Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On 26/05/09 00:59, Matthew Wild wrote: > Ok, who was on the alert this evening? :) "Who's Watching You?" on BBC > 2 tonight was exploring surveillance in today's society. > > At one point the reporter rattled through a list of ways in which we > are monitored. As he mentioned "email", it displayed

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/26/09 06:29, mac wrote: > Matthew Wild wrote: >> Ok, who was on the alert this evening? :) "Who's Watching You?" on BBC >> 2 tonight was exploring surveillance in today's society. >> >> At one point the reporter rattled through a list of ways in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

Matthew Wild wrote: > Ok, who was on the alert this evening? :) "Who's Watching You?" on BBC > 2 tonight was exploring surveillance in today's society. > > At one point the reporter rattled through a list of ways in which we > are monitored. As he mentioned "email", it displayed briefly (for > abo

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

Ok, who was on the alert this evening? :) "Who's Watching You?" on BBC 2 tonight was exploring surveillance in today's society. At one point the reporter rattled through a list of ways in which we are monitored. As he mentioned "email", it displayed briefly (for about a second) someone checking th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting: Stoke Odeon

2009/4/4 Kris Douglas : > Hey, I was spotted in Hanley today, one of the staff at the cinema > noticed the ubuntu fleece I had one, nice one :) The big Odeon leisure complex, with the snooker club and bowling alley and so on? If so, I wired up the liquor-sales monitoring equipment in the bars the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting: Stoke Odeon

2009/4/6 ant burton : > Hi Kris, > > Thats brilliant!!! I had'nt checked for a few months. > > Regards > > Ant > =] There's a meeting on the 13th in Stafford, if anyone around is interested :) -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.co.uk Mail: k...@

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting: Stoke Odeon

Hi Kris, Thats brilliant!!! I had'nt checked for a few months. Regards Ant On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 10:58 AM, Kris Douglas wrote: > 2009/4/6 ant burton : > > Hey Kris, > > > > Kewl that one of the Odeon staff noticed you fleece, I'm from stoke and I > > have'nt seen anyone with any ubuntu merch

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

2009/4/6 Rowan Berkeley : > http://nicotine.thegraveyard.org > It looks as if it needs a certain amount of compiling savvy to install > and run, and I would be very interested to know whether anyone has Nope. Just download the bz2 file, double click it and unpack it somewhere. Navigate to where yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

Talking of mp3 libraries, I might mention that by far the best file-sharing community for non-commercial, experimental, and avant-garde music that I have found is Soulseek: http://www.slsknet.org However, this is a Windows client only. There is a version for Linux users, called Nicotine, which acce

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting: Stoke Odeon

2009/4/6 ant burton : > Hey Kris, > > Kewl that one of the Odeon staff noticed you fleece, I'm from stoke and I > have'nt seen anyone with any ubuntu merch. On an aside do you know of any > LUG's in the staffordshire area ? , the staffs LUG is in-active. > > Regards > > Ant > > On Sat, Apr 4, 2009

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting: Stoke Odeon

Hey Kris, Kewl that one of the Odeon staff noticed you fleece, I'm from stoke and I have'nt seen anyone with any ubuntu merch. On an aside do you know of any LUG's in the staffordshire area ? , the staffs LUG is in-active. Regards Ant On Sat, Apr 4, 2009 at 8:43 PM, Kris Douglas wrote: > Hey,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

2009/4/5 Farran Lee : > oh, does Banshee tag properly now? I know pre-v1, it only changed its > internal database and didn't affect the actual files... It does if you tick the box that says to save meta data to the files in the preferences dialog :) I found this out the hard way. I retagged loads

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

On Sun, 2009-04-05 at 14:44 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2009/4/5 Rowan Berkeley : > > Well, the mp3 player (Rhythmbox Music Player) really is a bit of a pig. > > It has no re-tagging facility, it catalogues your mp3 files from their > > existing tags only, and it is case-sensitive, so woe betide you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

2009/4/5 Rowan Berkeley : > Well, the mp3 player (Rhythmbox Music Player) really is a bit of a pig. > It has no re-tagging facility, it catalogues your mp3 files from their > existing tags only, and it is case-sensitive, so woe betide you if you > have carelessly used capital letters inconsistently

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

, 2009-04-05 at 09:54 +0100, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2009 19:36:40 +0100 > From: alan c > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell > To: British Ubuntu Talk > Message-ID: <49d7a8b8.2020...@candt.waitrose.com> &g

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

Contacted my local councilors. To date none have had the decency to even reply. I'll remember this when I vote next! Date: Sun, 5 Apr 2009 00:43:01 +0100 From: azmo...@gmail.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell 2009/4/4 Robin Car

