Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 17 September 2010 01:27, David D Lowe daviddlowe.fl...@gmail.com wrote: On 16/09/10 22:02, Tommy Pyatt wrote: You may be able to compress it first into a .tar.gz or other compressed archive of some sort, then you could store it anywhere. I think I've done that before, but i'm not certain.

[ubuntu-uk] Conky doesn't display on XFCE desktop

2010-09-17 Thread Matt Sturdy
Hi guys, I recently made the switch to XFCE, and mostly it's working well. Quick, clean interface etc. The one thing I can't fix is Conky. It used to display on the nautilus desktop... and it still starts up with no errors... but I can't see where it goes! starting from the command line gives

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO - and Adobe!

2010-09-17 Thread Glen Mehn
On 16/09/2010 18:19, Tony Pursell wrote: On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 18:13 +0100, Steve Fisher wrote: Well that answers part of it, but not why mine still works, 64bit browser (Chromium) and iPlayer works fine. Steve It seems that what you cannot do is download programs because that needs Air

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Conky doesn't display on XFCE desktop

2010-09-17 Thread Philip Newborough
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Matt Sturdy matt.stu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I recently made the switch to XFCE, and mostly it's working well.  Quick, clean interface etc. The one thing I can't fix is Conky.  It used to display on the nautilus desktop... and it still starts up with no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

2010-09-17 Thread John Matthews
On 11/08/10 13:07, Alan Pope wrote: On 11 August 2010 12:47, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: I tried to install it, from the repository, it says its installed, but I cant find it any where. Where would it install to? This lists the files in the package:-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Conky doesn't display on XFCE desktop

2010-09-17 Thread Matt Sturdy
On 17 September 2010 10:57, Philip Newborough corenomi...@corenominal.orgwrote: On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Matt Sturdy matt.stu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I recently made the switch to XFCE, and mostly it's working well. Quick, clean interface etc. The one thing I can't fix is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

2010-09-17 Thread azmodie
On 17 September 2010 11:04, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/08/10 13:07, Alan Pope wrote: On 11 August 2010 12:47, John Matthewsjake...@sky.com wrote: I tried to install it, from the repository, it says its installed, but I cant find it any where. Where would it install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-17 Thread Glen Mehn
On 16/09/2010 23:31, David King wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On 15 September 2010 09:10, Mark Harrisonm...@ascentium.co.uk wrote: 1: I've not used MS Office for about 5 years now, however the one time I needed to was in 2007 for a really complex mailmerge, which is one area where MSO is still

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meeting tonight 9PM

2010-09-17 Thread Alan Bell
as predicted a meeting was indeed held and the minutes are available here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting Key points to note: * If you are involved in any kind of interesting activity then do bung it on the team report. * There is a current opportunity for a business to get some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-17 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 17/09/2010 12:16, Glen Mehn wrote: Word wins out over Writer, I think, for the following reasons: - Track Changes is just easier to use. - Comments make more sense-- you highlight a section to comment, rather than picking a point, so when there's a long comment or a tricky bit of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-17 Thread alan c
On 16/09/10 09:57, Alan Lord (News) wrote: One gotcha that you should be aware of when using a fresh operating system install is that usernames and groups in linux are actually really numbers (UID and GID) and the name is mapped to the UID in /etc/passwd. If you are the first user (the admin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-17 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 17/09/10 13:35, alan c wrote: On 16/09/10 09:57, Alan Lord (News) wrote: One gotcha that you should be aware of when using a fresh operating system install is that usernames and groups in linux are actually really numbers (UID and GID) and the name is mapped to the UID in /etc/passwd. snip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Wubi on a dual partition machine

2010-09-17 Thread Jacob Mansfield
On 16/09/10 23:03, Jim Price wrote: On 16/09/10 18:24, Jacob Mansfield wrote: so I can't get ubuntu NBR You can - just install whatever ubuntu 10.04 you can by whatever means, then install the ubuntu-netbook package, which will bring with it the rest of the bits you need for the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

2010-09-17 Thread alan c
On 17/09/10 14:18, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 17/09/10 13:35, alan c wrote: On 16/09/10 09:57, Alan Lord (News) wrote: One gotcha that you should be aware of when using a fresh operating system install is that usernames and groups in linux are actually really numbers (UID and GID) and the

[ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

2010-09-17 Thread alan c
I have a friend with Ubuntu 9.04 and I will do a version upgrade for them soon. One option is to version upgrade online to 9.10 and then, at another convenient future date, version upgrade to 10.04 LTS, which they will stay with for a longer time. Another option is to do a clean reinstall of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

2010-09-17 Thread Liam Proven
On 17 September 2010 21:11, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: I have a friend with Ubuntu 9.04 and I will do a version upgrade for them soon. One option is to version upgrade online to 9.10 and then, at another convenient future date,  version upgrade to 10.04 LTS, which they will stay