Re: [ubuntu-uk] os-commerce

2013-05-03 Thread Philip Newborough
On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 9:14 AM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 03/05/13 03:44, Phill Whiteside wrote: Nah, it is a 'how big are you', 'how many people are you' and 'what is the turn over' before you can even look at the demo. Thanks for the hint, but I prefer f/oss at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Xubuntu 11.10 Problems

2011-10-17 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Oct 17, 2011 at 12:46 AM, Nigel Verity nigelver...@hotmail.com wrote: some real problems. The online upgrade crashed, the system recovery option on the LiveCD didn't work and the full install has resulted in a system whereby most of the theme settings are ignored by most applications,

[ubuntu-uk] Which NVIDIA GPU for Natty?

2011-06-13 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello Peeps I have a Dell Studio 540 system with integrated Intel i915(?) graphics controller. The system works well, but I am wondering if it would benefit from an upgrade? I am looking at purchasing an NVIDIA card, but I am somewhat lost as to which one. I am not too bothered about it being the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which NVIDIA GPU for Natty?

2011-06-13 Thread Philip Newborough
Thanks for all the suggestions so far. After looking into some of the suggested cards, it looks like I might be limited by my system's PSU, which is only 350W -- this is lower than recommended for Alan's initial suggestion. :( I could upgrade the PSU, but I would rather not. So, I am now looking

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote: On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking GB's) and take payment from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Want to create an advert for Ubuntu?

2010-12-04 Thread Philip Newborough
On Sat, Dec 4, 2010 at 12:09 PM, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 6:50 PM, danteash...@gmail.com danteash...@gmail.com wrote: (Gloucestershire College) and our work will also find it's way onto the Not being any time of media person, really, I can't usefully

Re: [ubuntu-uk] apache not correctly running php scripts

2010-10-23 Thread Philip Newborough
On 20 October 2010 23:42, Marc Deslauriers marcdeslauri...@videotron.ca mailto:marcdeslauri...@videotron.ca wrote:     On Wed, 2010-10-20 at 22:29 +0100, Jacob Mansfield wrote:     I am trying to install squirrelmail onto my new mail server, however     it appears that Apache is not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Conky doesn't display on XFCE desktop

2010-09-17 Thread Philip Newborough
On Fri, Sep 17, 2010 at 10:13 AM, Matt Sturdy matt.stu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi guys, I recently made the switch to XFCE, and mostly it's working well.  Quick, clean interface etc. The one thing I can't fix is Conky.  It used to display on the nautilus desktop... and it still starts up with no

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing

2010-05-13 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Anyone fancy helping out with this? If so just say so here, and we can work out the details when I get back from UDS. Sign me up! :) -- Philip -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[Bug 533956] Re: Wrong edges rendering with xcompmgr

2010-04-04 Thread Philip Newborough
** Also affects: terminator Importance: Undecided Status: New -- Wrong edges rendering with xcompmgr https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/533956 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list

[Bug 533956] Re: Wrong edges rendering with xcompmgr

2010-04-04 Thread Philip Newborough
Not sure if this helps, but from what I have read, this issue seems to apply to applications which use the VTE widget. I have read quite a few confirmations of this bug, but I cannot tell whether the bug should be filed against applications using VTE, VTE itself, or xcompmgr. I would suspect it to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Virtual private server recomendations

2009-11-26 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:02:28 + Andrew Williams a...@tensixtyone.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 26, 2009 at 01:42:39PM +, dan attwood wrote: Ideally the server will have around 1gig of ram, 30 gig of disk space, a nice fat pipe the conect it to the web, a static IP and run Linux (I'm prefer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast season two

2009-04-02 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, 2 Apr 2009 10:44:13 +0100 Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Just a quick mail to let you know that episode 1 of season 2 of the Ubuntu Podcast from members of the UK LoCo team is out. http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2009/04/01/s02e01-the-return/ Feedback and suggestion as ever are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mobile Broadband

2009-01-19 Thread Philip Newborough
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 00:48:43 + Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 12:31 AM, Colin McCarthy binarysig...@gmail.com wrote: As 'Three' customer my dongle is only £5 a month for 1GB. More than enough mobile bandwidth. If I'm programming websites on ssh I

