On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 00:31 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Hey there,
I think it'll look great once it's been ported across to the new site
design, the site's looking really promising.
One thing that does strike me however is the banner across the top.
I'm not sure the ubuntu-uk logo needs
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 08:37 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:31:41AM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Hey there,
I think it'll look great once it's been ported across to the new site
design, the site's looking really promising.
One thing that does strike me however is
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:37:37AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Where can I submit some and what dimensions?
I dont think we have a process yet, but if we uploaded the whole site to bzr
then it would be nice to encourage members to use
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:53 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:37:46AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:37:37AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Where can I submit some and what dimensions?
I dont
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 12:50 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:23:49PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:53 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
Surely if you were told how to do it, it would pretty easy. I dont see
this
thing being done every day by every Ubuntu-UK
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:17 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
Alan,
Alan Pope wrote:
I have no idea what you're talking about. You are saying that flickr/google
video are proprietary social networking tools that we in the open source
community lack?
I think TheVeech is suggesting the open
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:00 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote:
On 09/05/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
This will of course happen once the stuff is in place - assuming we decide
to put the site in bzr. I just spoke to Jono and he is keen for us to do
this also.
Without getting
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 18:34 +0100, Michael Wood wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
snip
Great work on the site :)
- The random UK images are a good idea
- I don't like the yellow/green Ubuntu-UK logo background
Any ideas on what it should be replaced with ? I'd just been borrowing
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 19:20 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 10:37 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:39 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:37:37AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Where can I submit some and what dimensions?
I dont think we
pack at the moment is mugshot: http://mugshot.org/main
Thanks. Had a look at this, but didn't realise it was FLOSS. I'd love
to hear more about these tools.
I think TheVeech is suggesting the open source community should
create/manage/run more social networking tools such as flickr etc
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 16:53 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
Roman Abramovich buys Pluto.
Does he know it's not a planet any more:-)
Does he know he's not a manager? Does he even know he's not a
planet :oO
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On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 14:16 +0100, Stephen Morrish wrote:
The complete Google group of services are good.
Hi Stephen. Yes, they are (the Gbutts FF extension is pretty useful -
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3576 - esp. with dropdown
menu, horizontal).
I don't want to install
Yahoo's reported merger/takeover talks with MS means it's open (!) to
selling its independence to the highest bidder. That it's MS they're
talking with just emphasises my original stupidity and
short-sightedness. I should have been more savvy to the long-term
threat of something like this,
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 23:21 +0100, Gregory Kirby wrote:
However, if you can afford it, I would get an ethernet DSL modem as they
really do work out of the box, with no drivers necessary.
HI Matt,
Can I plug an ethernet modem into my existing ADSL BT/Demon connection?
You could get a
Personally, I think there's something that everyone needs to do before
they start talking up Linux.
MS has a huge marketing warchest and it's marketing has been highly
influential. We can talk to people till we're orange and brown in the
face but, once they leave the conversation, they're
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 21:03 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
OK, we've had lots of ideas and some quite warm debate, and a secret
need to
find out about the Veeches mate's girl friend (!)
You ARE going to get me into trouble!
but what and where do we
go from here? Or is there still plenty to
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:09 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:50:57PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
[2] http://hants.lug.org.uk/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?InfoPoints/FlyerMasters
[3]
http://gllug.org.uk/index.php?/archives/25-Review-Software-Freedom-Day.html
[4] http://misc.allbsd.de
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 09:39 +0100, Keith Bowerman wrote:
Since I upgraded to Feisty last month, I have suffered a minor hiccough
whilst booting up.
When logging in, the Ubuntu desktop opens but without my four workspace
icons at the bottom right of the screen, and any filer window appears
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:13 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 12:50:57PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
About the medium, how about also getting a bunch of us to spend some
quality time collaborating on a series of screencasts, then distributing
them on video sites, via bittorrent
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 14:42 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
Right - I'll step forward as a marketeer :-)
However, in typical marketing style, I'm going to answer the question I
wish you'd asked instead... hence I'm going to talk about the general
flyers for use at shows issue, rather than the
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 11:14 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Thu, May 03, 2007 at 10:58:47AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Yes, but maybe it's a case of pooling our talents. E.g. you're
especially good at the narration but, I might be able to help with
others on ideas and scripts. Other people might
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 12:30 +0100, Keith Bowerman wrote:
Following advice from TheVeech, I saved the current session, rebooted
and everything's hunky dory.
