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Steep Learning Curve
by Simon Royal 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Hi I've been in and out of Linux for a few years. Various distros (Mint, WattOS, DSL, Xubuntu, Ubuntu,on various machines and architecture. A year ago I used it full time but went to Mac. Now, Im back. It is such a steep learning curve. Ive already had a crash course in GParted even before Ubuntu was running. While Ubuntu is great and user friendly, it is still Linux and requires you to be on the nerdy side. Id like somewhere to start, so I can understand the basics and underpinnings of Ubuntu. It is no good - with any OS really - having it working, but not knowing what to do when it does wrong. Are there any good books or websites you can recommend. I know you are all here to answer my questions, but I would like to read up and really get my teeth into it. Simon Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad R31 running Ubuntu 10.10 & Windows XP Home. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1

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Re: [ALUG] Sleep On ThinkPad R31 & Ubuntu
by Simon Royal 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Ted I tried pressing it and it did nothing. If you hold it for about 5 seconds it does turn it off. Simon ----- Original Message ----- From:ted.harding@wlandres.net To:ALUG Main Subject:Re: [ALUG] Sleep On ThinkPad R31 & Ubuntu On 02-Jan-11 11:34:44, Tim Green wrote: > On 1 January 2011 17:52, Simon Royal <mrsimonroyal(a)gmail.com> wrote: >> Hi >> My ThinkPad R31 is running Ubuntu 10.10 very well. Everything seems >> to work except resuming from sleep. When I open the lid it doesnt >> wake. What ever key I press I cannot get it to wake. >> Any ideas on how to fix it. > > Press the power button? > > Tim. I was about to suggest the same! I would add: press it *briefly*. Details may depend on what machine you're using, but generally when it is in "sleep" if you press it firmly down and then release it almost immediately it should wake up. On the other hand, if you press it and hold it down for a few seconds this will probably turn the machine off altogether. Ted. -------------------------------------------------------------------- E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <ted.harding(a)wlandres.net> Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861 Date: 02-Jan-11 Time: 11:53:28 ------------------------------ XFMail ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ main(a)lists.alug.org.uk http://www.alug.org.uk/ http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/main Unsubscribe? See message headers or the web site above!

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Sleep On ThinkPad R31 & Ubuntu
by Simon Royal 02 Jan '11

02 Jan '11

Hi My ThinkPad R31 is running Ubuntu 10.10 very well. Everything seems to work except resuming from sleep. When I open the lid it doesnt wake. What ever key I press I cannot get it to wake. Any ideas on how to fix it. I googled it but I could really find a solution. I have checked in the performance settings and found a way of disabling sleep. Well, it turns the screen off when the lid is shut but not the machine. This is a fairly ok work around, but sleep would be nice. Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad R31 running Ubuntu 10.10 & Windows XP Home. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1

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unison error
by Stuart Bailey 01 Jan '11

01 Jan '11

I have 2 servers that synchronise data each night using unison. They have been working fine for about 3 months. Just recently we re-organised the data, which caused a large sync event, but was successful. Since then, unison returns a value of 139, rather than 0 (success). The sync seems to work OK, but I can't find what this 139 error code means. Any ideas? The unison command used is: unison -batch -ui text -terse -rsync ssh://backup@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx//home/data /home/data >> /home/backup/backup.log 2>>/home/backup/backup.err Many thanks, -- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Managing Director) Linux Specialist & Software Developer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Phone: (0845) 658 3563 Direct: +44 (0)1953 878162 Fax: +44 (0) 1603 858583 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.linusoft.co.uk http://www.bluetoothadvertising.org.uk -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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DropBox On Ubuntu
by Simon Royal 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Hi I use DropBox. Ive used it under Mac OSX, Windows and previously under Ubuntu. I have just set it up again under 10.10 but I am not sure whether it is working. I changed it so it was on the default location. It is in my 30GB FAT32 partition so I can access it from both Ubuntu and Windows. The little icon in the menu bar at the top is spinning away, but it does not seem to be doing anything in the folder. I have over 2000 files in one of the folders. There are other folders with only a few files in too. Do I have to wait for all the files to be downloaded in to the folder before it will see any of the files or should it see the files downloading into the folder as they come in. Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad R31 running Ubuntu 10.10 & Windows XP Home. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1

