Re: [ubuntu-uk] screencasts
On 19/11/06, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert K. Day wrote: On Saturday 18 November 2006 23:46, Tony Arnold wrote: [snip] As it is, there is no guarantee the site is owned by who you think it it [snip] Well, there is; it's a .gov.uk address, which isn't publically registerable and is only used for government websites. That is not sufficient to make it secure! There are plenty of viruses, for example, which plant fake entries in a PC's hosts file (usually on Windows, I might add). This could be used to redirect to a fake version of the site. The site itself could be hacked and then redirect requests to a fake version of the site. And I won't even mention IP address spoofing, although that may be a bit harder. Maybe I'm paranoid, but I'm paid to be that way! Regards, Tony. Also, how do you get the IP address for the .gov.uk hostname? If someone has attacked your ISP's DNS entries, you never know where you're actually going. I know it's not terribly likely, but it has happened, and DNS was never designed with that sort of security in mind (c.f. email and telnet being sent in plain text). Just because you're paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you! :-) Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting cold call to (sussex) re linux
On Nov 22, 2006 at 22:29, Nicholas Butler praised the llamas by saying: alan c wrote: In summary, it went well! (any Sussex area ubuntu users out there?) with the validation of experience and perspective . Im one of the Lugmasters for Sussex Linux User Group ( www.sussex.lug.org.uk ) and Im There is also a small Brighton LUG, which meets whenever I can be bothered to announce I'm going to be in a pub. There are a couple of Debian maintainers in Brighton and I know quite a few people use Ubuntu. Certianly there are quite a few businesses using it in the city. I believe there is also a KDE developer in Lewes. -- David Pashley [EMAIL PROTECTED] Nihil curo de ista tua stulta superstitione. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox v2.0 and spell checker file
On 21/11/06, Llywelyn Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I am bowled over by Firefox V2.0 on my Edgy installation. Of particular
interest for me is the web form spell checker which does what Google does
not and that is add new words to a dictionary. Where is this dictionary file
kept so that I can make backups of it etc? Is it compatible with other
dictionary files and can I therefore maintain one dictionary file for OOo
and Firefox?
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Llywelyn Owen
Hey Llywelyn!
Perhaps try this from a terminal
find $HOME/.mozilla -type f | xargs -I {} grep -H word {}
where word is a custom word you have added to your dictionary.
On mine that got me a file called persdict.dat, but it could be
different on yours hence the find statement. I usually just backup my
whole .mozilla directory anyway.
Good luck!
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting cold call to (sussex) re linux
Anyway, after explaining I had not called to ask for his 'services' but had a question about what he used - I asked if he ever offered open source software or 'non-windows' things - such as linux? He said he did use linux a bit, more for interest than anything - 'people tend not to ask for it'. Interesting you should say that as I was just reading this... http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/69 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox v2.0 and spell checker file
On 23/11/06, David Hopkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
find $HOME/.mozilla -type f | xargs -I {} grep -H word {}
Quick simplification of the above command: since the filenames being
passed from xargs to grep are needed at the end of the grep command,
you can replace it with
find $HOME/.mozilla -type f | xargs grep -H word
Hwyl,
Neil.
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[ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up
Hi all, I recorded the interview with Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison and Jeff Waugh last night and it went really well. It's a bit rough around the edges but it's my first try at something like this so I hope you'll forgive me! Hopefully you'll give it a listen and enjoy it! http://questionsplease.org (there's an ogg and an mp3) Jon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up
On Thu, Nov 23, 2006 at 04:02:01PM +, Jonathan Roberts wrote: Hi all, I recorded the interview with Richard Stallman, Jeremy Allison and Jeff Waugh last night and it went really well. It's a bit rough around the edges but it's my first try at something like this so I hope you'll forgive me! Well done, will have a listen on the way home tonight. Hopefully you'll give it a listen and enjoy it! http://questionsplease.org (there's an ogg and an mp3) I note your filename is podcast_number.ext. I would recommend that before you go to far you rethink this naming convention. Popular ones include MMDD_podcast_nnn.ext or nnn_podcast.ext or some variation of. It makes it a lot easier for the listeners to sort and manage the content they download like that. Also means we can spot when new episode comes out by looking at the date. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up
On 23/11/06, Jonathan Roberts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hopefully you'll give it a listen and enjoy it! I would listen, but my podcatcher (CastPodder) claims there is no episodes You haven't put in an enclosure tag The enclosure tag is in the RSS spec: http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss#ltenclosuregtSubelementOfLtitemgt The feed URL I am using is: http://questionsplease.org/qp_feed.xml this is the right one isn't it? - Andy -- Did you think it should be legal to rip a CD to your PC or MP3 player? Change the law, sign the petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/privatecopy/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS
