Re: [Hampshire] Mint debian gnome3 was New member...

2011-12-24 Thread pavithran
On 23 December 2011 15:27, john lewis wrote: > So am now running gnome 3 classic on that system. Classic because the > built-in graphics won't run the full Gnome 3. I thought at first I'd > have to go back to squeeze because as it is installed classic is barely > configurable, but installing gnome

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sat, 24 Dec 2011 18:37:04 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said: Alan, that is the most compelling argument for GNU/Linux I've ever heard: thank you. > The associations of both words Linux and geek > are already not helpful in a public forum when marketing is attempted. > At least that is my

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread John Cooper
On 24/12/11 18:37, alan c wrote: On 22/12/11 21:28, Keith Edmunds wrote: On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said: real people using GNU/Linux operating systems. Nobody outside geekdom uses GNU/Linux: they use Linux You are pretty well correct in this, the cause

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread alan c
On 22/12/11 21:28, Keith Edmunds wrote: > On Thu, 22 Dec 2011 21:17:07 +, aecl...@candt.waitrose.com said: > >> real >> people using GNU/Linux operating systems. > > Nobody outside geekdom uses GNU/Linux: they use Linux You are pretty well correct in this, the cause is probably already lost.

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread Gordon Scott
On Fri, 2011-12-23 at 09:55 +, Jack Knight wrote: > Well Jim, you've only got 1 year to go before you can (re)adopt the > practice I have done - i.e. quoting your rapidly increasing age in > Hex; 40 has a nice ring to it don't you think? ;^)= I've long since adopted a mathematical system. T

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread Tony Wood
Tony Wood ( hex 47 ) :-) (from Linux PC) On 23/12/11 11:12, Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote: On 23 December 2011 10:03, john lewis > wrote: but 4F looks odd!! -- John Lewis using Debian sid -- Please post to: Hampshire@mailman.lug.org

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread John Cooper
Celsius not centigrade! http://chemistry.about.com/b/2010/09/20/difference-between-celsius-and-centigrade.htm On 24/12/11 13:09, Simon Reap wrote: On 23/12/2011 17:46, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: Many people, I know, use Fahrenheit. But does it make sense to anybody?? Centigrade clearly

Re: [Hampshire] Linux Answers

2011-12-24 Thread Simon Reap
On 23/12/2011 17:46, hants...@googlemail.com wrote: Many people, I know, use Fahrenheit. But does it make sense to anybody?? Centigrade clearly doesn't to weather forecasters, several of whom have recently said that temperatures of 11 degC are twice the seasonal average - since "twice" implie