On Sunday 02 December 2007 15:21:34 Tony Arnold wrote:
Peter Lewis wrote:
I've been living with this for a while, but it's starting to annoy me a
little. I wonder if anyone can help.
So far as I can tell, my network connection is brought up when I log in
to my Kubuntu box, through
Hi Mac,
On Sunday 02 December 2007 14:55:30 Mac wrote:
Peter Lewis wrote:
snip
So far as I can tell, my network connection is brought up when I log in
to my Kubuntu box, through the network manager tray icon. This connects
me to my wireless network.
However, I have a couple of NFS
Hi again folks,
On Sunday 02 December 2007 14:55:30 Mac wrote:
Pete Does your /etc/fstab refer to these shares by their full IP
address on the LAN or by a share name? I use the LAN IP addresses, and
my shares mount automatically when the wireless network is up. (Tho' I
use Gnome rather
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 that Google read your email in
order to target ads at you. Even if it is just a machine rather than a
person, it's overstepped the privacy line
On Friday 09 November 2007 15:55, Gaurav Patel wrote:
To all the Hindu, Sikh and Jain subscribers of the Ubuntu-UK mailing list!
Yep, happy Diwali!
Enjoy the evening!
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On Friday 26 October 2007 13:21, Chris Rowson wrote:
Looks like they've changed the options, we've got a No - Linux is my
OS of choice now.*
** WARNING - lolcats/topic crossover ***
BBC r belong to de Linux peoplz now
aagh..
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On Thursday 25 October 2007 13:01, Dave Morley wrote:
I used to hate using Evolution but since I last used it to the release
in Gutsy things have improved greatly. The whole experience is a
pleasure.
So I just wondered what everyone else uses?
KMail.
Aside from being part of KDE, its the
On Thursday 25 October 2007 at 15:37:51 Rob Beard wrote:
The top one looks a lot like my kitten Guybrush*.
* Bonus points if you can work out where the name is from. :-)
Is he a pirate cat?
http://www.localshed.com/images/PirateCat.jpg
:-)
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On Tuesday 23 October 2007 at 15:38:58 Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 14:36 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote:
I can't help thinking that if there isn't even an interest in nvidia
opening up their drivers / specs, then I really don't want to be buying
something from them.
Indeed. I
Hi all,
I'm sorry, I don't generally like to ask for hardware recommendation on these
lists, but I'm a little confused about the compatibility and software options
of the current lot of graphics cards, and figured that you guys might have
some more up-to-date knowledge of this than me.
I
Hi Jai,
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 09:39:38 Jai Harrison wrote:
Well I'm interested in York Uni. What other Universities are good for
Computer Science and would you generally recommend? What University
are you at?
York is a good university for CS, and it's also a really nice uni. I'd
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 10:05:48 Daniel Lamb wrote:
Go and see them both, don't only go to a uni due to their rankings. Make
sure you will be happy there as well.
Couldn't agree more - you do have to live there for 3+ years!
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On Wednesday 17 October 2007 at 00:58:06 Alan Pope wrote:
Flash :(
Not download, stream only :(
Mind you, most flash sites can be worked around with tools like
http://keepvid.com/ but it shouldn't be that way. We (along with Mac
users) shouldn't be second-class citizens.
Well said.
Let's
On Wednesday 17 October 2007 15:55:25 Steve Flynn wrote:
heh! I had a stunningly brilliant time at University - virtually none of it
was to do with the course or the location though - it was all about meeting
new people, becoming independent, living away from home, etc. Perhaps
that's why I
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 11:11:41 Stephen Garton wrote:
I went to KDE that time because I
wanted to use Quanta and Amarok natively (Quanta on recommendation for
web development, Amarok as it is the ONLY audio player I can find that
does everything I want, but that's for another flamewar ;)
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 11:13:58 Tony Arnold wrote:
On Fri, 2007-10-12 at 11:08 +0100, Michael Holloway wrote:
I'm a KDE man... at least i know how to pronounce it:)
Is the G in Gnome silent or not, i've heard conflicting opinions all the
time.
I heard a recent podcast of an
On Friday 12 October 2007 at 10:54:18 Wulfy wrote:
I was wondering how many people on-list used any of the alternate forms
of Ubuntu - Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu etc. I mostly see references to
the plain Ubuntu...
I use Kubuntu, btw... Just can't stand that evil Gnome... :@)
Yep, Kubuntu
On Wednesday 10 October 2007 21:49, Darren Mansell wrote:
Just to let everyone know the SBLUG (Birmingham) is having a release
party for Gutsy a week tomorrow on launch date (18th Oct)
I'm booked to do a small talk and demo of the new features of Gutsy so
everything is likely to go wrong with
On Sunday 07 October 2007 17:32:54 Chris Rowson wrote:
I think one of my favorite tag lines involving ubuntu was coined by Arron
finnon (President of The Abertay Linux Society) while atending the debian
confrence. Ubuntu: is an old african word for Cant Install Debian
I heard a similar
On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder wrote:
Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would probably
me able to help out.
Likewise, I'm in Birmingham and would be more than happy to come along and
help out.
Pete.
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On Friday 05 October 2007 10:40:28 alan c wrote:
Peter Lewis wrote:
On Friday 05 October 2007 08:37:21 Matthew Holder wrote:
Excellent idea for a project. As I live in Birmingham I would
probably me able to help out.
