Re: Australian Digital Education Revolutionbeing a BIG blow for Linux.

2010-05-26 Thread Paul Shirren
On 26/05/10 1:27 PM, Steven O'Reilly wrote: I'm not sure where to begin trying to fix that! It is a bit beyond the realm of mere mortals. A few people have tried I think. Money and politics. The DER netbooks get all the headlines but they are not the whole story. We are one of the richest

Re: Australian Digital Education Revolutionbeing a BIG blow for Linux.

2010-05-25 Thread Paul Shirren
On 25/05/10 9:05 AM, ha...@ipunix.com wrote: All this points out that we the Linux (Ubuntu) users must be active not only within our own group(s) but engage direct with the community in general, visit schools, educate hardware vendors and lobby with the Australian Federal and State

Re: Getting reapproved

2010-05-15 Thread Paul Shirren
On 15/05/10 8:32 AM, Andre Mangan wrote: Who or what is jdub? jdub is a past Gnome release manager, SLUG president and early Canonical employee and has done a lot more besides. In 2003 or 2004 when I posted a comment about how I wished Debian had a desktop orientated branch with regular release

Re: Where can I find an online anti-virus...

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Shirren
This spam has gone out to multiple lists with different sender emails. I wouldn't waste time on it even if it wasn't completely off topic. -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Where can I find an online anti-virus...

2009-09-23 Thread Paul Shirren
On 24/09/09 10:04 AM, mike james wrote: sucker = me :) Not at all. It would be terrible if we were all so cynical that we didn't respond to calls for help. Online communities rely on goodwill and these people abuse it. Lots of great replies from everyone as usual. I have seen posts with the

Re: Hardware companies, Microsoft, Competition and Consumer Choice

2009-05-20 Thread Paul Shirren
db wrote: (as this is in the eula and Most retail outlets / vendors are not aware of this and it is difficult to follow up). Didn't the EULA change with Vista so the refund terms are up to the supplier? I think some companies have an additional EULA that says you must return the whole lot

Re: Ubuntu One (U1)

2009-05-12 Thread Paul Shirren
Matthew Hannigan wrote: Why? What is it? Can't you give any info in your mail? Looks to be just another cloud backup service at the moment. Hopefully something more in the future. I currently use Dropbox on notebook/netbook and Amazon S3 with s3sync on server. So will be interesting to compare

Re: aussie team meeting

2009-05-03 Thread Paul Shirren
peter baker wrote: so I propose we have next tuesday, the 12th of may. I think they used to start around 9pm What is on the agenda? -- ubuntu-au mailing list ubuntu-au@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-au

Re: Laptops

2009-03-17 Thread Paul Shirren
David Ryder wrote: I'm after a notebooks which I will only put Ubuntu (8+) on. I want the internet camera and mic built in (Ekiga, Skype). Linux usually has outstanding hardware support. It will often detect and work with hardware where Windows will require third party drivers. The problem

Re: Netbook

2009-02-09 Thread Paul Shirren
IKT wrote: Has anyone seen/got experience with the MSI wind? My wife has one running Intrepid. She loves it. I had to add a ppa or get a deb for the wireless driver I think. And I did a few theme, font, key, gconf options to make the most of the limited screen size. -- ubuntu-au mailing list

Re: How do I set up a dialer to open my account at Tadaust?

2009-01-29 Thread Paul Shirren
Hey Dean, are you touring around the country or still in Loxton? There are Ubuntu people everywhere you know :-) Dean and Margaret Kilsby wrote: Hi For the last two days I have busted my head trying to get Ubuntu to dial up the internet. Ok I am old and not up to these things but I have tried

Re: SOLVED !!! Re: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications

2009-01-06 Thread Paul Shirren
Peter Williams wrote: I went to the above mentioned link and found this webpage: http://keysigning.org/event/lca2009 Don't worry about the keysigning Peter. That is for developers attending the conference. The Open Day is on Saturday 24th January at the University of Tasmania, Sandy Bay

Re: SOLVED !!! Re: Help!!! Music player Amarok has error about DCOP communications

2009-01-03 Thread Paul Shirren
Hi Peter, Peter Williams wrote: To my great happiness (poor wording, I know!!!) - my Ubuntu Mint (Elyssa) OS is now working almost perfectly!!! *BIG SMILE HAPPY GRIN**!!! Well done. Can you please not refer to Mint Linux as Ubuntu Mint. Mint and Ubuntu are two separate projects with their

Re: Open assets etc. in new 'Desk'

2008-12-31 Thread Paul Shirren
Simon Ives wrote: My primary computer is a notebook with a relatively small screen. Consequently, I utilise four virtual 'desks' (in Gnome) when working with various assets. I usually have open on 'desk' one the root directory containing the assets (and their sub-assets), and I open

Re: softqware for Molds test??

2008-04-29 Thread Paul Shirren
squareyes wrote: Does anyone know of any software I could install to allow a Telstra tec to do a Molds Test on my machine. Everything seems to be firmly Windows entrenched. Install the minicom package using the package manager. Open a terminal and type minicom. You may need to reconfigure it