On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 08:19 +0100, Martyn wrote:
When your perl script runs have it make a working directory and then
symlink (ln -s) every file that matches the criteria into the working
directory. Then at the end of the run you'll have a directory with all
the matching files in it, and you
On Mon, 2007-06-04 at 13:56 +0100, Martyn wrote:
If you've got a list of jpegs in files.lis then something like
for file in `cat files.lis `; do echo ffmpeg -options $file ; done
should do the trick. If the ffmpeg encoding is complex then it might
be cleaner to code a simple script
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 10:27 +0100, James Tait wrote:
Robin Hall wrote:
Many thanks for your prompt response. I did what you suggest and got a
long script but I simply don't know enough to understand what it
represents.
This is the information we need to be able to help out.
Yes
I
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 22:03 +0100, Robin Hall wrote:
I would be most grateful to anybody who can suggest a solution to this
problem.
Could you run http://www.linux-sound.info/alsa/scripts/alsa-info.sh and
give us the link to the pastebin produced?
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On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:18 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
I was just browsing through the No 10 E-Petitions website and came
across these two petitions. I signed them and hope you will too ;-)
E-petitions never do any good... :(
It's just a way for the government to say; yeah, we hear you loud and
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:37 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:37:37AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Where can I submit some and what dimensions?
I dont think we have a process yet, but if we uploaded the whole site to
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 13:21 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Hmmm, this is interesting. Looks like Canonical has plans for Ubuntu
on mobile devices
http://www.ubuntu.com/employment#UMDEV
Looks like they do:
https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-devel-announce/2007-May/000289.html
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On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 08:47 +0100, I C McNab wrote:
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote:
On 29/04/07, I C McNab [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I wonder if anyone can advise re this. I'm not getting copies of my own
posts to the list, though my subscription options have this set.
[SNIP]
This because
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:16 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
I even thought about making the journey to Robin's and suggesting that
list members could make some contribution to the costs. But I drive a
gas-guzzler and it'd cost a small fortune. Besides, I haven't got that
much spare time right now.
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:34 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
I'm afraid that my missus has put her oar in and insists that she has
the new machine. This means that I shall have to transfer all her
folders + Neooffice J (she doesn't like the later versions) on to the
new machine via pen drive
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:41 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:26 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:16 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
I even thought about making the journey to Robin's and suggesting that
list members could make some contribution to the costs. But I
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 16:14 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
Does this mean that Fiesty won't go on a PowerPCmac leaving me with
Dapper ?
No. It only means that there is no official support by Canonical. I'm
unsure of the availability of security updates as a result.
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:03 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Hi Toby, have you got any experience with these machines? If so, can
you give Robin a hand with the preparation for the install? To us it's
probably an easy task, but everyone's at different levels, and Robin
could do with all the help he
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 09:10 +0100, Green, Matthew A. wrote:
PassivePROFITS (a.k.a PP) Wrote:
2. Can I back up direct from / (ex3) to NTFS
(or do I need to format current NTFS to ex3 1st?
I don't think (not 100% sure) you'll be able to write to NTFS (excluding
experimental stuff)
On Tue, 2007-04-24 at 12:29 +0100, Ian Davies (2) wrote:
Does anyone know when Ubuntu Studio is coming out?
Hi. I work on UbuntuStudio, and at the moment we are just fixing some
bugs with the discs and getting all the packages in line. We hope not to
have the release delayed much longer.
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On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 13:35 -0700, Robin Stent wrote:
Just wanted to let you know that I've added a load of marketing material to
my Spread Ubuntu site. As well as some of the more obviously available stuff
I've collated items from various forum posts etc that should be a useful
resource for
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:21 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
Hi Folks
does anyone know what the criteria is for incorporating new stable packages
from existing applications into the various repositories?
