Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.04 LTE --> XP & DNS

2016-04-27 Thread Neil Stone
I tend to include 8.8.8.8 and open dns servers when I setup systems, between the three of them stuff "just works". But yes, I have seen several flavours of dns oddities in the wild... it's called the wild for good reason. Dftba Neil On 28 Apr 2016 07:07, "Tim" wrote: > On 27/04/16 21:54, Peter

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.04 LTE --> XP & DNS

2016-04-27 Thread Tim
On 27/04/16 21:54, Peter Merchant wrote: On 27/04/16 21:07, Andrew wrote: On 27/04/16 20:38, Peter Merchant wrote: Now to fix my wife's XP box that has quit browsing. More difficult. P. I believe that can also be fixed by installing Kubuntu 16.04 from the DVD. ;) Very true, but she's a die

Re: [Dorset] Microsoft: Better Linux support for Skype

2016-04-27 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 19:13:19 BST Keith Edmunds wrote: > If you want to run Skype, run Windows. If you want a VoIP solution, there > are many to choose from. That's a bit extreme. I have no wish to run Windows, but I do need a VOIP Client that I can use to contact my relations, particularly

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.04 LTE --> XP & DNS

2016-04-27 Thread Peter Merchant
On 27/04/16 21:07, Andrew wrote: On 27/04/16 20:38, Peter Merchant wrote: Now to fix my wife's XP box that has quit browsing. More difficult. P. I believe that can also be fixed by installing Kubuntu 16.04 from the DVD. ;) Very true, but she's a die-hard NO CHANGES person. I changed the DNS

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.04 LTE

2016-04-27 Thread Andrew
On 27/04/16 20:38, Peter Merchant wrote: Now to fix my wife's XP box that has quit browsing. More difficult. P. I believe that can also be fixed by installing Kubuntu 16.04 from the DVD. ;) -- Andrew. -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday, 2016-05-03 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, Linke

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.04 LTE

2016-04-27 Thread Peter Merchant
On 27/04/16 07:41, Terry Coles wrote: On Tuesday, 26 April 2016 18:40:33 BST Peter Merchant wrote: I was going to ask Terry if he ever installed Kubuntu 15, but now I see 16.04 is available. I have installed it on a clean disk and it seems OK, but It didn't want to share the disk with Zorin, and

Re: [Dorset] Microsoft: Better Linux support for Skype

2016-04-27 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Wed, 27 Apr 2016 14:28:47 +0300, mr.fbee...@gmail.com said: > The ultimate goal would be to develop something that pisses off > Microsoft to the extent they have a temper tantrum. Some cleverly > thought out program where they could do nothing about it. It's not going to happen. Microsoft has

Re: [Dorset] Kubuntu 16.04 LTE

2016-04-27 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Terry, > The last [(K)ubuntu] problem took them two years to fix... I've opened bugs with Ubuntu, with pointers to the bit of source that's wrong, and they've sat there, with no action, for six years or more. I think they depended a lot on volunteers to feed things upstream, they've drifted a

Re: [Dorset] Microsoft: Better Linux support for Skype

2016-04-27 Thread Ferret Beevor
The ultimate goal would be to develop something that pisses off Microsoft to the extent they have a temper tantrum. Some cleverly thought out program where they could do nothing about it. As far as I'm aware those sort of things have already happened on a small scale. now there just needs to b