[ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Barry Drake
Just thought I'd mention last night I installed 12.10 Quantal pre-alpha from the testing site on my spare HDD. Works just fine for now. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 15/05/12 09:48, Barry Drake wrote: Just thought I'd mention last night I installed 12.10 Quantal pre-alpha from the testing site on my spare HDD. Works just fine for now. Bloody hell! I'm only just getting to grips with 12.04... :-) -- Registered Linux User no 240308 GBP's a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Andy Braben
On 15 May 2012 09:49, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 15/05/12 09:48, Barry Drake wrote: > > Just thought I'd mention last night I installed 12.10 Quantal > pre-alpha from the testing site on my spare HDD. Works just fine for now. > > > Bloody hell! I'm only just getting to grips with 1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Kris Douglas
On 15 May 2012 10:00, Andy Braben wrote: > > > On 15 May 2012 09:49, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >> >> On 15/05/12 09:48, Barry Drake wrote: >> >> Just thought I'd mention   last night I installed 12.10 Quantal >> pre-alpha from the testing site on my spare HDD.  Works just fine for now. >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/05/12 10:01, Kris Douglas wrote: Are there anything new in 12.10 yet? I wouldn't have thought so. I'll wait a while before upgrading my spare PC. Unity 4D :) Oh yes! And the rest. No there are no significant changes yet. I'm just interested in watching the process all the way through

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread James Tait
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15/05/12 10:18, Barry Drake wrote: > On 15/05/12 10:01, Kris Douglas wrote: >> Are there anything new in 12.10 yet? I wouldn't have thought so. > No there are no significant changes yet. I *think* - based on the mail from Colin Watson [0] and a ver

[ubuntu-uk] broadband problem

2012-05-15 Thread Norman Silverstone
Where I live it is only possible to get BB speeds of between 1.0 mbps and 1.5 mbps so I am testing wireless broadband (TFL). There a number of machines using the BB supply but not all at the same time. On my work surface there are two working routers one connected to the wireless supply and the ot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/05/12 12:32, James Tait wrote: I *think* - based on the mail from Colin Watson [0] and a very quick query on IRC - that the big sync from Debian is still to happen due to hardware issues, which would account for the lack of significant change so far. I'd be quite happy to be corrected, th

[ubuntu-uk] Getting Xgnokii to work?

2012-05-15 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
I've installed Xgnokii from the Ubuntu Software centre, hopefully to administer my Nokia X3 phone. It's installed OK but when I click the icon nothing happens except a very faint splash screen in the middle of my screen that just disappears. The User guide http://gnokii.org/docs.shtml doesn't see

Re: [ubuntu-uk] broadband problem

2012-05-15 Thread Norman Silverstone
I forget to mention that the connection from the routers to the PCs was by wireless. To add another bit of information the PC running Xubuntu was tried with a wired connection to the router and the BB speed was 8.2 mbps. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] broadband problem

2012-05-15 Thread Kris Douglas
On 15 May 2012 15:34, Norman Silverstone wrote: > I forget to mention that the connection from the routers to the PCs was > by wireless. To add another bit of information the PC running Xubuntu > was tried with a wired connection to the router and the BB speed was 8.2 > mbps. > > Norman Is it an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Xgnokii to work?

2012-05-15 Thread Joe
I don't know anything about the program itself, but as for finding the installation directory you could run 'whereis xgnokii' which should show you where the executable with that name is stored. If that doesn't work there's also 'locate xgnokii' which should show the position of any files and di

Re: [ubuntu-uk] broadband problem

2012-05-15 Thread Norman Silverstone
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 15:38 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 15 May 2012 15:34, Norman Silverstone wrote: > > I forget to mention that the connection from the routers to the PCs was > > by wireless. To add another bit of information the PC running Xubuntu > > was tried with a wired connection to th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] broadband problem

2012-05-15 Thread Kris Douglas
On 15 May 2012 17:22, Norman Silverstone wrote: >> > I forget to mention that the connection from the routers to the PCs was >> > by wireless. To add another bit of information the PC running Xubuntu >> > was tried with a wired connection to the router and the BB speed was 8.2 >> > mbps. > Kris

Re: [ubuntu-uk] broadband problem

2012-05-15 Thread Norman Silverstone
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:45 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 15 May 2012 17:22, Norman Silverstone wrote: > >> > I forget to mention that the connection from the routers to the PCs was > >> > by wireless. To add another bit of information the PC running Xubuntu > >> > was tried with a wired connect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] broadband problem

2012-05-15 Thread Norman Silverstone
On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 17:45 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > On 15 May 2012 17:22, Norman Silverstone wrote: > >> > I forget to mention that the connection from the routers to the PCs was > >> > by wireless. To add another bit of information the PC running Xubuntu > >> > was tried with a wired connect

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flossie 2012

2012-05-15 Thread Rebecca Newborough
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Paula Graham wrote: > Flossie 2012, 25/26 May, is a conference Fossbox, G.Hack and Codasign are > organising for women interested in open source, open culture - and all > things open. Women involved with tech projects, arts, non-profits and VCOs > equally welco

Re: [ubuntu-uk] broadband problem

2012-05-15 Thread Gibbs
On 15/05/12 20:56, Norman Silverstone wrote: I am sorry to be a nuisance but I had a search through the various bits and pieces that came with the new computer and found a CD labelled Edimax which is the name of the wireless card. On opening up the CD I came across a file labelled 'Driver for Lin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Bruno Girin
On 15/05/12 15:22, Barry Drake wrote: > On 15/05/12 12:32, James Tait wrote: >> I *think* - based on the mail from Colin Watson [0] and a very quick >> query on IRC - that the big sync from Debian is still to happen due >> to hardware issues, which would account for the lack of significant >> chang

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Barry Drake
On 15/05/12 22:35, Bruno Girin wrote: I found a forgotten HDD the other day that I didn't know what to do with. Installing Quantal pre-alpha on it sounds like a good idea. All the bugs in Quantal can't be worse than what's on it right now anyway. Thanks for the idea! Bruno Hey! 12.04 is the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Neil Greenwood
I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 15, 2012 10:48 PM, "Barry Drake" wrote: > On 15/05/12 22:35, Bruno Girin wrote: > >> I found a forgotten HDD the oth

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Getting Xgnokii to work?

2012-05-15 Thread Neil Greenwood
Since it came from a .deb, you can also run dpkg --listfiles xgnokii Neil. P.S. Sorry for the brevity, this is typed on my phone. On May 15, 2012 4:24 PM, "Joe" wrote: > I don't know anything about the program itself, but as for finding the > installation directory you could run 'whereis xgnok