2009/11/8 Andy Smith :
> Hi Rob,
>
> On Sun, Nov 08, 2009 at 05:42:16PM +, Rob Beard wrote:
>> Andy Smith wrote:
>> > On a related note, can someone tell me officially what defines an
>> > install of Ubuntu Server? I ask because this page:
>> >
>> > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Releases
>> >
>> > s
2009/11/10 Andrew Oakley :
> I'm moving out of The Sticks, slightly to the west of nowhere in the
> Cotswolds - which nevertheless already has 2.5Mbit ADSL - to the urban
> metropolis that is a satellite village near Tewkesbury. With this comes
> wonders of the modern age, the likes of which I have
2009/11/25 mac :
> Does anyone have any experience
> / comments about Heart Internet or 5 Quid Host?
I have used virualnames.co.uk for a number of years for hosting and
email and have been very satisfied. Their technical support has been
excellent on the odd occasion that I have needed it (genera
2009/11/29 JONATHAN TAYLOR
> Hi,
> Recently I downloaded the file for my mum's Canon iP4600 printer and
> installed it.
> It worked after the install, and we restarted Ubuntu so that I could see it
> working after a restart and it appeared to be ok. Trouble started the
> following day when after
2009/12/10 Des :
> Hello All,
>
> My system has Ubuntu 9.04 and 9.1 running dual boot.
>
> Is it possible to access old files on 9.04 from 9.1? If so how?
I think you should see the other partition in the Places menu,
possibly with a name just indicating the size of the partition if
2009/12/10 John Levin :
> Hi,
>
> Every time I try going to ubuntuforums.org, I get redirected to
> launchpad.net.
>
> Is this happening for other people? Are the forums down, or am I having
> a dns problem?
I believe there was a problem earlier this morning
Colin
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2009/12/17 alan c :
> I was using a website, using firefox browser, recently and found that
> the display gave a text overlap of a field I wanted to use, which
> caused difficulty. I informed the site author and the matter is now
> awaiting correction.
>
> However, when I was in discussion with the
2009/12/17 Colin Law :
> 2009/12/17 alan c :
>> I was using a website, using firefox browser, recently and found that
>> the display gave a text overlap of a field I wanted to use, which
>> caused difficulty. I informed the site author and the matter is now
>> awaitin
believe I want one with hardware encoding. Something like
the Hauppauge PVR 150 MCE I think, or an equivalent USB device would
be even better. If anyone has anything suitable surplus to
requirements that they would be prepared to sell I would be very
interested.
Many thanks
Colin Law
Ffarmers
I am using Ubuntu 9.10 wired to a Linksys modem/router using DHCP to
get IP etc. All works fine normally and if I right click on the
connection icon in the top panel and select Connection Information I
see my IP address etc as expected, including Primary and Secondary DNS
servers as provided by my
2010/1/15 Dave Morley :
> On Fri, 2010-01-15 at 11:19 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> I am using Ubuntu 9.10 wired to a Linksys modem/router using DHCP to
>> get IP etc. All works fine normally and if I right click on the
>> connection icon in the top panel and select Connection
2010/1/15 James Tait :
> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
> Hash: SHA1
>
> Colin Law wrote:
>>>> I have looked for clues as to why the DNS settings might be
>>>> disappearing but have not found anything logged anywhere, suggestions
>>>> a
2010/1/17 Steve :
> On Sun, 17 Jan 2010 12:32:33 -, alan c
> wrote:
>
>> Joe wrote:
>>
>>> However, it may be difficult to convince
whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu on their computers so
it could be worth having a number of live USB keys with a fresh install
of
2010/1/15 Colin Law :
> I am using Ubuntu 9.10 wired to a Linksys modem/router using DHCP to
> get IP etc. All works fine normally and if I right click on the
> connection icon in the top panel and select Connection Information I
> see my IP address etc as expected, including
On 13 March 2010 01:57, Liam Proven wrote:
>
> - Avoid anything with a Celeron or "Pentium Dual-Core". They're
> cut-down chips & crippled. Get a Core 2 Duo as a minimum. (Or an AMD.)
