You could sell it on ebay, then donate some or all of the money to your
favourite FOSS project. It is the easiest way to use it for some good in
the FOSS world as far as I can see.
On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey guys,
So I just won a copy of
On the subject of hard drives - it could well be a dodgy hard drive,
particularly if it's a cheap one, try using a live CD for a while - it'd be
the easiest way to test without fiddling with hardware, if that works fine,
It'll very probably be the hard drive, and it'll need replacing.
Do you
I'm sure you've all seen the news concerning ISPs.
Now I for one AM NOT paying someone to invade my privacy be logging what IPs
I visit, so TalkTalk are getting the boot.
Which means I'm a bit stuck; AOL, Virgin, Sky, Tiscali and Orange/Wanadoo
are all out.
I'm thinking Pipex business - static
Eeep... so is it Zen or nothing, because I can't afford Zen.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Jake Bunce [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
Pipex were bought out by Tiscali last year...
2008/7/28 James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I'm sure you've all seen the news concerning ISPs.
Now I for one AM
looks good, but o2 themselves say £7.50 + £5 for a static IP, so I may well
go with o2.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 8:48 PM, David Futcher
[EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
I've heard good things about Be broadband (https://www.bethere.co.uk/),
who do 24meg/1.3meg unlimited broadband for ~£15 per month
http://www.oxford.lug.org.uk/
Try that lot
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM, philip taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi all,
This sunday,the 27th july, its my birthday, now i would like to
suggest we all meet up in banbury, north oxfordshire where i live,
this may be short notice, but an
/07/2008, James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.oxford.lug.org.uk/
Try that lot
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 5:15 PM, philip taylor [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Hi all,
This sunday,the 27th july, its my birthday, now i would like to
suggest we all meet up in banbury, north
I still love my Dell Vostro - Wireless needs NDISWRAPPER, but everything
else works fine :) (1.8 C2D 2GB 160GB 15.4 cost me £350)
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm on the lookout for a laptop for work which I can dual boot with
Vista Ubuntu.
Broadcom BCM4310 USB Controller
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 8:47 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Grabham wrote:
I still love my Dell Vostro - Wireless needs NDISWRAPPER, but everything
else works fine :) (1.8 C2D 2GB 160GB 15.4 cost me £350)
What wireless card do you have
Just found a problem - apparently Im gong to Scotland on the 9th (oh Joy).
I am available on the 8th though.
BTW s there a LUG around York, I may make my way down at some point.
On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 9:34 PM, Dark Otter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Same here, I'm one year older :P. I've done a
Great would be the best word - a tenner for a boxd version with a manual and
corporate support - bargain!!
On Thu, Jul 10, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Michael Rimicans [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Just been reading this on that fine source of information, The Register:
Aww, Ill never get to go to one now :(
http://www.jonobacon.org/?p=1208
Presumably, this means Lug Radio Live 2008 will be the last of the
best
free software events in the UK.
Sob.
Still, at least there's the Ubuntu-UK podcast. But we need a new
community event!
John
Flash, video + audio codecs, etc
VLC (A must have on ANY system)
acidrip
devilspie (To put a terminal on my desktop)
Exaile media player
K3b
BOINC manager + server
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Here's a question for the group. If you install a clean
It is. It's the £299 one on the 1510 page; I didn't adjust it at all.
Thanks to everyone for their help - much appreciated.
And gift wrapped too :-)
From my experience too, Dell are pretty quick, sometimes they've really
surprised me on how quick they have delivered desktops and laptops.
Well of course, especially considering the lack of reviews on the web.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:40 AM, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is. It's the £299 one on the 1510 page; I didn't adjust it at all.
Thanks to everyone for their help - much appreciated.
Of course, you have
Yes, I found that, I think there was about one paragraph on it.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:07 PM, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 12:00 PM, James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Well of course, especially considering the lack of reviews on the web.
On Mon
Great, do the multimedia buttons work?
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 2:34 PM, LeeGroups [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It is. It's the £299 one on the 1510 page; I didn't adjust it at all.
Thanks to everyone for their help - much appreciated.
Of course, you have to submit us a full review :)
Jut ordered £351.33 -
Please allow up to 10 working days for delivery Flying out to Austria on
the 30th - could be interesting.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Yup, and I think it's upgradeable to 4GB.
Its £299 ex VAT or £351 inc VAT to get free
Ok, I'm not allowed to use it till the 29th (My birthday) anyway.
The status on Dells website says it'll come by the 2nd.
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 9:47 PM, Neil Greenwood
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
2008/6/22 Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
James Grabham wrote:
Jut ordered £351.33 -
Please allow up
Sooo, 16th birthday a week on Sunday, college starts in Sepember, so I want
a laptop.
Looking at £300 or less.
