2009/4/9 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com:
now I remember why I tried to fiddle with the kernels... cos the graphics
driver won't install properly because of them. Exactly the same error
message as the kernel error is returned when I try to install them.
Can you do the following and
2009/4/17 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com:
Hi -- I use iTunes on my OSX partition for most of my podcasts, but there
are some technical ones I'd like to start collecting on my Ubuntu partition
-- usually screencasts.
So what does the wider, great british ubuntu community recommend as a
podcast
2009/4/17 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
Dumb question :)
No such thing :)
Is there a difference between video podcasts and any other videos (eg
YouTube and similar)?
In simple terms, a podcast of any kind (audio or video) is in essence
a media file delivered over http as a downloadable
2009/4/19 Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com:
I'm thinking that a Krone job could be used to turn it off, but don't know
which commands to use to ensure that it shuts down properly. I suspect that
for turning on, I need to set something in the BIOS so that as soon as the
power is
2009/4/22 Stephen Garton sheepeating...@sheepeatingtaz.co.uk:
If I am doing it wrong with any of the above players, please let me know!
Podcatching ability would be nice, but not essential, as I also have an
iphone which will download them over the air (and currently is being used
for this).
2009/4/23 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
jaunty became available - from canonical's machines at least, about 20
minutes ago
Tsk tsk, naughty naughty. Before the release announcement..
:)
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2009/4/26 John Taylor john.68tay...@btinternet.com:
Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade
any ideas? never happened before!
How did you try to upgrade?
Can you attach your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of any
files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/
2009/4/27 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net:
Lucy wrote:
Certainly, I don't remember so
much positive buzz around the last Fedora release and the last Debian
release seemed to create plenty of negativity.
With all due respect, I do not agree with this at all.
While I was at FOSDEM this year, in
2009/4/27 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Downloaded 9.04 iso (yes, the right one!) and 9.04 WUBI over a faster
connection than I have.
Which ISO did you grab? Whats the filename?
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2009/4/29 Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com:
A few days ago I upgraded to 9.04 but was, frankly, disappointed. The
application I use most of all is OpenOffice. The upgrade certainly sees boot
times reduced, but OOO Base takes approx 10 times as long to load, Calc 5
times and Writer 3
2009/5/5 John jake...@sky.com:
I have tried playing the Ubuntu vids again, and all it does when you
click the start button, is pixilate inti small squares and crashes. It
doesnt crash the system, just the vid.
What URL are you visiting?
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2009/5/5 John jake...@sky.com:
This one http://screencasts.ubuntu.com/
Ugh, that would be my fault then. Was hoping it would be some other
random website.
You can grab the videos directly from the server in a more open format
if that's preferable:-
http://static.screencasts.ubuntu.com/
2009/5/5 John jake...@sky.com:
Oh right, is there something wrong with that page then? I ill have a go
at grabbing them and watching them. Thank you. I am wondering if it
might be also affecting other sites with that type of video, id it is
can you tell me how I get around it? Thank you for
2009/5/5 John jake...@sky.com:
Its just not working I can take a print screen to show you what happens if
you like? I have to go out now, I am just getting ready, but I can do it
when I get back in.
Sure, send it to me.
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2009/5/5 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com:
I wonder why that was removed - always seemed a great emergency fix
for unruly systems :-)
You can also install the dontzap package to do that manual config for you.
It was disabled because some it was figured that it's a bad idea
having a
2009/5/6 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net:
Unfortunately the recovery mode is no different, they're disabled in
that mode too.
Can you boot an older kernel from pre-upgrade?
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2009/5/11 Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com:
I'm trying to get right-click to work on my tablet pen on my tablet pc
in Jaunty. I used to set some options in xorg.conf to do this, but now
when I try to do this I get errors in X. Here's my xorg.conf:
http://paste.ubuntu.com/169401/ and
2009/5/12 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com:
Hi -- I was just wondering, why it is that the community-at-large seems to
think that it is better to reinstall to a newer version of Ubuntu rather
than to run the upgrade?
