Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyway of downloading Iplayer?

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
buy a cheap Freeview Playback box and replace the fixed hard drive with a hard drive caddy. Record the programmes then mount the hard drive on your local machine, then rip the MPEG2 stream file to whatever you fancy. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyway of downloading Iplayer?

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
Alan Pope wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:00:22AM +0000, Andrew Oakley wrote: >> A higher quality option would be to buy a cheap Freeview Playback box > My Freeview box (Humax 9200T) has an "odd" disk layout that isn't easily > mountable on Linux. YMMV. Yeah

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HDD drives... which brand(s)?

2008-02-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
data. I presented a Software RAID1 HowTo using mdadm a while back at our local LUG, the notes are here: http://www.aoakley.com/articles/2007-04-18.php Hard drives do fail, no matter which brand. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] USB Hard Drive Group Permissions

2008-02-08 Thread Andrew Oakley
uid= config is either not present, or blank. For instance, my gconf-editor - System - Storage - Default Options - VFat - mount_options shows: [shortname=mixed,uid=,utf8,umask=077,exec,usefree] The important bit there is "uid=" (uid equals empty) which defaults to the currently logged-in u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mailing lists

2008-02-08 Thread Andrew Oakley
out-of-date and may be difficult to integrate with more recent mail servers. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Skype 2.0 beta

2008-02-10 Thread Andrew Oakley
up a Linux-powered VOIP-SIP router, the Linksys SPA3102 (40 quid), so you can make free/cheap calls from your existing BT landline using normal BT extensions and handsets, whilst still receiving incoming calls on your existing BT number. http://www.aoakley.com/articles/2008-01-08.php -- A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server - sys req?

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Oakley
f. (Listed towards the bottom of http://www.xubuntu.org/get ) If you'd like to see what you can achieve with 1.5GHz AMD Athlon CPU, 768MB PC133 RAM and an elderly 64MB Nvidia GeForce2MX PCI graphics card: http://youtube.com/watch?v=0GOlLJP_Knk -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubu

[ubuntu-uk] Minimal Ubuntu setups (was: Ubuntu Server - sys req?

2008-02-11 Thread Andrew Oakley
The straw that broke the camel's back, I suppose. http://recordmydesktop.iovar.org It's on the repos. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server - sys req?

2008-02-12 Thread Andrew Oakley
d will buy you about one and a half square metres of the stuff. A typical PC will only require about fifty square centimetres. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bottom Screen Bar

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Oakley
accidentally moved/deleted by right-clicking the three vertical dots and selecting "Lock To Panel". -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual monitors with independent desktops

2008-02-13 Thread Andrew Oakley
off "Edge Flip Move" under "Rotate Cube" to prevent it from simply rotating/switching virtual desktops when you drag a window to the screen edge. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Notebook Problems

2008-02-16 Thread Andrew Oakley
s. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/180907 The irony of this bug being nailed fasted by Nvidia's closed-source team, than both Intel and the open source community can fix it with the open source software, is, I'm sure, not lost on any of us. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Synaptic

2008-02-18 Thread Andrew Oakley
Paul Tansom wrote: > Does anyone have any ideas why Synaptic and add/remove programs would > both be insisting on using a proxy that is no longer configured? Is there a proxy set in gconf? Eg. gconf-editor - system - http_proxy or elsewhere? -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile internet proxy

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
things, like SMTP for spammers. Oops. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile internet proxy

2008-02-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
sers are children. However, "any feature that cannot be turned off is a bug", as they say. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Synaptic

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Oakley
was blocked, you wouldn't be able to receive email and you wouldn't be able to read the ubuntu-uk list. Therefore I think we can rule this out as the problem. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Notebook Problems

2008-02-20 Thread Andrew Oakley
phrases which have entered popular culture (in any case, modern Satanism is mainly about self-empowerment and personal fulfilment, having little to do with criminal behaviour or the supernatural). -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can I use a desktop PC as a network hub?

