Click: 4 July 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8133701.stm
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alan c wrote:
Click: 4 July 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8133701.stm
DIgg it?
http://digg.com/linux_unix/BBC_NEWS_Programmes_Click_How_open_source_is_growing_up
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Alan Pope wrote:
2009/7/3 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com:
Does anyone know if there's a flame war mailing list? I don't enjoy
starting flame wars, but IMHO arguing your side in an existing war can
help you let off steam.
Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?
You are
Harry Rickards wrote:
Does anyone know if there's a flame war mailing list? I don't enjoy
starting flame wars, but IMHO arguing your side in an existing war can
help you let off steam.
A good one is linux advocacy
comp.os.linux.advocacy
very high volume traffic, not all rational by any means,
Tony Arnold wrote:
John,
John wrote:
alan c wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/7/3 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com:
Does anyone know if there's a flame war mailing list? I don't enjoy
starting flame wars, but IMHO arguing your side in an existing war can
help you let off steam
Barry Titterton wrote:
Watch this video right to the end. It made me smile.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349
It is quite an old video so apologies if you have all seen this before.
Barry
:-)
it does not have many digs yet, I added one
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Rowan wrote:
Dear all: is anyone aware of an MP3 player for Ubuntu which will play
MP3 audio files directly from Ubuntu's own files
yes, just right click on the file and choose the default player
offered, or make use of the next choice in the drop down list and
choose another player.
Note
After reading the horror stories about 'website hacked' and the like I
wanted to check my understanding about backing up.
I am aware of simple methods such as
Copying files directly presumably with say, filezilla , after logging
in as admin is what first come to mind.
But what about httrack? This
LeeGroups wrote:
As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for.
I have not used that old saying much at all since I started using linux
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John wrote:
Lucy wrote:
2009/6/28 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net:
[...]
Seconded, and there are many backup options that don't require
downloading the whole 2.5GiB each time.
Hi, what backup options are there that dont require you to download the
full site each time. It is some of my
Gordon wrote:
Anyone got an answer to playing these?
fwiw
this is a set of notes for (I think) complete multimedia success:
==
How to get multimedia codecs the easy way!
Disclaimer: Patent and copyright laws operate differently depending
on which
John wrote:
I run a website, and there's about 2.5 gigs of information on there. The
whole lot got deleted and the hackers put a picture of advertising who
they were. I have managed to get the host to restore as much as they can
back, well, they way they are trying to.
What is worrying
John wrote:
My main pc went to the manufacturer today, it didnt break down as such,
it just needs some work done on it, plus it I want some extra RAM memory
and a better Graphics card. I am now using my little netbook, which is
doing remarkably, for what I have attached to it.
I just
I am helping someone with shopping online at tesco.com and it looks as
if the recent new version of firefox 3.0.11 in ubuntu (8.04.2) at
least, does not display the page completely, making shopping impossible.
The significant thing missing is the search field: right hand side:
Harry Rickards wrote:
On 06/21/09 11:04, alan c wrote:
I am helping someone with shopping online at tesco.com and it looks as
if the recent new version of firefox 3.0.11 in ubuntu (8.04.2) at
least, does not display the page completely, making shopping impossible.
The significant thing
William Anderson wrote:
Harry Rickards wrote:
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You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that
it's running on Windows. Some
I recently decided to try the proposed Ubuntu One facility, and got
myself on a waiting list.
Any ideas of timescales please, anyone?
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Gordon wrote:
The last barrier to ditching MS completely is two-fold.
One - updating my Garmin Nuvi Satnav (the web updatyer apparently is
only for Windows) and secondly back-up and restore of my Nokia mobile
via Nokia PC Suite.
There seem to be one or two sync apps for Nokia - anything
I know that google is a good friend, however it is also nice to talk
about such things.
I have a friend of a friend who wants to buy a Ubuntu laptop. She has
already checked out that the 10 inch mini units have displays which
are to small for her elderly eyesight, so the question was passed
Alan Bell wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
http://nakedcomputers.org/category/europe/uk/ is also a good friend, do
let me know if you find a supplier I don't already have on the list.
here's one: (Can't vouch for it...)