I think anything current (or even a couple of years old) will provide
perfectly adequate performance for basic i
On 26 March 2010 10:22, javadayaz wrote:
> I placed a DVD in the tray. A menu opened (CD/DVD creator). I dragdroped the
> mpeg file in there and clicked create. A dvd was created.
> This works fine on several pcs..but doesnt seem to work on a dvd player
> connected to a tv.
> What am i doing wrong
On 18 April 2010 14:41, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> Since the last round of updates towards the middle/end of last week,
> whenever I log on, Firefox loads itself and opens the UbuntuOne login
> page.
>
> OK, I usually *do* want to run Firefox fairly soon after switching on,
> but it's still an irritati
On 21 April 2010 18:12, Les wrote:
> My joggler has finally arrived!
> Let the hacking commence LOL
>
So has mine. I setup my usb stick and it boots into UNR fine. I then did
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
and it collected 200MB or thereabouts and spent a couple of hours
installing th
On 21 April 2010 21:31, Chris Rowson wrote:
>
>>
>> installing the updates, it is now asking me which partitions to
>> install grub on, with a choice of /dev/sda and /dev/mmcblk0 and I
>> don't know which (or both) to select. Are those the two partitions on
>> the stick or is one the internal fl
HI
I have picked up the flash image from dysentry referenced in
http://www.joggler.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=235 and it works
fine. In http://www.jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Ubuntu_Netbook_Remix
it is suggested the the crackling sound can be fixed by adding
idle=halt to Grub.cfg. I ca
On 22 April 2010 14:44, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:30 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> HI
>>
>> I have picked up the flash image from dysentry referenced in
>> http://www.joggler.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=235 and it works
>> fine. In http:/
On 23 April 2010 17:24, John Matthews wrote:
> On 23/04/10 16:58, Markie wrote:
>
> Hi John,
>
>
>> Now that is interesting. I did all the checks, and came back telling me I
>> am 100% in stealth, but I still failed because they could ping me.
>
> Some routers by default block "WAN pings" some do
Hi
I am trying to get remote desktop sharing working with my O2 Joggler
running Karmic UNE. I had to install vino and it works in the sense
that I can connect, see the screen, move and click the mouse and type
things, but the screen does not seem to be updating properly,
sometimes it does not upd
On 17 April 2010 23:54, Kris Douglas wrote:
>...
>
> Errrm, OSK works fine, Im using OnBoard now, no problems. Just worked
> once accessibility was enabled in the menu editor.
Kris, could you describe in a bit more detail what to do to get the on
screen keyboard running, for one who is not sure w
On 25 April 2010 15:18, paul morgan-roach wrote:
>> FreeNX is good, but it'll give you a separate X session rather than a
>> session to the desktop running on the Joggler screen.
>
>
> In the FreeNX client you can specify a shadow session which joins the
> currently running X session. Not tried t
On 13 May 2010 21:38, Rob Beard wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> I gather the get_iplayer has been forked, the thing is, I can't seem to
> get it installed.
>
> I've been reading the instructions on the Git repository (here:
> http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer/blob/master/INSTALL) and I can get the
> simple
On 14 May 2010 20:47, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Friday 14 May 2010 17:06:35 Anton Piatek wrote:
>> This has been discussed several times on the Debian lists - there are
>> several prototypes or packages that do this already, some even using
>> bittorrent, however most of the consensus is that th
On 18 May 2010 15:41, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 9:41 AM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
>> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 09:11 +0100, Avi Greenbury
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>>> > It's NTFS. I originally put all the stuff on it from a Windows
>>> > machine, which uses NTFS by de
On 19 May 2010 11:38, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On the Gparted display, all the volumes -- not just on the external hard
> drive, but on the laptop's own drives -- are marked with little
> keyrings. The menus for doing anything to any of them, such as resizing
> etc., are greyed out. What do I need
On 19 May 2010 23:22, Tony Pursell wrote:
> Hi All
> I know I have asked about this before, but I am becoming desperate. Since I
> upgraded my desktop from Karmic to Lucid I cannot boot into Ubuntu.
