Re: [ubuntu-uk] Looking for old computers

2015-06-12 Thread Bruno Girin
On 12 June 2015 at 15:55, Stuart Ward stuart.w...@bcs.org wrote: On 12 June 2015 at 08:29, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: ideally though I'd like to find something at the extreme bottom range of what is still usable. I know slitaz will run on a 486 very quickly and it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] I love Linux

2015-05-19 Thread Bruno Girin
On 19 May 2015 at 08:06, Ramu Iyer ramu.ti...@gmail.com wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/10/20/microsoft_cloud_event/?mt=1430675660394 During the business work day, I am on a Windows machine since it is a corporate policy. That said, I sense that change is in the air since there is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Further Ubuntu phone observations

2015-03-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On 25 March 2015 at 12:54, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: Thanks for that Alan, worked a treat! I'm very glad to see that all the issues I have experienced seem to already be listed. Roll on next update! On 25/03/15 10:51, Alan Bell wrote: you will need to be a member

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

2015-03-06 Thread Bruno Girin
On 6 March 2015 at 09:26, Dave Morley davm...@davmor2.co.uk wrote: On Fri, 6 Mar 2015 09:18:17 + Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 6 March 2015 at 09:10, Gordon Burgess-Parker gordonbp@owncube.email wrote: Hi all, Just trying to get a straw poll of what phones people use here

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Convergence video

2015-02-27 Thread Bruno Girin
On 27 February 2015 at 13:08, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Hi all, I thought some might find this video interesting. It was made by the Ubuntu Desktop Engineering Manager Will Cooke, to demo some of the current convergence ideas we're working on. It might make some things make sense that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

2014-12-04 Thread Bruno Girin
On 4 December 2014 at 13:57, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: a) Do you agree? Yes. b) What shall we do about it? Now, that's the difficult question :-) Whatever we do, we need to make sure it involves places other than London. We've had a tendency in the past to do stuff in London

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reverse engineering data files

2014-11-23 Thread Bruno Girin
On 23 November 2014 at 00:26, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I have already been peeking in hex editors. I have picked out 80% of the data and been able to read it into perl (since posting this). However I have noticed some characters which appear to act as boundries

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Reverse engineering data files

2014-11-22 Thread Bruno Girin
On 22 November 2014 at 22:12, Gareth France gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk wrote: I am a PAT tester and have found over my time in the role that the software is a total rip off! If you purchase a digital camera, scanner, webcam or anything else that interfaces with a PC you get the software to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Utopic Release Party London

2014-10-23 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi Matty, I just changed myself to a maybe as it's been a long day and it's not finished yet so I'm not sure I will make it. If not, have a beer or 2 for me! Cheers, Bruno On 23 October 2014 10:09, Matthew Ames m...@supermatt.net wrote: Final reminder that there's a release party tonight.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On 4 October 2014 18:46, Barry Drake ubuntu-advertis...@gmx.com wrote: Thanks. That seems very good. I'm tempted. I gather there are no compatibility problems at all? Did you take a backup of Windows in case it had to go back under warranty? I've had IBM/Lenovo Thinkpads for the last 10

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New netbook?

2014-10-04 Thread Bruno Girin
[...] as I really love Unity (Barry puts on hard hat and ducks). I agree, I love Unity too! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

2014-09-17 Thread Bruno Girin
On 17 September 2014 20:47, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: Not helpful for solving the immediate problem I know, but for the future the issue would be easy to solve if you kept a master copy of your source in a version control system such as git. Then if the site becomes

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Automating find and replace

2014-09-16 Thread Bruno Girin
Assuming the offending line is always the same, here's what I would do: Create a file called evil-hack where you copy the offending line, then run a script like this: find . -name *.php -print | while read f; do cp $f $f.hacked grep -f evil-hack -F -v $f.hacked $f done So to unpack those

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Utopic Release Party London

2014-09-15 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi Matty, The second link gives a 404 but I'd definitely be up for a drink in North London on the 23rd. Cheers, Bruno On 15 September 2014 09:02, Matthew Ames m...@supermatt.net wrote: Hi Guys, I was thinking about the Utopic Release party for the 23rd of October and I found a couple of

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Alphabetise != en_GB

2014-07-30 Thread Bruno Girin
On 30 July 2014 18:51, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: On 30 July 2014 18:11, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 30/07/14 17:49, Dave Morley wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2014 17:41:21 +0100 Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Alphabetise Desktop Icons... OED says yes :)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Color. Labor. Aluminum.

