Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Dean Sas
David M wrote: > Dean Sas wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british >> I think the idea is that it is confusing to have shutdown options from >> the "quit" applet and in the System menu. That doesn't make sense to me > > Hmm, I agree that does seem a pretty silly policy. I gather that kind of > t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rampant gnome-system-monitor!!

2009-05-04 Thread ged byrom
I have a system running a fresh install of 8.04, I haven't messed with it much but it doesn't seem to be having the same problem. Even so I've changed the interval to 30 seconds. Is that too much ? The system running 9.04 is in for a plug pulling session I think. I'll reinstall off the cd. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DFEY - Logo Competition - Cash Prizes

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Dobson
Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote: > Thanks for this. > I'm just forwarding it on to a local youth council I'm involved in - it's > not typical of our activities, but maybe I'll be able to change that. Wow, this sounds like a really good opportunity! It's worth a go at least! > The issue of digital freed

[ubuntu-uk] 9.04: WiFi now works on Advent 4211 netbook

2009-05-04 Thread David M
I'd just like to say a particular big "Thank you" to the Ubuntu devs as the built-in WiFi card on my Advent 4211 netbook is now working, now that I've upgraded to 9.04. The WiFi card hadn't been detected in 8.04 or 8.10, and although I'd tried to follow the instructions on the MSI Wind wiki (the A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DFEY - Logo Competition - Cash Prizes

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Mon, 04 May 2009 19:38:20 +0100, Tim Dobson wrote: > DFEY is having a Logo Competition. > > Top Prize: £40 > First Runner Up: £10 > > > Brief for Entries > = > > * Should be easily recognisable, visually pleasing and easily reproduced > in different mediums. > * Should echo the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Michael Douglas
David M wrote: > Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british > >> On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a shutdown >> menu, although it doesn't offer an option to logout or switch users. >> I'm pretty sure the shortcut was in Jaunty and Intrepid as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread David M
Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british > > On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a shutdown > menu, although it doesn't offer an option to logout or switch users. > I'm pretty sure the shortcut was in Jaunty and Intrepid as well. Thanks for that:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread David M
Adam Bagnall wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british > David M wrote: >> >> ..in order to shutdown my computer, but as this menu item is no longer >> present, is it possible to activate the new logout menu from the >> keyboard? I presume it must be somehow, as it would probably be Very Bad >> fro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread David M
Dean Sas wrote in gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british > David M wrote: >> >> However, 9.04 has removed the Logout/Shutdown options from the System >> menu in GNOME, meaning that I have no alternative now but to use the >> newish logout menu (that was introduced in 8.10, I think). > > If you remove t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-04 Thread Dave Walker
Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > Hello All, > > For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? > > Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or > yahoo's online chess system? > > Johnathon Whilst avoiding the typical notion that all geeks love Chess. I'd be interes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi all A clip of the Ubuntu download can be seen at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/enhancedmobile/programmes/click/8028913 .stm No need for iPlayer, unless you want to see the whole program. Further clips of this program are at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/default.stm Tony

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-04 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Mon, 2009-05-04 at 10:14 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello All, > > For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? > > Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or > yahoo's online chess system? >

[ubuntu-uk] DFEY - Logo Competition - Cash Prizes

2009-05-04 Thread Tim Dobson
DFEY is having a Logo Competition. Top Prize: £40 First Runner Up: £10 Brief for Entries = * Should be easily recognisable, visually pleasing and easily reproduced in different mediums. * Should echo themes of Digital Freedom, Technology, Young People and Education. * All entr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Rob Beard
LeeGroups wrote: > Never seen it mentioned in others T&Cs, but then it's high volume use > was always binary groups, and they've pretty much died out from via > ISPs, so you have to pay subs to someone like Giganews otherwise they > don't work... > Well they certainly don't promote the fact

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread LeeGroups
>>> Same here. I have suspicions that my ISP (PlusNet) is throttling >>> BitTorrent, but I'm not 100% sure. >>> >> PlusNet *do* throttle torrent traffic, it's in their T&C's check here - >> >> http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadband/speed.shtml#unlimitedspeeds >> >> It var

