Re: Bigpond Ubuntu Respository

2007-12-21 Thread Les Gray
Am Samstag, den 22.12.2007, 13:32 +1100 schrieb Norman Ma: > Hey, > > I'm a Bigpond user, and this looks pretty useful to me. It doesn't > provide any instructions on setting it as the main software source for > Synaptic, so how would I go about doing that? > You can switch to the Bigpond mirro

Re: Motherboard Suggestions

2008-01-15 Thread Les Gray
Am Dienstag, den 15.01.2008, 11:30 +1000 schrieb Tate Johnson: > That said, my server currently utilises the nVidia nForce 570 Ultra > chipset and I haven't had a single issue! My previous desktop was > based on the nForce 2 Ultra chipset which was also problem-free. Yep, both those nVidia c

Re: Ubuntu on Dell laptops here in Aus?

2008-01-18 Thread Les Gray
Am Donnerstag, den 17.01.2008, 22:10 -0800 schrieb Dov: > G'day Andrew, > > I just checked out the Good Guys webs, and found not only an Acer, but > a tiny little Asus laptop with the OS marked as Linux. > > Very nice to see... > > Dov That's the ASUS Eee PC, which was briefly discussed on thi

Re: eeePC

2008-01-21 Thread Les Gray
Thanks for the info, Mark. I've got just a couple more questions. Am Dienstag, den 22.01.2008, 09:17 +1100 schrieb Mark M Lambert: > You still have to fill out the access form and hand it in at Library > level 2. Best to do it before session one starts and things get busy. As I understand it, wh

Re: eeePC

2008-01-24 Thread Les Gray
Hi, The eeePC screen res is 800x480, on a 7" screen. It's small, but that's the nature of this device - a portable computer that's even more portable than a laptop. Not long ago I heard a rumour (can't remember where) that there was going to be a model with a 10" screen, but that the idea was scr

RE: EeePC

2008-01-24 Thread Les Gray
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 09:54 +1000 schrieb Chris Jones: > IMO, the Asus EeePC is simply too small for the price. Considering for less > than $200 extra, you can get a full featured Windows notebook with much > better hardware and more importantly, more screen real estate. > > Obviously, it s

Re: eeePC

2008-01-24 Thread Les Gray
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 13:44 +1100 schrieb Blindraven: > What about the Ipod touch? Now that really is too small, plus I think you'd have too much of a hard time getting other OSes onto it, assuming that's even possible. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

SDHC card unmount issue on eeePC

2008-01-25 Thread Les Gray
Hi, I have eeeXubuntu installed to the 4GB solid state drive on my eeePC, with /home and swap on a 4GB SDHC card, which is referenced in /etc/fstab. The trouble is that when I restart/shutdown the SDHC card doesn't get unmounted cleanly, as reported by fsck during the startup messages. I've trie

Re: SDHC card unmount issue on eeePC

2008-01-25 Thread Les Gray
Am Freitag, den 25.01.2008, 21:01 +1100 schrieb Les Gray: > I have eeeXubuntu installed to the 4GB solid state drive on my eeePC, > with /home and swap on a 4GB SDHC card, which is referenced > in /etc/fstab. I've decided to resolve this issue by - 1. Moving /home to the eeePC&#x

Re: SDHC card unmount issue on eeePC

2008-01-25 Thread Les Gray
Am Samstag, den 26.01.2008, 12:43 +1100 schrieb Mark M Lambert: > Les, > > I have a slightly different setup to you but have not had the unmounting > issue. As the eeePC belongs to the missus I am not allow to "break it" > so I installed eeeXubuntu to a SD card, with only GRUB being installed >

Re: Firefox crash when accessing ANZ internet banking

2008-01-29 Thread Les Gray
Am Dienstag, den 29.01.2008, 20:41 +1030 schrieb mike james: > Commonwealth works fine though. You could change banks. I heard thats > meant to be easy these days ?? > ;) I've never had any trouble with CBA. At least not with their internet banking site. :D -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-a

Re: Ie conflict with Mozilla downloads?

