On Mar 11, 2012 12:45 PM, "Alan Pope" wrote:
> What about you? What would you show and tell?
5 years ago it would have been wobbly windows.
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We are expecting 12.10 in October too.
On Mar 2, 2012 12:15 PM, "J Fernyhough" wrote:
> On 2 March 2012 12:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > Does anyone have any info on what sort of date we are looking at for
> this?
> >
> >
>
> 12 = 2012
> 04 = April
>
> Normally the 26th (and it is! Yay!)
On Feb 23, 2012 11:34 PM, "Alan Pope" wrote:
> I like Unity.
Me too.
The thing I like most about Unity is that it caters for so called "power
users". I like that I can control my workspace with the keyboard, and with
the inclusion of Hud now the menu is easier to use.
That said, it is no more
2012 at 8:56 PM, Bruno Girin wrote:
>
>> On 21/02/12 22:35, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>
>> I'm in Manchester too, would be interested if anything is going on.
>>
>>
>> Worst case scenario, we can always do a "Ubuntu Happy Hour" in a pub or
>&g
I'm in Manchester too, would be interested if anything is going on.
On Feb 21, 2012 10:22 PM, "Bruno Girin" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The minutes of the last meeting at the moment show the 12th Jan and the
> current agenda is for the 2nd Feb. Does anybody know when the next meeting
> is or have I miss
On 26 May 2010 15:12, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
>> wrote:
>> > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
>> >
>> > > wrot
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
> > Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning here.
>
> This is very true.
>
> > The livecd offers no benefits to the proc
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:11 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond
> wrote:
> > Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning
> > here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an
> > up to
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 14:43 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:34 PM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:06 +0100, Colin Law
> > wrote:
> >> On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley
> >> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law
> >>
> >> > wrot
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:32 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> > On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley
> > wrote:
> > > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was.
> > > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 21:52 +0100, Rebecca Newborough wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is my first post to the mailing list and I'm looking for some
> advice regarding a printer. We've seen the HP Deskjet F4580 advertised
> at a really good price and was wondering if anyone has any experience
> of using this
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:38 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
> drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
> keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
> etc., are greyed out. Wha
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:19 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
>
> Dianne
>
Yes, but you won't be able to unmount the root partition to make any
changes to it.
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Dean Sas wrote:
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>>> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls
>>>>
>
>
>> /"Some of the security is through obscurity but it's als
Rob Beard wrote:
> Sean Miller wrote:
>
>> I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my
>> hard drive is dying.
>>
>> Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>
> Surely it's good to know so you can make sure you
Lucy wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
>
>> 2009/10/21 James Milligan :
>>
>>> Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning?
>>>
>>> Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with
>>> Safari open on ubuntu.com
>>>
>>> Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said a
2009/10/24 alan c :
> john wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I have a HP Pavilion desktop pc with tv card (that I never use)
>> Have just installed Ubuntu but there is no sound, I have also had
>> trouble with the sound drivers under windows XP.
>>
>> Also the terminal freezes after the first sudo apt line
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 23:43 +0100, David King wrote:
> Although I have no hard evidence, it was years ago that I heard about
> the US govt/FBI having a backdoor into Windows, and that all antivirus
> software by law cannot be allowed to detect what the FBI, etc., put onto
> people's computers.
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 13:34 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
> mac wrote:
> > Daniel Drummond wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Running samba will not help unless you have shares on your Ubuntu system
> >> that you want to make available to the other computers. Then it
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 10:58 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
> mac wrote:
> > John Matthews wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I wonder can somebody help with this please? How do you find out if
> >> Samba isnt running?
> >>
> >
> > Does this help:
> >
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=733619
> >
>
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:28 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:56 +0100, Lucy wrote:
>
> > It would be really nice to have some posters and some buttons to put
> > on blogs to publicise the event. Can someone volunteer to come up with
> > something?
>
> I took the jaunty poste
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Hi. Every time I try to upload a file, such as an illustration, from my
> desktop to my Wordpress blog, the Wordpress upload tool detects two
> files on my desktop that were in fact deleted three weeks ago. Just
> opening the 'desktop' folder from 'Places' doesn't show these
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I sincerely hope this list will not again be used to spout party
> political propaganda points.
