There was a recent Security Now podcast that explains this topic quite
well. It think it has been linked to before on this list, but here you
go anyway. http://media.grc.com/sn/SN-089.mp3
Happy listening,
Steve
What you have to remember is not to trust any security on your
Tony Arnold wrote:
Peter,
Peter Lewis wrote:
This isn't in any way intended to be a gripe, but I was wondering what it is
with the mails that come through on this list - very often the formatting is
completely messed up. I've never experienced this on any other mailing list
(I use
London School of Puppetry wrote:
Can anyone help me? I was told that I had a wired connection, but then when
trying
to get onto any email account or google' the problem loading page
warning came up telling me that Firefox couldn't find the server. Is
there something incompatible here?
Robin Hall wrote:
I have installed ubuntu Feisty Fox on a fairly ancient Toshiba laptop.
I would now like to install a wireless card on it. So, could anybody
tell me which, if any, cards yield the minimum of grief when one
attempts to configure them to work with Ubuntu.
I run a
Chris Rowson wrote:
Haha. 1 point for effort for getting other people to do your
school/college/uni assignments - minus 10 points to everyone who has
answered so far :)
Cheers,
Al.
I didn't think anyone else had noticed :-P
Chris
I had: You have to admire her initiative in posting
Robert McWilliam wrote:
On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:56:45 +0100
Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm about to order a Dell Latitude D820 laptop and I will, of course,
be putting Ubuntu on it!
I'm wondering about support for some of the hardware. If anycone can
confirm or otherwise if this
Do you have the same wireless card? And does that work?
Regards,
Tony.
Same WiFi card, yeah. Got it working with the rather buggy gnome network
tool no problems.
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Dave Walker wrote:
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 18:48 +0100, baza wrote:
I've got myself a blue tooth dongle for my laptop. It's showing up on
the 'hardware list', but I can't seem to get further.
What packages do I need?
Baz
Baz,
See if this helps you:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community
David Morley wrote:
When you plug in the bluetooth dongle is the bluetooth dialogue icon
appearing in the top bar?
If so right click on it and double check the settings in preferences.
After that reboot try it again but leave the dongle in, on reboot.
Yeah, the bluetooth icon appears
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 22:32 +, Dean Sas wrote:
Greg Dash wrote:
I really do question how effect these petitions are. Blair did after
all ignore the opinion of 1.7million people over Road pricing :(
I fully agree, They ignored the 2million people who walked around
London protesting
Hi, does anyone know where I can get a deb of gkismet (the gui for
kismet)?
Thanks
Baz
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On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 23:23 +, Caroline Ford wrote:
baza wrote:
Hi, does anyone know where I can get a deb of gkismet (the gui for
kismet)?
Thanks
Baz
Kismet does come with a graphical interface - albeit a curses one rather
than gtk.
Caroline
Hmm.. I'm having all
On Sat, 2007-02-24 at 00:05 +, baza wrote:
On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 23:23 +, Caroline Ford wrote:
baza wrote:
Hi, does anyone know where I can get a deb of gkismet (the gui for
kismet)?
Thanks
Baz
Kismet does come with a graphical interface - albeit a curses
This one is worth signing.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/
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On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:30 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Feb 21, 2007 at 09:05:57PM +, Robin Menneer wrote:
My ubutu has an unwelcome of opening new files behind the current window,
not in front of it. How do I reverse this, please,so that by default, the
new file opens in front ?
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 00:43 +, Daniel Watkins wrote:
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Pat wrote:
Market forces change the world. Not much else.
I have two counterpoints:
1) Civil rights for black people, women etc. were never gained through
market forces. We're
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 00:37 +, baza wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 00:31 +, Paul Mellors wrote:
-Original Message-
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Sent: 13 February 2007 00:18
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] old kernals
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 13:51 +, norman wrote:
The only application I have found which will give me all of the few
things I use is Gimp. I know there are those who say Gimp is too
complicated but, by a bit of judicious selection, a relatively few key
presses, plus patience. gives me my
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 17:38 +, Freddie Ruddick wrote:
Has everyone seen this? Posted on BBC Technology News a few days ago.
Basically highlighting the whole Microsoft has control, you don't,
deal with it system.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6319845.stm
:)
Freddie
Yeah,
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 17:58 +, Freddie Ruddick wrote:
...Vista is bloated eye
candy of little use.
