Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

2015-03-27 Thread Alan Bell
On 27/03/15 23:11, David King wrote: On 23/03/15 18:47, Gareth France wrote: Having said that I've had it since about 2pm and I've broken it already! Looking at the scopes there is a star icon at the top right, it took several clicks before I realised it was removing my scope screens

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

2015-03-25 Thread Alan Bell
you will need to be a member of a group that has access to the pad, the ubuntu-uk group has access, as does https://launchpad.net/~ubuntu-etherpad so click the join button there and someone will approve you within a couple of minutes (it is a basic, but functional spam prevention system)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu phone issues not good for Ubuntu reputation

2015-03-23 Thread Alan Bell
It is a bit of an odd launch, but I have fairly low expectations. We were in the first batch but don't have handsets yet, probably confused them by ordering two rather than one so they will have to think about how to package it. I am trying hard not to compare it with any kind of Apple launch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

2014-12-05 Thread Alan Bell
well you are certainly not wrong, it has kind of drifted off, and my name is still on the door as point of contact, I am happy to step aside if that would help, or carry on (I am still sending out 14.04 CDs to anyone who sends an SAE and I am happy to continue doing that). I would like to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Trusty problem .....

2014-03-15 Thread Alan Bell
I went through the same thing, lightdm stopped working last week some time, had to flip to gdm to fix it, but now I am back on lightdm and all is well (GDM was fine too, little bit prettier imho, but I like to run as standard as possible). Trusty looks like it is going to be a good one, a lot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-13 Thread Alan Bell
yeah, I was using a slightly fancy SLC SD card. I would expect bash to be faster, it has way less to do, however 0.4 seconds is not 2-3 seconds. Alan. On 08/11/13 17:03, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Twice that, on a class 10 SD card: root@raspberrypi:~# cat hello.py print Hello, World!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-07 Thread Alan Bell
I use python on the pi all the time, it works just fine for me, but I don't do much time critical stuff. Printing to the console is a bit slowish, but I do plenty of stuff responding to USB events and flashing LEDs attached to the GPIO and stuff like that. Mostly not desktop applications, just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-07 Thread Alan Bell
odd, do you get something different to this? pi@raspberrypi ~ $ cat hello.py print Hello, World! pi@raspberrypi ~ $ time python hello.py Hello, World! real0m0.248s user0m0.180s sys0m0.050s On 07/11/13 20:06, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Alan, I notice that python startup is

[ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, I have been keen on the idea of the Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu for some time, and finally decided to get together with some folk and do something about it. So we are doing a crowd funding indiegogo thing to raise money to build a cluster of Pi devices that will be tasked with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
On 06/11/13 20:50, Barry Drake wrote: On 06/11/13 20:12, Alan Bell wrote: I have been keen on the idea of the Raspberry Pi running Ubuntu for some time, and finally decided to get together with some folk and do something about it. So we are doing a crowd funding indiegogo thing to raise money

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
from the pitch . . . Rasbian is a great operating platform for it, the LXDE desktop is fine, the Wayland demo was brilliant and loads of cool projects are happening based on the Pi. We still want Ubuntu on it though. We are using it in embedded projects, it is also turning up in things like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
On 06/11/13 22:19, Dan Fish wrote: I think another aspect that should not be ignored is the potential roadmap for such arm devices. Admittedly I'm not aware of the Raspberry Pi's future direction, but in general more and more such arm devices seem to be in the offing. The raspberry pi itself

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Building Ubuntu for the Raspberry Pi, on the Raspberry Pi

2013-11-06 Thread Alan Bell
On 06/11/13 22:26, Andres wrote: I recently heard more about beagle bone in FLOSS weekly. Doesn't beagle bone support ubuntu for a number of years now? Similar price, better hardware and a bit more open source? yes, that is a good platform too. What makes the pi so special? I thought it was

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy Salamander - The Release Party

2013-10-16 Thread Alan Bell
Just a reminder, the release date and party is tomorrow night, at the Lord Nelson Alan. On 20/09/13 18:01, Alan Bell wrote: Hi all, it is that time again, another 6 months another release of our favorite operating system. This time it is Ubuntu 13.10 the Saucy Salamander, the first

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Saucy Salamander - [Name]

2013-09-21 Thread Alan Bell
there is a bit of a list here https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DevelopmentCodeNames#A14.04 Alan. -- Libertus Solutions http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Saucy Salamander - The Release Party

2013-09-20 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, it is that time again, another 6 months another release of our favorite operating system. This time it is Ubuntu 13.10 the Saucy Salamander, the first release featuring the new Mir display server and the unveiling of smart scopes which are like scopes, but smarter. The event is once

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Real Ale Train is next month!

