- are they reliable?
How does one find out who the more reliable suppliers are?
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On Nov 4, 2007 2:01 PM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2007-11-03 at 23:05 +, Matthew East wrote:
Hi
On 02/11/2007, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If so could you please vote in this poll?
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=599844
It might help
, even though you've put the url in the title.
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the
free broadband offer?
They appear to give an estimate of when it will be possible to
activate the connection, is that likely to be unrealiable, do you
think?
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this - Tiscali are rubbish!
I'm with them at the moment but am considering a move to TalkTalk,
which appears to be outstanding value and available in my area: any
horror stories with them?
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with the international community. You can read more at
the following pages:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamHowto
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/LoCoTeamContact
It's not (necessarily) a position of leadership, that's why the term
contact is used.
I think Alan is a good choice.
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Dreamhost,
who are very cheap and (in my experience) give good service. They run
Debian. It's even cheaper if you use a referral code - mine is here:
http://www.mdke.org/?page_id=54
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stuck! That's very useful, thanks!
To make connecting easier I use this script:
Do you do anything to bring screen/irssi back up after the machine is
rebooted? Or, is there a way to get notified when that happens?
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On 16/08/07, Chris Rowson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'd check out partimage. (www.partimage.org). I've not used it the way
you want but the WEB page implies it will do the job.
Have a look at http://www.mondorescue.org/ too
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was taken
seriously: yes, a few people (rightly) pointed out that the article
was deficient from a technical perspective, and others (myself
included) suggested that ideas be put forward about how to respond to
the article. You're welcome to contribute to that.
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* Josh Blacker:
My personal favourite, on a bookmark trying to be witty:
Never try to replace windows on your computer
Not specifically Windows related, and only vaguely on topic, but by one
of the photocopiers at work we have a sign like this:
* Alan Pope:
Hi Chris,
On Sat, 2007-07-14 at 17:24 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Hi folks,
I notice that people aren't really using launchpad and bazaar for
ubuntu-uk marketing stuff.
If it aint broke.. We already have the wiki, it works, multiple people
have managed to upload content.
Hi,
* Chris Rowson:
* Create a new section on the wiki for ubuntu-uk-marketing and move
the current work on leaflets to it.
* Create a new group on launchpad called ubuntu-uk-marketing and allow
people to join. Utilise launchpad to more efficiently organise ideas
and assign work amongst
On Wed, July 11, 2007 9:43 am, alan c wrote:
Matthew East wrote:
The creation of leaflets, for example, is
pretty clearly something that should be shared over the whole Ubuntu
community, and isn't UK specific.
You might find that there can be differences. It depends to what level
Matthew East wrote:
The creation of leaflets, for example, is
pretty clearly something that should be shared over the whole Ubuntu
community, and isn't UK specific.
You might find that there can be differences. It depends to what level
the leaflets are aimed. For Ubuntu branding yes
Matthew East wrote:
The creation of leaflets, for example, is
pretty clearly something that should be shared over the whole Ubuntu
community, and isn't UK specific.
You might find that there can be differences. It depends to what level
the leaflets are aimed. For Ubuntu branding yes
and redistribute the program subject to certain conditions.
A license is a type of contract, in this case between the program maker
and the user/redistributor.
Matt
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Hiya
* Mac:
Matthew East wrote:
That seems to me not contract, but a beautiful and unexpected
inversion of copyright law.
A beautiful inversion of copyright law isn't a legal concept.
The extract you've cited from Eben isn't addressing the mechanism by
which an author who publishes
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Hi,
* Alan Pope:
So my questions are, do we have anyone who can write good copy (or know
where to blag it from the wiki) to make a good leaflet or two?
Should this be done by the marketing team and not us?
It's a good idea. Definitely it's
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 09:21 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
Not really a turnaround. The trademark policy is quite clear on
modifying the logo.
http://www.ubuntu.com/aboutus/trademarkpolicy
Those have been the same since at least 2005, probably longer.
