On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
The under £100 cheap PCs for the disadvantaged go on sale today.
See
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
Ubuntu 10.10 is there as a solid and no
On 17 May 2011 23:15, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 21:07, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 17:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 17:29, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
Did you know that you can middle-click on the title bar to
yeah, I don't think Windows and Office is worth £3 either.
Anyhow, to get the Windows version you need to qualify:
To qualify for this offer you must be receiving financial help from the
government in one or more of the following ways. (If requested, I can
provide evidence of this.)
*
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
Sorry for the long post but this has just made my blood boil and I
think we should all be making the maximum fuss we can about this.
I think I will give them a call and see if we can work with them
constructively to provide better information about the
On 18/05/11 08:27, Alan Bell wrote:
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
Sorry for the long post but this has just made my blood boil and I
think we should all be making the maximum fuss we can about this.
I think I will give them a call and see if we can work with them
constructively
On 17/05/11 23:25, Tony Scott wrote:
Review of Ubuntu on ThinkPad X220
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/17/computing-opensource
Nice review and nice publication. A bit difficult to see where he
purchased it though? It sounds a bit like it came with Windows and he
installed
Colin Law wrote:
Have you tried Unity-2D (not the regular Unity)? It is certainly not
working for me whereas it does on the regular Unity. I can run the
regular Unity if I only use my laptop screen but when I add an
external one the virtual display is too large for the graphics chip to
run 3D
On 18 May 2011 09:16, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 May 2011 08:55, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
On 17/05/11 23:25, Tony Scott wrote:
Review of Ubuntu on ThinkPad X220
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2011/may/17/computing-opensource
Nice review and
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
The under £100 cheap PCs for the disadvantaged go on sale today.
See
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
Ubuntu 10.10 is there as a solid and
On 18 May 2011 08:19, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 23:15, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 21:07, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 17:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 17:29, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com
On 18/05/11 08:27, Alan Bell wrote:
On 17/05/11 23:30, Martin Houston wrote:
Sorry for the long post but this has just made my blood boil and I
think we should all be making the maximum fuss we can about this.
I think I will give them a call and see if we can work with them
constructively to
Martin Houston wrote:
Sorry for the long post but this has just made my blood boil and I think
we should all be making the maximum fuss we can about this.
To whom, and why?
To the vendor who has gone out on a limb and chosen to ship a flavour of
Linux? To the Government who have allowed such
On 18 May 2011 13:05, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
So what can we do about this, I am currently helping at a youth music
project that has now got 4 / 5 ubuntu computers up and running, I am
struggling to maintain what we have on zero budget
What help do you need and where?
if we
Hi Alan,
for such low spec machines it *may* be worth trying the Lubuntu suite on
them. Lubuntu gets full adoption at 11.10 by Canonical, the 11.04 is happily
running now. For really old kit (pre i686) lubuntu are going to continue to
backport to the 10.04 stable beta the lxde and pcmanfm etc.
On 18 May 2011 13:39, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 May 2011 08:19, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 23:15, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 21:07, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 17:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com
On 18 May 2011 16:25, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 18 May 2011 13:39, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 May 2011 08:19, Colin Law clan...@googlemail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 23:15, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
On 17 May 2011 21:07, Colin Law
On 18/05/11 13:05, Paul Sutton wrote:
oh and people have full time jobs, so we need to do this when we have
time and between other activities.#
yeah, but some people have a full time job for which more Free Software
in the UK would be a strategic benefit. I really want more people to be
Umm - there's this talk about middle-clicking. What is this
middle-clicking you talk about?
I use Saitek notebook mice... I see two buttons, and a mousewheel. On
my Ideapad, I see two buttons under the trackpad.
I understand left-clicking.. I understand right-clicking.
Granted, I use a
You can get a mouse with 3 buttons too. Here's an example,
http://www.djx.com.au/blog/2009/01/03/mouse-upgrade/
Cheers, T
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On 18 May 2011 17:41, Alex Cockell a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk wrote:
Umm - there's this talk about middle-clicking. What is this
middle-clicking you talk about?
I
On Wed, 2011-05-18 at 17:41 +0100, Alex Cockell wrote:
Umm - there's this talk about middle-clicking. What is this
middle-clicking you talk about?
I use Saitek notebook mice... I see two buttons, and a mousewheel. On
my Ideapad, I see two buttons under the trackpad.
I understand
On Wed, 18 May 2011 17:41:47 +0100
Alex Cockell wrote:
Umm - there's this talk about middle-clicking. What is this
middle-clicking you talk about?
I use Saitek notebook mice... I see two buttons, and a mousewheel. On
my Ideapad, I see two buttons under the trackpad.
I understand
I would rather they just stuck a respectable amount of ram in them and
put Ubuntu on them, it works just fine on low spec machines. I don't
really see the point in having an OS that works in low memory
conditions when as soon as you open Firefox and LibreOffice it is going
to be painful
On 18 May 2011 16:40, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote:
..
I'm a bit mystified. You replied twice with this comment - one thus,
directly to me, with a carefully-trimmed quote:
So am I, and becoming more so, sadly. See below.
