Luke - just to let you know how much your team's work will be
appreciated by the voluntary sector who really need manuals but can't
afford to pay the earth for them. It really makes a difference.
Paula
On 11/05/10 07:19, Mark Fraser wrote:
On Monday 10 May 2010 19:04:34 Luke-Jennings wrote:
Hi,
I'm after some advice as to which system to buy and any issues I should look
out for when setting it up.
I have a budget of around £300 for a media box which will be directly
connected to a TV. I would prefer to buy a pre-built system, something like
Acer Aspire Revo
I have a budget of around £300 for a media box which will be directly
connected to a TV. I would prefer to buy a pre-built system, something like
Acer Aspire Revo (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172706) would be good and
then install Lucid.
That's exactly the hardware I was going to recommend.
On 11 May 2010 12:18, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
I'm after some advice as to which system to buy and any issues I should look
out for when setting it up.
I have a budget of around £300 for a media box which will be directly
connected to a TV. I would prefer to buy
This is a good form factor ...especially if you want to hide the machine
behind your wall tellythen control VLC via your phone.
I will be looking at this topic with interest as i am intending to buy
something for my living room too
On 11 May 2010 12:27, Stephen Garton
I want it to support as many video formats as possible, mp4, avi etc
I hadn't thought of Boxee, I've used it in the past on my AppleTV
What media are you going to be using it for? I am currently running
Boxee (www.boxee.tv) on a Lucid-based media centre. I use my either a
wireless keyboard,
On 11 May 2010 13:33, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote:
I want it to support as many video formats as possible, mp4, avi etc
I hadn't thought of Boxee, I've used it in the past on my AppleTV
What media are you going to be using it for? I am currently running
Boxee
It seems that I might have found one reason why I cant play some flash
movies on Ubuntu. In Google Chrome and Chromium at least.
The past day or so, I have been getting an error saying
the following plugin has crashed : /opt/google/chrome/libgcflashplayer.so
Is there anyway I can get around
Hi there .
Yesterday I took the old box to the non-geek lady I mentioned. I spent
about half an hour showing her round Ubuntu Netbook Remix set up with
the Gnome desktop as default. I went back later as there was a minor
hitch with the printer, and she had written several job-applications
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 13:38 +0100, Stephen Garton wrote:
On 11 May 2010 13:33, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote:
I want it to support as many video formats as possible, mp4, avi etc
I hadn't thought of Boxee, I've used it in the past on my AppleTV
What media are you
great Ubuntu is better then windows 98 - double epic win
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Dan Fish d...@fishms.org wrote:
I'd certainly vouch for XBMC on a revo. I'm using a 'generic' windows
MCE remote from Maplin with it. Watching 1080p with no probs and the
wife and kids are very happy with it. I experienced a few 'quirks' on
setting it up but
On 11 May 2010 14:18, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Dan Fish d...@fishms.org wrote:
I'd certainly vouch for XBMC on a revo. I'm using a 'generic' windows
MCE remote from Maplin with it. Watching 1080p with no probs and the
wife and kids are very happy
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Stephen Garton sheepeating...@gmail.comwrote:
That's a fair point, I also used to run XBMC on an original xbox.
/snip
I can also vouch for XBMC on the original Xbox and also on a custom desktop
PC. XBMC supports remote control via a browser (so fine on an
If you're planning to go the revo route the dual core ones are £180 on
ebuyer at the moment http://www.ebuyer.com/product/182588 Yup, yet another
post for a revo on hotukdeals...
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On 11 May 2010 14:56, Adam Bagnall a...@geekygeek.co.uk wrote:
If you're planning to go the revo route the dual core ones are £180 on
ebuyer at the moment http://www.ebuyer.com/product/182588 Yup, yet another
post for a revo on hotukdeals...
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I was originally going to go down the XBOX360
Lets say your want to buy a new PC and keep the bundled windows etc on
there, but you wish to install Ubuntu into a new partition / disc. If you
cant find anyone whos used your PC with Ubuntu before and you dont find it
listed here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport, then would you / could
i WILL be going down the revo route...connected to my phone. i will just set
up my phone as a VLC remote...and just use that play music/vids!
On 11 May 2010 15:07, Simon Swaysland simon.swaysl...@gmail.com wrote:
On 11 May 2010 14:56, Adam Bagnall a...@geekygeek.co.uk wrote:
If you're
On 11/05/10 15:07, Simon Swaysland wrote:
On 11 May 2010 14:56, Adam Bagnall a...@geekygeek.co.uk
mailto:a...@geekygeek.co.uk wrote:
If you're planning to go the revo route the dual core ones are £180
on ebuyer at the moment http://www.ebuyer.com/product/182588 Yup,
yet another
Lets say your want to buy a new PC and keep the bundled windows etc on
there, but you wish to install Ubuntu into a new partition / disc. If you
cant find anyone whos used your PC with Ubuntu before and you dont find it
listed here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardwareSupport, then would you /
On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 4:33 PM, Chris Rowson
christopherrow...@gmail.comwrote:
I've never tried, but it'd probably be a laugh to go to PC World with a
bunch of live CDs, insert them into the PCs and reboot them (observing the
resultant chaos).
Chris
I can't remember what the correct
On 11 May 2010 16:40, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:33 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
I've never tried, but it'd probably be a laugh to go to PC World with
a bunch of live CDs, insert them into the PCs and reboot them
(observing the resultant chaos).
What
On 11 May 2010 15:10, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Lets say your want to buy a new PC and keep the bundled windows etc on
there, but you wish to install Ubuntu into a new partition / disc. If you
cant find anyone whos used your PC with Ubuntu before and you dont find it
I work in an independent store. We would definitely - but I am going to
PC world tonight just to find out, heheh!!
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On 11/05/10 16:43, Isabell Long wrote:
On 11 May 2010 16:40, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:33 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
I've never tried, but it'd probably be a laugh to go to PC World with
a bunch of live CDs, insert them into the PCs and reboot them
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Isabell Long wrote:
On 11 May 2010 16:40, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 16:33 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
I've never tried, but it'd probably be a laugh to go to PC World with
a bunch of live CDs, insert them into
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:52 +0100, pmgazz wrote:
Luke - just to let you know how much your team's work will be
appreciated by the voluntary sector who really need manuals but can't
afford to pay the earth for them. It really makes a difference.
I have passed your thanks on to the team. We
Live CDs: For people who are still upset that you can't go into a computer
shop and type
10 PRINT ARSE
20 GOTO 10
any more...
ROFL! ...brings back some memories of being a kid there...
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On 11 May 2010 21:27, Luke-Jennings ubuntujenk...@googlemail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-11 at 11:52 +0100, pmgazz wrote:
Luke - just to let you know how much your team's work will be
appreciated by the voluntary sector who really need manuals but can't
afford to pay the earth for them. It
On 11 May 2010 13:51, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
It seems that I might have found one reason why I cant play some flash
movies on Ubuntu. In Google Chrome and Chromium at least.
The past day or so, I have been getting an error saying
the following plugin has crashed :
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