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I gotta tell you, this is worse than I thought. I set the update manager
to exclude "proprietary device drivers (restricted)" and allowed it to
download and install everything else, and it again totally screwed up
the machine, knocking out among other things the high-resolution
display, so I had to
I'm getting less reluctant all the time!
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 07:36 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > I gotta tell you, this is worse than I thought. I set the update manager
> > to exclude "proprietary devi
I think Sean's approach is a lot more sensible for someone in my
position than yours, Al: especially because he included the magic words,
"It should detect all your hardware fine."
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 07:36 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 7:22 AM, Rowan
If I was running a consistent and up to date version of the OS, the
situation wouldn't arise in which I would be tempted to uncheck the
drivers updates option.
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 09:19 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:16 AM, Alan Pope wrote:
> > 2009/3/9 Sean Miller :
> >>
If all LinuxCertified did was buy a batch of snazzy Korean executive
laptops, with Windows Vista already installed on them, and then install
out-of-date and un-updatable versions of ubuntu on them, then tweak them
to make it work as long as they weren't updated, then I would be better
off without t
wser, it seems to
me, whereas I would hope that a complete new install of 8.10 would
include a browser. To be stuck without a browser and without an
installable version on disc ready in advance would be fatal, wouldn't
it?
Mon, 2009-03-09 at 11:29 +0000, Tony Travis wrote:
> Rowa
her wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 9:45 AM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > If all LinuxCertified did was buy a batch of snazzy Korean executive
> > laptops, with Windows Vista already installed on them, and then install
> > out-of-date and un-updatable versions of ubuntu on them,
Indeed, I was laboring under a misconception there. It sounds quite
straightforward, when you explain it like that ...
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 12:13 +, Michael G Fletcher wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 11:48 AM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > I wouldn't mind installing 8.10,
But I would have lost all my applications if I had done what Tony
suggested earlier, here is what he said:
"Did you try my advice of booting the kernel originally supplied by LC?
I don't think the 'restricted' drivers are the problem, it's the fact
that LC installed a non-standard kernel module f
n Mon, Mar 9, 2009 at 12:19 PM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > Indeed, I was laboring under a misconception there. It sounds quite
> > straightforward, when you explain it like that ...
> >
> >
>
> Great! I think it explains where some of the frustration was creeping
12:31 PM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > You see I did ask LinuxCertified about the two discs they supplied, and
> > they confirmed that the one I have now used twice has all the
> > applications, but the other one has none of them.
>
> Be very interested to find out what thi
Ah, I see. I thought you were talking about using the other disc that
came with the machine, the one without the apps. So I had completely the
wrong idea of what you meant. Thanks.
On Mon, 2009-03-09 at 16:02 +, Tony Travis wrote:
> Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> > But I would have lo
Ubuntu 8.10 now up and running apparently normally.
Thank you, Michael Fletcher!
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I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube
videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two
plug-ins one after another, neither of whiuch helped at all One of them
can be disabled (though not uninstalled),via Firefox > Tools > Add-ons,
namely Gnash 0.8
, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 13/03/2009 18:02, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> > I seem to have done one stupid thing: trying to get embedded YouTube
> > videos to play in the Firefox browser in Ubuntu 8.10, I installed two
> > plug-ins one after another, neither of whiuch helped at all One o
(think embedded here). If
you use it on unknown content, expect it to have issues and don't be
surprised if it crashes. If you encounter such a crash however, make
sure to file a bug immediately."
On Fri, 2009-03-13 at 16:02 +, Rob Beard wrote:
> On 13/03/2009 12:54, Rowan Berk
Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a
typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he
just uninstalls and re-installs en bloc every time he has detailed
issues...)
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 07:11 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> Just uninstall and re
.
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 07:23 +, Sean Miller wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 7:17 AM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > Sounds good to me (but I can already hear Al thinking to himself, what a
> > typical lazy windoze style solution, he'll never learn anything if he
> &
oh, quite so, Al, but I am merely trying to remove the things I myself
added yesterday - not items that were on the LiveCD, or that came with
the automatic updates that I received when I went online after running
the LiveCD and installing ubuntu 8.10 from it. In fact, I chose these
two add-ons, gna
It doesn't surprise me at all that they do, though: I think it is a
typical Establishment expression of the sticky Anglo-American 'special
relationship' (incidentally, Britain is not the only entity claiming a
'special relationship' with the USA).