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:48 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>>
>> Won't change my voting plans. I support them for a number of their
&
ely obtain my vote however. There
are far more important issues to consider when voting.
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David King wrote:
>
>
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>> Josh Holland wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The one thing that confused me when I i
Josh Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote:
>
>> The one thing that confused me when I installed one is that the PCI card's
>> drives become SDA and SDB and the Mobo's drives follow from there. So a
>> bit of twiddling with FSTAB is required on existing inst
Rik Boland wrote:
> Nokia is releasing a new phone the runs Linux?
>
> What model is it?
>
> Shalom
>
> Rik
>
>
N900
http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones/nokia-n900#/main/landing
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linux wrote:
> Johnathan,
>
> When I spoke to Dave Walker last night three venues where confirmed one
> in Birmingham the other in London and my one in Southend on Sea a two
> day weekend event
>
> This was called the Ubuntu Global Jam and I am struggling to get some
> developers to attend howev
Matt Daubney wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:48 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
>
>> Matthew Daubney wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:18 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Daniel
John Matthews wrote:
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> thank you for the commands, I got all the way to the last command,
>>> adding the 3.5 in, and it says command refused. I think its because my
>>> FF3.5 says shiretoko on it.
> Hi Dan,
>
> thank you for the commands, I got all the way to the last command,
> adding the 3.5 in, and it says command refused. I think its because my
> FF3.5 says shiretoko on it.
>
> John
>
>
What does this command output:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*
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Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> 2009/9/16 John Matthews :
>
>> I want to make my Firefox 3.5 my default browser. I have looked in the
>> System>Preferences>Prefered Applications and it only shows the older
>> version of Firefox.
>>
>> I unticked the make Firefox Default button in the old version, a
Not sure if you' ve seen this, but I just came across it, and it tickled me.
http://www.linux.com/fakelinustorvalds
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John Matthews wrote:
> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>
>> FWIW I bought an Acer Aspire one last year and had HUGE problems getting
>> it to connect to my wireless at ALL. In the end I took it back and
>> swapped it for a Toshiba NB100 - which of course connected to the
>> wireless first go!
>> (I
> I haven't watched this yet, but sounds interesting:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmDQpfCcMs
>
> YouTube video of Window 95 on the iPhone. Sourced from Guardian Tech
> Twitter.
>
> James
>
>
I would take those claims with a pinch of salt. Surely it is easier to
get an open source OS
Must have been a mirror issue, as I just switched to update from the
main ubuntu repositories, instead of the GB repositories and it has
installed fine.
Thanks for the help though :-)
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Harry Rickards wrote:
> What if you do (sudo) apt-get update first?
>
I always update before installing packages. Doesn't make a difference
to installing g++. I have checked my software sources, and they all
seem fine.
I have tried installing build-essential, which used to pull in g++
autom
I have just done a fresh install of Jaunty on my netbook, and began my
usual install of programs I use. When I came to install g++, I got told:
d...@chainfire:~$ sudo apt-get install g++
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package g++ is
heres a link for linuxworld expo:http://tinyurl.com/mrfjfn
2009/7/23 Daniel Drummond :
> also the UKUUG Summer Conference 07 / 08 / 2009 in Birmingham
>
> Dan
>
> 2009/7/23 Lucy :
>> 2009/7/23 Bill Quinn :
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> I am more interested if
also the UKUUG Summer Conference 07 / 08 / 2009 in Birmingham
Dan
2009/7/23 Lucy :
> 2009/7/23 Bill Quinn :
>> Alan
>>
>> I am more interested if you have anymore information on "LINUXWORLD EXPO
>> UK 2009" as to my knowledge there is no more Linux related shows for the
>> rest of 2009.
>
> Ther
William Anderson wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Just wait. October will be even more fun as people try to upgrade from
>> vista to 7. I've already told a few it's going to cost them more than the
>> usual couple of pints to sort the mess out.
