Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Local Community team reapproval

2011-05-18 Thread Paul Sutton
On 18/05/11 19:13, Alan Bell wrote: > Hi all, > > This cycle, before the release of Oneiric Ocelot, the UK team has to go > through the LoCo team reapproval process. You can read more about this > here: > > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamReApproval > http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/0

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Local Community team reapproval

2011-05-18 Thread Alan Bell
Hi all, This cycle, before the release of Oneiric Ocelot, the UK team has to go through the LoCo team reapproval process. You can read more about this here: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoCouncil/LoCoTeamReApproval http://www.lczajkowski.com/2010/01/20/ubuntu-loco-re-approval-process-explained/ h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu + computing in schools

2011-05-06 Thread Les Pounder
Hi all Earlier today I emailed the team behind this, with an eye to record an interview,I am hopeful that it can be used on the ubuntu uk podcast, as well as other podcasts. Les On Fri, May 6, 2011 at 9:11 PM, Rob Beard wrote: > On 06/05/11 20:46, Bruno Girin wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I came ac

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu + computing in schools

2011-05-06 Thread Rob Beard
On 06/05/11 20:46, Bruno Girin wrote: Hi all, I came across this via /. today and thought it would be a great thing for Ubuntu UK members to get involved in: http://raspberrypi.org/ Quick summary: it's a UK charity who are trying to put fun back into learning computing by coming up with a £15

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu + computing in schools

2011-05-06 Thread Tony Scott
> >From: Bruno Girin >To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com >Sent: Friday, 6 May 2011, 20:46 >Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu + computing in schools > >Hi all, > >I came across this via /. today and thought it would be a great thing >for Ubuntu UK membe

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu + computing in schools

2011-05-06 Thread Bruno Girin
Hi all, I came across this via /. today and thought it would be a great thing for Ubuntu UK members to get involved in: http://raspberrypi.org/ Quick summary: it's a UK charity who are trying to put fun back into learning computing by coming up with a £15 computer the size of a USB stick that yo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 15 Apr at 12:37, Alan Bell wrote: > On 15/04/11 12:31, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: > > On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewart wrote: > > > > Has anyone else had this problem? > > > I think those will be the instructions when it is released. If I had quoted the whole of Kate Stewart's release, you wo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Alan Bell
On 15/04/11 12:31, Tim Powys-Lybbe wrote: On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewart wrote: 2. If you are upgrading from 10.10: 1. Open the Update Manager application from the System → Administration menu. 2. In Update Manager, click the Settings... button, and enter your passwor

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Beta 2 Released

2011-04-15 Thread Tim Powys-Lybbe
On 14 Apr at 21:25, Kate Stewart wrote: > The Ubuntu team is pleased to announce the release of Ubuntu 11.04 > Beta 2. > To upgrade to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta 2 from Ubuntu 10.10, follow these > instructions: > > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NattyUpgrades On that site there are these instr

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 11.04 Launch Party 28th April

2011-04-14 Thread Alan Bell
Just a few weeks to go until the launch of the next version of Ubuntu, 11.04 the Natty Narwhal and we are sorting out plans for the launch day. Sadly the event that we were talking about at the BCS didn't quite come together, apparently everyone at Canonical is rather busy that day working on s

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 11

2011-04-07 Thread John MM
On 07/04/11 15:55, Lee Williams wrote: On 07/04/2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: On 07/04/11 14:04, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: On 7 April 2011 13:54, Lee Williams wrote: > It's not a problem installing 32bit on a machine with> ~3.5GB ram... rather > the memory after the ~3.5GB

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 11

2011-04-07 Thread Lee Williams
On 07/04/2011 15:28, Dave Hanson wrote: On 07/04/11 14:04, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: On 7 April 2011 13:54, Lee Williams wrote: > It's not a problem installing 32bit on a machine with> ~3.5GB ram... rather > the memory after the ~3.5GB or so is not "dedicated to system resou

