Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

On 28/04/2012 20:43, Timothy Rittman wrote: On Sat 28 Apr 2012 15:31:46 BST, Kris Douglas wrote: On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50a wrote: been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on the rescue side but it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

On 28/04/2012 20:43, Timothy Rittman wrote: On Sat 28 Apr 2012 15:31:46 BST, Kris Douglas wrote: On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50a wrote: been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on the rescue side but it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]

On 24/04/12 23:12, Bruno Girin wrote: On 24/04/12 23:04, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: El jue, 19-04-2012 a las 12:00 +, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com escribió: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]

On 29 April 2012 11:12, Alan Bell wrote: > On 24/04/12 23:12, Bruno Girin wrote: >> >> On 24/04/12 23:04, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: >>> >>> El jue, 19-04-2012 a las 12:00 +, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com >>> escribió: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-anno

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

On 28/04/2012 20:43, Timothy Rittman wrote: On Sat 28 Apr 2012 15:31:46 BST, Kris Douglas wrote: On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50a wrote: been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on the rescue side but it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]

> Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2012 11:12:32 +0100 > From: alanb...@ubuntu.com > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption > of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]] > > On 24/04/12 23:12, Bruno Girin wrote:

[ubuntu-uk] Hackspace at the Museum of Computing

We're looking at the possibility of starting a 'Hackspace' at the museum in Swindon town centre. A Hackspace (or Hackerspace) is a place where like-minded people with an interest in technology (electronics, computers, robotics, programming, electronic art etc.) can get together, collaborate, shar

[ubuntu-uk] updated to 12.04: fixes and questions

I updated fine but had the following problems. Some I have managed to fix others where probably broken before the update. I have a user account. the screen was slightly to the left. My normal account was looking fine and centered. I fixed it by changing the aspect ratio to another and back again.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] updated to 12.04: fixes and questions

> installed the wikipedia lens but does not seem to come up. I wrote > lens and dash on the dash and it does not find anything. In case it helps, this is the answer I got from the [very helpful] writer of the lens: Michael Hall15 Apr 2012 +Billy Baker if you run "quickly package", it should cr

[ubuntu-uk] Missing window decoration after failed upgrade to 12.04

Hi all My update to 12.04 did not go well. My PC crashed after the downloads were completed and part way through the update. I had to restart it (in a terminal) so I'm sure that I will have a few problems, although it did complete. The first one to show up is a lack of window decoration. It's s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]

On 29/04/12 13:06, Michael Daniels wrote: > >Yes, Alan, Microsoft will try to use any option available to counter any possible threat to their sales prospects. We do not have "Windows 8" yet due to instability problems, "Windows Vista" was not a commercial success. Ubuntu 12.04 works, witho

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

On 29/04/12 12:30, scoundrel50a wrote: Is there anyway I can reinstall/repair using terminal, so that I dont loose all the folders I have on the laptop? Rather than go through loads of questions..might be easier. one thing you could consider is a reinstall without formatting the dis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing window decoration after failed upgrade to 12.04

Tony, On 29/04/12 18:32, Tony Pursell wrote: > The first one to show up is a lack of window decoration. It's something > that I had a few years ago after a version update, but I've forgotten > now what I did to cure it. Can anyone help me? This rings a bell. Try running the Compiz Config Setti

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

On 29/04/2012 18:38, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 12:30, scoundrel50a wrote: Is there anyway I can reinstall/repair using terminal, so that I dont loose all the folders I have on the laptop? Rather than go through loads of questions..might be easier. one thing you could consider is

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an upgrade. This is exactly the problem I had when upgrading my netbook, so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing window decoration after failed upgrade to 12.04

On 29 April 2012 18:39, Tony Arnold wrote: > Tony, > > On 29/04/12 18:32, Tony Pursell wrote: > > > The first one to show up is a lack of window decoration. It's something > > that I had a few years ago after a version update, but I've forgotten > > now what I did to cure it. Can anyone help me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today where exactly? as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an upgrade. This is e

[ubuntu-uk] promotional poster

Hi In an effort to create something simple to promote ubuntu i have taken some of the text from the ubuntu website and created a mini flyer http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3356122/ubuntu/ubuntu%20poster1204b.odt notice I have also put a disclaimer on the bottom, this similar wording to what I have on my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 18:58, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today where exactly? Launchpad - at :https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu This is not somewhere I usually lurk but it was so overwhelmed that I thought I'd put my two pen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

On 29/04/12 18:53, scoundrel50a wrote: Hi, thanks for the reply, I am not sure what happened really, all I know is that I get that error I posted about earlier in another e-mail after getting past the grub..and it just hangscan I reinstall without formatting using the Terminal?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 19:37, Barry Drake wrote: > On 29/04/12 18:58, Alan Bell wrote: >> On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: >>> I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today >> where exactly? > > Launchpad - at :https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu This is not > somewhere I usually lurk but it was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 20:11, Bruno Girin wrote: I did. On two machines with no problem. I don't think upgrading to 12.04 is disastrous. I think two things are happening: 1. Ubuntu has a very wide user base with a lot of different configs so even if 1% of users have issues, it will appear as a very large n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an upgrade. This is exactly the problem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

On 29/04/2012 20:04, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 18:53, scoundrel50a wrote: Hi, thanks for the reply, I am not sure what happened really, all I know is that I get that error I posted about earlier in another e-mail after getting past the grub..and it just hangscan I reinstall wi

[ubuntu-uk] Making VLC muliregion

VLC player is said to be multi-region, mine will only play region "0" or region "2".There is a patch on "Community Documentation", starts, sudo apt-get install libdvdread4Next line says "Then open a terminalwindow and execute:"sudo /usr/share/doc/libdvdread4/install-css.shFollowed by, "Rebootin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 20:54, alan c wrote: On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an upg

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

Hi All On 29 April 2012 19:37, Barry Drake wrote: > On 29/04/12 18:58, Alan Bell wrote: > >> On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: >> >>> I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today >>> >> where exactly? >> > > Launchpad - at > :https://answers.launchpad.**net/ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 21:04, Alan Bell wrote: it says "do you want to upgrade?" and you can say yes or no to it. Clearly "yes" is the preferred option, but why shouldn't we encourage people to upgrade to new cool stuff that will make their experience better (which is the aim of it, sometimes that doesn't w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] promotional poster

On 29 April 2012 19:11, paul sutton wrote: > Hi > > In an effort to create something simple to promote ubuntu i have taken > some of the text from the ubuntu website and created a mini flyer > > http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3356122/ubuntu/ubuntu%20poster1204b.odt > > notice I have also put a disclaime

Re: [ubuntu-uk] promotional poster

On 29 April 2012 22:54, Tony Pursell wrote: > > > On 29 April 2012 19:11, paul sutton wrote: > >> Hi >> >> In an effort to create something simple to promote ubuntu i have taken >> some of the text from the ubuntu website and created a mini flyer >> >> http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3356122/ubuntu/ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 22:54, alan c wrote: > On 29/04/12 21:04, Alan Bell wrote: >> it says "do you want to upgrade?" and you can say yes or no to it. >> Clearly "yes" is the preferred option, but why shouldn't we encourage >> people to upgrade to new cool stuff that will make their experience >> better (whi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

On 29/04/12 22:54, alan c wrote: There are strong moves to make Ubuntu good for a vast user base, but many existing users are diy users like my 80+ friend, and in terms of a discussion list like this one, they are novices and do not know what, say, a partition is, like most Windows users don't.