Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Sean Miller
Surely this is all back to front? If the HTML is rubbish, and newer versions of the rendering engines are throwing it out, perhaps the key would be to work out WHY they are creating blank sites and fix your own site? Then you end up with a bonus - you have a site that OTHERS with newer browsers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 07:32, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Surely this is all back to front? If the HTML is rubbish, and newer versions of the rendering engines are throwing it out, perhaps the key would be to work out WHY they are creating blank sites and fix your own site? It is not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Sean Miller
On 11 October 2010 07:58, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: It is not his own site, his initial question was worded slightly ambiguously. He said that he 'had a page' that failed, but did not mean that it was his own site. Ah, apologies... mis-read. But you are right that the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 07:32, Sean Miller wrote: Surely this is all back to front? If the HTML is rubbish, and newer versions of the rendering engines are throwing it out, perhaps the key would be to work out WHY they are creating blank sites and fix your own site? Then you end up with a bonus - you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Roy Jamison
Actually if p...@home staff are anything to go by, I wouldn't exactly expect their website to be any good. Think...mass breeding at the sibling level with the rabbits and other animals they sell. Most of them die within 2 years because of health problems like cancer, deformations, etc. Source:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 07:58, Colin Law wrote: It is not his own site, his initial question was worded slightly ambiguously. He said that he 'had a page' that failed, but did not mean that it was his own site. But you are right that the fundamental problem may be the invalid html. The new version of

[ubuntu-uk] London release party - Thank you

2010-10-11 Thread John Stevenson
Hello all, Thanks to everyone that came along to the London Ubuntu release party yesterday, despite a problem getting into the venue due to a broken lock, it was a great event and a good turn out with over 35 people upstairs and about the same again for the 42day party goers downstairs. It was a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Sean Miller
On 11 October 2010 09:42, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: If that is the cawse, why is it some people can view it in the same versions of Ubuntu and the FF and Chrome, and I cant as is being pointed out here. Unsupported proprietary plug-ins, perhaps? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 09:28, Sean Miller wrote: If the petsathome site is completely awful HTML then that's rather a sad reflection on their brand... who is to know whether the pet food is edible, the fish being sold healthy or the staff knowledgable if they can't be bothered to spend at least a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 09:45, Sean Miller wrote: Unsupported proprietary plug-ins, perhaps? Sean Your right, I just disabled all my plugins for Google Chrome, and the page renders. So I will now go through and check which one it was. First time I have known that to happen with Chrome. That is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 09:40, Roy Jamison wrote: Actually if p...@home staff are anything to go by, I wouldn't exactly expect their website to be any good. Think...mass breeding at the sibling level with the rabbits and other animals they sell. Most of them die within 2 years because of health problems

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 09:45, Sean Miller wrote: Unsupported proprietary plug-ins, perhaps? Sean Spoke too soon, the page disappeared, but took longer to go than with the plug-ins. :( So its not the plug-ins. John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
Is there a way using the terminal or an error report in Ubuntu, that might show why it wont stay in view? John -- Ubuntu User #30817 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 10:24, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/10/10 09:45, Sean Miller wrote: Unsupported proprietary plug-ins, perhaps? Sean Spoke too soon, the page disappeared, but took longer to go than with the plug-ins. :( So its not the plug-ins. I still don't know which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 10:27, Colin Law wrote: I still don't know which version of google-chrome you are using. Colin Working, it was the Chrome version, had the unstable version installed. Sorry I didnt notice your post about the version I was using. As soon as you mentioned version, and when I saw

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
Problem is now, how do I set up a new profile in Chrome. I am now getting a message when I start this version saying 'Your profile cannot be used because it is from a newer version of Google Chrome. Some features may be unavailable. Please specify a different profile directory or use a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Manager Problem (Xubuntu 10.4)

2010-10-11 Thread Steve Fisher
On 10 October 2010 23:13, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Guys I'm running Xubuntu 10.4. A couple of days ago I downloaded a routine update which required a reboot to complete. After that I had no wireless connectivity and no Network Manager applet (nm-applet) icon in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 10:56, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Problem is now, how do I set up a new profile in Chrome. I am now getting a message when I start this version saying 'Your profile cannot be used because it is from a newer version of Google Chrome. Some features may be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] London release party - Thank you

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Murphy
On Monday 11 October 2010 09:45:57 John Stevenson wrote: Thanks to everyone that came along [...] ... and thank you for taking the time to organise. -- Things to be , people to do, and stuff to, err, stuff. co...@spudulike.me.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] IDE drive mounting ....

2010-10-11 Thread Barry Drake
Here's an interesting one for you. I have a PC with a motherboard that has 6xSATA ports and one IDE port. I've put two SATA drives in plus an IDE DVD-R drive and an IDE drive caddy (as slave and master) so I can swap storage drives between three desktop pcs. One of the SATA drives is Windows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 11:17, Colin Law wrote: Google for google chrome profile yields many hits, alternatively you could uninstall and purge google-chrome and re-install it. That should clear the settings (in ~/.config/google-chrome I think). Colin I did google above, and it was mainly about

[ubuntu-uk] SD card - lock out sectors .....

2010-10-11 Thread Barry Drake
This is not a specifically Ubuntu query. Sorry if you feel it's off topic. I bought a 32 GB SD card via e-bay (from China). The price was too good to be true, and only the first 2 GB works. Pay-Pal came up trumps, and I received a full refund, but I still have the faulty card. Anyone know of a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SD card - lock out sectors .....

2010-10-11 Thread Alan Pope
On 11 October 2010 11:35, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: This is not a specifically Ubuntu query.  Sorry if you feel it's off topic.  I bought a 32 GB SD card via e-bay (from China).  The price was too good to be true, and only the first 2 GB works.  Pay-Pal came up trumps, and I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IDE drive mounting ....

