Re: [ubuntu-uk] Broken Synaptic
taufanlubis wrote: If you use proxy or firewall, don't forget to open port 53. It's used by Ubuntu to get update from Repository Server Um... port 53 is DNS. It is used by everything from Ping through Firefox. It is the system that translates doman names such as www.bbc.co.uk to numbers such as 123.45.6.7 - in the same way that you can't dial the name Dominos Pizza from your telephone; you have to look up their telephone number. Without DNS your system is basically not going to be able to use the internet in any common way. Your comment is correct - port 53 IS required by Synaptic - but it is also required by almost every other internet-aware program in the world. If port 53 was blocked, you would probably be aware of a lot of other problems long before you realised Synaptic was broken. For example, if port 53 was blocked, you wouldn't be able to receive email and you wouldn't be able to read the ubuntu-uk list. Therefore I think we can rule this out as the problem. -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] ONE laptop
On Tue, Feb 19, 2008 at 07:57:02PM +, LeeGroups wrote: IPCop on, it's making me grin already... Ooo, now you're talking. Onboard 54G wireless to WPA connect to the laptop - Check... (optional) Hmmm :) Cheers. Al. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside
On Feb 18, 2008 9:04 AM, Alan Pope [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-02-18 at 00:02 +, James Grabham wrote: WOW I REALLY WANT ONE!!! Have you read the specification of that thing? 300MHz CPU. Yeah, thats what Arch is for! The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!?? It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the shelves in the vast numbers that they have. £220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny screen, and is generally just unusable (I have used one, Its awfull since I havs stubby fingers, and since Im short sighted) I could get a much better used thinkpad X30 for the price. £100 is an acceptable price though, not as a main laptop, but as essentially a large PDA, which is what I want this for. I will start saving ASAP If I were you I'd wait for the 8GB eee to come out and pick up a 2nd hand 4GB ee which I'm sure some people would sell to upgrade :) hmm, I dunno (Being 15, money is always scarce) Yeah, I remember those days :( eek, 20 years ago! lol -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- Mr JE Grabham -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Notebook Problems
Hey Garry, As I said above it turned out the problem wasn't with Ubuntu Satanic Edition but with the Power Management in Ubuntu. Blank Screen on When laptop is closed is definitely the cause of this (although it may only apply to the intel driver as I haven't tried it with vesa). I'd like to take a moment to congratulate you on Ubuntu Satanic Edition. I personally use the bootup/down part and the Eternal Damnation screensaver (as the rest doesn't match my specific tastes) and these work a treat. Jai On 2/19/08, parker13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Pope-2 wrote: Create a new user under your current install, and start from scratch. If the system still fails then it isn't something in your ~ That's a good suggestion and I'd be interested to know whether it worked. I'm the creator of Ubuntu Satanic Edition and if it's causing problems on people's notebooks I'd like to know about it. All I can think of is that the gnome theme uses the Aurora GTK engine: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Gtk+Engine?content=56438 This is a fairly heavyweight theme engine and *maybe* this is the issue. However, it's the first I've heard of any such thing. Garry. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Notebook-Problems-tp15524433p15560783.html Sent from the ubuntu-uk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Notebook Problems
On 20/02/2008, Jai Harrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey Garry, As I said above it turned out the problem wasn't with Ubuntu Satanic Edition but with the Power Management in Ubuntu. Blank Screen on When laptop is closed is definitely the cause of this (although it may only apply to the intel driver as I haven't tried it with vesa). I'd like to take a moment to congratulate you on Ubuntu Satanic Edition. I personally use the bootup/down part and the Eternal Damnation screensaver (as the rest doesn't match my specific tastes) and these work a treat. Jai On 2/19/08, parker13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alan Pope-2 wrote: Create a new user under your current install, and start from scratch. If the system still fails then it isn't something in your ~ That's a good suggestion and I'd be interested to know whether it worked. I'm the creator of Ubuntu Satanic Edition and if it's causing problems on people's notebooks I'd like to know about it. All I can think of is that the gnome theme uses the Aurora GTK engine: http://www.gnome-look.org/content/show.php/Aurora+Gtk+Engine?content=56438 This is a fairly heavyweight theme engine and *maybe* this is the issue. However, it's the first I've heard of any such thing. Garry. Dear Garry I find it curious that such loaded names: Satanic and Eternal Damnation are used with the extremely user friendly term UBUNTU. How were they thought up? Makes Ubuntu sound like a student project. Just a thought. Caroline -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Notebook-Problems-tp15524433p15560783.html Sent from the ubuntu-uk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- --- London School of Puppetry www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Notebook Problems
