Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dear Ubuntu List Team i have something to draw to your attention

On 22/06/2021 08:28, Mark Dorrington wrote: The current version of ubuntu 21.04 will not boot from live dvd: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1336515/ubuntu-21-4-desktop-iso-burned-to-dvd-fails-to-start https://news.itsfoss.com/ubuntu-21-04-upgrade-bug/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash and 18.04 update

On 30/04/18 21:05, Nigel Verity wrote: > there are 6 desktop environments to choose from across the "%buntu" > family, which is more than any other distro offers (as far as I'm aware) Tee hee. You might check out Manjaro's offerings. ;) signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse accessibility problem

On 09/04/18 17:50, Jim Price wrote: > Getting the mouse button down and up in a short > time is as difficult as getting a reliable double click it would seem. After doing some more digging the libinput "DragLockButtons" option may help with this: > Option "DragLockButtons" "L1 B1 L2 B2 ..." >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse accessibility problem

On 08/04/18 16:27, Jim Price wrote: > MATE is what we're trying to use How about Mouse Keys (under Keyboard Preferences)? Cursor can be positioned by both/either numpad keys or mouse, then a click by pressing a key without worrying about accidentally moving the cursor around. Though, if the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mouse accessibility problem

On 08/04/18 14:08, Jim Price wrote: > I'm trying to solve a problem with double clicking the mouse for someone > with jittery hand movements. The problem is that there is usually enough > movement between their first and second clicks of a double click that it > is registered as two single clicks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

On 23 September 2015 at 14:23, Liam Proven wrote: > On 22 September 2015 at 20:49, Steve Mynott > wrote: > > Any suggestions? > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux on the cheap?

On 22/09/15 19:49, Steve Mynott wrote: > Anyone any recommendations for very cheap laptops (ideally netbook > like form factor) with good linux support? Refurbished Lenovos. I got an X61 a couple of years ago for £60 and it's (still) excellent. You should be able to find some X201 for around

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should I be worried by these strange 'trace routes'?

On 27 March 2015 at 21:04, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Hi folks Apologies if this is a off topic, but I could do with a bit of advice, and can't think where else to ask. I have a Draytek router with 'DoS Defences' set up in the firewall, including 'block trace_route'. A few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should I be worried by these strange 'trace routes'?

On 27 March 2015 at 21:29, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 27 Mar 2015, at 21:24, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: You're not running Tor are you? I've tried out the Tor Browser Bundle and had a look at Tails out of interest. Why do you ask? It's possible the traffic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Exposure

I don't know, Professor Mike and his Machine sounds like a great children's book. :) On 15 February 2015 at 13:07, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Spam? On 15/02/15 12:57, Sheila Farmer wrote: Hi , My name is Sheila Farmer, I am a friend of the Professor Mike and his

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing files and folders between two 14.04 machines

On 17 October 2014 14:08, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: But why run ssh on your own internal LAN? What's the point of encrypting it? For file transfers I've found it to be slightly more reliable than samba. I have a Netgear WNR-3500L (running Shibby's TomatoUSB) acting as a NAS and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Swap area not created on install

On 17 October 2014 14:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote: Can anyone tell me what the 1.1 GB partition is, and as presumably I do need a Swap area, how do I create one? That's your swap device. Check free -m: me@pc ~ free -m total used free shared

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Swap area not created on install

On 17 October 2014 15:20, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote: Output of blkid: /dev/sda1: UUID=ba8d370e-f29c-4c18-ae93-650b7fe5f2a2 TYPE=ext2 /dev/sda5: UUID=f114109b-288a-432e-85bb-ba6be511ad58 TYPE=crypto_LUKS /dev/mapper/sda5_crypt: UUID=GVodJX-Am7J-fDKW-PWoG-7XBA-LpvG-U3G5NB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Swap area not created on install

On 17 October 2014 15:31, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote: control sda5_crypt ubuntu--vg-root ubuntu--vg-swap_1 Nice - so the device is present, I reckon it just needs to be formatted. sudo mkswap /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 sudo swapon /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 Once it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Swap area not created on install

On 17 October 2014 15:42, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote: On 17/10/14 15:36, J Fernyhough wrote: sudo mkswap /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 sudo swapon /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-swap_1 Looks like that's it. Swap is now showing up in System Monitor as available with 1GB of space

