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Ubuntu Updates
by Stuart Bailey 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I have a customer with a laptop from Linuxemporium, with ubuntu pre-installed. I think it is gutsy, but will have to confirm that. She is using a wireless network (WPA-PSK), with broadband connection. The problem is with online updates. When logged in, a message informing of new updates is shown. If accepted, the list of headers downloads correctly. But, on clicking install, nothing happens. If I try running apt-get update / upgrade, update works fine, but upgrade reports that resource [ESSID xxxx} could not be accessed. However, if I run apt-get from an SSH login, or a virtual terminal, everything work fine. Any ideas what could be wrong - is there a configuration file for the updater that could be wrong. -- --------------------------------------- Stuart Bailey BSc (hons) CEng CITP MBCS LinuSoft (Owner) Linux Specialist (0845) 6583563 http://www.linusoft.co.uk ---------------------------------------- -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Program which can print a part of an image - any ideas?
by Chris G 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

I want to be able to select part of an image (a JPEG by default but I could convert it) and print a selected (by marquee?) part of the image. At the moment I can't find any easy way to do this either with Windows programs (I have Adobe Photoshop Elements running in Vmware) or in Linux. It seems such an obvious thing to want to do. -- Chris Green

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[ALUG Announce] 2nd Thurs Pub Meet 14th Aug
by Richard Lewis 11 Aug '08

11 Aug '08

ALUG Announce Please send announcements to Announce(a)lists.alug.org.uk Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce ----- Dear ALUG, We will have our 2nd Thursday pub meeting on * Thursday 14th August * The Reindeer is still closed. We tried Micawber's Tavern last month and it was nice. Some people, though, are a bit concerned about the difficulty of parking there. This month we will try The Alexandra Tavern (16 Stafford Street, NR2 3BB, 01603 627772, http://www.alexandratavern.co.uk/). It's a very nice pub with good beer and food. It may be possible to park in West Pottergate or even in Douro Place where ALUGgers usually park for The Reindeer. On the top of our agenda this month will be possible venues. Bring your Norwich A to Zs (or something for browsing OpenStreetMap data) and past pub experience with you! I'll be there around 20:00. We look forward to seeing you there! Cheers, Richard -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Richard Lewis http://www.richard-lewis.me.uk/ -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- +-------------------------------------------------------+ |Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.| |http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html | +-------------------------------------------------------+ ----- Send discussion replies to main(a)lists.alug.org.uk (Reply-To set) Unsub, change settings via http://lists.alug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/announce

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VPN thoughts
by John Woodard 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hello list people, I thought I'd throw this one over to you for some feedback. I have to set up a vpn both locations are using Netgear DG834g routers. The main location has a Ubuntu Hardy box being used as a samber server for a small handful of Win XP/Vista and Ubuntu boxen. There is a XP box used as a print server (I know cups would be better but it's a location thing). Basically they need file shares across a vpn with printing handled locally at each location. What is the best way of attacking this, the hardware route using routers or using tunneling protocols? Cheers, BigJohn

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Debian apt dependencies
by mbm 01 Aug '08

01 Aug '08

Can anyone tell me why debian apt-get insists on installing apache when I only want to install php5 and php5-cgi (I already have lighttpd installed and prefer to use that)? And is there a way I can modify that default behaviour? Thanks Mick --------------------------------------------------------------------- The text file for RFC 854 contains exactly 854 lines. Do you think there is any cosmic significance in this? Douglas E Comer - Internetworking with TCP/IP Volume 1 http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc854.txt ---------------------------------------------------------------------

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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 to your mail client than the list, and looking at your headers you aren't using a mail client but google's webmail interface. A lot of mail clients have a reply to list button that reads the header in the mail from the list which announces it as a list and provides the correct reply address, others allow you to set a default reply address for a folder and then have a rule drop the alug mails into this folder. Unfortunately I think most webmail (inc google) lacks this functionality. The reason it is done this way is to preserve the reply-to header rather than rewriting it, this is considered the "correct" behaviour but unfortunately not all mail clients support it. Hence things like yahoo groups do it the "technically wrong" way and rewrite the reply-to header to be the list address. It has been a matter of debate on the list several times and comes up for discussion once in a while. But the general consensus each time is to leave it the correct way and deal with it at the client end.

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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 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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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 thats the way I use it, with a blind copy sent to a 'proper' email address. that way "Googlemail" acts as an extra archive and one can also copy ones email's onto a CD. (See Forwarding & POP/IMAP somewhere on one of the help or overview pages). -- John Seago GNU/Linux Registered User No. #219566 http://counter.li.org/ () ascii ribbon campaign - against html mail - against microsoft attachments /\

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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 = quinophex(a)jabber.earth.li > > _______________________________________________ > 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! > -- _______________________________________________ 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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