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 72, Issue 11

2011-04-07 Thread Dave Hanson
On 07/04/11 14:04, ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com wrote: On 7 April 2011 13:54, Lee Williams wrote: > It's not a problem installing 32bit on a machine with> ~3.5GB ram... rather > the memory after the ~3.5GB or so is not "dedicated to system resources"; > rather, system resources have u

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Virtual Global Jam

2011-04-04 Thread Hassan "Haz" Williamson
On 4 April 2011 09:03, Alan Pope wrote: > > Me too! Massive thanks to Alan Bell for doing so much organisation, > and to The Open Learning Centre for setting up the mumble server. > Yeah I must say the mumble server was a good success. Was a bit slow earlier on in the morning, but it was nice to

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Virtual Global Jam

2011-04-04 Thread Lee Williams
On 04/04/11 09:03, Alan Pope wrote: > On 4 April 2011 08:55, Hassan "Haz" Williamson wrote: >> I must say I enjoyed the Global Jam :). > > Me too! Massive thanks to Alan Bell for doing so much organisation, > and to The Open Learning Centre for setting up the mumble server. > > I found the abili

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Virtual Global Jam

2011-04-04 Thread Alan Pope
On 4 April 2011 08:55, Hassan "Haz" Williamson wrote: > I must say I enjoyed the Global Jam :). Me too! Massive thanks to Alan Bell for doing so much organisation, and to The Open Learning Centre for setting up the mumble server. I found the ability to talk about stuff whilst we watched the inst

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Virtual Global Jam

2011-04-04 Thread Hassan "Haz" Williamson
On 2 April 2011 08:20, Alan Bell wrote: > morning all, we are Jamming today, kicking off with a session at 10 am > helping people get themselves set up with launchpad accounts, and personal > wiki pages and going through other similar setup bits to help you get > started. > > Alan. Hi Alan, I m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Virtual Global Jam

2011-04-02 Thread Alan Bell
morning all, we are Jamming today, kicking off with a session at 10 am helping people get themselves set up with launchpad accounts, and personal wiki pages and going through other similar setup bits to help you get started. Alan. On 29/03/11 22:59, Alan Bell wrote: This Saturday from 10AM to

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Virtual Global Jam

2011-03-29 Thread Alan Bell
This Saturday from 10AM to whenever we get bored there will be an online global jam session for the Ubuntu UK community. You can think of it as a virtual barcamp, and just like other barcamps the agenda is open and available for you to fill out with what you want to do. The agenda is in fact he

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast live tonight

2011-03-15 Thread Alan Pope
On 15 March 2011 11:31, Liam Wilson wrote: > Cool! What time will you be going live at? I'll try and tune in :) > Sorry, should have said, although it is mentioned on the site. 20:30 UTC. Cheers, Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wik

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast live tonight

2011-03-15 Thread Liam Wilson
Cool! What time will you be going live at? I'll try and tune in :) -- Liam Wilson -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast live tonight

2011-03-15 Thread Alan Pope
Hullo. We're recording episode 2 of season 4 of the podcast tonight "in front of a live studio audience" :) You can listen in whilst we make fools of ourselves:- http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/live/ Where you can also join in the chatter and heckle from at us via IRC in #ubuntu-uk-podcast on free

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-03-07 Thread Matthew Wild
On 7 March 2011 17:04, Paul Sladen wrote: > On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: >> On 18/01/11 09:56, Paul Sladen wrote: >> > Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, which looks something >> >    http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj365/4125843224/ >> > and hundreds of thousands (mil

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Sladen
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: > On 18/01/11 09:56, Paul Sladen wrote: > > Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, which looks something > >http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj365/4125843224/ > > and hundreds of thousands (millions...) of these get printed each year > The de

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-03-07 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
On 18/01/11 09:56, Paul Sladen wrote: Hello people, Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, which looks something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj365/4125843224/ and hundreds of thousands (millions...) of these get printed each year by people setting up their printer becaus

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-03-07 Thread Paul Sladen
On Tue, 18 Jan 2011, Paul Sladen wrote: > Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, > http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj365/4125843224/ > Virtually all of these sheets are only usable as scrap-paper > Question is, could we do something more *useful* with these This would perhaps do as a starti

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast Season 4 - Live this evening!