Dear Garry I find it curious that such loaded names: Satanic and Eternal Damnation are used with the extremely user friendly term UBUNTU. How were they thought up? Makes Ubuntu sound like a student project. Just a thought. Hi Caroline, Ubuntu Satanic Edition is tongue-in-cheek, really, and should not be taken too seriously. It started off because I thought that Ubuntu Christian Edition was a daft idea and I did a few wallpapers and it grew from there. It's now quite a comprehensive set of themes for people who like their desktops dark red/yellow/black instead of the standard brown. I take my inspiration from heavy rock music and album covers and quite a few people seem to like it. The ironic thing is that I kind of now see where the guys at Ubuntu Christian Edition are coming from and I get on with its creator, Jereme, quite well. Not everyone has the knowledge (or inclination) to customise their Linux system and if we spread the word to a wider audience then that's great. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Notebook-Problems-tp15524433p15589290.html Sent from the ubuntu-uk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] FW: [UKUUG-Announce] Call for Participation - OpenTech 2008
Thought this may interest some of you:- From: Jane Morrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:56:54 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [UKUUG-Announce] Call for Participation - OpenTech 2008 OpenTech is an informal, low-cost one-day grassroots event that we put on every couple of years for people in the UK to get together and talk about digital technology, its impacts on society and - newly added this year - the environment. In previous years we heard from the founder of the Internet Archive and the man behind BitTorrent, saw the launch of TheyWorkForYou.com, and triggered the creation of the Open Rights Group. We also had a presentation from a chap who'd made a semi-reliable clock out of an old PC and a prawn sandwich, so it's not all serious stuff. We're accepting proposals for talks between today and the 31st March, The full details are below, and there's more information on our website (http://www.ukuug.org/events/opentech2008/). -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Notebook Problems
On 20/02/2008, parker13 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear Garry I find it curious that such loaded names: Satanic and Eternal Damnation are used with the extremely user friendly term UBUNTU. How were they thought up? Makes Ubuntu sound like a student project. Just a thought. Hi Caroline, Ubuntu Satanic Edition is tongue-in-cheek, really, and should not be taken too seriously. It started off because I thought that Ubuntu Christian Edition was a daft idea and I did a few wallpapers and it grew from there. It's now quite a comprehensive set of themes for people who like their desktops dark red/yellow/black instead of the standard brown. I take my inspiration from heavy rock music and album covers and quite a few people seem to like it. The ironic thing is that I kind of now see where the guys at Ubuntu Christian Edition are coming from and I get on with its creator, Jereme, quite well. Not everyone has the knowledge (or inclination) to customise their Linux system and if we spread the word to a wider audience then that's great. Hi Garry, I find your reply really interesting- and I really think that Ubuntu is something special and it is great that customising is so important to you all- but was it the Christians who thought up using the word Ubuntu? I ask because I noticed in the local church rag- they had a whole sermonette using Ubuntu (the south african word) as the central idea. Caroline -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Notebook-Problems-tp15524433p15589290.html Sent from the ubuntu-uk mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/ -- --- London School of Puppetry www.londonschoolofpuppetry.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside
The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!?? It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the shelves in the vast numbers that they have. £220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny screen, and is generally just unusable (I have used one, Its awfull since I havs stubby fingers, and since Im short sighted) I could get a much better used thinkpad X30 for the price. £100 is an acceptable price though, not as a main laptop, but as essentially a large PDA, which is what I want this for. Woah! Hold on there... That's your opinion, In my humble opinion (as I've actually owned an Eee PC since they came out), it's a stunning bit of kit. It's got superb build quality for £200, it does have a 'real' keyboard, granted it's something like 80% of size of a full sized keyboard, but it's a tiny machine, it's supposed to be a tiny machine, so it's GOT to have a smaller keyboard. And yes, I do have sausage fingers, but after a few hours use, it feels like a normal sized keyboard to me now. Yes, you could get an old laptop for £200, but you couldn't stick an old laptop in a large coat pocket, could you? Yes, £100 would be a much better price, but be realistic, there is £150+ worth of hardware in there, so they couldn't sell it for £100 as a main laptop - of course not, it's not designed to be a main laptop/PC, it's a tiny low powered, easily portable laptop - that's the point. The thing is tiny, the charger is tiny (like a mobile phone charger) - it fits in backpack hardly taking up any room. As for a large PDA... how many PDAs offer that kind of functionality??? You seem to have completely missed the point, it's not designed to be a cheap laptop, it's designed to a small laptop. The price is a bonus, given that UMPCs like to VAIOs cost £1200... I will start saving ASAP If I were you I'd wait for the 8GB eee to come out and pick up a 2nd hand 4GB ee which I'm sure some people would sell to upgrade :) The thing is that the 8GB has been promised and rumoured for 2+ months now, and increase of flash memory, its only going to add to the price of the Eee2. Given that Play.com are selling high speed 4GB SDHC cards for £10 inc postage, it seems daft to wait... And who's going to sell if they can up the memory to 8GB for £10, and keep another 4GB taped to the underside of the case... :) Best Eee PC comedy moment so far? Sat in Wetherspoons with a friend of mine, the day after I go it, using Wetherspoons free wifi connection and the built in webcam to have a Skype video chat with a friend of ours in the next town... Geeks huh? #2 is reading my email in the car going down the M1 (no I wasn't driving) with a bluetooth connection to my phone and the phones 3G data connection... LOL not tried a Skype video chat in a moving car yet... -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] It's an Ibex!
Next version of Ubuntu is named The Intrepid Ibex, with a special focus on Internet aspects and mobile desktops (both of especial interest to me) Next Ubuntu Dev summit is in Prague in May - within reach of the UK. John Original Message With Hardy now past feature-freeze it's time to start to plan features that are being lined up for inclusion after Ubuntu 8.04 LTS is released in April. And so I'd like to introduce you to the Intrepid Ibex, the release which is planned for October 2008, and which is likely to have the version number 8.10. During the 8.10 cycle we will be venturing into interesting new territory, and we'll need the rugged adventurousness of a mountain goat to navigate tricky terrain. Our desktop offering will once again be a focal point as we re-engineer the user interaction model so that Ubuntu works as well on a high-end workstation as it does on a feisty little subnotebook. We'll also be reaching new peaks of performance - aiming to make the mobile desktop as productive as possible. A particular focus for us will be pervasive internet access, the ability to tap into bandwidth whenever and wherever you happen to be. No longer will you need to be a tethered, domesticated animal - you'll be able to roam (and goats do roam!) the wild lands and access the web through a variety of wireless technologies. We want you to be able to move from the office, to the train, and home, staying connected all the way. The Intrepid Ibex will take shape at our next Ubuntu Developer Summit, an open event to which members of the Ubuntu community, upstream communities, corporate developers and other distributions are all invited. That summit takes place in beautiful Prague, in the Czech Republic from 19th - 23rd May 2008. Together we will draw up detailed blueprints for Ubuntu 8.10. Please join us there to help define the Intrepid Ibex: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UDS-Intrepid Ubuntu 8.10 will be our ninth release, and the fourth anniversary of the first release - 4.10. In those four years, Ubuntu has grown as a project, an ethos and a community. The Ubuntu community have worked to set the benchmark for open, inclusive, and collaborative development processes. We have open specifications, open governance structures and a willingness to empower everyone to make their unique contribution to the success of the