On 21/08/10 22:48, Alan Bell wrote:
We have discussed a number of logo designs which might work for the team.
Now we need to choose one to put forward for approval. I am putting together
a vote page at http://pollka.libertus.co.uk can you let me know if you want
any other options added. I will
On 19/08/10 19:12, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
Be there or be somewhere else:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeamMeetingAgenda
In #ubuntu-uk-meeting on Freenode.
Thanks for the heads up Alan, I was just able to make it
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On 18/08/10 18:25, Simon Wears wrote:
Heyhey everybody!
I'm looking at investing in a scanner so I can digitise my university notes
this coming academic year. I was wondering if anyone has a scanner they can
recommend that works well with Ubuntu? Ideally it would be a tray-fed
scanner, so I
Heads up for an excellent article which has an anaylitical view on
the operating systems business models, and their current and possible
future status. It is a long item, so grab a hot drink too.
A Fund Manager Tries To Figure Out Whether Microsoft's Business Will
Collapse
On 09/08/10 09:00, Byte Soup wrote:
Hi,
I see my update manager this morning showing a update to base-files, when
going to install these are listed as uncertified.
I had the same on two machines I noticed very recently. I changed the
update server from
uk server
to
Main server
and
On 05/08/10 19:32, Alan Bell wrote:
On 05/08/10 19:58, Rob Beard wrote:
I like it but I think the actual image of the Meerkats is too low in
resolution and looks pixelated. It'll possibly show up more when printed.
I like the idea though.
Rob
yeah, the low res is creative commons
On 05/08/10 17:32, Alan Bell wrote:
Hi all,
So we talked a while back about doing some installfest type activities
on 10/10/10 I have been drafting a little poster idea together, you can
see it here:
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uuk/installfest2.pdf
The idea is to get a bunch of
On 03/08/10 10:04, John Stevenson wrote:
On 3 August 2010 10:00, Rowanrowan.berke...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello again,
I have figured out how to load from the Live CD; I had to follow a
slightly unfamiliar sequence, using Lenovo's own BIOS; I couldn't see
how to do it from GRUB. So now I
On 03/08/10 12:39, gazz wrote:
The network manager from 9.04 onwards drives me up the wall! I'm now
using Lucid and I needed to install a wireless access point, the network
manager wouldn't let me connect to its interface so I had to remove the
network manager and put wicd on instead. OK, now
I took a few leaflets about Open Source Software to my local Library
today, and although the main town Library accepts a few, the local
Library down the road treated the situation with suspicion.
I pondered this, and later decided that it was really down to probably
a lack of knowledge by the
On 23/07/10 11:00, Alan Pope wrote:
On 23 July 2010 10:51, David Kinglinux...@avoura.com wrote:
The subject line seems to suggest that the next Ubuntu release will be
the answer to life, the universe and everything?
That's a side-effect, yes. Mark Shuttleworth explained it at his
keynote
Are you near Bracknell Berkshire?
There are regular meet ups at South Hill Park relating
to interest in Ubuntu.
The meet up is limited to a nominal hour of time, and anyone may attend.
It is primarily a social and contact meet up, although technical stuff
can get discussed too if wanted.
The
On 28/05/10 18:09, e-mail b.drake wrote:
Hi there .
I'm staying with friends in the US at the moment, so although I've been
following the list, I haven't been writing of late. I just made a lengthy
effort to research Dell on their web sites. First it seems to be impossible
to contact
On 25/05/10 10:34, Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hello,
First of all a brief apology for not sorting this out sooner, moving
house has taken somewhat longer than I originally intended. I'm hoping
to start getting things back on track now.
Secondly, thanks to the people who turned up to my (frankly
On 26/05/10 10:08, Alan Pope wrote:
On 26 May 2010 10:04, Rowan Berkeleyrowan.berke...@googlemail.com wrote:
I have checked this several times. According to the settings it should
show LTS releases.
What version are you currently running? The lsb_release command helps here:-
e.g.
