Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Matthews wrote: I tried to upgrade to FF3.5 on my netbook, but it didnt happen, it installed it seperately, but I couldnt get the Addons section to work, and a few other things as well, that was without the addons themselves, they just didnt transfer from the 3.0.11. So how do I go about it without having both versions on my laptop and netbook.? Thank you. John. If you only want one version just uninstall the other. As for your other problems, you’ll have to provide a bit more information. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpWbeEACgkQICATF4lwn1puYwCgtEykCphtuA+cySptM3r270Ro CakAoLJirhEJ/2Mho1NunTq+/qlApJX3 =qijE -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ship-It Discs
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher McDade wrote: I was wondering if anyone on the list has any spare Ubuntu ship-it discs from 5.04 to 6.10 inclusive.I am trying to fill in the gaps and hoping to complete the set. If anyone can help please let me know. Thanks, Chris I've got 3 sets of 5.04, PPC, AMD64 x86 if you'd like them. Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkpE40MACgkQICATF4lwn1pjaACgr0UNrzkMTkDC4OIhPM+6sWry zzIAni+QzPtXkTsbr49kxv7Z0KOY1bfQ =Xfuu -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 screen resolution too big
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David King wrote: I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04. When it boots and I log in, I get a very large screen resolution which makes everything too small. I think it is 1280 x something. I want it set to 1152 x 864, and every time after logging in I have to access the Nvidia settings to change the resolution. If I disable the Nvidia driver, then Ubuntu starts at the correct screen resolution. The monitor is an old CRT screen, 41 cm viewable diagonal size. 1152 x 864 seems to work best, anything bigger is no good. So how do I get Ubuntu to remember my choice of resolution for the next time I boot? David King Have you tried using System Preferences Display -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAko5XCMACgkQICATF4lwn1parQCfZvMR6zqK3iiZFSJYCmStmKGI zlMAoKEekQeiouGiiC0ODZKypmUDKX6Q =kb8M -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netto Net Book
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin wrote: 2009/6/1 Colin binarysig...@gmail.com 009/6/1 Steve Cook yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Netto are selling the Hercules eCAFÉ™ for £199.95 from Thursday. Anybody any experience of these. The spec seems OK. I don't know about that ebook, but one of our Kent LUG members brought along a Brookeen eBook Reader (http://www.bookeen.com) to our meeting on Saturday and it was great. The screen defies physics and it works with Linux. Colin Opps me so silly, the seperate 'Net Book' in the subject made me think you were refering to a 'Book'. My mistake. I wont be so quick to fire off an email in future. Partially my fault. I was trying to explain the difference between netbooks, eBooks, etc.. to my dad at the time and the spelling checker thinks netbooks is two words. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkolB7UACgkQICATF4lwn1o5lACgh3PhH9oW5I1CKtm3SDQyyR59 1OMAn1pIvYt53xo7ZSiaN/Hfso/RkNCu =IFF8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] E-mail body as attachment
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Archer wrote: Why is it that when some people send an e-mail to the list I receive the e-mail with no body, but it is instead an attachment? It's driving me nuts... Cheers, Steve Because some people have Forward mail as attachment, or some thing similar, set the their client. - -- Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoj0KgACgkQICATF4lwn1pIEwCcD4kCuw0//vBUUNDn9qYDBEPg 7b4An0SRufkFsGCbGMaFww2/DDpiiiHA =qBek -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Netto Net Book
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Netto are selling the Hercules eCAFÉ™ for £199.95 from Thursday. Anybody any experience of these. The spec seems OK. - -- Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoj054ACgkQICATF4lwn1riZACfSfQjjHtiXmrVNVXwh4LbjvwU eqoAn21T0U4goGAOEYDLSxDbeEJSbIxI =2UJr -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Bagnall wrote: Gordon wrote: alan c wrote: James Milligan wrote: Also the CDs you order through shipit come with 4 stickers each I think. I've got a fair few here. Need to stick them somewhere actually. Car back bumper, bike front mudguard, front window of house, :-) back of laptop lid . On a car back bumper they last about 6 months, maybe more if not in too much sunshine. Anyone know where I can get these? I'm replacing Vista on my laptop and it would be good to peel off the