project. This has created an extraordinary diversity in participation; a depth of talent including packagers, programmers, translators, writers, testers, advocates, technical support, artists and many others. Those contributions come as much from the corporate world - Canonical and other companies that have embraced Ubuntu as a core of their offering - as from a huge number of individual professionals. It is this combination of expertise and perspectives that makes it such a pleasure for me to be part of this project, and I thank all of you for your continued passion, participation, and energy. Hardy is our best development cycle yet, delivering on our promise of reliability and stability for the Heron. We must stay focused on that goal. To the extent that you have a brilliant idea for the future, you now have a peg to hang it on - the Intrepid Ibex. When the Hardy Heron has taken flight we will engage fully with the Ibex. Give it horns! Mark -- ubuntu-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Notebook Problems
London School of Puppetry wrote: you all- but was it the Christians who thought up using the word Ubuntu? I ask because I noticed in the local church rag- they had a whole sermonette using Ubuntu (the south african word) as the central idea. You're confusing several different things. Ubuntu philosophy is an African tribal philosophy concerning a number of subjects including community and respect for others. It predates the European invasions of sub-Saharan Africa by many centuries and is not related to Christianity. A number of Anglican priests have adopted this philosophy in order to ingratiate the Anglican church with huge African populations, in the same way that the Roman church picked the 25th of December to celebrate Christmas, in order to ingratiate themselves with their huge Pagan populations who liked to celebrate Winter Solstice (the exact birthdate of Jesus is not known, however it is known that Romans did not conduct censuses during the winter, and that Jesus was born during a Roman census, ergo Jesus was not born in winter). Ubuntu Linux, also known as Ubuntu GNU/Linux, is an open source computer operating system based on the Linux kernel and GNU toolset, funded by a South African millionaire. It is named after the African philosophy, as a reference to its open source roots. Ubuntu Christian Edition is a customisation of Ubuntu Linux which adds Christian related imagery and Christian related programs such as a Bible reader. Ubuntu Satanic Edition is a customisation of Ubuntu Linux which adds imagery related to Heavy Metal popular music and the Horror film genre. To the best of my knowledge it contains no Satanic religious material other than a few phrases which have entered popular culture (in any case, modern Satanism is mainly about self-empowerment and personal fulfilment, having little to do with criminal behaviour or the supernatural). -- Andrew Oakley -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Halifax online banking
I was with a friend today who was having troubles getting signed in to their fairly new Halifax online banking account. The Halifax site advice about browsers includes firefox version 2.0 and version 2.0.0.12 was being used, the Halifax online browser test passed ok 'Your browser is ok' thing. However, login failed with firefox. Konqueror got a successful login. Great. However, a short time later, login failed (with konqueror). After the one successful konqueror login, I was interested to see an icon in the corner of the screen indicating that konqueror declared that there was some incorrect code on the site :-( Anyone have a halifax online account? -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside
LeeGroups wrote: The reason I never got an eee was the ridiculous price - £220!!?? It's clearly not that ridiculous or they wouldn't have flown off the shelves in the vast numbers that they have. £220 for a laptop which doesnt have a real keyboard, has a tiny screen, and is generally just unusable (I have used one, Its awfull since I havs stubby fingers, and since Im short sighted) I could get a much better used thinkpad X30 for the price. £100 is an acceptable price though, not as a main laptop, but as essentially a large PDA, which is what I want this for. Woah! Hold on there... That's your opinion, In my humble opinion (as I've actually owned an Eee PC since they came out), it's a stunning bit of kit. It's got superb build quality for £200, it does have a 'real' keyboard, granted it's something like 80% of size of a full sized keyboard, but it's a tiny machine, it's supposed to be a tiny machine, so it's GOT to have a smaller keyboard. And yes, I do have sausage fingers, but after a few hours use, it feels like a normal sized keyboard to me now. Yes, you could get an old laptop for £200, but you couldn't stick an old laptop in a large coat pocket, could you? Yes, £100 would be a much better price, but be realistic, there