Re: [ubuntu-uk] Setting up the web interface for VLC in ubuntu/Linuxmint?

On Monday 12 April 2010 15:26:01 Kris Douglas wrote: > As far as I know, you just turn it on in VLC's options and it just > works on your_ip:vlcport > > ifconfig in terminal to find your IP, and I'm pretty sure VLC tells > you the port. You can find the port directly with something like: netstat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NO_PUBKEY !!!

Do not do that. That will remove your personal GPG keys, if they exist. Tyler On Monday 12 April 2010 17:00:04 Daniel Case wrote: > Have you tried getting rid of the folder /home/cjm/.gnupg ? > > It should force it to redownload the pubkeys properly. > > ~Daniel > > On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 4:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Blue tint on screen?

Sounds like the red signal is bad. You'll get the same effect if you bend that pin on a VGA cable. Regards, Tyler On Friday 23 April 2010 17:20:20 Daniel Case wrote: > Hiya Guys, i have a laptop thats about 2 years old...and it developed a > sudden blue tint on the LCD moniter, i have done the u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nicht im Haus bis 2010-05-28

On Monday 10 May 2010 15:25:38 Jon Farmer wrote: > 1. Not to send to certain addresses at all, i.e mailing lists > > Anyone know if this is possible? If your autoresponder has any filtering at all, it would be trivial to match on the "List-Id" header. Tyler -- "The tragedy of our day is the c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Media Centre Advice

> I have a budget of around £300 for a media box which will be directly > connected to a TV. I would prefer to buy a pre-built system, something like > Acer Aspire Revo (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172706) would be good and > then install Lucid. That's exactly the hardware I was going to recomme

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Encrypt whole disk or just home dir?

On Thursday 13 May 2010 01:10:44 John Stevenson wrote: > If you have a laptop hard drive that often contains sensitve personal data > or is used for any kind of business or holds information that needs to be > covered under the data protection act, then it advisable to have the whole > system encry

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Peer to peer apt

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 the packages are > often small and the overhead of p2

[ubuntu-uk] sudo

On Thursday 20 May 2010 14:11:28 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > On 20/05/10 13:00, Alan Pope wrote: > > You pretty much never need to logon as root. You can 'become' root like > > with:- > > > > sudo -s > > Hmmm, when I do this I tend to use > > sudo -i > > so you don't litter your homedir with root'

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux On Dell

On Saturday 22 May 2010 13:50:00 Nigel Verity wrote: > Re: Dianne Reuby's news that Dell say the use of any OS other than Windows > will invalidate the hardware guarantee. I've run Ubuntu on Dell since 5.04. I've called for support 5 times across 5 laptops - once for a bad fan, and 4 times for d

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

On Monday 07 June 2010 08:51:09 Neil Perry wrote: > But how many of you using aptitude rather then apt-get? > > I've used aptitude since I started using ubuntu, seeing as I thought > apt-get wasn't maintained any more. I have never used aptitude (except to test it once or twice). I've used apt-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

On Monday 07 June 2010 10:23:45 Mark Fraser wrote: > I tend to use aptitude on the command line when apt-get says that it can't > perform an upgrade for some reason. This is usually because it needs to > install something else at the same time. Try 'apt-get dist-upgrade' rather than 'apt-get upgra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Install

On Monday 07 June 2010 21:09:46 Chris Rowson wrote: > Ah. In answer to my own question, it looks like the i386 server kernel > was 'dropped' in Karmic. Yep. You can see it here: http://packages.ubuntu.com/karmic/linux-server This metapackage depends on: * dep: linux-generic-pae [i386] *

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Aptitude

On Tuesday 08 June 2010 11:56:45 pmgazz wrote: > I use aptitude 'cos I always make a typo on the hyphen in 'apt-get' ;) This sounds like a job for ... sudo ln -s /usr/bin/apt-get /usr/local/bin/aptget Tyler -- "Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gradual illumination of men's minds, whi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] fail2ban & custom iptables rules

Hi Chris, It certainly is. Attached are samples of my iptables-restore and fail2ban configs for hardy-based servers. My iptables config creates the fail2ban-ssh chain, so I've changed the iptables-multiport fail2ban action so that it doesn't. And I prefer that fail2ban only block NEW ssh sessi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Still having problems with recovery......

