I've had a look at the Customer Reviews on eBuyer (the UK distributor
for eSys).
Sadly, several of them talk about putting XP on it.
I am tempted to post follow-up questions asking where they bought the XP
licences from, in order to make that PC a cost-effective solution for them.
I'm
There is a bit of software whose name I can't remember, hence Google is
not my friend :-)
You run this software on multiple machines, and stick their monitors
next to each other across your desktop. One of the machines has a
keyboard and mouse attached.)
When you run the mouse off the
Paul Tansom wrote:
hat's why.
** end quote [Mark Harrison]
At a guess you are talking about something like Synergy [1] which
classes itself as a virtual KVM (or at least that's how I found it with
Google). I started off thinking there was a solution based on VNC, but
I've not found
Hi all,
For the last few years, I've been using a Tascam Portastudio to do live
recordings, then exporting the files down to the PC for editing.
It strikes me that technology's probably moved on sufficiently, that I
should just be carrying around a laptop.
I'd much prefer this to be an Ubuntu
I'm going to PodCamp UK in B'ham on the 1st September. I'm only going
for the day on Saturday.
I'll be driving there from near Gatwick, aiming to get there about 10am,
and probably leaving about 5-6pm.
If anyone would like a lift, there, back, or both, and isn't too far out
of my route, then
Pete Stean wrote:
Ah, the Dell Inspiron 6400 which they are selling retails for £359+
depending on features such as memory etc.
The irony of course is that this machine is *no cheaper* than the
Vista-loaded equivalent... why are they not prepared to pass on the
licence cost saving to
Tony Arnold wrote:
I've never understood how or why this works! Why should the vendor of
the bloatware pay Dell to install it? Surelly, Dell should buy a license
for the bloatware from its vendor and pass this on to the customer. It
just seems counter intutitive to me, but then I work in a
Nik,
Thanks for making this offer. I'm not in the slightest opposed to you
making a percentage if it means that I (we?) get a cheaper price than I
could have gotten by going direct.
One of the things I found irritating about the US Dell offer was that
the PCs were the same price, whether they
http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=1279tag=nl.e539
Interesting point he makes - that for RedHat, Desktop Linux is a
loss-leader, but where Ubuntu really shines is on the desktop...
Personally, I run Ubuntu Server edition, but I'm odd like that :-)
M.
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Andrew Jenkins wrote:
For now though I consider playing around
as 'root' while being 'under the influence' as bad as driving so I'll
leave well alone.
Mathematicians don't drink and derive.
Mark
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Dave Murphy wrote:
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 16:50 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
I've created a Facebook group with the following description:
Although I'm a Facebook user myself, I'm not comfortable with making
Facebook membership a requirement for contribution to groups and I my
Guys,
Just for the record, since I suspect it's my Blog that has specifically
kicked off this issue:
If the community as a whole would rather I simply syndicated
OSS-related posts, then I am happy to do so.
I have deliberately syndicated my entire personal blog, because I had
believed,
I've created a Facebook group with the following description:
If you're interested in doing the following:
- Saying yes to the odd PC components that always come up on Freecycle
- Collecting them, putting them together, installing Ubuntu
- Offering a working machine back to your local Freecycle
Robert McWilliam wrote:
When buying online you have a period of time (I can never remember how
long it is) to return products for any reason. If I can't get good info
on whether or not hardware will work I tend to go for the approach of
buying something and if it doesn't work sending it back
I wouldn't describe my (property) site as popular, but it's a very
specific, not-IT niche, and over 70% of my visitors are from the UK -
actually, given the nature of my content, this is too low :-)
If I look at the 956 discrete visitors I got in July (as reported by
Google analytics).
- 93%
Hi all,
The following just came in on our local Freecycle. (www.freecycle.org to
find your local group.)
===
OFFER: Complete working PC
Made almost entirely out of Freecycled parts:
Midi-tower Pentium III 600Mhz with 192Mb RAM and a small but
, on a bookmark trying to be witty:
Never try to replace windows on your computer
I bought it for a laugh; picture here:
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=502966
On 7/25/07, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely
Well, I liked it :-)
M
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Fair enough. It's a difficult balance between factually correct and
marketing.
