The Lion Unicorn has a nice little theatre upstairs too - it's a lovely
pub...
Pete Stean
On 15 Sep 2014 09:02, Matthew Ames m...@supermatt.net wrote:
Hi Guys,
I was thinking about the Utopic Release party for the 23rd of October and
I found a couple of pubs in north London which have
That's 10pm in England right? If so, the stream will be available at
http://twitlive.tv
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The Creative HS Fatal1ty just works as it plugs into the mic and
audio out sockets on your soundcard - £30 though which may be more
than you're willing to spend. You might just need to fiddle with the
mic gain a bit in the audio panel but thats about it.
I'd be careful with some of the USB
Those of you who have met me on this list know what I do for a living,
so one must be careful what one says, but just bear in mind that a)
many people who should be well-briefed are not (for example, I didn't
know about this week's visit and given where I sit I should have known
- unless of course
Oh and on the SOCITM thing, you might not know that in addition to
what they're doing in Newham, Bristol City Council's entire desktop
estate is SuSe-driven. And I'm familiar with the chap who 'made it so'
- they know what they're doing down in Zomerzet ;)
Pete
2009/2/26 Pete Stean pete
there's *still* no 'removable drive' device support under linux either - so
if you have a bog-standard non-iPod mp3 player, forget it... I've been
waiting for that since songbird appeared :|
It is a resource hog too I've noticed - I keep trying out lots of other
things and keep going back to
Got one of those - works with Mythbuntu and Kaffeine without a hitch :)
Pete
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2008/11/24 Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED]
2008/11/24 piskie
having exactly the same problem here - requires fast fingers! either using
the physical button on the drive or ejecting on the icon has the same
effect - disk comes out and shoots straight back in again - comedy dvd
drives!
:\
Pete
Well I'll be blogging about it later but that was a great evening - there
were easily a hundred people there at the peak, and Mr Shuttleworth himself
was there for most of the evening, as was Popey from the UbuntuUK podcast
and the master of power management, Matthew Garrett.
Great fun :)
Pete
I'd be happy to help - just discovered it in my Google Calendar and wondered
if it was still going ahead :)
Pete
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Rob, possibly not very helpful (in fact quite probably lol) but with network
manager v.07 I no longer require the proprietary software for my vodafone 3g
dongle. Just plug in, select it from the menu of options in network manager,
supply the password and you're away Hopefully the 3 phone will
I use V-moda vibe in-ear headphones (I got a free review pair - lucky me)
and there's a stupidly long review here. Can be had for about £30 if you
shop around, and I really like mine:- they have a lovely warm sound which
I've not got with in-ears before
I'd certainly be willing to help out - it won't be LugRadio Live but it will
be an opportunity to meet up again and spread the word about how wonderful
Compiz Fusion is :D lol only joking
Cheers
Pete aka the Londoneer @ http://thelondoneer.blogspot.com
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Lucy
Can I suggest the MSI Wind (or rebadged as the Advent 4211). Mine runs Hardy
with no probs - pretty decent specs and I find it speedy, the real plus is
that it is ultra-ultra portable
Certainly worth considering if you're not looking for a desktop replacement
per se, but something that you can
Lots of drinking on Friday, Saturday and Sunday night :)
It's good - lots of talks, exhibitors, birds-of-a-feather sessions,
quite a few freebies, really friendly community atmosphere and the
Gong-A-Thong is not to be missed... :\The facilities are good too
- and the venue is right in the
Popey, thanks for the opportunity to contribute. My question is this:
With Hardy being very solid now, and the kernel being very good in
terms of hardware support, isn't it time that there was a focus on
Ubuntu's look and feel, both in terms of theme and usability issues.
Being mindful of the
Just as a slight aside I've been on Hardy since Alpha and installed
updates as I've gone along. I seem to have accumulated all sorts of
niggly little problems but last night decided to bite the bullet and
re-installed clean from the Hardy release ISO (having my personal
files under /home in a
I've started to observe behaviour over the last couple of weeks that
definitely indicates that BT are throttling torrents at peak times, at
least in my part of London - from early morning right through to early
evening on weekdays, popular torrents will saturate my connection but
will start
Well my bank won't accept FF3 as a valid browser, and support for the
online part of Picasa, picasa web albums is virtually non-existent in
FF3. It's also stupidly crashy :\ I bl**dy hate it tbh I've
stripped it out of my install completely and I'm going back to FF2
Pete
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008
Nice to hear Popey on the FreshUbuntu podcast this last week too -
watch out, you're almost famous!
