Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banshee (& music players generally)

2009-04-27 Thread Ronnie Tucker
>> I have now tried Rhythmbox, Amarok, and Banshee, and Banshee does seem >> to be the easiest to use --- you can compile a music library rather than >> being pushed straight into playlists (as with Amarok), and you can >> easily select to play albums, from the albums pane. But I would like to >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banshee (& music players generally)

2009-04-27 Thread dan
Rowan Berkeley wrote: > I have now tried Rhythmbox, Amarok, and Banshee, and Banshee does seem > to be the easiest to use --- you can compile a music library rather than > being pushed straight into playlists (as with Amarok), and you can > easily select to play albums, from the albums pane. But I

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

2009-04-27 Thread Daniel Drummond
Matthew Daubney wrote: > On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:28 +0100, mac wrote: >> Matthew Daubney wrote: >>> You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32 >>> drives as if you own all the files. e.g. >>> >>> sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000 >> >> That's use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Sean Miller
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:21 PM, Tim Dobson wrote: > Good luck with your event, I know several people who would probably be > interested in Dorset, so make sure you forward it to the right place :) > (I think it's Dorest LUG?!) Not heard of them... we had a few folks turn up to the Glastonbury gr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Sean Miller
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Chris Rowson wrote: > Well you're all invited to my Windows 7 release party anyway That's a top distro that is. :-) Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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

2009-04-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:28 +0100, mac wrote: > Matthew Daubney wrote: > > You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32 > > drives as if you own all the files. e.g. > > > > sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000 > > > That's useful to know. I guess,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Gordon Allott
On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 10:25 +0100, Lucy wrote: > A the Manchester release party there was at least one person in a > Debian t-shirt and while people were keen to show off Ubuntu on their > laptop I'm pretty sure most people there used/use at least one other > distro. There was a good number of peo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: John Taylor wrote: >>> Harry Rickards wrote: >>> John Taylor wrote: >>> >>> >>> >> Ala

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread John Taylor
Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Taylor wrote: > >> Harry Rickards wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: >> >> > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > > > Alan Pope wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Rickards wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: >>> Harry Rickards wrote: >>> Are you trying to install from a Jaunty CD, or via the internet? If via >>> the internet, try changing the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list: > >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: >> Harry Rickards wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: > > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > > Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/26 John T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: John Taylor wrote: >>> Alan Pope wrote: >>> >>> 2009/4/26 John Taylor :

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: > > > 2009/4/27 Alan Pope mailto:a...@popey.com>>: > > 2009/4/27 Tim Dobson mailto:li...@tdobson.net>>: > >> While I was at FOSDEM this year, in the build up to the Debian Lenny > >> release, I hung out with a load

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso

2009-04-27 Thread Gordon
Neil Greenwood wrote: > > I managed to fool WUBI in the past by copying my local ISO into the > directory in which it was trying to download. IIRC, I had to restart > WUBI for it to pick it up, but then it didn't download anything and > worked with my local copy. > That's the experience I have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso

2009-04-27 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/4/27 Gordon : > davmor2 wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:47:53 +0100, Gordon wrote: >>> Alan Pope wrote: 2009/4/27 Gordon : > Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster > connection than I have. Which ISO did you grab? Whats the filename? >>>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso

2009-04-27 Thread davmor2
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:47:53 +0100, Gordon wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> 2009/4/27 Gordon : >>> Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster >>> connection than I have. >> >> Which ISO did you grab? Whats the filename? >> >> Cheers, >> Al. >> > > > ubuntu-9.04-desktop-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso

2009-04-27 Thread Gordon
davmor2 wrote: > > > On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:47:53 +0100, Gordon wrote: >> Alan Pope wrote: >>> 2009/4/27 Gordon : Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster connection than I have. >>> Which ISO did you grab? Whats the filename? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> Al. >>> >>

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

2009-04-27 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/4/27 Matthew Daubney > 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 to change th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso

2009-04-27 Thread davmor2
On Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:47:53 +0100, Gordon wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> 2009/4/27 Gordon : >>> Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster >>> connection than I have. >> >> Which ISO did you grab? Whats the filename? >> >> Cheers, >> Al. >> > > > ubuntu-9.04-desktop-

