Re: [ubuntu-uk] Right way to completely remove Evolution?

2009-10-08 Thread Dean Sas
Rob Beard wrote: > Gordon wrote: >> I hate it! Apart from the fact that it won't synch properly with Google >> calendar, even though it's supposed to >> What's the correct procedure for completely removing Evolution from >> Remix 9.04? >> > I vaguely remember reading something that Evoluti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MySQL Help Required

2009-10-08 Thread Sean Miller
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:57 PM, James Westby wrote: > In a similar vein I think that one day all online communication > will consist of people typing the number of the xkcd that is most > appropriate to the situation. > > In this particular case it would be 327. Yes, indeed... that's rather an am

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MySQL Help Required

2009-10-08 Thread James Westby
A journalist once went to stay at a monastery. On the first evening he joined them for dinner. The meal started in silence. As the plates from the starter were being cleared, a young monk shouted out "Eighty-four" and everyone rolled around laughing. The journalist was confused, but just smiled pol

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there a second 'desktop' contents folder?

2009-10-08 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 18:26 +0100, "Alan Lord (News)" wrote: > The ~ suffix is pretty standard in Unix/Linux for temporary/backup > files and several tools create them automatically by default: gedit, > Vi & Bluefish I know about. > > You can usually configure these apps to not create temporary

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MySQL Help Required

2009-10-08 Thread Stephen Garton
Sean, That's great. Don't know why I didn't think to do it in the php in the first place, so thanks. Steve On Oct 8, 2009 6:27 PM, "Sean Miller" wrote: On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Sean Miller wrote: > $dt = date("y-m-d",s... that will need, I think, to have another strtotime... ie...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-08 Thread Sean Miller
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:26 PM, Gordon Allott wrote: > Also i agree that we should make it Friday really, most people are > available then and on Saturday just mixes in with Halloween which is > making thinks awkward for people. Might give the opportunity to dress up as notable IT characters and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-08 Thread Gordon Allott
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:47 +0100, Lucy wrote: > > Other techie groups, like geekup, are able to hire the back room in > Revolution for no-cost. I'm happy to give them a call sometime and see > if they'd do the downstairs room for free too. I'm sure they'll be > able to make the costs back in drin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MySQL Help Required

2009-10-08 Thread Sean Miller
On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 6:21 PM, Sean Miller wrote: >      $dt = date("y-m-d",strtotime("+1 days",$dt)); that will need, I think, to have another strtotime... ie... $dt = date("y-m-d",strtotime("+1 days",strtotime($dt))); Apologies. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MySQL Help Required

2009-10-08 Thread Sean Miller
Surely the key is to dynamically build your SQL statement in the PHP? In other words supply start date and supply end date. Then you start your SQL as... $query = "SELECT User as name"; ...then loop through the dates between start/end dates (putting date as var $dt), writing a line for each...

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Random lock ups in Jaunty

2009-10-08 Thread Barry Titterton
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:53 +0100, Vinothan Shankar wrote: > Barry Titterton wrote: > > Has anyone experienced random hard lock ups since upgrading to Jaunty? > > > > I am running Jaunty on an elderly Toshiba S1800 laptop (1GHz P3 with > > 512M of ram)and since upgrading to Jaunty last August I ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there a second 'desktop' contents folder?

2009-10-08 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 08/10/09 17:13, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > You're right, Dan; mine had tildes, and were actually marked as backup > copies. I think what happens is that it makes backups if the things are > left on the desktop overnight, which these two (unusually for me) were. > But it goes on listing them in t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there a second 'desktop' contents folder?

2009-10-08 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:11 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote: > Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > Hi. Every time I try to upload a file, such as an illustration, from > > my desktop to my Wordpress blog, the Wordpress upload tool detects > > two files on my desktop that were in fact deleted three weeks ago.

