[ubuntu-uk] 10.04 software center - cannot install untrusted packages

have enabled all the main, universe etc, do i need to add another repository? thanks Markie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 64-bit not recommended for daily use?

Does any one know why on the ubuntu site here http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download They say 64-bit is not recommended for daily useage? A bug has been entered in launchpad https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-website/+bug/585940 Any comments on why this was on the ubuntu page? Im

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 64-bit not recommended for daily use?

Hi Alan On 1 June 2010 09:39, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: For many it will work fine, but for most people there's little or no advantage to using 64-bit Linux over 32-bit. True, Ive not seen any difference in how it feels , all seems the same Why worry if it's working fine for you? I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound problem in Sony Vaio VPCEC1S1E

Hi Dave On 1 June 2010 12:18, DaveGK dav...@gmail.com wrote: Any help will be greatly appreciated - only have a couple of days before I have to either keep or return this laptop. Please post up the output of lshw -C sound here, this will specify your hardware -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound problem in Sony Vaio VPCEC1S1E

Hi Dave - *-multimedia description: Audio device product: Redwood HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 5600 Series] vendor: ATI Technologies Inc physical id: 0.1 bus info: p...@:01:00.1 version: 00 width: 64 bits clock: 33MHz

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound problem in Sony Vaio VPCEC1S1E

Hi Dave to change that in Skype audio devices properties, i.e. only PulseAudio is listed. And all my business contacts are on skype :( Im not too sure on this, but i found a couple of links I googled around for and this is what I come up with

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

Hi Folks, Update on this... I found this how to and this worked for me. Can anyone tell me what the purpose of this file is? http://heratech.net/blog/sham/cant-click-playpause-flash-youtube-etc-ubuntu Thanks Mark On 18 May 2010 09:46, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote: File

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

Hi Matt So really, what drives you to support people? When I receive support Im extremely grateful, so the best way to show gratitude is by reciprocating that support. What, in your own opinion, could be done to help motivate yourself to do better? Learn more, and then be able to share

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gnome Shell

This might only work however if you set it as your default gnome-panel provider? I get the notifications in the top right corner when I get a new email. Thanks, and how do you go about setting that? Mark -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gnome Shell

Its a nice looking desktop and feature but I gave it a quick shot this morning and one thing that seems not to be working is the notification icon when you have a new IM or email, perhaps I need to configure something else? Markie On 23 May 2010 12:00, chris cbain...@gmail.com wrote: I have

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu one music store - basket content disappears?

amount of time? Thanks, Markie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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

, it's the method that Adobe support, so I figure why not? This plugin also works for Chrome. On 14 May 2010 09:35, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi Folks, I can see theres a lot of info on the forums and generally on the web about getting 64-bit flash working. It seems some

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

On 18 May 2010 08:29, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: Try making the plugin executable: chmod 755 libflashplayer.so and restart the browser. Check to see if it's registering with firefox by typing about:plugins into the location bar and looking down the list. Thanks, the

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

You could try the Linux Mint 64-bit Flash package: http://packages.linuxmint.com/pool/import/m/mint-flashplugin-x64/mint-flashplugin-x64_10.0.45.2-mint1_amd64.deb Would we happen to have this in our ubuntu repos? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

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

File: npwrapper.libflashplayer.so Version: Shockwave Flash 10.0 r45 This would indicate that the 32-bit plugin wrapper is still installed, which will cause all sorts of problems when trying to use the 64-bit plugin (it's probably trying to wrap the 64-bit plugin you

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

something? Thanks Markie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

Hi Alan, Im happy to help out too. Cheers Markie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Wiki for shortcut keys?

navigation and window management better. Thanks Markie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] When buying a new pc...

Well, how did the visit to PC world go? :-) On 11 May 2010 17:31, Dave Smith d...@p3computers.com wrote: I work in an independent store. We would definitely – but I am going to PC world tonight just to find out, heheh!! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] When buying a new pc...

you go to the store with your live CD and try it out to make sure your not going to have any hardware compatibility issues? Has anyone done this? What was the reaction from the store when you asked? Thanks Markie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] When buying a new pc...

Live CDs: For people who are still upset that you can't go into a computer shop and type 10 PRINT ARSE 20 GOTO 10 any more... ROFL! ...brings back some memories of being a kid there... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] Running off a USB connected HDD?

