Re: [ubuntu-uk] 18.04 on line updates not available yet

2018-04-29 Thread Tony Arnold
Colin, On Sun, 2018-04-29 at 22:06 +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2018 at 08:22:47PM +0000, Tony Arnold wrote: > > Just curious, but I note from the Bionic release notes, that > > upgrades > > from 17.10 to 18.04 will not be enabled until a few days after >

[ubuntu-uk] 18.04 on line updates not available yet

2018-04-29 Thread Tony Arnold
online updates have always been available on the day of release? As I said, I'm curious. I'm quite happy to wait until it's available, and, yes, I know about the -d option on do-release-upgrade. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold MBCS, CITP | Senior IT Security Analyst | Directorate of IT Services

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

2016-06-21 Thread Tony Arnold
miles away whom I have only ever met once as a possible friend? I am baffled as to when they managed to spy on me. Maybe he looked you up on Facebook? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold | IT Security Analyst | University of Manchester | IT Services | T: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 | M: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 | E

Re: [ubuntu-uk] gfortran help

2014-10-17 Thread Tony Arnold
: Hi All, I'm trying to say 'hello world' in gfortran speak but all I get is an a.out file that does not help. Various diagnostic commands display jargon that does not help either. Bash and Python etc are ok but gfortran will not run/execute!! Please help if you can! -- Tony Arnold

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - PIM question.

2013-12-29 Thread Tony Arnold
in Thunderbird is done with IMAP to Exchange, the Calendar and Tasks provider uses EWS. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

2013-09-03 Thread Tony Arnold
send something to an insecure system you've exposed everything! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL

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

2013-08-22 Thread Tony Arnold
/Trusted_Computer_System_Evaluation_Criteria for more details on this. Regards, Tony. Thanks again Pete S -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux GUI Development

2013-07-21 Thread Tony Arnold
Nigel, I've used Anjuta which integrates well with glade and gtkbuilder. I only developed a relatively small application so not sure how well it scales. Regards, Tony. Sent from Moxier Mail (http://www.moxier.com) - Original Message - From: Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com To:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Imagine if Linux become massively popular?

2013-06-13 Thread Tony Arnold
, credentials bank details etc are all at risk. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Imagine if Linux become massively popular?

2013-06-13 Thread Tony Arnold
Liam, On 13/06/13 16:37, Liam Proven wrote: On 13 June 2013 15:02, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: OS X can be compromised. *All* operating systems can be compromised. Doesn't really matter whether it's technically a virus or a trojan Yes it does. It matters very very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Imagine if Linux become massively popular?

2013-06-13 Thread Tony Arnold
Liam, On 13/06/13 17:20, Liam Proven wrote: On 13 June 2013 17:04, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Liam, On 13/06/13 16:37, Liam Proven wrote: On 13 June 2013 15:02, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: OS X can be compromised. *All* operating systems can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Imagine if Linux become massively popular?

2013-06-13 Thread Tony Arnold
Alan, On 13/06/13 17:32, alan c wrote: As long as I know what CTRL-ALT-T does, I dont care! I didn't, but I do now! A useful tip! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University

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

2013-05-30 Thread Tony Arnold
with Nautilus for recovery of individual files. Did I say two complaints? I meant four! I use sbackup to a permanently connected 3TB USB 3 disk scheduled to run daily using anacron. Works a treat. The proof will be if I ever need to do a full restore! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone want to bring their expert knowledge of Ubuntu/Debian packaging to Manchester, UK on 21st April?

