On 12 Sep 2013 08:45, "Alan Pope" wrote:
>
> On 12 September 2013 08:37, YaManicKill
wrote:
> > However, there was that Samsung galaxy s4 pictured running Tizen a few
days
> > ago.
> >
>
> I can show you a photo of a Nexus 4 running Ubuntu Touch... :)
>
> There's a bunch of developer devices. I s
Yeh but the question was do you know anything about the OS
On 12 Sep 2013 07:47, "Alan Pope" wrote:
>
>
> On Thursday, September 12, 2013, scoundrel50a wrote:
>
>> I thought this was interesting, does anybody know what Linux system they
>> might be working with? Would it be any good?
>>
>> http:/
What a surpriseno change the then
On 21 August 2013 10:13, scoundrel50a wrote:
>
> Hi, I really dont understand the attitude of attack when somebody posts
something like this. Not everybody is competant in using Ubuntu, and not
everybody understands the risks involved especially considering fo
I have a Lenovo laptop running only Ubuntu, no windows, and that its from
Linux Emporium. I have not had any problems with it and the after sales
service is exceptional.
On Jul 4, 2012 2:00 PM, "Colin Law" wrote:
> Has anyone any experience of running Ubuntu on laptops from PC
> Specialist [1]?
On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 11:23 AM, Colin Law wrote:
> On 13 March 2012 10:01, scoundrel50a wrote:
> > I am running 11.10 and I'm trying to burn an image using brasero but
> when I
> > click on the icon, nothing happens.can somebody help?
>
> What happens if run it from a terminal (just type b
Not an attitude, just a question
On Jan 28, 2012 7:23 PM, "Andy Smith" wrote:
> Hello scoundrel50a,
>
> On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 06:40:33PM +, scoundrel50a wrote:
> > What is so wrong about wanting to be able to securely wipe an
> > hdd.
>
> Nothing. As I stated, a simple singl
Oh well, there is a pity, I will have to use my mac..
thanks for all your help.
On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:57 AM, John Oliver wrote:
> http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/moonlight-list/2011-December/001392.html
>
> This is the email I was referring to in the previous message. The mailing
So how do we figure out why it isn't running?
On Jan 5, 2012 5:55 PM, "James Tait" wrote:
> On 05/01/12 15:06, scoundrel50a wrote:
>
>> Wow, that helped sort of. It is something to do with
>> gnome-settings-daemon. If I enter that into a terminal, funny thing
>> happens in the left panel and the
I recently upgraded my Acer Aspire One, which seemed to go ok, but on the
top panel, the drop down menu Icon that looks like a circle with a line
through it is missing. In order to even log off now is impossible, unless I
use the On/Off button. Anybody know how I can get it back, please...
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I dont use gwibber or any of the other programs like that in Ubuntu, I go
back to windows, because I most people I know are on Yahoo, and I was never
able to work out how to connect the camera, so I could chat, which client
Ubuntu connects to things like msn and yahoo using the camera.
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On 07/04/11 15:55, Lee Williams wrote:
On 07/04/2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote:
On 07/04/11 14:04, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote:
On 7 April 2011 13:54, Lee Williams wrote:
> It's not a problem installing 32bit on a machine with> ~3.5GB ram... rather
> the memory after the ~3.5GB
ok, this is odd. I just been fiddling trying to find the version of
Ubuntu I have. In the software sources I have Maverick showing for
everything. Yet if I go to System About Ubuntu, it says I am running
11.04 - Natty Narwhal. If I go into Terminal and type
lsb-release -a
I get this
No LSB m
Hi everybody,
sorry its taken so long to answer, didnt get much computer time yesterday.
I really appreciate the messages. I am going to go in and have a look at
the ones you mentioned, see how I get on with them.
I did a search for Michael Garrets list, and didnt realise there were so
many.
I have been given some money and I have been thinking about getting an
Android Tablet, but just have no idea what would be worth getting.
Anybody any idea. I have about £300 to spend. I dont like Apple at all.
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On 14/03/11 14:55, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
Care to elaborate on what the fix/problem was?
The problem was, each time I tried to enter a chanel, nothing happened.