2008-02-22 Thread Andrew Oakley
h: Modem -> FiveQuidSwitch -> PC -> Laptop1 -> Laptop2 -> Printer -> etc. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadband

2008-02-23 Thread Andrew Oakley
I can't guarantee the first person you speak to on the phone will be a Linux expert, but the second person... no problem. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives

2008-02-25 Thread Andrew Oakley
#x27;ve lost the jumpers) Install the drives on separate cables. Change the jumpers on your CD/DVD drive to be a slave. (I have some spare hard drive jumpers if you want one? Send an SAE to A Oakley, 7 Frampton Cottages, GL20 8NX) -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Media Centre Functionality

2008-02-28 Thread Andrew Oakley
ky/Freesat), just tune to EuroNews and select a foreign language. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Minimal, Lighttpd, Perl CGI, PHP and & MySQL with Tiny Memory

2008-03-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
use. In particular, my config is suitable for very cheap VPS hosting accounts such as vpsville.ca , tektonic.net , cheapvps.co.uk and so forth - basically your own root-access Internet server for less than five quid a month! -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Minimal, Lighttpd, Perl CGI, PHP and & MySQL with Tiny Memory

2008-03-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
number of ready-made PHP applications that use MySQL, though. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cheap VPS hosting (was Ubuntu Minimal, Lighttpd, Perl CGI, PHP and & MySQL with Tiny Memory)

2008-03-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
dian VPSes due to the price. Lucy wrote: > On 06/03/2008, Andrew Oakley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> such as vpsville.ca , tektonic.net , cheapvps.co.uk and so forth - > Has anyone tried any of these companies? I was tempted by > vpsvillage.com, but cheapvps also looks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron Alpha 6

2008-03-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
sively more buggy than the Nvidia driver which is closed source. Hmmm. As a fan of LTS releases, I intend to move all my servers to Hardy a couple of months after it is released. Since none of them run Intel graphics, I'm pretty confident. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New computer nightmare!

2008-03-14 Thread Andrew Oakley
confirmed this will not be fixed in Hardy. Go for low-end ATI or nVidia graphics. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] phorm add on in firefox [reformatted for BP]

2008-03-15 Thread Andrew Oakley
only certain ISPs and definitely does not cover the wholesale ADSL backbones by default. -- Andrew Oakley Original Message From: SurfAnytime Customer Services <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: ISPs Spying On Their Customers ? Not SurfAnytime ! Da

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compositing performance hit

2008-03-27 Thread Andrew Oakley
parency support, not work at all. -- Andrew Oakley [1] DirectX is a Microsoft 3D driver and has little to do with Linux/Ubuntu. I use this only as a useful measure of ascertaining hardware 3D features, when reading from the side of a box or from a list of features on a website, prior to purcha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-27 Thread Andrew Oakley
m Microsoft. Donate one copy to your local school technology officer, and if you can spare more, donate extra copies to your local school library. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-27 Thread Andrew Oakley
they recommended, was to start by encouraging the use of cross-platform FOSS on existing installations of MS Windows, as this would then provide an argument-free migration path to Linux, BSD, Mac or whatever. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailma

[ubuntu-uk] Good printed reference books for FOSS applications?

2008-03-27 Thread Andrew Oakley
icular I'm after a good GIMP manual. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] special characters for french in ubuntu and open-office

2008-03-30 Thread Andrew Oakley
icolon (;), release AltGr, then press the letter you want. > Use like you use the shift key... > > ";" gives acute > "'" gives circumflex > "#" gives grave > "[" gives umlaut > "]" gives tilde > "=" gives cedila --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jobs

2008-03-31 Thread Andrew Oakley
near me, in Gloucestershire or Worcestershire, try: http://www.names.co.uk/jobs.html http://www.messagelabs.co.uk/careers http://www.gchq.gov.uk/recruitment ...who are all heavy Linux houses. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Past Life Regression. How to cripple XP. Our dream come true.

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
l be able to access the local network (in the same building) using IP addresses, but no further. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Past Life Regression. How to cripple XP. Our dream come true.

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
tu, missing out Windows XP entirely. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Past Life Regression. How to cripple XP. Our dream come true.

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
e a very brave person that configured their system so that a forgotten password meant you'd have to reformat & reinstall. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The BBC Launches Wiiplayer??? WHAT!?

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Oakley
roadening my selection of widescreen test cards for my new widescreen laptop. Test Card W is, of course, my favourite, and I plan to personalise it by mocking-up my daughter and her teddybear in front of her easel. Don't yawn - at least I managed to get this thread back on-topic!)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing printer with Cups on Ubuntu server

2008-04-11 Thread Andrew Oakley
tunnel to achieve remote access to localhost, without needing to change the conf file. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Issues

2008-04-16 Thread Andrew Oakley
Chris Smith wrote: > I am seeing a number of issues in Hardy generally related I think to > running it on an IBM Thinkpad (X22). Have you raised a bug on launchpad? If not, do so quickly! https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] problem with synaptic- keeps closing down!!!

