Re: [ubuntu-uk] OSS on BBC Radio 4, 9.30pm Sunday 14th Jan 2007

2007-01-15 Thread alan c
John McCourt wrote: It's great that the Beeb are talking about OSS. I wish they'd talk more about Linux on Click and the news though. I have stopped bothering to watch Click, it is simply not relevant to Linux or open source at all. -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 6.10 install

2007-01-15 Thread James Dalley
you coukld use a drive formatting tool to do this before you try installing, are your BIOS settings all right??? James JonI have downloaded the alternative - unfortunately, the CD cannot find my hard disk and the installation fails each time. I've tried a few times. Any ideas?Al

[ubuntu-uk] Feisty and Pan

2007-01-15 Thread Ted
Trying to get Pan to run in Feisty and it will not show any headers for incoming groupsOk on sending thoughAnyone else had this problem ?? -- Regards Ted Wager G3TPI High Peak UK Using Ubuntu Feisty Linux -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Alan Cox Files DRM Patent (article)

2007-01-15 Thread alan c
quote from article: == Alan Cox, developer of the Linux Kernel, has filed a patent application seeking to obtain ownership of DRM, and all the technologies surrounding it. Taken from the patent abstract, Cox asserts the origins of DRM and outlines the practice in detail:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alan Cox Files DRM Patent (article)

2007-01-15 Thread Tony Arnold
Paul, Paul Sladen wrote: On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, alan c wrote: ] Alan Cox [..] filed a patent application [regarding] DRM. ] Upon detection of a violation of these terms, state information ] pertaining to the computer program is saved interesting times eh? I haven't entirely worked out the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feisty and Pan

2007-01-15 Thread David Morley
Trying to get Pan to run in Feisty and it will not show any headers for incoming groupsOk on sending thoughAnyone else had this problem ?? The only thing I can think of is if it is a well used group it can take a long while to update the headers. I thought it was playing up the first

[ubuntu-uk] IRC security mention in Ubuntu Weekly News 27

2007-01-15 Thread alan c
I have only used IRC a few times, and have only a vague idea of the issues around it. I noyice in UWN 27 that = If you are using IRC to connect to any of the Ubuntu IRC channels, the IRC Operator's Team would like to inform you that to make your connection secure you should use port 8001

[ubuntu-uk] BBC parliament

2007-01-15 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Does anyone know how to get the BBC parliament streams working in Edgy? It seems I can watch all of the recorded video, but I can't access the live feeds. I can't access any of the realplayer video either, just the WMV. Has anyone had any luck? I've got all of the win32 codecs.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IRC security mention in Ubuntu Weekly News 27

2007-01-15 Thread Andy
On 15/01/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have only used IRC a few times, and have only a vague idea of the issues around it. I noyice in UWN 27 that = If you are using IRC to connect to any of the Ubuntu IRC channels, the IRC Operator's Team would like to inform you that to make

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IRC security mention in Ubuntu Weekly News 27

2007-01-15 Thread Michael Wood
alan c wrote: I have only used IRC a few times, and have only a vague idea of the issues around it. I noyice in UWN 27 that = If you are using IRC to connect to any of the Ubuntu IRC channels, the IRC Operator's Team would like to inform you that to make your connection secure you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IRC security mention in Ubuntu Weekly News 27

2007-01-15 Thread alan c
Michael Wood wrote: alan c wrote: I have only used IRC a few times, and have only a vague idea of the issues around it. I noyice in UWN 27 that = If you are using IRC to connect to any of the Ubuntu IRC channels, the IRC Operator's Team would like to inform you that to make your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Feisty and Pan

2007-01-15 Thread Ted
David Morley wrote: Trying to get Pan to run in Feisty and it will not show any headers for incoming groupsOk on sending thoughAnyone else had this problem ?? The only thing I can think of is if it is a well used group it can take a long while to update the headers. I thought it was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC parliament

2007-01-15 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Actually, it is there. Listed as ukpolitcs (With a typo!) Bravo! What a superb program. On Mon, 2007-01-15 at 19:49 +, John McCourt wrote: I recently wrote a program called SteekyTV for Linux. I'm not sure if it has BBC Parlaiment working yet but it's something I will check into. There

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OSS on BBC Radio 4, 9.30pm Sunday 14th Jan 2007

2007-01-15 Thread London School of Puppetry
Could someone contact an education prograame such as The Learning Curve about the benefits of OSS over MS? There is a school up in NYorks that has gone over to OSS and there was a Govt paper about it I believe. Caroline On 15/01/07, alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John McCourt wrote: It's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] open office paste crash

2007-01-15 Thread Dean Sas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dean Sas wrote: London School of Puppetry wrote: Sorry to change the subject- I have Ubuntu 6,10 installed. Open Office crashes if I try to copy or cut and paste into an email. I have re-installed Open Office, but it is still happening. Does that