Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any recommendations for an xhtml editor

2013-01-05 Thread kpb
. :-) Al -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ Cheers -- kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any recommendations for an xhtml editor

2013-01-05 Thread kpb
page' html generators, probably for people doing *large* sites with greater expectations as to 'design' and production values. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4857473 cheers On Sat, 5 Jan 2013 19:20:14 + Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 5 January 2013 18:48, kpb k

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any recommendations for an xhtml editor

2013-01-05 Thread kpb
...@seanmiller.net wrote: On 5 January 2013 19:28, kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote: Hello Sean and all While Markdown/textile are pretty light, my personal site isn't pretty :-) http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ (The Llamas are a family joke). The method currently in use is described here http

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any recommendations for an xhtml editor

2013-01-05 Thread kpb
...back to upper, but complies with the idea that all attribute values should be in quotes... a positive... ALIGN=ABSMIDDLE HSPACE=8 WIDTH=19 HEIGHT=38 ...or perhaps not!! See the issue? Sean -- kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any recommendations for an xhtml editor

2013-01-05 Thread kpb
HTML 3 nothing like XHTML. That is the OpenOffice generated HTML to which I refer. Still don't quite understand the stuff generated by your shell scripts. Sean -- kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Any recommendations for an xhtml editor

2013-01-05 Thread kpb
deviated at all.. I am still trying to persuade Mike that learning HTML/XHTML is the way to go, rather than waste time with a WYSIWYG solution. Excellent. cheers -- kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Python Training at Thyme software/Linux Emporium

2012-07-13 Thread kpb
Hello All http://clocksoft.co.uk/training/ might get you started. @Dave: best of luck with the job at Canonical. Well done you. hi, could you drop a link or contact, i might be interested but tried ducking it and could not find the company but many cooking websites. -- Keith Burnett

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Malware targeting Linux.......

2012-07-13 Thread kpb
On Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:21:37 +0100 Kris Douglas krisdoug...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] That or disabling Java. The only thing it's good for nowadays is Minecraft and Cisco's ASDM. -- Kris Douglas. www.krisd.eu ...and Processing (processing.org) although the JS version is coming along

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Microsoft Surface Release, Will there be something similar from Ubuntu?

2012-06-26 Thread kpb
On Mon, 25 Jun 2012 22:25:30 +0100 Alan Pope alan.p...@canonical.com wrote: There is exactly that. On Reddit no less. http://www.reddit.com/r/ubuntuappshowdown/ Cheers, - -- Alan Pope OK, I actually created a log in c

Re: [ubuntu-uk] HP, Dell, et al - come to Linux!

2012-06-20 Thread kpb
Hello All Alas, I suspect this interesting looking device is not going to be mass marketed. It will be available only from Microsoft shops or by mail order from Microsoft. Sounds like a 'reference platform' or 'concept' to me I could be wrong and sort of hope I am for similar reasons. Cheers

[ubuntu-uk] Developer likes Unity

2012-06-16 Thread kpb
Hello All http://ben.welsh.usesthis.com/ I'm not the only one who thinks Unity works really well on a 12/13 inch wide screen form factor laptop cheers -- Keith Burnett http://sohcahtoa.org.uk/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] [marketing] Good news feedback

2012-06-12 Thread kpb
On Tue, 12 Jun 2012 07:42:01 +0100 alan c aecl...@candt.waitrose.com wrote: I can see many evenings playing coming up. Great that your customer took the time to send some feedback. Thanks to advice on this mailing list, I've just found out how easy it is to image the whole of a hard drive

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help please

2012-06-10 Thread kpb
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 14:52:12 +0100 Chris Fox ch...@robotninja.net wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/06/2012 14:44, John Davis wrote: Hi, I am sorry this is not Ubuntu related but could any offer some help for a novice web site builder ? Hi John, Do you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help please

2012-06-10 Thread kpb
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 18:58:19 +0100 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: [ snip ] And where did you get the Thinkpad for such a bargain price? :¬) UK Ebay oddly enough. It is an X200s, not an X200 and is about four years old now. X60s laptops go for about £150, and this one just popped up at a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Help please

2012-06-10 Thread kpb
On Sun, 10 Jun 2012 19:27:31 +0100 Liam Proven lpro...@gmail.com wrote: Nice find! :¬) There are half a dozen X200/X200s at around the same now, so I think that is the 'going rate' Back on topic: this seems to run Ubuntu 12.04 really well - very fast and no glitches so far. Getting three

[ubuntu-uk] Using Clonezilla to image thinkpad hard drive before installing Ubuntu

2012-06-08 Thread kpb
Hello All One for any Thinkpad owners using Ubuntu Just bought a second hand Thinkpad X200s, and it runs Ubuntu 12.04 from a USB stick really nicely, with the basics working fine (I mainly need suspend to ram). I'd like to be able to restore the hard drive including the recovery partition to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Clonezilla to image thinkpad hard drive before installing Ubuntu

2012-06-08 Thread kpb
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:58:05 +0100 Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] I've used Clonezilla and it works fine on most machines. Realistically you could just leave the restore partition on the disk as it boots Windows to do the restore process. s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Using Clonezilla to image thinkpad hard drive before installing Ubuntu

2012-06-08 Thread kpb
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 17:17:49 +0100 Simon Greenwood sfgreenw...@gmail.com wrote: [snip] You should be able to set up the Thinkvantage partition in Grub. As far as I know it's just a stripped down version of Windows and it's possible that Ubuntu will actually ask you if you want to keep it when

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Error report not working

2012-05-05 Thread kpb
On 05/05/12 09:46, scoundrel50a wrote: . then I try the terminal and use ubuntu-bug whatever and it says it cant find the crash report. ubuntu-bugpackage shouldn't be looking for crash reports. It should just file a new bug. oh, ok, now I have learnt something, what is the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu beginners course in North Tyneside

