[ubuntu-uk] thoughts?

2008-05-06 Thread Javad Ayaz
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[ubuntu-uk] recording sound

2008-05-06 Thread norman
I have bee4n asked to record some speech on a website to do with Higher level French. The file is .swf and will not open on the applications I have with Ubuntu 8.04. Could someone point me in the right direction please. Norman -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recording sound

2008-05-06 Thread Huw Selley
Hi Norman, On 6 May 2008, at 15:34, norman wrote: I have bee4n asked to record some speech on a website to do with Higher level French. The file is .swf and will not open on the applications I have with Ubuntu 8.04. Could someone point me in the right direction please. ffmpeg with the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recording sound

2008-05-06 Thread Mac
norman wrote: I have bee4n asked to record some speech on a website to do with Higher level French. The file is .swf and will not open on the applications I have with Ubuntu 8.04. Could someone point me in the right direction please. Here's a review of the various options for playing Flash

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thoughts?

2008-05-06 Thread Paul Mellors
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:51 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: Good stuff. Thankfully Ubuntu doesn't take sides in conflicts, unlike Micro$oft (God Bless America!! Amen!! Hallejujah!! Stuff the Commies!! Stuff the Arabs!! Stuff anybody who isn't American!! Linux is a threat to National Security!!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thoughts?

2008-05-06 Thread Tony Arnold
Sean, Sean Miller wrote: Thankfully Ubuntu doesn't take sides in conflicts, unlike Micro$oft (God Bless America!! Amen!! Hallejujah!! Stuff the Commies!! Stuff the Arabs!! Stuff anybody who isn't American!! Linux is a threat to National Security!! Open Source? Open Borders! Do YOU want

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thoughts?

2008-05-06 Thread Javad Ayaz
lol..erm.ok! :) 2008/5/6 Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Good stuff. Thankfully Ubuntu doesn't take sides in conflicts, unlike Micro$oft (God Bless America!! Amen!! Hallejujah!! Stuff the Commies!! Stuff the Arabs!! Stuff anybody who isn't American!! Linux is a threat to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recording sound

2008-05-06 Thread Alan Pope
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 15:34 +0100, norman wrote: I have bee4n asked to record some speech on a website to do with Higher level French. The file is .swf and will not open on the applications I have with Ubuntu 8.04. Could someone point me in the right direction please. It depends. swf may be

[ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video

2008-05-06 Thread Tim Dobson
== RMS Video: == The video of last week's Manchester Free Software, (in collaboration with the BCS and IET) talk by Richard Stallman has been released, thanks to Andrew John Hughes. You can find a torrent and http mirrors for the video on the Manchester Free Software Website.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recording sound

2008-05-06 Thread norman
Install WINE Go to mozilla website and download installer for Firefox for _windows_ Run the firefox for windows installer under WINE Go to Adobe site in Firefox for Windows under WINE - Install flash plugin - Install shockwave plugin Visit evil website that uses shockwave plugin

[ubuntu-uk] Sorry-Non ubuntu related question!! Recommend a mobile pdf viewer for phone!

2008-05-06 Thread Javad Ayaz
ok i dont know if i posted this already. sorry its off ubuntu Can someone recommend a free and small ebook viewer.?...has to be able to view most formats..or pdf at least...i know of adobe but at 40mb its a massive file. i cant use mobi reader (google brings that up the most..i need windoze for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorry-Non ubuntu related question!! Recommend a mobile pdf viewer for phone!

2008-05-06 Thread Gaurav Patel
You did, and I replied: I don't know of any PDF software for mobile phones, however, apparently the Gmail Mobile application (http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html) can view PDF files (http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=enanswer=31623) Obviously you'd need to incur

Re: [ubuntu-uk] recording sound

2008-05-06 Thread norman
Thanks every one for your help and advice. I think that perhaps I did not state my question correctly. I have no problem in listening to the file and I can save it to the hard drive. What I would like to do is transfer it to a CD so that a person without a computer can listen to it. Is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Free Software : RMS Video

2008-05-06 Thread Jai Harrison
Thanks Tim On Tue, May 6, 2008 at 6:03 PM, Tim Dobson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: == RMS Video: == The video of last week's Manchester Free Software, (in collaboration with the BCS and IET) talk by Richard Stallman has been released, thanks to Andrew John Hughes. You

[ubuntu-uk] Firefox 3 bookmarks

2008-05-06 Thread Mac
I've just discovered that Firefox 3 does not allow the user-defined 'browser.bookmarks.file' setting for pointing to a bookmarks.html location. With Firefox 2 and Iceweasel I have the bookmarks on a network drive, so I can use the same bookmarks regardless of which computer I'm using around

[ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Re: Firefox 3 bookmarks

2008-05-06 Thread LeeGroups
remove firefox firefox-3.0 install firefox-2 :) Mac wrote: I've just discovered that Firefox 3 does not allow the user-defined 'browser.bookmarks.file' setting for pointing to a bookmarks.html location. With Firefox 2 and Iceweasel I have the bookmarks on a network drive, so I can use

[ubuntu-uk] {Spam?} Re: Re: Firefox 3 bookmarks

2008-05-06 Thread LeeGroups
Mac wrote: Can anyone advise how best to revert Hardy to Firefox 2? LeeGroups wrote: remove firefox firefox-3.0 install firefox-2 Mmm... Sounds way too simple... (I wonder what's going to go wrong!) ;-) Mac Nothing, I did it a couple of weeks ago... :) --

[ubuntu-uk] file conv question: pdf to prc?

2008-05-06 Thread Javad Ayaz
hi anyone know how i can convert a pdf file to a prc file in buntu or online? regards javad -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/