Re: [ubuntu-uk] reminder tool

2009-06-11 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 7:43 AM, doug livesey wrote: > Hi -- can anyone recommend a handy little reminder tool for Ubuntu? > Just something I can quickly & easily set reminders in that will pop up & > annoy me until I deal with them. > Cheers, >Doug. > > I'm extremely fond of Osmo. It's a GTK

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu using wubi on Vista Home machine.....

2009-05-20 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Wed, 20 May 2009 10:31:41 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > I don't understand why you would have had know anything about > partitioning, John - the Ubuntu installer will do that for you. > > You just tell it how much space you want to allocate to Ubuntu and it > "steals" it out of the free space on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-19 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Tue, 19 May 2009 17:34:26 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > Well that all worked okay, now got Jaunty working. > > But I've lost my wireless. > > Hmmm... > > Prior to the re-install it was fine, and I don't remember actually > doing anything to make it not so. Is there some default option that's >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scrambled screen

2009-05-17 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Sun, 17 May 2009 08:29:07 +0100, Greg Herdman wrote: > Hi Everyone, > I'm really new to the Ubuntu scene; got involved about 6 months ago. > Everything has been working fine until a recent update session. An > incomplete update was signalled (I 'd just installed ClamTk and PiTiVi a > day or s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DFEY - Logo Competition - Cash Prizes

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Mon, 04 May 2009 19:38:20 +0100, Tim Dobson wrote: > DFEY is having a Logo Competition. > > Top Prize: £40 > First Runner Up: £10 > > > Brief for Entries > = > > * Should be easily recognisable, visually pleasing and easily reproduced > in different mediums. > * Should echo the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Mon, 04 May 2009 13:08:13 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Daniel Rhodes-Mumby wrote: > ... >> On my box running Karmic here, you can press Ctrl-Alt-Del to popup a >> shutdown >> menu, although it doesn'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 9.04: Is the (newish) GNOME logout menu controllable by keyboard?

2009-05-04 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
On Sun, 03 May 2009 23:32:54 +0100, David M wrote: > > I've just upgraded both of my boxes to 9.04, and it seems (so far) to > have gone reasonably smoothly, which is a great reassurance as a couple > (only a few, mind you) of the previous Ubuntu upgrades have been a > little hairy.. > > However

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chkdsk for NTFS partition

2009-01-14 Thread Daniel Rhodes-Mumby
ix which performs a basic chkdsk and allows you to mount it cleanly. An example usage would be "sudo ntfsfix /dev/sdb1", obviously replacing the drive and partition appropriately. -- Daniel Rhodes-Mumby Humans are the place where the rising ape meets the falling angel. -- ubuntu-uk@l