I could see #ubuntu but no activity was in there, and when I tried to
enter #ubuntu-uk click on enter and no box came up. Then
On 14/03/11 14:40, Josh Holland wrote:
Hi John,
On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 02:38:33PM +, John MM wrote:
Has something happened to the IRC chanels, both #ubuntu and
#ubuntu-uk I can get onto #ubuntu but #ubuntu-uk seems to have
dissapeared.
It looks fine from here; could you be any more
Has something happened to the IRC chanels, both #ubuntu and #ubuntu-uk I
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Ok, having looked though this book, I have its amazing. Clear, easy to
understand, and it has pictures. The best thing I am liking is the
command line stuff, some things I dont know, and its making it easier to
understand, so thanks for posting this to the list.
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On 08/03/11 20:47, Colin Law wrote:
On 8 March 2011 13:01, alan c wrote:
I have just purchased a Haynes Manual for Ubuntu!
'Everything you need to get started with Ubuntu Linux'
Very neat.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Manual-Mike-Saunders/dp/1844259706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12995891
On 08/03/11 14:21, Alan Pope wrote:
On 8 March 2011 13:01, alan c wrote:
I have just purchased a Haynes Manual for Ubuntu!
'Everything you need to get started with Ubuntu Linux'
Very neat.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Manual-Mike-Saunders/dp/1844259706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=12995891
Just to let everybody know, I would like to say a huge thank you to Alan
Ball and popey and others who helped for helping me fix the errors that
I posted about earlier. It took going into the /var/lib/dpkg/status file
and deleting all mention of virtualbox. Now, I dont have any errors when
inst
On 06/03/11 19:10, Alan Bell wrote:
Here is the pastebin dump of those lines you wanted, its long 2000
odd lines, which is why I posted it to pastebin. Hope it helops.
http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/576535/
no help whatsoever unfortuntately as I was looking for the stuff at
about line 46,354
On 06/03/11 18:37, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
It has been said many times, if you don't know what your doing, don't do it.
You can't expect volunteers to wait around all day just incase someone they
spoke to earlier hits another stumbling block. If you want that sort of
support, dig deep and
On 06/03/11 18:38, J Fernyhough wrote:
First, chill. Second, I was replying to Grant. Third, I assumed that
you had a basic knowledge of how Ubuntu works. If you need immediate
help you should use IRC; email by its very nature is non-realtime. If
you must know I was washing my car after lunch whi
On 06/03/11 16:57, Alan Bell wrote:
nstallArchives() failed: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available'
near line 46354 package 'virtualbox-3.0':
error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid
character in revision number
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 48216
On 06/03/11 17:27, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:
>
> Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and (as
> far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it. Essentially
> it holds details of each package that's installed, and those
On 06/03/11 16:57, Alan Bell wrote:
nstallArchives() failed: warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available'
near line 46354 package 'virtualbox-3.0':
error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid
character in revision number
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/available' near line 48216
On 06/03/11 14:50, Grant Sewell wrote:
Unfortunately /var/lib/dpkg/status is quite an important file and (as
far as I am aware) there is no real way to re-generate it. Essentially
it holds details of each package that's installed, and those that have
been installed and removed (but not purged),
Ok, to cap, I had an error this morning, and was advised to delete my
/var/lib/dpkg/status, which I did. Problem is, it left with me a worse
error, and me being unable to update anything. Suffice to say, I now
have an error saying 'InstallArchives failed' with 141 updates in the
Update manaer,
On 06/03/11 13:11, Alan Bell wrote:
top tip, when asking questions on IRC, stick around for more than a
few minutes to get an answer!
Alan.
Thank you for the tip, but do have any thing more than that to offer? I
really appreciate the tip, but it would be helpful to get a little bit
more tha
On 06/03/11 12:20, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 12:18, John MM wrote:
>
> um, bit of a problem, how do I regenerate my sources again?
>
$ sudo apt-get update
I tried updating, and found a load of updates via the update manager,
but it wont update now, I get t
On 06/03/11 12:20, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 12:18, John MM wrote:
>
> um, bit of a problem, how do I regenerate my sources again?
