Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...

2006-09-19 Thread Matthew Saunders
> A moth died inside my PC a couple of days ago Ouch! I have heard bugs can make a program crash but this is a little more extreme. > I put it all together, turned the PC on, and it booted into Ubuntu straight > away - with everything working. We had a lightning strike where I work last week.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...

2006-09-19 Thread Oliver Maunder
> This lead me to wonder what we in the Ubuntu - Uk Team might describe as> things which in hindsight we have taken for granted but have proved a > positive boon for productivity.>A moth died inside my PC a couple of days ago, taking the graphics card, motherboard and power supply with it. After ro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Pope
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 22:00 +0100, Nicholas Butler wrote: > So there I was, about to write yet another blog article, my first since > returning from my short break and BAM! > > A sudden realisation of things I have taken for granted. Currently i am > sitting here on my Games PC ( Windows XP

[ubuntu-uk] right out of the box...

2006-09-19 Thread Nicholas Butler
So there I was, about to write yet another blog article, my first since returning from my short break and BAM! A sudden realisation of things I have taken for granted. Currently i am sitting here on my Games PC ( Windows XP Pro 64 ) trying to take a screen capture of the Save Search as a F

[ubuntu-uk] Setting up a LUG Was: Organising Local Meetings

2006-09-19 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 17:08 +0100, Gary Kearley wrote: > All this talk of Scottish LUG meets makes me feel left out. > > Do we have any such meets in the Essex area? > I believe the East London LUG [0] (which would be the closest) shut down some time ago. If you would like to take on the man

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising Local Meetings

2006-09-19 Thread Stuart Parkington
Is there any interest in a West Midlands local meeting? I'm in Worcester (just about West Mids! :)) but would guess we could hold the meeting in Brum? (easy road and rail links) Anyhow, If any body is keen, lets get is started. I've added a page to the Wiki page for a proposed West Midlands gro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising Local Meetings

2006-09-19 Thread Martin Fitzpatrick
On 19/09/06, Graeme Jefferis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Glenn J. Mason wrote: > > > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:22:45 +0100 (BST), Chadwick Longstaff > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> I'm in Aberdeen. > >> > >> Are there any others who'd be interested in getting a > >> gr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising Local Meetings

2006-09-19 Thread Gary Kearley
All this talk of Scottish LUG meets makes me feel left out. Do we have any such meets in the Essex area? oh and hello everyone, just joined the mailing list at the pushing of anto9us on the irc channel. Regards Gary AKA GazzaK signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising Local Meetings

2006-09-19 Thread Graeme Jefferis
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006, Glenn J. Mason wrote: > On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:22:45 +0100 (BST), Chadwick Longstaff > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I'm in Aberdeen. >> >> Are there any others who'd be interested in getting a >> group, or three, or four, together to cover Scotland? > > Hi, I'm newly in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising Local Meetings

2006-09-19 Thread Glenn J . Mason
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 15:22:45 +0100 (BST), Chadwick Longstaff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm in Aberdeen. > > I'm a member of AberLUG, which isn't very busy (mainly > because some members are rather elitist, IMHO); and of > ScotLUG, which is thriving and a joy to be a part of, > but I don't get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Organising Local Meetings

2006-09-19 Thread Chadwick Longstaff
Hello all, I'm in Aberdeen. I'm a member of AberLUG, which isn't very busy (mainly because some members are rather elitist, IMHO); and of ScotLUG, which is thriving and a joy to be a part of, but I don't get enough opportunities to attend as they are based in Glasgow. Are there any others who'd

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubunto in college, was Re: Women, LinuxWorld, Stuff

2006-09-19 Thread Caroline Ford
On 18/09/06, ac <"aec$news"@candt.waitrose.com> wrote: >ana wrote:>> hi Caroline Ford wrote:>>> (College has horribly locked down XP boxes and a fairly fascist web>>> filter..)>>> Yes. It is not the teachers's fault. We had a college IT teacher in the >> hacklab once, he explained that even