Shame I can't go to the launch tonight - I shall blog about the release instead
Have a good time all
Pete aka MilesTeg on the LUGRadio forums aka http://thelondoneer.blogspot.com
On 4/24/08,
I have contacts at Manchester DDA given that they're one of the
Digital Challenge runners up - I'll be seeing the director at the
Digital Inclusion Conference next week if that helps?
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I'm not sure that argument about games is going to be relevant for
much longer. Developers seem to be prepared to push out buggy rubbish
(Bioshock, Shadow of Chernobyl, LOTR to name a few) which they never
fix (I'm still waiting on patches for all of the above months and
months after release) and
If you have valid licence keys, personally I don't see a problem.
After all, the *licence* is what MS charge you for, *not the media*.
In fact, I have a slip-streamed XP install disc that I made myself
that incorporates service pack 2, and you'll even find tips on MS's
own site on how to create
Johnathon Tinsley said
I know someone who is serving time for downloading movies via
torrent. 5 years to be exact, without chance of parole.
That would definitely have made the news - care to share?
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When you get up to the big Nokias (like my N95) that have memory
identified as mass storage, you just plug the thing in and it shows
up as a removable drive. Not that that helps you out... sorry
Pete
On Feb 18, 2008 7:23 PM, Dave Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 18:43:09
Don't hold your breath..
Cheers,
Al.
Yeah - you'd definitely go blue, because it's going to be a long time
before the Beeb see sense on this issue...
That said, with Flash9 installed the iPlayer gives a very smooth
experience in Firefox. Of course you only have a 7 day window in which
Is anyone from Ubuntu UK involved in this? Quite an opportunity for
some blatant self-promotion of the Ubuntu brand if anyone is...
http://www.bristolwireless.net/wiki/index.php/SocialSourceSouthWest
Probably worth going along to anyway if you're in the area I would have thought
(btw check out
you could of course just go for instant gratification, and go out and
buy one of the tubes of Cadbury's chocolate 'Snaps'
:)
Pete
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It's the no moving parts and the promised 10 screen for the Eee
that are the draw for me - I don't want another laptop with a spinny
thing in it, what's special about that??
Apparently the build quality is nowhere near as good as the Eee either
- and I've handled an Eee and they're put together
Anyone else think that the logo has a striking resemblance to the one
for a certain flavour of ubuntu??
http://www.govnet.co.uk/mobilegov/background.php
Wonder if it was subliminal or deliberate...
Pete
Check out
If you could send me an invite please Popey - I've been interested in
trying this out for a while now :)
Many thanks
Pete
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Grip is a good alternative to Soundjuicer, however it offers almost
too many options as opposed to Soundjuicer's too few! Very good
results though, and I find it to be considerably faster when ripping.
Will probably take a bit of trial and error to set up correctly
however... have a google for
It also depends on the quality of the original MP3s - personally I can
hear 'artifacts' in music ripped up to about 220kbps. If you ripped
them at 160kbps then I wouldn't suggest getting decent speakers or
headphones in teh future, because those converted files are going to
start to sound really,
I got a nice sheet of stickers which came with the official Gutsy
discs that I ordered by post recently through Shipit... I wonder if
you can actually request them separately??
Pete
On 12/13/07, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 12/12/07, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Maybe I
Blubuntu theme can
be a boon as
it helps ex-Windows users
to feel more comfortable
as they don't suddenly
have to deal with
an unfamiliar
colour scheme
as well as new applications
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Is this some sophisticated sort of haiku? :)
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You're right about the connecting sequence - all things being equal
SATA1 (very probably printed next to the connector on the
motherboard, but you might need a magnifying glass and a torch) will
be master, however in the BIOS of my motherboard in addition to being
able to change the sequence of
Also, it might actually have installed - try to play some streaming
video from BBC news, which uses RealPlayer, to test it. In fact, you
don't need to install RealPlayer at all to get that functionality -
the open source alternative, helix player, available in the official
repository works
I'd also add that laptop support is reported to be much better in
Gutsy... maybe time for an upgrade?
Pete
On 11/28/07, Daniel Lamb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just had problems after an update, so ran dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg,
after running throught the setup again it resolved it.
Soz, reading the news reports I thought that these things were
retailing for $199, not $399... On the design, you'd have thought that
they'd have 'widened' the screen a bit - theres lots of empty space in
the clam shell if you look at the design. I think I'll probably wait
for the next version
The price is a bit silly though... $1 does not equal £1, especially
not at the moment :|
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I'm pretty sure that, at the present time, the iPod Touch and the
iPhone *aren't* supported under linux but I guess given a few months
that will appear.
