Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mystic Meg aka Facebook

2016-06-22 Thread Ivan Wright
Facebook use some quite sophisticated methods of tracking like Audio Context and HTML Canvas, and they reach a lot further than just their site. If you had logged into Facebook at some point on your Ubuntu phone, and you sent an email via a web based email service which had a Facebook tracker in th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] High Capacity SD cards

2015-09-08 Thread Ivan Wright
I have a 128GB SD card in my camera. Other than having to install exfat-utils it works fine in Kubuntu 14.04. I'm connecting via USB on the camera rather than using a reader. Ivan On 8 Sep 2015 3:42 pm, "Simon Greenwood" wrote: > Mechanically I can't see any reason why not as the cards should be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencast a presentation with Impress and webcam

2013-01-22 Thread Ivan Wright
Try guvcview for webcam viewer, it also has the option of recording a video stream. There is also a way of recording via ffmpeg, but I can't remember the command now. To make it all professional you could put all the video streams together in kdenlive. Try Kazam from their Unstable PPA for record

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual boot Windows 8 directions.......

2012-08-24 Thread Ivan Wright
The Ubuntu installer is able to take care of partitioning with Windows 8. Heres a video I did on it a few months ago http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LokDqte3sA4 Regards, Ivan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Malware targeting Linux.......

2012-07-11 Thread Ivan Wright
Blackhole exploit has been doing the rounds long enough, and my Ubuntu system got infected last November back when Adobe Flash was vulnerable. I found with Wireshark that my computer was beaconing out to a Polish IP address, fortunately I had a full disk backup from a few days before so I just flat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-10 Thread Ivan Wright
Hi Everyone I've been doing Youtube vids for a while focusing mainly on Ubuntu Tutorials, Distro Reviews, and some Application & Gaming reviews. http://www.youtube.com/quidsup My channel has been around for a couple of years and I've had getting on two million views, so I've seen the level of int

Re: [ubuntu-uk] copying data from one PC to another PC

2012-05-20 Thread Ivan Wright
Evolution has a backup option inside it which transfers all your settings and emails into a .tar.gz file. Evolution > File > Backup Evolution Data When you setup your new system one of the options Evolution gives you is to Restore from a zip file. For Firefox the easiest way is to copy the hidden

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Ivan Wright
> > Pity because during development it was absolutely fine, but post > > release its been crashing daily and I've had to fix quite a few > > little things that came out of the box working in 11.10. > > > > What's been crashing specifically? Can you detail what has needed > 'fixing'? > Installing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-17 Thread Ivan Wright
Im looking forward to 12.10, sadly like every other .04 release I've used 12.04 has been a flop. Pity because during development it was absolutely fine, but post release its been crashing daily and I've had to fix quite a few little things that came out of the box working in 11.10. Adding the x-up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] boot-repair utility ...

2012-05-17 Thread Ivan Wright
I've tried it in Virtualbox and it looks very good Regards, Ivan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where do the ubuntu reports go?

2012-05-02 Thread Ivan Wright
Im not happy about the amount of CPU usage the Whoopsie tool is using in Ubuntu server, Im noticing it sit around at 20% of one CPU core (Im running an Atom equivalent dual core 1.6GHz) Thats quite an overhead for a crash reporting tool, and Im seriously considering removing it. Doubt its picked u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Installer Doesn't Detect Partitions

2012-05-02 Thread Ivan Wright
Run Scan Disk in Windows and then try the Ubuntu installer again. If that doesn't make any difference then heres a tutorial video I made on using the Manual Partition Editor in Ubuntu Installer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBCHsgry2RQ Regards, Ivan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 audio recording?

2012-04-19 Thread Ivan Wright
Alan, Install pavucontrol from the Software Centre You can find and run it from Unity Launcher by typing "Pulse" You have to have Sound-Recorder recording something to make it show up in PAV Recording Input selector. Once you've chosen an input it will remember it next time you open Sound-Recorde

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 audio recording?

2012-04-19 Thread Ivan Wright
Did you use Pulse Audio Volume control to choose the correct input for Sound-Recorder? I tried that that on todays daily build ISO and it worked fine, I was able to choose between Mic input and recording from Soundcard output. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu and GIGABYTE

2012-04-19 Thread Ivan Wright
I bought a Gigabyte GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard last year but had a problem with it being unable to boot from a USB boot disk. I tried UEFI and legacy BIOS compatible boot disks but neither would boot. It could boot from a CD ok, but being unable to boot from a USB flash drive is unacceptable in thi

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

2012-03-18 Thread Ivan Wright
Try DOSBox, its available from the software centre. I doubt Win95 will work on any computer made in the last 8 years or so 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 an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Firefox 10 in 10.04 LTS

2012-03-13 Thread Ivan Wright
Are any updates coming through? Could be worth changing to a different update server. Open up Synaptic Package Manager Go to Settings -> Repositories Click the Download from drop down list, and select either the Server for UK or Main Server. Close Software Sources, and then click the Reload butto

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thunderbird message filter rules

2012-03-09 Thread Ivan Wright
I would have said copy the .mozilla folder but you'll get all the settings inluding logon details. Ivan On Mar 9, 2012 8:50 PM, "Simon Greenwood" wrote: > > > > On 9 March 2012 20:42, paul sutton wrote: >> >> Hi >> >> Having made a set of rules for what thunderbird does with mail from >> differ

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu - Wrong Direction?

2011-12-01 Thread Ivan Wright
I think they needed to move on and change style, we couldn't sit with a 1995 styled OS forever. What should be done is to do away with the six month development cycle, which is far too short for the amount of work needed on Unity. An 8-12 month cycle would have been far better and allowed time for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] webcam for ubuntu

2011-12-01 Thread Ivan Wright
I had one like that a couple of years ago, it was cheap Chinese junk that broke within a few uses. The microphone had rubbish sound quality and the resolution was more like 0.5Megapixels. Look for a webcam that uses a UVC driver as that works straight away in Linux. I've tried a couple of Logitec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help gnome 3 broke my laptop!

2011-11-20 Thread Ivan Wright
apt-get install ubuntu-desktop Gotta be worth a shot since installing Gnome 3 has probably knocked out some setting or important dependency to Gnome 2 Ivan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Watch and backup folder

2011-11-20 Thread Ivan Wright
I use LuckyBackup, its a GUI front end for rsync. Its pretty fast at copying over files that have been changed and has an optional feature to delete those that you've got rid of. Although I don't think it has a way of continually monitoring for changes. I only use it for doing an occasional backup