On Thursday 13 May 2010 01:10:44 John Stevenson wrote:
If you have a laptop hard drive that often contains sensitve personal data
or is used for any kind of business or holds information that needs to be
covered under the data protection act, then it advisable to have the whole
system
You could sync all of them to your Google Calendar? I'm fairly sure
Thunderbird will allow you to do this, but since I haven't done it myself
I'm not sure if you'd get read only or read-write from Thunderbird.
On 13 May 2010 02:18, red rik_bol...@btinternet.com wrote:
I am wanting to get
On 13/05/10 02:18, red wrote:
I am wanting to get organised in life and so hey I should use my laptop.
In my Ubuntu (latest version) I have a calendar next to my clock and
also a calender in Thunderbirds and a google calender. This selection is
ace but can I integrate all the info on one into
The only way I found to integrate Google Calendar into the top-right
Calendar in Gnome was to use Evolution.
You have to install a Google Calendar plugin to Evolution[1] and sync
you calendar. Then it appears auto-magically in the top right. This
runs in the background all the time (ie you don't
On 13/05/10 02:18, red wrote:
I am wanting to get organised in life and so hey I should use my laptop.
In my Ubuntu (latest version) I have a calendar next to my clock and
also a calender in Thunderbirds and a google calender. This selection is
ace but can I integrate all the info on one into
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the
Italian LoCo Team have been doing some great work contributing to
Ubuntu and I
Hey Popey,
+1
On 13 May 2010 09:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the
Italian
On 13/05/2010 09:15, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the
Italian LoCo Team have been doing some
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 10:15 +0200, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
snip
The task is to test the Ubuntu ISO (CD) images at certain points
through the cycle. This
Hello,
On 13 May 2010 09:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
The task is to test the Ubuntu ISO (CD) images at certain points
through the cycle. This is a surprisingly easy thing to do, and with a
few volunteers and bit of co-ordination it's possible to test all the
various flavours and
On 13 May 2010 10:21, Dan Fish danf...@nhs.net wrote:
Sounds like a good idea - is this using testdrive by any chance?
Maybe. For those that don't know, testdrive is a fantastic application
which makes it easier to download and boot up an Ubuntu ISO. It uses
KVM and VirtualBox or Parallels (on
Alan Pope wrote:
Anyone fancy helping out with this? If so just say so here, and we can
work out the details when I get back from UDS.
Sounds good.
As above, I can do x86 and amd64, and real-life or virtual testing.
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On 13/05/10 09:15, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the
Italian LoCo Team have been doing some
On 13 May 2010 10:21, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
Have the Italian LoCo got a testing procedure? (i.e. it boots, it fails
and so on) Also is this burning ISO to CD or could we just throw it onto
a USB stick to test?
They do! As does the QA team. We can link into all that good
I have the Revo running Karmic with XBMC and the Keysonic keyboard. It's
a pretty good solution, and only has occasional digital audio output
issues which require restarting XBMC.
I plan to replace the Keysonic with a PS3 remote and bluetooth dongle
and mount the Revo on the rear of the
On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Anyone fancy helping out with this? If so just say so here, and we can
work out the details when I get back from UDS.
Sign me up! :)
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On 13 May 2010 10:21, Hugh Saunders h...@mjr.org wrote:
I'd be happy to help with that.
Excellent, thanks.
Is this testing done with KVM/test drive or actual boots?
Either and both :)
None of my personal machines support KVM yet, but if actual boots are
useful, I could test some 32bit x86
Add me to the list Alan
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Hi all,
Sounds a fun ideas - I can do desktop, laptop, and netbooks,
Sign me up!
Cheers
Ricey
On 13 May 2010 09:28, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
On 13 May 2010 10:21, Matthew Daubney m...@daubers.co.uk wrote:
Have the Italian LoCo got a test...
They do! As does the QA team. We can link
On 13/05/10 09:15, Alan Pope wrote:
snip
Anyone fancy helping out with this? If so just say so here, and we can
work out the details when I get back from UDS.
Cheers,
Al.
Yep sounds good, I'm on a 20 Meg Virgin connection so getting hold of an
ISO isn't an issue (and I'm happy grab them
Hi Popey, i would love to help - finally got myself a vt enabled laptop, just
need a bit more memory then - i am all yours.
Cheers.
Leroy
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http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/19780/direct/01/
On 13 May 2010 09:15, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
snip
The task is to test the Ubuntu ISO (CD) images at certain points
through the cycle. This
On 13 May 2010 07:24, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
On Thursday 13 May 2010 01:10:44 John Stevenson wrote:
If you have a laptop hard drive that often contains sensitve personal
data
or is used for any kind of business or holds information that needs to be
covered under the data
I can help out with testing and have an assortment of desktops, laptops and
servers to test the ISO's on. I also run virtualisation platforms such as
VMWare, VirtualBox and Virtuozzo.
Cheers
Dave
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[mailto:ubuntu-uk-boun...@lists.ubuntu.com] On
Count me in to help out.
Nperry
On 13 May 2010 10:18, Dave Etheridge d...@detheridge.co.uk wrote:
I can help out with testing and have an assortment of desktops, laptops and
servers to test the ISO’s on. I also run virtualisation platforms such as
VMWare, VirtualBox and Virtuozzo.
Cheers
Sign me up.
Les
On May 13, 2010 10:17 AM, Dave Etheridge d...@detheridge.co.uk wrote:
I can help out with testing and have an assortment of desktops, laptops and
servers to test the ISO’s on. I also run virtualisation platforms such as
VMWare, VirtualBox and Virtuozzo.
