Re: [ubuntu-uk] Backing Up Ubuntu
2009/1/7 Jai Harrison j...@jaiharrison.com: [snip] Also, do tarballs preserve permissions were I ever to need to restore it? Yes, they do. The only small problem you might have is that users are stored using numeric ID. If you're restoring on another machine, or re-create the users manually in a different order before restoring, the IDs might not match. Not a problem if it's the same machine and /etc/passwd /etc/shadow are backed up too. Cofion, Neil. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Venues and global bug jam
James Westby wrote: On Wed, 2008-12-17 at 22:30 +, Alan Pope wrote: FYI: Shall we do one? Yes. At least one. The discussion of venues comes up all the time, so I think we should compile a list of UK venues, so that we know what our options are for different events. Therefore I would appreciate your help in completing this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/Venues so that we can start to make this process easier by knowing what venues we can use. Secondly, to help everyone plan for the global bug jam it would be useful to know who wishes to come, and what proposed locations there are. Therefore, please also add yourself, and any proposed locations to this page: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/GlobalBugJam09 I've contacted the Uni of Westminster, who hold GLLUG (London LUG) meetings as to whether it would be possible to use their rooms. I need some idea of what we would require for the bug jam; I'll add the venue to the list when they've given some indication as to whether they can accomodate us. John -- John Levin http://www.technolalia.org/blog/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Venues and global bug jam
On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 5:57 PM, John Levin j...@technolalia.org wrote: I've contacted the Uni of Westminster, who hold GLLUG (London LUG) meetings as to whether it would be possible to use their rooms. I need some idea of what we would require for the bug jam; I'll add the venue to the list when they've given some indication as to whether they can accomodate us. John Hi John, Thanks for doing this. There's some information available at: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/RunningBugJam#The%20Venue Essentially it seems like power, network and (optionally) a projector are the requirements. And a nearby pub to retire to afterwards :). Iain -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] BBC radio Free For All - InBusiness item
I have just heard Peter Day's In Business program, and it is totally about free software its past and future. Very concise I thought, and well informed. Worth a listen (podcast available) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml Free For All broadcast on 8-1-09 -- alan cocks Ubuntu user #10391 Linux user #360648 -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] BBC radio Free For All - InBusiness item
alan c wrote: I have just heard Peter Day's In Business program, and it is totally about free software its past and future. Very concise I thought, and well informed. Worth a listen (podcast available) http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml Free For All broadcast on 8-1-09 I found it confused freedom and zero-price a bit. :-/ Still interesting and concise in many places though. Free For All Maybe there are better ways of doing business than charging users for goods and services. But is it really profitable to give products away? Peter Day hears from two advocates of business models that turn conventional wisdom on its head. http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/inbusiness.shtml http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/radio/worldbiz/worldbiz_20090108-2030a.mp3 (14MB) Repeated Sunday 11th Jan, 9:30-10:00pm. -- www.tdobson.net If each of us have one object, and we exchange them, then each of us still has one object. If each of us have one idea, and we exchange them, then each of us now has two ideas. - George Bernard Shaw -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Pupils conquer fear of computers
A report on secondary school students using a computer for the first time Nepal http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/7684616.stm -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
