[ubuntu-uk] Flash's LED Stays On. (Was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2)

2006-09-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Chris, When you right click on a removable device in Dapper and tell it to unmount/eject, you get another progress window that shows the actual writing (and if you have a removable device with an LED on it that shows accesses, you'll notice that this is when it does most of its

[ubuntu-uk] Address for Ubuntu case stickers

2006-09-06 Thread Matthew Revell
I've heard back from Carl at System76 and he can send us 1,000 or 2,000 stickers. He needs an address, though, that people can send their SAE to. I don't have a business address I can use for this, so does anyone have any ideas? The address would need to be available for a reasonable period and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Address for Ubuntu case stickers

2006-09-06 Thread Jono Bacon
On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 15:53 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Would be great to have a really credible out of the box Linux supplier that one could recommend to people in the UK... I know that there are a few around toying with it (eg. uklinux.net), but there's nobody who could seriously take on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash's LED Stays On. (Was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2)

2006-09-06 Thread Adam Bagnall
The light stays on using my USB drive under Ubuntu, but goes off under windows so it's not just you with this behaviour. Even with the light staying on I think it would be good for a popup message saying the device is safe to remove as you get in windows. It should be fairly simple to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash's LED Stays On. (Was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2)

2006-09-06 Thread Chadwick Longstaff
Ralph Corderoy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:That reminds me. I've a 1 GiB flash USB drive. It has a bright LEDthat blinks off on accesses. On `pumount /media/ralphs-usb' it flushessome writes, blinking the light, and unmounts yet the light then stayson.However, on friends' machines running MS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Address for Ubuntu case stickers

2006-09-06 Thread Alan Helmore-Simpson
Matthew Revell wrote: I've heard back from Carl at System76 and he can send us 1,000 or 2,000 stickers. He needs an address, though, that people can send their SAE to. I don't have a business address I can use for this, so does anyone have any ideas? The address would need to be available

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash's LED Stays On. (Was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2)

2006-09-06 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Chadwick, However, on friends' machines running MS Windows on doing the `safely remove ...' option (whatever it is) the light goes off and stays off. I think that's good. It helps confirm it's ready to pull out. Do others experience this difference? the light is often off

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Flash's LED Stays On. (Was: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 17, Issue 2)

2006-09-06 Thread Alan Helmore-Simpson
Chadwick Wrote: perhaps the ubuntu way of having the light constantly on is better... I have a number of Flash drives that behave both ways, and after a quick test the do so consistently across both platforms, one has to conclude that this is not controllable by the OS, its a choice that the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DVD playing

2006-09-06 Thread Baza
On 6 Sep 2006, at 16:55, Chadwick Longstaff wrote: julian wrote: It strikes me as a issue that should be addressed to start to pull people away from Windoze. lots of windoze user will not use linux if it can't play DVD without hassle. Try http://easyubuntu.freecontrib.org/ , DVD

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Address for Ubuntu case stickers

2006-09-06 Thread Matthew East
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, * Matthew Revell: I've heard back from Carl at System76 and he can send us 1,000 or 2,000 stickers. He needs an address, though, that people can send their SAE to. I don't have a business address I can use for this, so does anyone have any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Launchpad team created

2006-09-06 Thread Steve Smith
On 05/09/06, Michael Wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The launchpad team has now been created for the ubuntu uk people. https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-uk Please join it ! Hi Michael This is wonderful, thank you! I've signed up. Just to let you know, I proposed myself for UK Team LoCo