On Thu, 2012-01-05 at 18:05 +, Stuart Ward wrote:
> Well this is all to do with name resolution services.
>
> If you have all your machines getting their IP address from a NAT
> router device, then this will be assigning IP addresses. Some od these
> will also maintain a DNS entry for the mach
On Wed, 2012-01-04 at 18:10 +, Andy Braben wrote:
> [...]
>
> Is that not worth a bug report? HPLIP package not kept up to date on
> automatic updates?
That's a very good point. There's a policy about updates after a
release:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates
Should HPLIP be list
On Mon, 2012-01-02 at 15:28 +, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 07/12/2011 18:27, Tony Pursell wrote:
> > If its anything like the C250 I have, then it's just a matter of
> > selecting it on the Input tab of Sound Preferences.
> >
> > I use my C250 for Skype regularly. I have had problems wi
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 11:42 +, Gareth France wrote:
>
> What is needed is for users to join here or local user groups
> so we can
> discuss and swap ideas, bug reports etc.
>
> Is there a way to make users aware these forums exist ?
>
> When I'm out s
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 10:59 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 01/12/11 23:52, thegeeksquadron@ wrote:
>> [...]
> > The attitude of Canonical is so poor - so many users have been saying what
> > they want; they've ignored,
>
> Examples?
>
hehe Probably unrelated, but I'm still stunned with Launchpad'
On Fri, 2011-12-02 at 00:58 +, Phill Whiteside wrote:
> I certainly do not wish to partake in a flame war. People are
> naturally conservative. Take for example how long it took for Lubuntu
> to gain adoption. If you are unhappy with Unity, then try any of the
> other flavours of Ubuntu. I have
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 19:48 +, Juan J. Martínez wrote:
> [...]
>
> It is supposed to be more secure that a vanilla Linux system*:
eh, I forgot to mention that it's very difficult to trust on security
firms because there's no easy way for the customer to verify that
On Thu, 2011-11-24 at 19:41 +, 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 Android
> tablets, given the close similarity between Android and LINUX / UNIX
> based systems (I believ
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 10:33 +, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> On Wed, November 23, 2011 10:07, Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > ...At work, my boss
> > may have a long back and forth with a supplier, and then suddenly
> > include me with a 'What do you think?' type message. In that
> > situation, I am glad that
On Wed, 2011-11-23 at 09:45 +, Jon Reynolds wrote:
> [...]
>
> Do you make a point of bottom posting regardless of the recipient's style?
> Or do you just stay 'bothered' inside but think 'what's the point' and
> just top-post?
You're not alone :)
I personally hate when the original mail has
On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 21:37 +, alan c wrote:
> On 19/11/11 20:40, Juan J. Martínez wrote:
> > I don't know the details about UK gov, but in Spain the government pays
> > an absurd amount of money just for the licenses, and then pays for
> > support... frequently fr
On Sat, 2011-11-19 at 20:09 +, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Chris Rowson wrote:
>
> > The 'All About Open Source' document is particularly interesting
> > because it explains why UK.gov can't mandate Open Source software.
> > It's not entirely straight forward; I'm not entirely sure, but I
> > think
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 11:54 +, Colin Law wrote:
> [...]
> Agreed, plus possibly a few words pointing out the significance of
> this. I maintain there *is* a problem as people have been confused by
> the documentation (including myself), therefore it would benefit from
> clarification, so we do
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 08:57 +, Colin Law wrote:
> 2011/11/15 Juan J. :
> > On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 08:04 +, Colin Law wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> which suggests that it is talking about the hardware platform the
> >> software is running on.
> >
> >
On Tue, 2011-11-15 at 08:04 +, Colin Law wrote:
> [...]
> which suggests that it is talking about the hardware platform the
> software is running on.
Have you tried texinfo manual as recommended in the man page?
info coreutils 'uname invocation'
It's way more complete.
I looks like the prob
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 22:22 +, Colin Law wrote:
> [...]
> >
> > TL;DR: it doesn't matter what is your hardware, the important it's which
> > kernel are your running.
>
> It does matter what the hardware is if you want to know whether you
> *could* run the 64 bit kernel.
... and you're running
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 22:05 +, Colin Law wrote:
> On 14 November 2011 21:55, John Levin wrote:
> > ...
> > Thanks to everyone who replied. Does seem that uname reports the kernel, and
> > not the hardware, which is what is suggested by the man page and
> > http://ss64.com/bash/uname.html
>
>
On Mon, 2011-11-14 at 17:53 +, John Levin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm writing a bit of documentation, and am having trouble with uname.
> What does uname -a produce for a 32 bit operating system running on a 64
> bit cpu? If anyone is running such a system, if they could cut & paste
> the outp
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 11:57 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> [...]
> > My question is, being as integrated in Unity as it is, is it viable to
> > replace it with a different client?
>
> You could try polly which is quite a nice client.