is £150+ worth of hardware in there, so they couldn't sell it for £100 as a main laptop - of course not, it's not designed to be a main laptop/PC, it's a tiny low powered, easily portable laptop - that's the point. The thing is tiny, the charger is tiny (like a mobile phone charger) - it fits in backpack hardly taking up any room. As for a large PDA... how many PDAs offer that kind of functionality??? You seem to have completely missed the point, it's not designed to be a cheap laptop, it's designed to a small laptop. The price is a bonus, given that UMPCs like to VAIOs cost £1200... I will start saving ASAP If I were you I'd wait for the 8GB eee to come out and pick up a 2nd hand 4GB ee which I'm sure some people would sell to upgrade :) The thing is that the 8GB has been promised and rumoured for 2+ months now, and increase of flash memory, its only going to add to the price of the Eee2. Given that Play.com are selling high speed 4GB SDHC cards for £10 inc postage, it seems daft to wait... And who's going to sell if they can up the memory to 8GB for £10, and keep another 4GB taped to the underside of the case... :) Best Eee PC comedy moment so far? Sat in Wetherspoons with a friend of mine, the day after I go it, using Wetherspoons free wifi connection and the built in webcam to have a Skype video chat with a friend of ours in the next town... Geeks huh? #2 is reading my email in the car going down the M1 (no I wasn't driving) with a bluetooth connection to my phone and the phones 3G data connection... LOL not tried a Skype video chat in a moving car yet... The barista in caffe nero was very interested in mine, I use it to type up my college work whilst waiting for the bus. I practically use it as my main machine, I have all my emails, and use it for typing long essays etc when I am at college. There is nothing else comparative available in the UK at the moment, about the closest thing in size is the sony picturebook, which is horrifically expensive. The keyboard is OK, you get used to the little keys after a while. I wish it had a longer battery life, hopefully asus will catch up with the supply of batteries so there can be some going into retail channels. I could not fit another laptop(even a 12 inch one) in with my folders and various other stuff(Large amounts of Mars planets usually) The size is ideal to just chuck in a bag with the slip cover on. I think the £220 price is amazingly cheap, for the build quality espescially. I also have a Pentium 3 Toshiba Tecra, that when new was the top of the line laptop, (Going back some years admittedly) and that feels far flimsier than the EEE. Nothing squeaks, shakes or rattles at all. The price of a High end PDA is about the same as the EEE, I know which one would be more useful. I am using the sd card as a swap area until I pop some more ram into it. This seems to work well, although it does limit storage potential. Matt -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Halifax online banking
I have a Halifax online account and I have just logged into it successfully using Firefox 2.0.0.12. Jen Gutsy 7.10 gnome -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Ubuntu: Linux for Auntie
Kris Douglas wrote: I think something like a theme selector should be added to the setup, for example you could select bluebuntu(blubuntu?) or another colour scheme of your choice. Then you could go in to choosing window managers, rather than having to download different disks... I think part of the point about having one window manager on the disc is to keep down the space used, otherwise you're looking at either a DVD install or multiple CDs which wouldn't work for a live CD. Not to mention, if you're just demonstrating Linux, it's much easier to just give out a live CD which just boots into a working desktop than be bogged down with questions. Personally I like brown theme, it's easier on the eyes for me. Oh and Sean, how do you mean it looks so 1990's? Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT and ME* all didn't have brown colour schemes. If you ask me it looks nice with the high quality high colour Gnome (or KDE) icons and the *nix desktop has come along way since the days of the Motif window manager. Anyway, I hope that it gives this guy at the BBC a good feel for the alternatives to Windows. Most (sadly not all) of the people I've demontstrated Ubuntu to who have later moved over have been impressed and pretty much all stuck with Ubuntu. Rob * Same applies for OS/2, and MacOS, they weren't brown either. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 'The One': new low-priced laptop with linux inside
