On 20/01/10 16:45, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I need to buy a new laser printer and am wondering whether to get a
wireless or network one. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and there are 4
computers which will need to access the printer. I understand that HP
equipment is Linux friendly and wondered
Is anyone looking for a wireless nas box if so try
http://www.serversplus.com/product.asp?s=NPACE-STEASUK642utm_source=SP_Eshotutm_medium=emailutm_content=NasBoxutm_campaign=sp_nasbox_eshot
Looks like a nice box, I don't know though. Maybe people in the know
can tell if it's any good :)
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2010/1/21 Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk:
Is anyone looking for a wireless nas box if so try
http://www.serversplus.com/product.asp?s=NPACE-STEASUK642utm_source=SP_Eshotutm_medium=emailutm_content=NasBoxutm_campaign=sp_nasbox_eshot
Looks like a nice box, I don't know though. Maybe people
2010/1/21 Thomas Ibbotson thomas.ibbot...@gmail.com:
I've registered too, but looking at the stats it looks a bit outdated,
according to the website there are still 13368 machines running
Dapper...
Tom
Possibly just means that people (like me!) haven't updated their details...
/me goes to
Sorry, script should be:
#!/bin/bash
mkdir output
for movie in *.* ; do
echo Processing $movie
ffmpeg -i $movie -ab 192kb -vcodec mpeg4 -b 1200kb -mbd 2 -flags +4mv -cmp 2
-subcmp 2 -s 320x240 output/$movie.mp4
done
Thunderbird mangled one of the lines.
Once again, sorry.
Michael
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:08 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
[snip]
Ok, last night I had a quite productive chat to the Learning team. They
are in the process of creating some course ware, and have already
created some bits and pieces. They seem to be more than happy for us to
use this, and
Quoting Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk:
Ok, last night I had a quite productive chat to the Learning team. They
are in the process of creating some course ware, and have already
created some bits and pieces. They seem to be more than happy for us to
use this, and even create more if we
Looks pretty good. I've been looking for a NAS lately actually so that I can
stop leaving my computer constantly turned on to act as the multimedia
server for my Squeezebox.
I think the price is a bit much though since it has wireless capability that
isn't *really* necessary considering that if
Quoting Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
Rob Beard wrote:
Personally I'd like to go to a trip to the Museum Of Computing in
Swindon :-)
You're always welcome! Bring your friends :) We'll be celebrating
PacMan's 30th birthday on the Big Screen in May. Not sure if the
Science Museum are
Quoting Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net:
Presumably if you got a coach together you'd be coming fairly close to
the Linux User Group of Glastonbury area -- perhaps people in my LUG
would be interested in coming too and (this is pure speculation, but
worth exploring as a possibility) there
On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 09:04 +, Alan Bell wrote:
Overall this is a great idea. I think we need to clarify who this is
aimed at. Off the top of my head I can think of three broad
categories:
Individuals wanting to run a proper operating system at home
People wanting to introduce Ubuntu
Quoting Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk:
Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest
starting with some moderately advanced topics like how to package an
app for Ubuntu.
I was hoping to avoid this if possible. There is a _lot_ of stuff on
these already, and people
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Hey Everyone,
Just wondered if anyone was going the The Gadget Show Live at the NEC in
Birmingham. It's on the 8th-11th April this year, although I, personally, will
only be attending on the 8th.) - However, all tickets have now sold out, sorry!
@lists.ubuntu.com
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2010/1/21 Joe O'Dell joseph.od...@googlemail.com:
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Hey Everyone,
Just wondered if anyone was going the The Gadget Show Live at the NEC in
Birmingham. It's on the 8th-11th April this year, although I, personally,
will only be attending on the
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 04:08:31PM +, Dianne Reuby wrote:
Another target group includes people who are still running XP, using an
older machine.
Their PC is working fine, so why should they buy a new one? Why should
they upgrade from XP when it does what they want, but isn't supported
snip
Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the positive press,
maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old PCs from businesses as
they upgrade. Just a thought.
snip
Rob
snip
Rob, that sounds a great idea
The best place to ask would be local schools and
Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the positive
press, maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old PCs from
businesses as they upgrade. Just a thought.
If needed, we have a load of old computers at college that are not being
transferred to our new building
I was there last year and am going again this year. As far as I could
tell there were no Linux-themed stalls last year, anyone know if there
will be this year?
I was also there last year and saw no linux stalls but it's twice as big
this year. There are a list of stall for this year here:
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:14 +, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk
wrote:
Another target group includes people who are still running XP, using
an older machine. Their PC is working fine, so why should they buy a
new one? Why should they upgrade from XP when it does what they want,
but isn't
Hey - good idea!