[ubuntu-uk] [9.04]Nokia E65 returns bad CDC descriptors

2009-05-04 Thread Ken Robson
I am trying to use my E65 as a modem, but Jaunty isn't recognising it properly. When I connect I get :- May 4 15:42:33 Aero kernel: [ 271.232053] usb 2-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 3 May 4 15:42:34 Aero kernel: [ 271.430319] usb 2-2: configuration #1 chosen from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread John McCourt
Yeah, like your little network would make any significant difference to the capabilities of Microsofts. Lets try to be realistic here. Denial of service is just another form censorship.     --- On Mon, 4/5/09, James Milligan wrote: From: James Milligan Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click download

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread LeeGroups
> Same here. I have suspicions that my ISP (PlusNet) is throttling > BitTorrent, but I'm not 100% sure. PlusNet *do* throttle torrent traffic, it's in their T&C's check here - http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadband/speed.shtml#unlimitedspeeds It varies depending on the time o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 LeeGroups wrote: >> Same here. I have suspicions that my ISP (PlusNet) is throttling >> BitTorrent, but I'm not 100% sure. > > PlusNet *do* throttle torrent traffic, it's in their T&C's check here - > > http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread LeeGroups
> After all, better to have people use Ubuntu because they > like it, rather than because they hate Windows. Aww... can't I use Ubuntu because I like it *and* I hate Windows? :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic Koala (9.10) Upgrade - Was: 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote: > On Mon, 04 May 2009 13:08:13 +0100, Harry Rickards > wrote: > > Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote: > ... On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a shutdown menu, although it doesn't of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John McCourt wrote: > Yeah, like your little network would make any significant difference to > the capabilities of Microsofts. Lets try to be realistic here. Denial of > service is just another form censorship. > ... > I might download the RC a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Rampant gnome-system-monitor!!

2009-05-04 Thread Kevin Safford
Hi I'm still running 8.04; a little while after installing it I found I needed to increase the default setting for updating information about file systems (Edit -> Preferences -> File Systems -> Update interval in seconds). That fixed it for me. -- Kevin Safford -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Mon, 04 May 2009 13:08:13 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote: > ... >> On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a >> shutdown >> menu, although it doesn't offer an option to logout or switch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote: ... > On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a shutdown > menu, although it doesn't offer an option to logout or switch users. > I'm pretty sure the shortcut was in Jaunty and Intrepid as well. >

[ubuntu-uk] Playing embeded flash movies.

2009-05-04 Thread John
Hi, I finally took the plunge, reformatted my harddrive on my laptop, and installed Ubuntu 9.04 through wubi on an xp machine. It installed the very basic verion, so there arent any compiz capabilities, which are fine by me, at least I can use Ubuntu on my laptop now. My problem is, I am trying

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Sun, 03 May 2009 23:32:54 +0100, David M wrote: > > I've just upgraded both of my boxes to 9.04, and it seems (so far) to > have gone reasonably smoothly, which is a great reassurance as a couple > (only a few, mind you) of the previous Ubuntu upgrades have been a > little hairy.. > > However