What makes you think they do?
Perhaps these people are used to
2009/5/12 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com:
The key thing is to keep your /home directory tree on a separate
partition. That makes re-installing much less painful and fiddly.
Not really. You can reinstall over the top these days and it will wipe
everything except /home - even if it's all on one
2009/5/31 Paul Broadhead pjbr...@twinmoons.clara.co.uk:
Needless to say, I'm not buying one.
If you wanted one, get the xp one, dont accept the license, send it
back and ask for a refund.
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2009/5/31 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com:
How can they charge more? They get the thing for free!
They don't. It doesn't cost Dell much as I understand it, but they do
pay for Ubuntu.
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2009/5/31 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com:
Boom! That's me out of the water lol. Are they made to pay for it or
out of 'generosity'?
As I understand it (i.e. this may be factually inaccurate) any OEM
wishing to sell Ubuntu branded as Ubuntu needs to pay a license to
Canonical for the use of
2009/5/31 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com:
Would a small independent store (like I've been asking about) need to
pay that as well?
You'd need to check with the OEM team at Canonical about that. I
suspect the answer is yes, assuming the store is selling machines in
the same way that Dell is.
2009/5/31 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
Car back bumper, bike front mudguard, front window of house, :-)
back of laptop lid .
I have a Debian sticker on the back of my car. It's been there for ...
let me see...
http://gallery.popey.com/gallery/v/bbq3/Img_309.jpg.html
Date: 16/08/04
2009/6/1 Christopher Swift ch...@chrisswift.eu:
Lets not jump ahead of ourselves here. I highly doubt that either ASUS
nor Microsoft are officially behind this campaign.
Asus link to the site from the main marketing page for their current
flagship laptop product. Whether they are behind it or
2009/6/2 Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com:
You might try looking at the SME Server for some ideas:
http://wiki.contribs.org/Main_Page
.. and ebox ..
http://ebox-platform.com/
.. and Ubuntu Server Manager ..
http://ubuntuservermanager.org/
:)
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2009/6/4 Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk:
You should be able to access the host machine's CD/DVD writer from
within VirtualBox. On the Details tab, double click CD/DVD-ROM and
then select Host CD/DVD Drive. Checking 'Enable Passthrough'
should mean that you can write from the guest
2009/6/12 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net:
European buyers of Windows 7 will have to download and install a web
browser for themselves. Bowing to European competition rules,
Microsoft Windows 7 will ship without Internet Explorer *snip
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8096701.stm
That
Hi Rowan,
2009/6/14 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Hi. My 'Linux Certified' (Compal JHL-90) just died on me. First the
display froze, then when I force-restarted it, it wouldn't go past the
first Intel splash screen (with no boot options strip at the bottom),
and now it just generates
2009/6/15 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Hi. I sent a message yesterday saying my (4-month-old) Linux Certified
laptop had died. However, I tried it again this morning and saw a brief
flashing cursor prompt (like the one you get briefly during Ubuntu
closedown), followed by a blank
2009/6/15 Alex Birchall a.birch...@mdx.ac.uk:
I'd like to schedule a reboot of my Ubuntu server.
Out of interest, why?
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2009/6/17 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net:
there seems to be a movie called ubuntu tribe, a trailer is here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZGZlXpHB2g
the url for themovie is meant to be www.ubuntutribe.com this fails as
its a phamacy site, any know what the proper url is to download the
2009/6/18 norman nor...@littletank.org:
I am seriously considering going back to 8.10 or even 8.04
Why?
What specific issues are you encountering?
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2009/6/18 norman nor...@littletank.org:
have no problems with all I need except with the workings of the Wacom
Bamboo and all the help that seems to be available to me that I can
manage to do and understand will not work with 9.04. There was a promise
of a GUI for the setting up of Wacom
Hi,
2009/6/19 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com:
not sure if this is my pc or is the current state of banshee, but atm,
as far as devices go, it only detects/shows cds. No other device is
shown,
What specific devices are you plugging in?