On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:44:29 Alan Bell wrote: > ah, interesting, this is new information. A fresh install of Lucid does > not show grub at all unless you hold shift, although thinking about it > it might have to for dual boot setups. At the top of the grub screen it > should list the version n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

On Thursday 10 June 2010 23:19:28 Chris Rowson wrote: > I'm migrating a web server with a few sites from a CentOS based VPS > with a DirectAdmin control panel to an Ubuntu Lucid server. I'm not > incredibly bothered about losing the control panel, but I wondered if > anyone had any advice on securi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Increasing start up problems since upgrade to 10.04

On Friday 11 June 2010 13:44:38 Liam Proven wrote: > If you have a 64-bit chip - which seems /extremely/ likely if the > machine takes 4GB - then assuming that you actually want to /use/ all > of your 4 gig, you should be running the 64-bit version. 32-bit PC OSs > can't access more than about 3¼-3

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

On Friday 11 June 2010 17:47:08 Chris Rowson wrote: > Here's the my current level of understanding! If anyone can fill in > the gaps (or correct me if I'm wrong) I'd be really grateful. (snipped for brevity) Your stated understanding is correct, as far as I know it. > What I'm still hazy on is t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

On Friday 11 June 2010 23:17:07 Chris Rowson wrote: > >> That's easy. Again, webmin + virtualmin will set it up for each > >> domain/account pretty easily. But here are the packages you need: > > Also, unfortunately there's no Lucid installer yet for virtualmin. I > might have a look at what's inv

Re: [ubuntu-uk] PHP security

On Tuesday 15 June 2010 21:04:38 Chris Rowson wrote: > Please feel free to point out any errors etc. I might work this into a > how to and publish it on the 'tinterweb (of course giving proper > attribution to folk such as Tyler) as instructions on how to do this > seem to be spread across quite a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu guest in Virtual Box lost networking

On Friday 25 June 2010 08:34:29 David King wrote: > I run Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit on my PC, on which I run Virtual Box 3.2.4. In > that I have been running an Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit guest. Mostly it has > been okay, but recently it started to randomly lose its network > connection, and now today it cannot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Optional headless server...

As long as the card is on the bus, it is powered. The card itself may have a specific power-save mode, but I very much doubt it. The power consumed by the monitor is another story, but you know how to turn that off. If you want a way to save power and periodically run commands and fetch stuff,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone got a spare joggler?

On Friday 02 July 2010 13:19:47 Alan Pope wrote: > It's a computer. > > There is this thing called google :) Next time you really want to be sarcastic, Alan, try this: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=joggler Tyler -- "Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for ever

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Intel GM965 to an LCD tv

On Saturday 10 July 2010 15:46:40 pete wrote: > And I have discovered that my LCD tv 'overscans'! that is the desktop > and shells edges are hidden by the edges of the physical screen! after > much googleing around I have been unable to resolve this (forgive me for > this but winxp has a 'underscan

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mount and fstab query

On Thursday 15 July 2010 07:36:24 Bob Giles wrote: > There is probably a simple answer to my query but so far it has eluded > me. I have added a line to /etc/fstab which originally mounted a couple > of shares on my Netgear Duo NAS at bootup. It worked fine for a couple > of days and has now stoppe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] mount and fstab query

On Thursday 15 July 2010 19:19:18 Bob Giles wrote: > Thank you all for your suggestions and references. This does indeed > appear to be a timing problem. > > The power supply here in Greece where I live has been particularly > tiresome lately and as a result, everything gets powered down overnight

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

On Friday 16 July 2010 20:53:56 Rob Beard wrote: > So considering the large files, would anyone recommend EXT3 or EXT4? Tony outlined the problem with upgrading ext3 to ext4, so I have just this to add: use ext4. There is no reason, exempting some fears caused by problems in early releases, not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EXT3 or EXT4

On Friday 16 July 2010 21:18:47 Rob Beard wrote: > Is the Extents where it allocates space for big files? (I found > something about this when googling about EXT4). Extents are a method of pre-allocating space to avoid fragmentation. ext4 will be faster for copying large files. Regards, Tyler

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distributed Backup Proposal

On Saturday 24 July 2010 09:04:00 Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > 1) How would you ensure that my files cannot be copied or read by anyone > else on the network? See the brackup project - rsync with encrypted storage. Combine that with P2P, and you have this. Tyler -- "In a time of univers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu 64 on basic laptop

On Saturday 24 July 2010 12:57:15 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > I do not think it will make much difference. But I use 32bit Ubuntu on > all my machines. Earlier experiences with codecs and flash support on > 64bit has scared me for life! I have run 64-bit on my normal workstation since Hardy, and run

Re: [ubuntu-uk] blooper: overwrote /usr/share/bin ?

