Re: [ubuntu-uk] London release party - Thank you

2010-10-11 Thread Colin Murphy
On Monday 11 October 2010 09:45:57 John Stevenson wrote: > Thanks to everyone that came along [...] ... and thank you for taking the time to organise. -- Things to be , people to do, and stuff to, err, stuff. co...@spudulike.me.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-08 Thread Colin Murphy
On Tuesday 07 July 2009 23:10:51 LeeGroups wrote: d. > > > > I think I will have to spend a little more and get a bigger battery, very > > tempted to go for > > http://www.seidioonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BACY26TMG1-BK > > That's expensive, same thing on ebay for less than £9... Is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam a s a security camera

2009-07-07 Thread Colin Murphy
On Monday 06 July 2009 23:06:55 LeeGroups wrote: > Colin Murphy wrote: > > But how much did you pay for the G1? £180 via an Ebay auction, plus another £10 to get it unlocked. I think I will have to spend a little more and get a bigger battery, very tempted to go

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam a s a security camera

2009-07-07 Thread Colin Murphy
On Monday 06 July 2009 23:05:57 LeeGroups wrote: > Colin Murphy wrote: > > I am very tempted to take the time to root my G1, maybe even run Debian > > arm, unless there is a Ubuntu equivalent, he says, desperately trying to > > claw the thread back on topic. > > Root i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-04 Thread Colin Murphy
On Thursday 02 July 2009 21:32:35 Michael G Fletcher wrote: > > Just ran beebplayer on my HTC-Magic and the live radio worked :-) Yay An update arrived and live radio is working for me too now. I wonder if the 'get_iplayer' scripts can be made to work under Android - that would be the best way

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-04 Thread Colin Murphy
On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:59:43 Colin Murphy wrote: > On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:00:41 Ronnie Tucker wrote: > > What I did with my G1 was to unlock it, with a code (~£8) Where did you go to get the unlock code? It cost me £20 to get mine unlocked in the mobile phone booth in the Hi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam a s a security camera

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Murphy
On Thursday 02 July 2009 19:33:09 LeeGroups wrote: > No ones, complained to me yet... And I use the Last.FM app to stream > music, it's brilliant, For me it's mainly the radio. Beebplayer looks to be the app for me and my want for Live radio, just as soon as they get it working! > [...] as lon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Murphy
On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:00:41 Ronnie Tucker wrote: > What I did with my G1 was to unlock it, with a code (~£8) then stick a 3 > SIM in it. As long as the 3 SIM is activated and using data then it'll > work dandy. They have a £5/mth bolt-on with unlimited data, you just use > £5 from your availa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Murphy
On Thursday 02 July 2009 11:11:13 javadayaz wrote: > Dont take the Unlimited at face value. The unlimited is 3gb's worth of > data. Although they do say if you go over your limit you will be informed. > Im with Tmobile. I do occassionaly stream audio but not that much. Orange, who I am with, could

[ubuntu-uk] G1 phone plans - WAS: Re: Webcam as a security camera

2009-07-02 Thread Colin Murphy
On Wednesday 01 July 2009 15:03:05 javadayaz wrote: > Hi, > > As some of you may know i have an android phone G1 phone. I would like to > avail the phones unlimited data plan. Hi Javad, I too have a G1, but am currently between phone plans, so I am looking for guidance. Might I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Headsets & VOIP

2009-03-02 Thread Colin Murphy
On Monday 02 March 2009 07:04:45 mac wrote: > > [...] I've also used usb Plantronics headsets (which have their own > external sound cards - brilliant with laptops, I've not experimented with VOIP very much, but, when using a standard audio socket headset I've struggled to overcome a buzz that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Geek Squad - Was: Re: Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

2008-09-04 Thread Colin Murphy
On Friday 05 September 2008 00:09:03 alan c wrote: > Colin Murphy wrote: > > > > Does anyone know what the Geek Squad > > official position is on Linux? > > In my local carphone warehouse they have an elonex web book (with > ubuntu installed) on display as a fre

[ubuntu-uk] Geek Squad - Was: Re: Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

2008-09-04 Thread Colin Murphy
On Thursday 04 September 2008 07:23:57 Stephen O'Neill wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594249.stm > This bit:- "True to form when I'm too stupid to figure out how to do something in five minutes, I phone an expert. Geek Squad, [...]" came to me as a surprise, I would have expec

[ubuntu-uk] KMail crashing

2008-01-13 Thread Colin Murphy
On my Ubuntu Gutsy my KMail has now started to crash, even though I've been using it since full release. I have all my filters and lists nicely placed! The application will start up but when I go to download mail it locks up, the kmail window stops responding and I have to kill the application.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Testing a machine with a Live CD

2007-10-09 Thread Colin Murphy
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 15:55:26 Neil Greenwood wrote: > Hi all, > > What programs do people run on a new machine that's booted off the > Live CD to check that everything is working/supported? > It may be obvious, but I check for things that I know to be broken, to some extent, in the current

