On 05/11/12 15:46, Chris Dennis wrote:
Yes. Adam had to shut down most access to the wiki because of all the
spam. And my very brief reading of the MoinMoin documentation
suggests that the system wasn't designed to be secure: it's open to
either everyone or no-one (except for
I could find a home for at least one, my daughter's PC has a horribly
cracked screen where my son threw a playstation controller at it! Good
excuse for me to come to Nokia on Saturday, I don't get to many LUG meets.
Alan.
On 10/05/11 10:34, RobinT Catling wrote:
Can anyone find a use for 2 x
Alan Bell wrote:
I am going on a little adventure to Broadcasting house in London on
Friday to be interviewed for the Click ON programme in relation to the
general election and in particular the http://votegeek.org.uk website.
At the moment it is suffering a bit of voter apathy and I don't
well that was fun! I was interviewed in the studio where they record the
Moral Maze and other things, I don't know how much they will play and
how much gets cut, but do listen out on Monday from 16:30 to 17:00 (I
think my bit is right at the end)
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Samuel Penn wrote:
Fair enough. Though I would say that what previous MPs have
voted for is probably a good indication of how they'll behave
if they're re-elected. It doesn't make them less interesting
just because we know something about their history.
yes, poor choice of words on my
Sean Gibbins wrote:
On 13/04/10 12:42, Alan Bell wrote:
Sean Gibbins wrote:
On the subject of voter apathy I would say: what's the point?
I could argue with you about that, but frankly I can't be bothered :-)
I wasn't serious Alan, just being
sam wrote:
On Tue, 13 Apr 2010 11:04:00 +0100, Alan Bell
alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
I am going on a little adventure to Broadcasting house in London on
Friday to be interviewed for the Click ON programme in relation to the
general election and in particular the http
I am going on a little adventure to Broadcasting house in London on
Friday to be interviewed for the Click ON programme in relation to the
general election and in particular the http://votegeek.org.uk website.
At the moment it is suffering a bit of voter apathy and I don't have as
many interesting
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
On 13 April 2010 11:04, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com
mailto:alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
Please spare a few minutes to email your candidates and ask them all
about their position on an issue that matters to you, and share
Hi all,
with the General Election just round the corner I am putting together a
little website to help organise a letter writing campaign asking the
candidates what they think about the issues that matter to us. This is a
project supported by the Free Software Foundation Europe amongst others.
Vic wrote:
http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2009/11/gimp-to-be-removed-lucid.html
GIMP won't be dropped entirely (that would be totally stupid) it's just
not
being installed by default. F-Spot will be installed by default.
So Mono will be installed by default. That'll please a lot of
Hugo Mills wrote:
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 10:42:07AM +, Alan Pope wrote:
2009/10/27 jerry.w...@gmail.com:
My new mpc arrived yesterday at home. I ditched all of the pointless
packaging and brought the dinky white cardboard box into work to try the
thing out but I left the
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/9/25 Stephen Rowles step...@rowles.org.uk:
showing some nice hacks as examples of the functionality that it has.
It runs Firefox (Fennec) as a browser and I've seen a photo on the web
of it running a root terminal so it should be easy to get access and
configure /
I have had time to mull over
the various suggestions and tried a few things out.
Bye for now,
Chris.
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Tel: +44 (0)8444 3576000
The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd
go to system-administration-software sources
In the download from dropdown select other
press the Select Best Server button
this will ping everything and work out which is actually closest to you
You can also browse through the UK list of servers and choose one you
think is closest if you want.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/KarmicRATParty
The Real Ale Train
The Watercress Line http://www.watercressonline.co.uk/ is a small
steam powered railway line in Hampshire. It runs from Alton Station to
Alresford
Rob Malpass wrote:
Thanks Al but I visit that link about once a week. I think just about
everything I've picked up on is a known bug. What I need is a dualhead
setup where the secondary monitor effectively becomes a magnified version of
whatever's underneath the pointer.
that is a
this bit is the speed rating:
PC2-6400
PC2-5300
and the 6400 one is faster. If your computer doesn't support PC2-6400 it should
just operate at 5300 speeds. In fact the 800 and the 667 is the speed in Mhz I
think.
Alan.
Lisi wrote:
What are the relative advantages and disadvantages of two
well one way or another there will be at least one externally
addressable open port, whether that is forwarded to another device or
directly serviced by the router doesn't make much difference. If you are
providing a VPN for people to use from home then a PPTP or openVPN thing
will be fine
://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/libertus.html
http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/libertus-eruditus.html
Now all we have to do is tell the world about it, without spending too
much money that we don't have, any help in this task would be gratefully
received.