Banshee supports a number of media players, but
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.
:)
Cheers,
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2009/6/19 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com:
Of course there's always http://old-releases.ubuntu.com/releases/4.10/
Nothing like owning the original pressed CDs in their envelopes though.. :)
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2009/6/22 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
Does anyone know if i can install Linux Mint ( from a usb drive) ?
All i have to do is set the periperal as first boot right?
You can use unetbootin (which is cross platform) to copy an iso to a
USB stick and make it all nicely bootable. So long as your
2009/6/22 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
I have a USB stick on which i plan on dropping a Linuxmint/ubuntu iso...and
then boot/install from there!
You can't just copy an iso to the USB stick. It needs to be unpacked
in a certain way, hence me suggesting you use unetbootin.
Cheers,
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2009/6/22 Tony Arnold tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk:
I read in the weekly news letter this week that there is a plan to
replace Pidging with Empathy as the default IM client in Karmic. Where
can I a) find the reasoning behind this
From the link in the UWN:-
2009/6/22 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk:
As far as I can tell the main reasoning is the fact that they can lose 2
apps (ekiga and pidgin) thus saving space and also the empathy upstream
were working on bugs faster than pidgin were.
this should give you more idea
2009/6/24 John jake...@sky.com:
Oh wow, that would be really useful. I have not been to one before.
Would it be in London, or somewhere else.
We're hoping for there to be more than one. See this mail I sent to the list.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2009-June/019439.html
Sadly
2009/6/26 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Ubuntu 9.04. I know the IP of my networked printer but it would be
helpful to have an app that would find the IP of a networked printer if
I joined some other network
The add printer wizard thing does this already.
System - Administration - Printing -
2009/6/26 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Uhh amend thatif I type in 192.168.0 in the Host box then it DOES
find it. Not OVERLY intuitive, is it?
How queer. Is the printer on the same network subnet as you? If not
that might be why. I don't think the printer scan thing traverses from
one
2009/6/27 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net:
On Sat, Jun 27, 2009 at 7:49 PM, Harry Rickardshricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote:
exploit in their control panel (the story even made it to slashdot, as
the dev of the control panel hanged himself). My VPS was restored from
Erm, that's a bit beyond the
2009/6/30 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
Does anyone know of any apps that can do this?
fdupes - identifies duplicate files within given directories
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2009/6/30 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Ubuntu 9.04
Is there a way of producing a list of all applications and utilities
installed by me post-installation from the Ubuntu CD?
dpkg -l | grep ^ii
Will list all packages that have been installed.
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2009/6/30 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Will that just show what *I* have installed or will it list the whole
dam lot?
All of them. I don't think there's an easy way to see what you added
yourself. One bodged way to do it would be to..
1) Get the package list (as per my previous mail) and save it
Hi,
Please see this blog post for context
http://mdzlog.alcor.net/2009/06/27/apturl-quick-links-for-ubuntu-application
and this wiki page for more information https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AptUrl
.
We're trying to identify any websites or applications which do not
currently support apt-url. If you
2009/7/1 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Dear all: is anyone aware of an MP3 player for Ubuntu which will play
MP3 audio files directly from Ubuntu's own files, without the necessity
of compiling its own library first?
Yes, all of them.
You don't need to _compile_ anything to play MP3s
2009/7/1 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/7/1 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Dear all: is anyone aware of an MP3 player for Ubuntu which will
play MP3 audio files directly from Ubuntu's own files, without the
necessity of compiling its own library first?
Yes
2009/7/1 Rowan rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Sorry - for 'Internet Explorer' read 'Windows Explorer,' which is the
file browser in Windows. I forgot to mention that all these music
players 'populate' their 'libraries' from the tags rather than the
titles on the audio files, which is why one
2009/7/1 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com:
i've always just used rhythmbox, and it does not re-arrange any of
the actual files as
far as I know.
