[ubuntu-uk] Karmic RC updates

2009-10-22 Thread Nick
Hi Guys, Anybody got an idea when the Karmic RC update files will hit the repo's, I am running the beta and expected a large update today, but as of 14:21 there are no updates yet. Regards, -- Nicholas.J.Parkinson < SAVE A TREE PLEASE DO NOT PRINT THIS EMAIL UNLESS YOU REALLY NEED TO > <

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic RC updates

2009-10-22 Thread Nick
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 14:43 +0100, James Westby wrote: > On Thu Oct 22 14:22:39 +0100 2009 Nick wrote: > > Anybody got an idea when the Karmic RC update files will hit the repo's, > > I am running the beta and expected a large update today, but as of 14:21 > > there

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour

2009-10-23 Thread Nick
com/UKTeam/ > >>> > >>> > >> > >> I'm using flash no problem (by Flash, I mean YouTube!). Don't really > >> know of any sites that use java - suggest one and I'll give it a go. > >> > >> > > Um... Java.com? > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Chromium (Was Bizarre Firefox behaviour)

2009-10-23 Thread Nick
sh no problem (by Flash, I mean YouTube!). Don't really > > >> know of any sites that use java - suggest one and I'll give it a go. > > >> > > >> > > > Um... Java.com? > > > > > > Rob > > > > > > http://ja

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Karmic networking broken

2009-10-27 Thread Nick
ing Karmic since about Alpha 5 and had very few problems. The > RC (on the 3 machines I'm running anyway) seems to be quite stable. The > performance improvements are quite startling, especially the boot time on > my laptop. > > If you have found some problems, make sure you report bugs! The next > release is an LTS so should be by far more stable on release. > > -Matt Daubney > > + 1 Nick Parkinson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction and question

2005-08-03 Thread Nick Mcmahon
think, how many Irish or Nothern Irish ubuntu Users would sign up (and how many are already signed up to the UK list) , would it be viable to do so? Nick -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introduction and question

2005-08-03 Thread Nick Mcmahon
very small groups would be bad for ubuntu and I agree with you on community thing to an extent, and depending on the size and number of active users in an Irish list, I think it become quite a good community. Nick -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug 12168 Needs a British English Speaker.

2005-09-04 Thread Nick McMahon
I'd be happy to take a look at some, but, i have no idea how/where to get started..if someone could point me there ill take a look but iv never done this before.. Nick Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi, http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12168 picks up on some incorrectly spelt wor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bug 12168 Needs a British English Speaker.

2005-09-04 Thread Nick McMahon
Ralph Corderoy wrote: Hi Nick, http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=12168 picks up on some incorrectly spelt words in aspell's British English dictionary. I opened it, and Mark Florian has added a couple more. It would be nice if a British English speaker could confirm our spe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Live CD problem

2005-09-07 Thread Nick McMahon
have to enable booting from your CD device in the BIOS or press a special button during the machines POST to bring up a boot menu to select the device to boot from, i have to do both :) Nick -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] GPG

2005-09-16 Thread Nick McMahon
key not found I guess this means i dont have one, can anyone please help me create one? Nick -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] RE:GPG

2005-09-16 Thread Nick McMahon
nevermind, google is your friend I *think* i have this sorted out now... one question though, what happens if i reinstall or something, what happens?! -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RE:GPG

2005-09-16 Thread Nick McMahon
Magnus Therning wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:46:58PM +0100, Nick McMahon wrote: nevermind, google is your friend I *think* i have this sorted out now... one question though, what happens if i reinstall or something, what happens?! What happens to what? If you re-install your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RE:GPG

2005-09-16 Thread Nick McMahon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nick McMahon wrote: Magnus Therning wrote: On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 04:46:58PM +0100, Nick McMahon wrote: nevermind, google is your friend I *think* i have this sorted

Re: [ubuntu-uk] breezy wfi question

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Mcmahon
find its easier than the way i have described. right click on a desktop panel, the one with the clock on will do, Click " + add to panel" and then scroll about untill you (hopefully) see Network Monitor and an icon that looks like the old 56K activity monitor for windows, do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] breezy wfi question