2008-04-16 Thread Andrew Oakley
Please can you post your /etc/apt/sources.list file and we'll have a look. You can do this by going into Applications - Accessories - Terminal and typing: cat /etc/apt/sources.list ...and then copy & paste. Also, which version of Ubuntu are you using? You can find this out by doing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Issues

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Oakley
der to 20%, and so forth. That brings counter-intuitive to a whole new level. Can anyone confirm whether this is same issue for Hardy? I don't have my Hardy laptop with me today. The official bug is here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/155840 -- Andrew O

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Issues

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Oakley
this also affects my Dell Inspiron 1520 laptop when I get home later, so please let me know the bug number you report. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Oakley
f everything else is fine, then your motherboard is probably b0rked, sorry (rare, but I have seen it happen twice in 20 years). -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Oakley
that one moment (and there is only ever one) when your nine-month-old daughter presses the UPS-instant-off button (now obscured with a 5p and some masking tape). -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Oakley
#x27;s very expensive, and only, PC and then discover that your PSU subtly fries every motherboard it comes into contact with. I recommend joining your local Linux User Group and finding someone with their own shed full of spares nearby! http://lug.org.uk -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Issues

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Oakley
ad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/218898 Please can you check it, comment if it matches your experience (in particular, state that it happens on your Thinkpad, not just my Dell) and mark the bug as Confirmed. Thanks, -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone here into low-level stuff?

2008-04-17 Thread Andrew Oakley
. X-Windows, Gnome) that it is almost impossible to achieve anything in machine code. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange disk problem...

2008-04-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
cover symbolic links with the command find . -type l ...where "l" is the lower-case letter "el", not the digit one. You could then pipe this to ls -l which would give you the destination of each: find . -type l | xargs -n 1 ls -l ...where "-n 1" is the digit one

Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

2008-04-23 Thread Andrew Oakley
kley.com/album/main.php?g2_itemId=3695 I think we should wear name labels with "Mailing List" written on them. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Hardy release party nametags

2008-04-23 Thread Andrew Oakley
ved with/interested in > ... Free free to make/customise your own if you prefer! -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] hardy - first impressions & problems

2008-04-24 Thread Andrew Oakley
oblems, but I don't use any applets. Try removing your current applets and adding the AWN testing repo as per: https://launchpad.net/~awn-testing/+archive ...then install your favourite applets from that repo. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The day after...

2008-04-25 Thread Andrew Oakley
Philip Newborough wrote: > ...the release night parties, and all is quite on the list :| I think I was the only attendee at work for 9am - and that was in Worcester! It was great to put so many faces to names. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mail

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

2008-04-25 Thread Andrew Oakley
have much more to download. The new intel X driver is amazing. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

2008-04-28 Thread Andrew Oakley
uld have hired out the whole top floor though - it was pleasantly crowded!) -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

2008-04-28 Thread Andrew Oakley
r to the upgrade, as this was from a non-official source. The deborphan command is also useful, it identifies packages which do not have any other packages dependent on them. By default it just lists unused libraries, but it can be used to identify all top-level packages on your system. -- Andr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] CD Burning with Hardy

2008-04-30 Thread Andrew Oakley
speed and checksummed them. I am using a Dell Optiplex 745 desktop with DVD-ROM CD-RW combo drive. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] My Hardy problems and their fixes

2008-04-30 Thread Andrew Oakley
er. I suspect this is a Virtuoso configuration issue. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Suggest low power consumption silent PC

2008-04-30 Thread Andrew Oakley
oice); if I want small and a display, there's the Eee. I can see the point for thin clients, though. In which case, Aleutia for heavy duty situations, Linutop for domestic/known-safe scenarios. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to torrent on a remote machine

2008-05-01 Thread Andrew Oakley
Terminal, before you buy an NSLU2. [1] Not strictly true - you could run a remote desktop using X-server or KDE over VNC. But that's WAY too advanced for today, and very difficult to achieve on an NSLU2. [2] There are technical differences between a terminal, a command line, a shell

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to torrent on a remote machine

2008-05-01 Thread Andrew Oakley
nstead. Thankfully, lots of people have already taken the trouble to create a version of the Debian operating system, stripped down and ready to use on the NSLU2. Debian is very similar to Ubuntu (Ubuntu is based on Debian) so right now, you should learn how to use the terminal in Ubuntu bef

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bacteria in your PC

2008-05-01 Thread Andrew Oakley
>>>> Oh, for heaven's sake. A new keyboard is two quid from a computer fair. You're really not saving any money, and wasting considerable effort, if you need to clean your keyboard more than once or twice a year. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to Hardy- Trying to make it easy!