>>
>
> From what I've heard, upgra
Just saw this on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84367553_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000321063&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=special-product-offers-3&pf_rd_r=0VK1CGRWR4HF3J8C5951&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=470371973&pf_rd_i=B002DUCMT2
[Quote]
*4. Does Windows 7 come with a Web Browse
>
> "Non-geeks", probably... "complete novices in the Outer Hebrides with
> loads of local friends using Windows"
Actually when I lived in the Outer Hebrides, on Lewis in particular, the
people were quite IT literate, and in Ness, at the very north of the
island there was a Linux Centre.
http
Sean Miller wrote:
> If you don't have the original image then you probably aren't legally
> entitled to remove the watermark.
>
> It's as simple as that...
>
> If you work for a company, as you say you do, and they've asked you to
> re-engineer the picture then ask them for the original rather tha
Liam Proven wrote:
> I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally,
> I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and
> an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card.
>
> Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live
> CD, but the resultant syste
Liam Proven wrote:
> And finally a more general question.
>
> What is the difference between the display themes Human and
> Human-Clearlooks? I've tried Google with no resulting enlightenment at
> all...
>
>
>
Look closely at the widgets (controls), especially the checkboxes.
Dan
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Sean Miller wrote:
> This is a long shot... have Googled but can't find anything of use...
>
> Bought a Lexmark z2420 wi-fi printer a couple of days ago, which works
> great on Windows but I can't find any sign of drivers for Linux.
>
> Now I am assuming that I am unlikely to be able to get the thi
John Matthews wrote:
> Hi, thank you for the information.
>
> I was just wondering, how do I get it to work, and become my default
> browser so that I dont have both, and I dont loose my profile info?
>
> John.
>
>
Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it accomplished it for me.
open
John Matthews wrote:
> Um, isnt FF3.5 final release now, I thought I saw it on the internet
> they were saying it was final release and if you look in windows it
> doesnt have beta after it. I'm not sure about that though.
My apologies, checking on
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/web/firefox-3
John Matthews wrote:
> Well, it might be because I am just not used to Ubuntu enough or understand
> it enough, but I am thinking along the the same lines as Windows, when you
> update FF it automatically updates to the next Version, and keeps your
> profile. I tried on my netbook, and it didnt
Most configuration is now done for x.org with hal, which is why a lot of
the options in your old x.org config file have been commented out. Look
in /etc/hal/fdi/policy to see if there are any files relating to the
wacom tablet. It may be named 10-linuxwacom.fdi, or something similar.
If not r
David King wrote:
> I also hear that Virgin is very bad too, although if you can get cable
> and it works, and you do not have to deal with their helplines, it
> might be okay, but after many bad experiences with NTL in the past I
> will never go with them again, even though they are now rebrand
George McLachlan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:22 PM, javadayaz wrote:
>
>> I mean primarily to view stuff/media thats stored on the ubuntu pc! sorry
>> should have made that a bit clearer
>>
>
> I use my viglen to stream to my xbox360 using ushare, works pretty well.
>
> George
>
>
Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:28 +0100, mac wrote:
>> Matthew Daubney wrote:
>>> You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32
>>> drives as if you own all the files. e.g.
>>>
>>> sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000
>>
>> That's use
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Sean Miller wrote:
> Who are the Linux Foundation?
>
> Can Linus T not, perhaps, ask them to change their name? Perhaps to
> the "Microsoft going on Linux Foundation" or similar?
>
> If I had created an operating system so vast in its scope I'd be
>
Alec Wright wrote:
> You've got a kernel there. vmlinuz-* are kernel images
>
> 2009/4/9 Farran Lee :
>> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:31 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>
>> Farran Lee wrote:
>>> I've had issues with my kernel recently - it had 27-11, -12
Farran Lee wrote:
> I've had issues with my kernel recently - it had 27-11, -12 and -14
> installed. Every time I installed anything, it always tried to
> regenerate the boot image, and always returned an error saying it had to
> leave the kernel/image/module packages unconfigured.
> Anyway, I trie
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alan c wrote:
> doug livesey wrote:
>> Hi -- I (sort of) noticed a while back some marketing gumph that suggested
>> that Ubuntu servers can be configured to reduce power consumption when they
>> are not under heavy load, and was wondering if something
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