Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hello is it possible for me to buy a ubuntu dvd

2021-05-29 Thread William Anderson
On Fri, May 28, 2021 at 4:53 PM Mark Dorrington wrote: > Steven where is the best place to purchase a ubuntu dvd as i am on pay as you > go for my internet as i do not like contracts > due to the complexed small print on the contract. Mark, if by "pay as you go", you mean using a mobile PAYG pl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to get Ubuntu DVDs?

2020-09-21 Thread William Anderson
On Tue, Sep 22, 2020 at 12:57 AM wrote: > I need to have an Ubuntu install DVD burned for me... and I don’t have a > burner. > > Can anyone help? https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ubuntu-Linux-18-04-4-Latest-Version/dp/B085FS9JQ5 -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New to Ubuntu

2020-04-13 Thread William Anderson
On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 3:06 PM Peter Callum wrote: > I am new to this and am having a few problems with what the best way of > getting assistance is. I keep getting messages from livepatch saying that > there is a problem. Could you share what those messages are? -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ppa problem

2018-06-25 Thread William Anderson
On Mon, Jun 25, 2018 at 8:33 PM Jim Price wrote: > I've ended up in a bit of a bind. I updated from 14.04 to 16.04, which > seemed to go well but then I noticed that VLC was no longer installed. > On trying to re-install it, it could not find its dependency on vlc-nox. > vlc-nox is not in the 16.0

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any reasons why Ubuntu(-MATE) wouldn't work on this laptop?

2017-07-03 Thread William Anderson
On Mon, Jun 19, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Adam Funk wrote: > I'm shopping around for a new work laptop, & we have to buy it from > Insight. If you can stretch your budget, go for a Thinkpad as others have suggested (albeit from suppliers you've said aren't suitable): http://www.uk.insight.com/en-gb/prod

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 - incomplete Lois McNab

2016-08-08 Thread William Anderson
On Fri, Aug 5, 2016 at 6:04 PM, Michael wrote: > [nothing] ... OK? -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu upgade 14.04 to 16.04 - incomplete Lois McNab

2016-08-05 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 1:58 PM, Colin Law wrote: > First a couple of points about protocol on this list. Please don't > top post. Insert your reply into the previous message at appropriate > points. Also please post in plain text not html. Thanks. > [previous message quoted in entirety] Also,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Meetup.com

2016-08-01 Thread William Anderson
On Mon, Aug 1, 2016 at 7:36 PM, Gareth France wrote: > I am a member of meetup.com and of the Ubuntu meetup group on there. I think > it's a fantastic idea as I'm not personally aware of any regularly meeting > enthusiast group for Ubuntu in the UK. > > However it doesn't currently have a group ow

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu laptop

2016-04-22 Thread William Anderson
On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:21 PM, Stuart Ward wrote: > On 15 April 2016 at 00:35, William Anderson wrote: >> >> From where?! :) > > http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/262302223446 [snip] Not too shabby! I notice Dell are doing base-model Latitude 3450s for £189 ex VAT right now ..

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu laptop

2016-04-14 Thread William Anderson
On Wed, Apr 13, 2016 at 9:52 PM, Stuart Ward wrote: > On 7 April 2016 at 16:26, Jim Price wrote: >> Any alternatives in a similar price range (£200 after trade-in for this one) >> would be appreciated too. > > I recently got a ex=-corporate thinkpad for under £200, with no OS, > Quad i7 4G memory

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu laptop

2016-04-07 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 4:26 PM, Jim Price wrote: > Does anyone know of a supplier of Ubuntu laptops who would accept payment by > cheque? I'm told eBuyer don't for this one: I don't mean to derail the conversation, but if you are paying by cheque, is this because you do not have a debit card for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-10 Thread William Anderson
On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Gareth France wrote: > Really? What have I said about console repairs during the course of this > thread exactly? I think Liam was referring to the fact you said you were an "IT technician" at first. You only mentioned repairing consoles about two hours ago. -n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Gareth France wrote: > I'll bare the ftp advice in mind and I agree you do get what you pay for, > but that doesn't make it any less frustrating, especially when they treat > you like an idiot when you know full well what the problem is. I don't believe they were t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:04 PM, Phill Whiteside wrote: > [snip] > > I'm not going to persue this 'argument'. Go work it out for your selves. I > only pop in here rarely, the conversations from the last couple of threads > enforce that. > > you are totally wrong in lambasting some one who has limi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 6:46 PM, Gareth France wrote: > I'll be using a desktop for the duration the machine is away. I have been > looking at incremental backup solutions. What I'd like to do is setup a > system where it connects to an FTP server and only backs up the data that > has changed since

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packard Bell, what wonderful support!

