Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Version Downgrading

2010-11-16 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 14 November 2010 00:04, Alan Pope wrote: > On 13 November 2010 22:42,   wrote: >> I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't >> remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home, > > It doesn't ask you about /home at all. It's a kinda hidden feature. > >> and if

[ubuntu-uk] Udevadm trigger not permitted when udev not configured error

2010-10-23 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi all, After the latest kernel updates, I am getting the error in the subject line at boot up. Initially it wouldn't boot up at all and dropped to some sort of minimal shell, but I could still boot to the old kernel and I found a workaround which was to turn off UUID in grub. Does anyone know wha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Quick Perl question...

2010-07-12 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 12 July 2010 21:12, LeeGroups wrote: > $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 ou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using computer's internet connection on phone via bluetooth

2010-07-05 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 5 July 2010 14:16, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: > Not sure about Bluetooth, but with a second wifi adapter you should be able > to configure an ad-hoc network from the Ubuntu machine.  You'd need to > configure the Ubuntu machine as a DHCP server and configure IP forwarding - > this might be a brea

[ubuntu-uk] Using computer's internet connection on phone via bluetooth

2010-07-05 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi, I have a Nexus One, but I don't have a wireless router in my college accommodation and I'm not allowed to install one. I was wondering if anyone knew a way to connect my phone to my computer's internet connection via bluetooth. I know you can do the opposite, i.e. allow my computer to use my p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64 bit lucid install

2010-04-27 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 26 April 2010 14:45, ian pettitt wrote: > Hi All > > With the upcoming release of 10.04, I have decided to reinstall my work > machine and move from 32 to 64 bit. I need to run multiple virtual > machines and this will mean that if everything works as hoped I will be > able to replace the secon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Planning Ubuntu release party in London for developers

2010-04-20 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 20 April 2010 12:49, John Stevenson wrote: > Hello all, > As I am not able to make OggCamp, I am planning a release party on the > afternoon of 1st May aiming at people who want to use Ubuntu as a productive > environment, eg. developers of JVM and FOSS applications. > > Most of the afternoon w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hard drive- Bad sectors

2010-04-16 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 16 April 2010 15:26, David King wrote: > Alan Lord (News) wrote: >> >> I have tended toward Samsung (1st choice) or Hitachi (2nd) for HDDs for >> years now. Not had one every fail - yet. (But I still take nightly backups) >> >> Al >> >> > I have had a Hitachi DeskStar go bad recently. They are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Gmail mute thread was: DEB again

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 12 April 2010 16:33, Stephen Garton wrote: > On 12 April 2010 16:30, Harry Rickards wrote: >> On 12 April 2010 16:21, Thomas Ibbotson wrote: >>> >>> I use GMail and I see no option to 'mute' threads. A quick google >>> search shows that this

[ubuntu-uk] [OT] Gmail mute thread was: DEB again

2010-04-12 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 12 April 2010 16:06, Tommy Pyatt wrote: > Since I see you are using gmail, assuming that you are accessing your mail > through the standard interface, there is a function to 'Mute' conversations > if you prefer to be excluded from responses to the thread. I use the > function frequently with ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-09 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 9 April 2010 16:58, mac wrote: > Andy wrote: > >> 189 MPs voted Yes (Aye), 47 voted No (Noe). >> There are 646 MPs so most of them couldn't even be bothered to vote. > > Worse yet, according to press reports many of those who voted did not > attend the preceding debate. > > mac Granted this i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 8 April 2010 16:12, Dan Fish wrote: > I got UNR 9.10 working OK last night. > > http://www.ossmedicine.org/joggler1.jpg > That "screenshot" alone has now made me want one, but I really can't justify getting one, even though it's only £50. It is my birthday on Saturday, but I've already ordered

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 8 April 2010 11:38, John Matthews wrote: > On 08/04/10 11:35, Paul Taylor wrote: >> When does this get put before the Lords?  Is there enough time for the bill >> to be passed? >> >> If not, is this something that will persist until the next Parliament? >> >> Paul >> __

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-08 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 7 April 2010 22:33, Martin Topping wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 10:49 +0100, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote: >> On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:37 AM, Ashley Whetter >> wrote: >>          I've also emailed my MP. A good site for messaging your MP >>         was on the Ubuntu uk podcast: www.writetothem.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] More bug triagers wanted to talk about your experiences

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 7 April 2010 15:00, Rob Beard wrote: > On 07/04/2010 14:37, Matthew Revell wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I'm looking I want to learn more about how and why people triage bugs, >> whether that’s in Launchpad or another bug tracker. >> >> > Sorry I'm possibly being a bit thick here, when you say triage

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-07 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 6 April 2010 23:18, doug livesey wrote: > And if you're as appalled as other people, this may come in > handy: http://www.38degrees.org.uk/page/speakout/extremeinternetl > You never know -- democracy might actually work. > I know, I know ... > Ok I've emailed my MP. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.

