Re: [ubuntu-uk] a new laptop
2008/5/10 Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]: London School of Puppetry wrote: Hi there I am about to buy a new laptop- I was told that Dell do one with Hardy Heron already installed. Is this ok, oe should I get one with nothing then put HH onto it. I suppose this is just -- -basic advice I need. Caroline I bought Dell's entry-level laptop last year (then, the 6400N) with Feisty pre-installed. Worked flawlessly; and upgraded to Gutsy without a hitch. Dell are currently selling these: http://tinyurl.com/34fctn The laptops look as though they come with Gutsy. Should upgrade OK in the normal way. I've been very happy with my Dell laptop - solid, reliable, and the cheap one seems good value for money. I'd buy another if I needed a laptop. Only thing to mention is that Dell partitions the disk rather idiosyncratically. If you want a classic partitioning scheme - e.g. '/' + 'swap' + '/home' - you're going to have to reinstall Ubuntu on the Dell. And in that case, you might want to consider other options, where you'd have to install the OS yourself anyway. But, of course, you can be confident with the Dells that the hardware will work, even if you do reinstall. HTH Mac http://www.linuxpreloaded.com/ May help you to fins a good source for a GNU/Linux pre-installed laptop. :) Hope it helps. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting
On 27 Feb 2008, at 12:08, Kris Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm thinking about starting a new sport called Ubuntu Spotting. Using your keen eye, look out for indications of Ubuntu use in every day life. Points are awarded for spotting:- * Machines running Ubuntu * Articles about Ubuntu in mainstream press * Official Ubuntu shipit CDs * Overhearing people talking about Ubuntu * Spotting references to Ubuntu on other peoples computers * (suggestions?) Of course points can only be awarded if you happened upon these things, and not if you personally influenced their use or placement. I guess many of us play this game subconciously really, but I think we should be more active in this sport, and promote its play. I had one of these today.. I got called into a workshop style meeting at $work where a representative from $large_software_vendor came in to talk about their $fantastic_product. He put up his laptop PC on the projector and in amongst the mess of icons on his Windows XP desktop I spotted an Ubuntu ISO image. Probably not worth many points in this game, but still, a spot is a spot! Have you spotted today? Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Around a year ago I was having my hair cut, the barber and another guy were talking about this thing called Ubuntu - apparently it's like Windows but better. Made my day to hear it :-) How about putting your old/used/spare ShipIt CDs in interestingly amusing places? Kris I was once sat in the solid rock cafe while skiving off university when I overheard two lads talking about ubuntu. its pure good, its what all the hackers use to break into banks and stuff. I promptly looked over and he had his laptop out with a terminal open. We ended up talking and sorting out his definition of hackers. Hehe I have also seen it being used on the computers in lynx computing, a small pc shop in Glasgow. Many people in uni have also tried ubuntu out along with a few members at my workplace (apple). Its definetly spreading! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: OT: Small tremor just now? Earthquake?
On 27 Feb 2008, at 13:47, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm just the other side of the Humber and had gone to bed early only to be awoken by my other half. Missus Chris, wake up - there's been an earthquake Me Don't be daft ZZZzzz Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Has anybody exerienced any damage from this? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: OT: Small tremor just now? Earthquake?
On 27/02/2008, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 1:03 AM Subject: OT: Small tremor just now? Earthquake? To: StaffSlug Linux UserGroup [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm no geologist.. But at 12:57 on 27th... I felt the whole house shake... as in my monitor was moving, as was the stuff in my cupboard... and there were no large vehicles passing outside. The feeling was very weird, I couldn't say it was an earthquake... but It was damn weird. Thought I'd just let you know. I'm in Staffordshire near Leek and Cheadle... FYI. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There was indeed a quake, seems to be quite distributed accross england. Check your local or BBC Radio 5 stations for more information. Nothing up here in Scotland though... -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Accounting software ?
