r
your email. (I play on a Play-By-Email Role Playing Game, which uses yahoo
groups for it's mailing list.)
I would highly recommend phplist or mailman.
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gt; >
> > Rob
>
> BBC, Sky, ITN all suck big time. Try watching Al Jazeera, there's
> always
> something fairly important or interesting on there, and no
> "entertainment news" (a contradictory term in itself).
>
> Tom
If you want happy news: h
- "Kris Douglas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Agreed, name one good news story the bbc has covered in the past few
> months, years?
>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7221758.stm - Overhaul of net addresses
begins
A (fairly) simple look at ipv4/v6 changeover.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/
t; You can't simply download Chocolate Oranges, you need to use something
>
> like Bit
> Torrent. That way you can obtain individual segments which you can
> then
> rebuild
> into a complete luscious, scrummy whole.
>
Alternatively, you could use something more
>
Its more like smash on a hard surface, with great relish. At least, thats how I
break mine...
Kirrus
ps Ian, can you try to not top post please?
(Pretty please, with pink sugar icing on top?)
pps
I apologise if this post contains more elaborate wording than I normally use
- "Ian Pascoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Yo Mark
>
> Welcome to the group - as you've been a lurker for a little while now
> we'll
> expect full participation in all areas - especially those that go
> wandering
> off at tangent!
>
> E
Wandering off at a tangent? We never _ever_ do that!
- "alan c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> > This didn't make it last time :o(
> > Forwarded Message
> >> From: Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> >> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lexmark 4300 and woe is me
Just seen this on the BBC news site...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7161359.stm
Anyone got any questions?
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- "Alan Pope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 07:34:23AM +, Sean Miller wrote:
> > I am aware this isn't Ubuntu related, but I'm tearing my hair out.
> >
> > For the past week or so some folks have been constantly hacking my
> > webserver... it's running Cent-OS I bel
y of the critical bugs patched as possible. You can always also use a
external harddrive, to download a copy of the apt-repository, so that you can
do updates if she's having trouble with a particular bug.
Only tricky bit would b setting ubuntu up to use dial-up modem, but once thats
wo
just put it under the "work" as it is work, even though
unpaid. There should also be unemployed, but forgot that when I was making it...
I'll probably run it about this time next year again, to see if anything has
changed, and I can add the extra options then :)
R
- "alan c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kirrus wrote:
> > 70+ was because I know very few people older than 70 who will go
> near a computer, and that is past normal retirement age (~65)
>
> LOL you should get out more! :-)
>
> (see another post f
- "alan c" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kirrus wrote:
> > - "Mac" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> Michael Holloway wrote:
> >> > On Fri, 2007-12-21 at 12:01 +, Mac wrote:
> >> >> Yeah, Eddie! Let'
- "Eddie Armstrong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kirrus wrote:
> > Poll started today, will close on January 31st, so get your votes in
> now!
> > I'll post the results here.
> >
> >
> I think the categories are a bit broad - why not h
started today, will close on January 31st, so get your votes in now!
I'll post the results here.
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ortcut on his desktop (he had the same on Windows.
This is not someone who is comfortable with computers!), as well as a "Word"
shortcut.
And away he's gone. I've not heard a word of complaint, or a question, for a
very long time...
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- "James Westby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On (19/12/07 15:20), Michael Holloway wrote:
> > Not enough random bytes available. Please do some other work to
> give
> > the OS a chance to collect more entropy! (Need 288 more bytes)
>
> Only certain sorts of "work" generate entropy, dependin
tremely specialised.
(ARM mobile CPUs)
AMD, as of Q3 this year, have 13.9% of the CPU market share. Intel have 78.7%.
Saying that, the reason I'm using Ubuntu, is because I find it easier than
Windows. I don't really care about binary drivers, and truly-freely-free
systems. I want a com
more detailed information:
http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/102607-arguments-intel-amd.html?nwwpkg=50arguments
(no second page, whatever it says...)
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robably find a dual-core sufficient, which would
>save you some money.