On Monday 26 July 2010 16:25:43 ByteSoup wrote: > sudo cp /usr/share/bin > > Missing the trailing "/" and now instead of the directory > /usr/share/bin, i have a file called "bin". Now is this as I suspect > trashed the directory, or was /usr/share/bin normally a symlink to > another directory an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTML as desktop background?

On 31/07/10 13:08, Jack Leigh wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently came across this awesome demo of using the tag in > HTML to do 8-bit color cycling > (http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/) > Does anyone know of a way that I could set one of these as my desktop > background or produce an i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Moan -- Top Posting (was "Apps for kids")

On Saturday 07 Aug 2010 09:15:47 Sean Miller wrote: > And we have yet to get the opinions of a large percentage of the group. I don't see the point of getting a large discussion going, and I certainly don't see this as a vote. When topics like this come up, it is unfortunate that the mailing lis

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

On Wednesday 11 Aug 2010 11:01:16 Byte Soup wrote: > One of my family wants to shred some HDDs before discarding them, or giving > them away on freecycle. What application would you all recommend to do > this? I have used "shred" to remove files, but I dont think it can do an > entire disc (i.e. so

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Real Ale Train

See you there tomorrow, folks! http://fossevents.org/2010/02/02/ubuntu-uk-real-ale-train/ Tyler -- "The belief in immortality has always seemed cowardly to me. When very young I learned that all things die, and all that we wish of good must be won on this earth or not at all." -- Anne Smedle

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

On Friday 27 Aug 2010 14:56:10 Rob Beard wrote: > Um... why do you need to do anything with Firefox? VMWare Server 2 uses a web-based admin panel. VNC inside the browser requires a Firefox plugin, which works on i386 and amd64. Regards, Tyler -- "Do the right thing even if it means dying like a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fed-up with VMWare!

On Friday 27 Aug 2010 15:41:23 Jim Price wrote: > I've been using Virtualbox since Hardy came out, as it is pretty slick > and mostly pain free, but I took another look at qemu-kvm after the > recent announcement from Oracle, and armed with a little foreknowledge, > I feel happy I could switch to k

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Preventing a hack attempt

On Saturday 28 Aug 2010 08:05:03 Matthew Daubney wrote: > Denyhosts is quite useful in stopping brute force attacks. After so many > failed attempts it just blocks the attacking IP. See also fail2ban, which is in my opinion more useful. It works using iptables, and supports all kinds of brute-for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Basic network gateway server setup

On Tuesday 31 Aug 2010 22:58:13 Eddie B wrote: > I'm trying to do something that is probably really simple. I have a > server which has two interfaces. eth0 obtains an IP (192.168.1.20) by > DHCP for the internet from a router sitting on 192.168.1.1. The > server, as such, is able to get onto the i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [OT] Basic network gateway server setup

On Wednesday 01 Sep 2010 09:29:35 Cornelius Mostert wrote: > 1 thing that no one mentioned as yet that might be obvious is the Subnet > Mask. > I have a similar setup but are using 2 routers and I found that the DHCP > router needs to tell the clients that: > 1. The Default Gateway should be the ro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] It Hibernate better than switching off?

On Thursday 02 Sep 2010 14:05:30 javadayaz wrote: > Does this have any adverse affects on the hard drive? No. Regards, Tyler -- "Offending fundamentalists isn't my goal – but if it is an inevitable side-effect of defending human rights, so be it." -- Johann Hari -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] It Hibernate better than switching off?

