[ubuntu-uk] Comiing to a PC near you - With God On Their Side
Will US$30 billion be enough to hack your PC? :-) See Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/air-force-mater.html Time I started using iptables :-) Seriously , this is a scary thought I shouldn't imagine there is much defence against this kind of effort (I already suspect MS has back-doors for US ''security' - only makes sense for people of a certain mind-set ) Now where's that link to ClamAv? Eddie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Dell reply to EeePC
Let's hope it comes with Ubuntu pre-installed... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7425099.stm Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comiing to a PC near you - With God On Their Side
Eddie Armstrong wrote: Will US$30 billion be enough to hack your PC? :-) See Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/air-force-mater.html Time I started using iptables :-) Seriously , this is a scary thought I shouldn't imagine there is much defence against this kind of effort (I already suspect MS has back-doors for US ''security' - only makes sense for people of a certain mind-set ) This is really scary and I think it could kill the internet long term! If the US is doing it, so will other governments leading to all countries carrying out this kind of work leaving the internet totally unsafe for everybody. Given also the the Department of Homeland Security has be totally crap at keeping their own systems secure, I don't think there is much hope for any of us. Now where's that link to ClamAv? I think you need pen and paper! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold,Tel: +44 (0) 161 275 6093 Head of IT Security,Fax: +44 (0) 870 136 1004 University of Manchester, Mob: +44 (0) 773 330 0039 Manchester M13 9PL. Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Comiing to a PC near you - With God On Their Side
I read about that a couple of weeks ago, ut the American Goernment wanting to know what youre doing isnt really news. I'd be more concerned about virgin having the audacity to think they have the right to police the internet, and dolling out punishments, cutting you off etc - who need courts when we have virgin . And there was me naively thinking that people were entitled to fair trials. On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 10:46 AM, Eddie Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Will US$30 billion be enough to hack your PC? :-) See Air Force Aims for 'Full Control' of 'Any and All' Computers http://blog.wired.com/defense/2008/05/air-force-mater.html Time I started using iptables :-) Seriously , this is a scary thought I shouldn't imagine there is much defence against this kind of effort (I already suspect MS has back-doors for US ''security' - only makes sense for people of a certain mind-set ) Now where's that link to ClamAv? Eddie -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- Mr JE Grabham -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell reply to EeePC
Let's hope it comes with Ubuntu pre-installed... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7425099.stm Mac Hi there, The original article is here - http://uk.gizmodo.com/2008/05/29/dell_targets_asus_eee_with_min.html#more Looking at £250 - £300 (from US pricing) and comes with a choice of Windows XP Home or Ubuntu. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell reply to EeePC
Quoting Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Let's hope it comes with Ubuntu pre-installed... http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7425099.stm Mac Quote from BBC's article... The success of the Eee PC and the rush by many companies to release similar products has seen a recent about-turn by Microsoft. The company has said it will extend support of its XP OS on sub-notebooks, in an effort to thwart the growing use of Linux on such machines. It has also slashed the cost of a licence for XP running on netbook machines to just $32 (£17) and £14 in developing countries. Am I right in thinking that £14 is a lot of money in some of the developing countries!?! Still £14/£17 more expensive than Ubuntu ;-) I see VIA have released CAD files and other bits and pieces for their OpenBook which hopefully will mean lots more of these cheap little sub-notebooks. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell reply to EeePC
Rob Beard wrote: snip Quote from BBC's article... The success of the Eee PC and the rush by many companies to release similar products has seen a recent about-turn by Microsoft. The company has said it will extend support of its XP OS on sub-notebooks, in an effort to thwart the growing use of Linux on such machines. It has also slashed the cost of a licence for XP running on netbook machines to just $32 (£17) and £14 in developing countries. Am I right in thinking that £14 is a lot of money in some of the developing countries!?! Still £14/£17 more expensive than Ubuntu ;-) It's a great sum in many countries (though the cost of the sub-notebook itself by comparison astronomically huge). However, whatever the cost, Win XP leaves you with less useable storage on the EeePC than GNU/Linux does. And I guess M$ will still struggle with very cheap computing ;-) (I guess that's why they're trying to strong-arm the computer-makers into using M$ only by means of cheap deals on the OS but *only* if they refrain from installing any other OS on what they sell!! Looks like they might be REALLY worried about this development. Good!) Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell reply to EeePC
Mac wrote: It's a great sum in many countries (though the cost of the sub-notebook itself by comparison astronomically huge). However, whatever the cost, Win XP leaves you with less useable storage on the EeePC than GNU/Linux does. And I guess M$ will still struggle with very cheap computing ;-) Not to mention the amount of extra junk that has to be installed on Windows, that's before they start installing trial versions. At least with Linux these machines can run up to date software, how long will Microsoft keep supporting XP for? I mean I bet it won't be long before they start making things Vista exclusive like new versions of Windows Media Player, Internet Explorer and DirectX. I wonder how well Microsoft will be supporting Windows XP when Windows 7 comes out in a couple of years. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Sonix Webcam
Having a nightmare trying to get my webcam running. According to Gnome Device Manager running on 8.04 the cam is plugged into my USB2 port Sonix Pccam + Camorama shows a non-descript colour pattern and Xawtv shows the same but changes the colour slightly if I place my hand over the lense. It also has a built in Microphone that is running properly as it plugs into the sound card. The camera is one from SumVision and can be clipped onto a laptop, although I am using it with my main desktop machine. Any help appreciated. Last bit to get running on Ubuntu. APART from the perennial problem reading Microsoft Publisher files:( Rgds Ken -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sonix Webcam
Ken Adams wrote: snip Camorama shows a non-descript colour pattern and Xawtv shows the same but changes the colour slightly if I place my hand over the lense. It also has a built in Microphone that is running properly as it plugs into the sound card. Have you tried Ekiga, do you actually get a picture? With regards to your Publisher files, one way of getting around it (in fact probably the only way you're likely to get round it) is to install OpenOffice.org alongside Publisher on a Windows installation, open each file in turn, select the whole page, copy it and paste it into a new OpenOffice.org Draw document. It might loose a bit of the formatting and need a tweak but at last the OpenOffice.org Draw file will be readable under Ubuntu (and anything else that runs OOo). If you're sharing these Publisher files with someone else, it might be worth getting them to move over to OpenOffice.org. OpenOffice Draw is a pretty good program for doing things like what Publisher does and is cross platform to boot. On the other hand, if you don't need to edit the files, install PDF Creator (http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator) on the Windows machine that has Publisher installed on it, and then open each document and print them to the PDF Creator printer. The PDF Creator printer will then 'print' the page to a PDF file which again can be opened on Ubuntu. In fact if I remember correctly, OpenOffice.org 3 will have the ability to open and edit PDF files. I'm not sure how sucessful it would be at opening PDF files from PDF Creator, but it might be worth a try. Hope this helps. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