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 14:24 +, Chris Rowson wr
complete remove'. Is there a simple general rule for how to remove some
complex set of items, such as Firefox-as-a-whole, and re-install it?
On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 17:04 +, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 14 Mar 2009 at 7:23, Sean Miller wrote:
>
> >
> > On Sat, Mar 14,
Perhaps it was a little tactless of me to say this:
"I find the Synaptic package manager a bit confusing. Maybe this is
explained in the help notes, but, in general, there are certain items
marked with a solid orange square and others not, and they're all
independently tickable, then there is the
That sounds so straightforward, even I couldn't mess it up :-)
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote:
> Sean Miller wrote:
> > I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they?
> >
> > If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an "rm
> > -rf .mozilla"
I don't seem to have a /home/$USER/ folder. There's nothing in /home/
except /Rowan/, and nothing in /Rowan/ except /examples/.
I did see a folder called /Lost & Found/ but it disappeared when I tried
to open it, after telling me I didn't have permission to do so.
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +0
no, I had to tick "show hidden files" first, I see it now.'
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote:
> Sean Miller wrote:
> > I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they?
> >
> > If so, then it presumably would be easy to ditch them... just an "rm
> > -rf .mozilla" or
There's 32 items in that default folder,four of which are folders. I
need to identify the specific ones I can and should remove, eventually.
On Sun, 2009-03-15 at 10:24 +, mac wrote:
> Sean Miller wrote:
> > I don't think plug-ins get installed in the home directory, do they?
> >
> > If so, t
I don't know what I did right, but my Firefox browser is streaming
embedded .flv videos now. I think I had the wrong Ad Blocker. There are
a lot of these, and some of them assume all embedded flash material is
ads. The main lesson I think I get from this is, install and test your
add-ons one at a t
I use Adblock plus for firefox and not had any issues.
> Mj.
>
> On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > I don't know what I did right, but my Firefox browser is streaming
> > embedded .flv videos now. I think I had the wrong Ad Blocker. There are
&
I have an awful lot of short music videos (non-interactive), I mean
scores and scores of them, which I downloaded from YouTube in flash
format and converted to .mp4 format. I felt that this would be a more
versatile format for video jukebox type use on unknown machines in the
future (like my eleven
hink I
shall re-obtain them in their original .mov format and this time leave
them that way.
On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 19:13 +, Harry Rickards wrote:
> Quoting Rowan Berkeley :
>
> > I have an awful lot of short music videos (non-interactive), I mean
> > scores and scores
Boy, do I know that feeling :-) At least you have access to another
machine that is still online. The real killer is being stranded offline
completely.
On Tue, 2009-03-17 at 10:16 +, John wrote:
> Hi, thank you so much. It does seem like something has broke it. I
> pressed escape when starti
rote:
> Oh dear, sorry to hear that, I hope you manage to get it fixed. I dont
> know what I would do if I was completely without the net. That's why i
> got myself another machine.
>
> I love this little netbook though, its been amazing.
>
> John.
>
> Rowan B
Many servers think that gmail and googlemail are two different things,
so if your emailer sends out your return address as googlemail and you
personally send it out as gmail, this can cause problems.
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 12:25 +, mac wrote:
> Toby Satchell wrote:
> > I did this because on the
Thanks for explaining that, Al; since I had exactly the same problem
when joining this list, I have been more careful to change all my
subscription addresses to googlemail.com
On Fri, 2009-03-20 at 14:56 +, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/3/20 Rowan Berkeley :
> > Many servers think that
I have Firefox on two machines side-by-side right now, one running
Ubuntu 8.10 and the other running Windows XP, and Firefox runs extremely
fast on the Ubuntu machine and extremely slow on the Windows one. I
admit the machine running Ubuntu has a faster CPU, but the freezing and
lagging you describ
Well, the mp3 player (Rhythmbox Music Player) really is a bit of a pig.
It has no re-tagging facility, it catalogues your mp3 files from their
existing tags only, and it is case-sensitive, so woe betide you if you
have carelessly used capital letters inconsistently in the tags you do
have.