I was at the iPod launch last week and was *that* close to buying an
iPod - god knows how I resisted but I did - they are *gorgeous* :)
Pete
I have the firefox plugin for xine, and helix player, and the .ram
stream is working fine for me - you really don't want to clutter up
your system with realplayer if you can possibly avoid it. Maybe its a
problem with the codecs that you have (or probably don't have)
installed on the system?
Pete
And they're good people - I deal with Dave Carter, the guy who runs
Manchester DDA, all the time
Pete
On Nov 12, 2007 5:25 PM, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For those in Manchester surounds, an event of interest.
Original Message
Interested in free software? Keen
IMAP support for Gmail is imminent, although it seems entirely
arbitrary when people's accounts are enabled - keep checking ;)
Pete
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Flippin heck Jai u been living under a stone? No, no card is required
for freeview, it's 'free'
Btw if you can get it I almost guarantee you will spend most of your
time watching channels 'Dave' and 'Virgin1' - both recent additions
and have decent programming :) 'Dave' has things like QI and
And to add to that, quite possibly have certain important features
made inaccessible - because people can't be trusted to configure their
own routers now can they... I wouldn't touch a BT router with someone
else's 10 foot pole
Pete
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I have *major* connections in Manchester, and may be able to sort out
something with the City Council IT people if this gets a bit firmer
(I'm not the Government liason with the Digital Challenge 10 group of
local authorities for nothing...)
I could also move some levers with Brum, but the
When I asked a colleague(who has been working in it for 20+ years) what it
was used for he explained, basically with nat it is pointless as was said
before we cant or are unlikely to run out of ip addresses using IPv4.
Actually, that's not true... various world-renowned experts in the
field
yes I can report that Virtualbox is much improved, and faster than
VMware (at least on my machine) - this product is maturing nicely, so
it might be time for a switch. Why not check it out and see what you
think...
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Well I wouldn't suggest OpenDNS - for one thing how can something that
has to go more hops than using your ISP's DNS be faster? I've also
found that with OpenDNS selected, I can no longer reach the Ubuntu
package repos for one thing nice :\
Pete
On 24/10/2007, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Well I've been using Gutsy for a while now so I will have to reinstall
to take advantage of this - what's the performance hit (there must be
one I would have thought) and do you know what kind of encryption it
uses??
Pete
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and shut
down sounds have returned - hooray!
Pete
On 11/10/2007, Pete Stean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm sure I can make this - the pub is only 4 stops from me on the Norf
London line, so I'll be there - will go home and install Gutsy to
celebrate lol
Pete aka Milesteg on the LUGRadio fora
It's not in the middle of nowhere lol
It's only 2 or 3 mins walk from Hackney Central railway station which
is on the North London line, which the tube connects to at Richmond,
Highbury and Islington, Stratford, (a few mins walk from) Camden Town,
and other places...
See you folks there :)
Pete
Can I suggest that you put your /home (where you have all your work
and play files) on a separate physical partition or indeed on a
separate disk from the main os
I have my system set up like that and it doesn't matter what I do to
bork the installation because all my personal files are safely
I'm sure I can make this - the pub is only 4 stops from me on the Norf
London line, so I'll be there - will go home and install Gutsy to
celebrate lol
Pete aka Milesteg on the LUGRadio fora/IRC
On 11/10/2007, Josh Blacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
There's only four of us listed...could be cheap
Gutsy is still breaking things from time to time for me - not
something you want to put a new user through, and would hardly give a
good impression. Get hold of some of the nice shiny pre-pressed Feisty
live disks if you can...
Pete
On 10/10/2007, Philip Newborough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
Also, if you're considering a laptop as an addition or replacement to
your desktop machine, it's good to know that there's a product out
there that will just work. Given the nightmares people have had
trying to get linux distros to install reliably on various laptops, if
I was considering a laptop
Hmm, don't know where you're looking but the Pixma IP3000 is supported
m8 - it was a real frig to get it to work this time last year but I
have no probs with mine now (running Gutsy Beta here).
***Note to self, get a HP next time (I installed Ubuntu Feisty on my
flatmate's PC recently and his HP
Mat, your lolcat phrase was slightly off there...
You said: Ubuntu - can I has cheesburger
It should be: Ubuntu - haz cheesburger! *nom nom nom*
:)
Pete
On 02/10/2007, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Heheheh - I'm liking the idea of parodying other adverts :-D
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I... am the MASTER! like some sort of weird snake or
something *shivers*
Pete
On 01/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Jim.
