Re: [ubuntu-uk] Natty Narwhal Launch Party

2011-03-31 Thread Anton Piatek
k replies were sent, the "send" button on my phone appears right under the "reply" button) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]    (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Natty Narwhal Launch Party

2011-03-31 Thread Anton Piatek
- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 31 Mar 2011 11:22, "

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android hit by rogue app viruses

2011-03-03 Thread Anton Piatek
I can't believe they compare Facebook to OSS. as if they are similar... - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a signif

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android hit by rogue app viruses

2011-03-03 Thread Anton Piatek
- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. On 3 Mar 2011 20:34, "

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distro hopping / Laptop running hot

2011-01-20 Thread Anton Piatek
I thought the move to Debian was before unity etc. I also thought the motivation was to track Debian unstable and have continuous rolling updates. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No

Re: [ubuntu-uk] natty with unity

2011-01-13 Thread Anton Piatek
k, and > I certainly don't want Unity on the desktop unless it has vastly improved. The plan isn't to remove gnome. I think it will be interesting to see how Unity changes as it comes to release time. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http:/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problems with CR2 files from a Canon 60D

2010-12-19 Thread Anton Piatek
It's not free, but bibble is very good (i use the pro version with my 40D). Have a look at it as a lightroom alternative. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-23 Thread Anton Piatek
My linksys are a single port and a four port. They're great but remember those 4 ports share bandwidth across your wiring. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

2010-10-22 Thread Anton Piatek
I have a linksys kit with encryption that works great, 200mbps Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Symlinking to USB hard drives

2010-10-05 Thread Anton Piatek
I use devices by id in my fstab to have unique mount points. Have a browse through /dev/ when the disk is connected Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-05 Thread Anton Piatek
You can set amarok to just scan a whole folder tree. It automatically finds new files added there. Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http:// www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) No trees were destroyed in the sending of this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Musick Manager

2010-10-04 Thread Anton Piatek
It might help if you said why the others failed you. I love amazon, and it should do most of your list (though I prefer to manage my library as files than let a tool do it for me) Anton - Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos: http:// www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Direction

2010-09-11 Thread Anton Piatek
essful and being able to get support from other software suppliers. Of course not everyone will agree with me, and that is fine. Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:            http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37]    (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apt-get update / apt-get upgrade question

2010-09-03 Thread Anton Piatek
Upgrade ignores some packages and dost-upgrade tries to do more. Aptitude is often said to be better and supports safe-upgrade and full-upgrade as the equivalents to the above apt-get commands. Aptitude is said to have a better dependency resolution algorithm. Anton On 3 Sep 2010 13:44, "Mark Fr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Selling Joggler Wiki

2010-08-30 Thread Anton Piatek
It sounds like you are trying to make a profit from it bathe way your post was worded. If you are looking for someone to take it over in a similar free spirit, then the monthly bandwidth logs might help (depending on the bandwidth I might be able to host it, but am not really prepared to pay more t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Selling Joggler Wiki

2010-08-30 Thread Anton Piatek
whatever happens Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37](http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disk Rescue!

2010-08-30 Thread Anton Piatek
Have you tried going to the disk manufacturer's website to see if they have a diagnostic live cd image? It sounds like a dead disc, the diagnostic tool might tell you more Anton -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler as a File server

2010-08-19 Thread Anton Piatek
; On 19/08/10 16:20, Anton Piatek wrote: >> The heatsink is the metal support stand (there are some good disassembly >> videos on youtube) > > Not quite. The metal stand is part of it, but the bit that sticks onto > the chips inside the case is - bizarrely - made of plasti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joggler as a File server

2010-08-19 Thread Anton Piatek
The heatsink is the metal support stand (there are some good disassembly videos on youtube) A juggle wouldn't be my first choice for a server, but would make a good front end Anton On 19 Aug 2010 16:14, "Alan Lord (News)" wrote: > On 19/08/10 16:03, John Stevenson wrote: >> I would be interested

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Code management systems

2010-08-19 Thread Anton Piatek
I looked at launchpad for work. It needs a lot of rewriting to be anything than launchpad.net It mat be opensource but is not a product ready to deploy. I have also used trac (with a bzr plunging) and really liked it Anton On 19 Aug 2010 15:03, "Alan Lord (News)" wrote: > On 19/08/10 14:55, Jon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Code management systems

2010-08-19 Thread Anton Piatek
The big difference between things like rational team concert (rtc) and svn,git,bzr,etc is that rtc is a full product feature and bug tracking tool, with timeline planning and code control, based around agile methodologies. If you just want code control then rtc is overkill for this task. Anton On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Code management systems

2010-08-19 Thread Anton Piatek
I would look at rational team concert over clear case/quest. I use it at work and love it. On 19 Aug 2010 14:09, "Cornelius Mostert" wrote: > Hi > > The company I work for has outgrown their Change Management Solution. They > have developers in US, Canada, India and maybe soon in China and I was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was "Apps for kids")