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

On 13 October 2014 13:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordo...@mail.com wrote: How do you find the battery life on your Lenovo x? I have a Lenovo U410 and the battery life, even with TPL installed never goes much over 3 hours...which is a pita I can get 3 hours repeatably, but this is not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

On 4 October 2014 15:25, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Any thoughts or suggestions? I don't do gaming - I just want something that will do e-mails, internet and documents. I use cloud sync for documents and I keep Thunderbird and Firefox in sync with my desktop. Kind

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

On 4 October 2014 16:00, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Thanks for that. I'm looking at an X220 on e-bay. The spec is terrific. It's a bit bigger than I really wanted, but it is a possibility. What is the overall height and width of your X61 please? It was easier for me to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba

On 6 September 2014 17:28, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: For such an old PC (10y old), any modern Linux distro will really struggle. About the only *buntu with even a chance is LXLE: http://lxle.net/ Go with the 12.04 version. But it would be better suited to Puppy Linux or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba

On 6 September 2014 17:44, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: Which is about 50x more powerful than this machine, which came with about 32MB of RAM and a 75MHz CPU or something like that. Yeah, I realised that after I'd posted... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alphabetise != en_GB

On 30 July 2014 18:11, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/07/14 17:49, Dave Morley wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:41:21 +0100 Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Alphabetise Desktop Icons... OED says yes :) http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alphabetise != en_GB

On 30 July 2014 20:51, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: On 30/07/14 20:23, Bruno Girin wrote: On 30 July 2014 18:51, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 July 2014 18:11, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/07/14 17:49, Dave Morley wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alphabetise != en_GB

On 30 July 2014 23:36, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote: Should it not match the wording already used in Nautilus preferences? Namely, Arrange icons by name. Being a person who likes cohesive approaches, that would be my preferred translation. This would make sense (as well as being

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.10 code name

On 23 April 2014 16:56, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: The adjective may be the difficult part. Unreliable Unicorn doesn't sound too good. Reading MS's blog post, I think the time delay was probably actually due to his trying to find unique u-words to use. :) Ubuntu 14.10: Go on,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.10 code name

On 22 April 2014 17:52, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: No doubt he has his reasons. Following the controversial renaming of Nokia to Microsoft Mobile and corresponding loss of brand identity, in a shock move Ubuntu will be renamed Microsoft Linux. http://mslinux.org/ Maybe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.10 code name

On 22 April 2014 18:23, Chris Coulson chrisccoul...@ubuntu.com wrote: I hope it involves unicorns. How about, Ubiquitous Unicorn? :-) - Chris I think the entire internet would be severely disappointed if it didn't. :D J -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cloud backup ....

On 8 April 2014 16:25, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 08/04/14 15:59, Barry Drake wrote: Unfortunately it costs, but only a meagre $10 as a one-off. You get a free trial though. Sorry, meant to say $15. If you get me to make a referral on my account, you get an extra 15

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Online Office Apps

On 21 February 2014 15:11, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 February 2014 15:07, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: I have to maintain a Windows 7 partition solely to run MS Word. I work on all my documents in LibreOffice but my customers invariably require DOCX format. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

On 2 February 2014 11:55, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: HI -- I can't find anything on launchpad. Any suggestions anyone? -- Colin Which version of Firefox are you running? You might try the beta or aurora channels; I've seen a fair few issues with FF26, for example, that I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

On 2 February 2014 12:25, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I should have said, it is the standard version from the 13.10 repo. 26.0+build2-0ubuntu0.13.10.2 I might give the beta a go if I can work out how to install it. The easiest way to test is to just download from mozilla.org,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox hogging the processor

On 2 February 2014 13:04, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: I'd recommend adding the Mozilla daily ppa and upgrading your installation that way. It's usually updated everyday of the year, give or take the odd week around holidays (for obvious reasons!) but i've yet to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows free at last!

On 30 Jan 2014 16:07, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Schools are still teaching Microsoft This is changing. Slowly, but it's changing. J -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows free at last!

On 29 January 2014 21:03, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there ... A couple of weeks ago, I did a BIOS (UEFI) update as requested after reporting a bug. The result was that an installation of Windows 7 which I had on a removable drive died completely and I lost it. How

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11 - 13 Notebook Recommendations?

