[ubuntu-uk] Preventing shutdown on a remote machine

2011-03-30 Thread Dan Fish
Hi, I've installed ubuntu on my dad's machine and he's very happy with it. I'm doing online backups from his computer to my machine with rsync initiated from my end. The only problem I'm having is that my dad has a habit of shutting down his machine before the (incremental) backup is complet

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

2011-03-30 Thread Alan Pope
On 29 March 2011 22:51, Tony Pursell wrote: > And I'm still not convinced that TeamViewer has anything to do with > Wine... > Maybe this will convince you. alan@mrevo:~/tv$ wget http://www.teamviewer.com/download/teamviewer_linux.deb --2011-03-30 12:00:12-- http://www.teamviewer.com/download/te

[ubuntu-uk] Dr Mark Wright - speaker at Hereford open source event

2011-03-30 Thread Sarah Chard
if you would like to listen to the speaker at HLUG's Open Source Day on Saturday - Dr Mark Wright talking about his experience of Open Source in local govt and the Q & A that followed then here it is - filmed by Paul one of our members - it's in 4 parts http://www.youtube.com/user/HerefordshireLU

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

2011-03-30 Thread Scott Pashley
I believe it does use Wine for everything. They just code the application on Windows, they don't have "true" Linux support... -- *Scott Pashley* -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle

2011-03-30 Thread Jon Reynolds
On Tue, 22 Mar 2011 13:34:01 - (UTC), TT Mooney wrote: On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton wrote: Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. I have a Kindle 3G (