Re: [ubuntu-uk] VIA Neheima CPU and Ubuntu Server

2013-05-15 Thread Yorvyk
On 15/05/13 10:41, Liam Proven wrote: On 14 May 2013 13:34, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: The C3 doesn't have PAE support [1]. This means the more recent kernels (IIRC quantal and up) won't boot as their config has PAE as a requirement. You'll either need to compile your own, or

Re: ppc images too big

2012-09-19 Thread Yorvyk
On 19/09/12 05:22, ∅ wrote: just when i find some time to do some ppc testing, i find both desktop and alternate images are 688mb so they don't fit on a cd. openfirmware is too buggy to rely upon for usb boot. believe me, i've tried. looks like dvd-rw it is. guess i'll be headed out to buy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Internet Connection Sharing

2012-03-18 Thread Yorvyk
the internet connection goes into, the other I can use to connect the xbox. I already have a crossover cable, too. So if anyone knows how to do it, that would be great! The last time I did this, a few years back, I used firestarter from the repos. -- Yorvyk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity is not working.

2012-02-24 Thread Yorvyk
, compared to Gnome 2. -- Yorvyk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Recommendations for a printer?

2012-01-06 Thread Yorvyk
been to keen on shopping there. [1] http://www.staples.co.uk/technology/printers-scanners-and-fax/printers-scanners-and-fax/ml-1865-mono-laser-printer?r=bf [2] http://www.bchemnet.com/suldr/ -- Yorvyk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity - I like this

2011-12-16 Thread Yorvyk
. -- Yorvyk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.10 The Oneirc Ocelot Release Party

2011-09-13 Thread Yorvyk
to a destination...but that's another story entirely..) Either will do for me. -- Yorvyk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Woke up this morning in low-res mode

2011-07-19 Thread Yorvyk
. If using a proprietary driver try the open one or try updating or reinstalling it. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] hard disk problem ?

2011-07-08 Thread Yorvyk
'The adoption of compulsory open standards will help government to avoid lengthy vendor lock-in' What does this mean? Are the government's open standards the same as we would understand them? Is open source and open standards the same thing? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Facebook page - now with extra vanity

2011-07-01 Thread Yorvyk
/ -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MeeNee Notebook preinstalled Ubuntu £225

2011-06-26 Thread Yorvyk
) usb slots, no card slots either. Display looks good to me. I am delighted with it. Just out of interest, why would you need more than 2 USB ports. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MeeNee Notebook preinstalled Ubuntu £225

2011-06-26 Thread Yorvyk
. For me the most important thing is how long the batteries last in 'normal' usage. From what I can gather most are rather useless in this respect. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What aren't we doing? What should we be doing?

2011-06-25 Thread Yorvyk
(Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

2011-06-20 Thread Yorvyk
On Mon, 20 Jun 2011 08:32:20 +0100 Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote: On 20/06/11 08:26, Jon Reynolds wrote: On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 16:04:42 +0100, Yorvyk wrote: I wouldn't send kids there, as Mr Archer seems to be rather nasty. He's responsible for racist incidents. I don't know who Mr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] School websites

2011-06-20 Thread Yorvyk
, not as far as Juniors. Its a small village school. Apparently all schools have to to have somebody responsible for racist incidents -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] from win32 to python?

2011-06-14 Thread Yorvyk
to go. No idea how easy/hard it would to to convert to them or just how crossplatform they are though. -- Yorvyk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's In A Name?

2011-06-13 Thread Yorvyk
of the following sets of code names would you prefer? http://royal.pingdom.com/2010/05/27/the-developer-obsession-with-code-names-114-interesting-examples/ -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What's in a name?

2011-06-12 Thread Yorvyk
Mac users don't know what the OS is called. Many call it 'oh es ex' not 'oh es ten'. If it ever gets to version eleven will it be called 'oh es exy' :) -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 PCs shocker! timeline?

