Re: [ubuntu-uk] gnu/Linux, BSD and FLOSS group

On 6 September 2016 at 15:23, Alan Pope wrote: > Hah! There have been numerous Linux User Groups in and around London > over the years :) > You may want to reach out to the existing groups:- There's also the "Brixton Linux Action Group" [1] (who I discovered this evening while poking around the l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More phone problems/observations

Hi Tony, A few of us are tracking some issues in http://pad.ubuntu.com/phonefaq - you need an Ubuntu one account with membership of the Ubuntu-UK or another Ubuntu team membership (Alan mentioned it a few days back) but if you've not got one of those, you can either ask for it to be added, or let

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

I think the Ubuntu One login system has been a little flakey today - I've certainly had problems. So, you need to login (via Ubuntu One) to contribute to the pad, but once you're in, that's it, you're in :) Give it another shot and see if it works for you now. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 25

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

Hi Gareth, I asked the same question of Alan Pope yesterday. We're putting together something on http://pad.ubuntu.com/phonefaq which covers where to report bugs, what bugs are known about, what is outstanding on being logged, etc. Please feel free to contribute. Like you, I've got some niggles w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing from Android device

There is an app called "LetsPrintDroid" which will print to a CUPS server... I've used it and it's OK. On 25 May 2014 16:54, "Tony Pursell" wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have a Android smart phone. Does anyone know if I can print from it to > a printer attached to an Ubuntu PC. The Ubuntu version

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

On 4 September 2013 12:28, Nigel Verity wrote: > I suspect that the solution fundamentally relies on denying access to > encryption keys to anybody other than the sender and the intended recipient. > The system based on page, line numbers and word positions in a commonly > available book worked w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

On 3 September 2013 14:51, Liam Proven wrote: > Doesn't everyone with 0.5 of a clue know this? Frankly, No. As soon as (if not before) the "NSA whistleblower is in Hong Kong" headlines dropped off the BBC front page, outside of those of us who actually care about this stuff stopped being interest

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

either using something like BitMessage, or SMTP which has forced GPG encryption before relaying (ideally over Tor), so that the communications are always managed by you... but this won't happen until more people get concerned about this stuff. Regards, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spri

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT - secure email?

Sadly, even MyKolab isn't really secure [0] Realistically, what are you looking for? It's like the famous "Easy, cheap or secure, pick 2" statement... If it's protecting the messages you have sent from inspection (casual or otherwise on the server), use something like GPG/PGP. Consider backing Ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

Most, (if not all) councils outsource their IT to a 3rd party. This outsourcing will be very fluffy around what technologies they expect to be provided, but nearly all will state some kind of Technology Refresh after X years. The Service Integrator (SI) I work for wouldn't even consider making Lin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Has anybody seen this and what do you think......

Just bear in mind while you're not wrong about it only going to a handful of vendors, you've got the names wrong when it comes to IT. HP (was EDS), IBM, Computacentre, Fujitsu, Capita, CapGemini G4S don't have an IT arm that I'm aware of, Serco - not a clue, and I think PwC's IT contracts were al

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sony Experia

Hi Ted, Even if later versions are available, you'll only get it if your mobile network has also made it available. Some phone manufacturers have it so that upgrades can only be performed from a Windows OS, which is referred to as being not-OTA (Over The Air). With regards to the battery, the dev

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joining wav files in ubuntu

You want an application called SoX Do this: sox file1.wav file2.wav file3.wav outfile.wav If you want to change formats while you're doing it, then you'll need to do some more digging around. I use SoX extensively in CCHits.net, and, if you can make your way through my somewhat shoddy PHP, I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ssh

Also, ensure you've got the OpenSSH package installed. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 31 August 2012 14:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: > > > On 31 August 2012 13:51, Norman Silverstone wrote: > >> On 31/08/12 12:11, Simon Greenwood wrote: >> >>> On 31 August 2012 12:07, Norman Silverstone >>> w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommendations for dongle internet?

