On 21 August 2013 17:05, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
On 21 August 2013 15:43, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 21 August 2013 15:36, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote:
I am on the lookout for a bit of advice on using SSH/SFTP to transfer
large
files
Hi folks,
In light of some recent discussions I've seen on this list it seems a lot
of folks are keen to promote Linux and see it deployed and used more
especially on the desktop. I've been using Ubuntu daily (plus some other
distros on and off) for a few years now. I love it and wouldn't switch
On 13 June 2013 14:11, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 June 2013 11:25, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
I think we can agree that partially the success of windows has made it a
target for criminals and malware. So if for whatever reason tomorrow we
saw
a massive uptake
I recently cloned a winXP image into a VM and then can run up the VM from a
Linux host. The Linux host is running on fairly new hardware which is UEFI
compatible but the Linux OS as far as I know is using legacy BIOS and grub.
Would I have problems with running the Win8 image considering its
On 13 June 2013 16:27, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
This isn't really an Ubuntu question,
What I should have said was: The host machine would be converted from Win8
to Ubuntu and Ubuntu does support UEFI after 12.04 right?
Im hoping to basically image the machine and then
On 13 June 2013 16:33, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 June 2013 14:56, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 June 2013 14:11, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
Hey don't tar me with that brush, im no windows advocate! I just thought
if
I were a crim (and im not) I'd
On 13 June 2013 17:22, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 13 June 2013 17:04, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
Ok we'll agree to disagree :-P
As I said: falsify it, then. Refute me. In other words, provide a
reasoned case as to why I am incorrect. Please. If I am wrong, I want
Hi Folks,
I tried a couple of Linux forums, but not had much joy, so I was wondering
if someone on this list might know:
Im running mpd on Ubuntu Server and for the most part it works ok, however
to get it to work after its been idle for a time or the home router gets
switched off, you have to
Hi All, has anyone tried to boot a Ubuntu Server live DVD / CD for the
above CPU, I managed to get knoppix to boot and I see the following details
on the CPU (using lscpu):
Architecture: i686
CPU(s): 1
Threads: 1
Cores: 1
CPU sockets: 1
Vendor Id: CentaurHauls
CPU family: 6
Model: 9
Stepping: 5
On 10 May 2013 10:02, James Tait james.t...@wyrddreams.org wrote:
On 09/05/13 23:04, SuperEngineer wrote:
just one final word (sentence)- my word educate was deliberate...
get the kids using Linux, let them think it's 'normal'.
I'm sure my boys' response to that would be Why, isn't it?
On 3 February 2013 23:19, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
On 03/02/13 18:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 3 February 2013 16:00, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com
mailto:brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
That makes sense in context - failed logins combined with the changed
Hi all, just wanted to get the Ubuntu UK list take on this story from the
BBC below
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21304049
Yes the guy was using windows, but will our browsers also give up this sort
of info down to the hardware level when running a Linux box too? I know we
can use a user a
oops! I posted the wrong link, it was from a related link at the bottom of
that page
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21058994
On Feb 3, 2013 10:24 AM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 3 February 2013 10:16, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all, just wanted to get the Ubuntu
On Feb 3, 2013 10:53 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
On 3 February 2013 10:34, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
oops! I posted the wrong link, it was from a related link at the bottom
of that page
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-21058994
That's almost certainly
Hi Alan,
Im running 10.04 on a Dell E6400, and using 18.0.1025.151 (Developer Build
130497 Linux) Ubuntu 10.04. I dont seem to have the flickering problem but
Ive only seen problems on Ebay. I used quite a variety of sites and ebay is
the only one. I have contacted ebay support but suspect
Sorry I was slow to reply. Some very good points for an against here. It
seems a lot of kids are getting advice from you tube sites to use Hamachi.
Yes it does create a VPN tunnel, I suppose the best thing to do would be
setup a machine configure Hamachi and then go find yourself a good
(friendly)
Hello folks,
One of my kids like playing minecraft and he asked about setting up a
server using Hamachi.
Now I know we could setup a machine and open a port on the home router, but
I wasn't too keen on the idea. I'm not sure if any incoming connections to
a minecraft server couldn't be used as a
On May 1, 2012 12:10 AM, David Smith d...@p3computers.com wrote:
At the risk of someone having had a similar problem, I'm struggling to
install Ubuntu on my desktop. My netbook accepted Xubuntu absolutely fine,
and I am getting to grips it. My desktop however won't accept Ubuntu x86.
