Re: [ubuntu-uk] A spot of dinner before the RAT

2015-09-13 Thread Josh Holland
On Sun, 13 Sep 2015, at 09:43 PM, Iain Cuthbertson wrote: > When, where and whom would like to munch before beerage on the choochoo? I'll be along, but will leave the "when" and "where" to those with more detailed local knowledge. Thanks, Josh -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

2014-09-16 Thread Josh Holland
Hi Gareth, On Tue, 16 Sep 2014, at 09:56 PM, Gareth France wrote: Eh? Simon has given a quick account of the traditional Unix file searching tools, grep, find and xargs (which isn't technically a searching tool but is very often used with them). They are very powerful, but take a good amount

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Creating a library of resources - was Good general book on Ubuntu/Linux?

2012-10-04 Thread Josh Holland
Hi Gordon, On 4 October 2012 15:12, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > Thanks for the replies everyone - now a different question thrown up by > this. > If I want to collect together a "library" of problems and solutions and > other resources from this and other mailing lists that I subscribe to,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] "Triaged" and "Fix Committed" in Launchpad

2012-10-01 Thread Josh Holland
Hi Tyler, A quick explanation of the bug statuses that Ubuntu uses in Launchpad is at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Status. It's aimed more at people triaging (essentially sorting) the bugs, but it should tell you what you want to know. Thanks, Josh -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu and GIGABYTE

2012-04-19 Thread Josh Holland
Hi Norman On 19 April 2012 11:23, Norman Silverstone wrote: > It would be very much appreciated if anyone knows of or has experienced use > of this motherboard. > > The computer I am writing this on now is one I built myself using a Gigabyte P67-DS3-B3 and it works absolutely fine, with no issue

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Plus Page

2011-11-10 Thread Josh Holland
don't think you can yet, though I believe it is very high up the Google todo list. Thanks, -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Happy Hour December

2011-10-23 Thread Josh Holland
27;t make it after the first week of December, since term ends that weekend. I'd be more than happy to see some folks if we made it to my home town of Worcester at some point over Christmas though. Thanks, -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 30 test drive of Ubuntu: PC world

2011-07-03 Thread Josh Holland
On 3 July 2011 11:53, Alan Pope wrote: > "Synaptic removed from the default install of Ubuntu 11.10" would be > more accurate. This is of course what I meant, thanks for the clarification -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 30 test drive of Ubuntu: PC world

2011-07-03 Thread Josh Holland
chpad.net/ubuntu/oneiric/+source/ubuntu-meta/1.231 -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] keyring password

2011-06-12 Thread Josh Holland
e is a bug open in Launchpad that sounds similar to what you have here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/637702 You may wish to use the "affects me" button and/or subscribe to remain up to date with any progress. It may also be useful to attach the gnome-keyring-daemon startup lines in a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking towards 12.04

2011-05-19 Thread Josh Holland
nd focus-follows-mouse... -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy and 11.04

2011-05-16 Thread Josh Holland
On May 16, 2011 6:23 PM, "Colin Law" > If I have the downloads window of firefox open, but behind another > firefox window, what is the most efficient way to get to see it (using > Unity rather than Tools, Downloads in FF)? Install a download bar extension? The separate window always annoyed me..

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Irc channels.....

2011-03-14 Thread Josh Holland
ient you are using, and any error messages that are popping up? That will make it a lot easier for anyone to help. -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-20 Thread Josh Holland
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:21:27AM +, alan c wrote: > what does\o/mean please? It's a little man with his arms in the air because he is so happy about the return of UUPC. -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corrupted User Accounts?

2010-12-20 Thread Josh Holland
7;t do damage to the stuff which is actually valuable on the average home user's machine though: data (photos, documents etc) -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using HTC phone via Ubuntu Internet connection - Tethering

2010-11-12 Thread Josh Holland
On Fri, 2010-11-12 at 20:40 +, alan c wrote: > This is 'tethering' I believe. > > On my Android Pulse (T Mobile brand) (early Android version too I > guess), I found I needed an app. > To drift slightly off the original topic, I also have a T-Mobile Pulse, which I could tether to my 10.04 (

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A chance to say "Hello!"

