[Hampshire] CUPS Problems solved

2010-06-02 Thread Samuel Penn
Hi all, A while back I had an issue in not being able to print to CUPS from one particular user after changing the CUPS server, and I had various suggestions from the list on how to fix it, but wasn't able to locate the cause of the issue. Well, I've finally found the problem. In case anyone

Re: [Hampshire] irritating periodic soft beep on Ubuntu 10.04 laptop

2010-06-02 Thread Chris Aitken
I bought the Novatech Xplora E16 laptop a few days ago and installed Ubuntu (32bit). There was an irritating periodic soft beep every 30 secs or so. Putting my ear to the laptop I could hear a motor start after the beep which stopped just before beeping again and repeating. I thought that

Re: [Hampshire] Opportunity for Linux advocacy?

2010-06-02 Thread Damian Brasher
Jacqui Caren wrote: Mike Dwerryhouse wrote: Many people still believe that free (as in beer) stuff can't be any good. Arguments like who are you going to sue? etc. Like you are going to sue Microsoft for a bug in Word, or Outlook. The sue bit is very very important to many corporates. My