pretty much any cms system will achieve what you want.
I suggest looking at wordpress and then either drupal or joomla
On 30 August 2014 09:26, Gareth France wrote:
> On 30/08/14 09:18, Dave Rice wrote:
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> On 30 Aug 2014 09:12, "Gareth France" wrote:
> >
> > On 30/08/14 08:30, John Howe wr
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> > Well the main benefit of a web based UI is that you don't need all the
> > desktop GUI libraries on the server,
>
> >Yes, because HDD space is expensive these days!
My understanding is is not about space. Extra libraries means extra attack
vectors, extra things to update and to go wrong.
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>
>> This must be a pretty common problem - most schools, I imagine, want
> roughly the same bits and pieces on their site. Does there not already
> exist a plug-and-play school website where, as Wordpress is for blogs,
> they can just install it and get a quite agreeable website in about
> fifte
> Oh boy what a waste, why did they not use CSS nav buttons; look better, and
> work heaps better
>
>
> because they built it in frontpage
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> oddly a recent job gives me a pdf application form, i can either fill in
> and send off by post, or fill in and e-mail, only as its pdf it isn't
> editable unless i am missing something perhaps i should be using adobe pdf
> suite (or what ever its called) to fill the form in.
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you can set
the other question to ask is, is this the end of skype?
The already have text, voice and video available of MS Live Messenger
So why not just buy the company and tear it to bits?
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My doctor suggested I might use the computer less which was less then
helpful.
I then found these guys who were really helpful:
http://www.b-pro-active.com/
They bashed hell out of me over a few sessions with lots of deep tissue
massage. This really helped sort the main of the problem. They then
I'd wait a little bit if you can.
The Asus Eeepad range are going to hit the market soon and the new Samsung
pad all around the £300 - £350 mark for 10 inch versions
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Google earth used to be part of the medibuntu report. Is that not still the
case?
On Feb 20, 2011 5:31 PM, "Barry Drake" wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-02-20 at 17:08 +, J Fernyhough wrote:
>> https://help.ubuntu.com/community/GoogleEarth
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> Thanks. I missed that one. It would have worked for my siste
why not have a look around for an asset management system that's already
built? such as : http://www.ocsinventory-ng.org/
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I can't say i've used it but there is a package called likewise in the
Ubuntu repos that allows you to join an active directory domain. It might be
worth playing with this.
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Speaking as someone who works in a college IT department you
really shouldn't be doing this as you'll break the Terms of Use and you're
'free' period should be spent studying and not on facebook. Also this list
shouldn't really be helping hack a system.
Speaking as a realist look at eyeos and NX s
>
> Why not give your
> approx. location and see who responds off-list?
>
> You might also find that someone is willing to pick you up and give you a
lift to a lug met. Kent Lug members often do this
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> Just seen Alan Bell's post and he has mentioned something no one else
> has, there is meant to be a failsafe X in low res mode. I didnt know
> that and have not in 4 years seen that mentioned before. Has anyone
> else ever seen Ubuntu boot in this failsafe mode?
>
> Yes. I've had issues in the
>
>
>
> >I have had very few calls from my mum asking for help with her Ubuntu
> >system. She uses the same kinds of apps most people do.
>
> I can vouch for that. My Farther-in-law recently bought a new pc, without
asking me, because he 'simply must have windows'. Last time I saw him he was
compla
>Still not in the repos though?
songbird stopped linux support didn't they?
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> IT should be more about computers less about office work!
>
> Increasingly the stance is that IT functional skill should be embedded
across all lessons. Therefore part of say GCSE Biology would be to create a
report using word with tables, footnotes for references etc.
Hopefully this will fr
> I think writing something that can provide a fully Free as in Freedom
> replacement for something like Dropbox or Ubuntu One on a cheap webhost
>
http://www.sparkleshare.org/
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Wuala does this http://www.wuala.com/
It works by trading local storage
Since I last looked they also have an option to buy storage in their
datacenter.
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help though I can offer it depending on where you are and
what help you want.
Dan Attwood
VLE Admin Midkent College
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you css filepaths look very odd and they aren't loading. I would expect the
files to be with the theme they are attached to rather then in files
Also there have been a large number of security fixes to Drupal modules
recently so I hope you've got the email alerts turned on and been keep them
up t
> In fact, it shows up if you change the settings from "LTS Releases only"
> to "Normal Releases". I think having established that, I might as well
> go ahead and upgrade to it, so I shall do this now. The initial flurry
> of glitch reports seems to have subsided.
given recent posts on moving arou
great Ubuntu is better then windows 98 - double epic win
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I've went with the 64bit on my desktop this time round and so far it's all
good. Although I'll re-instaling flash tonight after Jonathons comment.
My grand plan was to ditch both virtualbox and vm server 2 and give KVM a
try. I like the idea of being able to migrate machines between my server and
I've done the freezer trick before on a failing hard drive and it does work.
I found it best to wrap the drive up and give it half an hour in the freezer
and then when you take it out balance it circuit board down on a pack of
frozen sausages to keep it cooler for longer.
