Re: [ubuntu-uk] help seting up alamin

2010-11-30 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 30 November 2010 17:08, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: would somebody be able to guide me through setting up an alamin IP-SMS gateway on a ubuntu 10.10 server? thanks in advance I'd suggest starting at their website: http://www.alamin.org/en/index.html and the howto:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free space is less than 200MB

2010-09-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 26 September 2010 18:23, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: Today when ripping some CDs with Audex, I started to get the error: Free space on /home/mfraser/Music/ogg... is less than 200MB. Problems with low space possible. So why am I getting the above errors? Have you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

2010-09-18 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 18 September 2010 10:18, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: Using an old copy of your home directory will be fine as long as files are owned by the same userid after reinstall. Very little in Gnome, at least, goes wrong with upgrades. KDE apps between 9.04 and 10.04 may be a little

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

2010-09-18 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 18 September 2010 11:38, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 18/09/10 11:27, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: Another handy trick after copying /home/user to the new install is to do $ sudo chown -R user:user /home/user Just a hint. sudo chown -R user: /home/user will do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Maverick upgrade

2010-09-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 3 September 2010 19:21, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote: OK, tried this once last week and crashed and burned with an ATI flgrx problem.  As it was a new install I just chickened out and reinstalled. So, what is the best way to go about this, any recommendations?  I have a spare

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Maverick upgrade

2010-09-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 3 September 2010 19:37, Steve Fisher xirco...@gmail.com wrote: Kubuntu Lucid64 (re)install.  Is xorg the problem?  Running cairo-dock and Compiz on Gnome (KDE person normally but am trying to like Gnome, but still not sure), desktop effects are not the end of the world, but I do need

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Maverick upgrade

2010-09-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 3 September 2010 21:09, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: VirtualBox is a reasonably easy way of trying it out if you have a half decent spec machine (Pentium 4/Athlon 64 or higher with say 1GB ram or higher).  This way if it screws up you only screw up the virtual machine. Rob

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 18 August 2010 09:57, Gordon Allott gord.all...@canonical.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-08-17 at 21:07 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: Maverick Meerkat. Advert tie-in. Simples. Was any new ground broken? I can't really think of any, indicator was introduced in Lucid. Oh wait, the window button

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 18 August 2010 16:16, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: A small newt. I thought everyone knew that. Nope. Not everyone knows obscure words. Just in the same way I don't *expect* you to know what pedagogy is. By the way, an eft became an ewt during one of English's many upheavals, then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 18 August 2010 16:22, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 18 August 2010 16:15, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: Missed the giant /s tag too... I've got to start putting that in. Or explain the real meaning of the mail and don't rely on obscure tags that readers won't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-17 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 17 August 2010 19:44, Laura Czajkowski la...@lczajkowski.com wrote: Aloha, Thought folks might be interested to know that 11.04 will be the Natty Narwhal http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/478 Laura -- Easy steps to make your product fail: 1) Give it a name only the developers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-17 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 17 August 2010 21:21, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: not sure where to snip so here will do We in the Ubuntu community should be encouraging people to use the version numbers for releases and the codenames for development versions. However _within_ our community it's not unusual to continue

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-17 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 17 August 2010 21:34, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 17 August 2010 21:29, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: one more thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Microsoft_codenames Janus Sparta Snowball Chicago O'Hare

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-17 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 17 August 2010 21:45, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: We get people in #ubuntu-uk asking for help. They mostly say things like:- The latest one 8.04 How do I find out? OK, then it works. That's great! I actually am typing this on a Mac and I have to make some effort to find out what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-11 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 11 August 2010 17:11, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 11/08/10 16:51, Gordon Allott wrote: Hi all, So I'm moving house and taking a look at the broadband speeds in the local area shows something... suspicious.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids

2010-08-07 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 6 August 2010 21:18, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: The club is based in a church and doesn't have Internet access, so I wonder if anyone can suggest what kind of stuff I should put on this laptop that might be interesting for the kids to play with. SCRATCH!!! Scratch:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

2010-07-16 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 16 July 2010 21:21, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: I really, really cannot wait for btrfs. :) Tyler Why wait? It works already - I have my Maverick / as btrfs. It is, however, noticeably slower than EXT4 in certain situations at the moment. Jonathon --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using computer's internet connection on phone via bluetooth