2011-05-19 Thread Yorvyk
it and tell you it's Android. People just want to connect to face book, ebay, whatever. Don't get all 'religious' on them. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Race Online 2012 PCs shocker!

2011-05-19 Thread Yorvyk
it they can't. Lubuntu works very well on the low spec machine, I've been running a similar set up for a while now, and it looks similar to XP. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11,04 Broke My Wireless (surprised?)

2011-05-04 Thread Yorvyk
. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Correct version of Lightening......

2011-04-09 Thread Yorvyk
do I get the 64 bit version of Lightening? I'm told this works http://nenacarina.ilahas.com/?p=21 not tried myself though. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fw: [Lubuntu-desktop] Advertising

2011-01-19 Thread Yorvyk
this helps. Thanks for those Barry, but it was these http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHzP7mxRFJE is was thinking of. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] £98 PCs target UK digital divide

2011-01-17 Thread Yorvyk
Interesting story, £98 PCs target UK digital divide. The cheap computers will run open-source software, such as Linux... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12205412 -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] buying a laptop?

2011-01-17 Thread Yorvyk
service. I'm surprised http://www.system76.com/ haven't been mentioned, unless I've missed it . -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] NetBook issues - #1

2011-01-15 Thread Yorvyk
well as it syncs both computers nicely. Gmail works in the browser offline. How? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Meeting minutes and expo plan

2011-01-11 Thread Yorvyk
for both days available to me, are there exhibitor passes. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-marketing] [Bug 118823] Re: List Buy a pc with Ubuntu pre-installed as an option to get ubuntu

2011-01-11 Thread Yorvyk
(unless de-scoped :-) for the next revision of the site. up-level unless de-scoped Marketing speak? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-marketing mailing list ubuntu-marketing@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Research Required

2010-12-29 Thread Yorvyk
ways of organising oneself. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Christmas party tonight

2010-12-21 Thread Yorvyk
on their way to the venue http://bit.ly/eV9axG -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook suggestion for a 4 year old

2010-12-14 Thread Yorvyk
that are quite happy with their refurbished Acer One they got from here http://www.laptopsdirect.co.uk/ One friend ended up getting 4 in different colours so the family each know whos is whos. I don’t think any of them run Edubuntu on the so don’t know if it 'just-works'. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk

[ubuntu-uk] Rubbish Bin Placement

2010-12-14 Thread Yorvyk
Quick question, for research. Anybody have a Rubbish Bin icon on their desktop and if so, why? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New Monitor

2010-11-01 Thread Yorvyk
. I’ve had a couple of LCD monitors from here, http://www.morgancomputers.co.uk/shop/products2.asp?CategoryID=407SubCategoryID=490 that were OK and functioned with out problems. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What accounting software to recommend

2010-10-22 Thread Yorvyk
with the penguins. :) -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Banks and Ubuntu support for business users

2010-10-10 Thread Yorvyk
I'm talking about) * Click the Log on button in the Business box on the right Works with FF here 'Step 1 of 2: Enter username' If I enter a a (fictitious) user name I get an error message. Try clearing cookies. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] MS vs. OO

2010-09-15 Thread Yorvyk
in replacement for Office. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Your application to Ubuntu Trademarks

2010-09-06 Thread Yorvyk
Work! One question. What exactly has been OK'd. The colours, font, placement of the circle-of-friends thing. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: Your application to Ubuntu Trademarks

2010-09-06 Thread Yorvyk
On Mon, 06 Sep 2010 20:37:41 +0100 Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: On 06/09/10 19:53, Yorvyk wrote: Good Work! One question. What exactly has been OK'd. The colours, font, placement of the circle-of-friends thing. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Logo has

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Northern Installfest

2010-09-02 Thread Yorvyk
On Thu, 2 Sep 2010 19:36:15 +0100 Jacob Mansfield cyberja...@gmail.com wrote: don't worget the south-west, what about Bristol as well? I think you know how to solve that problem ;) -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-09-02 Thread Yorvyk
that didn’t occur at the time. As is usual with this sort of thing, the conversation continues long after the results are in. These ideas can be forgotten or maybe used at a later date. Thank you Alan, and everybody else that contributed. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Community Events Banner

