Paul Roach wrote:
>> The moral I take from this is - the more Ubuntu is used, anywhere, the
>> closer we get to the tipping point.
>>
>> I have introduced three friends in recent months to Linux Emporium,
>> because they wanted an Ubuntu only Laptop from a retail friendly
>> source. Three purchas
2009/10/27 Rob Beard :
> Sean Miller wrote:
>> Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine?
>>
>> It's simply not true that you can't run Microsoft programs on Ubuntu
>> -- is the BBC sponsored by Apple and Microsoft or what???
>>
>> Sean
>>
>>
> Well wine isn't perfect. A fair few applicati
> The moral I take from this is - the more Ubuntu is used, anywhere, the
> closer we get to the tipping point.
>
> I have introduced three friends in recent months to Linux Emporium,
> because they wanted an Ubuntu only Laptop from a retail friendly
> source. Three purchases. LE is giving an imp
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 27/10/09 08:13, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>> If that guy was from Canonical, perhaps they should think about retraining:-
>>
>> /"For the first time in 20 years you can buy Ubuntu pre-installed from
>> more than one manufacturer," he said. "That's an extraordinary story
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 12:57, Daniel Drummond wrote:
> Dean Sas wrote:
>> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>
2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls
>
>>
>>
>>> /"Some of the security is through obscurity but it's also better by
>>> design," he s
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 12:45 +, Gordon wrote:
> Actually not so in my experience. MS seems to have tsken a leaf out of
> Ubuntu's book. The only driver that did NOT come with Windows 7 for my 2
> y/o Toshiba Satellite was my printereverything else justworked!
>
I will second that. Ever
Dean Sas wrote:
> Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>>> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
>>>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls
>
>
>> /"Some of the security is through obscurity but it's also better by
>> design," he said./
>>
>>
>> Just doesn't make sense at al
Gordon wrote:
> Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>
>> -Then you'll have to find those drivers for your hardware (if they
>> exist) and install them,
>
> Actually not so in my experience. MS seems to have tsken a leaf out of
> Ubuntu's book. The only driver that did NOT come with Windows 7 for my 2
> y/o T
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> -Then you'll have to find those drivers for your hardware (if they
> exist) and install them,
Actually not so in my experience. MS seems to have tsken a leaf out of
Ubuntu's book. The only driver that did NOT come with Windows 7 for my 2
y/o Toshiba Satellite was my prin
Sean Miller wrote:
> Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine?
>
> It's simply not true that you can't run Microsoft programs on Ubuntu
> -- is the BBC sponsored by Apple and Microsoft or what???
>
> Sean
>
>
Well wine isn't perfect. A fair few applications don't work very well
or not
Lucy wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
>
>> 2009/10/21 James Milligan :
>>
>>> Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning?
>>>
>>> Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with
>>> Safari open on ubuntu.com
>>>
>>> Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said a
Sean Miller wrote:
> Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine?
>
> It's simply not true that you can't run Microsoft programs on Ubuntu
> -- is the BBC sponsored by Apple and Microsoft or what???
>
> Sean
>
>
Well I don't think you can blame the BBC for that one. Chris Kenyon is
Canonic
Daniel Drummond wrote:
>> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
>>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8326264.stm?ls
> /"Some of the security is through obscurity but it's also better by
> design," he said./
>
>
> Just doesn't make sense at all. Surely as it is an open-source system,
> there is no o
On 27/10/09 08:48, Sean Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Alan Lord (News)
> wrote:
>> On 27/10/09 08:13, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>>
>>> If that guy was from Canonical, perhaps they should think about retraining:-
>>>
>>> /"For the first time in 20 years you can buy Ubuntu pre-inst
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:26 AM, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 27/10/09 08:13, Daniel Drummond wrote:
>
>> If that guy was from Canonical, perhaps they should think about retraining:-
>>
>> /"For the first time in 20 years you can buy Ubuntu pre-installed from
>> more than one manufacturer," he sa
Sean Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Sean Miller wrote:
>> Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine?
>
> Come to think of it, why isn't Wine installed by default??
I don't know if there are any "official" reasons, but here are some
possibilities
* It's ugly
* It doesn'
On 27/10/09 08:13, Daniel Drummond wrote:
> If that guy was from Canonical, perhaps they should think about retraining:-
>
> /"For the first time in 20 years you can buy Ubuntu pre-installed from
> more than one manufacturer," he said. "That's an extraordinary story."
>
> /A stupid statement consi
Lucy wrote:
> 2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
>
>> 2009/10/21 James Milligan :
>>
>>> Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning?