2010-07-05 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 5 July 2010 13:41, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I have a Nexus One, but I don't have a wireless router in my college accommodation and I'm not allowed to install one. I was wondering if anyone knew a way to connect my phone to my computer's internet connection via

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Command line in Google Chrome

2010-06-21 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 21 June 2010 08:20, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Its very basic at the moment, adn allows for improvement, but has any body seen this. I actually added a calendar date into google calender, via the terminal, and it worked, seems quite impressive.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-21 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
It should be (fairly easily) possible to configure PHP to send via an existing SMTP server, so you don't have to worry about setting up a full MTA. Otherwise Postfix does a pretty good job, IIRC. Jonathon (apologies for TP, via Android Gmail) On 21 Jun 2010 22:47, Chris Rowson

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-04 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote: Actually just scrap the above,  I've checked their bzr branch at lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme and there's seems to have been no revisions yet but then again that branch was only made

Re: [ubuntu-uk] transfer data from HDD to HDD

2010-05-28 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 28 May 2010 17:18, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: My rather ancient desktop PC has stopped working due, I think, to a faulty MBoard and I am now using a laptop running 10.04. I would like to be able to transfer a variety of files such as Firefox Bookmarks and email

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: DRUPAL site got killed...

2010-05-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 27 May 2010 17:00, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all This is off topic but I am not sure where to go. My site got killed and state: The selected file  could not be copied, because no file by that name exists. Please check that you supplied the correct

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 26 May 2010 08:23, Neil Perry npe...@gmail.com wrote: I'm running 2.1 Eclair on my G1 and also was running Froyo on my Nexus One :) Neil Perry On 26 May 2010 07:58, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: i am also running 2.1 Eclair on my G1looking forward to Froyo soon! On 26 May

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is the demise of Becta an opportunity for FOSS?

2010-05-25 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 24 May 2010 22:00, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, I have no idea what sort of software a school needs but I suspect something like:      * Office software; They use MS Office because they pay for it. If they don't buy something they lose the money.      * Some sort of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.04 64bit -- Firefox and Adobe flash

2010-05-18 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 18 May 2010 08:29, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 18 May 2010 08:19, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote: I tried this but im still not having any joy, downloaded gunzipped and untarred the file into /usr/lib/firefox/plugins/ even removed the old one. Tried BBC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.04 64bit -- Firefox and Adobe flash

2010-05-18 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 18 May 2010 09:03, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote: Would we happen to have this in our ubuntu repos? Unfortunately not as it's not been officially released yet. However, Mint is essentially a customisation of Ubuntu so compatibility is excellent. File:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running .exe's off a CD?

2010-05-05 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 5 May 2010 21:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 things: 1) Why am I being blocked from running .exe's on my computer? So you dont accidentally run virus.exe.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] TrueCrypt + Dropbox/UbuntuOne

2010-05-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 2 May 2010 15:55, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: I'm running Karmic.  I want to use TrueCrypt 6.3a in portable mode for volumes in Dropbox and Ubuntu One, but I cannot see Tools/Traveller Disk Setup on the TrueCrypt interface to create the files. Any advice/suggestions, please?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] installing vmware

2010-05-01 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 1 May 2010 15:10, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: What is wrong, please? Try: $ sudo ./VMware-Workstation-6.5.3-246459.i386.bundle Note the ./ which tells bash where the file is (i.e. in the current directory) Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Immediate Problems with 10.4

2010-05-01 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 1 May 2010 15:49, gerald.william...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I've just upgraded and find four irritating features: I use a standard theme from 9.10 now transformed as custom 1 the window control button --snip 2 the main menu and other icons on the main screen bar  --snip These are features

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64 bit lucid install

2010-04-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 26 April 2010 14:45, ian pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk wrote: Hi All I have looked on the Ubuntu wiki and forum for any advice or things to watch out for, but I was wondering if anyone had recommendations/comments before I make the move.  I will be installing it in an additional

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64 bit lucid install

2010-04-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 26 April 2010 15:08, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Ian Im using virtualbox for a XP image occasionally, I wonder if a image created under a 32bit virtual box will be portable to a 64bit virtual box? Mark Fully portable; it's just a drive image. It will run the same on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64 bit lucid install

2010-04-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 26 April 2010 17:25, Tony Travis a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk wrote: I'm still not able to get Thunderbird running 'Lightning' in 64-bit, though - Anyone else succeeded? I've installed the ia32 libraries.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Brighton-lug-misc] Free UNIX shell account

