Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas Meal

[Rob Beard]

On 10/11/11 22:47, Alan Bell wrote:

Hi all,

We are in the process of planning the Ubuntu UK LoCo Christmas event,
this time we are going posh for a smart meal at a nice restaurant in
Clerkenwell. However, there is a little twist, at this venue there are
no lights. In fact no light at all. You will be dining in total pitch
darkness, at Dans Le Noir and you can read all about this excellent
concept here: http://www.danslenoir.com/london/



That sounds really interesting, if I went to something like that I'd 
probably have to wear one of those plastic duck bill bibs :-)



Right now we don't have a confirmed date for the meal, and it is booking
up fast. I want to get a date where we can get as many people as
possible attending, preferably on a Friday or Saturday sitting. What I
need you to do is put your name down *right now* on the event page here:

http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1409/detail/

If you are cool with most dates in December, then mark yourself as
"attending". If you can just do Fridays and Saturdays then mark yourself
as "maybe attending". I will collate these numbers very early next week
(like Monday or Tuesday) and figure out the best date we can all fit in.
There may be some flexibility after this to add and remove people, but
we will at that point have a firm date.


Sadly I won't be able to make it, I just can't afford the cost in fuel 
(or train tickets) to get down to London which is a real shame as it 
would be great to meet some of you guys and girls.  Maybe if there are 
any Ubuntu or Linux related events near year I might be able to make it.




Happy Christmas!



:-)

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Plus Page

[Josh Holland]

Hi Rob,

On 11 November 2011 00:14, Rob Beard  wrote:
> While I think about it, does anyone have any good guides to the new G+
> pages?  I've set one up for an organization I'm involved with but I can't
> for the life of me figure out how to add extra page admins.

I don't think you can yet, though I believe it is very high up the
Google todo list.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Plus Page

[Rob Beard]

On 10/11/11 23:23, Alan Bell wrote:

You will be glad to know we are up there with the cool kids and have our
very own G+ page for you to encircle and reshare stuff from

https://plus.google.com/110834053865602900585

I will be posting announcements of interesting stuff there, along with
all the other places where interesting stuff gets posted.

Alan.



I've added the page to my circles :-)

While I think about it, does anyone have any good guides to the new G+ 
pages?  I've set one up for an organization I'm involved with but I 
can't for the life of me figure out how to add extra page admins.


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[ubuntu-uk] Google Plus Page

[Alan Bell]

You will be glad to know we are up there with the cool kids and have our 
very own G+ page for you to encircle and reshare stuff from


https://plus.google.com/110834053865602900585

I will be posting announcements of interesting stuff there, along with 
all the other places where interesting stuff gets posted.


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[ubuntu-uk] Christmas Meal

[Alan Bell]

Hi all,

We are in the process of planning the Ubuntu UK LoCo Christmas event, 
this time we are going posh for a smart meal at a nice restaurant in 
Clerkenwell. However, there is a little twist, at this venue there are 
no lights. In fact no light at all. You will be dining in total pitch 
darkness, at Dans Le Noir and you can read all about this excellent 
concept here: http://www.danslenoir.com/london/


Right now we don't have a confirmed date for the meal, and it is booking 
up fast. I want to get a date where we can get as many people as 
possible attending, preferably on a Friday or Saturday sitting. What I 
need you to do is put your name down *right now* on the event page here:


http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1409/detail/

If you are cool with most dates in December, then mark yourself as 
"attending". If you can just do Fridays and Saturdays then mark yourself 
as "maybe attending". I will collate these numbers very early next week 
(like Monday or Tuesday) and figure out the best date we can all fit in. 
There may be some flexibility after this to add and remove people, but 
we will at that point have a firm date.


Happy Christmas!

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help contact a French group near Nice?

[Nigel Verity]

There is a huge science and technology park called "Sophia Antipolis" just 
inland from Antibes, which is near Nice. It's several years since I was last 
there, but all the local universities had satellite campuses there. I'd be 
amazed if there are not some Linux groups in the area. The following link might 
be a good starting point.
http://www.skema.edu/campus/sophia-antipolis/
Regards
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] help contact a French group near Nice?

[alan c]

On 10/11/11 14:08, Daniel Case wrote:
> http://ubuntu-fr.org/ would probably be the first place to check, I'm
> pretty sure they have an IRC room (#ubuntu-fr) and a mailing list too.
> If nothing comes from there, you can maybe try the local LUG?
> Daniel

Thanks, I am giving IRC a try, good idea
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] help contact a French group near Nice?