2013-05-09 Thread William Anderson
On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Gareth France wrote: > I thought I would just bring the experiences I'm having with Packard Bell / > Acer to everyone's attention. I've been unhappy with my laptop since the day > I got it and it seems to be falling apart very rapidly. I have been trying > to get i

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

2010-08-07 Thread William Anderson
On 7 Aug 2010, at 09:40, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > [top posting snippage] > > This topic is one of a list of topics that [a] will never be resolved, and > [b] > is doomed to be continually brought up. We used to call this "netiquette", > but Some of us still do call it netiquette. > that very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto NFS mounting

2009-09-28 Thread William Anderson
Ken Adams wrote: > [snip] > > Is there a way I can run a script whenever my laptop connects to the > home AP. In this script I could then mount the nfs shares. http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=autofs -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

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

2009-08-16 Thread William Anderson
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > [snip] > > I use gmane.org for most lists and mozilla provide their lists on a news > feed. > > Filters work fine too, but I find the "lists-on-news" keeps them out of > my inboxes and just suits the way I like to do things. I used to do this a long time ago, but it g

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

2009-08-16 Thread William Anderson
James Milligan wrote: > [snip] > > 5. 'Match any of the following' > > 6. Subject -> Contains -> '[ubuntu-uk]' for the Ubuntu UK list (this one) This will fail if someone replies to you directly (i.e. not a reply to the mailing list) using a message you posted to the list, as unless the subject

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anti-Virus for Ubuntu (Hard Heron 8.04)? Hardware diagnostics?

2009-08-16 Thread William Anderson
Alex Birchall wrote: > Hi All, > > Would anyone recommend an antivirus product for an Ubuntu Hardy Heron > 8.04 server? > > Also, I have a suspicion that our server may have a hardware fault. > This is because yesterday the server shutdown when I attempted to > establish a remote session with Sec

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Judge bans Microsoft Word sales

2009-08-16 Thread William Anderson
Paul Sutton wrote: >> Alan Lord (News) wrote: >>> I disagree. Making *everything* open source would be pyrrhic panacea. >>> Competition is good. Competition is what has spurned the FOSS movement >>> and proprietary vendors alike. Trying to eradicate the proprietary >>> market is unrealistic and

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

2009-08-15 Thread William Anderson
Tim Dobson wrote: > Just a reminder that the DFEY-NW meeting is taking place tomorrow from > 12:00pm -> ~3:30pm > > === > > DFEY-NW (Digital Freedom in Education & Youth - North West) is a group > aiming to provide a social space for young people interested in > technology, iss

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing ownership.......

2009-08-15 Thread William Anderson
Neil Greenwood wrote: > [snip] > It always works to put the options straight after the command. absolutely, it's the best way. but knowing the cheats are fun too :) -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] text to speech apps

2009-08-13 Thread William Anderson
javadayaz wrote: > i know this is probably a stupid question. But how well does it work? in > your personal experience. I've pointed festival at text from news.bbc.co.uk in the past, and it comes out very well; depends on which voice you use, of course. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Auto Mounting Network Shares

2009-08-13 Thread William Anderson
Rob Beard wrote: > [snip] > > To get round having to use two different connections for inside the > network and outside the network I have setup dnsmasq on my server and > added the hostnames of each machine and the DynDNS domain name to the > /etc/hosts file so they point to the internal IP ad

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changing ownership.......

2009-08-13 Thread William Anderson
John Matthews wrote: > Hi, I wonder if somebody can help. I have uploaded a something to my > server, I need to change the ownership. I managed to change the folders > ownership, but not everything inside. > > the script I used was > > sudo chown www-data:www-data and filename > > I think I ne

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-07 Thread William Anderson
Norman Silverstone wrote: We are the borg. You will be assimilated. >>> Now, now you are starting to show your age. >> That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al >> all the time :) > > My humble apologies, the wonders of 'cable' I presume and the shortage > o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-05 Thread William Anderson
Norman Silverstone wrote: >> We are the borg. You will be assimilated. >> > Now, now you are starting to show your age. That's a bit unfair, TNG is on heavy rotation on Bravo, Virgin 1, et al all the time :) -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk ht

