Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keyboard shortcuts in 15.04

2015-12-15 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On 16 Dec 2015 07:02, "Barry Drake" wrote: > > On 15/12/15 21:53, Colin Law wrote: > >> This may do what you want. >> System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcuts > Custom Shortcuts > > > Hi Colin It ought to work, shouldn't it? As I said, hibernate/wake really is hard coded into the +F3 combina

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Options for website login

2014-08-30 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
FTP no good to you? Grant On 30 Aug 2014 09:35, "Gareth France" wrote: > On 30/08/14 09:29, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: > > > On 30 Aug 2014 09:26, "Gareth France" wrote: > > I have looked at dropbox, it is more expensive than my hosting for my > web

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Options for website login

2014-08-30 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On 30 Aug 2014 09:26, "Gareth France" wrote: > I have looked at dropbox, it is more expensive than my hosting for my website which could do this at no extra cost. It also suggests I would have to pay an additional £11 a month for each person I wanted to access it. This is not viable. What I need i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting To Remote Servers

2014-07-30 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
Have you considered either NFS or SMB? Grant On 30 Jul 2014 10:22, "Nigel Verity" wrote: > Hi > > I'd like to pick people's brains, if I may, on connecting to remote > servers. > > My goal is to mount a remote server (another PC in my house) to a folder > so that its contents can be used as if i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Everpad not launching Ubuntu 13.10

2014-02-24 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On 24 Feb 2014 08:47, "Gordon Burgess-Parker" wrote: > > I installed Everpad to connect to my Evernote account and yesterday I > noticed that it wasn't in the indicator panel. > I tried to launch it from Unity Dash, but nothing happened. > I uninstalled and re-installed using Ubuntu Software centr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Online Office Apps

2014-02-22 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Friday, 21 February 2014, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I have to maintain a Windows 7 partition solely to run MS Word. I work on > all my documents in LibreOffice but my customers invariably require DOCX > format. I need Word to double-check the formatting of the end-product as the > LO implem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Deja-dup & [lucky] backup

2013-05-31 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On 30 May 2013 16:01, SuperEngineer wrote: > Deja-dup saved my bacon. It was however on a separate partition *not* a > separate disk! What if the partition resize failed grotesquely enough to > bork the disk? > Rarely have I seen software issues/blunders cause irrecoverable data loss. If a par

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop locks up when lid re-opened

2013-05-30 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On 30 May 2013 11:18, pete smout wrote: > Hi, > > Im running 13-04, and I am *very* impressed apart from the slight issue, > of it locking up when the lid on the laptop is closed and re-opened. > I can find nothing that shouts at me in either the kern.log or x.log but > it has happened 3 times no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configuring Wammu

2012-07-16 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
I managed to get wammu to talk to my N95 (not 8gb model) by the USB cable. It is a while ago now but I think I had to make sure the phone was in the right mode first - the mode where it tries to talk to the Nokia Suite (our whatever it's called now). Grant On Jul 16, 2012 10:56 AM, "Gordon Burgess

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu, BlackBerry PlayBook and Windows in VirtualBox

2012-06-25 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:14 PM, David King wrote: > Thanks for your suggestion, I will give it a try when I can. I have already > installed Windows XP onto an old PC and used that to connect my PlayBook, > which worked, although it took a few attempts. > > It is unfortunate that all the tablet m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-01 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
Why should an application that isn't provided by Ubuntu, or even in the repositories, be required to create a .desktop file? Grant On May 1, 2012 2:29 PM, "Colin Law" wrote: > On 1 May 2012 14:12, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > > I've only been using 12.04 for 2 days and am already getting annoyed w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Free lunch?

2012-03-25 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Sun, 25 Mar 2012 11:06:04 +0100 alan c wrote: > On 24/03/12 11:08, Chris Penston wrote: > > [snip of really good stuff] > > > People tend to be impressed by the novelty > > that they have a choice. Almost always, the reaction is > > astonishment that something can be so good without costin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] really really off topic ....

2012-03-18 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Mar 18, 2012 1:15 PM, "Barry Drake" wrote: > > Hi folk sorry for the off topic. Please reply off list. My wife came home from a jumble sale with an amazing game and asked me if I could find a way of running it for the grandkids. It needs a maximum of Windows 95. It won't run under XP,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu & Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:44:56 + Alan Pope wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business > maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you > know but not very well) says "Hey, what's that on you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Plans (marketing)

2012-03-07 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Mar 7, 2012 7:01 PM, "alan c" wrote: > What I took from this exchange was that the retail goldfish bowl we > all actually live in, is one of deep immersion. There is hardly > anywhere we can go, or that I can think of, which does not have only > retail air to breathe. There is 'no such thing as

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Plans

2012-03-07 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
It could well be just the thing to undermine Microsoft's ARM plans. If there are good alternatives to Windows on ARM then the device manufacturers can vote with their wallets, so to speak. I imagine it is more costly to implement Microsoft's requirements than it would be to not implement them... b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg high CPU usage

2012-03-07 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:45:23 + Pete Smout wrote: > On 06/03/12 18:15, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: > > On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:07:08 + > > Pete Smout wrote: > > > >> On 05/03/12 21:10, Pete Smout wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>&

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xorg high CPU usage

2012-03-06 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Tue, 06 Mar 2012 18:07:08 + Pete Smout wrote: > On 05/03/12 21:10, Pete Smout wrote: > > Hi, > > > > For about a week now my laptop (ubuntu 10.04 LTS fully updated) has > > been freezing up for approx 30 secs, with gkrellm and top showing > > xorg using 100% cpu usage? > > There seems to be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] qlcodes on ubuntu cd wallets

2011-12-23 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Tony Pursell wrote: > Hi Grant > > On 23 December 2011 17:39, Grant Phillips-Sewell > wrote: >> >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Alan Pope >> wrote: >> > On 22/12/11 21:59, paul sutton wrote: >> >> >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] qlcodes on ubuntu cd wallets

2011-12-23 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 4:56 PM, Alan Pope wrote: > On 22/12/11 21:59, paul sutton wrote: >> >> Yeah,  would canonical agree to something like that on the cd wallets ? >> >> > The picasa link didn't work for me so can't see it. Sorry about that... I renamed the "folder" in which the image was sto

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Booklets?

2011-12-23 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > On 23/12/11 11:14, Matthew Daubney wrote: >> >> They have them on train station platforms now, providing a link to >> timetables for trains :) Was the first major use I saw for them. Also >> noticed them on a few bus stop type advertising bill b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD Booklets?

2011-12-23 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Fri, Dec 23, 2011 at 7:52 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > On 23/12/11 01:11, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: >> >> Anyone know of any decent, fairly small materials I could print off to >> put inside the DVD cases?  Like those booklets you typically get in a >> DVD movie box. &g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] qlcodes on ubuntu cd wallets

2011-12-21 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
You could take the resultant image and change the colours so the Ubuntu CoF is apparent. Grant. On Dec 21, 2011 10:03 PM, "paul sutton" wrote: > On 21/12/11 21:59, Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: > > I kinda like the idea but all too often the QR codes used are dull and > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] qlcodes on ubuntu cd wallets

2011-12-21 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
I kinda like the idea but all too often the QR codes used are dull and unimaginative. I'm sure you can find a way to make them more interesting. Grant. On Dec 21, 2011 9:41 PM, "paul sutton" wrote: > Hi > > Just had a thought about the 12,04 release cd wallet, would it be a good > idea to includ