or nearly that, anyway.
Article:
Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech
Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing/
'exam results have shown computing subjects are failing to grab kids'
attention'
depressing!
Dianne
On Thu, 2010-08-26 at 07:10 +0100, alan c wrote:
or nearly that, anyway.
Article:
Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech
Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing
On 26/08/10 07:10, alan c wrote:
or nearly that, anyway.
Article:
Royal Society opens inquiry into why kids hate tech
Lessons that is, not games, mobiles, Facebook:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/08/25/royal_society_schools_computing/
'exam results have shown computing subjects
On 25/08/10 11:07, Alan Bell wrote:
Bother, it is just because it is on an ADSL connection with a static IP
address. I will get it to relay through somewhere else later and resend
confirmation mails
hope that is the reason I have not yet seen a confirmation invitation
email (at 0646 hrs,
As you say, there are other aspects of Ubuntu.
Motivations - and how they might be leveraged in Marketing:
I have been using Ubuntu for some years, with Suse a bit before that,
and it is only relatively recently that I think I fully understood the
various issues of ethics, community, and
On 23/08/10 06:44, Jo-Erlend Schinstad wrote:
Targets
1. Those who doesn't know and care. Our goal is to make them want to try it.
2. The ones who are interested, but feel the obstacle is too great.
3. Those who have installed it: We make them want to keep it.
4. Dualbooters: We inspire them
A coincidence that after a short while of active debate in this list,
there appears an item online:
Is Linux Publicity Targeting the Right Market?
http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/opinions/7159/1/
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On 20/08/10 14:00, michael wrote:
...and here is the video clip that Les put together for barcamp
blackpool and played on his joggler.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9N43STURN6E
I really like this one!
Thanks
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On 21/08/10 22:48, Alan Bell wrote:
We have discussed a number of logo designs which might work for the team.
Now we need to choose one to put forward for approval. I am putting together
a vote page at http://pollka.libertus.co.uk can you let me know if you want
any other options added. I will
On 19/08/10 19:12, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
Be there or be somewhere else:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda
In #ubuntu-uk-meeting on Freenode.
Thanks for the heads up Alan, I was just able to make it
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On 18/08/10 18:25, Simon Wears wrote:
Heyhey everybody!
I'm looking at investing in a scanner so I can digitise my university notes
this coming academic year. I was wondering if anyone has a scanner they can
recommend that works well with Ubuntu? Ideally it would be a tray-fed
scanner, so I
On 18/08/10 03:49, Tim McNamara wrote:
Yet lots of our recent discussion has been
focused on how we as a team can craft a promotional campaign. That
would place us more as leaders.
Many team efforts around free software use various forms of
leadership, which usually has some form of technical
On 17/08/10 00:05, Roscoe wrote:
I think that the point that may be missed here is, have we fullfilled
a need already of technically minded folks that have a really good OS.
My point is that perhaps we should be trying to expose the great
unwashed end users to Ubuntu?
In my regular displays
Heads up for an excellent article which has an anaylitical view on
the operating systems business models, and their current and possible
future status. It is a long item, so grab a hot drink too.
A Fund Manager Tries To Figure Out Whether Microsoft's Business Will
Collapse
A postcard from UK:
I very much welcome the discussions here about Ubuntu Marketing, I am
as frustrated as anybody about its apparent lack of profile in some
traditional media places.
I thought that writing down my activities here could contribute to
some ideas.
I have a number of friends
On 11/08/10 20:21, Tim McNamara wrote:
On 12 August 2010 07:02, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
...
This all seems rather a lot, all written down in one place, but I
would gladly do much more.
Wow, Alan that is an intimidating list for us to aspire to! Do you have any
thoughts
On 10/08/10 04:33, Roscoe wrote:
I still say that until there is the Ubuntu ad that pops up on the
television set whilst *joe public* is watching it, we will be fighting a
constant uphill battle.