Does sage maybe work with wine? --- Andrew A. Barber On 25 Feb 2008, at 16:31, Joshua Scotton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 14:09 +, David wrote: GNU Cash might be what you're looking for: http://www.gnucash.org/ I haven't personally used it so I can't comment on it, sorry. David. On 25/02/2008, Andy Watts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi People l'm interested to know whether there is a Linux alternative to Sage.. l might be able to get my wife to start using Ubuntu if there's something available that will allow her to import customers data properly. Hi, I'm sorry to say that GNUCash is nowhere near an alternative to Sage. It is a very good program and can be used for personal or sole trader accounts, but it hasn't been any good for my needs when preparing UK Limited Company Accounts. As I haven't found anything else suitable for accounts on linux I'm still having to dual boot my computer into Sage every time I need to work on the accounts :( If anybody else can contradict me on this I'd be really pleased, as Sage is the only windows program that I can't find a linux alternative for. Josh -- My PGP public key: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0x3E4E0E21 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] wifi mini-survey
On 08/11/2007, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Friends Following the surprisingly few responses to some recent questions about wifi, I'm beginning to wonder how many of us are actually using Ubuntu wirelessly on laptops. So here's a quick poll: Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi? And, if you do, do you use no encryption / WEP / WPA / WPA2 with ESSID broadcast / hidden? Mac I use wireless everyday on my laptop. At home; WEP ESSID At university; No encryption EESID -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Im Back!
On 09/11/2007, Gaurav Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 09/11/2007, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: you can also use it POP3 if you really need to... I like the threading so don't I tried using another mail client, several infact, to take advantage of IMAP. None of them were close to Google Mail's threading view. I have this mailing list to blame for that! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ I think gmail is quite superior to anything else. I forward all my email address's to my gmail account then get them to have a label so I know what address they came to. It also has a good spell check feature, not to mention the threading. I am always on the move too, never really on one machine so the web interface is fantastic :D Also welcome back :) -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu
On 30/10/2007, Gaurav Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm a member of a team of an organisation where I volunteer every Wednesday to offer free wireless Internet in an estate in Kingston, London. A problem we had was that many people in this estate had very little money and very little computing knowledge. Long story short, we had to supply the computers. We had another charity organisation offer a around 80 old Dell Optiplex (I think the model number is GX1). We pre-install these computers with Ubuntu 6.06 and give everything away for a low low price of £0. If you want to know more about what we're doing, there's some information on the website at http://www.e-voice.org.uk/comcon/. I probably wrote all of this and has no valid part of the current discussion, so apologies if that's the case! On 30/10/2007, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/10/2007, Ciaran Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is an event that already does this kind of advocacy. Its called Software Freedom Day. Every year around September time voluteers organise an event all on the same day to promote free software. Canonical sponsor the event and the official distro to hand out is Ubuntu, though you can hand out any one you want. Also we distribute The Open CD. I believe a combined effort from all free software advocates on Software Freedom Day is probably better than small lone Ubuntu specific events, sporadically happening through out the year. There are events held is quite a few major cities in the UK http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk I understand if Ubuntu-UK would like to organise their own event, separate from SFD, but from my experience organising an event by myself in Birmingham all the help I could get was very appreciated. Having Ubuntu-UK behind the next SFD would help a lot. Ciarán On 10/29/07, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed, this approach works very well. On 29/10/2007, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys We're always trying to think of ideas and ways to promote Ubuntu/Linux... why not stick to the basics?? Canonical sends out CD's for free upon request... i don't know how many, and what they would think of this, but: We gets tons of CD's in boxes, we get an Ubuntu jacket with big writing saying something like: Ubuntu Linux Free OS Free Office ... and then some of us volunteer to stand in city centres on the weekend (maybe two or three in a group so we can answer questions etc) and hand them out like flyers. We include a little slip that explains how they can try it (live) and install it etc. Probably some of them will get thrown away, and many will remain unused, but surely the relatively low-cost of this type of promotion will prove effective??? Even if its just the oh yes i've heard of that type. What do you think? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- --- Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ The school idea sounds pretty good. I would possibly look into doing that here, keep us posted on how you do with sponsorship. Information on this would be great to provide to the community so that people everywhere could do the same. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ I wouldn't say it wasn't relative, as it *is* promotion of Ubuntu. How have things been since? Did the people stick to Ubuntu? Did they get a bootleg version of windows? Do you provide support to them? Sounds like a very nice thing that you have done :D -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] UbuCon UK Ideas