Have you tried the ubuntu support email list?
https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-use
On 23 May 2010 21:27, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 23 May 2010 21:22, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
>>...
>> Problem 1: the USB sticks:
>> -
>> The 8 GB stick has no apparent fault as all the files on it can be seen
>> OK.
>> The 4 GB stick starts off as 4GB but formatting brings thi
On 25 May 2010 10:22, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 25 May 2010 10:02, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> ha, well, if there's no risk of imminent fatality, I shall do it at some
>> point. But why would I want to 'boot from a live Ubuntu CD'?
>
> Because the operation I described requires you to be changing data o
On 25 May 2010 11:06, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 10:34 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>> At no point did I suggest reinstallation or 'destroying' anything. I'm
>> merely describing the process of _moving_ partitions around on the
>> disk, and expanding partitions to allow them to use
On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law
> wrote:
>> Just to clarify to the OP, when a partition is moved using gparted the
>> data in the partition is moved with it, so this can be done without
>> affecting an existing sy
On 25 May 2010 13:34, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 13:06 +0100, Colin Law
> wrote:
>> On 25 May 2010 12:29, Rowan Berkeley
>> wrote:
>> > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law
>>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Just to clar
On 25 May 2010 19:56, Bruno Girin wrote:
> ...
> The w32codecs package seems to not be in Lucid anymore.
I think it is in medibuntu.
Colin
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On 27 May 2010 17:47, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> ...
> This Live CD sounds like an amazing box of tricks. I shall have to run
> it just for an exploratory session. Presumably I can just stick it in,
> reboot, and see what happens. Thinking about it, it can't unmount the
> internal hard disk completel
I just want to get my Joggler story off my chest. It may make me feel better.
I ordered one shortly after the initial price cut. Unfortunately by
then they were out of stock but a few weeks later it arrived. I
started it up and all seemed well. Off it went to download the latest
software which
On 4 June 2010 17:24, Dave Hanson wrote:
> Message: 1
> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2010 15:47:01 +0100
> From: Alan Pope
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] [old topic i know, apologies] O2 Joggler - My
> success and a quick question please!
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk
> Message-ID:
>
> Content-Typ
swap was not a good idea as it wears
it out by writing to it often. Flash has a limited life in terms of
write cycles.
Colin
>
> On Fri, Jun 4, 2010 at 5:36 PM, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 4 June 2010 17:24, Dave Hanson wrote:
>>> Message: 1
>>> Date: Fri, 4 Jun 2
On 7 June 2010 14:36, Steve wrote:
>
> Don’t know if you’ve seen this but might be worth checking which version
> you’re using
>
> www.adobe.com/support/security/advisories/apsa1-01.html
That link does not appear to work, for me at least.
Colin
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On 8 June 2010 17:39, Wulfy wrote:
> I recently changed the ink cartridge on my printer (Canon PIXMA iP2500)
> and now it won't print. I just get flashing lights. There are two
> lights, one is the power switch light, the other has symbols I can't
> interpret (one may be stuck paper, the other is
On 10 June 2010 08:21, Wulfy wrote:
> On 09/06/10 08:35, Colin Law wrote:
>> For my ip4300 this information is in the manual, which is provided on
>> CD as an installable windows package, not as paper. Luckily it
>> installs and runs happily in Wine on Ubuntu. Or at least i
I see from the O2 website that the joggler is notable for it's absence.
Colin
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On 12 July 2010 21:12, LeeGroups wrote:
> I'm having a bit of an issue with a Perl script on my Ubuntu server at
> home (can you see what I did there :)...