People will have to be introduced to Ubuntu via TV just like the other
OS's, and will have to be
On 09/08/10 09:00, Byte Soup wrote:
Hi,
I see my update manager this morning showing a update to base-files, when
going to install these are listed as uncertified.
I had the same on two machines I noticed very recently. I changed the
update server from
uk server
to
Main server
and
On 09/08/10 04:50, Martin Owens wrote:
If we want a solid marketing push, it's going to need to be the
community which does it and it's probably going to need us agreeing on a
set of sentiments. We might not be able to get everything branded the
same or worded exactly, but we shouldn't be
On 05/08/10 19:32, Alan Bell wrote:
On 05/08/10 19:58, Rob Beard wrote:
I like it but I think the actual image of the Meerkats is too low in
resolution and looks pixelated. It'll possibly show up more when printed.
I like the idea though.
Rob
yeah, the low res is creative commons
On 06/08/10 05:25, Martin Owens wrote:
NEVER say that it's free, it's not wrong, but it misses the point. A bit
like saying water out of a tap is free. Well yes technically it's free
at the point of use, but there is a cost in maintaining the water supply
and quality.
I prefer 'software
On 05/08/10 17:32, Alan Bell wrote:
Hi all,
So we talked a while back about doing some installfest type activities
on 10/10/10 I have been drafting a little poster idea together, you can
see it here:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uuk/installfest2.pdf
The idea is to get a bunch of
On 05/08/10 17:29, Randall Ross wrote:
I'd like to see more focus on intentional marketing, much beyond the
current word-of-mouth grass-roots it'll grow organically stuff.
Anyone else?
http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/21357 (See solution #5)
I am with you here.
I do marketing in UK at
On 05/08/10 19:32, supp...@buntfu.com wrote:
centralized market place
Market places are really good if populated and used, however, I would
say that market 'places' are one aspect of marketing. The more
general activity of 'marketing' is something for which the foss
community is poorly
On 05/08/10 19:41, Loic Duros wrote:
Ubuntu is great in so many ways both Windows and Mac are good for. The only
negative aspect of Ubuntu compared to Mac is that it's basically free and it
has less strong branding. Lots of people believe Apple and Mac OS are just
so cool, but what it is
On 05/08/10 22:11, Elizabeth Krumbach wrote:
Free also has a connotation in some country as being not good or
sub-standard (certainly this is true in the US), We want to promote
Ubuntu because it's good, not because it's a cheap alternative.
Free is a choice of word which, in English, is
On 03/08/10 10:04, John Stevenson wrote:
On 3 August 2010 10:00, Rowanrowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello again,
I have figured out how to load from the Live CD; I had to follow a
slightly unfamiliar sequence, using Lenovo's own BIOS; I couldn't see
how to do it from GRUB. So now I
On 03/08/10 12:39, gazz wrote:
The network manager from 9.04 onwards drives me up the wall! I'm now
using Lucid and I needed to install a wireless access point, the network
manager wouldn't let me connect to its interface so I had to remove the
network manager and put wicd on instead. OK, now
I took a few leaflets about Open Source Software to my local Library
today, and although the main town Library accepts a few, the local
Library down the road treated the situation with suspicion.
I pondered this, and later decided that it was really down to probably
a lack of knowledge by the
On 23/07/10 11:00, Alan Pope wrote:
On 23 July 2010 10:51, David Kinglinux...@avoura.com wrote:
The subject line seems to suggest that the next Ubuntu release will be
the answer to life, the universe and everything?
That's a side-effect, yes. Mark Shuttleworth explained it at his
keynote
Are you near Bracknell Berkshire?
There are regular meet ups at South Hill Park relating
to interest in Ubuntu.
The meet up is limited to a nominal hour of time, and anyone may attend.
It is primarily a social and contact meet up, although technical stuff
can get discussed too if wanted.
The
On 28/05/10 18:09, e-mail b.drake wrote:
Hi there .