[ubuntu-uk] Digital economy bill

2010-04-06 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
I'm surprised no-one's pointed this out yet: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8605648.stm Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] PyWeek last call

2010-03-26 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi everyone, PyWeek starts on Sunday at 00:00:00 UTC (don't forget that the clocks change!). We have a team consisting of myself, Neil Perry and Daniel Bell and we're on launchpad (http://launchpad.net/~pyweek2010), if anyone else would like to join us, now is the time! There's a scratchpad page a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mums, Was: Ubuntu UK Science Museum Visit - WiFi Available!

2010-03-25 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 25 March 2010 12:26, Alan Pope wrote: > > That way she can go over what I've told her. I've also planned to make > some screencasts for her which get automatically delivered to her PC > when she's online. That way she can watch the video multiple times so > it does 'sink in'. > > Cheers, > Al.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 14 March 2010 21:21, Daniel Bell wrote: > Instead of coding directly into a etherpad instance or saving our work into > an etherpad instance, how about we use Bzr and launchpad, and use IRC and > etherpad as a way of communicating. This way we can work on our own branches > of the code (a good

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 14 March 2010 20:15, Alan Pope wrote: > > Consider using our Etherpad instance instead of gobby. It's browser > based and as such requires no software install. It's also cooler ;) > > http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/ > > If you visit that page you'll get an automagically generated new > document, just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
> On 10 March 2010 10:00, Thomas Ibbotson wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have >> to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days. >> Registration is open. I have already registere

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: Python Books

2010-03-12 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 11 March 2010 19:19, Neil Perry wrote: > Thank you all! Two great ideas, going to have a flick through! > Thanks Again! > Neil Perry > Hi, If you want to try out your newly developed python skills you might like to join the Ubuntu-uk pyweek team. I sent an email about it recently. I'll be doi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] keycombo to restart gdm?

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
On 10 March 2010 22:40, Markie wrote: > Hi All, > > Before 9.10 you use to be able to restart gnome by pressing > CTRL+ALT+BACKSPACE. This seems to have been disabled now, ... Yes that's right. > Now Im guessing I hit a different key combo or something, but how can I tell > from the logs whether

[ubuntu-uk] PyWeek

2010-03-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi, PyWeek, the python game programming challenge where contestants have to write a game from scratch in python in a week, starts in 17 days. Registration is open. I have already registered a solo entry, but it might be more interesting to try and work in a team. I know there's been some interest

Re: [ubuntu-uk] register ubuntu

2010-01-20 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
I've registered too, but looking at the stats it looks a bit outdated, according to the website there are still 13368 machines running Dapper... Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
2009/12/14 Alan Pope > Hi, > > 2009/12/14 Thomas Ibbotson : > > I finally realised I needed > > to use libfaad as my audio codec, but that didn't work either, I used: > > "ffmpeg -i dscf0162.avi -vcodec mpeg4 -s 640x480 -acodec flac -f avi > > ceilidh_i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
2009/12/14 Anthony Burton > Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was > > recorded with a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file > > (335MB) to YouTube but it failed twice. So I deci

[ubuntu-uk] Encoding for YouTube

2009-12-14 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi all, I'm trying to encode a video to put on my YouTube site. It was recorded with a digital camera, and I tried to upload the raw file (335MB) to YouTube but it failed twice. So I decided to try and convert it. Firstly I tried Kdenlive, but the output file had about 1/2 a frame of video and 1 s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

2009-10-23 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Stephen Garton wrote: > 2009/10/23 Sean Miller : > >> Since yesterday's Jaunty update Firefox appears to have lost its >> history, "refresh" etc. buttons and only has the original domain in >> the address bar (ie. if I go to http://sitea.com and click on links >> within the address bar does not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote: >> On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote: >>> That page got right up my nose >>> >>> -- >>> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a >>> "television programme". > > Not t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!