>
$ sudo apt-get update
ok, sorted, created file 'status' on Desktop, moved file to
/var/lib/dpkg/ then did sudo apt-get upda
On 06/03/11 12:20, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 12:18, John MM wrote:
um, bit of a problem, how do I regenerate my sources again?
$ sudo apt-get update
Tried that, and I get this
E: Could not open file /var/lib/dpkg/status - open (2: No such file or
directory)
E: The package
On 06/03/11 12:04, J Fernyhough wrote:
Alrighty then - delete /var/lib/dpkg/status ! It will get regenerated
when you update your sources again.
Jonatho
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On 06/03/11 12:04, J Fernyhough wrote:
Alrighty then - delete /var/lib/dpkg/status ! It will get regenerated
when you update your sources again.
Jonathon
Brilliant, deleted that, I am getting more used to using the Terminal
and it worked.
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On 06/03/11 11:50, J Fernyhough wrote:
On 6 March 2011 11:43, John MM wrote:
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error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid character
error in Version string '2.2.4-47978_Ubuntu_jaunty': invalid character
Hi, I wonder if somebody can h
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 43461 package
'virtualbox-3.0':
error in Version string '3.0.14-58977_Ubuntu_karmic': invalid
character in revision number
warning, in file '/var/lib/dpkg/status' near line 45194 package
'virtualbox-2.2':
error in Version string '2.2.4-47978_Ub
On 05/03/11 18:35, Matthew Daubney wrote:
If you've not changed it (based on reading I doubt you have) the domain
is probably "WORKGROUP".
You username/password for your Ubuntu shares will be whatever user you
assigned to the shares in the smb.conf file (the "valid users = timmy
johnny" line), I
On 05/03/11 18:35, Matthew Daubney wrote:
If you've not changed it (based on reading I doubt you have) the domain
is probably "WORKGROUP".
You username/password for your Ubuntu shares will be whatever user you
assigned to the shares in the smb.conf file (the "valid users = timmy
johnny" line), I
Well, I have to say this, since upgraqding to 10.04 from 9.04, I have
not been able to use my file share on my computers. I have tried
looking, tried asking, more times than I want, and I have to say, after
spending most of the day today, almost demading questions answered, I
got my answer. Wit
On 05/03/11 10:53, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
Hi John,
Let me explain how the redirect works. When you use> somefile.log after a
command, that means send any output from the command to somefile.log Because we
didn't specify an exact location for the file, it gets created in the current
wor
On 05/03/11 07:13, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
Look in the directory that you ran the xev command from - I don't know why he
was expecting it to be in /tmp
Bodsda
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On 05/03/11 08:14, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Not sure if this will help, but I've never got nautilus to work happily
in that manner with SMB, however, if you hit ctrl+l in a nautilus window
it will drop you into the address bar. Now just type smb://192.168.x.x/
and hit enter.
It should now show you
Ok, I just wondered, can I ask the question again, I have managed to get
the computers to see each other, but I cannot get Nautilus to show the
directories, from either the Ubuntu partition or the Windows Partition.
When I go into Places>Network, I click on the Icon in there, and still
get Unab
Why cant Nautilus handle Samba locations, I am getting that error.
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On 04/03/11 12:08, Bruce Beardall wrote:
Hi All
Anyone else having a problem with the right mouse click working
properly since installing Maverick? I've had the same problem on both
Intel and AMD based systems and playing with the live version of Natty
last night appears that the problem is p
On 04/03/11 12:08, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 04/03/11 11:30, John MM wrote:
Ok, went ahead, and uninstalled using the Terminal. Rebooted, then
installed using Terminal. Now, when I go to add Directories to share, I
get this error
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare a
Ok, fixed that problem, but when I go into Places>Network, and click on
the Windows Icon, I still get 'Unable to mount location - Failed to
retrieve share list from server'
I have tried everything, why should I still be getting that error message.
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Ok, went ahead, and uninstalled using the Terminal. Rebooted, then
installed using Terminal. Now, when I go to add Directories to share, I
get this error
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert
name "Everyone" to a SID. Memory allocation error'
I now have an smb
On 04/03/11 10:59, Andy Partington wrote:
smb.conf is in /etc/samba/
smb.conf get's generated on installing Samba from memory, so if you
don't have one samba didn't install correctly ?