2013-09-20 Thread Alan Bell
choo choo! Real Ale Train tomorrow loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/2320-real-ale-train/ Alan -- I work at http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Good morning!

2013-06-05 Thread Alan Bell
On 05/06/13 08:55, pete smout wrote: On 05/06/13 05:59, Bod Soutar wrote: Weight loss spam...really! Pete and blocked from the list already, please ignore. Alan. -- Libertus Solutions http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] enough folks

2013-05-10 Thread Alan Bell
I think this thread has gone about as far as it needs to, and then a bit further. Lets move on and talk about something else now. Alan. -- Libertus Solutions http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] enough folks

2013-05-10 Thread Alan Bell
...@gmail.com wrote: On 10/05/13 13:09, Alan Bell wrote: I think this thread has gone about as far as it needs to, and then a bit further. Lets move on and talk about something else now. +1 How about Mono ;-) Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

[ubuntu-uk] London Release Event - Thursday

2013-04-23 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, the release of the Raring Ringtail is in a couple of days and we will be having the traditional London pub meetup with the Canonical team. This time it will be at the Old Thameside Inn, next to the Golden Hind from about 6:30 on Thursday evening.

[ubuntu-uk] No DVDs for the 13.04 release

2013-04-05 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, we have had the communication below from Canonical, there won't be a LoCo team allocation of DVDs for 13.04, but there will be something for 14.04. This is kind of a consequence of downplaying the non-LTS releases and heading in a rolling release direction, whilst boosting the

[ubuntu-uk] Release Party for 13.04

2013-04-05 Thread Alan Bell
Hi All, Our traditional London release party is on once more, this time next to the historic Golden Hind at the Old Thameside Inn http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/2329-1304-release-party/ http://www.nicholsonspubs.co.uk/theoldthamesideinnlondonbridge/ It will be on April 25th starting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changes imposed

2013-02-25 Thread Alan Bell
On 22/02/13 09:15, Colin Law wrote: I don't think that logic does not apply to removing features like the dual pane and tree views in Nautilus. tree views just came back to some extent I think, I saw a screenshot somewhere last week, but in any case, simplifying the file manager has been in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Changes imposed

2013-02-25 Thread Alan Bell
On 25/02/13 12:29, Colin Law wrote: Well if the tree view is back in 3.6 then I can't find it. neither can I now, I expect I just saw a screenshot of someone who had patched it back in, or possibly the Mint fork of Nautilus. If you have a read of the original bug report

[ubuntu-uk] Globally Jamming

2013-02-25 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, It is coming up to Ubuntu Global Jam season again, this is a bit of a unified effort from the Local community teams around the world to do some more concentrated activities around making Ubuntu better, promoting Ubuntu, or learning more about Ubuntu. The notional date for it is this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Globally Jamming

2013-02-25 Thread Alan Bell
yes we do, Laura Czajkowski is organising it Alan. On 25/02/13 19:18, Tony Scott wrote: Hi everyone Do we know who is actually organising the hackntalk events? Unless I'm missing something, I can't find any names at http://hackntalk.eventbrite.com/ https://twitter.com/hackntalk or

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Fsuk-manchester] Any folks in Manchester interested in participating in an Ubuntu Global Jam event if I were to organise one?

2013-02-19 Thread Alan Bell
excellent stuff Chris! On 19/02/13 14:35, Chris Wilson wrote: I'm pretty sure this will go ahead. Keep an eye on the Manchester Free Software and Ubuntu UK mailing lists for more info. Chris -- Libertus Solutions http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Windows 8 (a pox on it)

2013-02-18 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/02/13 17:43, Alan Pope wrote: On 15/02/13 17:40, Rowan Berkeley wrote: He says: Windows 8 hardware uses the UEFI replacement for the traditional BIOS, like Macs do. Some solid-state drive-equipped Windows 8 PCs boot so fast that you’d only have a 200 millisecond (that’s 0.2 seconds)

[ubuntu-uk] team meeting today in an hour or so

2013-02-16 Thread Alan Bell
I meant to send this email yesterday, but totally failed to do so, sorry about that. I figure it is time we go together for a bit of a chat about events and things we can do to promote Ubuntu in the UK. There is a global jam initiative coming up and we have a possible venue for a bit of a get

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu operating system comes to Android smartphones

2013-01-03 Thread Alan Bell
On 03/01/13 10:49, Simon Greenwood wrote: The concept for Ubuntu on Android is essentially an Android phone with an Ubuntu disk image stored on SD card/in memory that allows the phone to be used as a boot device for a PC based system. not really, it was demonstrated on a Motorola Atrix that had

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrade from 6.06LTS!

