Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 00:17 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press > CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full > stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :) Cheers, Al. Too true, upwards of seventy fold

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-05-26 Thread Sean Miller
I like to think that if you can help people with things that you understand but they don't then they might help you in the future in kind... I understand absolutely zilch about cars, for instance, so if I can assist somebody in getting through their trauma with computers should something go wrong w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Improving Support

2010-05-26 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Daubers, Matthew Daubney wrote: [snip!] > Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly awful) talk > at Oggcamp on this subject. Next time I have a chance to talk about what > I'm trying to achieve I _should_ be able to do it better!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Daniel Drummond
On 26 May 2010 15:12, Matthew Daubney wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood >> wrote: >> > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley >> > wrote: >> > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney >> > >> > > wrot

[ubuntu-uk] Meego and Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread Liam Wilson
Hey all; As some of you may know, Meego for Netbooks was released today ( http://meego.com/downloads/releases/netbook) and I thinking about dual-booting it with UNE, but was wondering if anyone else has tried it yet, and if you have, how is it? I'm downloading it as I type Cheers; Liam -- ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Christopher Swift
Ar Mer, 2010-05-26 am 14:46 +0100, ysgrifennodd Rowan Berkeley: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood > wrote: > > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney > > > > > wrote: > > >> This is an incredibly dangerous idea.

[ubuntu-uk] Strange behaviour of system monitor

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
The command 'lsb release -a' gives the same result as the system monitor, and I can paste it. In fact, I am pretty sure I upgraded to 9.10 last year. Previous to upgrading today to 10.04 I had this: ro...@ubuntu:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor ID: Ubuntu Description:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread alan c
On 26/05/10 16:22, Alan Pope wrote: > On 26 May 2010 16:16, alan c wrote: >> I hope that an elegant method of LTS to LTS version upgrade will >> emerge because LTS tends to be used by people who include those less >> confident. > > As I understand it LTS to LTS upgrades don't get enabled in >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 16:23 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press > CTRL+H to show hidden files. You'll notice they all start with a full > stop. I'd recommend not monkeying with any of them :) Reminds me of a relative who phoned me a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 May 2010 16:06, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I > should look for hidden files in my home directory, that might give me > some idea of what they are. Open nautilus file manager and navigate to your home directory. Press CTRL+H

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 May 2010 16:16, alan c wrote: > I hope that an elegant method of LTS to LTS version upgrade will > emerge because LTS tends to be used by people who  include those less > confident. As I understand it LTS to LTS upgrades don't get enabled in update-manager until the point 1 release. So that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread alan c
On 26/05/10 10:08, Alan Pope wrote: > On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should >> show LTS releases. >> > > What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps here:- > > e.g. > > > a...@bishop:~$ lsb_

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 15:56 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > There are lots of files in your home directory and indeed elsewhere > that get written to (and read from) whilst you're 'doing nothing'. Really? I had no idea. That certainly makes all the difference. Maybe I should look for hidden files in my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread javadayaz
you dont need a windows box. Dowload and flash the nandroid backup. Then root your phone. Then install the latest ROM. Instructions are on Google! On 26 May 2010 15:46, DaveGK wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > <...> > > Indeed, I have an HTC Hero which up until very recently was running > > the HT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread DaveGK
Alan Pope wrote: <...> > Indeed, I have an HTC Hero which up until very recently was running > the HTC branded/modified Android 1.5. Jo Shields kindly wrote up a > how-to guide detailing how to manually upgrade the ROM on the UK HTC > Hero to Android 2.1. I followed this and am using the VanillaDro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems

2010-05-26 Thread John Stevenson
On 26 May 2010 13:36, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > Hi > When I run the Update manager and it scan for updates I get this: > W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 76

2010-05-26 Thread John Stevenson
On 26 May 2010 13:44, Dan Attwood wrote: > > In fact, it shows up if you change the settings from "LTS Releases only" > > to "Normal Releases". I think having established that, I might as well > > go ahead and upgrade to it, so I shall do this now. The initial flurry > > of glitch reports seems t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Matthew Daubney
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood > wrote: > > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley > > wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney > > > > > wrote: > > >> This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 May 2010 14:46, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Quite so, but all the program files and associated data are in sda1, > which remains mounted. The only things in the partitions that are being > moved are the swap space and the user files. The swap space could > certainly be called on while one was mo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney > > > wrote: > >> This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around > >> with partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems

2010-05-26 Thread Cornelius Mostert
OK after the very first line I get c...@cjm-desktop:~/Videos/Desktop$ gpg --keyserver keyserver.ubuntu.com gpg: WARNING: unsafe enclosing directory permissions on configuration file `/home/cjm/.gnupg/gpg.conf' gpg: Go ahead and type your message ... When I look at the Permissions I have read writ