[[
On 17 May 2011 17:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On
I'd like to see the 100,000 volunteers for the Race Online 2012 campaign
encouraged to download and try Ubuntu so they are at least aware of it and
can explain if anyone asks them. They'd also need to be told where to go for
tutorials and assistance with Ubuntu.
Regards,
Michael Devenish
On
Hi all,
This cycle, before the release of Oneiric Ocelot, the UK team has to go
through the LoCo team reapproval process. You can read more about this here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamReApproval
http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/01/20/ubuntu-loco-re-approval-process-explained/
On 18/05/11 19:02, Michael Devenish wrote:
I'd like to see the 100,000 volunteers for the Race Online 2012
campaign encouraged to download and try Ubuntu so they are at least
aware of it and can explain if anyone asks them. They'd also need to
be told where to go for tutorials and assistance
On 18/05/11 19:13, Alan Bell wrote:
Hi all,
This cycle, before the release of Oneiric Ocelot, the UK team has to go
through the LoCo team reapproval process. You can read more about this
here:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamReApproval
On 18/05/11 14:48, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 18 May 2011 13:05, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net
mailto:zl...@zleap.net wrote:
So what can we do about this, I am currently helping at a youth music
project that has now got 4 / 5 ubuntu computers up and running, I am
struggling to
Alex Cockell wrote:
I've heard talk of having to press both mouse buttons down together
why do Canonical have to confuse things?
Confuse things?
It's a non-essential task that people with capable hardware can use. If
you can't do a middle-click, or there's some other reason that you
On 18/05/11 19:22, Alan Bell wrote:
On 18/05/11 19:02, Michael Devenish wrote:
I'd like to see the 100,000 volunteers for the Race Online 2012
campaign encouraged to download and try Ubuntu so they are at least
aware of it and can explain if anyone asks them. They'd also need to
be told where
On 18 May 2011 19:22, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I'd like to see us being a race online partner organisation and actually
being some of those 100,000 volunteers. http://raceonline2012.org I can't
see why we shouldn't, what do you think?
If we're organised and disciplined, totally we
On 18/05/11 19:37, Rob Beard wrote:
On 18/05/11 14:48, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 18 May 2011 13:05, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net
mailto:zl...@zleap.net wrote:
So what can we do about this, I am currently helping at a youth music
project that has now got 4 / 5 ubuntu computers up
On 18/05/11 19:54, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18 May 2011 19:22, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote:
I'd like to see us being a race online partner organisation and actually
being some of those 100,000 volunteers. http://raceonline2012.org I can't
see why we shouldn't, what do you think?
If
On 18 May 2011 21:19, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
do we sign up individually or sign up as the south west loco team and
have the loco team website as a holding place for people who can help
I'd wait for guidance from Alan Bell as he's the point of contact for
the LoCo. Probably best to
I seem to have stirred up quite a bit of debate with this.
Michael Devenish makes a good suggestion that the Race Online volunteers
need to get a bit of education with Ubuntu. It is an achievement to get
it on the menu as an option but it is clear that the Microsoft spin
doctors have had a
On 18/05/11 21:46, Martin Houston wrote:
I seem to have stirred up quite a bit of debate with this.
Michael Devenish makes a good suggestion that the Race Online volunteers
need to get a bit of education with Ubuntu. It is an achievement to get
it on the menu as an option but it is clear
On 18 May 2011 08:58, Avi Greenbury li...@avi.co wrote:
I think I'm running unity-2d (nothing's ever told me it is, but I've no drop
shadows and the panel's a light grey and it's a bit less pretty than others
I've seen) and the middle-click-on-the-titlebar works for me.
You get a choice of
On 18/05/11 21:23, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18 May 2011 21:19, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote:
do we sign up individually or sign up as the south west loco team and
have the loco team website as a holding place for people who can help
I'd wait for guidance from Alan Bell as he's the point of
Martin Houston wrote:
It would have been nice to have little snippets like Linux's 20 year
history and the fact it runs on 95% of all super computers. The page
is very biased to say the least.
Not that either of those matter since we're talking about today and
cheap computers, but Windows
It was actually because I approved of the sheer common sense of giving
people with no previous exposure to computers Linux instead of Windows
that I signed up to be Race Online 2012 partner in the first place.
That is why the sudden realisation that Microsoft was involved after all
came as
On 18/05/11 21:19, Paul Sutton wrote:
Ok if people have a login to launchpad they can edit the loco team page
which thus far has had me doing this,
huh? where?
do we sign up individually or sign up as the south west loco team and
have the loco team website as a holding place for people who
On 18/05/11 22:46, Avi wrote:
Martin Houston wrote:
It would have been nice to have little snippets like Linux's 20 year
history and the fact it runs on 95% of all super computers. The page
is very biased to say the least.
Not that either of those matter since we're talking about today
alan c wrote:
I know that Linux is often used to denote the operating system in
addition to being the name of the kernel. I regard Linux as being the
kernel, and Stallman started GNU, what he stated was to be a free OS,
in 1983.
Well, it's probably possible to argue heritage all the way
Just call it Ubuntu, problem solved.
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