Personally, I tend to prefer AMD processors to intel, if just 'cos intel is a
big evil corporation, who's cpu's tend to get matched with ATI graphics chips
(when they're done on-board), and ATI graphics
emory usage of trackerd?
>
System > Preferences > Tracker Preferences > "Performance" tab
Is "Resource Usage" on "Minimise Memory usage"?
HTH,
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00 kthreadd
3 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 migration/0
4 root 34 19 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 ksoftirqd/0
5 root RT -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.00 watchdog/0
6 root 10 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.02 events/0
7 root 18 -5 0 0 0 S 0.0 0.0 0:00.04 khelper
Here it isthanks
(Kirrus - Note, I have
uot;, and
then hit the letter "q". Copy and paste what is in that window into an email.
The command "top" lets you see all the things that are running on your computer
at the moment, which will let us have a quick idea if something decided to
steal all your computers resources
Hi,
- "Matthew Macdonald-Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Hope this helps, and in future remember...google is your friend! :o)
>
> Matt.
>
N3m3sis, I haven't replied as I too, have not known what the problem is.
Matt: that sounded awfully like RTFM to me (May just be me...) Some
- "Dianne Reuby" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing
> -
> we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for
> consoles,
> handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show
> off
> Ubuntu both to our vi
mething in order to complete your upgrades:
upgrades won't remove anything.
You will at some point need to move to Gusty, as Feisty will reach end-of-life
security support wise in October next year.
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oid would be Nexuiz. I've never had a
good time trying to get that one to work, and there's a reason that its really
hard to find anyone else playing it...
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Old news, they've already said oops...
http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/bbcinternet/
- "Sean Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What a pile of utter bollox... 400-600?!?!?!
>
> I know at least 50 people personally using Linux to access the BBC website,
> about 20 of which turn up at various ti
- "Alec Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Is anyone using Hardy yet? Am I right in thinking that it will be
> fairly
> stable, because Hardy's gonna be an LTS release? I used gutsy since
> the
> feisty release, so am i likely to be able to use hardy?
>
> Cheers
> Alec Wright
>
>
Not yet
- "STONE COLD" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So im getting regular speeds of 50kbs if im torrenting somethingi have a
> 2mb line with virgin!!!If not what should it be?
>
> Am i getting the full capacity?
> how much is 2mb in kbs?
>
Google has a very useful calculator for just this
AN's with NAT around
now.
(Class C used to be used for internet-connected LANs.)
Have you ever tried to get your head round IPv6? I have... and promptly gave
up. When I have to, I will, but I hope I never have to. Its not that memorable,
or easy...
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Hello,
- "Dougie Richardson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> There's an interesting piece on bug #59695 (decrease in hard drive
> life), for anyone who regularly follows Slashdot I should point out
> its
> a kdawson submission ;-)
>
> Launchpad is suffering the Slashdot effect, but a
Hi,
Can you submit a new bug ticket on launchpad.net, and then post a bug number
here :)
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- "Philip Newborough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Is this SFW (audio)?
> >
> > Yes, SFW. It has audio, but no swearing or orgasmic moaning... :)
> >
>
> LOL how dumb do I feel. Here was me thinking that SFW was some kind
> of
> new audio codec or something. Doh!
>
> My only excuse
- "Philip Newborough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 26/10/2007, andylockran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Martyn wrote:
> > >> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm
> > >>
> > >> Options:
> > >>
> > >> Will you be buying Leopard?
> > >> > Yes - I need new spots!
> > >> > No
- "Philip Newborough" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Just a bit of Friday fun:
>
> http://www.commoncraft.com/zombies
>
> Enjoy :D
Is this SFW (audio)?
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- "Daniel Lamb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Cool, a bit less dangerous than I had in mind.
>
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of gord
> Sent: 25 October 2007 14:47
> To: British Ubuntu Talk
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kittens in ubu
- "Jim Kissel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Dave Morley wrote:
> > I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the
> release
> > in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a
> > pleasure.
> >
> > So I just wondered what everyone else uses?