[Bug 271932] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in DRIGetContextStore()

2008-09-18 Thread Philip Newborough
** Visibility changed to: Public -- Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in DRIGetContextStore() https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/271932 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

2008-09-04 Thread Philip Newborough
Disregarding any debatable elements of the article, I think it was a _fairly_ positive review from an obvious Linux novice. Do not get me wrong, I am all for supporting Ubuntu and Linux, however; let's face it, it isn't perfect, and articles such as this go a long way to providing insight into

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

2008-09-04 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Beardall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You're right, Philip, the real issues were actually few in number but my real objection is the way Linux is portrayed in articles such as this by the BBC. It seems to me the BBC are more concerned with looking cool in

[Bug 190950] Re: gnome-desktop-environment can not be installed

2008-08-23 Thread Philip Newborough
Same here: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install gnome-desktop-environment Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lug Radio Live Approaches

2008-07-08 Thread Philip Newborough
On Wed, Jul 9, 2008 at 12:01 AM, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, Lug Radio Live is coming up v. soon, Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th of this month to be precise. So if you're attending, sign up on the wiki, and if you can help out at the stall, sign up for that as well.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wanted: Podcast transcribers

2008-06-25 Thread Philip Newborough
On Wed, Jun 25, 2008 at 2:31 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 13:24 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: Do you have a better suggestion? Anyone seen what other podcasts do? I know there are pay-for services ranging from 30-40 cents USD per minute, but we thought this might

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an American nuke machine! What a surprise! I believe its name is WOPR and it plays a mean game of Tic Tac Toe :P --- Philip --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC listen again service

2008-06-17 Thread Philip Newborough
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This fixed the problem. I had to disable the totem plugin by deleting /usr/lib/xulrunner-addons/plugins/libtotem-complex* as both the RealPlayer plugin and the totem one want to handle real audio, and the totem one wins for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC listen again service

2008-06-16 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 8:57 PM, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haev a new installation of Hardy and I'm having trouble with listening to anything on the BBC's listen again service. There is either no sound at all or it is very broken and incomprehensible. iplayer works fine for both

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC listen again service

2008-06-16 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 9:12 PM, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Tony, do have a link to one of the troublesome pages? Sure, go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/pip/1z1bm/ and then click on the 'listen again to this programme'. Thanks for the link. I gave it a try and it worked

[ubuntu-marketing] From the ground.

2008-06-13 Thread Philip Newborough
Hi All, I do not like to make a fuss, so I will keep this brief. I am unsubscribing from this list. I have been a subscriber for more than a year, but the recent noise and almost troll like behaviour [intentional or not] has worn a little too thin for my tastes. IMHO, I think some of the more

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam poll - help required (please)

2008-06-05 Thread Philip Newborough
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please tell me:- A) What hardware you used (specifically the webcam) Webcam: Creative Technology, Ltd WebCam NX Pro 2 Laptop: trusty old Toshiba Satellite Pro SP6100 B) Did this work? Yes. C) If it didn't, what

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Meeting Preparation - learning from the past

2008-06-05 Thread Philip Newborough
On Fri, Jun 6, 2008 at 3:19 AM, John Botscharow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need to clarify my earlier statement about a foru, I did not mean it as a REPLACEMENT for the list, but rather as a SUPPLEMENTARY form of communication. Your comments about a forum being erb-based and static which I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Webcam poll - help required (please)

2008-06-04 Thread Philip Newborough
On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 2:27 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please tell me:- A) What hardware you used (specifically the webcam) B) Did this work? C) If it didn't, what went wrong? D) Did you find it relatively easy to do? E) Did you get the green flash at the start of your

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] Organizational meeting proposed

2008-05-29 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 11:01 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: PLEASE respond with your time zone ASAP so this meeting can happen and we can get this team doing what it supposed to do - MARKETING!!! British Summer Time (GMT +1) Chris Another bod from the UK here. UTC +1. ---

Re: [ubuntu-uk] command line converting vid files

2008-05-12 Thread Philip Newborough
Perhaps we need a better description of what this mailing list is about? Suggestions welcome. I think British Ubuntu Talk works quite well, however, over the last few months I have read some threads on the list where the contributers would maybe have benefited from reading a list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] watch tv on ubuntu!