I have
On Apr 17, 2012 11:12 AM, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:
On 03/04/12 12:34, Alan Pope wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 03/04/12 11:18, David King wrote:
I am running Ubuntu 10.10. The message appeared again, and it was
actually Semantic Disk Storage, but
We're collating this round of testing at 07:00 UTC on Monday but if
you do find any bugs over the next few weeks, do please let us know.
Cheers,
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I run as many of the test I could. I installed a spare drive into a Dell
latitude D610 laptop and installed from DVD. I have run
Just giving this a spin.. I downloaded a 32bit desktop ISO of beta 2,
booting from USB connected HDD and running like a live CD. I can see my
home network in the network manager wireless networking list but can't
select it to connect.
I bet I'm missing something obvious here, but it seems it only
Hi Everyone,
Id like to hear opinions, experience and advice from those of you who have
a home network with multiple devices from iPods to PCs, and what you do to
back them up and centralise the data but also make the data available in
places where you need it.
Also when it comes to backing up,
Hi,
I was looking ar a PC for a neighbour and tried to boot from a live CD to
backup some data for them. The Ubuntu and Xubuntu live CDs wont boot, but a
Knoppix DVD will boot and run just fine. How can I tell what if any boot
options the knoppix system booted with?
Heres the output of lspci and
Hi All,
My kids school are considering spending money on a yearly subsciption
to this -- http://www.purplemash.com/
Now as most parents I think its a shame if the school spends money on
things they dont need and I also believe that the reason this happens
sometimes is that the school simply
On 06/07/2011, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote:
On Wed, 6 Jul 2011 08:56:29 +0100, Byte Soup wrote:
Hi All,
My kids school are considering spending money on a yearly subsciption
to this -- http://www.purplemash.com/
Now as most parents I think its a shame if the school
On 06/07/2011, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
On 06/07/11 08:56, Byte Soup wrote:
Hi All,
My kids school are considering spending money on a yearly subsciption
to this -- http://www.purplemash.com/
Now as most parents I think its a shame if the school spends money on
things they dont
as a daemon?
On 25 March 2011 12:55, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 25 March 2011 12:47, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
It seems if you add a new ssh key into seahorse it always generates a
file
called id_rsa.pub and id_rsa, renaming old ones to .1 etc, is that
correct?
No idea
Thanks, couple of questions:
On 24 March 2011 17:00, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 24 March 2011 07:42, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
Do any of you have friends and family not living nearby, who use Ubuntu
and
you provide remote support to them. What do you use? Teamviewer, VNC
, things like mac
address etc.
So I would expect if you created a new users, the old key would still
work.
Bodsda
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar
Sorry just repeating my question as it might have got lost in the thread:
It seems if you add a new ssh key into seahorse it always generates a file
called id_rsa.pub and id_rsa, renaming old ones to .1 etc, is that
correct?
When you generate your keys is it always done as the user you are
Hi All,
Do any of you have friends and family not living nearby, who use Ubuntu and
you provide remote support to them. What do you use? Teamviewer, VNC, webex?
What would you recommend and whats your experiences?
Thanks
-Mark
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On 19 January 2011 22:07, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17/01/11 09:00, Byte Soup wrote:
Hi Jacob,
I have a small amount of experience using Sun's LDAP, see my comment below
-Mark
On 14 January 2011 22:31, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
I have been
On 20 January 2011 10:41, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
when I installed LDAP it didn't ask for anything, and running
dpkg-reconfigure didn't ask for those anyay, like I said I followed
the tutorial at
http://www.zarafa.com/wiki/index.php/Zarafa_LDAP_cn_config_How_To the
first
On 20 January 2011 14:33, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
I used the same hashed password that I created using slappsswd
it's not the same one that's in the tut
Jacob Mansfield
Programmer
Can you try
ldapddd -v -x -D cn=admin,dc=cyberkingsolutions,dc=co,dc=up -w your
password
Im trying my best to help here, but Im not sure how much more I can be of
use, bear with me though :-)
On 20 January 2011 17:51, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
On 20/01/11 17:22, Byte Soup wrote:
On 20 January 2011 14:33, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote:
I used
Is it possible to swap your device out for a spare router? Im not sure about
virgin media as I think you have the cable modem and then the wireless
router connected to that, or is it all in one unit? It sure sounds like the
router rather than your netbook. What happens is your run large downloads
One more thing to check actually, because this caught me out before, do you
have another device on your LAN that might be running a DHCP server, like a
NAS drive?