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to 10.04 successfully

2010-05-26 Thread Martin Jernberg
Enjoy the new version :) From: npe...@gmail.com Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 13:49:46 +0100 To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to 10.04 successfully Congrats, enjoy :)Neil Perry On 26 May 2010 13:48, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Just to let you all know :-) -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to 10.04 successfully

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Perry
Congrats, enjoy :) Neil Perry On 26 May 2010 13:48, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Just to let you all know :-) > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailma

[ubuntu-uk] Upgraded to 10.04 successfully

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Just to let you all know :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 76

2010-05-26 Thread Dan Attwood
> In fact, it shows up if you change the settings from "LTS Releases only" > to "Normal Releases". I think having established that, I might as well > go ahead and upgrade to it, so I shall do this now. The initial flurry > of glitch reports seems to have subsided. given recent posts on moving arou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On 26 May 2010 13:36, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > When I run the Update manager and it scan for updates I get this: > W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following > signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: > NO_PUBKEY 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 >

[ubuntu-uk] Still have upgrade problems

2010-05-26 Thread Cornelius Mostert
Hi When I run the Update manager and it scan for updates I get this: W: GPG error: http://ppa.launchpad.net intrepid Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 9BDB3D89CE49EC21 I am sure I had something like this in the past but am not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 76

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 26 May 2010 12:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley >> wrote: >> > I have checked this several times. According to the settings it >> > should show LTS releases. >> What version are you currently running? The l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney > wrote: >> This is an incredibly dangerous idea. When you're mucking around with >> partitions it is very, _very_, UNsafe to have the _device_ mounted. >> Having been building storage systems for the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 61, Issue 76

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > I have checked this several times. According to the settings it > > should show LTS releases. > What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps > here:- e.g. > a...@bisho

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread David Jones
On 26/05/2010 12:31, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley >> wrote: >>> I have checked this several times. According to the settings it >>> should show LTS releases. >> What version are you currently running? The lsb_

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley > wrote: > > I have checked this several times. According to the settings it > > should show LTS releases. > What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps > here:- e.g. > a...@bisho

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-26 Thread Jon Farmer
> Are you sure it works with Chrome? It doesn't for me (I installed > chromium-browser I think). Yep, I was using it last night with ITV player. Regards Jon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should > show LTS releases. > What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps here:- e.g. a...@bishop:~$ lsb_release -a No LSB modules are available. Distributor

[ubuntu-uk] 10.04 LTS doesn't appear in my update manager

2010-05-26 Thread Rowan Berkeley
I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should show LTS releases. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-26 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 21:08 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote: > Yes, same problem with Firefox. Works seamlessly with Chrome though. > > Regards > > Jon > I've given Chrome a try, but with same results. Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https:/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
On 13 May 2010 09:15, Alan Pope wrote: > I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to > let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help. > Thanks to everyone for responding and volunteering their time/resources! I'm just working on some documentation and I

[ubuntu-uk] One Line Tips! Help request.

2010-05-26 Thread Alan Pope
I want your one line tips! http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/UbuntuTips I'm gathering Ubuntu tips from people to read out on the podcast, and hoped some of you lot would be willing to contribute. Here's the skinny:- * They don't have to be command line tips (in fact command line tips are discouraged give

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread James Thomas
Hi popey, Cheers for the link, I was going to pester you later about which howto you referenced. Looking forward to some 2.1 love myself. :) JT On 26 May 2010 07:55, Alan Pope wrote: > On 26 May 2010 07:50, Mark Fraser wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:54:36 David Jones wrote: > >> Any u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread Jonathon Fernyhough
On 26 May 2010 08:23, Neil Perry wrote: > I'm running 2.1 Eclair on my G1 and also was running Froyo on my Nexus One > :) > Neil Perry > > On 26 May 2010 07:58, javadayaz wrote: >> >> i am also running 2.1 Eclair on my G1looking forward to Froyo soon! >> >> On 26 May 2010 07:55, Alan Pope wr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread Neil Perry
I'm running 2.1 Eclair on my G1 and also was running Froyo on my Nexus One :) Neil Perry On 26 May 2010 07:58, javadayaz wrote: > i am also running 2.1 Eclair on my G1looking forward to Froyo soon! > > > On 26 May 2010 07:55, Alan Pope wrote: > >> On 26 May 2010 07:50, Mark Fraser wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using ITV Player

2010-05-26 Thread Stuart Bird
On 25 May 2010 22:05, Harry Rickards wrote: > On 25 May 2010, at 21:08, Jon Farmer wrote: > > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:38 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote: > >> Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid? I can play > >> pre-watershed items, but others give another flash window which > >> le

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Updating phone ROM was: HTC Phone connecting to Ubuntu

2010-05-26 Thread javadayaz
i am also running 2.1 Eclair on my G1looking forward to Froyo soon! On 26 May 2010 07:55, Alan Pope wrote: > On 26 May 2010 07:50, Mark Fraser wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 May 2010 15:54:36 David Jones wrote: > >> Any updates/application installs are done over the air using the phones > >> norm