2014-07-09 Thread Bruno Girin
It'd be a bit easier if Launchpad didn't crash on me once I'm logged in :-( On the bright side, I see that Breton is first: my Celtic fellow countrymen have been busy! On 9 July 2014 17:40, Anthony Harrington untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: On 09/07/14 17:28, Alan Pope wrote: Hey

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Removing Unknown Display in 14.04

2014-07-01 Thread Bruno Girin
On 1 July 2014 09:50, Adam Funk a24...@ducksburg.com wrote: On 2014-06-30, Colin Law wrote: On 30 June 2014 21:07, Gordon Burgess-Parker gor...@gbpcomputing.co.uk wrote: Is there any way of permanently removing the unknown display? I've turned it off but it still is sitting there

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Single website issue

2014-05-23 Thread Bruno Girin
On 23 May 2014 09:12, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 23/05/14 08:35, Alan Lord wrote: On 23/05/14 08:07, Gareth France wrote: I was wondering if anyone had any idea why suddenly for no apparent reason the TSB website refuses to load in Chromium? Firefox loads it fine but

[ubuntu-uk] Free software pact for European elections

2014-05-03 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, I thought people on this list would be interested: there is a free software pact that candidates to the European elections can sign. It also comes with a usage declaration for citizens who use free software to show how important it is for the rest of us. If you're interested, details are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google fu - like kung-fu, but with search :)

2014-04-29 Thread Bruno Girin
The syntax to ask Google to find pages that link to a particular place is link:destination and to find pages on a particular site is site:site. So I believe that to find all links to ubuntuone.com on ubuntu.com, you'd put this into Google: link:ubuntuone.com site:ubuntu.com More details here:

[ubuntu-uk] Beer startup (off topic)

2014-04-29 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, It's off-topic but past experience suggests people on this list may be interested. A contact of mine is setting up a start-up company to do with craft brewing based in London and they are looking for a CTO / technical director. You don't necessarily have to be based in London though.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Beer startup (off topic)

2014-04-29 Thread Bruno Girin
Yes. On 29 April 2014 22:02, Mark White markwh...@mdpuk.com wrote: Job ? On 29 Apr 2014 21:47, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all, It's off-topic but past experience suggests people on this list may be interested. A contact of mine is setting up a start-up company to do

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 14.10 code name

2014-04-23 Thread Bruno Girin
The adjective may be the difficult part. Unreliable Unicorn doesn't sound too good. On 23 April 2014 16:22, Philip Stubbs phi...@stuphi.co.uk wrote: Just started typing Animals begining... and Google's second suggested completion was with u. I guess there are a few people trying to second

[ubuntu-uk] First impressions on Trusty

2014-04-22 Thread Bruno Girin
So at last I took advantage of the Easter weekend to upgrade my main production laptop to Trusty (all the way from Raring) and my first impressions are: 1. Wow it's fast! 2. Erm, battery life is OK but not quite as good as before. Am I the exception or are others finding the same? Cheers, Bruno

Re: [ubuntu-uk] First impressions on Trusty

2014-04-22 Thread Bruno Girin
On 22 April 2014 21:40, Colin Law clan...@gmail.com wrote: I upgraded from 13.10. 14.04 is as bad as 13.10, that is it is very slow starting up. Especially, after logging in it spends time before you get the screen back. Very reminiscent of the way Windows works. This started with

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Parties..

2014-04-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On 2 April 2014 14:33, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: Sound like a plan? Definitely! Count me in and I'm happy to come to the Canonical offices. That'll be a good start to the Easter weekend :-) Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Real Ale Train 2014

2014-03-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On 5 March 2014 11:47, Iain Cuthbertson iain.cuthbert...@idophp.co.ukwrote: Hi folks, 2012 and 2013 saw great turnouts with much fun, drink and Cards Against Humanity (thanks popey). Now that we have xmas well and truly out of the way, I thought it might be time to start organising a RAT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Printing a photo album without SAAS

