My 8Gb machine is 64 bit.
I moved to Chrome and so far so good.
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On 10 Jun 2013 10:41, "Liam Proven" wrote:
> On 10 June 2013 03:29, Jon Farmer wrote:
> > One of my machines affected by this has 8Gb RAM. How much is not enough?
>
> 32-bit or 64-bit kernel
uy.
>
> Lubuntu are seriously considering switching back to firefox now that it
> has been on the low-fat diet and handles low ram machines better and that
> we want to include ORCA usability come 14.04.
>
> Regards,
>
> Phill.
>
> On 7 June 2013 18:52, Liam Proven wr
or know how to fix it?
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I am helping out with a live broadcast using Google's Hangout on Air
service.
We are setting up some microphones as well as getting a feed from the main
PA mixer. During testing however with my webcam I have noticed that you
don't seem to be able to arbitrarily set the audio input level. It se
On 25/06/12 12:18, David King wrote:
> Now that Microsoft have announced they will release a new tablet running
> Windows 8, this would be a good time for Canonical to put together a
> tablet running Ubuntu.
>
> Does Canonical have any plans to do this? So long as it was
> competitively priced, it
On 26/10/11 11:06, Alan Pope wrote:
> They're probably RAW files. Gimp has a plugin for that called
> "gimp-ufraw" which can be installed via software centre.
>
> Also there's a package called "rawstudio" which can manipulate RAW files.
>
> Al.
>
You might also consider rawtherapee.
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On 18/10/11 14:40, Colin Law wrote:
It sounds like a bug report is in order. Colin
Looks like not the only one affected. Pity the link in the answer goes
to dead link.
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cups/+question/158784
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I recently install from scratch 11.04 on my work machine. Previously I
had 10.10 but I took the opportunity to reinstall when I upgraded. While
on 10.10 I had a network printer defined to the Ricoh Aficio MP 4500 on
the office LAN. After I upgraded to 11.04 I went to setup the printer
and
Hi
Everytime I log into Empathy I get a barrage of requests from the same
people I don't know on my Yahoo Messenger. I decline the contact
request and 5 mins later I am pestered again by the same user. How to
sto
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On 10 September 2011 09:19, Andy Smith wrote:
> Can you show us the output of ip6tables -nL from before ufw is
> enabled?
Aha, since discovered that ufw disable doesn't flush iptables. All working now.
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On 9 September 2011 19:45, Andy Smith wrote:
> There are many things that don't work the same in v6 compared to
> v4...
>
> I don't use ufw so am not sure what it might do, but common reasons
> for RA not working are:
>
> - Your host has IPv6 forwarding enabled so won't listen to RA by
> default
On Sep 8, 2011 9:39 PM, "Simon Greenwood" wrote:
>
> That's presumably the answer but I don't know why unless IPv6 support is
compiled into ufw. I don't have ufw running at all on either my desktop or
laptop (11.04) and it's set to no in /etc/default/ufw and IPv6 works fine.
But the answer doesn'
On 8 September 2011 18:38, Jon Farmer wrote:
> Hi
>
> I have a Cisco router on my network that is doing RA for IPv6
> assignment. If I plug the ethernet cable into my Ubuntu 11.04 netbook
> I get a IPv6 address assigned. If I plug the same cable into my
> desktop machine also r
ideas why it works in my netbook but not on
desktop machine?
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On Aug 3, 2011 5:29 PM, "Rob Beard" wrote:
>
> On 03/08/11 15:33, Matthew Daubney wrote:
>> Are you behind a firewall or proxy of somekind? Looks like anything
>> with "facebook" in the URI get's banned :) I used to have a similar
>> problem at uni when anything with the word "torrent" in it was
Hi
It fails every time with
Failed to fetch
http://gb.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/pool/main/g/gwibber/gwibber-service-facebook_3.0.0.1-0ubuntu3_all.deb
403 Forbidden
Any ideas?
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Hi
In the next couple of months I am looking to replace my 2 year old netbook.
The machine is starting to fall to bits after being in use most work days
around the office and in data centres.
The new machine will mostly be used for web / web apps and SSH sessions.
One of the top features I am lo
On Jul 11, 2011 7:15 PM, "SuperEngineer" wrote:
>
> Hmmm... do we know if Gwibber [et al] plan to include Google+ - or is it
> just just a bit too experimental as yet?
It would help if it did twitter properly before it tried anything else. It
is without question the most awful client I have had
ne got any ideas what is going on?
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difficult is clicking to go direct to a point (feels like the gutter has a
> smaller margin, but that may be wrong).