2008-05-02 Thread Andrew Oakley
[1] Not strictly a good analogy, but sufficient for these purposes. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Re-Spins

2008-05-05 Thread Andrew Oakley
city DVDs? A DVD of Dapper does exist, I know this because it came with "The Official Ubuntu Book". Also there's a Hardy DVD: http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/dvd/current/ Dunno about the other versions. It wouldn't be much trouble to download UCK, remastersys or reconstructor and t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Login/Logout Scripts

2008-05-05 Thread Andrew Oakley
logoff script > from there and at the end of the autologoff script have a line that > resets the password? (I presume any scripts executed from the Default > script will run as root too?) Yes and yes. Consider chown root.root and chmod 750 to prevent the users cat'ing the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recording sound

2008-05-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
open in your web browser if you have Flash installed. If you have the file saved on your hard drive, you can start your web browser then navigate to it with: file:/// -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IMAP Server

2008-05-09 Thread Andrew Oakley
about two years, and am very happy with it. I've only used it for small numbers of users, so I have no idea how well (or poorly) it scales for width. My own mailbox on Dovecot is some 60 megs spread across about a dozen folders, and it remains instantly responsive even across the Internet, so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video

2008-05-11 Thread Andrew Oakley
of the name of the company (MessageLabs, for example). -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] watch tv on ubuntu!

2008-05-12 Thread Andrew Oakley
just tried out Zattoo myself and was very impressed. I wonder how much outbound bandwidth the peer-to-peer part consumes? -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Print Selection prints blank pages in Firefox 3 beta 5 on Hardy?

2008-05-12 Thread Andrew Oakley
As discussed, Ubuntu Hardy installs Firefox 3 beta 5 by default. Can anyone get Print Selection to work on this please? If so, how? Otherwise, please can you confirm this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425094 Thanks, -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Laptop Choices

2008-05-13 Thread Andrew Oakley
50 about four months ago. So long as I don't try to play Team Fortress 2 on it, it seems happy. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] watch tv on ubuntu!

2008-05-14 Thread Andrew Oakley
ts Act 1988 which was written to allow cable rebroadcast of TV signals to areas that couldn't get decent VHF/UHF TV reception. Zattoo's use of loophole was exposed a year ago, and the BBC et al still haven't kicked up much of a fuss, so Zattoo may be out of the woods. -- Andrew Oak

Re: [ubuntu-uk] a new laptop

2008-05-14 Thread Andrew Oakley
sure you'll get a UK keyboard. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Re: transferring files between Ubuntu and XP slow!!!!

2008-05-15 Thread Andrew Oakley
625kB/s, this still vastly exceeds your 47.7kB/s. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] How to back up Dovecot IMAP?

2008-05-16 Thread Andrew Oakley
last 7 days worth of mail)? If it makes a difference, I am the only IMAP user on the server. Couldn't find anything immediately relevant with Google, but links to RTFM-esque articles would much appreciated. Thanks, -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How to back up Dovecot IMAP?

2008-05-16 Thread Andrew Oakley
Chris Smith wrote: > Andrew Oakley wrote: >> First I would like to back up everything on the IMAP server. > I personally use rsnapshot [1] to backup my /var/mail folder which is >> Then, how do I restore this to a clean install of Dovecot? > Throw the directory structure bac

Re: [ubuntu-uk] CTRL+ALT+F(n)

2008-05-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
ure sudo mv /etc/X11/xorg.conf Haven't tried it yet, but will when I get home to my laptop. Would appreciate it if you could let me know if this fixes it! -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] CTRL+ALT+F(n)

2008-05-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
nning that, it completely messed up my xorg.conf, Eeek! Sorry. > Only problem is now i have an american keyboard! System menu - Preferences - Layout tab - Add... - Layout: United Kingdom - Variants: Default - Add - and click Default radio button -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server Setup - Help Needed With Email

2008-05-20 Thread Andrew Oakley
ve IMAP though. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew Oakley
. The Intel X driver was substantially improved/re-written for Hardy so you might want to at least try a LiveCD. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shuttleworth interview in today's Technology Guardian

2008-05-22 Thread Andrew Oakley
John Levin wrote: > http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/may/22/internet.software Most interesting is his statement about an official Ubuntu remix for UMPCs (Asus Eee and the like). There is already an eeebuntu RC1 so it will be interesting to watch the progress. -- Andrew Oak

Re: [ubuntu-uk] choice of laptop

2008-06-04 Thread Andrew Oakley
id.sh.pre script: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-power-manager/+bug/41994/comments/21 -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
m entirely uncertain what effect the Rows preference has in the Compiz Workspace Switcher. I can't see that it does anything at all, or at least not with the Compiz "Cube". -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
es the subject of parallel computing and supercomputing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheltenham#Major_employers Ahem. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] How do I know when to reboot after upgrading Ubuntu Server?

