[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Lettuce

2008-05-21 Thread Kris Marsh
http://luiscosio.com/ubuntu-lettuce -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread John Levin
Hi, Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Javad Ayaz
Yes i have only just installed xubuntu 2 days ago! i have to say i have found it quite fast! then again i havent installed everything i had on ubuntu hardy ( an upgrade from gutsy+myth) it takes a bit of getting used to! But im liking it so farits minimalistic! On 21/05/2008, John Levin

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Roger Lancefield
Hi John, I had Xubuntu 7.04 and then 7.10 running on an old (circa 2001) 1.9GHz P4 (with 1GB RAM, 40GB HD). It ran very well indeed, and I was really impressed with the way it gave my ageing kit an Indian summer packed with Linux power and goodness. Inevitably, the elderly E-IDE drive (which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Gavin Ford
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:21:34AM +0100, John Levin wrote: Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? I use parts of Xubuntu and Ubuntu. I installed from an Ubuntu 7.04 disc and later removed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread alan c
Gavin Ford wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 11:21:34AM +0100, John Levin wrote: Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? I use parts of Xubuntu and Ubuntu. I installed from an Ubuntu 7.04 disc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Andrew Oakley
John Levin wrote: Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? We use it at work to get a vaguely up-to-date supported distro on an elderly laptop. No idea quite how elderly, because whoever set the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Lettuce

2008-05-21 Thread Jai Harrison
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Kris Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://luiscosio.com/ubuntu-lettuce That's pretty funny. Lol. But isn't it a trademark infringement on Canonical? Perhaps this is an authorised use of the Ubuntu logo though I cannot see why Canonical would authorise the use

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Lettuce

2008-05-21 Thread Tony Arnold
Jai, Jai Harrison wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Kris Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://luiscosio.com/ubuntu-lettuce That's pretty funny. Lol. But isn't it a trademark infringement on Canonical? Perhaps this is an authorised use of the Ubuntu logo though I cannot see why

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Lettuce

2008-05-21 Thread James Hooker
Greens for Human Beings? On 21 May 2008, at 16:40, Tony Arnold wrote: Jai, Jai Harrison wrote: On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 10:37 AM, Kris Marsh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://luiscosio.com/ubuntu-lettuce That's pretty funny. Lol. But isn't it a trademark infringement on Canonical?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Gavin Ford
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 02:52:03PM +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: The Intel X driver was substantially improved/re-written for Hardy so you might want to at least try a LiveCD. I've been updating all the way, the problem is still here in Hardy. The LiveCD is a good idea, I'll give it a go and

[ubuntu-uk] An error message in dvdrip

2008-05-21 Thread Javad Ayaz
Hi, i apologise for copy, pasting herebut i was wondering if someones quick glance could determine whats wrong here? google gave nothing! thank you! An internal exception was thrown! The error message was: can't write /media/salambombay.rip at /usr/share/perl5/Video/DVDRip/Project.pm line

Re: [ubuntu-uk] An error message in dvdrip

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Oattes
Javad Ayaz said the following on 21/05/08 17:21: Hi, i apologise for copy, pasting here If you don't want to paste directly into your emails there is always http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org An internal exception was thrown! The error message was: can't write /media/salambombay.rip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] An error message in dvdrip

2008-05-21 Thread Javad Ayaz
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-05-19 21:38 cdrom - media/cdrom drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2008-05-21 17:01 media is what came up. so im assuming i need to give this permission somehow!!? Thank you for the pastebin link! i will try and remember it in future! 2008/5/21 Chris Oattes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] An error message in dvdrip

2008-05-21 Thread Chris Oattes
Javad Ayaz said the following on 21/05/08 17:29: lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 2008-05-19 21:38 cdrom - media/cdrom drwxr-xr-x 18 root root 4096 2008-05-21 17:01 media That is your problem - the directory /media is owned by root, which means that you can't write to it. I would

Re: [ubuntu-uk] An error message in dvdrip

2008-05-21 Thread Javad Ayaz
and the free space on media dir is 19.3 gb 2008/5/21 Chris Oattes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Javad Ayaz said the following on 21/05/08 17:21: Hi, i apologise for copy, pasting here If you don't want to paste directly into your emails there is always http://pastebin.ubuntu-uk.org An

Re: [ubuntu-uk] An error message in dvdrip

2008-05-21 Thread Javad Ayaz
hmmm i just looked and it seems ive installed it on the wrong partition... im going to reinstallas i have 20gbs on the directory have installed...and dont wana assign that much to it!!! 2008/5/21 Chris Oattes [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Javad Ayaz said the following on 21/05/08 17:29: lrwxrwxrwx

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Craig
On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:21 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? John I have it on my laptop on which I use for web design. I was very impressed with it too,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Russell Green
Craig wrote: On Wed, 2008-05-21 at 11:21 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hi, Just out of curiosity (and because I'm very impressed with it), are any of the British Ubuntu community running the XFCE variant Xubuntu? John I have it on my laptop on which I use for web design. I was very