Rob Beard wrote:
>I wouldn't be able to put up with the US keyboard though.
Ah! Hadn't thought of that - yes, it would be a pain. Oh well, back to
waiting for Dell to get its European act together. :-(
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Andrew Gee wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 08:52 +0100, luxxius wrote:
>> Perhaps we could place orders and fund someone to go over and bring some
>> back? Any volunteers? ;-)
>
> Probably will be problems with the power adaptors being made for the US
> though :-)
&
Andrew Gee wrote:
> Sadly still not in Europe though :(
>
> On Thu, 2007-06-28 at 08:38 +0100, luxxius wrote:
>> In case you didn't spot it yet:
>>
>> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6756576859.html
Perhaps we could place orders and fund someone to go
In case you didn't spot it yet:
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS6756576859.html
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gord wrote:
> also you might want to take a look at the sound settings in alsa mixer
> (there should be a little speaker icon on your panel somewhere that you
> can use to change the volume. right click and goto open volume control,
> or alternatively run 'gnome-volume-control' from a terminal). b
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> The vulnerability at the moment doesn't affect any extensions from
> addons.mozilla.org, since they use https to download the update to
> your browser. The problem is with some extensions developed by e.g.
> Google and Yahoo (del.icio.us). Other big companies also are at ri
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On 17/06/07, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Neil >>> I'd never used Liferea before (thanks, Popey, for mentioning it
>> in another thread some while ago - it's brill!). I didn't realise that
>> the duplicates are o
norman wrote:
> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
Thunderbird, Gaim, Skype for comms
Firefox (of course) and Liferea for info
Rhythmbox for downloading podcasts
GnomeBaker for CD burning
EasyTag
But my ki
Mark Harrison wrote:
> Alan Pope wrote:
>> Audacity.
> +1 for Audacity
Yes, I rate Audacity, too.
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alan c wrote:
> With Ubuntu in mind I would be grateful for more information about the
> possible vulnerability - or not - of the sort of malware (trojan)
> which is likely to be used in the sort of current, and on a new scale,
> attack via infected websites as described in the Guardian:
>
> ht
norman wrote:
>> Alec / Alan >>> Thanks for the quick replies. So is the upshot that I'm
>> OK using the Feisty repos with 2.6.17?
>
> The answer is yes, I have to switch to 2.6.17 when I wish to use my
> scanner.
Thanks, Norman - definite and reassuring!
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Alan Pope wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 16:27 +0100, Alec Wright wrote:
>> As long as the first 2 digits (2.6) are the same, everything should
>> still run fine. No new features will be added to the kernel until 2.7,
>> which I expect is a long way off.
>
> Umm, that's a little, er, inaccurate :
After a Dapper > Edgy > Feisty upgrade on my old Dell Inspiron laptop, I
had a problem with very slow booting, as described in
https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+question/8390. (This looks like a
bug in kernel 2.6.20 that's gone on for a while.) I fixed it by editing
grub to default to ker
Alan Pope wrote:
> Sbackup is quite a nice backup tool and there's also hubackup. I don't
> know how well they work with screenreaders, sorry.
I experimented with sbackup. The GUI is easy to use; and it backed up
some folder to my NAS (a samba share) OK. But when I came to test
restore, it w
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On 15/06/07, luxxius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Liferea actually works fine, and marks duplicates as read. Sorry for
>> mistake - forget I asked the question!
>
> Hi Diana,
> Got me confused the first time I used the new version in Feisty
Liferea actually works fine, and marks duplicates as read. Sorry for
mistake - forget I asked the question!
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luxxius wrote:
> I seem to recall someone (? Popey) saying that Liferea automatically
> marks duplicates as read. It doesn't seem to do this for me; and I
>
I seem to recall someone (? Popey) saying that Liferea automatically
marks duplicates as read. It doesn't seem to do this for me; and I
can't find any settings in preferences that enable it.
Can anyone advise?
TIA
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Whilst there are many tools out there that will act as a replacement,
> I am unable to find a program that will load and save MS Pub files.
> Can anyone help?
Will MS Pub run under Wine? (Just a thought - I don't know the answer!)
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Friends >>> Came across this news item about Dell Ubuntu:
http://www.madpenguin.org/cms/?m=show&id=7902
which also contains reference to this Dell-site video:
http://tinyurl.com/24uyxb
(Navigate on right to -> 'Home' / News You Can Use / Linux 101)
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Neil Greenwood wrote:
> I think the default for directories is 755, the default for files
> should be 644. The default is set using the umask command, in case you
> wanted to know.
Yes, those defaults would make sense - everyone can at least see what's
in directories, and read files, but not auto
Robert McWilliam wrote:
> The escaped semi colon just marks the end of the command to -exec, as
> you figured. Each time find gets a result, it runs the commands in the
> -exec options replacing the {} with the path to the result (there are
> other things, e.g. inode number, that you can substitute
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> The reason that the directories 'vanished' is that execute permission
> is used to indicate that directories can be browsed i.e. listed in ls
> or Nautilus. When you did the chmod 664 it also worked on the
> directories, and then you couldn't look into them.
Neil >>> This w
Robert McWilliam wrote:
> Rather than just ignoring the errors you can tell rsync not to try and
> set permissions or group with the --no-p and --no-g options and then if
> there are any errors that actually need worrying about you wont miss
> them assuming the output is the normal errors that don
Alan Pope wrote:
> I must say I am watching this thread with interest. The above messages
> appear when i rsync my music and podcasts to my mp3 player.