I know that, you know that, most people on here know that. But the
general public don't. Every piece on the problems of Vista in the
mainstream media is a step in the right direction as
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 18:37 +, Sean Miller wrote:
Freddie Ruddick wrote:
Has everyone seen this? Posted on BBC Technology News a few days ago.
Basically highlighting the whole Microsoft has control, you don't,
deal with it system.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6319845.stm
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 08:38 +, Alan Pope wrote:
The best advice anyone can give, IMHO, is to burn your 'home' directory
to CD or DVD every month, that way if you system does the big firework
you can reinstall and keep (most) of you data.
Heh, that might not be quite so easy for
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 14:30 +, alan c wrote:
London School of Puppetry wrote:
Hi Jonathan, I agree but I think the problem is wider than just us isn't
itI'm concerned that non-groupy typeslike most of the ordinary
world should be able to access Ubuntu and other OSS
and know
On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 20:29 +, Colin_The_Technician wrote:
Check out the Poll on
http://newsvote.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm?dynamic_vote=ON#vote_vista_vote
Seems 78.38% of us are not intending to update to Vista. Probably not
an acturate Poll as I voted 'no' three times. Must
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 00:10 +, London School of Puppetry wrote:
Was having a chat with a neighbour the other dayshe said that she
has a local chap who comes from a nearby town to see to her computer
which is running windows- she pays him £30 per hour. She said she
wouldn't want to
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 15:26 +, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
This post has nothing to do with re-installing OOo as per previous
contamination of this thread!
Christ on a bike!
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On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:07 +, London School of Puppetry wrote:
Can someone help me I am new to Ubuntu- last night some information
appeared down in the right hand corner of the screen telling me about
a bug. The information ended up on the desktop and after a few hours
I deleted it. It
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 22:39 +, London School of Puppetry wrote:
I'm trying to find him to put him back- how do I do it? There was a
dialogue- but I panicked and now I would like to put it back but how?
Office keeps crashing whenever I try to paste something into an email.
Caroline
O
On Thu, 2006-12-28 at 15:14 +, Dave Briggs wrote:
Thanks for all the help getting the web working, guys. This is my first
email that's sent from Evolution - it's quite nice, I have to say!
Couple of quick newbie questions:
1) Do I need to install any anti-virus/malware or firewall
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 08:28 +, Nik Butler wrote:
Andrew Price wrote:
On 23/12/06 02:32, baza wrote:
Hi, has anyone ever managed to get World of Warcraft running under Wine?
Strangely I ran across this article on a Blog directly after reading
your request.
http://ubuntu
Hi, has anyone ever managed to get World of Warcraft running under Wine?
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On Sat, 2006-12-16 at 15:05 +, Richard Downing wrote:
Dave Briggs wrote:
Hi list
Just got my broadband live, and there's a bit of a problem with it.
Basically, I have got all my settings right in the modem interface,
and it is working fine in my windows partition.
But in
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 19:34 +, Keith Bowerman wrote:
On booting up Edgy a couple of hours ago I was advised that there were
10 updates available to me, mainly upgrading the kernel. I dutifully
downloaded them and following the usual instructions rebooted the
machine, except that I
On Thu, 2006-12-14 at 00:36 +, Tony Arnold wrote:
Baz,
baza wrote:
I did that without problems using the apt-get update, apt-get upgrade,
apt-get dist-upgrade (twice the latter) and it worked fine.
Thanks. When I'm feeling brave, I'll give it a try. The risk is if it
goes wrong
On Wed, 2006-12-06 at 22:33 +, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
On 12/6/06, baza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Ubuntu people.
Has anyone had any problems getting the amazon.co.uk site to work with
Firefox on Edgy? It seems not to like my password, which is the correct
one (works with XP).
I
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 20:55 +, alan c wrote:
I have installed JRE from a sun download binary and now can run from menu
internetsun java web start
which opens a java application cache viewer
However, I still do not seem to have firefox working with a site such as
I hate top posting ;)
On Sun, 2006-11-05 at 07:02 +, Ian wrote:
But I was not here to make a date. And I see other top posting OK.
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On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 16:00 +, Keith Bowerman wrote:
I wonder if someone brighter than me could help this old codger. I
installed Dapper on a new machine but the screen resolution was no
better than 640x480 and with a 19 monitor it was like being at the
pictures. So I edited the
?
The video, 'problem' could be that you are expanding the window
beyond what the video is meant to be viewed at. If you're having
problems with things like your DVDs playing in full screen check to
see if you have dma on for your dvdrom.
Can't help with the 32/64bit question. Google?