EfficientPC
http://www.efficientpc.co.uk/
Andrew Turner wrote:
2009/6/9 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
Another option, not sure if you'd thought of is to have a look at
laptops in the right price range and then search online to see if anyone
has had any problems with Ubuntu. I did that when choosing a laptop. I
was going to go for
Alan Bell wrote:
[...]
What do we want?
Naked Computers!
When do we want it?
Now!
good one!
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James Milligan wrote:
I've now got a full installation of Ubuntu on my desktop! 8.10 with
everything working, bar the sound. Dualbooting with XP and modified
grub boot list menu so that XP is default after 3 seconds (for parents
and gaming).
As soon as I get the sound working I'm
Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
A couple of us our local LUG have got an event coming up in the next
couple of weeks (well two in fact, one in a couple of weeks and one in
about a month's time. Now I have a few Ubuntu CDs from Canonical which
we're hoping to distribute to visitors but I was
James Milligan wrote:
[...]
Hmm I don't really want to have to install ubuntu again. I haven't got
the time at the moment. Are there any downloads I could try?
Why not try as suggested, an ubuntu 9.04 live CD?
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Rob Beard wrote:
alan c wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
A couple of us our local LUG have got an event coming up in the next
couple of weeks (well two in fact, one in a couple of weeks and one in
about a month's time. Now I have a few Ubuntu CDs from Canonical which
we're hoping
mac wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
And for those that missed it, myself included:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_Open_Source_Means_Business/
Just listened to it. An implicit lesson in the difference between 'Open
Source' (=pragmatic - better ways to
alan c wrote:
mac wrote:
Dave Walker wrote:
And for those that missed it, myself included:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b00kp806/Inside_the_Virtual_Anthill_Open_Source_Means_Business/
Just listened to it. An implicit lesson in the difference between 'Open
Source' (=pragmatic
Original Message
From: - Mon Jun 1 18:04:35 2009
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This is on tonight, Monday 1st June:
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James Milligan wrote:
Also the CDs you order through shipit come with 4 stickers each I
think. I've got a fair few here. Need to stick them somewhere actually.
Car back bumper, bike front mudguard, front window of house, :-)
back of laptop lid .
On a car back bumper they last about 6
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
James Milligan wrote:
Good old popey.com ;-)
Also noting someones earlier email - is it considered 'proper
etiquette' to reply to a list email below the quoted text? If so I
apologise.
Wikipedia has an article on posting style
Most of bbc radio listen again is flash based I think, and it works ok
for me.
However, just lately I find that some programmes do not play and a
message appears that I need to 'install real player'.
In a machine which has an older install - an asus 900 which is still
running the original
/5/28 Tim Dobson li...@tdobson.net
alan c wrote:
Most of bbc radio listen again is flash based I think, and it works ok
for me.
However, just lately I find that some programmes do not play and a
message appears that I need to 'install real player'.
In a machine which has an older
Wulfy wrote:
alan c wrote:
A particular example is the michael bentine show
for example
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bv2gw/episodes/player
Hmmm... when I clicked on the program to play, the player window popped
up and then FF crashed... :@(
Kubuntu Jaunty, FF 3.0.10
I had
Below is an copy (with permission and with identity removed) of a
letter of complaint from a pensioner friend to the department store
where she had attempted to buy a webcam. For Ubuntu. The high handed
way the staff member acted has prompted a formal response from my
friend, who, (until now) has
Sean Miller wrote:
when I try to play most of my saved music it says sorry mate, you
don't have those there plugins what we need to do this - do you want
me to install them? so I say yeah but then it says sorry, mate,
didn't work out.
So what's the most reliable way from a virgin install of
James Milligan wrote:
Let me just say that I couldn't think of a better title for this, so
please improve it if you can!
The shop I work in sells desktop computers that are built to order
each time, meaning the OS too. We also sell laptops by ASUS but that's
[...]