Vista sticker and replace with an Ubuntu one! I ordered some Powered by Ubuntu case badge style stickers from zareason.com, $5 for 10 stickers and free shipping. They took a little while to arrive as they're from the US but they look great and are ideal for replacing the generic Vista/Intel/productX stickers on computers. Direct link: http://www.zareason.com/shop/product.php?productid=16197cat=251page=1 There’s also these, if you want to go the DIY route. http://www.openstickers.com/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoj/tUACgkQICATF4lwn1qGlACglObKMZ9c7603ost0H7UtXtWe FdgAoKP+/kvGwOEeKbeZ7ptBd7/zaEgV =CeQX -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell mini 10v costs more with Ubuntu than with XP
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Milligan wrote: Ah right. Makes more sense now. Would a small independent store (like I've been asking about) need to pay that as well? I think I remember hearing about something like this a while back on the list. Thanks James Some info here: http://www.ubuntu.com/partners -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoih6YACgkQICATF4lwn1ql0wCfWzqdaJ/Pj0+Wrc7+gw/KDEJQ SVQAoJZmtKrcGFlDOUFjHysOQD/Pn7P0 =27J8 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] High street store handbagged by angry pensioner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Miller wrote: Yes, you're right James... that's why I haven't criticised the staff in my post above. If we want them to be consultants then companies like John Lewis have to train them to be open minded, but I don't think the folks who form corporate strategy can see the difference between selling a dishwasher and a computer. I think I'd stay working in the dishwasher department... less grief... I don’t think they’d have any more idea in the dishwasher department either. Having worked in retail, I can tell you very few firms teach you any thing about the products they sell. They will tell you which ones you are supposed to encourage the customer to buy. The managers will give grief if you don’t greet customers in the company approved manner, and won’t support you if a customer becomes abusive. Given that most staff are on, or near, minimum wage they end up not really caring and just tend to do enough to keep out of trouble. Thankfully there are a few firms left that care about customer service and train their staff accordingly. The track suite problem is one I’ve never understood. I was in a pub, with friends, recently when they refused to serve us because one lad was wearing track suite bottoms. he had his foot in plaster and that’s all he had that would fit over the cast. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkohsn4ACgkQICATF4lwn1qOGACgsdI5ytHe3g6pSj0ALdPECNrG XnEAnj+GG1kNjH2NtCZP4MG1yFgoCdK6 =QH3g -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] contents ubuntu-uk Digest.(Problem}
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Lawrence wrote: Dear Ubuntu UK; I have lost my most fantastic distro of Ubuntu that I have ever put together. Over 150 working apps. Everysingle thing up to date and I was running Ubuntu 8.04 and the overall size of my lost Ubuntu OS. was 42.3gb so as you can imagine I am quite upset and all that I did was upgrade my distro on my desktop using every single one of the many instructions that I have on upgrading. This has happened to me over ten times on as many machines and I simply now will not upgrade any system as every singe time I do the full re-haul it goes pear shaped so now I am starting from scratch using Kubuntu 8.04 and I am simply not going to upgrade radically ever again. Many thanks, Peter Lawrence Boyd Wouldn’t it be quicker just to restore your backup. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkoVQN4ACgkQICATF4lwn1oSpwCgstQ9UKlWkWxVBdMVsGHqUPA1 5V0An14iu9jBFlrNIRMmbv3NK8EEX1Un =3RoG -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty upgrade safe enough for me?
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:38:10 +0100 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote: hi all sorry to sound like I'm doubting Jaunty... I'm not, it's just I'm wary for a few reasons: - I've had lots of trouble with upgrades before - my ubuntu currently installed has a few (several) weird issues - I'm about to start exams So, would you say it's safe and stable enough for me to just click 'upgrade' and leave it? Perhaps there are files I could pastebin for you to check out, to see if my system will throw up errors? Sorry to be awkward :P I just don't have the time for a broken computer, yet I really would like to upgrade it thanks :) === Farran Lee I'm only 16 :P -- Steve Cook yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty upgrade safe enough for me?