2013-03-25 Thread Tony Arnold
in this. Chris -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing post

2012-10-26 Thread Tony Arnold
, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BT speedtester and java

2012-10-21 Thread Tony Arnold
. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BT speedtester and java

2012-10-21 Thread Tony Arnold
Colin, On 21/10/12 16:44, Colin Law wrote: On 21 October 2012 16:42, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Colin, You probably need the plugin. Install icedtea-plugin, which is the one that is part of openjdk. icedtea-6-plugin in fact. Both will work. icedtea-plugin depends

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BT speedtester and java

2012-10-21 Thread Tony Arnold
On 21/10/12 20:25, Colin Law wrote: On 21 October 2012 18:20, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Colin, On 21/10/12 16:44, Colin Law wrote: On 21 October 2012 16:42, Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk wrote: Colin, You probably need the plugin. Install icedtea-plugin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] classic interface and ubntu

2011-09-06 Thread Tony Arnold
. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] classic interface and ubntu

2011-09-06 Thread Tony Arnold
On 06/09/11 16:01, Iain Lane wrote: Hello, On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:44:27PM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: Tony Arnold wrote: Ubuntu 11.10 will ship with GNOME 3.x and Unity 3D as the default desktop with Unity 2D as the alternative option, not Classic. Does that mean the Classic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

2011-06-28 Thread Tony Arnold
for tags. The field is just a comma separated list of tags, keywords etc. Not sure what photo management tools use this field or can search on this field. You could always play with a package called exiftool which is cross platform but command line driven. Very powerful, though. Regards, Tony. -- Tony

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Tony Arnold
directories is missing: $BACKUPDIR $WHATTOBACKUP $MESSAGE echo Date: `date` $MESSAGE /usr/bin/mail -s $SUBJECT $TO $MESSAGE rm $MESSAGE fi -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Simple backup script

2011-06-03 Thread Tony Arnold
the mark but there may be some mileage here. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email

[ubuntu-uk] Unity and Gnome 3

2011-05-06 Thread Tony Arnold
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 choice about the user interface I use. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold

[ubuntu-uk] Edimax wireless router

2011-01-05 Thread Tony Arnold
world web site so I was wondering if anyone on this list has used one with their Ubuntu Linux system and got any comments, good or bad, about this box? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Edimax wireless router

2011-01-05 Thread Tony Arnold
Tim, On Wed, 2011-01-05 at 20:53 +, Tim Dobson wrote: On 05/01/11 20:08, Tony Arnold wrote: I'm thinking of replacing my current wireless ADSL modem/router as it keeps hanging up and does not support ADSL-2 My inclination is to go for the Edimax AR-7266WnA Wireless N ADSL Router

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Edimax wireless router

2011-01-05 Thread Tony Arnold
and said don't touch this device with a barge pole, so I'll go ahead. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread Tony Arnold
, Ashley (Gadget3000) -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Hour

2010-10-11 Thread Tony Arnold
) That's not a problem. Lastly the cafe is actually called BB's not fresco as Google thought. Ah, is that the one under the covered part of Merseyway in the middle of the walk way? See you there. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

2010-08-11 Thread Tony Arnold
/195/the-great-zero-challenge-remains-unaccepted -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg problem using too much CPU

2010-07-20 Thread Tony Arnold
it without having to resort to reboot. In 10.04 you can do: sudo restart gdm Previosu version you can do: sudo /etc/init.d/gdm restart Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University

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

2010-07-05 Thread Tony Arnold
. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Tony Arnold
-- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 705 344 3082 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

2010-06-29 Thread Tony Arnold
Matt, On 29/06/10 12:53, Matthew Daubney wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 11:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: On 29/06/10 11:35, Jon Spriggs wrote: On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Well, it's not nearly as good

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

2010-06-07 Thread Tony Arnold
aptitude to do the list of packages I install by default. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

2010-06-07 Thread Tony Arnold
is 2.1MB on my system compared to 115KB for apt-get. I never use it but aptitude will run as a curses application allowing you to select and deselect packages. Which may explain it's size. I tend to use it as a direct alternative to apt-get. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

2010-06-07 Thread Tony Arnold
line I always use aptitude. I started doing so because I thought I had seen somewhere that debian was adopting aptitude as their standard command line package management tool. I guess I'll just add aptitude to do the list of packages I install by default. ** end quote [Tony Arnold] Yes, I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypt whole disk or just home dir?

2010-05-13 Thread Tony Arnold
. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypt whole disk or just home dir?

2010-05-13 Thread Tony Arnold
swap and tmp: http://www.tolaris.com/2009/11/14/securing-laptops-with-ecryptfs-cryptsetup- and-tmpfs/ Thanks. I had thought about swap but not considered /tmp! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypt whole disk or just home dir?

