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alan c wrote:
> doug livesey wrote:
>> Hi -- I (sort of) noticed a while back some marketing gumph that suggested
>> that Ubuntu servers can be configured to reduce power consumption when they
>> are not under heavy load, and was wondering if something
Farran Lee wrote:
> I've had issues with my kernel recently - it had 27-11, -12 and -14
> installed. Every time I installed anything, it always tried to
> regenerate the boot image, and always returned an error saying it had to
> leave the kernel/image/module packages unconfigured.
> Anyway, I trie
Alec Wright wrote:
> You've got a kernel there. vmlinuz-* are kernel images
>
> 2009/4/9 Farran Lee :
>> On Thu, 2009-04-09 at 14:31 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>
>> Farran Lee wrote:
>>> I've had issues with my kernel recently - it had 27-11, -12
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Sean Miller wrote:
> Who are the Linux Foundation?
>
> Can Linus T not, perhaps, ask them to change their name? Perhaps to
> the "Microsoft going on Linux Foundation" or similar?
>
> If I had created an operating system so vast in its scope I'd be
>
Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-04-27 at 14:28 +0100, mac wrote:
>> Matthew Daubney wrote:
>>> You can use the uid and gid options with mount to make it mount fat32
>>> drives as if you own all the files. e.g.
>>>
>>> sudo mount /dev/sdX /media/MOUNTPOINT -o uid=1000,gid=1000
>>
>> That's use
George McLachlan wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2009 at 1:22 PM, javadayaz wrote:
>
>> I mean primarily to view stuff/media thats stored on the ubuntu pc! sorry
>> should have made that a bit clearer
>>
>
> I use my viglen to stream to my xbox360 using ushare, works pretty well.
>
> George
>
>
David King wrote:
> I also hear that Virgin is very bad too, although if you can get cable
> and it works, and you do not have to deal with their helplines, it
> might be okay, but after many bad experiences with NTL in the past I
> will never go with them again, even though they are now rebrand
Most configuration is now done for x.org with hal, which is why a lot of
the options in your old x.org config file have been commented out. Look
in /etc/hal/fdi/policy to see if there are any files relating to the
wacom tablet. It may be named 10-linuxwacom.fdi, or something similar.
If not r
John Matthews wrote:
> Well, it might be because I am just not used to Ubuntu enough or understand
> it enough, but I am thinking along the the same lines as Windows, when you
> update FF it automatically updates to the next Version, and keeps your
> profile. I tried on my netbook, and it didnt
John Matthews wrote:
> Um, isnt FF3.5 final release now, I thought I saw it on the internet
> they were saying it was final release and if you look in windows it
> doesnt have beta after it. I'm not sure about that though.
My apologies, checking on
http://packages.ubuntu.com/jaunty/web/firefox-3
John Matthews wrote:
> Hi, thank you for the information.
>
> I was just wondering, how do I get it to work, and become my default
> browser so that I dont have both, and I dont loose my profile info?
>
> John.
>
>
Not sure if this is the best way to do it, but it accomplished it for me.
open
Sean Miller wrote:
> This is a long shot... have Googled but can't find anything of use...
>
> Bought a Lexmark z2420 wi-fi printer a couple of days ago, which works
> great on Windows but I can't find any sign of drivers for Linux.
>
> Now I am assuming that I am unlikely to be able to get the thi
Liam Proven wrote:
> And finally a more general question.
>
> What is the difference between the display themes Human and
> Human-Clearlooks? I've tried Google with no resulting enlightenment at
> all...
>
>
>
Look closely at the widgets (controls), especially the checkboxes.
Dan
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Liam Proven wrote:
> I'm just setting up an old PC for a friend of a friend, and naturally,
> I have put Ubuntu on it. It's an Athlon XP 700+ with 768MB of RAM and
> an nVidia Riva TNT2 AGP card.
>
> Interestingly, Hardy failed to boot. It installed cleanly from a live
> CD, but the resultant syste
Sean Miller wrote:
> If you don't have the original image then you probably aren't legally
> entitled to remove the watermark.
>
> It's as simple as that...
>
> If you work for a company, as you say you do, and they've asked you to
> re-engineer the picture then ask them for the original rather tha
>
> "Non-geeks", probably... "complete novices in the Outer Hebrides with
> loads of local friends using Windows"
Actually when I lived in the Outer Hebrides, on Lewis in particular, the
people were quite IT literate, and in Ness, at the very north of the
island there was a Linux Centre.
http
Just saw this on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/feature.html/ref=amb_link_84367553_1?ie=UTF8&docId=1000321063&pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_s=special-product-offers-3&pf_rd_r=0VK1CGRWR4HF3J8C5951&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_p=470371973&pf_rd_i=B002DUCMT2
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*4. Does Windows 7 come with a Web Browse
William Anderson wrote:
> Steve wrote:
>
>> [snip]
>>
>> Just wait. October will be even more fun as people try to upgrade from
>> vista to 7. I've already told a few it's going to cost them more than the
>> usual couple of pints to sort the mess out.