Banshee can also do this, although it's not the default behaviour.
Just go to Edit-preferences and there's an option to _not_ move the
2009/7/2 Michael G Fletcher mich...@ilovemylinux.com:
David, just checked mine in synaptic, and it looks like an upgrade
from 2.6.28-13.44 to 2.6.28-13.45
Yes, an incremental patch rather than an ABI bump (which I believe
would have bumped the 13 to 14).
so yes, modified version with
2009/7/3 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com:
Does anyone know if there's a flame war mailing list? I don't enjoy
starting flame wars, but IMHO arguing your side in an existing war can
help you let off steam.
Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?
--
2009/7/3 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com:
(If there was some joke intended, I've missed it). I was thinking a list
with a few threads with hundreds/thousands of messages in (like there
was in GLLUG a couple of months back about emacs/xemacs/vi/vim vs ed.)
Oh dear, losing geek
2009/7/4 David King linux...@avoura.com:
You also need to install libcurl3 if you do not have it already before
installing VirtualBox 3.0.
That depends how you install it.
If you either use the repository Innotek/Sun/Oracke/Whoever provide
and install via apt/aptitude/synaptic then it will
2009/7/4 Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com:
Post to a Windows mailing list commenting on how great Linux is, or vice
versa.
Or, setup a blog which lambasts Ubuntu using wild and inaccurate
accusations, whilst (not very) secretly concealing the fact that
you're just annoyed that your
2009/7/5 Ragia Ibrahim ragi...@hotmail.com:
Hi all
I am new linx user (2 weeks ago)
I need to run[ make install ] in specific folder but i got the following
Error Permission denied
how can I change folder permission to make this..
the error is as follow...
/usr/bin/install: cannot
2009/7/5 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:
http://ubuntu-unleashed.com/2008/04/howto-install-virtualbox-in-ubuntu-hardy-heron-with-usb-support-in-5-easy-steps.html
I should say that I did this with VB 2.0.6; do you still need to use
this procedure with later versions of VB?
They have a
2009/7/5 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com:
According to the CodeLathe blog
(http://www.codelathe.com/blog/index.php/2009/04/13/the-tonido-platform-is-going-open-source/)
they're going to release an SDK soon. I'm no expert, but I thought the
actual source of the application, not just an
For anyone interested in setting something up for Software Freedom Day
2009 - which is on Saturday 19th September.
http://softwarefreedomday.org/
Cheers,
Al.
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Date: 2009/7/5
Subject: [SFD-discuss] We have
2009/7/8 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com:
Haha. A blow to Linux - it IS Linux!
A blow to linux distros..
How many OEMs ship Ubuntu as an easily available option on
netbooks/laptops/desktops/ right now, and how many will in 2010 when
Google OS releases?
How many will Google have?
Will this
Hi David,
Thanks for the mail.
2009/7/8 David King linux...@avoura.com:
Interesting podcast, entertaining as usual.
Thanks for that, it certainly motivates us to have positive feedback!
However, I did not hear any references to the Stolen Earth, which title
I assume you took from a recent
2009/7/9 John Matthews jake...@sky.com:
Can I have the URL.I dont have it. Is this something to do with Ubuntu?
http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/
:)
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2009/7/10 Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com:
Nope and nope, it just seemed to load a server kernel for little/no reason :)
There will be a reason, we just don't know with the detail you've
provided what that reason is yet.
Did they install from the repo or from sun.com, did they download the
2009/7/15 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net:
I use firefox and thunderbird, i know evolution does not take up much
space, but by removing it I can save a few hundred kilobytes, then why
not, removing un used packages keeps systems un cluttered.
Depends on your definition of 'clutter'.
what do
2009/7/15 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net:
programs that I will never use, i guess.
Programs you know of, that you will never use. Bet there's a zillion
command line programs that you wont use :)
Ok thanks, seems rather odd that removing something like evolution can
cause so many issues.
