[ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble

2011-07-15 Thread Dave Hanson
I will pay one million pounds if someone can help me with this please! (well, maybe just a thank you). I'm trying to install Oracle 11g R2 on Ubuntu Server 11.04, I have installed (I think) all of the pre-requisites and have downloaded the install files from the oracle site, when I come to run

[ubuntu-uk] Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop

2011-07-15 Thread Paul Sutton
Hi anyone got any experience of the a Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop with 11.04 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/261508 i have googled and its come up with mixed reviews some saying it hangs on shutdown and other issues right up to hardly any issues. i will mainly use it for web browsing (i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop

2011-07-15 Thread steve
On 15/07/11 13:06, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi anyone got any experience of the a Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop with 11.04 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/261508 i have googled and its come up with mixed reviews some saying it hangs on shutdown and other issues right up to hardly any issues. i

[ubuntu-uk] LOOKING FOR JOB

2011-07-15 Thread Vicente Fontanella
Hello everyone, I am sending this email and hope someone can help me. I am a Linux administrator living in london and I'm without a job right now. How I have enough time, I'm looking for in a company that has enough computers to refurbish, and let me repair than. If somebody know something about,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Oracle 11g Trouble

2011-07-15 Thread Sean Miller
Do you need to, perhaps, put the shell executable in front of /media/runInstaller ? Perhaps you're running bash and it needs ksh etc. etc. ? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop

2011-07-15 Thread Andy Braben
On 15 July 2011 13:22, steve macstev...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/07/11 13:06, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi anyone got any experience of the a Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop with 11.04 http://www.ebuyer.com/product/261508 i have googled and its come up with mixed reviews some saying it hangs

[ubuntu-uk] New network for women advocating, using or developing FLOSS

2011-07-15 Thread Paula Graham
We're in the throes of setting up 'Flossie' as a space for women who're involved in FLOSS in any way - especially advocacy. We're hoping this will help us to co-ordinate our advocacy activities a bit better and share what works. We'll be kicking off with an event in November in London so we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New network for women advocating, using or developing FLOSS

2011-07-15 Thread Rob Beard
On 15/07/11 18:40, Paula Graham wrote: We're in the throes of setting up 'Flossie' as a space for women who're involved in FLOSS in any way - especially advocacy. We're hoping this will help us to co-ordinate our advocacy activities a bit better and share what works. We'll be kicking off with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LOOKING FOR JOB

2011-07-15 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 01:29:43PM +0100, Vicente Fontanella wrote: I am a Linux administrator living in london and I'm without a job right now. I recommend subscribing to GLLUG and linuxjobs and waiting for jobs to be posted (as well as actively looking elsewhere).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop

2011-07-15 Thread bodsda
I don't have experience with that model, but we deployed Revo's in my organisation. The rough spec was 1.6ghz quad core, 2gb ram and an nvidia 1gb network card running win xp sp3. They are good machines for basic use, but fall over from heavy usage. I had to up the pagefile to 8gb to keep it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Acer Aspire Revo R3700 Desktop

2011-07-15 Thread Paul Sutton
On 15/07/11 20:26, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I don't have experience with that model, but we deployed Revo's in my organisation. The rough spec was 1.6ghz quad core, 2gb ram and an nvidia 1gb network card running win xp sp3. They are good machines for basic use, but fall over from heavy