Re: [ubuntu-uk] What makes a Server install? (Was Re: Not a good press)

2009-11-08 Thread Colin Law
2009/11/8 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net: Hi Rob, On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:42:16PM +, Rob Beard wrote: Andy Smith wrote: On a related note, can someone tell me officially what defines an install of Ubuntu Server?  I ask because this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases says

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using a 3G modem as a fallback

2009-11-10 Thread Colin Law
2009/11/10 Andrew Oakley andrew.oak...@hesa.ac.uk: I'm moving out of The Sticks, slightly to the west of nowhere in the Cotswolds - which nevertheless already has 2.5Mbit ADSL - to the urban metropolis that is a satellite village near Tewkesbury. With this comes wonders of the modern age, the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web / e-mail hosting

2009-11-26 Thread Colin Law
2009/11/25 mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk:  Does anyone have any experience / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host? I have used virualnames.co.uk for a number of years for hosting and email and have been very satisfied. Their technical support has been excellent on the odd occasion

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2009-11-29 Thread Colin Law
2009/11/29 JONATHAN TAYLOR jonptay...@btinternet.com Hi, Recently I downloaded the file for my mum's Canon iP4600 printer and installed it. It worked after the install, and we restarted Ubuntu so that I could see it working after a restart and it appeared to be ok. Trouble started the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wholel disk access ?

2009-12-10 Thread Colin Law
2009/12/10 Des g3...@talktalk.net: Hello All,        My system has Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.1 running dual boot.        Is it possible to access old files on 9.04 from 9.1?  If so how? I think you should see the other partition in the Places menu, possibly with a name just indicating the size of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu forums down or dns problem?

2009-12-10 Thread Colin Law
2009/12/10 John Levin technola...@gmail.com: Hi, Every time I try going to ubuntuforums.org, I get redirected to launchpad.net. Is this happening for other people? Are the forums down, or am I having a dns problem? I believe there was a problem earlier this morning Colin --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] website appearance with ubuntu and firefox

2009-12-17 Thread Colin Law
2009/12/17 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: I was using a website, using firefox browser, recently and found that the display gave a text overlap of a field I wanted to use, which caused difficulty. I informed the site author and the matter is now awaiting correction. However, when I was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] website appearance with ubuntu and firefox

2009-12-17 Thread Colin Law
2009/12/17 Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com: 2009/12/17 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com: I was using a website, using firefox browser, recently and found that the display gave a text overlap of a field I wanted to use, which caused difficulty. I informed the site author and the matter is now

[ubuntu-uk] Video capture card wanted

2010-01-06 Thread Colin Law
believe I want one with hardware encoding. Something like the Hauppauge PVR 150 MCE I think, or an equivalent USB device would be even better. If anyone has anything suitable surplus to requirements that they would be prepared to sell I would be very interested. Many thanks Colin Law Ffarmers

[ubuntu-uk] DNS settings resetting

2010-01-15 Thread Colin Law
I am using Ubuntu 9.10 wired to a Linksys modem/router using DHCP to get IP etc. All works fine normally and if I right click on the connection icon in the top panel and select Connection Information I see my IP address etc as expected, including Primary and Secondary DNS servers as provided by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS settings resetting

2010-01-15 Thread Colin Law
2010/1/15 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk: On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 11:19 +, Colin Law wrote: I am using Ubuntu 9.10 wired to a Linksys modem/router using DHCP to get IP etc.  All works fine normally and if I right click on the connection icon in the top panel and select Connection

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS settings resetting

2010-01-16 Thread Colin Law
2010/1/15 James Tait james.t...@wyrddreams.org: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin Law wrote: I have looked for clues as to why the DNS settings might be disappearing but have not found anything logged anywhere, suggestions as to where to look for information would be much

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

2010-01-17 Thread Colin Law
2010/1/17 Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com: On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:32:33 -, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Joe wrote: However, it may be difficult to convince whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu on their computers so it could be worth having a number of live

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DNS settings resetting[Solved]

2010-01-17 Thread Colin Law
2010/1/15 Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com: I am using Ubuntu 9.10 wired to a Linksys modem/router using DHCP to get IP etc.  All works fine normally and if I right click on the connection icon in the top panel and select Connection Information I see my IP address etc as expected, including

