Re: [ubuntu-uk] MINT - was Distro hopping / Laptop running hot

2011-01-20 Thread Craig Peden
On 20 Jan 2011, at 21:08, Barry Drake wrote: On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 20:54 +, Colin Law wrote: Which one? linuxmint-10-gnome-dvd-amd64 Not sure whether this is Debian or Ubuntu based, but it's the only one I tried. Regards, Barry -- Barry Drake is a member of the the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Distro hopping / Laptop running hot

2011-01-20 Thread Craig Peden
On 20 Jan 2011, at 22:38, Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Anton Piatek an...@piatek.co.uk wrote: I thought the move to Debian was before unity etc. I also thought the motivation was to track Debian unstable and have continuous rolling updates. I really

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Loosy splah screen after update to 10.10

2010-11-12 Thread Craig Peden
Everyone has it. It is the newer graphical boot/shutdown stuff that I think it generated by Plymouth as opposed to the xsplash you will have been used to. You could install xsplash. - Craig On 12 Nov 2010, at 22:36, Pallottini Aymeric paillom...@yahoo.com wrote: I have got an Acer Revo, that I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISO Testing - Getting Started

2010-09-09 Thread Craig Peden
I'm interested to see if canonical have developed the global menu project any further. I know that chromium should not require it due to the wrench menu but there was numerous other programs and bugs that were incompatible with it. That is, if they are using the gnome2-globalmenu project. - Craig

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ISO Testing - Getting Started

2010-09-09 Thread Craig Peden
On 10 Sep 2010, at 00:10, John Stevenson j...@jr0cket.com wrote: On 9 September 2010 23:34, Craig Peden cpe...@cogigo.com wrote: I'm interested to see if canonical have developed the global menu project any further. I know that chromium should not require it due to the wrench menu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] (Marketing) Royal Society asks you - why IT is boring?

2010-08-26 Thread Craig Peden
server. This sense that what I am learning will be of little use to me in the actual industry of computing is a bit of a downer after watching this releases' UDS. I still make small programs for the fun of it :) - Craig On 26 Aug 2010, at 07:16, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: Personally, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Fwd: [ubuntu-marketing] Maverick Movies!

2010-08-20 Thread Craig Peden
These videos are a very good start, but if they were to be used they need to be edited to have a uniform style, slow everything down a bit so it can be read and using the same logo/logo sequence in each video IMO. An excellent start however. - Craig On 20 Aug 2010, at 14:00, michael ubu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Site Rebranding - Mockups

2010-06-03 Thread Craig Peden
We could easily use a JavaScript sildeshow to rotate images. Then everyone (Well, not everyone) will be happy. You could have a picture of London, Edinburgh, Cardiff and Belfast on rotation. I would reccomend http://smoothgallery.jondesign.net - Craig On 3 Jun 2010, at 13:44, Liam Proven lpro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Mozilla Site

2010-02-25 Thread Craig Peden
Mozilla.org working for me. On 25 Feb 2010, at 20:16, James Milligan wrote: Is it just me or is the Mozilla site down? They've just released an update for Thunderbird so I'm presuming they're overloaded? James -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] My Desktop's disappeared

2010-02-25 Thread Craig Peden
Ubuntu tweak is an application that allows you to tweak parts of Ubuntu. It is available here: http://ubuntu-tweak.com/ On 25 Feb 2010, at 20:39, Paul Sutton wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathon Fernyhough wrote: On 25 February 2010 19:19, Dianne Reuby

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Craig Peden
If you could get the ad posted on all major video uploading sites, and other media sharing sites as well as blogs and such. You could easily have yourself a relatively cheap ad campaign. On 1 Feb 2010, at 12:22, Liam Wilson wrote: Okay, I've been in touch with the marketing team, and they've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Lucid Lynx TV Advert

2010-02-01 Thread Craig Peden
Right, I think that someone needs to get down a list of places we can upload to. On 1 Feb 2010, at 21:53, Steve yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com wrote: On Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:41:01 -, Liam Wilson liamwilso...@gmail.com wrote: Indeed, that's what I think, the only cost would be putting the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release: Welsh Party - Starbucks, Cardiff CF10 2BJ until 7pm

2009-04-15 Thread Craig Lomax
If there is a leader it would be Chris since he's our current PoC (until we vote). We'll be wearing shirts with Ubuntu Guru printed on. Also I'll be wearing an Ubuntu lanyard so you can barely miss me. Not sure about a banner as of yet, I've done a few designs but we might not bother with one.

