the
concept with small sessions in a coffee shop between interested people
bringing their own laptops.
Bruno Girin
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On Sun, 2010-01-17 at 12:03 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
On 17/01/10 04:08, Bruno Girin wrote:
[snip]
In terms of material, I agree that there's no point in having a slide
deck as trainees will promptly forget the content. Furthermore it
requires a projector, which is more equipment
of course feel free to do so! Obviously we will need to organise suitable
dates. :)
Thank you,
Isabell.
Great idea! Count me in.
Bruno Girin
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On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 18:43 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
[snip]
Beginners are not the easiest people to teach to. I would suggest
starting with some moderately advanced topics like how to package an
app for Ubuntu.
I was hoping to avoid this if possible. There is a _lot_ of stuff on
On Wed, 2010-01-20 at 16:45 +, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I need to buy a new laser printer and am wondering whether to get a
wireless or network one. I am running Ubuntu 9.10 and there are 4
computers which will need to access the printer. I understand that HP
equipment is Linux friendly
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 10:08 +, Matthew Daubney wrote:
[snip]
Ok, last night I had a quite productive chat to the Learning team. They
are in the process of creating some course ware, and have already
created some bits and pieces. They seem to be more than happy for us to
use this, and
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 20:00 +, Isabell Long wrote:
Hi,
I haven't forgotten about this, I just haven't yet had a response from the
Science Museum! I rang them on Tuesday afternoon and I had to inform them
that their website did in fact say that they did organised *group* tours,
then
On Thu, 2010-01-21 at 17:22 +, Rob Beard wrote:
[snip]
Something else which might be worth mentioning, a friend of mine in our local
LUG came up with an idea of doing a complete training course, for a small fee
to cover room hire we were looking at providing a free PC running Ubuntu.
On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 11:18 +, Andrew Seyes wrote:
I have been looking for a low power server to replace an old machine I
run at home (a pentium II running hardy). In my search I came across
the Aleutia T1 fanless PC [1] which seems to fit the bill and comes
with Karmic pre-installed.
I
On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 23:13 +, Liam Wilson wrote:
Hey everyone;
IF we are going to make this video, ideally, it would be better to
think about actual content first. I think the best plan of action to
get this going is to think about what we want in the first 30-60
seconds.
Note that 60
On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 13:53 +, Liam Wilson wrote:
[snip]
Before this project actually gets to a head, I'd just like to know who
would definitely be interested in contributing. And it wouldn't just
be making videos, remember, we need people to manage any web hosting
channels we have,
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 10:24 +, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
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John Matthews wrote:
I am getting excited and worked up with the rest of you about the
impending rush on advertising Ubuntu to get more people to use it, plus
the courses that
On Wed, 2010-02-03 at 19:34 +, Alan Pope wrote:
2010/2/3 Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk:
In the PC Pro newsletter today, these two items caught my attention.
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/355246/arm-our-netbooks-will-fly-with-or-without-windows
One significant barrier to ARM CPUs in
On Mon, 2010-02-15 at 10:55 +, Graham Smith wrote:
Simon,
Stepping back a little, what happens if you plug a projector in after the
laptop has booted and logged in?
I did try that and nothing happens, ie no signal goes to the projector.
However searching for external monitor
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 17:51 +, John Matthews wrote:
Oh wow, thanks everybody for the replies, that has helped. I just
wondered then, what is the difference between the /desktop and
~/Desktop. Sorry for being so thick. Why is it used in the Terminal?
John,
Part of the confusion arises
On Fri, 2010-02-19 at 10:10 +, Johnathon Tinsley wrote:
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Anyone seen this? Looks interesting..
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8522952.stm
Very interesting indeed. It's a shame that the article looks a bit
clobbered together in 5
On Sun, 2010-02-21 at 16:10 +, Keith wrote:
It's recently dawned on me that it's been some time since I heard the
jungle drums when Ubuntu boots up. I tried playing an mp3 which
confirmed that I had no sound
I've done a fair bit of googling but to no avail. Sound is turned on,
the
On Sun, 2010-02-28 at 15:30 +, Dianne Reuby wrote:
I have a spare ex-XP partition which I don't need now. I'm wondering
which would be best - to delete it and expand my /home partition, or
keep it as a separate (Ubuntu) partition for photos and music?