It's easy when you know how isn't it?
Just have around the
System Preferences
and
System Administration
menus, to get a feel
On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:49 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote:
On 29/04/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've decided to give Vym another chance because I rely on mindpammping
quite a lot and because there was only one dependency (libqt3-mt) with
it. You never know, I might get attached
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 12:00 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
IMHO, the WD
Passport is a great piece of kit, especially for laptops and
people who
have to be mobile.
Yes, I'll keep it as backup but I would at some time like to have
Ubuntu on
it so that I could
On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 12:13 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
Guys and Dolls,
During the meeting last night on irc we discussed various marketing ideas.
These included the Tux 500 [0] campaign and the firefox New York Times
advert [2]. These seem to many of us to be very expensive options for
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 21:01 +0100, alan c wrote:
Thanks, yes, one of the test machines is using an external powered usb
hub - I also tried into the usb card directly on this, and a second
machine.
Still not working? If that's the case, I'd try to borrow a friend's kit
and see what happens.
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 21:34 +0100, Dave Walker wrote:
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 21:28 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
Could you install an equivilant of a Live CD onto a USB device?
Although I appreciate that this doesn't answer the original question,
I'd guess it would speed up the experience of
On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 18:31 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
On 4/29/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:30 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
Does one just download the .iso file below onto the desktop,
then onto
the HDD
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 08:56 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
On 28/04/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just got myself a 160gb WD Passport USB HDD for my laptop, so I've
freed
up my 2gb pendrive and I'm looking around for what to do to run a
fully
functioning distro (doesn't
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 16:12 +0100, alan c wrote:
I bought a multi card reader (external USB) some time ago for use with
CF cards which I was using at the time. I have recently begun using
SD cards and the first ones were 16MB and 1GB SD.
The 16MB has always been recognised immediately via
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 07:29 +0100, I C McNab wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:16 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
[SNIP]
Nowadays (IIRC like Alan Pope) I'm sticking to GNOME programs,
avoiding KDE. I use laptops as a rule, so this prevents resource
waste seeing as though
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:39 +0100, LeeUKHA wrote:
We've got time for you to try writing the disk image on the laptop.
Like I've said, though, if you can burn a disk image with software on
your existing Mac, give it a go.
Rather then messing about with burning CDs, why not just burn one
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:34 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
I'm afraid that my missus has put her oar in and insists that she has
the new machine. This means that I shall have to transfer all her
folders + Neooffice J (she doesn't like the later versions) on to the
new machine via pen drive
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 13:22 +0100, LeeUKHA wrote:
Yes, you're right, though it's a bit irrelevant now, since Robin's
ordered a CD from ShipIt.
I'm not sure what the delivery dates are currently, but last time I
ordered it took several weeks...
Damn. Hadn't thought of that. Thanks
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 13:40 +0100, I C McNab wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 07:29 +0100, I C McNab wrote:
I noticed your mention of mindmapping. What app do you use?
--
Ian
Hi. I've used:
Vym
http://www.insilmaril.de/vym/
Kdissert
http
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:52 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:41 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:26 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 12:16 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
I even thought about making the journey to Robin's and suggesting
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:51 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 10:34 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
I'm afraid that my missus has put her oar in and insists that she has
the new machine. This means that I shall have to transfer all her
folders + Neooffice J (she doesn't like
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 16:14 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
I've had a look at the forums (? fora) again, and gained no further
insight, their problems tend to be in isolation.
Well I think once you take a dislike to something, nothing's going to
shift you! :)
If you were to sum up much of the
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 16:37 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 16:14 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
Does this mean that Fiesty won't go on a PowerPCmac leaving me with
Dapper ?
No. It only means that there is no official support by Canonical. I'm
unsure of the
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:30 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
Neither am I, but I have a Mac which came with the machine. Does one
just download the .iso file below onto the desktop, then onto the
HDD ? Surely it cannot be that easy. Back on Tuesday.
Firstly, you download the iso to your HDD.
