Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast live tonight
Cool! What time will you be going live at? I'll try and tune in :) -- Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Nintendo Wifi USB Connector (Ralink rt2500) woes
Well I managed ti fix it by turning the router off then on again, that worked somehow, but yeah, they are all runing 10.10. Thanks for the reply though, DaveG! :) On 13 January 2011 23:53, da...@boavon.plus.com wrote: Hi all; I have a Desktop PC here running Ubuntu 10.10, and I'm trying to connect to my Wireless internet connection through a Nintendo Wifi USB connector (A re-branded Buffalo/Ralink rt2500 chipset). I know you can connect to wireless networks with it, because I've given it to other people to use as one, and they've done it just fine. When I plug it into my desktop and turn it on, I click on the network icon in the panel, and I can see all of the available wireless networks, so I click on mine and i get the whole enter the password stuff. Then, when it attempts to connect to the network, the icon gets to the '2nd stage' (Where instead of going up and down, it goes just up), and then disconnects. Any idea what this could be so I can at least try to fix it? I've searched on google and such, and there doesn't seem to be this problem... P.s: I've also tried the connector in other Ubuntu-powered PC's, and get the same result... Thanks! -- Liam Wilson You dont say whether every instance of your trying is using the same update of Ubuntu - 10.10 but I'm guessing it may be. It may be worth a shot disabling the current network manager and trying wicd insead. I have just found it more accepting to various networks, connectors and routers. You dont have a lot to lose by trying. DaveG -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Nintendo Wifi USB Connector (Ralink rt2500) woes
Hi all; I have a Desktop PC here running Ubuntu 10.10, and I'm trying to connect to my Wireless internet connection through a Nintendo Wifi USB connector (A re-branded Buffalo/Ralink rt2500 chipset). I know you can connect to wireless networks with it, because I've given it to other people to use as one, and they've done it just fine. When I plug it into my desktop and turn it on, I click on the network icon in the panel, and I can see all of the available wireless networks, so I click on mine and i get the whole enter the password stuff. Then, when it attempts to connect to the network, the icon gets to the '2nd stage' (Where instead of going up and down, it goes just up), and then disconnects. Any idea what this could be so I can at least try to fix it? I've searched on google and such, and there doesn't seem to be this problem... P.s: I've also tried the connector in other Ubuntu-powered PC's, and get the same result... Thanks! -- Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Streaming Audio - Cross-Platform
On 20 September 2010 22:14, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 20/09/10 21:51, Daniel Case wrote: I'm not quite sure where this should be asked as it is a cross-platform thing. I am fed up of listening to my (Windows XP) gaming computer through headphones so I want to get it hooked to the stereo. Rather than use a heck of a lot of wire, I can sit my Ubuntu 9.10 netbook on top of the stereo and stream the audio across WiFi. So, ideally what I am after is something to capture the outgoing audio on the Windows computer, stream it across the wifi to the Ubuntu netbook and finally play it through the speakers. I will of course need it to be cross-platform too, does anybody have any ideas? Daniel You could try VLC, it should be able to take the feed from the Stereo Mix on Windows, encode it in MP3 format (or whatever) and then stream it over the network. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I know you USED to be able to do this with iTunes and rhythmbox, if you have home sharing or whatever, but i'm not too sure if this still works, you may or may not need an iTunes account to make it work now. Another solution (One that I'm 99% sure works) is using Limewire - putting your music collection in your limewire library, should then show up in rhythmbox. This is for music though, if your looking for in-game audio, I'm not too sure there, sorry! :) Liam -- Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gwibber account window spontaneously opening
On 11 September 2010 12:09, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On 10 September 2010 12:08, pmgazz pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 10.04 Gwibber has suddenly started opening the add account window spontaneously whether Gwibber is running or not. Anyone else getting this? I am getting this as well; I don't know why, but it is extremely annoying. Just started late this week. I even tried ensuring all my account info was up to date and current, so it didn't need to ask, but it didn't help. FWIW, I am on Mint 9, a respin of Ubuntu, not the main thing. -- 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/ I also had this problem, and I think it's caused by twitter's switch to oAuth. I fixed mine by deleting the twitter account from Gwibber, but updating Gwibber may also help. -- Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Deleting a file in unity
Hi all; After installing Ubuntu Netbook Edition 10.10 beta on my netbook last night, I've found it impossible to delete files using the new file manager (By clicking the file icon in the launcher). I've tried right clicking, dragging it to the trash, pressing DEL, even the key betweenn altGR and CTRL, nothing! You can't even open nautilus from the application menu, but instead have to open the trash (which opens in nautilus) before navigating to the file and deleting it the conventional way. While this isn't at all difficult, it's just inconvenient, and I'd much rather do it via the way that unity handles files in that shell thing rather than taking the long way round. Thanks a lot -- Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!
On 31 August 2010 14:44, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote: On 31 August 2010 12:24, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: There were 85 voters and the results in order of the options are: [...] Making this the most popular logo option: http://pollka.libertus.co.uk/pics/full/logo14.svg (don't worry about the 14 in the URL, that means nothing) There is something odd going on here, when I open the above link (Firefox 3.6.8 in Ubuntu) it shows a different font to that on the original vote page (http://pollka.libertus.co.uk/), yet the image on that page is the same url as the one above. Presumably something to do with fonts available on the voting page. Is there a definitive image somewhere that looks the same however it is accessed? I am not sure what we voted for now. Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I also get this error, I think it's something to do with the fact that it's saved as an SVG and that the new Ubuntu font isn't installed on Lucid. Must be a fallback font or something. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups
Just my tuppence; If the podcast team have decided on a (quite frankly, awesome) design, then would it not be a good idea to make the Ubuntu-UK website coherent with that? I mean, currently, the Podcast is run by members of the UK team, and is featured prominently on the first page of the website, but when it is clicked on, it brings you to a completely different website, and to me, personally, it just feels a bit messy to have 2 completely different designs. Of course, there will be elements of the website that will change, such as the colour scheme, and content, etc, but elements such as the navigation buttons and general layout of pages should, in my opinion, stay the same. But that's just my thoughts. Liam (wilsonliam) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Meego and Ubuntu
Hey all; As some of you may know, Meego for Netbooks was released today ( http://meego.com/downloads/releases/netbook) and I thinking about dual-booting it with UNE, but was wondering if anyone else has tried it yet, and if you have, how is it? I'm downloading it as I type Cheers; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing
On 14 May 2010 19:53, Philip Billington pbilling...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Happy to help, add me to the list. - Phil On 13 May 2010 09:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Hi all, I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help. During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the Italian LoCo Team have been doing some great work contributing to Ubuntu and I wanted to bring that to the UK. The task is to test the Ubuntu ISO (CD) images at certain points through the cycle. This is a surprisingly easy thing to do, and with a few volunteers and bit of co-ordination it's possible to test all the various flavours and architectures and report bugs to the QA team. What the Italian LoCo have done is co-ordinate the effort to ensure a spread of testers across Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu and other flavours, and 32-bit and 64-bit architectures. There's no single person who has to test every single ISO, and some people only test one of them. There are points in the cycle (Alpha/Beta releases for example) where more effort is needed, so having multiple people testing the same ISO gives some redundancy as well as ensuring the images are well tested. What you'd need is a computer and a relatively decent internet connection which you could use to download one or more ISO images. Anyone fancy helping out with this? If so just say so here, and we can work out the details when I get back from UDS. Cheers, Al. -- 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/ I too will be more than happy to help out. +1 from me! Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Running .exe's off a CD?
Hey everyone, I just bought a couple of windows games on CD, and I installed wine and such, but I can't actually execute them. On double clicking them, I get the message: The file '/media/RCT2/Setup.exe' is not marked as executable. If this was downloaded or copied form an untrusted source, it may be dangerous to run. For more details, read about the executable bit. Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 things: 1) Why am I being blocked from running .exe's on my computer? 2) How do I work around this? Thanks greatly in advance: Liam :) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running .exe's off a CD?
On 5 May 2010 21:38, Jonathon Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 5 May 2010 21:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 5 May 2010 21:30, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Thing is, I can't mark it as executable, as it's on a CD, so now, 2 things: 1) Why am I being blocked from running .exe's on my computer? So you dont accidentally run virus.exe. It makes it more of an intentional thing to execute the program. I didn't think virus.exe would have much effect on an Ubuntu PC, regardless of whether it was using Wine or not, but thanks for pointing that out anyway. :) 2) How do I work around this? Copy the contents to the hard disk, run it from there? Cheers, Al. You could also run it from a terminal with e.g. $ cd /media/CDROMLABEL $ wine ./game.exe Yeah, that worked great! Thanks! Jonathon -- 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] Building .deb packages
Anton, Out of curiosity, can I ask why it's worse to package software in a .deb file in the long run? Liam On 10 February 2010 20:43, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: On 10 February 2010 17:23, Mark Fraser ubu...@mfraz.orangehome.co.uk wrote: I would like to start compiling some programs and putting them up on my PPA starting with KRepton http://www.keelhaul.me.uk/krepton. Has anyone got any advice other than following www.debian.org/doc/manuals/maint-guide/ch-start.en.html ? I have compiled software before and also produced a few .deb packages, but none that I could distribute. The new maintainers guide you have already found is the main doc I would suggest you start with. The Debian policy is also very helpful as it explains every detail you could need to know (hopefully) but it is more of a reference and not a tutorial. It really is worth learning to build the packages as source packages and build them with dpkg-buildpackage/ppa/etc (I say this because I know a lot of people think its just easier to compile the code and build a .deb with dpkg-deb, but it really works out much worse in the long run) Good luck with it! It really isn't as hard as it seems at first! Anton -- Anton Piatek email: an...@piatek.co.uk blog/photos:http://www.strangeparty.com pgp: [74B1FA37] (http://www.strangeparty.com/anton.asc) fingerprint: 7401 96D3 E037 2F8F 5965 A358 4046 71FD 74B1 FA37 No trees were destroyed in the sending of this message, however, a significant number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- 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] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?....Just another thought....
That's also one of the aims of the ubuntu viral videos project - to give help to the new users. Regards Liam On 3 February 2010 10:55, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:24 +, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Matthews wrote: I am getting excited and worked up with the rest of you about the impending rush on advertising Ubuntu to get more people to use it, plus the courses that are being set up, but I seem to remember getting my little netbook, with Linux Lite on it, that was sold by one of the large electronics companies on the high street. The guy there said to me, you know you will bring it back dont you. Everybody else has, they cant connect to their internet. I heard a lot about Linux computers being taken back because people couldnt work out how to use them, the shops didnt even ask what was up in the end, they just credited them. That was last year. Has anybody thought about how they are going to make it so that it can be easier to set the machine up, when its first opened? Plus, has anybody thought, who and how if there is an increase in Linux users, a help format is going to be set up, so that people can get immediate help, if needed, because it will be immediate help that people will want, not sometime later, but there and then, they wont wait, and its no good saying, 'those of us who are on these forums and e-mail groups have other jobs and we do this for nothing, that wont be good enough'. people wont accept that. You could be doing Ubuntu a world of good, with all this new advertising and enthusiasm, but you could ruin it for good, if there is no sufficient help after sales. Just a thought. Should we create a helper program, with a launcher on the desktop, (or favourites list in UNR) which offers to guide users through the basics of getting their system online, and then getting help from the ubuntu community? It would have to be quite comprehensive to deal with the UK standard types of internet connectivity, wifi keys, ethernet cable, adsl modem, etc.. What about contributing to the Ubuntu manual project [1] to help it make it into Lucid? There's also an interview of Ben Humphrey who is behind this initiative in the latest newsletter [2] [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-manual [2] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuWeeklyNewsletter/Issue178 Bruno -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Well obviously Youtube, metacafe, dailymotion are some good places to start. On 1 February 2010 23:38, Craig Peden cpe...@cogigo.com wrote: Right, I think that someone needs to get down a list of places we can upload to. On 1 Feb 2010, at 21:53, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:41:01 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, that's what I think, the only cost would be putting the advert(s) together. Who actually wants to make this happen? Me -- Steve -- 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/
[ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?
Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' (I.e; short videos that can be posted on the bew. similar to the Wi project seems to be a better option to market Ubuntu than creating a TV ad for a number of reasons; 1. It's cheaper - no cost of getting it on the air 2. Easier to spread - just send a link to friends/family, etc 3. More involvement - the project can go on for a longer time period, and people from other countries can contribute, too. 4. It'll last longer - Any videos made will stay online for as long as the video hosting sites are up. Before this project actually gets to a head, I'd just like to know who would definitely be interested in contributing. And it wouldn't just be making videos, remember, we need people to manage any web hosting channels we have, people to create themes and or/artwork for the channels, and to be possibly be included in the videos, people to keep the wiki updated, poeple to suggest ideas that can be used in videos, there are PLENTY of ways to contribute, so just because you can't make a video, doesn't mean there won't be something for you to do. If you're interested, reply to this message. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Viral Videos - Who's actually interested?
Thank you Johnathon. I'm working on the wiki as we speak, should be done soon! Liam On 2 February 2010 22:23, Johnathon Tinsley kir...@kirrus.co.uk wrote: - Ron Rhodes owdronrho...@tiscali.co.uk wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On 2 February 2010 16:12, Harry Rickards ha...@linux.com wrote: I'd be interested in helping wherever I can. Perhaps we should have a seperate mailing list to discuss this on? Why not use the resources we have. There is a marketing list and a marketing irc channel. Cheers, Al. They are not listening to you Alan, they are on cloud 9 with their pie in the sky plans repeating things and getting nowhere ... In fact, a mail has already gone out to those who said they were interesting, saying sign up to the marketing list... -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Okay, I've been in touch with the marketing team, and they've said that if we wanted to do this, we'd have to look at the costs of producing and marketing the advert, were there to be one. It was also suggested that we should consider not using ITV as the main medium for promoting, but instead use E4 or another cable channel, as it's cheaper. But of course, anther suggested getting commercial backing to fund it, but is that really viable.I think the only thing that's getting in the way here, is the funding of the advert ere we to get it on the air. I think an option we should consider is putting it on the internet; i.e; Youtube. I think it would get a lot more watches there, and would cost a heck less than airing it, and were it to be successful, perhaps we could create more. sort of like microsoft's effortshttp://www.youtube.com/user/WindowsVideos Sort of like what we have with the screencasts channel, too. But that's just my suggestion... Liam On 1 February 2010 10:15, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:32 +, Alan Pope wrote: On 31 January 2010 23:13, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: IF we are going to make this video, ideally, it would be better to thin= k about actual content first. =20 I disagree. The very first thing is to look at what the goal is. Only once you know the goal, target audience, approach, method of delivery and so on can you begin to look at content. I'm personally of the opinion that now is not the time to create a TV advert, and that the money/time could be better spent on other things, but its not my place to tell people what to do. I agree completely that the first thing is to know the goal. We often get ahead of ourselves in the community, which is not necessarily a bad thing but we need to know what we want first before we can begin to plan how to deliver it. I disagree that it's not the time to advertise on TV. I've been championing the idea of a TV advert for Ubuntu for a long time but alongside another campaign of something like offering Ubuntu for sale in mainstream areas e.g. PC World (not some half-assed effort like Dell). The major problems Ubuntu face with adoption are obscurity and Microsoft having a stranglehold on the pre-install market. Both need to be attacked at once if any inroads are to be made, a TV advert on it's own may increase visibility but to what end? The audience it would target are casual computer users who are very unlikely to go and download an ISO and reload their computer off the strength of an ad. If they are then able to go to PC World and buy the 'cheap Mac' after being impressed with the stuff on the advert it has a lot more impact. Getting someone like DSG on-side is a must and Canonical need to do a bit of a deal with the devil with this key area. Regarding the advert content, it's a case of following Apple's lead with their cool iPhone ads. Show how the desktop is silky smooth with desktop effects, show how there's a built-in Office suite with full MS Office compatibility, show how it's immune to viruses and it's the most secure Operating System on the planet. Champion all of it's strengths without going in any way geeky (nothing about community driven development etc.) The strength of the software can stand on it's own without having to refer to traditional geekdom advantages. Regards, --=20 Darren Mansell=20 -- 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] Lucid Marketing
Hey Rob; The screenshots were taken on my Dell Mimi at about 1024x600, so scaling them up may not cause too much disorientation. As for what you said about the logo bieng too dark, you were right. I printed one off and the logo is too dark on the background. As for the screenshots, they look fine on print. Liam On 31 January 2010 15:51, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 31/01/2010 15:17, Liam Wilson wrote: Hey Rob, I used GIMP, and got the ubuntu and canonical logos off the internet, and took the screenshots myself. You can download all the images and things i used here: http://mehall.co.cc/Poster.tar.gz As for scaling it up to A3, it could probably be done, albeit with a loss of quality, but you're welcome to try :D It's also probably worth noting that if you are going to use a border printer, to try keep all the borders around the image the same size, so it doesn't become disoriented. Liam. Cool I'll have a look when I have time. I've found in the past when doing things like this, if you use Inkscape it does scale up fairly well, well if you use SVG images such as the logo and create the text in Inkscape. Screenshots don't scale up as well unless they're high resolution to start with, but I'd guess if you're using images with a resolution of say 1024x768 and scaling them down to fit then they'd probably be okay scaling up to A3 size too, at least if the images are going to be printed at a small size. 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Well, say instead of a TV advert, we contributed our ideas to the Viral Video's project or something similar to make a channel on youtube, or even both, if we're lucky, we could touch on subjects such as Ubuntu hour, and ways to help improve your first time experience with Ubuntu. And I guess we could at least try contacting canonical or dell, or some other company, to see what response we get. On 1 February 2010 12:38, etali et...@myth-games.com wrote: - Original Message - From: Johnathon Tinsley kir...@kirrus.co.uk Before we try to get new users into Ubuntu, shouldn't we try to retain the people flicking in and out of Ubuntu now? There was discussion about supporting new users, with remote techy support. Can we catch those who post This is too hard, I'm going back to windows and try to retain more of them with a high-quality community support mechanism? I agree. I think the people who try Ubuntu (or Linux in general), have problems with it, and then rant about it to their friends have a lot of power in terms of persuading people to avoid Ubuntu. Advertising to new people will only work if a)those people haven't already heard bad things, and b)we can keep those people as users once they decide to download + install it. -- Lesley Harrison -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Indeed, that's what I think, the only cost would be putting the advert(s) together. Who actually wants to make this happen? On 1 February 2010 17:09, Craig Peden cpe...@cogigo.com wrote: If you could get the ad posted on all major video uploading sites, and other media sharing sites as well as blogs and such. You could easily have yourself a relatively cheap ad campaign. On 1 Feb 2010, at 12:22, Liam Wilson wrote: Okay, I've been in touch with the marketing team, and they've said that if we wanted to do this, we'd have to look at the costs of producing and marketing the advert, were there to be one. It was also suggested that we should consider not using ITV as the main medium for promoting, but instead use E4 or another cable channel, as it's cheaper. But of course, anther suggested getting commercial backing to fund it, but is that really viable.I think the only thing that's getting in the way here, is the funding of the advert ere we to get it on the air. I think an option we should consider is putting it on the internet; i.e; Youtube. I think it would get a lot more watches there, and would cost a heck less than airing it, and were it to be successful, perhaps we could create more. sort of like microsoft's effortshttp://www.youtube.com/user/WindowsVideos Sort of like what we have with the screencasts channel, too. But that's just my suggestion... Liam On 1 February 2010 10:15, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote: On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:32 +, Alan Pope wrote: On 31 January 2010 23:13, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: IF we are going to make this video, ideally, it would be better to thin= k about actual content first. =20 I disagree. The very first thing is to look at what the goal is. Only once you know the goal, target audience, approach, method of delivery and so on can you begin to look at content. I'm personally of the opinion that now is not the time to create a TV advert, and that the money/time could be better spent on other things, but its not my place to tell people what to do. I agree completely that the first thing is to know the goal. We often get ahead of ourselves in the community, which is not necessarily a bad thing but we need to know what we want first before we can begin to plan how to deliver it. I disagree that it's not the time to advertise on TV. I've been championing the idea of a TV advert for Ubuntu for a long time but alongside another campaign of something like offering Ubuntu for sale in mainstream areas e.g. PC World (not some half-assed effort like Dell). The major problems Ubuntu face with adoption are obscurity and Microsoft having a stranglehold on the pre-install market. Both need to be attacked at once if any inroads are to be made, a TV advert on it's own may increase visibility but to what end? The audience it would target are casual computer users who are very unlikely to go and download an ISO and reload their computer off the strength of an ad. If they are then able to go to PC World and buy the 'cheap Mac' after being impressed with the stuff on the advert it has a lot more impact. Getting someone like DSG on-side is a must and Canonical need to do a bit of a deal with the devil with this key area. Regarding the advert content, it's a case of following Apple's lead with their cool iPhone ads. Show how the desktop is silky smooth with desktop effects, show how there's a built-in Office suite with full MS Office compatibility, show how it's immune to viruses and it's the most secure Operating System on the planet. Champion all of it's strengths without going in any way geeky (nothing about community driven development etc.) The strength of the software can stand on it's own without having to refer to traditional geekdom advantages. Regards, --=20 Darren Mansell=20 -- 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/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing
Hey everyone, I finished the poster, and I've put it on my Ubuntu one, as I can't find anywhere else that I can upload it to, so let me know if you want it, and I'll share it with you. Liam. On 30 January 2010 23:44, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Aye, t'is the default background from 9.04; I like it because it's simple, and the stripes give it a feeling of elegance, I think! :) On 30 January 2010 23:35, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:23:59 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: aah, so I'll have to put margins on it before its printed. But i think you can do that on the CUPS dialogue on printing preferences. There are various ways round it,such as testing the colour laser printer at work :) anyway, here's what I've done so far: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx328km8DI1qai2mzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264980138Signature=ymEVuWzOps8kjZmcllIFbXdq6m8%3D I do like that orangey/brown colour, that’s what attracted me to Ubuntu in the first place. So far so good. On 30 January 2010 23:18, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:08:36 -, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Wilson wrote: Yeah, working on A4 gives me more space to work on than the original resolution, so I'll work on A4. Should look good when it's finished. (I hope!) Liam At least on A4 we can all print it, that way the poster should reach more people. Don't forget to put the ubuntu website address on it :) Unless you’ve got a HP printer like mine that cant print a full A4 image as it requires margins top and bottom where it grips the paper. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Marketing
Michael; I can't connect to U1 for whatever reason, so I'll email you the .tar.gz if that's alright. Liam On 31 January 2010 11:43, Michael Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc wrote: Liam, share me the file and I'll up it to my VPS, with a link from my frontpage ( http://mehall.co.cc ) meaning people can just share that link to access it. - Michael On 31/01/2010 11:41, Liam Wilson wrote: Hey everyone, I finished the poster, and I've put it on my Ubuntu one, as I can't find anywhere else that I can upload it to, so let me know if you want it, and I'll share it with you. Liam. On 30 January 2010 23:44, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Aye, t'is the default background from 9.04; I like it because it's simple, and the stripes give it a feeling of elegance, I think! :) On 30 January 2010 23:35, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:23:59 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: aah, so I'll have to put margins on it before its printed. But i think you can do that on the CUPS dialogue on printing preferences. There are various ways round it,such as testing the colour laser printer at work :) anyway, here's what I've done so far: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx328km8DI1qai2mzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264980138Signature=ymEVuWzOps8kjZmcllIFbXdq6m8%3D I do like that orangey/brown colour, that’s what attracted me to Ubuntu in the first place. So far so good. On 30 January 2010 23:18, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:08:36 -, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Wilson wrote: Yeah, working on A4 gives me more space to work on than the original resolution, so I'll work on A4. Should look good when it's finished. (I hope!) Liam At least on A4 we can all print it, that way the poster should reach more people. Don't forget to put the ubuntu website address on it :) Unless you’ve got a HP printer like mine that cant print a full A4 image as it requires margins top and bottom where it grips the paper. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Steve -- 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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing
Sent! Perhaps there could be a way to put this up on the Ubuntu UK wiki, either as a project, or just he image, that the team and other Ubuntu users can download to spam their local areas with? Liam On 31 January 2010 12:12, Michael Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc wrote: That's fine. I'm also having U1 issues atm. On 31/01/2010 12:10, Liam Wilson wrote: Michael; I can't connect to U1 for whatever reason, so I'll email you the .tar.gz if that's alright. Liam On 31 January 2010 11:43, Michael Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc wrote: Liam, share me the file and I'll up it to my VPS, with a link from my frontpage ( http://mehall.co.cc ) meaning people can just share that link to access it. - Michael On 31/01/2010 11:41, Liam Wilson wrote: Hey everyone, I finished the poster, and I've put it on my Ubuntu one, as I can't find anywhere else that I can upload it to, so let me know if you want it, and I'll share it with you. Liam. On 30 January 2010 23:44, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Aye, t'is the default background from 9.04; I like it because it's simple, and the stripes give it a feeling of elegance, I think! :) On 30 January 2010 23:35, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:23:59 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: aah, so I'll have to put margins on it before its printed. But i think you can do that on the CUPS dialogue on printing preferences. There are various ways round it,such as testing the colour laser printer at work :) anyway, here's what I've done so far: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx328km8DI1qai2mzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264980138Signature=ymEVuWzOps8kjZmcllIFbXdq6m8%3D I do like that orangey/brown colour, that’s what attracted me to Ubuntu in the first place. So far so good. On 30 January 2010 23:18, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:08:36 -, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Wilson wrote: Yeah, working on A4 gives me more space to work on than the original resolution, so I'll work on A4. Should look good when it's finished. (I hope!) Liam At least on A4 we can all print it, that way the poster should reach more people. Don't forget to put the ubuntu website address on it :) Unless you’ve got a HP printer like mine that cant print a full A4 image as it requires margins top and bottom where it grips the paper. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Steve -- 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/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing
I'm in Liverpool, so I guess we could do a bit of work there. Yeah, that telly ad sounds like a really good idea! Perhaps we could all make one video, then show it in all our regions, if that makes any sense... But how would we go about making the video, like a screencast sort of progect? On 31 January 2010 13:23, James Milligan li...@lake54.com wrote: On 31/01/2010 13:16, CShadowRun wrote: Steve wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 12:27:42 -, Liam Wilsonliamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Sent! Perhaps there could be a way to put this up on the Ubuntu UK wiki, either as a project, or just he image, that the team and other Ubuntu users can download to spam their local areas with? Liam Don’t see why not. As a suggestion (My video editing skills certainly arn't up to par, and I'm not exactly rolling in money) we could get a TV advert. Looking at this page, http://www.itvmedia.co.uk/advertising-on-itv/cost-of-advertising a regional advert can cost as little as £30, Granted the £30 is an 11am slot on border and only regional, but an adverts an advert. There are also total network slots from about £3,829 but I assume that's beyond our finances. Maybe other networks offer better deals too. We could even possibly target some online tech podcasts (although unless we chose carefully we may well be preaching to the choir). Personally I think some adverts showing off compiz would be killer for marketing lucid, heck it was a compiz video that attracted me to Ubuntu in the first place :) I like the ad idea. Don't want to be seen to be 'advertising' but if anybody wants anything filming, I'm actually a cameraman with my own kit. Anyone in the North West/Manchester fancy doing some filming? Probably best to talk off-list if so. James Milligan -- 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] Lucid Marketing
Yaaay! Thanks Michael! Please do put it (the poster) around your local community, as it'll be a great way to introduce people to ubuntu. On 31 January 2010 14:12, James Milligan li...@lake54.com wrote: On 31/01/2010 14:01, Steve wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:43:59 -, James Milliganli...@lake54.com wrote: On 31/01/2010 13:31, Liam Wilson wrote: I'm in Liverpool, so I guess we could do a bit of work there. Yeah, that telly ad sounds like a really good idea! Perhaps we could all make one video, then show it in all our regions, if that makes any sense... But how would we go about making the video, like a screencast sort of progect? snip I guess depending on what sort of quality etc everything was filmed in, it could be uploaded 'somewhere', then someone could edit it all together, and send the finished product to the person dealing with ITV (or whoever). The theme or look I had in my mind could be a 5-10 second clip showing someone using a mockup of Windows (I doubt they'd let us use the real one!), and getting annoyed, then the same person perhaps doing the same sort of thing with Ubuntu, and just 'happier'. Then the last clip zooms out to a square/rectangle of 4 videos, which zoom out to 9 etc etc etc, showing the scale of the 'product'. Ends with the logo/background/web address etc. If it's regional and the LoCo team have a URL, show that too. Alternatively, we could come at it from a more community-based approach, and have a couple of 5-10 second clips showing people use Ubuntu, and going along the square 'image' I described above, choosing random ones to show 'full size'. A third idea I've just had is possibly to feature the forum support - show someone with 'Windows' calling a helpdesk of some sort, then cut to an Ubuntu set-up, where the actor/actress is posting on the forum, and 'within minutes/seconds' has an answer. There's loads more ideas, such as adding software - could show someone going to 'PC World' (again a mockup), buying expensive software etc etc etc, then with Ubuntu it's a simple addition, and free - etc. I've never actually done adverts before, I'm more of an event videographer, but they're not vastly different, certainly when it comes to tech. Dibs on director. ACTION! CUT! :D Seriously this could be a rather large and, possibly expensive, undertaking but well worth considering. I have to admit, beyond 'filming' the cat I have no experience or knowledge of this sort of thing. I am, howevr, willing to help. If we're taking dibs, I'll be Director of Photography :-) Anyway... I would agree that certain aspects may be expensive, however, like you say it's well worth considering - perhaps a well presented, coordinated TV advert to coincide with the launch of the next version could do wonders for Linux as a whole. People will 'see' it, and learn more about etc - the usual marketing stuff :-) In terms of production, if we're doing a coordinated advert, I'd be happy to do it for free (the filming, at least). The only cost then would be the advertising costs. I'm sure someone would want to edit the footage - perhaps we could shoot different 'things', and ask people to edit it all together in their own way, the winner gets it put on TV? Pretty cool competition! James -- 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] Lucid Marketing
As for the TV advert, should we like, have a meeting or something so we can throw ideas around and such? Personally, I think it'd be a good idea is the video didn't put other OS' down, but rather, put Linux/Ubuntu Up, say show easy it is to contribute and customise Ubuntu, etc. Say, show off a few compiz shots here and there... On 31 January 2010 14:25, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Yaaay! Thanks Michael! Please do put it (the poster) around your local community, as it'll be a great way to introduce people to ubuntu. On 31 January 2010 14:12, James Milligan li...@lake54.com wrote: On 31/01/2010 14:01, Steve wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 13:43:59 -, James Milliganli...@lake54.com wrote: On 31/01/2010 13:31, Liam Wilson wrote: I'm in Liverpool, so I guess we could do a bit of work there. Yeah, that telly ad sounds like a really good idea! Perhaps we could all make one video, then show it in all our regions, if that makes any sense... But how would we go about making the video, like a screencast sort of progect? snip I guess depending on what sort of quality etc everything was filmed in, it could be uploaded 'somewhere', then someone could edit it all together, and send the finished product to the person dealing with ITV (or whoever). The theme or look I had in my mind could be a 5-10 second clip showing someone using a mockup of Windows (I doubt they'd let us use the real one!), and getting annoyed, then the same person perhaps doing the same sort of thing with Ubuntu, and just 'happier'. Then the last clip zooms out to a square/rectangle of 4 videos, which zoom out to 9 etc etc etc, showing the scale of the 'product'. Ends with the logo/background/web address etc. If it's regional and the LoCo team have a URL, show that too. Alternatively, we could come at it from a more community-based approach, and have a couple of 5-10 second clips showing people use Ubuntu, and going along the square 'image' I described above, choosing random ones to show 'full size'. A third idea I've just had is possibly to feature the forum support - show someone with 'Windows' calling a helpdesk of some sort, then cut to an Ubuntu set-up, where the actor/actress is posting on the forum, and 'within minutes/seconds' has an answer. There's loads more ideas, such as adding software - could show someone going to 'PC World' (again a mockup), buying expensive software etc etc etc, then with Ubuntu it's a simple addition, and free - etc. I've never actually done adverts before, I'm more of an event videographer, but they're not vastly different, certainly when it comes to tech. Dibs on director. ACTION! CUT! :D Seriously this could be a rather large and, possibly expensive, undertaking but well worth considering. I have to admit, beyond 'filming' the cat I have no experience or knowledge of this sort of thing. I am, howevr, willing to help. If we're taking dibs, I'll be Director of Photography :-) Anyway... I would agree that certain aspects may be expensive, however, like you say it's well worth considering - perhaps a well presented, coordinated TV advert to coincide with the launch of the next version could do wonders for Linux as a whole. People will 'see' it, and learn more about etc - the usual marketing stuff :-) In terms of production, if we're doing a coordinated advert, I'd be happy to do it for free (the filming, at least). The only cost then would be the advertising costs. I'm sure someone would want to edit the footage - perhaps we could shoot different 'things', and ask people to edit it all together in their own way, the winner gets it put on TV? Pretty cool competition! James -- 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] Lucid Lynx Poster
You think? It was the best i could do without seriously distorting the image, as the canvas is about 3500x2500 px, and the screenshots (say the password entry one) were as small as 500x250 when they were taken, and the 1st screenshot, the desktop, was taken at 1024x900 px, so I had to scale that one down so it was big enough to still see what was in the picture. I'll try and resize them and see what they look like then. On 31 January 2010 14:26, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: Looks a bit messy with the different size screen shots. -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Yeah, I guess so. I suppose by putting other OS' down, we are in turn, giving Ubuntu a more positive image. To acheive this I guess we could use the aforementioned idea of someone bieng on hold and then somone getting an instant reply on the forums for free. On 31 January 2010 14:30, Michael Douglas meh...@mehall.co.cc wrote: Using new thread, but replying to Liam: Negative reinforcement is much more effective than positive, ask any number of companies, or politicians/election campaigners. Do it right, so that you seem to have respect for your opponent, but make yourself seem better, and it's very popular (See: Mac vs. PC ads) On 31/01/2010 14:28, Steve wrote: A new thread to discus a possible TV advert -- 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] Lucid Marketing
I'll do that then. Just gonna see what it looks like with totally-equal screenshots... Liam On 31 January 2010 14:36, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 31 January 2010 12:27, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Perhaps there could be a way to put this up on the Ubuntu UK wiki, either as a project, or just he image, that the team and other Ubuntu users can download to spam their local areas with? It would be better to put it in a central location so that anyone can use it. There are to commonly used places in the Ubuntu project for this. http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DIYMarketing/ Please consider uploading marketing material sources to spread ubuntu. Thanks, Al. -- 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] Lucid Marketing
