Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude question

2011-04-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On 02/04/11 17:46, Neil Perry wrote: > I would suggest using safe-upgrade. Don't use unless you want a broken > packages. > > Thanks > > Neil True enough. I stuck with full-upgrade because the other Neil asked the question with it: > On Apr 2, 2011 5:43 PM, "Vin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude question

2011-04-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On 01/04/11 20:34, Neil Greenwood wrote: > Hi all, > > Is there any way to get aptitude to do a full-upgrade while installing > a new package? I just had a situation where I was trying to install > mumble after doing an 'aptitude update', and got into a conflict state > because libqtcore4 was goin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

2011-01-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 20:23 +, John Stevenson wrote: > > On 2 January 2011 20:11, Andrew Savin > wrote: > > On 02/01/11 20:08, Andrew Savin wrote: > On 02/01/11 19:16, Tim Dobson wrote: > You've all seen the comings and goings of the >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

2011-01-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 20:21 +, Steve Fisher wrote: > When did they start coming out? I signed up, but haven't seen > anything (unless it got spam binned in error). I wouldn't mind an > invite if there is one going :) On its way! Vin Shankar -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora handles

2011-01-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 20:08 +, Neil Perry wrote: > Good Idea that man. Seconded! I'm darael (at) joindiaspora.com I'm darael everywhere, except a few odd places where it's inexplicably taken. Vin Shankar -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are agreeing that:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

2011-01-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 19:58 +, Neil Perry wrote: > I've invited you Vin. > > > Thanks > Neil Perry Wow, that was fast. Thanks, Neil! Vin Shankar -- Disclaimer: By sending an email to ANY of my addresses you are agreeing that: 1. I am by definition, "the intended recipient" 2

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diaspora

2011-01-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Sun, 2011-01-02 at 19:16 +, Tim Dobson wrote: > I have a few invites left if anyone wants thinks they want be willing to > give it a try and I was hoping that other people with invites might also > be willing to donate a few to interested parties. I've been following Diaspora* for some tim

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's the best...

2010-12-17 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 21:13 +, Philip Stubbs wrote: > The latest thing I have installed on my home server is byobu > https://launchpad.net/byobu > I have used screen many times but not really hard. This makes using > screen even simpler. I was quite interested to notice that in Maverick, at le

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's the best...

2010-12-17 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Fri, 2010-12-17 at 15:55 +, Alan Pope wrote: > Anyway, I was thinking of making it a little "home office" server with > a few roles (listed below). It's for play initially, imagine an office > of 5 people or so, doing typical file etc sharing, but as it's in the > home, maybe chuck a couple

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?

2010-12-04 Thread Vinothan Shankar
pread > the word! > > > http://ubuntuadverts.org/ > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-advertising Hi. I joined the team the day before yesterday, but I think I'll chip in here, too. Of the things you've listed, the only one I'm any good at is acting, but hopefully I can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?

2010-02-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:53 +, Liam Wilson wrote: > Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' > If you're interested, reply to this message. I'd be happy to help with any video projectv Vin signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email url

2010-01-29 Thread Vinothan Shankar
On Thu, 2010-01-28 at 01:41 +, Matthew Wild wrote: > 2010/1/28 red : > > On the Microsoft browser I can email the page straight to some one. How > > do I do this in firefox? > > > > Firefox: File->Send Link... > Epiphany: File->Send link by email...: Alternatively, if you need to send a cop

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Audio Streams

2009-11-20 Thread Vinothan Shankar
2009/11/7 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk > On the other hand, do the > BBC offer Windows Media streams, as if they do you might be able to feed > them into mplayer. > > Rob > They do, but all the Windows Media content from the Beeb is DRM'd (as far as I can see) and AFAIK there are a) no Linux m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bootable USB drive

2009-11-07 Thread Vinothan Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Neil Perry wrote: > sudo aptitude installusb-creator > > Is installed by default, needs the .iso :) > > Neil Perry ...Or will work off a live CD (Jaunty or later, I think, might have been on the Intrepid disc?) using the live CD itself, if you are i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Extra Ticket

