Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam 2012 - London

2012-09-07 Thread Iain Lane
er anything beasty. I do have 4 SATA drives and a PCI-E graphics card, but could get molex adaptors if needed. Cheers! See a few tomorrow, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la...@debian.org ] Ubuntu Devel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nottingham release party

2011-09-13 Thread Iain Lane
ut that the great Robin Hood Beer Festival starts at the castle on the 13th, 11.10's release date. :-) http://www.beerfestival.nottinghamcamra.org/ Cheers, -- Iain Lane [ i...@orangesquash.org.uk ] Debian Developer [ la.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] classic interface and ubntu

2011-09-06 Thread Iain Lane
On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 05:36:44PM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: > Iain Lane wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 12:44:27PM +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote: > > > Tony Arnold wrote: > > > > > > > > Ubuntu 11.10 will ship with GNO

Re: [ubuntu-uk] classic interface and ubntu

2011-09-06 Thread Iain Lane
ity. There's gnome-shell. There's gnome-panel 3 (AKA gnome fallback mode) which is rather similar (but not exactly the same) as gnome-panel 2. I'm using it right now. It's not the end of the world. It's pretty "Classic". Cheers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [lugmaster] Evil on the Internet and Capsicum

2010-09-05 Thread Iain Lane
On Sun, Sep 05, 2010 at 01:35:34PM +0100, Alan Pope wrote: This was posted to Lugmaster and I thought some here might be interested. Begin forwarded message: From: Richard Ibbotson Date: 5 September 2010 11:18:12 GMT+01:00 To: lugmas...@mailman.lug.org.uk Subject: [lugmaster] Evil on the Int

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread Iain Lane
On 12 Jun 2009, at 15:59, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies of these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to recognise new additions to the mp3 archive except by recompiling its Music Library completely via 'Im

Re: [ubuntu-uk] February 13th timestamp

2009-02-13 Thread Iain Lane
On 13 Feb 2009, at 10:54, Tony Arnold wrote: > Since most viruses run on Windows, I would think the Unix time is > irrelevant! Or maybe this is a fallacy; we just don't know how infected we all are. Until tonight... This message has been checked for viruses but the contents of an attachment ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Next meeting 11/01/09 @ 19:30 GMT in #ubuntu-uk

2009-01-10 Thread Iain Lane
Folks, Quick reminder for tomorrow. Iain Lane wrote: > Hi all, > > The next Ubuntu-UK Team meeting will be held via IRC at 19:30 GMT > (that's 19:30 UTC) on Sunday 11th January 2009 in #ubuntu-uk. > Come along if you're interested in making the bug jam hap

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Venues and global bug jam

2009-01-08 Thread Iain Lane
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:57 PM, John Levin wrote: > > I've contacted the Uni of Westminster, who hold GLLUG (London LUG) > meetings as to whether it would be possible to use their rooms. I need > some idea of what we would require for the bug jam; I'll add the venue > to the list when they've give

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Next meeting 11/01/09 @ 19:30 GMT in #ubuntu-uk

2009-01-05 Thread Iain Lane
On 5 Jan 2009, at 08:35, James Tait wrote: > Hi Iain, > > Thanks for the notice but the link: > > Iain Lane wrote: > >> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes?action=AttachFile&do=get&target=meeting.ical > > Currently sets up an appointment for November

[ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Next meeting 11/01/09 @ 19:30 GMT in #ubuntu-uk

2009-01-04 Thread Iain Lane
ly, then over the next few days whoever chaired the meeting disseminates the information into a more manageable summary on the same page. Hope to see you there. Kind regards, Iain Lane -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Announcing the next Global Bug Jam

2008-12-21 Thread Iain Lane
On 19 Dec 2008, at 10:56, Ciaran Mooney wrote: > It can't hurt to try! > > Any ideas, there was a long discussion about the last one. I'll try > and pull out the useful suggestions and comments. > > > CiarĂ¡n Well we have a fair amount of time to sort this out. Does anyone have any contacts at C

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Intrepid Themes

2008-10-21 Thread Iain Lane
Dave Murphy wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2008 21:28:56 +0100 > "Chris Rowson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Hi there, >> >> Does anyone know what's going on with the look of Intrepid? I did think that >> it was supposed to come with a new theme, but from what I've seen so far it >> seems to be rather

