ invites to anyone, just need a gmail address or hotmail/yahoo that has a google account associated. Dino, I would be grateful for an invite. Bob I got sent an invite by somebody yesterday but I keep getting a message indicating that signup is currently closed when I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Temperature

2011-06-27 Thread Chris Rowson
Might want to change this line TEMP=$(sensors -u | grep temp1 | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}') to TEMP=$(sensors -u | grep temp1_input | tail -n1 | awk '{print $2}') I think the suggested script might return the critical temperature rather than the actual temp of the CPU ;-) Chris --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?

2011-06-25 Thread Chris Rowson
The problem with this idea is that you have to find somebody with influence who is willing to listen to some oik that's just wandered in off the street and is telling them their IT strategy is wrong. You hit the nail on the head there. It's true. In their minds, why would an 'IT

[ubuntu-uk] SMB Share - Fstab

2011-06-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there folks, I'm having a stupid day today and would appreciate a sanity check! I have a line like this in my fstab file //mywindowsserver/share /home/myuser/mount cifs credentials=/home/myuser/smb/credentials,dir_mode=0700,file_mode=0700,uid=1000 0 0 As I understand it, when this remote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Rowson
Thanks so much for all of your suggestions guys. I ended up with something like this which resulted in part from a need to get my backups onto a Windows Server and to get an email when it happens (or if it doesn't). #!/bin/bash BACKUPDIR=/home/USERNAME/backup WHATTOBACKUP=/var/www

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Rowson
I promise to stop spamming the list now! Final draft. I know the email component should be put into a function but I'm a bad man and didn't do it! Just added an extra section that checks to make sure that tar didn't throw an error code for some reason when it exited. Chris

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Rowson
And, of course, we actually backed up to somewhere else... not to the same system, as your script appears to do. It does. But read the rest of the thread and you'll see why, and what happens next ;-) Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Rowson
Chris, Sorry if this has been mentioned before but have you tried sbackup? Regards, Tony. Hi Tony, That's a GUI tool isn't it? This is to backup a Linux Server up to a Windows Server (only you can't see the Windows Server bits). Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Rowson
Chris Rowson wrote: Unfortunately I'm backing the Linux box up to a Windows server. This in turn gets backed up by a centralised backup system. I'd be tempted, in that case, to make things simple(r) for yourself if you can and just rsync what would need backing up onto some share

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Chris Rowson
Chris Rowson wrote: You're pretty much right. Centralised backup handles Win Server but I need to backup the data on the Linux box too, hence shifting data. ATM the Win box uses a script to 'pull' archive files from the Linux box using pscp.exe. I looked briefly at rsync but it seemed

[ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Rowson
I've been tinkering with backups and backup rotation today and I have come across many wierd and wonderful backup scripts of varying complexity. Is there anything wrong with using something simple like this? (except of course for the lack of validation). Basically, let's delete anything over 7

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Rowson
On Jun 2, 2011 5:50 PM, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I would say it depends on what you mean by 'wrong' I handle the backups for a local government, so yes, that is wrong, very wrong. I know where you're coming from. I think the list has quite a few public sector members in various

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-02 Thread Chris Rowson
I've started using rsnapshot. It does something similar with the local retention, but each file which is identical (between retained backups) is hard-linked rather than taking multiple disk blocks. Neil. Unfortunately I'm backing the Linux box up to a Windows server. This in turn gets

Re: [Bug 565524] CPU frequency applet intermittently fails to change CPU speed

2011-05-19 Thread Chris Rowson
This is no longer a problem for me in Natty. On May 19, 2011 4:26 PM, Pedro Villavicencio pe...@ubuntu.com wrote: Thanks for the report, it has been some time without any response or feedback in this bug report and we are wondering if this is still an issue for you with the latest release of

[Bug 768509] Re: Sound menu shows last song instead of the current played music of Banshee

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Rowson
I'm also seeing this on Natty. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/768509 Title: Sound menu shows last song instead of the current played music of Banshee -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 771249] Re: FFE request to disable gapless playback by default in Banshee

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Rowson
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 768509 *** https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/768509 ** This bug has been marked a duplicate of bug 768509 Sound menu shows last song instead of the current played music of Banshee * You can subscribe to bug 768509 by following this link:

[Bug 768509] Re: Sound menu shows last song instead of the current played music of Banshee

2011-05-08 Thread Chris Rowson
Also see bug 771249 (I marked that bug as a duplicate of this one). This issue seems to be related to gapless playback. If you disable the gapless playback option in Banshee the bug ceases to occur. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

[ubuntu-uk] Bug

2011-04-15 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi folks, I've been trying to help a user through the Ubuntu Questions area and think he might have encountered a bug. I've linked the question to a bug report but I'm not sure if I've assigned the bug to the correct project (as dpkg is apparently dealt with upstream) If anyone is interested in

[Bug 762211] [NEW] input/output error when trying to access /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-04-15 Thread Chris Rowson
Public bug reported: When i try to istall any applications from ubuntu software center the installation failed and respond like that: installArchives() failed: dpkg: buffer_read(fd) non riuscita: copia del file di informazioni /var/lib/dpkg/available: Input/output error What does it mean? What

[Bug 762211] Re: input/output error when trying to access /var/lib/dpkg/available

2011-04-15 Thread Chris Rowson
I've opened this bug after attempting to guide a user through a fault he/she reported here: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/152969 After my suggested fix didn't work, I checked the bug reports for similar bugs and found this one (which was closed after the user successfully solved

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Rowson
Hiya Everyone, I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that there are many people on this list who may do something similar? I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote myself

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for SheevaPlug

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi I hope it is ok to post this here, I am looking for a SheevaPlug (or similar) to run my weather station. ... There are quite a few on eBay, but they are relatively expensive. Yes, most of them are more than direct from newit.co.uk (£95 inc VAT and delivery). For some reason

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for SheevaPlug

2011-04-05 Thread Chris Rowson
... Perhaps not powerful enough, but have you considered using something like a Linksys WRT54GL and OpenWRT? That is a very interesting idea. I need a serial or usb port to talk to the weather station (a LaCrosse WS2300). The WRTSL54GS has a usb port, but there don't seem to be many

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle

2011-03-28 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi this is slightly off topic but the answer could be useful to others. Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. On another note, part of my Open uni studies

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Programming in Python User Interface

2011-03-25 Thread Chris Rowson
I'm trying to learn any Programming language. I heard Python is good for beginners and that's where I want to start The Python tutor mailing list is helpful if you get stuck on something: http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Rowson
I thought that some of you may might be interested in this. Chris -- Forwarded message -- From: Mark Elkins markelkins...@yahoo.co.uk Date: 2011/2/3 Subject: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11 To:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11

2011-02-03 Thread Chris Rowson
If I wasn't having a meeting with my local council about exactly this on the same date, I would go Jacob Mansfield There are contact details on the email. I'm not sure whether or not the talk is limited to members of the BCS OSSG or not? Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mindshare....

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Rowson
snip Here’s instructions for Ubuntu, Mac OS X, and Windows. That's pretty cool Mark. Let's hope it's a sign of things to come for 2011! Happy New Year all. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GSM modems at sites

2010-10-29 Thread Chris Rowson
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 6:45 PM, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: Raju Mike would like to know what the position is with respect to the metering equipment at customer sites and its use of SMS messages to send data back to us. His concern is that with thousands of accounts, it might

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Rowson
As for choice of server - if you get tired of Openfire I couldn't not recommend the one I work on, Prosody. It's in the repos :) Matthew can hardly be considered an impartial judge, as he works on Prosody. I however do not work on Prosody, and can be considered impartial: Prosody is the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The new Ubuntu-UK website

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Rowson
I'd swap the ubuntu-uk logo to the left, and the podcast logo to the right. When I first went to the beta site, it immediately gave the impression of being a site about the podcast. Most users, I suspect, expect the site logo to be left aligned, as a convention built up over a number of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Rowson
Just for anyone interested. There are Windows clients out there supporting Video over the Jingle protocol (well, none I found anyway!). There are a few for *nix systems though. The only one I found that came close was Gajim which supports video in version 0.14. Unfortunately it looks like the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire

2010-10-18 Thread Chris Rowson
Just for anyone interested. There are Windows clients out there supporting Video over the Jingle protocol (well, none I found anyway!). There are a few for *nix systems though. The only one I found that came close was Gajim which supports video in version 0.14. Unfortunately it looks like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire

2010-10-16 Thread Chris Rowson
a dedicated client that does that apart from maybe Google Talk. Simon On 15 Oct 2010 22:18, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: Just wondered if anyone on the list is using the Openfire Jabber server? I've been experimenting with it today, trying to get video chat up

[ubuntu-uk] Open Source in the NHS.