Have you considered
norman wrote:
My current router is about to die and I have a router supplied by my ISP
which I have been trying to set up. I have followed all the available
instructions but the end result is that I cannot make contact to the web
set up. I enter the address supplied into Firefox and get no
Simon Wears wrote:
I got myself a Logitech Quickcam S7500, works great for me straight out the
box. Clips onto my flat screen monitor, same with laptop. Can be a bit
tricky getting it to work with aMSN, but *apparently* works great with
Skype. Haven't tried it myself, as I don't use Skype.
It
norman wrote:
My current router is about to die and I have a router supplied by my ISP
which I have been trying to set up. I have followed all the available
instructions but the end result is that I cannot make contact to the web
set up. I enter the address supplied into Firefox and get no
norman wrote:
snip
I have recently installed Ubuntu 9.04 and decided to follow the detailed
instructions which you so kindly supplied. As far as I can tell I did
exactly what was described.
ApplicationsAdd/Remove
Ensure that 'All' is selected, and Click the choices to select 'All
I put together the following information for those who may not care
about restrictions, and just need some help with multimedia.
It draws heavily on the medibuntu repositories, and is written with
novices in mind:
==
Multimedia and Ubuntu
How
John wrote:
I just reformatted my laptop harddrive, reinstalled windows xp and the
installed Ubunti 9.04 through wubi. Its seems to be working really well.
It automatically left out compiz and I can only use the basic Visual
effect, which is fine by me.
In windows, I dont have any
Andrew Williams wrote:
A few people may of spotted me firing away with a camera at the
event, and as requested i've made them available online.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/nik_doof/sets/72157617311869238/
I took in the region of 300 photos during the night so it's taking
some time to
Hi Chad
I have just tried a live disc.
orca is installed automatically but is not enabled.
alt-f2 does give a run facility and typing orca and return does open
an orca setup window.
I hear a spoken sound then, however, it does not seem to be working well.
The sound is too brief to understand.
jaunty became available - from canonical's machines at least, about 20
minutes ago
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Adam Bagnall wrote:
alan c wrote:
jaunty became available - from canonical's machines at least, about 20
minutes ago
Do you have the md5sums? I'd like to know if I'm seeding the correct ISOs...
3b5e9861910463374bb0d4ba9025bbb1 *ubuntu-9.04-alternate-amd64.iso
It looks like xandros is moving into Wubi space and also linking
commercial options (?)
Presto:
'...Presto is positioned simply as a program for Windows. You
download it as an .exe file and install it like you would any other
application. To remove it, run the uninstaller or go to
Chris Bagley wrote:
Ogg files? Bit-torrent distribution? CC licensing?
Something strange is bubbling out of the beeb and I for one like it!
Definitely will be something to keep an eye on. Cant say the media up
there now is that inspiring but I guess the only way to show we want
more is to
doug livesey wrote:
Hi -- I (sort of) noticed a while back some marketing gumph that suggested
that Ubuntu servers can be configured to reduce power consumption when they
are not under heavy load, and was wondering if something similar was
available (generally, I mean, not *just* for Ubuntu)
Neil Greenwood wrote:
2009/4/8 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
Gitso:
[...]
I have concluded that security issues are acceptable as long as
[...]
2) Â the supportee does not type anything into the screen which is
confidential such as credit card number, during a session, since
credit card
Alan Bell wrote:
Stephen Garton wrote:
I have used gitso (http://code.google.com/p/gitso/) with a reasonable
amount of success, for connecting linux and windows machines in all
configurations (i.e. L-L, L-W, W-L and W-W).
I say reasonable amount of success purely because I don't use it
http://www.be-heard.co.uk/volunteering.html
The charity Be Heard has about three dozen members and most use the
internet enabled computers in their club rooms fairly regularly. One
of the four desktops has a touch screen, with an accessible-friendly
mouse and keyboard.
All four PCs run Ubuntu
Robin Cardrick wrote:
I had no idea this kind of thing went on in Bracknell. Living in
Bracknell myself I had always thought of the area as pretty
technologically inept! Am glad there are people here showing others that
there is another choice, and one doesn't have to use windows!.
yey!
