Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu
Yeah, like your little network would make any significant difference to the capabilities of Microsofts. Lets try to be realistic here. Denial of service is just another form censorship. --- On Mon, 4/5/09, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: From: James Milligan lak...@lake54.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Click downloaded Ubuntu To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Monday, 4 May, 2009, 12:04 PM Just to piggy back onto this, has anyone got a product key they aren't going to use? I work in an IT shop so it would be good to have some practice on it (Windows 7) Also, I think it's a bit unfair to slow the servers down just because you can. It's a free world, let people choose what software they want to use! James Milligan On 4 May 2009, at 11:55, Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rob Beard wrote: Michael Douglas wrote: You're certainly better off than trying to get the Windows 7 Beta, or in 2 days, the RC. It took MSFT about 10hours just to make the thing available!!! -- Mehall I had an e-mail from Microsoft today, they're making Windows 7 RC available to the 'little people' (i.e. non Technet/MSDN subscribers) tomorrow although I like what it said in the e-mail about it being available until 30th June 2009 and there are no limits on product keys or downloads, it then goes on to say... * /So you don’t need rush to make sure you get your copy. When yo u’re ready to download the RC, it’ll be waiting for you./* I guess they're trying to get potential downloaders to hang fire until they really want it, but I still wouldn't be surprised if they get a whole load of downloads in the first couple of days. Having just reinstalled my laptop with Vista x64 and Ubuntu 9.04 dual booting I'll hang fire I think. Rob I might download the RC a few times on my VPS in America that's got roughly 10 meg/sec connection, just to slow their servers down. I'd never willing use a Microsoft product in a million years. - -- Many thanks Harry Rickards (a.k.a l33tmyst) - -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GAT/GCM/GCS/GCC/GIT/GM d? s: a? C UL P- L+++ E--- W+++ N o K+ w--- O- M- V- PS+ PE Y+ PGP++ t 5 X R tv-- b+++ DI D G e* h! !r y? - --END GEEK CODE BLOCK-- -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkn+yaYACgkQ1kZz3mRu0GoxzQCgnnR8Skd1l4zxjOhbIjvqeDtj iX0An0TlKZZXSj6uogWZS5TIzqgQz38I =eIPd -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- 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@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
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--- alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Peter Lewis wrote: On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder wrote: Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would probably me able to help out. Likewise, I'm in Birmingham and would be more than happy to come along and help out. Pete. Do either of you have a front drive or space at your house for a temporary motorhome parking please? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ ___ Want ideas for reducing your carbon footprint? Visit Yahoo! For Good http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/forgood/environment.html -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers
Hi, the servers section on http://ubuntuforums.com is pretty good for those sort of questions. I also run a file/webserver off virgin and it works pretty well. Ubuntu has a built in firewall but if you want to make any configurations to it then firestarter is a good gui for your firewall. I use postfix for outgoing mail because it's very easy to set up and have my domains point to my ip. I buy my UK domains from http://123-reg.co.uk and my .com domains from http://nameroute.com and use http://zoneedit.com as my dns provider. I think it's important to restrict access to certain folders on your server. For example you dont want random people being able to go to http://www.yourname.com/phpmyadmin. For my ftp server I use gprofftpd which is a version of proftpd that has a nice gui. You'll never have a fully secure system but if you use the advice given by people here and on the forums then you should be fine. --- Matthew Daubney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I've had a machine running as an ad-hoc web/file servery thing across my home internet connection (shared 20Mb Virgin Media stuffs (MB? I always get the upper/lower case B's confused)) and have considered turning the machine solely over to this after getting my nice shiny new dell laptop. If I turned it to this permanantly (as I hope to!) I'd obviously need a bit more info on setting it up re:security and suggested programs (I'd end up largley running Apache/PHP/mod_mono as I'm considering going into web design and it'd be good practice to get used to as many languages as possible). I'd also be considering using it as a mailserver, but have never set one of these up, ever. So any advice on mail packages and the like would also be much appreciated!! The box itself is a 4GHz Hyperthreaded P4 with 1.5gb of RAM and 2*250gb hdd's (it also currently has 2 flatscreens, but it won't need them once it's been serverised!) Thanks very much (as usual) for any info! -Matt Daubney -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ ___ Yahoo! Answers - Got a question? Someone out there knows the answer. Try it now. http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage
No offense, but Linux is not gonna have any chance at competing with the marketing drive of Microsoft over the next few months. Vista is the BIG thing in the IT world at the moment getting all the attention and until the novelty wears off and that blows over it will stay the big thing. The press simply wont be interested in little Linux when the big guns are making a new release. The Mac advertising campaign has got very agressive in recent days too linux doesn't really have much of an advertising campaign and isn't visible on too many popular sites in the form of banners or mentions and because of this Linux is largely going unheard, unseen and unnoticed on most major sites and tv stations. Vista and Mac are both being advertised regularly on the most popular sites on the world. --- Benjamin Webb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was having a look at how the BBC was covering the launch of Vista and found this. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6310599.stm I was reasured that it did mention Linux, albeit only briefly and has a quote from a satisfied Linux user. Is that anyone here btw? --Ben Webb -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ ___ The all-new Yahoo! Mail goes wherever you go - free your email address from your Internet provider. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/nowyoucan.html -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [lugmaster] Fwd: Linux-refurbished Laptops for Nepal Appeal!]