On 26/05/10 16:22, Alan Pope wrote:
On 26 May 2010 16:16, alan caecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote:
I hope that an elegant method of LTS to LTS version upgrade will
emerge because LTS tends to be used by people who include those less
confident.
As I understand it LTS to LTS upgrades don't
On 18/05/10 18:50, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
I've downloaded this from the repository and installed it, but I don't
know where it has been installed, since it doesn't appear on any of my
menus. Nor of course do I know how to use it. Is there a tutorial
anywhere?
If you installed it from the
Jon Farmer wrote:
On Sat, 2010-05-01 at 13:34 +0100, Barry Titterton wrote:
I am trying to view the virtual tour for the Shakespeare Globe Theatre
on their web site but it requires Quicktime plugin for Firefox. The
default plugin does not work. I have tried the VLC plugin but that does
not
Norman Silverstone wrote:
I heard about School of everything on the radio this morning, and put
my sceptical spectacles on. But when I looked at it, I liked it..
It even allows 'teachers' to be enthusiasts and to help for free!
http://schoolofeverything.com/
and particularly, guess
I heard about School of everything on the radio this morning, and put
my sceptical spectacles on. But when I looked at it, I liked it..
It even allows 'teachers' to be enthusiasts and to help for free!
http://schoolofeverything.com/
and particularly, guess who:
Dianne Reuby wrote:
Last week my son used my PC for a minute, when he left it I said Hey,
where're all my icons? It's always doing that. It's never done it to
me!
Now tonight it has done it to me - I was using Filezilla, and couldn't
find Desktop in the directory listing. So I typed it in
David King wrote:
Thanks, Iain, I just uploaded 5 images to the group on Flickr.
David King
Iain Farrell wrote:
There's going to be another contest to get great photos into Ubuntu
10.04 and you can enter. You can read more on my blog -
Steve wrote:
A new thread to discus a possible TV advert
I was at a friend's house this afternoon (Sunday) and happened to
notice a Microsoft Windows 7 tv advert on the channel which was sky
sports, at approximately 3.30 pm , in the middle of a lot of sports
programs.
It occurred to me that if
James Milligan wrote:
On 31/01/2010 20:01, alan c wrote:
Steve wrote:
A new thread to discus a possible TV advert
I was at a friend's house this afternoon (Sunday) and happened to
notice a Microsoft Windows 7 tv advert on the channel which was sky
sports, at approximately 3.30
Steve wrote:
A new thread to discus a possible TV advert
Just a thought - this Firefox ad in New York Times
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/0,100097,39181362,00.htm
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A third attempt at a published Government strategy. It looks even more
like it means business than the preceding ones.
Open Source, Open Standards and Re-Use: Government Action Plan
http://www.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/media/318020/open_source.pdf
Forward (extract)
Paul Sutton wrote:
Does anyone know of any computer fairs taking place in Devon or cornwall
, ideally torbay area, or if the one that used to take place is newton
abbot still happens.
I have found various sites that list events, but to be honest they are
pretty rubbish at being up to date,
alan c wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I
wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be
somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about
Ubuntu Hours around the UK.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com
Alan Pope wrote:
[...]
We have a wiki page listing Ubuntu Hours around the world, and I
wanted to encourage people to consider scheduling an hour to be
somewhere and let the community know. I'd love to start hearing about
Ubuntu Hours around the UK.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Hour
Hour
Rob Beard wrote:
A friend of mine has asked me to sort out 2 laptops, one is a P3
800 with 192MB Ram and the other is a P3 733 with 128MB Ram,
as you probably already know, an increase in ram on this class of
machine will make a vast difference in performance
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Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 17/01/10 12:37, alan c wrote:
Tony Pursell wrote:
Conversion is a marketing job.
+1
Surely by educating users we will help stem a lot of the negative press
and the uneducated retail staff problem though?
Don't you think that a lot of what people
Jon Spriggs wrote:
I have forwarded the e-mail to the uk-hackspaces mailing list, as there are
several regional hackspaces across the UK (London, Birmingham, Manchester,
Liverpool, Leeds) who may be able to help - in some cases with venue and in
others with knowledge.
