Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread James Laver
On 27 Mar 2014, at 23:42, Wendy G.A. van Dijk nl...@wendy.org wrote: Scanners I never had luck with scanner support on Windows XP, always stupid errors. This behaviour of idiots working on drivers at the scanner manufacturers is continued for support in Ubuntu. It just sucks always.

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Raphael Mankin
On Fri, 2014-03-28 at 09:55 +, david wrote: Thread drifting for a moment, do folks have any recommendations for where to buy reasonably priced, legal Win 7 licenses ? I really should upgrade my compatability platform... Thanks From your local, private computer shop, not PC WOrld,

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread david
But the places I've looked in don't seem to have any stock (or I've had concerns over legitimacy). I assume M$ has been restricting availabilty of 7 to try and force Win 8 on people... --  Sent from some kind of mobile device... Original message From Raphael Mankin

[ANNOUNCE] Thursday 3rd April

2014-03-28 Thread Rick Deller
Hi All, Just a quick reminder that the London PM meet up is on Thursday 3rd April It's at The Counting House , 50 Cornhill , London , EC3V 3PD - We are in the Gallery Room from 6.30 (1st floor) http://the-counting-house.com/ There will be Waitress service and Ill will be putting money behind

Re: You make a lovely teddy bear

2014-03-28 Thread Mallory van Achterberg
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 04:37:35PM +, David Cantrell wrote: So I'd like to thank you all for being my teddy bear: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/debugging.html I thought it was called rubber duck, for some reason...

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Gareth Harper
Scan seem to have them in, though it doesn't look too cheap. http://www.scan.co.uk/shop/computer-hardware/all/software/645/676/677 On 28 March 2014 10:59, david da...@chromiq.org wrote: But the places I've looked in don't seem to have any stock (or I've had concerns over legitimacy). I assume

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Smylers
James Laver writes: On 27 Mar 2014, at 17:01, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: Ubuntu has built in VNC support. If you can walk your mother through setting up reverse SSH tunnel*, you’d be able to do it for her, remotely. James * Well, it’s only one command. You’d need a bounce box

Re: You make a lovely teddy bear

2014-03-28 Thread James Laver
On 28 Mar 2014, at 12:18, Mallory van Achterberg stommep...@stommepoes.nl wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 04:37:35PM +, David Cantrell wrote: So I'd like to thank you all for being my teddy bear: http://cm.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/tpop/debugging.html I thought it was called rubber duck,

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Smylers
Gordon Banner writes: I do not use Windows, but AFAIK XP-Win7 is an upgrade, not a wipe and re-install. From the back of the Win7 upgrade pack: If you are upgrading from XP, you will need to back up your files and settings, perform a clean install and then reinstall your files, settings

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Fred Youhanaie
On 27/03/14 17:01, Smylers wrote: Fred Youhanaie writes: On 27/03/14 11:48, Smylers wrote: • Ubuntu: The OS will install, but I don't know if Mum's scanner will work with it, and I'm pretty sure it won't work in the same way, where pressing a physical button on the scanner causes

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Paul Makepeace
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:55 AM, david da...@chromiq.org wrote: Thread drifting for a moment, do folks have any recommendations for where to buy reasonably priced, legal Win 7 licenses ? I really should upgrade my compatability platform... The trick is to go for the OEM license. This is

Re: XP-Replacement for Parents

2014-03-28 Thread Gordon Banner
On 28/03/2014 21:01, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 2:55 AM, david da...@chromiq.org wrote: Thread drifting for a moment, do folks have any recommendations for where to buy reasonably priced, legal Win 7 licenses ? I really should upgrade my compatability platform... The

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