Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-28 Thread Timothy Rittman
On Sat 28 Apr 2012 15:31:46 BST, Kris Douglas wrote: On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50a wrote: been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on the rescue side but it didnt work, is there any way I can use the ter

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread alan c
On 28/04/12 17:36, paul sutton wrote: On 28/04/12 17:31, Bill Baker wrote: On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 15:55 +0100, alan c wrote: On 28/04/12 14:14, kpb wrote: On 28/04/12 11:59, Barry Drake wrote: Someone just upgraded from 10.04 and after answering a couple of questions, I pointed him to t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread alan c
On 28/04/12 17:45, Bill Baker wrote: On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 17:23 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: On 28/04/12 15:55, alan c wrote: Errm Alan . we have an HUD. Try simply typing help (or even he) into the lens . Barry - now try pointing that out to a new user. ;) Yes, I thought y

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread Barry Drake
On 28/04/12 18:24, Tony Pursell wrote: HUD doesn't seem to find Help for me. The Dash finds it, of course. And there is also the Help menu at the top of the screen when there is nothing on the desktop. Do you know, I had thought up to now that the Dash searchbar and the HUD did the same thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread Tony Pursell
On 28 April 2012 17:45, Bill Baker wrote: > On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 17:23 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > > On 28/04/12 15:55, alan c wrote: > > Errm Alan . we have an HUD. Try simply typing help (or even > > he) into the lens . > > > Barry - now try pointing that out to a new user. ;)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread Barry Drake
On 28/04/12 17:45, Bill Baker wrote: On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 17:23 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: Errm Alan . we have an HUD. Try simply typing help (or even he) into the lens . Barry - now try pointing that out to a new user. ;) Oh I agree And I do think the Help app ought to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread Bill Baker
On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 17:23 +0100, Barry Drake wrote: > On 28/04/12 15:55, alan c wrote: > Errm Alan . we have an HUD. Try simply typing help (or even > he) into the lens . > Barry - now try pointing that out to a new user. ;) -- Regards, Bill B. [SuperEngineer] --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread paul sutton
On 28/04/12 17:31, Bill Baker wrote: > On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 15:55 +0100, alan c wrote: >> On 28/04/12 14:14, kpb wrote: >>> On 28/04/12 11:59, Barry Drake wrote: Someone just upgraded from 10.04 and after answering a couple of questions, I pointed him to the poster. He found it very h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread Bill Baker
On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 15:55 +0100, alan c wrote: > On 28/04/12 14:14, kpb wrote: > > On 28/04/12 11:59, Barry Drake wrote: > >> Someone just upgraded from 10.04 and after answering a couple of > >> questions, I pointed him to the poster. He found it very helpful. > > > > Hello Barry and all > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread Barry Drake
On 28/04/12 15:55, alan c wrote: I think it has been noticed that Ubuntu 12.04 does not make it at all easy to find a useful Help facility, not sure if a bug has been raised at all, I hope so. One guinea pig I saw use it here immediately searched around for a help list. Unfortunately even I di

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread kpb
On 28/04/12 15:55, alan c wrote: I think it has been noticed that Ubuntu 12.04 does not make it at all easy to find a useful Help facility, not sure if a bug has been raised at all, I hope so. One guinea pig I saw use it here immediately searched around for a help list. Unfortunately even I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread alan c
On 28/04/12 14:14, kpb wrote: On 28/04/12 11:59, Barry Drake wrote: Someone just upgraded from 10.04 and after answering a couple of questions, I pointed him to the poster. He found it very helpful. Hello Barry and all That is exactly what/who the poster is for, I'm glad it was useful. Th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Install problems...

2012-04-28 Thread James Morrissey
Thanks for all the help on this, i have now got it sorted. It looks like pages are springing up all over the place with instructions. Here is a post of the detailed solution: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11883375#post11883375 j On 28 April 2012 12:34, James Morrissey wrote: >> With

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-28 Thread Kris Douglas
On 28 April 2012 14:34, scoundrel50a wrote: > been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the > terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on the rescue side but it > didnt work, is there any way I can use the terminal to repair this, or do > you think it would be

[ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-28 Thread scoundrel50a
been fiddling around, and its broke, it wont load.I can get into the terminal, even the rescue part, tried a few things on the rescue side but it didnt work, is there any way I can use the terminal to repair this, or do you think it would be easier to reinstall. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread kpb
On 28/04/12 11:59, Barry Drake wrote: Someone just upgraded from 10.04 and after answering a couple of questions, I pointed him to the poster. He found it very helpful. Hello Barry and all That is exactly what/who the poster is for, I'm glad it was useful. The Ubuntu Desktop Guide really is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Business Remix upgrade?

2012-04-28 Thread Bill Baker
On Sat, 2012-04-28 at 12:33 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > On 28/04/12 11:58, Bill Baker wrote: > > Could someone look at http://imagebin.org/210105 & come up with > > some rationale pretty please? > > > > Interesting. I don't think we factored in upgrades of Business Remix. > We'll be making a new ve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Install problems...

2012-04-28 Thread James Morrissey
> With a live CD: when you see the symbols at the bottom of the display, press > a key, to get the menu choices, choose language, then > use F6 for more options, > which reveals a boot command line > at the end, add the string >  b43.blacklist=yes > (space before and space following) > and then boo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Business Remix upgrade?

2012-04-28 Thread Alan Pope
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 28/04/12 11:58, Bill Baker wrote: > Could someone look at http://imagebin.org/210105 & come up with > some rationale pretty please? > Interesting. I don't think we factored in upgrades of Business Remix. We'll be making a new version of business r

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread paul sutton
On 28/04/12 11:59, Barry Drake wrote: > On 25/04/12 22:13, alan c wrote: >> Hi Barry. I am dealing with 60 plus ages and they are all >> technophobes using Ubuntu without reading any instructions at all. >> Some are adults with learning difficulty. The thought of even -me- >> needing to look at suc

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread Barry Drake
On 25/04/12 22:13, alan c wrote: Hi Barry. I am dealing with 60 plus ages and they are all technophobes using Ubuntu without reading any instructions at all. Some are adults with learning difficulty. The thought of even -me- needing to look at such an information diagram is an unpleasant though

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Business Remix upgrade?

2012-04-28 Thread Bill Baker
Could someone look at http://imagebin.org/210105 & come up with some rationale pretty please? Business Remix was & is a bog standard install [with only addition being grsync [graphical frontend for rsync]. -- Regards, Bill B. [SuperEngineer] -- -Registered Linux User

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Install problems...

2012-04-28 Thread alan c
On 27/04/12 18:05, James Morrissey wrote: Found the bug report. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/b43-fwcutter/+bug/909871 If anyone can tell me how to set b43.blacklist=yes I'd appreciate it. With a live CD: when you see the symbols at the bottom of the display, press a key, to g