>
I'd argue that is a lot harder to do with a touchpad than a mouse.
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On 16 May 2011 15:48, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 16 May 2011 15:44, Jon Farmer wrote:
> Easiest way to try is move your finger forward and back along the
> right hand edge when in a scrollable window.
So apparently I do. Still a major PITA to use with Empathy though. A
total loss of fin
On 16 May 2011 15:33, Alan Pope wrote:
> It's supposed to be easier, if you don't try to click them but use the
> scroll region on your touchpad, or if supported enable two finger
> scrolling.
>
I am not even aware my touchpad has a scroll region.
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ing a touchpad. This has to be a massive design flaw. Anyway to
get my scrollbars back?
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On May 10, 2011 3:18 PM, "Mike Paglia" wrote:
>
> You do NOT need any CD to connect to a mail server or any Internet service
all Internet protocols are open.
Tell that to Skype.
> You can use nslookup to find a valid entry for your provider or just ask
them.
Does anyone actually use nslookup an
ous version of network-manager, though.
>
If I go into Synaptic and try to use the Force Version menu choice I
find it is greyed out.
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little while for the package to be pushed
> through.
>
Hi
Thanks for your reply. I have done a apt-get update and upgrade but I
am up to date.
If this is true it is very inconvenient as I am trying to get some
work done. Also I can't be the only one affected by this.
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PN plugin
state change reason: 0
Mar 11 11:32:51 jon-desktop NetworkManager[1035]: error
disconnecting VPN: Could not process the request because no VPN
connection was active.
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back to the
loading splash screen and hung. It seems if you click try Ubuntu the
system starts a new X session, what ever I did messed this up. I
really need to find out how to by pass the installer and boot straight
into Ubuntu.
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On 18 January 2011 11:18, Alan Pope wrote:
> I suspect most people don't even realise that OEMS get a kickback from
> that kind of stuff.
I suspect most people don't even care as long as they feel they are
getting a good deal.
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tly not that attractive.
>
> Question is, could we do something more *useful* with these instead,
> that would allow them to have a meaningful secondary purpose.
> I thought of:
>
I use mine to make notes with
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hear PC they think Windows. However this new article is specifically
stating being able to get online which Linux is perfect for.
How this is marketed is key.
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offline documents via gears has already been a
> casualty, but as I don't use it, I could be wrong. A quick google suggests
> it ended in May:
Again I don't think this is much on an issue. Anything done offline
syncs to the cloud once you get network.
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On 15 Jan 2011 12:58, "Jim Price" wrote:
> Do read this before relying on a long term future for Google Gears:
>
> http://gearsblog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello-html5.html
>
Presumably this is not an issue for offline Gmail support.
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On 14 Jan 2011 21:21, "Barry Titterton"
wrote:
>
> The French government has decided that a machine using linux is not a
> proper computer.
>
> http://www.tabletpcreview.com/default.asp?newsID=1847&news=tablet+archos
> +windows+french+france
>
> You can always rely on the French for a good laugh.
On 14 Jan 2011 16:49, "Barry Drake" wrote
>
> As for Gmail, I like to have my stuff stored locally so I can access
> e-mails when I don't have internet access. iMap on both NetBook and
> Desktop suits me well as it syncs both computers nicely.
>
Gmail works in the browser offline.
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I think it is realistic and honest, no OS is without issues.
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On 18 Nov 2010 08:48, "alan c" wrote:
> On 17/11/10 21:55, Daniel Case wrote:
>> And I forgot to provide the link!
>> http://www.linuxproblems.org
>
> I think this gives a negative message about Linux.
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telephone services and so need to be highly
available and so I don't want to do unnecessary reboots.
Any thoughts welcome.
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utbox. How do i get it to send immediately or on a
schedule?
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On 20 September 2010 19:41, Bruno Girin wrote:
> What version of Ubuntu are you using? I seem to remember that some of
> them had issues between bluetooth and pulseaudio.
>
> Bruno
I am on 10.04. This is USB wired nothing to do with bluetooth BTW.
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How do I get this to work? Any ideas anyone?
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> This one caught me too. Have you looked in /etc/default/ufw and changed the
> IPV6= line ?
>
> Shaun
>
Hi
Yes, I had that enabled. What I didn't have was forwarding allowed.
That fixed it :-)
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n the tunnelled machine I lose the IPv6
routing. I have enable IPv6 in ufw.
Any idea's what I need to do to get the machine to forward the IPv6
requests from the LAN?
My google-fu has failed me on this one.
Any help appreciated.
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Same result.
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with the same result.
Then I tried installing by manually creating a / partition with no
swap. The install worked.