I've used an Android device with no issues, but I've also had some success with the Huwei USB dongles - both from 3 and O2. I think 3 are pretty good from a data plan rate... -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 2 August 2012 16:38, Anton Kanishchev wrote: > Hi Adam, > I have used an android smart

Re: [ubuntu-uk] High Wycombe LUG

Hi Gareth, That sounds like a great idea. As you've got Reading LUG pretty close, perhaps it might be a good idea to propose to them having a New Users session once every couple of months, and make it part of their usual rotation. Having been involved in trying to organise speakers at a LUG before

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing out a report of installed applications?

The command you're looking for is: dpkg -l That "l" is a lowercase letter L. The other stuff you're looking for is findable with: lsusb lspci fdisk -l dmesg All the best, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On Jul 25, 2012 6:18 PM, "Gordon Burgess-Parker" wrote: > Windows has a brilliant utility

Re: [ubuntu-uk] phishing and LinkedIn

Bear in mind the key here is to decrypt the hashes which are publically circulating. If you give them a password to hash for you, then they can then search for that hash and get a list of everyone who's used that password. Even if it's just one person, that's one password less they need to put thro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Praises and a question.

I've been using Netbeans (which is multi-platform) for my PHP sites, but you could easily use the same install to do pure HTML sites. Create each site as a "project", which you can specify is on a remote site. Regards, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 31 May 2012 12:05, Toby Satchell wrote: > H

Re: [ubuntu-uk] qlcodes on ubuntu cd wallets

2011/12/22 Mark Fraser : > On Wednesday 21 Dec 2011 21:59:56 Grant Phillips-Sewell wrote: >> I kinda like the idea but all too often the QR codes used are dull and >> unimaginative. I'm sure you can find a way to make them more interesting. >> Grant. > How about doing something like the BBC do with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No, You Won't See Me on Facebook, Google Plus, nor Skype - Bradley M. Kuhn ( Brad ) ( bkuhn )

(I'd have credited this comment, but I've not seen it in my mail stream aside from in someone else's reply, and I don't know who said it, as that person cropped the originators name out!) > What does "FaiF" stand for, if we are to get anywhere with promotion we > need to use PLAIN ENGLISH its fine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tablet security!

On 24 November 2011 20:36, Pete wrote: > On 11/24/2011 08:09 PM, Matt Jones wrote: >> >> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 7:41 PM, Pete  wrote: >>> >>> Hi all, >>> >>> Probably a mute point, and I have no wish to feed a troll, but on TV >>> earlier >>> they were advertising 'Norton Tablet Security' for And

[ubuntu-uk] "Quickly" (Python+GTK) question

Hi all, I've been experimenting with Quickly - the Python+GTK rapid development tool created by Canonical and I've hit a bit of a speed bump right out of the gate! I posted a question on StackOverflow (as it's a Python question, as well as being for Quickly) and I wonder if anyone can either let

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Last night at Nottingham .....

It was even mentioned on the NaPodPoMo (National Podcasting Posting Month... I think) by Dave Lee of The Bugcast Podcast this morning. I was mildly jealous. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 11 November 2011 13:54, Barry Drake wrote: > Hi there  Just to say that the Nottingham meet last ni

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backing up Mobile Phone

Wammu will do it, apparently: http://wammu.eu/phones/nokia/?page=7 Regards, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 6 October 2011 11:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Someone, and I think it might have been on this list, gave me a website that > would backup (or synch) my Nokia X3 Phone for nothing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu One

On 19 August 2011 08:33, Colin Law wrote: > On 18 August 2011 11:25, Alan Pope wrote: >> On 18 August 2011 11:05, Tony Pursell wrote: >>> Yes, it's to celebrate having 1 million U1 users.  Hope they have 5 millions >>> GBs somewhere, just in case :-) >> Heh. I expect they do the same kind of fil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Slow d/loads

Ted, If your provider is saying you have a line fault (something I seem to recall is pretty rare to get out of them without accusing them of lying), then wait for the engineer to come out and fix it. A line fault exists between the master socket and exchange in the case of a BT based service, or b

[ubuntu-uk] Help needed finding my bluetooth on my new laptop

(and no, it isn't down the back of the sofa) So, here's the thing, I bought one of these: http://www.ebuyer.com/product/265218 I've received it, and installed Ubuntu 11.04 on there (yes, even with Unity) and it's lovely. Everything I wanted it for works a treat - Wifi's great, battery life, about

