Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorry-Non ubuntu related question!! Recommend a mobile pdf viewer for phone!

2008-05-06 Thread Gaurav Patel
You did, and I replied: I don't know of any PDF software for mobile phones, however, apparently the Gmail Mobile application (http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html) can view PDF files (http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=31623) Obviously you'd need to incur band

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sorry-Non ubuntu related question!! Recommend a mobile pdf viewer for phone!

2008-05-06 Thread Gaurav Patel
I don't know of any PDF software for mobile phones, however, apparently the Gmail Mobile application (http://www.google.com/mobile/mail/index.html) can view PDF files (http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=31623) Obviously you'd need to incur bandwidth costs and would hav

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jobs

2008-03-31 Thread Gaurav Patel
Also worth looking at is Jobsite: http://www.jobsite.co.uk/ On 31/03/2008, Jonathon Tinsley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > - "Andrew Oakley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Jonathon Tinsley wrote: > > > I've just been made redundant... anyone know where I could find a > > job > > > work

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Can I use a desktop PC as a network hub?

2008-02-22 Thread Gaurav Patel
On 22/02/2008, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting James Grabham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Right, Im setting up a p3 800mhz 256mb box as a firewall, file server, > media > > player and to use for other stuff. > > > > Now I will have > > > > Modem>PC>old wireless router > > > >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] By way of introduction

2008-01-21 Thread Gaurav Patel
Sup Mark, welcome to ze list. Speaking of chocolate orange! Sainsbury's do excellent cookies with them inside! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Macro-style functionality

2007-12-11 Thread Gaurav Patel
Alternatively, you could set Pidgin to auto-set to away after x amount of inactivity, hit CTRL+ALT+L to lock, turn off monitor, then just turn off your speakers. ;) That's how I do it anyway. On 11/12/2007, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are various ways using either

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying A Laptop

2007-11-16 Thread Gaurav Patel
> I also feel > firefox become a little laggy when I've got a couple of tabs open that > have a lot of flash stuff going on on them. You could probably call me a fanboy, but I love Opera and how it performs on all my machines, regardless of what is in my tabs, how many tabs I have open etc. > I g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Buying A Laptop

2007-11-16 Thread Gaurav Patel
This might sound stupid, but whenever I see a high-spec machine, I always feel it would be wasted on Linux. I've always installed and seen Linux installed on lower-spec machines (my desktop included) which is probably why. With Windows you could probably get a nice game or a resource intensive ap

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing files-problem-gutsy

2007-11-16 Thread Gaurav Patel
I just looked at my share and I know some people are going to say it's very unsecure. It's restricted to a specific interface which is on another subnet and not accessible through the rest of the network. On 16/11/2007, Gaurav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Strange. > &

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sharing files-problem-gutsy

2007-11-16 Thread Gaurav Patel
Strange. I don't know why it's deleting them as I did it all through the Samba configuration file first (/etc/samba/smb.conf). Maybe you can give it a shot. Here's an example of a share on my config: [movies] path = /media/sda2 available = yes browsable = yes public = yes writable = yes The syn

Re: [ubuntu-uk] memory lane, was: Please can someone look at this and try to help

2007-11-12 Thread Gaurav Patel
On 12/11/2007, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, no programmer should have been denied the privilege to program > for 80x22 vt220 green screens... amazing how much wasted space there is > these days... we used every single inch of those screens... > > Sean More like every single

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Gmail (was: Im Back!)

2007-11-09 Thread Gaurav Patel
It's the same way the ads are displayed when you are searching, it's no different. On 09/11/2007, Peter Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 09 November 2007 10:49, Andrew Barber wrote: > > I think gmail is quite superior to anything else. > > I've always stayed away from Gmail as I heard

[ubuntu-uk] Happy Diwali!

2007-11-09 Thread Gaurav Patel
To all the Hindu, Sikh and Jain subscribers of the Ubuntu-UK mailing list! If you have no idea what I'm talking about: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Im Back!

2007-11-09 Thread Gaurav Patel
On 09/11/2007, Sean Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > you can also use it POP3 if you really need to... I like the > threading so don't I tried using another mail client, several infact, to take advantage of IMAP. None of them were close to Google Mail's threading view. I have this mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-11-02 Thread Gaurav Patel
anisations and simply ask if they're throwing any computer hardware out. You'll be amazed at what you'll find! Schools are worth trying aswell. On 02/11/2007, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Gaurav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > People have hear

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-11-02 Thread Gaurav Patel
r just don't use the computers. On 02/11/2007, Andrew Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 30/10/2007, Gaurav Patel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a member of a team of an organisation where I volunteer every > > Wednesday to offer free wire

Re: [ubuntu-uk] IPv6 - are you using it?

2007-10-30 Thread Gaurav Patel
> Here's my (completly biased, and untrustworthy) opinion: > IPv6 is a can of worms that I really *Don't* want to open. > I'm not even convinced we need it anymore. > They've been saying we're running out of addresses for how long? Most of our > websites are run under one IP address, you don't nee

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Promoting Ubuntu

2007-10-30 Thread Gaurav Patel
I'm a member of a team of an organisation where I volunteer every Wednesday to offer free wireless Internet in an estate in Kingston, London. A problem we had was that many people in this estate had very little money and very little computing knowledge. Long story short, we had to supply the comp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Tesco are advertising an Ubuntu machine on their web site

2007-10-23 Thread Gaurav Patel
Excellent find... Today Tesco, tomorrow, the world! On 23/10/2007, Rob Wood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just in case you have missed this... > > http://direct.tesco.com/q/R.200-3224/btnResultSort.x=509/btnResultSort.y=291.aspx > > > -- > __