>
> The line in question is this...
>
> $solar_info =~ s/<\/solar>.*/,/;
>
> From my tinkerings, this should find the string in the string
>
On 13 July 2010 23:22, David King wrote:
> In my Ubuntu 9.04 installation, just a few days ago, I lost my usage of
> the internet. I still had internet access. Firstly though, there was a
> problem with the router, so I tried a friend's router (both Netgear
> DG834) and the friend's one worked.
>
On 4 August 2010 12:23, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> Is it possible to use rsync to a folder on a remote computer?
Yes
> If so what's the syntax?
u...@server:folder/folder/..
I would have thought google would have given you this in seconds.
Colin
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On 4 August 2010 11:03, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> On 04/08/10 10:47, ByteSoup wrote:
>
> On 04/08/10 10:35, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>
> On 04/08/10 10:28, ByteSoup wrote:
>
> On 04/08/10 10:25, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>
> I have two Linux machines - a Tosh Satellite using 10.04 Desk
On 18 August 2010 09:55, Sean Miller wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 09:52, Yorvyk wrote:
>> As for names like GIMP, does Ifanview or Excel give any hint as to what the
>> progam does.
>
> Don't diss GIMP... we all know it's the "GNU Image Manipulation
> Program"... I think that actually gives a VERY
On 18 August 2010 11:23, Sean Miller wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 11:17, Colin Law wrote:
>> The G is already recursive.
>
> Only in that it's GNU... GIMP is not recursive in itself...
It depends on the definition of recursive I suppose. If you fully expand it:
GIMP ->
On 18 August 2010 11:35, Sean Miller wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 11:33, Colin Law wrote:
>> It depends on the definition of recursive I suppose. If you fully expand it:
>> GIMP ->
>
> No, it doesn't... recursive acronyms don't involve expanding the
> compone
On 18 August 2010 12:44, Sean Miller wrote:
> No, GIMP cannot be recursive by any definition...
GIMP is recursive by the definition 'An Acronym is defined as
recursive if it refers to itself in the expression for which it
stands, or if any of the initials stands for a recursive acronym.'
(Excell
On 18 August 2010 13:58, Sean Miller wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 13:09, Colin Law wrote:
>> GIMP is recursive by the definition 'An Acronym is defined as
>> recursive if it refers to itself in the expression for which it
>> stands, or if any of the initials stan
On 18 August 2010 23:19, Sean Miller wrote:
> On 18 August 2010 18:11, Colin Law wrote:
>> I did not say that it was necessarily a generally accepted definition,
>> merely that by that definition GIMP is recursive and therefore my
>> original statement that 'it depends
On 19 August 2010 09:06, Cornelius Mostert
wrote:
> Hi all
> I have my Joggler up and running for some time now, but looks like it freeze
> at lease once a day and sometimes does not reboot very well (when the O2
> logo comes up before Ubuntu then this O2 logo look a bit fuzzy and this is
> usuall
On 19 August 2010 16:03, John Stevenson wrote:
> [...]
> Hello Comelius,
> I would not have thought that a joggler was reliable enough for a file
> server, unless you are doing it just for the challenge. My joggler often
> needs a reboot or just crashes
I have mine running Disca's Ubuntu image c
On 27 August 2010 16:30, Alan Pope wrote:
>
>
> On 27 Aug 2010, at 14:20, Alan Bell
> wrote:
>
>> All the pending votes have now been approved, if you have voted already
>> and didn't get a mail, don't worry about it, your vote got counted. If
>> you really want you can email me off list and I c
On 30 August 2010 13:17, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote:
> [...]
> The OP says he wishes to scan slides.
Actually he said he did *not* need to scan slides.
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On 30 August 2010 20:21, Daniel Case wrote:
> [...]
> I have decided to sell the wiki ...
>
> The website is: http://www.jogglerwiki.info for anyone who has forgotten ;)
Does anyone know who runs the forum site http://www.joggler.info/ ? I
wonder whether the sites could be combined.