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:50:27 +0100 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 14:19 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:38:10 +0100 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote: hi all sorry to sound like I'm doubting Jaunty... I'm not, it's just I'm wary for a few reasons: - I've had lots of trouble with upgrades before - my ubuntu currently installed has a few (several) weird issues - I'm about to start exams So, would you say it's safe and stable enough for me to just click 'upgrade' and leave it? Perhaps there are files I could pastebin for you to check out, to see if my system will throw up errors? Sorry to be awkward :P I just don't have the time for a broken computer, yet I really would like to upgrade it thanks :) === Farran Lee I'm only 16 :P -- Steve Cook yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com umm... did you mean to write something in this one? :P === Farran Lee I'm only 16 :P No, I was just demonstrating email to someone and pressed send without thinking. I do however, agree with every one else. Leave any upgrades until you've done your exams, as the 'Critical Needs Detector' will kick in and thrash your system ;-) -- Steve Cook yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed computer prices
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eddie Bernard wrote: Good morning everyone I have a price in mind for this machine (including UK mainland delivery) - but I'm curious to hear what other people think might be a fair price for it. Here’s your competition http://efficientpc.co.uk/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknKIEYACgkQICATF4lwn1rGfACgv1AE3+Y0BX+nSLpkNeQ9Ln7w gpAAnjrWAB9rDlB57HHiOTDLZtTMDGio =FWZ3 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty Jackalope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ged byrom wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:05:39 -, Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@southfarm.plus.com wrote: In message of 21 Mar, ged byrom ged.by...@ntlworld.com wrote: Is there any special reason for naming this release after a mythical beastie rather than a real beastie ? Are we likely to see the haggis release or the even rarer mirk in the future ? This sparks off a whole canon of inspiration: B is for Basilisk C is for Centaur, D is for Dragon (but not Kimono) G is for Gryphon M is for Mermaid P is for Phoenix S is for Sphinx U is for Unicorn W is for Wyvern Y is for Yeti I know the first four are already past, but the alphabet will have to come round again. And what else? I've just done a quick google and came up with this site. http://www.mythicalcreaturesguide.com/page/List+of+Mythical+Creatures There's one for every occasion there. I think this list og beasties should be considered ;-) http://www.johnnywander.com/comic/121 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAknEzY0ACgkQICATF4lwn1oA2QCgnW0KGV3VXuIFZ22L0aHKG06/ WUMAn1iPiChFbSbR6OP2oqJttncOspwA =Eqis -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Transcribers List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:17:37PM +0100, Steve Cook wrote: Yes I'm subscribed. Just sent a test mail to see if I messed something up earlier. It's because your address in launchpad is set as @gmail.com, but your mails appear to come from @googlemail.com so LP thinks you're not subscribed. Simply add your @googlemail.com to your lp account and you should then be able to mail the list. Thanks Alan, I'd never of thought of that. StevE -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIbLzXICATF4lwn1oRAk5rAJ9FsqkvNjWUKP1DvzbSqYDYRdU69QCguUIn NL7AiJTBwuqTcpSPIS7SnPs= =lOdL -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 8.04.1 iso?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Westby wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:23 +0100, Mac wrote: James Westby wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:08 +0100, Mac wrote: Does anybody know whether the current iso is now 8.04.1? I'd give it a couple more hours yet. It's still planned to be released today as far as I know, but for releases it's more US today than UK today. Thanks, James. I think I'll wait till tomorrow. (BTW, do you know whether the change will be obvious from the name of the .iso?) I don't think it will, though I think they will be available on releases.ubuntu.com rather than cdimage. I've not seen a point release before, so I'm not sure what's going to happen. I think the best bet is to wait for the mail and follow the link within. If 6.06 was anything to go by then you will see a difference. the ISO was became 6.06.1 then 6.06.2. so I'd expect 8.04.1 to appear when the ISOs are updated. Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIbSxcICATF4lwn1oRAny6AJ47fL49HtXH2swopCKgK5fJJTTCAQCdEyct HR56uw1VSewuWRhgV9gMHv8= =mhvN -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Transcribers List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Walker wrote: SNIP Do you see You are subscribed to the team mailing list. under Your involvement? Yes I'm subscribed. Just sent a test mail to see if I messed something up earlier. Steve Hi Steve, I just sent a test email to the list, and it showed in the archive faster than i could refresh my browser. Check your launchpad settings (where davewalker = your LP id): https://launchpad.net/~davewalker/+editemails check your address, and on the next option select Always subscribe me to mailing lists, and check you are sending from the same address. HTH Thanks Dave, I did as yourself and Alan suggested. Still don't know if it's working as I can't log onto Launchpad any more! I get a 'This account cannot be used.' error message. Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIbS4TICATF4lwn1oRAtDBAKCniEiatYmWgRPEkL4TJ5R272tfRwCeNPDV xWMrEuGJxMl3gTkKQOW4eLs= =Bukq -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Transcribers List
