Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10/10/10 installfests
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 00:03 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: On 05/08/10 22:57, Bruno Girin wrote: If you get no reply I have some hi-res (13MP) pics of meerkats that I'd happily contribute. They're not on flickr yet because I haven't got round to uploading them. Bruno fantastic! I am looking for ones with a fairly non-busy or blurred background and the meerkat(s) either low down in the image (like the one you have seen) or perhaps one meerkat standing at the side of the picture. Alan. Looking through my pics, I'm sure we can sort something out. If you're coming to the Geeknic, I'll bring my laptop and we can have a go at sorting out an image that works. Bruno -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10/10/10 installfests
On 5 August 2010 20:39, Alan Lord (News) alansli...@gmail.com wrote: On 05/08/10 20:33, John Stevenson wrote: I am working with the tech society of University College London to run an install fest on their premises and hopefully getting the London Java Community and Graduate Development community involved. Eclipse on Ubuntu, and the OpenJDK, rock! Al I am also going to be doing a follow on event (or events) for the students that would cover lots of open source development tools, to help students bridge the gap between University and Industry. So that includes, Netbeans (IDE Platform), Eclipse, Ant, Maven, Subversion, Git, Hudson CI, Sonar, Tomcat, Glassfish, etc. All of which run beautifully on Ubuntu. Maybe we can also have a python night to help people get started and give them the tools to contribute to applications in Ubuntu (debian/updstream). The demo's would all be on Ubuntu and all presentation materials created and shown using Ubuntu (Open Office, Scribus, Inkscape, etc). I am trying to find out if we can have non-students at any of these events, but if not there is another venue I can use on the occasional evening based in Clerkenwell -- John Stevenson Lean Agile Consultant / Coach jr0cket.com | leanagilemachine.com -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10/10/10 installfests low res
On 05/08/10 19:32, Alan Bell wrote: On 05/08/10 19:58, Rob Beard wrote: I like it but I think the actual image of the Meerkats is too low in resolution and looks pixelated. It'll possibly show up more when printed. I like the idea though. Rob yeah, the low res is creative commons licensed, http://www.flickr.com/photos/mmleones/4577067906/ I have asked the photographer about the hires version. If the picture is *too* good, the attention of the reader is not necessarily on the content. I know the creatures are a relevant part of the publicity, but it is the event itself which needs to dominate the readers awareness. I would give low res a vote for this reason, unless it looked 'bad'. -- alan cocks Ubuntu user -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10/10/10 installfests low res
reply below from the photographer. He is going to give me the high resolution version. yay \o/ Hi, I really like the promotion poster and I am happy to give you the picture for it. I only ask for credit on the poster, and you already do that. Thanks! I am glad that i can help to spread Ubuntu a little bit, and I am honoured that you chose my picture. Can I place a screenshot of the pdf on my photostream? Thanks, and all the best for the installfest! Markus -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10/10/10 installfests low res
Result! Send him a Live CD... ;-) Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] HP Deskjet 2600
On 27/07/2010 16:35, Tony Pursell wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:42 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hey all, has anyone got an HP Deskjet 2600 working with Ubuntu? Mine is detected, but isn't printing. According to a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/588081 there is a fix (by choosing hplips-cups driver) but I can't find the driver, even though I have hplips cups installed. Ta John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://www.facebook.com/john.levin http://twitter.com/anterotesis Hi John I assume you mean the HP Business Inkjet 2600. Have you got the HPLIP package installed? Check in Ubuntu Software Centre. If not, install it. That should bring with it hpijs, which is the actual driver you need. See http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-Business_Inkjet_2600 Tony It's a deskjet D2660 (the docs all say D2600 series, hence my slip). I have the hpijs drivers installed, the printer is detected, but no joy printing. John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://www.facebook.com/john.levin http://twitter.com/anterotesis -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] graphic display of diffs