On 11 December 2013 19:28, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 11 December 2013 18:19, Deryk Foote deryk.fo...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu is great at a lot of things, but keeping my cinder block of an old Dell from kicking the proverbial bucket isn't one of them. If you want something a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xfce Appearance

On 28 October 2013 11:12, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: All the stock Xfce applications look modern and easy on the eye - curved button corners, bevelled surfaces, etc. However some, though by no means all, non-Xfce applications have an appearance more akin to Windows 3 - dark

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy Salamander - [Name]

Telephonic Triggerfish -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anybody seen this, thought it might be shown, as nobody has mentioned it on here yet.....

On 22 August 2013 12:21, pete smout psmo...@live.com wrote: Right a quick google of 'SELinux ubuntu 13.04' a link top of page to an Amazon page trying to sell me a Ubunutu DVD for £6.49 (even I am not that stupid) the SELinux wiki page is helpful if long-winded, and I have found a folder

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22/08/13 13:21, James Morrissey wrote: --snip-- The fact that there was a wireless problem on Broadcom BCM43228 and that the freeze appears to correlate with having the machine on battery power (i am This sounds like a problem with the Broadcom drivers - this was a known problem with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with a freezing machine: All kernels in 12.04 and 13.04

On 22 August 2013 14:30, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: If i uninstall bcmwl-kernel-source, which of the following packages do i need to install in order to get my wireless working: firmware-b43-installer, firmware-b43-lppy-installer, b43-fwcutter, and/or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenSSH Problems

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 between devices on my home network. Have a look at rsync, it is generally

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

On 1 August 2013 09:13, Jon Spriggs j...@sprig.gs wrote: Just bear in mind while you're not wrong about it only going to a handful of vendors, you've got the names wrong when it comes to IT. HP (was EDS), IBM, Computacentre, Fujitsu, Capita, CapGemini G4S don't have an IT arm that I'm aware

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

On 31 July 2013 22:03, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.es wrote: huge snip Goverment has bigger contacts with huge service companies and those can still be broken. I avoided commenting until now, but realistically any UK Government contract is locked down to one of the normal

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

On 29 July 2013 19:42, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/mi6-and-mi5-refuse-to-use-lenovo-computers-over-claims-chinese-company-makes-them-vulnerable-to-hacking-says-report-8737072.html Huawei equipment, on the other hand, is completely

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy and unity-common

On 23 July 2013 13:29, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, Is anyone else using Saucy yet? A few days ago I was presented with a unity update that won't install because of a conflict between libunity-core-6.0-7 and unity-common 7.0.2+13.10.20130705.1-0ubuntu1 The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Inline posting

On 21 July 2013 04:53, Calum McAllister cremcallis...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: So, has anyone else been too worried about using the wrong protocol on here? It's just a case of following the conventions of the discussion. When I join a mailing list I tend to read some of the archives or let a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux GUI Development

On 19 July 2013 15:35, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I write all the software to support my business activities using Gambas 3. If you've used Visual Basic you can use Gambas. The two are remarkably similar. You can connect to an SQLite database with 3 lines of code, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Job

On 10 July 2013 15:25, pete smout psmo...@live.com wrote: Hi, During my daily search for gainful employment, I stumbled across this http://www.technojobs.co.uk/**job.phtml/1366734http://www.technojobs.co.uk/job.phtml/1366734: Which I do not have the experience to do :( It does strike me as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Deja-dup [lucky] backup

On 31 May 2013 16:14, Grant Phillips-Sewell dcg...@phillips-sewell.co.uk wrote: then there are tools out there [citation needed] which can scan each block/sector of your drive to find the remnants of previous partition structures, optionally re-write your partition table back to what it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home folder keeps disappearing

On 31 May 2013 22:12, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: /home is mounted on /sda7 it has 12.37 GiB free, and it's 71.29 GiB in size (according to gparted) What's the content of /etc/fstab ? Your /home should be in there (but it's not showing with 'mount'... interesting...). J --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Deja-dup [lucky] backup

On 30 May 2013 16:01, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote: My next step - to buy that external disk I kept putting off buying!! ;) Agreed - do it now. :) I especially like bus-powered 2.5 drives. No need for any extra crap, just plug in and backup (my flavour is rsync to a ZFS tank). You