2012-11-27 Thread Alan Bell
On 27/11/12 15:49, Liam Proven wrote: FWIW, I think it is foolish and even suicidal of VMware to depend upon Windows for management, but what can you do... you can use KVM, it works great on the server side and there is a nice GUI client for the Linux desktop that allows you to see what your

[ubuntu-uk] meeting in 2 hours folks

2012-11-14 Thread Alan Bell
On 08/11/12 14:17, Alan Bell wrote: To talk of many things: of shoes and ships and Christmas parties and installfests and the suchlike as the poem goes, more or less. We have not really had a team meeting as such for the UK Local Community Team (that is you that is) for some time

Re: [ubuntu-uk] meeting in 2 hours folks

2012-11-14 Thread Alan Bell
starting now, do come and join us http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=#ubuntu-uk-meeting On 14/11/12 18:00, Alan Bell wrote: On 08/11/12 14:17, Alan Bell wrote: To talk of many things: of shoes and ships and Christmas parties and installfests and the suchlike as the poem goes, more or less

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Proposal for discussion

2012-11-12 Thread Alan Bell
On 12/11/12 11:55, Alan Pope wrote: I have added an item for discussion at the next Ubuntu UK meeting. I'm mailing the list so everyone is aware of the proposal and can have their 2p heard if they won't be at the meeting. I have proposed we reduce the number of online resources / services we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] My Unity

2012-11-08 Thread Alan Bell
On 08/11/12 10:33, scoundrel50agmail wrote: Hi Does anyone know if this is coming back to 12.10, I really liked that little app, if its not is there another app like it that I can use, that isnt compiz which every time I use I break something. Plus talking about compiz what happened to

[ubuntu-uk] The time has come, the Walrus said,

2012-11-08 Thread Alan Bell
To talk of many things: of shoes and ships and Christmas parties and installfests and the suchlike as the poem goes, more or less. We have not really had a team meeting as such for the UK Local Community Team (that is you that is) for some time, and it is approaching Christmas, we have had

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10.04 Live CD in Newhaven?

2012-11-05 Thread Alan Bell
On 04/11/12 21:59, Colin Law wrote: I don't suppose there is anyone in Newhaven (East Sussex) with a 10.04 Desktop Live CD is there? My daughter's PC won't boot and her install CD is faulty so she is a bit stuck. I am 250 miles away so it is a bit difficult for me to help if it won't even

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Raring Ringtail .....

2012-11-05 Thread Alan Bell
why would you say that? I never tested alphas and betas before, they came out on days I had other stuff to do, so I always grabbed the daily iso for installation tests because I didn't want to be reporting bugs that had already been fixed. I guess you could call them daily betas and everyone

[ubuntu-uk] Follow along with UDS

2012-10-31 Thread Alan Bell
I know a bunch of you are either at the Ubuntu Developer Summit or following the sessions remotely via audio and IRC, but there are also live video streams from the rooms which you can find here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXmPMPbXeA1gKZdcokgXF3w you will need the daily schedule to work

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing post

2012-10-26 Thread Alan Bell
On 26/10/12 13:21, Gareth France wrote: I posted on here last night about a problem I'm having but it hasn't shown up. Are we not allowed to attach photos to the email or something? Stuff over 40k gets held for moderation, I released it this morning. (it was 65k or so I think) When a 40k

[ubuntu-uk] Free Ubuntu DVDs

2012-10-26 Thread Alan Bell
Our team allocation of Ubuntu Desktop 12.10 DVDs and Ubuntu Server CDs have arrived and you are entirely welcome to have one, just send me an SAE: http://ubuntu-uk.org/free-cds/ or figure out some alternative way to get them from me, you can visit us in Farnham (free cup of coffee included