2010-05-13 Thread Tony Arnold
, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Encrypt whole disk or just home dir?

2010-05-12 Thread Tony Arnold
effectively uses my password to protect it, or would I have to enter my password and an encryption pass phrase every time I log on? Any thoughts? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One

2010-03-17 Thread Tony Arnold
. What exactly is not working? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just noticed something..not sure if its an error.....

2010-02-18 Thread Tony Arnold
. It includes backslashed characters and variable names that get substituted by bash. You can change the definition of PS1 in the .bashrc or .bash_profile file, or their equivalents in whichever shell is being used. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Just noticed something..not sure if its an error.....

2010-02-18 Thread Tony Arnold
privileges. The user can define their own prompt and put whatever he/she likes in there! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for Webcam with mic?

2009-12-18 Thread Tony Arnold
Gordon, Gordon wrote: Preferably inexpensive! (Running 9.10) Try the Logitech Quickcam E 3500. Got mine from Tescos for 10 quid as it was on sale for half price. Works out of the box. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it today Koala comes out?????

2009-10-29 Thread Tony Arnold
that it appears. If you've upgraded this morning or yesterday, then there is unlikely to much difference to what you have and the final release, so you are pretty much there already! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it today Koala comes out?????

2009-10-29 Thread Tony Arnold
bells and whistles work very nicely now. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] linux viruses

2009-10-21 Thread Tony Arnold
the system stuff. ?typo? Oops! Yes, typo. Should really read my posts more carefully before hitting that send button. Thanks for the correction! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic upgrade this morning

2009-09-30 Thread Tony Arnold
I saw, the GDM theme was still a bit unpolished, IMHO. Maybe today's updates have fixed that. Regards, Tony. [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicReleaseSchedule -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unison and .prf files

2009-08-06 Thread Tony Arnold
of a network connection for it to work, so that may be your problem. This is why I would like to see how you specified the folders to sync. Thanks for your help, it's really appreciated! No problem. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Struggling with Unison

2009-08-04 Thread Tony Arnold
of my network. What am I doing wrong? Please keep it simple as I'm only a plumber, but any words of wisdom are greatly appreciated. How are you running Unison to do the sync, can you give an example command line, post the .prf file? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

2009-07-09 Thread Tony Arnold
on Ubuntu would be like? APT GET UPDATE! APT GET UPDATE! More like: xterm -n 8 xterm -n 8 (no it's not quite valid!) Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can't move panels, oh, and why does Firefox crash so much?

2009-07-04 Thread Tony Arnold
. I've had this happen occasionally. I've always thought it was something to do with the flash plugin, but I've never really verified this. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Flame Wars mailing list

2009-07-04 Thread Tony Arnold
I've heard that Windows can make your whole computer run at the wrong speed! -- me on the Ubuntu-UK mailing list:-) Rowan wrote: I've heard that Linux can make your fans run at the wrong speed, things like that... -- bloke at Laptop Repairs Co., Bethnal Green, London -- Tony Arnold

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Flame Wars mailing list

2009-07-03 Thread Tony Arnold
was continuing the humour of Popey's reference to a Monty Python sketch! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

2009-06-27 Thread Tony Arnold
avoid using FTP and use SFTP (via ssh) instead. Strong passwords help, but authentication via ssh keys would be even better. The concern here is that you restore everything and it just gets hacked again because you haven't fixed the vulnerability. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy to replace Pidgin in Karmic?

2009-06-22 Thread Tony Arnold
of a plugin for Pidgin to do Facebook chat and I was worried that might be something lost with Empathy. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039

Re: [ubuntu-uk] first edition

2009-06-19 Thread Tony Arnold
be a collectors item. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] first edition

2009-06-19 Thread Tony Arnold
Alan, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/6/19 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: I wonder if anyone has a complete set of shipit CDs for all 10 releases? That would definitely be a collectors item. http://popey.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?UbuntuCDCollection My collection so far. Impressive! Regards

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Daily expenses apps in ubuntu. Are there any?