These people need to be educated to get them out of poverty Giving them access to computers helps them get an education. I think places like this should have internet cafe style places where they can plug in their equipment and get an education. Ask any recent 1sy world homeschooler and they will tell you how important a computer was in their education. Yes there are other priorities like medicine and water, but as computer experts we can also contribute with what we are experts in. They should not be left behind in the digital age. Computers and the internet are a big part of todays world infrastructure. --- alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (thanks for the information) I very much welcome the efforts by the organisers, although there are unanswered questions implied - I cannot really understand the apparent priority need for computers when the local communications (telephone, internet connection) are not in place yet. A similar thought occurs relating to power, where a priority would come to mind for a power generator first, maybe for facilities other than computers. The suggestion of various distros is also a little unrealistic - to my mind anyway - for a learning situation in a remote location - each distro will make very different demands on the users (in)experience. I note this possibility but I will be continuing to look for other possibilities. alan cocks Alan Pope wrote: With the discussion on this list about doing work for charity, and reusing computers I thought this mail on the UK LUGMaster list might be interesting to the group. Cheers, Al. - Forwarded message from Mark Broadbent [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 11:27:38 + From: Mark Broadbent [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [lugmaster] Fwd: Linux-refurbished Laptops for Nepal Appeal! Hi All, I've been asked by a member of my LUG (Herefordshire) if the following notice could be circulated around as many LUGs as possible please. All follow-ups to this should be directed to Matt Rhys-Roberts at [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks Mark Broadbent Herefordshire LUG --- A small business in North Wales has hit upon the idea of supplying a school in an impoverished area of Nepal, with refurbished laptop computers running Linux. In their own words: The Shree Garma Secondary School is in the Solukhumbu district of Nepal and is only 40 miles from Everest. It is extremely isolated and there are no roads. It can be reached by an internal flight from Kathmandu followed by a three hour walk. It is obviously very poor and most people are subsistence farmers. The school caters for around 150 children of all ages. They have only the most basic facilities and no electricity. Their main priority is to have computers. Initially we are going to try and supply them with six lap top computers which can be charged in houses which do have electricity and longer term our aim is to develop a hydro power station which could potentially provide electricity to many houses as well as the school. Katlan Trading Company based at The Souk in Llangollen is committed to helping this school through importing goods from Nepal. A percentage of all sales will go direct to the school. We are not a registered charity but instead are aiming to help through direct trade. The company wishes to enlist the help of any UK LUG members who can a) gather unused laptops, b) install Linux on them, and c) send them to a central collection point to be announced. The ideal Linux distro remains to be decided, since equipment will vary greatly. However it is hoped, hardware permitting, that each laptop will have installed on it a minimum of: a working X server, OpenOffice (or smaller office apps for lesser machines), a graphics package, printer and network support, email, IRC, and of course the Nepali language as far as possible. There appears to be a Nepali distro already underway at http://www.nepalinux.org/ , which may be suitable for some hardware. For lesser machines, perhaps Damn Small Linux, Vector Linux or Knoppix may be more appropriate. The village has no phone network yet, but one is anticipated there within the next 2 years! Please contact me if you can contribute in any way to this project. I aim to help coordinate efforts to source donated laptops, test them, install appropriate software, then perform a final quality check. We are still at the planning stage, seeing who's really available to help. No doubt this project could generate some very good publicity for Linux abroad, waste prevention and fair trade. Regards, Matt Rhys-Roberts, Wrexham [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Herefordshire LUG member) PS. Further reading for inspiration (it looks like there's already a good
Re: [ubuntu-uk] House of Parliament tours.
I'm interested but a wee bit skint at the moment. I'm in N. Ireland so it's a bit of a trek for me but definitely something I want to do in my lifetime. It would be nice to get something going at the party conferences too. They happen after the summer right? Maybe someone could do a talk/debate on Open Source at the fringe meetings. John --- Nik Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Out of interest would Ubuntu-UK members like to do a tour of the Both Houses of Parliament ? http://www.parliament.uk/directories/hcio/tours.cfm Lets see how many are interested before we worry about in or out of session though. Ive been on a tour and found it interesting and certainly wanted to return for another opportunity. Regards Nik Butler -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ ___ Copy addresses and emails from any email account to Yahoo! Mail - quick, easy and free. http://uk.docs.yahoo.com/trueswitch2.html -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
