Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] ubuntu web site and variants

2008-04-27 Thread alan c
Wulfy wrote: > Jason Liquorish wrote: >> Am I missing what you are trying to say here or am I right in you are >> looking for links to the rest of the Ubuntu family on the main page of >> the site? If so look down the bottom right, they are all there for me. >> >> > They appear on the Kubuntu,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

2008-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
Hi, On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 09:29:13AM +0100, Kat Kinnie wrote: > Just wanted to let you know that we have an area reserved in a pub > called De Hems in the West End from 7pm next Thursday to celebrate the > 8.04 LTS release. Just wanted to say thanks to those who organised this; it was fun and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] ubuntu web site and variants

2008-04-27 Thread Wulfy
Jason Liquorish wrote: > Am I missing what you are trying to say here or am I right in you are > looking for links to the rest of the Ubuntu family on the main page of > the site? If so look down the bottom right, they are all there for me. > > They appear on the Kubuntu, Xubuntu and Edubuntu s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] ubuntu web site and variants

2008-04-27 Thread Jai Harrison
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 10:25 PM, Jason Liquorish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > alan c wrote: > > Perhaps I currently see the Ubuntu web site in a temporary state of > > change, however, I am finding it very difficult to get to the rest of > > the *ubuntu family. The previous links to them from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] ubuntu web site and variants

2008-04-27 Thread Jason Liquorish
alan c wrote: > Perhaps I currently see the Ubuntu web site in a temporary state of > change, however, I am finding it very difficult to get to the rest of > the *ubuntu family. The previous links to them from the ubuntu page > are apparently missing. > > At one stage recently I saw them liste

Re: [ubuntu-uk] calendars, contacts and PDAs

2008-04-27 Thread Alan Pope
On Sun, 2008-04-27 at 20:11 +0100, Mac wrote: > Sadly, my researches on the net suggest that syncing a PDA to Evolution > is a nightmare. So I'm reluctant to spend money on a new PDA (?Palm) if > there's a high risk that I won't be able to get it to sync. I have a Palm TX which syncs just fin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

2008-04-27 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen O'Neill wrote: | I *think* that I just have broken sound now ... nearly there :) https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/213206 ... led me to ... $ sudo /etc/init.d/alsa-utils reset ... which seems to have made my sound better

[ubuntu-uk] [marketing] ubuntu web site and variants

2008-04-27 Thread alan c
Perhaps I currently see the Ubuntu web site in a temporary state of change, however, I am finding it very difficult to get to the rest of the *ubuntu family. The previous links to them from the ubuntu page are apparently missing. At one stage recently I saw them listed in a page-top menu item

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

2008-04-27 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen O'Neill wrote: | I now have Hardy... been having 'fun' so far though I *think* that I just have broken sound now ... nearly there :) - -- Stephen O'Neill w: http://www.thefloatingfrog.co.uk/ e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

[ubuntu-uk] printing from windows machine

2008-04-27 Thread norman
I have just upgraded to 8.04 and I am unable to connect from a windows machine to the printer attached to the Ubuntu machine. This has happened before and I have dealt with it by adding a line in etc/cups/cupsd.conf and restarting cups. The line added is Listen *:631. This time the connection is no

[ubuntu-uk] calendars, contacts and PDAs

2008-04-27 Thread Mac
At work, I have to maintain an Outlook diary on the corporate network, and I sync it to Pocket Informant 2005 on my old HP 2200 iPaq. I will want to ditch Outlook when I retire in 18 months time, and I'd like to maintain a diary and contacts on my Ubuntu system and sync it to a PDA (not a mobi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Low cost, low usage broadband suppliers

2008-04-27 Thread Sean Miller
I'd go for a phone/line rental/broadband deal such as TalkTalk or Pipex Homecall. Generally you get cheaper broadband if it's bundled in with something else -- Sky is the cheapest of all, at £0, but you need to get her a satellite dish to qualify for the ADSL... changing phone supplier is probably