June 2007 17:38
To: British Ubuntu Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] suck it and see
On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote:
In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
turn your
Talk
Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] suck it and see
On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote:
In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
turn your monitors off, no cheating now, and have
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install and uninstall and generally work with the
hardware we
Quoting norman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install and uninstall
On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 12:53 +0100, norman wrote:
Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
Norman
Inkscape makes various bits of me tingle. In a good way.
So does Dasher.
I am also quite a fan of the
Hi
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote:
Automatix/Non-free codecs. At risk of getting a complete shoeing for
this, I don't care about wether my computers are free of non-gnu
software, I just want it to work. Automatix and the win32codecs give
well automatix is dangerous, and everything it
On Thursday 21 June 2007 12:53, norman wrote:
Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
Norman
As well as general things such as email, I use my systems for
Genealogy - using the excellent GRAMPS program and
This may seem odd, but on the Feisty Laptop, I have precisely three
applications that I use:
- Firefox
- Thunderbird
- OpenOffice.org
On the server, I have an awful lot more, but these days, it's the
servers that are doing all the heavy lifting.
Two years ago, we used lots of applications on
norman wrote:
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install and uninstall and generally work
Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
As a music lover, Amarok is the killer app on Linux for me. Even to the
extent of running it (a KDE app) on Ubuntu's Gnome desktop. However, Exaile
(a GTK app) is now
On 21/06/07, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One of the many advantages of Ubuntu to old codgers like me and those of
us who depend on our computer for passing the time is the vast range of
free software and applications available to be tried and tested. Mostly
these are easy to install
norman wrote:
It's really great to read about all the applications that folk use with
Ubuntu. It makes a wonderful change from kicking Windows and expounding
on its problems. Every time that that OS is mentioned it is drawing
attention to it and this, all good and true Ubuntu users, do not
norman wrote:
Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
Norman
Well on my desktop I'm still running Ubuntu Edgy (x86 version on an
Athlon 64 3000+). I have a couple of Cron jobs setup to record some
Hi
Josh Blacker wrote:
nostalgia of Worms :) I boot into XP to play Unreal Tournament, but
wouldn't mind being able to play it from Ubuntu...
Isn't it available? I have the Linux version of UT2004 and it works fine
(shame it's not much fun ;)
Cheers,
--
Chris Jones
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 6/21/07, norman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
Norman
Being fairly new to Ubuntu (a couple of months now?), I've not had
that long to look around too much. I've used FF on
It's really great to read about all the applications that folk use with
Ubuntu. It makes a wonderful change from kicking Windows and expounding
on its problems. Every time that that OS is mentioned it is drawing
attention to it and this, all good and true Ubuntu users, do not want.
The motto
Hi,
On 6/21/07, Chris Jones [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi
Josh Blacker wrote:
nostalgia of Worms :) I boot into XP to play Unreal Tournament, but
wouldn't mind being able to play it from Ubuntu...
Isn't it available? I have the Linux version of UT2004 and it works fine
(shame it's not
On Thursday 21 June 2007 17:30, Josh Blacker wrote:
On the leisure side of things, I've played around with a few games but
the only one I have really played with is Wormux, mainly for the
nostalgia of Worms :) I boot into XP to play Unreal Tournament, but
wouldn't mind being able to play it
I enjoy using Ubuntu because, like many others on the list I'm really
impressed with the ability to quickly get and install good quality
free programs!
I use Dapper servers at work where I can (internet/intranet mostly),
because unlike my Windows Server 2003 servers, I can just set them up
and
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Subject: Re: [ubuntu-uk] suck it and see
It's really great to read about all the applications that folk use with
Ubuntu. It makes a wonderful change from kicking Windows and expounding
on its problems. Every time that that OS is mentioned it is drawing
attention to it and this, all
On Thursday 21 June 2007 20:27, Ian Pascoe wrote:
In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
turn your monitors off, no cheating now, and have a go at doing some of
your normal tasks to
On Thursday 21 June 2007 22:56, Chris Rowson wrote:
A most interesting mail Ian. To familiarise myself with the issues I
decided to take up the challenge of installing gnome-orca!
Me too, I tried installing it too and the installation finishes with
You need to configure ORCA by changing
On 21/06/07, Ian Pascoe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In fact here's a challenge for you all to do on those rainy evenings. Get
Orca up and running - it's part of the Gnome desktop from 6.06 onwards -
turn your monitors off, no cheating now, and have a go at doing some of your
normal tasks to see
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