[ubuntu-uk] Pop up window too long......

2009-07-17 Thread John Matthews
I have a program that needs to use a pop up window to transfer folders to my Gallery from nautilus. The pop up window is too long, and I cannot get to all of the files in it. Is there any way I can get it so that the pop up window fits and I can scroll up and down the list of files. Its an open

[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Manchester Free Software Talk - Dan Lynch, Audio Production with Free Software

2009-07-17 Thread Tim Dobson
All you Loco people near Manchester might be interested in this - it's this tuesday! Tim Original Message Subject: [Fsuk-manchester] Manchester Free Software Talk - Dan Lynch, Audio Production with Free Software Date: Sun, 12 Jul 2009 17:09:51 +0100 From: Lucy To: Manchester

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Ian Pascoe
Chris Have a look see at a Linux Weekly News of about two weeks ago about the Low Latency issues that Rob mentions. It also refers to an article at a site that I can't remember at the moment written by Dave Phillips, I think, who is always looking at linux audio. Might give you some pointers. I

[ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

2009-07-17 Thread Liam Proven
I have just run up a new Ubuntu home server, a Dell PowerEdge 600SC (P4, 2.8GHz, 512MB RAM) running 8.04-3. It has a plain VGA monitor - monochrome, even - on it. Mostly, I expect to administer it from ssh. But I do need to use the console sometimes, and it would be helpful to set the console VGA

[ubuntu-uk] Screencasts was:Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Alan Pope
2009/7/17 Chris Weaver : > Wow that sounds incredibly opportune! I'm down in London sadly but would > certainly appreciate a video link. > A while ago Tony Whitmore made some screencasts showing how we edit and mix the audio for the podcast using free software on Ubuntu. It shows how we get from a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Rob Beard
Chris Weaver wrote: > Do you get satisfactory performance from Audacity? It always seems to > crash at the critical moment! Seems to work okay for basic stuff that I do and I've found for simple recording, basic editing (cutting bits out) and exporting it seems to work fine. I haven't really tr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Sean Miller
I experimented with Ubuntu Studio at one stage, and it seemed to work well. Ended up reverting (at the time) to DeMuDi/Agnula because I already had it installed on a machine and couldn't be bothered to switch. But I dispute the allegation that Linux doesn't perform on audio because with a low lat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Weaver
Wow that sounds incredibly opportune! I'm down in London sadly but would certainly appreciate a video link. cheers, Chris 2009/7/17 Lucy > 2009/7/17 Chris Weaver : > > Prompted by a comment by Rob Beard, I'd be interested to see if anyone is > > running Ubuntu in a audio environment (work, hob

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-17 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 17/07/09 13:33, John Matthews wrote: > I got down to the permissions page, and it just looked like a lot of > stuff, that made no sense at all. > > I am sorry that I have had to ask, I will try from now on to not bother > you. > > Thank you again, > > John. > Hi John, There is another, quite

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Lucy
2009/7/17 Chris Weaver : > Prompted by a comment by Rob Beard, I'd be interested to see if anyone is > running Ubuntu in a audio environment (work, hobbyist or whatever) and more > specific peoples experiences with it. > > - Chris I don't suppose you live near Manchester at all? Dan Lynch, a podc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Weaver
Do you get satisfactory performance from Audacity? It always seems to crash at the critical moment! Have been looking a Rezound but the last update was way back in 2008. - Chris 2009/7/17 Rob Beard > Chris Weaver wrote: > > Prompted by a comment by Rob Beard, I'd be interested to see if anyo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Rob Beard
Chris Weaver wrote: > Prompted by a comment by Rob Beard, I'd be interested to see if anyone > is running Ubuntu in a audio environment (work, hobbyist or whatever) > and more specific peoples experiences with it. > > - Chris > Nearest I got was running the open source Rivendell radio playout sys