>
> https://launchpad.net/polly
Nice! I'm trying Hotot and so far i
On Wed, 2011-11-09 at 11:38 +, Alan Bell wrote:
> On 09/11/11 11:23, Juan J. Martínez wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > I'm very frustrated with the Gwibber version included in Ubuntu 11.10.
> >
> > It's not only that has more bugs than the version shipp
Hello,
I'm very frustrated with the Gwibber version included in Ubuntu 11.10.
It's not only that has more bugs than the version shipped in 11.04
(which had bugs, but it was easier to not step over them), but the UI
and the functionality have changed and now it's useless for me (I want
the tabs ba
On Fri, 2011-11-04 at 12:47 +, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Hi
>
>
> A bit of programming advice, please.
>
>
> I routinely use Nautilus to copy files between machines and to
> manipulate remote file structures. Once I've connected to a remote
> server in Nautilus, can I then exploit that connecti
On Wed, 2011-10-19 at 16:22 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On 19.10.11 12:22, scoundrel50a wrote:
> [...]
> Setting up a new user account probably wouldn't have fixed that - it's a
> system setting rather than a user setting as I understand it.
You're wrong. That's why Pope's workaround worked: h
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 17:43 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>
> > What on EARTH is Canonical thinking about?
> > They replace Evolution with TBird (good!) but after installing Base
> > there is STILL NO ability to use the TBIRD ADDRESS BOOK as an address
> > data sourc
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 09:44 +0100, Sean Miller wrote:
> [...]
> Happened to me some time ago with a website, and I was convinced I'd
> been locked out... in reality, it was a duff "9" key which needed to
> be hit VERY hard to make it work :-)
I was thinking about that... specifically about a wirel
On Tue, 2011-10-04 at 12:45 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
> [...]
> > Thanks for the advice Avi
> >
> > "On an entirely unrelated note, your signature amused me. I've never seen
> > a company both explain how insecure email is and assume it's secure
> > in the same wall of signature."
> >
> > ^^ It d
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:48 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> 2011/9/27 Juan J. :
> > On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:28 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> I'd suspect the average person on the end of the phone wouldn't be too
> >> scared of bein
On Tue, 2011-09-27 at 08:28 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> [...]
> I'd suspect the average person on the end of the phone wouldn't be too
> scared of being talked through fixing it rather than average bloke on
> the end of th phone where you say "First go to the server and go to
> the console and
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 18:07 +0100, paul sutton wrote:
>
> >
> > When I'm talking to voluntary sector orgs
> > they frequently say to me that
> > Microsoft Windows is 'part of the computer'
> >
On Fri, 2011-09-23 at 15:38 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote:
> [...]
> It works fine on my Ubuntu machine, It won't run on a Windows machine
> (haven't tested) I think because I'm calling the unix version of find
> and also my path is /, obviously this would be c: in windows.
It won't work because you're
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 17:12 +0100, paul sutton wrote:
> [...]
> >> As Alan says, in the short term though, Linux will have to adapt to EFI
>
> what does EFI mean,?
Extensible Firmware Interface (was developed by Intel, now it's UEFI and
it's supposed to be "more open"... but I think most of the t
On Thu, 2011-09-22 at 13:06 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 22/09/2011 00:06, Alan Bell wrote:
> > On 21/09/11 23:29, Bea Groves wrote:
> >> Just read the following. Comments?
> >>
> > yeah, it is potentially very nasty.
>
> Even more so when the next step could be to require signed keys
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 13:16 +0100, javadayaz wrote:
> well i have no idea where it went :)
You're using gmail web interface, aren't you?
The easier explanation would be that you accidentally clicked on
something that moved the messages to a different place (archived, spam,
etc). I don't use gmail
On Tue, 2011-08-23 at 13:11 +0100, javadayaz wrote:
> i know...and yet it has disappeared from my email, inbox,
> trash...nothing!!!
> strange!!!
Once the email is stored in your inbox, I believe you have a local
issue :) I mean, there's no way the mailing list does anything with your
mail once i
On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 09:31 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote:
> 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 so
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 11:21 +0100, Emily Maher wrote:
> Seems to do the trick - yipee! One down, two to go!
>
>
> Thanks Juan :-)
The other two points might be platform dependent. Sorry, I missed the "I
am using Libre Office in Mac OS" part.
Have you tried checking LibreOffice bugtrack?
https:
On Tue, 2011-08-16 at 10:53 +0100, Emily Maher wrote:
> [...]
> Text formatting
>
>
> When copying and pasting text from one text box to another, the
> formatting disappears/defaults. This is a particular problem with text
> that contains bullet points – bullet points appear where I had none
> an
On Sun, 2011-08-14 at 19:12 +0100, suprengr wrote:
> Sorry Alan Lord - sincerely,
>
> that should of course read:
> Anyone know Alan Smith & can give a nudge?
It happens every now and then in all mailing lists, and it's usually an
accident. Someone imports his contact list into LinkedIn, the mail
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