Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle

2011-03-27 Thread Hassan "Haz" Williamson
On 24 March 2011 07:10, Sean Miller wrote: > I've heard significantly more "romantic" descriptions of books in print > than "dead tree version" ;-) > > I shall never, myself, be a great advocate of things like the Kindle... I > spend all day looking at a screen programming, or in my part time job

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RSI

2011-03-27 Thread Hassan "Haz" Williamson
On 25 March 2011 16:14, Jon Reynolds wrote: > Hello folks, > > Am sure as all of you are computer users, some probably quite prolific (as > coders etc), that some of you have had experience with RSI. > > I have had a bad wrist for a few years now on and off. It always seemed to > go away but rece

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Herefordshire Open Source Day

2011-03-27 Thread Sarah Chard
O n Sat, 2011-03-26 at 19:42 +, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > Following Sarah Chard's posting of 23rd March, I attended the event in > Hereford today. The LUG members were all extremely enthusiastic and > did an excellent job of explaining the merits and benefits of FLOSS. > > In my view ther

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Herefordshire Open Source Day - event insurance

2011-03-27 Thread Sarah Chard
O n Sat, 2011-03-26 at 21:24 +, Paul Sutton wrote: > What do you do regarding insurance at these events, in torbay if we > wanted to use the library we have been told that > > all computers need to be PAT tested > we also need public liability insurance or something > > just wondered if you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Leadership Election Process

2011-03-27 Thread Matthew Daubney
Ar me swashbuckling mateys! 'Tis important that ye be remembering this adventure. The treasure be in sight and Cap'n Bell needs to be certain of the course he be chartin. Those blasted NInja's do be runnin amok in this search for the treasure of certainty, those landlubbin' need to be keelhaul