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choosing a new phone

2009-08-05 Thread William Anderson
Not sure how much this has to do with Ubuntu ... :) but anyway: Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey everyone, > > I have been using a Nokia 3220 since around late 2004. Recently I've > been doing so over the free Blyk network but as that's now shutting > down (in 2 and 1/2 weeks) I'm in need of a new phone

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Android on iPhone

2009-08-05 Thread William Anderson
Rob Beard wrote: > Daniel Drummond wrote: >>> I haven't watched this yet, but sounds interesting: >>> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmDQpfCcMs >>> >>> YouTube video of Window 95 on the iPhone. Sourced from Guardian Tech >>> Twitter. >>> >>> James >>> >> I would take those claims with a pi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Evolution and MS Exchange 2007

2009-07-29 Thread William Anderson
Ian Pascoe wrote: > Oh dear, the project seems to be manned by Trekkies! See the release names. You'd hate my network then ... http://neuro.me.uk/tech/ :) -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting console VGA mode

2009-07-19 Thread William Anderson
Liam Proven wrote: > [snip] > > #4 Being green involves re-using old kit that still works. Typically > half or more of the energy used in the lifetime of a piece of IT > equipment is spent making it, not running it. By making its working > life as long as possible, you save energy; by replacing wo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Where Ubuntu falls short

2009-07-16 Thread William Anderson
Steve wrote: > [snip] > > Just wait. October will be even more fun as people try to upgrade from > vista to 7. I've already told a few it's going to cost them more than the > usual couple of pints to sort the mess out. >From what I've heard, upgrading from Vista to 7 RC is pretty straight for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-15 Thread William Anderson
John Matthews wrote: > Hi, thank you for your message. So as I understand it then, if I have a > folder on the desktop called title, that is called a directory then yes? > I wanted to copy that folder to the home directory. Hi John, directories = folders, it's just different nomenclatures. Man

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-14 Thread William Anderson
John Matthews wrote: > Hi its me again, it seems I might be having a few problems with my > Ubuntu, as I cant get my files recognised when trying to use commands. > Most likely me not understanding how its done. It would be more useful to know what you're actually trying to do and at what point

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Daily quiz suggestion

2009-07-14 Thread William Anderson
David Jones wrote: > Is anybody interested in getting a rolling quiz set up using funtrivia.com? if you hadn't posted here before, I'd have said this was spam ;) what topics would you suggest having in the quiz? There should be a bonus round called Stallman's Beard. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

2009-07-13 Thread William Anderson
David King wrote: > I did not read the whole of the page at > http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/index.php/Log_host > > but it does seem to say that there are Tardises out there that run on Linux. Oh tardis, how i miss thee ... I had a tardis.ed.ac.uk account way back in the day, until they cracked down

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help needed with ssh

2009-07-13 Thread William Anderson
John Matthews wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I am so sorry to ask this, but I was wondering if somebody would be > willing to give me some help with ssh and commands for running a website > via a terminal. Echoing others, knowing more about what you mean by "running a website" would be useful in he

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Connecting to a network

2009-07-12 Thread William Anderson
Paul Roach wrote: > To be honest, the quickest way to access networked data between linux > boxes is to ensure ssh is enabled, and to open nautilus - in the > [snip] but at least with smb/cifs, you're not encrypting/decrypting your traffic as you would with ssh/sftp, so if you're confident your un

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: OOo bashing was Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-11 Thread William Anderson
Rob Beard wrote: > [snip] > > I just got the general impression that you were saying that Macs were > the the be all and end all, guess I read it wrong. You're lucky not to > have used Me, I had the annoying task of supporting it once, wasn't fun > at all :-( Apologies if that's the way I com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: OOo bashing was Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-11 Thread William Anderson
Rob Beard wrote: > Sean Miller wrote: >> I concur... Openoffice is bloatware of the highest order. >> >> If I could be bothered to get an older version of Office working on >> wine I would - but I don't use office suites enough to do so. >> >> It's a shame, really, that Sun decided to go down the b

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Word 2002 under Wine?

2009-07-09 Thread William Anderson
Mike Paglia wrote: > I dont understand why use it anyway? Openoffice is just as good and its > free! This attitude irritates me somewhat. I prefer MS Office (I currently use Office 2008 on my mac) to OpenOffice.org, as the former works well natively, doesn't consume insane amounts of memory, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The Stolen Earth

2009-07-09 Thread William Anderson
David King wrote: > Interesting podcast, entertaining as usual. > > However, I did not hear any references to the Stolen Earth, which title > I assume you took from a recent Doctor Who episode. But no mention of > the Doctor or the Daleks... > > I wonder what a Dalek running on Ubuntu would be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

2009-07-07 Thread William Anderson
William Anderson wrote: > Alan Lord (News) wrote: >> On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote: >>> Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash. >> I would be surprised if the default shell is bash. >> >> /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Da

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell Access for VPS server

2009-07-07 Thread William Anderson
Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 07/07/09 01:24, Sean Miller wrote: >> Not on my Ubuntu machine, my default user is still using bash. > > I would be surprised if the default shell is bash. > > /bin/sh is a symlink to /bin/dash as Dave explained. > > If you look at a user's default shell in /etc/pass

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Flame Wars mailing list

2009-07-03 Thread William Anderson
Rob Beard wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Alan Pope wrote: >> >>> Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour? >>> >> (If there was some joke intended, I've missed it). >> > Alan was referring to the Monty Python Arguement

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

2009-06-28 Thread William Anderson
John wrote: > [snip] > Hi, what backup options are there that dont require you to download the > full site each time. It is some of my fault for relying on the host, I > should never have done that. I need to learn more. check out the rsync, sitecopy, and mirror packages -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

2009-06-28 Thread William Anderson
Lucy wrote: > [snip] > Like I said in an earlier post, many other sites on the same server > were also compromised. It's likely that he'll never find out which one > was responsible. Other sites being compromised doesn't necessarily mean they were responsible for the damage to John's site, just in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

2009-06-28 Thread William Anderson
Sean Miller wrote: > 412 sites on a shared server is pushing it a bit. Really? Depends on the server! -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

2009-06-28 Thread William Anderson
Alan Pope wrote: > [snip] > > "A highly damaging hack at UK-based web hosting company VAserv has > taken a tragic turn for the worse after it was revealed that the boss > of the Indian firm whose software was at the centre the attack, has > hanged himself. " General consensus is that he had lost

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked.....

2009-06-28 Thread William Anderson
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > [snip] > > A strong password is useless if the hack was carried out using a > remote file include or a vulnerability in code that was on the website > to elevate permissions. From your other comments in the thread, I > doubt that your netbook is compromise

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Website Hacked..... (now showing online?)

2009-06-28 Thread William Anderson
Matt Jones wrote: > [snip] > > Looks like you just got away with it. Making a full site backup > probably isn't a bad idea! > Glad you got it sorted, And get phpbb and wordpress updated immediately, I suspect these were the attack vectors. I'm sure, if you don't feel confident about doing that y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox, ubuntu and tesco shopping online

2009-06-21 Thread William Anderson
Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/21/09 12:56, Lucy wrote: > ... >> You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin >> (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that >> it's running on Windows. Some websites try to detect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu tribe

2009-06-17 Thread William Anderson
You'll be lucky to find anything to download other than the trailer ... it was an entry into a viral marketing competition, and no short film was ever made. -n On 17 Jun 2009, at 17:24, Paul Sutton wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi > > there seems to be a movie

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scheduling a reboot of Ubuntu?

2009-06-15 Thread William Anderson
Alex Birchall wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to schedule a reboot of my Ubuntu server. > > When I type sudo crontab -l at the prompt, the following is displayed: > > #m h dom mon dow command > 40 12 * * 0-7 eprints reboot > > As I understand it, this should mean that at 40 minutes past 12 each

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is there an mp3 tag editor in the repositories?

2009-06-12 Thread William Anderson
Michael G Fletcher wrote: > [id3 tagging app snippage] > > you can try "Picard", it's in the repositories and details can be > found here [1]. Musicbrainz Picard is the mutt's nuts, utterly fantastic. -n -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://

Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7

2009-06-12 Thread William Anderson
Sean Miller wrote: > On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:19 PM, doug livesey wrote: >> Well, no, because Ubuntu comes bundled with FF. > > Even if it didn't. > > There are many in the repos. This is what Windows needs, an easy to use system to install and update apps loaded on a machine. If there were an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadband and hosting reccomendations

2009-06-07 Thread William Anderson
John Levin wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for reccomendations for broadband suppliers and hosting. > > First off, I'm getting rid of Entanet (via UKFSN) as they've seen fit to > more than double their charges! (Getting ready for long phone session to > customer services today) Don't have cable, s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless Networking question: Ps3 or Xbox 360

