Re: [ubuntu-uk] Persuading a school to switch

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Rowson
Ask the user/audience What do you want to do with your computer? Give me a particular task/function that you wish to perform!. Some bright spark will shout out Get it to make me a cup of tea or I wanna play Unreal Tournament but once you get a serious answer you can usually impress. Someone said

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ubuntu-uk Digest, Vol 36, Issue 6

2008-04-05 Thread Paul Midgley
Hello I need help with my DVD writer, I cannot burn any cd or dvd and I get an error stating could not determine resulting image file. The following is from the debugging output. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Paul System --- K3b Version: 1.0.4 KDE Version:

[ubuntu-uk] ODF petition

2008-04-05 Thread Mac
You may be interested in signing this petition for the National Archive to use ODF and not M$ OOXML as planned. Mac -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

[ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Mac
Sorry - left out the URL! http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Jai Harrison
Signed :) On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry - left out the URL! http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

[ubuntu-uk] Application responsiveness, Windows and Ubuntu

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Rowson
Hi there, My little boy likes playing various flash based games from children's websites. I find that in Ubuntu, many of these run pretty badly and as this is all he uses my old laptop for, I decided to put Windows XP back onto it to see the if it would make any difference for him. I've just

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Michael Rimicans
Signed Jai Harrison wrote: Signed :) On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry - left out the URL! http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread Jason Liquorish
Also signed here, lets hope it makes a difference. Signed Jai Harrison wrote: Signed :) On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry - left out the URL! http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/ODFinNA/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] ODF Petition

2008-04-05 Thread James Grabham
Doneroony On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 10:20 PM, Jason Liquorish [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also signed here, lets hope it makes a difference. Signed Jai Harrison wrote: Signed :) On Sat, Apr 5, 2008 at 5:07 PM, Mac [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry - left out the URL!