[ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread John Taylor
Have installed Compiz through the correct channel but it has not offered me an initial cube even though all the correct box's in ccsm are ticked Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube Have been on to web site and got the green OK's that machine is OK

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread Philip Wyett
2008/6/19 John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have installed Compiz through the correct channel but it has not offered me an initial cube even though all the correct box's in ccsm are ticked Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube Have been on to web site

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread Ted
John Taylor wrote: Have installed Compiz through the correct channel but it has not offered me an initial cube even though all the correct box's in ccsm are ticked Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube Have been on to web site and got the green

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread John Taylor
Philip Wyett wrote: 2008/6/19 John Taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Have installed Compiz through the correct channel but it has not offered me an initial cube even though all the correct box's in ccsm are ticked Can get the screen to pivot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. The geometry of the pivoting

[ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Michael Holloway
Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the other one! I just like reading the about the power these things have, and wish i could get that on my desktop PC! And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread John Taylor
Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Tony Arnold
Michael, Michael Holloway wrote: Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the other one! Yeah! When you have hundreds of processors all talking to each other over some high bandwidth interconnect, *nix is the only

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Javad Ayaz
yes but does it blend...(The computer that is,not the nuke) On 19/06/2008, Tony Arnold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, Michael Holloway wrote: Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the other one!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread Ted
John Taylor wrote: Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Andrew Oakley
Michael Holloway wrote: Check this out, its quite interesting: www.top500.org Of the top 500: 452 run on *nix based OS's, And a whopping 5 run the other one! Gloucestershire Linux User Group - which meets just outside Cheltenham - is very well attended and frequently discusses the subject of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Top 500 Supercomputers

2008-06-19 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Michael Holloway [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And you have to laugh... the most powerful computer in the world is an American nuke machine! What a surprise! I believe its name is WOPR and it plays a mean game of Tic Tac Toe :P --- Philip --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread Rob Beard
Andrew Oakley wrote: Ted wrote: John Taylor wrote: Can get the screen to pivot centrally, screen to wobble etc, but no **??!! cube In General Settings do you have number of desktops set to 2...I have Horizontal size 4, vert size 1 and number of desktops 2 Correct answer. snip Sorry

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread Mac
Rob Beard wrote: Sorry to jump in here, is Compiz Fusion included in Hardy by default, or is it different? Yep, included. Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Compiz-Fusion

2008-06-19 Thread Rob Beard
Mac wrote: Rob Beard wrote: Sorry to jump in here, is Compiz Fusion included in Hardy by default, or is it different? Yep, included. Mac Ahh right, I did wonder if it was Compiz Fusion that did all the fancy effects. Best I managed was wobbly windows. I'll have to have another

[ubuntu-uk] O'Reilly maker

2008-06-19 Thread Rob Beard
Hi folks, I thought this was quite amusing. I found a link to site where you can make your own O'Reilly book covers on the Schoolforge-UK discussion list. This one is quite topical considering what's been happening with Becta recently... http://www.oreillymaker.com/link/17730/quango-tango/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines

2008-06-19 Thread Chris Coulson
On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:13 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: An internal network should have no problem, even at 100mbit, but people were taking about this working on the web? No way. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.net Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Company

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Douglas
On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:13 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: An internal network should have no problem, even at 100mbit, but people were taking about this working on the web? No way. -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Running Cutting Edge Windows PC Games on Linux Machines

2008-06-19 Thread Kris Douglas
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:11 AM, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 11:54 PM, Chris Coulson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2008-06-17 at 18:13 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: An internal network should have no problem, even at 100mbit, but people were taking about