[ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-04 Thread Rowan Berkeley
Some of you may recall my white elephant 'Linux Certified' machine. I can't call LC its manufacturers, since they aren't: they just bought a batch of Compal JHL90 notebooks and shoved a version of Ubuntu with a non-standard interface driver onto them (because they said, it was more stable than

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-04 Thread Alan Bell
who? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Pauling http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linus_Torvalds#Linux_trademark Rowan Berkeley wrote: Some of you may recall my white elephant 'Linux Certified' machine. I can't call LC its manufacturers, since they aren't: they just bought a batch of Compal JHL90

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-04 Thread Robert Longstaff
'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever it is? You could contact Linus Pauling. However, he has been dead for fifteen years and I suspect couldn't care less. robert_ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-04 Thread James Milligan
Robert Longstaff wrote: 'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever it is? You could contact Linus Pauling. However, he has been dead for fifteen years and I suspect couldn't care less. robert_

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-04 Thread James Milligan
On 4 Aug 2009, at 22:49, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: On 4 Aug 2009, at 20:43, James Milligan lak...@lake54.com wrote: Robert Longstaff wrote: 'Linux Certified,' Mr Pauling, who owns the name 'Linux', might be interested. How do I contact him, or his organisation, whatever it

[ubuntu-uk] Struggling with Unison

2009-08-04 Thread JONATHAN TAYLOR
Hi all, I've got jaunty running on my laptop and win7/jaunty dual booting on my main pc. I'm trying to get my laptop to sync with my NAS device (connected to my BT Homehub) over my wireless network. Ubuntu can see my NAS device but won't in Unison, and Rsync won't see any of my network. What am

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Struggling with Unison

2009-08-04 Thread Tony Arnold
JOn, JONATHAN TAYLOR wrote: I've got jaunty running on my laptop and win7/jaunty dual booting on my main pc. I'm trying to get my laptop to sync with my NAS device (connected to my BT Homehub) over my wireless network. Ubuntu can see my NAS device but won't in Unison, and Rsync won't see any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-04 Thread Alan Bell
Rowan - this may be the organisation you wish to complain to - was also partly referenced to by *Alan Pope* earlier: one of the Alans http://thealans.com, but not the Popey Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What would Linus Pauling think about 'Linux Certified'?

2009-08-04 Thread Matthew Wild
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 12:15 AM, Alan Bellalan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote: Rowan - this may be the organisation you wish to complain to - was also partly referenced to by Alan Pope earlier: one of the Alans, but not the Popey This thread simply proves to me that people should all