Colin
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On 31 August 2010 10:17, Kris Douglas wrote:
> On 31 August 2010 10:07, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 30 August 2010 20:21, Daniel Case wrote:
>>> [...]
>>> I have decided to sell the wiki ...
>>>
>>> The website is: http://www.jogglerwiki.info for anyon
On 31 August 2010 12:24, Alan Bell wrote:
> There were 85 voters and the results in order of the options are:
> [...]
> Making this the most popular logo option:
> http://pollka.libertus.co.uk/pics/full/logo14.svg (don't worry about the
> 14 in the URL, that means nothing)
There is something odd
On 31 August 2010 14:54, azmodie wrote:
>
>
> On 31 August 2010 14:44, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 31 August 2010 12:24, Alan Bell
>> wrote:
>> > There were 85 voters and the results in order of the options are:
>> > [...]
>> &g
I have edited out is my database info (username/password)
>> for connecting in LocalSettings.php and there should now be a daily backup
>> to that folder.
>>
>> On 31 August 2010 10:48, James Thomas wrote:
>>>
>>> +1 to Laura's idea.
>>>
>>> On 3
On 6 September 2010 18:06, John Matthews wrote:
> On 05/09/10 17:43, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
>> On 05/09/10 16:27, John Matthews wrote:
>>> On the advice of somebody on here, I installed Vanilla Forums, which
>>> seemed to go ok and is working sort of. The problem is, it needs
>>> updating, a
On 20 September 2010 18:46, Mark wrote:
>
> As a Acer Revo user (attached to back of a Wharfdale TV @ £150 ebuyer) and a
> Keysonic mouse keyboard combo (£30 ebuyer) I could find a better solution to
> a box-on-tv option running Ubuntu.
Did you mean you could _not_ find a better solution?
Colin
On 7 October 2010 00:12, javadayaz wrote:
> Update:
> So I was playing around in the bios..and perhaps stupidly, selected the
> output to onboard. This has now rendered a black screen. The pc still turns
> on but I see nothing. I must add that for the last few years I've been using
> the graphics
On 10 October 2010 16:03, Bruno Girin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A quick question I'd like to put to the list. The business web site of
> my bank doesn't work with Firefox on Ubuntu anymore (it used to), even
> though it works fine with Firefox on Mac. A support query I filed
> resulted in an answer by
On 10 October 2010 16:52, Bruno Girin wrote:
> [...]
>
> What I'm interested in is the last bit. Whether their web site happens
> to work on Linux or not is one thing. But as soon as you send a support
> query, you get a canned answer saying they don't officially support it.
> What I'd really want
On 10 October 2010 16:03, Bruno Girin wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> A quick question I'd like to put to the list. The business web site of
> my bank doesn't work with Firefox on Ubuntu anymore (it used to), even
> though it works fine with Firefox on Mac. A support query I filed
> resulted in an answer by
On 10 October 2010 18:07, John Matthews wrote:
> I am having similar problems to the gentlman with the bank page. I have
> animals, and have a page called www.petsathome.com which I was able to
> get on till I got the upgrade to beta last week. I use Google Chrome,
> and it worked ok till then. No
On 11 October 2010 07:32, Sean Miller wrote:
> Surely this is all "back to front"?
>
> If the HTML is rubbish, and newer versions of the rendering engines
> are throwing it out, perhaps the key would be to work out WHY they are
> creating blank sites and fix your own site?
It is not his own site,
On 11 October 2010 10:24, John Matthews wrote:
> On 11/10/10 09:45, Sean Miller wrote:
>> Unsupported proprietary plug-ins, perhaps?
>>
>> Sean
>
>
> Spoke too soon, the page disappeared, but took longer to go than with
> the plug-ins. :( So its not the plug-ins.