2009-06-06 Thread William Anderson
Rob Beard wrote: > javadayaz wrote: >> I mean primarily to view stuff/media thats stored on the ubuntu pc! >> sorry should have made that a bit clearer > Yeah no problem. > > Well I don't have either console (I have an original XBOX, PS2 and > Wii). I know the PS3 has Linux support and I'm pret

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

2009-06-01 Thread William Anderson
Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > [snip] > > There is also no need for bottom posting if you use thunderbird with > thread view, as everyone could simply not include the previous messages > assuming everybody had all the messages in the thread, but it's much > nicer to have all the relevant information

Re: [ubuntu-uk] E-mail body as attachment

2009-06-01 Thread William Anderson
Matthew Daubney wrote: > [evolution/mailman attachment snippage] > > Hmm, thats interesting. I can't see a way around that inside Evolution, > as far as I can see Evolution is set to just use Plain Text. Anyone know > a way around it? I wasn't criticising evolution to be fair, just more mailman f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

2009-06-01 Thread William Anderson
Sean Miller wrote: > Just to point out that the £25 subscription is only for 4 issues, so > it's still over £6/copy which seems steep to me. > > All Linux magazines seem incredibly pricey - but this one seems to > take the pricyness to a new level. To be fair, it's quarterly, so at least you're n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu User Magazine

2009-06-01 Thread William Anderson
Michael Douglas wrote: > [snip] > > I understand why magazine's that come with DVD's of movies, or things > like SLES on them, but why spend money printing a dual-sided DVD, when > you could just use two single sided ones and bring the price down by a > couple quid so more people buy it? Becau

Re: [ubuntu-uk] E-mail body as attachment

2009-06-01 Thread William Anderson
Rob Beard wrote: > Steve Archer wrote: >> Why is it that when some people send an e-mail to the list I receive the >> e-mail with no body, but it is instead an attachment? >> >> It's driving me nuts... >> >> Cheers, Steve >> > Strange, what e-mail client (or provider if it's webmail) are you us

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell XPS M1530 fresh install WiFi probs

2009-05-20 Thread William Anderson
William Anderson wrote: > Kris Douglas wrote: >> Hello everyone, I've been having some problems with the wireless on my >> M1530, it seems, every [insert very similar number of minutes] my >> wireless card just disconnects, it says it is connected to a network, >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange network problem

2009-05-20 Thread William Anderson
michael wrote: > Im not sure if it is the hub. > > There is a windows laptop and two xbox 360's that are able to connect > properly > > Just seems to be the ubuntu box. There's an option on the homehubs to passthru, or assign the external IP address to an "internal" machine, DMZ-style; sounds l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell XPS M1530 fresh install WiFi probs

2009-05-20 Thread William Anderson
Kris Douglas wrote: > Hello everyone, I've been having some problems with the wireless on my > M1530, it seems, every [insert very similar number of minutes] my > wireless card just disconnects, it says it is connected to a network, > but the machine doesn't actually have internet access... What d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] how to set up a dial up connection

2009-05-20 Thread William Anderson
Sean Miller wrote: > On Sun, May 17, 2009 at 8:10 PM, Farran Lee wrote: >> sorry, an extra bit I forgot to mention - it is a BT DSL modem, using >> broadband, but the computer DIALS UP to the connection. > > It doesn't actually. > > It's just that Windows displays it as a Dial Up Networking Conn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] to upgrade or not (Macbook 3,1 on Ibex)

2009-04-30 Thread William Anderson
Chris Weaver wrote: > I have a Macbook 3.1 and I'm nearly about to press the upgrade button > (I'm upgrading a test PC to see how it affects sound and Samba in > particular). I have it dual booting with leopard so I'm perhaps in a > better position if it goes wrong. I'll report back how it goes. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beards and sandals

2009-01-19 Thread William Anderson
David King wrote: > I know what you mean about the beard and sandals. Just look at a picture > of Richard Stallman -- would you trust a man who looks like that to > create your OS? I don't mind his look so much, I just get The Fear when he opens his mouth. IME he's either going to be rude, rip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

2009-01-18 Thread William Anderson
Neil Greenwood wrote: > [snip] > > Have a look at http://blog.hanno-stock.de/archives/50 for a few extra > steps that will mark libraries and dependencies as automatically > installed (then they get removed when you choose to remove the package > you originally installed, instead of becoming cruft

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mac Frustration (was Remote support was Sad but true? etc.)