[ubuntu-uk] [OT] MySQL Help Required

2009-10-08 Thread Stephen Garton
Apologies for cross posting on both the planet and the mailing list, but I could really do with some help on MySQL if there are any experts out there! In an effort to reduce the cross-posting noise, I'll just point in the direction of my blog post: http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk/blog/2009/10/08/m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there a second 'desktop' contents folder?

2009-10-08 Thread mac
Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Ha, there they were. I wonder how they got hidden? Anyway, thanks. You're welcome. As Dan said, they're hidden temporary files created by gedit, vim, etc when you edit text files, and they sometimes don't get deleted by the apps. It's a mystery. mac -- ubuntu-uk@l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Random lock ups in Jaunty

2009-10-08 Thread Vinothan Shankar
Barry Titterton wrote: > Has anyone experienced random hard lock ups since upgrading to Jaunty? > > I am running Jaunty on an elderly Toshiba S1800 laptop (1GHz P3 with > 512M of ram)and since upgrading to Jaunty last August I have been > getting random hard lock ups; the cursor vanishes off the s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-08 Thread Lucy
2009/10/8 Simon Wears : > I'm not sure about how suitable this is, but I know Font bar (near Oxford > road station) has a room available to rent, cheap drinks, but not sure about > WiFi. > > Personally, I'd prefer the release party to be on the Thursday or Friday, > and since Saturday is Halloween

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-08 Thread Lucy
2009/10/8 Gordon Allott : > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:19 +0100, Lucy wrote: >> 2009/10/8 Jon Spriggs : >> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> > Hash: SHA1 >> > >> > Here's a good start, created about a year back: >> > http://geekup.org/wiki/index.php?title=PossibleVenuesInManchester >> > >> > Th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-08 Thread Simon Wears
I'm not sure about how suitable this is, but I know Font bar (near Oxford road station) has a room available to rent, cheap drinks, but not sure about WiFi. Personally, I'd prefer the release party to be on the Thursday or Friday, and since Saturday is Halloween people may have plans that night an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there a second 'desktop' contents folder?

2009-10-08 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Ha, there they were. I wonder how they got hidden? Anyway, thanks. On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:11 +0100, mac wrote: > Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > Hi. Every time I try to upload a file, such as an illustration, from > > my desktop to my Wordpress blog, the Wordpress upload tool detects > > two files o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-08 Thread Gordon Allott
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:19 +0100, Lucy wrote: > 2009/10/8 Jon Spriggs : > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Here's a good start, created about a year back: > > http://geekup.org/wiki/index.php?title=PossibleVenuesInManchester > > > > There's also: Revolution Deansgate, wh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Right way to completely remove Evolution?

2009-10-08 Thread Rob Beard
Gordon wrote: > I hate it! Apart from the fact that it won't synch properly with Google > calendar, even though it's supposed to > What's the correct procedure for completely removing Evolution from > Remix 9.04? > I vaguely remember reading something that Evolution is part of the ubuntu-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-08 Thread Lucy
2009/10/8 Jon Spriggs : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Here's a good start, created about a year back: > http://geekup.org/wiki/index.php?title=PossibleVenuesInManchester > > There's also: Revolution Deansgate, which has a back room, that can > take about 30-40 people, a mezz

[ubuntu-uk] Right way to completely remove Evolution?

2009-10-08 Thread Gordon
I hate it! Apart from the fact that it won't synch properly with Google calendar, even though it's supposed to What's the correct procedure for completely removing Evolution from Remix 9.04? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009-10-08 Thread Jon Spriggs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's a good start, created about a year back: http://geekup.org/wiki/index.php?title=PossibleVenuesInManchester There's also: Revolution Deansgate, which has a back room, that can take about 30-40 people, a mezzanine which can take about 15-20 and a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there a second 'desktop' contents folder?

2009-10-08 Thread Daniel Drummond
Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Hi. Every time I try to upload a file, such as an illustration, from my > desktop to my Wordpress blog, the Wordpress upload tool detects two > files on my desktop that were in fact deleted three weeks ago. Just > opening the 'desktop' folder from 'Places' doesn't show these