Paul,
In a superb case of timing I did exactly this last week...
I have a very old box that backs up the contents of my home server
every week.
It all started as I wanted NFS4 on the backup server (see my other
thread), and as Dapper has gone e
ersion of Ubuntu are you running? and is it server or
desktop?
Cheers,
Lee
On 26/11/12 18:11, Tony Pursell wrote:
On 25 November 2012 23:35, LeeGroups <mailgro...@varga.co.uk>
wrote:
Matt,
ice rather than USB2.
-Matt Daubney
On 25 November 2012 19:19, LeeGroups <mailgro...@varga.co.uk>
wrote:
Simon/Matt,
You are indeed correct, the speed of the USB drive appears
Simon/Matt,
You are indeed correct, the speed of the USB drive appears to be the
issue rather than the speed of the NFS share.
Copying a 250MB file takes nearly 8 minutes... very poor...
I've had a quick google which seems to suggest this issue has been
Chaps,
I've recently upgraded my home server and moved to 12.04, but I'm having
an issue with NFSv4, in that it's running really slowly, sub 1MB/sec
transfer rate...
The old server (a little Viglen with an external USB hard drive)
averaged 2.9MB/sec, which while a little slow I could live wi
David,
Sorry, only just got around to catching up with the mailing list and
your email.
If you can get the old PC working with windows, or just use another
windows PC for a few mins, plug in your Playbook and let it install
the drivers. Then install somethin
I have always found the Ubuntu disc utility to be reliable, and checks
ot fairly well with a seagate tool I have too. Any other experiences?
Well, it's as good as SMART is, which is vague at best.
True, a hard drive can fail without throwing
I'm seeing virgin media tv ads about the tivo box.
Is this stuff that mythubuntu can do?
If so what is the hardware any of you would recomend?
I understand the Tivo box has some sort of inteligence in it in that
it can suggest TV programs and what not. Not to mention the Virgin
Tivo box su
Firstly, the vast majority of teachers don't have the skills of
knowledge to be able to teach anything other than office skills - and
even then most can't even do that properly!
You can say that again! The school I work at has 50+
teachers. Half of then can b
What sort of power usage do these microserver have?
Lee
On 10/06/11 10:06, Roger Lancefield wrote:
On 10 June 2011 09:30, Dave Hanson wrote:
Morning all,
I'm toying with the idea of buying a barebones pc from maplins to run web
server on. (potentially more) I would quite like a dual core pr
I'd abandon this project now...
The last time I played with a Gmail file system, it was detected at
their end and the account was frozen...
Or at least play with a disposable account.
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On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton wrote:
Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read
normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case
it would be useful.
You can, but PDF rendering is les
On 18 January 2011 11:08, Mark Harrison wrote:
Out of interest, why do people think that building a PC without Windows
should be inherently cheaper?
A simplistic viewpoint based on ignorance of common Microsoft& OEM
business practice at a guess :)
Is it because they correctly factor in the
> P.S.: It passed a memory test lasting an hour which I ran from GRUB
> yesterday morning, before and after which it could not load Ubuntu. So
> to me that suggests something other than a hardware issue; hence my
> thoughts about the file directory 'disintegrating' at a software level,
> as Al war
> I'm hoping as a LUG in Devon we can start to do more of this in the
> future, I'd even refurbish machines and stick Ubuntu on them if it
> wasn't for another guy on our local Freecycle list who gets old
> machines, refurbishes them and sticks Windows XP and Office 2003 on them
> (I think he'
> New line characters in the substitution string, perhaps? Dot doesn't
> match those unless you modify the line:
>
> $solar_info =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/s;
>
Kevin, may have something there - there is an inexplicable white space
when the tags are doubled up.
I.e.
1,2,3,4,5 6,7,8,9,0
when it is dou
>> $solar_info =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/;
>>
>> From my tinkerings, this should find the string in the string
>> $solar_info, and then remove it and any number of following characters
>> (the .*) and then replace them with a ",".
>> Except that it doesn't. It hacks out the and replaces it with a
>> ,
I'm having a bit of an issue with a Perl script on my Ubuntu server at
home (can you see what I did there :)...
The line in question is this...
