[ubuntu-uk] Brother P-touch 1230 labelling machine

2012-01-30 Thread Mark Fraser
Lidl have the Brother P-touch 1230 labelling machine for £24.99 and it is possible to get it to work with Ubuntu by installing B-Label from here http://apz.fi/blabel/ .You will have to use alien to convert the rpm package to deb, but it seems to work fine. -- Registered Linux User #466407

[ubuntu-uk] Problem with pulseaudio that's really bugging me.

2012-01-30 Thread Hassan Haz Williamson
Hi all, I've been having this really annoying issue with pulseaudio for a while now, whereby it will only work properly in system-mode i.e. by killing pulseaudio after startup (due to it being hung) and running sudo pulseaudio --system. I can't seem to figure out what's going wrong, it's clearly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Liam Proven
On 29 January 2012 16:48, John MM scoundrel...@gmail.com wrote: Not an attitude, just a question Please bottom-quote on the list. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Liam Proven
On 30 January 2012 14:38, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: On 30/01/12 14:34, Liam Proven wrote: Please bottom-quote on the list. I know we insist on bottom quoting, but PLEASE - if you must insist on that, insist that those who post also trim out all but the snippet(s) they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/01/12 14:44, Liam Proven wrote: *Some* context is necessary to follow the thread. Secondly, doesn't any half-decent modern email client collapse text you've read before? Dunno I've used Evolution quite recently and am now using Thunderbird simply as the Ubuntu default client.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Alan Bell
and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk about Ubuntu instead. snip posting position discussion that we have had before and isn't going to turn out different this time/ and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk about Ubuntu instead.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Simon Watson
Very well said! --Original Message-- From: Alan Bell Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com ReplyTo: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr Sent: 30 Jan 2012 15:28 and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Kris Douglas
It could... On 30 January 2012 15:28, Alan Bell alan.b...@libertus.co.uk wrote: and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk about Ubuntu instead. ...Be worse Really snip posting position discussion that we have had before and isn't going to turn out different

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/01/12 15:28, Alan Bell wrote: and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk about Ubuntu instead. Thank you Alan - that says it all! -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Dave Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/01/12 16:03, Barry Drake wrote: On 30/01/12 15:28, Alan Bell wrote: and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk about Ubuntu instead. Thank you Alan - that says it all! Hmmm Sandwich - -- You make

[ubuntu-uk] downloading images from a mac email

2012-01-30 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Avi wrote: A brother in-law sent me some pictures that are in some way embedded in the email. With evolution i cannot seem to download them and with google web mail I have only been able to rightclick save them one by one. They seem to not even show as attachments. Is it simply linking to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread bouncysteve
I've got a giffgaff sim http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/bouncystevewhich supposedly gives me unlimited data for £10, and spurred on by this post on gigaom.comhttp://gigaom.com/mobile/galaxy-nexus-data-plan-sip-voip-support-free-calls/about SIP being a viable main phone number I thought I'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 30 January 2012 17:40, bouncysteve bouncyst...@gmail.com wrote: I've got a giffgaff sim http://giffgaff.com/orders/affiliate/bouncystevewhich supposedly gives me unlimited data for £10, and spurred on by this post on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread thegeeksquadron
You can get a free SIP Address @ekiga.net if it's for a softphone you're looking for :) -- -Original Message- From: bouncysteve bouncyst...@gmail.com Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:40:31 To: UK Ubuntu Talkubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread Alan Pope
On 30/01/12 17:40, bouncysteve wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations of i) a tutorial for simple Asterisk setup ii)providers of SIP numbers? I don't really make many outgoing calls, so I just want a cheap deal that will give me a fixed number for incoming calls that won't cost much for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread thegeeksquadron
Guess I kind of misread that one -- -Original Message- From: thegeeksquad...@ymail.com Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:11:05 To: UK Talkubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Reply-To: thegeeksquad...@ymail.com, UK Ubuntu Talk