ubuntu-users Digest, Vol 79, Issue 156
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Wed Mar 30 16:47:27 UTC 2011
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> 1. Re: Need help, please, with burning DVDs (Rei Shinozuka)
> 2. Re: Need help, please, with burning DVDs (Dave Stevens)
> 3. Re: Please Fix This One Bug In 11.04 Before Beta1...
> (Jesse Palser)
> 4. bluetooth usb (Mihamina Rakotomandimby)
> 5. Re: bluetooth usb (Varsha Jaikumar)
> 6. Re: Hostname configuration on DHCP/DNS server: /etc/hosts vs.
> /etc/hostname (Chris G)
> 7. Re: Please Fix This One Bug In 11.04 Before Beta1... (Colin Law)
> 8. Re: Hostname configuration on DHCP/DNS server: /etc/hosts vs.
> /etc/hostname (Chris G)
> 9. Re: automatic update want to remove packages (Joep L. Blom)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 20:48:53 -0400
> From: Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com>
> To: rikona <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Need help, please, with burning DVDs
> Message-ID: <4D927DF5.1060606 at panix.com>
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> On 03/29/2011 01:48 PM, rikona wrote:
>> Hello Basil,
>>
>> Tuesday, March 29, 2011, 6:24:53 AM, Basil wrote:
>>
>> BC> I have been using k3b for years
>>
>> Me too - I rather like the pgm.
>>
>> BC> to burn video DVDs both 4.7GB and 8.5GB without any problems -
>> BC> until this week:'( . I am using a Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-110 burner
>> BC> which burns the full range of DVDs (except, of course, BluRay).
>>
>> One possibility is the drive is no good. I've had to replace quite a
>> few drives, and are the most-replaced item on my boxes. [Stopped
>> buying Sony after losing half a dozen drives with short lives.]
>>
>> Sometimes the symptoms can be quite odd. For example, a well-used
>> drive on my linux box got flaky. I moved it to a win box and it worked
>> fine. I was then sure the problem MUST be in the lin box and fiddled a
>> lot to get it to work, with no results. I finally bought another one
>> just like it on sale, installed it in the lin box, and it was fine.
>> Never did figure out what kept k3b and that particular drive from
>> getting along.
>>
> This was my first thought too. I've replaced DVD writers in both Linux
> and Windoze machines--they often start getting flaky and then stop
> writing altogether. (They frequently continue to read disks OK). So I
> just make sure I have an extra drive. They're $20 and easy to replace.
>
> -rei
>
>
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> Message: 2
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 18:12:53 -0700
> From: Dave Stevens <geek at uniserve.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>, Rei Shinozuka <shino at panix.com>
> Cc: rikona <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Need help, please, with burning DVDs
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> Qinux and Windoze machines--they often start getting flaky and then
>> stop writing altogether. (They frequently continue to read disks
>> OK). So I just make sure I have an extra drive. They're $20 and
>> easy to replace.
>>
>> -rei
>
> something you might think about is that the manufacturers routinely
> ship these with the first feasible bios onboard, which is usually the
> "workswithwindows" version. I had to swap out a unit to a win box then
> upgrade the device bios with manufacturer's most recent bios then it
> worked fine for years.
>
> Dave
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> Message: 3
> Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2011 21:13:02 -0400
> From: Jesse Palser <SLNTHERO at AOL.com>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Please Fix This One Bug In 11.04 Before Beta1...
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> On 03/29/2011 08:36 PM, NoOp wrote:
>> On 03/29/2011 09:46 AM, Jesse Palser wrote:
>>> Please Fix This One Bug In 11.04 Before Beta1...
>>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Fully tested 11.04 Alpha3 on my main desktop computer.
>>>
>>> I've got just one bad bug that I hope will be fixed in time for Beta1.
>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/697358
>>> (Classic Desktop/Gnome Panel/Can not rearrange open programs on bottom
>>> panel)
>> Amazing isn't it? Took me forever to find a Windows app to do this on
>> Win (running in a Virtual Machine). One of the key "features" that I'd
>> always point out to Windows users was the ability to easily swap the
>> windows in the panel.
>>
>> Subsribed to the bug report& added an "This affects me to".