[ubuntu-uk] Free 12.10 DVDs available to pre-order

2012-10-11 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, I ordered our team allocation of DVDs and CDs today, it will be 250 DVDs of the desktop distribution and 50CDs of Ubuntu Server. Here is the procedure for getting hold of a rather nice pre-printed pressed DVD of Ubuntu: http://ubuntu-uk.org/free-cds/ I still have some 12.04 CDs so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Poor performance with Ubuntu on my laptop

2012-10-04 Thread Alan Bell
Bring it along to the release party on the 18th and we can have a poke at it. I would try Quantal 64bit on it personally, There have been quite a lot of performance improvements and things have been largely unbroken with Unity in general. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] The Quantal Quetzal takes flight - the London release party for Ubuntu 12.10

2012-10-03 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, after a bit of to-ing and fro-ing we have settled on a venue for the London release party for 12.10, it will be at the George Inn, London's last galleried coaching in, as visited by Charles Dickens (dunno how exclusive that is, anyone know if he was into pub crawls?) The date will

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

2012-09-25 Thread Alan Bell
On 25/09/12 09:33, Juergen Schinker wrote: Why is there no full Transparancy about this -the more i dig the more comes out... J In a situation where there is no transparency then the more you dig nothing more comes out. What you are experiencing *is* transparency, where the more you dig

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ayatana / Lens searches for tokens only

2012-09-25 Thread Alan Bell
lenses listen to the seach query, they get a callback when it changes. They can then use what the user has typed in whatever way they want to get results. This means that one could be doing a substring search, others an exact match, others case insensitive etc. So if it isn't doing a very good

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ayatana / Lens searches for tokens only

2012-09-25 Thread Alan Bell
On 25/09/12 16:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: Related to that, the Lens searches seem to be based on tokens of entire words, not substrings. They are delimited by whitespace or changes in capitalisation. For instance, I have Handbrake installed. what is that then? trying to reproduce your issue but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 12.10: advertising lenses

2012-09-25 Thread Alan Bell
On 25/09/12 20:17, keith wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 01:18:41 +0100 J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] One solution is pretty straightforward: make online search features an option in the installer (same page as third-party codecs) with a link to the privacy policy etc. [/snip]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Searching on the Dash

2012-09-24 Thread Alan Bell
On 24/09/12 12:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Ubuntu 12.04 Am I correct in thinking that the Search function on the Dash should search all of the documents/applications on the machine, or does it only search the Recently Used lists? Because if it's the former, then it doesn't. Is there some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HTML images

2012-09-19 Thread Alan Bell
On 19/09/12 14:40, John Davis wrote: Hi, I am a novice at web site design. I am designing a web site for my son's business. One page of index and 2 pages of photos. Portfolio pictures etc. I have done the first and second page, in Firefox they display perfectly but with explorer and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam and other Events

2012-08-17 Thread Alan Bell
On 16/08/12 23:06, Gary Cordery wrote: Not forgetting OggCamp this weekend!, are you planning another group photo like last year? I can't make this one, but someone should do a group photo certainly! Alan. -- I work at http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam and other Events

2012-08-17 Thread Alan Bell
here is the link to the details of the Farnham event http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1906/detail/ Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Global Jam and other Events

2012-08-16 Thread Alan Bell
We have a number of excuses coming up to go out and have fun together, and I think we should grab all of these chances with all the hands we can muster 6th-9th September Ubuntu Global Jam https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuGlobalJam This is a few days set aside for activities to improve Ubuntu, we

[ubuntu-uk] BBQ on Saturday

2012-07-24 Thread Alan Bell
Summer is kind of here, right on schedule for the BBQ this Saturday http://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/gu9 http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/ubuntu-uk/1824/detail/ Please do email me off-list for the exact address if you don't know it, if you are arriving by train let me know what one and it is likely

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Meeting

2012-07-23 Thread Alan Bell
On 22/07/12 09:11, Simon Watson wrote: How about Brighton? I've been banging on about trying to arrange one for ages. I have a couple of different venues in mind, both a short walk from Brighton station - would just need to gain some consensus on a date? How about Thursday 13th of September?