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptops

2010-03-12 Thread Colin Law
On 13 March 2010 01:57, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:  - Avoid anything with a Celeron or Pentium Dual-Core. They're cut-down chips crippled. Get a Core 2 Duo as a minimum. (Or an AMD.) I think anything current (or even a couple of years old) will provide perfectly adequate performance

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Create a DVD

2010-03-26 Thread Colin Law
On 26 March 2010 10:22, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: I placed a DVD in the tray. A menu opened (CD/DVD creator). I dragdroped the mpeg file in there and clicked create. A dvd was created. This works fine on several pcs..but doesnt seem to work on a dvd player connected to a tv. What

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox loading at log-on

2010-04-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 April 2010 14:41, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Since the last round of updates towards the middle/end of last week, whenever I log on, Firefox loads itself and opens the UbuntuOne login page. OK, I usually *do* want to run Firefox fairly soon after switching on, but it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

2010-04-21 Thread Colin Law
On 21 April 2010 18:12, Les lespoun...@googlemail.com wrote: My joggler has finally arrived! Let the hacking commence LOL So has mine. I setup my usb stick and it boots into UNR fine. I then did sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get upgrade and it collected 200MB or thereabouts and spent a couple

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

2010-04-21 Thread Colin Law
On 21 April 2010 21:31, Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com wrote: snip installing the updates, it is now asking me which partitions to install grub on, with a choice of /dev/sda and /dev/mmcblk0 and I don't know which (or both) to select.  Are those the two partitions on the stick or

[ubuntu-uk] Joggler crackling, idle=halt in Grub.cfg

2010-04-22 Thread Colin Law
HI I have picked up the flash image from dysentry referenced in http://www.joggler.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33t=235 and it works fine. In http://www.jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Ubuntu_Netbook_Remix it is suggested the the crackling sound can be fixed by adding idle=halt to Grub.cfg. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler crackling, idle=halt in Grub.cfg

2010-04-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 April 2010 14:44, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:30 +0100, Colin Law wrote: HI I have picked up the flash image from dysentry referenced in http://www.joggler.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33t=235 and it works fine.  In http://www.jogglerwiki.info

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.

2010-04-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 April 2010 17:24, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 23/04/10 16:58, Markie wrote: Hi John, Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me. Some routers by default block WAN pings some

[ubuntu-uk] Joggler Remote Desktop sharing

2010-04-24 Thread Colin Law
Hi I am trying to get remote desktop sharing working with my O2 Joggler running Karmic UNE. I had to install vino and it works in the sense that I can connect, see the screen, move and click the mouse and type things, but the screen does not seem to be updating properly, sometimes it does not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler running UNR

2010-04-25 Thread Colin Law
On 17 April 2010 23:54, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: ... Errrm, OSK works fine, Im using OnBoard now, no problems. Just worked once accessibility was enabled in the menu editor. Kris, could you describe in a bit more detail what to do to get the on screen keyboard running, for one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler Remote Desktop sharing

2010-04-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 April 2010 15:18, paul morgan-roach roa...@roachy.net wrote: FreeNX is good, but it'll give you a separate X session rather than a session to the desktop running on the Joggler screen. Snip In the FreeNX client you can specify a shadow session which joins the currently running X

Re: [ubuntu-uk] get_iplayer fork

2010-05-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 May 2010 21:38, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: Hi folks, I gather the get_iplayer has been forked, the thing is, I can't seem to get it installed. I've been reading the instructions on the Git repository (here: http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer/blob/master/INSTALL) and I can get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Colin Law
On 14 May 2010 20:47, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On Friday 14 May 2010 17:06:35 Anton Piatek wrote: This has been discussed several times on the Debian lists - there are several prototypes or packages that do this already, some even using bittorrent, however most of the consensus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do if external hard drive isn't unmounted properly?