Hey Rob, I used GIMP, and got the ubuntu and canonical logos off the internet, and took the screenshots myself. You can download all the images and things i used here: http://mehall.co.cc/Poster.tar.gz As for scaling it up to A3, it could probably be done, albeit with a loss of quality, but you're welcome to try :D It's also probably worth noting that if you are going to use a border printer, to try keep all the borders around the image the same size, so it doesn't become disoriented. Liam. On 31 January 2010 15:04, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote: On 30/01/2010 23:23, Liam Wilson wrote: aah, so I'll have to put margins on it before its printed. But i think you can do that on the CUPS dialogue on printing preferences. anyway, here's what I've done so far: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx328km8DI1qai2mzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264980138Signature=ymEVuWzOps8kjZmcllIFbXdq6m8%3D http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx328km8DI1qai2mzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264980138Signature=ymEVuWzOps8kjZmcllIFbXdq6m8%3D I like that too although the Ubuntu logo looks a little dark against the browny orange background, I'd say it either could do with maybe a white shadow, or change the text to white, possibly with a black shadow (or maybe a black slightly transparent shadow). I'd also say if you're doing it as a full A4 page, those of us who have access to borderless printers can print them out without borders, and those of us who don't have borderless printers can probably print it to shrink slightly to the page and trim the borders off so it's slightly smaller than A4. Out of interest, what are you using to create the poster? I'm just wondering if it can be scaled up to A3 size? 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
I think it'd be better to show how ubuntu is cost-effective (i.e; Free). If someone sees something that works better than what they have, for a lot less money, then they could possibly be enticed. It could also be noted that ubuntu is much secure to attacks from viruses and such. But yeah, the concept of people stuggeling with thier computers and then showing like a comparison to Ubuntu seems to be a popular one, so why don't we work on that? Liam On 31 January 2010 15:01, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:55:01 -, CShadowRun li...@cshadowrun.com wrote: Harry Rickards wrote: On 31 January 2010 14:50, CShadowRun li...@cshadowrun.com wrote: snip I don't think shots of IRC or the forum would be that good, there's alot of negative stigma around Chat rooms and Online forums unfortunately :( What about someone sending an email to the mailing list? That could work. I don't know much on how the mailing lists work, would the user need to subscribe before mailing? Or could we have a simple address they could email, and then they would be automagically subscribed to their single thread. So it would be like a support query. Anybody got a pet lynx. nine out of ten cats prefer Ubuntu -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
If this is actually going to happen, we need to start thinking of ways how we can get this video shown to people, whether it be televised, or viral. If we're going to put our own money or anyone else's money and time into this we need to make sure that it isn't a waste of it, agreed? On 31 January 2010 15:23, CShadowRun li...@cshadowrun.com wrote: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: On 31 January 2010 14:58, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:50:58 -, CShadowRun li...@cshadowrun.com wrote: I don't think shots of IRC or the forum would be that good, there's alot of negative stigma around Chat rooms and Online forums unfortunately :( Yes 'Chat Room' = paedophile luring young girls away in the minds of a lot of people. -- Then they need to be educated. But seriously, who are these adverts aimed at? If it's a Generally Ignorant User/Mum, then forget it. They won't know what an OS is let alone how to download, burn a CD, install etc. etc. If it's a teen/young adult then there won't be a problem - they use Facebook/IM *all the time*. Oh, the other problem is the name of Lynx. It already has product/brand association in the UK. We would have to stay well away from it. Ubuntu is OK as a brand (though it's mostly unknown), but 10.04 is weak as water soup. Ten-oh-four? Ten-point-zero-four? What does that mean? (Even Lucid Lynx sounds as geeky as it comes). If anything you have to associate with a known brand - like Linux. Ubuntu Linux. We are Linux? Who else uses Linux? Is it strong enough? Ubuntu is an African word meaning 'Humanity to others', or 'I am what I am because of who we all are'. The Ubuntu distribution brings the spirit of Ubuntu to the software world. We are Ubuntu? So how about a user of another OS sat struggling with their machine by themselves, whereas our Ubuntu user looks up and asks the next room for help and a random profession walks in and helps (points at the screen and says Oh, it's just here), e.g. scientist followed by artist etc. etc. They all grab a drink and snack and the kitchen is full of a diverse range of people. Ubuntu is a Party! Next door other user with ear pressed against wall, walks round to flat, Guys, could I join in? (in unison) Sure! What is Ubuntu? Ubuntu is... help. Ubuntu is... secure. Ubuntu is... us. /end random brainstorm. This is a really cool idea. It could be bolted onto the email idea previously. Someone sends an email, and then all the professionals start turning up. Hehe. -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
I suppose the problem we have with creating something like this is, the general public alrieady KNOW what windows is, a lot don't really know what Ubuntu, and Linux are. Perhaps if we were to create a TV advert, the main purpose of it would be to inform people what Ubuntu is. Perhaps a TV advert would be a good way to do this - 3 whole minutes of sheer information. However, where it to come into fruition, we would need funds, and I think that's what the main obsticle is here. Perhaps we should start a campaign of some sort in an effort to raise funds for the development and showing of the TV advert BEFORE we talk about who's playing which role, as to speak. Liam On 31 January 2010 20:03, James Milligan li...@lake54.com wrote: On 31/01/2010 20:01, alan c wrote: Steve wrote: A new thread to discus a possible TV advert I was at a friend's house this afternoon (Sunday) and happened to notice a Microsoft Windows 7 tv advert on the channel which was sky sports, at approximately 3.30 pm , in the middle of a lot of sports programs. It occurred to me that if we wanted a masterclass for tv advertising an OS, then what Microsoft is doing for Windows 7 might be useful to keep in mind. However, peak, peak time on sky sports for 10 seconds might cost more than an arm and a leg? -- alan cocks Ubuntu user Personally those adverts don't do anything for me. They can't even demo their product properly - the snap feature doesn't quite look like that when you do it - there's a little animation before it does it, which isn't shown on the advert. It looks low performance, even though I run Win 7 and it runs faster than the advert! So yeah, personally I don't like the advert style, and I know plenty of MS users that also don't like it, too cheesy is the general consensus. James -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Yeah, like say Help us finish this sort of thing? sounds like a good incentive! On 31 January 2010 21:00, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:35:25 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: I suppose the problem we have with creating something like this is, the general public already KNOW what windows is, a lot don't really know what Ubuntu, and Linux are. Perhaps if we were to create a TV advert, the main purpose of it would be to inform people what Ubuntu is. Perhaps a TV advert would be a good way to do this - 3 whole minutes of sheer information. However, where it to come into fruition, we would need funds, and I think that's what the main obstacle is here. Perhaps we should start a campaign of some sort in an effort to raise funds for the development and showing of the TV advert BEFORE we talk about who's playing which role, as to speak. Maybe if we can produce 30-60 seconds worth of advert it may be easier to attract funds. -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Cheers steve, if you're going to re-size them, the'yd ideally be around the 864x514 px size, as that's a reasonable size for them to be printed on A4. On 31 January 2010 21:25, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:13:18 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, like say Help us finish this sort of thing? sounds like a good incentive! I’m playing with your screen shots and impress at the moment to see what I can do. -- Steve -- 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] idea for tv ad
IF we are going to make this video, ideally, it would be better to think about actual content first. I think the best plan of action to get this going is to think about what we want in the first 30-60 seconds. This way, we have a general idea of where the video is headed in terms of genre and audience, and as previously mentioned, it will help as an incentive if we are to get any donations/funding for the showing and/or development of this advert. To start us off, we would need a number of things; - Somewhere to host the project - Ideally a blog or website - A paypal account, so viewers can donate funds to the cause - Somewhere to talk about it. - Such as an IRC channel/mailing list/forum, just so it's not just restricted to Ubuntu-uk, and also so any skeptics or people who don't want to participate don't get annoyed by the sheer volume of threads about the advert (which is what seems to be happening at the moment) - People to help! - The more the merrier. Perhaps we could get in touch the with folks at ubuntu-marketing, to see if they can offer any expertise. - A definitive plan. - We really need to decide where we're headed with this advert. If it's to come into fruition, we need to not only get ideas out, but also select which ones are the most feasable and doable within our 3-month target. - Software! - As asked before, ideally any software is good. Wether it be proprietary or FOSS. Remember, if we're going to make this happen, we only have 3 months, so it's best to use software that can get the job done! So if we want to advertise Ubuntu, I think these are the main goals that we need to achieve. If anyone has any other ideas as to what we need to achieve, this is the place for that. First off, I think it would be a good idea to have someplace we can host what we're doing, i.e; the project outlines and goals and suchforth. Would the Ubuntu wiki (maybe even the ubuntu-uk one) be a good place for this? Liam On 31 January 2010 21:23, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmm talking of tag lines and what MS use how about , windows 7 was my idea is Microsofts line, but say Ubuntu is great, i helped write it or we helped create / write it. what you then have is a fade between the ubuntu logo and the circle of friends with people part of the logo. as that shows what the logo symbolises. Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 is out : Visit www.ubuntu.com for details DCGLUG MEETINGS - Details on www.dcglug.org.uk/drupal6, - please click on Group meetings link on right hand side Aged 11 - 19 then dfey may be for you, please goto http://www.dfey.org for more details -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktl9LkACgkQaggq1k2FJq33YgCbBZV0l+t9CgUVaEA/idEPwMAS nG8AoI7O+kgsYWdPq9T5UtjEhDfqYH8X =z5vi -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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Oh right. Silly me! xD Liam On 31 January 2010 21:44, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:33:05 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Cheers steve, if you're going to re-size them, the'yd ideally be around the 864x514 px size, as that's a reasonable size for them to be printed on A4. I’m not going to print them, I’m trying to animate your poster. On 31 January 2010 21:25, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:13:18 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, like say Help us finish this sort of thing? sounds like a good incentive! I’m playing with your screen shots and impress at the moment to see what I can do. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Hey everyone; IF we are going to make this video, ideally, it would be better to think about actual content first. I think the best plan of action to get this going is to think about what we want in the first 30-60 seconds. This way, we have a general idea of where the video is headed in terms of genre and audience, and as previously mentioned, it will help as an incentive if we are to get any donations/funding for the showing and/or development of this advert. To start us off, we would need a number of things; - Somewhere to host the project - Ideally a blog or website - A paypal account, so viewers can donate funds to the cause - Somewhere to talk about it. - Such as an IRC channel/mailing list/forum, just so it's not just restricted to Ubuntu-uk, and also so any skeptics or people who don't want to participate don't get annoyed by the sheer volume of threads about the advert (which is what seems to be happening at the moment) - People to help! - The more the merrier. Perhaps we could get in touch the with folks at ubuntu-marketing, to see if they can offer any expertise. - A definitive plan. - We really need to decide where we're headed with this advert. If it's to come into fruition, we need to not only get ideas out, but also select which ones are the most feasable and doable within our 3-month target. - Software! - As asked before, ideally any software is good. Wether it be proprietary or FOSS. Remember, if we're going to make this happen, we only have 3 months, so it's best to use software that can get the job done! So if we want to advertise Ubuntu, I think these are the main goals that we need to achieve. If anyone has any other ideas as to what we need to achieve, this is the place for that. First off, I think it would be a good idea to have someplace we can host what we're doing, i.e; the project outlines and goals and suchforth. Would the Ubuntu wiki (maybe even the ubuntu-uk one) be a good place for this? I've made us a Wiki site on google sites, which can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/ubuntutvadvertproject/ It's only the very basic template as of typing, I'll work more on it tomorrow. Liam On 31 January 2010 21:50, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Oh right. Silly me! xD Liam On 31 January 2010 21:44, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:33:05 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Cheers steve, if you're going to re-size them, the'yd ideally be around the 864x514 px size, as that's a reasonable size for them to be printed on A4. I’m not going to print them, I’m trying to animate your poster. On 31 January 2010 21:25, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sun, 31 Jan 2010 21:13:18 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, like say Help us finish this sort of thing? sounds like a good incentive! I’m playing with your screen shots and impress at the moment to see what I can do. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert - media?