2008-05-12 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok sorry, i know the current discussion about me posting extensively is in full swing but i had to post this!!! as i havent seen anyone else do it.yet...or maybe i missed it...!!! A TV app! LOL, you're an addict --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A Possible Experiment

2008-05-11 Thread Philip Newborough
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 10:01 AM, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 7:53 PM, Ciaran Mooney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I don't think it would be too difficult to set up a temporary set of Ubuntu machines in a local library, and ask the public to do a series of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast Episode 5 out!

2008-05-08 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 12:04 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all.. We released episode 5 of the podcast today. Here's the link:- http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/2008/05/07/s01e05-everybody-come-aboard/ As always feedback and comments are welcome, both positive and negative.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hardy Heron and Firefox

2008-04-28 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 6:47 PM, Thomas Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: George McLachlan wrote: I have had hardy running in some shape or form since, well I can't remember, but one of the early alpha's. Now it has been released all should be fine and good, but the performance of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 in Hardy

2008-04-28 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Colin, I imagine they'll release a 8.04.1 release once Firefox 3 goes final (an updated release like they have done in the past). Jai I have no doubt, in fact it says as much in the release notes: Ubuntu 8.04

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 7.10

2008-04-28 Thread Philip Newborough
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 11:18 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have just installed and started using 7.10 so far it is very good and easy to use. I am having a problem, I want to login as root so that I can change the permissions on a hard drive. I have set a root password but it refuses

[ubuntu-uk] The day after...

2008-04-25 Thread Philip Newborough
...the release night parties, and all is quite on the list :| Hope everyone who attended last night's various parties had a great time! Did anyone take any photos? Cheers Philip -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[Bug 216698] [NEW] xpad 100% CPU bug

2008-04-13 Thread Philip Newborough
Public bug reported: Binary package hint: xpad Package: xpad (2.13-1) [universe] https://edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/hardy/+source/xpad Problem: Application uses 100% CPU. See: http://xpad.sourceforge.net/news Solution: There is a new version available which fixes this issue. Package needs

[Bug 216698] Re: xpad 100% CPU bug

2008-04-13 Thread Philip Newborough
If some would like to offer to mentor/provide guidance, I would like to attempt to fix this package. I have already packaged version 2.14 for my own use and would like to contribute back to Ubuntu and the community. Thanks. See: http://crunchbang.org/archives/2008/04/13/xpad-sticky-notes/ --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Brainstorm site

2008-02-28 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 10:02 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:35:41PM +, Paul Mellors wrote: I suspect it will get used for a few days, then get forgotten about. Not if I have anything to do with it :) I'll be helping to admin the site when it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] By way of introduction

2008-01-20 Thread Philip Newborough
On Jan 20, 2008 1:10 PM, Mark Burns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I have just got recently got myself sorted with a Launchpad login, and have been lurking on this mailing list for a few months, I thought it may be about time to introduce myself. My name is Mark Burns, I'm a Web Developer from

Re: [ubuntu-art] 8.04 Theme

2007-12-23 Thread Philip Newborough
On Dec 23, 2007 4:23 PM, Jayson Rowe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This post is mostly to satisfy my curiosity. I have been using the 'Darkilouche' theme on my systems since discovering it a few months ago, and with all the talk of a dark/orange theme for 8.04, I was wondering if this theme has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quad core CPU for Ubuntu, is it worth it?

2007-12-17 Thread Philip Newborough
On Dec 17, 2007 9:27 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 09:13:28AM +, Kirrus wrote: The technical stuff behind multi-core processors mean that more processors are only really useful if you're going to be running a number of cpu-intensive tasks on your computer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Email hosts (was Re: (no subject))

2007-12-06 Thread Philip Newborough
On Dec 7, 2007 12:30 AM, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Daniel Lamb wrote: Me? Or you could use fasthosts, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7131431.stm http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11/30/fasthost_hack_update/ You *really* don't want to use fasthosts. John I second

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Asus PC with Ubuntu pre-installed and 2GB ram

2007-11-24 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 24, 2007 9:38 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Just noticed that Efficient PC are selling Asus Eee PCs with a 2GB RAM upgrade and Ubuntu pre-installed. Looks like a nice deal. http://efficientpc.co.uk/laptops/eeepc701b-ubuntu/ Cheers, Al. I wish you guys would stop