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I sent as mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 10:10 this morning and it hasn't appeared in the archive as yet. Is the list working or have I done/not done something. Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIa+H5ICATF4lwn1oRAm+vAKCeQLDVzLa/Cpnjg7esFaAAdnUwSgCfc79H pxI/L0Aj+4metq9hax3MRPw= =M23s -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Transcribers] More Transcription news
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: Hi This will probably be my last mail about podcast transcription to the Ubuntu-UK mailing list. The transcribers team now have a separate mailing list specifically for transcription of audio data. It's hosted on launchpad and is part of the transcribers team. https://launchpad.net/~transcribers I've not received anything from the transcribers list, yet! We have also hit a great milestone. Our first fully transcribed podcast! Thanks to the efforts of the Audio Transcribers team on launchpad, a full transcription of Episode 1 of Series 1 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast is now online:- http://linkpot.net/untied/ It's available in html and plain text format:- http://linkpot.net/summerier/ - html http://linkpot.net/brunted/ - txt I've just run 'bzr update' and I get revision 11, which has an incomplete transcript of episode 1. Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIafBYICATF4lwn1oRAvLDAJ9ucA23UCIC3cD0v1/qomwNL5bWkwCfXKmU hrBRvZluRKQCvrdJ3lR8iMA= =wSvg -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Transcribers] More Transcription news
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:52:41AM +0100, Steve Cook wrote: I've not received anything from the transcribers list, yet! There has only been one message so far and it pre-dates your subscription :) That would explain it, Ta I've just run 'bzr update' and I get revision 11, which has an incomplete transcript of episode 1. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/media/drobo/uupc/Transcripts$ bzr update Tree is up to date at revision 17. Works for me.. strange. Are you sat in the Transcripts directory when you do the update? Problem solved. I found James Westby's email with a couple of corrections, All OK now. Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIagXJICATF4lwn1oRAmvOAKCk6QTJT96INxND3uev61nE/yAXkACeNuDU 9wc9U/+3Vk+zys68woSv6fA= =+cQw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast Transcription How-To
Alan Pope wrote: Hi, After the very useful thready yesterday Dave and I created a brief how-to, to get people started on Launchpad and Bazaar for podcast transcription. I also created a screencast but the audio got all out of sync so it drifts towards the end. I've put it online and if I get a chance I'll re-record it too. Comments/suggestions/edits most welcome! https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PodcastTranscription As this uses transcribe, what do I do with the plain text file I've produced? I'll redo it with transcribe if need be. (when I've fathomed how to use it.) Apart from that it looks straight forward. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast Transcription How-To
Dave Walker wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 15:23 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: SNIP As this uses transcribe, what do I do with the plain text file I've produced? I'll redo it with transcribe if need be. (when I've fathomed how to use it.) Apart from that it looks straight forward. Hi Steve, I think transcriber is a good way to distribute the workload, so far anyway. We haven't had to worry about bazaar merging mismatched commits yet! Anyway, you've done the hardest part - actually documenting what was said. One of the neat things with transcribe is the ability to match to a timestamp of the episode, so if you could input your work into transcribe it would be a good idea. I wouldn't imagine it will take as long as the initial transcription, but if you want a hand - let me know. It shouldn't take too long actually. Once I get the segments sorted, I can copy and paste from my txt file. Besides it's raining, so I can't mow the lawn. ;-) I'm going to do a couple of mins transcribing and then have a fiddle about with bzr, as I haven't used it before. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast Transcription How-To
Dave Walker wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 15:23 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: SNIP As this uses transcribe, what do I do with the plain text file I've produced? I'll redo it with transcribe if need be. (when I've fathomed how to use it.) Apart from that it looks straight forward. Hi Steve, I think transcriber is a good way to distribute the workload, so far anyway. We haven't had to worry about bazaar merging mismatched commits yet! Anyway, you've done the hardest part - actually documenting what was said. One of the neat things with transcribe is the ability to match to a timestamp of the episode, so if you could input your work into transcribe it would be a good idea. I wouldn't imagine it will take as long as the initial transcription, but if you want a hand - let me know. OK I seem to be getting the hang of Transcriber. I've done 20s worth, which I've uploaded to bazaar. It appears to have worked OK. Could someone confirm that everything is OK before I continue on. Ta. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast Transcription How-To
Andy wrote: Steve Cook wrote: OK I seem to be getting the hang of Transcriber. I've done 20s worth, which I've uploaded to bazaar. It appears to have worked OK. Could someone confirm that everything is OK before I continue on. It's in bazaar fine. It opens in my copy of Transcriber too and plays back fine. (And I now know that bzr update actually works). Good. Thanks to Alan's video cast and the wiki One minor thing I noticed was you have speaker 1 saying What is the Open Rights Group? and then it goes back to Becky but it's not marked as her. Thanks, I got the speakers out of turn when I started and obviously didn't correct that one. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wanted: Podcast transcribers
