Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

2011-05-11 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
out of the 8 on the MacPro, though it says I can use up to 8. Further I can use up to 5.5 GBytes before, they say, 'if higher, memory swapping may occur'. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Losing wireless Connection - off topic

2011-04-17 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
ng a word with Draytek first. I have tried changing the frequency but no difference. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 15 Apr at 12:37, Alan Bell wrote: > On 15/04/11 12:31, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > > On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewart wrote: > > > > Has anyone else had this problem? > > > I think those will be the instructions when it is released. If I had quoted the whole

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
esh installs, losing everything on my previous version. Has anyone else had this problem? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanning old photographs

2010-08-30 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
d enough. Some years ago I bought an EPSON 4870 PHOTO scanner which would do 4800 dots per inch. It did the job on the ancient slides I had to take copies of and continues to work well (on both Windows and Mac, not sure about Ubuntu). This scanner is now out of date but I think EPSON has pro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was "Apps for kids")

2010-08-07 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 7 Aug at 8:54, Anton Piatek wrote: > For the record, on my android phone I cache choose to quote the entire > message, or none of it. I get no choice about top posting. If you > happen to know who in Google wrote this great Obviously: an android. -- Tim Po

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was "Apps for kids")

2010-08-07 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
the above it is not clear, quote marks apart, that Joseph O'Dell did not write the first paragraph. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] More on Joggler

2010-05-29 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
now how to start the Ubuntu desktop. Any help would be much appreciated. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk htt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on Dell (revisited) ....

2010-05-29 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
s. > > Have you actually tried clicking on them though? Most of them only > have the option of selecting Windows XP or 7, as far as I can see the > only 2 that have Ubuntu on them are the Latitude 2100 and 2110. Agreed and I took the order to the stage of Add to Basket (with Ubuntu 9.0

[ubuntu-uk] Success! was Re: O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-24 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
emulation working to provide the smallest RISC OS (Acorn) machine on the market - but not the first as others have done this before me, indeed it was seeing their results last Monday that prompted me to say I would like to try this too. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-23 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
.3a.bin of=/media/C/joggler_unr_9.10_v1.3a.bin bs=10M count=365 and this got the response of: 365+0 records in 365+0 records out 3827302400 bytes (3.8 GB) copied, 707.077 s, 5.4 MB/s As above, I put the stick in the Joggler and nothing useful resulted on a reboot. -- Tim Pow

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
ting UNR on the Joggler :) Many thanks. But I think it may not be comprehensive enough for this old stick. So I am going to give Stephen Ford's method another thrash but this time on the Ubuntu-only route and not via Windows. If this too fails, I will give your method a go.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-20 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
Ubuntu and hope I can work out what to do, though it really does look simple. Watch this space. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-19 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 19 May at 13:04, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 19 May 2010 12:41, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > > On 14 May at 8:27, David wrote: > > > > > > (a) I plugged the USB stick into my normal Ubuntu machine, a Fusion > > partition on a mac Pro, and was able to read what

Re: [ubuntu-uk] O2 Joggler: deal

2010-05-19 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
who had bought one on Monday had had no problem, ditto for one bought last Saturday.) I know there are a few web sites to discuss Joggler but I find web sites cumbersome and much prefer mailing lists. Is there a Joggler-Ubuntu mailing list anywhere? Or is it OK

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mailing list etiquette, Was Hard drive- Bad sectors

2010-04-20 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
fit the text which you are replying to. Do not quote the > whole of the previous email - remove any unnecessary text. To avoid > confusion, it's often a good idea to replace removed text with a brief > indication that something has been removed, like [snip]." Second

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux meets?

2010-04-16 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
e in Banbury, complete with delicious Hook Norton (or so I remember that ale from a barge trip a decade or two back down the Oxford canal). -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Heads up - Government wants FOSS

2010-01-29 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
rce of certain applications? And a simplistic view of the Danish proposal is that all they are concerned with is the use of Open Standards for exchanging information, not for system sourcing. Can anyone outline the overall economies of Open Source? -- Tim Powys

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is There a problem with digests

2009-09-10 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
t > get any error messages from you web mail account. No problem here with a normal mail system, an average of 5 posts a day over the last 20 days. So it sounds as if web-mail or digests have some problem. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reminder - DFEY-NW tomorrow :: Young Rewired State Announcements

2009-08-19 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
ntu, then it must be relevant. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automatically moving mail from a specific sender to a certain file?