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

2008-08-14 Thread Craig
Hi all, Went away for a week in Yorkshire and was surprised to see this: http://www.ubuntu-trading.com/ . I think it's a quite appropriate name for fair trade coke! I obviously brought my bottle, but it wasn't free as I expected... Craig. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

2008-08-14 Thread Craig
. Is it threatening the Ubuntu name I wonder? When you say 'I use Ubuntu' will people say 'You mean you drink, not use.' Sorry about the flash link. It doesn't even need to be flash. A nice bit of javascript and CSS would do the trick... Craig. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Privacy award

2008-07-21 Thread Craig
are introduced restricting what people can do, it could already be out of hand. Then again, do we want those kind of laws? Sorry for the typing, spelling and general mistakes, Craig -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Privacy award

2008-07-19 Thread Craig
you really think they will do anything with our data? I am all for privacy with some things, but them knowing I searched for 'ubuntu' on a search engine makes no difference to me. In fact I fine it a nice touch they can recommend me searching 'spicebird'. Craig -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Privacy award

2008-07-19 Thread Craig
to be all over Google's back about privacy don't realise that useful search results and user knowledge are hand in hand. Google aren't the only ones too, I guess they just do more with it. As I say, I'll watch that link when I have time. Craig. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Shameful.

2008-07-16 Thread Craig
source and the least people currently using it. Link: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-9992379-16.html Craig. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Online banking

2008-06-05 Thread Craig
safari or firefox was mentioned. I can understand that they wouldn't support firefox 3 yet, I guess that is the downside of using software before it's officially released. Craig -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Firefox Download Day (Slightly OT)

2008-06-04 Thread Craig
... we can do better!  Thanks for this! This is a great idea, and a hopefully very successful way to promote open source world wide, even if the site is very American. Holland have almost as much as us. Shameful. Sent it to all my contacts though, hopefully world will catch on. Craig -- ubuntu

[ubuntu-uk] Is this news?

2008-05-23 Thread Craig
Not sure if this is common knowledge or not, just saw it and thought it interesting. Mark Shuttleworth's interview with the Guardian doesn't really say much as far as I could tell. http://news.cnet.com/8301-13580_3-9950552-39.html?part=rsssubj=newstag=2547-1_3-0-20 Craig -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any Xubuntu users?

2008-05-21 Thread Craig
to tell people about - who knows what people have in their attic dismissed as unusable. Even if you do have to have a book with you when using it for when it's sorting itself out (and at least it does sort itself out) it saved at least two of my laptops from the skip. Craig -- ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Graphics Card Problems

2008-04-20 Thread Craig
X is crashing. Take a look in (should be) /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old, hopefully it may give some error output. Put that file on pastebin or somewhere, and send us the link. Matthew http://pastebin.com/m170839ea - /var/log/Xorg.0.log.old directly after opening GE. It does seem to be

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Graphics Card Problems

2008-04-19 Thread Craig
Is it literally *snap*, back to the login screen every time you run a opengl-heavy program? Is there a bug report about this on launchpad? (If you don't know, say and I'll go looking for one...) Johnathon Overly detailed report: GE: o Open it o Splash screen appears o Orange screen o

[ubuntu-uk] Graphics Card Problems

2008-04-18 Thread Craig
Last Christmas, one of Santa's elves made a mistake. Instead of buying a Linux-ready graphics card to give to Craig Horner for Christmas, he brought him an ATI Radeon X1550, which so far, has been extremely annoying. I have managed to set it up so that it works as far as running Compiz using

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-04-04 Thread Craig
overheard and would love to go. If anyone can think of any ideas of how to make a talk about an operating system more entertaining, I'd love to hear them. Otherwise, please keep the great hints coming in. Thanks again, Craig. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Craig
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:11 +, Matt Jones wrote: Rob Beard wrote: The final thing I can think of is Moodle (which is included with Karoshi) which is a complete Virtual Learning Environment. It's free and runs on Ubuntu and most other flavours of Linux. I've had a bit of a play

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-25 Thread Craig
On Tue, 2008-03-25 at 20:00 +, Mac wrote: On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Craig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obviously this is still in early stages, I was just wondering if this is something that anyone would possibly be interested in doing so I could negotiate further