Baza
not work. If it's just video it'll play fine.
Baza
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On 10 Oct 2006, at 20:39, STONE COLD wrote:
nope, this is my first experience of tinkering around with command
lines and
all that!
Previously ive only ever used windowsso you could say im a
newbie at
all this
You'll get to love it :)
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On 10 Oct 2006, at 20:49, STONE COLD wrote:
Is this the only way to change it? is there not a simpler way for
this?
F
You could use gedit, tho you'll need to run this as 'root' to write
to etc/X11/
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google videos, they were using XP.
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to etc/X11/
Baza
Yeah, gedit is a graphical editor, like notepad on windows. You can
reconfigure the X11 file using, if I remember the code right, sudo
dpkg reconfigure xserver-xorg this takes you through a question and
answer session that will write you a new xorg.conf at the end
On 10 Oct 2006, at 21:12, STONE COLD wrote:
stilll if they could only make the automatic easier this would be a
lot more
appealing!
Have you tried using xine to play them? It's what I use on my Ubuntu
laptop which has a very low spec graphics chip.
Baza
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On 10 Oct 2006, at 21:26, STONE COLD wrote:
nope ill try and download that and use that ..fingers crossed!
You might need the win32 codecs too, check out the forum, there's a
great link there for easy installing them.
Baza
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User Group,
and the Wolverhampton LUG.
http://www.sb.lug.org.uk/
http://www.sb.lug.org.uk/
Both run really good email lists, they've saved me from going mad a
thousand times :)
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On 10 Oct 2006, at 21:39, David Morley wrote:
On 10/10/06, Baza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10 Oct 2006, at 21:17, STONE COLD wrote:
im in birminghamso yeh maybe a LUG meeting might provide an
answer.
i take it whoever runs the LUG meeting will prob be an expert at
Ubuntu
On 10 Oct 2006, at 21:42, STONE COLD wrote:
what do i need the win32codecs for ? im sure i installed other
multimedia
codecs!
Might need them if you want to play .wmv files.
baza
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On 9 Oct 2006, at 17:53, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
Hi Ted,
Personally, I prefer discussion forum layout much more than these
e-mail distributions which often I find difficult to read.
Please let's stick to email. Some of us are on dozens of mailing
lists
and can keep up with the content
On 6 Sep 2006, at 16:55, Chadwick Longstaff wrote:
julian wrote:
It strikes me as a issue that should be addressed to start to pull
people away from Windoze. lots of windoze user will not use linux
if it
can't play DVD without hassle.
Try http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ , DVD
is there a way of upgrading Evolution to 2.6 on Breezy?
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OpenOffice 2 and it seems to have dictionary, though maybe this
is because I was running OO1 under Hoary on this PC?
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it. This allows you to click the
link and then when the dialogue comes up ask it to open the file in
you desired application, I use totem.
The problem I'm having is playing the video clips on the BBC news site,
can anyone else view them?
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After being broke for a few days todays updates fixed suspend again on
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ello, I've took the plunge and upgraded to Breezy via dist-upgrade.
It all works well, stable etc. Only thing is, I don't get a, 'splash
screen' when I'm sure breezy has one? Any ideas why?
Baza
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On 15 Sep 2005, at 10:27, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
On 15/09/05, Baza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ello, I've took the plunge and upgraded to Breezy via dist-upgrade.
It all works well, stable etc. Only thing is, I don't get a, 'splash
screen' when I'm sure breezy has one? Any ideas why?
try
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:21 +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, baza wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:06 +0100, baza wrote:
Bum, I spoke too soon. Still no splash screen... h.
Can you do a:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu-desktop
just to make sure you still have all
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 15:17 +0100, baza wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:21 +0100, Paul Sladen wrote:
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, baza wrote:
On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 14:06 +0100, baza wrote:
Bum, I spoke too soon. Still no splash screen... h.
Can you do a:
sudo apt-get install ubuntu
On 27 Aug 2005, at 08:25, Ralph Corderoy wrote:Hi Baza, anyone managed to get kstars working in hoary? Yep. I just used Synaptic or `apt-get install kstars', can't rememberwhich, to install it and it appeared in the Applications - Edutainmentmenu. $ apt-show-versions -p kstars kstars
I've got Ubuntu 5.04 running on my Dell Inspiron 2200. It all seems ok,
even got the wireless working. The only problem I have is the, 'tap'
function of the touch pad is a bit rubbish, you have to virtually punch
it to register a click.
Anyone know how to improve this?
Baza
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