I'm staying with friends in the US at the moment, so although I've been
following the list, I haven't been writing of late. I just made a lengthy
effort to research Dell on their web sites. First it seems to be impossible
to contact
On 25/05/10 10:34, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hello,
First of all a brief apology for not sorting this out sooner, moving
house has taken somewhat longer than I originally intended. I'm hoping
to start getting things back on track now.
Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly
On 26/05/10 10:08, Alan Pope wrote:
On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeleyrowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should
show LTS releases.
What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps here:-
e.g.
On 26/05/10 16:22, Alan Pope wrote:
On 26 May 2010 16:16, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
I hope that an elegant method of LTS to LTS version upgrade will
emerge because LTS tends to be used by people who include those less
confident.
As I understand it LTS to LTS upgrades don't
On 23/05/10 00:44, Martin Owens wrote:
Hey everyone,
I've recently blogged about two interesting marketing concepts, one
which Mark touched upon in his key note at UDS and the other based on an
interesting TedTalk:
http://doctormo.org/2010/05/21/adoption-casm/
On 18/05/10 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
If you installed it from the
On 11/05/10 10:30, Mark Shuttleworth wrote:
Hi folks
As you may be aware we are thinking of releasing on 10.10.10 in a nod to
the Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy. I'd be interested to hear from you
how you think such a move would be received by our core user base -
whether there are enough
Jon Farmer wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:34 +0100, Barry Titterton wrote:
I am trying to view the virtual tour for the Shakespeare Globe Theatre
on their web site but it requires Quicktime plugin for Firefox. The
default plugin does not work. I have tried the VLC plugin but that does
not
Norman Silverstone wrote:
I heard about School of everything on the radio this morning, and put
my sceptical spectacles on. But when I looked at it, I liked it..
It even allows 'teachers' to be enthusiasts and to help for free!
http://schoolofeverything.com/
and particularly, guess
I heard about School of everything on the radio this morning, and put
my sceptical spectacles on. But when I looked at it, I liked it..
It even allows 'teachers' to be enthusiasts and to help for free!
http://schoolofeverything.com/
and particularly, guess who:
Dianne Reuby wrote:
Last week my son used my PC for a minute, when he left it I said Hey,
where're all my icons? It's always doing that. It's never done it to
me!
Now tonight it has done it to me - I was using Filezilla, and couldn't
find Desktop in the directory listing. So I typed it in
I find that Ubuntu stickers - the white, paper looking type, are quite
good on rear bumper/fender of my car, and on my bicycle also.
May I encourage all to use an Ubuntu sticker on each rear car
bump/fender or vehicle you have?
It is an easy way to increase Ubuntu visibility at large, a key
That would be great
-Original Message-
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[mailto:ubuntu-marketing-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On Behalf Of alan c
Sent: Friday, February 12, 2010 7:02 PM
To: Ubuntu Marketing
Subject: [ubuntu-marketing] Please use Ubuntu Stickers
I find
David King wrote:
Thanks, Iain, I just uploaded 5 images to the group on Flickr.
David King
Iain Farrell wrote:
There's going to be another contest to get great photos into Ubuntu
10.04 and you can enter. You can read more on my blog -
laugh and completely agree with you. But you
are referring to my ability and not me as a person. Do you disrespect
me because I can't cook?
Kudos to your efforts with teaching people. The world needs more of
you.
Jared
On Mon, 2010-02-08 at 14:44 +, alan c wrote:
jared wrote
jared wrote:
You just described a huge chunk of the population where I live :)
There is a lady where I work who should be legally banned from using a
computer because she has the brain power of a rock. She will never,
ever be able to learn how to use any OS. I've tried to help her, as did
Liam Wilson wrote:
Right, so it seems that creating a 'Viral Videos' (I.e; short videos that
can be posted on the internet, similar to the Windows
http://www.youtube.com/user/WindowsVideosones) project seems to be a
better option to market Ubuntu than creating a TV ad for a number of
reasons;
Steve wrote:
A new thread to discus a possible TV advert
I was at a friend's house this afternoon (Sunday) and happened to
notice a Microsoft Windows 7 tv advert on the channel which was sky
sports, at approximately 3.30 pm , in the middle of a lot of sports
programs.
