Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Philip Newborough
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:48:43 + "Sean Miller" wrote: > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Colin McCarthy > wrote: > > As 'Three' customer my dongle is only £5 a month for 1GB. More than > > enough mobile bandwidth. > > If I'm programming websites on ssh I would imagine that isn't a lot of >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Robert Longstaff
> How supported is it with Ubuntu? Is there a particular network that > works well, are they all as easy as it comes or should I just forget > it entirely and route through a Windows PC? My 3G modem from '3' (a Huawei E220) worked straight away on my Acer Aspire One running Intrepid. I don't bel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Simon Wears
Ian, out of curiosity, what laptop do you have? If I iunderstood right with built in 3g? On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:22, Ian Betteridge wrote: > The built-in 3G modem in my Dell was recognised under 8.10, and works > perfectly. > > On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Simon Wears > wrote: >> I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Sean Miller
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Colin McCarthy wrote: > As 'Three' customer my dongle is only £5 a month for 1GB. More than > enough mobile bandwidth. If I'm programming websites on ssh I would imagine that isn't a lot of bandwidth. Just need to avoid downloading all that por... erm... ;-) S

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Colin McCarthy
I am currently on a train going to the darkest parts of Kent and using a 'Three' dongle on my eeePC 701 running eeeBuntu. 3G works fine in Ubuntu 8.10. Although there is a know bug where you sometimes dont get DNS from your provider, but it's being worked on. All I do is disconnect and reconnect a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Ian Betteridge
The built-in 3G modem in my Dell was recognised under 8.10, and works perfectly. On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:17 AM, Simon Wears wrote: > I've READ it works well, but I haven't tried it personally. > > Simon > > > > On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:05, "Sean Miller" wrote: > >> Anybody got any experience of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Simon Wears
I've READ it works well, but I haven't tried it personally. Simon On 20 Jan 2009, at 00:05, "Sean Miller" wrote: > Anybody got any experience of mobile broadband? > > I may be moving to rented accommodation shortly and don't know how > long I'll be there, so the mobile broadband concept is te

[ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Sean Miller
Anybody got any experience of mobile broadband? I may be moving to rented accommodation shortly and don't know how long I'll be there, so the mobile broadband concept is tempting as it'll allow me to not worry about "minimum contracts" and so on with phone lines etc. How supported is it with Ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] WorcsLUG

2009-01-19 Thread azmodie
a lot of the lug.org.uk sites are down at the moment due to server upgrades by the lug.org.uk maintainers. dundee.lug.org.uk is one of them. NOTE: as far as i know azmodie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scottish Users

2009-01-19 Thread azmodie
Hi Ken, You dont say in your email the area you are located which would help to find more lugs closer to you. In Dundee we have The Abertay Linux society (http://www.thelinuxsociety.org.uk) as mentioned in Linux Format issue 115 (page 14) alongside Edlug. Quote from site : "You don't have to ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] WorcsLUG

2009-01-19 Thread Stuart Bird
Josh I attempted to sign up to Worc's LUG about three or four months ago, when their web site was up and running. I never received a reply, other than the server generated stuff, and have never seen any list activity from it. There are active LUG's within Worcestershire (Malvern) and close by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beards and sandals

2009-01-19 Thread William Anderson
David King wrote: > I know what you mean about the beard and sandals. Just look at a picture > of Richard Stallman -- would you trust a man who looks like that to > create your OS? I don't mind his look so much, I just get The Fear when he opens his mouth. IME he's either going to be rude, rip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] WorcsLUG

2009-01-19 Thread Paul Tansom
** Josh Holland [2009-01-19 13:17]: > Reading all this talk about LUGs makes me want to get involved in my own > one (Worcestershire). However clicking on the link on http://lug.org.uk > just redirects me to the lug.org.uk main page. Anyone else getting this > problem or know anything about WorcsL

[ubuntu-uk] WorcsLUG

2009-01-19 Thread Josh Holland
Reading all this talk about LUGs makes me want to get involved in my own one (Worcestershire). However clicking on the link on http://lug.org.uk just redirects me to the lug.org.uk main page. Anyone else getting this problem or know anything about WorcsLUG? -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me

[ubuntu-uk] Planning a LUG evening out?

2009-01-19 Thread Dianne Reuby
Just what you'll need to make the event a success. :) http://bittersweetblog.wordpress.com/2009/01/19/not-quite-duck-pins/ Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chkdsk for NTFS partition

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/1/15 David King : > Actually the max partition size for FAT32 is around 2 TB, which is a lot > more than your 160 GB. > > However, if you were using Windows, its partition formatter does not > allow you to format FAT32 partitions that big, probably because MS want > everyone to use NTFS (espec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

2009-01-19 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/1/18 William Anderson : > Neil Greenwood wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Have a look at http://blog.hanno-stock.de/archives/50 for a few extra >> steps that will mark libraries and dependencies as automatically >> installed (then they get removed when you choose to remove the package >> you originally