Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutdown/Restart bug on 10.04

2010-07-21 Thread George McLachlan
I have hit that bug as well. It's difficult to reproduce for me. I also noticed that every time it happens my desktop seems to have got itself into a strange state before I shutdown, i.e my volume control applet will turn red and I will lose sound, or something will refuse to open. To go (slightl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Judge bans Microsoft Word sales

2009-08-16 Thread George McLachlan
On Sunday 16 Aug 2009 09:30:59 David King wrote: > Why is competition good? > Because competition drives innovation. For companies competition means they could lose market share and profit, unless they keep "improving" their product. So it's entirely seen as a threat to their bottom line.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto Mounting Network Shares

2009-08-11 Thread George McLachlan
>> > Maybe rather than using NFS you could use SSHFS, you will need to > forward a port on your router (you don't specifically have to use port > 22, you could even use 222, or 1234 for instance).  I'd also guess > that it would be easier if you used shared keys so you don't have to > enter pa

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless Networking question: Ps3 or Xbox 360

2009-06-04 Thread George McLachlan
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 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sad but true? From the Register

2009-01-15 Thread George McLachlan
> > [2] It's a completely Flash-driven site, when Ubuntu doesn't include > Flash. This is a political decision - I've been debating it recently > on Ubuntu-sounder, in fact. The sad reality is that because of the > Ubuntu project's determination to ship only Free software, excluding > drivers, when

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 in Hardy

2008-04-28 Thread George McLachlan
I guess I will have to wait and hopefully an update will improve performance. Nice to know it's not just me. George -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Battery

2008-04-28 Thread George McLachlan
I suppose you could try acpi -V from the command line to get back some info. Don't think it will tell a different story though. George Stephen Garton wrote: > Since upgrading to Hardy, all of the available 'battery' applets > report that my battery is at 0% charge. If I unplug the mains, the > b

[ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread George McLachlan
I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all should be fine and good, but the performance of firefox has dropped like a stone. As I type this it is using 101% of the CPU (dual cores so top doesn't pick i