Re: [ubuntu-art] Curiousity:)

2007-11-21 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 21, 2007 8:03 PM, Carlos Moreno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: titon barua wrote: Hi ppl, i know it's like flamming but i would really like to ask suttleworth why did he choose gnome, not kde as default(i'm aware abt kubuntu)? With upcoming kde4, i think ubuntu should default kde I think

Re: [ubuntu-art] Members details

2007-11-20 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 20, 2007 7:38 PM, Steph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I just wanted to know from wich country is everybody here, and wich language do you speak (might be useful). I thought about a new Member Page on the Ubuntu Wiki, section Art, but maybe it's too private for some of us ? I'm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] lack of command-line installation...

2007-11-12 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 12, 2007 10:52 AM, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I have to install Ubuntu on challenged boxes (ie. those with limited memory) I do miss the old Install CD or, indeeed, just an Install option on the grub menu that could avoid having to boot into the Live CD which is, by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another happy Ubuntu user :-)

2007-11-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 10, 2007 8:39 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, Just got back from helping out a work colleague's Mum with her fresh install of Ubuntu. I can't remember if I mentioned but he asked me a couple of weeks ago if I could 're-install' Windows XP on her PC. Basically her PC

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 10, 2007 9:41 PM, Dianne Reuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, handhelds and Windows. I thought it would be an opportunity to show off Ubuntu both to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Games with a Christmas theme

2007-11-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On Nov 10, 2007 10:29 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 21:41 +, Dianne Reuby wrote: We're planning a gamers day for Christmas at the Museum of Computing - we have quite a few games with a Christmas theme lined up for consoles, handhelds and Windows. I

[ubuntu-marketing] Ubuntu Christmas Marketing Campaign

2007-11-08 Thread Philip Newborough
, if the campaign gets some support and starts to fly what are the chances of getting a dedicated landing page on the ubuntu.com domain? Cheers Philip Newborough --- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PhilipNewborough https://launchpad.net/~corenominal -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Goodbye all

2007-11-02 Thread Philip Newborough
On 11/2/07, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick note to say Goodbye to all those doing good work with Ubuntu. However, I'm afraid that given that appears acceptable behaviour on this list to make accusations of exploitation and corruption, and present that in language of a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do you use the forums...?

2007-11-02 Thread Philip Newborough
On 11/2/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 18:07 +, Dave Walker wrote: On Fri, 2007-11-02 at 17:19 +, Ian Pascoe wrote: and if we don't Then you cannot take part in the Poll .. yet another reason the forums are limiting. Woah there

[ubuntu-uk] Video: Zombies in Plain English

2007-10-26 Thread Philip Newborough
Just a bit of Friday fun: http://www.commoncraft.com/zombies Enjoy :D -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting BBC Poll Choices

2007-10-26 Thread Philip Newborough
On 26/10/2007, andylockran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Martyn wrote: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/default.stm Options: Will you be buying Leopard? Yes - I need new spots! No - Tiger for me! I'm a Windows user! Vote! -- Matthew G Larsen [EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Interesting link..

2007-10-18 Thread Philip Newborough
On 18/10/2007, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 18/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently some crazy fools have put together a bunch of software and released it for free! https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-announce/2007-October/000105.html Who'd have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] help!i want to control my torrents over the web!

2007-10-15 Thread Philip Newborough
On 15/10/2007, STONE COLD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hi, i was looking for a torrent client i could control over the web. Synaptic found torrentflux.but It states it uses something called php. Im not a techhead so i dont know what this is! Can anyone help me set up this or point me in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] help!i want to control my torrents over the web!

2007-10-15 Thread Philip Newborough
On 15/10/2007, STONE COLD [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that i can do.! any walkthroughs that will help in this? I'll see if I can write one tonight and stick it on my blog for tomorrow. I would do it now but I'm working nights at the mo and need to get some kip. I'll post you the link when it's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Submitting articles to newspapers/local mags

2007-10-14 Thread Philip Newborough
On 13/10/2007, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/10/2007, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, This is just a quick post to the list, asking you to consider writing to your local newspaper or magazine to promote Ubuntu. The article has already been written for

[ubuntu-uk] Gutsy or Feisty for install party?