2009-08-16 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 16 Aug at 20:23, "Alan Lord (News)" wrote: > This message is being sent to Newsgroup: > gmane.linux.ubuntu.user.british Surely not a 'Newsgoup' in the set of accessed through usenet? -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org

Re: [ubuntu-uk] first edition

2009-06-18 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 18 Jun at 21:15, norman wrote: > Searching through some old CDs I came across Ubuntu 4.10. Is this a > record? Only if it is made of vinyl or, even, shellac. -- Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@powys.org for a miscellany of bygones

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Thanks!

2009-06-03 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
has better sound so give that a try at least live CD > before you complete the scenic route through 8.10, you might be lucky? I could not get sound working on 8.04 and 8.10 either. Nor would it work when I upgraded to 9.04. But it did work when I did a separate install into a new par

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed computer prices

2009-03-25 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
Eddie Bernard wrote: > Good morning everyone > > First off, a declaration of interest, I'm in business selling desktop PCs. > However, to avoid accusations of spamming, I won't give further details > (unless you actually want them!) > > My reason for contacting you all is a sort of market resea

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty Jackalope

2009-03-21 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
what else? -- Tim powys-lybbe  ...@powys.org  For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Keep losing sound

2009-01-07 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
;Sound will be disconnected'. It continues to do this with Firefox disabled both within Ubuntu and within the host Mac. Finally a few pulseaudio updates arrived today but even after installation and restarting I still get the Sould will be Disco

Re: [ubuntu-uk] sound problem

2008-12-27 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
, but it's still happening. With my 8.10, under Fusion 2 on a Mac, the sound disconnects itself when I start up. I reset the settings but it just disconnects on the next startup. Sound on 8.04 is fine, same Fusion 2. -- Tim powys-lybbe  ...@powys.org

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The "I'm Linux" Video Contest

2008-12-21 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
oing to be done with this video? It can't be put on the TV channels as that costs big bucks. Or have some channels indicated thay will give free air-time? Or will it just end up on U-tube? And who will own the winning item? -- Tim powys-lybbe  ...@pow

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit or 32-bit, Was BBC Iplayer download on Linux

2008-12-21 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 21 Dec, "Philip Stubbs" wrote: > 2008/12/21 Tim Powys-Lybbe : > > In message of 21 Dec, "Alan Pope" wrote: > > > >> 2008/12/21 David King : > >> > I do not see why more people do not use 64-bit operating systems. > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 64-bit or 32-bit, Was BBC Iplayer download on Linux

2008-12-21 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
law in that it will only show > 3.3GB to the OS, whether it's 64-bit or 32-bit. No such problem here. -- Tim powys-lybbe  ...@powys.org  For a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Intrepid 8.10 Kubuntu - disaster

2008-11-09 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 8 Nov, "gav" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 12:41:08PM +, Bruce Beardall wrote: > > I think you raise some important concerns, Alan. As a Gnome user, I can't > > really say I've had much recent experience beyond a cursory glance at KDE 4 > > but I think this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] System hosed during network upgrade to 8.10

2008-11-02 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 2 Nov, keith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In message of 1 Nov, Tim Powys-Lybbe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I have installed it as an upgrade to 8.04 64 bit > > Hello Tim, > > Have you abandoned RiscOS, or are you just dallying? ;-) No. (To whic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] System hosed during network upgrade to 8.10

2008-11-01 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 1 Nov, David King <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I intend to run the 8.10 version in a virtual machine first. Always best > to test a new system before deploying it live. However, not many people > are seeding the Ubuntu 8.10 AMD64 DVD, which I am downloading via > bittorrent from L

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Windows Dual Boot

2008-09-05 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 5 Sep, "Andrew Nixon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ok strange question but i have a ubuntu system that is running only > ubuntu, and i could do with doing a dual install with windows, however > i am not keen to have to format. I really need the dual boot with > windows for performanc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bracknell Software Freedom Day 20th Sept

2008-09-01 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 1 Sep, alan c <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (Surrey, Hampshire, & uk ubuntu lists) > > Bracknell has a Software Freedom Day Event! > If you happen to be in our neck of the woods and are passing on the > day, please stop by and say hello? > > If you are able to actually come and len

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Age and gender

2008-08-28 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 28 Aug, "Sean Miller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 28, 2008 at 10:58 AM, London School of Puppetry > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Much relates to necessity and opportunity. As most management is male, then > > there will be fewer opportunities given to women. But I kno

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Desperately seeking Ubuntu Webbook - with Bolt Cutters!

2008-08-26 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
In message of 26 Aug, "Ian Pascoe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Remarkable! Presume the miscreants were from the local Vista Users > Sanitorium? I am surprised that this local, for I too am local to Bracknell, sensation was not made into banner headlines in the neighbourhood press, for this is t