Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introductions and Init script bug query

2007-05-21 Thread christopher chatfield
That's what I thought but the boot script has a bug I think, I'll install sendmail again and let you know the output. Is there a log I can quote for you? On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 20:37 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > That's pretty weird, sendmail should be running from /etc/rc2.d/ > All of the scripts

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread christopher chatfield
It's affordable, no marketing stealing your housekeeping expenses. The shear delight of finding you can do what you want to do in 2 mins without spending another penny! On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 13:07 +0100, Gregory Kirby wrote: > > > >Hi There- It is the politics of Linux etc that attracted me. But I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread norman
< big snip > > Ububtu is reliable, free and friendly - Windows isn't any of > these. I have followed this discussion and others for some time now and would like to tell you of my recent experience. I have used Ubuntu on my desktop since September 2004 and have moved along throug

Re: [ubuntu-uk] non-destructive rescue of Feisty?

2007-05-21 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:04 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 18/05/07, Terence Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > > > Quoting Leon Barker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >> On 18/05/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> > > >>> Hi all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
> Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of > resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them that there is a It's viruses, we don't speak Latin in this country, we speak English, and to pluralise in English you add 's' or 'es'. Sorry to go off topic there. I use Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Branching Threads

2007-05-21 Thread Thomas Ibbotson
> And finally a tale of note. > > I was off air for three unrelated but serial faults - line fault on my BB; > local network fault for entire town; and lastly the important bit. > > I found out on Monday after watching a rather interesting electrical storm > that my router wasn't plugged into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sound recording

2007-05-21 Thread Robin Hall
Chris Jones wrote: > Hi > > Robin Hall wrote: > >>> Could you run http://www.linux-sound.info/alsa/scripts/alsa-info.sh and >>> >> I did what you suggest and got a >> long script >> > > What he meant was to download that script and run it. > > The following should do the trick: > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:08AM +0100, norman wrote: > and not too time consuming a process. Horror upon horrors, the scanner > does not work any more and the machines no longer link to the printer. > Now tell me, what am I to do? Visit this site and create one support ticket for each problem y

[ubuntu-uk] Wireless Card for Feisty

2007-05-21 Thread Robin Hall
I have installed ubuntu Feisty Fox on a fairly ancient Toshiba laptop. I would now like to install a wireless card on it. So, could anybody tell me which, if any, cards yield the minimum of grief when one attempts to configure them to work with Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 21 May 2007 at 09:08:51 Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > > Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of > > resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them that there is a > > It's viruses, we don't speak Latin in this country, we speak English, > and to pluralise in Engli

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread norman
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 10:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:08AM +0100, norman wrote: > > and not too time consuming a process. Horror upon horrors, the scanner > > does not work any more and the machines no longer link to the printer. > > Now tell me, what am I to do? > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless Card for Feisty

2007-05-21 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:05:26AM +0100, Robin Hall wrote: > I have installed ubuntu Feisty Fox on a fairly ancient Toshiba laptop. > I would now like to install a wireless card on it. So, could anybody > tell me which, if any, cards yield the minimum of grief when one > attempts to confi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless Card for Feisty

2007-05-21 Thread baza
Robin Hall wrote: > I have installed ubuntu Feisty Fox on a fairly ancient Toshiba laptop. > I would now like to install a wireless card on it. So, could anybody > tell me which, if any, cards yield the minimum of grief when one > attempts to configure them to work with Ubuntu. > I run a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wireless Card for Feisty

2007-05-21 Thread John Levin
Robin Hall wrote: > I have installed ubuntu Feisty Fox on a fairly ancient Toshiba laptop. > I would now like to install a wireless card on it. So, could anybody > tell me which, if any, cards yield the minimum of grief when one > attempts to configure them to work with Ubuntu. > For abs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread norman
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:15 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote: > On Monday 21 May 2007 at 09:08:51 Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > > > Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of > > > resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them that there is a > > > > It's viruses, we don't speak Lati