$solar_info =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/;
From my tinkerings, this should find the string in the string
$solar_info, and then remove it and any number of
> Cpu11 : 4.5% us, 0.5% sy, 0.0% ni, 94.2% id, 0.5% wa, 0.0% hi, 0.3% si
>
Now that's just showing off Alan... :)
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>
> Sounds like a right shambles. I contacted my local MP who I see
> on the
>
> list didn't vote at all, kinda makes me wonder if there is any
> point in
>
> MP's if they don't listen to the constituents.
>
>
> I also contacted my MP who said he and every other Liberal MP wou
My google-fu is weak today...
My server is having issues, it's been rebooted after some software
issues (my bad), the problem now is that it has a load of USB-to-serial
adapters which have all changed their names (/dev/ttyUSBx). This is a
problem as there are four of them and they all have diff
alan c wrote:
> It may be of interest to know that an OS based on Ubuntu 9.10 has
> been produced in Chinese.
>
> Relax with the English translation:
> http://translate.google.com/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ylmf.org%2F&sl=zh-CN&tl=en
>
> enjoy
>
W
> I use an acer aspire revo 3600 for this. 1.6GHz Atom + nVidia ION GPU.
> Plays HD stuff fine.
>
> Cheers,
> Al.
Al,
What sort of wattage does the Revo pull when it's idling?
I'm thinking about using one as server to replace my current Viglen,
which is good from an electricity point of view but
> Were the addresses from your Yahoo address book? If so, that's
> definitely the attack point. You should be OK now, if you've picked a
> strong password.
I've had this with a couple of friends who use Yahoo. They had simple
passwords, so it looks like the bad guys are brute force attacking the
>> I don't think it's wifi access they are offering, it mobile data
>> (2G/3G). As the article says, most people who use the mobile web (i.e.
>> Smartphone users) will already have an unlimited package. I know I do
>> with my HTC Magic on Vodafone.
>
> 5. All data usage is subject to fair use limi
> The new house will be on a relatively new-build estate - is it likely
> that the ADSL connection will be so reliable as to be not worth having
> a fallback at all?
LoL - That's what a mate of mine said a couple of years ago when he
moved to a new estate in Milton Keynes...
Nice shiney house,
>
> I also had similar problems. Disabled IPv6 in Firefox. It's very bad
> that this bug is present so close to release. I hope that this is
> sorted before Thursday.
>
> Personally I have found Karmic to be pretty much unusable on both
> machines I tested it on. :-(
On the other hand, I've
it may be worth clicking on feedback adn commenting,
That page got right up my nose
--
Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a
"television programme".
Secondly, given the number of Windows users who use Open Office, Firefox
and
>> Anybody else fear that with the pace of change in Linux a 6-month
>> release schedule is becoming rather a challenge? I realise it's neat
>> and tidy to do it, but wonder whether it is rather ambitious.
>>
>
> Yup. After hassle with 8.10 upgrade, I've reverted back to 8.04 and
> sworn to
its always fun to brew your own,, crack that thing open!! iv
reconditioned several now with new cells,, works a charm on the models
iv done ;)
Now, I've been thinking the same thing about an Eee PC battery I have,
but for the life of me I can't see how to get into it without damaging
the batt
> Anyone done this?
> If so, any thoughts or caveats or observations?
Yes, a couple of times with various betas under VirtualBox...
It runs fine, and has nice wallpaper... :)
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Sean Miller wrote:
> 3GB of RAM shouldn't be necessary... software these days are so bloated.
>
> Kids these days wouldn't believe what our galiant heros managed to
> extract out of 48k back in the good old days... not to mention the
> last generation of games on the 1k ZX81.
>
> Sean
Yes, I can
> People do want a work out of the box machine, and Ubuntu isnt totally
> out of the box, it does need other bits and pieces added, and unless you
> know that, it doesnt work how most people are used to having a machine
> work. Unless you spend a lot of time reading through the pages and pages
I'm having an issue with my new Viglen mini PC which I've just set up as
my latest home server.
I've been copying stuff to it over the lan, but it was failing, so I did
an fsck -c to check for bad blocks.
The output is below...
l...@mserver:~$ fsck -f -c /dev/sda1
fsck 1.38 (30-Jun-2005)
e2fsck
Colin Murphy wrote:
> On Tuesday 07 July 2009 23:10:51 LeeGroups wrote:
> d.