2010-08-24 Thread Chris Rowson
I'm a BCS member and subscribed to the OSSG mailing list. I thought some folks here might be interested in a website created by the chap below as a focal point for the discussion of Open Source by the NHS. ...Paul Richardson will give a talk for the Open Source Specialist Group (OSSG) around his

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my_area_v2.aspx?postcode=cw26jn namely that in the area I'm moving to there is a paltry less than 1mbit and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ASP under Ubuntu?

2010-08-11 Thread Chris Rowson
Alright, so I have a client wanting a few programs modified in ASP, I am mainly a PHP Programmer but do have a bit of ASP knowledge. My question to you guys, i currently have 1 VPS which is running Ubuntu which does fine for the PHP side of things, but could I possibly get it to allow me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids

2010-08-07 Thread Chris Rowson
Edubuntu is still going. Also GNOME runs perfectly on my 1GHz desktop, so I don't think you *need* to look at Xubuntu. Just make sure you have a decent amount of RAM. Cofion, Neil Thanks, loads of suggestions there for me to be going on with! I think I've got a Lucid CD somewhere about so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids

2010-08-07 Thread Chris Rowson
Edubuntu is still going. Also GNOME runs perfectly on my 1GHz desktop, so I don't think you *need* to look at Xubuntu. Just make sure you have a decent amount of RAM. Cofion, Neil Thanks, loads of suggestions there for me to be going on with! I think I've got a Lucid CD somewhere about

[ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids

2010-08-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi folks, I have an old 1Ghz Dell laptop here that I've promised to the after school care club that my son uses. The club provides care before and after school and during school holidays for kids from age 5 up to 12/13 or so. The club is based in a church and doesn't have Internet access, so I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids

2010-08-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Well my kids (especially my 4 year old) loves TuxPaint (actually my elder two who are 10 and 8 love it too). That would be a good start, make sure you also get the extra stamps package too. Other than that there is TuxMath, TuxTyping, GCompris, Super Tux and Frozen Bubble which should run

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu for small business

2010-07-27 Thread Chris Rowson
You could go down the Google Apps route - mail, document space with the ability to share between users (and have them work on the document simultaneously, which takes a bit of getting used to).  There are plenty of CRM and ERP systems that integrate with the Google Apps single sign-on way of

[ubuntu-uk] Government promotes use of Open Source

2010-07-13 Thread Chris Rowson
Let's hope that the new Government pushes Open Source a little better than the last one. Still. It all sounds positive! Chris Second, we need to follow the example of businesses all over the world and take advantage of open source technology. Open source is a way of developing software so that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Chris Rowson
Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one female lead character who is portrayed as ditzy and clueless. I suspect that marrs her

[Bug 552227] Re: gwibber-accounts crashed with KeyError in get_account_data()

2010-06-25 Thread Chris Rowson
Ooops, this shouldn't have been assigned to the SSWSM project :-S ** Project changed: sswsm = gwibber -- gwibber-accounts crashed with KeyError in get_account_data() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/552227 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi folks, Just wondering what mail agent you're using on your LAMP setups? I've been revisiting the subject while setting up a new Lucid server and have been a little surprised that there's not much info out there about setting up a simple SMTP server that doesn't receive email but just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Rowson
http://jon.sprig.gs/blog/2009/11/29/use-gmails-smtp-gateway-using-the-command-line-from-ubuntu-without-lots-of-config-tips/ This will relay SMTP via GMail. There's no reason why you can't just set the same thing up to relay to your ISP's mail host (without the SSL stuff). -- Jon The Nice

