On 5/31/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 31/05/07, Eamonn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > contains a Hauppauge Nova-T 500 Dual card which is not 100% working in
> > > Linux
On 5/30/07, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 30/05/07, Dianne Reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I Stumbled this website last night http://efficientpc.co.uk/ - selling
> > Ubuntu pre-installed in the UK.
>
> I'm sure there's a handful of small companies doing this already, but
> nice t
On 5/30/07, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am sure this is finger trouble on my part. I have a small home
> network. I can not get into my shared Ubuntu folders from windows.
> SAMBA is running.
>
> I click on the computer, am asked for a user name and password, and am
> asked for a
On 4/17/07, ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > - From Gnome, press +
> > - Type the following into the run box:
> > gksudo 'update-manager -c -d'
[snip]
> Do you have to edit the sources.list to point to the new release ?
No. update-manager does that for you automatically.
-Eamonn
--
ubun
On 4/17/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > (gksu "update-manager -c" )
>
> Hey.
>
> Can anyone point we towards any documentation for the switches used
> after update-manager ? -c -d etc
I got this by typing update-manager --help in a terminal:
Usage: update-manager [options]
O
On 4/12/07, Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have a colleague who had help from a friend (more knowledgeable than I am)
> in loading Ubuntu from the web via apple-mac and a PC emulation. Between
> the two of them, they have forgotten the Ubuntu password and don't think
> that either wr
On 4/12/07, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> > On 4/12/07, Seif Attar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, and welcome! I see this is about 10 minutes walk from my
> > office, so I'd like to attend too, just for th
On 4/12/07, Seif Attar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > > For those of you in the London area, you might want to stop by the
> > > upcoming mini-bar event on 20 April to help celebrate the release of
> > > Ubuntu 7.04.
> > >
> > > Canonical is sponsoring the event, and Mark Shuttleworth will be
>
On 4/11/07, Jane Silber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi folks -
>
> For those of you in the London area, you might want to stop by the
> upcoming mini-bar event on 20 April to help celebrate the release of
> Ubuntu 7.04.
>
> Canonical is sponsoring the event, and Mark Shuttleworth will be
> speakin
On 3/7/07, David Pashley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have around 4 computers hanging off a 700VA APC SmartUPS, including
> one with an Antec power supply, and it's not fully loaded yet. 380VA
> should be more than enough for one server.
[snip]
> I have always liked APC SmartUPSs. I believe NUT i
Hi all,
I've just built a home/soho server and I'm hoping someone here could
help me with a couple of questions. It's a headless server (dual-core,
three 320GB hard drive with RAID5) where I'm running the increasingly
complicated applications that I use for home and work. It runs the
MoinMoin wiki
On 3/6/07, Ben Thorp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 06/03/07, Eamonn Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > . Ubuntu simply won't see the drives at all.
> > >
> > > -Eamonn
> >
> > Er...do you mean the live CD won't see t
On 3/5/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> what sort of problems occur - drives not recognised or what? are there
> ways to work around problems or are you stuck with them?
In my experience, trying the LiveCD in the system will tell you right
away if there are problems. Ubuntu simply won't see
On 3/5/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have not had any sata hard drives yet at all. My harware is various
> an dusualy a bit old.
>
> What is the situation with sata drives and installs of (K)Ubuntu? is
> there any kind of complication or difference from the way ata hard
> drives insta
On 3/5/07, STONE COLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> hi,
> i need some help. I accidentaly deleted some repositories and now im getting
> this error message.. and a constant little red box on the top toolbar (
> informing me of an error). here is the error message:
>
> E: Type '/etc/apt/sources.l
i'm not sure (I don't use KDE), but an easy way to check is to create
one and then open a terminal and run:
ls -l ~/Desktop
A symlink will show up as a oddly-coloured filename with a -> symbol
showing the original file it points to.
You create a symlink in the terminal with:
ln -s original link
On 3/2/07, Paul Sladen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, 2 Mar 2007, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
>
> Hello Eamonn,
>
> > - Intel DG965RY motherboard
> > 02:00.0 IDE interface: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Unknown device
>
> You appear to be in the same boat (fir
Hi all, I made a classic error when assembling my own home server: I
forgot to check for Linux compatibility on all of the components.
Well, actually, I did, but made a last-minute decision, without
checking, to go with a different Intel motherboard because it had more
expansion. That stupid decisi
On 2/7/07, Celia Lawton-Livingstone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm interested in putting Ubuntu 6.10 on my Acer laptop, probably as a dual
> boot to begin with. How do I find out whether the hardware is compatible
> and will i need to download a program to control power management?
On 2/3/07, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> make link to url on ubuntu desktop?