>
>>> I think I will have to spend a little more and get a bigger battery, very
>>> tempted to go for
>>> http://www.seidioonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BACY26TMG1-BK
>> But how much did you pay for the G1?
>>
>
> £180 via an Ebay auction, plus another £10 to get it unlocked.
>
> I think I will have to spend a little more and get a bigger battery, very
> tempted to go for
> http://www.seidioonline.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=BACY26TMG1-BK
That's e
>> it's a piece of cake, if a little scary in places... Let's you
>> use newer versions of Android month before they are generally available.
>> I was running the JF version which include most of the cupcake updates
>> back in Feb, with all the multi-touch and auto-rotation stuff all working!
>>
Misco part number 156002 arrives...
http://www.misco.co.uk/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=353088
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Ronnie Tucker wrote:
> LeeGroups wrote:
>
>> Colin Murphy wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Thursday 02 July 2009 11:11:13 javadayaz wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Dont take the Unlimited at face value. The unlimit
Colin Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:59:43 Colin Murphy wrote:
>
>> On Thursday 02 July 2009 20:00:41 Ronnie Tucker wrote:
>>
>>> What I did with my G1 was to unlock it, with a code (~£8)
>>>
>
> Where did you go to get the unlock code? It cost me £20 to get mine unlo
Colin Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2009 21:32:35 Michael G Fletcher wrote:
>
>> Just ran beebplayer on my HTC-Magic and the live radio worked :-) Yay
>>
>
> An update arrived and live radio is working for me too now. I wonder if
> the 'get_iplayer' scripts can be made to work und
Colin Murphy wrote:
> On Thursday 02 July 2009 11:11:13 javadayaz wrote:
>
>> Dont take the Unlimited at face value. The unlimited is 3gb's worth of
>> data. Although they do say if you go over your limit you will be informed.
>> Im with Tmobile. I do occassionaly stream audio but not that muc
>> 412 sites on a shared server is pushing it a bit.
>>
>
> Really? Depends on the server!
>
Absolutely, I know of firms that run upwards of a 1000 websites on a
single server.
Admittedly, they are small, low traffic sites and they are carefully
monitored so if traffic starts building t
> I would guess that possibly, as your site is on a shared server, that
> the server was hacked into and by gaining root access, they had access
> to all sites on that server, including yours. Then they probably
> removed your site and all the others to replace them with their evil.
>
> I doub
>> wow. That is a very clear notice.
>>
>> Quality Seal
>> Importants Notice: TOSHIBA Corporation (TOSHIBA) and/or its subsidiaries
>> currently sell personal computers with pre-installed Microsoft operating
>> system as computing solution. Please note, notwithstanding anything to
>> the contrary
>>> Dell will refund the cost of Windows without you having to send
>>> anything off. But I guess the OP was looking for an Ubuntu
>>> pre-installed machine in order to send a message to the manufacture
>>> showing that there is a demand for such a thing.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Andrew
>>>
>>>
>
> Dell will refund the cost of Windows without you having to send
> anything off. But I guess the OP was looking for an Ubuntu
> pre-installed machine in order to send a message to the manufacture
> showing that there is a demand for such a thing.
>
> Cheers,
> Andrew
Let's be clear here, Dell w
> For me, at least, if the following report is true:
>
> http://www.engadget.com/2009/06/08/sony-building-android-based-walkman-and-pnd-for-2010-launch/
>
> Sony could well become sexy again. A mainstream PMP that easily plays
> mp3 and ogg?
>
> Sign me up!
>
> (admittedly, I don't know if ogg su
> Of course too there is the issue that the longer the cable from
> the modem to the phone socket you're more likely to loose some speed due
> to interference.
LoL! How much interference do you think there has been induced in the
MILES of cable between your 'local' telephone exchange and your
>>> Same here. I have suspicions that my ISP (PlusNet) is throttling
>>> BitTorrent, but I'm not 100% sure.
>>>
>> PlusNet *do* throttle torrent traffic, it's in their T&C's check here -
>>
>> http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadband/speed.shtml#unlimitedspeeds
>>
>> It var
> Same here. I have suspicions that my ISP (PlusNet) is throttling
> BitTorrent, but I'm not 100% sure.
PlusNet *do* throttle torrent traffic, it's in their T&C's check here -
http://www.plus.net/support/broadband/quality_broadband/speed.shtml#unlimitedspeeds
It varies depending on the time o
> After all, better to have people use Ubuntu because they
> like it, rather than because they hate Windows.