[...]
useful for a
Joe wrote:
However, it may be difficult to convince
whatever training centre we use to install Ubuntu on their computers so
it could be worth having a number of live USB keys with a fresh install
of Ubuntu and training material on them.
I agree, especially at my school, there would be no
Tony Pursell wrote:
Conversion is a marketing job.
+1
Training can only
be aimed at people who are already converts, or who are the rare few
who cannot have MS Windows.
If we are to get past 'gatekeepers' who are died in the wool MS users,
then we will need a really cast iron
Steve wrote:
I know from talking to people in the pub that a awful lot
of people have no interest in another operating system.
that could be where marketing comes in
Their computer
comes with one and that’s what they’re going to use. As you say training
will probably have to
Matthew Daubney wrote:
Hey All,
This was discussed at the last meeting, but I'm slow and should have put
this up sooner. One thing that was discussed was the idea of doing some
real life training for people who are new to Ubuntu, through to those
who consider themselves experts.
I've
Alan Bell wrote:
just to remind you all that we have an Ubuntu-uk meeting on IRC channel
#ubuntu-uk on the freenode network one hour from now at 7:30 this
evening. You can normally join in a browser at
http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=ubuntu-uk or using Empathy, Pidgin
or another IRC
It may be of interest to know that an OS based on Ubuntu 9.10 has
been produced in Chinese.
Out of interest I have downloaded the iso, checked the md5sum, and run
the CD as live, with a few small guesses because I dont read Chinese.
It looks superficially like XP, although I have not
Des wrote:
Hello all,
I cannot receive emails but can send them. This has been going on for
eight days now days now.
Oddly, this happened just after I logged on for batch sending of all
messages from ubuntu-uk
Test messages to my email addr are not received but are logged as sent.
Rowan Berkeley wrote:
[...]
I bought a Lenovo N500 with Ubuntu from the Linux Emporium in July for
£457.70 all incl., and I haven't had a single problem with it. Check
their web page for the exact specs on all the machines they offer:
http://linuxemporium.co.uk/products/laptops/
I helped
Gordon wrote:
Preferably inexpensive!
(Running 9.10)
I found these links useful:
http://www.quickcamteam.net/hcl/linux/logitech-webcams
http://www.quickcamteam.net/devices/logitech_uvc_device_list.pdf
good luck
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I was using a website, using firefox browser, recently and found that
the display gave a text overlap of a field I wanted to use, which
caused difficulty. I informed the site author and the matter is now
awaiting correction.
However, when I was in discussion with the site author there was the
Isabell Long wrote:
Hi there,
It just occured to me that I haven't heard of any events going on in or
around London and I was just wondering whether there are any coming up or at
least are some planned?
I am desperate to get more involved and meet more likeminded people in real
life as
computing.co.uk magazine
Article
Open source ins the new driving force
http://digg.com/d31CbXu
extract:
The realisation comes when an organisation finds it has not bought a
software product but rather a software service. What at first seemed
to be a shrink-wrapped purchase soon turns into an
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/11/26 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
(also to ubuntu forum)
Is anyone in UK using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle and yahoo or
google accounts?
I would be most interested to know if you see the following problems
too. tia.
Workaround - please see
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/11/27 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
2009/11/26 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
(also to ubuntu forum)
Is anyone in UK using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle and yahoo or
google accounts?
I would be most interested to know
(also to ubuntu forum)
Is anyone in UK using Virginmedia mobile internet dongle and yahoo or
google accounts?
I would be most interested to know if you see the following problems
too. tia.
Workaround - please see below.
Problem:
is that although all internet sites are available and work ok,
Alan Bell wrote:
Sean Miller wrote:
Anyone else think £390 for a base unit is somewhat expensive???
Sure, they build them to order or whatever but they must be raking it in!!
And the site doesn't say how much memory the things have - let's hope
it's enough for them to use it as a standard
etali wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
good luck to them. Not sure I would base a product on Mint, but the
hardware looks perfectly good (looks a lot like what I am using right
now) and the price is not the price for a bare bones unit but for the
solution including training materials and support
Gordon wrote:
Michael G Fletcher wrote:
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:11 AM, Gordon gbpli...@gmail.com wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to remotely control a machine
not in the same location and not on the same network?
