Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nvidia card turned off

2010-06-06 Thread Daniel M. Drummond
On Sun, 2010-06-06 at 11:06 +0100, John Matthews wrote: > just run 'nvidia-config' as root and restart the > server. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is Ubuntu Getting Too Bloated?

2010-05-29 Thread Daniel M. Drummond
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 23:20 +0100, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I am inclinded to sympathise with Roachy's view. Apart from a very > brief flirtation with Fedora I have nothing to compare Ubuntu with. > However, I feel that the ideal approach for any distro should be to > install the OS and manage

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is Ubuntu getting too bloated?

2010-05-29 Thread Daniel M. Drummond
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 11:55 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > On 29 May 2010 11:52, Paul Roach wrote: > > > Unfortunately it wasn't a scientific test...but on Ubuntu I'd estimate > > about 50 seconds to login screen and a further 20 seconds to get GDM > > up. Debian seems to get to the login screen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is Ubuntu getting too bloated?

2010-05-29 Thread Daniel M. Drummond
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 10:51 +0100, Paul Roach wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > First of all, let me say this isn't a troll, but a genuine question > with regard to the direction of the project as someone who's been > on-and off using Ubuntu since Dapper... > > I've use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Gparted

2010-05-27 Thread Daniel M. Drummond
On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 12:24 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Well, now I've got 10.04 installed (whatever my system monitor may > think), and I have also got 10.04 on a Live CD. However, I do not see > how I could run Gparted from the Live CD with my internal hard drive > unmounted, because I install