Aww... can't I use Ubuntu because I like it *and* I hate Windows? :)
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> OK, well I am pretty much out of ideas. You could try plugging it into a
> hub (not a switch, just a cheap nasty hub) and using another computer on
> the hub running wireshark to figure out at the packet level what sort of
> DNS queries it is doing.
It may come to that yet... but in the mean
might be
> to point your proxy at openDNS which works fine with v6. I suspect the
> DHCP server is pointing your box at a bad router for DNS queries.
>
> Alan.
>
> LeeGroups wrote:
>
>> Chaps...
>>
>> Over the last couple of days I've been trying to
Chaps...
Over the last couple of days I've been trying to build a proxy box for a
load of Windows PCs, using Squid on Ubuntu server 8.04.
I've had a few problems with it due to the wild/wacky filtered internet
connection we have there, but now I've hit a massive brick wall...
Using an upstream
>> So I really must check out this Poundland offer. I tried looking for the
>> Poundland website, but Google told me that poundland.com contained
>> malicious code and would not let me directly visit it. Wikipedia listed
>> the site as being at poundland.co.uk, which when I tried to access it, I
>
> As an addendum, I've solved some of the problems with the Safecom
> Swart2: many parts (not all) the admin interface requires internet
> explorer! There are still many other things wrong with it that ie
> doesn't 'fix', so steer clear of safecom.
>
If you have a SWART2, I can recommend t
Rowan,
Oh, it's definitely there somewhere, just that Sony didn't print it.
Try pressing all of the non-letter keys, with and with the shift key...
Lee
> There is no | key on the Linux machine (there is one on this Sony
> Windows machine)
>
> LeeGroups wrote:
>
> "sudo dmesg grep eth0" gives:
>
> usage: dmesg [-c][-n level][-s bufsize]
>
I thin that should be -
"sudo dmesg | grep eth0"
i.e. with the extra | character...
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>> There used to be a saying in the computer industry which was "Nobody
>> ever got fired for buying IBM".
>> I think it's shifted to Microsoft. Speaking from experience,
>> most school "IT department heads" don't know that much about IT.
>> They perceive it as a 'safe' option to go with MS, eve
, not under
> Wine; and the SIMS software uses MS Word to view files, which cannot be
> changed to OpenOffice even on Windows as it's hardcoded into the XML file.
>
> On Mon, 09 Feb 2009 12:01:31 +, LeeGroups
> wrote:
>
>>> Aparently primnary schools are
> Aparently primnary schools are forced to use MS office so the children
> are ready for what is used in Secondary schools which is I guess a fair
> argument i guess. And i guess secondaries feel obliged to use MS office
> as they see it as "industry standard."
There used to be a saying in the co
>> E Use a local file server, like in the Advanced settings
>> tab, last box, "Use Own Server" check box
>>
>
> Sorry for being stupid, but where exactly is this? I've looked in
> Firefox Edit/Preferences/Advanced, where there are four tabs: General;
> Network; Update; E
E Use a local file server, like in the Advanced settings
tab, last box, "Use Own Server" check box
Lee
> Gents
>
> Thanks for the pointers - Foxmark would be the ideal if it could be
> persuaded to use either the local HD, or the local file server I will have.
> But I think for
>> Hi,
>>
>> Its that time of the year again where i get a new phone. Im thinking
>> of going with the andorid. How compatible are the two systems, since
>> they are both open source?
>>
>
> If you get a T-Mobile gphone, be prepared to be disappointed. The
> Bluetooth API doesn't work which
> why do we see things like "company A recommends windows XP, Windows Vista"
>
Honestly? Because MS has a HUGE marketing budget, and they give
kickbacks to others promoting their product.
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> Not a chance. Too expensive and I'm not interested in HDTV or Bluray.
> Nice toy but it does nothing I want. Instead I just bought a 2nd hand
> PS2, cheaply, precisely *because* it Just Works and needs no
> installation, setup, fiddling, drivers, configuration or anything
> else.
You should have
Ian,
I doubt you'll be able to buy a new motherboard for an 8 year old CPU,
your only option would be Ebay. That said there are very few twin socket
motherboards around, so that will narrow your choice quite severely.