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:14 +0100, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:03 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Hi Toby, have you got any experience with these machines? If so,
can
you give Robin a hand with the preparation for the install? To us
it's
probably an easy task, but everyone's
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 20:30 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
Does one just download the .iso file below onto the desktop, then onto
the HDD ?
Download the iso
Burn the disk image (iso) to CD
Boot computer from the CD (this is the install)
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On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 09:23 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:10 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
If you wanted Picasa, an easy way to install it may be to use Automatix
http://www.getautomatix.com/
(Link for Feisty i386 download:
http://www.getautomatix.com/apt/dists/feisty/main
Just got myself a 160gb WD Passport USB HDD for my laptop, so I've freed
up my 2gb pendrive and I'm looking around for what to do to run a fully
functioning distro (doesn't have to be Ubuntu) with a home partition on
it.
Anyone had a go at this?
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On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 10:50 +0100, Kris Marsh wrote:
On 4/28/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 23:10 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
If you wanted Picasa, an easy way to install it may be to use Automatix
http://www.getautomatix.com/
(Link for Feisty i386 download
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 16:37 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
Thank you severally for your long mails. I've loaded Picasa easily
using the file name you gave me, and now think that f-spot may be
better, but I do need the straighten facility, hence going for Fiesty
(apart from its other improvements
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:16 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
I hasten to reply today that as far as I know, there are 2 models of
mac mini and and I am supposed to be getting the one with 80Gb hard
disc, ie the model with the higher specification, plus keyboard and
screen all from Applestore. I
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 22:16 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
I hasten to reply today that as far as I know, there are 2 models of
mac mini and and I am supposed to be getting the one with 80Gb hard
disc, ie the model with the higher specification, plus keyboard and
screen all from Applestore.
OK.
On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:12 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Currently I using Daffy, not Edgy. do you want me to put basero
on
my compact laptop or on Tiger in the mac mini when it comes? I'm
not
sure of the worth of the CD drive on the laptop, it's about 5 or 6
years old. I have another mac
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 21:40 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
Thanks. Didn't know abouit the f-spot page, but a brief look at it
doesn't encourage me but I'll look again.
Towards the end of this week I'm likely to get a brand new Intel mac
mini and naturally I want to use Ubuntu on it. Even
On Sat, 2007-04-14 at 15:25 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
About a month ago, two of you kindly responded to solve my problem
with OOo Draw where I cannot raise the points sub-menu by clicking on
the Points icon. Quite correctly you suggested my goining into Edit
Points which worked. Now
On Mon, 2007-04-23 at 10:45 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
Done wot you said and got *no package is selected* so am
unable to apply Sorry to be difficult. Robin
I think there's a problem here that's more significant than just a
particular problem with installing a
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 13:10 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
I've had a good report on Orange broadband, from someone who uses it to
run his business. But the CD only list Windows, and website requirements
state Windows. I've asked about Linux, but while I wait for a reply,
does anyone else use
On Thu, 2007-04-19 at 18:08 +0100, Terence Simpson wrote:
the main ubuntu mirrors are under a lot of strain with all the people
upgrading/downloading feisty, so another mirror may let you upgrade.
And, like I said, the automatic upgrade is already out.
Might have been an idea to distribute
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 12:04 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 11:48 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 08:22 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
baz wrote:
SNIP
Any idea why NVU is not in the repositories for Feisty
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 16:55 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote:
Alan,
Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0100, baz wrote:
According to their faq Nvu is still active:
http://www.nvu.com/faq.php#active
Not really. Depends how you read it I guess.
He is not developing
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:31 +0100, norman wrote:
I have been trying to use gFTP with no success. It seems very prone to
crashing. Could some kind person suggest any other software that I
should use.
Look at that!
Yes, gFTP is a nightmare unless you're only shifting minimal amounts of
data
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 18:05 +0100, alan c wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Apr 18, 2007 at 02:48:55PM +0100, baz wrote:
According to their faq Nvu is still active:
http://www.nvu.com/faq.php#active
Not really. Depends how you read it I guess.
He is not developing nvu any more,
it seems to work well).
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=21558package_id=206762
You will need to compile from source, I installed it once but
preferred Gftp.
