On 01/03/13 02:24, Will Tinsdeall wrote:
I use Evolution. I find it the most complete solution for all of my
organisational needs. I don't know why they decided to move away from it
in the default distro
Will
I dunno, I yoyo between Evolution and TBird - Evolution is much better
as office
On 27/02/13 10:37, Alan Pope wrote:
On 27/02/13 10:24, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2013-02-27 09:18, Alan Pope wrote:
At my previous job where Windows + Outlook was the desktop of choice
I've
seen plenty of people do what Tyler described. One of the nice features
Windows has which I've never
Yyyy! 3.8 kernel does have the module. I generally find the next
version of Ubuntu solves probs with drivers for relatively new equipment.
Paula
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On 06/02/13 13:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
Linux Emporium do quite a range of Lenovo's with Ubuntu ready
installed. I suppose when you rate the machines against the prices,
you find that for any given price you're getting less of a machine,
because the margin they charge for the installation is
On 06/02/13 22:44, SuperEngineer wrote:
On Wed, 2013-02-06 at 21:53 +, Alan Pope wrote:
Bootchart probably.
Alan, solved. A thousand thanks.
Bootchart proved the one thing I'd got so used to I'd forgotten it might
be a cause. Cairo dock loading at start up on a Unity desktop - used to
On 21/02/13 17:37, Barry Drake wrote:
Curiously, last week I put Mint on a spare partition just to take a
look. I found I was not enjoying the experience! It was only on
reflection that I realised I was missing the easy Unity experience too
much! I find Unity very usable on PC and netbook
On 23/01/13 15:57, Mark Fraser wrote:
On 18 January 2013 09:32, Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com
mailto:sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
On 18 Jan 2013 07:59, Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com
mailto:mfraz74%2bubu...@gmail.com wrote:
Found this zoostorm laptop on
On 02/02/13 10:30, Barry Drake wrote:
On 01/02/13 19:28, Paula Graham wrote:
So, less confusingly chatty recap: 1. find and download the driver 2.
change to driver's folder in a terminal 3. sudo make 4. sudo
make-install 5. sudo modprobe [module ID] Paula
Paula Thanks for talking
On 02/02/13 07:48, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On Fri, Feb 1, 2013 at 7:28 PM, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk
mailto:pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
OK. Verbatim instructions plus chatty asides below cos it's Friday
and I'm about to
quit for the week wh!(etc)
Paula
I can see
On 31/01/13 20:30, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
On 2013-01-31 18:46, Paula Graham wrote:
I've got the i3 version of the Zoostorm laptop - 12.04 installed
perfectly except wifi chip is a bit of a pain, needs to be hunted down,
compiled and then recompiled every time the kernel upgrades - native
On 01/02/13 16:18, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On 01/02/13 15:54, Paula Graham wrote:
I dunno, doesn't seem a huge burden to me - the driver's in a handy
folder - it takes all of 20 secs to compile - prefer it to opening a
brand new laptop with a perfectly good Realtek chip (and I'm clumsy
On 19/01/13 10:21, Colin Law wrote:
On 19 January 2013 10:16, Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com wrote:
On Friday 18 Jan 2013 09:32:35 Simon Greenwood wrote:
On 18 Jan 2013 07:59, Mark Fraser mfraz74+ubu...@gmail.com wrote:
Found this zoostorm laptop on ebuyer's website
On 15/10/12 15:20, Alan Bell wrote:
Hi all,
There is an event coming up which might be of interest to a number of
people on the list, 3 days at Bletchley Park focused on career options
for women in the Free and Open Source industry:
http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=596
The event is being run
need for your Ubuntu sessions, I'll see if
I can sort something out for you.
Regards,
Phill.
On 15 October 2012 17:12, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk
mailto:pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
On 15/10/12 15:20, Alan Bell wrote:
Hi all,
There is an event coming up which might
Fossbox is looking for a volunteer to help a women's health organisation
in Hackney, East London, to upgrade an Ubuntu LTSP (or possibly simplify
the system to a standalone PCs) - I'm snowed under this month and they
need someone to go on-site for a day or two and sort it out. Needs some
people
It's FOSS Friday time again - *3 August, 12-7pm *near Aldgate East/Tower
Hill/Tower Gateway/Wapping overground. Women-friendly,*free advice and
help with Ubuntu *(www.ubuntu.com) and making use of Free and Open
Source Software (FOSS) with Ubuntu, Windows or Mac. We can also give
advice on FOSS web
is a bit of a
distance so I'll wait until Flossie is over before I commit. I'll
happily circulate info about it anyway.