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

2009/4/4 Robin Cardrick > alan c wrote: > > > I heard about the French Gendarmerie saying they saved 50 million > > Euros by using Ubuntu, so I contacted my local councilors suggesting > > they consider similar. I received a reply: 'Thank you for your e-mail, > > and this interesting information.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

alan c wrote: > Robin Cardrick wrote: > >> I had no idea this kind of thing went on in Bracknell. Living in >> Bracknell myself I had always thought of the area as pretty >> technologically inept! Am glad there are people here showing others that >> there is another choice, and one doesn't ha

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

Robin Cardrick wrote: > I had no idea this kind of thing went on in Bracknell. Living in > Bracknell myself I had always thought of the area as pretty > technologically inept! Am glad there are people here showing others that > there is another choice, and one doesn't have to use windows!. yey!

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

I had no idea this kind of thing went on in Bracknell. Living in Bracknell myself I had always thought of the area as pretty technologically inept! Am glad there are people here showing others that there is another choice, and one doesn't have to use windows!.. Bobbin alan c wrote: > http://w

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting: Stoke Odeon

Hey, I was spotted in Hanley today, one of the staff at the cinema noticed the ubuntu fleece I had one, nice one :) -- Kris Douglas Softdel Limited Hosting Services Web: www.softdel.co.uk Mail: k...@softdel.co.uk Company No. 6135915 Registered in England and Wales -- ubuntu-u

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting in Bracknell

http://www.be-heard.co.uk/volunteering.html The charity Be Heard has about three dozen members and most use the internet enabled computers in their club rooms fairly regularly. One of the four desktops has a touch screen, with an accessible-friendly mouse and keyboard. All four PCs run Ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting / spotted

I drove past a guy walking round in Southampton the other day with a Ubuntu logo on his hoodie. I'll say hi if I ever walk past him. 2009/3/25 Philip Stubbs > A couple of times when riding home from work on a Friday afternoon, I > have spotted an Ubuntu backpack being carried by a cyclist going

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting / spotted

A couple of times when riding home from work on a Friday afternoon, I have spotted an Ubuntu backpack being carried by a cyclist going from Fareham college to Titchfield. -- Philip Stubbs -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/U

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting / spotted

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: > Somewhat round the other way this time. > > I'm currently sat in the waiting room at Redhill train station waiting > for my train home. I have Ubuntu stickers on my laptop. Some guy just > opened the door to the waiting room and lea

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting / spotted

Somewhat round the other way this time. I'm currently sat in the waiting room at Redhill train station waiting for my train home. I have Ubuntu stickers on my laptop. Some guy just opened the door to the waiting room and leaned in.. "Hey! Good to see someone else running a proper operating system

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

Dianne Reuby wrote: > Last night at a performance of Return to the Forbidden Planet I saw > three "spaceship monitors" running Ubuntu. Nice to know it will be here > for our great-great-grandchildren. :) > > Does this count for Ubuntu spotting? (second picture down) http://dvice.com/archives/20

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

Mark Fraser wrote: > On Thursday 16 October 2008 15:41:17 Darren Mansell wrote: > >> On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:51:02 +0100, "Chris Rowson" >> >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My local bus company gives names to all its buses - one is called Intrepid. Does that count? Wonder

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

Last night at a performance of Return to the Forbidden Planet I saw three "spaceship monitors" running Ubuntu. Nice to know it will be here for our great-great-grandchildren. :) Note: For those on this list who are too young to remember it, The Tempest = play by Shakespeare Forbidden Planet = 50's

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

On Thursday 16 October 2008 15:41:17 Darren Mansell wrote: > On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:51:02 +0100, "Chris Rowson" > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> My local bus company gives names to all its buses - one is called > >> Intrepid. Does that count? > >> > >> Wonder if they'd like to change the colour

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 09:51:02 +0100, "Chris Rowson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> My local bus company gives names to all its buses - one is called >> Intrepid. Does that count? >> >> Wonder if they'd like to change the colour scheme and logo on that >> vehicle >> > > I work in a IT, so to pro

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

> How did you do it? > > Sean > Just enable the 3d desktop in the appearance menu, then install compizconfig-settings-manager from universe. You can enable/disable all this kind of stuff in there, it'll also tell you the key combinations to do this kinda stuff for each option. Chris -- ubuntu-

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

How did you do it? Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

> My local bus company gives names to all its buses - one is called > Intrepid. Does that count? > > Wonder if they'd like to change the colour scheme and logo on that > vehicle > I work in a IT, so to promote Ubuntu to my workmates I installed Hardy onto a PC, fired up the 3d desktop, pointe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

My local bus company gives names to all its buses - one is called Intrepid. Does that count? Wonder if they'd like to change the colour scheme and logo on that vehicle Dianne -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

2008/10/16 Adam Bagnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I also went to see Genius, I will definitely be visible and I'm fairly > sure I was wearing my Hardy t-shirt that day but can't be certain. I > will be wearing my hardy t-shirt to the IT crowd though, even though it > wont be seen. > > Adam. > Last Fr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

I also went to see Genius, I will definitely be visible and I'm fairly sure I was wearing my Hardy t-shirt that day but can't be certain. I will be wearing my hardy t-shirt to the IT crowd though, even though it wont be seen. Adam. Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/10/15 Matt Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

2008/10/15 Matt Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I don't think that Alan can win on his own podcast :P > You honestly wouldn't believe the lengths to which we go to ensure the competition winner is a) not one of us (not actually that hard to do), b) random. Buy me a pint at the Intrepid release party

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Josh Blacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 15 Oct 2008, at 19:00, Alan Pope wrote: > > > > Also last Friday Clare and I went to the BBC Television Centre to see > > the filming of episode 6 of a TV programme called 'Genius' with Dave > > Gorman. There was one se

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

On 15 Oct 2008, at 19:00, Alan Pope wrote: > > Also last Friday Clare and I went to the BBC Television Centre to see > the filming of episode 6 of a TV programme called 'Genius' with Dave > Gorman. There was one segment in it where I was behind the presenter > with my big Ubuntu logo jumper on. Dun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

On Wed, 2008-10-15 at 19:00 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: > 2008/10/13 Josh Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > This Monday the Metro (that fine journalistic endeavour) ran a feature > > on how the first British-born space tourist (who is a US citizen) took > > the Metro, making it the first newspaper in sp

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

2008/10/13 Josh Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > This Monday the Metro (that fine journalistic endeavour) ran a feature > on how the first British-born space tourist (who is a US citizen) took > the Metro, making it the first newspaper in space. It also mentioned > some other space tourists including

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu-spotting (sort of)

This Monday the Metro (that fine journalistic endeavour) ran a feature on how the first British-born space tourist (who is a US citizen) took the Metro, making it the first newspaper in space. It also mentioned some other space tourists including our very own Mark Shuttleworth! -- Josh Holland a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

I will not surrender! Yeah, OK, I will. Just wanted to wave my flag from my soapbox. I'm still smiling. On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Philip Newborough < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Beardall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You're right, Philip, the real

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 10:04 AM, Bruce Beardall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You're right, Philip, the real issues were actually few in number but my > real objection is the way Linux is portrayed in articles such as this by the > BBC. It seems to me the BBC are more concerned with looking cool in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

You're right, Philip, the real issues were actually few in number but my real objection is the way Linux is portrayed in articles such as this by the BBC. It seems to me the BBC are more concerned with looking cool in presenting it's insightful articles investigating such "official" entities as Mic

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

Disregarding any debatable elements of the article, I think it was a _fairly_ positive review from an obvious Linux novice. Do not get me wrong, I am all for supporting Ubuntu and Linux, however; let's face it, it isn't perfect, and articles such as this go a long way to providing insight into wher

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 9:21 AM, Philip Wyett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This article also does similar misrepresentation. Paragraph 5 of the > 'Text based' section. > > "It's probably worth mentioning one other important point about Linux > here. It's a text-based operating system, which means

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 09:00 +0100, Sean Miller wrote: > It actually annoys me when people misrepresent the situation so - > installing from a terminal only happens in exceptional circumstances > these days. > > The BBC seem to like doing this - if you recall on Click a few months > ago they had a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen O'Neill wrote: > I did empathise with his line about knowledge being a barrier to entry, > hopefully that will be addressed naturally over time as the product matures. Obviously, before I'm jumped on, I forgot the whole argument about Microso

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sean Miller wrote: > It actually annoys me when people misrepresent the situation so - > installing from a terminal only happens in exceptional circumstances > these days. The BBC shouldn't be advocates, but should sit on the fence. Examples like thi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

It actually annoys me when people misrepresent the situation so - installing from a terminal only happens in exceptional circumstances these days. The BBC seem to like doing this - if you recall on Click a few months ago they had a piece on Ubuntu where they had a black screen with scrolling text

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 08:21 +0100, Philip Newborough wrote: > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Stephen O'Neill > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sorry for the spam, I should contemplate before clicking 'send'. > > > > What spam? Not everyone logs into IRC so I wouldn't worry. Personally, > I found t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 7:31 AM, Stephen O'Neill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry for the spam, I should contemplate before clicking 'send'. > What spam? Not everyone logs into IRC so I wouldn't worry. Personally, I found the article an interesting read. Thanks for posting the link :) --- Philip

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

On Thu, 2008-09-04 at 07:23 +0100, Stephen O'Neill wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594249.stm > > (sorry if this has already been posted) > - -- > Stephen O'Neill Yeah, this one has been done over a bit in #ubuntu-uk on IRC. :-)

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen O'Neill wrote: > I should have included contentious excerpts for those with things to do. Sorry for the spam, I should contemplate before clicking 'send'. A point that I agree with the author on is: "But I'm completely stumped by the instru

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen O'Neill wrote: > http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594249.stm > > (sorry if this has already been posted) I should have included contentious excerpts for those with things to do. "Ubuntu's own website isn't much help either. It suggest

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting - BBC

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7594249.stm (sorry if this has already been posted) - -- Stephen O'Neill w: http://www.thefloatingfrog.co.uk/ e: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using Gnu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:16 PM, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I've got six cans in my fridge. (My son - a professional TV editor and > > exclusively a Mac user - buys it in London and sends it to me > ironically!) > > > > (BTW, don't you just hate web sites that are *entirely* flash?!) >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

> I've got six cans in my fridge. (My son - a professional TV editor and > exclusively a Mac user - buys it in London and sends it to me ironically!) > > (BTW, don't you just hate web sites that are *entirely* flash?!) > > Mac Is it common? Maybe they just don't sell them around where I am. Is

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

Craig wrote: > Went away for a week in Yorkshire and was surprised to see this: > http://www.ubuntu-trading.com/ . I think it's a quite appropriate name > for fair trade coke! I obviously brought my bottle, but it wasn't free > as I expected... I've got six cans in my fridge. (My son - a profess

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

Hi all, Went away for a week in Yorkshire and was surprised to see this: http://www.ubuntu-trading.com/ . I think it's a quite appropriate name for fair trade coke! I obviously brought my bottle, but it wasn't free as I expected... Craig. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting!

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:50 PM, James Hooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whatever episode is on sky 165 right now! :) > > On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 22:45 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: >> On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM, James Hooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Just some useless info that you may f

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting!

Whatever episode is on sky 165 right now! :) On Sun, 2008-07-20 at 22:45 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote: > On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM, James Hooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just some useless info that you may find interesting/cool - > > > > Watching "Dexter" tv series on FX channel - (Progr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting!

On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 10:39 PM, James Hooker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just some useless info that you may find interesting/cool - > > Watching "Dexter" tv series on FX channel - (Programme about a cop > serial killer that kills serial killers... buffer overflow?) > > Anyway - he was checking

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting!

Just some useless info that you may find interesting/cool - Watching "Dexter" tv series on FX channel - (Programme about a cop serial killer that kills serial killers... buffer overflow?) Anyway - he was checking some forensic magic on his macbook pro - and low and behold, it was running ubuntu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On Sun, Jun 8, 2008 at 11:21 AM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 08:17 +0100, London School of Puppetry wrote: >> >> -Have looked at the shop- HUH so why is it that lovely Heron >> image is on the ugly man's shirt? > > I'd recommend contacting Kat Kinnie

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On Sun, 2008-06-08 at 08:17 +0100, London School of Puppetry wrote: > > -Have looked at the shop- HUH so why is it that lovely Heron > image is on the ugly man's shirt? I'd recommend contacting Kat Kinnie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> about any questions/suggestions you have about s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

2008/6/7 Ged <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Alan Pope wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 21:06 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > > > >> I saw someone walking through Victoria tube station wearing an Ubuntu > >> polo shirt this morning... does that count? :) > >> > >> > > > > Heh. I went to B&Q wearing my Ub

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

2008/6/7 Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 12:24 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On 07/06/08 12:11, London School of Puppetry wrote: > > > > > Where do you get this Ubuntu merchandise - I would love a Hardy Heron > > > Sweatshirt - Caroline > > > > A good place to start i

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

I saw an old friend of my parents this week and he was telling me about this brilliant alternative operating system something called Ubuntu, I then pointed out that is what my parents have been using for years lol, not really spotting but still came up in random conversation. regards, Daniel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

Alan Pope wrote: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 21:06 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > >> I saw someone walking through Victoria tube station wearing an Ubuntu >> polo shirt this morning... does that count? :) >> >> > > Heh. I went to B&Q wearing my Ubuntu Hoodie > > https://shop.canonical.com/p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On 07/06/08 18:27, Alan Pope wrote: > ..and if you listen to the next podcast episode we'll have another > competition which (if you win) will save you 20 quid in the canonical > shop :) Oh great. You say this *after* I've bought what I wanted :-p -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

