Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty

Liam Proven wrote: > I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally, > I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and > an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card. > > Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live > CD, but the resultant syste

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network

Paul Roach wrote: > To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux > boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the > [snip] but at least with smb/cifs, you're not encrypting/decrypting your traffic as you would with ssh/sftp, so if you're confident your un

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clearlooks

Liam Proven wrote: > And finally a more general question. > > What is the difference between the display themes Human and > Human-Clearlooks? I've tried Google with no resulting enlightenment at > all... > > > Look closely at the widgets (controls), especially the checkboxes. Dan -- ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] Clearlooks

And finally a more general question. What is the difference between the display themes Human and Human-Clearlooks? I've tried Google with no resulting enlightenment at all... -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/liamproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro.

[ubuntu-uk] Nvidia-legacy drivers on Jaunty

I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally, I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card. Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live CD, but the resultant system never got past GRUB. Jaunty

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

Tim Dobson wrote: > From > http://dalek.microsoft.com/en-us/ultimate/FX101674081033.aspx : > Getting a 404 Server not found. Does this mean the Doctor has finally and definitively defeated them? John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://w

[ubuntu-uk] problem with nForce 430 & sata burner

Running Ubuntu 9.04 32bit. I just changed motherboards due to problems with the old one. New board has nForce 430 sata ports on it. The hdd's are detected and work fine, BUT when I try to burn a DVD I get errors:- From dmesg [ 3351.724162] ata3.00: exception Emask 0x10 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x195

[ubuntu-uk] Email: default keyring, tray icon

(1) Logging in manually instead of automatically does not remove the Evolution prompts to unlock the default keyring. This latter is located at usr/bin/seahorse, and is really only for OpenPGP and SSH keyring controls. I do not want to create keyrings, and I would like to know how to disable th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network

On 11/07/09 22:55, David King wrote: > And when I try to access the Ubuntu network share via Network in > Nautilus, which I should be able to do as it is the PC I am accessing it > from, I get an error saying "Unable to mount location. Failed to > retrieve share list from server." > > So how do I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network

To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the address bar type ssh://usern...@ipaddress You'll then be asked to log on with credentials on the remote machine (assuming you don't use key-based authentication).