[ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
Some of you may recall my white elephant 'Linux Certified' machine. I can't call LC its manufacturers, since they aren't: they just bought a batch of Compal JHL90 notebooks and shoved a version of Ubuntu with a non-standard interface driver onto them (because they said, it was more stable than the standard driver), thus making them non-updatable. I ran mine with the standard driver, making it updatable, and it went dead, with, according to local engineers, a chipset fault, after four months. I sent it back to its vendors in California over a month ago, with a note saying I didn't want it repaired and returned, I wanted my money back. Since then I have heard nothing. I don't feel too keen on whatever the international version of the Small Claims Court is, but I do feel that, given that they call themselves 'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever it is? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
who? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Linux_trademark Rowan Berkeley wrote: Some of you may recall my white elephant 'Linux Certified' machine. I can't call LC its manufacturers, since they aren't: they just bought a batch of Compal JHL90 notebooks and shoved a version of Ubuntu with a non-standard interface driver onto them (because they said, it was more stable than the standard driver), thus making them non-updatable. I ran mine with the standard driver, making it updatable, and it went dead, with, according to local engineers, a chipset fault, after four months. I sent it back to its vendors in California over a month ago, with a note saying I didn't want it repaired and returned, I wanted my money back. Since then I have heard nothing. I don't feel too keen on whatever the international version of the Small Claims Court is, but I do feel that, given that they call themselves 'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever it is? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever it is? You could contact Linus Pauling. However, he has been dead for fifteen years and I suspect couldn't care less. robert_ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
Robert Longstaff wrote: 'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever it is? You could contact Linus Pauling. However, he has been dead for fifteen years and I suspect couldn't care less. robert_ According to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/ http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/linus/ his address is torva...@osdl.org but that's only from a couple of seconds looking on Google (contact linus torvalds) James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
On 4 Aug 2009, at 22:49, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: On 4 Aug 2009, at 20:43, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: Robert Longstaff wrote: 'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever it is? You could contact Linus Pauling. However, he has been dead for fifteen years and I suspect couldn't care less. robert_ According to http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/linus/ http://www.catb.org/%7Eesr/faqs/linus/ his address is torva...@osdl.org but that's only from a couple of seconds looking on Google (contact linus torvalds) James Actually just looking at Wikipedia, that's where the confusion could be :-) Of course probably everyone knew that and I'm looking daft right now as i'm typing this. Sorry for HTML etc - typing this from iPhone and can't edit it as such. James Wikipedia quote: Torvalds was named afterLinus Pauling, the American Nobel Prize- winning chemist, although in the book Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution, Torvalds is quoted as saying, I think I was named equally forLinus the Peanuts cartoon character, noting that this makes him half Nobel-prize-winning chemist and half blanket- carrying cartoon character. -- Eek don't shout at me for third post! Rowan - this may be the organisation you wish to complain to - was also partly referenced to by Alan Pope earlier: http://www.linuxmark.org/ They're basically the people who issue the licence to use the name etc. James - and this is my last email tonight!-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Struggling with Unison
Hi all, I've got jaunty running on my laptop and win7/jaunty dual booting on my main pc. I'm trying to get my laptop to sync with my NAS device (connected to my BT Homehub) over my wireless network. Ubuntu can see my NAS device but won't in Unison, and Rsync won't see any of my network. What am I doing wrong? Please keep it simple as I'm only a plumber, but any words of wisdom are greatly appreciated. Thanks guys. Jon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Struggling with Unison
JOn, JONATHAN TAYLOR wrote: I've got jaunty running on my laptop and win7/jaunty dual booting on my main pc. I'm trying to get my laptop to sync with my NAS device (connected to my BT Homehub) over my wireless network. Ubuntu can see my NAS device but won't in Unison, and Rsync won't see any of my network. What am I doing wrong? Please keep it simple as I'm only a plumber, but any words of wisdom are greatly appreciated. How are you running Unison to do the sync, can you give an example command line, post the .prf file? 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: tony.arn...@manchester.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
Rowan - this may be the organisation you wish to complain to - was also partly referenced to by *Alan Pope* earlier: one of the Alans http://thealans.com, but not the Popey Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Alan Bellalan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: Rowan - this may be the organisation you wish to complain to - was also partly referenced to by Alan Pope earlier: one of the Alans, but not the Popey This thread simply proves to me that people should all have unique first names. Anyway, the Linux Mark website gives a way to report abuse of the trademark, but I don't see a way to discover if someone actually has a sub-license to use it already. Linux Certified /do/ give the proper attribution on their site, so that much is good. However I don't see that chasing them for trademark violations is going to make any difference whatsoever. If they are without a license to use it then they may simply apply for one, and that's simple enough. I don't (yet?) believe that LC are Bad People as such, even if you have had a hard time with a device they sold you. I think you should try and continue communication with them to resolve any issues before trying to find ways to get at them like this. Matthew -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