2010-08-07 Thread Anton Piatek
This is just becoming a personal flame war. It is time to count to 10 before replying. Anton Piatek On 7 Aug 2010 11:15, "Sean Miller" wrote: > On 7 August 2010 11:07, Tony Pursell wrote: >> I'm top posting out of spite and because I'm fed up with these >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was "Apps for kids")

2010-08-07 Thread Anton Piatek
Let's absolutely take it to Google. Where do we email? While we are at it on my phone the tick box to not quotes the message is hidden by the reply box, so you have to scroll down and may not have even known about it. Anton Piatek -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was "Apps for kids")

2010-08-07 Thread Anton Piatek
For the record, on my android phone I cache choose to quote the entire message, or none of it. I get no choice about top posting. If you happen to know who in Google wrote this great Anton Piatek -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

[ubuntu-uk] Lucid text mode installer

2010-07-16 Thread Anton Piatek
I am trying to install lucid on my desktop and can't manage to get the text mode installer on the alternate cd - am I missing something? The screen comes up with an out of range resolution on the annoying Intel chip, so need text mode (pretty sure the live cd worked ok, but I want to reuse the lvm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-22 Thread Anton Piatek
ing only. If that works for you then that should be fine, though make sure you set a return address so you can actually test bounces etc. Without an MX record nobody will be able to send mail to your box anyway Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-22 Thread Anton Piatek
lly don't want the box to receive any mail then you want one of the smarthost options iirc, that way your box sends mail but it expects all replies to go somewhere else (note that you really should have a legitimate reply address) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/ph

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-22 Thread Anton Piatek
gt; > I did try out postfix and sendmail, but noticed that they both ship > listening for mail. I'm guessing that they don't come out of the box > configured to relay mail, but I wondered if there was a simple MTA > that basically sends email but doesn't receive it? Instal

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

2010-06-22 Thread Anton Piatek
ave done in the past. I have always found exim trivial to set up on Ubuntu (and Debian) boxes, so you might want to consider it. I understand postfix and sendmail are more powerful and do better throughput, but unless you are running a mail server for a company exim will work fine If you have an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu in Business - London, July 13th

2010-06-16 Thread Anton Piatek
My employer (IBM) has indeed done that and given me time to attend. I am looking forward to it! Anton On 16 Jun 2010 22:08, "Alan Bell" wrote: Rob Beard wrote: > Depends how big it is, not sure if the Lighthouse would realistically > have eno... part of the reason we are doing the London event

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 62, Issue 44

2010-06-13 Thread Anton Piatek
ated) and gives you a web-interface to control all your DNS records and even does dynamic dns type stuff Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-20 Thread Anton Piatek
u's and similar are incredibly hard to click on unless you make the font sizes huge, in which case they just get in the way a lot.. ) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangep

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-16 Thread Anton Piatek
h it all. The question is whether you gain enough compared to the complexity and overheads of p2p... (personally I like the idea of each ISP running a mirror, but I suppose that doesn't scale for N distributions where as p2p should) Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

2010-05-14 Thread Anton Piatek
en using bittorrent, however most of the consensus is that the packages are often small and the overhead of p2p is too high to get significant gains. Certainly with so many mirrors around you might argue it is too much effort (my ISP, virgin, have a mirror on their network so I get ridiculously

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Amazon to pay Microsoft to use Linux......

2010-03-15 Thread Anton Piatek
riginal source say that the deal was specifically for linux - Amazon and MS probably have lots of patents they want to cross-license, and it just so happens that some linux related ones fall into that. It doesn't look to me like linux was a primary target in this... Anton -- Anton Piatek em

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Python Books

2010-03-11 Thread Anton Piatek
the moment)? I'd like one that starts off with >>>>> > the >>>>> > basics and builds upon that - rather then thinking I already know it, >>>>> > as I >>>>> > don't, >>>>> >>>>>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building .deb packages

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Piatek
ing the debian buildscripts may seem simple at first but has serious limitations, not least rebuilding for another architecture via a PPA or similar Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.str

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building .deb packages

2010-02-10 Thread Anton Piatek
.deb with dpkg-deb, but it really works out much worse in the long run) Good luck with it! It really isn't as hard as it seems at first! Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OOo Mouse

2009-11-08 Thread Anton Piatek
ts pointers on thinkpads it sounded like a great idea... however I have used them and prefer a scroll wheel... Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.gpg) fingerprint: 7401 96D

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Touchpad wont work on upgrade to 9.10

2009-10-30 Thread Anton Piatek
naptics driver (this was before I deleted my xorg conf to stop it completely blowing up) I have the synaptics driver installed, but it does not seem to do much. I have not looked into it as I do not use the touchpad anyway Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing itunes on Wine.

2009-09-23 Thread Anton Piatek
roughly recommend this :)  8 dollars for an entire digital album >> too. >> > http://www.jamendo.com/ is worth a look/listen. I use Amarok for my ipod, though admittedly have not tried podcasts or video with it, though I believe it is supposed to work. The iphone however i believe does n