I don't believe you can instruct a suspended laptop to wake itself up. That would take at least a BIOS feature, I think. A suspended laptop doesn't make a copy of anything. It just syncs the filesystems (writes changes to media), and puts the hardware into a low-power state. That basically mean

Re: [ubuntu-uk] backup home folder

On Thursday 16 Sep 2010 09:55:33 Alan Pope wrote: > To achieve a reinstall/upgrade of this nature simply boot from a > recent CD and when you get to the partitioning step, choose to > 'manually' partition the disk. Choose where you want to install and > make sure 'Format' is _not_ ticked. The insta

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 02:00:37 Liam Proven wrote: > Get them onto the LTS release *now* and then you can safely leave 'em > there 'til 2012. *Don't* put them onto 9.10, it's already obsolescent. > > Me, personally, I'd say wipe & reload. It's easier than doing 9.04 -> > 9.10 followed by 9.10 ->

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Pasting home directory into new and version upgrade installs?

On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 11:38:18 Alan Lord (News) wrote: > Just a hint. > > sudo chown -R user: /home/user > > will do the same thing. You do not need to add the group name after the > colon. Dude! If I had known that fifteen years ago, I'd have done ... well, a little less typing over the year

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shredding HDD data

On Saturday 18 Sep 2010 23:35:26 John Matthews wrote: > Hi, thank you so much for giving me that info I installed it, and it > works so quite happy. Problem is, the http://www.ubuntu-unleashed.com > website, only deals with ubuntu up to > 9.04 I think, is there an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Diagnostics tools

On Mon, 2010-10-04 at 16:23 +0100, Shaun ONeil wrote: > Thermal paste shouldn't dry. It stays a paste. It really is just a lick-um & > stick-um job. No need to watch paint dry :) Don't, of course, lick thermal paste. It contains some unpleasant heavy metals that you should not ingest. :) Tyler

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banks and Ubuntu support for business users

On Sun, 2010-10-10 at 16:55 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote: > It's very easy: > * Go to www.hsbc.co.uk (so now you know what bank I'm talking > about) > * Click the "Log on" button in the "Business" box on the right > > At that point, it should take you to a login page but in my case

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IDE drive mounting ....

On Mon, 2010-10-11 at 11:27 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > Ubuntu 10.10 finds all the drives OK but refuses to mount the IDE hard > drive saying it already has a drive mounted at the same mount point. Ubuntu mounts removable drives (really, any not in /etc/fstab) in /media/LABEL. LABEL is either the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu/Linux is still not an OS for the masses - discuss

Melv, On Wed, 2010-10-13 at 10:28 +0100, Melv Bailey wrote: > This has caused me a problem since 8.04 (7.10 is the last version I have > run sort of successfully without having to jump through VGA driver hoops > but I did have to jump through wireless drivers hoops and didnt solve them). I am s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Strange connection problem to Router

On Mon, 2010-10-18 at 16:17 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > Have to wait for the second (private) broadband to be activated on our > other phone line. Seems odd that the Windows machine was able to > automatically detect a static IP address No, it can't automatically detect a static IP.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 10:42 +0100, 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. Indeed we are! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uh_gaaUiNs8 Tyler -- "Cheops' Law: Nothing ever gets

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dictionary of English words

On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 18:19 +0100, Daniel Case wrote: > I have tried to have a Google but these things are generally frowned > upon because they are part of a crackers toolkit, anywhere I have > found is now down. > Does anyone have any idea where I could get a comma separated list of > all English

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 10:37 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > I have Devolo 200s which work quite well. They have a linux app for > enabling encryption so your neighbours can't snoop on your traffic. Does the Linux app enable encryption at the hardware? Or does it create a local interface on the Linux whi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Powerline Recommendations

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 11:18 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > > Does the Linux app enable encryption at the hardware? > > It does. You plug a PC directly into the device and choose a key which > is set inside the device. Do that for all devices and then you're set. > Nothing more to do, no computers need

Re: [ubuntu-uk] External CAT5 (subject change for change of topic)

On Fri, 2010-10-22 at 18:03 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: > As far as I'm aware, it poses no more risk than, say, a satellite > dish. I *am* a satellite engineer. I've installed and operated antennas from 1.2m to 9.3m in diameter, from Baghdad to London. I've never seen lighting strikes an antenna i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mint 9 and Windows 2000 Server