2007-10-10 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello list I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your opinions on which version to take along? I've got a feeling I'll probably end up taking a mix, however it'd be nice to hear what your opinions are.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] war stories, was: RM £169 linux-ok notebook

2007-10-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On 10/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Kirrus, On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:40 +0100, Kirrus wrote: AAAHHAHAHAA!!! RM! Heh. I know a few people who have that same reaction :(. I used to go to a school, who got all computers services from RM. We had at least one major

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy or Feisty for install party?

2007-10-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On 10/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:19 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote: I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your opinions on which version to take

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Tag Lines?

2007-10-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On 10/10/2007, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So phill, whatever happened to the stuff you were working on? Well, I'm still working on it :D You can see a prototype ad in the sidebar of my blog. See http://crunchbang.org/ and look down the right column for the Ubuntu add - if you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [ADMIN] Next meeting 13/10/07 @ 20:30 BST in #ubuntu-uk

2007-10-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On 06/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, The next Ubuntu-UK Team meeting will be held via IRC at 20:30 BST (that's 19:30 UTC) on Saturday 13th October 2007 in #ubuntu-uk. We encourage everyone who is a member of the UKTeam to attend whether to take part or merely watch from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy or Feisty for install party?

2007-10-10 Thread Philip Newborough
On 10/10/2007, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:19 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote: I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your opinions on which version to take along

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Who's got/ordered Dell Ubuntu Laptops?

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Newborough
On 07/10/2007, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Title says it all really. I just ordered one three minutes ago xD -- Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ Nice. I'm now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [IDEA] ICS calendar of meetings

2007-10-07 Thread Philip Newborough
On 07/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 21:44 +, Freddie Ruddick wrote: On Sun, 2007-10-07 at 19:22 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: If the one I have attached works then yes, we can. Let me know. That's great Alan, thanks a lot. The big question is, is there

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open Season - Shuttleworth

2007-10-05 Thread Philip Newborough
On 05/10/2007, Eddie Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just thought I'd bring this to everyones's attention Open Season - Shuttleworth http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/10/04/open_season_four_shuttleworth/ and the Open Season http://www.theregister.co.uk/software/open_season/ in general

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

2007-10-05 Thread Philip Newborough
On 05/10/2007, andylockran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing Virtual Richard Stallman on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were installed. Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for something to waste

[ubuntu-marketing] Status of the Spread Ubuntu Project?

2007-10-05 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello list, I'm interested in helping out with the Spread Ubuntu project. I spent the best part of yesterday afternoon reading about the project on the Wiki - however I failed to get a real understanding of where the project is at. From what I can gather it appears as if the project has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers

2007-10-04 Thread Philip Newborough
On 03/10/2007, Matthew Daubney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Harrison wrote: I have a number of mates who install home automation stuff (web control of lights, multi-room audio and so on.) Quite a few of them have moved to laptops for the home control servers because of their ability

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Home Servers

2007-10-03 Thread Philip Newborough
On 03/10/2007, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got a laptop with a broken screen as my home server. Got it for free from a family member but they are dirt cheap and fleabay. Its got 80GB storage, integrated UPS, (very) low power consumption and with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Voting Processes and Democracy

2007-10-01 Thread Philip Newborough
On 01/10/2007, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As I'm sure that most of you are aware a discussion has taken place on the mailing list as to the legitimacy and accuracy of the PoC election process. I'm becoming somewhat concerned at the direction these discussions are taking, as on

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Tag Lines?

2007-10-01 Thread Philip Newborough
Hello list I'm working on some web based adverts to do a little Ubuntu advocacy. Now I know you 'orrible lot are a talented bunch [FYI - that was some flattery] so I thought I'd ask for your ideas and opinions. Basically there's an image based link along with a text based link. The images are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Linux may void the warranty

2007-09-14 Thread Philip Newborough
Yep, it's a strange one. People install all sorts of software on their Windows machines and yet I bet this wouldn't void the warranty. I'd be interested to read the *actual* warranty that came with the machine. Cracked screen hinge or not, I guess if it's in the warranty then it's in the warranty.