I thought the following could be of interest to Ubuntu-uk. Its from the Free Software Foundation Europe's UK List One thing it doesn't provide is a link to the EDM (Early Day Motion), it can be found at: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752SESSION=885 At this time only 11 people have signed it, so write to your MP, I shall be writing a letter shortly, all I have to do is decide how to write it. I don't think we have long, anyone know anything about EDMs? -- Forwarded message -- From: Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Nov-2006 11:24 Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS To: fsfe-uk@gnu.org Dear FLOSS supporter, John Pugh MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons entitled Software in Education, number 179. Please write to, or email, your MP within the next week with a request that (s)he add his/her name to this motion. I would be grateful if you could keep me informed about the letters you send and replies you receive. You can find more information below and at www.openschoolsalliance.org. Yours sincerely Iain Roberts iain.roberts (at) opensourceconsortium.org Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org ___ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk -- Did you think it should be legal to rip a CD to your PC or MP3 player? Change the law, sign the petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/privatecopy/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition
Dear all I am new to linux and to ubuntu and would like to have an ubuntu machine running as a server to communicate with a windows xp machine, I have not been able to do this because of network issues. Just before I start I would like to say that I've been reading about your screen casts which I think are a really good initiative, would you consider doing one for installing and setting up the ubuntu server edition 6.06 to communicate with a windows machine? I ask this because I am really interested in setting up a server environment but so far have not been able to. Also if after watching the screencast I get my server together then I will be able to spread the word to other computer users at college who might be able to benefit from using an ubuntu machine and LAMP environment. I have a few questions: [1] If you install ubuntu server edition 6.06 onto your machine and it cannot recognize an ethernet device or cannot set up DHCP does this mean that you will not be able to network between another machine because there is not a network capability - does this mean that you will not be abale to ping another computer? [2] If you have an inherited machine and you try to install ubuntu server edition 6.06 does it normally recognize the ethernet device and configure DHCP automatically - if not why might this be? [3] If you experienced either of the problems above what may be the problem? [4] Are there any regular meets that take place in London/Brighton where people can talk about practical problems and how to solve them? [5] Also would anyone be up for scheduling a chat session to take place over a messaging programme such as msn messenger to talk about the server edition? I read a couple of news letters ago that it was o.k. to ask for help here - hope this still holds true. All Thoughts - Ideas - tips and advice much needed Colin _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition
Do you need something like a samba system? Samba is used in open source systems to communicate with Windows systems. Samba can even act as a server on Windows based networks. Ubuntu can do this rather well. t. Colin Humphrey wrote: Dear all I am new to linux and to ubuntu and would like to have an ubuntu machine running as a server to communicate with a windows xp machine, I have not been able to do this because of network issues. Just before I start I would like to say that I've been reading about your screen casts which I think are a really good initiative, would you consider doing one for installing and setting up the ubuntu server edition 6.06 to communicate with a windows machine? I ask this because I am really interested in setting up a server environment but so far have not been able to. Also if after watching the screencast I get my server together then I will be able to spread the word to other computer users at college who might be able to benefit from using an ubuntu machine and LAMP environment. I have a few questions: [1] If you install ubuntu server edition 6.06 onto your machine and it cannot recognize an ethernet device or cannot set up DHCP does this mean that you will not be able to network between another machine because there is not a network capability - does this mean that you will not be abale to ping another computer? [2] If you have an inherited machine and you try to install ubuntu server edition 6.06 does it normally recognize the ethernet device and configure DHCP automatically - if not why might this be? [3] If you experienced either of the problems above what may be the problem? [4] Are there any regular meets that take place in London/Brighton where people can talk about practical problems and how to solve them? [5] Also would anyone be up for scheduling a chat session to take place over a messaging programme such as msn messenger to talk about the server edition? I read a couple of news letters ago that it was o.k. to ask for help here - hope this still holds true. All Thoughts - Ideas - tips and advice much needed Colin _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition
Hi Colin, I'm afraid i can't offer much help with your server problem, as i also need more information (maybe read more books, wikis and tutorials) about servers, but i can, i hope, point the way to find your answers. Visit the english ubuntu forum (http://www.ubuntuforums.org/) and also do a search about your problem on the ubuntu wiki (http://wiki.ubuntu.com). I'm also a fan of meetings to exchange experiences, help people with their problems and just have a good time. Cheers, Daniel On 23/11/06, Colin Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all I am new to linux and to ubuntu and would like to have an ubuntu machine running as a server to communicate with a windows xp machine, I have not been able to do this because of network issues. Just before I start I would like to say that I've been reading about your screen casts which I think are a really good initiative, would you consider doing one for installing and setting up the ubuntu server edition 6.06 to communicate with a windows machine? I ask this because I am really interested in setting up a server environment but so far have not been able to. Also if after watching the screencast I get my server together then I will be able to spread the word to other computer users at college who might be able to benefit from using an ubuntu machine and LAMP environment. I have a few questions: [1] If you install ubuntu server edition 6.06 onto your machine and it cannot recognize an ethernet device or cannot set up DHCP does this mean that you will not be able to network between another machine because there is not a network capability - does this mean that you will not be abale to ping another computer? [2] If you have an inherited machine and you try to install ubuntu server edition 6.06 does it normally recognize the ethernet device and configure DHCP automatically - if not why might this be? [3] If you experienced either of the problems above what may be the problem? [4] Are there any regular meets that take place in London/Brighton where people can talk about practical problems and how to solve them? [5] Also would anyone be up for scheduling a chat session to take place over a messaging programme such as msn messenger to talk about the server edition? I read a couple of news letters ago that it was o.k. to ask for help here - hope this still holds true. All Thoughts - Ideas - tips and advice much needed Colin _ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu server edition
On 23/11/06, Colin Humphrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to linux and to ubuntu Welcome I am not an expert but will try to offer any advice I can, till someone more knowledgeable gets around to answering. and would like to have an ubuntu machine running as a server to communicate with a windows xp machine, In what way communicate? Do you want a web server to serve files via HTTP to the Windows box, or do you want to be able to remotely log in to Ubuntu server from Windows, or something different? [1] If you install ubuntu server edition 6.06 onto your machine and it cannot recognize an ethernet device or cannot set up DHCP does this mean that you will not be able to network between another machine If it can't use the network interface its as if no cable isn't plugged in, it won't connect to anything. DHCP is another issue entirely, may I ask why you are using DHCP on a server? I was always told (rightly or wrongly) that servers should have a static IP and not a dynamic one from DHCP. Most routers will have a range of address that they know are on the local network but won't assign using DHCP, you can use these for static addresses. Remember to set DNS and the default gateway too. If you have an inherited machine and you try to install ubuntu server edition 6.06 does it normally recognize the ethernet device and configure DHCP automatically - if not why might this be? It should normally handle Ethernet ok, I haven't really used server, but Ubuntu has always recognized my Ethernet card, do you know the make/model of card? Are there any regular meets that take place in London/Brighton where people can talk about practical problems and how to solve them? You can always go to a 'LUG', (Linux User Group) Brighton has one: http://www.brighton.lug.org.uk/ London has about 4 The list of UK Lugs is available from: http://www.lug.org.uk/lugs/all.php Also would anyone be up for scheduling a chat session to take place over a messaging programme such as msn messenger to talk about the server edition? Do you have an IRC client? the official Ubuntu-uk channel is #ubuntu-uk on Freenode There's a screen cast about joining IRC I read a couple of news letters ago that it was o.k. to ask for help here - hope this still holds true. You may get better answers on the Ubuntu-users list, there is more people over there than here, but I'm sure if anyone here can help you they will. - Andy -- Did you think it should be legal to rip a CD to your PC or MP3 player? Change the law, sign the petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/privatecopy/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Early bird motion in parliament
Hi all, Some of you may have seen this circulating on various LUG lists already. This particular version is from Iain Roberts from the Open Source Consortium, via Dave Neary on the gnome-uk list. dsas John Pugh MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons entitled Software in Education, number 179. Please write to, or email, your MP within the next week with a request that (s)he add his/her name to this motion. I would be grateful if you could keep me informed about the letters you send and replies you receive. You can find more information below and at www.openschoolsalliance.org. Yours sincerely Iain Roberts iain.roberts (at) opensourceconsortium.org +BACKGROUND INFORMATION The text of the motion is : That this House congratulates the Open University and other schools, colleges and universities for utilising free and open source software to deliver cost-effective educational benefit not just for their own institutions but also the wider community; and expresses concern that Becta and the Department for Education and Skills, through the use of outdated purchasing frameworks, are effectively denying schools the option of benefiting from both free and open source and the value and