[Daniel Case]

http://ubuntu-fr.org/ would probably be the first place to check, I'm
pretty sure they have an IRC room (#ubuntu-fr) and a mailing list too.
If nothing comes from there, you can maybe try the local LUG?

Daniel

On 9 November 2011 19:42, alan c  wrote:
> Anyone know or can you help with me making contact with an Ubuntu
> local resource in or near Nice France?
> I have a relative there and may  be able to set them up with a dual
> boot system when I visit in a few weeks time. However, although it is
> possible for me to do some support remotely, it would be invaluable to
> be in contact with someone locally who could occasionally, if
> important, take local action.
> My French is mostly pants, so some English would be also quite useful...
> tia
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[ubuntu-uk] Work Spaces Event

[Dave Morley]

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It Starts at 9 am and finishes at 5 pm.


Look forward to seeing you there
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] sony camers files

[Jon Reynolds]

On Thu, November 10, 2011 09:09, mac wrote:
> Yes, the ease with which you can produce hundreds of shots with a digital
> camera means it's a real problem at first to know what to bin and what to
> keep. As you build experience, one of the most important things you get
> better at is ruthless culling of your images, and keeping only the good
> stuff.
>
> Out of focus and badly exposed shots are fairly easy to spot and bin; but
> then you have to ask, "Am I, or anyone else, ever going to want to look at
> this again, or to try to improve it by editing?" If the answer's 'No' and
> it's not a photo that has personal sentimental value, bin it!
>
> Try shooting in RAW. Then transfer the files to your computer. Skim
> through them, and delete the obvious junk. Then go through them again, and
> flag or rate the images as Promising / Maybe / Nah, Not Really.
>
> Geeqie is good for this on Ubuntu if your not yet using a digital asset
> management program like digiKam (KDE) or Shotwell (Gnome).
>
> Then work on or convert the stuff you think is worth keeping. (Shooting in
> RAW and then converting everything to JPG for starters is just
> inefficient.)
>
> Some cameras can save images to both a RAW file and a JPG simultaneously.
> If you import them into Shotwell, it displays them as a single image
> (Geeqie can do this, too) so that you can do the first-pass culling very
> easily. If your camera can do this, try it for a bit to see what works
> best for you.
>
> And join a local camera club or photographic society. It'll help your
> photography a lot (even though you may be the only Linux user there!)
>
> mac
>
>
>
Thanks for the input Mac, I like the look of Geeqie, so will give that a
go. My camera can shoot in RAW+JPEG so I will do that too...you're right,
saves converting all the RAWs. Didn't realise that I could preview the
RAWs for culling, so my thinking was maybe small, low quality conversion
of all the RAWs for culling, but Geeqie solves that problem.

I take it you are a bit of a photographer? Got a personal site or are you
an active Google+ photographer?

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop not loading at startup

[scoundrel50a]

On 10/11/11 09:23, Colin Law wrote:

On 10 November 2011 09:18, scoundrel50a  wrote:

On 10/11/11 09:08, Colin Law wrote:

On 10 November 2011 08:41, scoundrel50awrote:

...
Hi Tony, if you remember I said that using the Icon in the panel was not
an
option it just didnt work so I couldnt bring up the desktops , but I went
back to Compiz>Desktop, and found that if I clicked on Expo, I could use
the
icon again, and it bought back the workspaces...problem is, all this
fiddling to get everything back and working, the amount of buttons I
pressed
which stated what I was pressing was in conflict with something or other
(and this is what is annoying, it doesnt give you an option to not change
something) there must be something somewhere that is still broken, and I
have no clue why..but I do now have the Panel and the bar at the top
back, and I can swap between windows, but dont ask me how that
happened..there needs to be a manual on compiz in 11.10, because I
have
seen quite a few articles written about how you can so easily have your
system broken with compiz.I was just glad that I was able to bring up
the compiz boxotherwise it might have been a new install...

As a matter of interest did you try doing unity --reset again after
enabling the Ubuntu Unity Plugin?  This is supposed to reset
everything.  There is a bug report for the fact that it does not cope
with the plugin disabled.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/881639.  Ideally anything else
that it does not cope with should be reported also.

Colin


Hi Colin, I did the unity --reset to start when my desktop disappeared, but
its the first I have seen about having to do it afterproblem is, I
just pressed buttons when it came to the conflicts almost all of them, I
have no idea what they even meant, so i couldnt tell what was conflicted
with what..so posting bug reports would have been impossible for me,
because I wouldnt have even known what was a bug or not.

Yes I realise that.  I should have suggested trying reset again after
enabling the plugin.