Alan.
Alan Bell wrote:
We are trying out a new business
you might want to ponder a bit on the implications of an existence of a
boatload of refurbs though.
I think you can get the same motherboard in a slightly better bit of
plastic from Elonex for £99 brand new. If you want a really cheap MIPS
processor to play with then go for it. It is a
where does one get a daily image? I tried Alpha 4 in virtualbox
(wouldn't boot on the PC I tried it on - but that might be a badly
burned CD) I couldn't see much obvious different to Intrepid, I couldn't
even get a fancy new notification to happen, but I didn't try for more
than a few minutes.
there may be some academic projects to compress particular types of data
in particularly clever ways, but you have listed all the main general
purpose lossless tools. If possible you might use lossy compression,
which could mean recoding image content at lower quality settings, but
this really
thanks, that is interesting.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200809/cmbills/009/09009.i-v.html#top
section 152 begins:
After section 50 of the Data Protection Act 1998 (c. 29) insert—
the whole thing appears to be a bunch of patches to existing law,
section 8 being a patch for the
We are trying out a new business idea, pre-configured server appliances
bundled with services (setup and a bit of training)
I would like a bit of feedback on our website pages about them.
http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/liberatus.html
We are going to set up a store for online purchases
Victor Churchill wrote:
2009/2/13 Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com:
We are trying out a new business idea, pre-configured server appliances
bundled with services (setup and a bit of training)
I would like a bit of feedback on our website pages about them.
http
Lisi wrote:
I hope you really meant that. I have been avoiding saying anything, because
I
feared that you didn't - so read no further if you didn't really, really mean
it!
we didn't want to include other people's trademarks in our model names
(i.e. no Liberatus Moodle) so we picked
source, I
gave up buying HDs at auctions/on ebay a long time ago.
Andy
--
Alan Bell
The Open Learning Centre
Web: www.theopenlearningcentre.com
Mob: +44 (0)7736 778908
Tel: +44 (0)8444 3576000
The Open Learning Centre is a trading name of Bell Lord Ltd,
a company registered in England
I am planning a little get together of Alans and others. So far Alan,
Alan and possibly Alan have confirmed attendance, but the more the
merrier, being called Alan is not compulsory.
The venue will be the Herbert Wells pub in Woking
Any chance of a weekday evening meeting (or daytime for that matter but
I suspect evening would suit more people) from time to time. Saturdays
are really not a good day for me at all.
Alan.
Hants LUG Chairman wrote:
Hello,
Just a quick reminder about our next two meetings.
Saturday 13
I have changed the site a bit, it is now based on WordPress, the home
page isn't there yet but take a look at http://donttellbill.com/test it
is somewhat broken in IE at the moment but that is fixable. There is a
new logo which I would be interested in comments about.
Using WordPress means we
I just drew the text with a mouse in the gimp, I just had an idea of the
concept and it occurred to me whilst doing it that I could reposition
the finger and save myself writing a B. It really needs redoing
properly, perhaps as an SVG. Anyone else want to have a crack at it?
Alan.
Lisi
Lisi wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2008 12:45:55 Mark Johnson wrote:
The only other suggestion I'd make is speed up some of the transitions
between the text a bit. It takes about 7 seconds for the first text to
appear, by which time I've lost interest. In general, I do like the general
Paul Stimpson wrote:
Can it be made plain in the submission rules that the purpose of it
isn't to bash MS. I could see how anyone who is rabidly anti-Redmond
might see the name and take it as an encouragement to do so.
yes it will be. I don't mind jokes at Microsoft's expense, or the
Chris. Aubrey-Smith wrote:
This is great! Just a couple of picky points:
o There seems to be a question mark missing; Screen 2, if I remember
correctly.
fixed
o The English noun is 'Licence'. I suggest that you might use
'licensing' instead.
good suggestion
We wouldn't want anyone to
are making this up as we go along so if you have comments and
suggestions it is likely that they will be incorporated.
Alan.