On Sun, 2010-10-24 at 12:39 +0100, Grant Sewell wrote: > I guess not everyone realises yet that Linux Mint is no longer based on > Ubuntu - certainly the Wikipedia page (which for some is Gospel) still > show it as being based on Ubuntu. Mint STILL is an Ubuntu derivative. They also provide KDE (K

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

On Tue, 2010-10-26 at 21:57 +0100, Simon Greenwood wrote: > You could try disabling the DVI port in the Ubuntu config. I doubt very, very much that Ubuntu has anything to do with this. Start by checking that EFI, the Mac equivalent of BIOS, has a setting to "ignore boot errors", or "headless boot"

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 12:24 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: > I do remember now that some older Mac G4 towers we used (running Mac OS X > server) had a similar headless problem and plugging the DVI to VGA adapter in > the back sorted it. I had forgotten about that so it might be the answer as > the di

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Server won't start without screen

On Wed, 2010-10-27 at 14:51 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: > Yep, we had those too. Kick-off I think it was called. > > In fact here it is > http://www.sophisticated.com/products/kick-off/kick-off_mac.html Yep, that's it! Thanks for the reminder. May I never see such a device again. :) Tyler -- "A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] e-books without Adobe Digital Editions

On Mon, 2010-11-08 at 12:54 +, pmgazz wrote: > Otherwise, publishers with existing copyright insist on using DRM - > nothing (legally) to be done about that as far as I can tell. Except for Baen, one of the first publishers to come to their senses (and have the mounting sales to prove it). Al

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Book costs (was Re: e-books without Adobe Digital Editions)

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 and selling the physical > objects. > > Most of the cost

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loosy splah screen after update to 10.10

I think the idea is that it is much faster, if less configurable. Like the new GDM since 10.04. Regards, Tyler On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 00:50 +, Craig Peden wrote: > Everyone has it. It is the newer graphical boot/shutdown stuff that I > think it generated by Plymouth as opposed to the xsplash y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Linux website - Feedback? [was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 28]

On Thu, 2010-11-18 at 17:32 +, Jon Spriggs wrote: > Actually, I was under the impression that the stack exchange software > (which drives stack overflow and askubuntu and others) is Free > Software, albeit on a Windows and C# platform. It appears to run nginx on Linux, or at least its front-en

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommend a two hard drive dock

On Wed, 2010-11-24 at 15:13 +, Liam Proven wrote: > Docks are for when you want to constantly remove and replace the > disks. If they are meant to be permanently in use, put the drives into > external enclosures. Indeed. We use them to shred disks before disposing of them. They're best for rap

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gronk, gronk, gronk

On Fri, 2010-11-26 at 13:14 +, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > Nope. It is silent in booting, and, I think, faster. If I then close the > CD tray, while the machine is still running, it gronks once. Most likely your BIOS probes the drive at boot-up, even if you don't have it in the boot order. That's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shell script .....

On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 11:14 +, Barry Drake wrote: > I wrote a little script for doing an rsync to a second hard drive. It > goes like this: > #/bin/bash > rsync -r /home/barry /media/hda1/backups/barry_pc | tee >(zenity > --progress --pulsate --text="Backing up files ") >backup_log.txt > k

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A Document 'Signing' solution required

On Thu, 2010-12-16 at 20:41 +, John Stevenson wrote: > In my humble experience, it is quite likely that if you find a > technological way to force them to engage, they will spend more effort > trying to game that mechanism than reading your communications. Indeed. You're trying to solve a soc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it safe to upgrade to 10.10 (ATI video drivers)?

> Steve Fisher wrote: > > > Pretty much as per title, I use compiz so require it to work, when I > > upgraded last time it didn't. The easiest way to find out is to download the Desktop iso, convert that to a Live USB with persistent storage, and boot off it. Then you can install the ATI drivers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 10:38 +, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Tue, 4 Jan 2011, Rowan Berkeley wrote: > > it should be possible to see the keyhole at least. > > You can see the keyhole---but it unremarkable because it looks exactly > the same as any other keyhole. > > What you can't see is any of the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:45 +, Alan Pope wrote: > A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver. Added to my signature quotes source file. :) Tyler -- "I believe the government that governs best is the government that governs least. And by these standards, we have set up a fabulous government i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Insurance.aes256 and OpenSSL

On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 12:35 +, Colin Law wrote: > If there is no keyhole what do you do with the key, just wave it about > and hope for the best? :) You multiply part of it with the lock, and then modulo it with the doorknob. Regards, Tyler -- "Freedom of thought is best promoted by the gr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu?