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

2009-04-27 Thread mac
Matthew Daubney wrote: > You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32 > drives as if you own all the files. e.g. > > sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000 That's useful to know. I guess, though, you couldn't preserve other ownerships / permissions

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

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister (Ubuntu)
On Mon, April 27, 2009 12:57, 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 to change this (I've tried sudo > chown -R and sudo nauti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty available

2009-04-27 Thread Robert Flatters
I have a Nvidia G4 graphics card, now i know in 8.10 it took abit of doing to sort out the resolution and even then when a new Kernel was loaded i had to repeat the process again. Now im getting the same thing in 9.04, would have thought it might have been resolved, but its not. Just wondering if

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso

2009-04-27 Thread Gordon
Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/27 Gordon : >> Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster >> connection than I have. > > Which ISO did you grab? Whats the filename? > > Cheers, > Al. > ubuntu-9.04-desktop-i386.iso -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso

2009-04-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/27 Gordon : > Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster > connection than I have. Which ISO did you grab? Whats the filename? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] 9.04 WUBI doesn't see local iso

2009-04-27 Thread Gordon
Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster connection than I have. Put them both in the same directory, as previous versions, started WUBI and it doesn't see the local iso AT ALL - it just tries to download again from the internet. Any way to correct this? -- ubuntu-u

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

2009-04-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
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 to change this (I've tried sudo chown > -R and sudo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/27 Chris Rowson : > > Well you're all invited to my Windows 7 release party anyway > Bet you wont get to babble drunkenly like a village idiot at the financial benefactor as I did last Thursday :S Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Chris Rowson
2009/4/27 Alan Pope : > > 2009/4/27 Tim Dobson : > >> While I was at FOSDEM this year, in the build up to the Debian Lenny > >> release, I hung out with a load of Debian Devs. > >> Despite declaring Lenny stable being more of a formality for the > >> developers than anything else, the atmosphere wa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Tim Dobson
Sean Miller wrote: > Why are Linux people so "territorial"?? > > Any attempts I make in Somerset to organise a release party for > something like Ubuntu gets folks saying "can't be doing with that - > Debian's the only decent distro" or "Sorry, that's one of those Debian > derivitives isn't it? a

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

2009-04-27 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/4/27 mac > Stephen Garton wrote: > > I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32... > > Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to my > > user? > > AFAIK you can't set permissions on FAT32 > > mac > > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.

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

2009-04-27 Thread mac
Stephen Garton wrote: > I have a spare drive in my machine, formatted as fat32... > Any idea why this would be, and/or how I can change the permissions to my > user? AFAIK you can't set permissions on FAT32 mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[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 b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Lucy
2009/4/27 Alan Pope : > 2009/4/27 Tim Dobson : >> While I was at FOSDEM this year, in the build up to the Debian Lenny >> release, I hung out with a load of Debian Devs. >> Despite declaring Lenny stable being more of a formality for the >> developers than anything else, the atmosphere was electric

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/27 Tim Dobson : > Lucy wrote: >> Certainly, I don't remember so >> much positive buzz around the last Fedora release and the last Debian >> release seemed to create plenty of negativity. > > With all due respect, I do not agree with this at all. > > While I was at FOSDEM this year, in the bu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Tim Dobson
Lucy wrote: > Certainly, I don't remember so > much positive buzz around the last Fedora release and the last Debian > release seemed to create plenty of negativity. With all due respect, I do not agree with this at all. While I was at FOSDEM this year, in the build up to the Debian Lenny releas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-27 Thread John Taylor
Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Taylor wrote: > >> Harry Rickards wrote: >> John Taylor wrote: >> >> > Alan Pope wrote: > > >> 2009/4/26 John Taylor : >> >> >> >>> Seem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-27 Thread Lucy
2009/4/27 Sean Miller : > Why are Linux people so "territorial"?? > > Any attempts I make in Somerset to organise a release party for > something like Ubuntu gets folks saying "can't be doing with that - > Debian's the only decent distro" or "Sorry, that's one of those Debian > derivitives isn't it

[ubuntu-uk] Banshee (& music players generally)

2009-04-27 Thread Rowan Berkeley
I have now tried Rhythmbox, Amarok, and Banshee, and Banshee does seem to be the easiest to use --- you can compile a music library rather than being pushed straight into playlists (as with Amarok), and you can easily select to play albums, from the albums pane. But I would like to know how to prev