On top of that, how do you know it's the motherboard? Odd behavior could
com
Didn't see any Ubuntu posters :(
Philip McGaw wrote:
> It could be better
>
> Sent from my iPod
>
> On 21 Nov 2008, at 22:15, "Sean Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
>> Hope second half of today's episode is better than the first... the
>> comedy seems rather tired :-(
>>
>> Sean
>>
> On Tuesday 18 November 2008 09:47:37 STEVEN BRUMBY wrote:
>
>> Ubuntu set to debut on netbooks
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7729978.stm
>>
>
> Shame they said it would run on ARM7 rather than ARM v7 which are two
> completely different things.
>
Yes, and shown a picture
Louis,
If it's booting from the CD, you should see a pretty Ubuntu logo and a
small menu, something like - Install/try Ubuntu, test this CD, test the
memory in this machine, etc.
If you're not seeing this then, its not booting from the CD. Either the
CD is not right or the BIOS options aren't s
>>
>> The following problems were found on your system:
>>
>> E: Sub-process gpgv returned an error code (2)
>> W: Signature verification failed
>>for:/media/cdrecorder/dists/hardy/Release.gpg
>>
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 11:11 PM, Ellis Corbie Riley
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> Just saw this - https://wiki.ubuntu.com/IntrepidReleaseParties#Europe
>
> Can i safely assume we will be at Waxy O'Connors and not De Hems then?
>
>
> --Michael
I was just wondering that myself. Then it
> LeeGroups wrote:
>
>> Why not just use FoxMarks (an FF plugin that stores bookmarks), that way
>> you have a backup too..
>>
>
> I'm not keen on data-mining by bailees. (See FoxMarks privacy policy.)
>
> Mac
Bailees?
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>
> I've been experimenting with a single 8.04 machine running FF3.
> Bookmarks work properly if the profile is on the machine itself.
> When I
> move the profile to the network drive, FF3 appears to run OK, but I
> cannot add, delete or organise bookmarks - which rather defea
> My girlfriend bought a Samsung laptop in around 2003. Nothing went
> wrong
> in the first year, then in years 2 & 3 a problem with the screen
> connector kept recurring, the onboard power supply socket needed
> replacing, and the *external power supply connector needed replacing* twice.
>
> *
> What is really beginning to worry me is that there is too much choice of
> applications in the Open Source world. Instead of working to make what
> we have better and bite into bug #1 and give users a base set of
> applications they can get comfortable with and trust, we are going to
> leave may
>> But, what I'd love, is a way I can type say 11 and get it to
>> turn 11 lines into a comment.
>>
>> Does anyone know of a nice way to do that in vim?
>>
>
> CTRL-v (number), DOWN ARROW, SHIFT-i, #, ESC, DOWN ARROW
>
> works for me...
And people wonder why VIM has a bad reputation LOL.
>> Her current setup is an old desktop connected via an USB ADSL modem to the
>> internet - it doesn't have a working ethernet card and she doesn't want to
>> put one in as "it's too fragile" - the machine not her I hasten to add. And
>> as we'll both need to be on the internet at the same time,
>> I've been using Scoogle.org for a while now... they really have a
>> paranoid streak... no data collection, log deletion etc.. have a look at
>> their T&C's... :)
>>
>
> I just went to www.scoogle.com, and there is a search box there, but the
> site and the searches it returns seem buri
> Thanks, guys, for the info.
> For anyone who prefers to use a less obvious method of searching, may I
> suggest using Vivismo's Clusty search engine - IE/Netscape/Mozilla
> plugin available at http://clusty.com/toolbar/mozilla. Found, naturally,
> with an extensive Google search - why hand it
Matthew,
Most of the banks in the UK are currently working on "faster payments"
projects.
This is to speed up the processing of direct transfers/BACS/VOCA
payments, so rather than taking 3 days, they happen pretty much instantly.
I suspect it's the testing/implementation of this that's causing
> I use VirtualBox to do exactly that in Ubuntu, as far as I know it is
> also available for Windows. One thing to note is the NON open source edition
> is the one that allows you to share usb devices between the host and guest.
>
>
I'm sure I saw a blog post recently describing how to fix tha
>> It is. It's the £299 one on the 1510 page; I didn't adjust it at all.
>>
>> Thanks to everyone for their help - much appreciated.
>>
>
> Of course, you have to submit us a full review :)
LoL... I can do that now if you want... I got one last week...
