Hi Rob,
I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
notebook this evening with not much luck.
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I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained
about not having a disk check for about 49,710 days. It ran through the
disk check and
On Friday 05 October 2007 16:16:18 Peter Lewis wrote:
On Friday 05 October 2007 15:40:38 andylockran wrote:
We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing Virtual Richard
Stallman on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
installed.
Well, as it's a friday
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Quite what the actual problem is, I don't know but I wouldn't be looking
at changing batteries, I'd suspect some hardware incompatibility.
Have you actually replaced the hard drive?
Or at least run a decent disk checker on it (the one from Maxtor
excellent)?
Installing a whole
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 09:11 +0100, David Restall - System Administrator
wrote:
Hi Rob,
I've been trying to install Ubuntu 7.04 on my dad's Thinkpad R50e
notebook this evening with not much luck.
Snip...
I then rebooted again, and during the reboot the machine complained
about not
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:40 +, andylockran wrote:
We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing Virtual Richard
Stallman on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
installed.
Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for
something to
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 11:27 +0100, Alec Wright wrote:
On Fri, 2007-10-05 at 14:40 +, andylockran wrote:
We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing Virtual Richard
Stallman on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
installed.
Well, as it's a friday
Hi Matt, Alan Peter and anyone else interested
Thanks for your offers of help.
I don't want to turn away offers of help, but anyone volunteering must
understand that us visually impaired lot can be, well, exceedingly trying at
times. There is still a lot of institutalised VIP that able bodied
Daniel
Thanks, appreciated.
Although jumping ahead somewaht the idea I have is to collar a couple of
well spoken people, say from an AmDram group, and get them to talk through
a transcript of the How to's and record them onto proper Audio CDs - ie not
a compressed format.
I suppose your studio
Alan
Some very valid points. However, until the stock market crash in the late 90's
Guide Dogs was the wealthiest organisation in the UK for the blind, and in the
top 5 in the world.
Unfortunately, they're now ranked somewhat lower, but gradually picking up
again. This may well turn you off
Daniel Lamb wrote:
Why not ask around family and friends?
Surely someone will have an old laptop or even old pc which is less power
hungry.
To be honest I wouldn’t be over bothered about the energy (I say that as
someone who provides IT support to an energy company) as there is plenty and
MailoGroups wrote:
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Quite what the actual problem is, I don't know but I wouldn't be looking
at changing batteries, I'd suspect some hardware incompatibility.
Have you actually replaced the hard drive?
Or at least run a decent disk checker on it (the one from Maxtor
excellent)?
Michael Holloway wrote:
Hi
Honestly I've installed Ubuntu countless times, mostly servers. Since
7.04 i seem to get this every time! On different machines and VMs. I
assumed this was just a lazy way of forcing a disk check after its
been installed.
So all i do is install, apt-get
Hi all,
The next Ubuntu-UK Team meeting will be held via IRC at 20:30 BST
(that's 19:30 UTC) on Saturday 13th October 2007 in #ubuntu-uk.
We encourage everyone who is a member of the UKTeam to attend whether to
take part or merely watch from the sidelines.
If you have anything in particular you
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