a UK-centric project?
Thoughts and comments are, as ever, welcomed.
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AMD64 version.
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y family, friends and neighbours. I don't mind asking them
what they would like to know about Ubuntu to give us something to go on.
Overall I think it's a great idea and an excellent way of getting more
exposure outside the techie audience and I'm more than willing to
co
d it would probably take
less time and be less invasive on people's PCs.
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uot;Send", you should get a new URL back. Send that URL to the list and
we'll be able to see the details you pasted in there.
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at does the word Ubuntu mean?
> What support would I get if I needed help?
> Does it have a GUI similar to Windows or do I need to learn code?
> How secure is it?
> Is Linux a passing fad?
Cheers,
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>> Having asked a few people to ask me about Ubuntu, I got the following
>> questions to add to the (already pretty long) list already raised in the
>> thread:
>
> I shall attempt to answer some
quot;Hibernate" or "Shutdown".
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forth, comments and suggestions have led to some very professional
looking results in a short period of time. Yes, it makes me feel good
and yes, I will be sticking with it.
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d dependency handling. The
interactive version is also very useful.
That said, I don't think it has an equivalent to apt-get source, so in
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epository to get it, but it also integrates well into
NetworkManager (if you use that) via, funnily enough, network-manager-vpnc.
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sure what information you needed from it... but if the
latter, the network-manager-vpnc GUI allows you to import a PCF file,
and vpnc itself comes with a script in /usr/share/vpnc/pcf2vpnc to
convert a PCF file to a vpnc configuration file.
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> with ESSID broadcast / hidden?
Broadcast.
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ing else. :)
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challenge for
you!). Auld Lang Syne (my recording) came in at 30 seconds, FToNY would
be a good couple of minutes. :)
Having said all of that, I've failed to come up with anything at all.
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Caroline Ford wrote:
>
> No - there is a specific upgrade procedure.
I believe the "official" is:
$ gksudo "update-manager -c -d"
It certainly worked for me.
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Alan Pope wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 02:48:58PM +0000, James Tait wrote:
>> Caroline Ford wrote:
>>> No - there is a specific upgrade procedure.
>> I believe the "official" is:
>>
>> $ gksudo "update-manager -c -d"
>>
>
>
#x27;t got as far as that yet!
Hope that helps,
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> IEEE1394 adapter to work. In the output from dmesg, I saw an error
> along the lines of "nobody cared, try using irqpoll" (apologies, I don't
> have the exact message available now as I've cured, or at least worked
> around the problem),
below.
=
Dear Margaret,
Thank you for your letter of 4 December together with enclosed
correspondence from your constituent Mr James Tait of *address withheld*
about open source software in education.
I believe that schools and colleges must be able to make an informed
choice about the sof
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Essentially it's a fob-off.
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Dave Ewart wrote:
> On Friday, 22.12.2006 at 13:39 +0000, James Tait wrote:
>> Essentially it's a fob-off.
>
> Cheeky bugger, isn't he?
OK, I get that this is hardly news, I mean he had to toe the line and
politicians hide behind policy to avoid giving a straight ans
ferable skills which, if demonstrably mastered, would result in a
"pass" grade, with extra credit awarded for demonstrating more advanced
knowledge acquired by personal study?
I think that's all from me for now.
Cheers,
J
said, if anyone who is not able to make the
meeting (#ubuntu-uk on irc.freenode.net, Tuesday 9th January at 21:30)
would like to offer their thoughts to the list, please do.
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after upgrades that I messed up
and it's effective, although whether it's better than just re-installing
is debatable. You don't lose your custom configuration and don't risk
nuking your precious data, but it can be time consuming.
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campaign-related material like bumper stickers and leaflets with the tag
lines on. I'd be more than happy to discuss my ideas if people are
willing to help develop them.
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http://www.ledgersmb.org/
[2] http://www.sql-ledger.com/
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re. Anyone
got any plans? What normally goes on?
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up on the LUG mailing list.
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ng cds up there.
I'll try and get involved, although I have to balance my enthusiasm with
my weekend family duties of course. It would be good to build upon the
momentum that getting us all together seems to have generated.
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initiative is still alive?
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I've read some somewhat worrying
stuff.
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I get to checking this evening then I'll try and fix it.
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I might be able to drop in.
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him so far away
from the south of the country, or how much his appearance had changed.
Popey, were you in disguise?
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programs?
You can see an update history by starting Synaptic
(System->Administration->Synaptic Package Manager) and clicking History
under the File menu.
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is the first link in the Recommended articles section on the
right for me. See http://is.gd/AfsD
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Michael Iain Douglas wrote:
> Mac: slight problem: some of us use windows too. And yes, yes, you can
> ext working under Windows, but it's not exactly rock solid. Someone
> should get XMarks, and then make it so you can use a server or location
> of your choice.
>
Like this: http://blog.xmark
ietary and Free software, I don't agree that removing
proprietary software from the equation would stifle innovation.
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on your network. Has anything recently been added to the network that
could be acting as a DHCP server? A new computer, router, access point?
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ciated.
