[ubuntu-uk] Brother P-touch 1230 labelling machine

2012-01-30 Thread Mark Fraser
Lidl have the Brother P-touch 1230 labelling machine for £24.99 and it is possible to get it to work with Ubuntu by installing B-Label from here http://apz.fi/blabel/ .You will have to use alien to convert the rpm package to deb, but it seems to work fine. -- Registered Linux User #466407 http:

[ubuntu-uk] Problem with pulseaudio that's really bugging me.

2012-01-30 Thread Hassan "Haz" Williamson
Hi all, I've been having this really annoying issue with pulseaudio for a while now, whereby it will only work properly in "system-mode" i.e. by killing pulseaudio after startup (due to it being hung) and running "sudo pulseaudio --system". I can't seem to figure out what's going wrong, it's clear

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Liam Proven
On 29 January 2012 16:48, John MM wrote: > Not an attitude, just a question Please bottom-quote on the list. -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • Skype/AIM/Yahoo/L

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/01/12 14:34, Liam Proven wrote: Please bottom-quote on the list. I know we insist on bottom quoting, but PLEASE - if you must insist on that, insist that those who post also trim out all but the snippet(s) they are responding to . PLAAASE .. Regards,Barry. -- Ba

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Liam Proven
On 30 January 2012 14:38, Barry Drake wrote: > On 30/01/12 14:34, Liam Proven wrote: >> >> Please bottom-quote on the list. > > > I know we insist on bottom quoting, but PLEASE - if you must insist on that, > insist that those who post also trim out all but the snippet(s) they are > responding to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/01/12 14:44, Liam Proven wrote: *Some* context is necessary to follow the thread. Secondly, doesn't any half-decent modern email client collapse text you've read before? Dunno I've used Evolution quite recently and am now using Thunderbird simply as the Ubuntu default client. Ne

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Alan Bell
and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk about Ubuntu instead. and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk about Ubuntu instead. -- Libertus Solutions http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Simon Watson
Very well said! --Original Message-- From: Alan Bell Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com ReplyTo: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr Sent: 30 Jan 2012 15:28 and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Kris Douglas
It could... On 30 January 2012 15:28, Alan Bell wrote: > and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk > about Ubuntu instead. >> ...Be worse Really >> > to turn out different this time/> > > and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk > abou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Barry Drake
On 30/01/12 15:28, Alan Bell wrote: and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on and talk about Ubuntu instead. Thank you Alan - that says it all! -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] bottom quoting - was mbr

2012-01-30 Thread Dave Morley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 30/01/12 16:03, Barry Drake wrote: > On 30/01/12 15:28, Alan Bell wrote: >> and I thought we had settled on sandwich posting. Lets move on >> and talk about Ubuntu instead. > > Thank you Alan - that says it all! > Hmmm Sandwich - -- Yo

[ubuntu-uk] downloading images from a mac email

2012-01-30 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
Avi wrote: > A brother in-law sent me some pictures that are in some way embedded > in the email. With evolution i cannot seem to download them and with > google web mail I have only been able to rightclick save them one by > one. They seem to not even show as attachments. > Is it simply linking

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread bouncysteve
I've got a giffgaff sim which supposedly gives me unlimited data for £10, and spurred on by this post on gigaom.comabout SIP being a viable main phone number I thought I'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 30 January 2012 17:40, bouncysteve wrote: > I've got a giffgaff sim > which supposedly gives me > unlimited data for £10, and spurred on by this post > on > gigaom.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread thegeeksquadron
You can get a free SIP Address @ekiga.net if it's for a softphone you're looking for :) -- -Original Message- From: bouncysteve Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 17:40:31 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread Alan Pope
On 30/01/12 17:40, bouncysteve wrote: Does anyone have any recommendations of i) a tutorial for simple Asterisk setup ii)providers of SIP numbers? I don't really make many outgoing calls, so I just want a cheap deal that will give me a fixed number for incoming calls that won't cost much for non

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and getting a SIP number

2012-01-30 Thread thegeeksquadron
Guess I kind of misread that one -- -Original Message- From: thegeeksquad...@ymail.com Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 18:11:05 To: UK Talk Reply-To: thegeeksquad...@ymail.com, UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asterisk and