On 30/10/2007, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to figure out a few things first: 1) Is it *actually* pheasable? This requires a location? Will we be getting a free hosting place, will the closest ammeanities provide us with cheep sponsorship (if we are doing that). 2) How many people do we expect to turn up? Yet again, people up in Aberdeen may not travel to London, but they might travel to location 3) Where are the people likely to turn up coming from? Yet again, relative to location. If it were in london you would get more concrete yes's. 4) How are we going to finance it? Sponsors I would think, maybe a small entrance fee of a couple of quid. 5) How long will the event be? I would think a day or two as much as a weekend. People wouldn't want to take time off for these kind of things. 6) How are we going to market it? We could send leaflets round to LUGs, try and get a notice (wallop) on freenode, posters in universities, local (in relativity to the location) leaflets in computer shops. 7) What will be on show? Ummm open floor for now, can be decided after. As you can see, location is quite crucial. Mainly on the first few points. People are willing to get involved when they know where it is, think about any other scenario. Think about if somebody asked you to go to aKademy 07, the first initial response (if you knew what it were) would be what location. It is the same for the people involved with the organisation. Choosing a location can then open us up to choosing a location with amenities, this can higher or lower our scope on what can be done at the UbuCon. Maybe there is a computer lab (with linux) within the place, then we could open up the possibility of a Free Software Game Tournament, tutorials and many other things. We can't offer something then find out later the location does not have such facilities. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu
On 30/10/2007, Ciaran Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, There is an event that already does this kind of advocacy. Its called Software Freedom Day. Every year around September time voluteers organise an event all on the same day to promote free software. Canonical sponsor the event and the official distro to hand out is Ubuntu, though you can hand out any one you want. Also we distribute The Open CD. I believe a combined effort from all free software advocates on Software Freedom Day is probably better than small lone Ubuntu specific events, sporadically happening through out the year. There are events held is quite a few major cities in the UK http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk I understand if Ubuntu-UK would like to organise their own event, separate from SFD, but from my experience organising an event by myself in Birmingham all the help I could get was very appreciated. Having Ubuntu-UK behind the next SFD would help a lot. Ciarán On 10/29/07, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed, this approach works very well. On 29/10/2007, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Guys We're always trying to think of ideas and ways to promote Ubuntu/Linux... why not stick to the basics?? Canonical sends out CD's for free upon request... i don't know how many, and what they would think of this, but: We gets tons of CD's in boxes, we get an Ubuntu jacket with big writing saying something like: Ubuntu Linux Free OS Free Office ... and then some of us volunteer to stand in city centres on the weekend (maybe two or three in a group so we can answer questions etc) and hand them out like flyers. We include a little slip that explains how they can try it (live) and install it etc. Probably some of them will get thrown away, and many will remain unused, but surely the relatively low-cost of this type of promotion will prove effective??? Even if its just the oh yes i've heard of that type. What do you think? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- --- Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ The school idea sounds pretty good. I would possibly look into doing that here, keep us posted on how you do with sponsorship. Information on this would be great to provide to the community so that people everywhere could do the same. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] UbuCon UK Ideas