>
> Thunderbird
then. That and we had to shout
at them till they put port 1194 into "gold" status (they use stuff to crunch
p2p traffic during the working day...)
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OSX comprises parts of FreeBSD (Unix), Part NeXT (dead ex-Jobs
software/hardware company, like apple, just smaller), and Part other stuff.
Apple are pulling together a number of different open-source cores, including
stuff spawned from the Linux world.
OSX is not running on a Linux Kernel.
h
Hello,
- "Alan Pope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> c) Want to support free and open software and where available will
> use
> it, but sometimes will be pragmatic and use proprietary if there is
> no
> reasonable alternative.
>
> ..is more my camp.
>
> And b) doesn't always apply even with t
- "Alan Pope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:36 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote:
> > I can't help thinking that if there isn't even an interest in nvidia
> opening
> > up their drivers / specs, then I really don't want to be buying
> something
> > from them.
> >
>
- "Peter Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 22 October 2007 at 20:41:45 Matthew Larsen wrote:
> > Currently the best money / performance ratios go to either the
> GeForce
> > 8600GTS 320mb or the Radeon X1950XT. Both will perform well with
> UT3
> > running at 1280 at max settings.
>
> I've dugg it @
> http://digg.com/linux_unix/Tesco_Direct_sells_machines_with_Linux
>
Already been done, and got popular:
http://digg.com/linux_unix/Tesco_Every_little_helps
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rs... never had any
problems with them:
http://gb.releases.ubuntu.com/gutsy/
(http://gb.releases.ubuntu.com/ for dapper/edgy/fiesty/gutsy)
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ould look like can be found here:
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuHashes)
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g for it as well. Gave up. The vmware .tar.gz works fine in Gutsy
(without needing patching like Feisty).
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those who use Virgin as their ISP.
I decided to download from Canonical's server instead. It was the only UK
mirror to give me a good download speed ;)
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#x27;t help with). Basically, a trainee/grunt :)
I *love* my job. Really do... (I'm 20 atm)
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- "Matthew Larsen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Yes. There absolutely is. It is well worth spending those few
> years to
> > > get the A levels to go to a good university.
> >
> > Is it _really_ ?
> >
> > I never went to uni, at all, neither red brick or otherwise. I
> don't
> > seem to be
ng to get a duplicator, get a dedicated,
built-for-the-task sealed unit type box from sony or someone like them. The
cheap towers aren't worth it if you're doing large quantities regularly...
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>
> Wow, that is real nostalga, they had one of those RML 380-Z machines
> at
> my school but it was considered an antique when I was there back in
> the
> early 90's. First taste of RM I had was the RM Nimbus PCs.
>
AAAHHAHAHAA!!! RM!
*Runs screaming as fast as possible in opposite direct
- "Mark Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 10/5/07, andylockran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Please append your results to the list below:
> >
> > andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed
> packages.
> >
> >
24 non-free packages, 1.4% of 1672 installed packages.
the
What podcast was that?
Also, what tech-news/linux podcasts would you recommend?
(Not lug radio. I don't like the level/frequency of swearing I heard last time
I tried listening... not that I'm finicky or anything ;)
Kirrus
- "Pete Stean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
- "Gav Ford" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I use shell scripts for this kinda thing, create one called something
> like bworks95.sh in the directory:
> -Gav
>
Thanks for all your help with this...
Ok, the shell script I put together, but forgot to attach it to the mail I sent
him.. so tha
launch-by-hand.
Again not a big deal, but if there's something obvious I'm missing...
(Kirrus - I thought, could make a shell script to do the cd etc.. but there's
got to be a better solution...)
3) mp3 players.
When I used to use Windows, Media Player had this function where you
- "Tony Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Kirrus wrote:
>
> > Can anyone give me any more useful examples of using / help with
> > using at?
> >
> >
> > Any ideas/suggestions?
>
> The man page for the at command says it reads com
Hi,
Can anyone give me any more useful examples of using / help with using at?
I'm trying to run this command, but its silently failing, and the man page
really isn't that helpful for a newbie...