2008-06-20 Thread Andrew Oakley
ether or not I need to reboot please? -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] please, help me buy a laptop.

2008-06-21 Thread Andrew Oakley
velopers for Hardy development. A friend at work has a Vostron, they're lovely solid reliable machines. And with Dell you know the hardware drivers will work with Ubuntu. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Lock keyboard/mouse without locking screen?

2008-06-25 Thread Andrew Oakley
it on the other side of the room and not have to constantly pull her away from it. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lock keyboard/mouse without locking screen?

2008-06-26 Thread Andrew Oakley
the keyboard, and wrote a patch to lock the mouse buttons: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=184401&package_id=214498 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=841442&p=5266711 -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC News - Stallman

2008-07-04 Thread Andrew Oakley
s license. LOL Changing programs = good Changing documents = bad? -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Computer Weekly (was: BBC News - Stallman

2008-07-04 Thread Andrew Oakley
ing boiler suits, or freebie corporate pyjama tops. That's all anyone ever uses them for, anyway. I don't think I've actually bought any sleepwear since my first IBM exhibition in 1992. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Password recovery

2008-07-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
therusername ...and change the other user's password. Also, now would be a good time to check whether your backups are readable. There's no need to restore from them yet, but it would be useful to know just how cautious we need to be in helping you further. -- Andrew Oakley -- ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] System Security (Was Re: Password recovery)

2008-07-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
me! Posting unencrypted backups? Who do you work for, the Inland Revenue? ;-) -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recommend some cheapish headphones for me! NON ubuntu related topic!!!

2008-07-08 Thread Andrew Oakley
co-operative (owned by the staff) so fit nicely with Free Software politics. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISPs

2008-07-28 Thread Andrew Oakley
een offline in years. As well as the usual phone/email/ticket support, there's a very good forum which is used by staff and users alike. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Norm's complaint

2008-08-06 Thread Andrew Oakley
reporter can get assistance with promoting a bug from Incomplete to Confirmed? Or indeed give any examples where a bug has actually migrated from Incomplete to a satisfactory state? -- Andrew Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server OS Suggestion

2008-08-11 Thread Andrew Oakley
very easy to break. That said, RHEL/CentOS is a proven platform for extremely high-demand applications requiring things such as load balancing, whereas Ubuntu is unproven in that area. "Work" happens to be a government agency, whereas my own servers just run middle-of-the-road ecom

Re: [ubuntu-uk] stickers free with Linux Format Magazine this month

2008-08-16 Thread Andrew Oakley
ore shipping a DVD is at best superfluous for experts and at worst highly damaging for newcomers. Using such a DVD to justify a 6-quid pricetag on what should be a 4-quid mag is ridiculous. Thankfully the subscription discount is significantly large enough for me to ignore this. -- Andrew

[ubuntu-uk] DVD & Xvid playback with zoom/crop facility?

2008-09-15 Thread Andrew Oakley
y to discover they'd been recorded in letterbox format. Since I have a widescreen laptop, this meant not only black bars at the top & bottom (letterbox) but also black bars at the sides (padding 4:3 to 16:9). This drove me nuts! -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://li

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Job hunting

2008-09-22 Thread Andrew Oakley
.uk/careers They are a very strong Linux house, mostly Red Hat and Perl. They also host the monthly Gloucestershire Linux User Group meetings, which is a nice way to see inside their very nice buildings. http://www.gloucs.lug.org.uk/ -- Andrew Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Job hunting

2008-09-22 Thread Andrew Oakley
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > I'm looking for a job that will make use of my Linux skills and enable > me to work towards becoming a Senior Solutions Architect. ... > Although I'm currently based in Monmouth, FYI, posted to gloucs.lug.org.uk : Original Message Date: Mon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] flash still doesnt work, when try to play flash stuff inside FF2 and FF3

2008-09-29 Thread Andrew Oakley
n). This fixed flash plugin related browser crashes in FF3+U8.04 on my i386 system. Dunno whether it will help with x86. -- Andrew Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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