Oh wow. Just goes to show that something like this may still be possible. Alan, are you interested in creating this advert, for serious? If you are, I'll make you a collaborator to the google sites page I set up for the project (the page is bare as-is). http://sites.google.com/site/ubuntutvadvertproject/ On 31 January 2010 23:17, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: Steve wrote: A new thread to discus a possible TV advert Just a thought - this Firefox ad in New York Times http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,100097,39181362,00.htm -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
Yeah, looking at the perspective you've put it at Alan, I guess you're right. You mentioned spending the time/money on other things, but what like? And If we WERE to create a TV adverrt for Ubuntu, no doubt there is interest in doing so, do you think it's a bit ambitious trying to aim for the release of Lucid, or do you think would it be a better option to aim for MM or even beyond? Personally, I think that Lucid would be a good goal to aim for, as it's 3 months away, and there's less chance of loss of interest in 3 months than 6 - but that's just my opinion, obviously, you've had experience working with projects before, such as the UUPC, and I haven't. If I'm honest, I wasn't aware we had tools like a collaborative editor, so thanks for pointing that one out. How would you suggest we start this project then, if we're actually determined to see it through? Thanks; Liam On 31 January 2010 23:32, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 31 January 2010 23:13, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: IF we are going to make this video, ideally, it would be better to think about actual content first. I disagree. The very first thing is to look at what the goal is. Only once you know the goal, target audience, approach, method of delivery and so on can you begin to look at content. I'm personally of the opinion that now is not the time to create a TV advert, and that the money/time could be better spent on other things, but its not my place to tell people what to do. Somewhere to host the project - Ideally a blog or website A paypal account, so viewers can donate funds to the cause Somewhere to talk about it. We have considerable resources to help this kind of marketing effort already. We have a wiki and a collaborative editor:- http://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam http://pad.ubuntu-uk.org/ We have a marketing mailing list and irc channel:- https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing #ubuntu-marketinghttps://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-marketing%0A#ubuntu-marketingon irc.freenode.net We also have sites where content can be shared:- http://spreadubuntu.neomenlo.org/ Such as an IRC channel/mailing list/forum, just so it's not just restricted to Ubuntu-uk, and also so any skeptics or people who don't want to participate don't get annoyed by the sheer volume of threads about the advert (which is what seems to be happening at the moment) If it is an Ubuntu UK LoCo project then I'd encourage you to use the resources available - including this list. The more the merrier. Not always true. Too many cooks. Perhaps we could get in touch the with folks at ubuntu-marketing, to see if they can offer any expertise. I'd certainly advice introducing the idea to the Ubuntu Community Marketing people (linked above). So if we want to advertise Ubuntu, I think these are the main goals that we need to achieve. If anyone has any other ideas as to what we need to achieve, this is the place for that. First off, I think it would be a good idea to have someplace we can host what we're doing, i.e; the project outlines and goals and suchforth. Would the Ubuntu wiki (maybe even the ubuntu-uk one) be a good place for this? See above links to existing resources. I've made us a Wiki site on google sites, which can be found here: http://sites.google.com/site/ubuntutvadvertproject/ It's only the very basic template as of typing, I'll work more on it tomorrow. Again I'd recommend using the sites and resources we have, and collaborate with existing marketing efforts rather than potentially duplicating effort. Cheers, Al. -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
I guess there are a lot more projects (Probably some similar to this idea) that could do with work/help rather than creating one at the possibility of it not coming into fruition, as raising enough money and getting the advert done correctly would be a pretty big problem in itself, I guess. Suppose something like commercial advertising of Ubuntu is left to the guys who have the money, but that's not to say we should stop campaigning for the the release of lucid, eh? Liam On 1 February 2010 00:35, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 31 January 2010 23:46, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, looking at the perspective you've put it at Alan, I guess you're right. I'm just a guy with an opinion. You mentioned spending the time/money on other things, but what like? Whatever takes your fancy, the project has lots of ways for people to contribute:- http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu And If we WERE to create a TV adverrt for Ubuntu, no doubt there is interest in doing so, do you think it's a bit ambitious trying to aim for the release of Lucid, or do you think would it be a better option to aim for MM or even beyond? I personally don't believe there is a need for a TV advert at all right now. I'd rather start from the opposite end and ask what the need of a TV advert is. What goal is to be achieved by putting Ubuntu on the telly? Personally, I think that Lucid would be a good goal to aim for, as it's 3 months away, and there's less chance of loss of interest in 3 months than 6 - but that's just my opinion, obviously, you've had experience working with projects before, such as the UUPC, and I haven't. We planned the first episode of UUPC for about 3 months. Ok, not solid work, but discussion started in January '08 and S01E01 was released in April '08. Planning for a podcast is a whole different ball game than planning a TV advert. I have no experience of the latter, but can only speculate on how much work is involved. Note also that the cost and effort to us of putting out a podcast episode of 1 _hour_ length is orders of magnitude _less_ than it costs to put out a 1 _minute_ TV advert. Video is harder than audio. Great, compelling video that meets its goal is even harder. How would you suggest we start this project then, if we're actually determined to see it through? I've probably made it quite clear that I don't see the value of having a TV advert. Take a look at the experience one person had with putting together a radio advert and learn from that. http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/09/tux-takes-to-airwve.html http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/10/grand-experiment-linux-ads-on-radio.html Cheers, Al. -- 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] Lucid Lynx TV Advert
In fact, if we still wanted to, I'm pretty sure we could make an advert, and then just put it on youtube, sort of like what microsoft have done, with little 'shorts' to promote Win7. On 1 February 2010 01:20, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: I guess there are a lot more projects (Probably some similar to this idea) that could do with work/help rather than creating one at the possibility of it not coming into fruition, as raising enough money and getting the advert done correctly would be a pretty big problem in itself, I guess. Suppose something like commercial advertising of Ubuntu is left to the guys who have the money, but that's not to say we should stop campaigning for the the release of lucid, eh? Liam On 1 February 2010 00:35, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 31 January 2010 23:46, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, looking at the perspective you've put it at Alan, I guess you're right. I'm just a guy with an opinion. You mentioned spending the time/money on other things, but what like? Whatever takes your fancy, the project has lots of ways for people to contribute:- http://www.ubuntu.com/community/participate https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ContributeToUbuntu And If we WERE to create a TV adverrt for Ubuntu, no doubt there is interest in doing so, do you think it's a bit ambitious trying to aim for the release of Lucid, or do you think would it be a better option to aim for MM or even beyond? I personally don't believe there is a need for a TV advert at all right now. I'd rather start from the opposite end and ask what the need of a TV advert is. What goal is to be achieved by putting Ubuntu on the telly? Personally, I think that Lucid would be a good goal to aim for, as it's 3 months away, and there's less chance of loss of interest in 3 months than 6 - but that's just my opinion, obviously, you've had experience working with projects before, such as the UUPC, and I haven't. We planned the first episode of UUPC for about 3 months. Ok, not solid work, but discussion started in January '08 and S01E01 was released in April '08. Planning for a podcast is a whole different ball game than planning a TV advert. I have no experience of the latter, but can only speculate on how much work is involved. Note also that the cost and effort to us of putting out a podcast episode of 1 _hour_ length is orders of magnitude _less_ than it costs to put out a 1 _minute_ TV advert. Video is harder than audio. Great, compelling video that meets its goal is even harder. How would you suggest we start this project then, if we're actually determined to see it through? I've probably made it quite clear that I don't see the value of having a TV advert. Take a look at the experience one person had with putting together a radio advert and learn from that. http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/09/tux-takes-to-airwve.html http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/10/grand-experiment-linux-ads-on-radio.html Cheers, Al. -- 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] Lucid Marketing
Hey all; Seeing as April (And therefore Lucid) are not too far away, I thought it would be a good idea for us to create some sort of Marketing Campaign to celebrate the release of the next LTS release, possibly by creating posters/flyers/leaflets of some sort to possibly put around our local communities? Anyone have any good ideas? Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing
That's quite cool. I was thinking of something in a similar layout to thishttp://ipodtoucher.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/1197924509.jpg, only showing how easy it is to install an application in Ubuntu. I'll make a sort of mockup within the next 30 minutes... On 30 January 2010 17:50, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Wilson wrote: Hey all; Seeing as April (And therefore Lucid) are not too far away, I thought it would be a good idea for us to create some sort of Marketing Campaign to celebrate the release of the next LTS release, possibly by creating posters/flyers/leaflets of some sort to possibly put around our local communities? Anyone have any good ideas? Liam I have put some posters on my website at www.zleap.net under portfolio, the latest ubuntu poster is for 9.10. I am working on a simpler pre-launch poster for 10.04 that will be uploaded shortly, Feel free to grab what I have so far and use / modify. I agree lets get the name out there, perhaps a simpler poster can be combined with a launch party details etc, or ubuntu hour, so it gives a proper event to go for. We also need to see if we can get the bbc to announce on the text service that 10.04 is out. they do it for windows and apple stuff so why not ubuntu. Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktkcXMACgkQaggq1k2FJq2jzQCeJCO13+ipyjejJZh3XjE6dOAG 0CcAn1Gu90QxgEc3RVXKGD8zLhIlLS9l =Filz -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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing
Evening chaps; Here's a 1st draft of the Ubuntu poster I'm planning to make, showing the simplicity of installing software via the software centre. What do you guys think? http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx2x3zP2rd1qai2mzo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264973503Signature=ubjfyJcDFpk7W3Xxp0wq2cY8f7w%3D P.S: Sorry about the poor quality of the picture, It's my scanners fault, honest! On 30 January 2010 18:11, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: That's quite cool. I was thinking of something in a similar layout to thishttp://ipodtoucher.files.wordpress.com/2008/01/1197924509.jpg, only showing how easy it is to install an application in Ubuntu. I'll make a sort of mockup within the next 30 minutes... On 30 January 2010 17:50, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Wilson wrote: Hey all; Seeing as April (And therefore Lucid) are not too far away, I thought it would be a good idea for us to create some sort of Marketing Campaign to celebrate the release of the next LTS release, possibly by creating posters/flyers/leaflets of some sort to possibly put around our local communities? Anyone have any good ideas? Liam I have put some posters on my website at www.zleap.net under portfolio, the latest ubuntu poster is for 9.10. I am working on a simpler pre-launch poster for 10.04 that will be uploaded shortly, Feel free to grab what I have so far and use / modify. I agree lets get the name out there, perhaps a simpler poster can be combined with a launch party details etc, or ubuntu hour, so it gives a proper event to go for. We also need to see if we can get the bbc to announce on the text service that 10.04 is out. they do it for windows and apple stuff so why not ubuntu. Paul -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAktkcXMACgkQaggq1k2FJq2jzQCeJCO13+ipyjejJZh3XjE6dOAG 0CcAn1Gu90QxgEc3RVXKGD8zLhIlLS9l =Filz -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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Marketing