I left it as viruses because I thought virii may be too confusing for
the uninitiated? I'm impressed by the leaflet by the way.
Wikipedia and the Oxford English Dictionary both say
Power corrupts. Powerpoint corrupts absolutely
Well, I liked it :-)
M.
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Hi,
A couple of weeks ago, I asked for advice on rendering graphics in PHP
for display in a web client.
I had a go at a few of the things suggested, before stumbling across an
alternative solution.
The application was an Extranet where I can make a bunch of assumptions
about the desktop - so
Chris Rowson wrote:
Just checked the info, and this parish encompasses 17,200 people!
(2001 census)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottingham%2C_East_Riding_of_Yorkshire
Not bad eh!
Although I don't know about the magazine circulation, I think that
concentrating on smaller areas individually
Mac wrote:
One of the bloggers pointed out that in the USA, breach of copyright can
be a criminal offence as well as a civil one
There was a proposal to make such a thing criminal in Europe, but AIUI,
it got rejected by the European Parliament earlier this year!
Do you (or Matthew) know
Hi all,
This question is particularly aimed at server admin, but
desktop-specifics would be good.
If you're running an Ubuntu box, what routine admin do you perform
- how often do you run apt*
- do you rely on the file system itself to manage disk fragmentation, or
are there specific
Thanks to all who've replied.
The apticron package that Alan recommends looks just the ticket!
Regards,
Mark
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Mark,
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 10:27:40AM +0100, Mark Harrison wrote:
- how often do you run apt*
On servers I install apticron which emails me
Mac wrote:
You do have to hand it to Richard Stallman, Eben Moglen and their
colleagues - the genius evident in GPLv3 just takes your breath away:
http://www.freesoftwaremagazine.com/blogs/microsoft_the_copyright_infringer
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070709101318827
Mac
Mac wrote:
As I understand it, GPLv3 is not a contract; it's a waiver of copyright
that passes to those who also waive copyright. This is what's so clever
about it - it just doesn't work like a contract or licence. I think
this is why patent/copyright lawyers have such trouble with it:
Mac wrote:
That seems to me not contract, but a beautiful and unexpected
inversion of copyright law.
I'm sorry, but I don't understand this line of argument... Let me
explain my understanding first, then someone can tell me what I'm missing...
- A contract is a legally binding agreement
Lee Tambiah wrote:
Without disscussion I think the GPL 3 is a very good license which
protects Free Software and overall should strengthen it.
I agree.
I agree that you, and any programmer, should have the right to choose
the GPLv3 in new products you create. However, I also believe that
Gord,
Ubuntu has been well featured in UK media, even if the UK project hasn't.
Because Canonical are based (at least in part) in the UK, I've fired
media enquiries at them rather than the UK team...
M.
gord wrote:
Taken from the latest ubuntu weekly news.
* The Serbian Team has close
I've been reading a bit on the differences between apt-get and aptitude.
I'm interested to know which others on the uk-ubuntu list are using (and
why)?
Oh, and I guess that Synaptic users are welcome to contribute as well,
though I don't have a GUI on the bulk of my Ubuntu machines, so it's
A few responses to the various comments:
- It's no co-incidence that this message came at the same time that Macs
are banging on about the same issue :-)
- I'm not convinced that leaflets are the right place for this.
- I agree with Matthew that this isn't the right offensive message.
I'd
Other way round!
It's a common trick to fit a EuroPlug into a UK socket. This comes up
when you run short of the appropriate type of kettle lead :-)
The preferred method of doing it is as follows:
- Take N-way mains adaptor
- Remove N-way mains adaptor from mains
- Insert flat-head
Chris Jones wrote:
Hi
Mark Harrison wrote:
- Insert flat-head screwdriver into mains pin on one of the sockets on
the N-way
Insert it into the earth hole. That is how it's supposed to work - that
is why the earth pin is longer on plugs. It also dramatically reduces
the chances
Sean Miller wrote:
Mark Harrison wrote:
I agree. I've used it when the total cost of an adaptor included such
externalities as making eight paying customers sit around and wait half
an hour for the presentation to start while I nip out to BQ :-)
Didn't one
Hi all,
I've got what I thought would be a simple problem, and google is not
being my friend this afternoon.
