On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 09:13:46PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> After spending countless hours looking on the net im on the verge of giving
> up. posting here now as a last resort...
>
> My xubuntu hardy is bluetooth enabled. I can see it when i switch on BT on
> my phone, moto z8. But thats it. I c
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 05:06:21PM +0100, Gavin Ford wrote:
> On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:52:03PM +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> > The Intel X driver was substantially improved/re-written for Hardy so
> > you might want to at least try a LiveCD.
>
> I've been updating a
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:52:03PM +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote:
> The Intel X driver was substantially improved/re-written for Hardy so
> you might want to at least try a LiveCD.
I've been updating all the way, the problem is still here in Hardy.
The LiveCD is a good idea, I'll give it a go and s
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:21:34AM +0100, John Levin wrote:
> Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any
> of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu?
I use parts of Xubuntu and Ubuntu. I installed from an Ubuntu 7.04 disc and
later removed ubun
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:48:16PM +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
> ... You wouldn't gain anything from using such a system, if there was
> one. There is specialised hardware etc that already does things like
> that (see a cheap tesco's cordless phone, or a PDA from any fairly
> large shop like PC Worl
On Sun, May 18, 2008 at 11:33:22PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> Thoughts?
I think what's being asked there, is as you can use a mobile phone as a data
connection for a computer, via bluetooth, can you reverse the process and use
a computer as a data connection for a phone.
Perhaps with some special
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 01:57:34PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> ok thank you..
>
> anymore anyone?
Podcasts I subscribe to are:
Alive in Baghdad
http://feeds.feedburner.com/AiBquicktime
Channel Frederator
http://www.channelfrederator.com/rss
The Onion
http://feeds.theonion.com/OnionNewsNetwork
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:27:35PM +0100, Adam Bagnall wrote:
> Just poking about on their site you can order one here.
> http://www.viglen.co.uk/devportal/std/storefront/qna.asp?part_no=MPCWEB&ecode=XUBUMPCL§or=&firstpass=1&guid=22084573063
>
> Click the information link and it says 256mb RAM b
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 10:40:17PM +0100, Seif Attar wrote:
> On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 22:21 +0100, Gavin Ford wrote:
> > Broadcom WiFi was slow and unreliable
> > This was down to defaulting to the Open Source Broadcom driver, which is
> > cripplingly slow and seemed to j
On Sat, May 03, 2008 at 01:58:24AM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> Ok dumb question indeed. Is there anyway of connecting buntu to 4od.
> I was thinking maybe through some way through vlc (streaming connection to
> the website) or someother play...elisa media centre...myth...anything?
>
> Just a though
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 03:51:34PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> so i can install this "debian" via a ubuntu pc?
Before I go any further I should try and explain what Debian is.
Debian is the OS Ubuntu is built from. Without Debian there would be no Ubuntu
as we know it.
Debian is a hugely importa
On Thu, May 01, 2008 at 02:52:57PM +0100, Javad Ayaz wrote:
> A bit of a weird one this. I want to rip a DVD and then convert it to avi.
> Only thing is i have media centre pc and in that pc i have a dual core 6600.
> Coz of lack of space it gets extremely hot..and is automatically set to shut
> do
I've had a few problems since upgrading to Hardy, now I've got most of them
sorted I thought it would be helpful to share the solutions I've found.
Broadcom WiFi was slow and unreliable
This was down to defaulting to the Open Source Broadcom driver, which is
cripplingly slow and seemed to jus
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:24:10PM +0100, Colin McCarthy wrote:
> What I can't believe is that a Long Term Support release has beta software
> as the default browser How can Canonical expect companies to use 8.04
> LTS on all their desktop when the first thing that Admins need to do is go
> BA
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 07:00:24PM +0100, Philip Newborough wrote:
> I have been experiencing similar symptoms for the last week or so,
> Firefox freezes for a few seconds before responding, seems to happen
> more when a new page is rendered. Again, noticed on several systems,
> all running various
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:40:13AM +0100, Christopher Chatfield wrote:
> I have only run various flavours of linux for the past 3 years.
