Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it safe to upgrade to 10.10 (ATI video drivers)?

2010-12-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
> Steve Fisher wrote: > > > Pretty much as per title, I use compiz so require it to work, when I > > upgraded last time it didn't. The easiest way to find out is to download the Desktop iso, convert that to a Live USB with persistent storage, and boot off it. Then you can install the ATI drivers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it safe to upgrade to 10.10 (ATI video drivers)?

2010-12-21 Thread Avi Greenbury
Steve Fisher wrote: > Pretty much as per title, I use compiz so require it to work, when I > upgraded last time it didn't. The best way to tell would be to check the current status of whatever bugs you hit. If you didn't file any bugs or otherwise note down what it was that went wrong, the only w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS

2010-12-21 Thread Graham Smith
Alan > This will attempt to mount the directory "/Public" that is at > 192.168.1.10 onto a local director of "/home/name/Server1 using the CIFS > protocol type and with the username and password specified. > > My first observation is that CIFS is an implementation of the Windows > broadcast protoc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS

2010-12-21 Thread Graham Smith
Simon No, mount doesn't create a mount point, you have to do that. /media is now the standard though. >> >> > /media is in the root file system by default and makes the disc available > to everyone, so the fstab entry should be > //192.168.1.10/Public /media/public cifs > username=username,passwor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS

2010-12-21 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 21/12/10 10:41, Graham Smith wrote: > My notes from 2008! say to mount my NAS by runnng this command > > sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.10/Public /media/public -o > user=QNAP/username%password > > > BUT I am getting an error that media/public does not exist. > > I assumed that this would creat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS

2010-12-21 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 21 December 2010 10:41, Graham Smith wrote: > My notes from 2008! say to mount my NAS by runnng this command > > sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.10/Public > /media/public > -o user=QNAP/username%password > > > BUT I am getting an error that media/public does not e

[ubuntu-uk] Mounting NAS

2010-12-21 Thread Graham Smith
My notes from 2008! say to mount my NAS by runnng this command sudo mount -t cifs //192.168.1.10/Public /media/public -o user=QNAP/username%password BUT I am getting an error that media/public does not exist. I assumed that this would create media/public, do I need

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas party tonight

2010-12-21 Thread Yorvyk
On Tue, 21 Dec 2010 07:55:51 + Alan Bell wrote: > Hi all, > > Take a moment to look forward to your impending long weekend of seasonal > festivities with close family, distant relatives, and the > not-quite-distant-enough ones. Think of the present opening, the joy of > seeing another pai