Stephen O'Neill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lucy wrote: Would it be worth splitting each podcast into 10 minute chunks? I did wonder about this too - I would definitely be able to pitch in if it was one or two 10 minute chunks to transcribe each week. If we could do it in 10 min chunks I would be happy to help. I've done this before and 40 mins worth of several people waffling :-) takes some doing. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wanted: Podcast transcribers
Stephen Drake wrote: Snip It definitely helps if you're familiar with the subject under discussion and you'll very quickly be annoyed when you realise most people don't talk in proper sentences. ...um, err, ye, what, why err... :-) Just having a go at transcribing the interview with Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group from the first pod cast to see how quickly I can get it done. One thing I had last time I did this was a media player with fast forward/rewind buttons, rather than a slider. Anybody know which one that is? steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wanted: Podcast transcribers
Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 20:41 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: Just having a go at transcribing the interview with Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group from the first pod cast to see how quickly I can get it done. One thing I had last time I did this was a media player with fast forward/rewind buttons, rather than a slider. Anybody know which one that is? Audacity? Which also has a slider to playback slowly, so you can play at 0.8x speed which may be easier. Cheers, Al. Thanks. I'll get it installed now. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:10 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Steve, Steve Cook wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:28 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: BTW, anyone else had trouble with CD burning after upgrading? Yep! just spent an 'orrible evening trying to get Hardy to do something sensible with CD-RWs. I've seen a bug reported about this, but no solutions so far. I think I saw a comment suggesting the problem does not exist after a fresh install, hence I might go down that route this week-end. Tried my last CD-R and a DVD, both claim to be OK but will not boot. I would like to do a clean install but as I can't get a working CD not sure how I can do this. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] CD Burning with Hardy
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 22:19 +0100, James Westby wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:40 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: AS mentioned in another thread some of us are having a few problems burning CD/DVDs, especially RW types, after upgrading form Gutsy to Hardy. It was suggested that a clean install might cure these problems, and sure enough it does. I've no produced several copies of X/K/ubuntu on different types and makes of disc and tried them on several machines and all ran OK. Not sure why upgrading should cause so much problems with this function, there again nobody else seems to know either. Hi, Does anyone still have a machine showing these symptoms? Has any one found/filed a bug about it? I haven't seen an official bug report, just questions and comments on a couple of forums. I've still got the upgraded version on another partition and will be trying a few things later in the week to see if I can make sense of it. I did try swapping CD drives about and got slightly different results and also discovered a dodgy cable. I'll try all my drives with the clean install to see if there may be a hardware problem. Anybody else got any ideas of things to try to isolate the problem. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:28 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 09:29 +0100, Kat Kinnie wrote: Stick it in your diary and feel free to bring along friends and family too, the more the merrier. You can see it on the wiki page for Ubuntu release parties https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseParties Show of hands... Who's going to this? As it's 'darn sarf' I won't be able to make it. I'll be wearing my ubuntu shirt in the local to show support. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 18:31 +, Farran wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 18:53 +, Alan Pope wrote: I'm thinking about starting a new sport called Ubuntu Spotting. Using your keen eye, look out for indications of Ubuntu use in every day life. Points are awarded for spotting:- * Machines running Ubuntu * Articles about Ubuntu in mainstream press * Official Ubuntu shipit CDs * Overhearing people talking about Ubuntu * Spotting references to Ubuntu on other peoples computers * (suggestions?) http://www.zoitz.com/ steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:29 +0100, Farran Lee wrote: slightly off the motherboard branch: just checked my system info, and it now says I have 1.9GB memory instead of 2! Definitely sending it back now... sysinfo doesn't report the correct size anyway, on my 768MB system it reports 757MB Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] The BBC Launches Wiiplayer??? WHAT!?
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 11:31 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: Steve Cook wrote: Channel4 receive some funds from the licence fee. Hmm, that's not strictly true. I've put 2 and 10 togetrher and got IV :-) I've obviously misunderstood the origin of this thanks for the enlightenment. Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] The BBC Launches Wiiplayer??? WHAT!?