2010-11-12 Thread Josh Holland
Worcester proper for me, though I'm in Oxford during term time. All of you folks should be coming along to get WorcsLUG going again. There is a pub meet arranged for the 7th in Worcester, and I'll most likely be going along. The more the merrier etc Josh -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

2010-10-14 Thread Josh Holland
On Thu, 2010-10-14 at 19:44 +0100, John Matthews wrote: > On 14/10/10 19:39, Alan Bell wrote: > > Seenhttp://askbuntu.com ? That is a new site for questions and answers and > > it seems quite popular. > > Something wrong with link, wont work. Should be http://askubuntu.com/ Josh -- ubuntu-u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

2010-10-01 Thread Josh Holland
but I'm inclined to agree that it's probably a cooling issue, in which case blowing dust out is the best plan. -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

2010-09-19 Thread Josh Holland
On Sat, 2010-09-18 at 02:00 +0100, Liam Proven wrote: > Get them onto the LTS release *now* and then you can safely leave 'em > there 'til 2012. *Don't* put them onto 9.10, it's already obsolescent. > > Me, personally, I'd say wipe & reload. It's easier than doing 9.04 -> > 9.10 followed by 9.10 -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Empathy Blocking Contacts

2010-09-07 Thread Josh Holland
.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551911 -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was "Apps for kids")

2010-08-07 Thread Josh Holland
bug affects you too should be employed, rather than hundreds of "me too" comments. Perhaps the first could detail the problem in the specific context of mailing lists, but we don't want to inundate the bug with useless information. -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lenovo N500 will not load Ubuntu

2010-08-03 Thread Josh Holland
, so it could hardly be simpler. I am now back on my Lenovo, > having installed 10.04 on it. You wouldn't expect to find an option to boot off the CD inside GRUB, since by the time the computer is showing GRUB, it's already booting off the hard disk. Changing the boot order via BIOS i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-08-02 Thread Josh Holland
of the b and the t (it is a 3 degree > slope) The "local community team" is in a funny font, and the bottom of the "y" of "community" is chopped off. I think I prefer the other one done by James Tait where the ends were lined up. -- Josh Holland -- ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-08-02 Thread Josh Holland
all of both > > "ubuntu" and "uk" being the same font size, weight and boldness. It > > seems to be unbalanced when the weight / size and boldness are > > changed. > > +1 > Agreed. -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Grub/bootloader configs (was: Ubuntu 64 bit)

2010-03-02 Thread Josh Holland
Also, http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Grub2 for more info. -- Josh "dutchie" Holland http://www.joshh.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Grub/bootloader configs (was: Ubuntu 64 bit)

2010-03-02 Thread Josh Holland
On Tue, March 2, 2010 3:36 am, A J Binnie wrote: > Hi Paul, > > Thanks for your response. As far as I can see, they're not in the same > place. My grub menu tells me it's 1.97 beta4 when I boot up. Looking in > /boot/grub, there is no file with the relevant name. > > I did find grub.cfg, but.. it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The requested plugins are:,,text/html decoder

2010-01-29 Thread Josh Holland
At a guess, the radio site is trying to serve you up an error page instead of the music stream. I'd suggest making sure that the URL you've got is right. -- Josh "dutchie" Holland http://www.joshh.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com ht

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Josh Holland
http://xkcd.com/320/ is a handy one too. -- Josh "dutchie" Holland http://www.joshh.co.uk/ http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Science Museum visit, Easter.

2010-01-18 Thread Josh Holland
On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 11:07:49PM +, Rob Beard wrote: > What I would like to arrange is a trip down to Goonhilly in Cornwall, I > went a couple of years back when I went to Cornwall on holiday. Not > sure if it's still open though, I heard rumors that it was closing. > Saying that though,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thunderbird 3

2009-12-19 Thread Josh Holland
somewhat untested, so YMMV etc. -- Josh Holland (key F6067C12) http://joshh.co.uk dutchie on irc.freenode.net http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] using Ubuntu One to sync firefox bookmarks

2009-11-17 Thread Josh Holland
While bearing in mind the upcoming Weave thing, the way to do this is documented on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOne/Tutorials/Bookmarks. Essentially, it is a matter of installing the bindwood package and restarting Firefox. -- Josh Holland (key F6067C12) http://joshh.co.uk dutchie on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OggCamp!