>>>
>>> Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with
>>> Safari open on ubuntu.com
>>>
>>> Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said a
On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Sean Miller wrote:
> Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine?
Come to think of it, why isn't Wine installed by default??
Sean
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Why do none of these programmes ever mention Wine?
It's simply not true that you can't run Microsoft programs on Ubuntu
-- is the BBC sponsored by Apple and Microsoft or what???
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I agree about the theme... why can't Ubuntu install something that is
at least slightly pleasant on the eye??
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2009/10/27 Philip Stubbs :
> 2009/10/21 James Milligan :
>> Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning?
>>
>> Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with
>> Safari open on ubuntu.com
>>
>> Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said about other OSes.
>>
>> James
>
> I
2009/10/21 James Milligan :
> Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning?
>
> Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with
> Safari open on ubuntu.com
>
> Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said about other OSes.
>
> James
I have not had time to read it yet,
http
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> Samuel Toogood wrote:
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>> --- Original message ---
>>
>>> From: Jon Reynolds
>>> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
>>> Sent: 24.10.'09, 10:50
>>>
>>> Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a li
Jon Reynolds wrote:
> Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one
> can just boot into the live environment and then mount the host
> computer's hard drive and browse its contents. Isn't that a really bad
> security issue?
> 's
> Jon Reynolds
>
Depends on how you look
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Samuel Toogood wrote:
> --- Original message ---
>> From: Jon Reynolds
>> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
>> Sent: 24.10.'09, 10:50
>>
>> Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one
>> can just boot into the live env
--- Original message ---
> From: Jon Reynolds
> To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
> Sent: 24.10.'09, 10:50
>
> Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one
> can just boot into the live environment and then mount the host
> computer's hard drive and browse its conte
On 24 Oct 2009 at 10:50, Jon Reynolds wrote:
>
> Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one
> can just boot into the live environment and then mount the host
> computer's hard drive and browse its contents. Isn't that a really bad
> security issue?
>
> Jon Reynolds
>
Am I thinking about this wrong or is it true that using a live CD, one
can just boot into the live environment and then mount the host
computer's hard drive and browse its contents. Isn't that a really bad
security issue?
Jon Reynolds
On Thu, Oct 22, 2009 at 10:05:25AM +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
>
doug livesey wrote:
>
> I don't know the Enquirer -- how respected a journal is it?
It's the Inquirer at www.theinquirer.net
It was started by Mike Magee who was also involved with The Register
(www.theregister.co.uk). Both are fairly respected.
Rob
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On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Rowan Berkeley
wrote:
> Actually, the possessive pronoun WAS spelled with an apostrophe (which
> is quite logical, since others are) until the contraction for 'it is'
> became unavoidably common. Eighteenth-century printers wrote it with
> one; I know this because
On Thu, 2009-10-22 at 22:44 +0100, Christopher Swift
:
> Alan, since we've gone onto the topic of both spelling and grammar,
> you will find that according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the
> past participle of the verb to spell is indeed "spelt". We are not
> living in America on this thread.
> Although I have no hard evidence ... the truth is out there.
No offense, but by speculating like they do on government's spying in on us
through our computers whilst offering no hard evidence, they rather run the
risk of coming across a little tin-foil hat.
I don't know the Enquirer -- how respe
Although I have no hard evidence, it was years ago that I heard about
the US govt/FBI having a backdoor into Windows, and that all antivirus
software by law cannot be allowed to detect what the FBI, etc., put onto
people's computers.
It might be true, it might be partially true. But the fact i
Tony Pursell:
> Use of the word 'program' for computer program was in a book
> I used to have with a title something like 'British Standard
> Terms in Data Processing', published by the BSI back in
> the1960s!. And people still get it wrong...
I remember correcting my primary school teacher on t
On 22/10/09 16:28, Christopher Swift wrote:
>> --
> Alan, since we've gone onto the topic of both spelling and grammar,
> you will find that according to the Oxford English Dictionary, the
> past participle of the verb to spell is indeed "spelt". We are not
> living in America on this thread. Vi
2009/10/22 Alan Lord (News) :
> On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote:
>> On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote:
>>> That page got right up my nose
>>>
>>> --
>>> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a
>>> "television programme".
Hi,
> Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> > On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote:
> >> On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote:
> >>> That page got right up my nose
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a
> >>> "television p
Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
>
> Quoting from the website:
> -Spend lots of money for Windows 7 for every computer in your organisation,
> -First you will need to take very careful backups of everything (not
> just files but emails, favourites, settings etc),
> -Format your machine's hard disk and insta
2009/10/22 Alan Lord (News) :
> There was a story (poss. last year or earlier) about a FBI(or Police)
> conference in the US where MS apparently handed out a USB key to all
> delegates that had "backdoors" into Windows. If I get chance I'll try to
> search for it.
