Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-02-02 Thread Ian Betteridge
Including itself. I suspect someone may have typed Google into Google, and that can break the Internet, as every IT manager knows. On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 8:01 PM, mac ammonius.grammati...@gmx.co.uk wrote: Simon Wears wrote: Google had about a 15 minute period where it flagged the entire

[ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-01-31 Thread doug livesey
Hi -- is there a good reason for Google warning me away from the Ubuntu site?It's telling me that the site may harm my computer, then throwing me a 502 when I look for details. Cheers, Doug. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-01-31 Thread Graham Binns
2009/1/31 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com: Hi -- is there a good reason for Google warning me away from the Ubuntu site? It's telling me that the site may harm my computer, then throwing me a 502 when I look for details. Can't say I'm seeing the same thing... Is this an attack site warning in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-01-31 Thread Alec Wright
Its doing that for every single website. Its a bug, they should have it fixed soon. 2009/1/31 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com Hi -- is there a good reason for Google warning me away from the Ubuntu site?It's telling me that the site may harm my computer, then throwing me a 502 when I look for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-01-31 Thread Sean Miller
That's reassuring - I thought it was something on my PC. Sean On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alec Wright ale...@gmail.com wrote: Its doing that for every single website. Its a bug, they should have it fixed soon. 2009/1/31 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com Hi -- is there a good reason for

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-01-31 Thread Chris Rowson
And it's working again now :-) On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: That's reassuring - I thought it was something on my PC. Sean On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Alec Wright ale...@gmail.com wrote: Its doing that for every single website. Its a bug,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-01-31 Thread doug livesey
Kickass!I thought that was a little bizzare -- it seemed to be every site that even _mentioned_ Ubuntu. 2009/1/31 Chris Rowson christopherrow...@gmail.com And it's working again now :-) On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Sean Miller s...@seanmiller.net wrote: That's reassuring - I thought it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-01-31 Thread Simon Wears
Google had about a 15 minute period where it flagged the entire internet as Malware. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/01/31/google-flags-whole-internet-as-malware/ 2009/1/31 doug livesey biot...@gmail.com Kickass!I thought that was a little bizzare -- it seemed to be every site that even

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google blocking the Ubuntu home page

2009-01-31 Thread mac
Simon Wears wrote: Google had about a 15 minute period where it flagged the entire internet as Malware. Now there's an interesting philosophical proposition! Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Stephen O'Neill
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Pope wrote: http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html That link seems to have been ubuntu-uk-dotted, you can find the original comic here: http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/ - -- Stephen O'Neill w:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-02 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 12:15:53AM +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 22:46 +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: That's kind of missing the whole point of open source. snip Well... I'll skip the first sentence as such a thing should be never said on a list such as this because it

[ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Alan Pope
Woo http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html New open source web browser from Google. Looks very interesting from a security and performance perspective alone. The cartoon is a great way to introduce a new product to the media too. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 20:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote: Woo http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html New open source web browser from Google. Looks very interesting from a security and performance perspective alone. The cartoon is a great way to introduce a new product to the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread LeeGroups
What is really beginning to worry me is that there is too much choice of applications in the Open Source world. Instead of working to make what we have better and bite into bug #1 and give users a base set of applications they can get comfortable with and trust, we are going to leave maybe

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread John Levin
Alan Pope wrote: Woo http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2008-09-01-n47.html New open source web browser from Google. Looks very interesting from a security and performance perspective alone. The cartoon is a great way to introduce a new product to the media too. Official word here:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:12:48PM +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: What is really beginning to worry me is that there is too much choice of applications in the Open Source world. Instead of working to make what we have better and bite into bug #1 and give users a base set of applications they can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread John Levin
Philip Wyett wrote: With the size of the Google PR machine, a cute way of introducing a new product was no real surprise. What is really beginning to worry me is that there is too much choice of applications in the Open Source world. Instead of working to make what we have better and

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Tiago Vieira
On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 10:46 PM, Robert McWilliam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's kind of missing the whole point of open source. The advantage of distributed and uncontrolled development is that everybody goes in whichever direction they want and explores the possibilities for solving a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 22:46 +0100, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:12:48PM +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: What is really beginning to worry me is that there is too much choice of applications in the Open Source world. Instead of working to make what we have better and bite

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Lizzeh Rodriguez
Well said Robert! On 1 Sep 2008, at 22:46, Robert McWilliam wrote: On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 09:12:48PM +0100, Philip Wyett wrote: What is really beginning to worry me is that there is too much choice of applications in the Open Source world. Instead of working to make what we have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Philip Wyett
On Mon, 2008-09-01 at 22:53 +0100, John Levin wrote: I can't see any way of 'herding cats' and concentrating everyone on a base set of applications, or a single distro for that matter. I don't think it would be desirable either; a lot of good comes out of people trying new ideas (as long

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Chrome

2008-09-01 Thread Mac
Tiago Vieira wrote: snip ...I believe they (Mozilla, Google, and MS) are going a bit more than just a browser... they are going to mash the browser into the desktop environment... this is just the beginning. Hi, Tiago I think that's right, or one could even say they want to *replace* the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-03 Thread LeeGroups
I've been using Scoogle.org for a while now... they really have a paranoid streak... no data collection, log deletion etc.. have a look at their TC's... :) I just went to www.scoogle.com, and there is a search box there, but the site and the searches it returns seem buried under

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-03 Thread Mac
LeeGroups wrote: snip Scroogle.ORG not scroogle.com :) Doh! Thanks for correction. Good TCs on Scroogle.org. I'll use it! Thanks! :-) Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-03 Thread Mac
LeeGroups wrote: Thanks, guys, for the info. For anyone who prefers to use a less obvious method of searching, may I suggest using Vivismo's Clusty search engine - IE/Netscape/Mozilla plugin available at http://clusty.com/toolbar/mozilla. Found, naturally, with an extensive Google search -

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-03 Thread Mac
Mac wrote: Since Firefox does not have scroogle as a 'search engine' to add to the search bar Sorry, this isn't true. Or, more precisely, there's no Scroogle search on the Mozilla addins site; but there is at Mycroft: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=scroogle Mac --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-03 Thread Jeff Fisher
Mac wrote: Snip there's no Scroogle search on the Mozilla addins site; but there is at Mycroft: http://mycroft.mozdev.org/search-engines.html?name=scroogle Cheers, Mac, I'll be another one using Scroogle in future. Jeffef -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-02 Thread Jeff Fisher
Thanks, guys, for the info. For anyone who prefers to use a less obvious method of searching, may I suggest using Vivismo's Clusty search engine - IE/Netscape/Mozilla plugin available at http://clusty.com/toolbar/mozilla. Found, naturally, with an extensive Google search - why hand it to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-02 Thread LeeGroups
Thanks, guys, for the info. For anyone who prefers to use a less obvious method of searching, may I suggest using Vivismo's Clusty search engine - IE/Netscape/Mozilla plugin available at http://clusty.com/toolbar/mozilla. Found, naturally, with an extensive Google search - why hand it to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-02 Thread Mac
LeeGroups wrote: snip I've been using Scoogle.org for a while now... they really have a paranoid streak... no data collection, log deletion etc.. have a look at their TC's... :) I just went to www.scoogle.com, and there is a search box there, but the site and the searches it returns seem

[ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-01 Thread Jeff Fisher
Some on the list may not be aware that Google, for whatever reason, record all search originations. I would be interested to know if searches conducted through the Mozilla Ubuntu search plugin are subject to the same criteria as normal Google searches. Would anyone know if, as I suspect, all

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-01 Thread Ciaran Mooney
I know that they atleast record what program they have come from, as the Mozilla Foundation get a couple of pennies each time a search is sent from the built-in Firefox Google search. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-01 Thread Adrian
Well complete privacy does not exist according to Google http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/910/google-complete-privacy-does -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-01 Thread Mac
Jeff Fisher wrote: Some on the list may not be aware that Google, for whatever reason, record all search originations. I would be interested to know if searches conducted through the Mozilla Ubuntu search plugin are subject to the same criteria as normal Google searches. Would anyone know

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-01 Thread Mac
Mac wrote: AFAIR, Google log the originating IP addresses and details of the searches for all searches done through their servers, and keep the logs for two years. Correction: 18 months. Then they are anonymized. Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Privacy

2008-08-01 Thread Adam Funk
On 2008-08-01, Mac wrote: AFAIR, Google log the originating IP addresses and details of the searches for all searches done through their servers, and keep the logs for two years. They do the same for all their on-line services. And they reserve the right to data-mine the information you

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-22 Thread Kris Douglas
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There is a customised version of GIMP called Gimpshop which, I am told, brings the product much closer to the Photoshop look/feel... the website implies that in terms of the multiple windows vs. single windows debate that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-22 Thread Kris Douglas
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 4:59 AM, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 2/22/08, Paul Tansom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-20 23:08]: I disagree. The GIMP has a difficult user interface. Photoshop was extremely easy to learn to use where as I've