[ubuntu-uk] Linux in an Audio Environment

2009-07-17 Thread Chris Weaver
Prompted by a comment by Rob Beard, I'd be interested to see if anyone is running Ubuntu in a audio environment (work, hobbyist or whatever) and more specific peoples experiences with it. - Chris -- Chris Weaver Production Manager Resonance104.4FM resonancefm.com +44 (0)207 407 1210 -- ubuntu-u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-17 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 17/07/09 13:33, John Matthews wrote: >> >> This page (of the link I have referred you to on several occasions) will >> explain all this far better than I can in a text-mode email. >> >> http://linuxcommand.org/lts0070.php >> > > I got down to the permissions page, and it just looked like a lot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/7/17 John Matthews : > [snip] > I got down to the permissions page, and it just looked like a lot of > stuff, that made no sense at all. > > I am sorry that I have had to ask, I will try from now on to not bother > you. I hope you won't stop asking. Especially if you've read the contents of a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-17 Thread Paul Roach
Just to add to thisthe $ or # denote the type of access you have... $ means that you have standard shell access, whereas if you see # at the start of a command you have (or should have) root access. Obviously in Ubuntu if you are looking for help somewhere and see a command written as #apt-ge

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-17 Thread Sean Miller
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 1:33 PM, John Matthews wrote: > the $pwd commands shows the directory, then it says if you want to > change the directory, it tells you to use $cd /usr/then directory you Hmmm... typing "pwd" will show the current directory. The "$" is the command prompt, it is not part of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-17 Thread John Matthews
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 17/07/09 06:45, John Matthews wrote: > >> Ok, this is some good news, I have a question to ask, I need to change >> the permissions of a file in one of my folders, on my site, it has to be >> read only, as it is its 777. >> >> I have gotten into the folder and have t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Localisation was Archos 10 Netbook

2009-07-17 Thread Ian Pascoe
Ah, cheers Al. Didn't think it would be that easy - nice! Ian -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com]on Behalf Of Alan Pope Sent: 17 July 2009 11:27 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Localisation was Archos 10

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Uncorrectable audio filenames

2009-07-17 Thread Neil Greenwood
2009/7/17 Rowan Berkeley : > Regarding my problem with uncorrectable audio filenames, here is a > closely related blog post: > > "I recently noticed that Rhythmbox was behaving strangely when reading > the ID3 tags of my MP3 collection. No matter what ID3 tag editor I used > to try to correct the i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Localisation was Archos 10 Netbook

2009-07-17 Thread Alan Pope
2009/7/17 Ian Pascoe : > If Mark was to sally forth to the land of the French and bought this item, > apart from the keyboard, which might be en Francais, to change the > localisation would you have to do a fresh install? > Depends if the language packages for -en had been removed (probably have).

[ubuntu-uk] Localisation was Archos 10 Netbook

2009-07-17 Thread Ian Pascoe
A couple of thoughts that I'd be interested in peoples comments on. If Mark was to sally forth to the land of the French and bought this item, apart from the keyboard, which might be en Francais, to change the localisation would you have to do a fresh install? Secondly, on the same machine, not n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Fri, 2009-07-17 at 05:16 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > And I'm not quite sure what the objections to the music clients are > either... are you bemoaning the lack of iTunes, perchance? I > certainly don't miss Windows Media Player!! Bloatware of the highest > order. > > Sean > I have to adm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-17 Thread Sean Miller
I've never encountered such behaviour. Strange... Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-17 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Sean Miller said: > What's wrong with the e-mailer? You have a choice of multiple e-mail > clients, Evolution and Thunderbird being the most popular, but there > are many others in the repos. Far better than Outlook Express or > whatever. Rob Beard said: > What E-Mail application and Music Pla

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-17 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 17/07/09 08:29, Rob Beard wrote: > Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> However, on my new machine, a 'Linux Emporium' Lenovo N-500 running >> Ubuntu 9.04, there are no problems at all. I would say that Ubuntu falls >> short in its applications clients, notably the music player and >> e-mailer. >> > What E-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-17 Thread Rob Beard
Rowan Berkeley wrote: > However, on my new machine, a 'Linux Emporium' Lenovo N-500 running > Ubuntu 9.04, there are no problems at all. I would say that Ubuntu falls > short in its applications clients, notably the music player and > e-mailer. > What E-Mail application and Music Player are you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-17 Thread Rob Beard
William Anderson wrote: > Steve wrote: > >> [snip] >> >> Just wait. October will be even more fun as people try to upgrade from >> vista to 7. I've already told a few it's going to cost them more than the >> usual couple of pints to sort the mess out. >> > > From what I've heard, upgra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-17 Thread Rob Beard
Steve wrote: > > Just wait. October will be even more fun as people try to upgrade from > vista to 7. I've already told a few it's going to cost them more than the > usual couple of pints to sort the mess out. > Yup, no doubt a good few hours backing up gigs of data, photos, music, videos