>>
>
> From what I've heard, upgra
also the UKUUG Summer Conference 07 / 08 / 2009 in Birmingham
Dan
2009/7/23 Lucy :
> 2009/7/23 Bill Quinn :
>> Alan
>>
>> I am more interested if you have anymore information on "LINUXWORLD EXPO
>> UK 2009" as to my knowledge there is no more Linux related shows for the
>> rest of 2009.
>
> Ther
heres a link for linuxworld expo:http://tinyurl.com/mrfjfn
2009/7/23 Daniel Drummond :
> also the UKUUG Summer Conference 07 / 08 / 2009 in Birmingham
>
> Dan
>
> 2009/7/23 Lucy :
>> 2009/7/23 Bill Quinn :
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> I am more interested if
I have just done a fresh install of Jaunty on my netbook, and began my
usual install of programs I use. When I came to install g++, I got told:
d...@chainfire:~$ sudo apt-get install g++
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Package g++ is
Harry Rickards wrote:
> What if you do (sudo) apt-get update first?
>
I always update before installing packages. Doesn't make a difference
to installing g++. I have checked my software sources, and they all
seem fine.
I have tried installing build-essential, which used to pull in g++
autom
Must have been a mirror issue, as I just switched to update from the
main ubuntu repositories, instead of the GB repositories and it has
installed fine.
Thanks for the help though :-)
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> I haven't watched this yet, but sounds interesting:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMmDQpfCcMs
>
> YouTube video of Window 95 on the iPhone. Sourced from Guardian Tech
> Twitter.
>
> James
>
>
I would take those claims with a pinch of salt. Surely it is easier to
get an open source OS
John Matthews wrote:
> Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
>
>> FWIW I bought an Acer Aspire one last year and had HUGE problems getting
>> it to connect to my wireless at ALL. In the end I took it back and
>> swapped it for a Toshiba NB100 - which of course connected to the
>> wireless first go!
>> (I
Not sure if you' ve seen this, but I just came across it, and it tickled me.
http://www.linux.com/fakelinustorvalds
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Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
> 2009/9/16 John Matthews :
>
>> I want to make my Firefox 3.5 my default browser. I have looked in the
>> System>Preferences>Prefered Applications and it only shows the older
>> version of Firefox.
>>
>> I unticked the make Firefox Default button in the old version, a
> Hi Dan,
>
> thank you for the commands, I got all the way to the last command,
> adding the 3.5 in, and it says command refused. I think its because my
> FF3.5 says shiretoko on it.
>
> John
>
>
What does this command output:
$ ls -l /usr/bin/firefox*
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h
John Matthews wrote:
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>>> Hi Dan,
>>>
>>> thank you for the commands, I got all the way to the last command,
>>> adding the 3.5 in, and it says command refused. I think its because my
>>> FF3.5 says shiretoko on it.
Matt Daubney wrote:
>
> On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 12:07:48 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
>
>> Matthew Daubney wrote:
>>
>>> On Wed, 2009-09-16 at 11:18 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> Daniel
linux wrote:
> Johnathan,
>
> When I spoke to Dave Walker last night three venues where confirmed one
> in Birmingham the other in London and my one in Southend on Sea a two
> day weekend event
>
> This was called the Ubuntu Global Jam and I am struggling to get some
> developers to attend howev
Rik Boland wrote:
> Nokia is releasing a new phone the runs Linux?
>
> What model is it?
>
> Shalom
>
> Rik
>
>
N900
http://www.nokia.co.uk/find-products/all-phones/nokia-n900#/main/landing
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Josh Holland wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote:
>
>> The one thing that confused me when I installed one is that the PCI card's
>> drives become SDA and SDB and the Mobo's drives follow from there. So a
>> bit of twiddling with FSTAB is required on existing inst
David King wrote:
>
>
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>> Josh Holland wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 07:43:58PM +0100, Steve wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> The one thing that confused me when I i
ely obtain my vote however. There
are far more important issues to consider when voting.
Daniel Drummond
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Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> I sincerely hope this list will not again be used to spout party
> political propaganda points.
>
> On Tue, 2009-10-06 at 19:48 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>>
>> Won't change my voting plans. I support them for a number of their
&
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> Hi. Every time I try to upload a file, such as an illustration, from my
> desktop to my Wordpress blog, the Wordpress upload tool detects two
> files on my desktop that were in fact deleted three weeks ago. Just
> opening the 'desktop' folder from 'Places' doesn't show these
On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 21:28 +0100, Gordon Allott wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-10-15 at 15:56 +0100, Lucy wrote:
>
> > It would be really nice to have some posters and some buttons to put
> > on blogs to publicise the event. Can someone volunteer to come up with
> > something?
