[ubuntu-uk] Government report warns about Microsoft lock-in

2007-01-12 Thread gord
Snippet: UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's academic licensing programs face the 'significant potential' of being locked in to the company's software, according to an interim review by the UK government agency responsible for technology in education. The

[ubuntu-uk] LAN filesharing

2007-01-12 Thread Lee Willis
I'm looking to put a small server in place to store all of my digital photos/music etc. so I can keep them in one place (Instead of scattered between the study (XP Home) and the laptop (XP Home/Ubuntu) depending on where I am when I take them off the camera!). My first thought would be to get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAN filesharing

2007-01-12 Thread Jonathan Roberts
My initial thoughts are either: - Cheap NAS forget about syncing (But would prefer PC as I can do unattended downloading every time the next ubuntu release etc. comes out!) - Cheap PC (Anyone know of anywhere that sells OS-less cheap PCs in the UK?) with Ubuntu/SAMBA forget about the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] LAN filesharing

2007-01-12 Thread Stuart Parkington
Lee Willis wrote: Any suggestions from people who've implemented one of the above (Or something similar), I'm particularly interested in how low a spec PC I could get away with for the PC options. Lee, I run my home server on a little old SFF Compaq Desktop EN of PII (500MHz) with 128MB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Integrated graphics cards with Ubuntu

2007-01-12 Thread James Dalley
RE: Screen going white after selecting boot option I had a problem identical to this on an old machine I had with Ubuntu Dapper. After selecting an option from the menu the screen went blank. It turns out that the loading screen was being displayed at a different refresh rate or something that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Government report warns about Microsoft lock-in

2007-01-12 Thread Phil Bull
Hi gord, (CC'd to ubuntu-marketing for comments/ideas) On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 11:14 +, gord wrote: Snippet: UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's academic licensing programs face the 'significant potential' of being locked in to the company's software,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Government report warns about Microsoft lock-in

2007-01-12 Thread Toby Smithe
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 12:41 +, Phil Bull wrote: On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 11:14 +, gord wrote: Snippet: UK schools and colleges that have signed up to Microsoft Corp's academic licensing programs face the 'significant potential' of being locked in to the company's software,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Government report warns about Microsoft lock-in

2007-01-12 Thread Phil Bull
Hi Toby, On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 20:16 +, Toby Smithe wrote: [...] I have been quite busy on the fight for free software for schools, and am publishing any developments on that front at http://tibsplace.co.uk/blog/index.php/category/free-software I don't really trust BECTA. They didn't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Government report warns about Microsoft lock-in

2007-01-12 Thread Toby Smithe
Hi Phil, I am all too keen to work with Becta. However, I feel that they should at least allow me the simple courtesy of a hard-earned reply. On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 21:44 +, Phil Bull wrote: Hi Toby, On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 20:16 +, Toby Smithe wrote: [...] I have been quite busy on