http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/
Ah, nostalgia... I still remember the RML 380-Z that we had at school...
vt220 presentation (or maybe it was vt100) and the most clunky keys
imaginable...
Wonder if the Hangman on this laptop is as good as the one I remember
Sean Miller wrote:
Ah, nostalgia... I still remember the RML 380-Z that we had at school...
Oh, yes! Cutting edge stuff, that. And at the time brilliant - a
revelation!
Mac
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Sean Miller wrote:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/
Ah, nostalgia... I still remember the RML 380-Z that we had at school...
vt220 presentation (or maybe it was vt100) and the
Wow, that is real nostalga, they had one of those RML 380-Z machines
at
my school but it was considered an antique when I was there back in
the
early 90's. First taste of RM I had was the RM Nimbus PCs.
AAAHHAHAHAA!!! RM!
*Runs screaming as fast as possible in opposite direction.
Hi Norman,
On 09/10/2007, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I had 2 versions of Gimp on my machine and I only wanted one, so I
removed the old, unwanted package using synaptic. I then tried to
install a plugin in the remaining package. Imagine my amazement when not
only was the plugin not
Hi Kirrus,
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:40 +0100, Kirrus wrote:
AAAHHAHAHAA!!! RM!
Heh. I know a few people who have that same reaction :(.
I used to go to a school, who got all computers services from RM. We
had at least one major system failure a year. (As in, all computers
down.) The
Hello list
I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the
organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your
opinions on which version to take along?
I've got a feeling I'll probably end up taking a mix, however it'd be
nice to hear what your opinions are.
On 09/10/2007, Colin Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wednesday 03 October 2007 15:55:26 Neil Greenwood wrote:
Hi all,
What programs do people run on a new machine that's booted off the
Live CD to check that everything is working/supported?
It may be obvious, but I check for things
Kirrus wrote:
d) proprietory lock-in (Yes, worse than just MS Windoze)
Oh yes, I remember when I was at school, educational software was
written specifically for the RM Nimbus, it would run on an RM Machine
but not on any other PC forcing the schools who bought the software to
invest solely
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:19 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote:
I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the
organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your
opinions on which version to take along?
Personally I would not install gutsy on someone
On 10/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi Kirrus,
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 09:40 +0100, Kirrus wrote:
AAAHHAHAHAA!!! RM!
Heh. I know a few people who have that same reaction :(.
I used to go to a school, who got all computers services from RM. We
had at least one major
Philip Newborough wrote:
Hello list
I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the
organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your
opinions on which version to take along?
I've got a feeling I'll probably end up taking a mix, however it'd be
snip
You didn't say, but I'm assuming that you're installing the plugin
through synaptic too.
No, I downloaded the file ans installed it the usual way by double
clicking the icon produced.
I would guess that the plugin you're trying to install is targetted at
the old version of Gimp. So
norman wrote:
However, I am still puzzled. How can a package which I have removed
reappear all by itself?
Norman
If the plugin depends on the version of Gimp that you removed, dpkg
would reinstall it as a (reverse) dependency...
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Blessings
Wulfmann
Wulf Credo:
Respect the elders. Teach
Gutsy is still breaking things from time to time for me - not
something you want to put a new user through, and would hardly give a
good impression. Get hold of some of the nice shiny pre-pressed Feisty
live disks if you can...
Pete
On 10/10/2007, Philip Newborough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On
On 10/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:19 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote:
I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the
organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your
opinions on which version to take
However, I am still puzzled. How can a package which I have removed
reappear all by itself?
Norman
If the plugin depends on the version of Gimp that you removed, dpkg
would reinstall it as a (reverse) dependency...
I am not very computerate, obviously, but from where did dpkg get the
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 12:38:21 +0100, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
However, I am still puzzled. How can a package which I have removed
reappear all by itself?
Norman
If the plugin depends on the version of Gimp that you removed, dpkg
would reinstall it as a (reverse)
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:35 +0100, Wulfy wrote:
norman wrote:
However, I am still puzzled. How can a package which I have removed
reappear all by itself?
