Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu FTW

2006-12-15 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 12/12/06, Sub7 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We have a little computer shop where you spend double what you should be, > i.e 15 quid for 2 kettle leads... So this has brought me to the conclusion > that education on computers is not great around here, it's not open to the > general public who are

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu FTW

2006-12-12 Thread Sean Miller
Sub7 wrote: > When i say hundreds, i mean 140, but the software was already provided > he just had to install it :P. That sounds a trifle excessive... are you sure he didn't also train them in the software and/or upgrade their PCs to run it etc. at the same time? Onsite training isn't cheap - an

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu FTW

2006-12-12 Thread Sub7
With property prices around here i should think your tuppence worth is completely valid. It's just the way he does it i guess, bringing two unpriced kettle leads and telling me 15 quid, he just turned evil in my mind :P. When i say hundreds, i mean 140, but the software was already provided he ju

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu FTW

2006-12-12 Thread Sean Miller
Sub7 wrote: > overrun with issues like viruses and stability. I see it every day! > People go into this computer shop and part with hundreds of pounds for > him to put a disk in the drive and click next, next, next. Is it really hundreds of pounds for just that, or are you exaggerating? Persona

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu FTW

2006-12-11 Thread alan c
Sub7 wrote: > I'm new, but inspired. welcome! > I live in a developing rural town where computers are the satanic > gadgets that the news makes them out to be. > I am a geek and have been for years, and since i left school i have > looked at local businesses and realized that people who don't k

[ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu FTW

2006-12-11 Thread Sub7
I'm new, but inspired. I live in a developing rural town where computers are the satanic gadgets that the news makes them out to be. I am a geek and have been for years, and since i left school i have looked at local businesses and realized that people who don't know what they are doing, are bein