Just running testparm on it's own will look in the default dir.
Hi, thank you for the reply, ok, so how
On 04/03/11 10:25, Colin Law wrote:
What do you see if you select Places> Network
Colin
I see Windows Network Icon, that when I click on it, it gives an
'unable to mount, failed to retrieve sharelist from server'.I just
discovered, I cant find my smb.conf file in the samba directory. I
ok, think I found something, I tried running testparm smb.conf inside
samba directory, and it seems I dont have the smb.conf file. I tried
looking for it, in the directory, and couldnt see it anywhere.
Where should it be, and if its really isnt there, how do I ge it.
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Ok, well, I found this, if I run
me@me-laptop:~$ smbclient -L //192.168.x.x
Enter me's password:
Domain=[WORKGROUP] OS=[Unix] Server=[Samba 3.5.4]
Sharename Type Comment
- ---
print$ Disk Printer Drivers
IPC$IPC
On 04/03/11 09:18, Simon Greenwood wrote:
The samba directory should be owned by root. Everything else looks
correct from your ls output. Your shared folders should be owned by you.
In Windows, a machine's user has defacto admin rights. The question
that Vista and Windows 7 asks about making c
On 04/03/11 07:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is
set up on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has
pointed out, and you'll have to search for Samba in the Software Centre.
s/
Ok, have been trying to work with t
On 04/03/11 07:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is
set up on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has
pointed out, and you'll have to search for Samba in the Software Centre.
s/
Appologies, just woke up, forget w
On 04/03/11 07:09, Simon Greenwood wrote:
Check that you can ping either computer each way, that SMB sharing is
set up on your netbook - it isn't installed by default as Gordon has
pointed out, and you'll have to search for Samba in the Software Centre.
s/
Um, when I look in the samba direct
On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain
files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be
owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown
: /var/lib/usershares/'.
You should have some
On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain
files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be
owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown
: /var/lib/usershares/'.
You should have somethin
On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain
files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be
owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown
: /var/lib/usershares/'.
You should have someth
On 03/03/11 19:57, Simon Greenwood wrote:
No, that's OK at the moment. /var/lib/samba/usershares should contain
files with the names of shares on your machine. These files should be
owned by you. If they aren't, from terminal, type 'sudo chown
: /var/lib/usershares/'.
You should have somethin
On 03/03/11 18:50, Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 3 March 2011 13:46, John MM <mailto:scoundrel...@gmail.com>> wrote:
On 03/03/11 13:54, Simon Greenwood wrote:
The lock means that they are owned by root or another user,
but most likely root. I think I need to do th
On 03/03/11 13:54, Simon Greenwood wrote:
The lock means that they are owned by root or another user, but most
likely root. I think I need to do this with a machine running Ubuntu
in front of me, so I'll get back to you tonight.
s/
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Just to show, when I try to share, the message I get is
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: failed to add
share documents. Error was Operation not permitted'
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On 03/03/11 13:19, Simon Greenwood wrote:
running 'smbtree -D
How do I find out what domain is, is it my IP address or what?
As far as this machine, it seems if I go to /var/lib/samba/usershares
all the files in there are locked. They have a lock on them. Before
updating to 10.04, I could g
On 03/03/11 12:40, Simon Greenwood wrote:
As far as I'm concerned, absolutely nothing. A similar question
doesn't necessarily have a similar answer. I have to point out that
you were given a solution, which was basically 'don't use samba',
which I think is a reasonable reply. I have to admit th
On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would
appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using
Samba. The people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and
use SSHFS instead, which is built into Nautil
On 03/03/11 12:17, Simon Greenwood wrote:
OK, I've just had a look back for your original query, and it would
appear that you're trying to connect two machines running Ubuntu using
Samba. The people who replied suggested that you don't use Samba and
use SSHFS instead, which is built into Nautil
On 03/03/11 12:13, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 03/03/11 11:47, John MM wrote:
I did actaully say I had the same problem the error 255, you must have
missed the e-mail.