2009-06-18 Thread Tony Arnold
Javad, javadayaz wrote: Are there any apps in ubuntu where i can keep records of daily,monthly expenses? How about a simple Openoffice spreadsheet? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004

[ubuntu-uk] Gwibber, Facebook and RSS feed

2009-06-14 Thread Tony Arnold
Does anyone know how to get the RSS feed URL needed to put into to Gwibber so I could use Gwibber to monitor my friends status updates? Google has resulted in lots of suggestions, but what these say should be on the facebook page just isn't, so I'm confused! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scambled screen

2009-06-01 Thread Tony Arnold
be in your home directory. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Business with Ubuntu

2009-05-26 Thread Tony Arnold
is not forthcoming. Business in trouble, James (and others) lose their jobs. Just my thought on the subject! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop webcam for Jaunty

2009-05-24 Thread Tony Arnold
local Tesco Extra is on the cards for tomorrow! Thanks to everyone who has responded. All good advice! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773

[ubuntu-uk] Laptop webcam for Jaunty

2009-05-21 Thread Tony Arnold
Can anyone recommend/suggest a webcam that can be clipped to the top of my laptop that will work out of the box on Jaunty? I'd want to use it with Skype. TIA Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-UK podcast feedburner issue

2009-05-05 Thread Tony Arnold
there eventually times out and then tries again. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-UK podcast feedburner issue

2009-05-05 Thread Tony Arnold
Alan, Alan Pope wrote: 2009/5/5 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: I'm having trouble downloading the podcast feed file from feed.feedburner.com. I'm using the subscribe link on the ubuntu podcast website. Anyone else seeing this or is it just me? I just loaded the page in double

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

2009-04-20 Thread Tony Arnold
be a forward slash (/). Windows uses the backslash (\) for such purposes. As others have pointed out, pipes are something else. You have understood my question... Oh good! I was worried I had missed something! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bash and Path checks

2009-04-17 Thread Tony Arnold
Cornelius, Cornelius Mostert wrote: Hallo I wrote my first Bash script! However I am struggling to find a way to test if 2 paths are the same: 1. I use a for loop to run through a set of folders in a path (lets say /home/myFiles/) 2. Now Test if the File Extension is = mpg 2.1. If true

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hmmmm....

2009-03-21 Thread Tony Arnold
with Alt-Ctrl-F1, log in there and start looking at log files etc especially those to do with the X server starting up etc. You might try restarting X by hand and see if any errors show up. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Truly, a vanilla install

2009-03-15 Thread Tony Arnold
and complete-removal. Maybe someone else can explain this behaviour. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Sussex] Just a little humour for the Friday

2009-03-07 Thread Tony Arnold
. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Learning Ubuntu....

2009-03-05 Thread Tony Arnold
it (and still does) much better than any system since (IMHO). Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email

Re: [ubuntu-uk] February 13th timestamp

2009-02-13 Thread Tony Arnold
and see./ / Oh joy Since most viruses run on Windows, I would think the Unix time is irrelevant! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330

[ubuntu-uk] Scanner recommendation?

2009-02-07 Thread Tony Arnold
Can anyone recommend a reasonably priced, readily available flat-bed scanner (A4) that just works with Xsane on Intrepid? Thanks. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University

[ubuntu-uk] Wireless card fitter wanted!

2009-01-16 Thread Tony Arnold
trek for a short job! My mother lives in Combe Martin, so if there is anyone in that area who is interested in helping contact me privately. Many thanks. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-29 Thread Tony Arnold
'ddclient' which is a PERL script that does just that. If it doesn't do quite what you want you could modify it. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-28 Thread Tony Arnold
of other DNS servers caching the answer. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

2008-12-23 Thread Tony Arnold
Farran, Farran wrote: On Mon, 2008-12-22 at 14:31 +, Tony Arnold wrote: Farran, Matthew Wild wrote: 4 would it be best to generate an install list from synaptic so I know what I've got, and do a clean install with a larger partition? (and how would I do this through aptitude

