On 29/07/11 00:12, Avi Greenbury wrote:
alan c wrote:
Mat
It has been said *clearly* what went wrong!
The chap on the [irc] who's responded to my plea for help has
just given me technical jargon answers I simply don't understand
and he's putting me off Ubuntu.
That's not clear at
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:12 +0100, alan c wrote:
My immediate reaction is to think of prompting phone contact, or
having it as an option somehow. In this case the user reverted to
direct personal contact with a person already known to them, to
confide in. It can be taken that the user did not
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:12 +0100, alan c wrote:
and gave up. There may be a procedural way to help to avoid this, but
the range of level of support from location of the 'any key' through
to fluent terminal use is vast.
I was very impressed by the support from Virgin broadband. I had
upgraded
Hi
I wanted to let you know what is happening here in Herefordshire.
As a part of ISFD we are running an Open Source Schools Project -
partially inspired by discussions here on education and open source.
Herefordshire LUG contacted schools across the county and we now have
around 7 schools
On 29/07/11 09:33, Dianne Reuby wrote:
My only experience of internet chat before Ubuntu was that AIM stuff
that my children loved but I hated - mainly because it flooded with
weird strangers. I was very nervous when I started using IRC because of
this, and I was also worried that I could do
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:33 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:12 +0100, alan c wrote:
My immediate reaction is to think of prompting phone contact, or
having it as an option somehow. In this case the user reverted to
direct personal contact with a person already known to
Tony Pursell wrote:
It does seem that Ubuntu is unprepared to meet the support needs of
the type of general, every day user that it wants (I assume) to
attract. If we were a commercial organisation, all the support
workers would be trained and there would be a common approach.
Canonical, the
Hi Alan,
While it is true the general issue has been stated, in order to properly
assess what that specific user may see as technical and not technical
really depends on the person. If we can get together some examples of where
we have gone wrong we can assess each one and figure out how best to
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 11:31 +0100, Avi Greenbury wrote:
Tony Pursell wrote:
It does seem that Ubuntu is unprepared to meet the support needs of
the type of general, every day user that it wants (I assume) to
attract. If we were a commercial organisation, all the support
workers would be
Tony Pursell wrote:
Canonical, the commercial organisation, is configured so. I don't
think you'll ever have a provided-in-free-time sort of support
arrangement that matches up to the sorts of things that that the
paid for ones do in terms of maintaining a low level of technical
But
On 29/07/11 09:51, Barry Drake wrote:
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:12 +0100, alan c wrote:
and gave up. There may be a procedural way to help to avoid this, but
the range of level of support from location of the 'any key' through
to fluent terminal use is vast.
I was very impressed by the support
On 29/07/11 14:18, Paula Graham wrote:
Agreed Barry - that's the sort of thing we always try (and don't
always succeed) - she hasn't turned up this morning when she was
supposed to bring in her laptop - I suspect it's a driver problem on
an older laptop. If/when she does turn up, I'll get more
On 29/07/11 14:18, Paula Graham wrote:
Should I be sending people to the ubuntu-beginners channel instead?
out of interest, how do you currently direct them, and how do you
describe IRC to them?
Alan
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On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 14:47 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
On 29/07/11 14:18, Paula Graham wrote:
Should I be sending people to the ubuntu-beginners channel instead?
out of interest, how do you currently direct them, and how do you
describe IRC to them?
Alan
and do you suggest any of the
On 29/07/11 12:35, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hi Alan,
While it is true the general issue has been stated, in order to properly
assess what that specific user may see as technical and not technical
really depends on the person. If we can get together some examples of where
we have gone wrong we
On 29/07/11 10:06, Sarah Chard wrote:
Hi
I wanted to let you know what is happening here in Herefordshire.
As a part of ISFD we are running an Open Source Schools Project -
partially inspired by discussions here on education and open source.
Herefordshire LUG contacted schools across the
On 29 July 2011 17:28, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
On 29/07/11 12:35, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hi Alan,
While it is true the general issue has been stated, in order to properly
assess what that specific user may see as technical and not technical
really depends on the person. If
On 29/07/11 10:06, Sarah Chard wrote:
Hi
I wanted to let you know what is happening here in Herefordshire.
As a part of ISFD we are running an Open Source Schools Project -
partially inspired by discussions here on education and open source.
Herefordshire LUG contacted schools across the county
On 29/07/11 09:51, Barry Drake wrote:
And Virgin NEVER said 'we don't support Linux'
You were lucky then - if I ever make the mistake of mentioning Linux, they tell
me to phone back when I've installed windows.
Dianne--
ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
hi
agreed, i have had the same issue with the ISP my dad has chosen, talktalk,
they blindly refused to help me, and there reason was this, they couldnt
trust the results, hmm.
very annoyed bunny.
Philip
On 29 July 2011 20:21, dianne reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
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