2010-09-02 Thread Yorvyk
with other promo stuff). If this is the case, anybody know what it looks like and can we make a copy or two? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanning old photographs

2010-08-31 Thread Yorvyk
have enquired today it you hadn’t. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanning old photographs

2010-08-31 Thread Yorvyk
in your endeavours with the local historical society. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-08-31 Thread Yorvyk
. But the Ubuntu Gigabyte Loco Team might be just as confusing. :) Is there a good reason why we are the UK and not GB team? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote Results!

2010-08-31 Thread Yorvyk
Donegal which remained part of Southern Ireland on Partition. My apologies, I used Ulster as short hand for NI. My point still stands. I thought that may be the case, wasn’t sure if IE covered all of Ireland or not. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanning old photographs

2010-08-30 Thread Yorvyk
no responses to this. Why will your old scanner not be good enough? I use a 10+ year old Agfa Snapscan 1212µ for this sort of thing with out any problems. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 11.04 Natty Narwhal

2010-08-18 Thread Yorvyk
the progam does. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Scanners OCR

2010-08-18 Thread Yorvyk
. Exercise book paper is an absolute sod to get to feed properly, even one sheet at a time. I haven’t seen any OCR software that works for handwriting, as I imagine it would face similar problems to voice recognition. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

[ubuntu-uk] Nice wiki front page

2010-08-17 Thread Yorvyk
Just been pointed here, on another list, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UruguayTeam Some nice ideas there. Maybe worth using for a bit of inspiration. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What to do about black hole of broadband

2010-08-12 Thread Yorvyk
at less than 1Mb, despite the fact had an upgrade three months ago and now get 3-3.5 Mb. My friends village shows speeds only available with fibre-optic, which it doesn’t have. It even shows suppliers that are not available to them! -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Community Events Banner

2010-08-10 Thread Yorvyk
On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 21:22:00 +0100 Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com wrote: Is it possible to have a Ubuntu UK Community Event Banner? Suppose you had the banner on Sunday. What would you have done with it? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Community Events Banner

2010-08-10 Thread Yorvyk
? If somebody organises an event out side London how’s a banner going to get to them? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] WARNING: X-server breakage coming soon to a computer near you

2010-08-09 Thread Yorvyk
Heads up for those running Maverick. With the arrival of the new X-server things could go a bit awry, if you are not careful. I’ve already messed one installation up. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1549195 -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State

2010-08-07 Thread Yorvyk
the presentations on ustream and was very impressed with all of them, some wonderful ideas. Anybody that wants to see the show and tell sessions, they are here http://www.ustream.tv/channel/rewired-state the sound was a bit dodgy but you get the general gist of things. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ANNOUNCE: GeekNic Tomorrow

2010-08-07 Thread Yorvyk
cucumber sandwiches :) -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-08-02 Thread Yorvyk
if it said 'your local community team' instead? -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-08-02 Thread Yorvyk
. Zooming in and out shows it to work at different sizes as well. Good work. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-07-31 Thread Yorvyk
odd (unbalanced?) to me though. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-07-31 Thread Yorvyk
. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] loco logo

2010-07-30 Thread Yorvyk
, but, the 'UK' bit looks out of place to me. ...or the 'UK' bit may be right but, the rest is out of place :D -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot with 2 HDDs

2010-07-26 Thread Yorvyk
no fiddling with fdisk /mbr or what ever if you wish to move it later. and if there are boot problems you can just choose which drive to boot from in BIOS. -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dual boot with 2 HDDs

2010-07-26 Thread Yorvyk
with the current version of grub? Yes, it was done with Karmic and XP. I couldn’t believe how easy it was, I was expecting to be editing assorted grub config files. Having said that, it will probably turn into a complete nightmare for you :D -- Steve Cook (Yorvyk) http://lubuntu.net -- ubuntu-uk