>
> I took the jaunty poste
On Sun, 2009-10-18 at 10:58 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
> mac wrote:
> > John Matthews wrote:
> >
> >> Hi, I wonder can somebody help with this please? How do you find out if
> >> Samba isnt running?
> >>
> >
> > Does this help:
> >
> > http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=733619
> >
>
On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 13:34 +0100, John Matthews wrote:
> mac wrote:
> > Daniel Drummond wrote:
> >
> >
> >> Running samba will not help unless you have shares on your Ubuntu system
> >> that you want to make available to the other computers. Then it
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 23:43 +0100, David King wrote:
> Although I have no hard evidence, it was years ago that I heard about
> the US govt/FBI having a backdoor into Windows, and that all antivirus
> software by law cannot be allowed to detect what the FBI, etc., put onto
> people's computers.
2009/10/24 alan c :
> john wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I have a HP Pavilion desktop pc with tv card (that I never use)
>> Have just installed Ubuntu but there is no sound, I have also had
>> trouble with the sound drivers under windows XP.
>>
>> Also the terminal freezes after the first sudo apt line
Lucy wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
>
>> 2009/10/21 James Milligan :
>>
>>> Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning?
>>>
>>> Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with
>>> Safari open on ubuntu.com
>>>
>>> Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said a
Rob Beard wrote:
> Sean Miller wrote:
>
>> I will only install Karmic again if it promises me it won't tell me my
>> hard drive is dying.
>>
>> Jaunty has never done, and if it is dying I'd honestly rather not know.
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
>>
> Surely it's good to know so you can make sure you
Dean Sas wrote:
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>>> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
>>>
>>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls
>>>>
>
>
>> /"Some of the security is through obscurity but it's als
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:19 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
> I always use the LiveCD - is it OK to use it while Ubuntu is running?
>
> Dianne
>
Yes, but you won't be able to unmount the root partition to make any
changes to it.
Daniel
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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 11:38 +0100, 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. Wha
On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 21:52 +0100, Rebecca Newborough wrote:
> Hi
>
> This is my first post to the mailing list and I'm looking for some
> advice regarding a printer. We've seen the HP Deskjet F4580 advertised
> at a really good price and was wondering if anyone has any experience
> of using this
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:32 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 12:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> > On 23 May 2010 08:57, Rowan Berkeley
> > wrote:
> > > boot volume, 22.5GB. So I emailed them to ask what this was.
> > > However, even if it turns out to be genuine idle space that
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 14:43 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Tue, May 25, 2010 at 1:34 PM, 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
> >>
> >> > wrot
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 16:11 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:50 +0100, Daniel Drummond
> wrote:
> > Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning
> > here. The livecd offers no benefits to the process, in fact using an
> > up to
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 19:05 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 15:35 +0100, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
> > Actually Rowan, ask all the questions you want. You are learning here.
>
> This is very true.
>
> > The livecd offers no benefits to the proc
On 26 May 2010 15:12, Matthew Daubney wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 14:46 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
>> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 13:51 +0100, Neil Greenwood
>> wrote:
>> > On 26 May 2010 07:29, Rowan Berkeley
>> > wrote:
>> > > On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 20:58 +0100, Matthew Daubney
>> >
>> > > wrot
I'm in Manchester too, would be interested if anything is going on.
On Feb 21, 2012 10:22 PM, "Bruno Girin" wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The minutes of the last meeting at the moment show the 12th Jan and the
> current agenda is for the 2nd Feb. Does anybody know when the next meeting
> is or have I miss
2012 at 8:56 PM, Bruno Girin wrote:
>
>> On 21/02/12 22:35, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>
>> I'm in Manchester too, would be interested if anything is going on.
>>
>>
>> Worst case scenario, we can always do a "Ubuntu Happy Hour" in a pub or
>&g
On Feb 23, 2012 11:34 PM, "Alan Pope" wrote:
> I like Unity.
Me too.
The thing I like most about Unity is that it caters for so called "power
users". I like that I can control my workspace with the keyboard, and with
the inclusion of Hud now the menu is easier to use.
That said, it is no more
We are expecting 12.10 in October too.
On Mar 2, 2012 12:15 PM, "J Fernyhough" wrote:
> On 2 March 2012 12:11, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
> > Does anyone have any info on what sort of date we are looking at for
> this?
> >
> >
>
> 12 = 2012
> 04 = April
>
> Normally the 26th (and it is! Yay!)
On Mar 11, 2012 12:45 PM, "Alan Pope" wrote:
> What about you? What would you show and tell?
5 years ago it would have been wobbly windows.
Dan
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