Regards
Lee
On 4/18/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 17:31 +0100, norman
On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 11:41 +0100, Chris Wright wrote:
I'm just starting to appreciate this. It's ten times better than
being
stuck indoors, plus I won't suffer from geek pastiness for much
longer!
I work from home, so getting with the recent sun and warmth, working
outside in the
Stating the obvious, I know, but just a word of warning: I've had
updates to a new release fail miserably, so be sure to back up your data
beforehand in case the short cut turns out to be anything but.
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On Mon, 2007-04-16 at 22:01 +0100, alan c wrote:
alan c wrote:
In both kubuntu 6.06 and 6.10 (different machines) I am getting
problems with Firefox and bbc video clips.
I believe the existing configuration was mplayer (plugin) with FF but
from my present experiences I am only
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 00:48 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 12:33:56AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Yes, I generally set the channel to a non-default one. My neighbours
are using a Netgear, too, so I'm hoping they didn't have the same idea.
You are best off scanning to find
On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 01:07 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 03:02:48PM +0100, Rob Stent wrote:
If you have any comments or suggestions about the site I'd love to hear
them. I do occasionally check this list but if possible I'd prefer
comments to be made on the forum.
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 18:09 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:15 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:58 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
Can you post the torrent link for alternate i386 on the 19th :)
Hello, Veech
Anyone know the state of this these days? I tried to install it on a
machine a while back and the PC just wouldn't have it.
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:28 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
Anyone know the state of this these days? I tried to install it on a
machine a while back and the PC just wouldn't have it.
WFM using 6.06.1 LTS for the AMD64 :-)
LOL
Had it running on my HP Pavilion dv-5000 until
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:21 +0100, James Tait wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
Anyone know the state of this these days? I tried to install it on a
machine a while back and the PC just wouldn't have it.
I've been running it on my laptop since Breezy. I'm currently running
Feisty beta
What's the latest in wireless that's available on Ubuntu? I'm using 'b'
'g', but what's the state of play with 'n'/'pre-n'?
If that's currently a no-go, any tips for extending existing coverage
(Netgear wireless router)?
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On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:30 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 05:17:22PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
If that's currently a no-go, any tips for extending existing coverage
(Netgear wireless router)?
A big aerial?
Knock down some walls?
Bingo! LOL.
Well, I did get a bigger
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:41 +0100, Chris Wright wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
What's the latest in wireless that's available on Ubuntu? I'm using 'b'
'g', but what's the state of play with 'n'/'pre-n'?
If that's currently a no-go, any tips for extending existing coverage
(Netgear wireless
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 21:02 +0100, Neil Greenwood wrote:
I use Gaim under Dapper and Edgy (Dapper at home - soon to be Feisty,
Edgy in work) and I can't get it to connect to Google Talk. I can get
Psi to connect on the same machine, so it's not a problem with
firewall or other settings...
I
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 23:13 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 08:22:26PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
For indoors, the aerial (at the back of the house) is pointed in the
direction of the centre of the house, and it works pretty well inside.
It just means I'll have to reposition
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:57 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
Toby Smithe wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:30 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote:
Every time I get sucked into this debate, I reflect back that John Q.
Public/Joe Sixpack calls it Linux. You may not like it, and probably
don't, but that's
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:58 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
That kind of implies that there are no learned rules or etiquette
on the
other systems. This clearly isn't the case. There is etiquette on the
mailing list (preference for bottom posting, stripping and quoting
correctly) and there would
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 16:29 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
The British masses started to shout successfully for themselves after
living in the trenches in the 14-18 war, and more so after the 39-45
war. Let's not put the clock back.
No, lets. History's crucial. You wouldn't be thinking some
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 17:15 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-11 at 09:58 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
That kind of implies that there are no learned rules or etiquette
on the
[...]
This is one of those areas where people mean well but tend to get
carried away
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:21 +0100, gord wrote:
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 10:56 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Your average user isn't to bothered about how something works, they
just want it to have spangly flashy whizzy buttons and a cool
reputation.