I still don't know which version
On 11 October 2010 10:56, John Matthews wrote:
> Problem is now, how do I set up a new profile in Chrome. I am now
> getting a message when I start this version saying
>
> 'Your profile cannot be used because it is from a newer version of
> Google Chrome. Some features may be unavailable. Plea
On 11 October 2010 11:31, John Matthews wrote:
> On 11/10/10 11:17, Colin Law wrote:
>> Google for google chrome profile yields many hits, alternatively
>> you could uninstall and purge google-chrome and re-install it. That
>> should clear the settings (in ~/.config/
On 11 October 2010 11:58, John Matthews wrote:
> On 11/10/10 11:41, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
>> sudo apt-get purge google-chrome
>> sudo apt-get install google-chrome
>> Jacob Mansfield
>> Programmer
>
> Did the purge, it worked, but cant install, no google chrome to install.
> looked in Synaptic, n
On 11 October 2010 19:40, Traveller wrote:
> On 11/10/2010 11:29, Robert Holtzman wrote:
>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 08:14:14PM +1100, Basil Chupin wrote:
>>>
>>> Whoa! Hold it! Stop the world!
>>>
>>> I have not seen any message from John Matthews with the Subject of
>>> "Pages not loading in Ubun
On 13 October 2010 10:28, Melv Bailey wrote:
> Hi
>
> My first post and its only as a result of frustration with Ubuntu.
>
> I would like to post here a post I posted in the Ubuntu forums which got
> no repsonse other than "load the NVidia driver" (not the point of the
> original post, and how sin
On 15 October 2010 13:15, Jim Price wrote:
> On 15/10/10 08:33, clanlaw wrote:
>> I am near Lampeter, mid Wales. Not a hot spot of Unbuntu fanatics as
>> far as I can tell.
>
> I'm the other side of the mountains near Builth, also mid Wales. It is a
> bit quiet here too, unless I've just failed t
On 16 October 2010 01:29, Jim Price wrote:
> On 15/10/10 21:49, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 15 October 2010 13:15, Jim Price wrote:
>>> On 15/10/10 08:33, clanlaw wrote:
>>>> I am near Lampeter, mid Wales. Not a hot spot of Unbuntu fanatics as
>>>> far as
On 17 October 2010 13:56, Jim Price wrote:
> On 16/10/10 09:10, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 16 October 2010 01:29, Jim Price wrote:
>>> On 15/10/10 21:49, Colin Law wrote:
>>>> On 15 October 2010 13:15, Jim Price wrote:
>>>>> On 15/10/10 08:33, clanla
On 19 October 2010 14:03, javadayaz wrote:
> Apologies for bringing this dead thread back to life.
> Would just like a quick opinion from someone on this...
> As you know my pc kept shutting down mysteriously. I took it into a local pc
> shop who are telling me that a faulty hard drive is causing
On 19 October 2010 14:14, javadayaz wrote:
> Yes thats what i meant. The expert has "located" to the problem to a faulty
> hard drive which is why it kept shutting down. Im not convinced though.
> I should still be able to boot my pc up with no hard drives attached and
> just a CD rom correct?
I
On 20 October 2010 10:42, jakewc2 wrote:
> Well, this thread was a total waste of time. All this crap about help,
> willingness, is a load of bollocks. Your just a nasty group of people.
I seem to remember we helped you out ok with your problem using an
unstable version of Chrome which could not
On 22 October 2010 10:47, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 22 October 2010 10:44, Barry Drake wrote:
>> I drilled throught the outside wall and have CAT5 all around the
>> outside. Quick, easy, fast, secure
>>
>
> ...almost certainly against building regs.. :)
I would not have thought so (though not
On 22 October 2010 12:45, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 22/10/10 11:42, Will Bickerstaff wrote:
> [...]