2009/7/16 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
I subscribed to a podcast from the bbc websitei then accidently moved the
podcasts to my music library.
i have deleted them from the music lib section in banshee but now cant
subscribe to them again...i can subscribe to others just fine though.
2009/7/16 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
I saw today that Micro Mart and Computer Active both feature Linux on
the front cover, seemed aimed at beginners or those who haven't tried it
before. Computer Active had Ubuntu 9.04 and another distro on the CD.
There is special Computer Active in
2009/7/17 Ian Pascoe softy.lofty@btinternet.com:
If Mark was to sally forth to the land of the French and bought this item,
apart from the keyboard, which might be en Francais, to change the
localisation would you have to do a fresh install?
Depends if the language packages for -en had
2009/7/17 Chris Weaver ch...@resonancefm.com:
Wow that sounds incredibly opportune! I'm down in London sadly but would
certainly appreciate a video link.
A while ago Tony Whitmore made some screencasts showing how we edit
and mix the audio for the podcast using free software on Ubuntu. It
2009/7/18 Tony Harrison t...@mitsy.co.uk:
...which worked fine, however the next update I did crashed half way through.
The computer will still boot but gives an error message after logging in
saying 'unable to initialize HAL' and it will not connect to the internet. I
made a bootable USB
2009/7/18 Tony Harrison t...@mitsy.co.uk:
Thanks for that, it was the pci=noacpi I had forgot to do. Xubuntu then
failed while booting anyway, something about X terminal I think it was? But
I made a new usb stick with ubuntu server on which installed but it would
only give me the option to
2009/7/19 Tony Harrison t...@mitsy.co.uk:
I have followed that up to the modprobe bit. It says 'FATAL: Module
pata_cs5535.ko not found.'. The command issued was /sbin/modprobe
pata_cs5535.ko. The .ko file is in /lib/modules/2v6v28-11-generic
Cannot work out from google what I am doing wrong
2009/7/19 Tony Harrison t...@mitsy.co.uk:
That worked! The OS has installed to the hard drive, but it will only boot
with the usb stick plugged in.
Sounds like grub didnt get installed properly.
Without it grub fails saying 'Error 2'. Also,
once logged in, the home directory does not
2009/7/21 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
I suppose it is possible that one or other of the items plugged into the
hub may be the cause of the problem but I wondered if anyone could be
kind enough to comment.
The quick and easy test for that is to yank everything except the card
2009/7/21 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
On Tue, 2009-07-21 at 21:06 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
Another thing to do is see what messages appear in System -
Administration - Log File Viewer, at the point when you plug it in.
This may indicate what the problem is.
That's a good idea
2009/7/22 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
Another thing to do is see what messages appear in System -
Administration - Log File Viewer, at the point when you plug it in.
This may indicate what the problem is.
I had a look at the sys log but it might just as well have been in
2009/7/22 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
The log has been copied to http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/55502
Thanks for that, but it looks like the log file is truncated, it ends
at 08:49 and cuts off.
You should be able to select all from the edit menu and then copy
and paste again into
2009/7/22 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
On Wed, 2009-07-22 at 11:30 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
You should be able to select all from the edit menu and then copy
and paste again into the pastebin.
Sorry about that but that is what I did. Do you want me to try again?
Please.
Looks
2009/7/22 Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org:
I have now tried again and on 2 occasions the message and the icon
appeared. Also the mouse did not stop working.
http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org/55536
Looks good:-
Jul 22 14:19:56 digital-darkroom hald: mounted /dev/sdc1 on behalf of uid
2009/7/23 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
Norman Silverstone nor...@littletank.org wrote:
I don't mind buying a new one but it feels a bit like you know who,
change the operating system and you need to change some hardware.
Who?
Alluding to Microsoft Windows I suspect.
2009/7/22 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
I have just noticed this expo. Unfortunately I will not be able to
attend these dates.
Where did you notice it out of interest?