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Girin
On 7 November 2013 10:22, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 7 November 2013 07:39, Andres a75...@alumni.tecnun.es wrote: Hello, I was thinking of doing a photo album and then having it printed at my local reprographics shop. All of it avoiding SAAS and using free libre open

[ubuntu-uk] Python / django dev for REST API prototype

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, This is slightly off-topic but I thought people on this list would be the right audience. My company, EnergyDeck [1], just got granted an innovation voucher from the TSB [2] which means I have a small budget to do something innovative under the following conditions: - I need to do this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 1000 commands

2013-11-07 Thread Bruno Girin
On 7 November 2013 16:50, Stuart Ward stuart.w...@bcs.org wrote: On 7 November 2013 10:40, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: awk '{print $1}' ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head ~$ awk '{print $1}' ~/.bash_history | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn | head 75 git 74 cd

[ubuntu-uk] Open source your shop

2013-10-23 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, This is slightly off topic but the guys over at OpenERP have just started an IndieGogo campaign to bring an open source POS to market. This is cool so if you want to contribute, head over there: http://www.indiegogo.com/projects/opensource-your-shop Cheers, Bruno --

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

2013-10-17 Thread Bruno Girin
On 16 October 2013 11:43, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote: Just a reminder, the release date and party is tomorrow night, at the Lord Nelson Yep, got there, met Al who was on his way out. For some reason, that was the point when people started arriving. Got told off for not wearing an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Do you know this ISP?

2013-10-14 Thread Bruno Girin
On 14 October 2013 22:21, Andrés Muñiz Piniella andre...@gmail.com wrote: https://www.ukfsn.org/home.html Are they legit? Yes they are legit. I use them for some email and web hosting. Bear in mind that they are a small company so don't have a 24x7 helpdesk. On the other hand they are

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

2013-09-22 Thread Bruno Girin
On 21 September 2013 10:37, J Fernyhough j.fernyho...@gmail.com wrote: Telephonic Triggerfish Toothy Tigershark. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

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

2013-09-20 Thread Bruno Girin
On 20 September 2013 18:11, SuperEngineer boo...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, 2013-09-20 at 18:01 +0100, 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 release

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Not everyone is an expert!

2013-08-26 Thread Bruno Girin
On 22 August 2013 21:04, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.eswrote: you? Colin High Wycombe, South Bucks. There are meetings in Reading, Oxford, Milton Keynes but nothing I would consider local. OK, no good me applying to join from 150 miles away then :) Colin I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Inline posting

2013-07-27 Thread Bruno Girin
On 20 July 2013 07:36, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: On 20 Jul 2013, at 03:48, Steven Roberts cwmbranmathstu...@gmail.com wrote: So, has anyone else been too worried about using the wrong protocol on here? This issue is a hardy perennial. There seem to be two worlds: one that

[ubuntu-uk] Young Rewired State is in 1 week!

2013-07-27 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, Just a quick reminder that Young Rewired State Festival of Code start a week on Monday: https://youngrewiredstate.org/festival-of-code They are still accepting participants and could do with a few more mentors so if you know any 10-18 year olds who like technology and computers, get them

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Invalid open-id transaction

2013-07-18 Thread Bruno Girin
Possibly yes. On 7 July 2013 13:09, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.eswrote: El 06/07/2013 14:21, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com escribió: Single sign-on is the ability to use a single set of credentials to access multiple services. This works by having a single Identify

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Invalid open-id transaction

2013-07-06 Thread Bruno Girin
Single sign-on is the ability to use a single set of credentials to access multiple services. This works by having a single Identify Provider that hosts your credentials and a number of Service Providers that exchange encrypted messages with the Identity Provider in order to validate your identity

Re: [ubuntu-uk] advanced metering reader software (electricity)

2013-06-08 Thread Bruno Girin
On 14 May 2013 11:56, Muñiz Piniella, Andrés a75...@alumni.tecnun.eswrote: On May 14, 2013 8:43 AM, Gary Cordery tailze...@googlemail.com wrote: I use http://openenergymonitor.org/ and i am very pleased with it, features growing steadily with a nice community behind it, all open

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DSL provider (BT)

2013-05-08 Thread Bruno Girin
On 8 May 2013 10:26, alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: On 07/05/13 08:36, TT Mooney wrote: Hi all - I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now that Murdoch has laid his hands on it, I want to change provider. Does anyone have a recommendation? I used to have BT, and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] DSL provider