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

On 28 June 2011 15:51, Alan Pope wrote: > On 28 June 2011 15:22, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> The first one (about getting TinyCore running in QEMU) is here: >> http://jon.sprig.gs/blog/2011/06/28/experimenting-with-tiny-core-linux-on-qemu/ > "In response to a post on the Ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

On 28 June 2011 11:27, Jon Spriggs wrote: > To make it portable, consider installing a > thin linux distribution (such as Puppy) in a VM (like QEMU) or > natively booting from the media storage device. I'm just looking into > how easy or hard that is! :) I had some time in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo Tagging and Search

On 18 April 2011 08:33, Ian Pascoe wrote: > Hi all > > I have, very foolishly in hindsight, offered to help my partner to bring > order to her tens of thousands of digital pictures.  You can guess what the > main problem is, one of being able to find that picture of the cute whatever > she took on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scheduling software recommendations

On 27 June 2011 16:54, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > Hi Avi, > Horde - (http://www.horde.org) similar to above I guess in that it is a > groupware app. Not sure about functionality haven't used it ages (PHP). Horde 3 (the framework) had a very decent XMLRPC interface which would give you access to a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dropbox type solutions....

On 20 June 2011 12:31, Dave Hanson wrote: > Good Afternoon All, > I'm thinking of creating my own Dropbox type file storage at home (For no > other reason than I'm tight!) I did some quick googling but the only thing's > I can find are cloud based which seems a bit excessive. > To summarise what I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kindle and Ubuntu

Alan, It appears as a mass storage device, and thus is adequately supported by Ubuntu. For conversion of documents from HTML and others to the native formats, the easiest thing to do is to e-mail the document to @free.kindle.com to convert it, or use calibre to make the changes locally. There are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

On 21 May 2011 17:52, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 21/05/2011 17:39, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> >> As I said, the VPN part is more to save having to set up local port >> forwarding and DynDNS, especially as my Dad is with BT, and their >> default response with the h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

Nice Guy" Spriggs On 21 May 2011 16:27, Alan Pope wrote: > On 21 May 2011 15:55, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> How will you be supporting it? >> > > Good question. I don't know if I will yet. However what i did for my > mum was setup a dyndns address which automatically

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

Hi Alan, I'll stick the same thing on the Etherpad, but I just wanted to drop in this comment... How will you be supporting it? I've set up machines for my dad and aunt, both of whom are very remote (They both live >3 hours away). Both are using Ubuntu, and I've set up OpenVPN to my home machine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

The client uses Wine to run the GUI, however, I don't know whether the service it attaches to uses Wine. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 29 March 2011 22:51, Tony Pursell wrote: > On Tue, 2011-03-29 at 22:31 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote: > > One thing I spotted today was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

One thing I spotted today was that there's a telepathy plugin for Remmina - the Remote Desktop Application, and from the looks of things, if you've both got it installed, you can right click on a contact in empathy and select "Share My Desktop" - although, to be fair, that might have been there bef

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

SSH keys are created by producing a pair of cryptographically equivelent numbers with a size of (usually) 1024 or 2048 bits (I think!) long. When performing a complex equation, the result of encrypting one with the other returns the same value. It is not linked to a hardware value. You can share t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

I was going to do to that, but I already knew when I was setting up my Aunt's machine that her existing DSL modem was on it's way out... knowing I wasn't going to have to sort out port forwarding from ~200 miles away was a BIG bonus for me, which is why I went the OpenVPN route. If you've got a *r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

I support both my dad and my aunt, neither of whom are particularly au fait with computers. Before leaving theirs, I set up OpenVPN between their PC and my server, using DynDNS to find my home server and opening UDP port 1194 to my OpenVPN server, in this case, my Fonera 2.0N I add a certificate

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network traffic monitor that only monitors extra-LANtraffic?

011 11:27, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 16/02/11 10:52, Jon Spriggs wrote: > >> Consider something like Ntop. >> > > Wow! That is some app. Going to take me a while to work out how to use THAT > properly.. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Network traffic monitor that only monitors extra-LANtraffic?