I know people do have partitions for
Hi Matthew,
I live and work in London and am part of Bug Squad. I can usually free
an hour during the day quite easily and I'd be happy to take part in
some user testing.
Best regards,
Bruno Girin
On Mon, 2010-03-08 at 15:49 +, Matthew Revell wrote:
Hello,
I work on Canonical's
On Tue, 2010-03-09 at 17:32 +, Alan Bell wrote:
Hi all,
The minutes from the meeting held on 03/03/2010 are available at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/MeetingNotes/20100303 and you can always
find the minutes of the most recent meeting at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/LastMeeting.
On Thu, 2010-03-11 at 10:12 +, Bruce Beardall wrote:
Hi All
Last night, while working on my Aspire One (running Karmic), I was
prompted for some updates which I allowed to run and carried on with
my work. Problem is, my touchpad's no longer working. Admittedly, I
had also installed AWN
On Wed, 2010-03-17 at 18:05 +, John Matthews wrote:
I was just wondering, when the bnupdate to FF 3.6 will be out. I have
3.5.8 installed at the moment. How would I update to 3.6, and could
somebody show me using the Terminal?
Thanks.
John
John,
You'll find all the details at
Hi everyone,
Has anybody heard of Document Freedom Day [1]? I just discovered it by
accident and wanted to know if anyone knew about it or knew of anything
planned around it in the UK?
[1] http://www.documentfreedom.org/
Bruno
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On Wed, 2010-03-24 at 23:15 +, John Stevenson wrote:
Hello all,
As the new version of Ubuntu will be with us all soon I was wondering
if there are any install parties happening in the London area? I have
not been able to find anything yet. If not, I would be interested in
organising
On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 19:58 +, Rob Beard wrote:
LOL, I've got a breadbin style C64 in the loft, I'm undecided if I
should leave it as is (it's dead), bung a MiniITX board in there or wire
up one of those C64 joysticks to it.
The wife isn't too happy though with my 'collection of junk'.
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 19:40 +, John Stevenson wrote:
Hello all,
On 27 March 2010 18:35, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
On 27/03/10 18:02, John Stevenson wrote:
Hello all,
Thanks for all the feedback. I was planning this for the
1st
On Tue, 2010-04-06 at 15:27 +0100, James Thomas wrote:
Phoned around 3 x o2 stores, got the last joggler at store number 3...
If anyone wants to buy a joggler and can't #blamepopey
:)
The Camden Town shop was so busy I gave up, went home and ordered it
online. Now I just have to work out
On Wed, 2010-04-07 at 08:15 +0100, Paul Morgan-Roach wrote:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 7:46 AM, Alan Lord (News)
alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
I ordered one yesterday on-line and I had a dispatch email
yesterday
evening saying it will be with me
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 13:48 +0100, Daniel Case wrote:
Alright :)
I'l put it here and on the etherpad, i mainly followed this guild:
http://magician.gforums.de/wiki/index.php5?title=UNE_Installation
but a lot of it is wrong, and one of its packages is packaged badly,
so iv repackaged them
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 12:36 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there .
I've been lurking and listening for a while. You seem a friendly group,
so I thought I'd leap in.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Dell Inspiron Mini 10v pre-loaded with
Ubuntu. Now I've got it working as I want I
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 14:30 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
On Sat, Apr 10, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
I just installed Xubuntu Lucid beta 2 on an old Pentium III (700MHz,
384MB RAM, 8.8GB HDD) and it absolutely flies. Windows 2000 that was
running (or rather
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 14:19 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
Bruno Girin wrote:
How heavily customised? Does it come with non-standard software and
drivers or is it just a case of having it heavily Dell branded?