2009-10-07 Thread Josh Holland
I will most likely be *speaking* at OggCamp. It should be good fun, look out for me, and it would be nice to have a good few people looking at my talk (on http://launchpad.net/suvat if anyone wants to read up on it in advance). I'll also be at LRL. Hope to see plenty of you there! --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ide to sata

2009-09-30 Thread Josh Holland
n. Isn't this what UUIDs in /etc/fstab are for? -- Josh Holland (key F6067C12) http://joshh.co.uk dutchie on irc.freenode.net http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Having problems with making Firefox 3.5 default

2009-09-16 Thread Josh Holland
What version of Ubuntu are you running? -- Josh Holland (PGP key: F6067C12) http://joshh.co.uk dutchie on irc.freenode.net http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing ownership.......

2009-08-13 Thread Josh Holland
sudo chown -R www-data:www-data -- Josh Holland (key F6067C12) http://joshh.co.uk dutchie on irc.freenode.net http://twitter.com/jshholland http://identi.ca/jshholland signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Open Source Project kafuffle...

2009-08-07 Thread Josh Holland
his software. That doesn't sound very open-source. That looks more like a proprietary licence that is open to the possibility of developers joining from the community. -- Josh Holland (key F6067C12) http://joshh.co.uk dutchie on irc.freenode.net http://twitter.com/jshholland http://ide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-24 Thread Josh Holland
John, I'm sure that if you have any problems you can join the IRC channel #ubuntu-uk on irc.freenode.net and there's sure to be someone who'll help you in there. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/InternetRelayChat for more IRC details. -- Josh Holland (key F6067C12) htt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Work Experience

2009-04-19 Thread Josh Holland
On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 05:25:55PM +0100, Yishay Mor wrote: > is London out of scope? Yes if I can't get accomodation - I live in Worcester. -- Josh Holland http://joshh.co.uk madmartian on irc.freenode.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/u

[ubuntu-uk] Work Experience

2009-04-19 Thread Josh Holland
oduce applications on demand. However, I would appreciate offers of work experience of any kind. If you think there is a possibility that you could accomodate me, I would appreciate a reply off-list to this email address. Thanks in advance for anything you can do. -- Josh Holland http://joshh.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty Jackalope

2009-03-21 Thread Josh Holland
BTW, 10 releases!! 5 years! -- Josh Holland http://joshh.co.uk madmartian on irc.freenode.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty Jackalope

2009-03-21 Thread Josh Holland
for this? Feisty Fawn, not Ferret -- Josh Holland http://joshh.co.uk madmartian on irc.freenode.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC won't support Linux

2009-03-17 Thread Josh Holland
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:00:21PM +, Alan Pope wrote: > I am registered user number 4 on that site :) Why does that not surprise me? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] [OT] Test

2009-03-15 Thread Josh Holland
Test, please disregard -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell Inspiron 15 Laptop

2009-03-04 Thread Josh Holland
he EULA. Not 100% though. -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lift to Brum Bug Jam?

2009-02-16 Thread Josh Holland
On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 15:04 +, Josh Holland wrote: > There are trains arriving at 8:18, 8:39 and 9:09. I'll get whichever one > is closest to most other people (if that makes sense). Just found some more trains arriving at 8:28, 8:48 and 8:58. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lift to Brum Bug Jam?

2009-02-16 Thread Josh Holland
that makes sense). -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lift to Brum Bug Jam?

2009-02-11 Thread Josh Holland
> Have you signed up on the wiki yet? No, as I have yet to inform my parents of any of this. I thought it would be best to have it all organised and hit them with it in one go. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lift to Brum Bug Jam?

2009-02-11 Thread Josh Holland
> (Moral of the story, we can get there without a car!) Probably true, but no harm in asking! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Lift to Brum Bug Jam?