2010-05-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 May 2010 15:41, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 09:11 +0100, Avi Greenbury avismailinglistacco...@googlemail.com wrote: Rowan Berkeley wrote: It's NTFS. I originally put

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 May 2010 11:38, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing etc., are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still can't boot Lucid

2010-05-20 Thread Colin Law
On 19 May 2010 23:22, Tony Pursell a...@princeswalk.fsnet.co.uk wrote: Hi All I know I have asked about this before, but I am becoming desperate. Since I upgraded my desktop from Karmic to Lucid I cannot boot into Ubuntu. Have you tried the ubuntu support email list?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-23 Thread Colin Law
On 23 May 2010 21:27, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: On 23 May 2010 21:22, Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@southfarm.plus.com wrote: ... Problem 1: the USB sticks: - The 8 GB stick has no apparent fault as all the files on it can be seen OK. The 4 GB stick starts off

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 10:22, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'? Because the operation I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the disk, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 71

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 13:34, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:06 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-25 Thread Colin Law
On 25 May 2010 19:56, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: ... The w32codecs package seems to not be in Lucid anymore. I think it is in medibuntu. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: ... This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks. I shall have to run it just for an exploratory session. Presumably I can just stick it in, reboot, and see what happens. Thinking about it, it can't unmount the internal

[ubuntu-uk] Joggler woes

2010-05-29 Thread Colin Law
I just want to get my Joggler story off my chest. It may make me feel better. I ordered one shortly after the initial price cut. Unfortunately by then they were out of stock but a few weeks later it arrived. I started it up and all seemed well. Off it went to download the latest software

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My success and a quick question please!

2010-06-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 June 2010 17:24, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0100 From: Alan Pope a...@popey.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My success and a quick question please! To: UK Ubuntu Talk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My success and a quick question please!

2010-06-04 Thread Colin Law
was not a good idea as it wears it out by writing to it often. Flash has a limited life in terms of write cycles. Colin On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 4 June 2010 17:24, Dave Hanson d.han...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Message: 1 Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Critical Adobe Security Flaws

2010-06-07 Thread Colin Law
On 7 June 2010 14:36, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: Don’t know if you’ve seen this but might be worth checking which version you’re using www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa1-01.html That link does not appear to work, for me at least. Colin --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Canon PIXMA iP2500 error codes

2010-06-09 Thread Colin Law
On 8 June 2010 17:39, Wulfy wulfm...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: I recently changed the ink cartridge on my printer (Canon PIXMA iP2500) and now it won't print. I just get flashing lights. There are two lights, one is the power switch light, the other has symbols I can't interpret (one may be stuck

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Canon PIXMA iP2500 error codes

2010-06-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 June 2010 08:21, Wulfy wulfm...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: On 09/06/10 08:35, Colin Law wrote: For my ip4300 this information is in the manual, which is provided on CD as an installable windows package, not as paper.  Luckily it installs and runs happily in Wine on Ubuntu.  Or at least it did

[ubuntu-uk] Here endeth the era of the Joggler?

2010-06-16 Thread Colin Law
I see from the O2 website that the joggler is notable for it's absence. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quick Perl question...

2010-07-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 July 2010 21:12, LeeGroups mailgro...@varga.co.uk wrote: I'm having a bit of an issue with a Perl script on my Ubuntu server at home (can you see what I did there :)... The line in question is this... $solar_info =~ s/\/solar.*/,/;  From my tinkerings, this should find the string

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost internet usage in Ubuntu 9.04

2010-07-15 Thread Colin Law
On 13 July 2010 23:22, David King linux...@avoura.com wrote: In my Ubuntu 9.04 installation, just a few days ago, I lost my usage of the internet. I still had internet access. Firstly though, there was a problem with the router, so I tried a friend's router (both Netgear DG834) and the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Rsync to a remote computer

2010-08-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 August 2010 12:23, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote: Is it possible to use rsync to a folder on a remote computer? Yes If so what's the syntax? u...@server:folder/folder/.. I would have thought google would have given you this in seconds. Colin --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Vinagre to connect to a Linux machine on the same local network

2010-08-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 August 2010 11:03, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote: On 04/08/10 10:47, ByteSoup wrote: On 04/08/10 10:35, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: On 04/08/10 10:28, ByteSoup wrote: On 04/08/10 10:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: I have two Linux machines - a Tosh Satellite

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 August 2010 09:55, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 18 August 2010 09:52, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: As for names like GIMP, does Ifanview or Excel give any hint as to what the progam does. Don't diss GIMP... we all know it's the GNU Image Manipulation

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 August 2010 11:23, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 18 August 2010 11:17, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: The G is already recursive. Only in that it's GNU... GIMP is not recursive in itself... It depends on the definition of recursive I suppose. If you fully expand

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 August 2010 11:35, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 18 August 2010 11:33, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: It depends on the definition of recursive I suppose.  If you fully expand it: GIMP - No, it doesn't... recursive acronyms don't involve expanding the components