> For single user, very small businesses try GnuCash: http://www.gnucash.org/
+1 for GnuCash for personal use, don't know about business
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On 31 October 2010 22:29, Grant Sewell wrote:
>
> I have found that my laptop (nVidia GeForce 7000 Mobile graphics chip)
> doesn't detect the resolution supported by external monitors correctly
> unless it is attached when the computer is turned on. It will happily
> detect that something's there
On 3 November 2010 22:42, Jacob Mansfield wrote:
> I only just got it for some strange reason
Same here
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On 4 November 2010 14:19, pmgazz wrote:
>
> Plug in the monitor then go to System > Preferences > Monitors (or
> Displays I think, dependent on Ubuntu version) then click Detect
> Monitors and it should then recognise it.
>
> Colin
>
>
>
> Unless I'm missing something here (recovering from 'flu an
On 8 November 2010 08:20, Ted Wager wrote:
> I have d/loaded a few vid files the format of these DVDRiP Xvid K
> and .avi..Thes will play ok on the computer but my dvd player tells me
> "unknown format"...Anyone tell me what format I should use to make them
> readable by my dvd player?
> Regards..
On 8 November 2010 08:29, Ted Wager wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 08:24 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 8 November 2010 08:20, Ted Wager wrote:
>> > I have d/loaded a few vid files the format of these DVDRiP Xvid K
>> > and .avi..Thes will play ok on the computer
On 11 November 2010 22:23, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 21:12 +, Bruno Girin wrote:
>> For a publisher, the traditional business model is based on acquiring
>> the rights to reproduce a text, producing physical items out of this
>> text, shifting those books to distributors a
On 12 November 2010 09:22, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 15:51 +, alan c wrote:
>> I got burned by a nasty bug in the live CD of 10.10 which has the
>> effect of wiping your whole hard drive if you should be so unlucky to
>> choose a particular install option relating to choosing
On 12 November 2010 11:33, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 10:11 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 12 November 2010 09:57, Liam Proven wrote:
>>> Yes, but *what* particular sequence? Nobody has yet spelled it out,
>>> AFAICS. I'd like to know so I can avoid it!
>>>
>>
>> It's detailed in t
On 12 November 2010 13:18, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I wasn't trying to install - I was just trying to run from LiveCD to
> check for hardware issues. Although I chose that option, it chuntered
> away for several minutes before I decided that it wasn't loading. When I
> chose Cancel, it told me the in
On 12 November 2010 17:01, Neil Perry wrote:
> Ot; small world I use to live in redditch. Moved away a couple of years
> back.
Even smaller, I was brought up in Redditch (Headless Cross), till 1973.
Perhaps there is some chemical in the water that affects the brain,
leaning it towards Ubuntu.
On 12 November 2010 19:50, Josh Holland wrote:
> Worcester proper for me, though I'm in Oxford during term time. All of
> you folks should be coming along to get WorcsLUG going again. There is a
> pub meet arranged for the 7th in Worcester, and I'll most likely be
> going along. The more the merri
On 13 November 2010 19:32, wrote:
> [...]
> Is the not formatting /home a new feature? If its not set up as a seperate
> partition, then it is just mounted under / which gets formatted on install
If you specify _not_ to format / then home is left as is. I have just
used this myself to insta
On 15 November 2010 12:29, wrote:
> Fighting for the old ways here; with a seperate partition, you can share your
> /home with multiple installs :)
Often this is ok, but you can run into problems if you run different
versions of an app using the same /home as the settings files get
flipped up a
On 16 November 2010 08:06, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> On 14 November 2010 00:04, Alan Pope wrote:
>> On 13 November 2010 22:42, wrote:
>>> I'm gonna have to run through the installer again then, because I don't
>>> remember seeing it automatically ask me about /home,
>>
>> It doesn't ask you abo
On 18 November 2010 21:37, Bruno Girin wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 14:36 +, Alan Bell wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I am pleased to announce the Ubuntu UK Christmas party. It will be at
>> the Hub Islington (same venue as last year) on Tuesday 21st December
>> from 7PM until about 10ish
>
> Damn,
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