Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Andres
All I can say is if you ever need to do magnetic force microscopy on one of those hard drives i might be able to help put toguether some bits... -- Sent from my Nokia N900 - Original message - > On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: > > Hiya Everyone, > > > > I was wondering if mi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Please help with research ...

2011-04-14 Thread Andres
Good point. Tested one of my cds (32bit) on my 64bit dell at work and it went mental. i'm not a linux virgin but i think i should label the cds i give away as 32 bit or 64bit -- Sent from my Nokia N900 - Original message - > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 13:36 +0100, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrot

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 Launch Party 28th April

2011-04-14 Thread Alan Bell
Just a few weeks to go until the launch of the next version of Ubuntu, 11.04 the Natty Narwhal and we are sorting out plans for the launch day. Sadly the event that we were talking about at the BCS didn't quite come together, apparently everyone at Canonical is rather busy that day working on s

[ubuntu-uk] The Team Meeting this evening

2011-04-14 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, minutes of tonights team meeting are available here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting in which we discussed: U^3 with a report http://ucubed.info/ucubed-2011-report and piccies http://www.flickr.com/groups/1687774@N22/pool/ The launch of Natty on the 28th April, no afternoon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Sean Miller
This is all very well and good, but how many people in this country have greater than 1mbps upload speed on their broadband connections? I would suggest it's a single figure in terms of percentages... So, assuming you can get a high proportion of these people, there might be some hope BUT let's l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Bill Cumming
files and things - > > Obviosly not every job would involve huge amounts of data, but some may. > > > > The main problem is that I would prefer to take either the expected > > amount in full and reserve it until the job is completed, with the > > option of returning it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Dave Hanson
full and reserve it until the job is completed, with the > option of returning it to the client or take a small diagnostic fee in > advance and log what fee came from who/what job number. > > Could anyone reccomend a plugin or perhaps sh

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Rob Beard
On 14/04/11 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - Obviosly not every job would involve huge amoun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Rowson
> Hiya Everyone, > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that > there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote my

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Kris Douglas
On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: > Hiya Everyone, > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that > there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > degree (Compu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Chris Wilson
If it was me, I wouldn't attempt to do these things using my own hosted services for fear that something would go wrong due to my inexperience, tarnishing my reputation with the clients. Instead, I would use Amazon Web Services (http://aws.amazon.com/) for accepting the disk image. AWS is a company

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 14 April 2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: > Hiya Everyone, > > I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that > there are many people on this list who may do something similar? > > I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my > degree (Comp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Philip Newborough
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: > On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: >> I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow >> clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking >> GB's) and take payment from them for re

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Please help with research ...

2011-04-14 Thread Barry Drake
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 13:36 +0100, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: > Should they use wubi, live cd or request install (backup, defrag)... I've asked my volunteers to run the LiveCD that way, I can offer help by running a liveCD on my box while I talk to them. I can't use wubi as I don't have a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Thu, 2011-04-14 at 15:28 +0100, Dave Hanson wrote: > I need some sort of ecommerce plugin for Wordpress which will allow > clients, and myself to upload large files (HDD Images, so I'm talking > GB's) and take payment from them for recovering their files and things - > Obviosly not every job

[ubuntu-uk] Very Off Topic - Apologies in advance.

2011-04-14 Thread Dave Hanson
Hiya Everyone, I was wondering if might ask an off topic question please as I assume that there are many people on this list who may do something similar? I'm planning on doing some data recovery work from home when I finish my degree (Computer Forensics Bsc), My plan is to promote myself thr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Please help with research ...

2011-04-14 Thread Andrés Muñiz Piniella
One more question: Should they use wubi, live cd or request install (backup, defrag)... On 4/13/11, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Send ubuntu-uk mailing list submissions to > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > > To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit > http