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recommended commercial hosting companies?
by mbm 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

The recent discussion about mail access via ssh and ssh tunnels prompts me to ask about list members' experience of commercial hosting services. I have long since ceased to have any direct responsiblity for publicly accessible servers and my only network is now my home system. As I have said in earlier posts, I don't run 24/7 servers on that network and my only public servers are those provided by my (limited, home user) 1and1 contract. However, I have recently been playing with egroupware … [View More]

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epson picturemate 100
by Barrys linux mail 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Hi Has anyone managed to get a picturemate 100 photo printer to work with Ubuntu,as this is the only one of my printers that i cannot get to work. thanks Barry

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Encouraging applications to open source
by Mark Rogers 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

I've just spent several weeks commissioning an electrical system using proprietary software which is (a) old, (b) no longer being developed, (c) free issue (you pay for the hardware not the software) and (d) buggy or at best limited. It is a good example of an application that would be much better open sourced (ok so I can't think of any that wouldn't be better that way, but that's not the point :-) I thought I'd try emailing them and sounding them out, but on the assumption that their … [View More]

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Ipswich ALUG meets: change of venue
by samwise 26 Jun '08

26 Jun '08

Guys, For those who have been to the Ipswich meets recently (or have read the wiki meeting notes), you'll be well aware that we've been being squeezed out by the new poker league that's been set up on a Monday night, so I think it's time we did something about it. Changing the night wouldn't really help - it may inconvenience regulars who are happy with Monday, but also the only other mid-week night at The Milestone which didn't have live music on was definitely inconvenient to a few regulars.… [View More]

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dual head monitor setup not working
by Jenny Hopkins 25 Jun '08

25 Jun '08

Hullo there, I've bought a PNY geforce 7600GS graphics card, with VGA and dual link DVI. I then bought a second monitor - an HP w1907v widescreen with recommended res of 1440x900@60. The first monitor is a Samsung SyncMaster 913N. I've had a setup similar working on another computer, also running debian, with a dual head matrox card and two identical monitors. I copied the config over and after much sweat and tears, altered and tweaked according to my Xorg logs warnings and hints. Both … [View More]

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Full X from a remote client
by Ted.Harding＠manchester.ac.uk 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Hi Folks, Not sure whether I'm asking the impossible here. CONTEXT: I'm sitting at machine A -- say 192.168.1.1 and I'm logged in to machine B -- say 192.168.1.2 AT A, I'm using X (with gnome and all that). AT this stage, B is not running X yet. I'm seeing B on an Xterm. WHAT I WANT: To start X (XFree86) on machine B, and have its full X, including the window-manager that would come up if U were sitting at B, come up on A. This would seem to imply that I need to use startx on B (via the … [View More]

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What do I need to play .MOV (Quicktime) movies?
by Chris G 23 Jun '08

23 Jun '08

Subject says it all really, what's the simplest basic Quicktime player available for Linux (if there is one). All I want to do really is check if some .MOV files are working/OK. -- Chris Green

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FAO those at the last Ipswich meet:
by Adam Reid 22 Jun '08

22 Jun '08

No, I wasn't completely off my rocker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logan%27s_Run_(1976_film) The film does indeed feature a large quantity of cats at one point. :)

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upgrading from 6.06 LTS to 8.04 LTS
by Bev Nicolson 21 Jun '08

21 Jun '08

I've done what the Ubuntu website says and gone to system > admin > update manager and installed the last batch of updates but it doesn't mention anything about the new version when I click on 'upgrade' again. Am I a) being a bit impatient or b) is there another (simple!) way round this? Oh yes, and is there anything important I need to do, that I have forgotten, before upgrading? Thanks. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and … [View More]

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Anyone using Firefox 3.0 yet?
by Chris G 19 Jun '08

19 Jun '08

Has anyone here moved from Firefox 2.0.x to Firefox 3.0 yet? If so are there any big (or small) issues? My main problem is that my favourite add-on (Mozex) isn't available for Firefox 3.0 and looks like it may never be. There is an alternative (ItsAllText) but it's not so flexible and doesn't allow one Mozex facility that I do use (the ability to launch a local program from an arbitrary URL). One simple question occurs to me, can Firefox 3.0 be configured to call a text mode program (e.g. … [View More]

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