Re: [ubuntu-uk] VIA Neheima CPU and Ubuntu Server

On 14 May 2013 13:26, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Life without unity

On 6 April 2013 21:11, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: So I wonder how many of those who slate unity simply haven't given it a chance Most of them. It's like all journalism today: link bait, sensationalist, context-free. Most things aren't as bad (or as good) as people make out.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dynamic DNS service

On 19 March 2013 14:31, Iain Cuthbertson iain.cuthbert...@idophp.co.uk wrote: On 19/03/13 14:24, Mark Fraser wrote: I've been using dyndns on my home server with ddclient successfully for a few years now and I've recently given my dad a laptop with Ubuntu installed on it that I would like to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dynamic DNS service

On 19 March 2013 23:09, Will Tinsdeall w...@bcslichfield.com wrote: Hurricane Electric dns.he.net - absolutely brilliant. I have it scheduled via a 1 line wget in a crontab file. I use them for Secondary DNS as well. You'll get plenty of support from them - on Twitter too! +1 also for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] fglrx driver under 13.04

On 21/02/2013, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Hi there If any of you are using the AMD fglrx driver you might be interested in this. The driver is fine under 12.10 and earlier, but under 13.04 Raring the driver works perfectly but gives an annoying transparent message in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu not booting up

On 20 November 2012 12:59, David King, linux user linux...@avoura.com wrote: I should also add that the hard disk is still quite new. How much free space do you have? e.g. what's the output of $ df -h ? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu one goes postal!

On 7 November 2012 22:04, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Ubuntu One is designed to sync multiple machines, right? So can someone please explain why when I added another machine it chose to delete all the files out of Ubuntu One rather than download them They're trying to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

On 7 October 2012 12:41, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Hi I'm trying to install GIMP 2.8 into Ubuntu 12.04, where the default version is 2.6.1. All the advice I can find seems to be essentially the same, namely: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:otto-kesselgulasch/gimp sudo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing GIMP 2.8

On 7 October 2012 12:45, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 October 2012 12:41, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Each time I try this I just get 2.6.1 installed, regardless. It strikes me that the default version must still be in the list of standard repositories. Any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

On 24 September 2012 23:32, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: 4) It doesn't go directly to Amazon (or other stores) anyway. It's proxied via a Canonical server which anonymizes the requests. Ohhh, this could open up a can of worms. Does this mean everything I (hypothetically) type into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

First things, please don't view this as an attack on the usefulness of Unity lenses. View it as coming from a critical friend (and if in doubt re-read it a couple of times). On 25 September 2012 00:22, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com wrote: Hmmm.. You are writing from a google mail account

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

On 25 September 2012 00:22, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: Its similar to apples voice..goes to their servers and then back to you...its why I dont use itbe interesting to know how android voice search works if it works in the same way..how much gets kept of the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] skype

On 6 August 2012 19:02, Wayne Roberts wa...@therobertsfamily.eu wrote: I've 'purged' dropbox but skype still refuses to start any more ideas? Which version of Skype are you running? And from where? What other changes have you made to the system, e.g. other updates? (you can check your update

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Steam fears Win8 - proposes Linux

On 31 July 2012 14:12, David Smith d...@p3computers.com wrote: And would their first choice be Ubuntu? Linux-based games console with an Ubuntu TV front-end. Probably not an NVidia graphics chip. :D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Shell accounts

On 25 July 2012 19:21, Joe Alam yothsogg...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks for the suggestions, I'll give SDF.org a try, it looks like it should have everything I need. Unfortunately BitFolk's VPS is a little out of my price range. The reason I wanted a hosted shell account instead of just using my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] embarrassing mouse issue

On 17 June 2012 14:15, pete smout psmo...@live.com wrote: Hi, After years of trying to persuade my step dad to use ubuntu instead of windows he has finally agreed to let me install it alongside win7! But his mouse is not recognised on the live cd. the machine is a sony viao VGC-LV1S pc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] embarrassing mouse issue

On 17 June 2012 14:31, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 17 June 2012 14:15, pete smout psmo...@live.com wrote: Hi, After years of trying to persuade my step dad to use ubuntu instead of windows he has finally agreed to let me install it alongside win7! But his mouse