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio

2007-08-15 Thread Colin Murphy
On Thu, 2007-08-16 at 01:01 +0100, Gav Ford wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:41 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote: > > Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on > > www.helpmechill.com to work. > > > Works fine with mplayer, open a terminal and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio

2007-08-15 Thread Colin Murphy
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:45 +0100, Alec Wright wrote: > On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:41 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote: > > Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on > > www.helpmechill.co.uk to work. > > > Is that the right URL? I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio

2007-08-15 Thread Colin Murphy
On Wed, 2007-08-15 at 23:41 +0100, Colin Murphy wrote: > Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on > www.helpmechill.co.uk to work. > > Thanks in advance. Sorry, meant to add that I'm running Feisty. On a PC, err, in colour. ;-) -- Must go;

[ubuntu-uk] Application to listen to online radio

2007-08-15 Thread Colin Murphy
Can anyone give any advise on getting the 'Listen Live' link on www.helpmechill.co.uk to work. Thanks in advance. -- Must go; places to be, people to do, stuff to, err, stuff. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubun

[ubuntu-uk] Primer on networking - any recommendations

2007-04-13 Thread Colin Murphy
Not of the TCP/IP type networking, but of the smb/nfs variety. I seem to have got myself into a bit of a pickle with 'folder sharing' over three boxes, 2 Ubuntu and 1 XP which I've set up, in a fashion, using the point and click tools. My systems have changed over time and this set up isn't now r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The need for root in a rescue situation

2007-03-27 Thread Colin Murphy
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 00:06 +, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Colin Murphy wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 15:11 +, Paul Sladen wrote: > > > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Colin Murphy wrote: > > > > I recently had a corrupt HD on my Dapper desktop system &

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The need for root in a rescue situation

2007-03-24 Thread Colin Murphy
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 15:47 +, Leon Barker wrote: > On 24/03/07, Colin Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > fallback of DSL on a USB key, but I couldn't think of a Ubuntu way of > > getting around this problem. > > You could have also used the Ubuntu LiveCD. &

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The need for root in a rescue situation

2007-03-24 Thread Colin Murphy
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 15:11 +, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Colin Murphy wrote: > > I recently had a corrupt HD on my Dapper desktop system and had a prompt > > thrown at me for the 'root password' by the minimal rescue system > > The prompt only

[ubuntu-uk] The need for root in a rescue situation

2007-03-24 Thread Colin Murphy
I recently had a corrupt HD on my Dapper desktop system and had a prompt thrown at me for the 'root password' by the minimal rescue system to allow me to do fsck and stuff. I did try the password for my Admin user but this didn't work. I was able to get things started again because, luckily, I ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-28 Thread Colin Murphy
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 22:08, Colin Murphy wrote: > > The utility is called escputil, see > http://packages.debian.org/testing/utils/escputil > I figured out what to pass:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo escputil -i -u -r /dev/usb/lp0 yealds Escputil version 4.2.7,

[ubuntu-uk] A different printing problem, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-28 Thread Colin Murphy
connected to? The Printer Manager suggests 'usb://EPSON/Stylus C66' but that doesn't work. Clues please. -- Colin Murphy - [EMAIL PROTECTED] A: Because it's wrong! > Q: Why shouldn't I top post? -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer

2005-11-17 Thread Colin Murphy
On Thursday 17 November 2005 18:36, Sarangan Thuraisingham wrote: > Colin Murphy wrote: > > I can't help and reply only because I know how it feels to have a mailing > > list mail go unanswered. > > The 'ubuntu-uk' list is for the ubuntu users in UK and its

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer

2005-11-17 Thread Colin Murphy
On Wednesday 16 November 2005 19:05, Ted wrote: > Having problems with setting up my DJ720c printer in Ubuntu > It is picked up ok in dmesg but I cannot print at all...Sending a file > to it with lpr produces nothing at all..No error messages even... > I goto setup the printer with cups ands it tel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-08 Thread Colin Murphy
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 18:58, Nick McMahon wrote: > > Yes, C64 is the default driver. Have you been able to use the Epson > > utility tool to check ink levels and alike? > > > > I would very much like to do this but I have not figured out the correct > > command line parameter to pass. > I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-08 Thread Colin Murphy
On Tuesday 08 November 2005 06:23, Colin Murphy wrote: > I have a problem when trying to print to my Epson C66 in Breezy. The > printer, with a USB connection, was installed and worked fine until > something, possibly the printer running out of paper, brought this brief > period of s

[ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-07 Thread Colin Murphy
I have a problem when trying to print to my Epson C66 in Breezy. The printer, with a USB connection, was installed and worked fine until something, possibly the printer running out of paper, brought this brief period of success to an end. I have both Gnome and KDE desktops running and I am mos

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GLLUG Linux Discovery Day

2005-11-04 Thread Colin Murphy
On Friday 04 November 2005 14:37, john levin wrote: > For the Londoners on this list, GLLUG (Greater London Linux Users Group) > are holding a 'Linux Discovery day' on Saturday 12th November. > > Get help with installs, hear talks on partitioning, grab free cds, have > a coffe, and a beer afterward