Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-26 Thread Sean Miller
Why are Linux people so "territorial"?? Any attempts I make in Somerset to organise a release party for something like Ubuntu gets folks saying "can't be doing with that - Debian's the only decent distro" or "Sorry, that's one of those Debian derivitives isn't it? apt-get reallys gets to me... gi

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Cymru!

2009-04-26 Thread Christopher Swift
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 To: https://edge.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-cym/+contactuser CC: British Ubuntu Talk Hello all, for those of you who don't know me already I'm Chris or ianto on the Freenode IRC network. Firstly, I'd like to thank all those who made it or let me know that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Rowson
> > 2009/4/26 Andrew Williams : > > A few people may of spotted me firing away with a camera at the event, > and as requested i've made them available online. > > > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nik_doof/sets/72157617311869238/ > > Brilliant, thanks! It was a good party and it was great to meet ev

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-26 Thread Lucy
2009/4/26 Andrew Williams : > A few people may of spotted me firing away with a camera at the event, and as > requested i've made them available online. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nik_doof/sets/72157617311869238/ Brilliant, thanks! It was a good party and it was great to meet everyone. Tha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: > Harry Rickards wrote: > John Taylor wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/26 John Taylor : > > >> Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade >> >> any ide

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread John Taylor
Harry Rickards wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > John Taylor wrote: > >> Alan Pope wrote: >> >>> 2009/4/26 John Taylor : >>> >>> Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade any ideas? never happened before! >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Taylor wrote: > Alan Pope wrote: >> 2009/4/26 John Taylor : >> >>> Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade >>> >>> any ideas? never happened before! >>> >>> >> How did you try to upgrade? >> Can you attac

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread John Taylor
Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/26 John Taylor : > >> Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade >> >> any ideas? never happened before! >> >> > > How did you try to upgrade? > Can you attach your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of any > files in /etc/apt/so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Rowson
> > 2009/4/26 Chris Rowson > >> I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series >> graphics chip in it. >> >> After having installed Jaunty, I was pleased to see that suspend and >> resume worked (using the Open Source) drivers. Unfortunately however 3D >> acceleration is to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-26 Thread alan c
Andrew Williams wrote: > A few people may of spotted me firing away with a camera at the > event, and as requested i've made them available online. > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nik_doof/sets/72157617311869238/ > > I took in the region of 300 photos during the night so it's taking > some time

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-26 Thread Stephen Garton
2009/4/26 Chris Rowson > I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series > graphics chip in it. > > After having installed Jaunty, I was pleased to see that suspend and resume > worked (using the Open Source) drivers. Unfortunately however 3D > acceleration is totally miser

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-26 Thread Tony Travis
Chris Rowson wrote: > [...] > So, it looks like a choice of either stay with an older version of > Ubuntu with proprietary driver support (but loose the ability to > suspend/resume) or stick with Jaunty, but loose 3D acceleration features > because of the pretty poor Open Source drivers. > > So

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread Alan Pope
2009/4/26 John Taylor : > Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade > > any ideas? never happened before! > How did you try to upgrade? Can you attach your /etc/apt/sources.list and the contents of any files in /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@l

[ubuntu-uk] Bloomin' ATI and Linux....

2009-04-26 Thread Chris Rowson
I have a laptop (less than a year old) with an ATI Radeon X1200 series graphics chip in it. After having installed Jaunty, I was pleased to see that suspend and resume worked (using the Open Source) drivers. Unfortunately however 3D acceleration is totally miserable. Google Earth runs like a prove

[ubuntu-uk] Upgrade 9.04

2009-04-26 Thread John Taylor
Seems to fail during calculating changes - could not calculate upgrade any ideas? never happened before! John -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] boot from a external hard drive

2009-04-26 Thread Rob Beard
Rik Boland wrote: > Hi > > I want to get started on Gento but I don't have another machine to work > with, nor do I want on, so is it all possible to use a external hard > drive in a caddy and to boot it up that way? > > I hope that makes sense and I hope you can. > > If you can how easy is it to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Manchester Release Party Pics

2009-04-26 Thread Tim Dobson
Andrew Williams wrote: > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nik_doof/sets/72157617311869238/ Other people took photos too: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/ubuntumcr/ Use the #ubuntumcr tag on your content! -- www.tdobson.net If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of u