2013-05-07 Thread Bruno Girin
On 7 May 2013 08:36, TT Mooney ttmoo...@dilettantism.com wrote: Hi all - I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now that Murdoch has laid his hands on it, I want to change provider. Does anyone have a recommendation? I used to have BT, and they were mostly useless. There is

[ubuntu-uk] Extended Validation SSL cert provider

2013-04-10 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, I know it's a bit off-topic but I'm sure some of you have gone through this. I am looking at buying an Extended Validation SSL certificate and wondered if anybody had a CA and reseller that they would recommend. From a CA perspective I was considering GeoTrust as they are a lot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Life without unity

2013-04-06 Thread Bruno Girin
On Sat, 6 Apr, 2013 at 10:03 PM, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: On 06/04/13 21:49, J Fernyhough wrote: On 6 April 2013 21:11, Gareth France gareth.fra...@gmail.com wrote: So I wonder how many of those who slate unity simply haven't given it a chance Most of them. It's like

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Party for 13.04

2013-04-05 Thread Bruno Girin
Hurray \o/ On Fri, 5 Apr, 2013 at 6:43 PM, Alan Bell alanb...@ubuntu.com wrote: 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/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] User Testing

2013-03-18 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi Laura, I'd be happy to do some user testing, can be in SE1 either day and am rather flexible on time. Cheers, Bruno On 18/03/13 17:22, Laura Czajkowski wrote: Aloha folks Wondering if there are 4 people on here who would like to do some user testing in the Bluefinn in London where

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Globally Jamming

2013-02-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On 25/02/13 18:13, Alan Bell wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Another example of how the manufacturers conspire to ensure that if you don't use Windows you're screwed

2013-02-04 Thread Bruno Girin
On 04/02/13 13:21, Rowan Berkeley wrote: On 04/02/13 13:14, Kris Douglas wrote: What he meant was that there may be zip data inside. Rename the file yo something.zip and see if it opens in your Archive viewer. Ahem. OK. But anyway, to return to my original point and Alan's response to it,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On 3 February 2013 14:55, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote: On Feb 3, 2013 10:53 AM, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: On 3 February 2013 10:34, Byte Soup bytes...@gmail.com wrote: oops! I posted the wrong link, it was from a related link at the bottom of that page

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Websites and your PC hardware details

2013-02-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On 03/02/13 18:09, Simon Greenwood wrote: On 3 February 2013 16:00, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com mailto:brunogi...@gmail.com wrote: That makes sense in context - failed logins combined with the changed hardware would trigger an alert. From a service point of view it's very

Re: [ubuntu-uk] if this then that

2013-01-27 Thread Bruno Girin
On 27/01/13 17:02, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote: Hi all a bit of a conversation starter, I just visited https://ifttt.com/ [1]and it seems like a concept that has exsisted in linux distros for some time in. Or so I think: cronjobs or autokey [2]. I have used autokey in the past and found it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Screencast a presentation with Impress and webcam

2013-01-22 Thread Bruno Girin
On 22/01/13 17:17, James Morrissey wrote: Hi, I am trying to put together a presentation for a conference. The conference is in Australia and rather than flying there i am trying to make a video of my presentation, following which i will skype into the QA plenary. I had thought of simply

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

2013-01-06 Thread Bruno Girin
On 04/01/13 09:06, Alan Pope wrote: On 03/01/13 21:48, Bruno Girin wrote: Very interesting! It would be even better if Richard Collins didn't sound like a politician and actually answered the questions though. Harsh. Some questions are not easy to answer right now, a year before we predict

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

2013-01-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On 03/01/13 13:57, Alan Pope wrote: On 03/01/13 09:09, Andy Braben wrote: The Ubuntu operating system has been adapted to run on smartphones. Article at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-20891868 Here's an interview recorded a few minutes ago by Simon Phipps with the Product Manager

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Merry Christmas

2012-12-21 Thread Bruno Girin
On 21/12/12 15:35, Alan Lord wrote: Hope everyone has a nice break, whatever you get up to. See you in 2013. Merry Christmas Alan! And everybody else :-) See you in 2013. Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu and UEFI

2012-12-01 Thread Bruno Girin
On 29/11/12 22:52, alan c wrote: On 28/11/12 08:42, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Hi all, Thought this might be of interest! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9PyOYsQmetQ Very nice to see a 'properly implemented' machine. That particular one is a bit pricey for my target audience of potential

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

2012-11-27 Thread Bruno Girin
On 27/11/12 14:13, Paul Tansom wrote: I have a server (i.e. no desktop software, X, or etc. - not that this necessarily follows, but it does with me!)... ...anyway, this server is currently running Ubuntu 6.06LTS and I need to upgrade to 12.04LTS. Clearly I have two options, either upgrade

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Open source data meet-up, with beer, tomorrow

2012-11-26 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi Matthew, Thanks for the tip, I need to get to grips with Riak so I'll definitely be there! Cheers, Bruno On 26/11/12 15:08, Matthew Revell wrote: Hello! Tomorrow evening I'm organising a Riak meet-up at The New Moon on Gracechurch Street:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Landscape printing bug fix ...

2012-11-22 Thread Bruno Girin
On 22/11/12 14:01, Barry Drake wrote: On 22/11/12 13:43, Colin Law wrote: Is it supposed to be fixed? Can you give us a link to the bug? Colin My original bug report is at: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1040037 and from there it was reported upstream as:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Installing Ubuntu on a Nexus 7

2012-11-20 Thread Bruno Girin
On 20/11/12 11:04, Alan Pope wrote: On 20/11/12 10:46, javadayaz wrote: Has anyone installed Ubuntu on their N7? How is the end user experience? It works. There are bugs. The desktop isn't designed for end-users to use on a tablet (contrary to what many clueless Unity haters will tell you).

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Missing features in 12.10

2012-11-12 Thread Bruno Girin
On 12/11/12 12:22, keith wrote: On Mon, 2012-11-12 at 11:57 +, Gareth France wrote: Looks like gnome-nettool moved to universe, so that's why it's not installed by default. Dunno why it moved though, probably lack of upstream support? What search are you talking about? Cheers, I'm

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

2012-11-05 Thread Bruno Girin
On 05/11/12 15:42, A wrote: On 05/11/12 12:04, J Fernyhough wrote: On 5 November 2012 11:18, A untaintablean...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Does this not significantly reduce the opportunities for bug catching from the community? Only for ISO testing. I just reinstalled a minimal quantal, changed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Follow along with UDS

2012-10-31 Thread Bruno Girin
On 31/10/12 15:15, Alan Bell wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Joining wav files in ubuntu

2012-10-16 Thread Bruno Girin
On 16/10/12 10:14, James Morrissey wrote: I know you mentioned that you wanted a GUI, but that 'cat' (concatenate) command in the terminal is pretty straightforward to use - and very fast compared to anything else i have used with a GUI. I think its just: cat file1 file2 file3

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Additional Recruitment of Telford

2012-10-15 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi James, There are a couple of ways to do that, that I can think of: You could send an email to this mailing list with details. However, be aware that this list will actually send your email to a large number of people so it is better to send a concise email with a good subject line (so that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] scanner

2012-10-01 Thread Bruno Girin
On 01/10/12 12:16, George MacLeod wrote: On 1 October 2012 11:41, David Goldsbrough da...@boavon.plus.com mailto:da...@boavon.plus.com wrote: I have recently purchased a Canon Pixma MG5350 wireless all-in-one printer/scanner/copier. It has been set-up without the aid of any

Re: [ubuntu-uk] new Laptop

2012-09-28 Thread Bruno Girin
On 28/09/12 09:34, Alan Lord wrote: On 27/09/12 19:22, Simon Redmond wrote: looking at a new laptop that's a pretty nice deal, it has an Intel HD 3000/4000 video card as standard and I was wondering what the support was like under Ubuntu? FWIW I just upgraded my kids' PC with a new mobo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] On the subject of the dash my 2p worth

2012-09-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On 25/09/12 15:26, Bill B. wrote: Hi folks, I am curious as to why there is all this fuss about a not-yet-fully-released dash and how it has distracted all attention away from the dash's real problems. As an example I would cite the failure of the apps lens to properly show required