Consider something like Ntop. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 16 February 2011 10:46, wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > You'll probably need a proxy to capture that info, perhaps look at 'squid' > proxy > > Bodsda > Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device > > -Original Message- > From: Gordon B

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

I really like the idea of having an "How to contribute to Ubuntu" guide or perhaps a document on "What is Ubuntu", however, it should also be configurable to an absolute minimum page (three colours, black and corner marks) for office deployment or experts. Perhaps when it says "Would you like to p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

On 17 January 2011 10:45, Sean Miller wrote: > On 17 January 2011 10:24, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > >> Erm, I bet Tesco/PC World buy a shedload more machines than Linux Emporium >> could ever do and so will get much better volume discounts on the hardware >> even before you take into consideratio

Re: [ubuntu-uk] FOSS Simple Web Forms?

On 5 January 2011 21:42, John Levin wrote: > On 05/01/2011 21:13, A J Binnie wrote: >> On 5 January 2011 20:47, Tim Dobson > > wrote: >>    Does anyone know of a FOSS, easy, simple way of creating forms to >> gather >>    user feedback? >> There's always Polldaddy.com, bu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

That sounds a bit like the talk that Bruno Bord gave at the first OggCamp called "Programming explained to non-techies" -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 4 January 2011 14:44, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > Rather than the football analogy I use the recipie analogy (I think I heard > Stallman use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Linux website - Feedback? [was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 28]

Actually, I was under the impression that the stack exchange software (which drives stack overflow and askubuntu and others) is Free Software, albeit on a Windows and C# platform. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs Please excuse any top posting, typographical or gramatical errors and brevity, as this

[ubuntu-uk] UCubed Planning Meeting Invite

Next meeting: 2010-12-02 19:30-21:30GMT at irc://irc.freenode.net/ucubed Agenda/Minutes at http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/UCubed-2010-12-02 This monthly meeting is for potential and past organisers to discuss plans for the next UCubed event, which is scheduled for 2nd April, 2011 at MadLab, Manchester.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

Hi Colin, If there isn't already a mid Wales LUG at http://lug.org.uk, it would definitely be worth starting one... After all, if two of you are meeting up, you never know what might happen if you advertise it. That's more-or-less what happened with Stockport Hackspace and we've got about 20 peopl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Little project

On 16 October 2010 00:38, Jim Price wrote: > On 15/10/10 23:26, Daniel Case wrote: >> Hi guys, I have a little project to do so that i can access my email and >> some other websites from college, it has a web filter so blocks such things >> which is annoying in 2 hour long 'free' periods. If I did

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openfire

On 16 October 2010 00:47, Tony Pursell wrote: > On Fri, 2010-10-15 at 23:11 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: >> Only in the same way as you. Jabber and video isn't that well >> integrated as yet and there isn't a dedicated client that does that >> apart from maybe Google Talk. >> >> Simon >> >> > On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Basic network gateway server setup

On 1 September 2010 09:29, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > Hi > 1 thing that no one mentioned as yet that might be obvious is the Subnet > Mask. > I have a similar setup but are using 2 routers and I found that the DHCP > router needs to tell the clients that: > 1. The Default Gateway should be the rou

[ubuntu-uk] U^3 - Ubuntu & Upstream Unworkshop - Information and Reminder

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 If you're considering coming to the U^3 event tomorrow, you've got just a little time left to get a free ticket from http://u-cubed.eventbrite.com If you can't make it in person, we're hoping to have U-Stream feeds for both the "workshop" area and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Code management systems

On 19 August 2010 15:02, Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 19/08/10 14:55, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> On 19 August 2010 14:09, Cornelius Mostert >>  wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> The company I work for has outgrown their Change Management Solution. They >>> hav

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Code management systems

On 19 August 2010 14:09, Cornelius Mostert wrote: > Hi > > The company I work for has outgrown their Change Management Solution. They > have developers in US, Canada, India and maybe soon in China and I was > wondering what solutions are there for: > > a global development market, it needs to be f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] REMINDER: U^3 (U-Cubed) An Ubuntu / Debian event happening in Manchester on the 28th August 2010