Heavily branded, as you'd expect, but annoying things like no easy
access to upgrades
On Sat, 2010-04-10 at 17:49 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
snip
I am interested: do people really find Xubuntu much lighter, faster or
more resource-frugal than vanilla GNOME Ubuntu? In my experiments, I
don't, GNOME offers novice-friendly features like the ability to
lock panel widgets
On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 21:37 +0100, Joe O'Dell wrote:
Hey everyone,
Just two things to share:
1) A big thanks to Issy for organising the Science Museum geek-out today! It
was great fun and I can confidently say we all enjoyed it, (well, apart from
waiting for the lifts!). *geek hug to
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:30 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
HI
I have picked up the flash image from dysentry referenced in
http://www.joggler.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33t=235 and it works
fine. In http://www.jogglerwiki.info/index.php?title=Ubuntu_Netbook_Remix
it is suggested the the crackling
- Original message -
On 22 April 2010 14:44, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 13:30 +0100, Colin Law wrote:
HI
I have picked up the flash image from dysentry referenced in
http://www.joggler.info/forum/viewtopic.php?f=33t=235 and it works
On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 11:51 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 23 April 2010 11:47, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
Even though we get told most of the time Linux is safe, the more tis
used, the more viruses will get written for it. I noticed somebody was
talking about checking ports to see if
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 09:04 +0100, mac wrote:
Norman Silverstone wrote:
snip
...The Bamboo is recognised, works as a mouse, there
is some button reaction but what happens is not what is required.
Oh, dear, not again! I'm still using 9.10, where - as you said - the
Wacom tablet works
On Mon, 2010-04-26 at 16:12 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
Bruno, I am not sure whether what I observe is a bug in Ubuntu or GIMP
so, I will state my observations and look for advice. Just to confirm, I
am using Ubuntu 10.04 RC, Wacom Bamboo tablet and GIMP 2.6.8.
Firstly, the cursor
Hi all,
I'll be at the London release party tomorrow[1]. Will anybody else be
there apart from the already confirmed attendees?
[1] http://loco.ubuntu.com/events/team/121/detail/
Bruno
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On Thu, 2010-04-29 at 08:43 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
I note that the package wacom-tools is not listed in Ubuntu 10.04 RC.
Without this package I presume that it will not be possible to use Wacom
tablets to their full potential. Should this be reported as a bug?
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:50 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
Hello. Thanks for your post. I can't access anything on the system,
only holding the power button can turn it off. I just know the card
works on 9.10.
Kris Douglas,
Kris,
When you boot the machine, press SHIFT to get the GRUB menu,
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:43 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
On 30 April 2010 10:53, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:50 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
Hello. Thanks for your post. I can't access anything on the system,
only holding the power button can turn it off. I
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:51 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
On 30 April 2010 11:48, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 11:43 +0100, Kris Douglas wrote:
On 30 April 2010 10:53, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 09:50 +0100, Kris Douglas
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 19:06 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
On Sun, 2010-05-02 at 18:52 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
Jon,
Could it be a symptom of bug 439448 [1]?
[1] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-panel/+bug/439448
Bruno
Well yes although all reports on the bug seem
On Mon, 2010-05-03 at 11:40 +0100, philip taylor wrote:
Hi
Due to the time and effort, i put into organising and planning the
Lucid release party.
For maverick meerkat 10.10, i will setup a website where people can
register their interest as well as attendance and ideas, so i can see
On Wed, 2010-05-05 at 09:40 +0100, David Jones wrote:
On 05/05/2010 09:37, Dianne Reuby wrote:
I'm confused - I've read about the min/max/close buttons being moved,
and I was quite happy, soon got used to it. But I changed to another
theme and they're back on the right.
Is it just
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 12:55 +0100, John Stevenson wrote:
On 6 May 2010 12:13, Jon Farmer viperdud...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi
Every time I disconnect the power the notification bubble
tells me I
have less than 2% of battery left and proceeds to hibernate
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:28 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
Could it be related to bug #403303 [1]?
[1]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/devicekit-power/+bug/403303
It's a similar thing. However this is when I pull the power
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 14:04 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:50 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:28 +0100, Jon Farmer wrote:
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 13:10 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
Could it be related to bug #403303 [1]?
[1]
https
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 19:50 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 18 May 2010 19:22, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
I thought that Dell sold machines with Ubuntu?
They can do, but it's not something they do in all regions, and not
all models are available.
It's still damn confusing though.
