Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to FF3.5 in Ubuntu

2009-07-09 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Matthews wrote: I tried to upgrade to FF3.5 on my netbook, but it didnt happen, it installed it seperately, but I couldnt get the Addons section to work, and a few other things as well, that was without the addons themselves, they just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ship-It Discs

2009-06-26 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Christopher McDade wrote: I was wondering if anyone on the list has any spare Ubuntu ship-it discs from 5.04 to 6.10 inclusive.I am trying to fill in the gaps and hoping to complete the set. If anyone can help please let me know. Thanks,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 9.04 screen resolution too big

2009-06-17 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David King wrote: I recently installed Ubuntu 9.04. When it boots and I log in, I get a very large screen resolution which makes everything too small. I think it is 1280 x something. I want it set to 1152 x 864, and every time after logging in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Netto Net Book

2009-06-02 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Colin wrote: 2009/6/1 Colin binarysig...@gmail.com 009/6/1 Steve Cook yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Netto are selling the Hercules eCAFÉ™ for £199.95 from Thursday. Anybody any experience

Re: [ubuntu-uk] E-mail body as attachment

2009-06-01 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Archer wrote: Why is it that when some people send an e-mail to the list I receive the e-mail with no body, but it is instead an attachment? It's driving me nuts... Cheers, Steve Because some people have Forward mail as attachment, or

[ubuntu-uk] Netto Net Book

2009-06-01 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Netto are selling the Hercules eCAFÉ™ for £199.95 from Thursday. Anybody any experience of these. The spec seems OK. - -- Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu stickers!

2009-06-01 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Bagnall wrote: Gordon wrote: alan c wrote: James Milligan wrote: Also the CDs you order through shipit come with 4 stickers each I think. I've got a fair few here. Need to stick them somewhere actually. Car back bumper,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dell mini 10v costs more with Ubuntu than with XP

2009-05-31 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Milligan wrote: Ah right. Makes more sense now. Would a small independent store (like I've been asking about) need to pay that as well? I think I remember hearing about something like this a while back on the list. Thanks

Re: [ubuntu-uk] High street store handbagged by angry pensioner

2009-05-30 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Miller wrote: Yes, you're right James... that's why I haven't criticised the staff in my post above. If we want them to be consultants then companies like John Lewis have to train them to be open minded, but I don't think the folks who form

Re: [ubuntu-uk] contents ubuntu-uk Digest.(Problem}

2009-05-21 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Lawrence wrote: Dear Ubuntu UK; I have lost my most fantastic distro of Ubuntu that I have ever put together. Over 150 working apps. Everysingle thing up to date and I was running Ubuntu 8.04 and the overall size

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty upgrade safe enough for me?

2009-04-25 Thread Steve Cook
, yet I really would like to upgrade it thanks :) === Farran Lee I'm only 16 :P -- Steve Cook yorvik.ubu...@googlemail.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] jaunty upgrade safe enough for me?

2009-04-25 Thread Steve Cook
On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 14:50:27 +0100 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 14:19 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: On Sat, 25 Apr 2009 13:38:10 +0100 Farran Lee fazzy.bab...@ntlworld.com wrote: hi all sorry to sound like I'm doubting Jaunty... I'm not, it's just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed computer prices

2009-03-25 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eddie Bernard wrote: Good morning everyone I have a price in mind for this machine (including UK mainland delivery) - but I'm curious to hear what other people think might be a fair price for it. Here’s your competition

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Jaunty Jackalope

2009-03-21 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ged byrom wrote: On Sat, 21 Mar 2009 10:05:39 -, Tim Powys-Lybbe t...@southfarm.plus.com wrote: In message of 21 Mar, ged byrom ged.by...@ntlworld.com wrote: Is there any special reason for naming this release after a mythical beastie

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Transcribers List

2008-07-03 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 11:17:37PM +0100, Steve Cook wrote: Yes I'm subscribed. Just sent a test mail to see if I messed something up earlier. It's because your address in launchpad is set as @gmail.com, but your mails

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 8.04.1 iso?

2008-07-03 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 James Westby wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:23 +0100, Mac wrote: James Westby wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 20:08 +0100, Mac wrote: Does anybody know whether the current iso is now 8.04.1? I'd give it a couple more hours yet. It's still planned

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Transcribers List

2008-07-03 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Walker wrote: SNIP Do you see You are subscribed to the team mailing list. under Your involvement? Yes I'm subscribed. Just sent a test mail to see if I messed something up earlier. Steve Hi Steve, I just sent a test email to

[ubuntu-uk] Transcribers List

2008-07-02 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I sent as mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] at 10:10 this morning and it hasn't appeared in the archive as yet. Is the list working or have I done/not done something. Steve -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Transcribers] More Transcription news

2008-07-01 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: Hi This will probably be my last mail about podcast transcription to the Ubuntu-UK mailing list. The transcribers team now have a separate mailing list specifically for transcription of audio data. It's hosted on launchpad

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [Transcribers] More Transcription news

