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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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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

<<I found it: > - Open a file manager window (Gnome Commander?) > - Go to Edit->Preferences. > - Go to Media > - Change the selection for "Music Player" to what ever you want. Hope this helps. Tim.>> Pretty close. I found it at last but not where I expected to. Places > Music then Edit > preferences. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Re: [ALUG] Cheap HP server OS free
by Wayne Stallwood 27 Jul '08

27 Jul '08

On Fri, 2008-07-25 at 15:13 +0100, James Freer wrote: > Wayne > > Thanks for replying. I did mean to send it to the list. It seems that > one has got to enter TO: main address each email to this group. When > one just does REPLY it goes direct to the sender - that's what i did > this time. I don't know why it should be this way on this group as > others like yahoo all go straight to the list... that's the way it > should work. To be honest that behaviour is more down … [View More]

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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

<<Check for the auto play handling preferences, which seem to have become more Windows like. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Green" >> Ah, I wasn't clear enough. Sorry. What I meant was, is there a way to make it treat this MP3 player like a usb drive? Bev. > > 2008/7/24 Bev Nicolson <bnicolson(a)operamail.com>: > > Plugging in a generic MP3 player, I see that 8.04 no longer > > treats it as a USB drive and says it can't play what's on … [View More]

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Re: [ALUG] Cheap HP server OS free
by John¹ 26 Jul '08

26 Jul '08

On Saturday 26 July 2008 12:00:03 "James Freer" <jessejazza(a)googlemail.com> wrote: > ok thanks Wayne for clearing that up. Most of the time i remember... like > today. > > I use a mail client for archiving emails to CD but i have to say that > i like the conversations that googlemail offers. > > I do use Thunderbird on imap on one machine but just doesn't seem > worth having on each machine. "Googlemail" can be set up to send/copy to your normal mail client … [View More]

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Re: [ALUG] MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Which is good but I want to mount it as a disk drive just to transfer files to it. I didn't explain myself very well the first time, sorry. Bev. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Adam Bower" > > mp3 is a patent encumbered file format, ubuntu doesn't carry the > required codecs in the default install (probably) read: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/RestrictedFormats > > for more information and how to fix. > > Adam > -- > jabberid = … [View More]

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MP3 players+Ubuntu
by Bev Nicolson 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Plugging in a generic MP3 player, I see that 8.04 no longer treats it as a USB drive and says it can't play what's on there without searching for codecs etc. Given that it's all in MP3 format this must be nonsense. It was more helpful when it viewed it as a USB drive so is there a way of changing this? Thanks. Bev. -- _______________________________________________ Surf the Web in a faster, safer and easier way: Download Opera 9 at http://www.opera.com Powered by Outblaze

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Cheap HP server OS free
by Wayne Stallwood 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

Following on from a recent(ish) discussion about these. Ebuyer now have the cheap HP Dual Core Opteron servers back in stock, now at £97.86 +VAT but including a 3 year next business day warranty package. http://www.ebuyer.com/product/146548 Ram is a bit lacking at 512MB but it is cheap to add more They are linux certified by HP for some flavours of Suse and Redhat so linux friendliness shouldn't be an issue and although the built in Graphics is a bit wanting they do have a full length PCI-E … [View More]

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ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by gizbun 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

I upgraded to Hardy Heron a few days ago and have two puzzles. One is that twice now I've had Network Manager error messages when I shut down, though I've changed none of the settings Bev. I was getting this on one of my machines after upgrade. The simple solution is to edit /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot to remove the -i option i.e. in /etc/init.d/halt change: halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown to # … [View More]

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ubuntu 8.04 revisited
by gizbun 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

> I upgraded to Hardy Heron a few days ago and have two puzzles. One is that twice now I've had Network Manager error messages when I shut down, though I've changed none of the settings > Bev. > I was getting this on one of my machines after upgrade. The simple solution is to edit /etc/init.d/halt and /etc/init.d/reboot to remove the -i option i.e. in /etc/init.d/halt change: halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown to # halt -d -f -i $poweroff $hddown halt -d -… [View More]

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