2009-10-22 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Bell wrote: > Paul Sutton wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Linux got a mention on the lunch time news, well it showed tux, and the >> google and apple logos, as alternatives, but didn't say much about em >> > well it is Microsoft's big day (well it is tomor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open with... WHAT?

2009-07-24 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Paul Webster wrote: > Hi > > Not using any email client. I'm using gmail, and attachments are downloaded > in Firefox. > > Paul > There's a bug in firefox, not just restricted to Ubuntu, in that it doesn't open a "Preferred Applications" dialog, but simply an "Open With..." dialog. This is par

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wacom tablets

2009-06-19 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
norman wrote: > Continuing my research I came across something very interesting from a > contributor to http://forum.meetthegimp.org/index.php in response to my > wish to have a button for shift and one for Ctrl. The author, who uses > openSUSE 10.3 thought the following code, to be entered into x

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Safari on Ubuntu

2009-06-16 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
John wrote: > Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > >> Alan Lord (News) wrote: >> >> >>> On 16/06/09 02:06, John wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Hi everybody, >>>> >>>> thank you so much for your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Safari on Ubuntu

2009-06-16 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 16/06/09 02:06, John wrote: > >> Hi everybody, >> >> thank you so much for your messages. I like Safari because of the way it >> looks. I love Apple GUI, and anything that I can find with that I like. >> > > > Hi John, > > then you might like to try out Mac4Lin

[ubuntu-uk] Google wave (was: Ubuntu stickers!)

2009-06-02 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/31/09 23:44, Thomas Ibbotson wrote: >> James Milligan wrote: >>> Good old popey.com ;-) >>> >>> Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

2009-05-31 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
alan c wrote: > Thomas Ibbotson wrote: >> James Milligan wrote: >>> Good old popey.com ;-) >>> >>> Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper >>> etiquette' to reply to a list email below the quoted text? If so I &g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

2009-05-31 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
James Milligan wrote: > Good old popey.com ;-) > > Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper > etiquette' to reply to a list email below the quoted text? If so I > apologise. > Wikipedia has an article on posting style (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style) Of cour

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bbc listen again anomaly

2009-05-28 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
alan c wrote: > Most of bbc radio listen again is flash based I think, and it works ok > for me. > > However, just lately I find that some programmes do not play and a > message appears that I need to 'install real player'. > > In a machine which has an older install - an asus 900 which is still >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice

2009-05-21 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Sean Miller wrote: > Well, I now have a driver. > > But that evil little icon top right insists on a WPA key when I want > to put in a WEP one. It has a "dropdown" but only one option. > I came across this problem and ended up using Wicd instead to fix it. Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tablet PC right-click

2009-05-11 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/5/11 Thomas Ibbotson : > >> I'm trying to get right-click to work on my tablet pen on my tablet pc >> in Jaunty. I used to set some options in xorg.conf to do this, but now >> when I try to do this I get errors in X. Here's my xorg.conf:

[ubuntu-uk] Tablet PC right-click

2009-05-11 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi all, I try not to use ubuntu-uk as a support channel, but every time I ask for help #ubuntu I don't receive a reply, and every time I ask on ubuntu-uk, I do! Anyway, here's the problem: I'm trying to get right-click to work on my tablet pen on my tablet pc in Jaunty. I used to set some opti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty available

2009-04-25 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
mac wrote: > Rob Beard wrote: > >> A niggly thing I found was that the display was slow (I have Intel >> video) although reading the Ubuntu Wiki I found a couple of options to >> speed it up although I haven't done the hack to enable Compiz, I'll just >> wait for the bug fixed drivers. > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] nvidia graphics drivers

2009-04-09 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Farran Lee wrote: > the graphics bit has got stupid now... different packages that depend on > each other, or aren't listed as conflicting, are trying to remove each > other. I have nvidia-180-kernel-source, nvidia-settings, nvidia-xconfig, > nvidia-18

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast season two

2009-04-02 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Pope wrote: > Just a quick mail to let you know that episode 1 of season 2 of the > Ubuntu Podcast from members of the UK LoCo team is out. > > http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2009/04/01/s02e01-the-return/ > > Feedback and suggestion as ever are always welcome! > > Cheers, > Al. > I was surpri