>
Interesting, I'd not heard abou
On 22/10/09 09:22, Alan Pope wrote:
> 2009/10/22 David King:
>> That's a good way to describe it -- Software with Secrets. Including a
>> backdoor so that US govt agencies can spy on you,
>
> [[citation needed]]
There was a story (poss. last year or earlier) about a FBI(or Police)
conference in t
On 22/10/09 08:54, Thomas Ibbotson wrote:
> Alan Bell wrote:
>> Paul Sutton wrote:
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>>> Linux got a mention on the lunch time news, well it showed tux, and the
>>> google and apple logos, as alternatives, but didn't say much about em
>>>
>>
2009/10/22 David King :
> That's a good way to describe it -- Software with Secrets. Including a
> backdoor so that US govt agencies can spy on you,
[[citation needed]]
> as well as the WGA
> tool to report back any activity on your PC to Microsoft.
>
[[citation needed]]
I'd be interested in se
That's a good way to describe it -- Software with Secrets. Including a
backdoor so that US govt agencies can spy on you, as well as the WGA
tool to report back any activity on your PC to Microsoft.
David King
alan c wrote:
>
>
> Not least, Windows is Software with Secrets!
> That regime is n
Alan Lord (News) wrote:
> On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote:
>> On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote:
>>> That page got right up my nose
>>>
>>> --
>>> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a
>>> "television programme".
>
> Not t
Alan Bell wrote:
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>> Linux got a mention on the lunch time news, well it showed tux, and the
>> google and apple logos, as alternatives, but didn't say much about em
>>
> well it is Microsoft's big day (well it is tomor
On 21/10/09 23:26, Tony Pursell wrote:
> On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote:
>>>
>> That page got right up my nose
>>
>> --
>> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a
>> "television programme".
Not to be picky but "spelt" is a type
On 21 Oct 2009 at 22:29, LeeGroups wrote:
> >
> That page got right up my nose
>
> --
> Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a
> "television programme".
Use of the word 'program' for computer program was in a book I used
to have
it may be worth clicking on feedback adn commenting,
That page got right up my nose
--
Firstly, "computer program" isn't spelt "programme", that would be a
"television programme".
Secondly, given the number of Windows users who use Open Office, Firefox
and
On Wed, 2009-10-21 at 19:08 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
> also go to any conference on anything. Look at the percentage of Macs in
> the audience, look at the percentage of laptops that get put on the
> podium that are Macs. It is going up. Linux is too, but Macs are more
> spottable.
At the ELC (e
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> Linux got a mention on the lunch time news, well it showed tux, and the
> google and apple logos, as alternatives, but didn't say much about em
>
well it is Microsoft's big day (well it is tomorrow, they seem to have
jum
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Linux got a mention on the lunch time news, well it showed tux, and the
google and apple logos, as alternatives, but didn't say much about em
regarding product placement you notice how you see more macs on TV
programmes, these days,
Paul
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> Liam Wilson wrote:
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>> Neil Greenwood wrote:
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>>> 2009/10/21 James Milligan :
>>>
>>>
Apologies - sent that a little early!
He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across
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> Neil Greenwood wrote:
>> 2009/10/21 James Milligan :
>>
>>> Apologies - sent that a little early!
>>>
>>> He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
>>> a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want somet
Neil Greenwood wrote:
> 2009/10/21 James Milligan :
>
>> Apologies - sent that a little early!
>>
>> He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
>> a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and
>> don't have to fuss about with it.
>>
>> All in all
Paul Sutton wrote:
> James Milligan wrote:
>> Apologies - sent that a little early!
>
>> He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
>> a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and
>> don't have to fuss about with it.
>
> so do I hence I use L
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James Milligan wrote:
> Apologies - sent that a little early!
>
> He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
> a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and
> don't have to fuss about with it.
so
2009/10/21 James Milligan :
> Apologies - sent that a little early!
>
> He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
> a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and
> don't have to fuss about with it.
>
> All in all, I do have to say that Windows 7 is
Apologies - sent that a little early!
He did go on to talk about it a little bit, but it did come across as
a geek OS, he said that 'people' just want something that works, and
don't have to fuss about with it.
All in all, I do have to say that Windows 7 is very nice compared to
Vista.
Jam
Did anyone else watch BBC News this morning?
Whilst showing off Windows 7, the tech correspondent showed a Mac with
Safari open on ubuntu.com
Didn't actually mention the name etc, but said about other OSes.
James
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