Re: [Dorset] Spare Print Server

2009-12-09 Thread Simon O'Riordan
Sorry Clive, no. - Original Message - From: C A Wills infocawi...@talktalk.net To: Dorset Linux User Group dorset@mailman.lug.org.uk Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 11:12 PM Subject: Re: [Dorset] Spare Print Server Simon O'Riordan wrote: If I took delivery of that, there would be

[Dorset] Firewire PCI for Ubuntu Video Capture

2009-12-09 Thread Andrew Drapper
Hi, I am looking forward to the arival of my CPU and getting my PC up on Ununtu 9.10 64bit. I am now wanting to attach a Firewire PCI card for video capture. Any comments on compatibility etc. Andrew Drapper -- Next meeting: Dorchester, Tuesday 2010-01-05 20:00 Dorset LUG:

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

2009-12-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: I get a lot of Word documents at work, both .doc and .docx. Lots of Word users can't open Docx either (they don't have or can't get the compatibility pack) so I think it's a totally pointless format. At least Doc - for good or ill - is a de

Re: [Dorset] Open Office 3.1 Pros and Cons.

2009-12-09 Thread John Carlyle-Clarke
Terry Coles wrote: On Tuesday 08 Dec 2009, John Carlyle-Clarke wrote: I get a lot of Word documents at work, both .doc and .docx. Lots of Word users can't open Docx either (they don't have or can't get the compatibility pack) so I think it's a totally pointless format. At least Doc -

[Dorset] Editing grub menu config

2009-12-09 Thread Peter Merchant
From the LUG meeting last week and the discussion about getting rid of obsolete versions and their partitions, it was suggested that I edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. In Kubuntu 9.1 it looks like the file is grub.lst and the first line is - You must not edit this file Dare I? Peter M. -- Next

Re: [Dorset] Editing grub menu config

2009-12-09 Thread Terry Coles
On Wednesday 09 Dec 2009, Peter Merchant wrote: From the LUG meeting last week and the discussion about getting rid of obsolete versions and their partitions, it was suggested that I edit /boot/grub/menu.lst. In Kubuntu 9.1 it looks like the file is grub.lst and the first line is - You

Re: [Dorset] Editing grub menu config

2009-12-09 Thread Terry Coles
This is what we said a month or so ago. On Sunday 01 Nov 2009, Andrew Morgan wrote: Hi Terry, I have just had to do the same thing on my work laptop which is now running Ubuntu 9.10. I'm not sure if this is the same in Kubuntu but here's the way I did it: Install StartUp-Manager. This