Re: [ubuntu-uk] sound issues - fixed

2009-03-25 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Paul Sutton wrote > as for the cutting out i just put up with it, as its not application > specific. > Me too. I hope it gets sorted out soon, it's been bugging me ever since the change to PulseAudio was made. It seems that a lot of people suffer from this problem too. Tom -- ubuntu-uk@li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting / spotted

2009-03-24 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: > Somewhat round the other way this time. > > I'm currently sat in the waiting room at Redhill train station waiting > for my train home. I have Ubuntu stickers on my laptop. Some guy just > opened the door to the waiting room and lea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Test

2009-03-20 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Steve Flynn wrote: > On Fri, Mar 20, 2009 at 11:10 AM, Toby Satchell wrote: > >> I did this because on the mailing list options it says do you wish to >> receive a copy of emails you send to the list. >> I have it selected as yes, yet I don't see a copy of my emails sent. >> > > This is be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] linking laptop to video projector

2009-03-19 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Howard Berry wrote: > Greetings, > I am giving a talk on the open source movement to a group next week. > There is a video projector which works well when I tried it with > Windows on my Vaio laptop. In windows you can toggle the display by > pressing Fn+F7. > I want to use Ubuntu Intrepid on the s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Zut, alors!

2009-03-12 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mac wrote: > Some of you may already have seen this heartening story. (Let's hope > the lads at the Met have, too!): > > Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu > http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/gendarmes-saves-cash-ubuntu > > mac >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] desktop 1 and 2

2009-03-08 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Rowan wrote: > One of the first things I did with my new machine was switch it to one > desktop only, because as long as it was set to two, I found that it > would skid from one desktop to the other every time I tried to drag the > pointer across the screen. This is presumably the result of a de

[ubuntu-uk] Free PDF of latest Linux Format magazine

2009-03-03 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
This just came up on my local LUG mailing list. Thought I would spread the word: http://www.tuxradar.com/content/linux-format-free-download-24-hours-only Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] process control charts! Chart software

2009-02-27 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 javadayaz wrote: > looks like it is command line based. so probably not for me then ! :( > Don't be so scared of the command line, it's not so hard to learn to use gnuplot. If you didn't know how to use a GUI application you would have to spend some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A relatively quick £100 for anyone i n London who can do this

2009-02-24 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Rowan wrote: > As I have explained, I have a brand new machine with ubuntu > pre-installed, which was assembled in the USA. A kernel update caused > the driver to become inoperable because it is not the default driver > expected by the update. I am trying to find someone in London who for a > f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] is list working?

2009-02-23 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Mark White wrote: > > I haven’t had any emails from this list since last Thursday. Have I > done something stupid? > > Mark > The list is working fine. There have been two other replies to your original message. I've cc'ed you on this one, so you should definitely get this. If you haven't also r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A thank you and a quiery....Re: A thank you and a quiery....

2009-02-16 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
John wrote: > Hi everybody, you have been so helpful, I really appreciate it, but its > not working. The Lightning 0.9 wont work on my machine for some reason. > I wonder if its the version I am using. Which version is the best? I > have everything everybody has suggested, and nothing. One thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it Windows 7 or KDE 4?

2009-02-06 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Chris Rowson wrote: > http://www.zdnet.com.au/insight/software/soa/Is-it-Windows-7-or-KDE-4-/0,139023769,339294810,00.htm > > Chris One of the applications they showed off there was Amarok. Personally I don't find that easy to use. I installed it to have a play, decided I'd like to randomly play

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Logitech Quickcam Chat in 8.10

2008-12-31 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Dianne wrote: > On Sun, 2008-12-28 at 20:59 +, Russell Green wrote: >> Have you done anything that *might* have effected it? > > Not as far as I know - in fact it's a clean install of 8.10 as I've > replaced my hdd. > > Dianne > > > There are issues with webcams in Intrepid. I had a webca

[ubuntu-uk] [OT] The Matrix runs Windows

2008-11-13 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Just saw this on my local LUG mailing list. I like the last 3 seconds of the video the best! Tom Original Message Subject:[OxLUG] Thursday fun Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:06:56 + From: Martin Hepworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Oxfordshire Linux User Gro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wirelessly exchanging files

