Yep, had seen that page, most of the projects seem dead. or close to death.
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:08 +, Andr?s Mu?iz Piniella wrote:
> In those lines, I would like to work on a Mech CAD program (use and if
> I can develop): I was going for freeCAD but if any of you have
> su
On Thu, 2011-01-06 at 14:08 +, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> In those lines, I would like to work on a Mech CAD program (use and if
> I can develop): I was going for freeCAD but if any of you have
> suggestions that would be great.
Never used CAD myself, but this link suggests a whole lot of
f you have suggestions that
would be great.
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On 4 January 2011 15:08, Andr?s Mu?iz Piniella wrote:
> Also had a problem with father in law: HDD brok
On 4 January 2011 15:08, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> Also had a problem with father in law: HDD broke windows wasn't loggin it.
> It was an IDE HDD so not something you can easyliy find it seems. He was
> content with waiting a while longer and booting from an Xubuntu live CD.
> It's only used
On Tue, 2011-01-04 at 15:08 +, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> Ubuntu One store has enough music to buy things. I have found that the
> latest Album by Blunt is cheaper than iTunes and amazon.
> I thought amarok and banshee had support to put music inside the ipod?
Like I said, the we-page I q
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That sounds a bit like the talk that Bruno Bord gave at the first
OggCamp called "Programming explained to non-techies"
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of pictures. I tried
explaining gwibber but was not convinced. Chat with facebook (empathy)
failed but that happens to me as well..
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Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:06:18 +
From: Barry Drake
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...
To: UK Ubuntu Talk
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That sounds a bit like the talk that Bruno Bord gave at the first
OggCamp called "Programming explained to non-techies"
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On 4 January 2011 14:44, Andrés Muñiz Piniella wrote:
> Rather than the football analogy I use the recipie analogy (I think I heard
> Stallman use
Rather than the football analogy I use the recipie analogy (I think I heard
Stallman use it).
If you are a good cook and you make your soup for free at home to your
friends and/or give the recipie so others can improve on it will it mean
that it will be worst than at a michellin star soup. There i
Dear All
It's been very interesting to read
comments about my description of setting up Ubuntu for a non-techie
Windows user. It's very hard to disagree with any of the points
raised, both for and against.
My overall view, reflected in the
approach I too
Yeah :)
Bodsda
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On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:12:35 +
bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> I don't think any interface changes are n
On Thu, 30 Dec 2010 11:12:35 +
bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> I don't think any interface changes are necessary. Microsoft have
> made significant changes to the UI recently, it would be no harder to
> learn how to navigate Ubuntu's UI than it would be to learn how to
> use that bloody ribbon
ess device
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On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:20:11 +
Colin Law wrote:
> On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel
On Thu, 2010-12-30 at 09:12 +, Paul Sutton wrote:
> How about being consistent and saying "Ubuntu is a free and open source
> alternative to windows and office". Or is that an out of date tag line.
When that was suggested, it was (rightly IMO) pointed out that
'alternative' implies, 'well of
On 29/12/10 21:07, Yorvyk wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:20:11 +
> Colin Law wrote:
>
>> On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Verity wrote:
>>> ...
>>> I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as
>>> not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces. I move
On 30/12/10 01:18, Bruno Girin wrote:
> Having said this, one way to avoid the "where have all my windows
> gone?" moments is to make the transition very obvious by enabling the
> cube in Compiz for instance: at least if the user is confused, calls
> you and says "there was this cube thing then all
On 29 December 2010 16:07, Yorvyk wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:20:11 +
> Colin Law wrote:
>
[snip]
>>
>> By all means set the workspaces to one to get rid of that complexity though.
>>
> This I don't agree with as multiple workspaces are one of the best ways of
> organising oneself.
True
On Tue, 28 Dec 2010 22:20:11 +
Colin Law wrote:
> On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Verity wrote:
> > ...
> > I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as
> > not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces. I moved the top
> > task bar to the bottom of
On 28/12/10 13:14, Patrick Bulteel wrote:
>> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:06:18 +
>> From: Barry Drake
>> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...
>> To: UK Ubuntu Talk
>> Message-ID: <1293451578.2118.38.ca...@pcspecialist>
>> Content-Type: text/pl
On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Verity wrote:
> ...
> I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as
> not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces. I moved the top
> task bar to the bottom of the screen, then added the task list applet so
> that open appl
On 28 December 2010 19:45, Nigel Verity wrote:
> Dear All
>
>[snip]
> I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely so as
> not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces.
You should change the number of workspaces to 1, in case the keyboard
shortcuts are acciden
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 19:45 +, Nigel Verity wrote:
> I decided to create a system that would be as familiar to her as
> possible.
> I created desktop icons for the following basic applications:
Sorry about the silly post when I pressed the wrong button. I really
like your approach. Maybe we
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 19:45 +, Nigel Verity wrote: a Mac but never
Linux. I decided to create a system that would be as familiar to her as
possible.
>
> I installed Ubuntu 10.4 LTS. I removed the bottom task bar completely
> so as not to complicate matters with the concept of workspaces. I
> m
Dear All
This question has been raised at an opportune moment. Literally yesterday I
answered a cry for help from a friend whose 1 month-old HP desktop had been
completely trashed by viruses which had taken over all administrator rights and
installed massive amounts of malware. Having come
On 27 December 2010 15:32, Barry Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 16:09 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
>> You don't need admin access to create a wiki page, just browse to the
>> pagename you want, then start editing.
>
> Thanks for that. There is now a Wiki page at:
> https://wiki.ubun
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 13:14 +, Patrick Bulteel wrote:
> I'm going to try to convert one of two computer that my parents have
> to Ubuntu over new years.
That's wonderful. I'm sure they will be fairly typical of Windows users
from what you say, so we'll be delighted to have your record of th
> Date: Mon, 27 Dec 2010 12:06:18 +
> From: Barry Drake
> Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...
> To: UK Ubuntu Talk
> Message-ID: <1293451578.2118.38.ca...@pcspecialist>
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>
> Those of you on the advertis
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 20:45 +, Mark wrote:
> Not sure if this helps:
> http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html
Thanks for that. It is going to be very useful especially in
ideas to solve the problems our research shows up!
Regards,Barry.
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On 27 December 2010 20:32, Barry Drake wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 16:09 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> > You don't need admin access to create a wiki page, just browse to the
> pagename you want, then start editing.
>
> Thanks for that. There is now a Wiki page at:
> https://wiki.ubun
On Mon, 2010-12-27 at 16:09 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote:
> You don't need admin access to create a wiki page, just browse to the
> pagename you want, then start editing.
Thanks for that. There is now a Wiki page at:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/WindowsCompatibility
> This does sound like a ver
: bdr...@crosswire.org, UK Ubuntu Talk
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Research required ...
Those of you on the advertising list will know that Danté Ashton and I
have been trying to research easy entry into Ubuntu with the mindset of
the average Windows user. Please consider helping with this research.
The aim
Those of you on the advertising list will know that Danté Ashton and I
have been trying to research easy entry into Ubuntu with the mindset of
the average Windows user. Please consider helping with this research.
The aim is to pick a particular 'need' and to follow through whether
this need can be
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