Re: [ubuntu-uk] On the subject of the dash my 2p worth

2012-09-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On 25/09/12 15:26, Bill B. wrote: Hi folks, I am curious as to why there is all this fuss about a not-yet-fully-released dash and how it has distracted all attention away from the dash's real problems. As an example I would cite the failure of the apps lens to properly show required

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

2012-09-25 Thread Bruno Girin
Having said this, handb and handbrake should work. In which case, this sounds like a defect against unity-lens-applications should be raised. On 25/09/12 17:44, Alan Bell wrote: lenses listen to the seach query, they get a callback when it changes. They can then use what the user has typed in

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

2012-09-25 Thread Bruno Girin
On 25/09/12 17:56, Alan Bell wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

2012-09-22 Thread Bruno Girin
On 17/09/12 09:01, Alan Lord (Gmail) wrote: On 17/09/12 00:15, Bruno Girin wrote: * Scratch: slightly upset about this one, same issue as EToys. Hi Bruno, My kids have scratch installed on their machine: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux Debian / Ubuntu Package You can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

2012-09-17 Thread Bruno Girin
On 17/09/12 09:01, Alan Lord (Gmail) wrote: On 17/09/12 00:15, Bruno Girin wrote: * Scratch: slightly upset about this one, same issue as EToys. Hi Bruno, My kids have scratch installed on their machine: http://info.scratch.mit.edu/Scratch_on_Linux Debian / Ubuntu Package You can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

2012-09-16 Thread Bruno Girin
-tux-racer-from-changing-my-desktop-resolution [2] http://www.kidsruby.com/ [3] http://www.alice.org/ Cheers, Bruno On 26/08/12 17:28, Bruno Girin wrote: Hi all, 18 months ago, I installed Ubuntu on a netbook for a friend's daughter. Now that she's nearly 6, she still loves the netbook and wants

[ubuntu-uk] UDS-R

2012-09-10 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, I'm going to UDS-R in Copenhagen. Who else is going? Come on, you know you want to! [1] http://www.visitcopenhagen.com/eat-and-drink/bars [2] http://www.visitcopenhagen.com/see-and-do/top-attractions Cheers, Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UDS-R

2012-09-10 Thread Bruno Girin
On 10/09/12 16:26, Alan Pope wrote: On 10/09/12 15:48, Bruno Girin wrote: I'm going to UDS-R in Copenhagen. Who else is going? Come on, you know you want to! I'll be there. I suspected you would :-) Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

2012-08-31 Thread Bruno Girin
On 27 August 2012 17:34, pete smout psmo...@live.com wrote: On 26/08/12 18:17, paul sutton wrote: [snip] Hi, On the subject of programmers how about 'KTurtle' or Squeak programming for kids, get 'em started young..I wish I had! I tried KTurtle and I prefer TurtleArt as it's more

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

2012-08-31 Thread Bruno Girin
On 27 August 2012 20:47, Andres Muniz andre...@gmail.com wrote: - Original message - On 26/08/12 17:28, Bruno Girin wrote: I was planning to upgrade to 12.04 and install Scratch and TurtleArt. Other than that, I would welcome any suggestion of fun software for a 6 year old

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

2012-08-31 Thread Bruno Girin
On 31 August 2012 10:30, Mike Carter m...@tyncan.com wrote: There is a great online set of fun things to do developed by some French programers. Try http://www.poissonrouge.com/ Good idea, I'll add a link to that, thanks! Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Software for a 6 year old

2012-08-26 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, 18 months ago, I installed Ubuntu on a netbook for a friend's daughter. Now that she's nearly 6, she still loves the netbook and wants an upgrade with more interesting games on it. At the moment, the netbook is running 10.10 for netbooks (Unity interface) with gcompris, TuxMath,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBQ on Saturday

2012-07-24 Thread Bruno Girin
On 24/07/12 10:38, Alan Bell wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Team Meeting

2012-07-21 Thread Bruno Girin
On 21/07/12 13:51, Alan Bell wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu developer Was : Gaming on Ubuntu

2012-07-13 Thread Bruno Girin
On 12/07/12 17:24, paul sutton wrote: http://developer.ubuntu.com/ http://developer.ubuntu.com/showdown/ this is the kind of area where the effort is concentrated. Alan. OK i have changed the subject line for this 1. I will work on a basic poster / flyer for the trying to attract

