Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?
I am not a designer programmer or media person - I just use Ubuntu - because once you get your desktop you are ready to roll it has an office programme, compatible with other wordprocessing and spreadsheet programmes it plays my music and dvds I can watch BBC on the Internet when I have a problem, a Google search more often than not locates the solution - or I can go to the Community. So out of the two first drafts I prefer the second one. There you have it, my six-pennyworth. Mary -- Mary Mooney DEUK *Mobile* - +44 (0) 7914 079 026 *Skype* - memooney1 On 4 December 2010 17:43, Grant Sewell dcg...@thymox.co.uk wrote: On Sat, 4 Dec 2010 16:33:10 + Bill Cumming wrote: Think its best to keep it simple, at first at least I'm thinking of a tag line like Get things done... Simply Use it to emphasise how easy it is to start, get work done, entertainment etc... I like the tag line, but I'm not sure about the idea of emphasising the it's easy to use for entertainment purposes. If you promote *that* idea, people will expect DRMed and other types of encumbered media to just work... which it doesn't. Grant. -- 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] Support - Where are we in the real world
Rather than have a long list of people and places, would it not be better to have a wiki that everyone add their location. -- Mary Mooney DEUK +44 (0) 7914 079 026 A well-developed sense of humour is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous? A: A canary with the super-user password. On 17 October 2010 10:20, Barry Titterton barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote: I live in Belper, Derbyshire, but am inexperienced so need help rather than give it. There is a LUG in Mansfield, Notts, that meets occasionally at a member's home, there is also a South Derbyshire LUG that meets once in a blue moon. Barry -- 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] MS vs. OO
On 15 September 2010 10:00, Yorvyk yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Wed, 15 Sep 2010 09:10:46 +0100 Mark Harrison m...@ascentium.co.uk wrote: From: Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com of corse you can do it in OO, why the f**k would you want to use M$ Couple of things: 1: I've not used MS Office for about 5 years now, however the one time I needed to was in 2007 for a really complex mailmerge, which is one area where MSO is still better than OOo :-( There are lots of areas where OOo is genuinely better, in terms of functionality, as well as being free (in the cash sense). Actually, it's not quite Free in the OpenSource sense, if you read the Sun licence carefully :-) 2: I'm not sure you CAN do this in OOo - ie, create a link in a spreadsheet that then creates a pre-populated document in Writer. This wasn't a question about mailmerge, but about how to achieve a particular task. To be fair, I don't think that mailmerge in MSO is the right answer either, but given the user in question feels that mailmerge is too complex, I'm guessing that telling them that it needs about 20 lines of VBA macros probably isn't going to work either :-) 3: If you asked a question about OOo, and someone replied MSO can do this, why the f*** would you use OpenOffice instead, would you: A: Feel that the respondent had a good point, and you should go out and try MS Office. B: Feel that the respondent was a jerk, and that you wanted to steer clear of the kinds of things he was recommending. The reason I bring this up is that I had a meeting with the IT Director of a FTSE 100 company a couple of years ago, and that one of the things that came up was OpenOffice as a possible replacement for MSO. The reply I got was This is like Linux. I'm fed up of Linux people. They come in and want to have a religious conversation. I want to have a business conversation. This over-the-top, why the f would you stuff is actually DRIVING PEOPLE AWAY FROM LINUX. If I ran for Microsoft's Dirty Tricks Division, then I'd pay people to join LUG lists and post nasty comments about MS to make people feel that the Linux community were nutters :-) So, thanks for harming the spread of Free software. Negative publicity is still publicity, panning somebody else’s product rarely works. I’m (nearly :) always very careful about the claims I make about what OOo can do. It is not a drop in replacement for Office. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ I have used both MS and OO mailmerges. The philosopy is about the same, except that OO lets you create a database for your data. I think you can plonk an Excel sheet into an OO database so the problem is solvable. Mary -- Mary Mooney DEUK +44 (0) 7914 079 026 A well-developed sense of humour is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward Q:What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous? A:A canary with the super-user password. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell says Ubuntu safer than Windows
Have you tried the Linux Emporium www.linuxemporium.co.uk Based in the Midlands (of England) Mary -- Mary Mooney DEUK'05 A well-developed sense of humour is the pole that adds balance to your steps as you walk the tightrope of life. William Arthur Ward Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous? A: A canary with the super-user password. On 15 June 2010 09:25, Matthew Bassett hewb...@gmail.com wrote: On 14 June 2010 20:29, Barry Titterton barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote: It's official: http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/ubuntu?c=usl=encs=19 But not in the UK apparently :( I have been trying to find a Linux pre-installed netbook to purchase in the UK since the beginning of the year, and Dell were my first stopping point since purchasing an Inpsiron laptop with Ubuntu pre-installed a couple of years ago... -- 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] Using Gparted
Why don't you call LE? On 20 May 2010 12:56, Rowan Berkeley rowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote: Hi, Having copied all the files from my external disk drive into onboard memory, and checked that they are accessible and function normally, I have created a new EXT3 file system on the external disk drive. There is now nothing on the external disk drive except an empty 'Lost and Found' folder. However, I cannot copy any of my files back to the external disk drive, because it says I do not have permissions to write to this destination. The properties tab for the external disk drive says 'permissions could not be determined.' I cannot imagine what could cause this, since everything that was on the drive has been deleted. Does anybody know how I can change the permissions? I do not know how to log in as root on this computer, since Linux Emporium never told me, though I could ask them. It would presumably be easier to change the permissions using 'sudo', if root privileges are required, wouldn't it? Rowan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ub... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