2009-11-07 Thread Vinothan Shankar
Steve wrote: > On Fri, 06 Nov 2009 19:59:15 -, Sean Miller > wrote: > >> Gotta wonder why on earth anybody would want to travel from London to >> Birmingham... >> >> ...God forsaken place ;-) >> >> Sean >> > Birmingham or London? ;-) > Both? ;-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Random lock ups in Jaunty

2009-10-09 Thread Vinothan Shankar
Barry Titterton wrote: > On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:53 +0100, Vinothan Shankar wrote: >> Barry Titterton wrote: >>> Has anyone experienced random hard lock ups since upgrading to Jaunty? >>> >>> I am running Jaunty on an elderly Toshiba S1800 laptop (1GHz P3 with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Random lock ups in Jaunty

2009-10-08 Thread Vinothan Shankar
Barry Titterton wrote: > Has anyone experienced random hard lock ups since upgrading to Jaunty? > > I am running Jaunty on an elderly Toshiba S1800 laptop (1GHz P3 with > 512M of ram)and since upgrading to Jaunty last August I have been > getting random hard lock ups; the cursor vanishes off the s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] windows 7 features comparison

2009-09-20 Thread Vinothan Shankar
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: > 2009/9/19 Vinothan Shankar : >> Maximum CPU chips: probably 64 (standard in Linux kernel, I believe) > > I thought it could scale to 4096 now? (Or was that just an xkcd comic? > I forget...) > I'm pretty sure that's just XKCD. And it&#

Re: [ubuntu-uk] windows 7 features comparison

2009-09-19 Thread Vinothan Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Sutton wrote: > Hi > > the following wiki pedia page > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_7_editions > > there is a comparison of windows 7 versions, just wondered if anyone > could imagine there was a column for ubuntu which features (or e

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution's compulsory GPG routine

2009-07-10 Thread Vinothan Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rowan Berkeley wrote: > On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:36 +0100, vinu wrote: > >> Assuming it IS gnome-keyring, somewhere in the repositories is a >> package that will unlock your default keyring on login and lock it >> again when you log out, to defeat thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution's compulsory GPG routine

2009-07-09 Thread Vinothan Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ciarán Mooney wrote: > Hi, > > What you describe sounds more like the Gnome Keyring rather than any > GPG-based program. > > They keyring is what stores your passwords etc, it is used for WEP/WPA > keys along with any other password in the system. >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest a graphics card

2009-07-08 Thread Vinothan Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Bagnall wrote: > If you're not planning on gaming, just using HD for video and compiz > then a low powered nvidia card would be fine. An nvidia 8400gs only > costs about £25 from ebuyer and most of them have passive cooling (no > fan and theref

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mp3 players, again

2009-07-02 Thread Vinothan Shankar
Michael G Fletcher wrote: > Also, I never have to rebuild the library, i just put new music into > my music folder and it automatically updates the database. Ditto Songbird. Vinu -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Churning hard disk, glacial startup

2009-06-22 Thread Vinothan Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John wrote: > Sean Miller wrote: >> Okay, missed that. >> >> I find "atop" rather good because it lists used memory against >> committed memory, and if the latter is actually more than exists (ie. >> physical+virtual memory> there's something eating me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scrambled screen and reinstalling

2009-06-20 Thread Vinothan Shankar
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Herdman wrote: > Thanks to everyone who has contributed to my scrambled screen issue. > I've almost come to the conclusion that the quickest way to get > everything back to full functionality would be to reinstall Ubuntu 8.04. > > I've taken on-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] GRUB on LiveUSB

2009-05-26 Thread Vinothan Shankar
Because of the way that particular live USB creator works, it uses the ISOLINUX (or is it SYSLINUX?) bootloader rather than Grub. If you want to bypass the live CD menu, and have Grub on your stick, I suggest using the "Portable Linux" app from http://rudd-o.com/new-projects/portablelinux to re-cr

[ubuntu-uk] Help get Windows out of schools

2009-02-08 Thread Vinothan Shankar
I've created a petition to the Prime Minister to make the primary OS in schools free and open source - it can be found at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/nonMSschools. To anyone that points out I should have suggested Ubuntu for Education, the first submission did, but was rejected on the grounds