On 30/10/2007, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 30/10/2007, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We need to figure out a few things first: 1) Is it *actually* pheasable? This requires a location? Will we be getting a free hosting place, will the closest ammeanities provide us with cheep sponsorship (if we are doing that). 2) How many people do we expect to turn up? Yet again, people up in Aberdeen may not travel to London, but they might travel to location 3) Where are the people likely to turn up coming from? Yet again, relative to location. If it were in london you would get more concrete yes's. 4) How are we going to finance it? Sponsors I would think, maybe a small entrance fee of a couple of quid. 5) How long will the event be? I would think a day or two as much as a weekend. People wouldn't want to take time off for these kind of things. 6) How are we going to market it? We could send leaflets round to LUGs, try and get a notice (wallop) on freenode, posters in universities, local (in relativity to the location) leaflets in computer shops. 7) What will be on show? Ummm open floor for now, can be decided after. As you can see, location is quite crucial. Mainly on the first few points. People are willing to get involved when they know where it is, think about any other scenario. Think about if somebody asked you to go to aKademy 07, the first initial response (if you knew what it were) would be what location. It is the same for the people involved with the organisation. Choosing a location can then open us up to choosing a location with amenities, this can higher or lower our scope on what can be done at the UbuCon. Maybe there is a computer lab (with linux) within the place, then we could open up the possibility of a Free Software Game Tournament, tutorials and many other things. We can't offer something then find out later the location does not have such facilities. Could we all take a look at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/IdeasPool/UbuCon_UK#head-23105941f518ba764282ef8a71fbac2d546ff2d6 -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] UbuCon UK Ideas
On 29/10/2007, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, As we've hit 12 people expressing interest in making an UbuCon UK happen, I want to take the discussion of an UbuCon in the UK onward. The fundamentals: When? Where? Who? What? When? Sometime in Spring 2008, meaning March to May. Gives us time to organise, we'll hopefully have some bearable weather, and could coincide with the release of Hardy Heron at the end of April. Where? I'll say London, maybe because I'm a Londoner. I can think of a number of venues that could host us. That said, it's an expensive place. Other options could be any city with decent transport links and people on the ground - Birmingham, Manchester, Bristol, Cardiff, Edinburgh. There has to be a core team of people in place, who know the area and can donate brain and brawn, though. Who? You! We will need people to organise, help out on the day, run stalls, give talks. Plus, we need to reach out and get people to attend, whether they're already using Ubuntu or are curious as to what this linux lark is all about. What? The attractions. We can have stalls, films, talks from the likes of SABDFL, an Ubuntu-powered arcade, a laptop troubleshooting team fixing boxes brought in, space for spontaneous BOFs and meetings add your idea here I'd also like to invite organisations and projects that aren't strictly Ubuntu but related (or at least have software that runs on Ubuntu), such as the Open Rights Group and OpenStreetMap, to broaden the horizons. So: add your ideas to this thread; post them to the wiki https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/IdeasPool/UbuCon_UK An open meeting on irc, or similar, will be organised soonish (after the Boston Ubuntu Developer Summit is done). John I own the frapper map. I set it up a long while back and forgot about it. I am from Glasgow and I think that you are all talking alot of bollocks ;) Scotland IS part of the UK and you should stop thinking that Ubuntu-UK stops when it hits the border. While I would personally favor a Scottish location, I would also add my +1 to Manchester. Is anybody involved with the University there? Could we borrow university facilitates etc? I am sure this could be an open debate [though probably never solved!] on IRC. I suppose this is one of the first major milestones that we need to overcome. :D -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Open Week
On 23/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just realised this hasn't been announced on our mailing list.. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuOpenWeek Ubuntu Open Week is a series of online workshops where you can: * learn about the Ubuntu landscape * talk to some of the key developers from the Ubuntu project * find out about the Community and its relationship with Canonical * participate in an open QA with Mark Shuttleworth, the founder of Ubuntu * much more... Fire up your IRC clients (irssi / xchat / xchat-gnome / pidgin / gaim) and point them to the Ubuntu (freenode) Servers - irc.freenode.net, then join #ubuntu-classroom and #ubuntu-classroom-chat. #ubuntu-classroom is where the tuition goes on, and -chat is where you ask questions and generally have a good old chat. It's a great idea, and I'm happy to be part of it. I'm giving a session today about Launchpad Answers, and another one on Thursday about something called screencasting (whatever that is). Maybe see you there. Cheers, Al. Hey, Just to add a note to inform everybody that the logs of the past 'classes' are available online at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MeetingLogs/openweekgutsy For those that were not aware and have missed that vital class that you were interested in. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best ISP?