Norman
If the plugin depends on the version of Gimp that you removed, dpkg
would reinstall it as a (reverse) dependency...
dpkg
Hi All,
Maybe I am missing one that already exists, I propose a screencast to
be made about encrypting partitions.
I have seen many guides and think that a video may make things clearer.
Any thoughts on the matter? Or people willing to make the video?
mattmole
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University of
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:25 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:14 +0100, Matthew Holder wrote:
Maybe I am missing one that already exists, I propose a screencast to
be made about encrypting partitions.
Great idea.
I have seen many guides and think that a video
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 13:54 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
SNIP
Not sure how well Ubuntu Gutsy would run on an Athlon XP 1700 with 512MB
memory though.
Rob
Suck it and see? I've ran Feisty on a 650Mhz 192Mb RAM machine - so i'd
think your comparable 'powerhorse' should run Gutsy without any
On 10/10/2007, Dave Walker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:25 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:14 +0100, Matthew Holder wrote:
Maybe I am missing one that already exists, I propose a screencast to
be made about encrypting partitions.
Great
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:14 +0100, Matthew Holder wrote:
Maybe I am missing one that already exists, I propose a screencast to
be made about encrypting partitions.
Great idea.
I have seen many guides and think that a video may make things clearer.
Throw some links at us and I'm sure
Alan Pope wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 14:14 +0100, Matthew Holder wrote:
Maybe I am missing one that already exists, I propose a screencast to
be made about encrypting partitions.
Great idea.
I have seen many guides and think that a video may make things clearer.
Throw some
If it could touch on making encrypted loop back files too
(say a file on a hard drive or USB pen drive) that
would be good. I'm sure it would certainly be interesting
for those users who have sensitive documents on?
their computers (who may be moving over from the likes of
Windows XP
Interesting article at Zdnet about why Windows Users don't switch to Mac.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=847tag=nl.e539
One of the core reasons that the author quotes is: The Linux effect
The “anything but Microsoft” card that Apple is playing is losing
traction
given that Linux
So phill, whatever happened to the stuff you were working on?
On 08/10/2007, London School of Puppetry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 08/10/2007, James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ubuntu - cos were better than you. And we know it. :D
(yes I did steal it from dodgeball)
Seriously
Links as requested:
http://news.softpedia.com/news/Encrypted-Ubuntu-7-04-61312.shtml
http://www.howtoforge.com/truecrypt_data_encryption
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/EncryptedFilesystemHowto
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/?action=fullsearchvalue=encryptedfilesystemtitlesearch=Titles
On
O
However, I am still puzzled. How can a package which I have removed
reappear all by itself?
Norman
If the plugin depends on the version of Gimp that you removed, dpkg
would reinstall it as a (reverse) dependency...
I am not very computerate, obviously, but from
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:19 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote:
I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the
organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your
opinions on which version to take along?
Gutsy. When I'm installing Ubuntu for anyone else, I use
On 10/10/2007, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So phill, whatever happened to the stuff you were working on?
Well, I'm still working on it :D You can see a prototype ad in the
sidebar of my blog. See http://crunchbang.org/ and look down the right
column for the Ubuntu add - if you
Hi there,
I have ubuntu-server 7.04 running headless. If I reboot the server I can't
access my Printer web page - you know the http://localhost:631 page? Anyway
I hope you know what I mean, lol. It works if I do a
sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys restart
Everything is then fine. I don't want to have to
On Wed, 10 Oct 2007 17:44:03 +0100
norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you mean that even though I think I have removed a package it is
stored somewhere on the hard drive and is accessible to some utility
or other in Ubuntu?
Yes there is a cache in /var/cache/apt/archives/ so it might have
sweet, that would be awesome on my companies intranet ;)
On 10/10/2007, Philip Newborough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/10/2007, Matthew Larsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So phill, whatever happened to the stuff you were working on?