I want to get spomething with a 14inch; 15.4 inch seems the norm, but it's a
bit big to lug around every day.
I wish I could get dual core, but I think bcause of the budget I'll be
You guys are fast
Dell Vostro 1310?- business grade, should have decent compatibility-
except dell wireless which is most likely Broadcom. Remember you need to
add VAT onto the price Dell state on their website, the exvat price
should wind up about £250
They start at £250, plus VAT, plus
I'm quite interested in an acer Extensa 4220-101G08Mi (Catchy name)
http://www.play.com/PC/PCs/4-/5112498/Acer-Extensa-4220-101G08Mi-Celeron-M-540-1-83GHz-1GB-80GB-14-1-DVD-SM-Vista-Home-Basic-Laptop-Notebook/Product.html
- *Product Specifications*
- Processor: Intel Celeron M 540 / 1.83
Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 10:04 PM, Colin McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 9:57 PM, James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I'm quite interested in an acer Extensa 4220-101G08Mi (Catchy name)
We have a lot of Acer laptops at work
Talked to my Dad, and I think Ill get a vostro 1510, C2D 2GB 15.4 160GB for
about £350 inc VAT.
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Yup, and I think it's upgradeable to 4GB.
Its £299 ex VAT or £351 inc VAT to get free delivery.
Sounds fairly reasonable. At least with 2GB ram, 160GB hard drive and a
Core 2 Duo you've got a bit of future proofing (or well, maybe a load if
you're going to run Ubuntu on it).
Does that
Gigabit Ethernet probabally would be.
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:13 PM, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 5:10 PM, Chris Rowson
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Interesting in the newest computer games but can't run them because
you're on Linux?
Stream My Game now
I read about that a couple of weeks ago, ut the American Goernment wanting
to know what youre doing isnt really news.
I'd be more concerned about virgin having the audacity to think they have
the right to police the internet, and dolling out punishments, cutting you
off etc - who need courts when
I am looking for a cheap laptop, while I'd like to avoid a celeron, this is
tempting.
On Fri, May 23, 2008 at 10:38 AM, gizbun [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 2008-05-23 at 09:14 +0100, Colin McCarthy wrote:
On 5/23/08, LeeGroups [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Novatech are advertising a
Its great, but its not what Id call lightweight, still good when you want
something a bit nippier than Ubuntu or Kubuntu, but If I'm using an old box,
I'd prefer Arch with Fluxbox or XFCE (or maybe even KDEmod)
On Thu, May 22, 2008 at 2:36 AM, Russell Green
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Craig
It's not simply eight bits per byte for ethernet packets, it's more
complicated than that and you're not taking into account collisions.
Im a bit confused now...
so how...
I mean
a Byte is 8 bits, a bit being either 1 or 0... I thought that was a
fundemental of computer science.
Am I
And upgrade from 40GB to 80GB for £0.00
still comes to over £99 though
On 5/8/08, Gavin Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, May 08, 2008 at 08:27:35PM +0100, Adam Bagnall wrote:
Just poking about on their site you can order one here.
Linutop?
On Wed, Apr 30, 2008 at 5:26 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2008-04-30 at 17:19 +0100, Seif Attar wrote:
Yeah, i saw that, I was wondering what is wrong with the guy and why he
keeps dropping it, then i noticed he does it on purpose! so i imagined
it is some kind
Is it just a symbian based phone?
If so just shove Ogg play on there - it plays ogg wma mp3 - you name it =D
On 4/29/08, Javad Ayaz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
the music is in high quality mp3 format!
yes yu hit the nail on the head..i want to put my music on my phone..and it
doesnt take ogg
Give it to me?
XD
On 4/21/08, Thomas Ibbotson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I guess this is a little off topic, but a bit of random googling didn't
really inspire me. I have a spare laptop hard drive and I want to do
something with it. I could of course buy a USB casing for it and have
yet
Is it not just that its stealing a bit for the Graphics?
I have had a mobo die on me, but it was my fault, I'd been using a 300W PSU
on a dual-core system (too lazy to go buy a new one)... didnt stop me
claiming a new one off the warrenty though ;]... though I did get round to
getting a 600w PSU
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few old-ish
books ('90s), anyway, theres a beginers guide to Assembly Language there. I
started reading, and the first 3 chapters are just about Computer Science,
and It's really interesting, Im learning about octal and hex, and other
gdgd, - I finally feel like a reel geek now XD
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:51 PM, Matthew Wild [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:37 PM, Andrew Oakley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
James Grabham wrote:
OK, so a couple of nights ago, someone from my LUG gave me a few
old
No linux users wont be catered for, but youre not paying c4/sky for
something you cant use, you are with the beeb
On 11/04/2008, Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi James,
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:46:39PM +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote:
Andy Smith wrote:
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at
Oh yeah, found this on ubuntuforums
I fixed this problem by removing ia32-libs, flashplugin-nonfree and
nspluginwrapper, then installing ia32-libs_2.1ubuntu3_amd64.deb from
http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/...e/i/ia32-libs/ (It is an older
version than what installs in apt-get), then
Doneroony
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Jason Liquorish [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Also signed here, lets hope it makes a difference.