Re: [ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

2008-12-23 Thread Tony Arnold
not to format it. If it's a new partition then formatting is required. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless woes

2008-12-22 Thread Tony Arnold
of such effects from a wireless router. Rather worrying. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email

Re: [ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

2008-12-22 Thread Tony Arnold
volume as opposed to a physical partition) much more easily. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless N routers

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Arnold
work in pairs? Can you add more later on? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: tony.arn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless N routers

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Arnold
files to transfer but can't be arsed to walk to the den :) That's answered my question to Sean, but you seem to have to buy these things in pairs. Is that the case? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless N routers

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Arnold
://www.faculty-x.net/homeplugs%20at%20a%20glance.htm?gclid=CLPP9PahypcCFQKKMAodpneBRw Some options there :-) What a great site! Thanks. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server interface

2008-12-18 Thread Tony Arnold
Steve, Stephen Garton wrote: Thanks for all the help so far! the user now has a .bashrc and a .profile (copied from /etc/skel) 2008/12/18 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk: As well as the advice about bashrc etc., I would also check that the user has the right shell. Login and type

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disk Usage Analyzer is reporting file system capacity as 4.9 GB. This must be wrong.

2008-11-26 Thread Tony Arnold
, in which case I would resort to a re-install! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB STICK

2008-11-16 Thread Tony Arnold
it's a problem at the USB stick end. Any suggestions as where to go from here? Has anybody got this to work completely? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester

Re: [ubuntu-uk] editing gnome keyring access

2008-11-09 Thread Tony Arnold
? Go to Applications-Accessories-Passwords and Encryption Keys Select the tab Passwords and then right click on the password and select properties. There's an Applications tab there. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Mini 9

2008-09-29 Thread Tony Arnold
. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: Intrepid Release Parties]

2008-09-29 Thread Tony Arnold
of us in Devon there. Where about in Devon would you suggest? I'll be in North Devon (Combe Martin) on the release day, but could travel! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University

Re: [ubuntu-uk] WTB: Ubuntu Laptop

2008-09-03 Thread Tony Arnold
intensive stuff, then the extra speed and cache would most likley be useful. Or you could go with the advice I was given a while ago and that is always buy the highest spec machine you can afford, so if the £70 is not an issue then go for it! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Geeks and Nerds

2008-08-03 Thread Tony Arnold
your own geek code on www.geekcode.com. Well, it's a bit of fun! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Expo London 23-25th Oct 2008

2008-07-30 Thread Tony Arnold
), and requested the usual conference stuff from Canonical. Just a heads up to let you all know to keep the date free in your diary. The dates include a Saturday, is that right? Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux Expo London 23-25th Oct 2008

2008-07-30 Thread Tony Arnold
Alan, Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 02:54:19PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Our stand was very popular back 2006 and the area got quite crowded. Is there anyway to get more space or would that cost real money? I think it was great having our section so busy. There were the odd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug Day

2008-07-29 Thread Tony Arnold
. Very happy to check all their barrels for bugs. Am wondering if the good burghers of Hackney will be doing Sunday lunch though; Saturday during the day might be better. John -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice re 8.04 server edition

2008-07-20 Thread Tony Arnold
a cron job under root that does 'apt-get update apt-get upgrade' and run the job at a convenient time. This assumes the servers is running 24x7! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Advice re 8.04 server edition

2008-07-20 Thread Tony Arnold
Wayne, Wayne Roberts wrote: hey tony the link to your web page on manchester uni's webite returns a 404 Thanks for letting me know. I'll get it fixed! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Tony Arnold
address is that of the router (in my case it's 192.168.8.1). Or it can return the DNS addresses returned by your ISP. It depends on how your router is configured. Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS - request for info/advice

2008-07-09 Thread Tony Arnold
Mac, Mac wrote: Tony Arnold wrote: snip No, nothing to do with me! Didn't really think it was. In fact 213.130.128.32 belongs to NetServices Plc Network Operations Centre Waters Edge Business Park Modwen Road Salford M5 3EZ United Kingdom You see: Salford. You've got to worry

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