On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 10:58 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi,
Well done Popey :)I'm sure you're up to the task - you deserve it
btw can I have the 100 quid backhander you promised to each and every
person who voted for you now pls... ?
Pete
On 30/09/2007, Mark Jose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sunday 30 September 2007 16:14, Alan Pope wrote:
You can send googlemail in plaintext if you want (it's under the
options, and it's how I'm sending this message).
However, you have to remember every time you reply to a thread to
strip out the little *quoted text* line that often appears under your
replies. The entire thread is actually sitting
it's more to do with the resolution than the screen size. If the
screen is proper HD - 1080p - then that's over 1900 pixels wide.
Onboard graphics are going to have a very hard time pushing that many
pixels I would imagine. Given that you have a PCI-E graphics card slot
why not go for a 7900
Sorry, a follow-up. You know the screen you've selected ***isn't*** HD
don't you? Ignore the marketing blurb they say about it, it's bull***
1080i is 1920 x 1080 pixels, and that screen is only 1366 x 768. It
will be able to display 720p correctly, but it will downsize any 1080i
signals it
Lol Ian, for A you mean 7% less I'd feel really cheated if I
bought a 250GB disc and it had 17.5GB of space on it :D
Anyone else going to the GLLUG thing near the post office tower on
Saturday afternoon? Some interesting speakers...
Pete
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Concerning file systems, one of the podcasts I was listening to
recently talked about ext4. Does anyone know when that's going to
appear?
Pete
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The cube is nice, bling-wise but isn't particularly useful, and I can
see why you might want to disable wobbly windows - the expo and shift
plugins for compiz fusion are very good however, and very useful - the
first as a great way to see what you have open and move things around
from one desktop
Can I also add that a few of the NAS devices will also run linux - if
memory serves there's a NAS-specific Debian build you can use on a
couple of devices... have a google - that thing could be routing your
email, acting as a music server, a firewall and store your files
amongst other things - I
It all comes down to personal preference I guess, but the nice thing
about Gnome is that it hides the complexity of the system from the
user unless they actively go searching for it - and to someone for
whom a computer is effectively just a web-browser and a platform for
email and IM clients
I've noticed that - finding the Inspirons with Ubuntu installed is a
tortuous journey if you start off at www.dell.co.uk... mind you, at least
it's there if you look hard enough :)
Pete
On 10/09/2007, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For anyone who didn't see the Lifehacker article, here's Mark
Now at over 10K :)
Pete
On 10/09/2007, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Matthew Wild wrote:
On 9/8/07, *Josh Blacker* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Winning by quite a long way at the moment, leading over Debian by
about 600 votes :)
lol, now
Alan, I know this is 'fluff' but perhaps something on compiz-fusion and
demos on how to initiate the new plugins such as Expo and Shift (? if that's
the name - the new iTunes album art type thing) . The problem with most
screencasts is that they're of such low resolution and so badly encoded that
hmm, I'm guessing here, but I would imagine one of those is *supposed* to be
CPU temp, the other is case temp - very unsual for them to be the same, case
temp is usually a couple degrees more. It looks like it's reading the same
sensor twice?? For instance if I run 'sensors' I get 44c and 47c
I would add that if the 60C is accurate then that is also rather high - what
kind of cooling do you have in the case - fan sizes, positions etc? Are they
in a push-pull configuration??
Pete
On 05/09/07, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at 10:16 +, STONE COLD wrote:
nothing like hands-on testing is there :)
I would agree that I would trust to the BIOS rather than anything else - it
may be that in windows the cpu is being throttled correctly, whereas under
Ubuntu it's ignoring the BIOS settings and running at full-tilt all the
time, which is going to make a
Well I'll give it a go too - let's hope it's actually playable :|
Pete
On 05/09/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Tut tut, get back to work!
;-)
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you'll want to look for the 'lmsensors' package if memory serves - can be a
b*tch to setup though, I gave up on my rig - unfortunately it doesn't
recognise all the possible combinations of temp sensors out there...
Pete
On 05/09/07, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-05 at
*if* it's going ahead (the expo that is) it would be good to have it at the
2 day linux-fest at Olympia in October...
Pete
On 04/09/07, Mark Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 07:54:52 Sean Miller wrote:
Ian Pascoe wrote:
Yeah, after all Brum is the second city
Hi folks, not entirely relevant, but we had a meeting with these folks from
Oxford Uni this afternoon, including Prof Dutton, and their work is very
impressive. Their recent report is a very interesting read and highlights
the different levels of take-up (or otherwise) of internet access etc by
Oops, that's the one John :) An interesting, educational report for anyone
into this aspect of the information age
Pete
On 04/09/07, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Pete Stean wrote:
Hi folks, not entirely relevant, but we had a meeting with these folks
from
Oxford Uni
yep Amarok has very nice (and highly configurable) cross-fading support etc
- nicer UI etc than rhythmbox in my opinion (if you don't mind using KDE
apps under Gnome that is - you do get a few KDE libs with it too...)
