Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-06 Thread Ronnie Tucker
I paid about £180 for it on eBay. LeeGroups wrote: > Ronnie Tucker wrote: > >> LeeGroups wrote: >> >> >>> Colin Murphy wrote: >>> >>> >>> On Thursday 02 July 2009 11:11:13 javadayaz wrote: > Dont take the Unlimited at f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote: > Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash. I would be surprised if the default shell is bash. /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Dave explained. If you look at a user's default shell in /etc/passwd you will see most (if not all) poin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

2009-07-06 Thread Sean Miller
Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash. And when writing scripts you put the shell at the top anyway, and that's been for me #!/bin/bash in recent history. Therefore if writing shell scripts I believe bash is still the one you want. Bit of history here... the original shel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

2009-07-06 Thread Dave Walker
Andrew Oakley wrote: > > Ubuntu uses Bash > (Bourne Again Shell), but then Red Hat, Fedora, Suse and most Linux > distributions also tend to use Bash these days. > Hi Andrew, I should probably point out that Ubuntu *doesn't* use bash by default. Ubuntu changed to "dash" some releases ago.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-06 Thread LeeGroups
Ronnie Tucker wrote: > LeeGroups wrote: > >> Colin Murphy wrote: >> >> >>> On Thursday 02 July 2009 11:11:13 javadayaz wrote: >>> >>> >>> Dont take the Unlimited at face value. The unlimited is 3gb's worth of data. Although they do say if you go over your limit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-06 Thread LeeGroups
Colin Murphy wrote: > On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:59:43 Colin Murphy wrote: > >> On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:00:41 Ronnie Tucker wrote: >> >>> What I did with my G1 was to unlock it, with a code (~£8) >>> > > Where did you go to get the unlock code? It cost me £20 to get mine unlo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-06 Thread LeeGroups
Colin Murphy wrote: > On Thursday 02 July 2009 21:32:35 Michael G Fletcher wrote: > >> Just ran beebplayer on my HTC-Magic and the live radio worked :-) Yay >> > > An update arrived and live radio is working for me too now. I wonder if > the 'get_iplayer' scripts can be made to work und

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

2009-07-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
John wrote: > I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and > Ubuntu Shell access? Not so as you'd notice. If you get into chaining commands together (piping) or writing vaguely advanced shell scripts, then it does matter that Ubuntu uses Bash (Bourne Again Shell), but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

2009-07-06 Thread Sean Miller
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 5:45 PM, John wrote: > I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and > Ubuntu Shell access? Also does anybody have any website I can look at to > learn shell script? There's no easy answer to that. The basic shell is /bin/bash (the Bourne Again SHell

[ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

2009-07-06 Thread John
Hi everybody, I was just wondering, is there any difference between Linux Shell and Ubuntu Shell access? Also does anybody have any website I can look at to learn shell script? Thanks John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] virtualBox

2009-07-06 Thread mac
David King wrote: > ...I have upgraded VirtualBox several times, and each time I have to > remove the old version (via Synaptic) and then install the new one, > from the .deb file... Thanks for your advice, Dave. Really helpful. mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] virtualBox

2009-07-06 Thread David King
You cannot install a new version of VirtualBox unless you uninstall the old one first. Uninstalling the old version will not delete your settings. I have upgraded VirtualBox several times, and each time I have to remove the old version (via Synaptic) and then install the new one, from the .deb

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [SFD-discuss] We have over 250 SFD teams!

2009-07-06 Thread Alan Pope
For anyone interested in setting something up for Software Freedom Day 2009 - which is on Saturday 19th September. http://softwarefreedomday.org/ Cheers, Al. -- Forwarded message -- From: Robert Schumann Date: 2009/7/5 Subject: [SFD-discuss] We have over 250 SFD teams! To: SFD a