Re: [ubuntu-uk] old toshiba

On 06/09/14 17:35, Liam Proven wrote: On 6 September 2014 18:30, mac wrote: Hi Norman There's an article in issue 88 of Full Circle magazine (page 15) about creating a minimal Ubuntu desktop. Might be worth a look: http://fullcirclemagazine.org Windows XP shipped to OEMs in 2001 and the publi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] After XP - an experience re Ubuntu and printer

On 04/05/14 12:13, alan c wrote: Just a snippet to report a nice experience. Below is a quote from a *novice* who had been currently using only XP on a very old PC. With suggestions from me and others, he purchased a low end naked Novatech PC after himself discussing his need with Novatech (and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wifi issues on 14.04

On 28/04/14 14:20, Gareth France wrote: I posted recently about issues with my portable wifi hotspot. I am still experiencing issues but have now had the chance to further define the problem. The connection freezes, chrome simply states 'resolving host' and the page must be reloaded several times

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

ay project" the problem it's designed to overcome might well have been solved by then!! Pete S On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:50, Peter Smout mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 24/04/14 14:43, Gareth France wrote: On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: The -uc is what tells it to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Publishing to the software centre

On 24/04/14 14:43, Gareth France wrote: On 24/04/14 14:41, Alan James Jenkins wrote: The -uc is what tells it to not sign the changes and -us tells it not to sign the sources FYI (found in the man page of dpkg-buildpackage). On 24 Apr 2014, at 14:38, Alan James Jenkins wrote: My problem was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.10 code name

On 22/04/14 18:30, J Fernyhough wrote: On 22 April 2014 18:23, Chris Coulson wrote: I hope it involves unicorns. How about, "Ubiquitous Unicorn"? :-) - Chris I think the entire internet would be severely disappointed if it didn't. :D J Although of course there are other options. U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Parties..

On 18/04/14 13:05, Jones, Victor wrote: From: Matthew Ames To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Parties.. Message-ID: <534fcda1.50...@supermatt.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" I'm not likely to be there dead on 7 because I have chores to d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

On 18/04/14 11:50, Colin Law wrote: On 18 April 2014 11:40, Andy Braben wrote: pete@petes-lappy:~$ /usr/bin/lsof bash: /usr/bin/lsof: No such file or directory pete@petes-lappy:~$ lsof bash: lsof: command not found - I'm very very surprised that such a program is not installed, which i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

On 18/04/14 11:26, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 18 April 2014 11:20, Peter Smout mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com>> wrote: On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com> <mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com &l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread "My thoughts confirmed", and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

On 18/04/14 11:03, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 17 April 2014 17:12, Peter Smout mailto:smoutp...@gmail.com>> wrote: Hi, Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread "My thoughts confirmed", and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in s

[ubuntu-uk] where does flash store it's temporary files?

Hi, Still trying to investigate the memory leak in the thread "My thoughts confirmed", and I'm trying to find where the flash-plug-in stores it's temp files. I've looked in /tmp and can see nothing that looks like a .flv video (or part of) and I can see nothing in /home/pete/.mozilla or /hom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - was Cloud backup ....

On 09/04/14 15:13, Barry Drake wrote: On 09/04/14 14:22, Peter Smout wrote: When Unity was first introduced I was among the "haters" but since 13.10 and a lot of the bugs being worked through I could not go back to menu's within menus again! On the subject heading +1 for copy.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - was Cloud backup ....

On 09/04/14 11:31, Bea Groves wrote: You're right about it being a Marmite moment. I've tried with Unity for some time, and just couldn't get it to 'take' with me. Nevertheless, I'm happy to teach it to my students. Barry Drake wrote: On 09/04/14 10:20, Bea Groves wrote: One of the reasons I h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Yes why not?

On 05/04/14 11:45, Will Jackson wrote: On 05/04/14 11:40, Peter Smout wrote: On 05/04/14 11:39, Will Jackson wrote: On 05/04/14 11:19, Peter Smout wrote: On 05/04/14 11:16, Will Jackson wrote: Yes why not? Will Fairy snuff but why would you?!? Pete S Curiosity, sociability, an excuse

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Yes why not?

On 05/04/14 11:39, Will Jackson wrote: On 05/04/14 11:19, Peter Smout wrote: On 05/04/14 11:16, Will Jackson wrote: Yes why not? Will Fairy snuff but why would you?!? Pete S Curiosity, sociability, an excuse to go to the Big Smoke (as it seems to be once more)? Fair now I know what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Yes why not?

On 05/04/14 11:16, Will Jackson wrote: Yes why not? Will Fairy snuff but why would you?!? Pete S -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

On 02/04/14 14:19, Simon Greenwood wrote: Seems to be http://blog.canonical.com/2014/04/02/shutting-down-ubuntu-one-file-services/ now Hmm, maybe it's time to build my own owncloud... On 2 April 2014 14:07, Alan Pope mailto:a...@popey.com>> wrote: I'd recommend any users who use Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Trusty problem .....

On 14/03/14 20:52, Barry Drake wrote: On 14/03/14 15:18, Peter Smout wrote: lightdm - this command should through you to the graphical login screen (may need to be run as root ) It may also be worth checking the logs in /var/log (cd into /var/log and use nano to view the files) I'd look i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Trusty problem .....

On 14/03/14 15:30, Liam Proven wrote: On 14 March 2014 15:18, Peter Smout wrote: I am no expert, but if you have a prompt Correct. (I'll mention at this point that I'm running Saucy so some of this may well be obsolete, in which case please accept my apologies in advance!).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Trusty problem .....

On 14/03/14 09:25, Barry Drake wrote: Hi there After taking the updates yesterday evening, my installation of Trusty fails. I get the login screen, but after entering a password, I get a blank background with nothing else other than a cursor. I have used a terminal this morning to do upda

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:51, John Oliver wrote: > > On 09/03/14 17:34, Peter Smout wrote: > >> For future reference is there a command to list installed packages? >> the one thing I need to make new installs easy!! >> >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:14, Jim Price wrote: > On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: >> Hi >> >> The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all >> this dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to >> Xubuntu. If I use > GParted >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ending Dual-Boot

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/03/14 17:04, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > The big day has arrived. I'm in a position to finish with all this > dual-boot nonsense and give my Dell laptop entirely over to Xubuntu. If > I use GParted to delete the 2 partitions used by Windows 7,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/14 14:31, Michael wrote: > On 02/03/14 00:09, Daniel Llewellyn wrote: >> Andres, >> >> www.fluendo.com >> >> fluendo dvd player is a proprietary product which can play DVDs. >> Fluendo also do a pack of "codecs" which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Should ubuntu play DVDs gratis?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/03/14 05:57, Andres wrote: > > > On 2 de marzo de 2014 00:09:02 GMT, Daniel Llewellyn > wrote: >> Andres, >> >> www.fluendo.com >> >> fluendo dvd player is a proprietary product which can play DVDs. >> Fluendo >> also do a pack of "codecs" wh