On Sun,
Talking of mp3 libraries, I might mention that by far the best
file-sharing community for non-commercial, experimental, and avant-garde
music that I have found is Soulseek:
http://www.slsknet.org
However, this is a Windows client only. There is a version for Linux
users, called Nicotine, which acce
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> 2009/4/6 Rowan Berkeley :
> > http://nicotine.thegraveyard.org
> > It looks as if it needs a certain amount of compiling savvy to
> install
> > and run, and I would be very interested to know whether anyone h
When I've finished my mp3 re-tagging (which I am doing using Winamp),and
I am ready to connect my 500GB hard drive to my Ubuntu machine instead
of to my Windows machine, I shall try connecting it to the Home Hub
instead, first, and see whether the Ubuntu machine can talk to it via
the Hub.
On Thu
I have now tried Rhythmbox, Amarok, and Banshee, and Banshee does seem
to be the easiest to use --- you can compile a music library rather than
being pushed straight into playlists (as with Amarok), and you can
easily select to play albums, from the albums pane. But I would like to
know how to prev
sic players generally)
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> Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> "I have now tried Rhythmbox, Amarok, and Banshee, and Banshee does
> seem to be t
Hi,
I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 this morning, and it was absolutely
painless. I didn't lose any of my personal data or preferences, as far
as I can see, though it reverted my user log-in from automatic to
manual.
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> Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04 this morning, and it was absolutely
> > painless. I didn't lose any of my personal data or preferences, as f
You may recall I mentioned a version of the file-sharing client,
Soulseek, for Linux a few weeks ago, called Nicotine. I've got the
unpacked folder sitting on my desktop right now, but simply clicking
the .exe file within, marked 'Nicotine', doesn't bring up a functional
user interface, just one wh
Absolutely -- I got rid of the package that I was originally planning to
install manually, and obtained instead the self-installing package,
using Synaptic Package Manager (which automatically determined that it
also needed to download and install several Python dependencies), and it
ran first time
ha! and all these years I've been thinking it was just me.
On Sat, 2009-05-23 at 16:56 +0100, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com
wrote:
> The tone of the conversation from the assistant was imperious and
> somewhat offensive. My friend asked to talk to the manager, however
> the manager was not co
People may recall me complaining a couple of times that every time I
start the Evolution email client, I have to enter my password because it
wants to unlock the GPG/PGP keyring and can't do so without it. Well,
the latest updates include a number of Evolution-related items, and one
of them is an "
Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies of
these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be able to
recognise new additions to the mp3 archive except by recompiling its
Music Library completely via 'Import Media', thereby losing any
file-name changes I ha
> On Fri, 12 Jun 2009 at 16:16 PM, Simos Xenitellis
> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > Hi, people. Banshee doesn't edit tags in mp3 files, only the copies
> of these tags in its own Music Library. Also, it doesn't seem to be
&g
Hello everybody. I'm now using my new Linux Emporium Thinkpad, and very
nice it is too -- it accepts Ubuntu updates, without immediately
disabling itself the way the Linux Certified machine used to do.
However, my usual problems with default Ubuntu clients have returned,
especially the compulsory G
On Thu, 2009-07-09 at 15:36 +0100, vinu wrote:
> Assuming it IS gnome-keyring, somewhere in the repositories is a
> package that will unlock your default keyring on login and lock it
> again when you log out, to defeat this very problem. I've been using
> it for quite a while, now. If, on the oth
I said earlier: "I have gone and deleted the Evo applet from the Gnome
panel, and so I am not getting new email notifications (except for a
momentary balloon). I would like to put the applet back, but it isn't
listed in 'add/remove from panel.' Can anyone tell me how?" I have now
realised that what
Thunderbird is much easier to use than Evo, anyway, so I shall scrap Evo
and use Thunderbird.
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If it's asking about the default keyring, this is due to having
automatic login enabled - - It unlocks the keyring when you type your
login password, which doesn't happen if you have auto-login enabled. The
only thing you can do about this, as far as I know, is to disable
automatic login.
>> >
I found solutions to both of these. There is a tray notifier for
Evolution (though not one for Thunderbird) in the repositories, namely
the packets mail-notification and mail-notification-evolution. As for
the black-on-black panel legends problem, it is solved by switching the
desktop theme from 'H
(1) Logging in manually instead of automatically does not remove the
Evolution prompts to unlock the default keyring. This latter is located
at usr/bin/seahorse, and is really only for OpenPGP and SSH keyring
controls. I do not want to create keyrings, and I would like to know how
to disable th
Dean Sas wrote: Does your keyring have the same
password as your user login password? Seahorse is not only for openpgp
and ssh but also other passwords you may enter into gnome applications.
