Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadcom driver problem (sigh).....
On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 21:22 +, Barry Drake wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 21:01 +, alan c wrote: another possibility is a usb wifi dongle? Wonderful idea! I'll get one. It's the ideal solution. Thanks Alan. Works straight out of the box and proves to me that the Broadcom BCM4132 Wi-Fi chipset will not connect to a Belkin F6D4230-4 v1 router (maybe others?). Is there a wiki somewhere for me to flag this up? Obviously I've told Broadcom (who said it's Dell's problem), I've told Dell, who said nothing, and I've told Belkin who said it's not their problem (correctly, I guess). Regards,Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadcom driver problem (sigh).....
On 12/02/11 08:28, Barry Drake wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 21:22 +, Barry Drake wrote: On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 21:01 +, alan c wrote: another possibility is a usb wifi dongle? Wonderful idea! I'll get one. It's the ideal solution. Thanks Alan. Works straight out of the box and proves to me that the Broadcom BCM4132 Wi-Fi chipset will not connect to a Belkin F6D4230-4 v1 router (maybe others?). Is there a wiki somewhere for me to flag this up? Obviously I've told Broadcom (who said it's Dell's problem), I've told Dell, who said nothing, and I've told Belkin who said it's not their problem (correctly, I guess). I would, as a rule, also post into the laptop compatibility/ incompatibility thread in ubuntuforums http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=332 ISTR there is a yahoo group 'linux on dell' or similar -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broadcom driver problem (sigh).....
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 10:09 +, alan c wrote: I would, as a rule, also post into the laptop compatibility/ incompatibility thread in ubuntuforums http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=332 Have done. Thanks. I've also posted on Dell's own forums under Laptop and under Linux. Regards,Barry -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Click ....
Hi any of you see 'Click' on BBC news this morning? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry It gives a brief but very positive look at Linux. It advises trying a live-cd and specifically says that Linux is not just for geeks these days. Great! That and PCPro in one week! Regards,Barry. -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click ....
On 12 February 2011 12:15, Barry Drake bdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi any of you see 'Click' on BBC news this morning? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry It gives a brief but very positive look at Linux. It advises trying a live-cd and specifically says that Linux is not just for geeks these days. Great! That and PCPro in one week! I am not convinced by any of this... I don't think try a live CD is necessarily a way forward, that is something that I'm sure numerous PC magazines have tried and most have probably ended up in the skip. The key is to get people to accept Linux as a legitimate mainstream operating system, in the way they do with OS-X and Windows. And, alas, the only way to do that is to get it in the shops. Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/
** Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com [2011-02-11 12:56]: http://ubuntu-uk.org http://ubuntu-uk.org/2011/02/11/announcing-the-new-ubuntu-uk-org-website/ ** end quote [Alan Bell] On my system I only see Loco Dire on the top menu bar (part of the e is obscured). I'm sure we are not a dire loco - or at least not all the time ;) I'm running Firefox on a 1280x768 netbook screen, but there is plent of space to the right for the rest of the word. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/
On 12 Feb 2011, at 13:10, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com [2011-02-11 12:56]: http://ubuntu-uk.org http://ubuntu-uk.org/2011/02/11/announcing-the-new-ubuntu-uk-org-website/ ** end quote [Alan Bell] On my system I only see Loco Dire on the top menu bar (part of the e is obscured). I'm sure we are not a dire loco - or at least not all the time ;) I'm running Firefox on a 1280x768 netbook screen, but there is plent of space to the right for the rest of the word. -- Paul Tansom | Aptanet Ltd. | http://www.aptanet.com/ | 023 9238 0001 == Registered in England | Company No: 4905028 | Registered Office: Crawford House, Hambledon Road, Denmead, Waterlooville, Hants, PO7 6NU -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I noticed that yesterday when I looked on my work laptop (windows and IE8), thought it was just MS being crap. Thanks and Regards, Liam Gallear -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/
On 12 February 2011 13:10, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com [2011-02-11 12:56]: http://ubuntu-uk.org http://ubuntu-uk.org/2011/02/11/announcing-the-new-ubuntu-uk-org-website/ ** end quote [Alan Bell] On my system I only see Loco Dire on the top menu bar (part of the e is obscured). I'm sure we are not a dire loco - or at least not all the time ;) I don't know whether it is a factor (probably not) but the html is not fully valid. See http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu-uk.org%2Fcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=Inlinegroup=0. One of the issues is that there appears to be no /head tag, though as I said that is probably nothing to do with the truncated text. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/
On 12 February 2011 13:49, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 12 February 2011 13:10, Paul Tansom p...@aptanet.com wrote: ** Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com [2011-02-11 12:56]: http://ubuntu-uk.org http://ubuntu-uk.org/2011/02/11/announcing-the-new-ubuntu-uk-org-website/ ** end quote [Alan Bell] On my system I only see Loco Dire on the top menu bar (part of the e is obscured). I'm sure we are not a dire loco - or at least not all the time ;) I don't know whether it is a factor (probably not) but the html is not fully valid. See http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu-uk.org%2Fcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=Inlinegroup=0. One of the issues is that there appears to be no /head tag, though as I said that is probably nothing to do with the truncated text. The css is a bit dodgy too, though again nothing obvious that would cause the problem. http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu-uk.org%2Fprofile=css21usermedium=allwarning=1vextwarning=lang=en Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/
there was a /head tag in the code but some silly bunny had commented it out. remaining errors are ul/ul for the secondary menu when it is empty and an invalid alt tag on something in the twitter feed, I am not too worried about either of these ones. I fixed some of the colour errors in the css file, but I think I will leave the shadow stuff because I have no idea what it does, it probably highly depends on browser quirks and probably the worst it can do is incorrectly render a shadow on something in some browser. I am still no nearer figuring out the truncated heading text in some browsers (I can't reproduce) email is rubbish for sorting out these sorts of things, do hop on to IRC http://ubuntu-uk.org/join-the-conversation/ and lets continue there. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ANNOUNCE] shiny new website - yay \o/