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# at scp jt.tar.gz 10.2.0.58:/opt/ltsp/ 1800
syntax error. Last token seen: s
Gar
- "Chris Rowson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > I'd check out partimage. (www.partimage.org). I've not used it the
> way
> > you want but the WEB page implies it will do the job.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Tony.
>
> Hey Tony - thanks.
>
> I took a quick look at partimage before, but couldn't seem t
to bypass the permissions errors, use:
sudo find / -name *.lck
or, if that doesn't work,
sudo "find / -name *.lck"
(not tested)
JT
- Original Message -
From: "Josh Blacker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "British Ubuntu Talk"
Sent: 06 August 2007 12:07:13 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London
Subject: R
- "Chris Rowson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > >From my own experience of talking to others and generally
> noticing
> > > trends I would say that Ubuntu gets more home usage than Mac OS in
> the
> > > UK.
> > >
> > > Does anyone have any facts or figures to confirm or deny this?
> Can
> >
- "Alec Wright" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-07-28 at 08:39 +0100, Matthew Larsen wrote:
> > 5) type in 'setup hd(0,0)
> Oh and that should be "setup (hd0)", or "setup (hd0,0)", probably the
> former.
If you boot of an Ubuntu CD, run it in "recovery mode". You get an option to
"r
Hello,
Everything inside the AUTOMAGIC lines in the menu.lst are re-written
automatically every time a new kernel is installed. I cheated, when I did the
same thing as you install wise, I moved the XP boot lines to just above the
upper AUTOMAGIC comment. That way, it won't be re-witten, and you
- "Peter Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Friday 13 July 2007 at 13:24:35 Kirrus wrote:
> > - "Peter Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Josh's mail seemed to me to have been sent twice - once in HTML
> > > and on
- "Peter Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Josh's mail seemed to me to have been sent twice - once in HTML and
> once in
> plain text. My mailer is also set to not use HTML, so read the plain
> text bit
> fine.
>
> Obviously, someone should have a word with Google about wasting twice
> as
- "Tony Arnold" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Downloading this morning's updates from the repositories
> (archive.ubuntu.com and security.ubuntu.com) seems very slow. Is this
> just me, or is everyone experiencing this and does anyone know why?
>
> Regards,
> Tony.
Yes, got it here, and pr
I tend to use apt-get for small, quick programs.. and aptitude for anything
bigger. I tend to use aptitudes' text-based graphical interface for sorting out
any dependency issues caused by dist-upgrades etc... (eg. edgy to fiesty).
(Type in "aptitude" or "sudo aptitude" into the command line, and
; down' a bit in parts.
Can you linkme to the leaflets wiki page please? I can't find it :S
Thanks,
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On 21/06/07, norman < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install a
- "Chris Rowson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > As dell are refusing to sell Linux-based computers outside of the
> US
> > (even the redhat/SLED servers seem to only be sold over there), can
> > someone supply me with contact details (a website will do nicely!)
> of
> > a company that are prefe
...
> I have a personal interest in this thread as my LUG hope to start
> providing
> talks within the local secondary schools next educational year., and
> these
> leaflets would go along way to providing some take home information -
> together with a Live CD of course!
>
This sparked off an ide
- "Ian Pascoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> E
>
> PS Sorry to read about your septic words Louisa sofa>
>
Errr... what do you mean by this?
(Me don't geddit :S)
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> > Personally I find fancy fonts slower to read, so my inclination
> would
> > be to use the layout and content to grab attention rather than the
> > font, but it is a matter of taste.
> If you like the text, feel free to use it in a different style of
> leaflet, you could then change the fonts
> Ah, right! I'd missed the the fact that -exec was a condition of
> 'find'; glad I didn't try using it to pipe other stuff into! 'Find' is
> clearly powerful, but a bit of a portmanteau, and it's easy to miss the
> significance of its conditions in the four pages of material in 'Linux
> in
g in anyway, I have to set them into digest mode, Which limits
their effectiveness.
Regards,
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