Both network manager and empathy in the default install use it.
-- Well, I got it finally; I had assumed t
On Wed, 15 Jul 2009 Dean Sas wrote
"On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 04:23, Rowan Berkeley wrote: 'However, the
symbiosis between the e-mail notifier and the Evolution client is still
far from perfect, I would say; an exorbitant number of clicks are
required to get from the appearance of
I can change the names of the audio files on my external hard drive,
just as I can change the names of files on my computer's internal hard
drive, and I can change the contents of the tags of these audio files,
but there is a list of filenames I cannot find, so I cannot change
anything in it. This
Lee wrote:
> ... the laptop is whining that the existing drivers have been
'specially modified by the manufacturer to improve performance on this
computer' and won't let the Intel drivers install.
That is exactly what was wrong with my 'Linux Certified' machine. Online
Ubuntu updates had the effe
Regarding my problem with uncorrectable audio filenames, here is a
closely related blog post:
"I recently noticed that Rhythmbox was behaving strangely when reading
the ID3 tags of my MP3 collection. No matter what ID3 tag editor I used
to try to correct the issue, Rhythmbox appeared to be display
Sean Miller said:
> What's wrong with the e-mailer? You have a choice of multiple e-mail
> clients, Evolution and Thunderbird being the most popular, but there
> are many others in the repos. Far better than Outlook Express or
> whatever.
Rob Beard said:
> What E-Mail application and Music Pla
Norman Silverstone wrote:
> I don't mind buying a new one but it feels a bit like you know who,
> change the operating system and you need to change some hardware.
Who?
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Some of you may recall my white elephant 'Linux Certified' machine. I
can't call LC its manufacturers, since they aren't: they just bought a
batch of Compal JHL90 notebooks and shoved a version of Ubuntu with a
non-standard interface driver onto them (because they said, it was more
stable than the
On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 19:13 +0100, "Alan Lord (News)"
wrote:
> those really annoying popups and
> wizards that try to tell you what you don't really want to do...
How I love those. Tell us more.
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2009 at 10:48:03 Neil Greenwood
wrote:
> Sun include a repository for the VirtualBox version that you can get
> from their website. This means that you'll get updates to VirtualBox
> when they're available - better than downloading a version from the
> website and it getting out-of-
Has anyone else tried this? I have just installed it from the repos. and
attempted to make a very simple music video for upload to YouTube. I
used a still jpg for the video and attempted to use an mp3 audio file,
then an ogg version of the same audio file, but although the picture
seems to work (as
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
> policies, including reductions of government spending, encouragement
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 items, so
there must be anoth
Ha, there they were. I wonder how they got hidden? Anyway, thanks.
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:11 +0100, mac
wrote:
> 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
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 16:11 +0100, Daniel Drummond
wrote:
> 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 de
On Thu, 2009-10-08 at 18:26 +0100, "Alan Lord (News)"
wrote:
> The ~ suffix is pretty standard in Unix/Linux for temporary/backup
> files and several tools create them automatically by default: gedit,
> Vi & Bluefish I know about.
>
> You can usually configure these apps to not create temporary
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 22:44 +0100, Christopher Swift
:
> Alan, since we've gone onto the topic of both spelling and grammar,
> you will find that according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the
> past participle of the verb to spell is indeed "spelt". We are not
> living in America on this thread.
Just wondering, folks: we know that Rhythmbox ceased development, and
even ceased providing fixes for bugs, months ago.
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On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 21:11 +, Tim Dobson wrote:
> Simon Osborne wrote:
> > Yes. It upgrades libavcodec to a version which is incompatible with
> > gstreamer and VLC, along with other things. It can be fixed by
> > forcing a downgrade on libavcodec to the version supplied with
> > Karmic.
>
John Matthews wrote:
> I'm running 9.10, and when I first updated, I didnt have any problems
> with videos, but since, there have been a few updates, and now I cant
> play them again. The whole page will freeze if there is a video on it.