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Windows 7 was Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > James Milligan wrote: >> Just to piggy back onto this, has anyone got a product key they aren't >> going to use? I work in an IT shop so it would be good to have some >> practice on it (Windows 7) >> >> Also, I think it's a bit u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Windows 7 was Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread James Milligan
Thanks for that - I'll try Harry's key first and if that doesn't work I'll sign up for others. James On 4 May 2009, at 12:18, Rob Beard wrote: > James Milligan wrote: >> Just to piggy back onto this, has anyone got a product key they >> aren't >> going to use? I work in an IT shop so it wou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Windows 7 was Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Rob Beard
James Milligan wrote: > Just to piggy back onto this, has anyone got a product key they aren't > going to use? I work in an IT shop so it would be good to have some > practice on it (Windows 7) > > Also, I think it's a bit unfair to slow the servers down just because > you can. It's a free wo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> Yeah, for some reason I always get faster speeds using BitTorrent. I was >> downloading something via BT the other day that took about 25 seconds to >> download a 200MB file, yet I only get 10 MB/s download w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread James Milligan
-replied off list- On 4 May 2009, at 12:07, Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > James Milligan wrote: >> Just to piggy back onto this, has anyone got a product key they >> aren't >> going to use? I work in an IT shop so it would be good to have some >> p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Rob Beard
Harry Rickards wrote: > Yeah, for some reason I always get faster speeds using BitTorrent. I was > downloading something via BT the other day that took about 25 seconds to > download a 200MB file, yet I only get 10 MB/s download when downloading > from Cachefly's 'distributed server network' or wha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Milligan wrote: > Just to piggy back onto this, has anyone got a product key they aren't > going to use? I work in an IT shop so it would be good to have some > practice on it (Windows 7) > > Also, I think it's a bit unfair to slow the serve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Rob Beard
Harry Rickards wrote: > I might download the RC a few times on my VPS in America that's got > roughly 10 meg/sec connection, just to slow their servers down. I'd > never willing use a Microsoft product in a million years. > > - -- > Many thanks > Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) > I have a feelin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread James Milligan
Just to piggy back onto this, has anyone got a product key they aren't going to use? I work in an IT shop so it would be good to have some practice on it (Windows 7) Also, I think it's a bit unfair to slow the servers down just because you can. It's a free world, let people choose what softw

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> I suppose now I think of it, the CD is approx 700 MB, so multiply that >> b/y 8 and you get 5600 Mb. If the connection is 100 Mb/s, one copy will >> take roughly 56 seconds so two will take approx (I just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: > Michael Douglas wrote: >> You're certainly better off than trying to get the Windows 7 Beta, or in >> 2 days, the RC. It took MSFT about 10hours just to make the thing >> available!!! >> >> -- Mehall >> > I had an e-mail from Mi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Rob Beard
Harry Rickards wrote: > Yeah, I suppose you're right, if I download it in a proprietary format > anyway, I might as well watch it in one. Still, if enough people want > it the BBC may provide iplayer video in OGG like they do with R&D TV. > I doubt of but it's worth a try. > > Many thanks > H

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Rob Beard
Michael Douglas wrote: > You're certainly better off than trying to get the Windows 7 Beta, or in > 2 days, the RC. It took MSFT about 10hours just to make the thing > available!!! > > -- Mehall > I had an e-mail from Microsoft today, they're making Windows 7 RC available to the 'little peopl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Rob Beard
Harry Rickards wrote: > I suppose now I think of it, the CD is approx 700 MB, so multiply that > b/y 8 and you get 5600 Mb. If the connection is 100 Mb/s, one copy will > take roughly 56 seconds so two will take approx (I just know some > broadband expert will come and give me some value I ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> Johnathon Tinsley wrote: >>> Hello All, >>> For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? >>> Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or >>> yahoo's online ch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-04 Thread Jim Kissel
Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > Hello All, > > For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? > > Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or > yahoo's online chess system? > > Johnathon Is there a similar service for Go with a Linux Go board? -- Life is t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-04 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Harry Rickards wrote: > Johnathon Tinsley wrote: >> Hello All, > >> For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? > >> Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or >> yahoo's online chess system? > >> Johnatho

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > Hello All, > > For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? > > Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or > yahoo's online chess system? > > Johnathon I'm not great at chess, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Adam Bagnall
David M wrote: > I've just upgraded both of my boxes to 9.04, and it seems (so far) to > have gone reasonably smoothly, which is a great reassurance as a couple > (only a few, mind you) of the previous Ubuntu upgrades have been a > little hairy.. > > However, 9.04 has removed the Logout/Shutdown

[ubuntu-uk] Chess Tournament?

2009-05-04 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello All, For any chess lovers in ubuntu-uk, would you like a tournament? Using an online correspondence chess service, like chrss.co.uk, or yahoo's online chess system? Johnathon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu

2009-05-04 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Dobson wrote: > It's naive to think that the .mov file extension refers to it being in a > nonfree video format. > > Actually the reason get_iplayer can get the video is because the iphone > (possibly one of the most drm'd devices in the world)