2009-01-18 Thread William Anderson
Sean Miller wrote: > On Sun, Jan 18, 2009 at 1:23 PM, William Anderson wrote: >> Hang on, what do you mean, no Ctrl key? I'm looking at the MacBook Pro >> keyboard I'm typing on right now, and there it is, a Ctrl key nestling >> between Fn and Option/Alt. This

Re: [ubuntu-uk] killed box through /var :P

2009-01-18 Thread William Anderson
Sorry, catching up with old mail :) Matthew Wild wrote: > [snip] > >> 4 would it be best to generate an install list from synaptic so I know what >> I've got, and do a clean install with a larger partition? (and how would I >> do this through aptitude command line - I have no gui at all now). >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mac Frustration (was Remote support was Sad but true? etc.)

2009-01-18 Thread William Anderson
Sean Miller wrote: > [snip] > > Having grown up in a Unix/VT220 environment to find that there is no > ctrl key and everything is done differently is, to say the least, > rather "alien". I mean, ctrl-c to cancel... been there since time and > memorium... how come Steve Jobs gets to redefine it?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] news services was: BBC news site

2008-02-06 Thread William Anderson
Tom Bamford wrote: > [snip] > > I guess everyone has their viewing preference; the same 15 minutes of > lukewarm headlines over and over again is not for me, nor any > US-b[i]ased station. Rolling news channels aren't designed to be watched for extended periods of time, unless something "big"

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?

2007-10-27 Thread William Anderson
Jai Harrison wrote: > Hey Guys, > > I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. > We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best > Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state > whether it is ADSL or cable. I use two ADSL connections at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Off the fence and ready to join in!

2007-05-15 Thread William Anderson
pment student from Scotland and have been using > Ubuntu for the past few years. Cool, where are you in Scotland? -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http://neur

Re: [ubuntu-uk] digital TV

2007-05-15 Thread William Anderson
norman wrote: > < snip > > >> What do you mean by the data required? > > I have only had a quick look at the setup procedure so far but there > seem to be several places where numbers are required. Are you talking about tzap? -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Podcast Test Recording 1

2007-05-15 Thread William Anderson
know, we can bounce a few ideas and possibly > record something. it's definitely very difficult to record alone without a script, or at least a very clear agenda of topics. Without those and without anyone else to keep you in check, it's very easy to drift rapidly off-topic. --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-UK Radio

2007-03-18 Thread William Anderson
d itself accountable to the code of conduct as well as an inclusive broadcasting level, which implies by very nature that the language used be kept clean. -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It&#x

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-01-31 Thread William Anderson
. Is that anyone here btw? Not a single mention of Linux from Maggie Philbin, who for some unfathomable reason was BBC Breakfast's "expert" talking about the release of Vista on yesterday morning's programme. Awful. -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for meeting agenda items

2007-01-29 Thread William Anderson
Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Ratfans! > > We're a good week away from our next meeting and the agenda page [0] is > somewhat blank. :( Looks like I won't make it; we record ep 11 of hashlugradio on the same night :P -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is

[ubuntu-uk] del.icio.us (was: Re: Ubuntu Edgy Disks)

2006-11-07 Thread William Anderson
using tags was a bit too unwieldy, especially after it had imported my 10 years worth of bookmarks and automagically tagged them :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http:/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Edgy Disks

2006-11-01 Thread William Anderson
h a list of duplication services? So started: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/DiscDuplication -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | cheese platter

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT: UK Free Software Network broadband

2006-09-14 Thread William Anderson
angled with Jason in the past, but not to the extent that would make me think he's committed to providing anything other than a quality service to his customers. -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It&#

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LinuxWorld planning page

2006-09-12 Thread William Anderson
ee: E, not really, I'm a Windows XP Home user! Booth person: *boot to the head* -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | cheese platter.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting the group going

2006-09-09 Thread William Anderson
e would help identifying folk faster, i.e. Jeff Waugh [jdub] :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | cheese platter. U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | -- Tim

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Meet @ LinuxWorld London - Wed 25th Oct 2006

2006-09-09 Thread William Anderson
shiny new ubuntu.com email address too, hark at you :) -- _ __/| William Anderson | Tim: Your cheese game is strong. \`O_o' neuro at well dot com | Zane: My cheese game. It's all about the =(_ _)= http://neuro.me.uk/ | cheese platter. U - Thhbt! GPG 0xFA5F1100 | --