2008-01-29 Thread Les Gray
Am Mittwoch, den 30.01.2008, 14:04 +1100 schrieb The Wassermans: > So I figured that I should download Firefox and use it > to download my requirements but IE jacks up at that too! I'm not quite sure what you mean by this. Are you saying that IE didn't allow you to download the Firefox program

Re: Thunderbird address book/email recovery

2008-02-01 Thread Les Gray
Am Samstag, den 02.02.2008, 07:09 +1100 schrieb The Wassermans: > I am attempting to recover a Thunderbird (Windows version) address book > and emails from a HDD which has been installed as a slave. The HDD > comes from a system where XP crashed. I can access all of the files on > the HDD but

Re: nVidia Widescreen no longer working

2008-02-05 Thread Les Gray
Am Mittwoch, den 06.02.2008, 15:35 +1000 schrieb Simon: > The issue I'm now having is that on every restart the login window and > my desktop default back to a poor 800x600 resolution. I can reset this > to 1280x800 by selecting System -> Administration -> Screens and > Graphics but is there

Re: RAID software raid... confusion easy ubuntu method ?

2008-02-06 Thread Les Gray
Am Donnerstag, den 07.02.2008, 16:45 +1100 schrieb Gabriel Noronha: > Is there a linux software raid which is nicer than the one which has to > work with windows ? Yes. There are a few good howtos out there. I found this one on the Ubuntu forums - http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=408461

Re: screen resolution

2008-02-24 Thread Les Gray
Am Sonntag, den 24.02.2008, 19:30 +1100 schrieb david: > I am using 7.10, I have Nvidia 7600 geforce video card. > every time I switch the computer on I have to type gksudo > nvidia-settings into terminal to set the resolution 1280x1024. this > setting will not stay saved. Could someone able to a

Re: screen resolution

2008-02-25 Thread Les Gray
Am Montag, den 25.02.2008, 18:58 +1100 schrieb david: > In response to both replies. > This is what I get when i click save to X configuration file > > Unable to remove old X config backup file '/etc/X11/xorg.conf.backup'. > > and the same response when I dont use the gksudo at the begining of t

Re: streamlining for eee pc

2008-04-01 Thread Les Gray
Am Mittwoch, den 02.04.2008, 08:07 +0800 schrieb Senectus .: > > James > You're probably better off just jumping right to the pre-optimized > distro for it, eeeXubuntu: > http://wiki.eeeuser.com/ubuntu:eeexubuntu:home Was gonna suggest eeeXubuntu, too. A post about installing a slightly newer k

Re: DVD menu support

2008-04-03 Thread Les Gray
Am Donnerstag, den 03.04.2008, 17:25 +1000 schrieb Paul Gear: > Hi folks, > > Any idea what package i need to enable to get DVD menu support? My > wife's desktop plays them fine, but my laptop doesn't, and i can't see > any difference in the dpkg -l list that would be significant. > > Paul AFA

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-10 Thread Les Gray
On Fri Apr 11 9:48 , Paul Gear sent: > > > >Anyone know any good digital tuner hardware (PCI, USB, or > otherwise) > > > >that works with Ubuntu? I don't want to spend money on a new > TV. :-) > > My vote goes to the AVerMedia

Re: Digital TV hardware?

2008-04-11 Thread Les Gray
Am Freitag, den 11.04.2008, 16:47 +1000 schrieb Glenn Davy: > hey les - you using this? do you know if this box provide a video out so > i can also go from pc into my good ol SD pal TV? Hi Glenn, yep, I'm a happy user of this unit. The box itself has no video out (or in). But I just use the TV-o

Re: Microsoft CDs

2008-07-03 Thread Les Gray
The Wassermans schrieb: > Err. What does "BSD" mean please? > > Dave W > It's another family of Unix-like operating systems. The acronym is 'Berkeley Software Distribution', because it originated in the University of California, Berkeley (I think). In business contextxs 'BSD' also has a more

Re: [OT]Re: Microsoft CDs

2008-07-03 Thread Les Gray
Null Ack schrieb: > Its not lunacy at all. > > I do own a 360, but I consider the PC gaming experience to be superior > to a console. As well, there is many use cases of having cool uses for > linux gaming - such as on mobile media devices or mobile phones. > > There is no technical reason why Linu