Everything just works* desktop s
>> I had this a couple of years back on a Linux backup server which I used
>> to copy PC backups to. Turns out it was because it was full of little
>> files they took up lots of room. Not sure if you have lots of smaller
>> files on your disc that could be doing this. Could you try tarring
>> e
I wonder what controls Alan's Sky boxes? I bet it's not Windows - is it?
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:)
History shows that
whatever starts in the business and back-end world ends up finding
it's way through the servers, to the corporate deskto
> The top of SeaMonkey now disappears under the top icon bar of screen and
> I can't shift it in any direction; nothing else is
> affected.any ideas?
>
> Hold down the 'alt' key and drag the window down with your left mouse
> button. Then resize the window to fit just less th
Gordon wrote:
> I need to install ndiswrapper in Wubi 8.04. It is not available in the
> native package list, and when I wired the laptop into the network, and tried
> "apt-get" I got the message that the "date-time stamp was too far in the
> future"! Eh? How does THAT work?
Your PCs syst
Kris Douglas wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 9:25 PM, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>> Ring dell up to order it, you can usually wangle a bit off, although
>>> this has been for business ones.
>>>
>>>
>> Noted with thanks.
>>
>> Norman
>>
>
> Indeed, I got my 6400 upgraded t
>> Hi,
>>
>> I apologise for putting a non ubuntu related query here...but ive done a
>> search but couldnt find any answers. I was hoping someone would be able to
>> answer here! I apologise in advance for the non ubuntuness of this topic.
>>
>> i recently bought a memory card (sandisk 4gb) but h
>> Rsync shouldn't mess up the folder structure, I use it to do backups of
>> my photos, and there are 1,000's of them in hundreds of folders.
>> I'd guess that you've got a dodgy option in there somewhere.
>> If the permissions are getting lost, why not just reset them when you've
>> rsync'ed
>> If you've got a network drive mounted you can put a link to somewhere
>> on it in place of the ~/.liferea folder and then the different
>> machines will share the same profile..
>> ...I should point out that I haven't tried this so keep a copy of the
>> directory safe to put it back if it d
Javad Ayaz wrote:
> So i finally managed to get the bluetooth connection working...ive not
> only successfully added and paired the moto z8 with my pc i sent it
> some files as well.
>
Excellent work! Don't forget to make notes and post it up on the Ubuntu
forum so others can have a easier ti
> Novatech are advertising a laptop as "Works with ubuntu" on this week's
> newsletter:
>
> http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/e-weekly.html
>
> Tom
Whoa! £50 extra for Windows... That's what we need to see more of! :)
That'd really start the general public thinking about whether Windows is
wor
>
> It's not simply eight bits per byte for ethernet packets, it's more
> complicated than that and you're not taking into account collisions.
>
>
> Im a bit confused now...
>
> so how...
>
> I mean
>
> a Byte is 8 bits, a bit being either 1 or 0... I thought that was a
> fundemental of c
>
> It's not simply eight bits per byte for ethernet packets, it's more
> complicated than that and you're not taking into account collisions.
>
>
> Im a bit confused now...
>
> so how...
>
> I mean
>
> a Byte is 8 bits, a bit being either 1 or 0... I thought that was a
> fundemental of c
> A cross-over cable is wired differently to a patch (or straight through)
> cable. This is done so that 2 computers can be connected DIRECTLY
> without a router/switch in between them.
>
> A patch cable is designed to go from a computer to a switch/router, the
> switch/router then essentially doe
> As I said, it amazes me that a crossover cable would work at all with
> a router. I can only imagine that the router has had functionality
> built into it to monitor signals on both the "in" and "out" pins,
> unless I'm missing something obvious.
>
> Sean
Sean,
Many modern routers/switches c
> Mmm... So, I tried and got
>
> ##
> The following packages are BROKEN:
>firefox-3.0-gnome-support ubufox
> The following packages will be REMOVED:
>firefox firefox-3.0
> 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 2 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
> Need to get 0B of archives. After
>> An option would be to use Foxmarks syncronisation from addons.mozilla.org...
>>
> It was my understanding that Foxmarks has not been migrated to FF3 yet?
>
> Sean.
It's out in beta. I joined the beta programme, but it converts the
existing FM data to a new format, which didn't work for me
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