Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Robert, > The justification I was given for this years ago is the F/OSS > community hasn't _lost_ anything by this closing of code. The kind of > company that is likely to produce closed code is going to avoid GPL > and just re-implement. Possibly worse, they will just break the GPL > guidelin

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-06 Thread Natalie Hooper
On 6 February 2011 11:38, Robert Bronsdon wrote: > > OpenOffice/LibreOffice >> Discussed OpenOffice in that may have issues with finer points of >> formatting. This could be an issue when trying to convince organizations to >> install Linux on the desktop. >> > > Are the differences between Open

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-06 Thread Robert Bronsdon
On Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:50:33 -, Mark Elkins wrote: Shame I couldn't be there. Just thought I'd add my two pence now though. OpenOffice/LibreOffice Discussed OpenOffice in that may have issues with finer points of formatting. This could be an issue when trying to convince organizations

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-06 Thread Mark Elkins
OpenOffice/LibreOffice Discussed OpenOffice in that may have issues with finer points of formatting. This could be an issue when trying to convince organizations to install Linux on the desktop. Downloaded and installed LibreOffice from LibreOffice site on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS following discussio

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-05 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, > Following on from Natalie's email, some more notes and links from the > other night. Thought there was something I forgot... Terry, regarding your 64-bit verbal fisticuffs with a friend here's the article I was thinking of that shows when a 64-bit address space is beneficial. http://

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-04 Thread Peter Merchant
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 12:05 +, Ralph Corderoy wrote: > Hi, > > Following on from Natalie's email, some more notes and links from the > other night. > > FixMyStreet is a Gov.-sponsored site that funnels your complaints to the > appropriate bit of council by email. (I've had success getting s

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-04 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Following on from Natalie's email, some more notes and links from the other night. If we're the only ones in that snug then ask one of the bar staff to turn off its speaker; its volume is independently controlled and we make enough noise ourselves. :-) Peter Merchant mentioned Evergreen,

Re: [Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-02-02 Thread Natalie Hooper
A thoroughly enjoyable evening. Following on from conversations I had with various people last night, here's my notes... - Eclipse IDE current version is 3.6 (Helios) but Ubuntu 10.10 comes with 3.5 (Galileo) in repositories so this is what I use. - I have found a (free) app for FixMyStreet on th

[Dorset] Bournemouth Pub Meet Tonight, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00.

2011-01-31 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi, Short and sweet. It's the Broadway tonight at 8pm. We'll try and be in that off-the-end-of-the-bar room again. The Broadway http://dorset.lug.org.uk/wiki/doku.php?id=meetings:pub Cheers, Ralph. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2011-02-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Lin