[ubuntu-uk] Team Meeting

2012-07-21 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, Our regular team meetings kind of fizzled out a bit earlier in the year, lets restart them. I have scheduled a meeting for Saturday 4th August at 6PM. The meeting will be in the #ubuntu-uk-meeting channel on freenode, and we might just set up a parallel Google Hangout or something

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-12 Thread Alan Bell
On 12/07/12 14:40, Liam Proven wrote: I do rather feel I am being criticised for something I tried hard to avoid doing here. do try that little bit harder next time please. Just to reinforce what Laura and Sarah have already pointed out, it was not an appropriate comment to make. Lets move on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-12 Thread Alan Bell
On 09/07/12 22:09, Barry Drake wrote: I would feel a bit more encouraged if Canonical were to put a tiny bit of effort into raising the profile. The time is ripe as you say, Alan. Look at the really annoying adverts that Microsoft put on the Linux Mag e-pages. A similar effort from

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum outing

2012-07-09 Thread Alan Bell
On 07/07/12 21:25, Bruno Girin wrote: On 20/06/12 23:43, Bruno Girin wrote: Hi all, Anybody fancy a geeky museum outing one weekend to go see the Codebreaker exhibition at the Science Museum? http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx Right, so would Saturday 28th be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Android

2012-07-06 Thread Alan Bell
This will only really happen if Canonical and an OEM get together and put it on a phone, I don't think it will technically run on anything except that phone it was demoed on because it needs hardware virtualisation or something. I think it is a compelling product for an OEM because it answers

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu in india

2012-06-22 Thread Alan Bell
tried clicking through to purchase any of those? On 22/06/12 09:16, Alan Pope wrote: Not true. They still sell Ubuntu laptops. I did a search just yesterday and found about 10 of their models where Ubuntu was an install option.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum outing

2012-06-22 Thread Alan Bell
On 20/06/12 23:43, Bruno Girin wrote: Hi all, Anybody fancy a geeky museum outing one weekend to go see the Codebreaker exhibition at the Science Museum? http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/visitmuseum/galleries/turing.aspx Bruno I would be up for that, sounds fun! Alan. -- Libertus

[ubuntu-uk] Summer BBQ

2012-06-18 Thread Alan Bell
After the rain stops and before the snow starts I am confident that this years English Summer will happen. My prediction is that it will occur on 28th July and so to take advantage of this window of opportunity I am proposing to fire up the barbecue and invite you all round to my house for an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] virtualbox problems

2012-06-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/06/12 12:23, Liam Proven wrote: On 15 June 2012 07:23, richardlongforth1...@gmail.com wrote: can i install win 7 on virtualbox from an oem install disc? I got the to try linux and thought she could have windows in a virtual machine, but i think we might have got the wrong sort of disc.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

2012-06-08 Thread Alan Bell
On 02/06/12 14:06, Nigel Verity wrote: Hi All If anybody can get a key from Verisign for $99 that makes a mockery of having secure boot in the first place. no, that isn't how it works at all. It is possible for some people to get a binary signed by Microsoft by paying $99 which goes to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

2012-06-08 Thread Alan Bell
On 08/06/12 14:41, Dave Morley wrote: But only devices Running Windows, those running android linux etc by default would have the switch disabled they might do, or might have a Googley Android key. Come to that, there could be ARM devices with a Canonical key that can only ever run signed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thunderbird fonts

2012-06-06 Thread Alan Bell
On 06/06/12 07:08, Norman Silverstone wrote: That's great with messages received, is it supposed to work with a message being written? Norman works with both for me Alan. -- I work at http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] thunderbird fonts

2012-06-05 Thread Alan Bell
On 05/06/12 20:17, Norman Silverstone wrote: snip lots of stuff mostly not really about font sizes hold ctrl, twiddle with your mouse wheel. Alan. -- I work at http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Branded Ubuntu Disks

2012-06-04 Thread Alan Bell
On 04/06/12 09:46, paul sutton wrote: For a few £UK you can send a bigish stack of cd's in fact for the cost of a 2nd class stamp you can get a few too. I am sure the weight for 1st and 2nd was at one time up to 100g, Paul no, there is a size restriction too, you must use 2nd large for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] heads up - Secure Boot Problems for Linux Users Are Here Already

2012-06-02 Thread Alan Bell
On 02/06/12 14:26, Andres Muniz wrote: I'm getting a bit confused now. http://mjg59.dreamwidth.org/12368.html Everybody seems Does the fedora payment of $99 to verisign mean that the computer that could or could not have windows preinstalled will alow to install fedora and windows but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Heads up: Fedora pays Microsoft

2012-06-01 Thread Alan Bell
it will eventually affect everything on a new motherboard, including bare bones computers, system76 computers, the lot. Ubuntu can either also go with Microsoft as the gatekeeper and pay the $99 (which is trivial and in any event goes to verisign (which Mark Shuttleworth may or may not have an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Update Manager not informing Me of LTS upgrade

2012-05-04 Thread Alan Bell
On 04/05/12 19:59, Dave Morley wrote: You can do update-manager -d However I would wait till there is a clear upgrade path, or do a fresh install to get around it. um, do be careful not to accidentally overshoot and upgrade to Quantal Quetzal! upgrade-manager -d will show releases in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Duplicate sources list

2012-05-01 Thread Alan Bell
On 01/05/12 09:54, scoundrel50a wrote: Hi, have I been put on moderator approval? Just tried to send a message with an attachment to show you what I have in the software sources and got a message back saying the message is awaiting moderator approval no, but there is a size limit, please

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Duplicate sources list

2012-05-01 Thread Alan Bell
because I am nice, here it is: http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/screenshots/Screenshot%20from%202012-05-01%2009:46:55.png medibuntu has broken stuff in the past, not sure if that relates to your current issue. Alan. -- I work at http://libertus.co.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-30 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 22:54, alan c wrote: On 29/04/12 21:04, Alan Bell wrote: it says do you want to upgrade? and you can say yes or no to it. Clearly yes is the preferred option, but why shouldn't we encourage people to upgrade to new cool stuff that will make their experience better (which is the aim

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 - catering tor nontechnical users

2012-04-30 Thread Alan Bell
On 30/04/12 12:20, a...@acockell.eclipse.co.uk wrote: Hi folks, Looking at those screenshots, there is one GLARING omission... the default radio button is YES - I do want to upgrade. With the risk for non-technical users, surely this should have the default radio button (which actions when

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How have I killed my system?

2012-04-30 Thread Alan Bell
On 30/04/12 22:49, Gareth France wrote: On 30/04/12 22:44, Tony Pursell wrote: apt-cache search sense* Ok, now I'm really confused. That brought up damn near every package in the cache! Nothing looked promising but doing the same for scratch brought up: squeak-plugins-scratch and a few

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 24/04/12 23:12, Bruno Girin wrote: On 24/04/12 23:04, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: El jue, 19-04-2012 a las 12:00 +, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com escribió: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 12:30, scoundrel50a wrote: Is there anyway I can reinstall/repair using terminal, so that I dont loose all the folders I have on the laptop? Rather than go through loads of questions..might be easier. one thing you could consider is a reinstall without formatting the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today where exactly? as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an upgrade. This is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broke my 112.04 installation

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 18:53, scoundrel50a wrote: Hi, thanks for the reply, I am not sure what happened really, all I know is that I get that error I posted about earlier in another e-mail after getting past the grub..and it just hangscan I reinstall without formatting using the Terminal?

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 20:11, Bruno Girin wrote: I did. On two machines with no problem. I don't think upgrading to 12.04 is disastrous. I think two things are happening: 1. Ubuntu has a very wide user base with a lot of different configs so even if 1% of users have issues, it will appear as a very large

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-29 Thread Alan Bell
On 29/04/12 20:54, alan c wrote: On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today as the questions were overwhelming the regular folk so I took a few on board. There are a vast number of folk who have virtually trashed their system by trying to do an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gcompris and Unity

2012-04-22 Thread Alan Bell
On 22/04/12 08:51, Andres Muniz wrote: For some time i was using gcompris erase program (with my toddler most of the tome). Consists of moving a sponge that erases white squares that are overlayed an image. With unity these squares never quite removed leaving some leftovers. Today i moved

[ubuntu-uk] Code of Conduct changes

2012-04-18 Thread Alan Bell
The Ubuntu Code of Conduct is one of the founding principles of the project, you can read it in full here: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/conduct There is also a leadership code of conduct which is here: http://www.ubuntu.com/project/about-ubuntu/leadership-conduct These are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 CD pre-orders

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 14/04/12 16:31, Bill Baker wrote: Alan, would it be accwptable to ask for one purely on the basis that when saying you really ought to try this to those I'm trying to convert - it is more convincing / professional to show a cd from a professonal covered CD wrapper? After all - many years

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Update 2012- Re: Fwd: [Ossg-announcements] Adoption of Open Source across HM Government – London 22/02/11 and 01/03/11]]

