Hi all,
The next Ubuntu-UK Team meeting will be held via IRC at 20:30 BST
(that's 19:30 UTC) on Saturday 13th October 2007 in #ubuntu-uk.
We encourage everyone who is a member of the UKTeam to attend whether to
take part or merely watch from the sidelines.
If you have anything in particular you
Michael Holloway wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Honestly I've installed Ubuntu countless times, mostly servers. Since
> 7.04 i seem to get this every time! On different machines and VMs. I
> assumed this was just a "lazy" way of forcing a disk check after its
> been installed.
>
> So all i do is install, a
MailoGroups wrote:
>> Snip...
>> Quite what the actual problem is, I don't know but I wouldn't be looking
>> at changing batteries, I'd suspect some hardware incompatibility.
>>
> Have you actually replaced the hard drive?
> Or at least run a decent disk checker on it (the one from Maxtor
> ex
Daniel Lamb wrote:
> Why not ask around family and friends?
>
> Surely someone will have an old laptop or even old pc which is less power
> hungry.
>
> To be honest I wouldn’t be over bothered about the energy (I say that as
> someone who provides IT support to an energy company) as there is plenty
andylockran wrote:
> We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard
> Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
> installed.
>
> Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for
> something to waste their time.. let's all ta
Alan
Some very valid points. However, until the stock market crash in the late 90's
Guide Dogs was the wealthiest organisation in the UK for the blind, and in the
top 5 in the world.
Unfortunately, they're now ranked somewhat lower, but gradually picking up
again. This may well turn you off
Daniel
Thanks, appreciated.
Although jumping ahead somewaht the idea I have is to collar a couple of
"well spoken" people, say from an AmDram group, and get them to talk through
a transcript of the How to's and record them onto proper Audio CDs - ie not
a compressed format.
I suppose your studio
Hi Daniel
Most other exhibitions I'd say that this is a good way to make funds -
however, as Alan C rightly says, your average VIP (visually impaired person)
has limited funds at the best of times.
E£
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Folks
Thanks for your offer of loans.
My initial thoughts are to have 3 computers on show - as follows:
A. One with just Ubuntu on
B. One that dual boots Windows and Ubuntu
C. One with Windows on but uses Ubuntu Live CD
And also a little ethernet switch as I guess Internet browsing is fairly
Hi Matt, Alan Peter and anyone else interested
Thanks for your offers of help.
I don't want to turn away offers of help, but anyone volunteering must
understand that us visually impaired lot can be, well, exceedingly trying at
times. There is still a lot of institutalised VIP that able bodied pe
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 11:27 +0100, Alec Wright wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:40 +, andylockran wrote:
> > We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard
> > Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
> > installed.
> >
> > Well, as it's a
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:40 +, andylockran wrote:
> We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard
> Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
> installed.
>
> Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for
> something
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 10:42 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 09:11 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator
> wrote:
> > Hi Rob,
> >
> > > I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
> > > notebook this evening with not much luck.
> >
> > Snip...
>
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 09:11 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator
wrote:
> Hi Rob,
>
> > I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
> > notebook this evening with not much luck.
>
> Snip...
>
> > I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained
>
> Snip...
> Quite what the actual problem is, I don't know but I wouldn't be looking
> at changing batteries, I'd suspect some hardware incompatibility.
>
Have you actually replaced the hard drive?
Or at least run a decent disk checker on it (the one from Maxtor
excellent)?
Installing a whol
On Friday 05 October 2007 16:16:18 Peter Lewis wrote:
> On Friday 05 October 2007 15:40:38 andylockran wrote:
> > We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing "Virtual Richard
> > Stallman" on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
> > installed.
> >
> > Well, as it's a fri
Hi Rob,
> I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
> notebook this evening with not much luck.
Snip...
> I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained
> about not having a disk check for about 49,710 days. It ran through the
> disk check and reb
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