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 August 2010 12:44, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: No, GIMP cannot be recursive by any definition... GIMP is recursive by the definition 'An Acronym is defined as recursive if it refers to itself in the expression for which it stands, or if any of the initials stands for a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 August 2010 13:58, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 18 August 2010 13:09, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: GIMP is recursive by the definition  'An Acronym is defined as recursive if it refers to itself in the expression for which it stands, or if any of the initials

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-19 Thread Colin Law
On 18 August 2010 23:19, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 18 August 2010 18:11, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: I did not say that it was necessarily a generally accepted definition, merely that by that definition GIMP is recursive and therefore my original statement

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler as a File server

2010-08-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 August 2010 09:06, Cornelius Mostert corneliusmost...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi all I have my Joggler up and running for some time now, but looks like it freeze at lease once a day and sometimes does not reboot very well (when the O2 logo comes up before Ubuntu then this O2 logo look a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler as a File server

2010-08-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 August 2010 16:03, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote: [...] Hello Comelius, I would not have thought that a joggler was reliable enough for a file server, unless you are doing it just for the challenge.  My joggler often needs a reboot or just crashes I have mine running Disca's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logo Vote

2010-08-27 Thread Colin Law
On 27 August 2010 16:30, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 27 Aug 2010, at 14:20, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: All the pending votes have now been approved, if you have voted already and didn't get a mail, don't worry about it, your vote got counted. If you really

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanning old photographs

2010-08-30 Thread Colin Law
On 30 August 2010 13:17, Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@southfarm.plus.com wrote: [...] The OP says he wishes to scan slides. Actually he said he did *not* need to scan slides. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Selling Joggler Wiki

2010-08-31 Thread Colin Law
On 30 August 2010 20:21, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: [...] I have decided to sell the wiki ... The website is: http://www.jogglerwiki.info for anyone who has forgotten ;) Does anyone know who runs the forum site http://www.joggler.info/ ? I wonder whether the sites could

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Selling Joggler Wiki

2010-08-31 Thread Colin Law
On 31 August 2010 10:17, Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 August 2010 10:07, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 30 August 2010 20:21, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com wrote: [...]  I have decided to sell the wiki ... The website is: http://www.jogglerwiki.info

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-08-31 Thread Colin Law
On 31 August 2010 12:24, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: There were 85 voters and the results in order of the options are: [...] Making this the most popular logo option: http://pollka.libertus.co.uk/pics/full/logo14.svg (don't worry about the 14 in the URL, that means

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-08-31 Thread Colin Law
On 31 August 2010 14:54, azmodie azmo...@gmail.com wrote: On 31 August 2010 14:44, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 31 August 2010 12:24, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: There were 85 voters and the results in order of the options are: [...] Making

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating Website on server.......

2010-09-06 Thread Colin Law
On 6 September 2010 18:06, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:  On 05/09/10 17:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 05/09/10 16:27, John Matthews wrote:     On the advice of somebody on here, I installed Vanilla Forums, which seemed to go ok and is working sort of. The problem is, it needs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommend a small form factor pc

2010-09-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 September 2010 18:46, Mark markymo...@gmail.com wrote: snip As a Acer Revo user (attached to back of a Wharfdale TV @ £150 ebuyer) and a Keysonic mouse keyboard combo (£30 ebuyer) I could find a better solution to a box-on-tv option running Ubuntu. Did you mean you could _not_ find a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banks and Ubuntu support for business users

2010-10-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 October 2010 16:03, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, A quick question I'd like to put to the list. The business web site of my bank doesn't work with Firefox on Ubuntu anymore (it used to), even though it works fine with Firefox on Mac. A support query I filed resulted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banks and Ubuntu support for business users

2010-10-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 October 2010 16:52, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: [...] What I'm interested in is the last bit. Whether their web site happens to work on Linux or not is one thing. But as soon as you send a support query, you get a canned answer saying they don't officially support it. What

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banks and Ubuntu support for business users

2010-10-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 October 2010 16:03, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, A quick question I'd like to put to the list. The business web site of my bank doesn't work with Firefox on Ubuntu anymore (it used to), even though it works fine with Firefox on Mac. A support query I filed resulted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-10 Thread Colin Law
On 10 October 2010 18:07, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: I am having similar problems to the gentlman with the bank page. I have animals, and have a page called www.petsathome.com which I was able to get on till I got the upgrade to beta last week. I use Google Chrome, and it worked ok

