Thanks for the ideas. Wine won't work. Says something about 7zip not
handling full names or something when I click on setup.exe.
Installed VirtualBox but no luck. The drive is NTFS formatted, so Windows
should run on it. Before the Live CD started working but got to the loading
screen and then wen
the programs might work in wine aswell
> Date: Thu, 6 May 2010 11:51:59 +0100
> From: neil.greenwood@gmail.com
> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Linux and Windows Live CD
>
> On 5 May 2010 13:45, Dino T. wrote:
> > Hi guys
> >
> > About a week ago I installe
On 6 May 2010 19:37, alan c wrote:
> On 05/05/10 09:37, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> > I'm confused - I've read about the min/max/close buttons being moved,
> > and I was quite happy, soon got used to it. But I changed to another
> > theme and they're back on the right.
> >
> > Is it just that 10.04 is
On 05/05/10 09:37, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I'm confused - I've read about the min/max/close buttons being moved,
> and I was quite happy, soon got used to it. But I changed to another
> theme and they're back on the right.
>
> Is it just that 10.04 is using some legacy themes which haven't been
> upd
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 21:30 +0100, Liam Wilson wrote:
> Hey everyone,
> I just bought a couple of windows games on CD, and I installed wine
> and such, but I can't actually execute them.
> On double clicking them, I get the message:
>
>
> "The file '/media/RCT2/Setup.exe' is not marked as executa
DaveGK wrote:
> Bruno Girin wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:04 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:50 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> <...>
To see if it's related, can you post the content
of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info please?
>>> Well it actually shows as /proc/acpi/ba
Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:04 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
>> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:50 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
<...>
>>> To see if it's related, can you post the content
>>> of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT0/info please?
>> Well it actually shows as /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/info and con
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:04 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:50 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:28 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> > >
> > > > Could it be related to bug #403303 [1]?
> > > >
> > > > [
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:50 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:28 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> >
> > > Could it be related to bug #403303 [1]?
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-power/
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 12:55 +0100, John Stevenson wrote:
>
> This does not fix the issue, so I suggest you check launchpad to see
> if this issue with your laptop has been reported, there may be a work
> around. If not, perhaps you could submitt a bug on launchpad (you can
> use the same account
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:28 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
>
> > Could it be related to bug #403303 [1]?
> >
> > [1]
> > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-power/+bug/403303
>
>
> It's a similar thing. However this is when I pul
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> Could it be related to bug #403303 [1]?
>
> [1]
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-power/+bug/403303
It's a similar thing. However this is when I pull the power cord out of
a netbook such as when I take it from my desk t
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 12:55 +0100, John Stevenson wrote:
> On 6 May 2010 12:13, Jon Farmer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Every time I disconnect the power the notification bubble
> tells me I
> have less than 2% of battery left and proceeds to hibernate
> the mac
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 12:55 +0100, John Stevenson wrote:
> You should be able to stop the laptop from hibernating by changing the
> power settings. Easiest way is to select the properties menu item on
> the battery icon in the top pannel.
>
> Change the settings so that the latop does not hiber
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 12:19 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> Have you tried going into the BIOS and seeing how long your netbook
> lasts without it being plugged into the charger?
>
> It's possible the battery might have had it. My laptop does the same,
> the battery is knackered (the battery died be
On 6 May 2010 12:13, Jon Farmer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Every time I disconnect the power the notification bubble tells me I
> have less than 2% of battery left and proceeds to hibernate the machine.
> This is even though the battery is fully charged and the battery
> indicator in the panel says 2 hours
funny you should say this. a mates laptop on who which i installed ubuntu is
also reporting that battery problems. The pc just switches off even when
plugged in.
On 6 May 2010 12:19, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 06/05/10 12:13, Jon Farmer wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > Every time I disconnect the power the
On 06/05/10 12:13, Jon Farmer wrote:
> Hi
>
> Every time I disconnect the power the notification bubble tells me I
> have less than 2% of battery left and proceeds to hibernate the machine.
> This is even though the battery is fully charged and the battery
> indicator in the panel says 2 hours char
Hi
Every time I disconnect the power the notification bubble tells me I
have less than 2% of battery left and proceeds to hibernate the machine.
This is even though the battery is fully charged and the battery
indicator in the panel says 2 hours charge when you click on it. Very
annoying, anyone k
On 6 May 2010 11:51, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
> Hmmm.that's some serious processing powerthe CPU's in your machine
> cost more than my car!! and probably go faster ;)
>
Sadly not mine.
Cheers,
Al.
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On 5 May 2010 13:45, Dino T. wrote:
> Hi guys
>
> About a week ago I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on my HP Presario laptop. I did
> this because the laptop wouldn't boot up due to a corrupt dll file. I have
> since upgraded to Lucid Linux, however I want to install Windows 7 as well
> to dual boot. The i
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 11:46 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>
> 2x "Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2425 HE"
>
> :)
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
>
> Hmmm.that's some serious processing powerthe CPU's in your machine
cost more than my car!! and probably go faster ;)
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On 6 May 2010 11:41, Neil Greenwood wrote:
>
> I would guess it's a tri-core with hyperthreading.
>
2x "Six-Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 2425 HE"
:)
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Al.
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On 5 May 2010 07:03, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-04 at 20:53 +0100, LeeGroups wrote:
>> > Cpu11 : 4.5% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.2% id, 0.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3%
>> > si
>> >
>> Now that's just showing off Alan... :)
>
> Heh, I didn't notice that before!
>
> Is that a Tri
> I didn't think "virus.exe" would have much effect on an Ubuntu PC,
> regardless of whether it was using Wine or not, but thanks for pointing that
> out anyway. :)
>
>
I wouldn't be so sure ;-) If you think about it, if Wine can execute
virus.exe, virus.exe can access/modify anything that Wine can
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