On 16 August 2010 11:54, Alan Bell wrote: > On 16/08/10 11:16, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> Just a reminder that tickets are available now for this at >> http://u-cubed.eventbrite.com > I added it to the loco directory > http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/285/detail

[ubuntu-uk] REMINDER: U^3 (U-Cubed) An Ubuntu / Debian event happening in Manchester on the 28th August 2010

Just a reminder that tickets are available now for this at http://u-cubed.eventbrite.com All the best, Jon -- Forwarded message -- From: Les Date: 7 August 2010 14:13 Subject: [ubuntu-uk] U^3 (U-Cubed) An Ubuntu / Debian event happening in Manchester on the 28th August 2010 To:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10/10/10 installfests

That is pretty damn cool :) -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 5 August 2010 18:56, Will Bickerstaff wrote: > Alan, > > I really like this, all your designs are just too cool! > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distributed Backup Proposal

Spriggs On 24 Jul 2010 10:12, "Dan Fish" wrote: On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 10:02 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote: > I agree, and they aren't exactly fast. Remem... Jon, It a good idea and I agree with you that it wouldn't be about speed. I suppose what I proposed is more about long-te

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distributed Backup Proposal

I agree, and they aren't exactly fast. Remember that most of us have an upstream speed of less than 1Mb/s, so uploading data, either initially or at recovery time (because, let's face it, if this is a backup, the moment you realise you need your backup is 10 minutes before you realised you needed y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 101010 = 42 which is a good excuse for a party

Why not run an event near you? :) -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 23 July 2010 21:09, Daniel Case wrote: > I have a server which could provide a mirror as well if needed, even though > the events are all sadly too far away for me to attend. > > Dan > > > On 23 July 2010 20:54, Alan Bell wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 101010 = 42 which is a good excuse for a party

I'd certainly be interested in getting something together for Manchester. All the best, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On 22 July 2010 10:50, Alan Bell wrote: > The next version of Ubuntu will be the Maverick Meercat, version 10.10 > and it will be released on Sunday October the 10th, or 10/10/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Quick Perl question...

So, why not do /(.*)<\/solar>/ ? -- Jon "TheNiceGuy" Spriggs On 12 Jul 2010 22:56, "LeeGroups" wrote: >> $solar_info =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/; >> >> From my tinkerings, this should find the string ... > What's the input string? The following code simply prints "," for me > not ",abcdef" as you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quick Perl question...

I'm not very^h any good with Regex, but try putting ()'s around what you want to search for. Also, try out rubular.com to experiment without needing to drop out of your editor and running something to test it. All the best, -- Jon "TheNiceGuy" Spriggs On 12 Jul 2010 21:13, "LeeGroups" wrote:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The IT Crowd

On Tue, Jun 29, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Alan Pope wrote: > On 29 June 2010 11:22, pmgazz wrote: >> Well, it's not nearly as good as The Big Bang Theory but I do enjoy The IT >> Crowd. Bit silly but when was a Brit sitcom not silly? > I have a female friend who doesn't appreciate BBT having only one > f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 11:55 AM, Bruno Girin wrote: > On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:41 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> http://jon.sprig.gs/blog/2009/11/29/use-gmails-smtp-gateway-using-the-command-line-from-ubuntu-without-lots-of-config-tips/ >> >> This will relay SMTP via GMail.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email for LAMP setup

http://jon.sprig.gs/blog/2009/11/29/use-gmails-smtp-gateway-using-the-command-line-from-ubuntu-without-lots-of-config-tips/ This will relay SMTP via GMail. There's no reason why you can't just set the same thing up to relay to your ISP's mail host (without the SSL stuff). -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Sp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DLNA Server and media recommendations

I don't know whether it'll work with your TV, but I use PS3 Media Server, a Java based application, for my PS3. It'll do all the transcoding for you, although I don't know if it'll transcode for your TV. All the best, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 9:34 AM, Alan Lord (N

Re: [ubuntu-uk] web hosting recommendation

Depending on what you want, I've found DreamHost to be pretty reliable for the money, although the speed leaves a little to be desired. Their service offers MySql, apache, php, svn, email and xmpp services, although you aren't permitted to run a service which "looks like a daemon". If you want to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking to make sure you are safe...port checking etc.

