Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...
> A moth died inside my PC a couple of days ago Ouch! I have heard bugs can make a program crash but this is a little more extreme. > I put it all together, turned the PC on, and it booted into Ubuntu straight > away - with everything working. We had a lightning strike where I work last week. It ripped through the LAN and killed around 40 network cards (Windows even fails to load TCP/IP now when a new NIC is installed) and nuked many switches. Amazingly, my Ubuntu Desktop PC was surrounded by dead Windows boxes but was still powered on and with the network card in full working order. We had many other Linux boxes around the building that were in areas of dead PCs but survived! > I've got an XP partition too. > - it probably won't boot If the motherboard is just slightly different and the Mass Storage Devices have changed, it may not even get into Safe Mode. :) Sysprep is the only way to get around that, but that needs to be run with the PC booted :( Matthew -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...
> This lead me to wonder what we in the Ubuntu - Uk Team might describe as> things which in hindsight we have taken for granted but have proved a > positive boon for productivity.>A moth died inside my PC a couple of days ago, taking the graphics card, motherboard and power supply with it. After rooting around in my box of spare bits I managed to find an old motherboard, graphics card and network card that were still working. I put it all together, turned the PC on, and it booted into Ubuntu straight away - with everything working. This is with a different chipset (Via not SiS) and graphics card (ATI not NVidia).I've got an XP partition too. I haven't tried booting it again yet, but on past experience: - it probably won't boot - I'll have to start it in safe mode - Then I'll have to download the drivers for all the new bits. Hopefully I'll have network access! - Then I'll have to install all the drivers, rebooting several times - Then Windows will demand to be reactivated because too much hardware has changed. It may or may not decide to let me keep using it!So, there you go - a definite success story!Olly -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 22:00 +0100, Nicholas Butler wrote: > So there I was, about to write yet another blog article, my first since > returning from my short break and BAM! > > A sudden realisation of things I have taken for granted. Currently i am > sitting here on my Games PC ( Windows XP Pro 64 ) trying to take a > screen capture of the Save Search as a Folder feature of Mozilla > Thunderbird. Unfortunately Windows does not, as a default, enable me to > save my windowed screen captures as a graphical format. > Paste it into paintbrush and save it? > Oh sure I can open a document and paste the Image in and at this point cue: > Ick! Yeah, sure, wrap up a nice easy to use format like BMP in a nasty proprietary word doc. :) > "Opening Openoffice, paste graphic, save document, close openoffice. > Rename document as .zip, open newly renamed document as compressed > folder, play hunt the image, move image to location that Picasa can grab > it from and wait for index catch up. Export image to blog, relax." > PRTSCRN (or ALT+PRNTSCRN for a window) Start -> Run -> pbrush (or go find it on the start menu) CTRL+V, File -> Save As -> Give it a name and save as jpg. (XP paintbrush can save as JPEGs can't it?) > Or, I could boot my other laptop into Ubuntu , start the saved search > folder process again and then as before grab the current window with > ALT-Printscreen and then be greeted with the option to save the image > as a graphic format in my choice. simple, elegant and done. > That's certainly easier, yes. > This lead me to wonder what we in the Ubuntu - Uk Team might describe as > things which in hindsight we have taken for granted but have proved a > positive boon for productivity. > Here's my starter for 10. Multiple desktops. Left mouse button select. middle mouse paste. Easily resizable filesystems. Having tools like tail available out of the box. Centralised repositories of applications making updates and installs easy. > It made me realise that the Ubuntu Desktop feeling was more about .. > "What Next ? Speech recognition :D hahahahah > " than "Now What ?" , am I right ? You're always right Nik. In your head. :) Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk mailing list ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk