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Live CD - Auto mounting existing HDs

2008-08-03 Thread Iain Lane
Ian Pascoe wrote: > Gents and Ladies > > A, hopefully, quick and simple question. > > Will the Live CD auto mount NTFS HD's automatically without any help from > the user when running Ubuntu from the CD? > > I am unsure on this point as my own Windows partitions are FAT32. > > Cheers > > Ian >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SSH through FIrewall

2008-05-10 Thread Iain Lane
Adam Bagnall wrote: > On Sat, 2008-05-10 at 09:37 +0100, Seif Attar wrote: >> Hello, >> ... >> Is there a way to gain access to that machine through the firewall? is >> there something she can do on her machine (like connect to my machine >> via SSH and forword port 999 on my local machine to por

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-29 Thread Iain Lane
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 08:40:20PM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > | IMO it was a bad move to put a beta browser into an LTS release. But > | that's just my opinion ;-) > > I was surprised by this during the betas. I think that the only > explanation I found that made sense was th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to torrent on a remote machine: was:Idea- Torrents!

2008-04-29 Thread Iain Lane
Alan Pope wrote: > > Then on my desktop PC I go and find a torrent I want to download, ah, > here is one:- > > http://releases.ubuntu.com/hardy/ubuntu-8.04-alternate-i386.iso.torrent > > I then open a terminal on my desktop and ssh from my desktop to the > server:- > > $ ssh 192.168.129.5 > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The BBC Launches Wiiplayer??? WHAT!?

2008-04-09 Thread Iain Lane
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 05:49:44PM +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 05:38:12PM +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > > > > > Ok, so now they are making that stupid TV player work on the Wii too > > > now, they are

[ubuntu-uk] Packaging/Bug Jam

2008-04-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello all, You may remember James Westby emailing[1] a few weeks ago regarding organising a Packaging/Bug jam sometime in the not too distant future. Well, we had a meeting a couple of weeks ago[2] where it was decided to go ahead and organise this for certain. We are looking tentatively at a da

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-26 Thread Iain Lane
Stephen O'Neill wrote: > Dianne Reuby wrote: > | So we need to emphasis the availability of paid support from Canonical > | when "selling" to customers such as schools and small businesses. > > > Good point. If someone walked into a job managing an Ubuntu network with > only MS experience are the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] phorm add on in firefox

2008-03-15 Thread Iain Lane
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 11:24 AM, Iain Lane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:13 AM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 09:05:08AM +, Jai Harrison wrote: > > > How can you be sure that's all they're

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any interest in a Packaging Jam/Bug Jam?

2008-03-09 Thread Iain Lane
James Westby wrote: > I'd like to gauge the interest level of people in the group for this. > Would you be interested in attending one of these sessions? Would > you be interested in doing both in a day, or just one? Definitely. I've been doing a bit of light packaging work lately but am keen to u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu

2008-02-02 Thread Iain Lane
Sean Miller wrote: > You can, of course, use the install CD to go for the default Ubuntu > install and then use Synaptic to install KDE as well... there will then > be an option when signing in to alter which desktop you choose... would > also thoroughly recommend installing Kfce which is the one u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bookmarks

2008-01-10 Thread Iain Lane
John Taylor wrote: > I have 7.10 with Gnome, when I first updated I could swear that in the > drop down menu within "Places" there was a sub-menu of Bookmarks, if so > how do I get it back or am I just demented? > > John > Bookmarks only shows up for me when I have 6 or more directories in my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Display blanking despite settings in gnome-power-manager and gnome-screensaver

2008-01-07 Thread Iain Lane
Michael Holloway wrote: > Hi > > There is a bug i think when using ATI cards (we always blame the > graphics cards!)... after much googling, on a friends machine with the > machine problem i came across this to add to the end > of /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > > > Section "ServerFlags" > Option "Blan

[ubuntu-uk] Display blanking despite settings in gnome-power-manager and gnome-screensaver

2008-01-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello all, I switched to Gutsy from Windows a couple of months ago and have been having a blast ever since. However, there is this one problem that I've been having ever since the switch and it's pretty annoying. I'd been living with it for a few weeks until I got a new laptop (eee pc), installed