2010-10-11 Thread Jacob Mansfield
IDE is not hot-swapable. you need sata Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 11 October 2010 11:27, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Here's an interesting one for you. I have a PC with a motherboard that has 6xSATA ports and one IDE port. I've put two SATA drives in plus an IDE DVD-R drive

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 11:31, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/10/10 11:17, Colin Law wrote: Google for   google chrome profile   yields many hits, alternatively you could uninstall and purge google-chrome and re-install it.  That should clear the settings (in ~/.config/google-chrome I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Jacob Mansfield
sudo apt-get purge google-chrome sudo apt-get install google-chrome Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 11 October 2010 11:31, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/10/10 11:17, Colin Law wrote: Google for google chrome profile yields many hits, alternatively you could uninstall and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IDE drive mounting ....

2010-10-11 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:38 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote: IDE is not hot-swapable. you need sata I don't intend hot-swapping. I shut down, change the caddy and re-boot. It has to be IDE for compatibility with what I have already. Kind regards, Barry Drake. -- Sent from my Dell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread John Matthews
On 11/10/10 11:41, Jacob Mansfield wrote: sudo apt-get purge google-chrome sudo apt-get install google-chrome Jacob Mansfield Programmer Did the purge, it worked, but cant install, no google chrome to install. looked in Synaptic, not there. Where is the official site for google chrome for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 11:58, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/10/10 11:41, Jacob Mansfield wrote: sudo apt-get purge google-chrome sudo apt-get install google-chrome Jacob Mansfield Programmer Did the purge, it worked, but cant install, no google chrome to install. looked in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Jacob Mansfield
try chromium-browser Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 11 October 2010 11:58, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/10/10 11:41, Jacob Mansfield wrote: sudo apt-get purge google-chrome sudo apt-get install google-chrome Jacob Mansfield Programmer Did the purge, it worked, but cant

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread pmgazz
On 09/10/10 13:30, Ashley Whetter wrote: Hi, Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've started an Ubuntu Hour in Stockport, Cheshire. It will take place every other Saturday starting 23rd October 2010 at 3pm-4pm at Fresco (The cafe in the middle of Merseyway Shopping Centre). I've put this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread Tony Arnold
Ashley, I live in Stockport, so I'll try and come along to this. Do Fresco have free WiFi? Anything I should bring along? Regards, Tony. On 09/10/10 13:30, Ashley Whetter wrote: Hi, Just thought I'd let everyone know that I've started an Ubuntu Hour in Stockport, Cheshire. It will take

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.10 installation workshop in London

2010-10-11 Thread John Stevenson
On 30 September 2010 12:59, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 29/09/10 19:59, John Stevenson wrote: Hello Paula, I should be able to come along and help out for the day, I can confirm nearer the date. I am running a workshop at the University College London on the 13th, so it will be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.10 installation workshop in London

2010-10-11 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 11/10/10 13:36, John Stevenson wrote: I am running a workshop at the University College London on the 13th, so it will be good practice for my own session. Hello Paula, I've just about recovered from the Ubuntu release party, so I will see you tomorrow at your event. I should

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread Tony Arnold
Ashley, On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 15:03 +0100, Ashley Whetter wrote: I've just been into stockport andu there is no wifi! Plus I had a quick search for cafes that did and found none! There is good 3G though so I may just tether my phone. OK, let's give it a try and see how we get on. There are a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Manager Problem (Xubuntu 10.4)

2010-10-11 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 11 October 2010 11:08, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 October 2010 23:13, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi Guys I'm running Xubuntu 10.4. A couple of days ago I downloaded a routine update which required a reboot to complete. After that I had no wireless

Re: [ubuntu-uk] London release party - Thank you

2010-10-11 Thread Liam Proven
On 11 October 2010 11:22, Colin Murphy co...@spudulike.me.uk wrote: On Monday 11 October 2010 09:45:57 John Stevenson wrote: Thanks to everyone that came along [...] ... and thank you for taking the time to organise. WHS, definitely! I'm afraid I spent more time with the ZZ9 guys downstairs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IDE drive mounting ....

2010-10-11 Thread Barry Drake
On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 17:50 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: I'd just make sure the drives in the caddy had distinctive labels on all their partitions, myself! :¬) They do have!! And the problem still occurs. I'm booting from the SATA drive partition that appears as /dev/sdb1, and for some weird

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network Manager Problem (Xubuntu 10.4)

2010-10-11 Thread Steve Fisher
Yes sorry still full of cold! Doctor has signed me off for the week with bronchitis. Steve bronc -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 19:40, Traveller travel...@petlover.com wrote: On 11/10/2010 11:29, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:14:14PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Whoa! Hold it! Stop the world! I have not seen any message from John Matthews with the Subject of Pages not loading in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.10 installation workshop in London

2010-10-11 Thread pmgazz
On 11/10/10 13:36, John Stevenson wrote: Hello Paula, I've just about recovered from the Ubuntu release party, so I will see you tomorrow at your event. I should get there around 12 noon. See you then. Thanks John - look forward to seeing you :) Paula -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.10 installation workshop in London

2010-10-11 Thread pmgazz
On 11/10/10 13:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 11/10/10 13:36, John Stevenson wrote: I am running a workshop at the University College London on the 13th, so it will be good practice for my own session. Hello Paula, I've just about recovered from the Ubuntu release

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banks and Ubuntu support for business users

2010-10-11 Thread michael
I had this problem once when I upgraded to a beta of the next version of firefox. The website refused to let me in due to the browser not being recognised and being a possible security issue. One quick install of the User Agent Switcher plugin and pretending to be a different browser problem