In which case nowt has changed
On Tue, March 27, 2007 1:09 am, Dave Murphy wrote:
Alan Pope wrote:
I was under the impression that we can't use a logo derived from the
Ubuntu one without it getting approval first. We have been through that
process for the current logo.
The details are here:
On Tue, March 27, 2007 2:55 pm, Dave Murphy wrote:
Chris Rowson wrote:
Also - when looking at the Demos https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Templates The
two sites showcasing the new theme are still using their own logos
;-)
...and I'm willing to guess (but happy to be proved wrong) that neither
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 17:18 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote:
It's likely that they were approved because Canonical have been quite easy
in the past about this. However Matthew's email shows that they are now
(rightly, in my opinion) looking to have more consistent logos used.
Ah OK - So
On Tue, February 6, 2007 8:46 am, Alan Pope wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-06 at 01:04 +, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
If somebody comes up with a good text I'm happy to put it in
mailman's post to new subscribers.
How about the following:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette
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On Mon, January 29, 2007 1:10 am, London School of Puppetry wrote:
is there a list somewhere of Ubuntu experts
There isn't such a list for the UK. However, developing one would be a
very worthwhile task for this team to carry out - face to face help is a
very important type of help which is
I'd just like to ask everyone to take a moment to have a look at the
guidelines for Ubuntu mailing lists:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette
I'd like to draw people's attention especially to the guidelines about
top posting and proper quoting.
Please take a look at it - it will
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 20:23 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 19:33 +, Matthew East wrote:
What I had in mind was more something by way of freely available
community support.
I always find that a little tricky.
For me (whether right or wrong) I like to choose how
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:48 +, Alan Pope wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:46 +, Toby Smithe wrote:
On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 22:30 +, James Dalley wrote:
And that was a top post. I'm going to stop spamming now.
I know as being fairly new to mailing lists that there are
On Sun, 2007-01-14 at 19:28 +, Andy wrote:
On 14/01/07, John McCourt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Shuttleworth
should organise an event for them to attend too or
appear on the Breakfast program to talk about his
space trip and really talk about Linux ;-)
I _think_ he was on a BBC
, it should install a
new version of Openoffice.org and the problem should be resolved.
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could, but despite promising much
on their recruitment page, they haven't responded.
Google also finds http://www.computersforcharity.org.uk/
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a forum there.
Asking people to keep up with two media would be major overkill for this
community. If they can be integrated, that is cool, but otherwise, we
should pick one or the other.
By the way, this has been discussed quite recently on this list, see the
archive.
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Hi,
* Dave Briggs:
I want to get the latest version of FireFox running in 6.10 - all the
docs I can find online are for updating it in previous versions.
I tried running FF in root (with no tabs open!) to see if I could check
for updates that
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* Tony Arnold:
Baz,
baza wrote:
I did that without problems using the apt-get update, apt-get upgrade,
apt-get dist-upgrade (twice the latter) and it worked fine.
Thanks. When I'm feeling brave, I'll give it a try. The risk is if it
goes
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* Matthew East:
* Tony Arnold:
Baz,
baza wrote:
I did that without problems using the apt-get update, apt-get upgrade,
apt-get dist-upgrade (twice the latter) and it worked fine.
Thanks. When I'm feeling brave, I'll give it a try
alan c [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Does this list actually have any published etiquette, I would be
interested to know, but have not seen it mentioned.
Guidelines here:
http://www.ubuntu.com/community/lists/etiquette
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* Andy:
Although it has been requested that the subject of forums be dropped,
I was thinking (yes dangerous I know), is it possible to build a forum
style front end onto mailman? It already holds archives of every
message made to the list. If we
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* Paul Mellors:
Tony Arnold wrote:
Pete,
Pete Ryland wrote:
On 03/11/06, Joseph Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Also is there anyone who has assumed the lead of ubuntu-uk?