> On 07/01/11 15:06, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > > Sorry if this is common knowledge - I'm after recommendations for a > > webcam with built-in mic to work on Ubuntu 10.04 installed on a Toshiba > > Satellite using an Intel 82801H audio device. Just about any Logitech USB webcam will work. I ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] natty with unity

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 21:14 +, Alan Pope wrote: > > Ubuntu has got a lot going in the right direction and I can easily give the > > benefit of the doubt to a somewhat radical direction. Fingers crossed. > > > > Yeah, "watch this space" :) Unfortunately, I'll be watching this space from a Mint

Re: [ubuntu-uk] natty with unity

On Thu, 2011-01-13 at 22:26 +, Alan Pope wrote: > Eh? You've moved over to mint yourself but you're worried that other > people will too? I'm running 10.04 now, but will be moving to Mint as of natty. I'm worried that Unity is one case of Ubuntu pushing design in the wrong direction for the w

Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:46 +, Barry Drake wrote: > On Sun, 2011-01-16 at 17:39 +, George Tripp wrote: > > Looked at a couple of companies which will sell machines without any op > > system. > > Pcspecialists: apparently there's a problem that the touchhpad doesn't work > > with > > ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:20 +, Barry Drake wrote: > The waste of such an enormous amount of ink has always been a concern of > mine. I agree completely with your suggestion. It needs to have black > and three colours - incorporated into the Ubuntu logo maybe? But other > than that and page co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] netbook wifi traffic disconnects all

On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 23:11 +, Bill Cumming wrote: > I've a Netgear DG834gt Router with custom firmware, > > It does the same! With me It's a problem with the way the router > handles ports, > It only happens when i'm downloading many torrents, causes the routers > wireless not respond. > > I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printer driver ...

On Mon, 2011-02-14 at 16:41 +, Barry Drake wrote: > I decided to have a go with the AMD 64-bit version of Maverick. I put > it on a second hard drive so the 32-bit version is untouched. All was > fine until I wanted to use my Brother DCP 135C printer/scanner. I > looked at their Linux driver

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?

On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 11:44 +, John Stevenson wrote: > How long you should wait probably depends on what the server is doing > now. You request does not state what state the server is currenty in, > so it is difficult to advise. Indeed. Your description implies that you're not near the serve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?

On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 05:38 +, Alexander Birchall wrote: > 3. This is what the monitor was displaying: > > "Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: > -- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) > -- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) > -- Check root= (did the system wai

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Haynes Manual for Ubuntu!

On Tue, 2011-03-08 at 13:01 +, alan c wrote: > I have just purchased a Haynes Manual for Ubuntu! > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Linux-Manual-Mike-Saunders/dp/1844259706/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1299589121&sr=8-1 The review on the Amazon page is awesome. Tyler -- "When others asked the trut

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Some advice about /boot

On Thu, 2011-03-10 at 12:39 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: > My setup has always been grub on mbr and grub on /boot for each > installation. Either way is pretty simple, the only difficulty I can > forsee is if you change the kernel on one of the installs that doesn't > handle the grub inst

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote support for family & friends

On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 10:22 +, Alan Pope wrote: > On 25 March 2011 09:41, Jon Spriggs wrote: > > You can share the same private key around all the machines you own and > > trust, > > That's not wise. If you put your private key on all your machines you > trust then I only need to break into o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Programming in Python User Interface

The O'Reilly "Learning Python" book is excellent. I also recommend the Python Challenge, if you're hard enough. http://www.pythonchallenge.com/ Tyler On Fri, 2011-03-25 at 07:03 +, Ubuntu Forum wrote: > Hi > > > I've been using Ubuntu for around 1 year now > > > I'm 21 years old > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RSI