Hi Folks, I have a 9.10 32-bit system on my internal SATA drive and ive been trying out 10.04 64-bit on an external connected IDE drive on USB (usb2 I believe). I find that the 10.04 system seems sluggish in comparison. Would it be because im using USB connection? I done a similar test on a

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Symphonic-testers] JSymphonic v0.3.0 Ode To Freedom and v0.4.0 pre-alpha1

Hi Folks, I may have mentioned this app before, I cant remember, but anyway the mail below is news of a new release. If anyone is interested in trying it out and providing some feedback... JSymphonic allows you to manage music on your Sony Walkman device without the need for the usual sonic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution crashes when accessing Exchange 2003 server

Have you tried the Evo mailing lists? evolution-l...@gnome.org http://projects.gnome.org/evolution/ Thanks Markie On 30 April 2010 19:30, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Hi folks, I've just started a new job and at the moment I've been using my own personal laptop which is running

[ubuntu-uk] Including thundebird into the gnome desktop notification

Hi Folks, I installed Lucid onto a spare old external HDD last night and its doing great so far. I wondered if Thunderbird might have been included into the desktop notification but alas it hasnt. Its no big deal but the way pidgin has been integrated it would be nice to see TB. Especially seeing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Including thundebird into the gnome desktop notification

Perfect! Thanks Alan! Markie On 30 April 2010 16:52, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/04/10 16:46, Markie wrote: Hi Folks, I installed Lucid onto a spare old external HDD last night and its doing great so far. I wondered if Thunderbird might have been included

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Acer Ferrari One - First Hurdle Failure

Hi, Then the machine froze on that loading screen with the mouse on display, immobile. I couldn't even turn caps lock on, which is usually a dead certainty something has gone wrong. Can you hit the ALT+CTRL+F1 key to get a terminal? You can then access /var/log to take a look in the logs.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with facebook/photouploads/plugin in Google Chrome

Hi thank you for your message. I wonder, do you know if there is only one version on fspot. Do you mean the actual application? If so then yes it comes standard with the desktop install, you do see upgrades for it every so often I have tried to use it, but it doesnt seem to do much. At

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64 bit lucid install

Hi Tony Well, it's because the BIOS tells GRUB what it thinks the disks are while the USB disk is still connected... Thanks! At least I know what to do now :-) I'm still not able to get Thunderbird running 'Lightning' in 64-bit, though - Anyone else succeeded? I've installed the ia32

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.

Just to add some more thought to this post. A lot of routers come with uPnPhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Plug_and_Playcapability enabled. There have been some cases of the router itself having a uPnP vulnerability. I just picked

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.

Hi John, Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me. Some routers by default block WAN pings some do not. My Sky router has a field called respond to ping on WAN port its checked off. I passed the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] application indicator

Hi Norman, you may have added a divider into the panel or an object into the panel that takes up room but is invisible. Try right clicking the space and see if you get a remove from panel option Mark On 21 April 2010 09:22, Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote: I am using Ubuntu 9.10

[ubuntu-uk] For folks on Ubuntu with sony walkmans

Hi, Some of you may already know about this, but when I switched over to using Ubuntu a couple of years back I couldnt find an app that managed my Sony Walkman, Sony only supplies their Sonic Stage application on Windows. If I remember right, someone on the ubuntu forums recommended this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update

Sounds very similar to noscript which I think will do the same thing except that it stops lot of other site scripting. Also are you going via any proxy servers? I had a similar problem a while ago and someone on the #ubuntu-uk IRC channel told me its likely a proxy, following their advice i took

Re: [ubuntu-uk] For folks on Ubuntu with sony walkmans

) - Thanks Mark On 15 April 2010 10:09, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 15/04/10 09:31, Markie wrote: Hi, Some of you may already know about this, but when I switched over to using Ubuntu a couple of years back I couldnt find an app that managed my Sony Walkman, Sony only supplies

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update

for some reason. I am pretty certain its flash problem. I was able to watch it, even it did jump around the page. Now nothing. Cant use FF at for any pages with flash on them now. John. John On 15/04/10 09:34, Markie wrote: Sounds very similar to noscript which I think will do the same thing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update

OK, the pics can be viewed, did you check for proxy settings and also did you try re-installing the restricted packages? Mark On 15 April 2010 12:40, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I hope this will work, I know you cant upload pictures so I have uploaded them to a picture host and will

