Re: [ubuntu-uk] Users needed for masters project
Yes it does, thanks. The creator of eyeOS went by a spanish talkshow (buenafuente) seemed his buisness was going well and I half understood what it was all about. Pretty impresive for a 17 year old (now 23) Isn't google's cromeOS in the same lines? -- Sent from my Nokia N900 Please do not send me word documents HTML, plain txt or pdf are preffered. - Original message - > HI Andres, > > The questions isn't at all out of line. In fact, you've given me > something else to add to the FAQ on the site :) > > I visited the eyeOS homepage and it sounds pretty cool. The one > drawback, at least in my mind, is that it's based inside a browser, > rather than running natively on a computer. While there are many > excellent cloud apps out there, web technologies in general are not > sufficiently advanced enough to be an adequate replacement for native > desktop and mobile technologies. I've tried several times to migrate all > my computing habits fully into the cloud and I've always come up against > some sort of limitation that brings me back to the desktop. > > Another thing is that eyeOS requires the user to either abandon their > current OS in favour of eyeOS, or at the very least maintain some sort of > hybrid existence. The first scenario, to me at least, should be a last > resort since the primary concern in software engineering is, or at least > should be, designing around the user, and if the user is already > comfortable with their existing OS, then the goal should be to expand > the feature set of that OS rather than ask them to replace it, so I am > designing this system to augment Ubuntu. The hybrid scenario contains > many potential points of failure. particularly with regard to file > synchronisation. From experience, I know that keeping files synced > across multiple devices on multiple platforms is a pain and a half, and > almost always results in older version of some files being mistaken for > newer ones. If the user wanted to work on the native desktop, with which > they are comfortable, and use eyeOS only for certain situations in which > they need a 'continuous client' setup, then there's the chance that > somewhere along the line some files will get missed. > > Hope that answers your question, > Chris > > On 6 May 2011 09:33, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > > > Isn't this similar to eyeOS? > > > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EyeOS > > > > Sorry if it's out of line. > > > > -- > > 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/
[ubuntu-uk] Synaptics trackpad - Need some help testing a little program wot I wrote
I have written a little program, scgui, a gui frontend to synclient (required obviously!). It is written in Pascal/Lazarus. It enables/disables Two finger scrolling (Horizontal and Vertical), Circular scrolling, Tap to Click and Touch pad on/off. The program does not read the current settings, when the button turns green on click, then the option is set to 1 (on) or Grey its off. So click to enable, then click again to disable. **WARNING** Touchpad off can be reversed in a terminal with synclient TouchpadOff=0 or by pressing enter in the gui. Let me know what you think. Link to my Dropbox inc source is around 1.6mb after strip/UPXing the executable. Steve http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1286239/scgui.tar.gz -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] old computers
On 08/05/11 13:46, Liam Proven wrote: [...] He has a whole bunch of machines like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fujitsu-Siemens-Celsius-R610-Xeon-3-06GHz-648MB-RAM-/270743834477?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item3f09970f6d ... for just £30, and for even less: Hi, Liam. Yes, these are real bargains but it's worth mentioning that the prices quoted are just the starting bid for an eBay auction. There are lots of people recycling PC's for charity: http://www.itforcharities.co.uk/pcs.htm HTH, Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, University of Aberdeen, Rowett Institute of Nutrition and Health, Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK tel +44(0)1224 712751, fax +44(0)1224 716687, http://www.rowett.ac.uk mailto:a.tra...@abdn.ac.uk, http://bioinformatics.rri.sari.ac.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] old computers
On 8 May 2011 00:29, Phill Whiteside wrote: > Hiyas, > > I do recall one of the Lubuntu guys some time back saying that he had access > to some older computers from within the UK (Shipping charges from abroad are > prohibitive). > > Sii http://www.thesii.org/ (I'm sorry it is not fully done, I am still > awaiting the full charter in USA for it being a registered institute under > Rule 1 and 3 of > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charitable_organization#United_States ) > > They are looking for about 6 computers that could run XP (that is the spec, > not the OS!) , they need not be the highest class in the world as they would > be joined together in a little server cluster. I've forgotten who it it said > who could source some. My parents [1] will pay the collection of them and > delivery as long as you package them up well to go through the parcel > system. > > Oh, and by the way, these are the same parents[1] stumping up the $250 - > $500 for the installation of a new area on a dedicated server for any ubuntu > team to use (Heck, it was only about $14,000 for the 10 year deal [Derrick > bought that] on which there will be a ubuntu 10.04LTS server fully hardened > (by bodhi). > Along with teaching areas for free whilst you are learning. It costs an > horrendous $15 / year once you make a profit. We may have been 'bumped' > upstream, but as a team we want to help. > > @UK, anyone got some some spare kit? > > > If any one as has any further questions please feel free to ask. > > Thanks, > > Phill. > [1] A commercial site that all of the F/OSS people helped me on and I > eventually got to http://mgjuddltd.co.uk/conformance.php Spare, no. But if you can afford a very small amount, try this eBay vendor: http://myworld.ebay.co.uk/computerdisposalsltd/ He has a whole bunch of machines like this: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Fujitsu-Siemens-Celsius-R610-Xeon-3-06GHz-648MB-RAM-/270743834477?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item3f09970f6d ... for just £30, and for even less: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Dell-Precision-530-Workstation-Xeon-1-7Ghz-512MB-RAM-/270744240408?pt=UK_Computing_Networking_SM&hash=item3f099d4118 ... for £20. These are really good PCs for the money. They will run full Ubuntu very well indeed. If you want a cluster, he also has dual-processor servers with 2GB of RAM for £30. Excellent value, I'd say. -- Liam Proven • Info & profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/lproven Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/GoogleTalk/Orkut: lpro...@gmail.com Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 • Cell: +44 7939-087884 • Fax: + 44 870-9151419 AIM/Yahoo/Skype: liamproven • MSN: lpro...@hotmail.com • ICQ: 73187508 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