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alt - tab misbehaving

On 22 February 2012 13:46, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Recently ive found my system is crashing or unresponsive when i press Alt tab to switch between programs..? Has anyone else seen this? I've seen something similar(?) previously with fglrx and mipmapping enabled in the Compiz

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alt - tab misbehaving

On 22 February 2012 15:39, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: so is this a hardware problem..? what can i do to fix this? On Wed, Feb 22, 2012 at 3:14 PM, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 22 February 2012 13:46, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Recently ive found my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Heres an idea (Was Unity is not working)

On 22 February 2012 16:51, David Smith d...@p3computers.com wrote: I have to agree with most being said about Unity and how it is such a jump from what we were used to.  I understand the evolution of software, from one version to the next, but this felt like we were being forced to grow wings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz kicks the bucket.........

On 7 February 2012 08:58, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: Anybody seen this, will it be coming to Ubuntu soon? http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/opensource/rip-compiz/3402?tag=nl.e011 Compiz isn't dead: https://code.launchpad.net/compiz-core -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Exchange in Thunderbird

On Dec 25, 2011 1:34 AM, John Oliver jp.oli...@ntlworld.com wrote: Hello, I was wondering if anyone knows of any way to connect to a corporate Microsoft Exchange server via Thunderbird? This would help me greatly in my work, as having to use OWA (Light, 2007), which is one of the least

Re: [ubuntu-uk] help needed testing upstream kernel

Can you use the mainline build? (on mobile or I'd look up the URL) On Nov 7, 2011 10:07 PM, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Can somebody please offer some off list support to guide me through 'testing using the upstream kernel'? I found a bug re a particular webcam, which is being

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Providers

On 26 July 2011 20:07, Ted Wager t...@trufflesdad.plus.com wrote: Anyone tell me if it is possible for an isp  to cut down the download rate for one of it's clients ? -- Regards  Ted Wager Perfectly possible. Indeed, a number of the main consumer providers (TalkTalk, Plusnet etc.) have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Providers

On 26 July 2011 21:10, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: I, and quite a few clients of mine, have red torch internet. there site is currently down for core-updates (they-re going to oniric) but if you give them a call on 0845 519 1001 (press sales) and ask them about it, they usually

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+

On 10 July 2011 11:20, Steve Flynn anothermindb...@gmail.com wrote: Strange, I was invited on Friday evening - straight in. Since then I've invited 4 others - they are all straight in too, as they are all now signed up. Sent you an invite anyway Jason - ignore it if you already have one.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+

On 10 July 2011 11:32, Steve Flynn anothermindb...@gmail.com wrote: You're going to get a flood of people asking for invites now. ;) (me included! :D ) Done. Email inbound Apparently the method of starting a circle and adding people via email works when inviting doesn't. I suspect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+?

On 10 July 2011 13:59, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote: Anyone fancy chucking a G+ invite in this direction [pretty please]. Cheers, Bill B. [suprengr] Sent. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+

On 10 July 2011 14:24, Ken Adams adams.ke...@gmail.com wrote: I too am looking for a kind person to pass an invite over to me please. Rgds Ken Done. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+?

On 10 July 2011 14:26, Bob Giles thecorf...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I have yet to convince anybody to send an invite to Google+! Please can somebody put me out of my misery! TIA. Bob Sent. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+?

On 10 July 2011 15:03, Bea Groves beagro...@gmail.com wrote: Hi! If I smile sweetly and flutter my eyelashes d'you think I could have one too? I suppose so. :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Adding storage two a Ubuntu server?

On 8 July 2011 12:48, Alexander Birchall tengallon...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Hi All, I find that a Ubuntu server (Release 11.04(natty) I inherited has available 60 GB of unused space on the hard disk.  I would like to expand the existing 40 GB available to the server to incorporate this extra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google+

On 7 July 2011 09:33, Dino T. d...@dinot.co.uk wrote: Registration is open again. Dino Tassigiannis BA (Hons) Closed again (unless there's a trick to it). :( If anyone already on would like to add me to a circle I would be forever grateful. :) Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Education software - purplemash anyone?

On 6 July 2011 08:56, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote: Hi All, snip Does anyone have any useful information, alternatives I could feedback to the school? Thanks -Mark This is made by 2Simple software who create a lot of software for schools - mostly reimplementation of existing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do I have a quad-core netbook (surely not?!)