Hi all,
Just a thought I wanted to put to the list. Considering today's news [1]
and in particular the demise of Becta, the government's technology
agency for schools, is there an opportunity for FOSS to replace some or
all of what Becta used to provide?
I have no idea what sort of software a
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:14 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
On 25 May 2010 17:38, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid? I can play
pre-watershed items, but others give another flash window which lets me
choose whether I want a PIN or not.
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 19:17 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
On 25 May 2010 19:05, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 18:14 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote:
On 25 May 2010 17:38, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Has anyone tried the ITV Player in Firefox in Lucid
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 18:09 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 28/05/10 17:18, Norman Silverstone wrote:
My rather ancient desktop PC has stopped working due, I think, to a
faulty MBoard and I am now using a laptop running 10.04. I would like to
be able to transfer a variety of files such as
On Fri, 2010-05-28 at 13:09 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
Hi there .
I'm staying with friends in the US at the moment, so although I've
been following the list, I haven't been writing of late. I just made
a lengthy effort to research Dell on their web sites. First it seems
to be
On Sat, 2010-05-29 at 09:24 +0100, Norman Silverstone wrote:
My rather ancient desktop PC has stopped working due, I think, to a
faulty MBoard and I am now using a laptop running 10.04. I would like to
be able to transfer a variety of files such as Firefox Bookmarks and
email
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 23:34 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Hi,
I run the resque init script using /etc/init.d/resque start at
the command line which works perfectly fine while the machine is up
and
running fine, The issue is it doesnot come up automatically after
bootup.
This is
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 00:12 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, 2010-05-31 at 23:34 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
Hi,
I run the resque init script using /etc/init.d
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 11:45 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 1:25 AM, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-01 at 00:12 +0530, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:05 AM, Bruno Girin
On Thu, 2010-06-03 at 22:23 +0100, Joe O'Dell wrote:
Hi
I was wondering if maybe we could have pictures of places from across
the UK?
Why not have a list on the Wiki of places people can take pictures of local
landmarks (CC-BY or PD licensed, of course) and then have a community vote
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 12:09 +0100, Jonathon Fernyhough wrote:
On 4 June 2010 10:57, Christopher Swift christopher.sw...@linux.com wrote:
Actually just scrap the above, I've checked their bzr branch at
lp:~ubuntu-website-community/ubuntu-website/light-drupal-theme and
there's seems to
Hi all,
I recently installed OpenERP and as I struggled to find documentation
that was really up to date for Lucid, I thought I'd write an how-to
article myself once I had worked it out [1]. So I'd be very interested
in any feedback on that article: is it clear, does it say everything it
needs to
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 13:49 +0100, Rhys Morgan wrote:
Hi All,
This is pretty much a call for help. I have this morning been
confronted with a couple of opportunities which add up to the makings
of a good Ubuntu event.
I have been offered a venue free of charge on a selection of
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 15:59 -0400, e-mail b.drake wrote:
Hi Dianne .
On 4 June 2010 11:45, Dianne Reuby pramc...@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Great work! What email address did you use? I can only find
phone/chat/postal contacts for them.
Someone on this list suggested
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 22:19 +0100, Dianne Reuby wrote:
On Fri, 2010-06-04 at 22:14 +0100, Bruno Girin wrote:
On the other hand, Dell could very well sell their hardware with
Ubuntu
on it but say that they will only support the hardware, not the
software
My son's friend bought a Dell
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:53 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there ...
Just checked out the Dell UK site. A search for Ubuntu now throws up
two netbooks and three laptops that actually are available with Ubuntu
and if you follow the customization through, it says they come with
10.04. The
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 09:58 +0100, Matthew Bassett wrote:
On 16 June 2010 09:47, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
[...] the only ones I manage to configure with Ubuntu are the Latitude
2100 and 2110 but they only come with 9.10, not 10.04. [...]
That doesn't sound very committed
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 10:38 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 08:53 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there ...