Ta!
I forgot to mention - the person
Rob Beard wrote:
doug livesey wrote:
I don't know about tuts, but if you look up Gitso, that does what you
need -- there'll be instructions on its page.
Goes Gitso require ports to be opened on the machine you're connecting
in from (rather than the remote machine)?
port needs to be open
Alan Bell wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
Liam (the guy in the video) is on this mailing list.
I wonder if there is a video with Valerie Singleton explaining what
community developed open source software is.
:-)
on a more serious note, *I* looked at a stallman video recently, and
learned a
Gordon wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Can someone point me to a tutorial on how to remotely control a machine
not in the same location and not on the same network?
Ta!
I forgot to mention - the person using this remote computer just about
has the ability
keith wrote:
Hello.
I want to wipe XP from my hard drive, but the only thing which is
preventing me is that I can't get my 6 year old Logitech Quickcam Chat
webcam to work very well in Ubuntu (9.04 or 9.10), with aMSN. The camera
works well in WindowsXP, using the Logitech driver, so it
Norman Silverstone wrote:
I have the pleasant task over the Winter months to start to scan in a few
thousand 35mm colour negatives.
What scanning techniques, or equipment are you using please?
I have an attachment that I fix to my point
? I do not understand this, sorry, is it a typo?
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
I just picked up a tweet by Glyn Moody. He and the editor of ZDnet will
be on the above programme talking about FOSS and Ubuntu apparently.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00npwh0
Thanks Alan, I just managed to listen to it. Good to hear Glyn Moody too.
Recently,
Ian Pascoe wrote:
Evening all
I have the pleasant task over the Winter months to start to scan in a few
thousand 35mm colour negatives.
What scanning techniques, or equipment are you using please?
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Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 27/10/09 08:13, Daniel Drummond wrote:
snip /
If that guy was from Canonical, perhaps they should think about retraining:-
/For the first time in 20 years you can buy Ubuntu pre-installed from
more than one manufacturer, he said. That's an extraordinary story.
/A
Paul Roach wrote:
The moral I take from this is - the more Ubuntu is used, anywhere, the
closer we get to the tipping point.
I have introduced three friends in recent months to Linux Emporium,
because they wanted an Ubuntu only Laptop from a retail friendly
source. Three purchases. LE is
A review and comparison, from someone who is used to using Windows,
MAC and Ubuntu.
Ubuntu comes out pretty well, given that GNU/Linux is a best kept
secret on the high street!
I saw the title and thought I ought to read it, knowing I might not
enjoy it as much I would want to.
But, it is not
john wrote:
Hi Guys,
I have a HP Pavilion desktop pc with tv card (that I never use)
Have just installed Ubuntu but there is no sound, I have also had
trouble with the sound drivers under windows XP.
Also the terminal freezes after the first sudo apt line when it asks for
the password.
Paul Sutton wrote:
James Milligan wrote:
Apologies - sent that a little early!
He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and
don't have to fuss about with it.
so do I hence I use Linux
All
Tony Arnold wrote:
Peter,
Peter Adam Kelly wrote:
I was thinking this morning (which is quite exceptional for me at such
an early hour, but that's another story haha) that a large distro user
base like ubuntu's is great, it standardizes things and all that, but I
was left wondering maybe
Andy Smith wrote:
They are just trying to help as many people as possible without
getting bogged down in technical details. It's a one line
suggestion. Do you really expect a banking leaflet to go into the
pros and cons of secure computing?
Yes I certainly do, I do expect a formal banking
I note that the Banking code section 12.9 advises users to 'Keep your
PC secure'.
http://www.bankingcode.org.uk/pdfdocs/PERSONAL_CODE_2008.PDF
This is something I fully support.