So any ideas why I can't get a swap partition?
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On 6 September 2010 14:49, pmgazz wrote:
> Well, it's kinda unbelievable, but apparently you can't:
> http://tinyurl.com/33txoor
>
Hmm, that's not good. Especially as it is a stock Ubuntu app.
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Hi
I have Empathy configured with my Yahoo and MSN accounts. I am constantly
get bombarded by 2 people who request adding as a contact or want to chat.
How do I block these people?
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Hi
I have 3 IMAP accounts in Evolution and filtering is working for all but
my work account. All the messages stay in the INBOX. What is weird is if
I highlight the message and press Ctrl-Y it filters. Any ideas anyone
please.
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On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 09:15 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> One of the "baddies" in this whole discussion is, indeed, Google...
> because GMail does this "show quoted text"/"hide quoted text" thing.
>
> So people don't even notice the myriad of information they are
> appending to their messages, becau
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 12:04 +0100, Travis, Tony wrote:
> Hello, Jon.
>
> Well, I think you were right to post your question here: Anyone who thinks
> they know everything about IT is a fool.
>
> The essence of our FLOSS community is helping each other and being honest
> enough to admit when you
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 08:14 +0100, Cornelius Mostert wrote:
> >Seems to be working.
> >/s Surely as Senior IT Specialist this should be a piece of cake? :P
>
> You could laugh but event the best Diesel technician might struggle on
> a petrol or electric engine
True, but he might think to RTFM :-
> Are you sure it works with Chrome? It doesn't for me (I installed
> chromium-browser I think).
Yep, I was using it last night with ITV player.
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On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 17:38 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid? I can play
> pre-watershed items, but others give another flash window which lets me
> choose whether I want a PIN or not. Whichever option I choose, it tells
> me my security settings don'
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 15:41 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> I believe it is possible with Outlook and Exchange but it's just a pain
> to setup, I've generally just left Out Of Office turned off. IIRC there
> is an option to specify what recipients don't get the Out Of Office message.
>
> Other opti
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 15:41 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> I believe it is possible with Outlook and Exchange but it's just a pain
> to setup, I've generally just left Out Of Office turned off. IIRC there
> is an option to specify what recipients don't get the Out Of Office message.
>
> Other optio
On Mon, 2010-05-10 at 14:36 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> Don't set out-of-office.
Surely the answer is to have a way of configuring your email server to
selectively send out of office. I can think of 2 different scenarios
(there may and probably is others).
1. Not to send to certain addresses
On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 12:11 +0100, Paul Mellors wrote:
> Hello everyone
>
> Seems long time since i've been on here, just thought i'd say hello again :D
Hi there :-)
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On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:50 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:28 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
> > On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
> >
> > > Could it be related to bug #403303 [1]?
> > >
> > > [1]
> > > https:
t; use the same account as you use with ubuntu one).
Reported as my first ever bug :-)
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/576373
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The power manager only gives me the option to Hibernate, Suspend or
Shutdown on low power, hardly useful in the circumstances.
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ed (the battery died before it was a year old).
No, that's the thing, there is 2 hours charge in the battery. After the
system has hibernated I turn back on and I am good to go for the rest of
the charge.
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Lucid. Restarting the panel bought my network manager back but
Empathy icon is still AWOL.
It looks to me it might be related to errant icons I might have added.
But even after removing them it makes no difference.
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Hi
Suddenly the panel has lost the network chooser and also the icon for
Empathy that flashes when you have new IM. How do I get the back? I have
tried right-clicking and choosing "Add to panel" but no luck
I am on Lucid.
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I just tried it and it worked with the Totem Browser Plugin
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as it is a must have application for my employer.
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On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 08:59 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> ATI have been making big moves toward supporting linux and also open
> sourcing much of the driver code. They just recently announced a new
> driver that will support the brand new OpenGL 4.0 specification
> simultaneously across Wind
Hi
I have been asked by a charity I work with to recommend some new PC to
replace some of their older machines. They are keen to give Ubuntu a try
after hearing me evangelize about it.
I am looking for the install process to go as smooth as possible and the
one area I am unsure of is the video di
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 22:32 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> I'm surprised no-one's pointed this out yet:
>
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8605648.stm
>
> Tom
>
So on one hand the other side are using emotive language. Then he goes
on to quote Carter and say copyright infringement is th
Hi
Why not get a ATA, that way you can plug in your existing phone(s) and
have both your landline and Sipgate account on the same handset. This
is extremely family friendly, I know as our sales people who work from
home can manage with them. BTW I am the CTO for a ITSP.
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