Pixel-wise? I'm working on 1290x1440 at the moment. (The page I used to scan was only A4) Is that too big/too small do you think? It'll probably be scalable, too. Liam On 30 January 2010 21:50, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:34:16 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Evening chaps; Here's a 1st draft of the Ubuntu poster I'm planning to make, showing the simplicity of installing software via the software centre. What do you guys think? http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx2x3zP2rd1qai2mzo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264973503Signature=ubjfyJcDFpk7W3Xxp0wq2cY8f7w%3D P.S: Sorry about the poor quality of the picture, It's my scanners fault, honest! Hmmm. How big is this going to be? -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Marketing
I think only 1-2 of the screenshots are going to be actual full screen. If they don't look clear enough at print, I'll reduce the amount visible in the screenshots (Zoom in, so to speak), or give those screenshots more space on the page. I'll just see how it goes for now. Right now, I'm just taking the screenshots themselves. On 30 January 2010 22:13, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:59:46 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Pixel-wise? I'm working on 1290x1440 at the moment. (The page I used to scan was only A4) Is that too big/too small do you think? It'll probably be scalable, too. Liam Just wondering how much detail is going to be in the screen shots. If it’s printed on A4 they’re only going to be about 2 wide at the most. On 30 January 2010 21:50, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:34:16 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Evening chaps; Here's a 1st draft of the Ubuntu poster I'm planning to make, showing the simplicity of installing software via the software centre. What do you guys think? http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx2x3zP2rd1qai2mzo1_1280.jpg?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264973503Signature=ubjfyJcDFpk7W3Xxp0wq2cY8f7w%3D P.S: Sorry about the poor quality of the picture, It's my scanners fault, honest! Hmmm. How big is this going to be? -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Marketing
aah, so I'll have to put margins on it before its printed. But i think you can do that on the CUPS dialogue on printing preferences. anyway, here's what I've done so far: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx328km8DI1qai2mzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264980138Signature=ymEVuWzOps8kjZmcllIFbXdq6m8%3D On 30 January 2010 23:18, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:08:36 -, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Wilson wrote: Yeah, working on A4 gives me more space to work on than the original resolution, so I'll work on A4. Should look good when it's finished. (I hope!) Liam At least on A4 we can all print it, that way the poster should reach more people. Don't forget to put the ubuntu website address on it :) Unless you’ve got a HP printer like mine that cant print a full A4 image as it requires margins top and bottom where it grips the paper. -- Steve -- 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] Lucid Marketing
Aye, t'is the default background from 9.04; I like it because it's simple, and the stripes give it a feeling of elegance, I think! :) On 30 January 2010 23:35, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:23:59 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: aah, so I'll have to put margins on it before its printed. But i think you can do that on the CUPS dialogue on printing preferences. There are various ways round it,such as testing the colour laser printer at work :) anyway, here's what I've done so far: http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_kx328km8DI1qai2mzo1_1280.png?AWSAccessKeyId=0RYTHV9YYQ4W5Q3HQMG2Expires=1264980138Signature=ymEVuWzOps8kjZmcllIFbXdq6m8%3D I do like that orangey/brown colour, that’s what attracted me to Ubuntu in the first place. So far so good. On 30 January 2010 23:18, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Sat, 30 Jan 2010 23:08:36 -, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Wilson wrote: Yeah, working on A4 gives me more space to work on than the original resolution, so I'll work on A4. Should look good when it's finished. (I hope!) Liam At least on A4 we can all print it, that way the poster should reach more people. Don't forget to put the ubuntu website address on it :) Unless you’ve got a HP printer like mine that cant print a full A4 image as it requires margins top and bottom where it grips the paper. -- Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- Steve -- 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] Dell Mini Ubuntu Key?
Hey everyone; I bought a Dell Mini 10v, with Ubuntu, of course, and much to my distaste, if you would, has shipped with a windows key! (Between rALT and FN), and I was wondering if anyone knew where to get an Ubuntu one? A quick google search hasn't turned up any results, so I was wondering inf anyone here could help? Many thanks, and Merry Christmas! Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Openshot video editing software Karmic Koala
I fell into this trap with Openshot, the PPA messes all kinds of stuff up, I can't remember how I fixed it, but it did involve uninstalling OpenShot. I remember tryig to play the Original Godzilla when it happened. I was sad :( I don't think the .deb messes with the shizzle, but I wouldn't try it. - Better safe than sorry. Liam. On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 17:25 +, Tim Dobson wrote: Simon Osborne wrote: Yes. It upgrades libavcodec to a version which is incompatible with gstreamer and VLC, along with other things. It can be fixed by forcing a downgrade on libavcodec to the version supplied with Karmic. I'm not on karmic yet but this is an interesting point. Currently KDEnlive (my preferred video editing suite) can't deal with AAC audio by default due to some broken libavcodec package as I understand. As my (stupid) video camera outputs h.264 + aac this is somewhat frustrating. Anyway, hopefully this will all get smoothed out! :) Tim P.s. If you know and cameras that output to theora ogg or dirac, please do let me know! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it today Koala comes out?????
John Matthews wrote: Just wondered when Koala was due out. Have tried a forced upgrade using altf2 it is still showing a beta version. Is that correct or will it be changed today. Kojm I don't thin Karmic is actually out _YET_ Usually, it's released about 12-ish, if I'm right? Something to do with American times, I heard once. Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Is it today Koala comes out?????
Alan Pope wrote: 2009/10/29 John Matthews jake...@sky.com: Just wondered when Koala was due out. Have tried a forced upgrade using altf2 it is still showing a beta version. Is that correct or will it be changed today. Today is the day, yes. I'd recommend you subscribe to the Ubuntu Announce mailing list so you know as soon as it's out. https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-announce Cheers, Al. Don't suppose anyone is attending the IRC release party at #ubuntu-release-party on freenode, are they? :P Liam * * -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Setting Up an Ubuntu network?
Hey, I have 2 computers Running Ubuntu 9.04 (soon to be 9.10) Thing is, ones a laptop, and the others a netbook running UNR. They're currently connected to a XP server via Samba, But I'd like to set up a Linux network between the laptop and the netbook, with the Laptop as the client. How would I go about this, as I know nothing of Ubuntu networking. Many thanks; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Samba timeout?
Hey all; I've set up a nice little home network with my 9.04 laptop and my XP box using samba. The only problem I have is that whilst the connection works fine after booting up my 9.04 (Which is the client), I can access my files on the XP server and vice-versa for about 20-30 minutes, and then the connection 'times out' and I cannot access the XP server. It does not even show up in Networks! Is there any possibility to resolve this other than rebooting my 9.04? Many thanks; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Samba Timeout?
Hey all; I've set up a nice little home network with my 9.04 laptop and my XP box using samba. The only problem I have is that whilst the connection works fine after booting up my 9.04 (Which is the client), I can access my files on the XP server and vice-versa for about 20-30 minutes, and then the connection 'times out' and I cannot access the XP server. It does not even show up in Networks! Is there any possibility to resolve this other than rebooting my 9.04? Many thanks; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Samba Timeout?
Yeah, I clicked 'Manage' and under Shared Folders - Sessions, nothing came up! 2009/10/27 Paul Roach roa...@roachy.net On the XP Box, right click on My Computer, and then select Manage. In there you should be able to see Shared Folders and Sessions. Check that the number of sessions does not exceed 10 - as I've seen smbclient not release connections previously, and XP will only allow 10 concurrent connections On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.comwrote: Hey all; I've set up a nice little home network with my 9.04 laptop and my XP box using samba. The only problem I have is that whilst the connection works fine after booting up my 9.04 (Which is the client), I can access my files on the XP server and vice-versa for about 20-30 minutes, and then the connection 'times out' and I cannot access the XP server. It does not even show up in Networks! Is there any possibility to resolve this other than rebooting my 9.04? Many thanks; Liam -- 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/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour
Stephen Garton wrote: 2009/10/23 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net: Since yesterday's Jaunty update Firefox appears to have lost its history, refresh etc. buttons and only has the original domain in the address bar (ie. if I go to http://sitea.com and click on links within the address bar does not change, even if I go to other sites - rather like framed content). Anybody else had this? If so, how do I resolve it? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Sean, Not much help I'm afraid, but I regularly get this. It has what's turned me into using chromium for most of my browsing. Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk Same here, that and the fact it seems hell-bent on installing 'Shiretoko' instead of 3.5 has forced me away to Chrome. Firefox really does suck now -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bizarre Firefox behaviour
Thomas Ibbotson wrote: Stephen Garton wrote: 2009/10/23 Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net: Since yesterday's Jaunty update Firefox appears to have lost its history, refresh etc. buttons and only has the original domain in the address bar (ie. if I go to http://sitea.com and click on links within the address bar does not change, even if I go to other sites - rather like framed content). Anybody else had this? If so, how do I resolve it? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Sean, Not much help I'm afraid, but I regularly get this. It has what's turned me into using chromium for most of my browsing. Steve Garton http://www.sheepeatingtaz.co.uk Yep, I too use Google Chrome now for all my browsing. The difference in speed means I cannot go back to firefox, it seems to take an age to do anything. I installed it by following the instruction in this page: http://lazyubuntu.com/how-to-install-google-chrome-dev-build-on-ubuntu-904-jaunty-jackalope.html Tom Yeah, the speed on chrome compared to Firefox really is unreal, isn't it? Firefox seems horribly slow and clunky and unstable compared to the google-chrome-unstable build. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!
Neil Greenwood wrote: 2009/10/21 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com: Apologies - sent that a little early! He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and don't have to fuss about with it. All in all, I do have to say that Windows 7 is very nice compared to Vista. James Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning? Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with Safari open on ubuntu.com Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said about other OSes. James On BBC Breakfast, Rory Cellan-Jones was demonstrating multi-touch on Windows 7. He said he normally uses a different system, then went on to say that Apple were trying to spoil the launch by announcing new products recently, and that free software was going to celebrate the launch of a new Ubuntu version next week (he pronounced it right too)! Cofion, Neil. Yeah, but he also sort of played it down a bit by just dismissing it as A bunch of enthusiasts trying to persuade us... and then basically just dismissing it completely! I also noticed dell has done this a little on thier Windows Vs. Ubuntu page: http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/windows_or_ubuntu?c=ukcs=ukdhs1l=ens=dhs I also noticed it spelt programs wrong xD -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu on the BBC!!!
Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam Wilson wrote: Neil Greenwood wrote: 2009/10/21 James Milligan lak...@lake54.com: Apologies - sent that a little early! He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and don't have to fuss about with it. All in all, I do have to say that Windows 7 is very nice compared to Vista. James Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning? Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with Safari open on ubuntu.com Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said about other OSes. James On BBC Breakfast, Rory Cellan-Jones was demonstrating multi-touch on Windows 7. He said he normally uses a different system, then went on to say that Apple were trying to spoil the launch by announcing new products recently, and that free software was going to celebrate the launch of a new Ubuntu version next week (he pronounced it right too)! Cofion, Neil. Yeah, but he also sort of played it down a bit by just dismissing it as A bunch of enthusiasts trying to persuade us... and then basically just dismissing it completely! I also noticed dell has done this a little on thier Windows Vs. Ubuntu page: http://www1.euro.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/windows_or_ubuntu?c=ukcs=ukdhs1l=ens=dhs I also noticed it spelt programs wrong xD it may be worth clicking on feedback adn commenting, This seems more like MS FUD, than facts, but by commenting we can set the record straight, open office can load / save office 07 files for example, Ubuntu is for more than just programming, even though that option is nice, something I can't use windows for unless i buy more software. Ubuntu may not be able to run MS office directly but it can using crossover office, or install Open office which I assume by 3.1 can now open / save office 07 file format. Odf is also an ISO standard, so that may be significant, or pushing it a bit too far for them to cope with. Perhaps we can work out what to write here, submit that, Paul - -- Paul Sutton www.zleap.net Ubuntu 9.10 out 29th October 2009 - www.ubuntu.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkrfPn8ACgkQaggq1k2FJq05vgCePWNBRan77IA1assdOFMXzeO3 HpUAn2+HVjsZSQ34BGrqEyz70sbXKbV2 =7Nof -END PGP SIGNATURE- Yeah, I noticed there was feedback button, so I posted: [I noticed on the Windows Or Ubuntu page, you stated that Ubuntu is not compatible with Microsoft Office Software. I would like to inform you that Ubuntu is compatible with Microsoft Office files, and I think it would be worthwhile putting this on the webpage. Also, you Spelt Programs wrong.] It also say's on the Dell Ubuntu page, that you can _ONLY_ use FOSS software. I shall too ask for this to be changed. I sound picky, but it bugs me! Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Radio 4 and Bansee
Tony Arnold wrote: Liam, Liam Wilson wrote: How do I add BBC Radio 4 to Banshee? E.I; the Stream URL, etc? I've added it to RhythmBOx using the following URL: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/wm_asx/aod/radio4.asx HTH. Regards, Tony. Yeah, that worked great! Thanks a lot Tony! Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] streaming content via wires!
2009/10/7 javadayaz javada...@gmail.com Hi, Some of you may remember my post about streaming content from a ubuntu pc to a media centre/xbox over an eternet wire a couple of months ago! All of this in my new house Well heres a quick update. I was thinking of how best to get this done when it occurred to me that when i get the virgin man to drill a whole to install the virgin services (the internet upstairs, the tv box downstairs) the most logical solution is that i ask him very nicely to drill another two holes and at the same time run an ethernet wire through those. So one ethernet clippy thing is upstairs and the other is downstairs. In the living room. Then when i want to watch something all i have to do is make sure its connected to my pc upstairs and im done. No wire, no hassle. Simple. What do you think? Javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Sounds interesting. Have you got a link to the original post? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). Well Running Totem gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. and running VLC gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). Well Running Totem gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. and running VLC gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? Liam. Have you double-checked you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse installed? Plus check the output of vlc, you emailed totem output twice. :) Aah, so I did! Yes, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is installed, and the output for VLC is: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ vlc VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye [0x9583140] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Chunk fourcc:28dd5416 ( [0xb7607a50] avcodec decoder error: cannot open codec (MPEG-4 Video) [0xb7607a50] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. Hope this helps a little; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem Playing some Video files
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: 2009/10/6 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com: Hey all, After uninstalling Openshot, it seems that I cannot play some Video files (Notably .avi files that use a xvid video codec). No matter what Player I use, VLC, Mplayer, Totem, etc; The sound plays, but no video. And after searching for a codec with Totem, it seems to be that there isn't an xvid codec, and yet, before uninstalling Openshot, the videos played just fine! Now, I've re-installed Openshot, in the hope that my video files would play, and I've had some luck in that they play in Openshot, but still no luck in anything else - and I don't really plan on having to import a video into openshot every time I want to play a movie. I've even tried un and re-installing Gstreamer, intalling the restricted-extras package, all to no avail' ;_; Does anyone have any ideas on how to diagnose or solve this problem at all? If anyone does, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks; Liam. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I'm running Karmic, so YMMV. This sounds like the problem I had when I added a PPA which updated libavutil49 (among others). It replaced /usr/lib/libavutil.so.49 with /usr/lib/libavutil.so.50 meaning Gstreamer couldn't find the .49 version and failed (a symlink didn't fix it). The version which broke mine was svn20090924, the version I have now is svn20090706. If you run Totem in a terminal it should tell you what's wrong (and if it can't find a file). Well Running Totem gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. and running VLC gets me this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ totem /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/gdata/tlslite/utils/cryptomath.py:9: DeprecationWarning: the sha module is deprecated; use the hashlib module instead import sha ** Message: don't know how to handle video/x-xvid, framerate=(fraction)25/1, width=(int)640, height=(int)480 ** Message: Missing plugin: gstreamer|0.10|totem|XVID MPEG-4 decoder|decoder-video/x-xvid (XVID MPEG-4 decoder) ** Message: No installation candidate for missing plugins found. Sounds like it isn't installed, but I don't know? Liam. Have you double-checked you have gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse installed? Plus check the output of vlc, you emailed totem output twice. :) Aah, so I did! Yes, gstreamer0.10-plugins-bad-multiverse is installed, and the output for VLC is: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ vlc VLC media player 1.0.2 Goldeneye [0x9583140] main libvlc: Running vlc with the default interface. Use 'cvlc' to use vlc without interface. main warning: can't store message (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character): found Chunk fourcc:28dd5416 ( [0xb7607a50] avcodec decoder error: cannot open codec (MPEG-4 Video) [0xb7607a50] main decoder error: no suitable decoder module for fourcc `XVID'. VLC probably does not support this sound or video format. Hope this helps a little; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Ah ha, just looked at the Openshot PPA to see what else it installs and it is indeed likely to be an issue with the shared av libraries (it's part of the ffmpeg stuff). You'll probably need to to remove libavutil49 or libavutil50, remove the Openshot PPA from your sources.list, then reinstall libavutil49. It will want to automatically remove things like VLC and mplayer but nothing important; you can then reinstall them. Yaaay! It worked! I could kiss you right now, but I can't, because that would be probably wrong on a lot of levels :) Thanks a lot Jonathon. Liam :D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cups Error 'httpConnectionEncrypt failed'
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/9/26 Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com:
Tony Pursell wrote:
On 26 Sep 2009 at 16:15, Liam Wilson wrote:
Hey all;
I've just bought myself a new Kodak ESP 3 all in one printer, and
upon opening the printer configuration Dialogue to see if there are
drivers available for it, I find the 'New' button is grayed out. I then
went to Server - Connect and selected 'localhost' as my print server.
After frying to connect to it, I get the error
There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'httpConnectionEncrypt
failed'.
What can be done to resolve this error, as I need this printer to work
for my ICT course.
Many, many thanks;
Liam Wilson
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Have a look at
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Kodak-
EasyShare_Printer_Dock_Plus_Series_3
That is for the EasyShare Printer Dock Plus Series 3. Its given an
'mostly works' rating.
The information on the EasyShare Printer Dock Series 3 (I.e not 'Plus')
is that it does not work ('paperweight rating').
Go to
http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Kodak
to see all Kodak printers.
There may be drivers on the Kodak website.
Tony
Turns out that I needed to start cups before i could install a printer,
but it ALSO turns out that there are NO linux drivers for my driver. At
all, which I'm not at all happy about! :)
Liam Wilson
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You could also look for a PPD file (normally included somewhere in the
Windows driver installation archive). This provides CUPS enough
information to get the printer working.
Cheers for the Idea, but Unfortunately, I couldn't seem to find a PPD
file that worked with my Printer, so it looks like I'm going back to my
old one!
Cheers for the help anyway guys :)
A strongly-worded letter shall be sent to Kodak right away!
Liam
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[ubuntu-uk] Cups Error 'httpConnectionEncrypt failed'
Hey all; I've just bought myself a new Kodak ESP 3 all in one printer, and upon opening the printer configuration Dialogue to see if there are drivers available for it, I find the 'New' button is grayed out. I then went to Server - Connect and selected 'localhost' as my print server. After frying to connect to it, I get the error There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'httpConnectionEncrypt failed'. What can be done to resolve this error, as I need this printer to work for my ICT course. Many, many thanks; Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Cups Error 'httpConnectionEncrypt failed'
Tony Pursell wrote:
On 26 Sep 2009 at 16:15, Liam Wilson wrote:
Hey all;
I've just bought myself a new Kodak ESP 3 all in one printer, and
upon opening the printer configuration Dialogue to see if there are
drivers available for it, I find the 'New' button is grayed out. I then
went to Server - Connect and selected 'localhost' as my print server.
After frying to connect to it, I get the error
There was an error during the CUPS operation: 'httpConnectionEncrypt
failed'.
What can be done to resolve this error, as I need this printer to work
for my ICT course.
Many, many thanks;
Liam Wilson
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Have a look at
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Kodak-
EasyShare_Printer_Dock_Plus_Series_3
That is for the EasyShare Printer Dock Plus Series 3. Its given an
'mostly works' rating.
The information on the EasyShare Printer Dock Series 3 (I.e not 'Plus')
is that it does not work ('paperweight rating').
Go to
http://openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=Kodak
to see all Kodak printers.
There may be drivers on the Kodak website.
Tony
Turns out that I needed to start cups before i could install a printer,
but it ALSO turns out that there are NO linux drivers for my driver. At
all, which I'm not at all happy about! :)
Liam Wilson
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Movie Editor
Tony Pursell wrote: On 29 Aug 2009 at 10:32, Rowan Berkeley wrote: Has anyone else tried this? I have just installed it from the repos. and attempted to make a very simple music video for upload to YouTube. I used a still jpg for the video and attempted to use an mp3 audio file, then an ogg version of the same audio file, but although the picture seems to work (as a sustained still in the video frame), all I get in the audio is static. I have looked on the web but the developer of OME doesn't have much to say about 'no sound' problems except that 'there might be a bug'. Sound in Ubuntu seems to be real pain. In Audacity (or maybe Sound Recorder, I can't remember which), I know that ogg just gives you static, but mp3 works. But I find that configuring sound devices is a real nightmare for me. I wish sound just worked, like it does in Windows. So I think that your problem is with Ubuntu's sound configuration rather than the Movie Editor. Tony May I suggest OpenShot Movie Editor? It seems to be a lot more simpler to use than The Open Movie Editor (As I have used both) However, it is still work-in-progress, and there are a few features not yet implemented, but for a simple movie with .jpg's and .mp3's, it works just fine! http://www.openshotvideo.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 Remix question
Gordon wrote: Is the Remix only designed for small-screen Netbooks, or would it be suitable for 15.5 Laptops? Would there be any advantage in installing the Remix on such a laptop as opposed to the ordinary desktop 9.04? Ta! I tried using the Remix on my fat 17 screen, and it still looked great, so I guess a 15.5 would be just as good! And I think the Remix MIGHT use less ram and/or disk space, but that's just guess. Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Possible NetworkManager bug?
