[ubuntu-uk] London hacker space

2009-01-25 Thread John Levin
In the course of trying to get a venue for the Bugjam, and getting frustrated at finding it so difficult to get a suitable venue, I found that others felt the same way, and wanted to get a hacklb going here in London: http://groups.google.com/group/london-hack-space As ever, it'll only happen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Venue for London Bugjam

2009-01-25 Thread John Levin
James Thomas wrote: > Hi all, > > Just a note to say I have a venue in central London, next to Liverpool > Street station. > Details can be found at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/GlobalBugJam/London > > :) > > James Thomas > (selinuxium) > Excellent! I was getting frustrated at drawing a blank on t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Matt Jones
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:20 PM, Kris Douglas wrote: > 2009/1/25 Rob Beard : > > On 25/01/2009 17:53, Alan Pope wrote: > >> 2009/1/25 Rob Beard: > >> > >>> On 25/01/2009 15:00, Kris Douglas wrote: > >>> > Cheap 2GB stick: > > http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/Laptop/Aria

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Kris Douglas
2009/1/25 Rob Beard : > On 25/01/2009 17:53, Alan Pope wrote: >> 2009/1/25 Rob Beard: >> >>> On 25/01/2009 15:00, Kris Douglas wrote: >>> Cheap 2GB stick: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/Laptop/Arianet+2GB+PC2-5300+SO-DIMM?productId=34393 >>> I'd recommend the A

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Rob Beard
On 25/01/2009 17:53, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/1/25 Rob Beard: > >> On 25/01/2009 15:00, Kris Douglas wrote: >> >>> Cheap 2GB stick: >>> http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/Laptop/Arianet+2GB+PC2-5300+SO-DIMM?productId=34393 >>> >>> >> I'd recommend the Aria memory. I

[ubuntu-uk] KentLUG

2009-01-25 Thread Colin McCarthy
With all these mentions of LUG, I thought I would mention Kent LUG as a shameless plug. Our next meeting is next Saturday 31st January from 10am to 1pm at; Maplesden Noakes School Buckland Hill, Buckland Road Maidstone Kent ME16 0TJ We are doing an 'Install and Troubleshooting' session for peopl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manlug

2009-01-25 Thread Tim Dobson
Simon Wears wrote: > Firstly - my apologies! I think I sent out a blank email to the list > by accident. > > Second - I'm living in Manchester, and was thinking of going along to > one of the MANlug meetings. Does anyone on this list go, or know how > active they are? Hiya, I'm based near

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/25 Rob Beard : > On 25/01/2009 15:00, Kris Douglas wrote: >> Cheap 2GB stick: >> http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/Laptop/Arianet+2GB+PC2-5300+SO-DIMM?productId=34393 >> > I'd recommend the Aria memory. I have two sticks of it in my Acer > Aspire 2920, was well worth the purc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Rob Beard
On 25/01/2009 15:00, Kris Douglas wrote: > Cheap 2GB stick: > http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/Laptop/Arianet+2GB+PC2-5300+SO-DIMM?productId=34393 > I'd recommend the Aria memory. I have two sticks of it in my Acer Aspire 2920, was well worth the purchase, cost me about £25 is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Matt Jones
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 3:00 PM, Kris Douglas wrote: > > IIRC the maximum you can use is 2gb on the 1300, which is plenty for > Ubuntu, and available for less than £20. The 533Mhz listed on amazon will > work, but > you might as well go for > > Cheap 2GB stick: > > http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Matt Jones
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 2:56 PM, Matt Jones wrote: > > > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Josh Holland > wrote: > >> Hi all. >> I am preparing to upgrade my laptop's memory as 512MB is really not >> enough. I'd just like to know whether something like this >> >> >> http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingst

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Kris Douglas
> IIRC the maximum you can use is 2gb on the 1300, which is plenty for Ubuntu, > and available for less than £20. The 533Mhz listed on amazon will work, but > > you might as well go for Cheap 2GB stick: http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Components/Memory/Laptop/Arianet+2GB+PC2-5300+SO-DIMM?productI

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Matt Jones
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Josh Holland wrote: > Hi all. > I am preparing to upgrade my laptop's memory as 512MB is really not > enough. I'd just like to know whether something like this > > > http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-ValueRAM-533MHz-Non-ECC-SODIMM/dp/tech-data/B0006VX0CI/ref=de_a_sm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Kris Douglas
2009/1/25 Alan Pope : > 2009/1/25 Josh Holland : >> is suitable for my Dell Inspiron 1300 running Intrepid. >> > > I usually use the crucial memory advisor to find out what would or > would not work. > > http://crucial.com/uk > >> Also, what would happen once the memory is in? Could I just boot up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Holland
On Sun, 2009-01-25 at 14:13 +, Alan Pope wrote: > I usually use the crucial memory advisor to find out what would or > would not work. > > http://crucial.com/uk > Thanks for your advice. I probably wouldn't have thought of increasing swap. Unfortunately, crucial seem to be having some tech

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Alan Pope
2009/1/25 Josh Holland : > is suitable for my Dell Inspiron 1300 running Intrepid. > I usually use the crucial memory advisor to find out what would or would not work. http://crucial.com/uk > Also, what would happen once the memory is in? Could I just boot up and > have the memory recognised, or

[ubuntu-uk] Memory upgrade

2009-01-25 Thread Josh Holland
Hi all. I am preparing to upgrade my laptop's memory as 512MB is really not enough. I'd just like to know whether something like this http://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-ValueRAM-533MHz-Non-ECC-SODIMM/dp/tech-data/B0006VX0CI/ref=de_a_smtd is suitable for my Dell Inspiron 1300 running Intrepid. Also