Re: [ubuntu-uk] Throw a release party to get free software.

2009-09-06 Thread doug livesey
How do you see apple as a threat? I can see them as a challenge, and something to raise the game for free OS developers, but a threat? Do you mean that they are practicing seriously monopolistic practices? (Serious question, btw, not trying to start a flame war.) Cheers, Doug. On 05/09/2009,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Throw a release party to get free software.

2009-09-06 Thread Lucy
I agree. Microsoft is a threat because of their monoply. They are very good at locking-in users, however they are starting to feel threatened by Linux and the negativity they received after the release of Vista. Hence the 'release party' move (as well as various open source initiatives) to improve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Disk Benchmark

2009-09-06 Thread Lucy
2009/9/2 darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk: As the list seems to have less traffic I've got a poser: My work PC is very slow with disk access. Any time I start copying large files, or unzipping anything etc. it will grind to a halt. It seems to be a faulty drive or disk cache etc. but I don't

[ubuntu-uk] Can I do this with Evolution?

2009-09-06 Thread Luke Jennings
Hello, After moving from windows about a year ago I had been using Thunderbird as my e-mail client. I have just moved to evolution mostly for the integration into the desktop and the calender. In the calender to look at a selected task/event/memo it opens a new window as shown in the before