"
Hi, Has anybody managed to get this sorted, has it been taken off
list. I have been trying to follow what is goi
On 03/03/11 12:00, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 03/03/11 11:01, John MM wrote:
Um, ok 'man' has been proven to be difficult to understand even by the
best of you, it isnt written for newbies, and I look at it, and it makes
absoluteluy no sense to me at all.
What is hard to
On 03/03/11 11:44, Simon Greenwood wrote:
A quick Google would also show that there isn't much more to know than
what is in the man page. Smbtree prints a list of available servers
and devices in your domain in the same way as Network Neighborhood
does in Windows, but it does it on the command
On 03/03/11 11:44, Simon Greenwood wrote:
A quick Google would also show that there isn't much more to know than
what is in the man page. Smbtree prints a list of available servers
and devices in your domain in the same way as Network Neighborhood
does in Windows, but it does it on the command
On 03/03/11 09:22, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 03/03/11 08:51, John MM wrote:
what is smbtree?
Open a terminal and type "man smbtree"
NAME
smbtree - A text based smb network browser
SYNOPSIS
smbtree [-b] [-D] [-S]
DESCRIPTION
This tool is part of the samba(7) suite.
smbtre
On 01/03/11 18:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 01/03/11 18:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
It appears that installing "Samba" from the Ubuntu Software Centre
doesn't actually install Samba - it installs something else!
I've now installed Samba4 from Synaptic and running "sudo netstat -auntp
| gr
On 01/03/11 18:18, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 01/03/11 18:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 01/03/11 17:48, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 01/03/11 17:37, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
Did you run sudo netstat -auntp | grep samba
That's interesting - that command doesn't give any output
I am running Ubuntu 1-0.10 on both my machines. I have tried a few
thigns already to get the network to wowk, but I cant.
If I go to Places>Network I see just a windows Icon with no Ubuntu Icon
there to share, and when i click on it, it says unable to mount.
I have gone into Nautilus and clic
You could try LDXE, I think that is what its called, that is a basic
Ubuntu as well. I quite liked it when I had it running.
On 10/02/11 16:47, Rob Beard wrote:
I might have another look at Lubuntu, I've been looking into a basic
lightweight distro for two P3 laptops for a local Surestart cen
On 08/02/11 11:51, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Maybe that's a "feature" in 10.10. Tried asking on the Remix forum in
Ubuntu forums?
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=376
I havent tried that yet, will try now.
Have you tried taking the disk out, disconnecting, restarting,
re-conne
On 08/02/11 11:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
Interesting. Not sure why And what version of Netbook Remix are
you using?
I am using Maverick 10.10Kernel Linux 2.6.35-26 Generic, Gnome 2.32.0
Tried putting a Disk in it?
Yeh, the disc was already in there, when I inserted it. I have tri
On 08/02/11 10:53, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
When you say "icons at the sidebar" presumably you mean in the sidebar
sections? Install Google Chrome and the icon will appear in the
Internet section. Right-click on it to add to the Favorites section.
Similarly you can right-click on the Firefo
where to look for the drives, there
doesnt seem to be anywhere to find them.
those are a couple of things so far.
On 08/02/11 09:49, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 08/02/11 08:54, John MM wrote:
Ok, just worked out how to do the clean install of Ubuntu Netbook
using usb stick. had a few
Ok, just worked out how to do the clean install of Ubuntu Netbook using
usb stick. had a few problems, but got it working now. Problem is, I
cant work out how to use it. Is there a guide for the Netbook version.
Thanks.
On 07/02/11 18:54, gazz wrote:
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 18:28 +, John
-07 at 18:28 +, John MM wrote:
Hi, I have an Acer Aspire One, and I am running Ubuntu 10.10. Since
upgrading to this version, I am getting the same problem, I cant use
USB sticks and I cant plug in my external dvd rewriter. It gives an
error 'unable to mount usb stick, not authorised
Hi, I have an Acer Aspire One, and I am running Ubuntu 10.10. Since
upgrading to this version, I am getting the same problem, I cant use USB
sticks and I cant plug in my external dvd rewriter. It gives an error
'unable to mount usb stick, not authorised'. It seems to be a Ubuntu
problem, and so
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