[ubuntu-uk] : dell refund article

2007-02-01 Thread Martin
Sorry - i made a bit of a mess of the previous post - i'm not used to the newsgroup/newsfeed thing, but am trying (very, i'm told!) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6144782.stm I thought this was a good sign. think it may be to late for me though :( -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Consultation[Scanned]

2007-02-01 Thread Paul Brunt
Filled it in but after reading a bit more it looks like the trust is saying that the BBC have to provide something for Linux and mac. But they're also saying that the content can be kept for no more then 30 days(not the 13weeks that the BBC proposed)..that means the BBC will have to come up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Consultation

2007-02-01 Thread Oliver Maunder
The BBC are running a consultation about introducing on-demand services (for example, replaying shows over the internet). Question 5 of the consultation asks How important is it that the proposed seven-day catch-up service over the internet is available to consumers who are not using

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Consultation[Scanned]

2007-02-01 Thread Andy
On 01/02/07, Paul Brunt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: that means the BBC will have to come up with some sort of DRM for Linux if we want to use the service. Well they don't need to come up with a secure DRM scheme as they don't have one of those for Windows either, (one could argue that a secure

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Consultation[Scanned]

2007-02-01 Thread Daniel Watkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andy wrote: Its not hard to make a DRM scheme for Linux, why does the OS even matter? C/C++/Java/Python code is portable, or do they want to use .NET or something? Even then there's Mono, so it wouldn't be entirely impossible. Software DRM works

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC Vista Coverage

2007-02-01 Thread Llywelyn Owen
If a shop sells a desktop Linux PCs they'll lose a lot of the after sales market, no AV/firewall/security sales, no office productivity sales, no OS upgrade sales, you may not even go back for a new PC as often let alone for some of their peripheral devices which may not have drivers. Same with

[ubuntu-uk] firefox

2007-02-01 Thread London School of Puppetry
Can someone make a suggestion? Since switching to Ubuntu- whenever I start up Firefox a warning comes up telling me that my previous Firefox session ended unexpectedly and that I can opt to continue the previous session or start a new session. As far as I can tell I always end the previous

Re: [ubuntu-uk] firefox

2007-02-01 Thread Roberto Sarrionandia
Do you log out with it open? London School of Puppetry wrote: Can someone make a suggestion? Since switching to Ubuntu- whenever I start up Firefox a warning comes up telling me that my previous Firefox session ended unexpectedly and that I can opt to continue the previous session or start

Re: [ubuntu-uk] firefox

2007-02-01 Thread paul mellors
London School of Puppetry wrote: Can someone make a suggestion? Since switching to Ubuntu- whenever I start up Firefox a warning comes up telling me that my previous Firefox session ended unexpectedly and that I can opt to continue the previous session or start a new session. As far as I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] firefox

2007-02-01 Thread London School of Puppetry
On 01/02/07, paul mellors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: London School of Puppetry wrote: Can someone make a suggestion? Since switching to Ubuntu- whenever I start up Firefox a warning comes up telling me that my previous Firefox session ended unexpectedly and that I can opt to continue the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] firefox

2007-02-01 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Thu, 1 Feb 2007 23:11:57 + I think [1] London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you tell me where the profile folder is? Thanks ~/.mozilla/firefox/ profiles.ini in that folder gives a list of the profiles, and subdirectories contain the actual data for the profiles.