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 12:45 +, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Jmaes, On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:52:55PM +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: The BBC is a socialist corporation - you HAVE to pay them BY LAW. Therefore there's no profit increasing who gets thei I-services. If you had to pay, theyd be getting an extra however much per user, but as you're paying anyway, why should they bother. With no financial incentives, they won't do anything. So by this logic, Channel 4's and Sky's video on demand should better cater to Linux users since these profit-driven entities will be required to chase the penguin pound, right? ..right? Channel4 recieve some funds from the licence fee. so should be under they some obligations as the BBC. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:48 +, London School of Puppetry wrote: Hi there Craig, I think Richmond School in North Yorkshire witched completely to Open Source. There was also stuff said in Parliament about the benefits of OS too - you might have to have a hunt for the info. I'd heard this but it doesn't appear to be Richmond North Yorkshire http://schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Mall_School,_Richmond Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] New computer nightmare!
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 17:01 +, Rob Beard wrote: ...you should really aim for a dual core CPU nowadays Why? Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 11:41 +, Andy Watts wrote: Hi people l do hope that this hasn't been asked too many times before.. l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with Ubuntu on it. l've tried having them both connected to the same ribbon and rebooting with either of the 2 hard drives powered. Sadly it doesn't seem to work so l wonder whether there's a solution..Both drives are set as masters.. l don't want to have both OSs on the same hard drive Please could someone offer a solution __ Only one drive can be set as master on the same cable, the other will have to be set as slave. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual monitors with independent desktops
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:45 +, Rob Beard wrote: Hi folks, The graphics card on my PC has dual DVI video output (it's an ATI Radeon X300). At the moment I'm only using a single display on a 17 LCD monitor, however I was wondering if it's possible to run two screens but indepdendently of each other. For example, on my main monitor I'd like to have my usual programs (Firefox, Thunderbird etc) running, but on the second monitor I'd like to be able to send the output of Mplayer for playing full screen videos but not have the windows from the other screen use this monitor. Does anyone know if this sort of thing is possible? This is the default behaviour if xinerama, twin view, etc. is not used. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 33, Issue 51
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:24 +, Tony Arnold wrote: Martyn wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:50:46 + From: C L Chatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Fct or Fiction. Survelance Paranoia To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Type: text/plain Confidentiality notice: This email (and any documents attached to it) is confidential and is intended for use only by the named recipients. Information contained or attached may not be disclosed to any person who is not a named recipient without the prior written consent of Christopher L Chatfield, Cheltenham. If you are not a named recipient, then please notify us, destroy this email and keep no copies. Thank you for your co-operation. .. email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] freephone: 44-800-0-664-813 from UK 0800-0-664-813 ICQ= 424376924 Google Instant Messaging = [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well I received it, and I'm not a named recipient (neither is anyone on this list) so what do we do now? I wouldn't worry about it! Most e-mail disclaimers are completely pointless and wouldn't stand up in a court of law. The above says the contents should not be disclosed to any person who is not a named recipient. But you are not a named recipient and you've seen the content, so it's rather late reading the disclaimer! Regards, Tony. -- Tony Arnold, IT Security Coordinator, University of Manchester, IT Services Division, Kilburn Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL. T: +44 (0)161 275 6093, F: +44 (0)870 136 1004, M: +44 (0)773 330 0039 E: [EMAIL PROTECTED], H: http://www.man.ac.uk/Tony.Arnold The lady tht ordered the printec stationary at a friend's company had the good sense to have some thing similar printed at the bottom of thier letter headed paper. It dispappeared mrom thier emails not lang afeter. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?
andylockran wrote: We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing Virtual Richard Stallman on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were installed. Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for something to waste their time.. let's all take turns in uploading our results. (If you haven't got it already, just : sudo apt-get install vrms, then run vrms. Please append your results to the list below: andylockran - 15 non-free packages, 1.1% of 1381 installed packages. The 3 machines I've access to:- Steve-1 - 42 non-free packages, 1.7% of 2443 installed packages. Steve-2 - 12 non-free packages, 0.7% of 1735 installed packages. Steve-3 - 18 non-free packages, 1.2% of 1515 installed packages. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone buy Linux Format magazine?