Hi all, I'm looking for a way to share diffs of documents. I've been comparing the 3 version of the GPL, and want to export the results, rather than require others to put the docs into a diff program. I've looked at a number of diff apps, such as meld, but none of them seem to offer a way of exporting the results. Is there a way to do this? Thanks John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://www.facebook.com/john.levin http://twitter.com/anterotesis -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] graphic display of diffs
Hi John, What do you want to export it as? If you only need plain text, try: diff file1.txt file2.txt output.txt David D Lowe -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] 10/10/10 installfests
We're already planning to do a day of demos and an installation workshop on the 17th/18th for voluntary sector orgs to coincide with Software Freedom Day. We'll demo an LTSP server with ancient P3 clients and some dual-core laptops with Lucid LTS installed along with some presentations on how voluntary sector orgs can benefit from Ubuntu with case studies of it in use in charities, social enterprises and 'green' organisations - and an installation workshop. We have a bit of lottery funding to help with it. We could do another one for the Maverick release, I'd plan on doing much the same again but probably aimed more towards environmental networks with a 'sustainability' angle. The poster looks good. Paula On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 18:32 +0100, Alan Bell wrote: Hi all, So we talked a while back about doing some installfest type activities on 10/10/10 I have been drafting a little poster idea together, you can see it here: http://people.ubuntu.com/~alanbell/uuk/installfest2.pdf The idea is to get a bunch of these printed up (on a real CMYK offset litho printer) and distributed so each installfest organiser would get plenty (where 10plenty50 ) to be overprinted on a normal laser printer with the venue and time. I would really like comments on the poster design and in particular, corrections to the text on it. Also, if you want to help run an installfest (even if you have no idea of a venue etc.) please start making yourself known, I am only going to get them printed up if enough people want to take them. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] HP Deskjet 2600
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 13:13 +0100, John Levin wrote: On 27/07/2010 16:35, Tony Pursell wrote: On Tue, 2010-07-27 at 14:42 +0100, John Levin wrote: Hey all, has anyone got an HP Deskjet 2600 working with Ubuntu? Mine is detected, but isn't printing. According to a bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/hplip/+bug/588081 there is a fix (by choosing hplips-cups driver) but I can't find the driver, even though I have hplips cups installed. Ta John -- John Levin http://www.anterotesis.com http://www.facebook.com/john.levin http://twitter.com/anterotesis Hi John I assume you mean the HP Business Inkjet 2600. Have you got the HPLIP package installed? Check in Ubuntu Software Centre. If not, install it. That should bring with it hpijs, which is the actual driver you need. See http://www.openprinting.org/printer/HP/HP-Business_Inkjet_2600 Tony It's a deskjet D2660 (the docs all say D2600 series, hence my slip). I have the hpijs drivers installed, the printer is detected, but no joy printing. John Hi John Maybe I got the model wrong, but the answer is still the same. HPLIP should provide all you need. See http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/models/deskjet/deskjet_d2600_series.html So if you cannot print, then something else is wrong. First of all, please tell us which version of Ubuntu you use. Make sure the printer is switched on and connected, then do File Print on this email. Is it listed in the Print Dialogue? When you click Print, do you get a notification message HPLIP Device Status giving you a print job number? Did it print? If you go Applications Accessories Manage Print Jobs, is the print job listed? What is its Status? Repeat the above with the Printer switched off. Let us know the results of these tests. Tony 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.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids
Hi folks, I have an old 1Ghz Dell laptop here that I've promised to the after school care club that my son uses. The club provides care before and after school and during school holidays for kids from age 5 up to 12/13 or so. The club is based in a church and doesn't have Internet access, so I wonder if anyone can suggest what kind of stuff I should put on this laptop that might be interesting for the kids to play with. As you might have guessed I intend to put Ubuntu on it! Thanks in advance, Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids
On 06/08/10 21:18, Chris Rowson wrote: Hi folks, I have an old 1Ghz Dell laptop here that I've promised to the after school care club that my son uses. The club provides care before and after school and during school holidays for kids from age 5 up to 12/13 or so. The club is based in a church and doesn't have Internet access, so I wonder if anyone can suggest what kind of stuff I should put on this laptop that might be interesting for the kids to play with. As you might have guessed I intend to put Ubuntu on it! Thanks in advance, Well my kids (especially my 4 year old) loves TuxPaint (actually my elder two who are 10 and 8 love it too). That would be a good start, make sure you also get the extra stamps package too. Other than that there is TuxMath, TuxTyping, GCompris, Super Tux and Frozen Bubble which should run reasonably well. Can't think of anything else off the top of my head but maybe have a look in the Ubuntu Software Centre for some other games etc (although some of the games might require a quicker CPU or 3D acceleration). I'd also possibly suggest maybe Xubuntu rather than Ubuntu on a 1GHz machine as it'll run a bit quicker. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Edinburgh has people in it
hello all. So Bing©®™ just told me that its the Edinburgh Fringe is there an installfest on up there (N.Irish so I'm not volunteering myself here sorry). If there is I'm up for pushing a notice up the google listings or ninja commenting related blogs. With luck maybe a few macbooks could get fixed -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids
Well my kids (especially my 4 year old) loves TuxPaint (actually my elder two who are 10 and 8 love it too). That would be a good start, make sure you also get the extra stamps package too. Other than that there is TuxMath, TuxTyping, GCompris, Super Tux and Frozen Bubble which should run reasonably well. Can't think of anything else off the top of my head but maybe have a look in the Ubuntu Software Centre for some other games etc (although some of the games might require a quicker CPU or 3D acceleration). I'd also possibly suggest maybe Xubuntu rather than Ubuntu on a 1GHz machine as it'll run a bit quicker. Rob I'll check out those apps, cheers Rob :-) Is edubuntu still alive? ISTR that it came with a load of apps for kids? Chris -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids
On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 21:18 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: Hi folks, I have an old 1Ghz Dell laptop here that I've promised to the after school care club that my son uses. The club provides care before and after school and during school holidays for kids from age 5 up to 12/13 or so. The club is based in a church and doesn't have Internet access, so I wonder if anyone can suggest what kind of stuff I should put on this laptop that might be interesting for the kids to play with. As you might have guessed I intend to put Ubuntu on it! Thanks in advance, Chris You absolutely have to include tuxpaint, kids of all ages love this, Also wormux (worms clone - great fun) and pingus (lemmings clone) For the more geeky kids get guido van robot. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids
On Sat, 07 Aug 2010 00:41:03 +0100 Will Bickerstaff wrote: On Fri, 2010-08-06 at 21:18 +0100, Chris Rowson wrote: Hi folks, I have an old 1Ghz Dell laptop here that I've promised to the after school care club that my son uses. The club provides care before and after school and during school holidays for kids from age 5 up to 12/13 or so. The club is based in a church and doesn't have Internet access, so I wonder if anyone can suggest what kind of stuff I should put on this laptop that might be interesting for the kids to play with. As you might have guessed I intend to put Ubuntu on it! Thanks in advance, Chris You absolutely have to include tuxpaint, kids of all ages love this, Also wormux (worms clone - great fun) and pingus (lemmings clone) For the more geeky kids get guido van robot. My littl'un likes Frogatto, XMoto and TeeWorlds. Grant. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
[ubuntu-uk] Geeknic on Sunday
Just a reminder to all, the Geeknic is this weekend on Sunday in Hyde park https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/UKGeekNic2010 would be great to see you there, bring the family it will be good fun. Alan. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
Re: [ubuntu-uk] Apps for kids
On 06/08/10 23:41, Chris Rowson wrote: Is edubuntu still alive? ISTR that it came with a load of apps for kids? Chris I believe it still is, I haven't looked in a while. Rob -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