On Mon, 2011-03-28 at 09:07 +0100, Jon Reynolds wrote: > Thanks for all the words of advise. I know the most sensible thing I > should do is go see my doctor. I have tried wearing a wrist support, > which I don't think helped much. I have ordered a wrist rest pad (the > gel lump you rest you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] _connnect: IP & Open source

On Fri, 2011-04-08 at 12:09 +0100, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > I think the appropriate group for me to post to you would be: > https://ktn.innovateuk.org/web/intellectual-property-and-open-source/overview My buzzword counter variable overflowed mid-way through the introductory paragraph. Could

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: > I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow > clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking > GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - > Obviosly not every job

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking if a System restart is required

On Thu, 2011-04-21 at 16:52 +0100, Paul Willis wrote: > sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade -y > > ...my server it needs a reboot. Of course, if you're doing it at the command line, it's pretty easy to tell if a reboot is required. If the kernel upgraded, reboot. If not, you don't have to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Checking if a System restart is required

On Wed, 2011-04-27 at 13:27 +0100, Colin Law wrote: > When this happens is it necessary to reboot fairly urgently or is it > ok to delay this till a convenient time. In other words is there a > significant difference between delaying the update because it will ask > for a reboot, and delaying the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] End of Skype on Linux?

On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:42 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > One commentator has suggested they've done it for the subscriber list > and not for the technology... Ridiculous. Skype's ability to pierce all forms of NAT and firewall puts it miles ahead of MSN. On Tue, 2011-05-10 at 13:33 +0100

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Booting to ubuntu with VM, for now -- advice needed

On Fri, 2011-05-13 at 07:31 +0100, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: > Each process will be still limited to a max of 4GB therefore if your aim > is to use more than that inside a process, 64 bit is the better choice. Each process is limited to a max of 2 GB, not 4 GB. The maximum addressable space for a 32-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi dongle driver .....

On Sat, 2011-05-14 at 09:50 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > Thanks for that Alan. I'll take a closer look. sema_init works just > fine in place of MUTEX, but needs a second parameter. I used '1' which > seems to work OK. I'll look at the reference above and see what I've > been doing. A semaphore

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu'ing a PC for a friend.

On Sat, 2011-05-21 at 12:11 +0100, alan c wrote: > I have no hesitation to say to use Ubuntu 10.04.2 (LTS) if it works > on that hardware, (probably will). If any hardware that I support have > any problesms with the LTS (a few do) then 10.10 seems ok. It will. I've run 8.04, 9.10, 10.04, and 1

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:12 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: > Does anyone know of an emulator type application which could run > native Ubuntu programs on my Samsung galaxy s2, running android? > Perhaps even a way to dual boot it to run the desktop edition or maybe > meego? No such thing exists. The cl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on android.

On Mon, 2011-06-06 at 14:16 +0100, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > No such thing exists. The closest possibilities are: Oh sure. And now even a casual web search turns up several hacked up phones running Ubuntu. Madness. :) Tyler -- "The map is not the territory." -- Alfred Korzybski

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Kindle and Ubuntu

On Thu, 2011-06-09 at 08:17 -0700, John Stevenson wrote: > 3G option allows you to download books when you are not connected to a > WiFi network, it is not intended for use for browsing the Internet. Yet there is a browser, if you don't mind browsing the web on an e-ink display. A friend of mine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcams again

On 2011-08-12 09:48, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote: > I’ve just bought a Logitech C270 HD from Amazon for £17.99. It’s > excellent and works flawlessly in Ubuntu Natty. Thanks for the tip. I've been looking for a replacement for my simple 640x480 generic Logitech attached to my television . Ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.04 Server text mode problems

On 2011-08-21 20:51, Rob Beard wrote: > I've just got a HP MicroServer which I am installing 64-Bit Ubuntu 10.04 > on to (I believe it was the 10.04.3 Server ISO I used). > > I just wondered if there was any way of tweaking it to get it back to > bog standard VGA mode? We probably have similar ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Remote Use Of Filezilla

On 2011-08-26 15:28, Nigel Verity wrote: > I use Filezilla on a regular basis to transfer files between devices via my > home router. It's a great utility which I would highly recommend. From time > to time it would be useful to access files on devices located at home when > I am away. Could anyone

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