For instance, if within Gnome a new stable version of one of it's component
programs were
On Sun, 2007-04-22 at 20:56 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
I'm fairly sure that's right, so next logical question is with the Live CDs,
how often are those images updated to reflect the flaws and bugs found in
the current version of Ubuntu
Dapper, being a Long-Term Support release has the
On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 22:01 +0100, alan c wrote:
Is anyone finding they can play stuff from bbc please? It might give
me some clues?
I get sound, but no picture, either with realplayer or mplayer
apparently. If it worked ok in the past - great, buut when it does
not work there is a lot to
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:17 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
What's the latest in wireless that's available on Ubuntu? I'm using 'b'
'g', but what's the state of play with 'n'/'pre-n'?
Does n/pre-n require any special facilities in the host OS? I always
thought it was a feature of the hardware...
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 15:02 +0100, Rob Stent wrote:
If you have any comments or suggestions about the site I'd love to hear
them. I do occasionally check this list but if possible I'd prefer
comments to be made on the forum.
Have you collaborated with the Marketing Team [0] with this? They
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:30 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
Every time I get sucked into this debate, I reflect back that John Q.
Public/Joe Sixpack calls it Linux. You may not like it, and probably
don't, but that's not going to change the general public's mind as to
it's proper name.
...but
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 19:34 +, STONE COLD wrote:
ok too hard, igive up...a reinstall is in order...thanks for yur help guys!
/etc/apt/sources.list is a file. Don't give up so easily. Open a
terminal, and run `gksudo gedit /etc/apt/sources.list ` to edit it.
gksudo gives you root (aka
On Sat, 2007-03-03 at 15:25 +, Robin Menneer wrote:
[snip]
Postscript. Found (eventually) at www.xru.org.index.asp a program
which I used on line (on a mac), is very simple, and apart from not
drawing the graph, did all I wanted, including giving me the points
for me to draw. It should
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 22:48 +, gord wrote:
On Wed, 2007-02-28 at 22:11 +, Benjamin Webb wrote:
I thought I'd point out
http://www.number-10.gov.uk/output/Page11077.asp , the response to the
petition to stop software patents. Apparently software patents are
already illegal in the
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 19:01 +, baza wrote:
This one is worth signing.
http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/
Yes, I blogged about that:
http://tibsplace.co.uk/blog/index.php/2007/02/21/reply-from-the-bbc-regarding-pro-microsoft-bias-in-vista-news-reporting/
Hopefully good things will happen.
On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 22:35 +, baza wrote:
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,
On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 23:06 +, Stephen Morrish wrote:
OK I'm new here, so Hi to everyone. Now that's out of the way... I
tried FreeSpire before ubuntu. There were several things I didn't like
about it and one of those was CNR. Not the method, but the whole feel
of the thing. It felt like I
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 18:21 +, Paul Mellors wrote:
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.
The general public don't care, why should they? It works, ok it
On Sat, 2007-02-03 at 19:36 +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
As a Silver-surfer who is better at hardware than software and has
just set up a machine with Edgy Eft, can anyone advise the most
straight forward means of getting it online. My current ISP (BT
Broadband) does not support
On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 11:34 -0500, Scrase, Eddie wrote:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbctrust/consult/open-consultations/ondemand_services.html
Well I've replied very damningly.
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Very aptly described.
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:23 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:33 +, Matthew East wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:45 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 14:54 +0100, Matthew East wrote:
On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:48 +, Alan Pope wrote:
Works fine here*. Get a decent mail client ;)
(*Evolution in Ubuntu).
That's what I use. Click Reply, trying to reply to the author, not the
list. Read the link. :)
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On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:51 +, Matthew East wrote:
Erm no: he's right. Reply-to is set to the list address on list emails.
Personally I don't mind it, myself.
I mind it because it makes me look stupid.
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On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 21:57 +, Benjamin Webb wrote:
Hello there,
Hi Benjamin.
I'm new to the Ubuntu-UK community. I've recently install Edgy Eft on
a relatively old computer of mine and it is working fine.
Great!