2011-03-01 Thread Alan Pope
Hullo! At 20:30 UTC today the Ubuntu UK Podcast goes live with the 4th Season! If you're around and fancy listening in to us blather on for an hour about Ubuntu and the community around it then point your browser at:- http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/live/ The icecast stream URL (which is only acti

[ubuntu-uk] ubuntu release party + OSS event

2011-02-25 Thread Paul Sutton
hi Anyone up for a ubuntu release party and general linux oss event on the 30th april (saturday) probably time between 3 and 6. location Paignton, still trying to finalise stuff at the moment, but looking for shows of hands. 11.04 is released on 28th april or that's the planned date. paul

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?

2011-02-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Wed, 2011-02-23 at 05:38 +, Alexander Birchall wrote: > 3. This is what the monitor was displaying: > > "Gave up waiting for root device. Common problems: > -- Boot args (cat /proc/cmdline) > -- Check rootdelay= (did the system wait long enough?) > -- Check root= (did the system wai

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?

2011-02-22 Thread Alexander Birchall
! Alex Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2011 11:44:23 + From: j...@jr0cket.com To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart? On 22 February 2011 10:23, Alexander Birchall wrote: Hi, I have just gone through the pr

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?

2011-02-22 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2011-02-22 at 11:44 +, John Stevenson wrote: > How long you should wait probably depends on what the server is doing > now. You request does not state what state the server is currenty in, > so it is difficult to advise. Indeed. Your description implies that you're not near the serve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?

2011-02-22 Thread John Stevenson
On 22 February 2011 10:23, Alexander Birchall wrote: > Hi, > > I have just gone through the procedure of upgrading from Ubuntu server > Hardy Heron 8.04 to the latest version (10.04 LTS), using the upgrade > manager. The procedure took a couple of hours to complete, and then I was > asked to res

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Server Upgrade -- how long should I wait for server to restart?

2011-02-22 Thread Alexander Birchall
Hi, I have just gone through the procedure of upgrading from Ubuntu server Hardy Heron 8.04 to the latest version (10.04 LTS), using the upgrade manager. The procedure took a couple of hours to complete, and then I was asked to restart the server. This I did, but that was half an hour ago.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-20 Thread d...@fishms.org
Oh no, not more of this rubbish! Seriously, a great show and looking forwards to the new season. Keep up the good work! Dan Sent from my HTC - Reply message - From: "Alan Pope" To: "British Ubuntu Talk" Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning Date: Sat

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-20 Thread Jacob Mansfield
On 20 February 2011 11:55, Mark Fraser wrote: > Isn't that someone doing a handstand? surely that is o / \ Jacob Mansfield Programmer CyberKing Solutions™ www.cyberkingsolutions.co.uk - I do know the database is down "When Windows™ is opened the bugs come in." -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com h

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-20 Thread Mark Fraser
On Sunday 20 Feb 2011 11:08:18 Alan Bell wrote: > On 20/02/11 10:21, alan c wrote: > > I obviously missed out on something > > what does\o/mean please? > > little person waving two hands in the air in celebration > you can also wave with one hand like o/ or \oor if things go wrong

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-20 Thread Alan Bell
On 20/02/11 10:21, alan c wrote: I obviously missed out on something what does\o/mean please? little person waving two hands in the air in celebration you can also wave with one hand like o/ or \oor if things go wrong you can do this /o\ Alan -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com htt

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-20 Thread Josh Holland
On Sun, Feb 20, 2011 at 10:21:27AM +, alan c wrote: > what does\o/mean please? It's a little man with his arms in the air because he is so happy about the return of UUPC. -- Josh Holland -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-20 Thread alan c
On 19/02/11 20:52, Matthew Wild wrote: On 19 February 2011 20:32, Alan Pope wrote: Hi all, As you can see by the website, we're returning with Season 4 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast in 10 days. Podcast \o/ I obviously missed out on something what does\o/mean please? -- alan cock