Just checked out the Dell UK site. A search for Ubuntu now throws up
two netbooks and three
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 11:24 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
snip
Oh I'm sure there are no insoluble problems, it's just that I don't
really feel like spending an inordinate amount of time getting it to
work. If I am to buy a £1000+ laptop (top of the range as I said), I
don't particularly want
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 12:11 +0100, Rowan Berkeley wrote:
On Wed, Jun 16, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Bruno Girin brunogi...@gmail.com
wrote:
If I am to buy a ?1000+ laptop (top of the range as I said), I
don't particularly want to find myself with a doorstop until I hunt
down all the right drivers
On Thu, 2010-06-17 at 08:29 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 14/06/10 11:18, Rob Beard wrote:
I use PS3 Media Server. I first tried it with Windows on my XBOX 360
and surprisingly enough it worked well. Now I have a PS3 I tend to use
it for that. It's possibly not the most efficient
On Fri, 2010-06-18 at 08:18 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
On 17/06/10 21:09, Bruno Girin wrote:
snip /
You've got a handy comparison of DLNA servers here:
http://www.rbgrn.net/content/21-how-to-choose-dlna-media-server-windows-mac-os-x-or-linux
You could also have a look at Coherence
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 22:45 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
Hi there
I'm going to try to upgrade my spare Dell Optiplex 740 from Windows to
Ubuntu 10.04 for my daughter. First question: should I go for the 64
bit iso? (The machine has an AMD 64 processor). Also, any thoughts
from anyone
On Sun, 2010-06-20 at 23:08 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
32-bit Ubuntu copes just fine with more than 4GB RAM these days. It
autodetects during the install and installs the PAE kernel. It works
just fine, whatever some people might say :)
True. I keep forgetting about the PAE kernel.
The main
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 09:15 +0100, Barry Drake wrote:
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 07:54 +0100, Rob Beard wrote:
How much memory has this machine got? If it's under 4GB I'd say stick
with the 32-Bit version.
Thanks everyone for your help here. It only has one Gig of memory
anyway, and as it
Hi Matthew,
I'd be happy to help. As before, I can come to your offices in London
and I can be fairly flexible on date and time.
Best regards,
Bruno
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 11:38 +0100, Matthew Revell wrote:
Hello,
I'm looking for five or six people who can get to either central
London or
On Mon, 2010-06-21 at 22:59 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 21 June 2010 20:16, John Matthews jake...@sky.com wrote:
I cant remember having a computer that didnt use a mouse,
The first mouse I bought for a PC was a 3-button white serial one (see
pic below) from CPC around 1993, but I certainly
On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 11:41 +0100, Jon Spriggs wrote:
http://jon.sprig.gs/blog/2009/11/29/use-gmails-smtp-gateway-using-the-command-line-from-ubuntu-without-lots-of-config-tips/
This will relay SMTP via GMail. There's no reason why you can't just
set the same thing up to relay to your ISP's
Hi all,
There's a shiny new LoCo Directory API [1]. I'm sure there's lots of
cool stuff you can do with it.
[1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoDirectory/API
Bruno
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On Sat, 2010-06-26 at 08:54 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
Daniel Case wrote:
Depends when it is as to whether i can attend...7th of July is my
return date.
What time will the meeting be? (my first one too!)
the meeting will be at 9PM UK time (or 20:00 UTC - all Ubuntu meeting
times are set in
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 22:19 +0100, John Stevenson wrote:
On 28 June 2010 22:12, Tyler J. Wagner ty...@tolaris.com wrote:
As long as the card is on the bus, it is powered. The card
itself may have a
specific power-save mode, but I very much doubt it.
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 12:30 +0100, Bob Clough wrote:
My kitchen PC project is coming along, and I'm now wishing i'd bought
another joggler when they were on offer!
Does anyone happen to have one they've decided is useless to sell me?
Sorry, I love my Joggler, it's not going anywhere ;-)
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 17:06 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
I have been mulling over a few logo related ideas, I think we have to
have a decent idea of the core image we want prior to redesigning the
website.