Well, I'm still working on it :D You can see a prototype
On 06/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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
Just letting you know I'm gonna be out of the area with no net
connection :( sorry! E-mail me the minutes though
Regards,
On 10/10/2007, Philip Newborough [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 06/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
The next Ubuntu-UK Team meeting will be held via
Do you mean that even though I think I have removed a package it is
stored somewhere on the hard drive and is accessible to some utility
or other in Ubuntu?
Yes there is a cache in /var/cache/apt/archives/ so it might have still
been there, but if it wasn't and was a dependency of the
norman wrote:
Do you mean that even though I think I have removed a package it is
stored somewhere on the hard drive and is accessible to some utility
or other in Ubuntu?
Yes there is a cache in /var/cache/apt/archives/ so it might have still
been there, but if it wasn't and was a dependency
Alan Pope wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 11:35 +0100, Wulfy wrote:
norman wrote:
However, I am still puzzled. How can a package which I have removed
reappear all by itself?
Norman
If the plugin depends on the version of Gimp that you removed, dpkg
would reinstall it as a
I saw this today on Planet Debian: http://layer-acht.org/blog/debian/#1-129
The wiki page is at: http://wiki.debian.org/MeetBot
Not sure if the team uses bots already but thought I'd at least
suggest looking into it.
Regards
Philip
MeetBot is a brilliant idea (but I would say that
On 10/10/2007, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 10:19 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote:
I'm off to an install party tomorrow night and I've arranged with the
organiser to take along some Ubuntu disks. Basically, what are your
opinions on which version to take along?
snip
Thanks, I can understand that, it's just that I thought I would have to
give permission for something to be loaded.
You probably did. The packages stored in the archives are packages that
you downloaded, or dependencies for those packages (which you would have
agreed to
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 21:31 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote:
Well I was going to download the Beta tonight while at work, however
it appears to have been pulled from the servers to make way for the
release candidate. Oh well.
Daily builds work just as well:
Hi All,
Please note, I am merely telling you all about an observation I have
made, I do not mean to cause a flame war.
I am currently visiting one of the largest satellite building
companies in Europe. I work for a large University in the UK on the
same satellite project as the company I am
Well, I'm still working on it :D You can see a prototype ad in the
sidebar of my blog. See http://crunchbang.org/ and look down the right
column for the Ubuntu add - if you refresh the page the add copy
should change.
Great I love it!
When you've finished I'd love to put it on my blog.
Just to let everyone know the SBLUG (Birmingham) is having a release
party for Gutsy a week tomorrow on launch date (18th Oct)
I'm booked to do a small talk and demo of the new features of Gutsy so
everything is likely to go wrong with my laptop.
Details are here:
Ah yes I remember them well.
3D O and X - great fun!
A couple of the guys even managed to get a fairly decent gorse race
simulation running on a 480Z - we had a white and a black one at school with
cassette storage - the bees knees!
First introduction to basic and Z80 assembly language too.
Matthew
No gripes from me, just a bit of curiosity.
The data sampling protocol you referred to, was it re-coded to work in Linux
using a Linux IDE, or did you use something like the Mono Project to make it
transportable?
E
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Does running sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start work as well as a restart?
If cupsys isn't being started at boot, add a symlink in the /etc/rc2.d
directory to /etc/init.d/cupsys (where 2 is the default runlevel).
Regards,
Tom
Mark Allison wrote:
Hi there,
I have ubuntu-server 7.04 running
On Wed, 2007-10-10 at 23:12 +0100, Tom Bamford wrote:
Does running sudo /etc/init.d/cupsys start work as well as a restart?
If cupsys isn't being started at boot, add a symlink in the /etc/rc2.d
directory to /etc/init.d/cupsys (where 2 is the default runlevel).
You might want to look at the
Neil Greenwood wrote:
I can report that the laptop (Acer TravelMate) worked perfectly out of
the box with Feisty
Neil Which TravelMate model?
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Hi,
I was using two examples. My software and the telescope software are
completely different. My software was written in visual studio so
could probably be ported. Unfortunately I am using a windows API for
the military bus protocol which would not work.
matt
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