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi folks, Just wondering what mail agent you're using on your LAMP setups? I've been revisiting the subject while setting up a new Lucid server and have been a little surprised that there's not much info out there about setting up a simple SMTP server that doesn't receive email but just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-22 Thread Chris Rowson
Instal exim! It can easily (you answer a few wizard questions) send mail only Anton -- Anton Piatek I'll give it a go :-) Thanks, that worked brilliantly. The answer to the wizard question to set the server up not to listen to SMTP requests from the Internet was 'internet site; mail is

[ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-21 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi folks, Just wondering what mail agent you're using on your LAMP setups? I've been revisiting the subject while setting up a new Lucid server and have been a little surprised that there's not much info out there about setting up a simple SMTP server that doesn't receive email but just sends it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

2010-06-16 Thread Chris Rowson
Please feel free to point out any errors etc. I might work this into a how to and publish it on the 'tinterweb (of course giving proper attribution to folk such as Tyler) as instructions on how to do this seem to be spread across quite a few sites. I'm glad you solved it, Chris!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

2010-06-15 Thread Chris Rowson
Here's the my current level of understanding! If anyone can fill in the gaps (or correct me if I'm wrong) I'd be really grateful. (snipped for brevity) Your stated understanding is correct, as far as I know it. What I'm still hazy on is this: cgi is slower than fastcgi because it (a bit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

2010-06-12 Thread Chris Rowson
On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On Friday 11 June 2010 23:17:07 Chris Rowson wrote: That's easy. Again, webmin + virtualmin will set it up for each domain/account pretty easily. But here are the packages you need: Also, unfortunately there's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apache add-on domains?

2010-06-12 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi guys, I was just curious as to how i would go about adding add-on domains with the apache configuration files? If anyone has used Cpanel, im after manually doing the Addon Domains feature they have, if someone could walk me through it i would apprechiate it greatly :) Dan Is this what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apache add-on domains?

2010-06-12 Thread Chris Rowson
Thank you very much guys, as far as i understand, i just need to add a new vhost on the server side in order to set it up. But how about on the registrar side? It seems to want Nameservers, not an IP address to link too? What are nameservers, are they easy enough to set up? A name server

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A new member ?

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Rowson
Hello I want to participate Ubuntu Party in England, I am French (I live near Paris) and I have already participated in two Ubuntu Party with Ubuntu-fr association (8.04 and 10.04) and two instance Linux Solution (2008 and 2010). I want to improve my English, writing correct, but it seems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Rowson
I'm migrating a web server with a few sites from a CentOS based VPS with a DirectAdmin control panel to an Ubuntu Lucid server. I'm not incredibly bothered about losing the control panel, but I wondered if anyone had any advice on securing PHP scripts so that scripts owned by separate 'site

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox and Flash

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Rowson
Just tried watching Jono's stream on my wife's computer using Firefox. For some reason although the video works fine, I get an 'install flash' icon where the chat box is supposed to be. A bit off topic I know, but if you haven't already, you might want to take a look at Google Chrome. It has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Rowson
Here's the my current level of understanding! If anyone can fill in the gaps (or correct me if I'm wrong) I'd be really grateful. (snipped for brevity) Your stated understanding is correct, as far as I know it. What I'm still hazy on is this: cgi is slower than fastcgi because it (a bit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

2010-06-11 Thread Chris Rowson
That's easy. Again, webmin + virtualmin will set it up for each domain/account pretty easily. But here are the packages you need: Also, unfortunately there's no Lucid installer yet for virtualmin. I might have a look at what's involved in installing it from scratch. Chris --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] fail2ban custom iptables rules

2010-06-10 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi Chris, It certainly is. Attached are samples of my iptables-restore and fail2ban configs for hardy-based servers. Hi Tyler, Thanks for taking the time to share your config, I really appreciate it! :-) Thanks, Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

2010-06-10 Thread Chris Rowson
I'm migrating a web server with a few sites from a CentOS based VPS with a DirectAdmin control panel to an Ubuntu Lucid server. I'm not incredibly bothered about losing the control panel, but I wondered if anyone had any advice on securing PHP scripts so that scripts owned by separate 'site

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