>
> Hi,
>
> Sorry to complain, but this one bug
> is the only reason why I'm not running 11.04 now...
>
> I hope someone can fix it soon!
> (before Beta 1 on Thursday)
>
> Thanks!
>
> Jesse
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:15:11 +0300
> From: Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina at bbs.mg>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: bluetooth usb
> Message-ID: <20110330091511.27f36588.mihamina at bbs.mg>
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>
> Hi all,
>
> I would like to add bluetooh to my bluetooth-less laptop.
> I thought about these:
> http://www.google.com/search?q=bluetooth+usb+dongle
>
> Is there someone using such a thing?
> Which brand/model to avoid or advise?
>
> --
> RMA.
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> Message: 5
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 12:05:10 +0530
> From: Varsha Jaikumar <var2424 at gmail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: Mihamina Rakotomandimby <mihamina at bbs.mg>
> Subject: Re: bluetooth usb
> Message-ID:
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> On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 11:45 AM, Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> <mihamina at bbs.mg>wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I would like to add bluetooh to my bluetooth-less laptop.
>> I thought about these:
>> http://www.google.com/search?q=bluetooth+usb+dongle
>>
>> Is there someone using such a thing?
>> Which brand/model to avoid or advise?
>>
>
> I had a Foxin bluetooth dongle, but couldn't get it to work on my Sony Vaio
> NW series, with Ubuntu 10.04 installed, although it worked fine on Windows.
> May be I couldn't get the drivers right. Bought another one, an SVB adapter,
> and that worked just fine. So, do check how it works before you purchase
> one.
>
>
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> Varsha Jaikumar
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> National Institute of Technology, Durgapur
> Blog: http://varshamyspace.blogspot.com/
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> Message: 6
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:44:52 +0100
> From: Chris G <cl at isbd.net>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Hostname configuration on DHCP/DNS server: /etc/hosts vs.
> /etc/hostname
> Message-ID: <20110330074452.GB6318 at chris>
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> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 10:38:07PM +0200, Niki Kovacs wrote:
>> Le 29/03/2011 15:19, Chris G a ?crit :
>>
>> >>
>> >>Please take no offense, but there's no sense in running
>> >>NetworkManager on a server.
>> >>
>> >Very true, but it comes by default in a standard Ubuntu installation.
>> >
>> Not on Ubuntu Server Edition.
>>
> No, but my 'server' is also my desktop machine, it's on a small home LAN
> and is the web and news server for the LAN and is also visible from the
> outside world as a web server - mostly for my own convenience so when
> I'm out and about I can get to the web pages on my home server where I
> store all sorts of useful information that I have collected over the
> years.
>
> I do also have an Ubuntu Server installation on one of the other
> machines as that is headles and doesn't need a GUI.
>
> BUT running a machine as a server with apache etc. on it doesn't
> necessarily mean that it doesn't have a GUI as well.
>
> --
> Chris Green
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:48:44 +0100
> From: Colin Law <clanlaw at googlemail.com>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: Re: Please Fix This One Bug In 11.04 Before Beta1...
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> On 30 March 2011 02:13, Jesse Palser <SLNTHERO at aol.com> wrote:
>> On 03/29/2011 08:36 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>>
>>> On 03/29/2011 09:46 AM, Jesse Palser wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Please Fix This One Bug In 11.04 Before Beta1...
>>>>
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> Fully tested 11.04 Alpha3 on my main desktop computer.
>>>>
>>>> I've got just one bad bug that I hope will be fixed in time for Beta1.
>>>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/697358
>>>> (Classic Desktop/Gnome Panel/Can not rearrange open programs on bottom
>>>> panel)
>>>
>>> Amazing isn't it? Took me forever to find a Windows app to do this on
>>> Win (running in a Virtual Machine). One of the key "features" that I'd
>>> always point out to Windows users was the ability to easily swap the
>>> windows in the panel.
>>>
>>> Subsribed to the bug report& ?added an "This affects me to".
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Sorry to complain, but this one bug
>> is the only reason why I'm not running 11.04 now...
>
> Don't forget, if you have not done it already, to go to the bug and
> click 'this affects me too' in order to raise its profile.
