Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Rowson wrote: | I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why | it would be so? The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Chris Rowson wrote: | I wondered if anyone else has tried this out or have any reasons why | it would be so? The only question which springs to my mind is whether you're using the Mesa software graphics drivers or the binary drivers for your graphics card? I think that this should

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Matthew Wild
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-06 Thread Darren Mansell
Signed. Although they just ignore every petition on there and come back with some response about how what they are doing is better. On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:23 +0100, James Grabham wrote: Doneroony On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Jason Liquorish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also signed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-06 Thread David
Signed. On 06/04/2008, Darren Mansell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Signed. Although they just ignore every petition on there and come back with some response about how what they are doing is better. On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 00:23 +0100, James Grabham wrote: Doneroony On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-06 Thread Dianne Reuby
signed Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 6

2008-04-06 Thread Darren Mansell
On Sat, 2008-04-05 at 13:31 +0100, Paul Midgley wrote: Hello I need help with my DVD writer, I cannot burn any cd or dvd and I get an error stating could not determine resulting image file. The following is from the debugging output. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Paul

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-06 Thread Philip Wyett
On 06/04/2008, Dianne Reuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: signed Dianne Signed -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Packaging/Bug Jam

2008-04-06 Thread Iain Lane
Hello all, You may remember James Westby emailing[1] a few weeks ago regarding organising a Packaging/Bug jam sometime in the not too distant future. Well, we had a meeting a couple of weeks ago[2] where it was decided to go ahead and organise this for certain. We are looking tentatively at a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP back onto it to see the if it would make any difference

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Jmaes Edward Grabham
Matthew Wild wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Morley
On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: Matthew Wild wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Packaging/Bug Jam

2008-04-06 Thread Matt Daubney
I've signed up for this, but if another one turns up closer to my 2 homes (Swansea or Newbury..) I'd be happier! I might be able to make the london date, but it will depend on the dregs of my student loan at the time. Seems an excellent idea though. -Matt Daubney On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread James Grabham
Oh yeah, found this on ubuntuforums I fixed this problem by removing ia32-libs, flashplugin-nonfree and nspluginwrapper, then installing ia32-libs_2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb from http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...e/i/ia32-libs/ (It is an older version than what installs in apt-get), then

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-06 Thread Kris Douglas
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:38 PM, Dave Morley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2008-04-06 at 17:21 +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: Matthew Wild wrote: On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 9:56 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, My little boy likes playing various

[ubuntu-uk] Past Life Regression. How to cripple XP. Our dream come true.

2008-04-06 Thread Christopher Chatfield
I have only run various flavours of linux for the past 3 years. I am not a games player but my son is. There is an extra special game about to be released, that will only play on windows. I want to run windows in paranoid mode, but there are other members of my household and I cannot afford a