[Hampshire] Alan Turing Apology
Those of you who signed the petition demanding an apology for Alan Turing may have been e-mailed about this already, but Gordon Brown has issued an apology. http://www.number10.gov.uk/Page20571 Reading it I felt it diminished Turing somewhat in that the description of his meaning to Britain was merely his role in the war effort. The petition creator wrote it better: Alan Turing was the greatest computer scientist ever born in Britain. He laid the foundations of computing. If you haven't, you're still free to add your name to the petition if you would like to: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/turing/ Dan -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept
On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 03:09:59PM +0100, Anton Piatek1 wrote: As you know the next Hants LUG meeting is at IBM Hursley Labs on Sat the 13th Sept. Details of the day (times to arrive) and how to get there are We need to supply a list of names to security before the day, so please email Anton Piatek (anton.piatek AT uk.ibm.com) with your details I'll be attending. Hugo. -- === Hugo Mills: h...@... carfax.org.uk | darksatanic.net | lug.org.uk === PGP key: 515C238D from wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net or http://www.carfax.org.uk --- Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle, --- and quick to anger. signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Hants LUG meeting at IBM Hursley on Sat 12th Sept
On Fri, 11 Sep 2009, Hugo Mills wrote: Dammit. That was meant to go to Anton. mutters about mailing lists that set Reply-To headers mutters about people who don't pay attention to the email addresses in the To: field of their email client :) -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Rehab-ing my m key
On Friday 11 September 2009 03:07:43 'Mike Burrows' wrote: Hi folks, long time no post. I was fiddling around last night and some how managed to reassign sound mute to the m key. Don't know how I did it and have tried some of the Google solutions which don't work. Running kde on a sarge box. Any thoughts please on how to toggle off mute? Without knowing which solutions you've tried, it's possible that it's the global shortcut in KMix. To find this, right click on the speaker icon in your taskbar and click Show mixer window, or run KMix from the menu. From the Settings menu, click Configure Global Shortcuts and then you can disable or change the toggle mute shortcut in the list. Cheers, -- Dominic Cleal domi...@computerkb.co.uk -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
[Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/ -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth
On Friday 11 September 2009 16:05:33 Roger Munford wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/ You seem surprised... Don't be. The claims are not unlike those Microsoft has made in the past no, more identical really. I think we've started to see the fall of microsoft to be honest, and it's not because Linux is amazingly good (it's great, don't get me wrong), but it's because Microsoft is now seen to be lying by more average users, not just developers. Tim B. -- OpenPilot - Open-source Marine Chart Plotter Lead Developer http://openpilot.sourceforge.net -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth
What do you expect from Microsoft. Love and kisses? They are running shit scared. Fear and loathing stalk the corridors of Redmond and they don't have anything they can do other than attack. FUD is there only weapon. This is just a replay of the Best Buy playbook that we saw yesterday Roger Munford wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/ -- Life is too short. -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
Re: [Hampshire] Stand by to grind you teeth
On 11/09/09 17:19, Timothy Brocklehurst wrote: On Friday 11 September 2009 16:05:33 Roger Munford wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/09/ms_linux_pitch/ You seem surprised... Don't be. The claims are not unlike those Microsoft has made in the past no, more identical really. I think we've started to see the fall of microsoft to be honest, and it's not because Linux is amazingly good (it's great, don't get me wrong), but it's because Microsoft is now seen to be lying by more average users, not just developers. Tim B. M$ will continue with desperate measures to try and hold on to its monopoly. Its business model is now faltering because most people and businesses just need XP as a platform to run applications. Therefore they now have nothing new to sell. Vista was a disaster and Windows 7 will not make up for this. Linux has played a part in this, but the reality is M$ is to blame and Linux will continue to benefit and increase its market share. Bill Gates did a Tony Blair; he both got out while the going was good ;-) -- -- Discover Linux - Open Source Solutions to Business and Schools http://discoverlinux.co.uk -- -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface: https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/hampshire LUG URL: http://www.hantslug.org.uk --
