Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Rob Beard
On 20/01/2009 00:05, Sean Miller wrote: > Anybody got any experience of mobile broadband? > > I may be moving to rented accommodation shortly and don't know how > long I'll be there, so the mobile broadband concept is tempting as > it'll allow me to not worry about "minimum contracts" and so on wit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Chris Rowson
Anybody got any experience of mobile broadband? > > I may be moving to rented accommodation shortly and don't know how > long I'll be there, so the mobile broadband concept is tempting as > it'll allow me to not worry about "minimum contracts" and so on with > phone lines etc. > > How supported is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread James Thomas
I use the Huawei E220 with T-mobile (contract) It was as easy as plugging it in selecting T-mobile from the dropdown and I was online in minutes. (Ibex) Download a limited but not enforced... Has been excellent. Highly recommended... I have tried to configure an ICON 255 that came with Orange,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scottish Users

2009-01-20 Thread Ken Robson
azmodie, you are right I didn't state where I am ;-).. I live in Galashiels, which is about 80 miles (round trip) to my nearest lug (Edlug). Ken -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Betteridge
An XPS1530, which is a really nice machine. The design of it is nice enough that, having switched from a Mac, it doesn't feel like I've traded down in terms of looks! :) The built-in 3G was a BTO option - I think it added about £40 to the price, which seemed a good deal given that I'm convinced I'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-20 Thread Ian Betteridge
IIRC from researching this a while ago, some dongles used to require quite a bit of fiddling to get working. Some of the USB sticks included both the modem itself and a flash drive which contained the Windows (and sometimes Mac) drivers - very convenient on those platforms, but unfortunately not we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband; Step by step

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Sean Miller wrote: > How supported is it with Ubuntu? 1. Insert dongle into USB port. 2. (one time only) Select United Kingdom->'3' (or Orange/T-mobile/etc) 3. Cruise the interweb. 4. Remove dongle. Repeat Steps 1., 3. and 4. whenever bored. The connection is as good as the

[ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen Garton
Afternoon All, I'm after a gui tool to help me design database queries (primarily for MySQL databases). In the windows world, I can use SQLyog enterprise - http://webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_list.php - (which works under wine) or even MS Access I have also tried Navicat - http://mysql.navicat.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread Oliver Marks
On Tue, 2009-01-20 at 13:44 +, Stephen Garton wrote: > Afternoon All, > > I'm after a gui tool to help me design database queries (primarily for > MySQL databases). > > In the windows world, I can use SQLyog enterprise - > http://webyog.com/en/sqlyog_feature_list.php - (which works under > wi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread azmodie
you could try http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/workbench/5.1.html MySQL Workbench 5.0 - The DBDesigner 4 Successor MySQL Workbench 5.0 has been developed by the Developer Tools Team of Sun Microsystems, Database Group. The team is lead by fabFORCE.net founder and DBDesigner4 implementor Michael G.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Visual Query Designer

2009-01-20 Thread Guy Thouret
You might want to take a look at MySQL Workbench. I have found it the best program I have come across for generating E-R diagrams of your databases and creating MySQL table schemas in that you can then export as SQL structures. As just a query designer, however, it may not be suitable. But for a

[ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Adam Funk
I made the mistake of buying a Yuraku 1.5" digital photo-frame keyring, then discovered it not only fails to work as a USB mass-storage device (the obvious standard) but it isn't even compatible with PTP (gphoto). Can anyone recommend something like this that is compatible with either of these st

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Adam Funk wrote: > I made the mistake of buying a Yuraku 1.5" digital photo-frame The last one I came across only had something like 8MB of flash on it anyway. However I couldn't find any results for searching for this name, could you post the USB ID; output shown by: lsus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
I am the same issue with a Prolectrix Digitial Keyring. It's a 1.5inch screen to but does not appear to be mounted anywhere. This is my lsusb output below: ch...@chris-laptop:~$ lsusb Bus 005 Device 003: ID 0ac8:c002 Z-Star Microelectronics Corp. Visual Communication Camera VGP-VCC1 Bus 005 Device

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/20 Christopher Swift : > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1908:1320 Via google I found http://tppl.net/cgi-bin/avantify.cgi?url=08/12/29/0155249&threshold=3 Second opinion - scanning another 1.5" photo frame (score: 3, Informative) by AYeomans (322504) on Monday December 29, @03:58PM Here [virsca

[ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/22dc95c395341c679b560a7d0cf14ae4 It doesn't appear to be trojaned unlike the rest of the other installers but that doesn't help me use it properly :D. I believe this to be my dmesg output btw: [ 7372.228059] usb 2-1:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/22dc95c395341c679b560a7d0cf14ae4 It doesn't appear to be trojaned unlike the rest of the other installers but that doesn't help me use it properly :D. I believe this to be my dmesg output btw: [ 7372.228059] usb 2-1:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyring compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Adam Funk
On 2009-01-20, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Adam Funk wrote: >> I made the mistake of buying a Yuraku 1.5" digital photo-frame > > The last one I came across only had something like 8MB of flash on it > anyway. However I couldn't find any results for searching for this name, > could

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Photo keyrings compatible with standards?

2009-01-20 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009, Christopher Swift wrote: > Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1908:1320 >From Googling (same URL that Popey also found) /that/ device might first appear as a 1MB CD-ROM (so, read-only), which then contains the special(tm) MS Windows software. Once loaded, the software switches the device

[ubuntu-uk] Sharing PGP Keys

2009-01-20 Thread Stephen Garton
Morning All, I'm going through a security conscious phase again, and have just set up a PGP key on one of my laptops. My question is could I & should I share this key with another laptop, so that I can use the same key from both computers? If I can and I should, how would I go about it? Links to