However the Code goes on to give specific advice about how this should
be achieved:
'Use up-to-date anti-virus and
I am delighted to say that I have arranged a FOSS display table at the
festival in Wallingford, the so called 'Bunkfest'
fri 4th - sun 6th september 2009
http://www.bunkfest.co.uk/
My Infopoint display will be in the Craft Tent.
I look forward to seeing any of you who can make it!
Infopint
I have registered a SFD event for Bracknell for 2009 - September 19th.
Last year's event was a success and I hope to do even more this year.
I would be delighted if anyone can help - you will be very welcome.
Please let me know?
http://softwarefreedomday.org/teams/europe/uk/ubuntu-uk/bracknell
I have a friend who is just beginning to use ubuntu (9.04), and she is
using VirginMobile internet from a usb dongle.
The webmail she uses is yahoo. However, just the last few days there
have been considerable problems. The yahoo login page has not been
completing, but hangs when only half
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/7/22 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com:
I have just noticed this expo. Unfortunately I will not be able to
attend these dates.
Where did you notice it out of interest?
I must admit I was slightly surprised to see it, but here is what I saw:
http://www.bvents.com/event
alan c wrote:
I have just noticed this expo. Unfortunately I will not be able to
attend these dates.
[...]
Thanks Alan and Bill - it seems my information is groundless, sorry all.
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I have just noticed this expo. Unfortunately I will not be able to
attend these dates.
However, I *had* been intending to try to arrange a community
(village) stand for the INFOPOINT display - some here might know that
I run an infopoint display regularly at bracknell computer fairs. I
believe an
Rob Beard wrote:
Chris Rowson wrote:
Interesting little story found on /.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/09/07/20/1643251/Microsoft-Releases-Linux-Device-Drivers-As-GPL
Chris
Anyone known the URL for the weather in Hell on the Met Office web site? :-)
yes, I think the last I heard the
darren.mans...@opengi.co.uk wrote:
[...]
With Microsoft, I think it's very difficult to quantify them into
necessarily good or bad due to their size. They undoubtedly have some
very shady business practices but I'm sure some sections have no agendas
besides making software.
Have you seen
David Jones wrote:
One thought I had about the Google Chrome OS is Microsoft, or the
european legislators will push for the web browser to removed from the
OS to match what they expect from Microsoft.
iirc the euro. requirement was not so much for there to be no browser
at all, but for the
Click: 4 July 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8133701.stm
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alan c wrote:
Click: 4 July 2009
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/click_online/8133701.stm
DIgg it?
http://digg.com/linux_unix/BBC_NEWS_Programmes_Click_How_open_source_is_growing_up
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Alan Pope wrote:
2009/7/3 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com:
Does anyone know if there's a flame war mailing list? I don't enjoy
starting flame wars, but IMHO arguing your side in an existing war can
help you let off steam.
Is this a five minute argument or the full half hour?
You are
Harry Rickards wrote:
Does anyone know if there's a flame war mailing list? I don't enjoy
starting flame wars, but IMHO arguing your side in an existing war can
help you let off steam.
A good one is linux advocacy
comp.os.linux.advocacy
very high volume traffic, not all rational by any means,
Tony Arnold wrote:
John,
John wrote:
alan c wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
2009/7/3 Harry Rickards hricka...@l33tmyst.com:
Does anyone know if there's a flame war mailing list? I don't enjoy
starting flame wars, but IMHO arguing your side in an existing war can
help you let off steam
Barry Titterton wrote:
Watch this video right to the end. It made me smile.
http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1886349
It is quite an old video so apologies if you have all seen this before.
Barry
:-)
it does not have many digs yet, I added one
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Rowan wrote:
Dear all: is anyone aware of an MP3 player for Ubuntu which will play
MP3 audio files directly from Ubuntu's own files
yes, just right click on the file and choose the default player
offered, or make use of the next choice in the drop down list and
choose another player.
Note
After reading the horror stories about 'website hacked' and the like I
wanted to check my understanding about backing up.
I am aware of simple methods such as
Copying files directly presumably with say, filezilla , after logging
in as admin is what first come to mind.
But what about httrack? This
LeeGroups wrote:
As the old saying goes, you get what you pay for.