I was also there last year and saw no linux stalls but it's twice as big
this year. There are a list of stall for this year here:
http://www.gadgetshowlive.net/page.cfm/action=ExhibList/ListID=1/t=m/goSection=2
I've just looked through the exhibitor catalogue, but
I take it that you are going this year - just out of query, what day shall
you be descending on the NEC?
I am going this year, on the 9th. We need a list of people so we know how
is going when and to keep this organised somehow.
For now the list is just:
Thursday 8th: Joe
Friday 9th: Ashley
I am going this year, on the 9th. We need a list of people so we know how is
going when and to keep this organised somehow.
There is a Doodle poll set up, ( http://doodle.com/fsm46vwinihs5zdf ), but I
shall enquire as to whether this could be posted to the ubuntu-uk wiki, as most
people
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On this, as mentioned before there is a manual availble from the ubuntu
site
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Training
its in pdf, Its also for 8.04 I assume (and hope) it will be updated
for 10.04 as that is the next lts release.
any comments on update
On 21 Jan 2010, at 17:48, Ashley Whetter
ashley.whet...@googlemail.com wrote:
I take it that you are going this year - just out of query, what day
shall you be descending on the NEC?
I am going this year, on the 9th. We need a list of people so we
know how is going when and to keep
Joe O'Dell wrote:
Still with all the new rules on electronics disposal, and the
positive press, maybe some of us may be able to get donations of old
PCs from businesses as they upgrade. Just a thought.
snip
Rob, that sounds a great idea
The best place to ask would be local schools and
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I've got an old XP laptop on the shelf, and I've got live CDs for Ubuntu
8.04, 8.10 and 9.04, but I can't figure out how to set the BIOS to boot
from CD on startup, because it's a Sony VAIO, and the bottom right hand
part of the screen is broken, so I can't see which keys
Joe O'Dell wrote:
Hey Everyone,
Just wondered if anyone was going the The Gadget Show Live at the NEC in
Birmingham. It's on the 8th-11th April this year, although I, personally,
will only be attending on the 8th.) - However, all tickets have now sold out,
sorry!
Perhaps we could have
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My old school recently got 100+ new laptops, so the old ones may also
be free to a good home - I shall email and see!
Indeed, laptops are good for mobile training, :)
are you looking at getting all 100+ laptops. Not that I need another
one,
Ahh I wish I'd heard about this earlier, it would have been the sort of
thing I would have loved to have gone to. Oh well, maybe next year.
There are still tickets but not super theatre tickets. Only the 8th and 9th
are available still.
Hi,
I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
that their website did in fact say that they did organised *group* tours, then
they gave me another number to ring and that went to message
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 20:00 +, Isabell Long wrote:
Hi,
I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
that their website did in fact say that they did organised *group* tours,
then
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:16:23PM +, Bruno Girin wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 20:00 +, Isabell Long wrote:
Hi,
I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
that their
Isabell Long wrote:
Hi,
I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
that their website did in fact say that they did organised *group* tours,
then they gave me another number to ring
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 08:28:51PM +, Alan Bell wrote:
Isabell Long wrote:
Hi,
I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
that their website did in fact say that they did
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:22 +, Rob Beard wrote:
[snip]
Something else which might be worth mentioning, a friend of mine in our local
LUG came up with an idea of doing a complete training course, for a small fee
to cover room hire we were looking at providing a free PC running Ubuntu.
Isabell Long wrote:
Okay, Doodle poll created, please indicate when you will be available!
http://doodle.com/46hbbd6gz4s5kmtr
Thanks,
I've just added my name to the poll. Saturdays are probably best for
me, although I could possibly make a Sunday. I'd rather not do a
weekday unless
Bruno Girin wrote:
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:22 +, Rob Beard wrote:
[snip]
Something else which might be worth mentioning, a friend of mine in our
local LUG came up with an idea of doing a complete training course, for a
small fee to cover room hire we were looking at providing a
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Sods law though, after having hardly any work over the past couple of
months, I've just started contracting, so I've had to put my plans on
hold somewhat.
Rob
I am sure once we get this rolling though (when you are free) then we
may
Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I
wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be
somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about
Ubuntu Hours around the UK.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour
Hour
Rob Beard wrote:
A friend of mine has asked me to sort out 2 laptops, one is a P3
800 with 192MB Ram and the other is a P3 733 with 128MB Ram,
as you probably already know, an increase in ram on this class of
machine will make a vast difference in performance
--
alan cocks
Ubuntu user #10391
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