I have also seen Ubuntu on computers inside maps of the game UrbanTerror. (Best game ever) Does virtually spotting Ubuntu still count? Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On Sat, 2008-06-07 at 12:24 +0100, Chris Bannister wrote: > On 07/06/08 12:11, London School of Puppetry wrote: > > > Where do you get this Ubuntu merchandise - I would love a Hardy Heron > > Sweatshirt - Caroline > > A good place to start is the Canonical shop, https://shop.canonical.com/ >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On 07/06/08 12:11, London School of Puppetry wrote: > Where do you get this Ubuntu merchandise - I would love a Hardy Heron > Sweatshirt - Caroline A good place to start is the Canonical shop, https://shop.canonical.com/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinf

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

2008/6/7 Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 21:06 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > > I saw someone walking through Victoria tube station wearing an Ubuntu > > polo shirt this morning... does that count? :) > > > > Heh. I went to B&Q wearing my Ubuntu Hoodie > > https://shop.ca

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On Fri, 2008-06-06 at 21:06 +0100, Johnathon Tinsley wrote: > I saw someone walking through Victoria tube station wearing an Ubuntu > polo shirt this morning... does that count? :) > Heh. I went to B&Q wearing my Ubuntu Hoodie https://shop.canonical.com/product_info.php?products_id=145 (which

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

Matt Daubney wrote: > Today I saw someone walking out of the Uni with a Hardy Heron shirt. > Does that count? I saw someone walking through Victoria tube station wearing an Ubuntu polo shirt this morning... does that count? :) Johnathon -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/ma

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

Today I saw someone walking out of the Uni with a Hardy Heron shirt. Does that count? -Matt Daubney signature.asc Description: Digital signature -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

On Thu, Jun 05, 2008 at 02:22:55PM +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: > Slashdot has a story on the Webrap machine, it makes stuff in 3d out > of plastic, and can now make itself. > > Just noticed, it's running on Ubuntu. So it is, a Java app running on the Sun JRE under Ubuntu. :) -- Gav Ford [EMAIL

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Spotting

Slashdot has a story on the Webrap machine, it makes stuff in 3d out of plastic, and can now make itself. Just noticed, it's running on Ubuntu. http://www.reprap.org/bin/view/Main/WebHome Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubunt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

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] Ubuntu spotting

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:- > > * Machines running Ubuntu > * Articles about Ubuntu in m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

> >> On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

Haha, I generally do cracking on my lappy which runs Arch... (But I dont generally crack banks... a bit out of my league... Im justa little script kiddie... Ill still pwn noobs cos Im 1337 tho) On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 3:13 PM, Andrew Barber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 27 Feb 2008, at 12

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

On 26/02/2008, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:- > > * Machines running Ubuntu > * Articles about Ubuntu in mai

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

On 27 Feb 2008, at 12:08, "Kris Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. >>

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 6:53 PM, Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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:- > > * Machines running Ubuntu > * Articles

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

I have had a few spottings, of which I have photographic evidence (though not to hand). The first was a internet cafe in Palmers Green (North London) which had all but one computer running Debian with KDE in some sort of custom distribution. They were using some KDE app to manage the ID numbers cu

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

While wandering down one of the corridors near my lab the other day, one of the lab doors was open, revealing a monitor with the Ubuntu login screen peering out into the world. It made me smile at least. Quite a while ago we were giving our end of 1st year presentations and one guy plugged his

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

ruary 2008 21:08 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If anyone is a 24 fan and has the Season 3 box set, check out Episode 1 about 2 minutes 43 seconds in and see what is on t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

Colin McCarthy wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > If anyone is a 24 fan and has the Season 3 box set, check out Episode 1 > about 2 minutes 43 seconds in and see what is on the laptop screen. > > Looks to me

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 7:22 PM, Rob Beard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If anyone is a 24 fan and has the Season 3 box set, check out Episode 1 > about 2 minutes 43 seconds in and see what is on the laptop screen. > > Looks to me like the K from KDE, possibly KDE3. > > Rob > > I noticed Linux bein

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

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:- > > * Machines running Ubuntu > * Articles about Ubuntu in mainstream press > * Official Ubuntu "

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 19:14 +, Rob Beard 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] Ubuntu spotting

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:- > > * Machines running Ubuntu > * Articles about Ubuntu in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

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:- > > * Machines running Ubuntu > * Articles about Ubuntu in m

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu spotting

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:- * Machines running Ubuntu * Articles about Ubuntu in mainstream press * Official Ubuntu "shipit" CDs * Overhearing peop