Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shock announcement

2017-04-05 Thread TT Mooney
Not all that surprising -- Phone/Touch never took off. Killing Unity is a surprise, and I like the UI, but understandable. There was just too much of a disconnect from the community. I still believe in convergence, but I don't pretend to know how it's going to happen (I'm hoping my next-gen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Dell XPS Dev Edition?

2016-11-02 Thread TT Mooney
Probably not, other than the lack of a license, £50 cheaper, and terrible support on anything other than the shipped release. Typed on an XPS Ubuntu edition which has never worked well under anything after 12.04. travis On 02/11/16 21:16, Steve Mynott wrote: > I can't find either the 6th gen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Real Ale Train 2016 - date poll

2016-03-14 Thread TT Mooney
Well, 10 September is my birthday, so that gets my vote! On 14/03/2016 10:22, Iain Cuthbertson wrote: > Good evening everybody, > > Who likes beer, steam trains, beer, card games, more beer, and a bloody > good time? > > Yes! It's time to think about the Ubuntu UK RAT for 2016! > > As it's such a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] SOT - What phone do you use?

2015-03-06 Thread TT Mooney
So. I have a LOT of phones. For my 'testing'. The list is below, but the end result is that I'm using an iPhone 6 now (mostly for the vertical in-house IT stack that Apple provides, and testing my new IOS app). I 'upgraded' from a Nexus 5 running CM. My favourite phone of all time is still the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-06 Thread TT Mooney
On 06/01/15 14:26, Bill B. wrote: On Mon, 2015-01-05 at 18:40 +, TT Mooney wrote: BTW, most of my 5-6 year old equipment still works without any issue. In fact, my Thinkpad X220 is still going strong, running Ubuntu. But I thought it would be good to vote with my wallet to show some

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-05 Thread TT Mooney
On 05/01/15 16:46, TT Mooney wrote: I'm in the process of founding a startup, and even though I've kept my current company as Linux on the desktop shop for 10 years, the startup is going Mac. Because it's easier to maintain -- because the hardware vendor cares about making sure it 'just works

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-05 Thread TT Mooney
On 05/01/15 17:58, Gibbs wrote: On 05/01/15 16:46, TT Mooney wrote: On 05/01/15 16:12, Gibbs wrote: I love the freedom of Linux, especially on the desktop. The software is mature (albeit there are problems, like at the end of Gnome 2). But hardware that 'just works' with the OS

Re: [ubuntu-uk] How old is your computer?

2015-01-05 Thread TT Mooney
On 08/12/14 13:53, Alan Pope wrote: On 6 December 2014 at 15:51, George Tripp luggeo...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: I feel it's a pity that Canonical don't collaborate with a supplier to provide PC / laptops which are definitely compatible with Ubuntu. Canonical does. For example there are around

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

2014-12-08 Thread TT Mooney
of the overall marketing plan. Travis On 8 December 2014 10:23:28 GMT+00:00, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote: On 7 December 2014 at 23:35, TT Mooney ttmoo...@ttmooney.com wrote: I attended the 14.10 launch party at the Lion and Unicorn, and there was only one person there who didn't come with me (hey, Avi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] UK Team Reboot

2014-12-07 Thread TT Mooney
Hey folks -- I've been thinking about this for a while. As someone who used to work on Apple higher education marketing and a big fan of Guy Kawasaki, I think there are a lot of things that are possible. Probably we are talking about two things: 1) Advocacy/marketing to possible new users. 2)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Choice of laptop

2014-11-04 Thread TT Mooney
Guys -- Just FYI, like a lot of other people, I bought a Dell with Ubuntu pre-loaded. In my case, it's the Sputnik 3 (XPS 13 9333) 'Enterprise' with HD5000 graphics. It shipped with a Dell-approved build of 12.04, which worked well enough, but had a funky boot process during which it was pretty

[ubuntu-uk] Paging Alan Lord

2014-09-02 Thread TT Mooney
All -- Please forgive the paging post! Alan -- Drop me an email from your work account, to tra...@talia.net, please. I might have an OpenERP job for you. travis -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Anyone going to Linuxcon/Cloudopen in Chicago?