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2009/7/23 Daniel Drummond dmdrummo...@gmail.com:
heres a link for linuxworld expo:http://tinyurl.com/mrfjfn
+3 points for using lmgtfy
+2 points for obscuring it via tinyurl
-5 points for top posting
-10 points for not noting that that the subsequent results don't
actually link to any official
2009/7/23 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
I must admit I was slightly surprised to see it, but here is what I saw:
http://www.bvents.com/event/172935-linuxworld-expo-uk-2009
Looks like a duff business events site to me. They seem to have just
scraped data from around the place. They even
2009/7/23 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com:
Not really liking to let things die gracefully be at peace, I wondered if I
could perhaps install just the basic, command-line parts of Ubuntu (linux
with all the package managers, I guess) see if I can get it running as a
little server for cron
2009/7/27 Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Is there an equivelent of a calender / personal information manager (so
I can store what I am doing at a time / date and get reminders) for
gnome as I am usign ubuntu,
Evolution is preinstalled and does exactly this.
Hi Rob,
2009/8/7 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
I'm thinking maybe syncing between the phone and Evolution for
calendars, and maybe transferring music and videos between them - I'm
guessing that the phone will appear as a mass storage device, but if not
I can always pop out the memory card and
2009/8/12 Paul Webster paulwebbi...@googlemail.com:
Somehow, an update some time ago installed Shiretoko as a beta version of
Firefox 3.5. Meanwhile the old version of Firefox remains and also gets
updated from time to time. What's going on? Where did the name Shiretoko
come from anyway?
2009/8/13 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
Liam Wilson wrote:
For those who haven't seen them, the new boot/login screens have been
unveiled by the art team. I think the do look rather darn sweet!
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot/Demo
Ooh I like that, very polished.
From
2009/8/13 Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com:
But DKMS ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynamic_Kernel_Module_Support
- ) requires lots of skills to install and use, as I recall from having
considered it to deal with my non-default interface driver problem.
It doesn't for apps like
2009/8/16 William Anderson ne...@well.com:
Whoever named that newsgroup needs a slap; British != UK.
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
ubuntu-uk -- British Ubuntu Talk
I brought this up nearly 3 years ago on this list:-
2009/8/16 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com:
Hey, I'm using Thunderbird as my default mail application for my
Emails (As opposed to Evolution), and as I am subscribed to a number of
Mailing Lists, I thought it would be a lot simpler to organise the Lists
into folders, so each list has a
2009/9/8 John Matthews jake...@sky.com:
Hi, are there any instructions on how to use this, I Installed it, but
have no idea about how to start it, to even look at program.
It's a terminal based program. Open a terminal (Applications -
Accessories - Terminal) and run:-
sudo powertop
The
2009/9/10 Melv Bailey melvbai...@googlemail.com:
However I have not received anything from ubuntu-uk since Vol 52, Issue
30 on the 23/08/2009. Is there a problem?
I don't subscribe to the digest, so don't know of this problem.
Perhaps someone else who does can confirm it? (Assuming they get
2009/9/15 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com:
How well has this been implemented in the Ubuntu Environment? A pc
controlled by voice (especially its media) is what im thinking of here!
Seems a popular idea:-
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/1826/
Cheers,
Al.
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ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Hi,
In the recent past I've wanted to take apart a couple of laptops to
increase their RAM, or change storage. Some are easy enough with a
simple flap, or removal of the keyboard to access the RAM slots.
Others seem to be more of a krypton factor style task. The Intel
Classmate seems to be one of
2009/9/19 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
This may give you some pointers, it covers VirtualBox on Windows XP (and
Ubuntu 7.10 I believe) but the principal is the same...
http://www.psychocats.net/ubuntu/virtualbox
The Ubuntu doc site has some good pages about it too.
2009/9/23 Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com:
Not really an answer but I went through this recently and I've ditched
iTunes completely, even on Windows. There are so many other legal music
download sites now that do not have the restrictions and DRM of iTunes
and some are considerably cheaper.
It's
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