On 18 January 2011 18:35, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 January 2011 13:41, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote
On 18 January 2011 20:36, andres andre...@gmail.com wrote:
I checked the light: both wireless and adsl light where on during
disconnection.
I tried to check the temperature but I think I need to upgrade my router
first: i cannot find the option. Plus I don't think it is the case as I
reboot
Hi Folks,
Im running Ubuntu 10.04, 64bit with libimobiledevice package installed as
per default. I used to be able to plug in an iPhone/Pod running Apple ios
4.1.x and see files on the device sync music etc.
However since upgrading the iPod and iPhone to ios4.2 this is no longer
possible. Ive
An ubuntu based distro with quite a few extra tools for penetration testing
http://www.gnacktrack.co.uk/
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On 3 December 2010 14:38, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote:
ian pettitt (RRes-BB) wrote:
That sounds like the scale plugin in Compiz. One way of changing the
settings and the shortcut/mouse corner activation is to use the Compiz
manager.
Thanks, that was it. I disabled Scale
On 20 September 2010 21:51, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote:
I'm not quite sure where this should be asked as it is a cross-platform
thing. I am fed up of listening to my (Windows XP) gaming computer through
headphones so I want to get it hooked to the stereo.
Rather than use a
On 21 August 2010 16:46, Neville Crook nevi...@thecrookfamily.co.uk wrote:
No not a new Dan Brown book but a problem with my latest update of
10.04.
I have two systems working 10.04 one on a partitioned HDD Desktop and one
on an external HDD connected to my laptop.
Both systems
Hi Folks,
One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving
them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do this?
I have used shred to remove files, but I dont think it can do an entire
disc (i.e. some previously deleted files)
Thanks
-Mark
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On 11 August 2010 13:36, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
I'd also recommend DBAN, I've used it quite a bit, personally and also
for companies getting rid of machines. I believe it'll even do multiple
drives at once if you want to erase a few drives (although as mentioned
elsewhere, make
Hi,
I see my update manager this morning showing a update to base-files, when
going to install these are listed as uncertified. It seems odd how the
changes doesnt list here but on other packages they do, my connection is
fine. Im a bit suspicious
*Changes tab shows*
Changes for the versions:
That's certainly the latest version according to packages.ubuntu.com.
http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=base-files
Looks like a security update:-
http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/b/base-files/base-files_5.0.0ubuntu20.10.04.2/changelog
Cheers,
Al.
Thanks Al,
Did anyone see this yesterday?
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/14/dell_ubuntu_windows_security/
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Mark
On 11 June 2010 20:44, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 June 2010 19:58, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Folks,
A coupe of years back, I was using WinXP and winamp with the shoutcast
plugin, or Edcast to stream to a shoutcast server for live feed
Hi Mark
On 9 June 2010 20:13, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote:
Just tried watching Jono's stream on my wife's computer using Firefox.
For some reason although the video works fine, I get an 'install flash' icon
where the chat box is supposed to be.
On my computer both are
Hi Folks,
A coupe of years back, I was using WinXP and winamp with the shoutcast
plugin, or Edcast to stream to a shoutcast server for live feed to an
internet radio station. Id like to find out how I could do the same thing in
Linux. Does anyone acheive the same thing, or know what apps /
Tried that, now I get:
Failed to fetch
http://archive.getdeb.net/ubuntu/dists/lucid-getdeb/Release.gpg Could
not connect to archive.getdeb.net:80 (81.92.203.249). - connect (110:
Connection timed out)
Failed to fetch
Hi,
I was going to start some ISO testing today, and I thought Id run some tests
on Kubuntu seeing as there looked like a few needed doing there. I visited
this link listing the tests im looking to do
http://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/test/4221
On the tests you have a link to the image
Just out of interest, which bit solved the problem?
It was this bit
apt-get clean
apt-get autoclean
Thanks -Mark
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Hi
On 3 June 2010 13:31, micheal harker micheal.har...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Ubuntu UK Team!
Last Night in the meeting It was decided we are going to re-brand
ubuntu-uk.org so I have made some mockups. Each Mocup has different ideas
but with similar layouts.
Mockup 1:
Hi Neil
Do you get error messages about missing keys when updating the list of
packages on the command line (i.e. using either 'sudo apt-get update'
or 'sudo aptitude update')?
No I dont, this is what it looks like when i use the command line:
cur...@homer:~$ sudo apt-get install p7zip-full
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