On 28 June 2011 13:21, Ross Mounce ross.mou...@gmail.com wrote: Dear list, snip I believe the processor is a dual core Atom N550 http://ark.intel.com/Product.aspx?id=50154 Two questions: A) Why does it show as 4 processors? Are these all real? Have I somehow 'unlocked' another couple *hopes*?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

On 11 June 2011 11:40, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: No, that is not the point at all... schools would not take on somebody to be their secretary who had no concept of what a word processor was, or could not use a spreadsheet... they are meant to be educational establishments... are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

On 11 June 2011 14:08, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Erm, this is a SCHOOL! Sparta? If they've got an even remotely competent IT Teacher Ha, nice one. See previous discussions. :) Plus, primary schools don't have IT teachers, they have class teachers (who might have a specialism,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Example of difficulty to Convert MS users

On 8 June 2011 11:00, Jon Reynolds maill...@jcrdevelopments.com wrote: My dad uses Windows and recently it completely crashed and the local computer shop said it needed reinstalling. So he lost all his programs. snip? Just maddened me a bit because he was willing to try free software... just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

On 6 June 2011 17:57, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: I don't know how many people watch Click on the BBC News channel, but I thought I'd note that they had a piece on the Raspberry Pi on the last one (over the weekend), with a mention of Ubuntu as part of a piece on the lack of decent IT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

I agree with much of what you say - I'm going to respond inline for the discussion. On 6 June 2011 18:42, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: J Fernyhough wrote: Firstly, the vast majority of teachers don't have the skills of knowledge to be able to teach anything other than office skills

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Click

On 6 June 2011 21:07, Phill Whiteside phi...@ubuntu.com wrote: Maybe Ubuntu-UK would like to propose 'adopt a school / college' - It would certainly get the LoCo about 2,000,000 brownie points for 'all the good things we do' for re-election of the UK LoCo to remain official? just a thought...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy and 11.04

On 16 May 2011 15:26, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Anyway to get my scrollbars back? Yes. Remove (or purge, depending on preference ;) overlay-scrollbar, e.g. $ sudo apt-get remove overlay-scrollbar Log out and in, all should be chunky. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] End of Skype on Linux?

On 10 May 2011 15:08, Mike Paglia mike.pag...@gmail.com wrote: I don't believe at all that this is the end of the linux client! Does this mean MS will be making software for Linux? Does this mean Linus wins? What does this mean for Linux??!eleven “If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity and Gnome 3

On 6 May 2011 09:42, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: I'm wondering why Ubuntu decided to side-line Gnome 3 in favour of Unity? And does this mean Ubuntu may never support Gnome 3? How are such decisions made and is it documented anywhere? Personally I'd like to make my own

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Will kernel problems in Maverick mean i have kernel problems in Natty?

On 28 April 2011 09:46, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, snip If anyone can help me out on this, or point me to a site with relevant information, that would be great. Thanks, James One way would be to try the Natty mainline kernel builds on Maverick and find

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Correct version of Lightening......

On 9 April 2011 11:06, scoundrel50a scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running 64bit speed laptop, and I'm trying to add the Lightening extension for Thunderbird, but I keep getting an error message saying its not compatible with this version I'm running Linux_x86_64-gcc3. how do I get the 64

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle

On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: any suggestions or ideas I love my Kindle 3G. However, I'm already running into the limitations of the 6 screen with PDFs. Depending on the number of books you need, buying the tree copy or just reading on a netbook may work out

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle

On 22 March 2011 11:24, Simon Redmond si...@sibass.co.uk wrote: I used calibre to convert a series of pdf's (funnily enough for an ou course) into the more native format for my kindle as I found reading the pdf to much of a strain on the eyes. It seems to work well, however its not a perfect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] This train terminates here. All change, All change.

On 17 March 2011 21:16, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: So with that. Thanks very much to Dave for caring for the community, and we're now over to Alan Bell's stewardship. Congratulations Alan, thanks for stepping up! SPEECH! SPEECH! Al. Can't think of a better Alan to do the job. :P

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PPTP VPN

On 11 March 2011 12:28, Jon Farmer j...@bctech.co.uk wrote: Hi Thanks for your reply. I have done a apt-get update and upgrade but I am up to date. If this is true it is very inconvenient as I am trying to get some work done. Also I can't be the only one affected by this. Regards Jon

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