Paula
On 15/05/12 21:16, Rebecca Newborough wrote:
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 12:05 AM, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk
mailto:pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
Flossie 2012, 25/26 May
Flossie 2012, 25/26 May, is a conference Fossbox, G.Hack and Codasign
are organising for women interested in open source, open culture - and
all things open. Women involved with tech projects, arts, non-profits
and VCOs equally welcome. View the programme here:
http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=125
Flossie 2012 is a free, two-day event for women who use or are otherwise
interested in Free and Open Source Software (FLOSS) in Digital Arts or
Open Data, Knowledge and Education.
Details here: http://www.flossie.org/?page_id=175
Link to submission form here: http://www.flossie.org/openconf
Its not down to your Tosh as such as my computer is a HP Pavilion
desktop with 2GB ram.
More likely to be a Unity 3D problem. I had crashes in 11.04 but they
have become more frequent in 11.10.
I assumed that the issues with the upgrade had caused a problem so
did a
full
On 03/12/11 04:15, Liam Proven wrote:
On 2 December 2011 11:30, Simon Greenwoodsfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote:
For my 2p worth, I'm happy with Unity as I like the paradigm of the GUI,
having returned to Linux after many years of OS X.
I think it is easier if you have Mac experience. If all
On 02/12/11 10:59, Alan Pope wrote:
On 01/12/11 23:52, thegeeksquad...@ymail.com wrote:
Is Ubuntu going in the wrong direction?
I personally don't believe so, no. I personally think it's going in
exactly the _right_ direction, but some people seem obsessed by
yesterday, today and tomorrow
On Sun, 2011-09-25 at 10:02 +0100, Simon Watson wrote:
Sounds good - should be able to make this one!
Simon
Hope I can make it too :)
Paula
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We've scheduled a meeting for anyone interested in helping out with the
Flossie network and the event on 20 Sept at 7pm in IRC: freenode.net
#fossbox.
I've put up a note on the blog: http://www.flossie.org/?p=158 and added
a page with instructions about getting to the chat channel:
On 06/09/11 11:48, paul sutton wrote:
Hi
Is the classic interface using gnome 3? and is this going to remain an
option, i currently run 11.04 with classic will i still have this option
if i upgrade to 11.10?
Paul
Unity's not half as bad on 11.10 - even in alpha it worked better than
it did
On 02/08/11 13:03, Laura Czajkowski wrote:
On 02/08/11 12:16, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there A few days ago, Laura Czajkowski made the suggestion that
Ubuntu Advertising and/or Ubuntu Marketing might look at preparing and
sending press releases to appropriate media. Since then, I've been
On 31/07/11 09:34, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
On 27/07/2011 12:40, Paula Graham wrote:
It sounds like it's a simple problem with wifi on a BT hub
H. I use BT with a BT hub and connecting via Ubuntu is the same as
Windows - click on the connection and enter the password. Job done. I
On 29/07/11 09:51, Barry Drake wrote:
On Fri, 2011-07-29 at 09:12 +0100, alan c wrote:
and gave up. There may be a procedural way to help to avoid this, but
the range of level of support from location of the 'any key' through
to fluent terminal use is vast.
I was very impressed by the support
in
the logs and see where we went wrong.
Thanks,
Matt Daubney
On Jul 27, 2011 12:41 PM, Paula Graham pmg...@gmx.co.uk
mailto:pmg...@gmx.co.uk wrote:
On 24/07/11 18:19, Alan Bell wrote:
On 24/07/11 10:58, a.hun...@visuality-group.co.uk
mailto:a.hun...@visuality-group.co.uk wrote:
Hi!
I'm new
On 24/07/11 18:19, Alan Bell wrote:
On 24/07/11 10:58, a.hun...@visuality-group.co.uk wrote:
Hi!
I'm new to all this, but been reading the discussions coming in
through the emails. Is it just me, or is there some sort of petty
argument going on? Am I reading it wrong?
Love to all!
Alex.
On 15/07/11 20:26, Andy Smith wrote:
How I have enough time, I'm looking for in a company that has
enough computers to refurbish, and let me repair than.
I wouldn't really have thought there is a massive business in
repairing computers for businesses though. Perhaps for individuals?
Cheers,
On 15/07/11 18:50, Rob Beard wrote:
Sounds good, I'll pass this on to my local LUG list, there are a
couple of girls on the list, as you say it's pretty male dominated and
some guys can be a bit funny about it, personally I see the girls in
my local LUG as fellow Linux geeks :-)
Good luck
We're in the throes of setting up 'Flossie' as a space for women who're
involved in FLOSS in any way - especially advocacy. We're hoping this
will help us to co-ordinate our advocacy activities a bit better and
share what works.
We'll be kicking off with an event in November in London so we
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