I thought I'd contribute to the discussion here, because I am in my
last
On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 22:01 +, Roberto Sarrionandia wrote:
Hi Ben,
I'm also nearing the end of secondary school. If only we were a little
younger to see if OSS gets implemented at all.
It's ok! tsmithe to the rescue! I'll do the seeing for you :)
Welcome to Ubuntu-UK, the schools
,
Toby Smithe
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On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 23:28 +, London School of Puppetry wrote:
I had an Epson printer with expiry chip and it drove me mad and wasted
millions of pounds.
A printer cost you millions? I wish I had that kind of money to throw
away :P
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Hi. I'm curious: do you have whiteboards and do they work?
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 09:42 +, Alistair Crust wrote:
Hi, I would have to strongly disagree with your outlook here.
I talk from experience as a systems admin at Skegness Grammar school in
Lincolnshire. We have run LTSP with several
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 18:35 +, London School of Puppetry wrote:
I have seen whiteboard in a number of schools recently all working
brilliantly. Caroline
Using free software? Ubuntu, in particular?
On 17/01/07, Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi. I'm curious: do you have
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 23:45 +, Freddie Ruddick wrote:
On 17/01/07, Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Using free software? Ubuntu, in particular?
In my experience, the most common whiteboards in use are
Smartboards, made by SMART Technologies1. Their international
support website2
Thanks - you've been helpful. I'll get on there and make myself known
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 21:03 +, Andy Trevor wrote:
Toby Smithe wrote:
On Sat, 2007-01-13 at 10:17 +, Andy Trevor wrote:
Toby Smithe wrote:
Hi Phil,
I am all too keen to work with Becta
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:41 +, Phil Bull wrote:
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 11:14 +, gord wrote:
Snippet:
UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's
academic licensing programs face the 'significant potential' of being
locked in to the company's software,
Hi Phil,
I am all too keen to work with Becta. However, I feel that they should
at least allow me the simple courtesy of a hard-earned reply.
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 21:44 +, Phil Bull wrote:
Hi Toby,
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 20:16 +, Toby Smithe wrote:
[...]
I have been quite busy
Llywelyn, if I were you; I'd follow popey's advice
On Sun, 2007-01-07 at 08:38 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 18:27 +, Llywelyn Owen wrote:
I need some help please.
http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html#RealPlayer sates that to
install Realplayer support in Firefox:
I hasten to point out that freeware is not free software; in any way.
Free software is a system of morals and ethics which somehow results in
much of the software involved being free - as in price - to use.
Freeware only implies the latter, and implies not the former.
On Fri, 2007-01-05 at 18:23
I personally used to be very much more forum oriented. However, I now
find all I want in the lists; which are much more specific, and just as
active (and in the same kind of way) as the forums. Plus, I get it all
sorted and presented nicely. I also use IRC a lot - it's live and
instantaneous
On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 23:12 +, Chris Oattes wrote:
I agree with 2100 on the 10th January
Thirded
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On Fri, 2006-12-29 at 12:16 +, James Tait wrote:
Hi All,
There's been quite a lot of discussion about this while I've been away
over the Xmas period, and since I've been so vocal on the subject in the
past (I'm like a dog with a bone!) I'd like to offer my tuppence worth
on the subject.
On Tue, 2006-12-26 at 20:01 +, Dave Ewart wrote:
On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 23:16 -, Jonathan Lees wrote:
The problem will never be resolved if non teachers can't see it from
the teachers point of view, managing a class of 31 students all with
different abilities working at
On Sat, 2006-12-23 at 22:20 +, Ashley Hooper wrote:
Found this on LinuxToday, today:
http://www.computeractive.co.uk/computeractive/news/2171542/education-driving-force-behind
The article starts off sounding very positive but the conclusion leaves a bit
of room for doubt.
I don't
Even worse: it's exactly the same response I got from Jim Knight, which
you can read at
http://tibsplace.co.uk/blog/index.php/2006/12/20/free-software-in-schools/
That's terrible!