Daniel Pope wrote:
On Wed, Dec 03, 2008 at 11:34:13AM +, Alan Bell wrote:
Here http://www.theopenlearningcentre.com/Postcards.pdf
is some sample artwork
Tim wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2008 10:50:30 Paul Stimpson wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for this. It's a great idea. It even loads and displays correctly on
my Blackberry (unlike most Frontpage sites)
The front page at www.donttellbill.com looks really nice. Would it be
possible to put Don't
Mark Johnson wrote:
On Saturday 06 December 2008 11:03:38 Dr Adam Trickett wrote:
On Saturday 06 Dec 2008, Paul Stimpson wrote:
Hi,
Thanks for this. It's a great idea. It even loads and displays correctly
on my Blackberry (unlike most Frontpage sites)
I like the picture
yes, I would agree with that, Bill, whoever he is, should not appear
in anything. In fact I think the Bill of this campaign doesn't have a
surname and doesn't work for any particular company. He is just someone
who won't be happy if he finds out people are getting Free software and
enjoying
Simon Huggins wrote:
On Sat, Dec 06, 2008 at 10:04:27AM +, Alan Bell wrote:
Anyone who wants to do some promotional activity of Free/Open Source
software can join in.
Design and make your own Don't tell Bill thing - it could be anything,
Sorry is this just a Microsoft-bashing
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On Wednesday 03 Dec 2008, Alan Bell wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
snip rambling
We should be looking at ways of promoting what we
Dr Adam J Trickett wrote:
On Thu, 04 Dec 2008 at 11:35:07AM +, Alan Bell wrote:
That would make an interesting project to film for this
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuFreeCultureShowcase
Indeed, though you may need to tweak the language so that the
virus claim is toned down
I did think about don't tell Steve but then decided it isn't about any
specific Bill, just 'Bill' just like there wasn't a real Sid (I assume)
Alan.
Alan Pope wrote:
2008/12/3 Alan Bell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
as luck would have it we are working on a marketing campaign right now,
it is far
I am getting a bit fed up of my cheap and nasty flatbed USB scanner and
I wanted a sheetfed one. It seems these are scary expensive, however an
'all-in-one' printer/scanner/fax/floor cleaner thing is much more
affordable. Basic requirement is scanning multiple sheets of A4 paper
into SANE or
well if you can wait a little while there might be a jolly good online
store flogging Elonex webbooks. These are running Ubuntu and are jolly
good if I say so myself. They lack 3d drivers at the moment so Compiz
won't work but the hardware could do it and probably will one day. They
have an
ooh, I know what this is. You need to tell the soundcard a bit more
about your speaker configuration by adding something in /etc/modprobe.d,
we had this on the webbook but the other way round (the speakers
wouldn't turn off when you plugged in the headphones)
OpenERP seems quite nice, as does OpenBravo.
if the budget is low I would favor the smaller OpenERP, start by getting
a copy of the book.
http://www.openerp.com
http://www.openbravo.com
There is also www.gnuenterprise.org but that seems to be suffering a
total existence failure at the moment.
Sean Gibbins wrote:
Lisi wrote:
On Friday I was informed by Carphone Warehouse in Petersfield that the
Ubuntu
Webbook has been withdrawn from sale. They even thought that they had still
got some in the stockroom, but they are not allowed to sell them. :-( I
had
been intending to
Sean Gibbins wrote:
Lisi wrote:
On Friday I was informed by Carphone Warehouse in Petersfield that the
Ubuntu
Webbook has been withdrawn from sale. They even thought that they had still
got some in the stockroom, but they are not allowed to sell them. :-( I
had
been intending to
Hugo Mills wrote:
On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 12:42:22PM -, Mark Johnson wrote:
Linux is still very much considered a technical O/S, and users are
considered to be more technically minded than average users. Im sure
that most windows users wouldnt know how to trouble shoot. They expect
it
Nick Chalk wrote:
That might be useful advertising, but I'm not sure
what level of take-up you'd get.
I just want to see it listed as a choice.
CTX provides no technical support, so the
charities using it are likely to have professional
admins, either in-house or contracted. I doubt
I am interested in finding out a bit more about CTX
http://www.ctxchange.org/ and how prominent their work is in the
charitable sector. They provide donated hardware and proprietary
software to charities and I am having an interesting email conversation
with them about the possibility (or not) of
wrote:
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 09:42:49AM +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
also a bit of a worry are the new little laptops which are almost
embedded devices, they tend to run everything as root.
Really? Which ones? I'm told the eeePC doesn't for instance.
--
Alan Bell
The Open
for either.
So far I have only found PC World Maplins in Yeovil for obtaining
parts so will have to use an online vendor I think.
Suggestions as to likely cause of powering off are welcome.
--
Alan Bell
The Open Learning Centre
Web: www.theopenlearningcentre.com
Mob: +44 (0)7736
I think you are about right in your thinking, so Ubuntu as the host OS,
but what are the guest operating systems? What virtualisation software?
It might be more cost effective (and possibly cooler) to go for lots of
moderate processors/cores rather than a smaller number of screaming fast
ones.
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