Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Web Collabaration

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Bell
you are being a little obscure about the context for this and type of person and organisations involved, but Mahara might be what you are looking for, it is for managing an individual's learning portfolio and it integrates with Moodle. You might also want to look at Shibboleth http://shibboleth.int

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Web Collabaration

2009-12-14 Thread Dr James Stevens-Turner
The one that springs to mind for me, and which I use a lot is Joomla! Lots of bolt ons available and so easy to use. James -Original Message- From: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com [mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of Ian Pascoe Sent: 14 December 2009 22:49 To: ubun

[ubuntu-uk] OT: Web Collabaration

2009-12-14 Thread Ian Pascoe
Folks Before I ask the question, my hand is firmly in the air admitting to the fact that apart from some HTML coding, I have no web programming experience. With that being said, I'm looking for a FOS project, Operating System independant, that will allow a number of different organisations to coll

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Finding space on EEEPC

2009-12-14 Thread Steve
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:17:21 -, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/12/14 Tony Pursell : >> Hi all >> >> I'm looking for some advice on how I might get some free space on >> my EEEPC. Its the original model with a 4GB SSD and I also have a >> 4GB SD card. I put UNR (9.04) on it in May/June

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Finding space on EEEPC

2009-12-14 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/12/14 Tony Pursell : > Hi all > > I'm looking for some advice on how I might get some free space on > my EEEPC.  Its the original model with a 4GB SSD and I also have a > 4GB SD card.  I put UNR (9.04) on it in May/June and haven't added > to many extras.  I'm sure back then I had about 1GB fr

[ubuntu-uk] Finding space on EEEPC

2009-12-14 Thread Tony Pursell
Hi all I'm looking for some advice on how I might get some free space on my EEEPC. Its the original model with a 4GB SSD and I also have a 4GB SD card. I put UNR (9.04) on it in May/June and haven't added to many extras. I'm sure back then I had about 1GB free. The problem is that I seem to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
2009/12/14 Alan Pope > Hi, > > 2009/12/14 Thomas Ibbotson : > > I finally realised I needed > > to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used: > > "ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi > > ceilidh_item.avi" > > You sure you want flac as your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
2009/12/14 Anthony Burton > Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was > > recorded with a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file > > (335MB) to YouTube but it failed twice. So I decided to try and > > convert it. Firstly

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thunderbird, Open office and default mail application in Ubuntu

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon
Steve wrote: > On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:18:47 -, Gordon wrote: > >> I've come across this problem before in previous versions of Ubuntu (now >> using 9.04 and OO 3.0.1). >> >> Set Thunderbird as preferred Email client, uninstalled Evolution, and >> when I go to use the Send function in OO it te

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thunderbird, Open office and default mail application in Ubuntu

2009-12-14 Thread Steve
On Mon, 14 Dec 2009 15:18:47 -, Gordon wrote: > I've come across this problem before in previous versions of Ubuntu (now > using 9.04 and OO 3.0.1). > > Set Thunderbird as preferred Email client, uninstalled Evolution, and > when I go to use the Send function in OO it tells me it can't find t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Anthony Burton
Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was > recorded with a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file > (335MB) to YouTube but it failed twice. So I decided to try and > convert it. Firstly I tried Kdenlive, but the output file had

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/12/14 Alan Pope : > Hi, > > 2009/12/14 Thomas Ibbotson : >> I finally realised I needed >> to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used: >> "ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi >> ceilidh_item.avi" > > You sure you want flac as your audi

[ubuntu-uk] Thunderbird, Open office and default mail application in Ubuntu

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon
I've come across this problem before in previous versions of Ubuntu (now using 9.04 and OO 3.0.1). Set Thunderbird as preferred Email client, uninstalled Evolution, and when I go to use the Send function in OO it tells me it can't find the email client. Is there a way round this? -- ubuntu-uk@

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, 2009/12/14 Thomas Ibbotson : > I finally realised I needed > to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used: > "ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi > ceilidh_item.avi" You sure you want flac as your audio codec when uploading to youtube!?

[ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi all, I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was recorded with a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file (335MB) to YouTube but it failed twice. So I decided to try and convert it. Firstly I tried Kdenlive, but the output file had about 1/2 a frame of video and 1 s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS Fonts in 9.04

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/12/14 Gordon : >> Can anyone help me get Monotype Corsiva installed in Ubuntu 9.04? I've >> installed the MS core fonts package but can't see Corsiva there. >> >> >> -- >> ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >> https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk >> https://

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS Fonts in 9.04

2009-12-14 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
2009/12/14 Gordon : > Can anyone help me get Monotype Corsiva installed in Ubuntu 9.04? I've > installed the MS core fonts package but can't see Corsiva there. > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > Copy it in

[ubuntu-uk] MS Fonts in 9.04

2009-12-14 Thread Gordon
Can anyone help me get Monotype Corsiva installed in Ubuntu 9.04? I've installed the MS core fonts package but can't see Corsiva there. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server shutting itself down or going into a deep sleep

2009-12-14 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Have you tried using the Magic SysRq key on the keyboard? >> ... >> The meanings of the keys, IIRC: >> R - raw keyboard mode (stop X grabbing the key presses) >> E - send SIGTERM to all processes >> I - send SIGTERM to init >> S - sync the disk