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Re: [ALUG] [Thinkpad] ThinkPad R31 Internal Wireless
by Simon Royal 31 Dec '10

31 Dec '10

Matt http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220715429673&ssPageNam… Simon On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:03 AM, Matt <mwtech(a)ameritech.net> wrote: > Pardon me > > > http://www.jefatech.com/product/IN24-5RD-RSMA/55dBi-Rubber-Duck-Antenna---R… > > http://www.jefatech.com/product/UFLRPSMA6 > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Alex Austin > To: Matt > Cc: Thinkpad list > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2010 6:14 PM > Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] ThinkPad R31 Internal Wireless > > > Keep in mind that antenna has an mmcx connector while all the internal > cards > I've seen have u.fl connectors. I work at a company that specializes in > embedded rf, and I've never seen a converter for those connector styles. > On Dec 30, 2010 6:11 PM, "Matt" <mwtech(a)ameritech.net> wrote: > > > > http://www.jefatech.com/product/RV24-5RD-MMCX/Rover-Portable-Laptop-Mount-2… > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Thinkpad mailing list > > Thinkpad(a)stderr.org > > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > Thinkpad(a)stderr.org > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > Thinkpad(a)stderr.org > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad R31 running Ubuntu 10.04 & Windows XP Home. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' running OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro running 2.1

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ThinkPad R31 and Ubuntu Install Problems
by Simon Royal 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi I am struggling to get Ubuntu installed on my ThinkPad R31. I put XP Home on it today and wanted to dual boot with Ubuntu 10.10. It has a 60GB hard drive split in to 4. 12GB for XP (already installed), 12GB for Ubuntu, 1GB for swap and the rest (which is about 30GB) for files. I've dual booted before by installing Windows and then telling the Ubuntu partitioner to use the largest free space for Ubuntu and this worked, both with Windows and with dual booting on a PPC Mac. However it is not working too well this time. I am manually setting the partitions and it seems to be working fine. 1GB for swap set as a swap partition and 12GB as ext4 with mount point /. This is all fine but when the installer continues it say it cannot install file system. I also tried it with ext3 too but the same answer. I am using a Ubuntu 9.10 CD - purely because it is an official CD and not a burnt one, and it is totally scratch free. I had similar problems before and the answer was to use the Alternative CD. Apparently Ubiquity - the ubuntu graphical installer - can be a bit ropey at times. It worked with me before, although I was getting a different error message before. Is there any mileage in downloading the alt cd and using the text based installer. I cannot get this machine to boot from USB so I am going to have to burn it to CD on another machine and only have a couple of blanks left. Any help would be appreciated. Simon -- --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad R31 with XP Home. Apple PowerBook G3 'Pismo' with OSX 10.4. Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro with 2.1

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Ubuntu Install Fail
by Simon Royal 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi My ThinkPad R31 arrived at last, but I am having a problem installing Ubuntu. Im using 9.10 as it is a proper CD not a burnt one. I have a 60GB hd in it. Ive split the drive into 4 partitions. 12GB for XP (which is installed), 12GB waiting for Ubuntu, 1GB swap and 30GB ish for saved files which will be FAT32. XP is installed. Using the Ubuntu Live CD it gets to the partitioner and says 'cant create file system' while trying to create ext3 or ext4 on the Ubuntu partition. Any ideas? Is there any point in using the Alternative CD? I did have problems before using the standard disc and partitioning. Simon

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Free stuff
by David Reynolds 30 Dec '10

30 Dec '10

Hi, Hope you all had a good christmas/holiday break. Whilst having a post-christmas tidy, I have found the following items which may be of interest to fellow aluggers - GP2X: Personal entertainment player (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GP2X) - Amstrad E3 Emailer - runs linux, some people have hacked it to make a VOIP station see: http://www.earth.li/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/e3-hacking for details Will exchange for beer. Any takers? Cheers, Dave -- David Reynolds david(a)reynoldsfamily.org.uk

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Merry Christmas All
by Simon Royal 25 Dec '10

25 Dec '10

Hi Merry Christmas Linux fans. Simon

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