Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

2013-01-27 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 28 January 2013 03:16, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On 27/01/13 19:26, Phil Dobbin wrote: > >> On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: >> >> Hi, >>> As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and >>> converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

2013-01-27 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On 28/01/13 07:19, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, This deserves a thread of its own, I think. 'Slow to load' means approximately a half-second late. During that half-second, the previous display remains visible in the square. It's approx 250x250 pixels in size, I should say, ie about the width of

[ubuntu-uk] Square in top left slow to load when launching Firefox

2013-01-27 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Hi, This deserves a thread of its own, I think. 'Slow to load' means approximately a half-second late. During that half-second, the previous display remains visible in the square. It's approx 250x250 pixels in size, I should say, ie about the width of a tab in the browser tab bar. I've got th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

2013-01-27 Thread Rowan Berkeley
On 27/01/13 19:26, Phil Dobbin wrote: On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow the instructions given here in rather scattered form: http://ubuntuf

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

2013-01-27 Thread Phil Dobbin
On 01/27/2013 06:52 PM, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Hi, > As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and > converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow > the instructions given here in rather scattered form: > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2103

[ubuntu-uk] Installing a wireless driver on a machine converted to Ubuntu from Windows

2013-01-27 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Hi, As you may recall, I bought a Compaq CQ58 with Windows 8 on it, and converted it to Ubuntu 12.10 using a USB stick. I have tried to follow the instructions given here in rather scattered form: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2103062 I installed linux-headers-generic build-essential

Re: [ubuntu-uk] if this then that

2013-01-27 Thread Bruno Girin
On 27/01/13 17:02, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > Hi all a bit of a conversation starter, > > I just visited https://ifttt.com/ [1]and it seems like a concept that has > exsisted in linux distros for some time in. Or so I think: cronjobs or > autokey [2]. I have used autokey in the past and found

[ubuntu-uk] if this then that

2013-01-27 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Hi all a bit of a conversation starter, I just visited https://ifttt.com/ [1]and it seems like a concept that has exsisted in linux distros for some time in. Or so I think: cronjobs or autokey [2]. I have used autokey in the past and found it a bit difficult since I had to learn a bit before us