2010-04-15 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 15 April 2010 22:08, Harry Rickards ha...@linux.com wrote: On 15 April 2010 19:42, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: snip What would you actually use a shell server for, other than as an ssh tunnel? Keeping an IRC client (irssi) and other stuff open 24/7 in an instance of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Office 3.2 problem on 9.10

2010-03-29 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 29 March 2010 15:04, pa...@fossbox.org.uk pa...@fossbox.org.uk wrote: Wait a month, upgrade to Lucid and get the 'official' 3.2 package would be the line of least resistance ;) Paula Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I installed 3.2 0n 9.10 using the instructions on this web site:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] File Transfers

2010-03-16 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 16 March 2010 14:44, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: Whilst I know how to use these protocols at a simple level, I'm not clear on the background architecture. Do the transfers just take place locally through the router or do they go via my ISP? If you access the computers via

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptops

2010-03-12 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 12 March 2010 21:00, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Just wondered if anyone else had this particular model running Ubuntu or had any other suggestions? Could I suggest looking on some deals forums? I don't really want to link to it in a list, but one I find quite useful is HotUKDeals.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Spare partition - add to /home?

2010-02-28 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 28 February 2010 15:51, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:      * Setting it up so that it's transparent to applications like        fSpot or Rhythmbox may be complicated. Two ways: One, use a symbolic link. I have /home/me/music symlinked to /media/ntfsdrive/audio/music, for example.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] My Desktop's disappeared

2010-02-25 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I logged out and back in, and I get icons now, but they're for my Documents folder. I tried rebooting, and still get the same. Everything seems to be working OK, except that the Desktop folder with a few documents and a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] My Desktop's disappeared

2010-02-25 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
OK, different tack. On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: My /home is up to 94% suddenly, so could that be it? I really must reallocate that XP partition to Ubuntu. Can you find anything that is taking up a lot of space? Video? Audio? Could you try moving it to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 2 February 2010 12:36, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace matt...@truthisfreedom.org.uk wrote: Quoting Keith Powell ke...@keithg4jvx.force9.co.uk: To clarify, I would like to actually install Ubuntu on the drive, not use the drive as a USB version of a liveCD. I'm sure it's do-able, as long as you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 2 February 2010 17:27, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: I have seen people with problems on Launchpad Answers.  If GRUB is on the USB drive you will always need the USB drive attached to boot BOTH Ubuntu and Windows 7.  If you have no way to put back the original MBR, you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing on a USB drive

2010-02-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 2 February 2010 17:57, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: It all depends on how you do it. A standard dual boot installation will overwrite the MBR with GRUB's MBR that points to the partition with GRUB on it.  As I said, if you rely on the machines own boot menu, you are OK.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing

2010-01-31 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 31 January 2010 14:01, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:43:59 -, James Milligan li...@lake54.com wrote: On 31/01/2010 13:31, Liam Wilson wrote: But how would we go about making the video, like a screencast sort of progect? This sounds like an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-01-31 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 31 January 2010 14:40, Michael Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc wrote: BSoD look-a-like, followed by user calling support. Advert uses the user on hold to support throughout, but cutting to an Ubuntu user jumping online, forums, IRC, etc, fixing it quickly. Tagline: Ubuntu. Community at work.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-01-31 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 31 January 2010 14:58, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:50:58 -, CShadowRun li...@cshadowrun.com wrote: I don't think shots of IRC or the forum would be that good, there's alot of negative stigma around Chat rooms and Online forums unfortunately :( Yes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-01-31 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 31 January 2010 17:28, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Er you need the backing of parents to allow their kids in to a chat room,  we need to educate everyone,  what you said here implies that mums are computer illiterate. I hate to tell you this, but most parents haven't got a clue what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 1 hour Meeting reminder

2010-01-17 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2010/1/17 Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.com: Anyone know of an Irc app for Android? Am waiting for the RAC to come rescue me, so it's the only way I'll be able to join today! AndChat. It's pretty good. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cinelerra and Karmic

2009-12-30 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/12/30 John Davis davi...@wanadoo.fr: I am using Karmic Ubuntu and would like to try the video editing software Cinelerra. I have used their web site and downloaded the software to my pc but do not know how to open the program or install it to run it. Could anyone advise me on how to do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.10 problem.