Hey everyone;
I've been having this problem for some time now, and it's really
starting to get on my nerves ('Bug me', if you would. haha).
The thing is, that when I'm up in my room, I get roughly a 20% signal
from my router, which is downstairs, but every so often, the status
applet in the icon area (Top right) jumps to 100% signal, but yet for
this period of time, which varies, it seems to be disconnecting me from
the internet, i.e; sometimes it will interrupt my downloads, and/or sign
me out of pidgin.
Funnily enough, however, it doesn't seem to happen when I actually have
100% signal. And yes, I have tried with other connections, and the same
happens.
Is this a bug, or is it fixable?
Thanks a lot;
Liam.
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[ubuntu-uk] Automatically moving mail from a specific sender to a certain file?
Hey, I'm using Thunderbird as my default mail application for my Emails (As opposed to Evolution), and as I am subscribed to a number of Mailing Lists, I thought it would be a lot simpler to organise the Lists into folders, so each list has a folder of its own. Is it possible, therefore, to have mail from a list sent automatically to the specific folder? For example, If I created a folder and called it UBUNTU-UK, would it be possible to have all mail from this list sent automatically to that folder as soon as it downloaded? The same goes for my other lists, such as UBUNTU-GAMING and GNU-GENERATION, could I have them separated into different files, and if so, how would I go about doing it? It would just make organizing my mail a bit easier, that's all. Thanks, Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automatically moving mail from a specific sender to a certain file?
James Milligan wrote: Liam Wilson wrote: Hey, I'm using Thunderbird as my default mail application for my Emails (As opposed to Evolution), and as I am subscribed to a number of Mailing Lists, I thought it would be a lot simpler to organise the Lists into folders, so each list has a folder of its own. Is it possible, therefore, to have mail from a list sent automatically to the specific folder? For example, If I created a folder and called it UBUNTU-UK, would it be possible to have all mail from this list sent automatically to that folder as soon as it downloaded? The same goes for my other lists, such as UBUNTU-GAMING and GNU-GENERATION, could I have them separated into different files, and if so, how would I go about doing it? It would just make organizing my mail a bit easier, that's all. Thanks, Liam Wilson Hi Liam, Yes you can: 1. Create a new folder, using whatever name you want (for the purposes of this tute I'll use Ubuntu UK List) 2. Go to Tools, then Message Filters. 3. Click New 4. Give it a name (Ubuntu UK List Filter) 5. 'Match any of the following' 6. Subject - Contains - '[ubuntu-uk]' for the Ubuntu UK list (this one) 7. Move Message To - Ubuntu UK List (via dropdown) 8. Click OK 9. Click on Run Now (after selecting the filter) and that should be it! AFAIK these filters run automatically, but you might want to check. James Milligan Wow, it worked! Thanks a lot James! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] No sound from Banshee?
Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 14/08/09 22:34, Liam Wilson wrote: Hey, after installing the earcandy package, I got no sound from banshee, so I decided to uninstall earcandy, but still no sound from Banshee, even after a restart. I can't really use any other media player, as Rythmbox crashes when I adjust the volume, and Amarok doesn't work with my multimedia keys, which I use regularly, and I just plain don't like it. (Although, admittedly, I haven't tried Songbird). I recommend Songbird :-) I downloaded Songbird, and I admit, I do like it, but I really need CD ripping and Podcasts, too (For the Ubuntu UK podcast, obviously!), So when Songbird has those features, I'll definitely use that, but since they aren't implemented yet, I'm gonna stick with Banshee (Which I fixed with an 'apt-get purge banshee', an upgrade of ALSA, and a re-install of banshee, works fine now!) Cheers for the heads up anyway Alan; Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] No sound from Banshee?
Hey, after installing the earcandy package, I got no sound from banshee, so I decided to uninstall earcandy, but still no sound from Banshee, even after a restart. I can't really use any other media player, as Rythmbox crashes when I adjust the volume, and Amarok doesn't work with my multimedia keys, which I use regularly, and I just plain don't like it. (Although, admittedly, I haven't tried Songbird). So, yeah, anyway, I like Banshee, but it's stopped working properly. When I run it, and end it from a terminal, I get this: l...@ubuntu-laptop:~$ banshee [Info 22:32:36.094] Running Banshee 1.4.3: [Ubuntu 9.04 (linux-gnu, i486) @ 2009-04-21 13:18:25 UTC] [Info 22:32:38.344] All services are started 1.913704s [Info 22:32:39.796] nereid Client Started Stacktrace: at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Widget.gtksharp_widget_base_delete_event (intptr,intptr) 0x4 at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Widget.gtksharp_widget_base_delete_event (intptr,intptr) 0x at Gtk.Widget.OnDeleteEvent (Gdk.Event) 0x00030 at Banshee.Gui.BaseClientWindow.OnDeleteEvent (Gdk.Event) 0x00063 at Gtk.Widget.deleteevent_cb (intptr,intptr) 0x0004f at (wrapper native-to-managed) Gtk.Widget.deleteevent_cb (intptr,intptr) 0x at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application.gtk_main () 0x4 at (wrapper managed-to-native) Gtk.Application.gtk_main () 0x at Gtk.Application.Run () 0x7 at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Run () 0x00035 at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () 0x00031 at Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup.Startup (Hyena.Gui.CleanRoomStartup/StartupInvocationHandler) 0x000a2 at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup () 0x00038 at Banshee.Gui.GtkBaseClient.Startup (string[]) 0x000b9 at Nereid.Client.Main (string[]) 0xa at (wrapper runtime-invoke) Nereid.Client.runtime_invoke_void_string[] (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) 0x at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) 0x4 at (wrapper managed-to-native) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) 0x at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssemblyInternal (System.Reflection.Assembly,string[]) 0x00028 at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string,System.Security.Policy.Evidence,string[]) 0x00021 at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string,System.Security.Policy.Evidence,string[]) 0x at System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string) 0x00014 at (wrapper remoting-invoke-with-check) System.AppDomain.ExecuteAssembly (string) 0x at Booter.Booter.BootClient (string) 0x00055 at Booter.Booter.Main () 0x00188 at (wrapper runtime-invoke) System.Object.runtime_invoke_void (object,intptr,intptr,intptr) 0x Native stacktrace: mono [0x806d944] mono [0x808616b] [0xb8077410] /usr/lib/mono/gtk-sharp-2.0/libgtksharpglue-2.so(gtksharp_widget_base_delete_event+0x2f) [0xb5610b8f] [0xad1a9e66] [0xad1a9e11] [0xad1c54d4] [0xad1c5420] [0xb563ab48] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6bb2526] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb66623d9] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_closure_invoke+0x1ab) [0xb6663c7b] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0 [0xb6679aff] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit_valist+0x64f) [0xb667b34f] /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0(g_signal_emit+0x26) [0xb667b936] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6ccd2ae] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main_do_event+0x49c) [0xb6bac4dc] /usr/lib/libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0 [0xb6a3934a] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_context_dispatch+0x1e8) [0xb7ff0b88] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0 [0xb7ff40eb] /usr/lib/libglib-2.0.so.0(g_main_loop_run+0x1ca) [0xb7ff45ba] /usr/lib/libgtk-x11-2.0.so.0(gtk_main+0xb9) [0xb6bac7d9] [0xb460d70e] [0xb460d6d8] [0xb460d4b6] [0xb72228a2] [0xb722278b] [0xb72226a9] [0xb721a412] [0xb72165c3] [0xb7216553] mono(mono_runtime_exec_main+0xe5) [0x80bad75] [0xb72164fd] [0xb7216421] [0xb721631a] [0xb72162c6] [0xb721623d] [0xb72161fa] [0xb721533e] [0xb79f93a9] [0xb79f91ae] mono(mono_runtime_exec_main+0xe5) [0x80bad75] mono(mono_runtime_run_main+0x16b) [0x80bb4eb] mono(mono_main+0x1727) [0x805c917] mono [0x805ac62] /lib/tls/i686/cmov/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xe5) [0xb7e09775] mono [0x805aba1] Debug info from gdb: (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) (no debugging symbols found) [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0xb7dbf6e0 (LWP 4686)] [New Thread 0xaea18b90 (LWP 4702)] [New Thread 0xaf219b90 (LWP 4701)] [New Thread 0xb42beb90 (LWP 4699)] [New Thread 0xb5f54b90 (LWP 4698)] [New Thread 0xb42ffb90 (LWP 4697)] [New Thread 0xb4db7b90 (LWP 4693)] [New Thread 0xb4ebcb90 (LWP 4692)] [New Thread 0xb4fbdb90 (LWP 4691)] [New Thread
[ubuntu-uk] New GDM login screens for 9.10
For those who haven't seen them, the new boot/login screens have been unveiled by the art team. I think the do look rather darn sweet! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot/Demo -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New GDM login screens for 9.10
James Milligan wrote: Rob Beard wrote: Alan Pope wrote: 2009/8/13 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk: Liam Wilson wrote: For those who haven't seen them, the new boot/login screens have been unveiled by the art team. I think the do look rather darn sweet! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Artwork/Incoming/Karmic/Boot/Demo Ooh I like that, very polished. From what I've seen that's not the final version, but a demo that was put to the art team. https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-art/2009-August/011206.html Will Ubuntu 9.10 be implementing Plymouth or will it still use USplash? Neither AIUI. We'll have X start very early on and that will provide the splash screen type experience. So no need for usplash or plymouth. Cheers, Al. I see, well it certainly looks very nice anyway, much better than the Windows boot screens. Rob +1!!! James I read that it uses xSplash, not Usplash or Plymouth, which I guess has something to do with X, and it not being a separate application/process, which may reduce boot times or some other technical stuff. It does look pretty amazing though. What's the new notifications like? Liam -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7
Liam Wilson wrote: David King wrote: That's all the more reason for people to switch to a free alternative like Ubuntu. David King John Matthews wrote: Yeh, but its costing us, MS are charging the EU almost a 1/3rd more than elsewhere for W7 upgrades. It seems that MS are going to make us pay for that. John. Well, it doesn't concern me in the slightest. I haven't touched a windows box in the past month or two, and the box I do have running windows won't run anything other than XP not even vista or Ubuntu. Still, all the more reason to switch to Linux or use Firefox :) Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Churning hard disk, glacial startup
Just out of curiosity, Paul, How old is the Hard drive your using? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] No IE in Windows 7
Rob Beard wrote: Dave Morley wrote: It maybe a none essential upgrade that MS could have. In Vista they do this for driver updates. That's true, they seem to bundle other apps in Windows Update on Vista and Windows 7 and it doesn't use Internet Explorer at all as far as I can tell. Not to mention in IE7/8 they do offer alternative search engines which downloads something from Microsoft so I guess there is nothing stopping Microsoft putting maybe a 'wrapper' program for alternative browsers in there, a bit like the Ubuntu Flash package automatically downloads Flash from Adobe. I guess this though is assuming Microsoft will actually put any effort into it. They could just say that the customers are on their own if they want it, they have to supply it themselves? Rob Personally, I feel sorry for those going to do a fresh install of Vista7, because how are you supposed to download a browser without a browser? I'm guessing that they'll out in a program a bit like the 'Download Windows Live Messenger' app that they have with Vista, which I think is a bit unfair. I think it'll be time for Mozilla to do a bit of marketing if they can. Liam FTP? wnload a browser to use without the use of a browser anyway? I -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