Likewise, I'm in Birmingham and would be more than happy to come
On Friday 05 October 2007 15:40:38 andylockran wrote:
We had some fun on Wednesday night on IRC installing Virtual Richard
Stallman on our ubuntu boxes to see how many non-free products were
installed.
Well, as it's a friday afternoon, and people are probably looking for
something to waste
On Friday 05 October 2007 16:38:56 andylockran wrote:
by the way - the current leader is popey with 0 non free packages on his
server.
I only have 1 non free on my server - something to do with rar - and I
can't get rid :(
I just checked my server too, but it says that the default ubuntu
On Thursday 04 October 2007 11:28, STONE COLD wrote:
sorry i forgot bout the topposting!
thank you for answering my q!
cool
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Oct 2007 11:13:30 +0100 Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] mythbuntu- stable
release On Thu, 2007-10-04
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:39, Chris Rowson wrote:
I am AMAZED at how much MORE traffic something relatively simple, like
electing a well-respected, experienced Ubuntu Advocate to be PoC has
generated... relative to stuff like, say, the launch coming up in 2
weeks time.
M.
I
Hi,
On Monday 01 October 2007 20:37:05 Chris Rowson wrote:
As I'm sure that most of you are aware a discussion has taken place on
the mailing list as to the legitimacy and accuracy of the PoC election
process.
snip
The question is quite simply do you want the election to be held
again, yes
On Sunday 30 September 2007 17:46:06 Matthew Larsen wrote:
PS I noted, Lord and master, you called us citizens: Your not turning
Ubuntu-UK into a fascist dictatorship are you? :S
Better than being subjects which I think all of us in the UK technically
are :-(
Well done Alan!
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On Friday 13 July 2007 at 13:50:20 Kirrus wrote:
I use html emails all the time: Our customers request headers, and emails
that have a bit more style than just text on a page. If I want to eat, then
we provide what the customer wants, not what we'd prefer to do. There is
only so far, and on
On Friday 13 July 2007 at 13:24:35 Kirrus wrote:
- Peter Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Josh's mail seemed to me to have been sent twice - once in HTML and
once in
plain text.
This is standard functionality of most advanced e-mail clients:
Well IMO it shouldn't be. I really hope we
On Friday 13 July 2007 at 12:54:03 Josh Blacker wrote:
On 7/13/07, Paul Mellors [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I don't know about everyone, but i've turned off HTML mail in my email
client so can't actually read your emails. Is there any reason people
use HMTL enabled email instead of plain
On Monday 18 June 2007 at 13:43:46 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My one-year-old son has a new favourite game - pressing the power button
on his Dad's PC.
Sounds like fun!
I am running Gnome on Fiesty and whenever the power button is pressed it
pops up a modal dialogue box asking if I want to
On Monday 18 June 2007 at 13:54:00 Alan Pope wrote:
Yup, and it's configurable. Right click Gnome Power Manager and choose
Preferences. In the General tab there is a when the power button is
pressed.., change the drop down from Ask me to Do nothing. Job done.
Ahem, that'll be the proper (tm)
Hi all,
This isn't in any way intended to be a gripe, but I was wondering what it is
with the mails that come through on this list - very often the formatting is
completely messed up. I've never experienced this on any other mailing list
(I use quite a few), but this kind of thing is what I'm
On Sunday 10 June 2007 10:33:01 Tony Arnold wrote:
Peter Lewis wrote:
This isn't in any way intended to be a gripe, but I was wondering what it
is with the mails that come through on this list - very often the
formatting is completely messed up. I've never experienced this on any
other
On Wednesday 30 May 2007 at 13:16:42 Chris Rowson wrote:
Just checking out The Register and I found an article about MS's new
product. Microsoft Surface. Credit where credit's due - I think it
looks pretty uber! If they've patented the concept behind this, it'd
be hard to compete in a lot of
Hi Lou,
Welcome to the group.
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 at 13:42:39 Louis Gidney wrote:
Only just got round to joining this list although I have been using
Ubuntu Dapper for about four months, to assess whether it will serve my
purposes. I like it. After all, unix was a mature OS long before
On Monday 21 May 2007 at 09:08:51 Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of
resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them that there is a
It's viruses, we don't speak Latin in this country, we speak English,
and to pluralise in English you
On Monday 21 May 2007 at 11:49:45 norman wrote:
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 11:15 +0100, Peter Lewis wrote:
On Monday 21 May 2007 at 09:08:51 Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
Windows. They assume that all computers are slow, need lots of
resources and get virus's (or is it viri!). Show them
On Wednesday 09 May 2007 09:09:26 Alan Pope wrote:
FYI. Software Freedom Day are taking registrations.
This looks really interesting. I'm glad that Ubuntu is co-sponsoring it.
Are we (Ubuntu-UK loco) going to do something, or should we do stuff at the
LUG level?
I'd be really interested in
On Thursday 03 May 2007 at 17:49:20 Chris Rowson wrote:
I created this entry on the Dell IdeaStorm site. Please vote for it
and or comment.
Good work... it seems that there are already a couple of duplicates on the
site, but more can't do any harm! Vote for all three!
Hi all,
Inspired by the previous thread, I thought I'd try again to get my Nokia N80
to sync with Kontact in Kubuntu Feisty over bluetooth.
I can do OBEX's of files back and forth, but that's all so far...
Has anyone had any success with this?
TIA,
Pete.
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