2012-04-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 14/04/12 16:13, Norman Silverstone wrote: big snip Update 2012: Proprietary lobby triumphs in first open standards showdown http://www.computerweekly.com/blogs/public-sector/2012/04/proprietary-lobby-triumphs-in.html -- Is this not yet another example of the ineptness of the present

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Youtube colour is wrong

2012-04-12 Thread Alan Bell
On 12/04/12 11:51, Liam Proven wrote: Thanks for this! I've had exactly the same problem but weirdly only YT was affected - all other video-streaming sites were OK. The Flash settings dialog was unresponsive for me, but accessing it in fullscreen mode worked. Which reminds me - does anyone

[ubuntu-uk] 12.04 CD pre-orders

2012-04-10 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, I am now accepting pre-orders for CDs of the Ubuntu 12.04 release. Please email me off-list for the address to send your stamped addressed envelope and I will put these to one side and send out CDs as soon as I get them. CDs are free, you just pay for postage both ways (two second

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 CD pre-orders

2012-04-10 Thread Alan Bell
On 10/04/12 10:46, James Thomas wrote: Are there going to be any knocking around at the Release Party? Cheers JT not official printed ones, the final image that gets pressed is only ready on release day, they then get manufactured, normally in Holland and shipped over. Alan. -- Libertus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Worrying article

2012-04-09 Thread Alan Bell
On 09/04/12 09:24, Bill Baker wrote: This has appeared on Linux Today site: Should you be worried about Ubuntu Desktop's privacy settings? LinuxBSDos: I hope that I am wrong, but your new Ubuntu system could be used to spy on you.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Worrying article

2012-04-09 Thread Alan Bell
On 09/04/12 11:20, Steve wrote: The problem is not with the journalist but, Ubuntu. The explanations as to what is going on with these settings can best be described as vague. Until Alan's explanation I wasn't sure what they're for. I've submitted a bug #977106 to LP if people would like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reading meetup tomorrow evening

2012-03-28 Thread Alan Bell
On 28/03/12 18:05, Matthew Daubney wrote: Who'll be along? I should be there for a bit, but might have to vanish to collect the missus from some work do, but am looking forward to seeing people again! -Matt Daubney I am going to try to arrange things to get there, my travel plans may be a bit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Precise Pangolin Release Party - London, 26th April

2012-03-28 Thread Alan Bell
On 28/03/12 19:13, Andres Muniz wrote: Paid for snacks and drinks? Really? yes, but I have no idea how much will be provided If we don't make it by 18:30hrs would we still be able to join? of course -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

[ubuntu-uk] Precise Pangolin Release Party - London, 26th April

2012-03-27 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, I am very pleased to announce that we are joining forces with Canonical for the Ubuntu 12.04 release party! * Venue: Bar Soho (http://www.barsoho.co.uk/) * Date Time: 26 April, from 6.30pm * Drinks and light snacks will be provided For more information and to confirm your

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....

2012-03-25 Thread Alan Bell
On 25/03/12 10:48, scoundrel50a wrote: I am glad that he has been helpful to you, but this thread has shown a different side, one that says, if you dont like it go elsewhere, is that helpful, that is effectively telling people he has no time for them, that isnt consistent.if he keeps

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....

2012-03-25 Thread Alan Bell
On 23/03/12 21:06, Daniel Case wrote: I'm not saying don't evolve, just evolve in a way that most users agree is a good idea, so how do we define what most users want? Perhaps by doing rather a lot of user testing http://davidplanella.wordpress.com/2011/08/02/looking-for-testers-in-london/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Unity launcher ....

2012-03-23 Thread Alan Bell
On 23/03/12 20:16, Hakan Koseoglu wrote: soap box Treating users as idiots is not a policy, it's a mistake. As soon as I find a distribution worth installing everywhere, I'll be switching. Mint doesn't cut the mustard. I'm a Kubuntu/Lubuntu user on desktop and Ubuntu server but I don't want to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [UKUUG-Announce] OSSG HMG Desktop Event

2012-03-22 Thread Alan Bell
really interesting sounding event at the BCS in London coming up for those interested in public sector use of Free Software. Steve Lamb from Microsoft is actually a nice chap, and there are speakers from the Free Software Foundation, Canonical and Red Hat On 22/03/12 10:36, Jane Morrison

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