Re: [ubuntu-uk] Micro-ATX server advice

2009-11-17 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 17/11/09 17:51, Tim Dobson wrote: > Hey there, > > I wonder if anyone can help as this isn't exactly something I have a lot > of experience doing and I can either start off in the direction I think > looks best and possibly regret it later or I can ask for some pointers... > > So we are looking

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using Ubuntu One to sync firefox bookmarks

2009-11-17 Thread mac
Josh Holland wrote: > While bearing in mind the upcoming Weave thing, the way to do this is > documented on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Tutorials/Bookmarks. > Essentially, it is a matter of installing the bindwood package and > restarting Firefox. Mmm... Well, I've tried the Bindwood / Ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using Ubuntu One to sync firefox bookmarks

2009-11-17 Thread mac
Josh Holland wrote: > While bearing in mind the upcoming Weave thing, the way to do this is > documented on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Tutorials/Bookmarks. > Essentially, it is a matter of installing the bindwood package and > restarting Firefox. Brilliant! Just what I was fruitlessly sea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using Ubuntu One to sync firefox bookmarks

2009-11-17 Thread Josh Holland
While bearing in mind the upcoming Weave thing, the way to do this is documented on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Tutorials/Bookmarks. Essentially, it is a matter of installing the bindwood package and restarting Firefox. -- Josh Holland (key F6067C12) http://joshh.co.uk dutchie on irc.freen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using Ubuntu One to sync firefox bookmarks

2009-11-17 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/11/17 mac : > I understand the Ubuntu One team is working on using CouchDB to sync > Firefox bookmarks via Ubuntu One.  Despite much googling, I can't find > any schedule for this, though there are some indications of good > progress and imminent success.  Does anyone here know when this featu

[ubuntu-uk] using Ubuntu One to sync firefox bookmarks

2009-11-17 Thread mac
I understand the Ubuntu One team is working on using CouchDB to sync Firefox bookmarks via Ubuntu One. Despite much googling, I can't find any schedule for this, though there are some indications of good progress and imminent success. Does anyone here know when this feature may be available?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Liferea: transfer settings from 1.4 to 1.6?

2009-11-17 Thread Matt Wheeler
2009/11/17 mac : > Just to update this thread and close it, I'm happy to report success.  I > removed liferea_1.6 with , and > deleted .liferea_1.6 in /home and the liferea folder in ~/.gconf/apps. > > I then copied .liferea_1.4 from a backup into /home, and reinstalled > liferea_1.6 from the repos

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Micro-ATX server advice

2009-11-17 Thread Steve
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:28:30 -, Tony Travis wrote: > Steve wrote: >>> >> Depends what you mean by a server and what you intend it to do. Any old >> PC can be a server. > > Not quite - Any old PC can indeed run server software, but 'commodity' > motherboards are not designed to be run cont

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Liferea: transfer settings from 1.4 to 1.6?

2009-11-17 Thread mac
mac wrote: > Thanks for the suggestions. I have tried this procedure, but > liferea_1.6 wouldn't start until I deleted the .liferea_1.4 folder I'd > copied into /home. As you imply, it's hard to be sure that all the bits > of 1.6 have been removed (and you can't trust --purge liferea> to get eve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Micro-ATX server advice

2009-11-17 Thread Tony Travis
Steve wrote: > On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:51:29 -, Tim Dobson wrote: > >> Hey there, >> >> I wonder if anyone can help as this isn't exactly something I have a lot >> of experience doing and I can either start off in the direction I think >> looks best and possibly regret it later or I can ask fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Liferea: transfer settings from 1.4 to 1.6?

2009-11-17 Thread mac
Matt Wheeler wrote: > I did an upgrade, and liferea managed the upgrade fine by itself. So > what you could try is removing all reference to liferea 1.6 in your > home dir (don't know how many places it stores stuff, anyone else?), > putting your liferea 1.4 settings in the right place then jus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Liferea: transfer settings from 1.4 to 1.6?

2009-11-17 Thread Matt Wheeler
2009/11/17 mac : > I've just done a clean install of Karmic on a Dell laptop.  I want to > transfer my Liferea_1.4 settings;  but Karmic uses Liferea_1.6.  It's > turning out to be a complete PITA.  I don't fancy redoing all the > settings by hand.  Anyone had success with this? I did an upgrade,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Micro-ATX server advice

2009-11-17 Thread Steve
On Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:51:29 -, Tim Dobson wrote: > Hey there, > > I wonder if anyone can help as this isn't exactly something I have a lot > of experience doing and I can either start off in the direction I think > looks best and possibly regret it later or I can ask for some pointers... > >

[ubuntu-uk] Micro-ATX server advice

2009-11-17 Thread Tim Dobson
Hey there, I wonder if anyone can help as this isn't exactly something I have a lot of experience doing and I can either start off in the direction I think looks best and possibly regret it later or I can ask for some pointers... So we are looking at putting together a custom server in a micro-AT

[ubuntu-uk] Liferea: transfer settings from 1.4 to 1.6?

2009-11-17 Thread mac
I've just done a clean install of Karmic on a Dell laptop. I want to transfer my Liferea_1.4 settings; but Karmic uses Liferea_1.6. It's turning out to be a complete PITA. I don't fancy redoing all the settings by hand. Anyone had success with this? mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com htt

[ubuntu-uk] Weird NFS behaviour with Windows Clients and Ubuntu server

2009-11-17 Thread Matthew Daubney
Hey all, Bit of an odd question as I'm certain it's a fault in the windows clientside, but in case anyone here has seen this problem before I'm trying to transfer some large files (250GB + ) onto a raid set using NFS. When I used a Linux or Mac NFS client I can sustain a fast transfer at a ve