2012-05-05 Thread kpb
On 05/05/12 19:00, Gareth France wrote: I actually installed 10.10 (staying clear of Unity just for the moment until all the controversy dies down a little) onto the 4GB sticks using the Windows 'Universal USB installer'. Works like a dream! Students plug in the stick, switch on

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu beginners course in North Tyneside

2012-05-05 Thread kpb
On 05/05/12 19:32, Gareth France wrote: So because we find something difficult we should shy away from learning it, even though that's the way things are going to be from now on? Teaching people to use Ubuntu with Gnome 2 is rather akin to telling people you'll teach them to use a PC by

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu beginners course in North Tyneside

2012-05-05 Thread kpb
On 05/05/12 19:53, Gareth France wrote: Oh please, don't misunderstand me. I applaud the achievement and I am sure it will inspire new users to make the switch and share the goodness. Well said sir Remember that as far as most managers are concerned in the state education

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu beginners course in North Tyneside

2012-05-05 Thread kpb
sticks later in the course, as and when they're feeling confident. Probably very sensible move. On 05/05/12 19:20, kpb wrote: On 05/05/12 19:00, Gareth France wrote: I actually installed 10.10 (staying clear of Unity just for the moment until all the controversy dies down a little

[ubuntu-uk] Best way to contribute to Ubuntu? - was Re: 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-04 Thread kpb
On 03/05/12 23:22, Alan Pope wrote: If everyone just re-installed the OS whenever the wind changed direction we'd end up with a significantly worse OS as a result. When everyone keeps telling everyone else to reinstall, we end up with the state that Windows is in. Everyone thinks that's the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best way to contribute to Ubuntu? - was Re: 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-04 Thread kpb
On 04/05/12 07:59, Alan Pope wrote: One point which came up was that 12.04 was very stable from very early on in the cycle. There were very few catastrophic breakages which led to a broken desktop (such as X version migrations or compiz/unity inconsistencies in packaging). It was (more often

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Best way to contribute to Ubuntu? - was Re: 12.04 has locked me out of my account

2012-05-04 Thread kpb
On 04/05/12 08:25, Tyler J. Wagner wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2012-05-04 08:59, Alan Pope wrote: It's funny you should ask that. I'm at a Canonical product sprint this week and one of our tasks was to review the 12.04 release and make suggestions for how things

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Problem installing

2012-05-01 Thread kpb
Hello David and Barry I'd just say 'give it a try' as well. Unity is actually pretty good with a keyboard as well. If you have a screen that is 768px or more high then try pressing and holding the Super/Windows key to see the keyboard shortcuts. In the Ubuntu 11.10 release, it took me about

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-30 Thread kpb
On 29/04/12 22:54, alan c wrote: There are strong moves to make Ubuntu good for a vast user base, but many existing users are diy users like my 80+ friend, and in terms of a discussion list like this one, they are novices and do not know what, say, a partition is, like most Windows users

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-30 Thread kpb
Hello All Hum backups Ubuntu One accounts get 5Gb free. I'm wondering if an option to automatically sync the Documents folder with Ubuntu One might help people not loose lots of work? I know it is getting into Google Chrome OS territory, and, yes, potentially another annoying and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Upgrading to 12.04 ....

2012-04-30 Thread kpb
Hello Glad you got your install sorted out. I'm trying to install Ubuntu One now. It's been sitting there for about 25 minutes doing nothing. The coffee bar I'm in now can do 1mb/s on download, I abuse it often (noone else uses a laptop in here) I'd hoped things had improved since the last

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread kpb
On 28/04/12 11:59, Barry Drake wrote: Someone just upgraded from 10.04 and after answering a couple of questions, I pointed him to the poster. He found it very helpful. Hello Barry and all That is exactly what/who the poster is for, I'm glad it was useful. The Ubuntu Desktop Guide really is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-28 Thread kpb
On 28/04/12 15:55, alan c wrote: I think it has been noticed that Ubuntu 12.04 does not make it at all easy to find a useful Help facility, not sure if a bug has been raised at all, I hope so. One guinea pig I saw use it here immediately searched around for a help list. Unfortunately even I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-25 Thread kpb
through their spam checkers. Cheers Original Message From: kpb k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk To: alan.p...@canonical.com, UK Ubuntu Talk ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Sent: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 10:58:57 +0100 (BST) Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster On 21/04/12 11:49, Alan Pope wrote

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-25 Thread kpb
On 25/04/12 13:29, Alan Pope wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi again Keith, On 25/04/12 12:02, k...@sohcahtoa.org.uk wrote: I will try to get through the spreadbuntu deflection shields later on today. It seems quite hard to get stuff through their spam checkers. I

[ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-21 Thread kpb
Hello All http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/1204-poster-4.pdf It struck me that someone doing an LTS - LTS upgrade to 12.04 might find the change in UI a little disorienting. The link above leads to a poster that summarises the basics of Unity.The odp file is available if anyone needs to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-21 Thread kpb
On 21/04/12 11:49, Alan Pope wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 21/04/12 11:16, kpb wrote: Hello All http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8403291/1204-poster-4.pdf Nice work. Where do I file bugs? :) Here Minor niggle, the diagram in the top left implies that the button

Re: [ubuntu-uk] 12.04 Unity intro poster

2012-04-21 Thread kpb
On 21/04/12 12:00, mac wrote: On 21/04/12 11:16, kpb wrote: ...The link above leads to a poster that summarises the basics of Unity.The odp file is available if anyone needs to customise it. Let me know what you think. Really useful and concise summary for those of us upgrading LTS-LTS