It occurred to me that if
James Milligan wrote:
On 31/01/2010 20:01, alan c wrote:
Steve wrote:
A new thread to discus a possible TV advert
I was at a friend's house this afternoon (Sunday) and happened to
notice a Microsoft Windows 7 tv advert on the channel which was sky
sports, at approximately 3.30
Steve wrote:
A new thread to discus a possible TV advert
Just a thought - this Firefox ad in New York Times
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,100097,39181362,00.htm
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A third attempt at a published Government strategy. It looks even more
like it means business than the preceding ones.
Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_source.pdf
Forward (extract)
Paul Sutton wrote:
Does anyone know of any computer fairs taking place in Devon or cornwall
, ideally torbay area, or if the one that used to take place is newton
abbot still happens.
I have found various sites that list events, but to be honest they are
pretty rubbish at being up to date,
alan c wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I
wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be
somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about
Ubuntu Hours around the UK.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com
Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I
wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be
somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about
Ubuntu Hours around the UK.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour
Hour
Rob Beard wrote:
A friend of mine has asked me to sort out 2 laptops, one is a P3
800 with 192MB Ram and the other is a P3 733 with 128MB Ram,
as you probably already know, an increase in ram on this class of
machine will make a vast difference in performance
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Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 17/01/10 12:37, alan c wrote:
Tony Pursell wrote:
Conversion is a marketing job.
+1
Surely by educating users we will help stem a lot of the negative press
and the uneducated retail staff problem though?
Don't you think that a lot of what people
Jon Spriggs wrote:
I have forwarded the e-mail to the uk-hackspaces mailing list, as there are
several regional hackspaces across the UK (London, Birmingham, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds) who may be able to help - in some cases with venue and in
others with knowledge.
[...]
useful for a
Joe wrote:
However, it may be difficult to convince
whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu on their computers so
it could be worth having a number of live USB keys with a fresh install
of Ubuntu and training material on them.
I agree, especially at my school, there would be no
Tony Pursell wrote:
Conversion is a marketing job.
+1
Training can only
be aimed at people who are already converts, or who are the rare few
who cannot have MS Windows.
If we are to get past 'gatekeepers' who are died in the wool MS users,
then we will need a really cast iron
Steve wrote:
I know from talking to people in the pub that a awful lot
of people have no interest in another operating system.
that could be where marketing comes in
Their computer
comes with one and that’s what they’re going to use. As you say training
will probably have to
Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hey All,
This was discussed at the last meeting, but I'm slow and should have put
this up sooner. One thing that was discussed was the idea of doing some
real life training for people who are new to Ubuntu, through to those
who consider themselves experts.
I've
Alan Bell wrote:
just to remind you all that we have an Ubuntu-uk meeting on IRC channel
#ubuntu-uk on the freenode network one hour from now at 7:30 this
evening. You can normally join in a browser at
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-uk or using Empathy, Pidgin
or another IRC
It may be of interest to know that an OS based on Ubuntu 9.10 has
been produced in Chinese.
Out of interest I have downloaded the iso, checked the md5sum, and run
the CD as live, with a few small guesses because I dont read Chinese.
It looks superficially like XP, although I have not
Des wrote:
Hello all,
I cannot receive emails but can send them. This has been going on for
eight days now days now.
Oddly, this happened just after I logged on for batch sending of all
messages from ubuntu-uk
Test messages to my email addr are not received but are logged as sent.
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
[...]
I bought a Lenovo N500 with Ubuntu from the Linux Emporium in July for
£457.70 all incl., and I haven't had a single problem with it. Check
their web page for the exact specs on all the machines they offer:
http://linuxemporium.co.uk/products/laptops/
I helped
Gordon wrote:
Preferably inexpensive!