2008-07-01 Thread Steve Cook
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: On Tue, Jul 01, 2008 at 09:52:41AM +0100, Steve Cook wrote: I've not received anything from the transcribers list, yet! There has only been one message so far and it pre-dates your subscription :) That would explain it, Ta

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast Transcription How-To

2008-06-27 Thread Steve Cook
Alan Pope wrote: Hi, After the very useful thready yesterday Dave and I created a brief how-to, to get people started on Launchpad and Bazaar for podcast transcription. I also created a screencast but the audio got all out of sync so it drifts towards the end. I've put it online and if I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast Transcription How-To

2008-06-27 Thread Steve Cook
Dave Walker wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 15:23 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: SNIP As this uses transcribe, what do I do with the plain text file I've produced? I'll redo it with transcribe if need be. (when I've fathomed how to use it.) Apart from that it looks straight forward. Hi Steve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast Transcription How-To

2008-06-27 Thread Steve Cook
Dave Walker wrote: On Fri, 2008-06-27 at 15:23 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: SNIP As this uses transcribe, what do I do with the plain text file I've produced? I'll redo it with transcribe if need be. (when I've fathomed how to use it.) Apart from that it looks straight forward. Hi Steve, I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Podcast Transcription How-To

2008-06-27 Thread Steve Cook
Andy wrote: Steve Cook wrote: OK I seem to be getting the hang of Transcriber. I've done 20s worth, which I've uploaded to bazaar. It appears to have worked OK. Could someone confirm that everything is OK before I continue on. It's in bazaar fine. It opens in my copy of Transcriber too

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wanted: Podcast transcribers

2008-06-25 Thread Steve Cook
Stephen O'Neill wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lucy wrote: Would it be worth splitting each podcast into 10 minute chunks? I did wonder about this too - I would definitely be able to pitch in if it was one or two 10 minute chunks to transcribe each week. If we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wanted: Podcast transcribers

2008-06-25 Thread Steve Cook
Stephen Drake wrote: Snip It definitely helps if you're familiar with the subject under discussion and you'll very quickly be annoyed when you realise most people don't talk in proper sentences. ...um, err, ye, what, why err... :-) Just having a go at transcribing the interview with Becky

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Wanted: Podcast transcribers

2008-06-25 Thread Steve Cook
Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 20:41 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: Just having a go at transcribing the interview with Becky Hogge of the Open Rights Group from the first pod cast to see how quickly I can get it done. One thing I had last time I did this was a media player with fast

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 8.04

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Cook
On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 23:10 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Steve, Steve Cook wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-28 at 18:28 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: BTW, anyone else had trouble with CD burning after upgrading? Yep! just spent an 'orrible evening trying to get Hardy to do something sensible

Re: [ubuntu-uk] CD Burning with Hardy

2008-04-29 Thread Steve Cook
On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 22:19 +0100, James Westby wrote: On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 21:40 +0100, Steve Cook wrote: AS mentioned in another thread some of us are having a few problems burning CD/DVDs, especially RW types, after upgrading form Gutsy to Hardy. It was suggested that a clean install

Re: [ubuntu-uk] show of hands.. was: 8.04 Ubuntu release party - London - 24th April

2008-04-23 Thread Steve Cook
On Wed, 2008-04-23 at 16:28 +0100, Tony Arnold wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 09:29 +0100, Kat Kinnie wrote: Stick it in your diary and feel free to bring along friends and family too, the more the merrier. You can see it on the wiki page for Ubuntu release

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

2008-04-20 Thread Steve Cook
On Sat, 2008-03-01 at 18:31 +, Farran wrote: On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 18:53 +, Alan Pope wrote: I'm thinking about starting a new sport called Ubuntu Spotting. Using your keen eye, look out for indications of Ubuntu use in every day life. Points are awarded for spotting:- *

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Motherboards dying ( was:Re: possible to install ubuntu like gentoo?)

2008-04-17 Thread Steve Cook
On Thu, 2008-04-17 at 21:29 +0100, Farran Lee wrote: slightly off the motherboard branch: just checked my system info, and it now says I have 1.9GB memory instead of 2! Definitely sending it back now... sysinfo doesn't report the correct size anyway, on my 768MB system it reports 757MB Steve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The BBC Launches Wiiplayer??? WHAT!?

2008-04-11 Thread Steve Cook
On Fri, 2008-04-11 at 11:31 +0100, Andrew Oakley wrote: Steve Cook wrote: Channel4 receive some funds from the licence fee. Hmm, that's not strictly true. I've put 2 and 10 togetrher and got IV :-) I've obviously misunderstood the origin of this thanks for the enlightenment. Steve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The BBC Launches Wiiplayer??? WHAT!?

2008-04-10 Thread Steve Cook
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 12:45 +, Andy Smith wrote: Hi Jmaes, On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:52:55PM +0100, Jmaes Edward Grabham wrote: The BBC is a socialist corporation - you HAVE to pay them BY LAW. Therefore there's no profit increasing who gets thei I-services. If you had to pay,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-03-28 Thread Steve Cook
On Fri, 2008-03-28 at 22:48 +, London School of Puppetry wrote: Hi there Craig, I think Richmond School in North Yorkshire witched completely to Open Source. There was also stuff said in Parliament about the benefits of OS too - you might have to have a hunt for the info. I'd heard this

Re: [ubuntu-uk] New computer nightmare!