> The difference is I just ignore it :)
Al >>> As you may have seen, I think I've resolved this now. But if
there had been a telephone suppor
Kris Marsh wrote:
> On 6/7/07, Robert McWilliam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've just done some playing here and found the same problem with
>> accessing a directory with drw-rw-r-- permissions. The problem goes
>> away if I add executable permissions (making the permissions 764 for
>> u+x). I'm
luxxius wrote:
> Nearly all the files in the music library had 'diana' as owner and
> 'root' as group. It was the half-dozen or so that had 'diana' as owner
Sorry. I meant, of course, the half-dozen or so that had 'diana' as group.
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Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Is there a reason why the group needs to be root?
> if you change the group to "diana" or "users", does that make a difference
> (it think it might...)
Nearly all the files in the music library had 'diana' as owner and
'root' as group. It was the half-dozen o
Alan Pope wrote:
>> rsync: chgrp "/media/USBdisc/Music/." failed: Operation not permitted (1)
> I must say I am watching this thread with interest. The above messages
> appear when i rsync my music and podcasts to my mp3 player.
>
> The difference is I just ignore it :)
I'm beginning to wished
I forgot to add this further info:
I cannot access the music folder or its subfolders and files unless I
become root (sudo su). I can then see the folders and files. This is
the output of stat on the top level folder:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/diana# stat music
File: `music'
Size: 4096
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> A very simple thing (that could have solved the whole thing in the first
> place now I think about it...)
>
>> cd ~/music
>> sudo chmod -Rvf 644 .
>> sudo chown -Rvf diana:root .
>
> this will recursively apply the permissions and the ownership to all files in
Ah. Slight problem folks. The instructions appear to have reset all
the files in the music folder so that the owner (diana) and group (root)
are set to 'list, create/delete, no access' and no file permissions
(---). When I try to use nautilus to look at files, they vanish! Very
worrying. A
Robert McWilliam wrote:
> -exec wants a command ended with a semi-colon (which you have to escape
> to stop the shell interpreting it). Make sure you have a "\;" at the
> end of each of the -exec commands.
Robert >>> You're right - I'd accidentally omitted the final ';'. I
also needed to run t
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
> Not the one I originally used, but a good example all the same:
> http://tlug.dnho.net/?q=node/198
> gives:
>
> #!/bin/sh...
Matt >>> Wow! That's a several light years away from where my
understanding is right now! And there are a couple of issues that might
Robert McWilliam wrote:
> find can be used to run commands:
>
> find ~/music -group diana -exec chgrp root {} \; -exec chmod
> 664 {} \;
Robert >>> This seems almost to work, as it seems to get round the
'spaces in filenames' problem that the loop solution runs into. But I
Tony Arnold wrote:
> for i in `find /home/diana/music -group diana` ; do chgrp root $i &&
> chmod 644 $i; done
> (should be all on one line, excuse the wrap)
Tony / Matthew / Robert >>> Many thanks for your quick and very helpful
replies.
I've tried Tony's one-liner, which would work a treat w
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> check the group for the files that gave errors and one
> of the files that didn't. Change the problem files to be in the group
> that isn't causing problems.
I can find all the files with the group that's causing the hiccup using
find /home/diana/music -group dia
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> I haven't used rsync much, but I would guess from the error message
> (and where I've seen it before) that the USB drive is formatted using
> FAT
Neil >>> Yes, it's FAT32, 'cos I need to write to it with both OSs
> I'm fairly sure that your conclusion is correct - you cou
I'd be grateful for a bit of advice about something that's probably
utterly obvious to anyone but a complete noob like me.
I'm backing up 3000+ music files to an external usb drive by running
sudo rsync -av /home/diana/music/ /media/USBdisc/Music
A lot of the material was already on the
luxxius wrote:
> ... I hadn't realised that gnome-ubuntu did not install
> the bluez-utils
Oops - not 'gnome-ubuntu' but 'gnome-bluetooth', of course.
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Solved this myself - I hadn't realised that gnome-ubuntu did not install
the bluez-utils, and these are needed to run Bluetooth Manager. File
transfer now operational!
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luxxius wrote:
> I've been trying all day to get my Ubuntu box (Feisty) and my work WinXP
> la
I've been trying all day to get my Ubuntu box (Feisty) and my work WinXP
laptop to transfer files to each other via bluetooth (using
gnome-bluetooth on the Ubuntu box). They can see each other, but when I
try to pair from XP I get 'The pairing was rejected by the remote device'.
I've edited h
Chris Rowson wrote:
> Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new
> product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it
> looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd
> be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future
>
>
luxxius wrote:
> How about phoning Belkin: 0193 335 2000 (e-mail [EMAIL PROTECTED])
Just came across Belkin's tech support number: 0845 607 7787
Cheaper than the 0193 number.
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Neil Greenwood wrote:
> On 28/05/07, Robin Menneer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Ta. You don't happen to know if the extension lead sockets are one-shot or
>> resetting , (phone-wise and/or power) ? Robin
>
> I don't sorry. And I don't know where the box/instructions are anymore either.
>
>
Anyone going to USA soon?
http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/linux_3x?c=us&cs=19&l=en&s=dhs&~ck=mn
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Dominic Forrest wrote:
> Don't be so sure - my father lived in a remote part of the Highlands of
> Scotland and had 5 (yes five!) modems fried. I then bought him a
> combined power/phone lightning surge protector and never had another
> problem!
Where do I get one? (And do you have a URL so I
Alan Pope wrote:
> Call me picky, but isn't it true that you can't *prevent* lightning
> strikes, only try to get them to hit something other than your
> aerial/golf club/tree/car/house?
My only experience of a lightning strike was lightning hitting the
telegraph pole down the street, sending a
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