2005-09-22 Thread Nick Mcmahon
did after logging in) from 5.04 to 5.10 it came back, so i dont know if there is a fix, but a reinstall works :) Nick McMahon -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] suspend you ram broke (breezy)

2005-10-04 Thread Nick Mcmahon
baza wrote: The October 3 update seems to have broke suspend to RAM on my Inspiron 2200. It was working, 'out of the box' up til that point. Is anyone else finding this? Baza not that specifically, but the same update seems to have broken my friends xsession, must have been a punishment

[ubuntu-uk] JRE

2005-10-04 Thread Nick Mcmahon
i just wondered, given the very recent Google/sun news why has the JRE version in breezy been taken back to 1.4 from 1.5? as far as i am aware this was Suns doing...any ideas? Nick -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mplayer

2005-10-07 Thread Nick Mcmahon
en downloaded i usually only get audio. ill keep a closer eye on what happens if you post a link to the bug you file i might be able to add to it and help them out. Although i had the problem in 5.04 too Nick McMahon Baza wrote: On 7 Oct 2005, at 15:12, Baza wrote: Hi, before I file a bug re

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 5.04 CDs available

2005-10-13 Thread Nick Mcmahon
Same here, theirs quite an interest at my college, maybe not a market for all 700 :-Pbut i should certainly be able to get a load shifted Hi all - I have about 700 Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary) CDs available in our office in London (all x86). Yes, these are out of date now that Breezy is out bu

[ubuntu-uk] Openoffice

2005-10-15 Thread Nick Mcmahon
Hello, i was just wondering what version of OpenOffice Breezy is supposed to work with, i have installed OpenOffce.org2 and find there is no dictionary :s has anyone else experianced this? any ideas what to do? Nick -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openoffice

2005-10-15 Thread Nick Mcmahon
baza wrote: On Sat, 2005-10-15 at 18:22 +0100, Nick Mcmahon wrote: Hello, i was just wondering what version of OpenOffice Breezy is supposed to work with, i have installed OpenOffce.org2 and find there is no dictionary :s has anyone else experianced this? any ideas what to do? Nick

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openoffice

2005-10-16 Thread Nick Mcmahon
Thanks Dave, Turns out i had neither, i also found a language meta-package that installed a whole bunch of *en-gb things for mozilla (thunderbird),gnome and openoffice, including the help files (about 37Mb of files) i think everything is fixed for me now. Nick McMahon Dave Meikle wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cannot log into the root account

2005-10-17 Thread Nick Mcmahon
llow root to login with GDM" but i reccomend against doing that too, you shouldnt realy use root as your main account, period. hope that helps Nick McMahon -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] I would like to play dvd

2005-10-24 Thread Nick Mcmahon
Oren, have you paid a visit to http://www.ubuntuguide.org/ yet? they have all the codecs you should need, but give VLC a try first. Hi all At last, I managed to get my network connection. Hurrraaa. Now, I am absolutely struggling with getting sense out of Totem. But not only Totem. All I w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-08 Thread Nick McMahon
I use the C64 driver on the C66 with no problems, i dont know if that helps in any way but its all i know :) -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing problems, Breezy and Epson C66

2005-11-08 Thread Nick McMahon
e > to use the utility from the command line. Getting this to work might give > more clues to the problem. I know nothing about such a utility, if you enlighten me i'll be glad to test it out. im using 5.10. Nick -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.c

[ubuntu-uk] Heads up

2005-11-08 Thread Nick McMahon
http://news.com.com/New+worm+targets+Linux +systems/2100-7349_3-5938475.html?part=rss&tag=5938475&subj=news worth a read if you run a server. Nick McMahon -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com http://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hooking up a machine running Ubuntu to a Mark 1, BT HomeHub

2009-02-18 Thread Nick Vallianos
orange, and it has a plug that looks like a telephone plug but it's more square and transparent. Let me know how you're doing and I'll follow up with further instructions. Nick -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hooking up a machine running Ubuntu to a Mark 1 BTHomeHub

2009-02-19 Thread Nick Vallianos
It seems like your network card is not recognised. Perhaps it is disabled in the bios? Sometimes it conflicts with the "Wake up on lan" setting from the bios. Try this command: dmesg | grep eth0 Here's my output, for comparison: [3.848018] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xc800, 00:1e:8b:6c:21:b4, I

[ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers

2010-07-06 Thread Nick Brandon
ke it reasonable, volunteers to try it out? That being said if anyone here would be interested in trying it out it please send me an email. It wouldn't take more than 30 - 60 mins and all you need is a laptop/desktop PC with a DVD drive and preferably 2GB of memory. Thanks N

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers

2010-07-06 Thread Nick Brandon
s (all updates since the April 2010 official CD) * A few changes to the installed applications and packages ... and the rest you are welcome to discover if you wish to try it out! Thanks Nick -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers

2010-07-06 Thread Nick Brandon
ollowing" in the first place though. Can you recommend specific IRC channels or mailing lists to use? Thanks Nick -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers

2010-07-07 Thread Nick Brandon
On 6 Jul 2010, at 23:07, Alan Pope wrote: > On 6 July 2010 22:37, Nick Brandon wrote: >> * Runs ubuntu from memory rather than DVD > > Interesting, do you mean USB stick or it loads into RAM? I am guessing > the latter since you recommend 2GB RAM. Doesn't that leave a lo

[ubuntu-uk] Intel GM965 to an LCD tv

2010-07-08 Thread Nick Callaghan
e had a search online and can't find anything in either launchpad or the forums. Does anybody have any experience with the graphic controller of grundig tv's and could point me in the right direction? Thanks, Nick -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinf

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for volunteers

2010-07-13 Thread Nick Brandon
s email saying it was a tweak rather than a derivative. It will be pretty much based on the official configuration except removing a few items that are not in use (non-english language packs for example) to reduce memory footprint. Thanks Nick -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 63, Issue 23

2010-07-13 Thread Nick Brandon
buntu needs quite a few tweaks to get it working. Thanks Nick-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Skype Headset

2011-01-22 Thread Nick Callaghan
Hey All, I'm looking to get a headset for using skype. Does anyone have any recommendations of one that will work nicely in ubuntu with reasonably sound quality but not too pricey. Thanks, Nick -- Nicholas Callaghan twitter.com/nickcallaghan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [FOSDEM] Dates for FOSDEM 2012: 4 & 5 February

2011-09-12 Thread Nick McAlpin
Hello and thanks for the message. Unfortunately, I cannot make it on any of the dates you suggested. But, it sounds like a great event and good luck to anyone who goes. Can't wait for Ubuntu 11.10 to come out soon though, it's getting very close

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What should be done for 12.04

2011-09-27 Thread Nick McAlpin
ness. Ubuntu is meant to be the cutting-edge, desirable and easy to use Linux System, not the stable, corporate one! Just saying, Nick. From: Liam Proven To: UK Ubuntu Talk Sent: Monday, 26 September 2011, 15:19 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] What should be done f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.10 So far mixed fortunes

2011-12-03 Thread Nick McAlpin
For me, anything old gets either Arch Linux or Debian installed, with fluxbox/Openbox and lxde Arch isn't as hard as everyone makes it out to be!-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.10 So far mixed fortunes

2011-12-03 Thread Nick McAlpin
Sorry, this phone makes it impossible to bottom quote, so I will just write the post in detail and context. For older systems, you want to save as much as space as possible and only have what you need installed and not have any extra drivers or things you don't need. I choose Arch for older har

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Are we missing the point with an OS ?

2011-12-03 Thread Nick McAlpin
In my opinion, the desktop environment or window manager marks the end of the os to applications barrier, obviously ignoring the applications that come with de and wm. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.10 So far mixed fortunes

2011-12-03 Thread Nick McAlpin
I'm not really an expert - more of an intermediate ;)-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Samsung Galaxy tab 10.1

2011-12-23 Thread Nick Callaghan
device wont mount, anybody else had any joy? Cheers, Nick Callaghan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 80, Issue 69

2011-12-24 Thread Nick Callaghan
mproved There is also an article on omg ubuntu which i have just found talking about the same thing. Cant get their instructions to work though: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-easily-mount-the-galaxy-nexus-on-ubuntu-11-10-via-unity/ Nick -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/