Re: [Hampshire] worst distro name (was - Hmmm.....)

2010-04-25 Thread Jan Henkins
On Sat, April 24, 2010 17:58, Tim wrote: If we are going down the road of stupid distro names, I see Debian as no more stupid than Fedora (Red Hat) or maybe Crunchbang!! They are both equally as stupid as Zenwalk as a distro name. So what in your opinion would be a cool distro name? --

Re: [Hampshire] Hmmm.....

2010-04-25 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Imran Chaudhry wrote: Is it now time to give up on Linux and 'ask Bill'? Hi Ben, sorry to hear of the problems you've been having with your Linux distro. Ben consider bringing the box along and some kind folks will probably help sort your problems out. Re the hardware issue I did have a

Re: [Hampshire] Hmmm.....

2010-04-25 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Is it now time to give up on Linux and 'ask Bill'? Hi Ben, sorry to hear of the problems you've been having with your Linux distro. Oops forgot to add - a couple of the of surrey luggers are always trying to find homes for old hardware - if you do find you have a mem fault and need esoteric

Re: [Hampshire] worst distro name (was - Hmmm.....)

2010-04-25 Thread Tim
On Sunday 25 April 2010 10:11:57 Jan Henkins wrote: On Sat, April 24, 2010 17:58, Tim wrote: If we are going down the road of stupid distro names, I see Debian as no more stupid than Fedora (Red Hat) or maybe Crunchbang!! They are both equally as stupid as Zenwalk as a distro name. So

Re: [Hampshire] Hmmm.....

2010-04-25 Thread Stuart Winter
My vote for the stupidest name goes to 'Windows'. How daft is that? It's a name representing its original purpose: providing a graphical user interface where applications are presented in a window. It seems quite logical and sensible doesn't it. -- Stuart Winter Slackware ARM:

[Hampshire] Give aways

2010-04-25 Thread Dr A. J. Trickett
Hi, Before I give/throw stuff away does anyone want: Dell Dimension XPS 200n desktop PC, Pentium Pro 200, 128Mb RAM and various working bits. Is running Debian fine, will run Fluxbox but probably best suited for non graphical tasks. BT Quartet 2015 cordless telephone base station and PSU,

[Hampshire] get i player gone!

2010-04-25 Thread Simon Reap
The author of get underscore i player (at linux centre dot net) has retired his program which is a shame. The latest one I have is 2.42, but 2.72 seems to have been available. Does anyone have a copy of it? It seems to be quite hard to find, belying the old internet adage that once it's out

Re: [Hampshire] get i player gone!

2010-04-25 Thread jack
The author of get underscore i player (at linux centre dot net) has retired his program which is a shame. The latest one I have is 2.42, but 2.72 seems to have been available. Does anyone have a copy of it? It seems to be quite hard to find, belying the old internet adage that once it's

Re: [Hampshire] get i player gone!

2010-04-25 Thread Stephen Rowles
I've got 2.67, which is a bit better than 2.42. I'd also like to get hold of 2.72 if anyone has it. If not I'd be happy to supply 2.67 Simon Reap wrote: The author of get underscore i player (at linux centre dot net) has retired his program which is a shame. The latest one I have is 2.42,

Re: [Hampshire] get i player gone!

2010-04-25 Thread Alan Blanchflower
On Sunday 25 Apr 2010 19:18:26 Stephen Rowles wrote: I've got 2.67, which is a bit better than 2.42. I'd also like to get hold of 2.72 if anyone has it. If not I'd be happy to supply 2.67 Simon Reap wrote: The author of get underscore i player (at linux centre dot net) has retired his

Re: [Hampshire] Hmmm.....

2010-04-25 Thread Chris. Aubrey-Smith
On 25 April 2010 15:39, Stuart Winter m-li...@biscuit.org.uk wrote: My vote for the stupidest name goes to 'Windows'. How daft is that? It's a name representing its original purpose: providing a graphical user interface where applications are presented in a window. It seems quite

Re: [Hampshire] get i player gone!

2010-04-25 Thread Simon Reap
On 25/04/2010 19:48, Alan Blanchflower wrote: I have 2.72: http://alanblanchflower.co.uk/stuff/get_iplayer_2.72.tar.bz2 Thanks to Alan, Stephen and I now have 2.72, and thanks to jack we have future versions too! -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org.uk Web Interface:

Re: [Hampshire] Hmmm.....

2010-04-25 Thread Owain Clarke
Lisi wrote: On Friday 23 April 2010 16:32:46 Benjamin Ashton wrote: Hmmm I'm afraid my love affair with Linux is beginning to wane.  After finding that the spellcheck in OpenOffice was failing to work (despite Hunspell being apparently installed), and that the OoHelp was

Re: [Hampshire] get i player gone!

2010-04-25 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Stephen Rowles wrote: I've got 2.67, which is a bit better than 2.42. I'd also like to get hold of 2.72 if anyone has it. If not I'd be happy to supply 2.67 Simon Reap wrote: The author of get underscore i player (at linux centre dot net) has retired his program which is a shame. The

Re: [Hampshire] get i player gone!

2010-04-25 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
jack wrote: how about this...somebody has forked it: http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer I agree the original code is a mess (given the change history thsi is to be expected) but a rewrite is a major job - espy against an actively hostile moving target. Jacqui -- Please post to:

Re: [Hampshire] Hmmm.....

2010-04-25 Thread Jacqui Caren-home
Martin A. Brooks wrote: Open Office is awful. It's roughly where MS Office was a decade ago. I disagree - Ooo has book building modes only (hi-end DTP) tools such as framemaker have. For creation of formal documents such specifications Ooo beats MSOffice hands down - for my needs at least!