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox wont open up since yesterdays nightly update

kind of worry me a bit. Tried to install one, but it got too complicated. John. On 15/04/10 13:01, Markie wrote: OK, the pics can be viewed, did you check for proxy settings and also did you try re-installing the restricted packages? Mark On 15 April 2010 12:40, John Matthews jake

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Audio Conversion: WAV to WMA

Hi Nigel, I used 320K mp3s and found little difference myself to WAV quality wise. Althought I dont doubt if you feed this into a decent Amplifier setup you will hear the difference, the output can also be affected by the quality of the soundcard. I used 320k MP3 on CD players them alongside

[ubuntu-uk] Question on fsck

Hi All, This is also posted on ubuntuforums, I wonder if someone on this mailing list might also be able to give me some information as this has worried me slightly http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1442534 *I booted my regular machine today and it failed to boot complaining it was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update causing problems with video playing...

Hi John, have you got the restricted-extras package installed? Search for restricted in the ubuntu software center Mark On 18 March 2010 12:31, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I was just getting used to Ubuntu working just about ok on my pc, when we had an update for something yesterday,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rdesktop working when Tsclient does not

Hi Liam, Try installing gnome-rdp in Ubuntu from the software center menu, it give you options to add profiles and resize the screen, its a front end on the rdesktop command I believe. Im not sure why tsclient doesnt work, I would have thought they both use the sam port numbers if they support

[ubuntu-uk] keycombo to restart gdm?

Hi All, Before 9.10 you use to be able to restart gnome by pressing CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. This seems to have been disabled now, I remember reading in somewhere. However on a couple of occasions on two seperate machines running 9.10 I have seen the desktop session restart in front of my very eyes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB NAS adapter samba connection

Hi, Is the USB drive connected to a USB1 or USB2 port on your PC? I wonder if the bottleneck is there instead of across your network? On 5 March 2010 15:53, Tommy Pyatt tommy.py...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello everyone, I've been trying to use my old Eee PC 701 as a server on my home network

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Audio in, Record and transmit over Network

Im guessing Cornelius needs to stream to a server like a shoutcast server for example rather than running one and having multiple clients, but correct me if im wrong. Wont VLC also stream to a shoutcast server? I know theres a package called Internet DJ console but it doesnt support mp3 streaming

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

I would also free up some space. Check your logs under /var/logs too, there may be some relevant warnings on there too. Mark On 25 February 2010 21:45, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.comwrote: OK, different tack. On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webconferencing - what do you use?

Thanks folks. Do any of these support remote control? I know webex does but any of the others? Mark On 20 February 2010 15:13, Colin McCarthy binarysig...@gmail.com wrote: On 20 February 2010 11:24, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: You might want to look at Yuuguu[1], who provide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS using curlftpfs

I have a crunchbang machine here and i use this script to mount my Freecom NAS drive; #!/bin/bash # Script to mount network drive echo 0 /proc/fs/cifs/LinuxExtensionsEnabled mount -t cifs //192.168.0.2/Shared ~/HomeShare -o username=curtis So I would say that this is something to do with lack

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple network

This is for 8.10 but it should give you a good start https://help.ubuntu.com/8.10/internet/C/networking-shares.html On 20 February 2010 10:42, Rik Boland rik_bol...@btinternet.com wrote: Hi I am wanting to create a real simple network between 2 unbuntu machine where sould, I start? Shalom

[ubuntu-uk] Webconferencing - what do you use?

Hi All, I often use webconferencing tools as part of my job, to view customers desktops and sometimes take control etc. All the tools ive used so far like webex and teamviewer run only on Windows, even our own webconferencing tools within the company I work only runs on IE as it uses active X

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alex (laptop, not person)

Its a good idea, but I dont think someone would be able to meet this cost on the average pension. I dont think its a good way to advertise Linux to the masses myself it might give the illusion that its more expensive to have a linux PC. Good point about the data side of this, id rather keep my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS using curlftpfs

As Dan says its possible with cifs. have a look at my post here when I was using Xubuntu, it might help http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=915939 Mark On 19 February 2010 14:04, Dan Fish d...@fishms.org wrote: Jon, The drive is probably using Windows Networking ie samba/cifs compliant.