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-22 Thread Sean Miller
Eh? There is a Linux version too... I am aware of this, but the website says... GIMPshop modifies the menu structure to closely match Photoshop's, adjusts the program's terminology to match Adobe's, and, in the Windowshttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Windowsversion, uses a plugin called

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-22 Thread Kris Douglas
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 8:41 AM, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eh? There is a Linux version too... I am aware of this, but the website says... GIMPshop modifies the menu structure to closely match Photoshop's, adjusts the program's terminology to match Adobe's, and, in the Windows

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-22 Thread Jai Harrison
On 2/22/08, Sean Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ps. Jai's Windows-using friends ought to be targeted by the Ubuntu evangelists... think of all the time they'd have on their hands if they were no longer capable of doing all his photo/image manipulation for him, lol!! As good a reason to change

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-22 Thread Gavin Ford
On Fri, Feb 22, 2008 at 06:59:04PM +, Jai Harrison wrote: I can understand why people who have never used Photoshop might not find the GIMP complicated to use - especially if they've spent time learning to use it but it presents a problem to people who are used to image tool standards

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-21 Thread Dave Morley
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 23:49 +, Chris Rowson wrote: By design, WINE is complete when it can replicate and translate all of windows programming system signals. By doing this, google will make the entire WINE base a bit more stable, rather than less, which means this will

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-21 Thread Paul Tansom
** Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-20 23:08]: On 2/20/08, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jai Harrison wrote: Is this is what the effects of a difficult user interface in the GIMP are? Different is not the same as difficult, it is just a different way of working. It does not

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-21 Thread Sean Miller
On 2/22/08, Paul Tansom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ** Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-02-20 23:08]: I disagree. The GIMP has a difficult user interface. Photoshop was extremely easy to learn to use where as I've never managed to get anywhere with GIMP. The way it is now whenever I need

[ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Rowson
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/20/1837204 'Nuff said... :-D Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-20 Thread Johnathon Tinsley
- Gavin Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:51:24PM +, Jai Harrison wrote: Is this is what the effects of a difficult user interface in the GIMP are? I really like the interface on The GIMP and it does everything I need, but there are some features that

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-20 Thread Jai Harrison
On 2/20/08, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jai Harrison wrote: Is this is what the effects of a difficult user interface in the GIMP are? Different is not the same as difficult, it is just a different way of working. It does not take a long time to get used to really, the same as it take

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux

2008-02-20 Thread Chris Rowson
By design, WINE is complete when it can replicate and translate all of windows programming system signals. By doing this, google will make the entire WINE base a bit more stable, rather than less, which means this will probably help many more programs become more compatible than

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-02 Thread Ian Davies \(2\)
That's excellent!! Or should I say, 'excrement'? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Sent: 01 April 2007 09:51 To: British Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again... Yet another stunner from Google

[ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Yet another stunner from Google: http://www.google.com/tisp/ M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Group Co-Ordinator Thanet Linux User Group http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KEY: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=getsearch=0xFEA1BC16 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread Chris Rowson
Yet another stunner from Google: http://www.google.com/tisp/ M. You may jest ;-) Check this out http://www.focuss.net/ - Not too far removed from the truth!! Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread Stephen Morrish
...and today's date is??? On 4/1/07, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Yet another stunner from Google: http://www.google.com/tisp/ M. -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Group Co-Ordinator Thanet Linux User Group http://www.thanet.lug.org.uk/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG KEY:

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread Michael Holmes
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Yet another stunner from Google: http://www.google.com/tisp/ M. Heh, that was a good one. Better than last year? -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread TheVeech
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 09:51 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Yet another stunner from Google: http://www.google.com/tisp/ It was only a matter of slime. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread ged
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Yet another stunner from Google: http://www.google.com/tisp/ M. That's not bad for an april fools joke. Better than double yellow lines the full length of the M6 motorway. Ged. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 12:16 +0100, Stephen Morrish wrote: ...and today's date is??? Indeed... Is it international Top-Posting day? ;) [0] Sarcasm and praise doesn't come across too well on email obviously! :) Cheers, M. [0] Sorry, couldn't resist...! -- Matthew Macdonald-Wallace Group

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google does it again...

2007-04-01 Thread Wulfy
TheVeech wrote: On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 09:51 +0100, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: Yet another stunner from Google: http://www.google.com/tisp/ It was only a matter of slime. Nope. It's a flash in the pan... :@) -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders.

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