Cheers
Dave
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Hi Alan,
Im happy to help out too.
Cheers
Markie
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Andy Smith wrote:
However it all sounds like a massive hassle and personally I would
buy the computer online using a credit card making sure the store
was aware it was for Ubuntu.
You'd need to do more than make them aware of what you want to do with
it; you need to have some (written)
Liam,
On 13/05/10 01:14, Liam Proven wrote:
Your understanding seems right to me, and TBH, an encrypted /home or
just your own folder would be enough for me, personally. Actually I
don't do it - I'm not that paranoid - but yes, I expect it'd be
faster.
It's a work PC and our policy is to
Tyler,
On 13/05/10 07:24, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
Encrypting home dir + swap, and using a /tmp ram disk, is sufficient even for
data protection act requirements. Everything written outside those three
areas
are operating system files only.
How to convert existing homes to crypto, plus
John,
On 13/05/10 09:54, John Stevenson wrote:
You would want to consider /var if you have local business applications
running on the laptop.
Not a problem for me. Our business apps are all on Windows, which I run
in VirtualBox, the disks for which would be in my home directory.
Regards,
When I bought my net book from Currys, I chose the one I wanted and was
at the counter literally about to insert my card to pay when I said,
hang on, before I pay for this do you mind if I just try booting from a
USB stick to see if Ubuntu works?
The guy said, yeah no problem. So we went back to
Hi Folks,
Do we have a wiki to point people to to show some of the special effects
shortcut keys? The help files as installed in 10.04 does mention some but
not others, for example:
windows (super) key + a = shows all windows
windows (super) key + e = shows all desktops
Its nice to show new
Do we have a wiki to point people to to show some of the special effects
shortcut keys? The help files as installed in 10.04 does mention some but not
others, for example:
windows (super) key + a = shows all windows
windows (super) key + e = shows all desktops
I think this is a great
Hello, Alan i can help so another one to put on the list
From: a...@popey.com
Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 10:15:31 +0200
To: ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com
Subject: [ubuntu-uk] Call for help - ISO testing
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people
On 13/05/10 11:54, Daniel Bell wrote:
Do we have a wiki to point people to to show some of the special effects
shortcut keys? The help files as installed in 10.04 does mention some but
not others, for example:
windows (super) key + a = shows all windows
windows (super) key + e = shows all
I'd like to help with this.
Paula
On 13/05/10 09:15, Alan Pope wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
During the Lucid development cycle (ending with the Lucid release) the
On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 10:15 +0200, Alan Pope wrote:
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
Can do. Barry.
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Midlands Synod
I can get some testing done for 64-bit, either through Testdrive, or
sticking the ISO onto a USB stick.
Count me in.
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On 13 May 2010 12:33, Markie mark.curtis.1...@googlemail.com wrote:
Do we have a wiki to point people to to show some of the special effects
shortcut keys? The help files as installed in 10.04 does mention some but
not others, for example:
Google + ubuntu + keyboard + shortcuts =
Hi,
I would like to get involved. If I can actually help is yet to be
determined. :-)
Philip Stubbs.
On 13/05/2010, Alan Pope a...@popey.com wrote:
Hi all,
I'm sat here at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Brussels and wanted to
let people know about something and ask for volunteers to help.
although I sometimes wish I could
tweak it to Windows + L
Wish granted:
System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts
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Ctrl Alt L also locked the screen (although I sometimes wish I could
tweak it to Windows + L).
As Guy mentioned, you can do this (and I do) :)
Ass a keyboard shortcut, the command you want to execute is
gnome-screensaver-command --lock
Daz
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I'm also willing to help out.
On 13 May 2010 18:38, Jason Liquorish ja...@dropshock.com wrote:
Count me in :-)
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On 13/05/10 13:59, Guy Thouret wrote:
although I sometimes wish I could
tweak it to Windows + L
Wish granted:
System Preferences Keyboard Shortcuts
Guy.
Great it works!
I'm not sure why but before when I tried it (before I reinstalled Ubuntu
the other week) it didn't work. Might
Hi folks,
I gather the get_iplayer has been forked, the thing is, I can't seem to
get it installed.
I've been reading the instructions on the Git repository (here:
http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer/blob/master/INSTALL) and I can get the
simple version working (which won't allow me to capture
On 13 May 2010 21:38, Rob Beard r...@esdelle.co.uk wrote:
Hi folks,
I gather the get_iplayer has been forked, the thing is, I can't seem to
get it installed.
I've been reading the instructions on the Git repository (here:
http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer/blob/master/INSTALL) and I can get
On 13/05/10 21:38, Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
I gather the get_iplayer has been forked, the thing is, I can't seem to
get it installed.
I've been reading the instructions on the Git repository (here:
http://github.com/jjl/get_iplayer/blob/master/INSTALL) and I can get the
simple
On 13/05/10 21:51, Saikiran Madugula wrote:
On 13/05/10 21:38, Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
I gather the get_iplayer has been forked, the thing is, I can't seem to
get it installed.
I've been reading the instructions on the Git repository (here:
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Alan Pope wrote:
[snip!]
Anyone fancy helping out with this? If so just say so here, and we can
work out the details when I get back from UDS.
+1 from me.
JT
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I would like to participate in Ubuntu desktop and server ISO testing,
sign me up :)
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can we document this fork on the beebhack wiki if it's not already been
done so?
http://beebhack.wikia.com
http://beebhack.wikia.com/wiki/Programs
:)
-Tim
On 13/05/10 21:38, Rob Beard wrote:
Hi folks,
I gather the get_iplayer has been forked, the thing is, I can't seem to
get it
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