Colin

If it happens again, and I have no doubt that it will, I will know to do 
it again, maybe next time it resets everything without me having to 
fiddle so much.I'll remember next time.


Thank you

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop not loading at startup

[Colin Law]

On 10 November 2011 09:18, scoundrel50a  wrote:
> On 10/11/11 09:08, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>> On 10 November 2011 08:41, scoundrel50a  wrote:
>>>
>>> ...
>>> Hi Tony, if you remember I said that using the Icon in the panel was not
>>> an
>>> option it just didnt work so I couldnt bring up the desktops , but I went
>>> back to Compiz>Desktop, and found that if I clicked on Expo, I could use
>>> the
>>> icon again, and it bought back the workspaces...problem is, all this
>>> fiddling to get everything back and working, the amount of buttons I
>>> pressed
>>> which stated what I was pressing was in conflict with something or other
>>> (and this is what is annoying, it doesnt give you an option to not change
>>> something) there must be something somewhere that is still broken, and I
>>> have no clue why..but I do now have the Panel and the bar at the top
>>> back, and I can swap between windows, but dont ask me how that
>>> happened..there needs to be a manual on compiz in 11.10, because I
>>> have
>>> seen quite a few articles written about how you can so easily have your
>>> system broken with compiz.I was just glad that I was able to bring up
>>> the compiz boxotherwise it might have been a new install...
>>
>> As a matter of interest did you try doing unity --reset again after
>> enabling the Ubuntu Unity Plugin?  This is supposed to reset
>> everything.  There is a bug report for the fact that it does not cope
>> with the plugin disabled.
>> https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/881639.  Ideally anything else
>> that it does not cope with should be reported also.
>>
>> Colin
>>
>
> Hi Colin, I did the unity --reset to start when my desktop disappeared, but
> its the first I have seen about having to do it afterproblem is, I
> just pressed buttons when it came to the conflicts almost all of them, I
> have no idea what they even meant, so i couldnt tell what was conflicted
> with what..so posting bug reports would have been impossible for me,
> because I wouldnt have even known what was a bug or not.

Yes I realise that.  I should have suggested trying reset again after
enabling the plugin.

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[ubuntu-uk] Nottingham Happy Hour and team meeting

[Alan Bell]

Hi all,

tonight is the Nottingham Happy Hour in the Round House pub in Nottingham
http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1373/detail/

and also an online team meeting at 9PM

the agenda is here, feel free to edit it to add any items you want to 
see there (I know it looks a lot like last month's agenda right now, it 
will be updated a bit soon . . .)

https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda

you can join the meeting using an IRC application such as xchat or by 
pointing a web browser at 
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-uk-meeting

all are welcome

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop not loading at startup

[scoundrel50a]

On 10/11/11 09:08, Colin Law wrote:

On 10 November 2011 08:41, scoundrel50a  wrote:

...
Hi Tony, if you remember I said that using the Icon in the panel was not an
option it just didnt work so I couldnt bring up the desktops , but I went
back to Compiz>Desktop, and found that if I clicked on Expo, I could use the
icon again, and it bought back the workspaces...problem is, all this
fiddling to get everything back and working, the amount of buttons I pressed
which stated what I was pressing was in conflict with something or other
(and this is what is annoying, it doesnt give you an option to not change
something) there must be something somewhere that is still broken, and I
have no clue why..but I do now have the Panel and the bar at the top
back, and I can swap between windows, but dont ask me how that
happened..there needs to be a manual on compiz in 11.10, because I have
seen quite a few articles written about how you can so easily have your
system broken with compiz.I was just glad that I was able to bring up
the compiz boxotherwise it might have been a new install...

As a matter of interest did you try doing unity --reset again after
enabling the Ubuntu Unity Plugin?  This is supposed to reset
everything.  There is a bug report for the fact that it does not cope
with the plugin disabled.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/881639.  Ideally anything else
that it does not cope with should be reported also.

Colin



Hi Colin, I did the unity --reset to start when my desktop disappeared, 
but its the first I have seen about having to do it afterproblem 
is, I just pressed buttons when it came to the conflicts almost all of 
them, I have no idea what they even meant, so i couldnt tell what was 
conflicted with what..so posting bug reports would have been 
impossible for me, because I wouldnt have even known what was a bug or 
not.


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Re: [ubuntu-uk] sony camers files

[mac]

On 10 Nov 2011, at 07:57, "Jon Reynolds"  wrote:

> But then its a question of whether to keep all the
> RAWs or go through the photos and decide which ones are worth keeping and
> then bin the rest.