I have a database (MySQL5), and a webserver (Apache), and a programming
language that lets me extract info from one and display it with the
other (PHP5.) These all run on a nice
on a shelf in the study
awaiting the day when I'll get the fabled Round Tuit and set it up in a
child-friendly way.
Too many interesting projects, not enough time.
GD - good call, though. Seems to be what I need.
M.
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Mark,
On Fri, 2007-06-22 at 18:36 +0100, Mark
This may seem odd, but on the Feisty Laptop, I have precisely three
applications that I use:
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- OpenOffice.org
On the server, I have an awful lot more, but these days, it's the
servers that are doing all the heavy lifting.
Two years ago, we used lots of applications on
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi Ian,
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 09:40:49PM +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote:
And although not a necessity, should be available on both Ubuntu and Windows
platforms
Audacity.
Cheers,
Al.
+1 for Audacity
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Please could whoever decided to edit the Planet feed from my blog
contact me?
Looking at what you've done, it was probably the right move, but to
unilaterally decide to hack MY feed without telling, let alone asking,
seems a bit against what I thought that the community stood for.
*When you
Alan Pope wrote:
I have reverted it back as I assumed that's what you wanted to do. If
you would like to change the URL in the future then use the usual method
of editing the wiki page so that the non-automated robots.
Alan,
I'm happy with the change you made :-)
I'm just a little
baza wrote:
What you have to remember is not to trust any security on your network.
But, you can over do it. All of the 'hackers' I know won't sit outside
your house trying to crack your WEP to get your eBay password etc.
One of the simplest things you can do to keep people off your
Does it have a GUI similar to Windows or do I need to learn code?
I suspect that many Windows users won't know what the word GUI means.
I'd suggest:
Q: Does it look like Windows (TM) or an Apple (TM)?
A: A bit like both - if you want a straightforward, easy to use, system,
then the defaults
I'm not sure how many of you know of Tom Peters, since he's not an IT
person.
He is, however, the world's best-selling business author, and a hugely
respected top business consultant. The kind of person who charges £800
for a one-day seminar ticket, and fills an auditorium of several hundred
Michael wrote:
I only ask because according to LinuxDesktop.com's account of the patent
deal [http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS9642338710.html], or at least
the earlier draft pasted up on Ubuntu Forums, there's an EULA involved:
According to sources, customers of Linspire's Linspire Linux
Michael wrote:
Chris Jones wrote:
(FYI, despite my address, this is all my own opinion - it's just easier
to keep all the ubuntu lists in one account :)
I don't know of any sysadmin who doesn't speak his own mind ;)
I know many... Those NT servers don't look after
Gregory Kirby wrote:
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
thanks all...giving it a go David.
Is this spam?
AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free
from AOL at AOL.com.
G
Gregory,
David posted a message with a single
Alec Wright wrote:
It's not about the price. It's about not giving money to Microsoft for
something you're not going to use. It's about not having to bother about
installing Ubuntu yourself. It's about being guaranteed Ubuntu
compatible hardware.
It may not be about price to YOU.
It
Not particularly Ubuntu related, but a couple of comments for web
developers:
1: I've found the Firebug plugin for Firefox is a very, very good tool
for testing for potential JavaScript errors.
2: There are some standard JavaScript objects that exist as part of the
DOM in some browsers, but
Hi all,
I'm looking for some web forum software to run on Edgy. Can you
recommend me something?
My requirements (in order of importance, most important first) are:
- Free as in beer
- Free as in speech (I might need to write a username registration
handler at some point)
- Has a backend that
Lee Tambiah wrote:
On 5/30/07, *Mark Harrison* [EMAIL PROTECTED]
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
I'm looking for some web forum software to run on Edgy. Can you
recommend me something?
