[ubuntu-uk] Viewing Flash with totem-xine

2007-05-12 Thread Jim Kissel
I was just watching a Flash video about Ubuntu which I found amusing and decided to download a copy. Found the videodownloader plugin for Firefox and downloaded it and tried to play it back with the default "Movie Player" Toten 2.16.2 (xine-lib 1.1.2 Ubuntu Edgy 6.10) Playback is fine, but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

2007-05-12 Thread Alec Wright
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 07:12 +0100, I C McNab wrote: > I'm about to install Fiesty on a new 500Gb drive (to boot first in a > dual boot set up with XP on a 160Gb drive in same box). > > I'm going to keep things simple: partitions for /, /home, and /swap, > following advice in this thread. > > B

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Partitioning Questions

2007-05-12 Thread I C McNab
Alec Wright wrote: > I recommend 15-20GB for / (my / is 15GB on a 250GB), 1-3GB for swap > (just to be safe... i have 3GB on my 250GB) and make the rest /home > > But 20GB and 3GB are a bit excessive; you could easily get away with > 10GB and 1GB (or even less!) > > Heres my partition table in c

[ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Ubuntu-UK hits 200 users !

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Wood
Congratulations to Steve Belcher who became Ubuntu-UK's 200th member on launchpad[1]. All in a matter of 8 Months and 8 days, well done everyone for spreading the love. [1]https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-uk/+members -- /\/\ichael [ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ] \/\/ood [ http://michaelwood.me.uk ]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Ubuntu-UK hits 200 users !

2007-05-12 Thread Chris Rowson
> Congratulations to Steve Belcher who became Ubuntu-UK's 200th member on > launchpad[1]. > > All in a matter of 8 Months and 8 days, well done everyone for spreading > the love. > Here, Here -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Ubuntu-UK hits 200 users !

2007-05-12 Thread Chris Rowson
> Here, Here > Or in fact hear, hear in one of my less language-challenged moments!! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad Ubuntu-UK hits 200 users !

2007-05-12 Thread Stephen Morrish
I think we all knew what you ment... -- Regards Steve Morrish... AKA Pendragon ICQ 112 044 096 On 5/12/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here, Here > > > > Or in fact hear, hear in one of my less language-challenged moments!! > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists

[ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Wood
Hello Again, So, It's the Eurovision song contest tonight, It's going to be streamed from http://www.eurovision.tv using a plugin that you can get from here: http://www.octoshape.com/files/octosetup-linux_i386.bin run the octosetup-linux_i386.bin file in a terminal via the command: sh octosetup-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Wood
Michael Wood wrote: > Hello Again, > > So, It's the Eurovision song contest tonight, It's going to be streamed > from http://www.eurovision.tv using a plugin that you can get from here: > http://www.octoshape.com/files/octosetup-linux_i386.bin > > run the octosetup-linux_i386.bin file in a terminal

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream

2007-05-12 Thread Michael Wood
Michael Wood wrote: > Hello Again, > > So, It's the Eurovision song contest tonight, It's going to be streamed > from http://www.eurovision.tv using a plugin that you can get from here: > http://www.octoshape.com/files/octosetup-linux_i386.bin > > run the octosetup-linux_i386.bin file in a terminal

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Win TV

2007-05-12 Thread norman
> norman wrote: > > Following on from a suggestion made by Roberto Sarrionandia some days > > ago I have bought a WinTV Nova-T Stick/DVB-T USB2 XP/MCE which is a > > Hauppauge USB freeview device. Roberto, if you read this, or anyone else > > who knows about these things, could you tell me please

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream

2007-05-12 Thread LeeUKHA
> Hello Again, > > So, It's the Eurovision song contest tonight, It's going to be streamed > from http://www.eurovision.tv using a plugin that you can get from here: > http://www.octoshape.com/files/octosetup-linux_i386.bin > > run the octosetup-linux_i386.bin file in a terminal via the command: >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Eurovision Song contest internet stream

2007-05-12 Thread Dave Walker
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 20:53 +0100, LeeUKHA wrote: > > On Windows it would have been a click to download, a double click to run > the installer and a click to accept the T&Cs... > Roll on Gutsy... > There is no reason why this couldn't be wrapped up into a 'double click' fashion using either de