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/
Now organised on eventbrite: http://chelmerlug.eventbrite.com/ - go
there for full info if you are interested and in the area.
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I am going to this - anyone else?
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*From:* Jane Morrison off...@ukuug.org
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*Sent:* Monday, 19 September 2011, 9:29
*Subject:* [UKUUG-Announce] UKUUG - FLOSS UK - Unconference - Saturday
8th October - Manchester
FLOSS UK Unconference 2011
You can find details here: http://www.flossuk.org/Events/Unconference2011
* Its on a Saturday so no need to use up holiday/convince your boss
* Its in Manchester so reasonably easy to get to.
* Its free of charge.
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Southend on Sea and Chemer Lugs are doing some joint events in Southend
and need more helpers!
We have a cavernous empty shop in the Victoria Shopping Centre AND
SosLUGs home base at the Temporary Arts Project to fill for the day.
We just need people to talk to the tempt the public into
Calling anyone with Linux experience that they don't mind sharing with
the public who are within travelling distance of Southend on Sea. We
have two different Shopping Centres and an Arts Centre to man on Sat
17th September. If you want to come help for the day please email me
I have a couple of old Thinkpad T43s that a friend gave to me thinking
that he had killed them with a faulty USB device.
A bit of googling and a 'deep reset' restored them both to life much to
my friends consternation.
I offered them him back but was given permission to keep them :)
Yes gaz has hit it on the head.
We need government to back peoples right to share their broadband connection
with their neighbours. It is against the small print of most broadband
contracts I believe. However if a whole side of a street could share one ADSL
line via wireless or ethernet
I was at OpenTech yesterday and there was a massive computer fair going
on at ULU at the same time.
There were many people selling ex corporate PCs (mostly Dells and HPs)
for prices that looked better value than the Race Online Scheme!
A typical example was a dual core desktop with 1G ram and
If you want to help the 9 million not on line yet...
Some videos from the conference that has just happened:
http://www.nd11.co.uk/vod/nd11-video-archive/
David Cameron, Martha Lane Fox, Mark Thompson DG of the Beeb.
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I seem to have stirred up quite a bit of debate with this.
Michael Devenish makes a good suggestion that the Race Online volunteers
need to get a bit of education with Ubuntu. It is an achievement to get
it on the menu as an option but it is clear that the Microsoft spin
doctors have had a
It was actually because I approved of the sheer common sense of giving
people with no previous exposure to computers Linux instead of Windows
that I signed up to be Race Online 2012 partner in the first place.
That is why the sudden realisation that Microsoft was involved after all
came as
The under £100 cheap PCs for the disadvantaged go on sale today.
See
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
http://www.ecycleonline.co.uk/choose-your-computer---from-9200-8-c.asp
Ubuntu 10.10 is there as a solid and no strings attached choice.
But for only £3
If I may make a suggestion?
I haven't used the Pcspecialist notebooks mentioned by Richard Smith so
cant comment on these particular choices, nice though it is to see 'No
Operating system' as a money saving choice :)
However if we do indeed find that machines offered by vendors like this
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