2009-12-17 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/12/17 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: An odd update! I reverted to 9.04 two weeks ago, since when it's been running with no problems. Decided to update to 9.10 via distribution update, which took about 2 hours. It then decided to fail after the splash screen with a message about temperature

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changed properties now can't mount NTFS Partition

2009-12-16 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/12/16 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Tony Pursell wrote: When last in Windows, did you just Hibernate?  You cannot do a normal mount, if you did (although I think you can do a forced mount) Thanks for replying - I solved the problem with a manual mount, and then found a nifty little

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS Fonts in 9.04

2009-12-14 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/12/14 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com: Can anyone help me get Monotype Corsiva installed in Ubuntu 9.04? I've installed the MS core fonts package but can't see Corsiva there. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Finding space on EEEPC

2009-12-14 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/12/14 Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk: Hi all I'm looking for some advice on how I might get some free space on my EEEPC.  Its the original model with a 4GB SSD and I also have a 4GB SD card.  I put UNR (9.04) on it in May/June and haven't added to many extras.  I'm sure back

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox force quit?

2009-12-06 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/12/6 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: Ever since Feisty I've had to use Force Quit to exit Firefox, and on every upgrade I've kept saying Well, it is an oldish computer. Now I've upgraded to 9.10, with a new version of Firefox, on a fairly new machine, and the only thing that's changed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] tartan window when launching Gnome-do or system monitor on Karmic upgrade

2009-11-30 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/30 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com: On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 3:04 AM, James Thomas selin...@googlemail.com wrote: i get the same on a T22. And me, on a Thinkpad X31. I've disabled DRI in xorg.conf for better performance on my ancient ATI Rage Mobility chipset, but this made no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sending junk mail, have I got a virus?

2009-11-28 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/28 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk: Received: from [24.159.36.27] by web26305.mail.ukl.yahoo.com via HTTP; That's probably the key; change your Yahoo! login password. There's likely nothing wrong with your machine. Jonathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (UK) Virginmedia mobile internet- Troubles with yahoo and google sign in using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle

2009-11-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/27 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/11/26 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: (also to ubuntu forum) Is anyone in UK using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle and yahoo or google accounts? I would be most interested to know if you see the following

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (UK) Virginmedia mobile internet- Troubles with yahoo and google sign in using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle

2009-11-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/27 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: Question: If I change the MTU value, do you know if, if /when I change it back to its original value later, the system will properly revert to the original settings? That is, does anything irreversible happen according to MTU settings? Might be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (UK) Virginmedia mobile internet- Troubles with yahoo and google sign in using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle

2009-11-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/26 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: (also to ubuntu forum) Is anyone in UK using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle and yahoo or google accounts? I would be most interested to know if you see the following problems too. tia. Workaround - please see below. Have you tried

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/20 Barry Titterton barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com: The BBC web site says today that the Google Chrome OS is based on Ubuntu. Can our more expert members expand on this? Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chrome OS

2009-11-20 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/20 Alan Pope a...@popey.com: 2009/11/20 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com: There is an Ubuntu-based distro that bundles Chrome. It's link-bait, You're thinking of the one made with the SuSE builder. That's not the same as the real thing. The BBC are _right_. Google Chrome

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using Ubuntu One to sync firefox bookmarks

2009-11-18 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/18 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: So I think I'll wait a bit for syncing via Ubuntu One or Weave to be a bit further on.  But these developments are very promising, aren't they? Weave works very nicely already. I've been running it since 0.2 and the improvements on the road to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using Ubuntu One to sync firefox bookmarks

2009-11-17 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/17 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: I understand the Ubuntu One team is working on using CouchDB to sync Firefox bookmarks via Ubuntu One.  Despite much googling, I can't find any schedule for this, though there are some indications of good progress and imminent success.  Does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing name of computer

2009-11-15 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/15 John Matthews jake...@sky.com: How do you change the name of a computer. I am running Ubuntu on a partition. Do I have to change it in windows, or in Ubuntu. I just discovered I have two computers with the same name. AFAIK the only place you need to change the hostname is in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using a 3G modem as a fallback

2009-11-10 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/10 Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com: 2009/11/10 Andrew Oakley andrew.oak...@hesa.ac.uk: I'm moving out of The Sticks, slightly to the west of nowhere in the Cotswolds - which nevertheless already has 2.5Mbit ADSL - to the urban metropolis that is a satellite village near Tewkesbury.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OOo Mouse

2009-11-08 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/8 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Will this be supported in Lynx? http://openofficemouse.com/pr110609.html I do hope so, as I'm hoping to get one for each hand to double the functionality. mac Don't show this thing to Steve Jobs. It may well finish him off. Seriously,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic dual monitor problems...