I have posted this expos'e of how easy it is for a great grandma to do
internet shopping on her own with Ubuntu
http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2009/03/31/great-grandma-takes-internet-shopping-by-storm-with-ubuntu-linux/
It would be great to think it might get some good coverage, any
doug livesey wrote:
Hi -- I already remotely administrate a PC for my Mum one for my Dad, and
both are Windows machines.
So LogMeIn.com is perfect for those.
However, I am setting up an Ubuntu machine for my brother that will also
require remote administration, and was wondering about the
Bruce Durling wrote:
I tweeted about it on @otfrom, but I think digg, reddit or slashdot
would be the place to go.
thanks.
How do I get it marked for digg, reddit and slashdot?
alan
2009 - The year of the linux desktop for Great Grandmas?
cheers,
Bruce
2009/3/31 alan c aecl
it and if that is needed please give me some guidance?
alan c
We did a story a good year or so ago on a similar theme, written by
Knightwise,
about his 'Ubuntu Granny' using Ubuntu on her EEE that they bought her.
BTW: just don't let her near Twitter, it's too addictive!!! ;D
LOL
invert a
printer font
Dianne
On Tue, 2009-03-31 at 13:59 +0100, alan c wrote:
I have posted this expos'e of how easy it is for a great grandma to do
internet shopping on her own with Ubuntu
http://dnc.digitalunite.com/2009/03/31/great-grandma-takes-internet-shopping-by-storm
Computer Shopper magazine May 2009 has a tiny Tux at top centre of
its front cover:
'NEW Section Linux made easy! It's FREE and easier than you think.'
The section, page 136, is listed as a 'Linux Expert' section, along
with other 'expert' sections.
The title is 'Install Ubuntu Linux', '
Eddie Bernard wrote:
2009/3/25 Matt Jones m...@mattjones.me.uk:
In the past, that opinion was fairly valid. Now, the celerons are
actually quite speedy little chips, espescially for an Ubuntu box that
is going to run web/openoffice/music all day. As for recommending a
Via over the current
Eddie Bernard wrote:
2009/3/25 Jamie Bennett ja...@linuxuk.org:
Steve Cook wrote:
Here's your competition http://efficientpc.co.uk/
The Wraith, same system with 2gb of ram - £232.61. Nice looking little system
there.
Great - I can definitely beat that and by some way. I can't tell
mac wrote:
Some of you may already have seen this heartening story. (Let's
hope the lads at the Met have, too!):
Gendarmes saves cash with Ubuntu
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/388/1051388/gendarmes-saves-cash-ubuntu
I immediately sent an email (and link) to my three local
'Tempers Flare as Recession Creeps into Tech Industry'
http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/03/tempers-flare-as-recession-creeps-into.html
Extract:
It's _ hippy freaks like you that are costing us our
jobs. You got any idea how many people are getting pink slips because
of your
Andrew Oakley wrote:
Mark Fraser wrote:
I was going to say that Computer Active published 'The
Computer Active Ultimate Guide To Linux' in December,
but that had Ubuntu 8.10 on it. It was £5.99.
Ooh, that might do. Thanks.
http://www.computeractive-direct.co.uk/index.cfm?p=16itemid=2946
Following a successful visit in April 2008, organised via Hantslug, of
Government Minister John Denham to
Jamies, the Sounthampton recycling centre, when he had presentations
and Q A on Open Source including, specifically, Ubuntu, I now see news
of a follow up:
Jamie's Hosts Ministerial Visit
doug livesey wrote:
Hi -- I've recently switched my main dev machine from OSX to Ubuntu Ibex,
and would like to start implementing a regular backup regimen.
In OSX I used TimeMachine, an excellent app that has saved my arse on more
than one occasion.
I've seen that there are supposed to be
Chris Bagley wrote:
Fantastic little article. I guess we are never going to be able to
fully protect against stupidity but there definitely is room for bug
fixes in this case.