It'd be a great idea if Ubuntu was to
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 10:05 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
I personally am happy, for the moment, to stand on the side
lines of the exotic discussions that go on because they are
sampling what may happen to me in the future (providing my
thickie problems
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:21 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:05:21AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
I don't know if it's done at the moment, but I wouldn't mind paying subs
(say something like £10 a quarter) to contribute to events, a
half-yearly magazine, etc. that's more
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 09:51 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
Yet another stunner from Google:
http://www.google.com/tisp/
It was only a matter of slime.
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On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 11:24 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
On 3/30/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:54 +0100, Caroline Ford wrote:
Anyway - we seem to have more women active than there are in
Ubuntu-UK
(!) so we must be doing
Thought it might be of interest that someone who reads the list is
trying to get a new initiative off the ground: a Ubuntu 'emag'.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=396003
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On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 22:09 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Thought it might be of interest that someone who reads the list is
trying to get a new initiative off the ground: a Ubuntu 'emag'.
http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=396003
Whoops! Got the names mixed up. He is British, though
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 21:42 +0100, Freddie Ruddick wrote:
Nothing particularly new, but I notice the BBC have covered it. [0].
Freddie :)
[0]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506027.stm
I read this, too. I didn't take part in the survey, but I have nagged
Dell quite a lot in the
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 01:35 +0100, Pete Ryland wrote:
On 28/03/07, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 08:17:39PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Any national events?
A friend of mine organised a national install day a few years ago and I
think his current opinion is never
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 08:50 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
Quoting TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There are way to many people (and this isn't specicially directed at you)
in
the UK standing by looking on saying that LUG is dead without actually
getting off their arse and doing
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:47 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 11:17:39AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Would it be helpful to have some national site, with articles from the
different LUG sites? If I manage to get in touch with mine, I'd like to
be able to keep abreast more
On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 18:36 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
A problem has developed in Draw whereby the points command does not
raise the points menu, so while I can move the pints (default) I
cannot delete or insert points. I'm using a compaq 386 laptop and
there is 2.6mb free, Help please
I
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:47 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 08:28:08PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
But where is it written that people who disagree have to go at it hammer
and tongues or descend into personal animosity? No doubt most of us
have been there, but at least some
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:35 +0100, Stuart Parkington wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
I'd have thought they were a bit of a geekfest, not having been to one,
but I'm probably way off the mark. Trouble is, the one for my neck of
the woods is supposed to be active but its website hasn't been updated
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 10:57 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:53:17AM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
There seems to be two models of support here: the one found primarily in
the proprietary world and that found in the FLOSS one.
I disagree. In the proprietary world you can pay
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:33 +0100, baz wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 15:20 +0100, Ian Davies (2) wrote:
Hello,
I have Ubuntu Edgy on a Sony Vaio laptop and I would like to install
the K3B CD/DVD burning software- does anyone know if it’s available
for Edgy?
Yes it is, I've
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 14:02 +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Think how much more productive those hours would be answering
questions online though? A few hours in #ubuntu or on the support
tracker - or forums - could yield results that benefit so many
people.
I forgot to add that I will follow
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:14 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 03:53:13PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
Just curious. Anyone a member? If so, what's yours like?
My local one is quite active. Well, there are two near me, Hampshire and
Surrey. Hampshire meets every month
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:35 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
Just curious. Anyone a member? If so, what's yours like?
I'd have thought they were a bit of a geekfest, not having been to one,
but I'm probably way off the mark. Trouble is, the one for my neck of
the woods
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:58 +0100, Colin McCarthy wrote:
On 3/28/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Trouble is, the one for my neck of
the woods is supposed to be active but its website hasn't been
updated
for a long time.
What is your neck
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 18:59 +0100, Robin Menneer wrote:
On 3/28/07, TheVeech [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:35 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
Just curious. Anyone a member? If so, what's yours like?
I'd have thought they were a bit of a geekfest
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 19:28 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 06:34:37PM +0100, TheVeech wrote:
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 16:35 +0100, Tony Travis wrote:
TheVeech wrote:
Just curious. Anyone a member? If so, what's yours like?
I'd have thought they were a bit
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 20:10 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 07:31:04PM +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
I'm a member of the Devon Cornwall LUG (or Devon Cornwall GLUG as it
was renamed). Most of the time the members are helpful and there are
some good discussions on there,
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