John Levin wrote: Anyone have any idea what distro it will be running? John According to The Inquirer (link: http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/02/20/elonex-100-laptop-specs-leaked) it's going to be running Debian. At first I thought it might be Arm based since Debian has an Arm port (and because ARM chips are low power, cheap etc) but then I found details of the Vortex86 system on a chip, I haven't got the link to the site I found earlier (I submitted it to the comments on The Inquirer but it's not come up at the moment), but I found this... http://www.vortex86sx.com/products.html It fits the bill, the other site was talking about an embedded PC board with 128MB DDR2 memory on there, so I assume they might have been able to either use a load of these boards (iirc the size was about 3 inches square) or some custom made. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Sticky Problem
I often see tick boxes with sticky as the tag. I havent grasped it's meaning intuitively, could someone explain this term? Thank You Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux
http://linux.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/02/20/1837204 'Nuff said... :-D Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Sticky Problem
On Wed, 2008-02-20 at 20:49 +, Christopher Chatfield wrote: I often see tick boxes with sticky as the tag. I havent grasped it's meaning intuitively, could someone explain this term? Thank You Chris Sticky as I understand it is based on a sticky note. Ie it's a note that doesn't move. If you want a wiki with TC of use you can make it sticky and it should appear at the top of every page. -- Seek That Thy Might Know signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Halifax online banking
reyasuk wrote: I have a Halifax online account and I have just logged into it successfully using Firefox 2.0.0.12. Jen Gutsy 7.10 gnome Thanks. Friend was using 7.04 kubuntu, but I would be a bit surprised if these would cause differences. I can take round a laptop with 7.10 and choice of gnone/kde and try a bit more. (The friend is currently annoyed enough to want to give it a rest though!) -- alan cocks Kubuntu user#10391 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux
- Gavin Ford [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 09:51:24PM +, Jai Harrison wrote: Is this is what the effects of a difficult user interface in the GIMP are? I really like the interface on The GIMP and it does everything I need, but there are some features that photographers working in print need that the GIMP doesn't yet have. Why google are spending money on WINE and Photoshop rather than adding those features to GIMP I don't know. It would seem to me that adding these features to GIMP would provide them to everyone for free forever, while propping up WINE+Photoshop is only good for owners of the current version of Photoshop. By design, WINE is complete when it can replicate and translate all of windows programming system signals. By doing this, google will make the entire WINE base a bit more stable, rather than less, which means this will probably help many more programs become more compatible than just Photoshop. Johnathon -- Blog: http://www.kirrus.co.uk UK Plone Hosting: http://www.plone-hosting.co.uk RPG: Lt Aieron Peters, XO DS5. http://ds5.brisub.net -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux
On 2/20/08, Matt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jai Harrison wrote: Is this is what the effects of a difficult user interface in the GIMP are? Different is not the same as difficult, it is just a different way of working. It does not take a long time to get used to really, the same as it take time to learn how to use Photoshop or Paint Shop Pro. I disagree. The GIMP has a difficult user interface. Photoshop was extremely easy to learn to use where as I've never managed to get anywhere with GIMP. The way it is now whenever I need a photo edited or an image created/modified I ask a Windows/Photoshop user to do the task for me - that's definitely not the intended result. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Google Funds Work for Photoshop on Linux
By design, WINE is complete when it can replicate and translate all of windows programming system signals. By doing this, google will make the entire WINE base a bit more stable, rather than less, which means this will probably help many more programs become more compatible than just Photoshop. Very true, but Windows is a moving target. WINE needs constant work to follow that so I appreciate any help they get. However the more closed source applications that can be replaced with full featured and complete open source applications the better for everyone. In an ideal world, we wouldn't need WINE at all. But the reality is many people do. -Gav I think that when any business is willing to put money into making Linux more compatible with mainstream software like photoshop then we can only say thanks and give them our support. Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Halifax online banking
alan c wrote: Anyone have a halifax online account? I have been using Halifax online banking since Edgy with no problems. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.kubuntu.org/UKTeam/