PHPBB
http://www.phpbb.com/
Lee,
Good call - once I knew what it was called, I
Chris Rowson wrote:
I should have remembered: Proper Preparation Prevents Poor Performance.
:-)
Hwyl,
Neil.
Hey Neil
I always remembered another P being in there too!!! ;-)
Chris
Indeed, the full phrase is:
Proper PRIOR Preparation Prevents Poor Performance
Or were
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
[Long post snipped]
Matthew,
Good message.
I've just come off the phone from Mr. Scargill, who is an incredibly
reasonable chap with some very positive things to say about Ubuntu.
The point on which I absolutely agree with him is that
fatma oymak wrote:
Dear all,
I have one problemI couldnt find right answer...do you have any idea?
please please let me know
many thanks
fatma
Consider the behaviour of two machines in a distributed system.
Both have clocks that are supposed to tick 1000 times per
Paul Brunt wrote:
Hi,
I'm not 100% sure but this would make sense as the first answer to me:
the machine with 990 ticks should be experiencing time at
(990/1000) of real time
the machine with 1015 ticks should be experiencing time at
(1015/1000) of real time
The length of time it would
Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:43 +0100, fatma oymak wrote:
Dear all,
I have one problemI couldnt find right answer...do you have any idea?
please please let me know
Haha. 1 point for effort for getting other people to do your
school/college/uni assignments -
Dave Walker wrote:
This isn't linux's fault - it's octoshape's. The only differences is
that they have 'packaged' the windows to make it easily installable.
How easy is it to make a Linux package? One of the nice things about
Windows (as a developer) is that making up an installation
Chris Rowson wrote:
Hey Nik,
I don't dispute savings in the SME arena mate. But I'm more interested
in the processes by which large, corporate and public sector
organisations can save money.
I work in public sector IT, and I feel somewhat like I'm banging my
head against a brick wall
I'm having a senior moment.
There is a single command I need to run to take my EXIM4 configuration
back to the start here, answer these basic questions, and I'll set up
your config for you menu set last seen while installing the O/S, and I
can't, for the life of me, remember it.
Help ?
M.
Ian Pascoe wrote:
One question that's been missed off all of this valuable discussions is:
Why should I try this Linux thingy?
PROLOGUE - I'm going to be contentious.
I ought to explain that TheVeech and I exchanged emails offlist last
night, in which we agreed that a bit of violent
marketing material
doesn't breach copyright :-)
Regards,
Mark Harrison
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specialises in taking firms from the sub-million turnover mark to
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for a photographer credit in my book - see even my marketing material
doesn't breach copyright :-)
Regards,
Mark Harrison
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From the fact you say you're new to both Linux and Ubuntu, I'm assuming
that you have another machine running Windows / MacOS / something you're
happy with.
If I'm editing a configuration file in Ubuntu, I normally make a backup file
in the same directory with the cp (copy) command, so I'd run
It's notoriously difficult to say my favourite broadband supplier is,
given that most people have experience of at most 2 :-) I've not been an IT
consultant for a while, but still keep in touch with former clients:
- Personally, I use Eclipse, because they are able to provide me
with
As I write, I have a stack of four servers that need to go live next week
sitting on the floor next to me.
Two web-heads, two database servers - all installed with Edgy about a week
ago and working nicely as a cluster.
Now the key question - for SERVER use, is it worth doing the upgrade now, or
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Nik Butler
Sent: 11 April 2007 08:48
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] [Fwd: ALL TEAMS: Speaker Representatives]
Jono has asked that the various Loco teams can nominate a few speakers, to
From the site:
The accurate name is GNU/Linux but Linux is used more often.
As I understood it, the term GNU/Linux refers to a distribution that
contains only GPL-compatible code.
So, Ubuntu is a Linux distribution, but not a GNU/Linux distribution.
There seems to be some inconsistentcy in
Thought I'd better introduce myself.
I'm Mark Harrison:
- Been using *nix since 1989
- Been using Linux since about 1994
My background is big company IT - before I set up my own company, I was
Head of Systems for Kingfisher, where I was responsible for the websites
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