2008-09-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Bruce Beardall wrote: > Hi All > > A friend and myself at work are looking to exchange files between our > two laptops wirelessly. Security concerns at work mean we can't > necessarily use the network and it would be a bit laborious to use > burn discs and pass them back and forth constantly. He

[ubuntu-uk] Novatech ubuntu laptop

2008-05-23 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Novatech are advertising a laptop as "Works with ubuntu" on this week's newsletter: http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/e-weekly.html Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video

2008-05-10 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Tim Dobson wrote: > == > RMS Video: > == > > The video of last week's Manchester Free Software, (in collaboration > with the BCS and IET) talk by Richard Stallman has been released, thanks > to Andrew John Hughes. > > You can find a torrent and http mirrors for the video on the Ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

2008-05-07 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
James Tyrrell wrote: > > > 2008/5/7 Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>>: > > Hi all, > > Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to > me in > the last couple of days, once on my

[ubuntu-uk] Hardy crashing

2008-05-07 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi all, Has anyone had Hardy crash recently? It has happened now twice to me in the last couple of days, once on my desktop and now once on my laptop. I think I was trying to watch a flash video in firefox the first time although I'm not sure. The second time it was on trying to play a .ram in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-05-02 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
peter wrote: > On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 09:43 +0200, Chris Rowson wrote: > >> Although it would seem that some people are finding the opposite to be >> true to be fair! >> >> On 4/29/08, Jai Harrison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> I don't see what the problem is. Firefox 3 Beta 5 is more ef

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bacteria in your PC

2008-05-02 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Sean Anderson wrote: > On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 22:35 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: > >> Oh, for heaven's sake. A new keyboard is two quid from a computer fair. >> You're really not saving any money, and wasting considerable effort, if >> you need to clean your keyboard more than once or twice a ye

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bacteria in your PC

2008-05-01 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Eddie Armstrong wrote: > (Which Report: Bacteria in your PC > > > ) > > Should we install those hand-washing facilities they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to torrent on a remote machine

2008-05-01 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Andrew Oakley wrote: > Next, install GNU Screen, so that programs you run on the command line > can continue to work even when you close the terminal window: > > sudo apt-get install screen > > Learn how to use GNU Screen here: > > http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/3/9/16838/14935 > > I often

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
George McLachlan wrote: > I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't > remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all > should be fine and good, but the performance of firefox has dropped like > a stone. > > As I type this it is using 101% of the CPU

Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

2008-04-23 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Tony Arnold wrote: > Tom, > > Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > >> Unfortunately I can't be there as I am working on an experiment at RAL >> (the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory) and will be preparing to accelerate >> electrons to energies >1GeV usi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

2008-04-23 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Pope wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 09:29 +0100, Kat Kinnie wrote: > >> Stick it in your diary and feel free to bring along friends and family >> too, the more the merrier. You can see it on the wiki page for Ubuntu >> release parties https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseParties >> >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

2008-04-22 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > Paul Mellors wrote: >> >> Hi Tom, >> >> what about attaching it to a mini-itx board and have something like >> mythtv running on it or some other PVR? >> >> Cheers >> MooDoo >> >> >> > > I'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

2008-04-22 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Philip Stubbs wrote: > On 21/04/2008, Thomas Ibbotson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I guess this is a little off topic, but a bit of random googling didn't >> really inspire me. I have a spare laptop hard drive and I want to do >> something with it. I coul

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

2008-04-21 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Paul Mellors wrote: > > Hi Tom, > > what about attaching it to a mini-itx board and have something like > mythtv running on it or some other PVR? > > Cheers > MooDoo > > > I'd totally forgotten about mini-itx. I remember looking through the different projects a while back and considering doing

[ubuntu-uk] What to do with a spare laptop hard drive

2008-04-21 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
I guess this is a little off topic, but a bit of random googling didn't really inspire me. I have a spare laptop hard drive and I want to do something with it. I could of course buy a USB casing for it and have yet another external hard drive, but I don't really need it. Some sort of custom mad

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Farran Lee wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 17:50 +0100, Thomas Ibbotson wrote: >> Farran Lee wrote: >> > I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb, >> > and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a >> &

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Farran Lee wrote: > I mentioned earlier that lots of people had problems with my model mb, > and it still didn't work after RMA, so I might have to pick a > different one. If I did, would I have to completely reinstall the > system? Or would it just need certain fixes? > > ==

Re: [ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?

