Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an up to date system, rather than an out-of-date livecd may be a better idea, if purely for any

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

2010-05-26 Thread Mark Fraser
On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:54:36 David Jones wrote: On 25/05/2010 15:50, John Matthews wrote: Snip Hi Everybody, thank you so much for your help. That worked, I was able to upload the pics to my HD via the filesystem using the USB. It still means though that you have to use windows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread javadayaz
i am also running 2.1 Eclair on my G1looking forward to Froyo soon! On 26 May 2010 07:55, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 07:50, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:54:36 David Jones wrote: Any updates/application installs are done

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-26 Thread Stuart Bird
On 25 May 2010 22:05, Harry Rickards ha...@linux.com wrote: On 25 May 2010, at 21:08, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:38 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote: Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid? I can play pre-watershed items, but others give another

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Perry
I'm running 2.1 Eclair on my G1 and also was running Froyo on my Nexus One :) Neil Perry On 26 May 2010 07:58, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: i am also running 2.1 Eclair on my G1looking forward to Froyo soon! On 26 May 2010 07:55, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 26 May 2010

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 26 May 2010 08:23, Neil Perry npe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running 2.1 Eclair on my G1 and also was running Froyo on my Nexus One :) Neil Perry On 26 May 2010 07:58, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: i am also running 2.1 Eclair on my G1looking forward to Froyo soon! On 26 May

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread James Thomas
Hi popey, Cheers for the link, I was going to pester you later about which howto you referenced. Looking forward to some 2.1 love myself. :) JT On 26 May 2010 07:55, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 07:50, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: On Tuesday 25 May

[ubuntu-uk] One Line Tips! Help request.

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
I want your one line tips! http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/UbuntuTips I'm gathering Ubuntu tips from people to read out on the podcast, and hoped some of you lot would be willing to contribute. Here's the skinny:- * They don't have to be command line tips (in fact command line tips are discouraged

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 13 May 2010 09:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help. Thanks to everyone for responding and volunteering their time/resources! I'm just working on some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-26 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 21:08 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote: Yes, same problem with Firefox. Works seamlessly with Chrome though. Regards Jon I've given Chrome a try, but with same results. Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should show LTS releases. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should show LTS releases. What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps here:- e.g. a...@bishop:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-26 Thread Jon Farmer
Are you sure it works with Chrome? It doesn't for me (I installed chromium-browser I think). Yep, I was using it last night with ITV player. Regards Jon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should show LTS releases. What version are you currently running? The lsb_release

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread David Jones
On 26/05/2010 12:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Popea...@popey.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeleyrowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should show LTS releases. What version are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 76

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should show LTS releases. What version are you currently running? The lsb_release

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 76

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 26 May 2010 12:40, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should show

[ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems

2010-05-26 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Hi When I run the Update manager and it scan for updates I get this: W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 I am sure I had something like this in the past but am

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On 26 May 2010 13:36, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: When I run the Update manager and it scan for updates I get this: W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 76

2010-05-26 Thread Dan Attwood
In fact, it shows up if you change the settings from LTS Releases only to Normal Releases. I think having established that, I might as well go ahead and upgrade to it, so I shall do this now. The initial flurry of glitch reports seems to have subsided. given recent posts on moving around

[ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to 10.04 successfully

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Just to let you all know :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to 10.04 successfully

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Perry
Congrats, enjoy :) Neil Perry On 26 May 2010 13:48, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: Just to let you all know :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to 10.04 successfully

2010-05-26 Thread Martin Jernberg
Enjoy the new version :) From: npe...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 13:49:46 +0100 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to 10.04 successfully Congrats, enjoy :)Neil Perry On 26 May 2010 13:48, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: Just to let

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems

2010-05-26 Thread Cornelius Mostert
OK after the very first line I get c...@cjm-desktop:~/Videos/Desktop$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: WARNING: unsafe enclosing directory permissions on configuration file `/home/cjm/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: Go ahead and type your message ... When I look at the Permissions I have read

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 May 2010 14:46, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: Quite so, but all the program files and associated data are in sda1, which remains mounted. The only things in the partitions that are being moved are the swap space and the user files. The swap space could certainly be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 76

2010-05-26 Thread John Stevenson
On 26 May 2010 13:44, Dan Attwood danattw...@googlemail.com wrote: In fact, it shows up if you change the settings from LTS Releases only to Normal Releases. I think having established that, I might as well go ahead and upgrade to it, so I shall do this now. The initial flurry of glitch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread DaveGK
Alan Pope wrote: ... Indeed, I have an HTC Hero which up until very recently was running the HTC branded/modified Android 1.5. Jo Shields kindly wrote up a how-to guide detailing how to manually upgrade the ROM on the UK HTC Hero to Android 2.1. I followed this and am using the VanillaDroid

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread javadayaz
you dont need a windows box. Dowload and flash the nandroid backup. Then root your phone. Then install the latest ROM. Instructions are on Google! On 26 May 2010 15:46, DaveGK dav...@gmail.com wrote: Alan Pope wrote: ... Indeed, I have an HTC Hero which up until very recently was running

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:56 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: There are lots of files in your home directory and indeed elsewhere that get written to (and read from) whilst you're 'doing nothing'. Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I should look for hidden

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread alan c
On 26/05/10 10:08, Alan Pope wrote: On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeleyrowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should show LTS releases. What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps here:- e.g.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 May 2010 16:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I should look for hidden files in my home directory, that might give me some idea of what they are. Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:23 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :) Reminds me of a relative who phoned me a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread alan c
On 26/05/10 16:22, Alan Pope wrote: On 26 May 2010 16:16, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: I hope that an elegant method of LTS to LTS version upgrade will emerge because LTS tends to be used by people who include those less confident. As I understand it LTS to LTS upgrades don't

[ubuntu-uk] Strange behaviour of system monitor

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
The command 'lsb release -a' gives the same result as the system monitor, and I can paste it. In fact, I am pretty sure I upgraded to 9.10 last year. Previous to upgrading today to 10.04 I had this: ro...@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Christopher Swift
Ar Mer, 2010-05-26 am 14:46 +0100, ysgrifennodd Rowan Berkeley: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney

[ubuntu-uk] Meego and Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread Liam Wilson
Hey all; As some of you may know, Meego for Netbooks was released today ( http://meego.com/downloads/releases/netbook) and I thinking about dual-booting it with UNE, but was wondering if anyone else has tried it yet, and if you have, how is it? I'm downloading it as I type Cheers; Liam --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drummond
On 26 May 2010 15:12, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-05-26 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daubers, Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip!] Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly awful) talk at Oggcamp on this subject. Next time I have a chance to talk about what I'm trying to achieve I _should_ be able to do it better!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-05-26 Thread Sean Miller
I like to think that if you can help people with things that you understand but they don't then they might help you in the future in kind... I understand absolutely zilch about cars, for instance, so if I can assist somebody in getting through their trauma with computers should something go wrong

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :) Cheers, Al. Too true, upwards of