Just to explain why the ping test is probably in Shields-up, is that... In times long-gone, and around about when Shields-Up was being created, many people would be using Dial-up, and even getting a ping from an IP address in a dial-up range would make you a fair target (as it was likely that woul

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Replacement for Gnome-do

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Stephen Garton wrote: > On 21 April 2010 10:28, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> Is it something that appears across the top bar of the screen, >> reducing commands down by typing in a few letters? If so, again, I >> don't recall the package name

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Replacement for Gnome-do

Is it something that appears across the top bar of the screen, reducing commands down by typing in a few letters? If so, again, I don't recall the package name, but it was in use in the "Cruncheee" release of Crunchbang... so we can probably identify it from that. Rgds, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spri

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester release party?

I think the fact that OggCamp is happening in Liverpool the release weekend, means that most of us that would have organised a Manchester event will probably be in Liverpool that weekend! That said, if someone else wants to organise something, either for that weekend, or probably better, the weeke

Re: [ubuntu-uk] oggcamp / bar camp (torbay)

A barcamp generally should have at least three rooms and one of them should be enough to hold as many people as you have that are attending. As it tends to be a fairly geeky set of people, you'll need to have sufficient bandwidth for your attendees, including wifi coverage of the building. At the f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support using VNC over SSH (via another SSH server)

Create a file (one on each end) called ~/.ssh/config as follows # Remote machine Host support HostName central.server.address IdentityFile ~/.ssh/private_key User username RemoteForward 12345 localhost:5900 # Your machine Host support HostName central.server.address Identi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposed Manchester Ubuntu 10.04 Jam

MadLab would be perfect for this. If you contact Dave Mee d...@madlab.org.uk and Asa Calow a...@madlab.org.uk they can provide times they have available. There's space on the 2nd and ground floor and they are *very* open to having "geek" events going on. -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Cert

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

Just a quick comment about the style of training. There are four styles of learning, which someone will naturally fall into. These, typically are put onto a cross-hairs style graph. Theory first Practical second Instructor Experimentation Lead.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Possible Training Events

I have forwarded the e-mail to the uk-hackspaces mailing list, as there are several regional hackspaces across the UK (London, Birmingham, Manchester, Liverpool, Leeds) who may be able to help - in some cases with venue and in others with knowledge. Regards -- Jon ""The Nice Guy"" Spriggs LPIC-1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changed properties now can't mount NTFS Partition

Have you made sure you've got a directory in /Media called Data? You'll probably find that you don't have even have a directory called /Media, but instead one called /media (note the change of case!) If you're probably going to use this disk a lot, I'd be tempted to add it to your /etc/fstab anyw

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Web Collabaration

I really like the Horde groupware suite. Check it out over at horde.org Regards, -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified 2009/12/14 Ian Pascoe : > Folks > > Before I ask the question, my hand is firmly in the air admitting to the > fact that apart from some HTML coding, I have no web pr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Events in and around London?

Also, it might be worth checking out geekery.in/london and upcoming.org to see if there's anything on there you're interested in. -- Jon ""The Nice Guy"" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified This message was sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any top posting and typos that may occur as a result. On 1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virtual private server recomendations

To be fair, I was more looking to see what the prices were like, rather than to actually *do* anything. :) -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified 2009/11/26 Andy Smith : > Hello, > > On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 02:13:05PM +, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> That'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virtual private server recomendations

That'd be great, were it not for the fact they've run out of capacity! D'oh :) -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified 2009/11/26 Alan Pope : > 2009/11/26 dan attwood : >> Ideally the server will have around 1gig of ram, 30 gig of disk space, a >> nice fat pipe the conect it to the web,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Exchange 2007 Support in Karmic

Just out of interest, what boxes did horde fail to tick? I've been very enthusiastic about their systems in the past, and I'm fairly confident that having the IMAP set up properly behind the scenes should give you a comprehensive exchange-like replacement, with many many more features. Regards, -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party - Manchester, 30th October