I have not used that old saying much at all since I started using linux
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John wrote:
Lucy wrote:
2009/6/28 Andy Smith a...@strugglers.net:
[...]
Seconded, and there are many backup options that don't require
downloading the whole 2.5GiB each time.
Hi, what backup options are there that dont require you to download the
full site each time. It is some of my
Gordon wrote:
Anyone got an answer to playing these?
fwiw
this is a set of notes for (I think) complete multimedia success:
==
How to get multimedia codecs the easy way!
Disclaimer: Patent and copyright laws operate differently depending
on which
John wrote:
I run a website, and there's about 2.5 gigs of information on there. The
whole lot got deleted and the hackers put a picture of advertising who
they were. I have managed to get the host to restore as much as they can
back, well, they way they are trying to.
What is worrying
John wrote:
My main pc went to the manufacturer today, it didnt break down as such,
it just needs some work done on it, plus it I want some extra RAM memory
and a better Graphics card. I am now using my little netbook, which is
doing remarkably, for what I have attached to it.
I just
I am helping someone with shopping online at tesco.com and it looks as
if the recent new version of firefox 3.0.11 in ubuntu (8.04.2) at
least, does not display the page completely, making shopping impossible.
The significant thing missing is the search field: right hand side:
Harry Rickards wrote:
On 06/21/09 11:04, alan c wrote:
I am helping someone with shopping online at tesco.com and it looks as
if the recent new version of firefox 3.0.11 in ubuntu (8.04.2) at
least, does not display the page completely, making shopping impossible.
The significant thing
William Anderson wrote:
Harry Rickards wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On 06/21/09 12:56, Lucy wrote:
...
You could try the User Agent Switcher Firefox plugin
(https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59), to 'pretend' that
it's running on Windows. Some
I recently decided to try the proposed Ubuntu One facility, and got
myself on a waiting list.
Any ideas of timescales please, anyone?
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Gordon wrote:
The last barrier to ditching MS completely is two-fold.
One - updating my Garmin Nuvi Satnav (the web updatyer apparently is
only for Windows) and secondly back-up and restore of my Nokia mobile
via Nokia PC Suite.
There seem to be one or two sync apps for Nokia - anything
I know that google is a good friend, however it is also nice to talk
about such things.
I have a friend of a friend who wants to buy a Ubuntu laptop. She has
already checked out that the 10 inch mini units have displays which
are to small for her elderly eyesight, so the question was passed
Alan Bell wrote:
Gordon wrote:
Alan Bell wrote:
http://nakedcomputers.org/category/europe/uk/ is also a good friend, do
let me know if you find a supplier I don't already have on the list.
here's one: (Can't vouch for it...)
EfficientPC
http://www.efficientpc.co.uk/
Andrew Turner wrote:
2009/6/9 Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk:
Another option, not sure if you'd thought of is to have a look at
laptops in the right price range and then search online to see if anyone
has had any problems with Ubuntu. I did that when choosing a laptop. I
was going to go for
Alan Bell wrote:
[...]
What do we want?
Naked Computers!
When do we want it?
Now!
good one!
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James Milligan wrote:
I've now got a full installation of Ubuntu on my desktop! 8.10 with
everything working, bar the sound. Dualbooting with XP and modified
grub boot list menu so that XP is default after 3 seconds (for parents
and gaming).
As soon as I get the sound working I'm
Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
A couple of us our local LUG have got an event coming up in the next
couple of weeks (well two in fact, one in a couple of weeks and one in
about a month's time. Now I have a few Ubuntu CDs from Canonical which
we're hoping to distribute to visitors but I was
James Milligan wrote:
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Hmm I don't really want to have to install ubuntu again. I haven't got
the time at the moment. Are there any downloads I could try?
Why not try as suggested, an ubuntu 9.04 live CD?
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Rob Beard wrote:
alan c wrote:
Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
A couple of us our local LUG have got an event coming up in the next
couple of weeks (well two in fact, one in a couple of weeks and one in
about a month's time. Now I have a few Ubuntu CDs from Canonical which
we're hoping
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