[ubuntu-uk] UCubed Planning Meeting Invite

2010-11-04 Thread Jon Spriggs
Next meeting: 2010-12-02 19:30-21:30GMT at irc://irc.freenode.net/ucubed Agenda/Minutes at http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/UCubed-2010-12-02 This monthly meeting is for potential and past organisers to discuss plans for the next UCubed event, which is scheduled for 2nd April, 2011 at MadLab, Manchester.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

2010-11-04 Thread Steve Fisher
On 4 November 2010 19:39, Dianne Reuby wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 14:19 +, pmgazz wrote: > > > Agree, try it out half an hour before the audience arrives > > Good advice - I played for a bit, and got various configurations - my > laptop on the overhead and overhead on my laptop, top half

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

2010-11-04 Thread Dianne Reuby
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 14:19 +, pmgazz wrote: > Agree, try it out half an hour before the audience arrives Good advice - I played for a bit, and got various configurations - my laptop on the overhead and overhead on my laptop, top half on the overhead and bottom half on my laptop, and (with he

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Matthew Wild
On 4 November 2010 15:20, Matt Darcy wrote: > Hi Ubuntu uk, > > This is tricky subject to summerize. I'm pretty confident there isn't a > solution to do what I want, but I need a sounding board, so your it. > > I'm looking at using vsftpd as an open ftp daemon, utilising the virtual > user functio

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Simon Greenwood
I believe that vsftpd is PAM aware so it will use any authentication method that can use PAM so the obvious answer is to use something that can provide authentication and access control lists, which would suggest LDAP to me. I was looking at this recently and it seems to apply to virtual users, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

2010-11-04 Thread pmgazz
My response was how to get the monitor recognised _without_ logout or reboot. Colin I'll shut up till I'm off the medication ;) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Glen Mehn
I've not set up an ftpd in some years, but you might look at pure-ftpd I believe that it allows you to map users to /etc/passwd entries (even if those entries have no login permissions) as well as specifying a different ftproot for different users. It was also at the time one of the more secure

[ubuntu-uk] Clever tricks using vsftpd virtual users to have seperate permissisons

2010-11-04 Thread Matt Darcy
Hi Ubuntu uk, This is tricky subject to summerize. I'm pretty confident there isn't a solution to do what I want, but I need a sounding board, so your it. I'm looking at using vsftpd as an open ftp daemon, utilising the virtual user functionality so I don't have to use genuine /etc/passwd or shel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-04 Thread pmgazz
Hello Barry, I have been using PiTiVi recently, after a great course run at Fossbox. We used an MP4 container with a DivX codec. Output of this was great and was relatively quick to render and is accepted by Vimeo and YouTube. I really liked the editing options in PiViTi and found it very eas

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

2010-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On 4 November 2010 14:19, pmgazz wrote: > > Plug in the monitor then go to System > Preferences > Monitors (or > Displays I think, dependent on Ubuntu version) then click Detect > Monitors and it should then recognise it. > > Colin > > > > Unless I'm missing something here (recovering from 'flu an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is grandr the best way to use digital projector?

2010-11-04 Thread pmgazz
Plug in the monitor then go to System> Preferences> Monitors (or Displays I think, dependent on Ubuntu version) then click Detect Monitors and it should then recognise it. Colin Unless I'm missing something here (recovering from 'flu and groggy) this should be pretty straightforward. So

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-04 Thread Philip Stubbs
On 4 November 2010 10:50, John Stevenson wrote: > Looking at the recently created OpenShot website http://www.openshot.org/, > it is looking a really good option for video editing, with lots of > features.  It also uses the Media Lovin Toolkit http://www.mltframework.org/ > as opposed to the Gstre

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-04 Thread John Stevenson
On 4 November 2010 09:50, Barry Drake wrote: > On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 00:02 +, Bruno Girin wrote: > > Have you tried Lombard? [1] It's still a 0.1 version but it may be worth > > checking. It's done by Yorba, the same people who do Shotwell. > > Thanks for that. > > I've just looked at the Lom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Security Updates Production Servers

2010-11-04 Thread Jon Farmer
> I install apticron on remote machines. It's configured to email me > when the remote machines has updates pending. It lists all packages > and the changelogs in the mail. That way I can see exactly what fixes > are available and in what packages. Interesting, thanks. Installed on one of the sai

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Security Updates Production Servers

2010-11-04 Thread Alan Pope
On 4 November 2010 10:14, Jon Farmer wrote: > I have recently started using Ubuntu Server on a couple of my > production machines. When I log in I get messages saying there are > updates available. So my question is how do I know if the updates are > critical or security updates as opposed to just

[ubuntu-uk] Security Updates Production Servers

2010-11-04 Thread Jon Farmer
Hi I have recently started using Ubuntu Server on a couple of my production machines. When I log in I get messages saying there are updates available. So my question is how do I know if the updates are critical or security updates as opposed to just updates generally. The machines are offering tel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Video and DVD creation ....

2010-11-04 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-11-04 at 00:02 +, Bruno Girin wrote: > Have you tried Lombard? [1] It's still a 0.1 version but it may be worth > checking. It's done by Yorba, the same people who do Shotwell. Thanks for that. I've just looked at the Lombard wiki. It gives some really useful comparisons. Howev

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IRC Meeting tonight 19th October

2010-11-04 Thread Colin Law
On 3 November 2010 22:42, Jacob Mansfield wrote: > I only just got it for some strange reason Same here Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/