2009/10/30 Gordon Allott : > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:30 +, Lucy wrote: >> 2009/10/30 Gordon Allott : >> > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 09:50 +, Lucy wrote: >> >> 2009/10/28 Tim Dobson : >> >> > Lucy wrote: >> >> >> This is a reminder that Manchester will be celebrating the release of >> >> >> Ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party - Manchester, 30th October

2009/10/30 Gordon Allott : > On Fri, 2009-10-30 at 10:31 +0000, Jon Spriggs wrote: >> I'll also be burning the Kubuntu NBR and Ubuntu NBR images >> separately. >> >> I plan (if I get a chance today) to set up a TFTP, FTP, and HTTP >> server and bring a mini

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party - Manchester, 30th October

I torrented all of the ISOs (barring the DVD ones - although they're probably still running right now) last night, and have them all on my external HD. I have a *few* CDs, so I figured I'd burn the common ones (like Ubuntu, Kubuntu and Xubuntu) and have two DVDs each with all the images for the i38

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting Up an Ubuntu network?

Hi Liam, As with all things Free and Open Source, you have a lot of choices... Do you stick with Samba between machines (as there are extensions in Samba for a Samba client talking to a Samba server). Do you switch to the Fuse module SSHFS between all your machines, automounting them only when yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

There is indeed wifi. It's all confirmed, and I'll even be there! :) -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified 2009/10/22 Simon Wears : > So is this all confirmed then? And will there be Wi-Fi? > > > 2009/10/17 Gordon Allott >> >> On Sat, 2009-10-17 at 16:54 +0100, Lucy wrote: >> >> > Tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.10 Release Party - 30th October

I've already created the event on upcoming and geekery.in/manchester -- Jon ""The Nice Guy"" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified This message was sent from my mobile device. Please excuse any top posting and typos that may occur as a result. On Oct 17, 2009 5:49 PM, "Alan Pope" wrote: 2009/10/17 Lucy :

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

o, I can post it up around the computing department at > Manchester Met uni, and on our forums. Hopefully that'll get a few people > interested. > > 2009/10/16 Jon Spriggs >> >> I've added the event to Upcoming.org, more for promotional purposes >> than to g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

I've added the event to Upcoming.org, more for promotional purposes than to get numbers. I've put the details on http://geekery.in although it's awaiting moderation at the moment. Is it worth setting up an event on Facebook? The Upcoming.org event is http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/4674854 Rgds,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

OK, I'll confirm with them, probably on Saturday. There is a "if no-one turns up, we charge you £200" clause from the pub for whoever is confirming, so... erm, please make sure you tell everyone you think will be interested! :) -- Jon ""The Nice Guy"" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified This message was sen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 2009/10/13 Lucy : > 2009/10/13 Jon Spriggs : > >> I'll be at Deansgate Docks tonight for Geekup Manchester, so I can >> call in to both Pitcher&Piano and Revolution - there are other venues >> along there as well - b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

2009/10/13 Lucy : > 2009/10/8 Lucy : >> 2009/10/8 Gordon Allott : >>> On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 14:19 +0100, Lucy wrote: >>>> 2009/10/8 Jon Spriggs : >>>> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>>> > Hash: SHA1 >>>> > >>&

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] MP3 players

Given that you already have a device which will play MP3s (your android device), what does a new MP3 player bring you? Better battery life? Different display? Not being interrupted in the middle of that killer guitar solo by a stinkin' phone call? Ultimately, I'd prefer not to buy an iPod, but th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Karmic (9.10) party

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's a good start, created about a year back: http://geekup.org/wiki/index.php?title=PossibleVenuesInManchester There's also: Revolution Deansgate, which has a back room, that can take about 30-40 people, a mezzanine which can take about 15-20 and a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nokia phone running open source

I believe this is the Debian derived, Maemo Based N900 following the same conventions as the N800 and N700 series Internet Tablets - now with included GSM chip :) -- Jon "The Nice Guy" Spriggs LPIC-1 Certified 2009/9/28 Rik Boland : > Nokia is releasing a new phone the runs Linux? > > What mode

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