2008-03-14 Thread Steve Cook
On Fri, 2008-03-14 at 17:01 +, Rob Beard wrote: ...you should really aim for a dual core CPU nowadays Why? Steve -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Switched hard drives

2008-02-23 Thread Steve Cook
On Sat, 2008-02-23 at 11:41 +, Andy Watts wrote: Hi people l do hope that this hasn't been asked too many times before.. l have 2 hard drives in my machine, 1 with windows 2k and the other with Ubuntu on it. l've tried having them both connected to the same ribbon and rebooting

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Dual monitors with independent desktops

2008-02-12 Thread Steve Cook
On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 22:45 +, Rob Beard wrote: Hi folks, The graphics card on my PC has dual DVI video output (it's an ATI Radeon X300). At the moment I'm only using a single display on a 17 LCD monitor, however I was wondering if it's possible to run two screens but

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 33, Issue 51

2008-01-27 Thread Steve Cook
On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 19:24 +, Tony Arnold wrote: Martyn wrote: Message: 1 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2008 00:50:46 + From: C L Chatfield [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Fct or Fiction. Survelance Paranoia To: British Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Message-ID: [EMAIL

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How 'Gnu' are you?

2007-10-05 Thread SteVe Cook
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 their time.. let's all take turns

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Anyone buy Linux Format magazine?

2007-09-19 Thread SteVe Cook
Mark Allison wrote: Hi there, I'm just reading through this month's Linux Format mag (LXF97 Oct 07) and noticed that there was a good article on the linux filesystem in issue LXF95 (Aug 07). Does anyone have a copy that they don't want any more? Could you post it to me (I'll cover the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Hard drive partitions/ Space

2007-09-07 Thread SteVe Cook
STONE COLD wrote: I have a dual boot installed on an 80gb hd. I installed a 400gb for my media. I partitioned this 400gb hd into two 200gb partitions But after a gutsy install they are now showing 186gb of free space each! I don’t understand why this is? Any information will be appreciated

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Two operating systems

2007-07-26 Thread SteVe Cook
Keith Powell wrote: For some time now, I have had two hard drives, each in its own plug-in mobile hard drive caddy. One has XP on it (which I still need :-( and the other has Ubuntu on it. So I have just plugged in whichever OS I wanted. I'm thinking of doing away with the hard drive

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Making embedded media work properly

2007-07-04 Thread SteVe Cook
Mac wrote: This is very curious. I'm not sure it's simply a sites issue; I wonder if the inconsistent symptoms we observe aren't partly due to our own particular combinations of conflicts between various players, or the remnants of various players, that we've installed and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Making embedded media work properly

2007-07-04 Thread SteVe Cook
Michael wrote: SteVe Cook wrote: I've just tried the GMTV clips page out in Windows. In Firefox 2.0 the interview with Michael Kerr plays out in sound only until you click inside the embedded player, causing the stream to be shown in full-screen mode. In Internet Explorer, nothing

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Making embedded media work properly

2007-07-04 Thread SteVe Cook
Michael wrote: I tell a lie: you seem to have to wait a few minutes before you're allowed to see a new clip. Fullscreen mode doesn't work in any case. That would appear to be the case as I've just tried it again, following your post. Why they can't use some sensible format I don't know,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] What do you think of this?

2007-05-30 Thread SteVe Cook
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 applications in the future What

Re: [ubuntu-uk] A GUI Grub editor?

2007-02-26 Thread SteVe Cook
alan c wrote: My world is mostly populated by windows users who are interested in moving to linux - computer fairs, talks to local groups, friends etc. They have more than a healthy fear of change and usually can not cope well with command line or even file editing, certainly not at first.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] more things worth signing

2007-02-22 Thread SteVe Cook
Caroline Ford wrote: baza wrote: This one is worth signing. http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/iplayer/ Baz This has come up on another list I'm on and seems pretty dodgy to me. It's basically asking the Prime Minister to order the BBC to do something. The BBC is independent and should stay

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Awareness-Raising Campaign Idea (was Ubuntu CNR deal)

2007-02-14 Thread SteVe Cook
alan c wrote: Alan Pope wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:14:57AM +, alan c wrote: Have you seen how absolutely difficult it is to get a PC *without* windows? For example, I believe that all of the Dell soho range are now offering vista. Only. Not strictly true. Try phoning them up

Re: [ubuntu-uk] EDM179

2006-12-24 Thread SteVe Cook
Dave Ewart wrote: On Sunday, 24.12.2006 at 09:37 -, Jonathan Lees wrote: OO is offered as an alternative to MS Office, it sees about 2% usage from students that have it at home. Our IT teachers will not touch it as it involves rewriting worksheets for students which have all been based

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Speedtouch 330 Adsl modem on Ubuntu 6.10

2006-12-04 Thread SteVe Cook
I've used this page with no problems at all http://linux-usb.sourceforge.net/SpeedTouch/ubuntu/index.html SteVe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/