On 23/10/2007, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martin Peeks wrote: Hi, Jai Harrison wrote: Hey Guys, I figured this would be an interesting topic for people to discuss. We're all from the UK so it should work nicely. What is the best Internet Service Provider in your opinion and why? Please state whether it is ADSL or cable. Jai ADSL24 has been excellent for me - but I think nearly anyone would find themselves happy with any Entanet reseller. Martin I use UKFSN (www.ukfsn.org) who are an entanet reseller. All that free software goodness (they're currently sponsoring an Ubuntu student coder), great support upstream from Entanet, and no complaints. The only problem I've had was due to BT, who made a bloody mess of things, but eventually (because every time they fixed one problem, made a mess of someone elses phone line)n got things working. HTH John I really liked my internet connection when I was with Blueyonder (now Virgin Media). It just seemed nice and quick. The support was great too, one experience was when they sent out a techie and he explained everything in depth of what he was doing (he identified I was interested in computing). I am now unfortunately in an area not supported by Cable, and I am on an ADSL connection through Tiscali. I personally hate the service and would change if I had any better options. Their technical support is absolute crap. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Idea: UbuCon UK
On 24/10/2007, Matthew Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/24/07, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Wouldn't you give up a weekend for such madness? John Me... certainly! Matthew. I think this would be a great idea. It would be fun for all. Could also get many more users involved with helping out in the community. Another kinda cool yet different conference that we could grab a few ideas from is PDPC's FOSSCON http://fosscon.org/ If anybody takes this serious I would be interested in helping out. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Gutsy Release Party
On 19/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have _just_ got back from London after the release party organised by John Levin. What a top night out. Thanks John, and everyone else who came. I think Dave Walker gets the prize for the furthest distance travelled (Southampton to London) and I nominate myself for the klutzy-doofus prize for knocking over a drink within seconds of greeting people. http://daviey.mooo.com/uncategorized/ubuntu-uk-release-party.html Highlights for me include:- * Meeting some great people * Drinking lovely beer * Free WiFi in the pub! * Having Mark Shuttleworth give me tips on getting wifi working on an old IBM thinkpad * Missing the last train home * Kipping on the floor of a Greater London Linux User Group member who was also at the meetup I eagerly look forward to the next social meet up. Now, bed. Cheers, Al. Sounds looks like a great party. I hope you all had fun, I would have loved to go, but to travel to London is a bit sticky for me. Maybe in the future! :D -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10
On 19/10/2007, Lucy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/2007, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 19/10/2007, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I have used Ubuntu since it started I have never tried it before installing. Please point me to where I can get instructions on how to do this. Norman Strangely I can't actually find a whole how to on the Internet. The Ubuntu Full Circle Magazine first issue contains a walkthrough on installing Feisty, I don't think things have changed too much in the installer since then: http://fullcirclemagazine.org/?page_id=36 Ah I thought after that mail and realised there would be something on help.ubuntu, see https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GraphicalInstall Also FullCircleMagazine is pretty good too! Take a read of both if you have time. :) -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10
On 19/10/2007, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although I have used Ubuntu since it started I have never tried it before installing. Please point me to where I can get instructions on how to do this. Norman Strangely I can't actually find a whole how to on the Internet. It is fairly self explanatory anyway; basically set your computer [or laptop] to boot from CD ROM; this is set in the BIOS [normally F12 or F2 or esc on boot]. Once that is done, pop in the CD. It will boot (normally) to a Live CD environment and from there you will be basically in what you realise to be ubuntu. There is a desktop icon that says 'Install Ubuntu'. Double click that and follow the steps. The only one I would *really* pay attention to is the partition hard drive part. Though I have been through a number of installs, and if you are not experienced I would advise you read everything.. Hope this helps.. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] iMac G4
