dear all
currently i am using ubuntu.
i am living london and looking some placement or voluntary work with
linux
do you know any placeplease let me know
all the best
fatma
From: London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED],British Ubuntu Talk
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
To: Robin Menneer [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu sophisticated
Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2007 14:12:01 +
Robin
Thanks I will try-Can I ask someone something else- why does open Office
crash when I try to paste something out of it into an email? Sorry I am so
new to this and I appreciate all you with so much practical knowledge.
Caroline
On 05/01/07, Robin Menneer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Caroline
I assume that you are at the same level of simplicity and find that the
help facility is like the curate's egg, good in parts. You type your
message in open office then save as, under file type, click on windows XP
which gives you a .doc suffix. Microsoft should understand this.
Robin
On 1/5/07, London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robin, I am a recent convert? to Ubuntu- which I find great- and I am
useless at this klind of thing. the Help stuff is clear- ish - except
for
some terms are hard to understand- But the biggest problem I have is
sending
files to colleagues who use Microsoft- and they say they can't open
them.Caroline
On 05/01/07, Robin Menneer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Toby
If Ubuntu is to be as successful as has been mooted, the package
needs
to be lubriciously simple so that complete beginners with nil
knowledge can
take advantage of the secondhand machines which are said to abound.
For
instance I would advocate a starting screen, after loading, of a
typewriter-only facility with the keyboard control c keys suitably
locked
sofly, So the newboy can, unless he uses the one menu which gets him
out of
it, can only use the machine as a typewriter with save, print and new
facilities. Then when he has mastered typing (or sooner) he can
elect to
move another stage towards open office etc etc. Many of the people
coming
into computing are those who have either been bypassed or actively
rejected
computing and are possibly candidates for open-source coupled with
cheap
secondhand machine, but a simple step-by-step initiation is needed.
What is
simple to you is impossible to most of them. I envisage a pensioner
attending a charity meeting being given a machine and being told just
to
take it away and use it. Comparing its procedures with windows is
not
useful. Dumbing down ridiculously is what's needed to get ubuntu
being
favoured by the masses.
Robin
On 1/5/07, Toby Smithe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 12:29 +, Robin Menneer wrote:
Alan
Yes - cash book, address book c. I didn't have a cd and had
never
made one, nor had the facilities. I didn't need a cd for suse
but
I
do not know what Novell have done with it since they took it
over.
You fall into the trap of comparing installing ubuntu with
windows
instead of the real world whch does exist outside windows. Yes
it
should get better if it's going to be much more widely used. I
want a
package that I can click on on the web, chose the thicky
(beginner's)
version and go away and leave it for half an hour, returning to
find
the opening page offering help. Other more expert versions I
would
possibly like to delve into later but would be happy ot go again
to
the web so as to get the latest version.
Robin
Hmm... I'm not quite certain what this means. I'm also unsure as to
what
you find sophisticated. It always all seemed perfectly clear to me.
Could you elaborate some more, please?
On 1/4/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Robin Menneer wrote:
Alan
Cornwall. You can see some of my interests on
www.cornishhedges.com.
(comments welcome). Yes, I agree about different needs -
all
one
needs is a simple menu offering switchable facilities by
function
rather than by name
Email, Word Processing, Internet Browse, (more?)
Protection should be inbuilt with user status.
I believe this is already there.
Surely in the 21st century we do not need an install person
You said you got someone else to install for you. Installs are
about
as easy as I could imagine now. Insert cd, say yes take over
hard
drive, ok, english ok, then have a few cups of tea. Knowing
that
nobody in their right mind installs windows themselves (quite
difficult), I think ubuntu does pretty well and will probably
get
better too.
Aged
late-departed mother in laws should not have to be daunted by
install
problems. I gather one Ubuntu difficulty