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in time. :-P
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not all
philanthropic, I do stuff that benefits me too - but the beauty of Free
Software is that even when I'm scratching my own itch, I'm usually
scratching someone else's itch too.
Hope this helps,
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to get face-to-face help. Sadly, my LUG isn't particularly active
though.
Has that sparked anything in anyone?
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e the Orange
elements more strongly, and a formal product brochure, with descriptions
of supporting services, would use more of the Aubergine."
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look at that list and think "Wow, that must
confuse new users"?
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On 08/06/10 00:08, John Stevenson wrote:
> On 7 June 2010 23:13, James Tait <mailto:james.t...@wyrddreams.org>> wrote:
>> Alan Bell wrote:
>> [snip!]
>>
>> > here https://help.ubuntu.com/
>
g up-to-date recently, but the version
I'm currently running (0.5.09) isn't really suitable for large areas,
but for intra-city travel the navigation is good.
Cheers,
JT
[0] http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/
[1] http://www.openstreetmap.org/
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again. Then backspace to remove the "quiet
splash" keywords on the end. When you've done that, press Enter, then
press 'b' to boot.
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BootOptions#line-71
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> Worse, it can be really hard to migrate from Google - I've had people
> whose sites have broken because Google changed their architecture and I
> realised there was no export tool - we had to hand copy the content
> page-by-page - to name but on
-case K tweaked to make it the same size and
weight. I'll get my Inkscape hat on and see what I can conjure up.
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Here are my two efforts:
http://ubuntuone.com/p/BR4/
http://ubuntuone.com/p/BR5/
On the second one I adjusted the kerning on "local community team" to
make it fit and also adjusted the positioning of the K a bit.
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office sweepstake and everything! :D
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h this arrangement. It is possible to set up
udev rules to the desired permissions, but to be honest I use the DV
camera infrequently enough that it hasn't been worth looking into it.
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turning up.
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nd the CategoryUKTeamProfile "tag"; pick up the
location from people's profile page where they've applied the categroy
label, and present it on an OpenLayers/OpenStreetMap slippy map.
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Go on, I'll bite. I've actually been pinning my hopes on OneSocialWeb, but
things there seem to be moving slowly, and in theory they'll eventually become
interoperable once the SWAT0 [0] work is completed.
JT
[0] http://federatedsocialweb.net/wiki/SWAT0
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I wasn't going to comment, but I think some people have missed the point.
These are not "me too" replies intended for a single recipient. Diaspora is a
social network and as such it depends upon people "connecting" in order to
work. There are clearly a number of people on this list who are inter
a transport. Does anyone here know any more about it?
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ext Saturday, but not this evening's
meeting. Is the calendar still maintained, do I need to point to a
different one for these things, or do I need to kick Thunderbird?
Ta,
JT
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-s
[sudo] password for me:
root@mycomputer:~#
That works from a Gnome Terminal, or a TTY.
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ank you for reminding me - RMS is also at Nottinghack the day before:
http://nottinghack.org.uk/?p=873
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[1] http://twitter.com/UbuntuOne
[2] http://identi.ca/ubuntuone
[3] https://one.ubuntu.com/help/faq/
[4] https://one.ubuntu.com/help/contact/
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n a few minutes
of resuming from suspend.
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[2]
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should be available.
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fter your
immediate reply" are true.
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reverted to stock GTK+ ones.
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d it would be nice if
we could figure out what.
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Description: S/MIME Cryptogr
Android phone using the
hotel wifi to our land line via VoipFone. No video, but crystal clear
voice calls from Argentina for 1.2p/min.
JT
[0] How did I do that? Good question, but I don't think it was using
Empathy. Maybe it was Psi+.
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untu-desktop on Freenode.
They're a helpful, friendly, clueful bunch - they instantly latched
onto a similar kind of problem I was having a while back, helped me to
work around it in the short term and pushed the fix through quickly.
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> session type install without having to worry about installing after
> wards through a
Sounds like a job for APTonCD. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/APTonCD
Cheers,
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from the CD and you won't get any new .deb files in
/var/cache/apt/archives, while choosing the second option restores all
the .deb files to /var/cache/apt/archives and installs them from there.
HTH,
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useful information.
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Or, and I realise this means running another process on a system
that's already struggling, maybe give conky a try:
apt://conky-std
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SettingUpConky
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nonsense.
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in.
Cheers,
JT
[0] https://one.ubuntu.com/help/faq/
[1] https://one.ubuntu.com/help/contact/
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OOPS report and still have useful logs to possibly [0] fix it.
Cheers,
JT
[0] http://goo.gl/ZTE17
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> On Wed, 2013-04-17 at 16:07 +0100, James Tait wrote:
>> I would suggest someone with recent experience of this files the
>> bug and sees where it goes.
> One of my earlier mails did ask: "U
ly, you should be able to prompt Thunderbird to present the
Profile Manage on startup with Alt-F2 > thunderbird -P
Create a new profile and see if it works there - if so, the problem is
related to your existing profile.
HTH,
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package offers a real (no NAT) IPv4 address, a /48 native IPv6 block
and 50GB any time downloads for £25 a month. After that, it's up to
you to choose what add-ons you need.
HTH,
JT
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