(Running 9.10)
I found these links useful:
http://www.quickcamteam.net/hcl/linux/logitech-webcams
http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices/logitech_uvc_device_list.pdf
good luck
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I was using a website, using firefox browser, recently and found that
the display gave a text overlap of a field I wanted to use, which
caused difficulty. I informed the site author and the matter is now
awaiting correction.
However, when I was in discussion with the site author there was the
Isabell Long wrote:
Hi there,
It just occured to me that I haven't heard of any events going on in or
around London and I was just wondering whether there are any coming up or at
least are some planned?
I am desperate to get more involved and meet more likeminded people in real
life as
computing.co.uk magazine
Article
Open source ins the new driving force
http://digg.com/d31CbXu
extract:
The realisation comes when an organisation finds it has not bought a
software product but rather a software service. What at first seemed
to be a shrink-wrapped purchase soon turns into an
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/11/26 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
(also to ubuntu forum)
Is anyone in UK using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle and yahoo or
google accounts?
I would be most interested to know if you see the following problems
too. tia.
Workaround - please see
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/11/27 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/11/26 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
(also to ubuntu forum)
Is anyone in UK using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle and yahoo or
google accounts?
I would be most interested to know
(also to ubuntu forum)
Is anyone in UK using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle and yahoo or
google accounts?
I would be most interested to know if you see the following problems
too. tia.
Workaround - please see below.
Problem:
is that although all internet sites are available and work ok,
Alan Bell wrote:
Sean Miller wrote:
Anyone else think £390 for a base unit is somewhat expensive???
Sure, they build them to order or whatever but they must be raking it in!!
And the site doesn't say how much memory the things have - let's hope
it's enough for them to use it as a standard
etali wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
good luck to them. Not sure I would base a product on Mint, but the
hardware looks perfectly good (looks a lot like what I am using right
now) and the price is not the price for a bare bones unit but for the
solution including training materials and support
Gordon wrote:
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to remotely control a machine
not in the same location and not on the same network?
Ta!
I forgot to mention - the person
Rob Beard wrote:
doug livesey wrote:
I don't know about tuts, but if you look up Gitso, that does what you
need -- there'll be instructions on its page.
Goes Gitso require ports to be opened on the machine you're connecting
in from (rather than the remote machine)?
port needs to be open
Alan Bell wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
Liam (the guy in the video) is on this mailing list.
I wonder if there is a video with Valerie Singleton explaining what
community developed open source software is.
:-)
on a more serious note, *I* looked at a stallman video recently, and
learned a
Gordon wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to remotely control a machine
not in the same location and not on the same network?
Ta!
I forgot to mention - the person using this remote computer just about
has the ability
keith wrote:
Hello.
I want to wipe XP from my hard drive, but the only thing which is
preventing me is that I can't get my 6 year old Logitech Quickcam Chat
webcam to work very well in Ubuntu (9.04 or 9.10), with aMSN. The camera
works well in WindowsXP, using the Logitech driver, so it
Norman Silverstone wrote:
I have the pleasant task over the Winter months to start to scan in a few
thousand 35mm colour negatives.
What scanning techniques, or equipment are you using please?
I have an attachment that I fix to my point
? I do not understand this, sorry, is it a typo?
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
I just picked up a tweet by Glyn Moody. He and the editor of ZDnet will
be on the above programme talking about FOSS and Ubuntu apparently.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00npwh0
Thanks Alan, I just managed to listen to it. Good to hear Glyn Moody too.
Recently,
Ian Pascoe wrote:
Evening all
I have the pleasant task over the Winter months to start to scan in a few
thousand 35mm colour negatives.
What scanning techniques, or equipment are you using please?
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Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 27/10/09 08:13, Daniel Drummond wrote:
snip /
If that guy was from Canonical, perhaps they should think about retraining:-
/For the first time in 20 years you can buy Ubuntu pre-installed from
more than one manufacturer, he said. That's an extraordinary story.