2009-11-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/3 Luke-Jennings ubuntujenk...@googlemail.com: Hi, Sorry for the late reply but I have the 185 driver installed on my laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS 256MB graphics card. I use disper as it is a quick means of changing screen outputs. http://willem.engen.nl/projects/disper/ My

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OpenOffice.org problems

2009-11-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/4 David King linux...@avoura.com: I am having some serious problems with OpenOffice.org. It was all okay until an Ubuntu update. So can I go back to an earlier version that worked? Or is a simple solution to just remove/install/fix something with the current installation to get it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No output on laptop screen after upgrading to Karmic

2009-10-30 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/30 ian pettitt ian.pett...@bbsrc.ac.uk: Hi I've upgrade from 9.04 to 9.10 and I can no longer use it - the system boots and gets to login screen, but since there is no display I can't use it! I reinstalled 9.04 and downloaded the 9.10 Live Cd, which has the same problem - the display

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic dual monitor problems...

2009-10-30 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/30 tim.ritt...@doctors.org.uk: Hi all, Good to hear lots of people are having no problems with karmic. Unfortnately I've hit a big problem. I use two monitors as two separate X servers using a geforce GTS8600 graphics card. This was working well under jaunty, but only one screen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot resize windows (U9.04)

2009-10-30 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/30 David King linux...@avoura.com: I had a look at various Compiz settings but could not find one that would give me back window resizing when I disabled each setting and tried resizing a window. Any other suggestions? Try running just Metacity and see if resizing works. If it does

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bad video performance

2009-10-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/27 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com: Hi My laptop (Celeron M 1.4, 750 MB of RAM) ran YouTube videos, etc., fine under Windows XP. Now, under Jaunty - which is otherwise great - videos are just a blurry, slowly stuttering mess. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance Paul

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/27 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: One thing I was wondering though, when I login, Firefox pops up with an Ubuntu One/Launchpad login page.  Is there any way of stopping this popping up every time? Rob You could remove Ubuntu One from the list of Startup Applications, or remove

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/26 John Levin technola...@gmail.com: Hi, I'm trying out karmic, and the networking seems to be broken on both my Lenovo N500 laptop and VMWare Fusion virtual machine atop of OS X Snow Leopard. It claims to be connected, and I can log into my router, but cannot get anything through

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Only asking on Educational basis!

2009-10-23 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/23 simon bennie simonben...@gmail.com: sure you can, but the question is, if you can listen to them any way why download them at all. You can even get spotify for mobile devices now. 2009/10/23 Rik Boland rik_bol...@btinternet.com Spotify is letting people listen to their fav tracks,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] update-manager Not Displaying New Release for Karmic

2009-10-14 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/14 darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk: Hi everyone. I’m running update-manager –c –d on a Jaunty machine and it’s telling me everything is up to date, doesn’t seem to acknowledge there’s a new development release available. Any ideas on how I can force it? Don’t really want to sed the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MP3 players

2009-10-11 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/11 Jon Spriggs j...@spriggs.org.uk: Given that you already  have a device which will play MP3s (your android device), what does a new MP3 player bring you? Better battery life? Different display? Not being interrupted in the middle of that killer guitar solo by a stinkin' phone call?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files

2009-10-06 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FOSS and the Tories...

2009-10-06 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/6 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: It's time for a change... Please. It's time for a change... Al Pirate Party UK? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files

2009-10-06 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files

2009-10-06 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cups Error 'httpConnectionEncrypt failed'

2009-09-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/26 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Tony Pursell wrote: On 26 Sep 2009 at 16:15, Liam Wilson wrote: Hey all;     I've just bought myself a new Kodak ESP 3 all in one printer, and upon opening the printer configuration Dialogue to see if there are drivers available for it, I find

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing itunes on Wine.