Thunar seem to have got it right
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Rob Beard wrote:
alan c wrote:
Sean Miller wrote:
I have my nice SuSE Tux, as seen here... http://lugog.org.uk
If anybody wants to use it to promote Linux let me know...
unfortunately being in Somerset I'm a bit out in the sticks but I
could certainly bring him to places relatively
Matt Jones wrote:
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
[...]
http://infopointproject.org/wordpress/
Looks to be a little dead now, but was exactly what you described, I
think it was started by Jono and some of the other lugradio guys.
Matt.
I use Infopoint
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The good news is that one of our very own - Alan Cocks is doing great
work in Bracknell, Berkshire. He's probably run more stands at
computer fairs than any of the other teams put together!
If you want to know anything
Dianne Reuby wrote:
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I did a google search for uk computer fairs and found the followin site
http://www.britishcomputerfairs.com/index.htm
there is a contact form, on the site which I
Rob Beard wrote:
On 10/02/2009 12:07, alan c wrote:
Matt Jones wrote:
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 8:06 PM, Paul Suttonzl...@zleap.net wrote:
[...]
http://infopointproject.org/wordpress/
Looks to be a little dead now, but was exactly what you described, I
think it was started
Sean Miller wrote:
I have my nice SuSE Tux, as seen here... http://lugog.org.uk
If anybody wants to use it to promote Linux let me know...
unfortunately being in Somerset I'm a bit out in the sticks but I
could certainly bring him to places relatively nearby... the Orkneys
are probabaly not
Rob Beard wrote:
On 10/02/2009 14:17, Sean Miller wrote:
I have my nice SuSE Tux, as seen here... http://lugog.org.uk
If anybody wants to use it to promote Linux let me know...
unfortunately being in Somerset I'm a bit out in the sticks but I
could certainly bring him to places relatively
In the open and sharing spirit of FOSS I offer a heads up to a well
written item which looks like it needs some actions in response.
There may be some nice debate about a definition here or there, but
the real world is in this article as far as I can see.
I trust it will not be long before I
LeeGroups wrote:
Aparently primnary schools are forced to use MS office so the children
are ready for what is used in Secondary schools which is I guess a fair
argument i guess. And i guess secondaries feel obliged to use MS office
as they see it as industry standard.
There used to be a
Harry Rickards wrote:
Someone I know who goes to a CLAIT course was told that an Operating System
meant Windows, no mention of Linux or Mac OSX, and that an application was
simply either an MS Office App or IE, again do mention of OpenOffice or
Firefox. Maybe the instructors don't even know
Hopefully a sign of things to come. Novatech forums now have a Linux
forum.
Possibly very useful for information about what works, or not. As you
probably know, Novatech price stuff with and *without* OS.
I saw a suggestion there that they had been or are still, in contact
with Canonical.
Ken Robson wrote:
US woman says Ubuntu can't access internet
cid:part1.08010708.05090402@robsonfamily.co.uk
also
'Worlds Dumbest Woman Blames Ubuntu for College Failure'
http://www.inquisitr.com/15383/worlds-dumbest-woman-blames-ubuntu-for-college-failure/
(photo)
' Despite her
Yishay Mor wrote:
http://www.wkowtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9667184
MCFARLAND (WKOW) -- Abbie Schubert paid more than $1,100 for a Dell laptop
hoping to enroll in online classes at MATC.
But something stopped her: Ubuntu.
No WKOW, something else stopped her. But that's no excuse, computers
I have a (very) non-techie friend who is just starting with Ubuntu
from Windows. He wants to continue to use skype. I can easily help
with that initially, I have a free skype account myself so I can do
support for skype installation.
However, he has a paid skype account, I think so that he can
Graham Binns wrote:
2009/1/14 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
Can anyone say what the difference is, in terms of what is in Windows,
between a paid skype and a free skype? In particular how to migrate
across?