I may be missing something obvious, but to create a link to a url on
my desktop, I just click on the little fav icon at the beginning of
the url in Firefox's address bar (for example, the little envelope in
front of
On 2/3/07, Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've had a skirmish with f-spot and cannot get the download button to do
> other than to send me to a log-in page which won't recognise a user name -
> which one is this ? I'm lower in the intelligence scale than your two dear
> ladies. Help p
On 2/3/07, Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Thanks for the tips - Inskscape is already on my ubuntu package and I'll
> look at it. Is there any equivalent to iphoto, a brilliant apple mac
> program for simply tweaking photos ? Robin
My wife and my mother ("Folder? What's a folder?") h
On 2/3/07, Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Think I will put 10.1 on and use Synaptic to upgrade it as I did on this box
> but I did want the cd to install on a neighbours box...Have you tried
> the Desktop
> version to see if that works ??
I should have mentioned, but yes I'm using the desktop ve
On 2/3/07, Ted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have just d/loaded the latest Feisty alternative cd and find it will
> not boot..
> It just hangs after the choose keyboard screen...I also tried the check
> software option
> and that starts but bombs out after a few seconds...I have checked the
> m5su
On 2/3/07, Tony Arnold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Should I reboot my system after applying an upgrade to libc6?
>
> I imagine that every process on the system is probably using this
> library and therefore they should all be restarted to pick up the new
> version.
I find the upgrade-manager is u
On 1/23/07, Sean Hammond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Katapult is for KDE. On GNOME try gnome-launch-box or the deskbar panel
> applet:
I'd second the recommendation for deskbar. Install it via synaptic or,
from a terminal do:
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install deskbar-applet
Now, righ
On 1/23/07, Andrew Black (delete obvious bit)
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Has anyone used Katapult? This is installed on my Ubuntu machine but I
> can't see how to get it to do anything useful
>
> Runing gmome on Ubuntu Dapper
Katapult is a KDE program for launching applications using the
ke
On 12/6/06, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi Ubuntu people.
>
> Has anyone had any problems getting the amazon.co.uk site to work with
> Firefox on Edgy? It seems not to like my password, which is the correct
> one (works with XP).
I use amazon way too much, or so my wife tells me. Works fine.
On 11/9/06, David Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 09/11/06, Gary Kearley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I am moving very soon, into an area which has NTL Cable, now I've never
> > had Cable before and need to know what I am dealing with.
> >
> Cable is pretty good always on inter
On 11/9/06, Gary Kearley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am moving very soon, into an area which has NTL Cable, now I've never
> had Cable before and need to know what I am dealing with.
I use Blueyonder, in the London area, which is part of Telewest (now
owned also by NTL). I have not had
Excuse the top posting (I'm using my blackberry). To give everyone
read access to files in a directory (and all subdirctories), I'd do
chmod -R o+r *
-Eamonn
On 11/7/06, STONE COLD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> so how do i do that?
>
>
> >From: Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: British Ub
On 11/7/06, William Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> del.icio.us is fantastic, but I found the Firefox extension too restrictive.
> It completely replaces the FF bookmark system (tho I suppose suppresses is
> a better word, since all your old bookmarks are still there, and disabling
> the ext
On 11/6/06, Alistair Crust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Adding the printer is where I have problems. As soon as I finish the
> setup and click add printer the page asks me to upgrade or access
> the /admin via https. If this https has been complied out by the package
> maintainers upstream then why
On 11/5/06, TheOldFellow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Subject says it all. I really HATE systems that make you register and
> then have no un-register feature.
I didn't immediately spot an easy way to do that. I think *not* being
able to easy delete all of your personal details is a violation of
On 11/4/06, Nik Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Can I just point out that :
>
> Approval Application needs to take some level of precedence this wee,
> if not tommorow. Jono got up and showed a world Map of LocoTeams in
> who were Approved and who were awaiting approval. He stood in the Expo
On 11/4/06, Nicholas Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >
> or we could use that um how do we use that ?
>
> Actually it leads to the interesting question of how many members are on
> launchpad vs how many are in the Mail List ?
Good question, actually. I don't know how to create a poll on
Lau
On 11/4/06, Pete Ryland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Currently, Nik Butler is doing a fantastic job as our interim leader.
>
> However, in the spirit of democracy, it has been suggested that this
> should be confirmed (or denied) by a vote.
>
> Might I suggest a deadline of tomorrow evening, Sunday
On 11/3/06, Nicholas Butler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Joseph,
>
> Thanks for the offer and I can clearly see there is a very robust set of
> positions regarding Forums usage. I know we had this conversation before
> and felt at the time the Maillist suited the assemblage of current
> Ubuntu UK T
On 11/2/06, Kenny Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Eamonn,
>
> Im not sure that you've really missed anything. My mail did imply a decision
> had been made, which I don't think it has.