Here is one idea
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uuk/logoconcept.png
I am hoping it
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 17:35 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
On 02/07/10 17:20, Bruno Girin wrote:
I like it. But have a the UK in small caps rather than in scaled down
caps as it will make them the same height and weight as the lowercase
letters in ubuntu. That doesn't prelude making UK bold
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 15:57 +0100, Simon Wears wrote:
Heyhey fancy people,
I've decided to go wireless this year as I'm moving into a new house
(and sticking holes in the walls for Ethernet isn't an option), so I'm
looking for a wireless N card. Has anyone got one, or know of one that
On Tue, 2010-07-13 at 20:23 +0100, Matthew Daubney wrote:
snip
The purpose of this is to get people who need help with _difficult_
problems, which may not be easily solved by the groups general
knowledge, in contact with the person who might be able to help. This
does have a small time (and
On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 21:14 +0100, Joe O'Dell wrote:
Hello Everyone,
It's emerged that our attendence list for the Ubuntu UK GeekNic is a little
out of date!
If you could please add/remove yourself from the list at
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/UKGeekNic2010/Attendance it would be most
On Sat, 2010-07-24 at 12:21 +0100, Alan Lord (News) wrote:
snip
$ gh_backup.sh vimes twoflower
Would backup vimes to twoflower.
$ gh_backup.sh binky vimes
would backup binky to vimes.
$ gh_backup lobsang
Is there one called vetinari? ;-)
Bruno
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Hi all,
As promised during Wednesday's IRC meeting, here's a quick email for
those of you who are interested in photo management in Ubuntu.
As you may know, the default photo management application in Ubuntu will
change in Maverick. F-Spot is out, Shotwell is in. Shotwell is developed
by a
On 30 July 2010 22:58, Alan Bell alan.b...@theopenlearningcentre.com wrote:
On 02/07/10 17:06, Alan Bell wrote:
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well now we have the Ubuntu Sans Bold font in beta I have done the logo
as an SVG in Inkscape with the UK bit in bold and the ubuntu- bit in a
larger regular weight. This ends
Hi all,
As I won't be able to attend the IRC meeting on Wednesday, I put my
summary of GUADEC online [1] if anybody is interested.
[1] http://brunogirin.blogspot.com/2010/08/guadec-2010.html
Cheers,
Bruno
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On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 16:27 +0100, Alan Pope wrote:
On 2 August 2010 15:59, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote:
Here a mock up: http://lordies.co.uk/logo6.svg.
That's the nicest I've seen so far.
Thanks to everyone for contributing to this! :D
I agree, best one so far.
Bruno
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 21:40 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
On 02/08/10 21:35, James Tait wrote:
On 02/08/10 21:20, Alan Bell wrote:
bit like this?
http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uuk/logo8.svg
Something there didn't work for me - it came out in what looked like
Courier typeface. I'm
On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 22:55 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
On 02/08/10 22:33, Bruno Girin wrote:
I like it but I'd drop the your and I'd make local community team
aligned with ubuntu-uk both left and right, as in the other Alan's
version 7:
http://lordies.co.uk/logo7.svg
Bruno
On Tue, 2010-08-03 at 13:56 +0100, gazz wrote:
Thanks, that's a lifesaver - I'll only have to reinstall the laptop
this once! I'm mulling if this is a bug or a wishlist for an easier
way?
Paula
What about this? Would it work?
* Right click on the network manager icon before any
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 20:32 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
On 05/08/10 19:58, Rob Beard wrote:
I like it but I think the actual image of the Meerkats is too low in
resolution and looks pixelated. It'll possibly show up more when printed.
I like the idea though.
Rob
yeah, the low
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 00:03 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
On 05/08/10 22:57, Bruno Girin wrote:
If you get no reply I have some hi-res (13MP) pics of meerkats that I'd
happily contribute. They're not on flickr yet because I haven't got
round to uploading them.
Bruno
fantastic! I
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 12:06 +0100, Alan Bell wrote:
I was at the presentations yesterday for the Young Rewired State
hackweek http://rewiredstate.org/young lots of young people, including
our very own Isabell Long throwing together applications and mashups
based on government data. Joe O'Dell
On Sat, 2010-08-07 at 22:38 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
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Anyway I'm off to install the other apps folk suggested and then the
kids at the after school club can have a Linux laptop to muck about
on. Might be worth asking the school if they want one or two too?
I can't remember if it was
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