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

2008-04-07 Thread Sean Miller
I must admit that I wondered why it was so important to keep the children off the internet... my daughter is now 13 (going on 18) and needs the internet for her school homework... the expectation from her teachers is that she will have access and there are websites that she specifically has to acce

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-07 Thread taufanlubis
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 11:54 +0200, Jonathan Patrick Davies wrote: > On Monday 07 April 2008 10:37:51 Gerry Neary wrote: > > Also signed now upto 386 signatures > > > > Regards > > > > Gerry Neary > > Signed as well. > > Jonathan Me too, Signed. Taufan Lubis Registered Ubuntu User #16660 Regis

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

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
Kris Douglas wrote: > Additionally, anyone can circumvent a windows xp admin account with > less than 10 mins of work, I have done it in genuine situations where > a password was lost. Same goes for Linux too - just reboot into recovery mode or boot from a recovery CD. It'd be a very brave person

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

2008-04-07 Thread webbox . uk
On 4/7/08, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kris Douglas wrote: > > > Additionally, anyone can circumvent a windows xp admin account with > > less than 10 mins of work, I have done it in genuine situations where > > a password was lost. > > > > > > I did this on my other half's laptop when I

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

2008-04-07 Thread Rob Beard
Kris Douglas wrote: > Additionally, anyone can circumvent a windows xp admin account with > less than 10 mins of work, I have done it in genuine situations where > a password was lost. > > I did this on my other half's laptop when I was trying to print a CD using my Windows only CD printer sof

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Staffslug] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread Alan Pope
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:30:11PM +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > I just wanted to make this email for a quick tutorial, that works on > Ubuntu 7.10 and up, and almost all other Linux distributions with > little modifications, on getting this card working using the beta > drivers for the card. I'm do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread Lucy
On 07/04/2008, Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 07/04/2008, Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thats a nice link you have there, Lucy, but the problem is on the > newest cards you don't get a GUI, it just refus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread Kris Douglas
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 6:36 PM, Lucy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/04/2008, Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip lots of good stuff] > > Nice write up, I'm sure it'll be useful to someone, but out of > curiosity have you tried Envy [1] at all? I've been using it for about > 9 m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread Lucy
On 07/04/2008, Kris Douglas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip lots of good stuff] Nice write up, I'm sure it'll be useful to someone, but out of curiosity have you tried Envy [1] at all? I've been using it for about 9 months and have found it a very easy way to get the latest ATI driver without hav

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread Kris Douglas
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 5:46 PM, Dave Morley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:43 +0100, Dave Morley wrote: > > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:37 +0100, alan c wrote: > > > Kris Douglas wrote: > > > > Hi, my newest computer is running on a 9600GT NVidia card. These are > > > > br

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread Dave Morley
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:43 +0100, Dave Morley wrote: > On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:37 +0100, alan c wrote: > > Kris Douglas wrote: > > > Hi, my newest computer is running on a 9600GT NVidia card. These are > > > brilliant in windows, but for Linux, Ubuntu 7.10 in my case, it does > > > > > > > [sni

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread Dave Morley
On Mon, 2008-04-07 at 17:37 +0100, alan c wrote: > Kris Douglas wrote: > > Hi, my newest computer is running on a 9600GT NVidia card. These are > > brilliant in windows, but for Linux, Ubuntu 7.10 in my case, it does > > > > [snip lots of good stuff] > > > and pressing return on your keyboard, o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread alan c
Kris Douglas wrote: > Hi, my newest computer is running on a 9600GT NVidia card. These are > brilliant in windows, but for Linux, Ubuntu 7.10 in my case, it does > [snip lots of good stuff] > and pressing return on your keyboard, once rebooted, you should be > presented with a 3d enabled, workin

[ubuntu-uk] Using Binary(closed source) drivers for modern NVIDIA cards (9 series)

2008-04-07 Thread Kris Douglas
Hi, my newest computer is running on a 9600GT NVidia card. These are brilliant in windows, but for Linux, Ubuntu 7.10 in my case, it does not work, even with the open source drivers. I just wanted to make this email for a quick tutorial, that works on Ubuntu 7.10 and up, and almost all other Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dilemma

2008-04-07 Thread norman
> I'd try posting this on a EoG devel forum, see if they can help. I have and so far no result. Norma -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

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

2008-04-07 Thread Kris Douglas
On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 8:59 AM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Chatfield wrote: > > 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 wind

Re: [ubuntu-uk] dilemma

2008-04-07 Thread Jake Bunce
Hi Norman, I'd try posting this on a EoG devel forum, see if they can help. Jake On 07/04/2008, norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I recently had occasion to look at some images in the default viewer, > Eye of Gnome, and noticed that these images seemed to be sharper and > brighter than the s

[ubuntu-uk] dilemma

2008-04-07 Thread norman
I recently had occasion to look at some images in the default viewer, Eye of Gnome, and noticed that these images seemed to be sharper and brighter than the same images opened in either gThumb or GIMP. The images opened in gThumb and GIMP were virtually the same in appearance. After lots of experim

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

2008-04-07 Thread Rob Beard
Christopher Chatfield wrote: > 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 >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-07 Thread Jonathan Patrick Davies
On Monday 07 April 2008 10:37:51 Gerry Neary wrote: > Also signed now upto 386 signatures > > Regards > > Gerry Neary Signed as well. Jonathan -- Kubuntu - Pure KGX http://www.kubuntu.org signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com ht

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

2008-04-07 Thread Alex Barrett
Christopher Chatfield wrote: > > How do I permanantly disable networking in windows XP so that > my savy teenage children will not be able to enable it. > > If you have savvy teenagers Christopher then you are probably wasting your time! It was having tech savvy parents in my teenage years tha

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

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
Sean Miller wrote: > Couldn't you just uninstall the network drivers? There must surely be > network drivers? Yes, but it'll scream blue murder until someone re-installs them (nag screens up the wazoo). A similar but less nag-prone method would be to mark the network hardware as disabled in D

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-07 Thread Gerry Neary
Also signed now upto 386 signatures Regards Gerry Neary -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

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

2008-04-07 Thread Sean Miller
Couldn't you just uninstall the network drivers? There must surely be network drivers? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

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

2008-04-07 Thread Andrew Oakley
Christopher Chatfield wrote: > How do I permanantly disable networking in windows XP so that > my savy teenage children will not be able to enable it. Check that the game can run without being administrator. If the game can only run as administrator, then you're sunk. (Note the difference betwee