On 12/02/11 13:49, Colin Law wrote: I don't know whether it is a factor (probably not) but the html is not fully valid. See http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fubuntu-uk.org%2Fcharset=%28detect+automatically%29doctype=Inlinegroup=0. One of the issues is that there appears to be no/head tag, though as I said that is probably nothing to do with the truncated text. Colin it now fully validates \o/ I ended up with a somewhat ugly hack to stop it complaining about an empty ul tag by inserting an invisble li tag to cover the instances where there are no items in the secondary menu (all the time at the moment). Fixing it neatly would have involved changing a core wordpress function that I didn't feel like changing. I also fixed the truncated text which was due to a fixed width item around the top menu that I missed when converting the design from fixed width to fluid width and on some browsers the menu font pushed the width over the 650px allocated for that section. Now it can flow across as much screen as you have, as the web was meant to be, until broken by the 960gs fad. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] local council
On 12/02/11 16:12, Alan Pope wrote: On 12 February 2011 16:06,bod...@googlemail.com wrote: Damn, if linux isn't for geeks, I'm gonna have to go Free-BSD Some people think Linux is for geeks and it should stay that way. I personally don't. At least the bbc are talking about it. I work for local government IT, but my bosses won't give FOSS the time of day Where I work at the moment (an ~$18Bn company) they use Linux underneath the entire software stack which powers the business. Thousands of users around the world use (admittedly proprietary solutions) sat on top of Linux. I would not be surprised that local government IT projects trail behind this! Sad though it might be. I contacted my local Councillors, about using FOSS, fo rgood financial reasons... and my heart sank when (she) innmmediately referred me to th eIT manager, her non elected subordinate on grounfds od ignorance. However, I was happily amazed to be invited to a tour of the IT department and found that Bracknell use an overwhelming amount of Suse Enterprise server, and are carefully aware of the non linux apps they still depend upon, and plan for a future with thin clients. I think they have been noted in the press as doing well etc generally, but it does not hit local news, nor, apparently, the Councillors awareness. Armed with my new knowledge I am recently in touch with my Councillor to help make them aware that there is no real reason why they need to stay with a paid-for OS on their corporate laptop. It may take a bit more time of course. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] local council
On 12/02/11 19:46, alan c wrote: I contacted my local Councillors, about using FOSS, fo rgood financial reasons... and my heart sank when (she) innmmediately referred me to th eIT manager, her non elected subordinate on grounfds od ignorance. However, I was happily amazed to be invited to a tour of the IT department and found that Bracknell use an overwhelming amount of Suse Enterprise server, and are carefully aware of the non linux apps they still depend upon, and plan for a future with thin clients. I think they have been noted in the press as doing well etc generally, but it does not hit local news, nor, apparently, the Councillors awareness. Armed with my new knowledge I am recently in touch with my Councillor to help make them aware that there is no real reason why they need to stay with a paid-for OS on their corporate laptop. It may take a bit more time of course. That's interesting to hear, it's a shame the same can't be said for Devon County Council who are pretty much a Windows only shop. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click ....
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 19:36 +, alan c wrote: On 12 February 2011 12:15, Barry Drakebdr...@crosswire.org wrote: Hi any of you see 'Click' on BBC news this morning? It's back on now at : http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry -- Barry Drake is a member of the the Ubuntu Advertising team. http://ubuntuadverts.org/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] local council
well I've got a meeting with herts council on the 1st, wish me lick and I'll tell you how it goes Jacob Mansfield Programmer CyberKing Solutions www.cyberkingsolutions.co.uk On 12 February 2011 20:06, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 12/02/11 19:46, alan c wrote: I contacted my local Councillors, about using FOSS, fo rgood financial reasons... and my heart sank when (she) innmmediately referred me to th eIT manager, her non elected subordinate on grounfds od ignorance. However, I was happily amazed to be invited to a tour of the IT department and found that Bracknell use an overwhelming amount of Suse Enterprise server, and are carefully aware of the non linux apps they still depend upon, and plan for a future with thin clients. I think they have been noted in the press as doing well etc generally, but it does not hit local news, nor, apparently, the Councillors awareness. Armed with my new knowledge I am recently in touch with my Councillor to help make them aware that there is no real reason why they need to stay with a paid-for OS on their corporate laptop. It may take a bit more time of course. That's interesting to hear, it's a shame the same can't be said for Devon County Council who are pretty much a Windows only shop. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] local council
On 12 February 2011 22:04, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: well I've got a meeting with herts council on the 1st, wish me lick I hope you don't need to go quite *that* far to convince them. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] local council
should be luck, damn you non-context-checking-spellcheck Jacob Mansfield Programmer CyberKing Solutions www.cyberkingsolutions.co.uk On 12 February 2011 22:09, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 12 February 2011 22:04, Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: well I've got a meeting with herts council on the 1st, wish me lick I hope you don't need to go quite *that* far to convince them. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click ....
On Sat, 2011-02-12 at 12:15 +, Barry Drake wrote: Hi any of you see 'Click' on BBC news this morning? http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006m9ry It gives a brief but very positive look at Linux. It advises trying a live-cd and specifically says that Linux is not just for geeks these days. Great! That and PCPro in one week! I just had a look at the program and it's nice to see them mention Linux but the way they present it, it sounds like Linux = PCLinuxOS. So still some work to do in order to make it more mainstream. Cheers, Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