2009-09-23 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/23 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk: On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 10:48 +0100, Bruce Beardall wrote: Amazon Mp3 Seconded and has a linux downloader.  It is easy to search and use an is of identical quality to itunes.  Plus great service. Magnatunes has some great music on for unknown bands.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MP3 player with shoutcast and web remote control support

2009-09-19 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/19 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Hi folks, Not sure if anyone can help with this one... Basically my new phone has Wifi and it will play Shoutcast streams.  Now although I can put music on the memory card, I'd rather not have a load of songs duplicated on my server and phone.  What I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] windows 7 features comparison

2009-09-19 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/19 Vinothan Shankar neversaymon...@googlemail.com: Maximum CPU chips: probably 64 (standard in Linux kernel, I believe) I thought it could scale to 4096 now? (Or was that just an xkcd comic? I forget...) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Having problems with making Firefox 3.5 default

2009-09-16 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/16 John Matthews jake...@sky.com: I want to make my Firefox 3.5 my default browser. I have looked in the SystemPreferencesPrefered Applications and it only shows the older version of Firefox. I unticked the make Firefox Default button in the old version, and then opened the new

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Having problems with making Firefox 3.5 default

2009-09-16 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/16 John Matthews jake...@sky.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/9/16 John Matthews jake...@sky.com: I want to make my Firefox 3.5 my default browser. I have looked in the SystemPreferencesPrefered Applications and it only shows the older version of Firefox. I unticked the make

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu- With Voice control

2009-09-15 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/15 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: 2009/9/15 Alan Pope a...@popey.com 2009/9/15 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com: How well has this been implemented in the Ubuntu Environment? A pc controlled by voice (especially its media) is what im thinking of here! Seems a popular idea:-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu- With Voice control

2009-09-15 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/15 Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com: 2009/9/15 Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com: I hesitate to think what effect The Prodigy's Smack My Bitch Up That's electronica :) -- Kris Douglas -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powertop - any advice?

2009-09-08 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/8 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk: Before I start messing with Powertop, has anyone got any advice, warnings, gotcha's? mac Nope. I don't think it's possible to break anything. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Internet via Nokia e63 on Bluetooth

2009-09-05 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
Chris Rowson wrote: Hi folks, About a month ago I got a Nokia e63 phone on a Three contract.  As part of the contract I get 1GB of internet allowance which works great on the phone. However what I'm trying to do is connect to the Internet via the phone using a Bluetooth connection (I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Wireless G3 Dongle

2009-09-02 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/9/2 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: On 02/09/09 12:30, huet bartels wrote: Dear all, Has anyone got experience in using a mobile G3 Dongle with Ubuntu. Vodafone or 3 Network some other provider. If so could you recommend the best one to purchase. Thank you in advance Huet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First generation iTouch in 9.04?

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/8/13 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com: On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 at 10:48:03 Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: Sun include a repository for the VirtualBox version that you can get from their website. This means that you'll get updates to VirtualBox when they're

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing ownership.......

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/8/13 John Matthews jake...@sky.com: Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change the folders ownership, but not everything inside. the script I used was sudo chown www-data:www-data and filename I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing ownership.......

2009-08-13 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/8/13 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com: On 13/08/09 14:26, John Matthews wrote: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/8/13 John Matthewsjake...@sky.com: Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: [Sussex] Judge bans Microsoft Word sales]

2009-08-12 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
Not really. It was litigated in a district of Texas that's known for patent trolling. It'll come to naught, especially as it's a small Canadian company suing a large US corporation in the US. :) 2009/8/12 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia (Symbian S60) support on Ubuntu

2009-08-08 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
Hope you went through Quidco for £45 cashback and Refer a Friend for £30 account credit... ;) 2009/8/8 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Rob Beard wrote: Alan Pope wrote: I have an N82 which is also an S60 phone. I have transferred files to and fro via bluetooth and USB. That part works fine. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia (Symbian S60) support on Ubuntu

2009-08-07 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
Rob, Using the phone as a tethered modem works perfectly over USB (I have this working with my 6120c). Transfer back and forth is easy as the phone does indeed appear as a USB storage device, just make sure you select USB mode when you connect it rather than PC suite mode (which is needed for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tivoli Storage Manager Client installation problem

2009-08-03 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
If you read the rest of the thread you would have seen someone else had the *exact same problem* (http://www.adsm.org/forum/showpost.php?s=9b832674e126cd677929105ec4551102p=64108postcount=5) and fixed it by adding the directory the file is in (/opt/tivoli/tsm/client/api/bin by default or should

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