Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mark Shuttleworth on Dell

2007-09-10 Thread Pete Stean
I've noticed that - finding the Inspirons with Ubuntu installed is a tortuous journey if you start off at www.dell.co.uk... mind you, at least it's there if you look hard enough :) Pete On 10/09/2007, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For anyone who didn't see the Lifehacker article, here's Mark

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote for Ubuntu on Lenovo

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Harrison
Matthew Wild wrote: On 9/8/07, *Josh Blacker* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Winning by quite a long way at the moment, leading over Debian by about 600 votes :) lol, now leading by 4000 votes :P 35 minutes after your post, I've just voted, and the lead is now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mark Shuttleworth on Dell

2007-09-10 Thread Matthew Wild
On 9/10/07, Pete Stean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've noticed that - finding the Inspirons with Ubuntu installed is a tortuous journey if you start off at www.dell.co.uk... mind you, at least it's there if you look hard enough :) Pete Yep. Trying to help someone order one... embarrassing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote for Ubuntu on Lenovo

2007-09-10 Thread Pete Stean
Now at over 10K :) Pete On 10/09/2007, Mark Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew Wild wrote: On 9/8/07, *Josh Blacker* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Winning by quite a long way at the moment, leading over Debian by about 600 votes :) lol, now

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Vote for Ubuntu on Lenovo

2007-09-10 Thread Stephen Garton
Mac wrote: Add your vote to the Lenovo blog: http://lenovoblogs.com/insidethebox/?p=98 Mac I didn't vote for Ubuntu. I voted for: Anyone that refuses to carry binary-only drivers, so that all others will also benefit, as it will require documented hardware For the reasons it stipulates!

[ubuntu-uk] Screencast Team meeting

2007-09-10 Thread Alan Pope
Hi, There's a screencast team meeting in #ubuntu-meeting ON irc at 8pm UK time (19:00 UTC) today. I'd appreciate it if anyone who has any comments to make about the Month Of Screencasts [0], the agenda [1] or anything else Ubuntu-Screencast-related, please attend, or if you cannot attend feel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencast Team meeting

2007-09-10 Thread Pete Stean
Alan, I know this is 'fluff' but perhaps something on compiz-fusion and demos on how to initiate the new plugins such as Expo and Shift (? if that's the name - the new iTunes album art type thing) . The problem with most screencasts is that they're of such low resolution and so badly encoded that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Redundency was Going back to the Dell deal...

2007-09-10 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 10/09/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 11:00 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: Hardware load balancer tend to give the twin benefits of resilience and performance. ..and another single point of failure. :) Maybe that's why he said (pair) of load balancers? :-)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Redundency was Going back to the Dell deal...

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Harrison
Alan Pope wrote: Hi Mark, On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 11:00 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: Hardware load balancer tend to give the twin benefits of resilience and performance. ..and another single point of failure. :) Cheers, Al. Al, Yeah - that's why I've (in the past) used a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Redundency was Going back to the Dell deal...

2007-09-10 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Mark, On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 21:28 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: Others may have a different opinion, and if they're prepared to underwrite (with funds lodged in an escrow account) my company's loss of income were we to have any downtime because of an Ubuntu failure, I'm willing to read

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Redundency was Going back to the Dell deal...

2007-09-10 Thread Ian Pascoe
Cheers Mark One question though. I've seen on the various clustering projects that they all offer a type of load balancing so why not go for a software solution as opposed to a hardware one? Nevertheless, thanks for answering my question. E -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Redundency was Going back to the Dell deal...

2007-09-10 Thread Mark Harrison
Alan Pope wrote: Hi Mark, On Mon, 2007-09-10 at 21:28 +0100, Mark Harrison wrote: Others may have a different opinion, and if they're prepared to underwrite (with funds lodged in an escrow account) my company's loss of income were we to have any downtime because of an Ubuntu failure,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Redundency was Going back to the Dell deal...

2007-09-10 Thread Ian Pascoe
Hmm Ok, that fairly well answers my post of a couple of minutes ago. My only comment to the software load balancing, compensation clauses being pushed out of sight for the moment, is that there are a number of clusters out there run by various companies blah blah blah and they seem to use the