Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread scoundrel50a
On 28/04/2012 20:43, Timothy Rittman wrote: On Sat 28 Apr 2012 15:31:46 BST, Kris Douglas wrote: On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50ascoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread scoundrel50a
On 28/04/2012 20:43, Timothy Rittman wrote: On Sat 28 Apr 2012 15:31:46 BST, Kris Douglas wrote: On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50ascoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 24/04/12 23:12, Bruno Girin wrote: On 24/04/12 23:04, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: El jue, 19-04-2012 a las 12:00 +, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com escribió: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread scoundrel50a
On 28/04/2012 20:43, Timothy Rittman wrote: On Sat 28 Apr 2012 15:31:46 BST, Kris Douglas wrote: On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50ascoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Daniels
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:12:32 +0100 From: alanb...@ubuntu.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]] On 24/04/12 23:12, Bruno Girin wrote: On

[ubuntu-uk] Hackspace at the Museum of Computing

2012-04-29 Thread Dianne Reuby
We're looking at the possibility of starting a 'Hackspace' at the museum in Swindon town centre. A Hackspace (or Hackerspace) is a place where like-minded people with an interest in technology (electronics, computers, robotics, programming, electronic art etc.) can get together, collaborate,

[ubuntu-uk] updated to 12.04: fixes and questions

2012-04-29 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
I updated fine but had the following problems. Some I have managed to fix others where probably broken before the update. I have a user account. the screen was slightly to the left. My normal account was looking fine and centered. I fixed it by changing the aspect ratio to another and back again.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] updated to 12.04: fixes and questions

2012-04-29 Thread Bill Baker
installed the wikipedia lens but does not seem to come up. I wrote lens and dash on the dash and it does not find anything. In case it helps, this is the answer I got from the [very helpful] writer of the lens: Michael Hall15 Apr 2012 +Billy Baker if you run quickly package, it should

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 12:30, scoundrel50a wrote: Is there anyway I can reinstall/repair using terminal, so that I dont loose all the folders I have on the laptop? Rather than go through loads of questions..might be easier. one thing you could consider is a reinstall without formatting the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread scoundrel50a
On 29/04/2012 18:38, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 12:30, scoundrel50a wrote: Is there anyway I can reinstall/repair using terminal, so that I dont loose all the folders I have on the laptop? Rather than go through loads of questions..might be easier. one thing you could consider

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Barry Drake
I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an upgrade. This is exactly the problem I had when upgrading my netbook,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing window decoration after failed upgrade to 12.04

2012-04-29 Thread Tony Pursell
On 29 April 2012 18:39, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Tony, On 29/04/12 18:32, Tony Pursell wrote: The first one to show up is a lack of window decoration. It's something that I had a few years ago after a version update, but I've forgotten now what I did to cure it.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today where exactly? as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an upgrade. This is

[ubuntu-uk] promotional poster

2012-04-29 Thread paul sutton
Hi In an effort to create something simple to promote ubuntu i have taken some of the text from the ubuntu website and created a mini flyer http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3356122/ubuntu/ubuntu%20poster1204b.odt notice I have also put a disclaimer on the bottom, this similar wording to what I have on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Barry Drake
On 29/04/12 18:58, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today where exactly? Launchpad - at :https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu This is not somewhere I usually lurk but it was so overwhelmed that I thought I'd put my two

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 18:53, scoundrel50a wrote: Hi, thanks for the reply, I am not sure what happened really, all I know is that I get that error I posted about earlier in another e-mail after getting past the grub..and it just hangscan I reinstall without formatting using the Terminal?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Bruno Girin
On 29/04/12 19:37, Barry Drake wrote: On 29/04/12 18:58, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today where exactly? Launchpad - at :https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu This is not somewhere I usually lurk but it was so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 20:11, Bruno Girin wrote: I did. On two machines with no problem. I don't think upgrading to 12.04 is disastrous. I think two things are happening: 1. Ubuntu has a very wide user base with a lot of different configs so even if 1% of users have issues, it will appear as a very large

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread alan c
On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an upgrade. This is exactly the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread scoundrel50a
On 29/04/2012 20:04, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 18:53, scoundrel50a wrote: Hi, thanks for the reply, I am not sure what happened really, all I know is that I get that error I posted about earlier in another e-mail after getting past the grub..and it just hangscan I reinstall

[ubuntu-uk] Making VLC muliregion

2012-04-29 Thread Michael Daniels
VLC player is said to be multi-region, mine will only play region 0 or region 2.There is a patch on Community Documentation, starts, sudo apt-get install libdvdread4Next line says Then open a terminalwindow and execute:sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.shFollowed by, Rebooting may be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 20:54, alan c wrote: On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi All On 29 April 2012 19:37, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 29/04/12 18:58, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today where exactly? Launchpad - at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread alan c
On 29/04/12 21:04, Alan Bell wrote: it says do you want to upgrade? and you can say yes or no to it. Clearly yes is the preferred option, but why shouldn't we encourage people to upgrade to new cool stuff that will make their experience better (which is the aim of it, sometimes that doesn't work

Re: [ubuntu-uk] promotional poster

2012-04-29 Thread Tony Pursell
On 29 April 2012 19:11, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Hi In an effort to create something simple to promote ubuntu i have taken some of the text from the ubuntu website and created a mini flyer http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3356122/ubuntu/ubuntu%20poster1204b.odt notice I have also put a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] promotional poster

2012-04-29 Thread Tony Pursell
On 29 April 2012 22:54, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: On 29 April 2012 19:11, paul sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Hi In an effort to create something simple to promote ubuntu i have taken some of the text from the ubuntu website and created a mini flyer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Bruno Girin
On 29/04/12 22:54, alan c wrote: On 29/04/12 21:04, Alan Bell wrote: it says do you want to upgrade? and you can say yes or no to it. Clearly yes is the preferred option, but why shouldn't we encourage people to upgrade to new cool stuff that will make their experience better (which is the