Re: [ubuntu-uk] Spreadsheets on Nokia phones

2009-07-24 Thread David King
I have a Nokia 9500, and to view any office-type files I have to save them as MS formats, which the Nokia software then converts to its format. Hopefully in the future Nokia phones will be able to use open formats like those used in OpenOffice. David King Kris Douglas wrote: > 2009/7/24 Rik

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread John Matthews
Robert McWilliam wrote: > > I was thinking about better ways to help you through this earlier but > then forgot about it when you went quiet. The ideal would be someone who > knows what they're doing to sit next to you and take you through the > procedures you want to do and explain them. If you ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2009-07-24 Thread Kris Douglas
2009/7/24 Rik Boland : > I am wanting to save and read spread sheet documents ie rota's on my nokia > 6301 phone is there a way of doing this? > > Shalom > > > Rik Boland > 15 Stanley Place, Lancaster, LA1 5PN  Mobile 07866439588 > > We need Justice but we also need Grace and Mercy from God to

[ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2009-07-24 Thread Rik Boland
I am wanting to save and read spread sheet documents ie rota's on my nokia 6301 phone is there a way of doing this?   Shalom     Rik Boland 15 Stanley Place, Lancaster, LA1 5PN  Mobile 07866439588 We need Justice but we also need Grace and Mercy from God to do this. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread Josh Holland
John, I'm sure that if you have any problems you can join the IRC channel #ubuntu-uk on irc.freenode.net and there's sure to be someone who'll help you in there. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat for more IRC details. -- Josh Holland (key F6067C12) http://joshh.co.uk dutch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Fri, 24 Jul 2009 15:22 +0100, "John Matthews" wrote: > I am now finding it frustrating because I cant copy and paste from my > desktop to the file plus saving what I have done, cant work that one out > yet, its probably very simple, but I am trying. But at least I have got > that far. I was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread Paul Roach
If you're just talking about copying and pasting text, then absolutely... It's ctrl+shift+c and ctrl+shift+v in gnome-terminal - or alternatively highlight text with the mouse and use the middle mouse button to paste (which also works with anything else in gnome...not sure about kde!) On 24/07/200

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-24 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Paul Webster wrote: > Hi > > Not using any email client. I'm using gmail, and attachments are downloaded > in Firefox. > > Paul > There's a bug in firefox, not just restricted to Ubuntu, in that it doesn't open a "Preferred Applications" dialog, but simply an "Open With..." dialog. This is par

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread Sean Miller
Confused - you can copy and paste to shell, surely? I'm sure I've done it many times. In fact I'm absolutely sure! Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread Paul Roach
On Fri, Jul 24, 2009 at 3:22 PM, John Matthews wrote: > > I am now finding it frustrating because I cant copy and paste from my > desktop to the file plus saving what I have done, cant work that one out > yet, its probably very simple, but I am trying. But at least I have got > that far. > > John

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread John Matthews
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 17/07/09 13:33, John Matthews wrote: > > >> I got down to the permissions page, and it just looked like a lot of >> stuff, that made no sense at all. >> >> I am sorry that I have had to ask, I will try from now on to not bother >> you. >> >> Thank you again, >> >> J

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

2009-07-24 Thread Dave Morley
On Thu, 2009-07-23 at 18:26 +0100, Rob Beard wrote: > doug livesey wrote: > > 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 "

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xubuntu 8.10/9.04 Upgrade Issue

2009-07-24 Thread David Stansby
Did you install OpenOffice from a ppa or the repositries? As far as I know anything installed from a ppa isn't affected by the normal upgrade process, so as long as your OOo is from a ppa you should be okay :) Regards, David 2009/7/24 Nigel Verity > Hi Guys > > I'm running Xubuntu 8.10 and am

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xubuntu 8.10/9.04 Upgrade Issue

2009-07-24 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 24/07/09 06:30, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi Guys > > I'm running Xubuntu 8.10 and am considering upgrading to 9.04. However, > I removed the OpenOffice.org 2.4 that originally came with the distro > and replaced it with v3.1. > > Will an upgrade remove v3.1 and replace it with the standard v3.0, or