On 22/06/11 19:55, Avi wrote:
alan c wrote:
If any of my family, or friends want my support for their PCs, it
*only* comes if they are using Ubuntu, no way for Windows. Although
if they use Windows, that is their choice.
Heh. I started not even trying to fix systems I wasn't familiar with
On 22/06/11 19:47, Barry Titterton wrote:
On Wed, 2011-06-22 at 11:52 +0100, alan c wrote:
On 22/06/11 09:14, Jon Reynolds wrote:
Either way, I wish my Dad would just let me put Ubuntu on there and
Do you intend to support his use of non free software when you
obviously feel strongly
On 11/06/2011 11:43, Sean Miller wrote:
The key is that we need to EDUCATE the educators that accessibility
is important, and Word/Excel files disempower those without the
software to read
I think the key point is not so much that the teachers need educating -
they use what's placed in front
On 23/06/2011 11:47, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
accent new formats
Accent? Darned spellcheckers! Should be accept of course
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On 11/06/2011 14:08, Sean Miller wrote:
If they've got an even remotely competent IT Teacher
IT teachers in primary schools tend to be the PT teacher because he/she
hasn't enough PT to warrant a whole postso it's a bit of a lottery
as to their IT skills...
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On 22/06/2011 18:07, Rob Beard wrote:
This is a blog post about what Microsoft class as the machine nowadays...
4.1 We grant you a nonexclusive right to distribute an individual
software license only with a fully assembled computer system. A fully
assembled computer system means a computer
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n Tue, 2011-06-21 at 14:04 +0100, Sarah Chard wrote:
Out here in Herefordshire our next event is 17 sept software freedom
day
and we usually target schools and get a few teachers and educators
through on the day - but I am wondering this year if we can make more
of
an effort to get schools
Hi!
Can I say I'm teaching a full-length (i.e. 10 x 2 hours) unaccredited
course for adults entitled 'Introduction to Linux' for North Tyneside
Adult Learning Alliance next year. Date and time are still to be
confirmed. This will be the first time we've ever had a Linux-based ICT
course in the
On 23/06/11 17:41, Bea Groves wrote:
Hi!
Can I say I'm teaching a full-length (i.e. 10 x 2 hours) unaccredited
course for adults entitled 'Introduction to Linux' for North Tyneside
Adult Learning Alliance next year.
excellent!! do you want a bunch of official CDs to give to attendees?
Alan.
http://is.gd/tef7vm
I own the domain ubuntubooks.com . For reasons of my life getting busy
(twins; I mean, really, TWINS, who conceives twins naturally? Isn't
sitting in front of a PC all day and evening supposed to irradiate
my... never mind), I never really did anything with it. The original
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n Thu, 2011-06-23 at 17:41 +0100, Bea Groves wrote:
Can I say I'm teaching a full-length (i.e. 10 x 2 hours) unaccredited
course for adults entitled 'Introduction to Linux' for North Tyneside
Adult Learning Alliance next year. Date and time are still to be
confirmed. This will be the first
On Thu, 23 Jun 2011 11:47:29 +0100
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 11/06/2011 11:43, Sean Miller wrote:
The key is that we need to EDUCATE the educators that
accessibility is important, and Word/Excel files disempower those
without the software to read
I think the key point is not so much
Hi Andrew,
congrats on the twins. Failing any other bids that may earn you a little
money, I'd be quite happy to take the domain name over and allow any of the
teams access to it on my server area (Said server already looks after
ubuntu-youth forum, lubuntu iso's and various web areas for
This really is quite new. For those familiar with phpbb3 (The free forum
software that I know is popualr), there is a project being developed at
http://phpwebsitemanual.com/index.php?module=pagemasterPAGE_user_op=view_pagePAGE_id=35MMN_position=13:13
Which
is from one of the American Universities.
On 23/06/2011 20:19, Grant Sewell wrote:
To an extent, I agree with you. However, there is also the argument
that RM et al are merely services and if the people to whom they are
providing a service demand XYZ then it would be inappropriate for RM et
al to provide PQR instead.
Unfortunately
On Thu, 2011-06-23 at 23:08 +0100, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 23/06/2011 20:19, Grant Sewell wrote:
To an extent, I agree with you. However, there is also the argument
that RM et al are merely services and if the people to whom they are
providing a service demand XYZ then it would
On 23/06/2011 23:18, Tony Pursell wrote:
What has happened then to 'Local Management of Schools'? When I was a
school governor, admittedly some 20 years ago, schools could opt out of
the LEA negotiated contracts.
They certainly can opt out - but as the LEA controls the network and
Internet
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
RM and their ilk are acting like 1980's IT depts...they allow only
what softwareTHEY approve of.
Perhaps I'm missing the point here but I'm intrigued - how to these
'modern' IT departments manage letting people run whatever they like?
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The world moved on and people got lazy? Well, that's how I like to see it -
I'd hate to read of any more 'kick-backs' being paid.
There is another email thread now started, so not too sure which one to
place this in.
But, I do know that uk-LoCo is up for re-approval On that vein, even
though
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