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum outing

2012-07-11 Thread Bruno Girin
On 09/07/12 21:41, Alan Bell wrote: 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

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Museum outing

2012-06-21 Thread Bruno Girin
On 21/06/12 09:31, Matthew Daubney wrote: Ooooh! I'd be interested if you go after the 12th of next month :) I was thinking of Saturday 21/7 as I can't really do before that. Otherwise, next week (27/6) is a late night dedicated to Alan Turing but lates are adults only. Bruno --

[ubuntu-uk] Museum outing

2012-06-20 Thread Bruno Girin
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 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] phishing and LinkedIn

2012-06-07 Thread Bruno Girin
On 07/06/12 11:35, Joe wrote: I figure if they already have the hash it's theoretically only a matter of time before they crack it. Using it at least tells you if your password has been cracked (if it is honest about that) and so can help you to determine if there's a chance that someone

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

2012-06-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On 02/06/12 15:56, Alan Bell wrote: Could linux foundation do the same for the servers? beause they can be cracked in a similar way? servers generally won't get the secure boot thing. Odd really because it kind of makes more sense to me in that context. Probably because the biggest market

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

2012-06-03 Thread Bruno Girin
On 03/06/12 19:03, Andres Muniz wrote: thanks for the info guys! Got more than I need! I was a bit concernd that some servers were using arm as well. But clearly it will not be a problem. Well, until proved otherwise :-) Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-18 Thread Bruno Girin
On 17/05/12 00:17, Gareth France wrote: On 17/05/12 00:05, Bruno Girin wrote: On 16/05/12 06:52, Neil Greenwood wrote: I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Indeed. That hard disk currently has an unused pre-installed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-16 Thread Bruno Girin
On 16/05/12 06:52, Neil Greenwood wrote: I think he meant what is currently on the disk, since I don't remember Bruno complaining about precise much... Indeed. That hard disk currently has an unused pre-installed version of Windows Vista on it :-) -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Quantal ....

2012-05-15 Thread Bruno Girin
On 15/05/12 15:22, Barry Drake wrote: On 15/05/12 12:32, James Tait wrote: I *think* - based on the mail from Colin Watson [0] and a very quick query on IRC - that the big sync from Debian is still to happen due to hardware issues, which would account for the lack of significant change so

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Government Open Source Usage

2012-05-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On 02/05/12 18:21, Martin Houston wrote: Firstly sorry if people are already aware of this but it is important and urgent. This is something that you all need be aware of urgently: http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/04/26/open-standards-consultation- important-update/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On 02/05/12 08:29, Alan Lord (News) wrote: On 02/05/12 01:15, Alan Pope wrote: I had a chat with a couple of the developers today. It seems one of the big issues they have is that java doesn't export any information about the application running through X. So it doesn't let on what pid the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-02 Thread Bruno Girin
On 02/05/12 19:57, Paul Tansom wrote: ** James Morrissey morrissey.jam...@gmail.com [2012-05-02 15:09]: If it's not a silly question, what is Super-W supposed to do? It does nothing on my machine, although this may be because by running dual screens I seem to be forced into Unity 2D - some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Annoying stuff about Ubuntu Unity

2012-05-01 Thread Bruno Girin
On 01/05/12 15:29, Alan Lord (News) wrote: This *really* shouldn't be so hard! Well, Talend is based on Eclipse, which is a very complex Java app with all sorts of weird stuff going on. Last time I used Talend on Ubuntu, I had to compile a specific version of xulrunner from source. So you might

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

2012-04-30 Thread Bruno Girin
On 30/04/12 11:29, Colin Law wrote: On 30 April 2012 11:15, Andy Braben andybra...@gmail.com wrote: ... Backing up is important and vital at all times - not just for an upgrade. I do not have a lot of sympathy for users who never ever backup, and never enters their heads to do so. To me it is

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

2012-04-29 Thread Bruno Girin
On 29/04/12 19:37, Barry Drake wrote: On 29/04/12 18:58, Alan Bell wrote: On 29/04/12 18:55, Barry Drake wrote: I've spent quite a bit of time on Ubuntu Help today where exactly? Launchpad - at :https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu This is not somewhere I usually lurk but it was so

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

2012-04-29 Thread Bruno Girin
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

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