Hey Tony, I am also using Ubuntu on an iBook G4 and have found it to be a nice alternative to OSX. I have also successfully installed Feisty from the community work ongoing to supple people like us with a nice GNU/Linux distro. If you have any problems, ping me on IRC. You will find me in the ubuntu-uk channel, or you are welcome to private message me at any time. My nick is AndrewB Hope all is going well so far. On 11/08/07, Tony Travis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Anyone using Ubuntu on an iMac G4? I've just got one, and installed Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (Dapper) on it... Works quite well, but the recent decision by Canonical not to support the PowerPC architecture in future is disappointing. There is a 'port' of Feisty, but I couldn't get it to boot. Might have been a problem with the CD, so I'll burn another one: I don't want to have to use backports to get 'Gnash' working so I can enjoy the full irony of watching the Mac vs. PC spoof ad's from YouTube on a Mac running Ubuntu ;-) Why? - I'd like to convert my Mac colleagues to Ubuntu, of course! Tony. -- Dr. A.J.Travis, | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Rowett Research Institute, |http://www.rri.sari.ac.uk/~ajt Greenburn Road, Bucksburn, | phone:+44 (0)1224 712751 Aberdeen AB21 9SB, Scotland, UK.| fax:+44 (0)1224 716687 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox and BBC video clips
On 17/04/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Apr 16, 2007 at 10:58:30PM +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Or is there a way to play real audio and video without the non-free realplayer? Yes, I dont have realplayer installed at all, I watch BBC programmes using mplayer mozilla plugin. It works in much the same way as realplayer - the little box pops up when you click video on the bbc website and the video plays in it. It just works. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Would it be worth emailing somebody in the BBC and telling them to maybe add a link to their window on what you need to run video on GNU/Linux. For instance GNU/Linux users please click here, then a page detailing one way of playing them. Mplayer would be the best advice as it is FOSS. -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] GetGNULinux.Org
Benjamin Webb wrote: I for one would think, and I'm sure many would agree with me, that the http://linux.org website is rather ugly in design, and not welcoming or terribly explanatory to linux newcomers. http://www.getgnulinux.org is designed to change this. It explains what Linux is on a level that even non-tech types could understand and also why and how they would switch. It is a perfect site for someone who knows nothing about Linux at all. It also hopes to become a part of a promotional campaign, similar to the SpreadFirefox one. There are already banners available to link to the site with a very clear and simple message - Get GNU/Linux. As you may be able to tell from the name, the sites creator agrees with the FSF's naming suggestion, but the site does not aim to force this upon the rest of the community, and in fact uses the term Linux itself, in order to make the site more understandable for its audience. The website is run by an organisation, GNU/Linux Matters, which is soon to become an non-profit organisation in France. The site also has a community on the nuxified.org forums, which I am a member of, but I am not the site's creator. By posting this I do not want to appear a spammer. I simply want to make the ubuntu-uk community aware of this site, and would love to hear your opinions. Do you think this site is a good alternative to Linux.org, as a portal for the Linux community as a whole? Would you be interested in the idea of a Linux advocacy campaign, and would you consider putting a getGnu/Linux button on your own website/blog. Finally, the non-profit organisation plans to have ambassadors and embassies in other countries, to promote Linux on a country specific basis. Is anyone interested setting up one for the UK? I would greatly appreciate it if you could forward this message on to people who are not subscribed to this mailing list, for example to the various UK LUGs. Regards, Ben Webb (Ubuntu user and GetGNU/Linux.Org campaigner) I am a moderator on their fora. Nuxified.org :-) Their site is real good, mainly looking for translators should any of you be able to help get in touch ;-) AndrewB -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scottish team