>
> Colin
>
>
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> Message: 8
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 08:51:01 +0100
> From: Chris G <cl at isbd.net>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Hostname configuration on DHCP/DNS server: /etc/hosts vs.
> /etc/hostname
> Message-ID: <20110330075101.GC6318 at chris>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
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> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 06:07:32PM -0400, Tom H wrote:
>> On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Niki Kovacs <contact at kikinovak.net> wrote:
>> > Le 29/03/2011 15:19, Chris G a ?crit :
>> >>>
>> >>> Please take no offense, but there's no sense in running
>> >>> NetworkManager on a server.
>> >>>
>> >> Very true, but it comes by default in a standard Ubuntu installation.
>> >>
>> > Not on Ubuntu Server Edition.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> And if your apache install is internet-facing, you're better off using
>> the server edition.
>>
> Why? I guess there are *some* security implications to be aware of, but
> for my use it makes much more sense to run the apache server on my
> desktop machine. It's not a 'general purpose' server, it just has a
> couple of Wikis where I collect lots of notes and other information
> mostly for my own use. They are thus available for me to refer to from
> the outside world.
>
> In particular I have lots of information about our boat (and boating) on
> one Wiki, there's engine manuals, wiring diagrams, links to regulations
> and qualifications requirements, mooring facilities, etc. I make these
> available to the 'outside' so when I'm on the boat I can refer to them
> without hassle.
>
> I did at one time run a separate machine as the LAN web server but as my
> desktop machine was turned on all of the time anyway and it was just an
> extra bit of hassle to copy stuff from my desktop to the separate server
> machine it made much more sense (and saved electricity) to run my
> desktop as the server machine.
>
> --
> Chris Green
>
>
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> Message: 9
> Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2011 09:58:20 +0200
> From: "Joep L. Blom" <jlblom at neuroweave.nl>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions"
> <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Cc: NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net>
> Subject: Re: automatic update want to remove packages
> Message-ID: <4D92E29C.9040407 at neuroweave.nl>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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> On 25/03/11 16:18, NoOp wrote:
>> On 03/25/2011 04:39 AM, Joep L. Blom wrote:
>>> I have a problem with update.
>>> I wanted to install libreoffice from the repositories but synaptic
>>> wanted to remove my openoffice installation before it installed
>>> libreoffice and I wanted to have both in parallel.
>
>
>> Did you remove the repository from sources.list? That would be the only
>> thing that I can think of as I run multiple versions of OOo and LO at
>> the same time w/o issue:
>> $ locate versionrc
>> /opt/libreoffice/basis3.3/program/versionrc
>> /opt/libreoffice/program/versionrc
>> /opt/libreoffice/ure/bin/versionrc. I didn't remobve
>> /opt/ooo-dev/basis3.2/program/versionrc
>> /opt/ooo-dev/basis3.3/program/versionrc
>> /opt/ooo-dev/basis3.4/program/versionrc
>> /opt/ooo-dev/ure/bin/versionrc
>> /opt/ooo-dev3/program/versionrc
>> /opt/openoffice.org/basis3.2/program/versionrc
>> /opt/openoffice.org/basis3.3/program/versionrc
>> /opt/openoffice.org/ure/bin/versionrc
>> /opt/openoffice.org3/program/versionrc
>> /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/versionrc
>> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/versionrc
>> /usr/lib/ure/bin/versionrc
>
> Jerry,
> Sorry for the delay in reply. My versionrc shows:
> $ locate versionrc
> /opt/libreoffice/basis3.3/program/versionrc
> /opt/libreoffice/program/versionrc
> /opt/libreoffice/ure/bin/versionrc
> /usr/lib/openoffice/basis3.2/program/versionrc
> /usr/lib/openoffice/program/versionrc
> /usr/lib/ure/bin/versionrc
>
> So not much different from yours. My sources.list doesn't contain a
> libreoffice ppa or openoffice ppa as I assume the latter is contained in
> the universe or multiverse lists.
> It also won't update the libreoffice packages (although more recent
> versions are available) as it want to remove openoffice.
> I cannot imagine that Oracle can influence Canonical or that the
> developers of libreoffice ask for this.
> I cannot imagine why my 10.10 shows this behaviour.
> Joep
>
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