Pete
On 02/09/07, Josh Blacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You might also want
As long as the launch isn't in the Hogshead in Wolves Jono :P (joke)
Pete aka Milesteg
On 02/09/07, Jono Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
Has anything been discussed about a release party for Gutsy in the UK? I
have been doing some work to grow the number of release parties for
average distance for participants. It seems to be a fair
way of doing things.
Andy Loughran
blog.zrmt.com
m: 07921076319
- Original Message -
From: Pete Stean [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Sent: 03 September 2007
I've never had any luck with this command. What I did this last time was
manually change the distribution in /etc/apt/sources.list and then run 'sudo
apt-get update' and then 'sudo apt-get dist-upgrade' (I replaced all the
references to 'feisty' to read 'gutsy' in my sources list. Note, however
You'll probably get some assistance over at the Overclockers forums - lots
of mad buggers over there prepared to put water next to delicate
electronics :\
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/
Pete
On 31/08/2007, STONE COLD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
second time ive built a pc so not very
Just wondered whether anyone else was attending this? Keynote speaker is
Alan Cox. I get a free pass, but others might have to pay to get a seat...
should be interesting though
http://www.westminsterforumprojects.co.uk/eforum/diary.aspx
Pete
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having an idea of what graphics chipset you have might be useful also...
Pete
On 30/08/2007, Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
STONE COLD wrote:
unfortunately i cant provide the error message as it restarts straight
away and i cant take a screen dump!
The machine reboots
From personal experience, X does seem to be giving me far fewer problems in
Gutsy - it also gives you the option to install a proprietary nvidia driver
'automagically' on first boot. It also detects my widescreen display
properly with no hacking of xorg.conf which is new.
You might find a Gutsy
you certainly can:
sudo nano /etc/X11/xorg.conf (you might want to read up on nano first, I
find the commands a bit counter-intuitive)
you might also try changing the driver type from vesa to nv
I really would recommend burning a Gutsy Tribe 5 ISO though - you might find
you boot up into a
:
Hi
Pete Stean wrote:
graphical environment, I would go down the 'compiz-fusion' route rather
than
using the preinstalled desktop effects - you will *require* the
Surely that's just asking for the upgrade to gutsy to break horrifically?
Cheers,
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It's fine - that's the model I have - works with Kopete and with aMSN no
probs - the mic is a bit crap on mine though but it depends from unit to
unit I understand, I use a desktop mic instead
Pete
On 24/08/07, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
One of the guys on our local LUG
Do you know what, Matthew - I don't think I could disagree more. Some
well-placed videos on youtube have the potential to introduce lots of people
to a non-Windows alternative. We should be exploiting *any and all* channels
to get the message across that Ubuntu and open source offer a credible
MS are also introducing a PAYG system in Brazil I understand, in order to
tackle piracy. Something like $30 a quarter, although I'm not sure we're
talking US $ - bound to be something on the Register about it...
Pete
On 23/08/07, Phil Bull [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Matt,
Hope work's going
Personally I use Amarok, where there are hundreds of streaming radio sources
available from Shoutcast and similar. It will also play any .pls stream you
throw at it. It's good for ambient/chilled out stuff if that's your bag.
Pete
On 16/08/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can
Actually Deluge isn't very well supported at all - there's only one guy
working on it, and releases/fixes are rather infrequent. There's a native
linux client for Azureus or, if you're using gnome and don't mind a few KDE
libraries, there's KTorrent which I find very good also..
Pete
On
Thanks Ian - after the talk about running ubuntu on a laptop at LUGRadio
Live by Matthew Garrett I did wonder whether this was still an issue...
Pete
On 09/08/07, Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In the previous postings about the Dell launch of Ubuntu boxes a question
was posed about
You already have a firewall (but if you're behind a router with
stealthed ports it's not really necessary to have a software firewall
- not even in windows) installed by default
It's called iptables - normally hidden from view but the
firestarter application, amongst others, exposes it so that
Aug 2007 19:14:33 +0100*
On 8/8/07, Pete Stean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ah, the Dell Inspiron 6400 which they are selling retails for £359+
depending on features such as memory etc.
The irony of course is that this machine is *no cheaper* than the
Vista-loaded equivalent... why
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