Signed
Jai Harrison wrote:
Signed :)
On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Sorry - left out the URL!
OK, I'm writing a piece of coursework for french, and I can insert â, é etc
by going in open-office insert special character, but this is a bit
irritating when you need to keep doing it. Is there a way to make a
keyboard shorcut for special characters?
Thanks
James
--
Textease is stall around!?
I havent heard it mentioned in YEARS!!!
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 9:31 PM, Mark Fraser
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday 29 March 2008 18:23:32 Gavin Ford wrote:
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 06:12:51PM +, Tony Arnold wrote:
If you do, you might want to
Skegness. Grammar School...
eh...
XD
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 9:30 PM, Dianne Reuby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Skegness Grammar use Linux - you can find their IT department case study
of the advantages here:
http://www.schoolforge.org.uk/index.php/Skegness_Grammar
Dianne
On Tue,
Haha, I generally do cracking on my lappy which runs Arch...
(But I dont generally crack banks... a bit out of my league... Im justa
little script kiddie... Ill still pwn noobs cos Im 1337 tho)
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Andrew Barber [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On 27 Feb 2008, at 12:08,
Aria.co.uk
(My fave website ever XD)
On 2/25/08, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 11:54 PM, James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
WOW
Small desktop case (inc PSU)
AM2 motherboard (Nforce, with geforce 6100 (Which I know is a great
setup)
Sempron - 2Ghz
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
James Grabham wrote:
Aria.co.uk http://Aria.co.uk
(My fave website ever XD)
Aria have some pretty good prices (I got most of my PC upgrade from
them), it's just a shame they don't offer free delivery when spending
say over £50 or £100.
eBuyer on the other
Righty ho
With my recent offer of a 17-inch monitor which runs at 1400 x 800 for free
from a mate, I decided Its finally time to cough up some dough, and build
that multimedia PC that Ive wanted to build for ages.
I found a great desktop case for 24 pounds. Awesome. Ill order it on the
1st
Haha, the cheapest one on there was the same spec as my main PC!!
And 1.4GHz would probs do btw...
Oh, and the board has to be mATX to fit the case. =[
On 2/25/08, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 02:08:49PM -0800, James Grabham wrote:
I was thinking 1.8GHz
!!!
On 2/25/08, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 10:25 PM, James Grabham [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Haha, the cheapest one on there was the same spec as my main PC!!
And 1.4GHz would probs do btw...
Oh, and the board has to be mATX to fit the case
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
ModemPCold wireless router
If I do this, I will have all network traffic coming at it through a single
10/100 connection.
Instead of plugging all my wired computers
On Feb 18, 2008 9:04 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02 +, James Grabham wrote:
WOW
I REALLY WANT ONE!!!
Have you read the specification of that thing?
300MHz CPU.
Yeah, thats what Arch is for!
The reason I never got an eee
WOW
I REALLY WANT ONE!!!
The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!??
I will start saving ASAP
(Being 15, money is always scarce)
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On 1/29/08, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ubuntu 7.0, lol!
That, presumably, must have been the on the stroke of Midnight version
13 or so months ago? ;-)
Does it play Auld Lang Syne as its startup music?
Sean
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I reckon theyre still pissed because MS flattened OS/2... now they can get
thier revenge 12 years later...
On Jan 28, 2008 11:11 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 10:17:24PM +, Mac wrote:
The main article on the cover in MM was about Ubuntu when feisty came out...
But it never hurts for them to repeat how great it is. (I think most of the
writers for it are freelance, so theyre bound to repeat themselves XD)
On Jan 12, 2008 11:23 PM, Tom Bamford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I just
I go for AMDs because they're a lot cheaper.
On Dec 17, 2007 3:05 PM, Kirrus [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not sure you can say Intel is evil. They are an awful lot better
(with
respect to open sourcing code/drivers) than a number of other
vendors such
as NVidia and ATI.
Of the
Use the alternate installer??
Text based installers should work fine
On Dec 13, 2007 9:27 PM, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi, I have been reading about seeing Ubuntu running on the EEE pc and it's
come to my attention that there is a problem with the screen size of the
installer
I couldn help but think that it all looked a bit pricey.
I agree to go with aria, it is the best site Ive ever used, and it is SO
cheap!!
Also whats wrong with the on-board sound?
