Re: [ubuntu-uk] (no subject)

2010-10-21 Thread Bruce Beardall
Glad to have you join the family, Pottar. Welcome! Please be more careful about where you put your address details, though. This is not a secure list. Warm regards Bruce On 20 October 2010 23:14, Pottar Muzamba pott...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Everybody. It is my pleasure to join the UKubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-21 Thread pmgazz
On 20/10/10 10:46, Andy Partington wrote: On 20 October 2010 10:42, jakewc2jake...@sky.com wrote: Well, this thread was a total waste of time. All this crap about help, willingness, is a load of bollocks. Your just a nasty group of people. I think we might want to stop feeding

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-21 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 15:17 +0100, pmgazz wrote: I think we might want to stop feeding the troll? Sadly, I have to agree with Paula. I want to say that you guys have bent over backwards to help me, and it really is appreciated. When I think of the quality of help I get from computer

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Support - Where are we in the real world

2010-10-21 Thread jim.cameron
I think we might want to stop feeding the troll? He's gone anyway, or at least he told me he'd unsubscribed. He contacted me off-list--reasonably politely, in fact--after I delurked to tell him off, and I tried to explain why he wasn't getting helped anywhere and how he might improve his

Re: [ubuntu-uk] how to's is this useful to someone

2010-10-21 Thread pmgazz
On 20/10/10 12:28, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I have created a quick how to, in order to explain how to take a few photos and print these on 1 sheet of paper, using gthumb, http://www.zleap.net/how-to/howto.htm I am using 10.04 but I am guessing the procedure is the same for 10.10 the above

Re: [ubuntu-uk] how to's is this useful to someone

2010-10-21 Thread Paul Sutton
On 21/10/10 16:50, pmgazz wrote: On 20/10/10 12:28, Paul Sutton wrote: Hi I have created a quick how to, in order to explain how to take a few photos and print these on 1 sheet of paper, using gthumb, http://www.zleap.net/how-to/howto.htm I am using 10.04 but I am guessing the

[ubuntu-uk] Dictionary of English words

2010-10-21 Thread Daniel Case
Hi guys, I am trying to design something to check the whois database against a dictionary of words to see if I can get lucky and pick up a valuable domain (across all TLDs). Now the application is designed and does its job quite well when given a set of words. Now I need a dictionary with every

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dictionary of English words

2010-10-21 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2010-10-21 at 18:19 +0100, Daniel Case wrote: I have tried to have a Google but these things are generally frowned upon because they are part of a crackers toolkit, anywhere I have found is now down. Does anyone have any idea where I could get a comma separated list of all English

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dictionary of English words

2010-10-21 Thread Will Bickerstaff
you could do 'aspell dump master' and direct the output to a file. Then you could pass it through quick script to remove all new lines, apostophes etc and add your commas. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dictionary of English words

2010-10-21 Thread Simon Greenwood
Apropos of anything do any checking you do against a whois database very carefully as most providers recognise dictionary scans and block them pretty quickly. Eeeh, I can remember when you could *download* the whois database... s/ On 21 Oct 2010 18:20, Daniel Case danielcas...@googlemail.com