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-19 Thread Matthew Wild
On 19 February 2011 20:32, Alan Pope wrote: > Hi all, > > As you can see by the website, we're returning with Season 4 of the > Ubuntu UK Podcast in 10 days. > Podcast \o/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Podcast returning

2011-02-19 Thread Alan Pope
Hi all, As you can see by the website, we're returning with Season 4 of the Ubuntu UK Podcast in 10 days. http://podcast.ubuntu-uk.org/ We're changing things a little in that we'll record the show live on a Tuesday evening at ~20:30 and then release it as a podcast the next day. We'll update the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Meet up April - Global Jam event - Weybridge

2011-02-08 Thread Laura Czajkowski
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> >> Laura >> > > Sounds great, sorry Weybridge is a bit far out for me. > > Paula > > Paula, that's fine, if folks want to organise one in their own area they should. Forgot to add the link http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/687/detail/ - --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Meet up April - Global Jam event - Weybridge

2011-02-08 Thread gazz
On Tue, 2011-02-08 at 14:46 +, la...@lczajkowski.com wrote: > ALOHA! > > I've been thinking and pondering about meet ups over here, the majority > seems to be focused on conferences and while that is great and is needed I > miss the fun side of things! > > So I'm possibly being a bit selfi

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK Meet up April - Global Jam event - Weybridge

2011-02-08 Thread laura
ALOHA! I've been thinking and pondering about meet ups over here, the majority seems to be focused on conferences and while that is great and is needed I miss the fun side of things! So I'm possibly being a bit selfish here but I thought we could meet up in early April and work on some Ubuntu bug

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

2011-02-07 Thread azmodie
On 7 February 2011 11:01, gazz wrote: > > > On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 16:37 +, Martin Meredith wrote: > > On 04/02/11 12:21, David Jones wrote: >> Assuming you mean Ubuntu stickers, one possibility is >> thelinuxemporium, although they're saying out of stock of the free >> stickers at the moment,

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

2011-02-07 Thread gazz
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 16:37 +, Martin Meredith wrote: > On 04/02/11 12:21, David Jones wrote: > > Assuming you mean Ubuntu stickers, one possibility is > > thelinuxemporium, although they're saying out of stock of the free > > stickers at the moment, but say keep sending requests in and th

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

2011-02-04 Thread Ronnie Tucker
Gordon, I still have a couple left (I was giving them away as prizes in Full Circle magazine), email me your address and I'll pop you one off in the post. On 04/02/11 12:15, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: Is there anywhere I can buy (or even get free!) the small stickers that go on laptops/netb

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

2011-02-04 Thread Barry Drake
On Fri, 2011-02-04 at 17:50 +, Alan Bell wrote: > we had 30 sheets or so for the expo, not sure where they ended up, or if > there were any left over. They are not that hard to come by, we just > need to arrange more get togethers and events so we can share these > things about. They all we

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

2011-02-04 Thread Alan Bell
On 04/02/11 16:37, Martin Meredith wrote: On 04/02/11 12:21, David Jones wrote: Assuming you mean Ubuntu stickers, one possibility is thelinuxemporium, although they're saying out of stock of the free stickers at the moment, but say keep sending requests in and they'll send them out when they

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

2011-02-04 Thread Martin Meredith
On 04/02/11 12:21, David Jones wrote: Assuming you mean Ubuntu stickers, one possibility is thelinuxemporium, although they're saying out of stock of the free stickers at the moment, but say keep sending requests in and they'll send them out when they get new stocks http://shop.linuxemporium.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

2011-02-04 Thread David Jones
Assuming you mean Ubuntu stickers, one possibility is thelinuxemporium, although they're saying out of stock of the free stickers at the moment, but say keep sending requests in and they'll send them out when they get new stocks http://shop.linuxemporium.co.uk/merchandise/ubuntu.html Another

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Stickers?

2011-02-04 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
Is there anywhere I can buy (or even get free!) the small stickers that go on laptops/netbooks? Ta! -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

2011-01-27 Thread Steve Fisher
On 26 January 2011 21:06, wrote: > On the subject of crapware, my boss decided to try ubuntu on his new dell > latitude laptop running win7, he installed it by himself, and came to me the > next day when it was broken. Turns out dell wrote a dock-like application > for win7, which they preinstall

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

2011-01-27 Thread Barry Titterton
On Wed, 2011-01-26 at 21:06 +, bod...@googlemail.com wrote: > On the subject of crapware, my boss decided to try ubuntu on his new dell > latitude laptop running win7, he installed it by himself, and came to me the > next day when it was broken. Turns out dell wrote a dock-like application fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

2011-01-26 Thread bodsda
loads. That was the end of his Linux adventure Bodsda Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: LeeGroups Sender: ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2011 20:28:47 To: UK Ubuntu Talk Reply-To: UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

2011-01-26 Thread LeeGroups
On 18 January 2011 11:08, Mark Harrison wrote: Out of interest, why do people think that building a PC without Windows should be inherently cheaper? A simplistic viewpoint based on ignorance of common Microsoft& OEM business practice at a guess :) Is it because they correctly factor in the

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-23 Thread Paul Tansom
** Jon Spriggs [2011-01-18 11:22]: > I really like the idea of having an "How to contribute to Ubuntu" guide or > perhaps a document on "What is Ubuntu", however, it should also be > configurable to an absolute minimum page (three colours, black and corner > marks) for office deployment or experts

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Jacob Mansfield
On 18/01/11 20:49, Barry Titterton wrote: > On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:28 +, Alan Pope wrote: >> * A photo of a kitten > Please say that you were joking! Well be careful, it could be dangerous now how in the name of tux are we going to get that onto a sheet of paper? print the source code in a 0.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Barry Titterton
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:28 +, Alan Pope wrote: > * A photo of a kitten > > Cheers, > Al. > Please say that you were joking! Barry -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Jacob Mansfield
what about some garlic to deter the help vampires - http://slash7.com/2006/12/22/vampires/ Jacob Mansfield Programmer On 18 January 2011 15:19, Neil Greenwood wrote: > On 18 January 2011 14:23, Dave Morley wrote: >> A list of all the gnome/kde/applications Easter eggs for your >> entertainmen

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 18 January 2011 14:23, Dave Morley wrote: > A list of all the gnome/kde/applications Easter eggs for your > entertainment and viewing pleasure? > Won't that use up most of a ream of paper? :-) Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wi

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

2011-01-18 Thread Jon Farmer
On 18 January 2011 11:18, Alan Pope wrote: > I suspect most people don't even realise that OEMS get a kickback from > that kind of stuff. I suspect most people don't even care as long as they feel they are getting a good deal. Jon Farmer Tel 07795 118140 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Dave Morley
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 11:20 +, Jon Spriggs wrote: > I really like the idea of having an "How to contribute to Ubuntu" > guide or perhaps a document on "What is Ubuntu", however, it should > also be configurable to an absolute minimum page (three colours, black > and corner marks) for office dep

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Jon Spriggs
I really like the idea of having an "How to contribute to Ubuntu" guide or perhaps a document on "What is Ubuntu", however, it should also be configurable to an absolute minimum page (three colours, black and corner marks) for office deployment or experts. Perhaps when it says "Would you like to p

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Pope
On 18 January 2011 11:08, Mark Harrison wrote: > Out of interest, why do people think that building a PC without Windows > should be inherently cheaper? > A simplistic viewpoint based on ignorance of common Microsoft & OEM business practice at a guess :) > Is it because they correctly factor in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 59

2011-01-18 Thread Mark Harrison
> > That's always been a concern of mine... they always seem excessive in > > terms of price vs. specification and I don't understand this, because > > surely building a machine WITHOUT Windows (and its costly licences, > > even considering OEM) ought to be CHEAPER? > Out of interest, why do peopl

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Pope
On 18 January 2011 10:28, Alan Pope wrote: > Here's my suggestions :) > and more.. * A calendar showing public holidays / your own calendar extracted from Evolution / the LoCo calendar of events in your country * Your loco team website home page * To-Do list * Musical staves * Dot to dots * A "H