2008-04-17 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Andrew Oakley wrote: > > Finally, if everything else is fine, then your motherboard is probably > b0rked, sorry (rare, but I have seen it happen twice in 20 years). > > I'm pretty sure the last motherboard I had died. It would take many attempts to boot up (it would spin up the CD drives over

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek theme vote

2008-03-25 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Pope wrote: > I previously suggested that people in Ubuntu-UK might be interested in > entering for pyweek.. > > https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-uk/2008-February/010892.html > > Well the vote is now on for the theme of the competition. > > http://pyweek.org/d/1315/ > > The options ar

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual boot with Vista

2008-03-22 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Sean Miller wrote: > Folks, > > I've just got a new laptop, bright and shiny with loads of memory and > gratuitous amounts of hard disk space... > > It runs Vista, every rose has its thorns... > > What's the latest on dual boot issues? Are there any? Am I likely to > cause issues with Vis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: OT: Small tremor just now? Earthquake?

2008-02-28 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
I didn't feel it here in Oxford, I was awake at the time. Michael Rimicans wrote: > I'm in Huddersfield in W.Yorkshire. > How is Huddersfield? It's my home town, but now that I'm doing a PhD I don't get back very often (maybe twice a year). Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

2008-02-26 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
While wandering down one of the corridors near my lab the other day, one of the lab doors was open, revealing a monitor with the Ubuntu login screen peering out into the world. It made me smile at least. Quite a while ago we were giving our end of 1st year presentations and one guy plugged his

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-12 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Matthew Daubney wrote: > Next year though I'll make a concerted effort to pitch in! > > No need to wait until next year, it happens twice a year. The next one should be in September (by which time I'll have more time to contribute more myself). Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-11 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
For information, I just found this message on the Pygame mailling list: Original Message Subject: PyWeek 6 is coming! Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 08:11:34 +1100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],[EMAIL PROTECTED] Newsgroups:

[ubuntu-uk] BBC Bill Gates Interview/documentary

2008-02-08 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Hi all, I was out this evening with some people from my lab, and my supervisor brought his new girlfriend along (I didn't even know my supervisor had a social life, he's in the lab a lot!). It turns out that his girlfriend works for the BBC and she is part of a team which a planning a document

Re: [ubuntu-uk] I _NEED_ one of these...

2008-02-05 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Pope wrote: > Oooh, we're having a wishlist day are we? :) > > Right, I want one of these:- > > http://www.irextechnologies.com/products/iliad > > I had been wanting something like that for years, initially for writing notes in my school classes and then in lectures. In the 3rd year of my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pyweek Ubuntu-UK entry?

2008-02-04 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Alan Pope wrote: > Hi all, > > Hope everyone's having a good weekend. > > I've noticed that there is a pyweek game development competition coming > up and the thought entered my head that (some of) Ubuntu-UK might want > to put heads together and work on an entry. > > For those that don't know pywe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Seasonal Song

2007-12-26 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
Thomas wrote: > It's Boxing day and I'm bored, so here's my attempt at an Ubuntu > flavoured Auld Lang Syne: > > Verse 1: > "Should auld programming be forgot > and replaced with something new? > Should auld programming be forgot, > and install ubuntu?" > > Chorus: > "Install ubuntu, my dear, > i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Seasonal Song

2007-12-26 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
James Tait wrote: > Farran wrote: > >> On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 17:45 +, Sean Miller wrote: >> >>> Fairy Tale of New York would be fun... >>> >>> "It was Christmas Eve babe, in the drunk tank, an old man said to me >>> won't see another one >>> And then he sang a song, 'The Rare old Mount

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu media centre

2007-09-26 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
STONE COLD wrote: > i asked this q before but couldnt really get a satisfactory answer so > here goes again! > > Does any know when the ubuntu media centre project will be > launched/released? See http://www.mythbuntu.org Tom -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Branching Threads

2007-05-21 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
> And finally a tale of note. > > I was off air for three unrelated but serial faults - line fault on my BB; > local network fault for entire town; and lastly the important bit. > > I found out on Monday after watching a rather interesting electrical storm > that my router wasn't plugged into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
> Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of > resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them that there is a It's viruses, we don't speak Latin in this country, we speak English, and to pluralise in English you add 's' or 'es'. Sorry to go off topic there. I use Ubuntu