On Dec 13, 2007 9:31 PM, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Farran wrote:
hi all
building a computer just for
I had the same problem, which happend every few times I booted. I didnt have
a clue what the problem was, although this was 3or4 HD formats ago (I mess
about with different distros a lot, and regually format drives lol)
My advice.. reboot, and see if you still have a problem
On Dec 11, 2007 7:31
If I get one, I was thinking f putting different OSs on SD cards,
Ubuntu on one, win 2000 on another etc, is this feasable? Would it be
slow?
I want to keep the 15s boot OS
On Nov 24, 2007 1:21 PM, Jim Kissel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Philip Newborough wrote:
On Nov 24, 2007 9:38 AM, Alan
Id go with an Athlon, and get a board with built in geforce 6100 - I
love them!! You'll save Loads!
try aria.co.uk as kris says.
On Nov 19, 2007 9:36 PM, Kris Douglas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 19/11/2007, Rob Beard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi folks,
I think after my PC died last
You're all really old, I cant remember before my familys 486 with DOS
6.22 and win 3.11 for workgroups (I was born in 1992!!) lol I know
my Mum had a computer before that, but I cant remember it - I found
its dot matrix printer in the loft a while ago though.
On Nov 12, 2007 3:16 PM, Greg K
Where as these days we just shove ubuntu live CDs in the PCs at PC
world, reboot them, and laugh as people say wow this Vista thing
looks great
On Nov 12, 2007 9:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ahh... them were the days...
Running in to Dixons/Comet, going to the C64's and doing the old:
Happy Diwali
James
On Nov 9, 2007 4:57 PM, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Gaurav Patel wrote:
To all the Hindu, Sikh and Jain subscribers of the Ubuntu-UK mailing list!
Gaurav Happy Diwali! (Everyone loves the light on these dark winter
nights! - hope you have fun!)
Mac
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Mint; ubuntu wants to download the restricted driver... from the
internet, Obviously the biggest load of in the history of the
world! (rant over) and wep, SSID broadcasted.
On Nov 8, 2007 8:58 PM, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you use Ubuntu on a laptop + wifi?
Yes -
Ironic, isnt it, that the linux community is helping Bills one computer on
every desk thing, whilest hes trying to sue us at the same time.
On 10/30/07, Gaurav Patel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm a member of a team of an organisation where I volunteer every
Wednesday to offer free wireless
If its Ubuntu UK, we shouldnt have it in the south of England, we should put
it in the north, Newcastle, or Edinburgh, Maybe Manchester at a push.
(Is it that subtle that im a northerner lol XD)
On 10/29/07, John Levin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi all,
As we've hit 12 people expressing
Well, it was fine (if a little slow) in the old days when you actually had
to pay them!! :o
Then it came free, and it would only work for about 2 hours a day!
Now it hardly ever fails, and is fairly fast, and has a 40GB limit (not as
good as when it was unlimited, but come on, whos gonna use
GNOME all the way
(exept on my IBM stinkpoad 600 which has XFCE)
I just cant stand KDE (although I love amarok and k3b)
On 10/12/07, Wulfy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms
of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly
They said it was gonna be £200, £169s not bad, but still not as good as the
US price of $200.
On 10/9/07, Colin McCarthy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 10/9/07, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What do you reckon to this:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/10/09/rm_asus_launches_minibook/
No, I need a laptop for under £100 to replace my IBM TP 600 at some point
though. Having no money sucks.
On 10/7/07, Alec Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Title says it all really.
I just ordered one three minutes ago xD
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Ubuntu - cos were better than you. And we know it. :D
(yes I did steal it from dodgeball)
Seriously though
I think it needs to explain what Ubuntu is, and what an OS is, as well as
saying how easy it is, and of course that its free, and up to date. - This
could be difficult
On 10/2/07,
If its an internet connection it will be Mb (mega bits) not MB (mega bytes)
8 bits in a byte ergo 8 megabits in a megabyte. :]
Oh, and your server - whats the power consumption on that thing!?
On 10/1/07, Matthew Daubney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hey all,
I've had a machine running as an
Anybody else taking part?
Yes its mostly about America - but most of its related to us - a foreign
war in the name of freedom - a government taking away our rights.
Liberty taken away by CCTV and ID cards.
Hundreds of our troops being killed in Afgahnistan and Iraq.
We should stand with the
Is there an Ubuntu UK forum anywhere?
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I knew that was there, but nobody seems to have used it, so i guessed we
werent supposed to.
On 8/8/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Some one mentioned this the other day, although it doesn't link in with
the
mailing list or IRC.
http://ubuntuforums.org/forumdisplay.php?f=274
Alec Wright wrote:
Sounds great. If i buy a PC through you, will I be able to customise it?
As in the hardware?
I would expect that would void the warranty
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Full question here.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=520925
Please Help!
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