Yes, the ease with which you can produce hundreds of shots with a digital 
camera means it's a real problem at first to know what to bin and what to keep. 
As you build experience, one of the most important things you get better at is 
ruthless culling of your images, and keeping only the good stuff. 

Out of focus and badly exposed shots are fairly easy to spot and bin; but then 
you have to ask, "Am I, or anyone else, ever going to want to look at this 
again, or to try to improve it by editing?" If the answer's 'No' and it's not a 
photo that has personal sentimental value, bin it!

Try shooting in RAW. Then transfer the files to your computer. Skim through 
them, and delete the obvious junk. Then go through them again, and flag or rate 
the images as Promising / Maybe / Nah, Not Really. 

Geeqie is good for this on Ubuntu if your not yet using a digital asset 
management program like digiKam (KDE) or Shotwell (Gnome).

Then work on or convert the stuff you think is worth keeping. (Shooting in RAW 
and then converting everything to JPG for starters is just inefficient.)

Some cameras can save images to both a RAW file and a JPG simultaneously. If 
you import them into Shotwell, it displays them as a single image (Geeqie can 
do this, too) so that you can do the first-pass culling very easily. If your 
camera can do this, try it for a bit to see what works best for you.

And join a local camera club or photographic society. It'll help your 
photography a lot (even though you may be the only Linux user there!)

mac



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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop not loading at startup

[Colin Law]

On 10 November 2011 08:41, scoundrel50a  wrote:
> ...
> Hi Tony, if you remember I said that using the Icon in the panel was not an
> option it just didnt work so I couldnt bring up the desktops , but I went
> back to Compiz>Desktop, and found that if I clicked on Expo, I could use the
> icon again, and it bought back the workspaces...problem is, all this
> fiddling to get everything back and working, the amount of buttons I pressed
> which stated what I was pressing was in conflict with something or other
> (and this is what is annoying, it doesnt give you an option to not change
> something) there must be something somewhere that is still broken, and I
> have no clue why..but I do now have the Panel and the bar at the top
> back, and I can swap between windows, but dont ask me how that
> happened..there needs to be a manual on compiz in 11.10, because I have
> seen quite a few articles written about how you can so easily have your
> system broken with compiz.I was just glad that I was able to bring up
> the compiz boxotherwise it might have been a new install...

As a matter of interest did you try doing unity --reset again after
enabling the Ubuntu Unity Plugin?  This is supposed to reset
everything.  There is a bug report for the fact that it does not cope
with the plugin disabled.
https://bugs.launchpad.net/unity/+bug/881639.  Ideally anything else
that it does not cope with should be reported also.

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber 3.2.1 and Ubuntu 11.10

[John MM]

I dont use gwibber or any of the other programs like that in Ubuntu, I go
back to windows, because I most people I know are on Yahoo, and I was never
able to work out how to connect the camera, so I could chat, which client
Ubuntu connects to things like msn and yahoo using the camera.
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lost desktop not loading at startup

[scoundrel50a]

On 09/11/11 17:57, Tony Pursell wrote:



On 9 November 2011 11:56, scoundrel50a > wrote:



On 09/11/11 10:50, Colin Law wrote:

On 9 November 2011 10:15, scoundrel50amailto:scoundrel...@gmail.com>>  wrote:

Anybody know how to get your multiple desktops back, after
all the problems
I got over, i still can get my dultiple desktops back, the
icon doesnt work,

This is apparently how to change the number of desktops (I
have not
tried it), perhaps yours has got set to just one.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1723321

Colin

Yeh I did that, and it says I have 6 desktops, but the Icon wont
work and I cant use them, just one window.

John


Just a thought, but can you navigate to them with keystrokes, i.e. 
Ctrl-Alt-(arrow-keys)



Tony





Hi Tony, if you remember I said that using the Icon in the panel was not 
an option it just didnt work so I couldnt bring up the desktops , but I 
went back to Compiz>Desktop, and found that if I clicked on Expo, I 
could use the icon again, and it bought back the 
workspaces...problem is, all this fiddling to get everything back 
and working, the amount of buttons I pressed which stated what I was 
pressing was in conflict with something or other (and this is what is 
annoying, it doesnt give you an option to not change something) there 
must be something somewhere that is still broken, and I have no clue 
why..but I do now have the Panel and the bar at the top back, and I 
can swap between windows, but dont ask me how that happened..there 
needs to be a manual on compiz in 11.10, because I have seen quite a few 
articles written about how you can so easily have your system broken 
with compiz.I was just glad that I was able to bring up the compiz 
boxotherwise it might have been a new install...


John
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