/A
Paul Roach wrote:
The moral I take from this is - the more Ubuntu is used, anywhere, the
closer we get to the tipping point.
I have introduced three friends in recent months to Linux Emporium,
because they wanted an Ubuntu only Laptop from a retail friendly
source. Three purchases. LE is
A review and comparison, from someone who is used to using Windows,
MAC and Ubuntu.
Ubuntu comes out pretty well, given that GNU/Linux is a best kept
secret on the high street!
I saw the title and thought I ought to read it, knowing I might not
enjoy it as much I would want to.
But, it is not
john wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have a HP Pavilion desktop pc with tv card (that I never use)
Have just installed Ubuntu but there is no sound, I have also had
trouble with the sound drivers under windows XP.
Also the terminal freezes after the first sudo apt line when it asks for
the password.
Paul Sutton wrote:
James Milligan wrote:
Apologies - sent that a little early!
He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and
don't have to fuss about with it.
so do I hence I use Linux
All
Tony Arnold wrote:
Peter,
Peter Adam Kelly wrote:
I was thinking this morning (which is quite exceptional for me at such
an early hour, but that's another story haha) that a large distro user
base like ubuntu's is great, it standardizes things and all that, but I
was left wondering maybe
Andy Smith wrote:
They are just trying to help as many people as possible without
getting bogged down in technical details. It's a one line
suggestion. Do you really expect a banking leaflet to go into the
pros and cons of secure computing?
Yes I certainly do, I do expect a formal banking
I note that the Banking code section 12.9 advises users to 'Keep your
PC secure'.
http://www.bankingcode.org.uk/pdfdocs/PERSONAL_CODE_2008.PDF
This is something I fully support.
However the Code goes on to give specific advice about how this should
be achieved:
'Use up-to-date anti-virus and
I am delighted to say that I have arranged a FOSS display table at the
festival in Wallingford, the so called 'Bunkfest'
fri 4th - sun 6th september 2009
http://www.bunkfest.co.uk/
My Infopoint display will be in the Craft Tent.
I look forward to seeing any of you who can make it!
Infopint
I have registered a SFD event for Bracknell for 2009 - September 19th.
Last year's event was a success and I hope to do even more this year.
I would be delighted if anyone can help - you will be very welcome.
Please let me know?
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk/ubuntu-uk/bracknell
I have a friend who is just beginning to use ubuntu (9.04), and she is
using VirginMobile internet from a usb dongle.
The webmail she uses is yahoo. However, just the last few days there
have been considerable problems. The yahoo login page has not been
completing, but hangs when only half
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/7/22 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
I have just noticed this expo. Unfortunately I will not be able to
attend these dates.
Where did you notice it out of interest?
I must admit I was slightly surprised to see it, but here is what I saw:
http://www.bvents.com/event
alan c wrote:
I have just noticed this expo. Unfortunately I will not be able to
attend these dates.
[...]
Thanks Alan and Bill - it seems my information is groundless, sorry all.
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I have just noticed this expo. Unfortunately I will not be able to
attend these dates.
However, I *had* been intending to try to arrange a community
(village) stand for the INFOPOINT display - some here might know that
I run an infopoint display regularly at bracknell computer fairs. I
believe an
Rob Beard wrote:
Chris Rowson wrote:
Interesting little story found on /.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL
Chris
Anyone known the URL for the weather in Hell on the Met Office web site? :-)
yes, I think the last I heard the
darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote:
[...]
With Microsoft, I think it's very difficult to quantify them into
necessarily good or bad due to their size. They undoubtedly have some
very shady business practices but I'm sure some sections have no agendas
besides making software.
Have you seen
David Jones wrote:
One thought I had about the Google Chrome OS is Microsoft, or the
european legislators will push for the web browser to removed from the
OS to match what they expect from Microsoft.
iirc the euro. requirement was not so much for there to be no browser
at all, but for the
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