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread James Thomas
Even perhaps a random choice of any of the below? On 18 January 2011 10:28, Alan Pope wrote: > Hi Paul, > > I love this idea! > > On 18 January 2011 09:56, Paul Sladen wrote: > > * A4 advert "I run X/K/Ubuntu" > > * My Foobar 2700 duplex printer works with Ubuntu, does yours? > > * An envelo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Alan Pope
Hi Paul, I love this idea! On 18 January 2011 09:56, Paul Sladen wrote: >  * A4 advert "I run X/K/Ubuntu" >  * My Foobar 2700 duplex printer works with Ubuntu, does yours? >  * An envelope or magic-folding return-form: >      http://www.letterfu.com/index.php [*] >  * Some other zero-cut origami

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Tyler J. Wagner
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 10:20 +, Barry Drake wrote: > The waste of such an enormous amount of ink has always been a concern of > mine. I agree completely with your suggestion. It needs to have black > and three colours - incorporated into the Ubuntu logo maybe? But other > than that and page co

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Barry Drake
On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 09:56 +, Paul Sladen wrote: > Hello people, > > Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, which looks something > like this: The waste of such an enormous amount of ink has always been a concern of mine. I agree completely with your suggestion. It needs to have black

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Jon Farmer
On 18 January 2011 09:56, Paul Sladen wrote: > Hello people, > > Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, which looks something > like this: > >  http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj365/4125843224/ > > and hundreds of thousands (millions...) of these get printed each year > by people setting up t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Paul Mellors
On 01/18/2011 09:56 AM, Paul Sladen wrote: Hello people, Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, which looks something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj365/4125843224/ and hundreds of thousands (millions...) of these get printed each year by people setting up their printer b

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu Printer test page

2011-01-18 Thread Paul Sladen
Hello people, Ubuntu currently ships a printer test page, which looks something like this: http://www.flickr.com/photos/nickj365/4125843224/ and hundreds of thousands (millions...) of these get printed each year by people setting up their printer because the default action offered to the user

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu sync to iP[a|o]d - Apple ios4.2

2011-01-14 Thread Byte Soup
Hi Folks, Im running Ubuntu 10.04, 64bit with libimobiledevice package installed as per default. I used to be able to plug in an iPhone/Pod running Apple ios 4.1.x and see files on the device sync music etc. However since upgrading the iPod and iPhone to ios4.2 this is no longer possible. Ive tri

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk (diaspora)

2011-01-08 Thread Avi Greenbury
People keep writing: > > Hi Dave, > > I was wondering if you could spare another Diaspora invite? > In the nicest possible way, if you're going to insist upon emailing these requests for invites to the entire list, could you at least try to keep them all in the same thread please? Thanks --

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk (diaspora)

2011-01-08 Thread Dave Hanson
Hi Dave, I was wondering if you could spare another Diaspora invite? Best Regards Dave Hanson > From: ubuntu-uk-requ...@lists.ubuntu.com > Subject: ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 69, Issue 25 > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Date: Fri, 7 Jan 2011 20:20:50 + > > Send ubuntu-uk mailing list

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mindshare....

2011-01-02 Thread Chris Rowson
> > "Here’s instructions for Ubuntu, Mac OS X, and Windows." > That's pretty cool Mark. Let's hope it's a sign of things to come for 2011! Happy New Year all. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu mindshare....

2011-01-02 Thread Mark Harrison
For various reasons, I host my blog on wordpress.com rather than running my own Wordpress installation. They put an announcement on my admin page, about a holiday wallpaper they had commissioned. http://en.blog.wordpress.com/2010/12/21/wordpress-wallpaper/ Nothing odd here, just another American

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 68, Issue 44

2010-12-31 Thread nicholas.callag...@gmail.com
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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 68, Issue 44

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 68, Issue 44

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Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed ....

2010-12-30 Thread bodsda
g, UK Ubuntu Talk Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed someone sent me a link to (http://nakedcomputers.org/) and on it is a little firm in Andover called ElpaTech. They are at: http://www.elpatech.co.uk/ and they offer a range of PC's with a choice of OS including Ubuntu pre-in

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu pre-installed ....