experience small and medium ICT companies could bring to the schools market. http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752SESSION=885 CONTACTING YOUR MP An easy way to contact your MP is by email using the step-by-step guide at: http://www.writetothem.com/ The Open Rights Group (ORG) have sensible and practical information on how to write to, or email, MPs: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/Letter_writing If you decide to follow up your letter with a visit to your MP's constituency surgery, please look at ORG's advice: http://www.openrightsgroup.org/orgwiki/index.php/MP%27s_surgery POINTS TO COVER IN A LETTER You may wish to cover some of the following points * Schools receive questionable advice on IT procurement from BECTA, the government agency responsible for the use of IT in education. * BECTA's framework agreements look only at the long-term financial performance of suppliers, seriously hampering the involvement of SMEs and ignoring the risk that schools could become locked into expensive and restrictive contractual arrangements. * Lists of approved suppliers are very limited both in number and variety - only only fifteen suppliers for non-curriculum software for example, none of which has any commitment to open source software. * BECTA's own case studies found considerable savings in cost for schools using open source software. * Government policy claims to promote a level playing field for open source software. This is not happening in schools because BECTA's advice is partial and inconsistent. If you have some connection with an SME (proprietor, partner, employee, ... ) please make this clear in your letter as the impact on SMEs in their constituency is something MPs can relate to. If you are involved with a school, on the staff, a governor, parent, ... , mention that also. Again the wellbeing of schools in their constituency is something MPs are keen to be seen promoting. MAKE SURE YOU FINISH OFF WITH A SENTENCE LIKE THIS BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT YOU WANT YOUR MP TO DO! : John Pugh MP has tabled Early Day Motion number 179, entitled Software in Education expressing concern about this and I urge you to add your name to it. SOFTWARE, PARTICULARLY MOODLE, BEING USED BY THE OU AND OTHERS You can read about the OU's innovative use of FLOSS and about the lukewarm support from the DfES here: http://www.ukuug.org/mediawatch/?p=789 There is a Wikipedia entry for Moodle: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moodle BECTA AND ITS FRAMEWORKS There is a Wikipedia entry on this topic; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Becta This ZDNet article, referred to in the Wikipedia entry sets out the issues for FLOSS very clearly: http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,100121,39256053,00.htm EARLY DAY MOTION An Early Day Motion is a parliamentary device to introduce an issue to MPs and to gauge support; you can find out more from the Wikipedia entry about EDMs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_day_motion HOW WE GOT HERE This EDM is the first parliamentary result of the Open Source Consortium's work to raise the political profile of free and open source software. Several other groups are involved, particularly UKUUG, SchoolForge UK and FFII-UK; you can find more information on the website of the Open Schools Alliance, a newly-formed pressure group: www.openschoolsalliance.org -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS
I am writing to my MP. This is a very important step. I hope my school takes note. On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 16:25 +, Andy wrote: I thought the following could be of interest to Ubuntu-uk. Its from the Free Software Foundation Europe's UK List One thing it doesn't provide is a link to the EDM (Early Day Motion), it can be found at: http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752SESSION=885 At this time only 11 people have signed it, so write to your MP, I shall be writing a letter shortly, all I have to do is decide how to write it. I don't think we have long, anyone know anything about EDMs? -- Forwarded message -- From: Ian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: 22-Nov-2006 11:24 Subject: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS To: fsfe-uk@gnu.org Dear FLOSS supporter, John Pugh MP has tabled an Early Day Motion in the House of Commons entitled Software in Education, number 179. Please write to, or email, your MP within the next week with a request that (s)he add his/her name to this motion. I would be grateful if you could keep me informed about the letters you send and replies you receive. You can find more information below and at www.openschoolsalliance.org. Yours sincerely Iain Roberts iain.roberts (at) opensourceconsortium.org Ian -- www.theINGOTS.org www.schoolforge.org.uk www.opendocumentfellowship.org ___ Fsfe-uk mailing list Fsfe-uk@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk -- Did you think it should be legal to rip a CD to your PC or MP3 player? Change the law, sign the petition http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/privatecopy/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS
Can I ask , if you have written a letter to your MP in relation to anything open source would it then be possible that you might post the text of your letter somewhere appropriate on this Wiki ? I think theres many of us for whom letter writting is not the first skill and having something with which we can form a more coherent communication may be a benefit. Its just a thought and we can push this then to the fridge and possibly Linux Format or User and Developer as another Story. Cheers Nik -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS
On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 20:13 +, Nik Butler wrote: Can I ask , if you have written a letter to your MP in relation to anything open source would it then be possible that you might post the text of your letter somewhere appropriate on this Wiki ? I think theres many of us for whom letter writting is not the first skill and having something with which we can form a more coherent communication may be a benefit. OK... Now I've gotta find where it goes when you click send... If I do find it, I will copy it here. Its just a thought and we can push this then to the fridge and possibly Linux Format or User and Developer as another Story. Cheers Nik -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] Early Day Motion for Parliament on FLOSS
And here is the letter: Dear Greg Clark, I am a pupil at the Judd School in Tonbridge, and I feel that the school abuses Microsoft's monopoly, and fails to benefit from the wonders of free and open source software. I feel very strongly about this, to the extent that I have written two essays (and am soon to add a third) on the matter, which you, should you be so inclined, can read at http://tibsplace.co.uk/. Free software and the proliferation of open standards is crucial to global adoption of technology, and to ensure that anything created today is still usable, or readable, a hundred years into the future. With proprietary formats, such as Microsoft's .doc, or their Windows Media Format, this may not be the case; and there are very viable and open alternatives to both, with the Open Document Format (for documents), and Ogg (for media). My school does not take advantage of either of these. Furthermore, they do not discourage the spread of Digital Rights Management software, which (as we learnt from the recent Sony BMG rootkit scandal), is a terrible blow to the heart of liberty. Again, there is plenty of information on this on the internet, but a good starting place is http://www.defectivebydesign.org/en/about. I can see you voted against ID cards, and I am completely with you on that. I hope to see that you can see where I am coming from here, as well. However, I see you have not signed the Early Day Motion 179, Software In Schools (http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752), and I urge you to do so. This is based on the following information, which I have taken from a recent e-mail on the gnome-uk list. GNOME is a free software desktop environment for UNIX based operating systems. You can learn about it at http://www.gnome.org, and you can read the e-mail here: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-uk-list/2006-November/msg00011.html Here is the extract: * Schools receive questionable advice on IT procurement from BECTA, the government agency responsible for the use of IT in education. * BECTA's framework agreements look only at the long-term financial performance of suppliers, seriously hampering the involvement of SMEs and ignoring the risk that schools could become locked into expensive and restrictive contractual arrangements. * Lists of approved suppliers are very limited both in number and variety - only only fifteen suppliers for non-curriculum software for example, none of which has any commitment to open source software. * BECTA's own case studies found considerable savings in cost for schools using open source software. * Government policy claims to promote a level playing field for open source software. This is not happening in schools because BECTA's advice is partial and inconsistent. Based on this information, I urge you once again to add your name to Early Bird Motion 179, tabled by John Pugh MP. Yours sincerely, Toby Smithe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] oops
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox v2.0 and spell checker file
Yes that's the file (persdict.dat, in the .mozilla directory), thanks to all who helped out. I think I'll start backing this up and combining with other user dictionaries. -- Hwyl/Regards Llywelyn Owen -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New podcast is up
Hi, I've made the change so hopefully! Sorry it takes me so long to do these things, I only get this on a digest so it's a while before replies come in, Jon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Done wrote my MP!
Here's my letter: - Date:Thu, 23 Nov 2006 23:16:39 + (GMT) From: Ashley Hooper [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject:EDM 179 : SOFTWARE IN SCHOOLS To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Simon Hughes, I'm a Southwark resident of 5 1/2 years, and recently heard about EDM 179 which John Pugh MP has tabled to encourage the use of free and open source software in UK schools. http://edmi.parliament.uk/EDMi/EDMDetails.aspx?EDMID=31752 I notice you have not yet signed it and would like to encourage you to do so, if I may. I believe it's vital that, wherever possible, public money is not spent on often unnecessary software licensing costs. Free software such as Firefox, OpenOffice, Thunderbird etc is rapidly increasing in popularity worldwide, and for most tasks is now more than adequate; perhaps you already use say, Firefox yourself on your computer? I do believe it will become increasingly difficult to justify expenditure on proprietary software where user-friendly, robust, free alternatives exist as with the examples I've mentioned. Additionally, it is held that BECTA, the government agency responsible for use of IT in education, often provide somewhat questionable advice to schools. BECTA's supplier relationships tend to favour proprietary software, and lend themselves to 'vendor lock-in'. Yet even BECTA's own case studies found considerable cost savings in schools using open source software. I must urge you to add your name to John Pugh's Early Day Motion number 179, entitled Software in Education. Yours sincerely, Ashley Hooper -- We do not inherit the earthhttp://backtobreath.com/ from our ancestors; ...--__@ we borrow it from our children --- _\,_ -- Antoine de St. Exupery (_) (_) Reg. user: Linux #390621 Ubuntu #7291 Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