2014-08-15 Thread TT Mooney
Hey Y'all -- I purchased my tickets and made my hotel reservation. Is anyone else going? I am OB on Virgin Tuesday 19 August, returning Sunday 24 August (love that stay a Sunday rule, huh?). Kind regards, travis -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] RAT This Saturday

2014-08-02 Thread TT Mooney
Hey all -- First time joining up for the RAT! Looking forward to it. What time does everyone intend to meet up at Alton? Meeting at Farnham first is a nice idea, but I don't think I can make it. It'll be nice to put some faces to the names on the list. travis On 31/07/14 13:00,

[ubuntu-uk] RAT

2014-08-02 Thread TT Mooney
the person managing the list at ubuntu-uk-ow...@lists.ubuntu.com When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than Re: Contents of ubuntu-uk digest... Today's Topics: 1. Re: RAT This Saturday (Alan Lord) 2. Re: RAT This Saturday (TT Mooney) 3. Re: RAT

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

2014-04-02 Thread TT Mooney
Hi Al -- Any chance of releasing the server source, now that the project is being discontinued? Kind regards, travis On 02/04/14 15:22, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:07:51 +0100 From: Alan Pope a...@popey.com To: British Ubuntu Talk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Release Parties..

2014-04-02 Thread TT Mooney
Al -- I would like to come along, and since I've never been to the Canonical offices, I'd be very happy to join y'all there. Kind regards, travis On 02/04/14 15:22, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2014 14:33:55 +0100 From: Alan Pope a...@popey.com To: British

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Shutting down Ubuntu One file services

2014-04-02 Thread TT Mooney
down Ubuntu One file services Message-ID: cajqxyccexpwtpnkwrdv9o0jmyjs+ejabqj6aa3g9nvrxnjp...@mail.gmail.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On 2 April 2014 19:13, TT Mooney ttmoo...@dilettantism.com wrote: Any chance of releasing the server source, now that the project is being

[ubuntu-uk] DSL provider

2013-05-07 Thread TT Mooney
Hi all - I've been a happy user of O2 broadband for years, but now that Murdoch has laid his hands on it, I want to change provider. Does anyone have a recommendation? I used to have BT, and they were mostly useless. There is a bit of bittorent going on, so I'm looking for an uncapped adsl2

[ubuntu-uk] Tablets announcement: Skype for Arm Linux?

2013-02-19 Thread TT Mooney
So, the tablets announcement wasn't really surprising, but it did raise a question. On the features page, it talks about: Take calls in Skype while you work in a document, make notes on the side while you surf the web, tweet while you watch a movie. And, of course, most of the target tablets are

[ubuntu-uk] Government IT spending outrageously high... anyone surprised?

2011-07-28 Thread TT Mooney
From the Register: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/07/28/mps_slam_government_it_spend/ And the actual report: http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201012/cmselect/cmpubadm/715/71502.htm Fun reading! Not surprising in the least, though. And we haven't even talked about the Defence

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Government IT spending outrageously high... anyone surprised?

2011-07-28 Thread TT Mooney
anothermindb...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:35 PM, TT Mooney ttmoo...@dilettantism.comwrote: From the Register: [snip] Why are you telling an Ubuntu mailing list? -- Steve When one person suffers from a delusion it is insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion

[ubuntu-uk] Further Decluttering

2011-06-13 Thread TT Mooney
Hi all -- I am getting rid of some surplus equipment from home, and rather than fuss with Ebay, I thought perhaps someone on the list would be interested. Current techie toys littering the flat include: O2 Joggler (works, briefly used, still in box, replaced with Nook Color Tablet for kitchen

[ubuntu-uk] Decluttering

2011-06-11 Thread TT Mooney
Hi all -- I am getting rid of some surplus equipment from home, and rather than fuss with Ebay, I thought perhaps someone on the list would be interested. Current techie toys littering the flat include: O2 Joggler (works, briefly used, still in box, replaced with Nook Color Tablet for kitchen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] OT Kindle

2011-03-22 Thread TT Mooney
On 22 March 2011 10:41, Paul Sutton zl...@zleap.net wrote: Looking at the amazon kindle it looks as if i can use it to open / read normal pdf files such as the one for the ubuntu manual, if this is the case it would be useful. I have a Kindle 3G (the new one with both GSM and WiFi) and it is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Media Centre Advice

2010-05-12 Thread TT Mooney
I have a budget of around ?300 for a media box which will be directly connected to a TV. I would prefer to buy a pre-built system, something like Acer Aspire Revo (http://www.ebuyer.com/product/172706) would be good and then install Lucid. That's exactly the hardware I was going to recommend.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] The tablet everyone is talking about..

2010-04-07 Thread TT Mooney
Hey all -- Long time listener, first time caller. With my obcession for small Linux devices (man the N800 was COOL, but not terribly useful) I couldn't resist the Joggler. Went down to Oxford Street -- apparently they sold out in store on 2 April, and may have more in on Thursday. Online seems