Re: [ubuntu-uk] Users - disabled or learning difficulty

2007-07-25 Thread alan c
Ian Pascoe wrote: Just for those of you who are interested, here's a copy of my reply to Alan on the Accessability list. Alan, apologies just realised I replied direct to you and not through the list! No problem! And Thanks Ian! your reply was fast and invaluable, I could immediately try

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-25 Thread Matthew East
* Josh Blacker: My personal favourite, on a bookmark trying to be witty: Never try to replace windows on your computer Not specifically Windows related, and only vaguely on topic, but by one of the photocopiers at work we have a sign like this:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-25 Thread Mark Harrison
Ah - the joys of contextual advertising - sorry about that. OK, how about this one: It said 'requires Windows 2000 or better' on the box, so I installed Ubuntu Mark Josh Blacker wrote: Great - now I have a bunch of adverts about powerpoint in my gmail! My personal favourite, on a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-25 Thread Jim Kissel
Q: Had you considered the possibility that we might actually prefer Windows, or even think it's better? A: No, but in all fairness, neither had I considered the possibility that you might be afflicted with rabies or suffering from fetal alcohol syndrome. Just Some Guy on /. (with minor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...

2007-07-25 Thread spep
The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sites IE schools/businesses who dont want to have their proxys loaded with small .debs

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quote of the day....

2007-07-25 Thread Eddie Armstrong
From 'comments' to an interview, (edited for readability), someone asked : 'Why don't any of the OSes sandbox everything by now better protecting users from themselves?' To which someone else replied: 'So in short nobody's sandboxing a PC any time soon except for running Windows in a VM,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...

2007-07-25 Thread Alec Wright
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 13:15 +0100, Matthew Wild wrote: On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know the kind of sizes the repos are? About 30GB, or so I was told... I dunno about individual versions and architectures, but its about 170GB for all currently

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...

2007-07-25 Thread Alec Wright
On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:57 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy across the latest image. That just gave me an idea... (if you're sane you'll stop reading now)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...

2007-07-25 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Alec, On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 21:10 +0100, Alec Wright wrote: On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 20:57 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy across the latest image.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...

2007-07-25 Thread Ian Pascoe
Popey replied, when I asked about the size of the repos, that they were about 30 Gb for 7.0.4, so 170 Gb for all flavours seems quite reasonable. And of course the beauty of HDDs is that they're R/W, so you store the up to date images on a server and when the HDDs go out you just copy across the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Repos on a Disk

2007-07-25 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, On Tue, 2007-07-24 at 18:40 +0100, Ian Pascoe wrote: Hi-de-hi Ho-de-ho. Popey floated an idea a little while back about putting the entire Ubuntu Repository onto a portable HD for use by those who don't have the ability to connect to the Internet or only over dial-up. That's it. I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...

2007-07-25 Thread Andy Loughran
I don't know enough about this, but what does aptonCD do? Andy Loughran www.zrmt.com m: 07921076319 - Original Message - From: alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: 25 July 2007 19:04:18 o'clock (GMT) Europe/London Subject: Re:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Contents of ubuntu-uk digest...

2007-07-25 Thread alan c
Matthew Wild wrote: On 7/25/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The 'Repo on external drives' idea is superb, i often want to install things at work, which is a secure network and hence we cant have internet access to not secured machines, would also be better for big sites IE