Martin Fitzpatrick wrote: On 12/03/07, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all. I was looking at the Ubuntu UK LoCo local teams (confusing eh!) and realised not many have had team meetings. I think we should maybe get this in motion, and propose that we make a first meeting. I didn't even know they were supposed to. Interesting! I would personally say the first meeting be in Glasgow, in the very nice (and cheap) pub called the Counting House. It is located close to both main stations in the city. As for a date, maybe the 2nd of April? How would that be for you lot? Tuesdays are the best day of the week for me (Weds is my day off) especially if some drinking is to be involved. Is this an open-to-all meeting or Glasgow only? Martin I spoke to Chad Longstaff on IRC, he is fine for the monday. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hi / Forum
On 11/03/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 22:16 +, Dean Sas wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Barber wrote: It does bring up the question.. should we start a fora? I can theme phpBB pretty well, I would not mind giving some time to starting one if we thought it was worth while. We've discussed this a lot previously, and decided that if we were to have a forum we would have one hosted on ubuntuforums.org. I think we also decided that it would be best if it was a list - forum gateway in the same way that the ubuntu-users mail list is. I'm trying to implement a similar thing for Thanet LUG using mail2forum and phpbb.. I started off using Drupal, but I used the wrong version (5.1 instead of 4.7) and as a result I figure I might as well just redo the whole thing from the begining! I'll let you know how I get on. M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Group Co-Ordinator Thanet Linux User Group http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KEY: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xFEA1BC16 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ 5.1 is now released so it may soon have support for this feature. Things are slowly being made to work with 5.1. The newest version looks very nice though :D -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Scottish team
Hey all. I was looking at the Ubuntu UK LoCo local teams (confusing eh!) and realised not many have had team meetings. I think we should maybe get this in motion, and propose that we make a first meeting. I am thinking the first meeting should be a kind of informal one, with no real purpose but to start the ball moving. It can be a place to make friends with the rest of the local members, and discuss how the group shall develop. With this view, I propose that we meet in a pub somewhere. I would personally say the first meeting be in Glasgow, in the very nice (and cheap) pub called the Counting House. It is located close to both main stations in the city. As for a date, maybe the 2nd of April? How would that be for you lot? AndrewB -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hi / Forum
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/ is the best choice, always get an answer. You might also check out nuxified.org where I help moderate, a lot of the users use ubuntu. IRC is also good for helping and getting support. It does bring up the question.. should we start a fora? I can theme phpBB pretty well, I would not mind giving some time to starting one if we thought it was worth while. gord wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-11 at 12:18 +, Kirrus wrote: Hello! I'm a newbie onto this list.. thought I might as well say a bit about me. I'm a trainee web designer in Wales. My Primary home and work O.S. is Ubuntu. I switched to Ubuntu in summer last year, and haven't looked back. (Apart from running Guild Wars Starcraft :) on windoze.) I run a startek pbem rpg in my spare time, along with trying to keep my blog up to date. (I will redesign the look when I get round to it...) welcome kirrus, i just thought id mention that starcraft works wonderfully with a program called 'wine' and apparently (although i havn't checked myself) guild wars works good as well :). http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iVersionId=6861 -- guild wars info http://appdb.winehq.org/appview.php?iAppId=72 -- starcraft info -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] A GUI Grub editor?
I thought YaST was now opensource? I am sure I saw a port to Gentoo at some point too. I wonder if we could take a look at this and work on this idea. On 26/02/07, Scrase, Eddie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I make the point that a gui grub editor would have a strong value for that precious breed - newbies. Maybe there is a gui grub editor easily available for (k)ubuntu, but it did not appear in my searches. The only such thing that I've come across is Suse's Yast utility, which is Suse only unfortunately. I agree that it would be useful to have such GUI, and not only for the newbies - I am more than capable to opening a terminal, finding GRUB's configuration file, and then editing it, but would prefer to use a GUI if one was available. Even if I don't change the default boot on a new system, I usually end up editing this file to change the timeout. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- Andrew Alexander Barber -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