2010-12-30 Thread Barry Drake
someone sent me a link to (http://nakedcomputers.org/) and on it is a little firm in Andover called ElpaTech. They are at: http://www.elpatech.co.uk/ and they offer a range of PC's with a choice of OS including Ubuntu pre-installed at very competitive prices. I really like what I see. I just won

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.10 panels very slow to launch on boot

2010-12-19 Thread Graham Smith
Robert, Thanks for this. If you don't have another machine handy you might be able to figure out > what's going on using a tty on the same machine: once you get the login > screen up switch to a tty (ctrl-alt-F1 for the first one) and login > there, start top, switch back to the graphical login (

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.10 panels very slow to launch on boot

2010-12-17 Thread Robert McWilliam
On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 19:21 +, "Graham Smith" wrote: > Over the last few days when booting up Maverick, the screen stays blank > (wallpaper only) for several seconds to over a minute before the panels > appear. > > I assume I have done something (or an update has done something) but can > anyon

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.10 panels very slow to launch on boot

2010-12-16 Thread Graham Smith
Chris On 16 December 2010 19:26, Chris Wilson wrote: > I too am experiencing this, though I had put it down to my machine being a > development box and thus has had a lot of extra applications installed, and > generally been tinkered with. > > In my case its a fresh (ish) install only a couple o

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.10 panels very slow to launch on boot

2010-12-16 Thread Chris Wilson
I too am experiencing this, though I had put it down to my machine being a development box and thus has had a lot of extra applications installed, and generally been tinkered with. On 16 December 2010 19:21, Graham Smith wrote: > Over the last few days when booting up Maverick, the screen stays

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu 10.10 panels very slow to launch on boot

2010-12-16 Thread Graham Smith
Over the last few days when booting up Maverick, the screen stays blank (wallpaper only) for several seconds to over a minute before the panels appear. I assume I have done something (or an update has done something) but can anyone suggest a fix for this, I keep on expecting the panels to simply n

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 68, Issue 22

2010-12-14 Thread Patrick Bulteel
> Message: 3 > Date: Tue, 14 Dec 2010 00:08:23 + > From: Bruno Girin > Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Netbook suggestion for a 4 year old > To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > Message-ID: <1292285303.1772.36.ca...@nuuk> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Hi all, > > I'm currently looking for a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 68, Issue 16

2010-12-09 Thread Mark Harrison
> > > The FAQ confused me a bit 'coz from ancient memory, the maximum allowable > charge is something like US$6. > > Not at all. The whole point of the GPL is that, once you've got a copy, you can do whatever you like with it. If you want to modify it, you're free to... If you want to give away

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 68, Issue 9

2010-12-08 Thread Mark Harrison
> > > [5] it reads and writes all Microsoft files and anything from any > > Windows or Mac program. > > A genuine question here. A lot of MS Office "files" include large numbers of embedded macros. Is there something that will run these reliably? I realise that in some industries this is a wider

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK website hack day

2010-12-01 Thread gazz
On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 15:25 +, Neil Perry wrote: > all day... > Neil Perry > > > > On 30 November 2010 15:23, Chris Wilson wrote: > > > I am proposing a hack day on Friday 10th December where we > > meet up in the #ubuntu-uk on IRC > > What time? >

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 48

2010-11-30 Thread Colin Law
inute phone line > :-) Very true, but I don't quite know what it has got to do with the subject line of this post (Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 48) Colin -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 67, Issue 48

2010-11-30 Thread Mark Harrison
> > Remember that free delivery is not necessarily the best deal. > Sometimes price + delivery from somewhere that charges delivery can be > less than price from somewhere else with free delivery. > > Colin > > ..., and of course, that "total price including delivery" isn't always the best deal eit

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK website hack day

2010-11-30 Thread Chris Wilson
Cool, thanks. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu UK website hack day

2010-11-30 Thread Neil Perry
all day... Neil Perry On 30 November 2010 15:23, Chris Wilson wrote: > > I am proposing a hack day on Friday 10th December where we > > meet up in the #ubuntu-uk on IRC > > What time? > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubunt

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