Re: [ubuntu-uk] Submitting articles to newspapers/local mags

2007-10-14 Thread Philip Newborough
On 13/10/2007, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 13/10/2007, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi folks, This is just a quick post to the list, asking you to consider writing to your local newspaper or magazine to promote Ubuntu. The article has already been written for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Submitting articles to newspapers/local mags

2007-10-14 Thread Chris Rowson
Great stuff, excellent! Articles are the first stage of a 'UK Marketing Push' https://launchpad.net/uk-marketing-push If received successfully, we should be able to create follow on articles. In the perfect world, publishers would become interested enough to publish a monthly article. I do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] about a meeting in banbury, got gutsy launch,

2007-10-14 Thread philip taylor
Hi If anybody wants to help, or has any constructive ideas, and can help me to set this up, an help would be appreciated. ptaylor On 13/10/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:26 +0100, philip taylor wrote: hi i was discuusing in the irc ubuntu-uk about having

Re: [ubuntu-uk] about a meeting in banbury, got gutsy launch,

2007-10-14 Thread Neil Simmons
On 14/10/2007, philip taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi If anybody wants to help, or has any constructive ideas, and can help me to set this up, an help would be appreciated. ptaylor I'm in the Oxford area and would be happy to offer what help I can. Neil -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] about a meeting in banbury, got gutsy launch,

2007-10-14 Thread Jim Kissel
Alan Pope wrote: On Sat, 2007-10-13 at 20:26 +0100, philip taylor wrote: hi i was discuusing in the irc ubuntu-uk about having a more local ubuntu launch meeting, and suggest anybody who lives in banbury, oxfordshire, or anywhere near, to contact us and or me, abour this, as many people

Re: [ubuntu-uk] about a meeting in banbury, got gutsy launch,

2007-10-14 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Jim, On Sun, 2007-10-14 at 13:11 +0100, Jim Kissel wrote: I guess you and I are going to have to get together for that beer we were going to have a year or so ago. ;-) I have a booking to get the cobwebs blown out of my wallet next week. Anyone else in the Camberley/Farnborough area

Re: [ubuntu-uk] about a meeting in banbury, got gutsy launch,

2007-10-14 Thread ptaylor
Neil Simmons wrote: On 14/10/2007, *philip taylor* [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi If anybody wants to help, or has any constructive ideas, and can help me to set this up, an help would be appreciated. ptaylor I'm in the Oxford area and would

[ubuntu-uk] Gutsy beta CD won't boot properly

2007-10-14 Thread Neil Greenwood
Hi all, I've burned the gutsy beta CD. It will boot and show the menu (Start Live CD/Check CD Contents/Memory Test/etc.) but the only option that doesn't hang the PC is the 'Boot From First Hard Disk' option. I've checked the ISO before burning with the MD5SUM, and if I boot a virtual machine

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gutsy beta CD won't boot properly

2007-10-14 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi all, I've burned the gutsy beta CD. It will boot and show the menu (Start Live CD/Check CD Contents/Memory Test/etc.) but the only option that doesn't hang the PC is the 'Boot From First Hard Disk' option. Hey Neil, How far is it getting? I know that I've had problems with the Gutsy

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Who's got/ordered Dell Ubuntu Laptops?

2007-10-14 Thread alan c
Alan Pope wrote: Hi, On Mon, 2007-10-08 at 10:58 +0100, Daniel Lamb wrote: Why buy the Dell laptop then?(and not another cheaper or maybe more expensive but better model) [...] Surely the point in buying a Dell Ubuntu laptop is that there is support with it to help setup the pc, isn't

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Who's got/ordered Dell Ubuntu Laptops?

2007-10-14 Thread Daniel Lamb
All I mean is I would buy a better model than the ones dell offer with Ubuntu on it and put Ubuntu on it myself. Good point about supporting the selling of Ubuntu pcs from major pc manufacturers. Regards, Daniel -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Which do you use?

2007-10-14 Thread James Dalley
On the Gnome subject, I look to my youth and gnasher!! Silent G, the Beano rules! :) Jay _ 100’s of Music vouchers to be won with MSN Music https://www.musicmashup.co.uk-- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com