No, that's fine. Wasn't criticising, I was just honestly asking. I
jump in and out of the list when I have tim
On 11/2/06, Kenny Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I think it would be great to have a ubuntu-uk forum, and I would also be
> happy to volunteer my services in forum moderation.
>
> I also agree with Daniel, regarding the use of a proprietry system being
> counter productive to the m
On 11/1/06, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 18:17 +0000, Eamonn Sullivan wrote:
> > On 11/1/06, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > I'm getting annoyed at the number of websites that are 'failing' on Edgy
> > > beca
On 11/1/06, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm getting annoyed at the number of websites that are 'failing' on Edgy
> because they want flashplay 7. What is the most up to date version for
> linux, I can't find anything above 5?.
>
> Any poss of FP7 coming out for us soon?
There's an unofficial
On 10/2/06, David M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I see the beta release of 6.10 is now available.
> http://www.ubuntu.com/news/EdgyBeta
>
> Is anybody being brave and giving it a go? ;-)
I upgraded one of my two Dapper machines on Saturday. I had one
problem that a newbie would have had a great de
On 9/21/06, Alan Helmore-Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> We had a college IT teacher in the
> >> hacklab once, he explained that even if he wants to teach some free
> >> software he can't, they are locked in a contract with microsoft by which
> >> they can not install any other software on
On 9/8/06, Matthew Revell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 08/09/06, Jono Bacon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So, I am proposing we meet in the .org village on Wed 25th Oct at
> > 2.30pm.
> >
> > Can anyone make it along?
>
> Sounds like a good idea. Do you think we could organise a weekend
> meet,
On 9/4/06, Llywelyn Owen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm having some trouble writing to removable USB disks. Although drag and drop
> seems to work ie I can see and open the moved/copied file/directory, when I
> try to open it in SUSE 10.1 it's not there, occasionally it will succeed in
> copying
On 9/1/06, Steve Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'm trying to get to the bottom of what GPG is and how it works. I
> can't find a description that covers the absolute basics of what it
> is, would anyone care to explain to me? Does it have anything to do
> at all with the actual computer you
On 8/22/06, Keith Bowerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> There was an update of the above announced on my machine this morning
> and I dutifully went ahead and downloaded it. I was running Dapper and
> Linux 2.6.15-26-386.
>
> On returning home and booting up after lunch I find that I am without a
On 5/2/06, john levin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Don't know about PC World, but The Linux Emporium do Ralink cards, that
as they say 'run out-of-the-box with Ubuntu 5.10':
http://linuxemporium.co.uk/products/wireless/
HTH
John
Perfect. And cheap, too. Thanks much!
-Eamonn
--
ubuntu-uk maili
I'm aiming to update to Dapper soon and do a clean install. My current
system has been dist-upgraded in stages from Warty preview to Breezy
(and many of the tests in between) and is getting a bit crufty. I use
my ubuntu desktop on a wireless network, connected to an iMac and
Windows PC.
Unfortuna
On 24/10/05, Wiehe, Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Over the weekend I decided to upgrade my Hoary box to Breezy. I followed the
> instructions but it didn't go very smoothly. I lost X despite making sure I
> had the required desktop packages etc., I got a load of errors with the
> xorg-common p
On 24/10/05, Oren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> At last, I managed to get my network connection. Hurrraaa.
> Now, I am absolutely struggling with getting sense out of Totem.
> But not only Totem. All I want to do is play my DVD's and AVI's.
>
> I have installed libdvdcss2 and re-insta
On 17/10/05, Shelley & Oren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>
> Hi all
>
>
>
> Complete and utter noob here.
>
>
>
> I am definitely going ahead with a new installation of Ubantu 5.10 today.
>
> However, over the weekend, I was toying with the live CD.
>
> One thing I noticed was that Ubuntu showed
On 01/10/05, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> OK, I've fixed mine with, sudo update-alternatives --auto
> usplash-artwork.so then, sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-$(uname -r).
> I've also noticed that little gui for editing the grub menu list has
> gone, which is a shame because it was a handy t
On 01/10/05, baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, after that large update yesterday my boot splash has gone. Anyone
> else had this happen to them? I'm using Breezy.
Yes, it stopped working for me this morning too, but I can't find any
usplash-related error messages. Still looking, if I find one,
On 15/09/05, Baza <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ello, I've took the plunge and upgraded to Breezy via dist-upgrade.
> It all works well, stable etc. Only thing is, I don't get a, 'splash
> screen' when I'm sure breezy has one? Any ideas why?
try:
sudo dpkg-reconfigure linux-image-`uname -r`
Then
On 12/09/05, Gordon Burgess-Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In Hoary 5.04 I don't see any option to be able to switch users (as
> opposed to logging out and logging on as a new user). Is there such a
> facility and if so how do you access it?
>
Try Applications/System Tools/New Login.
-Eamon
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