However I don't think thi
I've got the same issue on 10.4
I my case it's related to compiz. Turn off desktop effects and all is fine
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> Should we create a helper program, with a launcher on the desktop, (or
> favourites list in UNR) which offers to guide users through the basics
> of getting their system online, and then getting help from the ubuntu
> community?
>
>
> We had a similar things to this on our mailing list rece
It also might be worth checking out your local LUG - If you take your system
down to their next meeting their might well be someone who can help you
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> I have a feeling that Droople falls into this category, and certainly seems
> to have a multitude of modules, but is rather scary for someone like me
> starting out from scratch Are there other alternatives that would offer
> such a collabaration?
>
>
>
>
it sounds like you could do what yo
On 26/11/2009 14:56, darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote:
> Personally I've used WebFusion for years with no problems.
>
> It's Ubuntu Hardy on a Plesk/Virtuozzo VPS.
> http://www.webfusion.co.uk/virtual-private-servers/
>
>
Ah now webfusion peaed my interest becuase if nothing else they are chea
I'm starting to look at the possibility of gettting a hosted virtual
private server for a project I'm working on. I've been doing the usual
googling and the only thing I can say for sure is that it's a mine field
of options, from expensive to cheap and back again.
Ideally the server will have a
Gordon wrote:
> Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to remotely control a machine
> not in the same location and not on the same network?
>
> Ta!
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i've not had opportunity to try it yet but doesn't empathy have desktop
sharing built into it now?
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> Different card (9600GT), but I have dual screen working with TwinView
> via the nvidia-settings. It's not ideal for a permanent dual screen
> setup as it needs to be reapplied each boot, but at least it should
> work as a temporary solution.
>
>
twinview should work fine after a reboot.
run
Hi all
I've running Icsitarget on an ubuntu hardy server here for months. i
have have it tied into an vmware esxi server as part of our test
enviroment.
Today however the target lun seems to be completely blank. If I rescan
it in esxi it find the lun and shows it to be the right size and then
>
> I was thinking of how best to get this done when it occurred to me
> that when i get the virgin man to drill a whole to install the
> virgin services (the internet upstairs, the tv box downstairs) the
> most logical solution is that i ask him very nicely to drill
> an
You could always add the medibuntu repo and then just apt-get install
googleearth
http://www.medibuntu.org/
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My advice would be don't upgrade and take advantage fo the long term
support.
Unless there is some new feature that she really needs or other show
stopper.
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Virgin modems don't bind to a mac address any more so it won't be that. I
have a setup very much like steves and that all works fine with ubuntu and
window machines.
you might want to conder geting hold of a network switch, hoking it up to
the windows and ubuntu machine, giving themboth a static i
When i've had this probelm in the past it's been down to the cable. I've
swaped the cable or the scart adapater or similar and it's come up in a
colour
Dan
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I believe that you need an analogue card like rob says. You then plug the
virgin box into into and tv into it in the same way that you do a tv.
You will then have the issue though that you can only change channels by
using the virgin remote control (which also stuffs up being able
to automaticall
Have you seen open fire; http://www.igniterealtime.org - a very cool cross
platform chat server and client
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I would like to see something that I could give my Mother in Law.
It would be big and colourfull with lots of nice pictures and nothing to
hard or geeky.
It would include
Updating with the gui
Using the internet/ firefox/ facebook
Using fspot/ getting pics from a camera/ printing said pics
Typin
Don't forget to try out seamless mode as well - windows key + L - set the
windows task bar to autohide as well as you'd be fooled into thinking all
the windows progs were running native
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On the error message that pops up there is a command that needs to be run as
sudo. I'm not at a buntu machie at the mo so I can't get the exact message
but it's something like /etc/init.d/vbox drvseup.
That will compile the kernel modules for you and should get vbox working -
double check as well
do a google for ubuntu Nwhd3 and take a look at the launchpad bug reports.
There is a fix in there for getting the player to show up as a media player
in rhythmbox - that might help
dan
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Does the mp3 player not just mount it's self as a folder on the gnome
desktop when you plug it?
Reading a review of the player it seems that in windows there is no need for
any software - it just appears in my computer as a removable device much
like any usb thumb drive. If this is the case then i
If you want quick and easy video editing, with a familar time feel and some
simple effects try kdenlive. it's very simililar in it approach to windows
movie maker/ adobe premier. It's also got some good out put options as well.
and I would stay well away from cinelerra as that way madness lies!
D
How well does ubuntu perform on the eeepc compared to the shiped distro?
Does the camera etc all work nicely?
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I use the forums and the wiki a lot when hunting for answers to problems or
howtos - such as my current issue of trying to get a zboard merc working
correctly. Like Philip though i've got a very unimpressive post count
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> Have you tried nvu/kompozer? It's a pretty good wysiwyg web editor.
dan
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You might want to give some like Virtualbox or Qemu ago as well.
The biggest problem you might have in terms of speed would related to the
amount of ram you have. XP really wants 512mg to run at a good speed - which
would leave ubuntu with nothing apart from a sore hard disk as it swaps
everythin
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