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread Peter Lewis
On Monday 21 May 2007 at 11:49:45 norman wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:15 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote: > > On Monday 21 May 2007 at 09:08:51 Thomas Ibbotson wrote: > > > > Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of > > > > resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Norman, On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:16:51AM +0100, norman wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 10:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:08AM +0100, norman wrote: > > > and not too time consuming a process. Horror upon horrors, the scanner > > > does not work any more and the mac

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread norman
< snip > > > > http://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/ - If you are not already registered, > > > then click the link at the top right to register. Once registered come > > > back > > > to that page and click "Ask a question" in the top left. I am already registered have been a long time even bef

[ubuntu-uk] Problem installing R packages

2007-05-21 Thread Douglas Campbell
Dear all Ubuntu users I am an otherwise happy user working on my PhD. I am trying to download some packages for the R statistics program but come up with the following messages: trying URL 'http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran/src/contrib/QCAGUI_1.2-7.tar.gz' Content type 'application/x-tar' length 1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem installing R packages

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Walker
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 14:34 +0100, Douglas Campbell wrote: > Dear all Ubuntu users > > I am an otherwise happy user working on my PhD. I am trying to download > some packages for the R statistics program but come up with the > following messages: > > trying URL > 'http://www.sourcekeg.co.uk/cran

[ubuntu-uk] scanner

2007-05-21 Thread norman
Those of you who have read the interchange earlier today between Alan Pope and myself may well have concluded that I was a bit up tight. You are quite right and this why. If you have the time have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/85488 You will see that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

2007-05-21 Thread Dave Walker
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:47 +0100, norman wrote: > Those of you who have read the interchange earlier today between Alan > Pope and myself may well have concluded that I was a bit up tight. You > are quite right and this why. If you have the time have a look at > > https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

2007-05-21 Thread Chris Rowson
It'd be a lot more irritating if you paid for an operating system that had problems which weren't being fixed "Seven weeks ago, when we first reported Vista was causing many machines to stall indefinitely while deleting, copying and moving files, we were sure the problem was caused by a bug th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

2007-05-21 Thread norman
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 20:15 +0100, Dave Walker wrote: > On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:47 +0100, norman wrote: > > Those of you who have read the interchange earlier today between Alan > > Pope and myself may well have concluded that I was a bit up tight. You > > are quite right and this why. If you have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

2007-05-21 Thread Robin Menneer
On 5/21/07, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Those of you who have read the interchange earlier today between Alan Pope and myself may well have concluded that I was a bit up tight. You are quite right and this why. If you have the time have a look at https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

2007-05-21 Thread norman
< snip > > > Now we don't know what to think. Vista's Long Goodbye, as we've come > to call this bizarre phenomenon, continues unabated. No amount of > diagnosing by the untold number of confounded sysadmins sheds any > light on the problem's cause, and Microsoft has yet to acknowledge its > full

[ubuntu-uk] Fresh install, multiple users, moving /home

2007-05-21 Thread Dianne Reuby
I installed Dapper at Christmas, thinking I'd give myself plenty of time to play with it until my XP was no longer supported - now I'm using it full time. :) I have two hard drives, originally one held Windows C:/ and D:/, and the other my Windows backup E:/ drive. I put Dapper on the end of my D:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fresh install, multiple users, moving /home

2007-05-21 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:32 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote: > There are three other users besides myself, who are all happy with > Ubuntu. So if I move the /home, will that automatically create those > users with the current passwords, or will I need to recreate them? (I'm > backing up the home partitio

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

2007-05-21 Thread LeeUKHA
>> Now we don't know what to think. Vista's Long Goodbye, as we've come >> to call this bizarre phenomenon, continues unabated. No amount of >> diagnosing by the untold number of confounded sysadmins sheds any >> light on the problem's cause, and Microsoft has yet to acknowledge its >> full extent