Re: [ubuntu-uk] Question about Ubuntu installed Dell Laptops....

2008-11-05 Thread Christopher Chatfield
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 17:40 +, Matt Jones wrote: > > > > I'm sure as Ubuntu gains in popularity it will start > > to get > > pre-installed on some new machines. The problem at > > the moment is that > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The BBC Launches Wiiplayer??? WHAT!?

2008-04-10 Thread Christopher Chatfield
On Wednesday 09 April 2008 19:13:28 Jake Bunce wrote: > The BBC is a unique institution, owned by the British people and > independent of political and commercial interests. LOL -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Past Life Regression. How to cripple XP. Our dream come true.

2008-04-06 Thread Christopher Chatfield
I have only run various flavours of linux for the past 3 years. I am not a games player but my son is. There is an extra special game about to be released, that will only play on windows. I want to run windows in paranoid mode, but there are other members of my household and I cannot afford a ded

[ubuntu-uk] "Sticky" Problem

2008-02-20 Thread Christopher Chatfield
I often see tick boxes with "sticky" as the tag. I havent grasped it's meaning intuitively, could someone explain this term? Thank You Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Politics, Finance and corruption proofing.

2007-05-23 Thread christopher chatfield
Where can I read up on the financial footing and political manifesto of ubuntu? The corporate universe scares me so much I'm unemployable by others, except in a voluntary capacity. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-21 Thread christopher chatfield
It's affordable, no marketing stealing your housekeeping expenses. The shear delight of finding you can do what you want to do in 2 mins without spending another penny! On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 13:07 +0100, Gregory Kirby wrote: > > > >Hi There- It is the politics of Linux etc that attracted me. But I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introductions and Init script bug query

2007-05-21 Thread christopher chatfield
That's what I thought but the boot script has a bug I think, I'll install sendmail again and let you know the output. Is there a log I can quote for you? On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 20:37 +0100, Chris Jones wrote: > That's pretty weird, sendmail should be running from /etc/rc2.d/ > All of the scripts

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screen resolution issues with Ver 7.04

2007-05-17 Thread christopher chatfield
Search for the Horizontal and vertical synchs of your monitor on the web. Look up available screen resolutions too. sudo pico /etc/X11/xorg.conf Add appropriate new resolutions to each of the the "screen" sections (highest first) in the section "monitor" put in the hor sync and vert refresh ra

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do non-techies like the most about Ubuntu?

2007-05-17 Thread christopher chatfield
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 10:35 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote: > > > On 5/15/07, Chris Rowson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I thought it'd be interesting to find out what it is that > impresses > new non-techie users the most about Ubuntu. > > For people who are '

[ubuntu-uk] Introductions and Init script bug query

2007-05-16 Thread christopher chatfield
Hello all, I have just joined the list recently and so am new to the content and foibles of the group. I live in Gloucestershire Oooh Aaah, and have 3 children one of whom is home educated so for the moment I am a full time educator. I am trying to set up a small on-line business. I have NO mone