UK Linux

kmail/kontact problems
I had some RAM problems recently, and I was forced to power-off on a number of occasions. Unfortunately, this led to some corruption withing kontact. Happily my e-mails were intact; I just couldn't read them! Eventually I got kmail running again, but rss still won't work. I'd tried renaming various files, and r... 9 Apr 2008 16:18

X - use clipboard by default
Hello I would like an Xorg to use the clipboard instead of primary selection when copying text with mouse. Is it possible to configure X globally or each application requires its own clipboard configuration ? The most important for me is to force xterm to use clipboard by default. I mostly use the following ... 12 Apr 2008 11:06

* SOLVED *Re: Getting the Blues over bluetooth
Martin Burke wrote: Now I'm not sure whats going on, but I have two usb bluetooth adaptor's, they both work on the laptop (PCLOS) and used to work on the desktop (PCLOS) went to use one on the desktop the other day and nothing, Kbluetooth says "no bluetooth adaptor" lsusb shows it there and so does har... 7 Apr 2008 17:17

Find easy what you need for Linux
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 12:43:16 -0700, waske99(a)gmail.com wrote: If you need some tools(programs) for Linux or you have a problem, this is the right spot ... http://linux-virtual-world.blogspot.com/ No it's not. It's just some bodgy spam site to suck people in so they click on adverts! -- http://Sn... 10 Apr 2008 08:53

Seeing index pages from Apache
A couple of weeks back I asked for help when my new Fedora 8 install wouldn't let me see bare directories full in text files, images etc. This had been working under Fedora 7. Today I had the time to investigate further. The problem turned out to be nothing to do with SELinux, symlinks or even file permissions. I... 7 Apr 2008 10:25

USB Flash Drive sector problem
Hello, I have a 1 GB flash drive. When I run fdisk -l /dev/sdb I get a warning: sector size is 2048 It seems like it needs 512 to be able to boot linux. I have no windows. I run Mandriva 2008.I can get dosemu and freedos installed. SO how to format it 512 Thanks. ... 5 Apr 2008 09:17

Setting up an online backup to a remote server
The standard Linux tool rsync is the way to update only the changes between two copies of a file or directory; cron is the tool for doing things according to a schedule.  If you have any 'space' provided by eg your ISP then it should be possible to design a script to automatically upload changed files t... 4 Apr 2008 14:05

Realtime and Audio?
I've been looking at the Ardour program for audio work, previously using Audacity. Initially it was taking a digital copy off a minidisc using a cheap USB audio interface with digital in, then processing it, but I wonder about using it for things like multitrack recording and mixing. The problem I got with the US... 8 Apr 2008 19:43

Can't get arduino working on debian lenny - resolved
On Thu, 03 Apr 2008 00:48:11 +0100 Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet(a)cenderis.demon.co.uk> wrote: Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> writes: I had this working fine on etch but trying to run it on lenny is a nightmare. I get just a box then it freezes. If I call it from a terminal window I get: ... 3 Apr 2008 14:37

Can't get arduino working on debian lenny
I had this working fine on etch but trying to run it on lenny is a nightmare. I get just a box then it freezes. If I call it from a terminal window I get: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: com.sun.java.swing.plaf.gtk.GTKLookAndFeel not found in gnu.gcj.runtime.SystemClassLoader{urls=[file:lib/,file:lib/build/,fi... 2 Apr 2008 19:41