Re: re ubuntu in western Australia

2008-11-01 Thread Senectus .
2008/10/31 phils linux box [EMAIL PROTECTED] Any one over in this part of the world ? Australia seems teh poorer relation as not much I can find since May 2007 regards Phil WA -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Photo import utilities

2008-11-01 Thread en0f
Paul Gear wrote: daniel sobey wrote: If you like picassa why not use that? it has a wine based port. http://picasa.google.com/linux/ I already do use it, but i find its import facilities rather shaky. Since i upgraded to the 3.0 beta, lots of things work better, but it doesn't find my

Re: Photo import utilities

2008-11-01 Thread Callan Jefferson Davies
I'd really like something that just automatically grabs the non-transferred photos from the camera and puts them in appropriate folders on my system - no questions asked, just like the Canon utility does automatically when you connect the camera on Windows. Hi Paul, Personally, I find

re: A new Blueprint I have just proposed

2008-11-01 Thread Dave Hall
On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 12:08 +1000, Mark Unwin wrote: So leave that there, but make a DVD for eveyone (everything) else. Would also suggest they _only_ make it available via bittorrent, or a local ISP mirror. But that's more a business decision, and not in scope... The local ISP mirror is

xubuntu upgrade/install

2008-11-01 Thread Sebastian Spiess
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi all, yes it is upgrade time again. I want to do a fresh install on a old dell laptop. until now it ran xubuntu gusty. the notebook has ~380 RAM So donwloaded live CD and booted from it and it always gets stuck whith 'starting GNOME desktop

Re: xubuntu upgrade/install

2008-11-01 Thread Daniel Mons
Sebastian Spiess wrote: So donwloaded live CD and booted from it and it always gets stuck whith 'starting GNOME desktop manager' I've had a few people tell me the same, and upon investigation the system did eventually get into GNOME, but could take upwards of half an hour to get there due to