Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless N routers

2008-12-18 Thread Jake Bunce
For powerline adapters to work, they need to run on the same electrical ring main. As each house will have it's own fuse box & ring main, "leakage" to outside of the home is not going to be an issue. Most vendors offer some sort of vendor security for privacy anyways. If you're really concerned, us

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Configuring Virgin cable modem

2008-11-14 Thread Jake Bunce
Are you running it as root or with sudo? Jake 2008/11/14 dianne reuby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ifup gives this error message: > ifup: failed to open statefile /var/run/network/ifstate Permission Denied > ifstate only has one entry: > lo=lo > Is this relevant? > Dianne > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] intro

2008-11-01 Thread Jake Bunce
It would seem that there are a fair few Ubuntu users in Devon now, myself included! :-) 2008/11/1 Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Paul Sutton wrote: > > Hi > > > > I am paul, from Paignton, South Devon and decided to join the list so I > > could help promote Linux and other OSS better by being

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SolarNetOne solar-powered LTSP installation

2008-10-29 Thread Jake Bunce
Looks good, but I imagine the network latency would be too high to run any VoIP services from 2 miles over an unlicenced radio frequency Jake 2008/10/29 Ian Pascoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Unashamedly cribbed from another list - very interesting application of > LTSP and Ubuntu! > > Ian > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] how to reclaim space after updates?

2008-10-23 Thread Jake Bunce
Try apt-get autoclean Jake 2008/10/23 Fred Niggle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > Could anyone tellme how to use synaptic package manager to remove old and > unused packages etc after an update? > I now have several option in grub, and would like to clean things up. > > Many thanks, > SI > > -- >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Non ubuntu related question- Can you log into gmail on your phone?

2008-10-06 Thread Jake Bunce
Works for me on N95 :-). What phone do you have? 2008/10/6 Javad Ayaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > My apologies in advance for this being off topic! > > just a quick question. Im trying to log into my gmail on my phone. but i > keep getting the incorrect username/password message? > > Has anyone had thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Debian apache2 problem

2008-09-12 Thread Jake Bunce
Are you using static NAT, i.e 1-1, 80.87.131.49 - 10.10.10.1 or whatever your internal IP is and can it handle the amount of translations its performing? Also if you're behind a shared firewall, can it handle the amount of traffic passing through it? Check your firewall/iptables logs where connecti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wirelessly exchanging files

2008-09-10 Thread Jake Bunce
Cross over patch lead? 2008/9/10 Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bruce Beardall wrote: > > Hi All > > > > A friend and myself at work are looking to exchange files between our > > two laptops wirelessly. Security concerns at work mean we can't > > necessarily use the network and it woul

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IRC - does not connect

2008-08-01 Thread Jake Bunce
Try a web based client like mibbit http://www.mibbit.com/ :-) 2008/8/1 Stephen Hildrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mac wrote: > > Stephen Hildrey wrote: > > > >> Does your ISP block port 6667? Can you connect to > chat.freenode.net:6667 > >> (e.g. telnet chat.freenode.net 6667)? > > > > If I do teln

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IRC - does not connect

2008-08-01 Thread Jake Bunce
Do you have any firewall rules that may be blocking IRC? 2008/8/1 Mac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Mac wrote: > > I thought I'd have a go with IRC. I've set up an account in > > Xchat-gnome, but it does not make the connection. All I get is > > > > Looking up irc.ubuntu.com.. > > Connecting to cha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISPs

2008-07-29 Thread Jake Bunce
For bandwidth monitoring you could use a program that can handle SNMP like nagios. 2008/7/29 norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > All this correspondence has caused me to wonder whether I am getting the > most economical deal commensurate with reliability of supply. I do not > use broadband a great down

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISPs

2008-07-28 Thread Jake Bunce
Be seem to be a good provider, however they haven't got DSLAMs in every exchange... 2008/7/28 Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > James Grabham wrote: > > looks good, but o2 themselves say £7.50 + £5 for a static IP, so I may > > well go with o2. > > That's assuming they have the equipment in the loc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISPs

2008-07-28 Thread Jake Bunce
Pipex were bought out by Tiscali last year... 2008/7/28 James Grabham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I'm sure you've all seen the news concerning ISPs. > > Now I for one AM NOT paying someone to invade my privacy be logging what > IPs I visit, so TalkTalk are getting the boot. > > Which means I'm a bit s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] take a look at my system!!

2008-05-09 Thread Jake Bunce
lspci would be better 2008/5/9 Javad Ayaz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ok further to my last email about DVD (DVD Lite on ) problems and the reply > i got as stated below > > "Run lshw or dmesg to discover hardware info." > > I was wondering, if its ok with everyone to post the output to what i got >

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

2008-04-09 Thread Jake Bunce
Something of interest: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/#detail On 09/04/2008, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Kris Douglas wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 7:02 PM, peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 18:52 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: > >> > Rob

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

2008-04-09 Thread Jake Bunce
Maybe someone should make the BBC aware of their Purpose and Values statement. As per http://www.bbc.co.uk/info/purpose/ Public purposes The BBC is a unique institution, owned by the British people and independent of political and commercial interests. By only allowing users of a certian operati

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dilemma

2008-04-07 Thread Jake Bunce
Hi Norman, I'd try posting this on a EoG devel forum, see if they can help. Jake On 07/04/2008, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently had occasion to look at some images in the default viewer, > Eye of Gnome, and noticed that these images seemed to be sharper and > brighter than the s