2009-02-11 Thread Josh Holland
Dear fellow Ubuntuers, I may well be coming to the Bug Jam in Sutton Coldfield (which AFAIC is *not* Birmingham), but a few matters remain to be sorted. The main one is that I am only 16 and therefore can't drive to Sutton Coldfield. I have looked into public transport, and don't mind getting the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Venue for London Bugjam

2009-01-26 Thread Josh Holland
2009/1/26 John Levin : > James Thomas wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Just a note to say I have a venue in central London, next to Liverpool >> Street station. >> Details can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam/London >> >> :) >> >> James Thomas >> (selinuxium) >> > > Excellent! I was getting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Holland
em to be having some technical difficulties at the moment, so I'll have to wait. -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me on #ubuntu-uk @ freenode.net My system: Dell Inspiron 1300 with fully up-to-date Intrepid Intel Pentium M 1.70 GHz, 512 MB -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

[ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Holland
g Intrepid. Also, what would happen once the memory is in? Could I just boot up and have the memory recognised, or would I have to fiddle around with config files and so on? Thanks in advance. -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me on #ubuntu-uk My system: Dell Inspiron 1300 with fully up-to-date Intr

[ubuntu-uk] WorcsLUG

2009-01-19 Thread Josh Holland
Reading all this talk about LUGs makes me want to get involved in my own one (Worcestershire). However clicking on the link on http://lug.org.uk just redirects me to the lug.org.uk main page. Anyone else getting this problem or know anything about WorcsLUG? -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-26 Thread Josh Holland
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 12:27 +, Robert Leverington wrote: > BitFolk provides secondary DNS, I suggest you read the customer > information then contact support. Thanks for that. I really should read docs and things before leaping to the lists. -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me on #

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-26 Thread Josh Holland
gt; > Sean That all makes perfect sense. The VPS was originally set up to have hostname jrh.co.uk, when I thought that was free. On the 123reg website it allows you to give two _different_ nameservers for your domain. As I only have the one, I named my own and used the 123reg site's. Does this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-25 Thread Josh Holland
e the time you spend helping this poor person completely new to servers. -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me on #ubuntu-uk My system: Dell Inspiron 1300 with fully up-to-date Intrepid Intel Celeron M 1.70 GHz, 512 MB -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-25 Thread Josh Holland
Thanks all, I'm doing it now. Hopefully the next you hear from me will be from my new address... -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me on #ubuntu-uk My system: Dell Inspiron 1300 with fully up-to-date Intrepid Intel Celeron M 1.70 GHz, 512 MB -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-25 Thread Josh Holland
not sure if I want all those extras (ie Online control panel, InstantSite homepage), especially as I want practice administering a server myself. -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me on #ubuntu-uk My system: Dell Inspiron 1300 with fully up-to-date Intrepid Intel Celeron M 1.70 GHz, 512 MB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-25 Thread Josh Holland
On Thu, 2008-12-25 at 17:55 +, Matthew Wild wrote: > On Fri, Dec 19, 2008 at 6:44 PM, Josh Holland > wrote: > > I just bought a VPS hosting with the intention of setting up a mail > > address for myself at j...@jrh.co.uk . AFAICT, this involves setting up a > > name

[ubuntu-uk] Setting up mailserver

2008-12-25 Thread Josh Holland
extortionate price. Is there any way to bypass this, or am I on completely the wrong track? (btw it is a BitFolk bottom spec hosting running Hardy) -- Josh Holland aka madmartian Find me on #ubuntu-uk My system: Dell Inspiron 1300 with fully up-to-date Intrepid Intel Celeron M 1.70 GHz, 512 MB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

2008-10-15 Thread Josh Holland
On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 19:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/10/13 Josh Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This Monday the Metro (that fine journalistic endeavour) ran a feature > > on how the first British-born space tourist (who is a US citizen) took > > the Metro, makin

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

2008-10-15 Thread Josh Holland
This Monday the Metro (that fine journalistic endeavour) ran a feature on how the first British-born space tourist (who is a US citizen) took the Metro, making it the first newspaper in space. It also mentioned some other space tourists including our very own Mark Shuttleworth! -- Josh Holland