On Fri, 2006-12-22 at 13:39 +, James Tait wrote:
Me again,
I think I need to read through it a few more
, Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It looks like your router is at 192.168.1.1
Go there in a web browser, and see what the router console says.
Hi Toby. Yep, that's right. Have already got the settings sorted as
per Pipex's instructions. It's all working from Windows, so I don't
think
Personally, I think Linus is being short-sighted. When we have much,
much more power, and companies are actively begging to support Linux,
THEN we make the switch. This would push them, through their clamouring,
to create open specs at the very least, or better, to release GPL
drivers.
I do
On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 04:14 +, Dean Sas wrote:
I do on all my machines, I'd guess that many others who simply don't
need the full potential do the same.
I use the full potential, and I use free drivers! Intel don't seem to
have any problem; why should others?
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On Fri, 2006-12-15 at 17:32 +, Gary wrote:
If you uninstall Beryl, do you still get the error?
I un-installed beryl completely, and rebooted, error had gone,
reinstalled beryl and it's fine now...
I had before only disabled beryl loading, but this obviously was not
enough.
dunno
Hip hip, huzzah!
On Wed, 2006-12-13 at 09:42 +, Nicholas Butler wrote:
Well Christmas has come early for the UKTeam community since the hard
working Elves of the Community Council considered, and the approved, the
UKTeam application [2] . Congratulatations also went to Nik Butler, Alan
This is very positive, and I have been preparing to do the same at my
(rather oppressive) school.
On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 14:14 +, chombee wrote:
Following Ubuntu installs we've been doing for people over the last year
or so, we found that if students are writing an essay at home on their
.
With kind regard,
Greg Clark MP
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:20 +, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:04 +, Dean Sas wrote:
Andrew Gee wrote:
My MP says that he is making enquiries of the House of Commons' Library
about the points I raised and he has also made specific
On Fri, 2006-11-24 at 23:00 +, john levin wrote:
Still, it will be interesting to see what comes of this. Note that you
can send an email to your mp just like that, via: www.writetothem.com ,
and you can track signatures (and party affiliations) at:
I am writing to my MP. This is a very important step. I hope my school
takes note.
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 16:25 +, Andy wrote:
I thought the following could be of interest to Ubuntu-uk.
Its from the Free Software Foundation Europe's UK List
One thing it doesn't provide is a link to the
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:13 +, Nik Butler wrote:
Can I ask , if you have written a letter to your MP in relation to
anything open source would it then be possible that you might post the
text of your letter somewhere appropriate on this Wiki ? I think theres
many of us for whom letter
.
Yours sincerely,
Toby Smithe
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What a great e-mail. I do hope you aren't paying a licence fee,
however. :)
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 02:09 +, Anthony Vickers wrote:
Toby Smithe wrote:
Forwarded to wrong list! Oops!
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:22 +, Dean Sas wrote:
Toby Smithe wrote:
Hell! It had a 4
In recent BIOSes, there should be an option for legacy USB support.
This, and the ability to boot from USB. GRUB should recognise external
USB drives as extra hard drives, ie (hd0) is the main drive, (hd1) the
first USB.
On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 06:24 +, Sean Miller wrote:
I now have Edgy
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 16:38 +, tim matthews wrote:
yes, how about a mysql-server-5.0 which works on edgy?
mine crashed on me and I had to get rid of it.
thus ... I think ubuntu is rushing things far too much here. looking at
edgy, it seems a real disaster in the terms of stability.
will work well.
thus, what does a new ubuntu release mean? it doesn't work? should we
regard new non-LTS releases less stable than debian sid?
t.
Toby Smithe wrote:
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 16:38 +, tim matthews wrote:
yes, how about a mysql-server-5.0 which works on edgy?
mine
Forwarded to wrong list! Oops!
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:22 +, Dean Sas wrote:
Toby Smithe wrote:
Hell! It had a 4 month release, and was called bloody Edgy! What else
do you need as a prompt? That's the whole point in LTS
Toby,
Could you consider being more polite towards
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