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 07:32, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Surely this is all back to front? If the HTML is rubbish, and newer versions of the rendering engines are throwing it out, perhaps the key would be to work out WHY they are creating blank sites and fix your own site? It is not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 10:24, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/10/10 09:45, Sean Miller wrote: Unsupported proprietary plug-ins, perhaps? Sean Spoke too soon, the page disappeared, but took longer to go than with the plug-ins. :( So its not the plug-ins. I still don't know which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 10:56, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: Problem is now, how do I set up a new profile in Chrome. I am now getting a message when I start this version saying 'Your profile cannot be used because it is from a newer version of Google Chrome. Some features may be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 11:31, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/10/10 11:17, Colin Law wrote: Google for   google chrome profile   yields many hits, alternatively you could uninstall and purge google-chrome and re-install it.  That should clear the settings (in ~/.config/google-chrome I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 11:58, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote: On 11/10/10 11:41, Jacob Mansfield wrote: sudo apt-get purge google-chrome sudo apt-get install google-chrome Jacob Mansfield Programmer Did the purge, it worked, but cant install, no google chrome to install. looked in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pages not loading in Ubuntu 10.10

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Law
On 11 October 2010 19:40, Traveller travel...@petlover.com wrote: On 11/10/2010 11:29, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:14:14PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote: Whoa! Hold it! Stop the world! I have not seen any message from John Matthews with the Subject of Pages not loading in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 October 2010 10:28, Melv Bailey melvbai...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi My first post and its only as a result of frustration with Ubuntu. I would like to post here a post I posted in the Ubuntu forums which got no repsonse other than load the NVidia driver (not the point of the original

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 October 2010 01:29, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 15/10/10 21:49, Colin Law wrote: On 15 October 2010 13:15, Jim Priced1vers...@hotmail.com  wrote: On 15/10/10 08:33, clanlaw wrote: I am near Lampeter, mid Wales.  Not a hot spot of Unbuntu fanatics as far as I can tell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-17 Thread Colin Law
On 17 October 2010 13:56, Jim Price d1vers...@hotmail.com wrote: On 16/10/10 09:10, Colin Law wrote: On 16 October 2010 01:29, Jim Priced1vers...@hotmail.com  wrote: On 15/10/10 21:49, Colin Law wrote: On 15 October 2010 13:15, Jim Priced1vers...@hotmail.com    wrote: On 15/10/10 08:33

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 October 2010 14:03, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Apologies for bringing this dead thread back to life. Would just like a quick opinion  from someone on this... As you know my pc kept shutting down mysteriously. I took it into a local pc shop who are telling me that a faulty hard

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-19 Thread Colin Law
On 19 October 2010 14:14, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Yes thats what i meant. The expert has located to the problem to a faulty hard drive which is why it kept shutting down. Im not convinced though. I should still be able to boot my pc up with no hard drives attached and just a CD

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-20 Thread Colin Law
On 20 October 2010 10:42, jakewc2 jake...@sky.com wrote: Well, this thread was a total waste of time. All this crap about help, willingness, is a load of bollocks. Your just a nasty group of people. I seem to remember we helped you out ok with your problem using an unstable version of Chrome

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 October 2010 10:47, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 22 October 2010 10:44, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: I drilled throught the outside wall and have CAT5 all around the outside.  Quick, easy, fast, secure ...almost certainly against building regs.. :) I would not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 October 2010 12:45, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 22/10/10 11:42, Will Bickerstaff wrote: [...] For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/ +1 for GnuCash for personal use, don't know about business Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

2010-11-01 Thread Colin Law
On 31 October 2010 22:29, Grant Sewell dcg...@thymox.co.uk wrote: I have found that my laptop (nVidia GeForce 7000 Mobile graphics chip) doesn't detect the resolution supported by external monitors correctly unless it is attached when the computer is turned on.  It will happily detect that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IRC Meeting tonight 19th October

2010-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On 3 November 2010 22:42, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: I only just got it for some strange reason Same here Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

2010-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 November 2010 14:19, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Plug in the monitor then go to System Preferences Monitors (or Displays I think, dependent on Ubuntu version) then click Detect Monitors and it should then recognise it. Colin Unless I'm missing something here (recovering from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dvd format

2010-11-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 November 2010 08:20, Ted Wager t...@trufflesdad.plus.com wrote: I have d/loaded a few vid files the format of these DVDRiP Xvid K and .avi..Thes will play ok on the computer but my dvd player tells me unknown format...Anyone tell me what format I should use to make them readable by my dvd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dvd format

2010-11-08 Thread Colin Law
On 8 November 2010 08:29, Ted Wager t...@trufflesdad.plus.com wrote: On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 08:24 +, Colin Law wrote: On 8 November 2010 08:20, Ted Wager t...@trufflesdad.plus.com wrote: I have d/loaded a few vid files the format of these DVDRiP Xvid K and .avi..Thes will play ok

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

2010-11-12 Thread Colin Law
On 11 November 2010 22:23, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +, Bruno Girin wrote: For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this text, shifting those books to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Special bugs, and Live CDs. Help with this Bug please?

2010-11-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 November 2010 09:22, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:51 +, alan c wrote: I got burned by a nasty bug in the live CD of 10.10 which has the effect of wiping your whole hard drive if you should be so unlucky to choose a particular install option

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Special bugs, and Live CDs. Help with this Bug please?

2010-11-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 November 2010 11:33, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 12 November 2010 09:57, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: Yes, but *what* particular sequence? Nobody has yet spelled it out, AFAICS. I'd like to know so I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Special bugs, and Live CDs. Help with this Bug please?

2010-11-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 November 2010 13:18, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I wasn't trying to install - I was just trying to run from LiveCD to check for hardware issues. Although I chose that option, it chuntered away for several minutes before I decided that it wasn't loading. When I chose Cancel,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A chance to say Hello!

2010-11-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 November 2010 17:01, Neil Perry npe...@gmail.com wrote: Ot;  small world I use to live in redditch.  Moved away a couple of years back. Even smaller, I was brought up in Redditch (Headless Cross), till 1973. Perhaps there is some chemical in the water that affects the brain, leaning it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A chance to say Hello!

2010-11-12 Thread Colin Law
On 12 November 2010 19:50, Josh Holland j...@joshh.co.uk wrote: Worcester proper for me, though I'm in Oxford during term time. All of you folks should be coming along to get WorcsLUG going again. There is a pub meet arranged for the 7th in Worcester, and I'll most likely be going along. The

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading

2010-11-13 Thread Colin Law
On 13 November 2010 19:32, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: [...] Is the not formatting /home a new feature? If its not set up as a seperate partition, then it is just mounted under /    which gets formatted on install If you specify _not_ to format / then home is left as is. I have just used

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading

2010-11-15 Thread Colin Law
On 15 November 2010 12:29, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: Fighting for the old ways here; with a seperate partition, you can share your /home with multiple installs :) Often this is ok, but you can run into problems if you run different versions of an app using the same /home as the settings

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading

2010-11-16 Thread Colin Law
On 16 November 2010 08:06, Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 November 2010 00:04, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 13 November 2010 22:42,  bod...@googlemail.com wrote: I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't remember seeing it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas Party \o/

2010-11-18 Thread Colin Law
On 18 November 2010 21:37, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 14:36 +, Alan Bell wrote: Hi all, I am pleased to announce the Ubuntu UK Christmas party. It will be at the Hub Islington (same venue as last year) on Tuesday 21st December from 7PM until about 10ish

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new motherboard- Installing ubuntu

2010-11-22 Thread Colin Law
On 22 November 2010 12:11, javadayaz javada...@gmail.com wrote: Some of you know may know my problems with my pc. Ive been told its most likely my Mobo. I am now intending to buy a new motherboard. I will install my old hard drives in this. Will i be able to install ubuntu on this without

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gronk, gronk, gronk

2010-11-26 Thread Colin Law
On 26 November 2010 09:04, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, Every time I start my laptop, it goes gronk... gronk, gronk, gronk... gronk, gronk, gronk, and flashes the light on the CD drive a few times. I thought this might be because I had set it to attempt to load from CD

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nouveau hates me...

2010-11-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 November 2010 01:15, danteash...@gmail.com danteash...@gmail.com wrote: Hey all. My name is Dante, big fan of Ubuntu and all that; but I have a problem, and I wonder if you guys can help...my laptop hates Nouveau, you see. If I try and run Ubuntu on it, then I am faced with a

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