Re: [ubuntu-uk] Since my last update

2012-03-11 Thread Barry Titterton
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 07:42 +, James Morrissey wrote: Ok, that's good to know. It is a bit frustrating if high temperatures break the fan... j On 10 March 2012 20:00, Neil Greenwood neil.greenwood@gmail.com wrote: It is very possible that temperature is the problem. It's not a

[ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your computer?. Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread SuperEngineer
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 12:44 +, Alan Pope wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Simon Watson
On 11/03/12 12:44, Alan Pope wrote: Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your computer?. Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu to them

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Grant Phillips-Sewell
On Sun, 11 Mar 2012 12:44:56 + Alan Pope wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread SuperEngineer
On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 12:44 +, Alan Pope wrote: Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your computer?. Assume you only have a short while to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Stuart Ward
I would ask them what their field of expertise was, and then search for applications in the software centre arround that subject The other thing I would show is my current time since boot. Usually a couple of weeks, and the suspend resume time (and perhaps the boot time) Next I would start to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Daniel Drummond
On Mar 11, 2012 12:45 PM, Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: What about you? What would you show and tell? 5 years ago it would have been wobbly windows. Dan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread alan c
On 11/03/12 12:44, Alan Pope wrote: Lets suppose you're in a relaxed location, your home or business maybe, and a distant family member, friend or co-worker (someone you know but not very well) says Hey, what's that on your computer?. Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu to them

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Since my last update

2012-03-11 Thread James Morrissey
OK, thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try when i next get close to a vacuum cleaner. j On 11 March 2012 10:06, Barry Titterton barry.titter...@mail.adsl4less.com wrote: On Sun, 2012-03-11 at 07:42 +, James Morrissey wrote: Ok, that's good to know. It is a bit frustrating if high

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Barry Drake
On 11/03/12 12:44, Alan Pope wrote: Assume you only have a short while to demo Ubuntu to them - maybe 5 to 10 minutes - you don't want to spend all day boring them and you don't want to eat up your/their family/work time. Among the other things suggested, I'd open a couple of apps in different

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Alan Bell
did this today with my Dad. I built a bigger faster computer to replace an aging XP desktop. First question was so does it have iTunes and I explained how rhythmbox worked and could put stuff on Mums iPod, we downloaded some songs from the Rock Choir she is part of and imported quite a lot of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Introducing Ubuntu Unity to new people

2012-03-11 Thread Barry Drake
On 11/03/12 22:25, Alan Bell wrote We went through the launcher and the dash, I didn't list all the programs I had installed. We pinned Rhythmbox and Shotwell to the launcher. I think the apps lens is a confusing pile of fail, and should be categorised by category and ditch the recommended

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Since my last update

2012-03-11 Thread Liam Proven
On 11 March 2012 21:18, James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com wrote: OK, thanks for the tip. I'll give it a try when i next get close to a vacuum cleaner. Air-dusters work better, IMHO, have less risk of static discharge. Maplin's are a cheaper source than PC World Poundland (when they