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RE: [ALUG] Ubuntu Gotcha
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

Just checked Ubuntu Bugzilla and it has been reported by others. Regards, Keith ____________ CONSERVATIVE, n. - A statesman who is enamoured of existing evils, as distinguished from the Liberal, who wishes to replace them with others. - Ambrose Bierce - The Devil's Dictionary > -----Original Message----- > From: main-admin(a)lists.alug.org.uk > [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Keith Watson > Sent: 29 November 2004 15:52 > To: ALUG Main (E-mail) > Subject: [ALUG] Ubuntu Gotcha > > > passed a copy of Ubuntu onto a work colleague who fell upon > it with glee and installed it on his Toshiba Tecra S2 laptop. > He wanted dual boot with Windows XP. All went well until he > found that on selecting Windows XP from the Grub menu he got > "NTLDR not found". > > After checking the grub menu.lst file on my system (I dual > boot between windows XP and Linux quite happily) and making > sure that they were the same, a quick google brought up this > little gem on the Fedora bug list; > > Bug 115980 - will not boot to windows partition using grub > menu > <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=115980> > > Reading through the text it seems that this has more to do > with the BIOS settings rather than the distro used. > > Regards, > > Keith > ____________ > A bend in the road is not the end of the road... - unless > you fail to make the turn. > > _______________________________________________ > 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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Ubuntu Gotcha
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

passed a copy of Ubuntu onto a work colleague who fell upon it with glee and installed it on his Toshiba Tecra S2 laptop. He wanted dual boot with Windows XP. All went well until he found that on selecting Windows XP from the Grub menu he got "NTLDR not found". After checking the grub menu.lst file on my system (I dual boot between windows XP and Linux quite happily) and making sure that they were the same, a quick google brought up this little gem on the Fedora bug list; Bug 115980 - will not boot to windows partition using grub menu <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/long_list.cgi?buglist=115980> Reading through the text it seems that this has more to do with the BIOS settings rather than the distro used. Regards, Keith ____________ A bend in the road is not the end of the road... - unless you fail to make the turn.

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RE: [ALUG] SCO Site Cracked?
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> From: Martyn Drake Sent: 29 November 2004 14:24 > > Keith Watson wrote on 29 November 2004 13:54: > > > take a look at www.sco.com , if they haven't fixed it by now. > > Love it! "SCO - We own your code - pay us all your money", > and it's been > cleverly integrated into the site design too. I think it's > an inside job, > that or they've suddenly got a sense of humour :) Or maybe it isn't a crack? Maybe the people in charge have decided that honesty is the best policy ;-) Keith ____________ 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I - I took the one less travelled by, - and that has made all the difference.' - - Robert Frost

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RE: [ALUG] SCO Site Cracked?
by Keith Watson 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

> From: Craig Sent: 29 November 2004 14:14 > On 29 Nov 2004, at 13:54, Keith Watson wrote: > > > take a look at www.sco.com , if they haven't fixed it by now. > > They had something else on there last week and still they got > cracked. > Amusing. Makes you wonder if there's an insider involved?

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Weekly IRC reminder
by Neill Newman 29 Nov '04

29 Nov '04

This is the automated ALUG IRC meeting reminder sent to remind you that there is an IRC meeting tonight (Monday) at 8.00pm. The meeting takes place on the irc server irc.alug.org.uk in the #alug channel. Most IRC clients should allow you to get there with the commands "/server irc.alug.org.uk" and "/join #alug". Popular IRC clients include tkirc, bitchx, xchat and EPIC on Unix, and Mirc under windows. Here are some links to help you get started with irc. Unix http://www.xchat.org/ http://freshmeat.net/ http://www.epicsol.org/ Windows http://www.mirc.com (loads of help with irc for newbies!)

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Session managers - driving me mad!
by Chris Green 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

This is beginning to drive me crazy, I can't get *any* of xdm, kdm or gdm to work sensibly for me. Of the three at the moment gdm is closest, it's fairly easy to configure to allow remote connections and to disable local ones. The only thing it lacks at the moment is that I can't make it default to xfce (as per my previous messages). kdm is the most frustrating program invented. It's effectively impossible (without arcane knowledge) to get it configured so that it allows remote connections. Since remote connections are just about the only point of running XDMCP this seems a bit silly. The KDE control centre configuration window for KDM allows all sorts of cosmetic changes but nothing useful. xdm used to work but for some odd reason the version that comes with slackware 10 is built for IPV6 and just falls over when run on my current slackware 10 system. (OK, rant over, I'll go away and cry for a while) -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Re: [ALUG] SSH secure login problem
by C Neil Bauers 28 Nov '04

28 Nov '04

>> I have been lurking here for a while wondering what this group is all >> about and suddenly I've got a problem where you might be able to help. >> >> I am trying to do passive ftp file transfers tunelled over an SSH >> secure login. > >Have you thought about scp? Secure copy. There is a windows app called >winscp (its on freshmeat.net) > >John winscp - That works really well and I didn't know about it. So I am up and running. Great. Thanks for the suggestion. Really useful. I'd still like to get dreamweaver working over ssh beacuse the files would upload automatically on saving. Neil.

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Printers problem
by Nick Daniels 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

On Friday 26 November 2004 10:13, Keith Watson wrote: > > From: Nick Daniels Sent: 25 November 2004 20:13 > > > > Hi > > I have a Canon BJC1000 running under Suse 9.1, > > this printer has worked O.K. on all Suse distros since > > Suse 7.0 (and other distros) However on Suse 9.1 > > the pages are being printed in "half width" A4. > > Have I overlooked anything obvious? > > Regards > > Nick Daniels > > I had something like this when I installed my Canon S600. IIRC I resolved > it by playing around with the dpi resolution in the printer config page in > CUPS. Which may or may not apply in your case but.... > > Regards, > > Keith Many thanks I got half way last night by playing with the dpi resolution, so it seems that is where the problem is. This morning I was offered an Epson someone was discarding and that works fine. Best Regards Nick Daniels

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Still confused about my printer fonts
by Chris Green 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

I'm still very lost on the printer fonts front. I've been playing with different applications under KDE and Kword for example can print in a number of fonts. In particular it gives me a series of Bitstream Vera fonts and Luxi fonts to choose from. Plus it gives me Serif and Sans Serif which are actually just aliases for the Bitstream Vera ones. However the application I want to use, knoda, which is a KDE applicatioa,n only presents me with five fonts and in reality four out of the five actually print Courier and the fifth (Serif) is the only one which prints anything presentable. Can anyone suggest what might be going on here? By the way I have rebuilt knoda from the source and it behaves exactly the same as the Slackware .tgz package that I originally installed. -- Chris Green (chris(a)areti.co.uk) "Never ascribe to malice, that which can be explained by incompetence."

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Re: main digest, Vol 3 #362 - 16 msgs
by John Seago 27 Nov '04

27 Nov '04

On Thursday 25 Nov 2004 21:27, Adam wrote: > I am, so is Kirsty we are already giving lifts so have no room left in > the car. I will be bringing some nice shiny Ubuntu CD sets for people > who want them. If I and others remember to bring the bits needed there > will be the facilities for a gpg keysigning. I will also be bringing > along some junk^H^H^H^Hwonderful hardware that I want to get rid of. Can you put me down for one of the Ubuntu CD sets please? Having discovered that Ottakar's are giving them away, I neglected to get one for my son-in-law. -- John Seago Linux User #219566 (http://counter.li.org) AFFS (http://www.affs.org.uk/)

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