> I remember somebody giving a whole list of things that c
On Thu, 2009-11-26 at 13:45 +, mac
wrote:
> Philip Stubbs wrote:
> > I hope you are wearing your foil hat right now
>
> Glad you're confident of your anonymity...
> De-Anonymizing Social Networks by Narayanan & Shmatikov:
> http://www.scribd.com/doc/15021482/DeAnonymizing-Social-Networks
On Wed, 2009-12-23 at 12:00 +, Matthew Daubney
wrote:
> Hello,
> It's that time of year again when everything will briefly become a bit
> cheaper (and I'm trying to avoid VAT returning to normal again as
> well). So am looking around for a new laptop. As far as specs go, I'd
> like a core 2 du
On Thu, 2009-12-24 at 12:00 +, Andy Smith
wrote:
> I may be in the market for a new general purpose laptop in early 2010.
> I currently use a Thinkpad R61 and I'm reasonably happy with it
> although the Intel wireless is hopeless under the currently-installed
> Jaunty (haven't tried upgrading
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:14 +, Dianne Reuby
wrote:
> Another target group includes people who are still running XP, using
> an older machine. Their PC is working fine, so why should they buy a
> new one? Why should they upgrade from XP when it does what they want,
> but isn't supported with up
Absolutely agreed. It's a constant pleasure to behold. And the superior
applications adopt it too. The inferior ones do not. I have noticed this
with video editors (amongst which, for me, neither superior nor inferior
actually work, however).
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 11:43, Liam Wilson
> Aye, t'is t
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 12:00 +0100, Paul Sutton wrote:
> While I understand why people download copyrighted material without
> paying for it, do it as they think the artists should get a better
> deal, we need to perhaps campaign for them to get a better deal.
> Let's get a fair deal for artists
On Mon, 2010-04-12 at 14:15 +0100, Alan Lord (News)"
wrote:
> I'm not sure what the "rules" are for this mailing list but it seems
> to me this thread has left the discussion of the deb and is becoming a
> general political rant. Presumably there are other lists where stuff
> not really to do with
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 12:00 +0100, John Matthews
wrote:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410
> Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6. That is what I am using,
> and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now
> open, but it fails to c
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 13:08 +0100, John Matthews
wrote:
> Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4pre) Gecko/20100410
> Ubuntu/9.10 (karmic) Namoroka/3.6.4pre GTB6. That is what I am using,
> and FF worked ok opened, fine. Then after that Firefox window will now
> open, but it fails to c
Hi, people. This is a preventative question, since it hasn't happened
yet. I have an external hard drive connected to my computer by USB.
Unlike the computer it does not have battery power to fall back on if
mains power is interrupted. I always unmount the hard drive by
right-clicking on its deskto
On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 12:00 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
> Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do if external hard drive isn't
> unmounted properly?
> On 17/05/10 07:26, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
> > Hi, people. This is a preventative question, since it hasn't
> > happened yet
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 default. I have experienced no problems
> > in using it on the newer Ubuntu machine.
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
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On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:50 +0100, Dave Morley
wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:01 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> > On 18 May 2010 18:50, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > > I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I
> > > don't know where
whoops, sorry, forgot to change the subject line in previous message.
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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 to do gain access to them? Thanks,
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On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 12:00 +0100, Colin Law
wrote:
> 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 me
Hi,
Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard
memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I
have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk drive. There is
now nothing on the external disk drive except an empty 'Lost and Found'
folder. Ho
On Thu, 2010-05-20 at 14:04 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
> On 20 May 2010 12:55, Rowan Berkeley
> wrote:
> > Hi, Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into
> > onboard memory, and checked that they are accessible and function
> > normally, I have created a
On 20 May 2010 14:53, Alan Pope wrote:
On 20 May 2010 14:30, Rowan Berkeley
wrote:
> > I've sorted it out, by running 'sudo nautilus', navigating to the
> > disk, and changing the permissions to include myself.
> Personally I wouldn't do that. I expect a furth
On Sun, 2010-05-23 at 02:06 +0100, Mary Mooney
wrote:
> Why don't you call LE?
In fact, I did email them. I have another query for them, about the way
they have configured the Lenovo N500: While I was using Gparted to
format the external hard disk, I noticed a block of memory on the
internal hard
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 I could
> > bring into use, merging it
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 I could
> > bring into use, merging it
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