> I am not a games player but my son is. There is an extra
> special game about to be released, that will only play on windows.
>
> I want to run windows in par
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 06:12:51PM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
> If you do, you might want to consider using a VM technology such as
> VirtualBox or VMware to get an instance of Windows rather than dual boot.
Another alternative is WINE, that way you may not need a copy of Windows at
all.
--
Gav
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 02:35:39PM +, alan c wrote:
> Is it me, or something at my end here, but things seem uncommonly
> quiet on this list for the last several days?
Quiet.
Too quiet.
I think something sinister is going on and they aren't telling us about it.
We should run.
-Gav
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On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 07:17:20PM +, Rob Beard wrote:
> What this the security type (WPA, WEP etc) and how many characters is
> the passphrase?
>
> I've had a similar problem with my dad's wireless once, turns out the
> passphrase was too short (was about 6 characters rather than the
> req
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +, Jai Harrison wrote:
> I can understand why people who have never used Photoshop might not
> find the GIMP complicated to use - especially if they've spent time
> learning to use it but it presents a problem to people who are used to
> image tool standards (
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:54:01PM +, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
> By design, WINE is complete when it can replicate and translate all of windows
> programming system signals. By doing this, google will make the entire WINE
> base a bit more stable, rather than less, which means this will probab
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:51:24PM +, Jai Harrison wrote:
> Is this is what the effects of a difficult user interface in the GIMP are?
I really like the interface on The GIMP and it does everything I need, but there
are some features that photographers working in print need that the GIMP doesn
On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 05:10:45PM +, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
> Downloading, for example, Command and Conquer for the PC via torrent is
> illegal. That won't stop people doing it.
Oh no it isn't.
http://www.commandandconquer.com/intel/default.aspx?id=61#NewsMain
-Gav
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On Mon, Feb 18, 2008 at 12:31:37AM +, Daniel Lamb wrote:
> No but seriously how can anyone have anything again linux? I really
> struggle with that.
The number one killer-app that I find stops people moving to Linux is games.
Almost everything else can be replaced.
MS Office to Open Office o
On Sun, Feb 17, 2008 at 01:14:50PM +, Sean Miller wrote:
> Ubuntu Satanic Edition?
>
> Sean
http://ubuntusatanic.org/news/about
It's a set of themes to make Ubuntu look more like Windows Vista.
-Gav
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I think we need to:
C
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 05:10:08AM +, C L Chatfield wrote:
> If you use Xvidcap with a good graphics card,
> would it work?
>
> I cant capture totem images with it but can record screenshots.
You don't need to with mplayer, you can add the -dumpstream option and it will
dump the content to a
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 11:27:41PM +, alan c wrote:
> > The spaces and unescaped weird characters in the URL are confusing it, try
> > it in
> > single quotes like this:
> >
> > mplayer
> > 'rtsp://rm-acl.bbc.co.uk/news/media_acl/mps/fix/news/business/video/138000/bb/138961_16x9_bb.rm?title=
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 10:53:43PM +, alan c wrote:
> One of the rare occasions just happened - I wanted to capture a video
> clip from the bbc site. The previous technique I used does not now
> seem to work on this site, maybe they have changed their approach or
> something?
>
> The partic
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 08:32:29PM +, Andrew Jenkins wrote:
> Is there a way to change the init level of Ubuntu?
> I used to use Mandriva and changed the init level in
> /etc/inittab to '3' instead of '5'. This made the
> machine boot up into a bash terminal with no GUI
> invoked. If you then
Hello,
I'm getting a strange error message from aptitude when I install anything or
run safe-upgrade. It's caused by what it tells me is a the failing post-
installation script for ssmtp.
Now I have ssmtp installed and working fine on two machines, but both throw
this error out:
> The followi
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:34:07PM +, Robert McWilliam wrote:
> MPlayer has a handy jpeg output driver which saves every frame of a video as
> a
> JPEG file in the current directory (It will save a lot of these). You can
> then
> pick out some of them.
>
> You'll want a command line somet
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