There's no difference. He doesn't need to migrate, just log in on
Linux
WhatPC have a good article titled
'Join the Linux Revolution'. It begins with the landmark phrase
'You have undoubtedly heard of Linux' and continues with a brief
introduction to contemporary Linux, It soon concentrates on Ubuntu and
'We would strongly recommend that complete beginners start
(Not only the BBC radio 4 on free stuff for 30 minutes mentioned in
another thread),
but also this big coverage of you know who and Ubuntu!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html?partner=rssemc=rss
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(Not only the BBC radio 4 on free stuff for 30 minutes mentioned in
another thread),
but also this big coverage of you know who and Ubuntu!
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/11/business/11ubuntu.html?partner=rssemc=rss
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I have just heard Peter Day's In Business program, and it is totally
about free software its past and future. Very concise I thought, and
well informed.
Worth a listen (podcast available)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml
Free For All broadcast on 8-1-09
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Jacob F. Roecker wrote:
OK All:
I'm working a few different video ideas for the whyubuntu.com site. Each
will
be uniquely different from other ads.
I read the article in slashdot today
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/01/02/2330237 that shows linux
should get more
Christopher Swift wrote:
Alan C, it was preinstalled by Dell, probably OEM so I doubt that they used
the safe graphics mode. My sister has the same issue regarding Penguin
Racer. I too have disabled Compiz on her laptop which is an Acer (do not the
model) btw. An old one at least 2yrs
David King wrote:
My girlfriend is running Ubuntu 8.04 on her Dell Inspiron 1525
(preinstalled), but had a few graphics issues recently.
I was playing a game (Penguin Planet Racer) full screen and it crashed
the laptop, could not get out of it other than a hard reboot.
I disabled some of
Seen by keen eyed family member in Bentalls in Bracknell, before xmas,
and now sitting on the desk next to me, is a 'Ubuntu' mug.
It is Big - 500ml, so my liter is half full rather than half empty
:-)
http://shop.whateverittakes.org/product.php?xProd=19xSec=2
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I don't think so
On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 06:20 +, Nick Ellery wrote:
I was unable to reproduce this. Is this still reproducible in the
latest version of gcalctool, 5.24.2-0ubuntu1?
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250567
You received this bug notification
OT:
Alan I am trying to get in contact with you re some CDs - not sure if
the emails have gotten through?
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Anthony Sales wrote:
I have now posted a rough guide to how I made Vibuntu 1.2 from a default
install of Ubuntu 8.10 (Intrepid Ibex) on the Vibuntu Development Blog for
anyone who is interested - http://vibuntu.blogspot.com/
I expect all of your own personalised versions of Vibuntu to be on
I see in the edubuntu users list that there is a request for initial
help from a school in Swindon - they are considering starting to use
ubuntu (edubuntu)
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I have also pointed them to this uk list, although anyone in this list
who is in th eSwindon area might like to be
I bought a camera today from a high street shop. We looked first in
another shop but a particular model was not in stock. However Currys
Digital did have stock.
I will never buy such things without first finding out if they can be
used with Ubuntu. Last year in another (camera) shop this had
Ted wrote:
Eddie Armstrong wrote:
Ted wrote:
Do I have to edit any files on the usb stick after I have installed Ubi
to get the stick to boot ?
I would have thought just check the BIOS - enable boot from USB device
I'm sure someone will let us know if I'm wrong
Eddie
Dave Walker wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
I quite like the idea of a bumper sticker. I have a debian one on my
car at the moment, but it's been on there a few years. Time for an
upgrade.
Cheers,
Al.
I think this is a superb idea.. However, the same question that keeps
raising it's head when
Bruce Beardall wrote:
Hi All
Slightly off topic but I've found a PC / Laptop supplier where you can
choose a machine without an OS.
www.pcspecialist.co.uk
I haven't done an exhaustive search yet (nor, for that matter, have I had
any real experience of their service) but they seem to
Ted wrote:
I am trying to install Ubi to a usb stick but keep getting a grub error
when I boot from it...I have installed Puppy Linux to a usb stick and
that boots ok..My question is if puppy will boot from the usb port should
other distros boot from it ?
I guess you are using the 8.10
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