Are you putting your hand up for the job? :-)
Perhaps we should
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* Alan Pope:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 08:45:12PM +, Paul Mellors wrote:
I've no problem with Nik leading the group, however perhaps there should
be a more formal voting system so we don't actually leave anyone out?
[dont know what or
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* Nik Butler:
Just a few thoughts.
When external groups ,lets call them the press or exhibition organisers
or agencies want to contact the UK Loco team it will be helpful to have
someone as a point of contact.
Definitely. There is a big
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* Alan Pope:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/11/02/microsoft_novell_linux/
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116249026689311557.html?mod=yahoo_hsru=yahoo
Hi,
* Steve Smith:
On 08/09/06, Jono Bacon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[..] Its better have updates on a slightly less sexy
wiki than have no updates on an uber-sexy site. :)
Yes, I agree!
As for the map, see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/GetUbuntu for ideas
so far. I think Grant has
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* Matthew Revell:
I've heard back from Carl at System76 and he can send us 1,000 or
2,000 stickers. He needs an address, though, that people can send
their SAE to.
I don't have a business address I can use for this, so does anyone
have any
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* Keith Bowerman:
There was an update of the above announced on my machine this morning
and I dutifully went ahead and downloaded it. I was running Dapper and
Linux 2.6.15-26-386.
On returning home and booting up after lunch I find that I am
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Hi Grant,
First of all, your mailing list etiquette is making it really difficult
to follow this discussion (and it is quite disconcerting that you don't
use your full name).
Please follow a few simple rules:
1. Specify who wrote the email you are
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Hi Steve,
* Steve Smith:
We seem to be wasting a lot of effort at
the moment building duplicate infrastructure for something for which
we have no content! If and when the time comes that we're ready to
branch off further we can.
Agreed.
On
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* Gordon Burgess-Parker:
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 16:24, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
[...]
A breakthrough. I've FINALLY managed to sort it. It would be a good idea if
there was a definitive HOWTO on this in the Kubuntu wiki. I did it by
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* Gordon Burgess-Parker:
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 18:06, Chris Bannister wrote:
Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote:
As I said, there seems to be NOTHING in the Kubuntu help files for this,
and a google search didn't turn up much either.
Add you
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Hi,
Grant wrote:
I will be happy
to pay for the domain registration and put it in ubuntus name.
ubuntu-uk.org is registered and indeed already in use by this team. It
is being hosted on the server of Matthias Urlichs, the locoteams' contact.
I'd
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Robert McWilliam wrote:
On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 17:38:19 +0100, Baza
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Edit etc/apt/sources (think that's right) and change the word,
'breezy' for 'dapper'. The run, apt-get update, apt-get upgrade, apt-
get dist-upgrade.
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Steve Smith wrote:
They do?! Is this just since Dapper? What's on it?
In fact I think that they have just stopped having Windows free software
on them, since Dapper. A number of items from the Open CD were on there.
You can get the Open CD here:
Hi Grant,
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 12:53 +0100, Grant wrote:
Guys, Can we restrict the use of this mailing list to its original purpose
that is promoting/localising ubuntu in the UK.
I don't think there is a problem with dealing with advocacy and user
support on this mailing list. First of all,
On Tue, 2006-05-02 at 14:18 +0100, Robert Schumann wrote:
If you run into real installation problems, the best contact for fast
help is the ubuntu user help IRC channel, so make sure you have a spare
machine handy with IRC access.
Another possible source of help - not specifically
For everybody's information!
A list of UK based teams for Software Freedom Day can be found here:
http://maitri.ubuntu.com/softwarefreedomday/wiki/index.php/United_Kingdom
Pass on to your linux user groups and any other interested parties
M
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My question involves whether this group is the right place for people
from Northern Ireland to be. It's called ubuntu-UK but the website
(HYPERLINK http://www.ubuntu-uk.org/ http://www.ubuntu-uk.org/) refers
to Ubuntu and
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