Mark Allison wrote: Hi there, I'm just reading through this month's Linux Format mag (LXF97 Oct 07) and noticed that there was a good article on the linux filesystem in issue LXF95 (Aug 07). Does anyone have a copy that they don't want any more? Could you post it to me (I'll cover the cost of the mag and postage). I'd much appreciate that - I've been using Linux for a few months and have much to learn. Thanks again, Mark. Why not buy the back issue? http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=4page=1 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hard drive partitions/ Space
STONE COLD wrote: I have a dual boot installed on an 80gb hd. I installed a 400gb for my media. I partitioned this 400gb hd into two 200gb partitions But after a gutsy install they are now showing 186gb of free space each! I don’t understand why this is? Any information will be appreciated Regards Javad That's about right. The journal and other bits take up some space. Also HD manufacturers quote the space in base ten and the software often uses base 2. So, instead of a kilobyte being 1024 bytes the manufactures have it at 1000 bytes. steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two operating systems
Keith Powell wrote: For some time now, I have had two hard drives, each in its own plug-in mobile hard drive caddy. One has XP on it (which I still need :-( and the other has Ubuntu on it. So I have just plugged in whichever OS I wanted. I'm thinking of doing away with the hard drive caddies and installing both drives inside the computer. For ease, XP would remain on its existing drive and be plugged into the 'master' plug on the ribbon cable. The Ubuntu drive would be plugged into the 'slave' plug on the IDE ribbon cable. Ubuntu would probably be a reinstall on a new, larger hard drive, but I've not decided yet. I see that, if I press F8 during the BIOS boot, I can select what I boot from (different DVD drives or different hard drives). Selecting the appropriate hard drive from F8, I think, would be better than messing about setting GRUB up for dual booting. (Something which I don't know how to do at the moment!) It would mean that I don't have to do anything to the XP drive. Is what I want to do, using F8 feasible, or would I be better setting GRUB up? With two hard drives, how are the jumpers set up? One master and one slave, both master, or how? I also have two DVD drives, one is just a player and one which will record. Any advice will be very gratefully received. Grub would make life easier and if you're reinstalling ubuntu grub would be set up for you if you have both drives in the machine. Just connect the drives as normal XP as Master and ubuntu as slave. You can do the F8 thing if you want, I know somebody that does it at work to hide ubuntu as they don't like unauthorised software on the machines, it's just a bit fiddly. SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Making embedded media work properly
Mac wrote: This is very curious. I'm not sure it's simply a sites issue; I wonder if the inconsistent symptoms we observe aren't partly due to our own particular combinations of conflicts between various players, or the remnants of various players, that we've installed and uninstalled in our efforts to get embedded media working - totem, xine, mplayer, realplay, flash, all sorts of plugins and goodness knows what else, sometimes in several different versions of the same apps. The existence of layers of accumulated HowTos - many of them partly or completely out of date - adds to the chaos. I think you may have highlighted the (on of the ?) problem. I have three machines here. One upgraded from edgy, that has had every media player, codec, etc. known to man on it at one time or other. It now has problems with all sorts of media. The machine I did a clean install on back in may, just before feisty was officially released only has trouble with realplayer stuff in the main. The third machine is my 'try it - wipe it - reinstall' machine. I've gone the medibuntu route on that and have know problems with the beeb or GMTV. SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Making embedded media work properly
Michael wrote: SteVe Cook wrote: I've just tried the GMTV clips page out in Windows. In Firefox 2.0 the interview with Michael Kerr plays out in sound only until you click inside the embedded player, causing the stream to be shown in full-screen mode. In Internet Explorer, nothing actually happens... Back in Seamonkey under Feisty, the clips page immediately returns the error: Requested file not found. The link you followed may be outdated or inaccurate. (rtsp://a1358.v165445.c16544.g.vr.akamaistream.net/ondemand/7/1358/16544/v001/roomediaco1.download.akamai.com/16542/real.roomedia/streamingVX/7056/1441/herochat_300.rm?clipId=1441_gmtv_0601channel=GMTV+Highlightscategory=site=gmtv%2fportal) The least that can be done in Ubuntu is to make available an optional version of mplayer that doesn't install the useless RealMedia plugin. The plot thickens. I don't appear to able to play the GMTV clips more than once. Is this some sort of DRM type thing or part of the ubuntu/Realplayer thing. SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Making embedded media work properly
Michael wrote: I tell a lie: you seem to have to wait a few minutes before you're allowed to see a new clip. Fullscreen mode doesn't work in any case. That would appear to be the case as I've just tried it again, following your post. Why they can't use some sensible format I don't know, as Realplayer is that reliable under windows either. I can see this being a long running saga. SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?
Chris Rowson wrote: Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd be hard to compete in a lot of applications in the future What do you think? http://www.microsoft.com/surface/ I think it's a touch screen! steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] A GUI Grub editor?
alan c wrote: My world is mostly populated by windows users who are interested in moving to linux - computer fairs, talks to local groups, friends etc. They have more than a healthy fear of change and usually can not cope well with command line or even file editing, certainly not at first. A recent contact has just tried kubuntu, successfully (just) getting it installed onto a resized second HD, but wants to have the dual boot default to be windows, because linux is being 'tested', and anyway, the customer is always right. In the past, when I was personally in that same status of wanting use of a lot of dual booting, with changes of mind, it happens I was using suse which has an excellent gui grub editor (and a pretty pretty boot menu display too). I used it quite a lot, even when starting with Kubuntu, to manage my grub needs even when kubuntu became my default, with no windows on the machine. Suse being used to help kubuntu use. :-) My recent contact just about coped with the partitioning and install. I suspect some fatigue has occurred with him trying to find what can or cannot be done in linux land. It seems most of his MS office macros do not seem to work, for example. The culture change and his expectations are all a bit much for him I think. Unfortunately, even the simplest (to me) editing of grub menu.1st is he says 'over my head', and I get the impression that the dual boot default to (k)ubuntu and the apparent difficulty in changing this to windows, has spooked this person into feeling even more loss of control than he had in windows. This is a negative situation at a stage of linux introduction which I believe is not untypical. It is easy to forget what it felt like when first trying linux after years of couch potato use of windows. The 'in-windows' exe installer which is under development will certainly help of course, in time. Meanwhile, back at the ranch, I make the point that a gui grub editor would have a strong value for that precious breed - newbies. Maybe there is a gui grub editor easily available for (k)ubuntu, but it did not appear in my searches. This is one of several areas that ubuntu lets it's self down. Home networking/internet sharing and dual screens are a couple of other areas that can be hard work, especially for windows users who are used to a simple GUI set-up. SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] more things worth signing
Caroline Ford wrote: baza wrote: This one is worth signing. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ Baz This has come up on another list I'm on and seems pretty dodgy to me. It's basically asking the Prime Minister to order the BBC to do something. The BBC is independent and should stay that way in my opinion. Of course it should use open formats etc but I certainly don't want it to be controlled by the Prime Minister.. Caroline I wouldn't expect the Prime Minister to do anything about it. What I would expect is the BBC to take notice and at least acknowledge the issue. Namely - some of it's licence payers are excluded from particular service. SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Awareness-Raising Campaign Idea (was Ubuntu CNR deal)
alan c wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:14:57AM +, alan c wrote: Have you seen how absolutely difficult it is to get a PC *without* windows? For example, I believe that all of the Dell soho range are now offering vista. Only. Not strictly true. Try phoning them up rather than ordering them online. I know people who have ordered computers from Dell with no OS just by phoning and asking. Really? I am surprised. There have been two detailed reports in recent weeks about two individuals one in usa and one uk I think, who managed to get a refund of the windows tax from dell. Each took about two days on the phone it seems, but with preparation and skill, they were successful. Which type of computers did your contacts purchase, and do you think the deal was of a form that could be made public? If so, I do not understand why it has not apparently been publicised, it is significant stuff, particularly with the Dell history of being persuaded to avoid linux a few years ago after M. Dell had got enthusiastic and bought into three linux related organisations and started making linux noises. I would like to publicise purchases such as you describe, if possible. 'tis on their web site http://www.dell.com/content/topics/segtopic.aspx/e510_nseries?c=uscs=19l=ens=dhs SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] EDM179
Dave Ewart wrote: On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 09:37 -, Jonathan Lees wrote: OO is offered as an alternative to MS Office, it sees about 2% usage from students that have it at home. Our IT teachers will not touch it as it involves rewriting worksheets for students which have all been based on MS Office. However whilst Writer and Spreadsheet does'nt cause problems, the database package does. [...] This is the problem. The kids are *not* being *taught* about word processors, spreadsheets or databases. They are being *trained* to use MS Word, MS Excel, MS Access etc. That's a very different thing, in my opinion, and not at all good. Dave. What people forget is that the teachers are taught MS Win , so that's what they teach! SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speedtouch 330 Adsl modem on Ubuntu 6.10
I've used this page with no problems at all http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/ubuntu/index.html SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
